In the bar, Lu Qiu, Li An and Li Yang were drinking and chatting together.

Of course, this was Lu Qiu's proposal, and Ang Lee happened to be in a bad mood and readily agreed.

After a few glasses of wine, under the deliberate guidance of Lu Qiu, Li An, who was a little drunk, began to vomit bitterness.

"I haven't had a movie as tormenting as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and I've been preparing for almost a year, and I've tried not going home for a few months, just busy with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. ”

"The script, the actors, the framing, everything is very frustrating. It's just that these are nothing, Taiwan's investors have gone bankrupt in stock speculation, and the promised investment has also been lost. It is obviously a Chinese martial arts film, but I can't find Chinese investment. ”

"Foreigners are even more realistic, my last movie did not do well at the box office, and it was not easy to pull in Colombia's $6 million, on the condition that North America must have 6 times the box office invested in order to pay dividends!"

"This is simply a robbery, but we can't disagree, but 6 million is still not enough, Jiang Zhiqiang and Xu Ligong and I can't do it, so I can only mortgage the company, find an insurance company as a guarantee, and take a loan from the bank, but the insurance company must be pre-sold before the movie can be guaranteed, so I had to contact Weinstein's vampire. ”

"Speaking from the heart, I really didn't expect it to be so difficult to shoot a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it's so difficult!"

Li An drank glass after glass, and an elegant person was forced to use wine to complain about his sorrows, and you can imagine how difficult the situation he faced was.

Li Yang expressed deep sympathy, he is now preparing for the blind well, Lu Qiu has set up a separate subsidiary for him to operate, the funding is not a problem at all, of course, the budget investment of more than 3 million yuan in the blind well, and Li An's 10 million dollar start of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is certainly not the same magnitude, but Li Yang still feels that knowing Lu Qiu is the greatest blessing in his life.

"Director Li, don't be discouraged, I believe that with your results, there will be no problem in pre-selling Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Li Yang comforted Li An.

Li An smiled bitterly: "Even if the pre-sale is successful, Lao Jiang and I have to gamble on our full net worth, which makes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon must not fail, with this kind of pressure, I am really worried that the shooting will not be good." ”

Ang Lee toasted three times in a row, in fact, the real pressure in his heart came from the fact that he couldn't fail in his gambling on his wealth, and for a pure filmmaker, this pressure is bound to affect the creation of his works.

Li Yang also understood this, sighed, and couldn't help but look at Lu Qiu, "Brother, are you interested in Director Li's movies?"

Lu Qiu was in a thoughtful state, and when he heard Li Yang ask him, he looked at Li An and said, "Even if I have an idea, I have to wait for him to wake up." ”

Li Yang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he saw it, but it was the big director who had drunk too much and fell asleep on the bar.

"It seems that Director Li is really difficult, don't drink my brother, send Director Li back. ”

The two worked together to send Ang Lee back to the hotel, because the accommodation was provided by the organizer, and it was easy to determine Ang Lee's room through the room card.

After sending Ang Lee back to the room, Li Yang left, and Lu Qiu stayed because he found some information about Ang Lee's preparation of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and said that he would observe whether Ang Lee would have alcohol poisoning, but in fact he looked at it secretly.

For Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Luqiu is definitely interested.

Commercially, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in North America, and in terms of honors, it has won several awards such as the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Investing in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would certainly be a wise choice for Hill, but for Hill, he doesn't pay attention to that at all.

He doesn't care about money, and the award has nothing to do with him, all he thinks about is whether Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has a role suitable for him.

In fact, this is what Lu Qiu has been thinking about, which is why he did not immediately decide to invest in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

The male lead in the film, Li Mubai doesn't have to think about it at all, the age difference is too big, and the temperament can't make up for it, the only one suitable for Lu Qiu is Luo Xiaohu played by the male supporting actor Zhang Zhen.

To say that this role is still attractive, especially in northern Xinjiang, the horse bandit is indulgent, wild, and freewheeling, but he is sincere, and in the later stage, in the capital, he is trapped by love, and the cloud loses the sky to fly and becomes an eagle with folded wings. This role itself has a lot of room to play, but unfortunately the role is too light, and the original Zhang Zhen's sense of existence is much inferior to that of other leading actors, and he even commented that he is the worst performer, which makes Lu Qiu undecided, and I don't know whether to fight for it.

However, looking at the information at this time, Lu Qiu was shocked.

Ang Lee is worthy of being Ang Lee, and he has done an extremely meticulous job of preparing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Most of the information is Ang Lee analyzing the script and analyzing the characters.

He splits the relationship between the characters into a pair of contradictions, the moral dilemma between Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian, the challenges and struggles between Li Mubai and Yu Jiaolong, the war between the two women of Yu Jiaolong and Yu Xiulian, the migration of good and evil between Yu Jiaolong and the blue-eyed fox, and the fire of love between Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu from boiling to extinguishing.

Ang Lee's goal is clear, martial arts is more of a shell here, he wants to express the inside through the shell, and what is inside, that is, the traditional Chinese culture, the Confucian thought wrapped in the coat of the martial arts world, of course, there is also his own heart that is not willing to be bound!

Speaking from the heart, Lu Qiu originally had no good impression of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, what he liked was the kind of intense and refreshing martial arts films, the action should be dazzling and cool, and the plot should be cool and burning, this Hong Kong film has long been exhausted, Jet Li's Huang Feihong series, Jingwu Heroes, Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng, Fang Shiyu series, etc., are Lu Qiu's favorites. In comparison, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is more like a feast for Hanging Weiya, the core is not the dazzling action, but the kind of temperament shown, which is contrary to the aesthetics of the vast majority of martial arts fans.

It wasn't until Lu Qiu read these materials that he realized that he was too superficial. It is precisely because Ang Lee saw that martial arts movies have always stayed in the shell of martial arts, and neglected to excavate deeper human nature and culture, so that the performance of chivalrous spirit only stays on the superficial surface, so he made up his mind to make a different Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

You must know that martial arts films have a great influence on both foreigners and Chinese people overseas, and they are the best way for the outside world to understand Chinese culture, but as Ang Lee said, most martial arts films bring the audience only the inferior part of Chinese culture, which is very sad, so his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon must not be like this!

When he saw these things written by Ang Lee, Lu Qiu's hesitation was completely put aside, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon must be invested, and the role of Luo Xiaohu must be fought for.

No matter whether future generations praise or disparage Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, such a martial arts movie with heavy responsibilities, Lu Qiu must leave his figure in it!

With a plan, all that remains is to wait for Li An to wake up and negotiate with him, but that is obviously tomorrow, so Lu Qiu sorted out the information and planned to leave.

Bang bang bang!

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Is Director Li here? I'm Zhang Ziyi, I have something to tell you. ”