Li Yu has been interested in martial arts novels since he was a child and is full of fantasies about the martial arts world. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The biggest attraction of the martial arts world to him is that it is an abstract world that does not exist in reality.

He can manifest and concretize the inner emotional scenes, and the action scenes are more like dance design, which is a very free-spirited form of film expression.

In a movie with a realistic theme, the characters must abide by the rules, every move, and what they say and do cannot be divorced from the real society, otherwise the audience will feel that this movie is unreal.

This is not the case in martial arts films, in that fictional world, flying away, killing people and setting fires will be accepted by the audience.

In addition to the freedom of creation, Li Yu pays more attention to the love and righteousness inside.

When emotions come, how to deal with love and hatred, to be righteous enough, he yearns for the chivalrous world of Confucianism and beauty, a world where Chinese once placed their emotions and dreams.

He feels that these things can still be found in martial arts novels, but in martial arts films in Hong Kong and Taiwan, they rarely have a connection with real emotions and culture, and they only stay at the level of sensory stimulation and cannot be improved.

This is similar to the view of filmmakers in the mainland.

Hong Kong and Taiwan's martial arts films pay too much attention to technology, indulge in visual effects and martial arts scenes, and lack cultural connotation.

This is the view of literary film directors on Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films, however, it is such martial arts films and action movies that have become the best channel for foreigners to understand oriental culture.

Even the only way, foreigners don't know that this is only the most superficial and superficial part of Eastern culture.

In this regard, Li Yu has always been obsessed with it and wants to make a martial arts film in his mind.

Filming martial arts films requires the cooperation of many conditions, not only a matter of funding, but also divided into literary and martial arts directors.

For example, in the crew of a martial arts film, literary drama and martial arts drama are often filmed separately, the director is responsible for filming literary drama, and martial arts opera has martial arts instructors to shoot, they have their own circle, and it is difficult for literary drama directors to meddle in martial arts.

You don't understand this thing, you can only put forward your own ideas, and the martial arts director will complete it.

The director of martial arts has no interest in culture, he just needs to make martial arts good fighting, and he will not pay attention to any connotation.

There are so many shooting funds, do you want martial arts or artistic conception, whether to shoot landscapes or martial arts scenes.

What Li Yu wants to make is a martial arts film full of humanistic atmosphere.

He saw the TV series "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" this time, and felt a trace of humanistic atmosphere from it, which is different from the martial arts dramas of Hong Kong and Taiwan, very fresh, and has a little shadow in his mind.

There are not many martial arts scenes in the play, more literary dramas, and scenes from all over the capital.

The ancient capital has a sense of historical vicissitudes, and the character dialogues have ancient rhyme, which is not found in Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts dramas.

There is also a character in this drama, the protagonist turned out to be a woman, in general martial arts novels, the protagonists are often men, more masculine, and women are mostly foils, or reduced to vases.

Because of this, when other viewers paid attention to Chen Daoming and Yu Feihong, Li Yu set his eyes on Xu Jinglei.

At the beginning, this actor's performance was very ordinary, not only his appearance was average, but his acting skills were also average, but with the progress of the plot, this actor has undergone great changes in performance.

In the end, she actually integrated into this role, and for a moment, it gave people the feeling that she was Jade Jiaolong.

As a director, Li Yan has been in contact with many actors, including Hollywood stars and young actors who have just graduated from art school, and he is well aware of the various problems that arise in the process of actors' performances.

He didn't know Xu Jinglei's origin and whether she was famous in the mainland.

He could see that it only took a short time for the actress to go from being nervous and unconfident to finally grasping the role.

If this TV series was filmed for three months, then these three months made Xu Jinglei not to say that she was reborn, but at least she stepped up to a new level in acting, which shows that this actress has a strong understanding.

Because of the above reasons, Li Yu became interested in this martial arts novel.

He inquired about it and learned that this martial arts novel was not published in Baodao, but only serialized in magazines in the mainland.

Moreover, not only this novel, but also the prequel story, which is said to be a series, and the prequel has already started filming in the mainland.

The martial arts novels of the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" series are considered to be slow in the mainland, and with the broadcast of TV dramas, they have gradually become known and have a certain influence in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Li asked people to find the magazine "Ancient and Modern Legends" published in the mainland and the published book "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Before leaving Treasure Island, he received books and magazines in the mail.

Sitting on a plane to Los Angeles, he flipped through "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", a novel that describes the culture and human sophistication of Chinese society, and the character of Jade Jiaolong attracted him.

Yu Jiaolong is a young lady during the day, and at night she either fights or falls in love, and her mind is treacherous and complicated, which is very interesting.

She is an untamable girl who has fantasies about the plot of the children of the rivers and lakes, pursuing freedom but being constrained by her own education.

The fight scenes in the book are not very outrageous, there are light skills and points, which are more realistic.

These are the things that Li Yu is satisfied with.

In the final analysis, martial arts novels are popular literature, not masterpieces, and it is already very good to be able to tell an interesting story with some cultural flavor, and it cannot be forced.

After seeing the part where Yu Jiaolong flew off the cliff, Li Yu had a plan in his heart.

In the book, Yu Jiaolong and everyone went up the mountain to make incense, and then jumped off the cliff in public, ostensibly sacrificing himself for his father's life, but in fact, he took the opportunity to escape, just to give an explanation to others and let the family save face.

However, no one thought she would die.

She is a personal character in the book, regarded as a female devil, before jumping off the cliff, only Liu Tai, who resented her in the past, took care of her in the whole capital, and after jumping off the cliff, it was Liu Taibao who helped her meet Luo Xiaohu.

Yu Jiaolong saw Luo Xiaohu, and after a night of restraint, he drifted away, leaving only a puff of dust and smoke, all melancholy.

In Li Yan's view, this role is very much in line with his imagination of the martial arts world.

The martial arts world is not vulgar to fight around, but to have a sense of meaning, to have feelings, Jade Jiaolong's jumping off the cliff and walking away in the desert, there is a kind of freedom and pride, not the kind of vulgar happy ending.

After getting off the plane, Li Yu returned to his accommodation.

He called his investor in Treasure Island and wanted him to go to the mainland to talk to the author of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" about buying the film adaptation rights, and he wanted to make this martial arts film.

He wants to shoot not only this story, but also the conflict of human nature and moral dilemmas.

This will be a river and lake full of humanistic atmosphere, not the rivers and lakes that fight and kill, this is his Li Eucalyptus's rivers and lakes. (To be continued.) )