Chapter 484: Candidate
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Li Yu's plan is to select candidates with good looks and temperament from among the actresses who audition for Jade Jiaolong, and train them intensively in the next month or two.
Including piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etiquette of the official eunuch family and martial arts foundation and other aspects.
According to Li Yan, qin, chess, calligraphy and painting can cultivate the temperament of the actors and make them calm down.
In the process, they continued to observe their respective progress, and finally selected the actor of Jade Jiaolong.
This is equivalent to a knockout round, and only actors with good talent and willingness to work hard will have a chance.
If you can't endure hardship, you can't even pass the level of physical training, how can you make martial arts movies.
Those actors who are inflexible will also be eliminated, and although stand-ins can be used for martial arts scenes, it is best for the actors to complete them themselves, otherwise the filming will not be realistic enough.
Hanging Weiya is the first challenge for martial arts film actors, and it is definitely not possible to be afraid of heights, nor can it be inflexible.
There are also try-ons, Yu Jiaolong has several sets of costumes in the film, one is a palace dress worn at home, one is a night clothes, and there are clothes used to break through the rivers and lakes.
The palace costumes are noble and elegant, and the night clothes are tight, highlighting the actress's exquisite figure, and breaking through the rivers and lakes requires a chic and neat energy, each with its own characteristics.
The actors will wear these costumes one by one to see who can better match the role.
Some actors may be dignified enough, but their figures are not good, and some actors are in good shape, but they don't have that chic energy. 【】
In the end, it is not about choosing the best, but choosing the most suitable, or the most balanced in all aspects.
Actors will be followed by people during training, and Li Yu pays attention to the actors' movements at any time, and discovers the jade dragon in his mind.
This costs a lot of money, just the food and lodging of these people, and hiring teachers to do training, will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.
In China, only big-budget films have the capital to do so.
The film is only in the preparatory stage, and the actors have not yet been selected, just the selection of exterior locations and audition actors, the food, housing, costumes and styling of the production team in Xiangjiang, millions have already been spent.
Lin Zixuan looked at the expenses since the start of the project, and deeply realized that making blockbusters is burning money.
In the past, the largest investment of Good Dream Company was only tens of millions, but now I don't see anything, and the investment in a movie is gone.
Li Yu originally wanted to select twenty actresses for training, and he wanted to see more possibilities and have more options.
Lin Zixuan thinks that ten is enough, the mainland is not Hollywood, so spending money is too unreasonable.
It's not that he's too stingy and unwilling to spend money, it's that as a producer, it is his responsibility to discourage directors from this wasteful behavior.
When Jiang Wen was filming "Sunny Day", he also had this practice, he selected three actresses for training, and it was not until the start of filming that it was decided that it was Ning Jing.
The director has a special affection for the heroine, they always want to find the person in their hearts, so they will be extra picky.
It is really until the end that there is no choice but to choose the closest image.
The result of the discussion between Li Yu and Lin Zixuan was that fifteen actresses were selected, and the arrangements and training were uniform.
These 20-year-old girls live in the same apartment building, and their daily life is very simple, with cultural and etiquette training in the morning, and martial arts instructors in the gym in the afternoon explaining general knowledge and physical training.
There is only one day off per week, and a second audition takes place a month later.
During this period, girls who do not perform well and are unwilling to work hard will be eliminated, and after the second audition, only five girls who perform well will be left for the next stage of training, which is martial arts training.
Xu Jinglei and Zhang Ziyi are among the seeded players.
Xu Jinglei is already a first-line actor in China, and has also starred in the TV series "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Zhang Ziyi acted in Zhang Yimou's movie, and she is the new Mou girl.
The other girls are either second- and third-tier actors, or rookie actors who were lucky enough to be selected by Li Yu.
They have great expectations for starring in such big-budget films, eager to become big stars, and this is a fierce competition.
Li Yu adopts the Hollywood approach.
In Hollywood, anyone who is not a superstar needs to compete for a role in a big-budget film, and agents and actors will use various means to get the attention of directors and producers.
Especially the rookie actors, they have redoubled their efforts in order to get to the top.
Feng Xiaogang has been following the progress of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and he wants to know how the blockbuster should be filmed.
He started out making low-budget comedies and knows how to save money, but he doesn't have much experience in how to spend money.
"Isn't it all over at once as I say? Xiao Xu's performance is good, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are gone, but in the end, you can only choose one, and the training fees of others are all in vain. Feng Xiaogang complained.
"As soon as you make a comedy, you are different from the big directors from Hollywood." Jiang Wen said sarcastically.
In terms of spending money, Jiang Wen agrees with Li Yu's approach.
He thinks that this is the style of a big director, domestic directors are too small, they don't have the courage to spend money, and investors can't do it.
His new film is expected to be an investment of 20 million yuan, less than 3 million US dollars.
Wang Zhongjun's Huayi brothers are willing to give 12 million, which is Huayi's first step into the film industry.
He has invested in movies before, but they are all small investments of one or two million, testing the waters, mainly in TV dramas.
This time, he vigorously supported Jiang Wen, one was optimistic about Jiang Wen's future development prospects, and he won over Jiang Wen in order to gain benefits.
Jiang Wen's "Sunny Day" had a box office of 50 million in the mainland, and it was still in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, although "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" was banned, it won the award, and the overseas copyright sold well, which is not a loss.
In Wang Zhongjun's eyes, Jiang Wen is undoubtedly a potential stock, and there is no reason not to invest.
Therefore, he agreed to invest without reading the script, and he believed in Jiang Wen's vision.
Hua Yi doesn't know much about the actual operation of the domestic film industry, the film industry and the TV industry are not the same, and the gameplay is different.
Jiang Wen likes Wang Zhongjun like this, and he doesn't care if he gives money, which is good.
He is now looking for other investments, many film and television companies are willing to invest in Jiang Wen, but they have to read the script before they can decide whether to invest or how much to invest.
This is the reason why Jiang Wen is dissatisfied, he thinks that those film and television companies are too small, and they have to study millions of things.
"My next film will be higher than your investment, and I am ready to invest 30 million." Feng Xiaogang fought back.
"Thirty million? Do you rely on the return of investment from the box office? Jiang Wen said suspiciously.
"I will add advertising, product placement and placement advertising and investment together and come back, who still relies on the box office these years, your thinking is outdated." Feng Xiaogang said proudly.
"You commercial film directors, sooner or later, you will be ruined in the hands of advertising." Jiang Wen reprimanded.
Jiang Wen boasts that he is a director of literary films, and it is not uncommon to add advertisements to movies, he wants to take the path of an artist. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.