While the crew was building a huge project, on the other hand, Li Xiaole was filming the really main scenes with the actors, they first filmed those scenes of Pai's childhood in Delhi and several cities in India, and thanks to the help of Bollywood, these scattered but important shots were filmed in just one month.

Gradually, more and more young Indians took photos of "Life of Pi" during the filming process and uploaded them to the website, and Li Xiaole's secrecy work could no longer continue.

Although for ordinary Indians, they may not have heard of the name Li Xiaole, but for the young people from wealthy families in the Bollywood Brahmin Film and Television Academy, it is like thunder, unlike the older generation of Bollywoods, these Indian students who study acting have all grown up watching American movies on the Internet, and the name of "Li Jesus" who has caused a sensation in Hollywood in the past two years is like thunder.

Coupled with Li Xiaole's young oriental face, he has a more intimate sense than other Hollywood directors, and many students from Brahmin Film and Television Academy have begun to become star chasers, following the crew of "Life of Pi" all the way across India.

After Li Xiaole finished filming scenes in other places and returned to the port of Kolkata, these young Indians who were obsessed with him even rented local hotels and hostels like crazy, and stayed near the crew every day, just to get close to their idols~

In their minds, Li Xiaole, a Chinese from the grassroots who has become a world-class director from an actor, is their goal, and everyone hopes to become a person like him who can go out of his country and show his skills in Hollywood~~

Unlike these happy star chasers who are excited every day, the crew of "Youth Pi" began to enter a stage of torment.

Compared with the "Pie Drifting" shot, which accounts for two-thirds of the whole film, the rest is a technical problem, and only this part is the most essential performance that really requires the actors and directors to work together to work together in the whole film.

A computer-generated CG tiger, and an Indian teenager's scene, it seems that it should be the simplest in this movie, whether it is a big scene on the ocean, or in the indoor special effects pool, the picture in the lens is very clean, the focus is only one actor and a CG tiger, the composition is so simple, I am afraid that it is unique in all movies, and many people in the crew even think that they can finish filming this part in a week.

But as soon as it really started, everyone began to complain, because Sura Shama, the leading actor, didn't know the basics of acting at all, although the silly and straightforward performance method occasionally had flashes, but it made people look completely unconvincing, and you couldn't feel that he was living on a lifeboat with a tiger...... Completely unexpressive......

Yes, Sura Sharma is a good boy, he works hard, but everyone can see that he is not an actor...... His one-man show on the ship, not to mention Tom Hanks, even if he followed an ordinary actor, it seemed much more immature.

After filming for two weeks on the real ocean, there was not even a set of usable shots, which made everyone very disappointed, watching the rapid progress of the props crew on the shore, but the filming progress here was at a standstill, and the crew was very disappointed, and they couldn't lift their spirits every day.

Only Li Xiaole remained silent, letting Sura Sharma play blindly on the lifeboat by himself, until he saw that this Indian boy couldn't even stand on the boat from the beginning, and wanted to vomit every day, and slowly began to move freely on the boat, and he was a little satisfied.

Fred couldn't stand it anymore, so he could only pull Li Xiaole aside and said: "This can't be done, I think he really can't act, this kid is too lacking in self-confidence...... Let's replace it, it's still too late. ”

"Wait, give him some more time." Li Xiaole just smiled, he already had an idea in his heart, and now is the official beginning.

Li ...... I have never understood, why did you choose a child like him who has no foundation at all? Fred sighed, a little helpless, in fact, there are many more suitable candidates.

"Because I still have a lot to fall short of." Li Xiaole showed a smile, but his tone was very serious:

"I don't have the ability to use the best actors, the best production standards, under these too dazzling factors, let others see my level of directing, I chose Shama, not only because he is suitable, but also because if he, a layman, can shine in my film, those judges can't ignore my value......

In fact, I don't have confidence, because I have never used an actor with weak acting skills, but I think that if I want others to recognize me, then I must first surpass myself and surpass my own limits, and I believe that I can prove to everyone that I, Li Xiaole, as a director, can deserve the highest honor in this world. ”

Fred was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he obviously wanted to persuade Li Xiaole, but he was touched by the radiant and fearless spirit in his words, and suddenly remembered that when he was young, if he had one-tenth of Li Xiaole's courage, then he might not nest in the small place of the Drama Council for the rest of his life......

Although he can teach Li Xiaole a lot in the movie, why isn't Li Xiaole teaching himself something? The courage that flew with the breath of youth, the burning momentum, Fred suddenly had a feeling of envy in his heart, yes...... Only people like him can truly climb to the pinnacle of the world~~

"Well, okay then......" Although Fred's heart fluctuated, as an art director, he still restrained his inner emotions and gave advice to Li Xiaole: "If it really doesn't work, you can change people at any time, I think some of those children are good......" said, pointing to the dozen or so star-chasing Indian boys and girls hiding behind the camera lens next to him.

Li Xiaole looked over there, smiled and didn't answer, seeing that the time was almost up, beckoning Emma to come over, he already had an idea in his heart, to train an actor, the most important thing is to shape his self-confidence, this time has made Sura Shama looked down upon, his mentality should have sunk to the bottom, and it was time for him to improve his self-confidence.

"What's the matter? Do you want me to comfort your little baby Shama~? Please, I'm only 17 years old~~ I still want someone to comfort me~~" Emma grumbled angrily as she walked over, that beautiful little face was full of unhappiness, recently Li Xiaole has been asking her to take care of Sura Shama, saying what is "You are the same age as him, and older than him, you have to look at him like a sister." "It made her very unhappy.

"Don't pretend to be pathetic, you little elf." Li Xiaole smiled and touched her head.

"It's so rude for you to touch a lady's head like this~! If you were in London, I would have slapped you for this~! Emma raised her beautiful eyes and glared at Li Xiaole, but she didn't stop him from touching, how to say, I feel very happy to stay with him so intimately, although this little director always wants her to do something weird......

"Okay, I'll give you a task, go and call those students of the Brahmin cadet corps, I'll give Shama an acting lesson, and you can listen to it by the way, it's good." Li Xiaole instructed her.

"You're going to give us an acting lesson~?" Emma felt a little surprised, but immediately became excited, and while running over there, she turned around and said, "Okay~ I'll go and call them over." "Li Xiaole, a great director's acting class, is much more attractive than those old professors in the drama council.

After a while, Emma exerted his "Hermione" appeal and summoned those fans and Sula Shama, and Li Xiaole also asked the crew workers to pull the lifeboat to the dock by the sea and call all the boys and girls to the lifeboat.

Seeing the idol in their hearts coming, a group of Indian college students of the Brahmin caste couldn't help but shout excitedly at Li Xiaole: "Director Li~~Can you give us some roles~~As long as you can appear on camera~Any role can be~~" "Director Li~~ I don't think your actor is good, change me to play the leading role, I will definitely be able to play better than him~~"

A group of students from the Bollywood Film and Television Academy, who don't know the height of the sky, all recommended themselves, and Sura Shama next to him lowered his head, looking very inferior, he also knew in his heart that he didn't understand anything, and he couldn't compare to these Brahmin aristocratic children, these children were born with a good education, and they were all going to the United States to be actors or programmers in the future, and he ...... He couldn't even pronounce an English accent.

"Okay~ Stop screaming, it's all quiet." Li Xiaole held a camera rack with a cold face, and knocked heavily on the lifeboat parked at the pier, and the sound of "bang" startled this group of young Indians, I didn't expect this Director Li to be so fierce, but Li Xiaole's next words made everyone almost jump up with joy.

"Next, I'll do an exercise on the performance of the main character, as long as any of you can do better than Shama, then I will let him replace Shama as the male lead of this movie, if the girl does the best, then I will let her be the heroine of my next movie."

As soon as he said this, not only the boys and girls of the acting academy at the scene cheered: "Li, you didn't lie to us~~" "You can really be the leading actor~" "Great~!" I'm definitely better than him. ”

Even Emma pulled Li Xiaole's shoulder a little excitedly, and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to ask me to be the heroine of your next movie, I'm embarrassed to say, that's why you gave me this opportunity?" ”