Chapter 326. 【Martial Arts Hurricane】
As mentioned before, as a young generation of Hollywood filmmakers, Gyllenhaal has changed from a carpenter to a popular fried chicken, which has a lot of credit to Yi Feiyang.
For Gyllen Hill, Yi Feiyang also spent a lot of effort to support him as the protagonist. However, there is a saying that people are not as good as heaven, after Gyllen Hill became a little popular, he began to fall silent, no matter how Yi Feiyang promoted it behind the scenes, he was originally very popular, but he was not angry. This made Yi Feiyang very distressed and headache. This time, Yi Feiyang boldly used him to lead the villain role in the play, and he was still the vicious terrorist leader, which was actually an attempt...... Try to break the stereotype of Gyllen Hill's handsome boy and repackage him as a character star.
In fact, in his previous life, Gyllen Hill took the character route, such as his "Brokeback Mountain", etc., which are very contradictory and tangled characters. But now, because Yi Feiyang helped him too hard, he fixed his image on the idol route, thus preventing the development of his acting skills and not broadening his acting path, which is also the main reason why Gyllen Hill has been unpopular.
Now, playing as a terrorist is obviously an attempt and a challenge, and Gyllen Hill seems to understand Yi Feiyang's intentions, so he tries to do his best in grasping the role. In order to make the audience completely forget the handsome and handsome self before, Gyllen Hill also asked the makeup artist to make hideous scars on his face, bite a cigarette, and laugh to pull the scars.
The appearance is in place, but he lost to Donnie in terms of acting skills, Gyllen Hill is unwilling to do this, knowing that Downey's sudden change of power is the result of Yi Feiyang's training. So Gyllenhill was like a gambling child. found Yi Feiyang in private. Ask him to open a small stove for himself.
Yi Feiyang has a kind of master-apprentice love for Gyllenhill, seeing his sad face, he wants to shoot this drama well, of course, he supports him very much, and begins to teach him.
"What's the bad guy, Ciel?"
"Bad people, bad people?"
"And what about the terrorists?"
"The one who caused the terror!"
"Do you know the difference between a bad guy and a terrorist?"
"This ......" Gyllenhill had some thoughts in his mind, but none of them felt right.
Yi Feiyang smiled. "In reality, the bad guys may be terrorists, but the terrorists don't think they're bad guys!"
"Huh?" Gyllenhill was stunned, this proposition is too bold and unrefutable to the world, you must know that the United States is fighting terrorism in this section.
Seeing Gyllenhill's mouth open wide, Yi Feiyang explained: "Don't get me wrong, I mean to say that the bad guys are the bad guys that everyone recognizes, but for the terrorists. They themselves never consider themselves bad people, on the contrary. They narrowly believe that they are fighting jihad, that they are doing the right thing, and that even if they kill countless innocent people, they will find excuses to excuse themselves! So the character you want to play can't just be in the position of an ordinary bad guy, but say to yourself, you're a saint, you're doing great things...... Use a means of self-deception to substitute yourself into this kind of traitorous and evil role, then, you will be able to touch the soul of the character, not the skin! ”
"But I think I've done a good job, like when I shot American soldiers, and I ignored civilian casualties......"
"That's not enough!" Yi Feiyang shook his head and said, "How to say it, your performance style is too direct, you are too accustomed to expressing your inner emotions directly, although this is very explosive, but it greatly weakens the three-dimensionality of the characters from the inside out." Yi Fei pointed out Gyllenshire's shortcomings succinctly.
Although this handsome guy's acting skills have been improving, his acting style is very simple, he is very good at mobilizing his inner emotions, and then erupting like a volcano, shining on the camera into a huge impact, which is also the most direct way to show the role, Gyllen Hill excavates his heart is very sincere, and all feelings are also very strong, but it always gives people a feeling of overexertion, which is his biggest problem.
"Three-dimensionalization of the characters? I don't understand what you mean. Gyllenhill clearly didn't get it.
"Let me say so." Yi Feiyang thought for a while, and then tried to explain: "Most of the roles you played before were young people with direct tempers, and whatever you thought in your heart, you would express what you thought in your heart, and it was easy to get excited, and if you said it directly, you were also very good at performing...... But specifically in this play, I want you to break through your own image, play a villain, a terrorist, you have never tried such a role before, but you must have seen such a movie, so subtly, you have brought out the image of the villain in the previous movie, such as smoking cigarettes, pulling scars and smiling, etc., yes, these expressions and behaviors can show the viciousness of a villain, but they are superficial and cannot penetrate into the bone marrow. ”
"It's easy...... It would be nice to be more restrained. Gyllenshill couldn't help but say that he was like this in the previous "Buried Alive", many times lowering his voice, or being more silent.
"But if you're too restrained, how do you express clear emotions to the audience?" Yi Feiyang asked rhetorically.
"Well...... Gyllenhill was speechless, looked at Yi Feiyang, raised his eyebrows and made a helpless expression.
In fact, Gyllen Hill's situation is different from Robert Downey Jr., Downey was asked by Yi Feiyang to act with his eyes and smile with an expression...... cynical expressions to express the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the characters; As for Gillon Hill, Yi Feiyang's requirement for him is to succeed in the transformation, and strive to forge himself into a good piece of steel, which can be arbitrarily shaped into various types.
"You really don't understand, do you?" Seeing that Gyllenhill was still confused, Yi Feiyang asked.
"Yes, one more point!"
"And now?" Caught off guard, with a snap, Yi Feiyang shook his hand and gave Gyllenhill a slap.
Gyllenhill was immediately beaten dumbfounded, and the others were also dumbfounded, and said in their hearts, what happened?
Without waiting for everyone to react, Yi Feiyang snapped and slapped him again.
Gyllenhill was beaten to the brim.
"Now, you still don't understand?" Yi Feiyang stared at him.
Others wanted to come and fight. Yi Feiyang roared: "Stand for me." Don't come! ”
Gyllenhill's chest heaved. His eyes were about to erupt into flames, and he didn't understand why Yi Feiyang suddenly wanted to hit himself, and hit him so hard and so hard.
"Still don't understand?" Bang Bang Bang! Yi Feiyang slapped three times in a row.
Gyllenhill was full of grievances and anger, but looking at Yi Feiyang, who swore an oath, he didn't dare to come out, not to mention how uncomfortable this feeling of grievance was.
"Are you a man? I've hit you so hard that you don't even dare to move your hand? Yi Feiyang's language is sarcastic. Provocation.
"In the end...... For what? Gyllenhill gritted his teeth.
"It's not for anything, I just want to hit you!" Yi Feiyang raised his hand again, but this time, his hand was grabbed by Gyllenhill.
Gyllenhill looked at him with a fire-breathing gaze and gritted his teeth, "You don't want to fight anymore, okay?" ”
The corners of Yi Feiyang's mouth curled, and he suddenly kicked it away, directly kicking Gyllenhill to the ground!
"Stupid, don't you understand?"
Gyllenhill, who was kicked to the ground, clutched his stomach in pain. Suddenly, he laughed like crazy.
"I see! I understand! He shouted, loudly.
The people around looked inexplicable.
"Was he beaten stupid?"
"Why did the director want to beat him?"
"Does a tyrant need a reason to hit someone?"
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Besides, Gyllenhill on the ground was confused from the beginning, and was suddenly slapped by Yi Feiyang. was also stunned, and didn't understand what Yi Feiyang was doing. Then Yi Feiyang couldn't stop asking him: "Do you understand?" This made him even more puzzled, but then another slap came down, he couldn't hold back any longer, and when Yi Feiyang was about to hit him again, he defended himself and held Yi Feiyang's hand.
In Gyllenhill's opinion, it was time for the matter to end there. But unexpectedly, Yi Feiyang kicked over!
This time Gyllenhill was completely angry, just when he turned over and wanted to stand up and fight with Yi Feiyang, Yi Feiyang's sentence "Do you understand" was like a bell ringing his nerves.
Yes, at that moment he understood.
The feeling that anger is suppressed in the heart.
That feeling of hatred.
That feeling of wanting to go crazy for revenge......
The real terrorists are not badass, but they are a bunch of beasts packaged with reason!
Suppress yourself, but the viciousness and resentment in your heart are monstrous!
"I see!" Gyllenhill shouted, and at that moment, he understood everything about the two of them!
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The filming of the next period of time became very weird.
The reason is that Robert Downey Jr., who was trained by Yi Feiyang, and Gyllen Hill burst out with enthusiasm for competing acting skills. And Nicolas Cage, the villain of the play, who was originally a bystander, as well as Ivanka Trump and Pars Hilton, were also infected by this enthusiasm.
The competition of acting skills, like a plague, instantly spread to the entire "Iron Man" crew.
As a director, Yi Feiyang was dumbfounded, because during the filming process, many scenes that he felt were okay were reshot by Cage and others.
"Director, I feel like I didn't perform well just now!"
"Director, I think my performance will be better if I do it again!"
"Director, do it again, I'm not tired!"
"Director!"
"Director!"
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This is what Yi Feiyang has heard the most during this time, test, are these still actors? Pure drama maniacs! It's not a literary film, so why do you have to be so demanding of yourself? Someone is starting to feel sorry for their film.
This bizarre phenomenon continued until two weeks later, when Downey, Hill, Cage and others realized that if it was always remade on N-camera, it was estimated that the film would not be finished by 2008. Therefore, everyone is more focused and strives to get it done in one step during the shooting.
This finally made Yi Feiyang breathe a sigh of relief, my film!
In May, when Yi Feiyang created Iron Man, Hollywood blew a gust of oriental martial arts, and this strong storm came from the Chinese kung fu film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" produced by Dream Entertainment and directed by Li Press!
That's right, it's this drama, which was finally released in North America after almost half a year of filming!
Before the release, neither the Chinese-speaking region nor Hollywood was very optimistic about the drama of Dream Entertainment, thinking that this drama must be the "cannon fodder work" of Dream Entertainment.
Asia: "The declining Chinese martial arts want to find a way out in North America." Undoubtedly self-defeating! ”
North America: "Chinese talents tapped by Dream Entertainment." It will smear the face of this amazing company! ”
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But what surprised everyone was that. This cannon fodder movie, which is not favored, has caused a storm in North America after its release.
People were amazed!
People were amazed!
A lot of people's jaws dropped!
Maybe the martial arts moves are the biggest selling point, maybe the Oriental movie satisfies fans who are tired of watching Hollywood movies, or maybe it's really a great movie, anyway, the U.S. box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has reached $94.5 million as of May 11, and it is just around the corner to break 100 million.
The Hollywood media here boldly believe that it is the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the history of the United States. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has opened the door for Americans to enjoy Asian films.
And those media in Asia said that the reason why this drama was able to become popular in North America was entirely because of "too good luck".
In fact, only Yi Feiyang knows that there is a reason why "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" became popular, not simply "lucky".
First of all, the taste aspect. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a win-win box office reputation because Americans and Europeans are tired of watching their own movies. They would look for exotic flavors, and "Orientalism" prevailed. And this is one of the main reasons why "In the Mood for Love" and Korean movies will be popular in North America in the future.
Secondly. In terms of technology. The Hollywood film industry has always had a certain sense of rejection for works that are "obscene to technology". For example, science fiction films, such as gunfight action, are generally difficult to enter the eyes of the Oscar judges, just because, "technical techniques" will always be outdated, and all "technical techniques", no matter how exquisite and spectacular they are, will definitely be outdated in a few years.
Especially the Oscars, what they want to choose is a boutique that can exist beyond time. The good thing about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is that it has many techniques, and these techniques are so moving, so novel, and so beautiful. For example, the flying wall shot from above, such as the confrontation in the bamboo forest, such as the sword splitting in the patio, after people watch it, no matter how long it will linger in their minds, vividly.
Is the technique of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" really reached the point where there is no one before and no one after it? No, the Hong Kong-made martial arts films of the 90s and even the 80s have more things than they are profitable. However, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has an atmosphere that can "exist beyond time and space". Yi Feiyang didn't know how to describe it, and reluctantly said that it was "an elegant atmosphere imagined by a reader", in order to keep this elegance, Li pressed desperately to present it in a hard way, maybe he could use a blue screen, or use a little more steel wire, but he didn't use it.
Li Zhao created a hallucination-like, dream-like picture of Chinese kung fu.
Chu Yuan tried to do it before, and Hu Jinquan tried to do it before, but only "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" succeeded.
The most reluctant, the humanities.
In Yi Feiyang's view, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is actually a very nihilistic movie.
The chivalrous man in it is running for an official, and the reason for running is that he is a prodigal and unruly official's child, because of the evil deeds of a teenager, this chivalrous man must be tracked for thousands of miles, and in the end, he sacrifices his own life. Before he died, he desperately completed the level that his martial arts cultivation had never been able to break through, and he was completed and died. The teenager, ashamed of himself, also committed suicide and died.
The whole plot of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually nonsense and nonsense, not to save the common people, not to resist violent power, not to protect Zhongliang, not to show fairness and justice.
It's nothing.
It's futile pursuits, unintentional fights, and, ultimately, the nothingness of wasted life. However, perhaps it is this new "nihilistic plot" that makes "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" have a completely different viewing experience.
It doesn't matter if they're all dead, they've fought, so they exist. A brand-new existential, Chinese philosophical martial arts movie, it can be said that the spiritual and psychological aspects explored in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" happen to be lacking in Hollywood.
In short, the production of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" by Dream Entertainment is very rebellious, and there is a frenzy of Chinese hurricanes blowing in North America, Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago!
The editor-in-chief of one of America's most authoritative film magazines commented: "Popularity speaks for itself, and Asian films are likely to be accepted by the American public, rather than being confined to the small circle of art films." ”
Hollywood box office expert Paul pointed out: "The success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is enough to encourage Hollywood to release more Asian films that were previously considered unmarketable." After all, Asian films can also make $100 million at the U.S. box office. This phenomenon deserves in-depth study. ”
Film critics here believed: "The film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has contributed greatly to the opening of Asian films to the American market. ”
British writer Lucidi pointed out: "If Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon can win multiple Academy Awards in the future. It also proves that the U.S. market needs the stimulation of Asian films, and that more diverse culture is necessary for the U.S. film market, after all, Hollywood produces many dispensable 'bad movies' every year. ”
In addition, the actor of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Zhou Yunfa has also gained international popularity and has become the target of foreign filmmakers.
The new film "Bulletproof Warrior Monk" starring him has not yet started filming, and it has become a hot commodity for foreign film companies. Recently, in the "AFM", the largest film market event in the United States, four of the eight major American film companies negotiated with them to buy the American distribution rights of the film, and even the French film companies were willing to pay eight figures to negotiate the distribution rights of "Bulletproof Monk" in France.
Go without saying. In the eyes of many, the Chinese superstar is going to replicate his good fortune in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and continue to exert his martial arts energy.
However, in Yi Feiyang's view, it is not a good sign for Zhou Runfa to do this, you must know that in his previous life, the "Bulletproof Warrior Monk" was a word-of-mouth box office failure, which also made Zhou Runfa, whose Hollywood career had only improved, weaken again, so that he became a supporting role in Hollywood.
"Perhaps, I should have reminded him!" As the arrogant hero of the Chinese entertainment industry, Yi Feiyang couldn't help but think so.
Just do what you say. Yi Feiyang first made some serious revisions to his original script. If you remember correctly, there were actually a lot of Chinese elements in the previous life of "Iron Man". Because at that time, China had become the largest market for Hollywood film exports. In order to please the Chinese audience, there are several very good Chinese characters in the play "Iron Man", of course, most of these characters are soy sauce, and the scenes are not very heavy.
After careful research and consideration, Yi Feiyang chose the role of Dr. Wu in "Iron Man 3" and perfectly interspersed him in this new version of "Iron Man". Of course, the role of the character is not very heavy, but it is also different from the soy sauce role in the previous life that can be had or not, and it doesn't matter if it is deleted, but it is a key character who affects the development of the plot and disconnects this drama after it is deleted. Of course, such a modification carries a lot of risks, but for Yi Feiyang, making such an attempt in advance may not be a bold marketing strategy, if you remember correctly, there are hundreds of millions of blockbusters in the Chinese market today.
After revising the script, Yi Feiyang, as the director and owner of the company, proposed directly to the company in writing that "Chinese actor Zhou Yunfa is needed to make a cameo appearance in a Chinese character in "Iron Man", in order to "further open up the booming Chinese film market".
This proposal was quickly approved by the company, not to mention that Yi Feiyang himself is the director of "Iron Man" and a big boss, and now he wants to find someone to make a cameo appearance in his own play, who can object?
In addition, everyone also knows that during this time, Zhou Yanfa, a Chinese actor, is quite popular in Hollywood, and the box office of the martial arts film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" starring him has exceeded 100 million, which can be regarded as making a lot of money for Dream Entertainment, and it is also a very good publicity strategy to let him help make a cameo.
In short, Zhou Yanfa's cameo appearance in "Iron Man" has become a sure thing, and this news has immediately attracted the attention of many Hollywood and even major Asian media.
Because in the eyes of many media, Yi Feiyang is purely "his own family is helping his own family", he is doing an adventure, no way, Chinese just like to be emotional!
As for whether it is the icing on the cake or a mouse that spoils the pot of soup, it is unknown.
For Hollywood filmmakers, many people believe that Yi Feiyang's move is an olive branch thrown by an actor who is also Chinese, proving the characteristics of Orientals to help each other. Some people also said that as the president of Dream Entertainment, Yi Feiyang seems to have planned and prepared to march into the Chinese film industry in the future, after all, Hollywood's hegemony is too difficult, and for the Chinese film industry, he is the only king, and it may be the best choice to retreat to the next best.
For Dream Entertainment's old rival Columbia, Yi Feiyang is doing this to "accumulate popularity for his play like a clown." He also said, "Our "Spider-Man" will never engage in such a low-level cameo game, we make blockbuster movies, not children's games!" (To be continued......)