Chapter 348. 【Battle of Kings】

In other words, to shoot "Slumdog Millionaire", you have to perfectly design the questions in the quiz game in this play.

Helpless, Yi Feiyang had to rack his brains, but recalled this part of the play in his previous life.

In the movie, there are ten questions between nothing and 20 million, and the questions that the actor Gemma will face in the TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" are:

1. Who starred in the 1973 action movie "Captivity"?

2. There are three lions in the national coat of arms of India, what is written under the lion?

3. What is it in the right hand of Lord Rama described in the teachings?

4. Which famous Indian poet wrote the lyrics of the song "darshandoghanshyam"?

5. Which U.S. president is on the $100 bill?

6. Who understands the revolver?

Then there is the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth questions......

In the end, Gemma, the male protagonist of this play, answered all the words correctly. And the theme revealed: fate! Should I resist?!

In Indian culture, this destiny is extremely powerful, and people are very small and meaningless in the face of fate. Everyone has their own world and their own role, and what people need to do before fate is to follow the will of God rather than do their best. If you want to resist, then there is only one result, and that is to be tortured and played with even more unbearable by fate! But at the same time, you get more and more, which fate originally gave you!

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In retrospect, if there were no such well-designed questions. This film can only be mediocre. Another one: "A kind-hearted poor boy born in the slums." With a persistent energy and surprising good luck, he defeated evil and poverty, and finally won the beauty, and by the way, won fame and fortune - he did not intend to pursue" cliché story. But it is precisely these questions that are full of the author's reflections on the social situation in India and his deep concern for his homeland, which apply to every country and people who are plagued by disasters, don't they?

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In order to design these questions. Yi Feiyang kept turning over books and magazines on Indian history, religion, culture, etc., so as not to cause hard injuries or dissimilarities in the problems he designed. But fortunately, at least Yi Feiyang was very impressed by the drama in his previous life, and many problems were easily solved.

Yi Feiyang's hard work and hard work made him tired and emaciated.

In the eyes of others, Yi Feiyang has been very confused and difficult these days. It seems to have been driven to a dead end by those media, or by Spielberg.

Emaciated. A stubbly beard.

Yi Feiyang, who was originally extremely handsome, is this look.

In order to better take care of Yi Feiyang's life, Anne Hathaway moved in with her good sister Jessica Alba. Moved into a private villa in Yi Feiyang, to be precise. According to Hathaway's meaning, Yi Feiyang doesn't like to hire a servant, so let her and Jessica take care of Yi Feiyang separately.

In this regard, Yi Feiyang was helpless, anyway, he had already disclosed his relationship with Hathaway outside, and as for Jessica, being pulled onto the thief ship by Hathaway was purely a cocoon.

So in the following days, Yi Feiyang started a cohabitation life of two women and a man very beautifully.

Not to mention, there are two girls around, and life is really convenient, at least when you are hungry, you don't have to eat instant noodles, go to the restaurant, and even call someone to deliver food.

Hathaway and Jessica's cooking skills are very good, and like their personalities, Hathaway is good at making light dishes, while Jessica is heavy, this girl can even cook Sichuan food, which can't help but impress Yi Feiyang, and then praise, hot girls are hot girls after all!

At 2 o'clock in the morning that night, Jessica, who was wearing a T-shirt, got up to go to the toilet, and saw the light in the living room on.

"Hi Yi, why aren't you sleeping yet?" Jessica walked over and looked at him curiously.

"Hmm......" Yi Feiyang heard her voice, immediately turned his head to look, and said, "It turned out to be you...... I was just thinking about something. ”

"What's the matter? Because you hurt Columbia and almost went bankrupt? Jessica, squinting like a little wild cat, came over and sat down beside him.

Yi Feiyang shook his head and turned his head to look at her: "I'm not worried about that, they are to blame!" ”

"Oh, and you're worried about how to face Spielberg's challenge?" Jessica speculated.

"It's pretty much the same, but to be precise, I'm just wondering how I'm going to promote my next movie."

"Your next movie? Could it be ...... Do you already have a plan? Jessica looked at him curiously.

Since Yi Feiyang flew back from New Zealand, he hasn't said much, and he doesn't know what he wants to shoot. However, the company is running faster and faster, and more and more movies are being prepared, including "Saw 5" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 4". and the ongoing Lord of the Rings 2 and Iron Man 2. In addition, there is also the animated blockbuster "Kung Fu Panda" that Fat Jack Black is creating, "Brokeback Mountain" prepared by Director Li Press, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" prepared by Tim Burton, "Death Ride" prepared by Cindy, and the erotic blockbuster "Harry Potter vs. Spider-Man" planned by Bill Rabbit and so on.

It can be said that with the rapid development of fantasy entertainment, almost all of the company's directors and actors have filming, and almost all of them are blockbusters. Fundamentally speaking, Dream Entertainment has been produced at a small cost and has truly transformed into a blockbuster factory.

However, with the strong rise of Dream Entertainment, the seven major Hollywood film companies, no, to be precise, the six major film companies except Columbia, have regarded Dream Entertainment as their strongest competitors, and as the spiritual leader of Dream Entertainment, and the legend of Hollywood, Yi Feiyang's every move represents a very special meaning.

For example, this time, the outside world put him and Spielberg in the ring on the Christmas schedule, just to watch a thrilling director's battle. Look at Yi Feiyang after defeating the great director Sam Raimi. Whether he has the ability to continue to work to defeat the legendary art master Spielberg. If he can win again. Then you can challenge the last king, James Cameron, and compete for the throne of the king of movies.

Today's Hollywood film industry has risen an unprecedented battle between directors and each other. And the four directors at the top of the pyramid, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, and Spielberg and Cameron, these four kings have been defeated by the newly rising Yi Feiyang, leaving only Spielberg and Cameron.

As the escalation war continues to heat up. It has become even more exciting, to be honest, what many Hollywood fans want to see now is not the movies shot by Yi Feiyang and others, but how Yi Feiyang is stepping towards the throne of the king of movies step by step in reality. Since the existence of Hollywood, it has been a long time since anyone has been able to attract everyone's attention like Yi Feiyang, and Howard Hughes, the film tycoon who was most likely to become the king, eventually failed because of his own emotional problems, as an outsider, as a Chinese. Can Yi Feiyang succeed?!

"Well, I'm going to make a realistic movie." Yi Feiyang said calmly. It's time for him to show his trump card, the really good movies are not those blockbusters with gorgeous packaging, nor the kind of big casts that gather stars, but the stories around you and me that can penetrate into the hearts of the people.

As a director, you can try a lot of genres, action movies, romance movies, science fiction movies, as well as the most popular comedy movies, as well as horror movies...... But in contrast, the most difficult to shoot and the most difficult to master is the kind of feature film that cannot be classified!

Yes, it is difficult to classify drama films, because there may be romance elements, suspense elements, horror elements, and even sci-fi and action elements, but movies like this themselves cannot be classified as these, because they contain too many elements.

What Yi Feiyang has to do now is to break through himself again and create a new artistic life.

You must know that from the very beginning, almost all of Yi Feiyang's movies focused on "business", which is also something that Yi Feiyang does not shy away from. For example, in the early stage, he filmed the horror film "Chainsaw", the erotic film "Saving the Female Private Rachel", and the later war film "Spartan Three Hundred Soldiers" and this high-tech "Iron Man", etc., all of which moved closer to money in return for maximum benefits, and the only thing that made him deviate from business and move closer to art was "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

Now, if Yi Feiyang wants to break through himself, but also to defeat the legendary "award-winning king" Spielberg, then he must make dangerous moves and take the sword, especially in the face of Spielberg's best science fiction film "Artificial Intelligence", you must know that when Yi Feiyang watched this drama in his previous life, he almost cried, which shows how powerful this drama is, and to defeat it, it is necessary to shoot a good work that can arouse strong resonance among people, and there is no room for error.

"You want to make realistic films?" Jessica opened her mouth slightly, looking at Yi Feiyang in disbelief and said, "God, did I hear it wrong, this really doesn't look like your style." ”

"What style am I?" Yi Feiyang turned his head to look at her curiously and asked rhetorically.

"Don't you know? insidious, cruel, cunning, cold, pretending to be cool, pretending to be innocent......" Jessica kept counting in one breath, so that Yi Feiyang couldn't listen to it anymore, and waved her hand again and again with an embarrassed face, interrupting her:

"Enough~ Enough, hey, beauty, am I as unbearable as you described......?"

"Absolutely." Jessica nodded as a matter of course.

Yi Feiyang touched his nose, thinking to himself, the conspiracy and tricks he was doing behind his back, it is estimated that Jessica knew who made her and Hathaway good sisters, and she was indeed not very decent when she said it, so she could only sigh and say:

"What then? Looks like I'm going to have to save my image, but this time I've changed my goal and I'm not looking at the money all the time, I'm looking at the awards! On par with Cannes, the Oscars, and the Golden Globes! So, no matter what, I have to pretend to be honest and kind......"

Yi Feiyang has always had the title of a tyrant on the set, and it is rare to be so witty and humorous at this moment. Jessica couldn't help but laugh and said, "Forget it, in fact, if you don't pretend to be good, if you pretend to be kind, you will become more evil......" glanced at Yi Feiyang fiercely, "People say that you are the son of God, I think you are the son of the devil!" ”

"Yikes. Why do you have such a bad impression of me? This wasn't the case before. You used to say you loved me alive or dead. You can't live without me! ”

"Die, where did people say such a sensual thing!"

"Alas, I have a poor memory at such a young age, and I don't have dementia when I'm old?"

"You're demented! Don't talk nonsense, Miss Ben is sleepy and wants to go to sleep! Jessica gave Yi Feiyang a blank look again.

"You think I'm insidious, cruel, and cunning. Will a despicable villain who is cold, who loves to pretend to be cool, and who often pretends to be innocent, believe that you are going to sleep? Haha, did I say that I wanted to escape? But hurry up and run away, beware of me, a big tiger, the big bad wolf and the others will reveal their true form and give you something...... Hathaway isn't home today anyway! ”

Jessica saw Yi Feiyang's funny appearance of "opening his teeth and dancing claws" to scare people, and suddenly straightened her breasts, "I'm afraid of you." If you have the ability, come here! After speaking, he hooked his finger towards Yi Feiyang, his eyes were like silk. A defiant look.

Yi Feiyang was speechless.

Tough, too tough!

It took him a long time before he turned around, looked at the tempting Jessica and said, "Hehe, I was purely testing you just now...... Don't take it seriously, rest early, sleeping late is not good for your skin, make a mask or something before going to bed to moisturize and moisturize your skin...... By the way, I'm going to make chicken curry tomorrow, I'm going to shoot an Indian film, so I'll start with Indian food......"

In the face of Yi Feiyang's nonsense, Jessica couldn't help but wonder, what does it mean to have a colored heart and no color guts, this is! But chicken curry, Indian slices? Could it be that the legend is true, he really wants to start filming that "Slumdog Millionaire"?!

"Also, the set we chose is a famous slum in India, and I'm going to donate some money first, not much, just $1 million, well, at least a few orphanages...... I've heard that there are a lot of orphans there...... Most of them don't have anything to eat and make a living by begging and picking up garbage......"

Jessica looked at Yi Feiyang's childlike appearance in a daze, but she had an inexplicable feeling in her heart, although this guy usually acts very insidiously, and can even be said to be unscrupulous to achieve his goals, but in his heart, there is a kind of childlike innocence and kindness...... Such a man is really inexplicably exciting!

This is my man! Jessica suddenly said to herself, proud and angry in her heart, angry and indifferent to her temptation, can I say that I am not beautiful enough?

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Regarding his upcoming new drama "Slumdog Millionaire", Yi Feiyang did not do much publicity. Because let him know that now that his status and status are no longer needed, Wang Po sells melons and boasts about herself. There is no need to hold a press conference such as "flying to India to shoot a new film", all you need is to keep a secret and low-key.

There's no way, a master-level director like him, to this extent, the more he keeps a low profile and mystery, the more he can attract the attention of those media, so that they will come uninvited, just like a bee smelling honey, staring at you.

Sure enough, as soon as the gossip that Yi Feiyang was going to fly to India to film, it immediately exploded in the entire American circle.

"If Magic Young wants to make an Indian drama, do you want to use Indian song and dance to fight Spielberg's artificial intelligence?!"

"Slumdog Millionaire is a mysterious movie, a mysterious plot!"

"The latest war is about to break out, China Yi Fei went to India to worship the elephant god!"

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Under the attention of these media and public opinion, Yi Feiyang tasted the curry chicken rice, and flew to the mysterious eastern country - India with his work team, assistant Jessica, assistant director Fat Jack, photographer Cindy, and other work members!

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India, an ancient civilization, a land full of too many mysteries. Located in the south of Asia, India is the largest country in the South Asian subcontinent and one of the oldest ancient civilizations, with splendid diversity and rich cultural heritage and tourism resources.

When Yi Feiyang stepped on this land, he was still a little excited. After preparing for almost a week, Yi Feiyang led the crew to this country of gods. Before coming, Yi Feiyang had made a lot of preparations, such as the customs and etiquette here, living habits, taboos, etc., and taught the crew members to avoid unnecessary troubles and conflicts.

You know, in the mysterious country of India, elephants, peacocks and the like are sacred and sacred objects, last year a Hollywood director came here to film, because of the desecration of the peacock god here and was expelled by the local residents, if the police did not run in time to relieve the siege, I am afraid that more terrible things will happen.

Therefore, for many foreigners, this place in India is mysterious and unreasonable, and the reason for the unreasonableness is that there are too many taboos, and basically your words and deeds are likely to step on landmines and offend the religious beliefs and national feelings of the people here.

The hotel where Yi Feiyang and his gang stayed was the largest Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, India.

According to Yi Feiyang's previous work style, it was definitely in a hurry to start work immediately, contact the people of the Indian Film Association, and then recruit actors, choose a shooting location, announce the start date, etc., a series of work down, so busy that everyone is on their backs.

But unfortunately, the efficiency of Indians, or their living habits, is directly in great contrast with Yi Feiyang. No matter how anxious and impatient you are, they are still slow, slowly stamping your filming procedures, stamping them again, slowly introducing you to different attractions, and then introducing you, and slowly recommending actors to you, and recommending ...... By the time Yi Feiyang realized that all Indians were Tai Chi masters, he had been here for three days.

In Yi Feiyang's words, Indians are very cheating! (To be continued......)