Having said that, the Indian film company that was acquired by Yi Feiyang is called "Giant Elephant Pictures", and elephants are India's national treasure pets, so there are many companies named after "elephants". Although this company is medium in scale and the overall development is less than ten years, it is very competitive in the market, especially this company has a lot of good professionals, such as script writing, photography, publicity, planning, etc.

And Yi Feiyang values this point, talent strategy is the magic weapon to win in the future, not to mention that this company is young and strong, full of vitality and forge ahead, which is very in line with Yi Feiyang's appetite. Sometimes the acquisition of a company also depends on the eye and fate, and Yi Feiyang feels that he has a lot of eye and fate with this company. Of course, in the eyes of the other party, this may be a "bad fate", after all, no company wants to be acquired.

In Yi Feiyang's view, Indian films have their own characteristics, and there is no need to turn them into Hollywood-style American films, or Hong Kong-style Hong Kong films. Therefore, for the giant elephant pictures that were acquired by himself, Yi Feiyang's business strategy is to maintain characteristics!

None of the executives of Giant Elephant Pictures expected that the company would be suddenly acquired, and the boss changed from Indian to Chinese. Just when they were hesitant and uneasy, Yi Feiyang held a conference, at which the focus was to stabilize the morale of the army, and then Yi Feiyang threw out several outlines of the script that he had simply conceived.

The names of these scripts are: "My Name is Khan", "Three Fools in Bollywood", "Kung Fu Fly", and "Chennai Express" and "Unknown Death".

Behind these scripts. Yi Feiyang even directly indicated the candidate for the role. For example, the two plays "My Name is Khan" and "Chennai Express" are selected as Shah Rukh Khan, known as Tom Brother in India; The male protagonist of "Three Fools Havoc in Bollywood" and "Unknown Death" is Aamir Khan, the "King of India" who is as famous as Shah Rukh Khan.

In the beginning. Those Indian "subordinates" don't take it seriously, thinking that Yi Feiyang was only deified in Hollywood, not as powerful as the legend, but when they read these script outlines, they were collectively dumbfounded.

At that moment, they had only one word to describe their feelings about Yi Feiyang, and that was - God!

Since everyone is engaged in movies, a fool can also see whether the script is good or bad. And the five scripts that Yi Feiyang took out in one breath directly killed everyone's doubts about him in seconds, and for this legendary Hollywood gold medal screenwriter, they can only describe it as a mountain elevation and a five-body casting.

Looking at the stunned reactions of these Indians, Yi Feiyang just smiled slightly, because he knew that there would be such a result, because in his previous life, these five dramas almost occupied the top five of the domestic and overseas box office lists in India! If you can't shake these guys with such a bad hand, it's too boring.

With incredible means, Yi Feiyang took control of Giant Elephant Pictures at once, leaving indelible myths and legends for the future Indian film industry.

Back to it. Yi Feiyang gathered people again and began to officially settle in the slums of India to start filming the long-planned "Millionaire". At this time. It's almost mid-October, and it's just over a month away from Hollywood's Christmas season.

The speed of the Indian government's approval this time is quite fast, after all, Giant Elephant Pictures is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and it has already established a good relationship with the government and opened up the joints when it was operating in the past, but at the moment it is just a few walks.

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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

Mumbai, Dahavi, is still the same slum where Yi Feiyang found the Jamal brothers, where "Millionaire" is being filmed intensely.

Because most of the actors in this movie are ordinary people in the slums, and they don't have any acting skills, Yi Feiyang arranged for the actors to rehearse on the spot instead of rehearsing in one place at random, and at the same time filmed the rehearsal process, hoping to get as many valuable clips as possible, and if the effect is good, it can also be put into the movie.

The crew filmed in various places, including Dahawi, India's largest slum, which is located west of the city and near the airport, and anyone who goes to Mumbai will see this slum, which has an estimated population of up to one million people, compared to 220,000 in the city of Mumbai, and is growing at an alarming rate. The production team mainly filmed in Dahavi and the nearby Maxim Creek, and invited poor people living in the slums to participate in the filming to add to the realism.

Due to the live shooting, it was natural to encounter difficulties during framing. Because of the narrow environment, Yi Feiyang has to use different shooting methods to frame the scene, the photography team Yi Feiyang chose the best film crew of Dream Entertainment, as the photographer can be said to be Yi Feiyang's old subordinate Cindy, Cindy created the photography team originally planned to use the traditional 35 meters camera as the main tool, this camera is relatively bulky, considering the actual environment and Yi Feiyang insists on the principle of not affecting the daily life of residents, they use sI-2k This advanced digital camera, The lightweight nature of the camera makes it easier to shoot and easier to blend into.

In addition, they also use a new shooting tool, which can shoot 12 frames a second, like a set of dynamic movements, and others will never notice that it is a serial shooting, thinking that it is just a photoshoot, which can also better relieve the tension caused by the filming of these ordinary actors. It can be seen that Yi Feiyang attaches great importance to this movie, and the degree of harshness is almost comparable to his last Oscar-winning movie "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

Because filming requires a lot of children, Yi Feiyang needs to cultivate a relationship with them, and then keep repeating the lines of the script until they understand the meaning and know how to do it. So Yi Feiyang simply chose all the children in the Dahavi slums, they can not only get a hearty working meal from Yi Feiyang every day, but also earn a lot of income for their families, and the parents of these children are also very willing to send them to the crew to participate in the film shooting, and some families also vacate their own empty houses as the filming needs of the crew, which makes Yi Feiyang's entire crew quickly integrate into the life of the entire slum.

As mentioned earlier, slums are not as breeding grounds for evil as they are portrayed in literary works. In addition to the living environment, there are some backward accidents. There is not much difference between this and the state of existence of ordinary people. You can see children speeding down the streets, and adults can be seen comfortably basking in the sun on the small wooden beds in front of the door...... When Yi Feiyang and the crew were resting, they were also able to play a game of chalk with a group of people. So in order not to make everyone have preconceived notions and have bad ideas about the slums, Yi Feiyang also deliberately asked the crew to film the real Dahavi and the behind-the-scenes footage of the filming, as a promotional documentary in the early stage of the film, and took a very gimmicky name - "The Secret of the Slums".

"Hi, Director. You can't shoot like this! Yi Feiyang's royal photographer Cindy said.

Seeing the children running around the street at will, the streets were noisy and disorderly, and the flow of people was constantly pouring in and out, Yi Feiyang couldn't help frowning.

"We can't control it, there's so much instability on the streets of Mumbai. The local Bollywood staff, they suggested that I make a similar scene. ”

"Dear Cindy, you know my approach to filming, I don't want to do that. I wanted to capture real life in the slums. So, the only way you can make the film shoot real is to don't control it. Go, follow me! Yi Feiyang picked up the portable camera. And let the film crew behind Cindy also carry hand-held cameras and roam the streets of Mumbai. You may not be able to shoot anything in a day. Or maybe you can shoot a lot of things you didn't expect. In order to strive for authenticity, Yi Feiyang would rather sacrifice the progress of shooting.

As a result, Dahavi's people are very curious about why Yi Feiyang, a foreign director and videographer, looks less like a director and more like a tourist. For this, Cindy and the rest of the crew were also very puzzled at first, and even a little dissatisfied, but Yi Feiyang is a big director and big boss after all, and after a period of time, everyone is more and more aware that this kind of shooting method is actually the most suitable for this chaotic and noisy environment, although it will take more time in many cases, but it can be completely compensated for in the post-editing, so they began to devote themselves to the intense shooting work one by one. Yi Feiyang smiled and watched everyone's changes, he is a practitioner and doesn't like to use too many words to mobilize.

Although the next shooting was still relatively slow, everyone in the crew adapted to this way of filming at a level. Since many of the crew were in India for the first time, Yi Feiyang was particularly careful. Throughout the shoot, everyone was in a state of learning, learning about Indian culture and all kinds of knowledge about culture. First, because the crew was filming in an unfamiliar environment, Yi Feiyang must know something about it; Second, most of the staff and actors that Yi Feiyang came into contact with are also Indians, and in order to show respect and understanding, Yi Feiyang often leads cultural and entertainment activities for Indians to increase trust between them.

Unlike modern Chinese and Western cultures, the "fatalism" in Indian culture has shocked Yi Feiyang and non-Indian crews. In some of the consciousness education and culture that everyone has received, it is said that "man will conquer the sky", and as long as you work hard, you can change your destiny. In Indian culture, this kind of 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.

In the process of filming, all Yi Feiyang did was respect the country where he was located, their culture and history. When people realize this, they can't make changes, they can't force or dominate something, and it's actually very difficult to control and manipulate in such a cultural context. So, letting the film unfold on its own with the plot and going with the flow became the best choice.

In addition to "fatalism" in Indian culture, "sexism" is also a very common concept, but because the film has nothing to do with it, Yi Feiyang didn't mind much, but he finally asked the staff to put this part in "The Mystery of the Slums", maybe Yi Feiyang can't change anything, but at least he feels that people should know about such problems.

In any case, although the filming of "Millionaire" was not too fast, it went smoothly overall, at least so far.

During this period, a famous guy who played the big bad guy in the play failed to participate in the filming because of a car accident and found someone else to replace him. But they didn't want to act. In their words. "Acting like this to force the good to become a prostitute and lose his conscience will be punished!"

Yi Feiyang wondered, "Is there a punishment for playing a villain?" What kind of theory is this?! ”

The answer was, "The one in front of you has already had a car accident, isn't it?!" ”

Yi Feiyang: "......??!!! ”

Anyway, aside from this disturbing incident, everything else is fine.

On this day, Yi Feiyang was taking advantage of the free time of shooting. Tell Emma, the Indian beauty, about the drama. I have to say that Yi Feiyang's vision of seeing people is very accurate. Emma seems to be born to be an actor, and her figuring out of the characters and the control of the rhythm of the story are beyond Yi Feiyang's expectations. In Yi Feiyang's opinion, as long as this Indian beauty is trained well, she will definitely become like Bollywood actress Katrina in the future? Like Kaf, it's radiant.

It's a piece of jade, and sooner or later it's going to be carved into a gem.

Yi Feiyang thought so.

For Emma, she feels that Yi Feiyang is not only the director of this play. He is also his own teacher and life-saving benefactor.

Yes. If there is no Yi Feiyang to act with handwriting, he who has been expelled from the hotel will be penniless, not to mention supporting his family, and even supporting himself will be a problem.

But it was precisely because of Yi Feiyang's help that Emma's life changed 180 degrees. From an obscure slum girl, from an unemployed hotel yoga instructor, to the current heroine, the earth-shaking changes are dizzying.

Although the film has not yet been filmed, for special reasons, Emma has received almost one-third of her salary. When Emma took more than 16,000 US dollars, she almost choked up and cried, she had never seen so much money in her life, which was equivalent to 1.6 million rupees, oh, God, all this is like a dream!

Out of gratitude and gratitude to Yi Feiyang, Emma worked even harder to film, and even when she didn't have a role, she also helped to pour some tea on the set.

Emma's diligence attracted the praise of the entire crew, and even Jessica Alba, the "female assistant" next to Yi Feiyang, had to admit that this was a very good girl.

Emma's excellence made Jessica have to whisper in Yi Feiyang's ear: "Be careful, don't be fascinated by her." I'm a spy sent by Sister Hathaway to spy on you, and you can't get out of my eyes on your every move! ”

Yi Feiyang's usual reaction to Jessica's "threat" is to hug her, and then kiss her lips fiercely, until Jessica's cheeks were red and she was panting, and then she let go: "Don't Hathaway know that you are the one who really lured the wolf into the house!" ”

At this moment, thinking of Jessica's shy and cute appearance at that time, Yi Feiyang couldn't help laughing.

Emma, who was trying to learn acting skills, didn't understand why Yi Feiyang was laughing, and was about to ask, when suddenly it became very noisy outside, as if something had happened.

A voice said loudly: "Hey, friend, our film crew has already paid the venue fee here, why are you still here to make trouble?" ”

This was followed by a crackling and the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets. Apparently someone is "smashing the field".

"Handed it over? Damn, why didn't we see that? Hah, what if it's the other way around? That's before, and it's going to be handed over now for later! A rough voice said. For the sake of the true God, you had better be obedient, or you will be unlucky to smash your things! ”

In an instant, there was a lot of turmoil outside.

"Stop!" Fat Jack's voice rang out.

Originally, there was no need for Fat Jack to follow Yi Feiyang to India to "suffer" and "eat curry", and the animated film "Kung Fu Panda" directed and produced by him was under intense production.

But in the words of the fat man, "Boss Yi can't live without me!" Because only I know what he needs and what he likes......"

It is true that after following Yi Feiyang for so long, he is the one who knows Yi Feiyang's temperament best. Often Yi Feiyang hasn't opened his mouth yet, and the fat man already knows how to do it.

It can be said that this kind of tacit understanding is very difficult to have, with the fat man by his side, Yi Feiyang can also save a lot of things.

Now, as the fat general next to Yi Feiyang, Jack saw that someone was coming to make trouble, and he stood up immediately.

"Man, we don't care who you are, we're just filming here, we don't want to cause trouble, as for the money you said, I'm sorry, no, even if we have, we won't give it to you, because we are protected by the laws of the Indian government!"

The other party was a dozen or so Indian Ah Fei, and one of them was a curly-haired Indian with a quack, "Protected by law?" What a bunch of fools! Look here, it's a slum, man, don't move your American set, don't you know?! Then his face became murderous, "Remember us, we are all subordinates of Jason the Lion, and this generation is under our control!" ”

Fat Jack didn't know which onion the lion Jason was, and pouted: "I don't know what lions, antelopes, or hunting dogs, jackals, I know you'd better go away immediately, or you will bear the consequences!" ”

"Ha, he's scaring us, man, these Yankees don't even know the name of our boss, what do you say?"

"Shit! Kick and smash their ass! ”

"Smash their yard!"

"Let them fuck off!"

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Those Indian Ah Fei were arrogant. (To be continued......)