Chapter 383. 【Rivalry of the Two】
Back at the Dream Entertainment Company, Yi Feiyang asked the female secretary to make him a cup of coffee, and then called the fat man Gao Jiabao, the most trusted person around him, and the company's vice president Du Lei, so that they could temporarily take full control of the company's affairs, and he began to retreat to conceive the script of "Lust and Caution".
As a director and a screenwriter, although Yi Feiyang has the secret of a "prophet" that others don't know, he is also very nerve-wracking in terms of conceiving the script. Think about it, it will be a very tedious task to turn the images you have seen in your head into words, conceive them into cinematic clips, and then divide these clips into a different number of sub-shots, and design the background, lines, character relationships, character conflicts, etc. But it's okay,
Yi Feiyang has become accustomed to this kind of work, and for a long time, he has outlined the general framework of "Lust and Caution".
The main content of the story is that during the Second World War, France in Europe completely fell, and a French intelligence elite named Jack surrendered to the German Nazis and became a traitor, and served as the vanguard of the German army, turning around and using his expertise to carry out a crazy sweep of the underground resistance in France. Because Jack was familiar with the situation of the French intelligence services and knew their combat tactics well, the French underground resistance was defeated and suffered heavy casualties. In order to salvage the defeat, the French intelligence agency sent a beautiful female spy named Ruth to get rid of him. Ruth used her beauty and coquettishness ~ to attract Jack's attention, but after dating Jack for a while, she discovered that this man had two completely different personalities, he was a calm and quiet intelligence officer during the day, and he became a complete sadist at night. Ruth was treated indescribably. Become a dog, a prey, a slave under his whip. Jack placed her under house arrest and beat her, and would kneel on the ground to confess to her. This man with a split personality gradually made Ruth unable to extricate herself, and she even willingly lay under his whip and willingly became his slave. In the last assassination, Ruth completely lost herself......
One day, two days, three days...... Yi Feiyang is completely immersed in this new play that he has conceived.
What kept coming to his mind was the emotion of Jack and Ruth, a pair of wronged men and women.
As a matter of fact. From the beginning of conceptualizing this play, Yi Feiyang has already thought of the two leading actors of this play, the choice of the actor "Jack" is Leonardo DiCaprio, and the choice of the heroine "Ruth" is Kate Winslet!
That's right, it's this peerless couple who created "Titanic"!
Even their names have not changed, and they are still called "Jack" and "Ruth" in the play.
Yi Feiyang, a bad guy, wants to use this "Lust and Caution" to completely destroy Cameron's carefully crafted "Titanic" classic!
However, Yi Feiyang is not very sure whether these two actors accept to appear in such a movie, after all, the content of this play is too revealing~ bones. But it doesn't matter, for Yi Feiyang. Anything is possible, as long as you are willing to try to convince.
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Leonardo is now famous in Hollywood. Famous because he was once an instant hit. Become a hot first-line student in Hollywood today. However, "Titanic" is gone after all, and he can't live in the role of "Jack" forever. He was only in his early twenties when he filmed "Titan", but now he is in his thirties, a lot older, and a lot more mature to be precise. So he wanted to transform, from an idol to a powerful faction, but his wish was disappointed, and his filming of "Gangs of New York" did not help him much.
So much so that many people began to say that he was "always just a green apple" and could never replace a powerful person like Tom Hanks.
Leonardo was a little self-defeating, he began to degenerate like crazy, dating with supermodels, drunk driving, smoking big ~ hemp ...... Negative news has been going on lately.
If you open the major newspapers and magazines in Hollywood, you will know all about his behavior. Because of this, Yi Feiyang easily found Leonardo, who was basking in the sun on a yacht by the sea.
Leonardo was lying on the yacht with three hot bikini girls beside him helping him apply sunscreen.
At this time, the motorboat that Yi Feiyang was riding docked at the edge of the yacht, and Yi Feiyang got on board.
Leonardo squinted, the dazzling sunlight made him unable to see Yi Feiyang's appearance clearly, until he saw clearly, then "God", an exclamation, jumped up.
"God, why are you here?!" For Yi Feiyang, Leonardo respects and admires him from the bottom of his heart.
In fact, Leonardo knows more about Yi Feiyang than anyone else, and his mentor Martin Saxes can't help but tell him what kind of person Yi Feiyang is from time to time, and Leonardo also heard a lot of news about Yi Feiyang through various channels.
Therefore, it can be said that in terms of filming, Yi Feiyang is definitely Leonardo's idol and the object he is most eager to work with.
"Isn't it surprising that I'm looking for you?" Yi Feiyang sat down with a smile, not verbose, and said straightforwardly: "Because I want you to appear in another play!" ”
"What. Let me play your play, is it true? Oh great, I've been waiting for this day for a long time! Leonardo was overjoyed.
"Don't be too happy, wait until you read the script!" Yi Feiyang poured cold water on him appropriately.
Where would Leonardo think so much, he took Yi Feiyang's script and read it.
Yi Feiyang was bored, so he laughed with the three bikini girls. The three hot girls didn't know who he was at first, but when they understood that he was the famous China Yi, they were so excited that they almost jumped up.
"Dear Yi, do you think I have a chance to be an actor?"
"Do you think I'm suitable for filming your film?"
"See if I have a chance to play a supporting role or something!"
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As long as it's a girl, there's no one who doesn't like to dream of being a star, not to mention that for them, being able to meet this famous super director is a kind of luck in itself.
Leonardo reads the script very carefully, unlike the average star, he likes to hook up with himself when he reads the script. Try to fit into the character. See if you feel it.
He was very confused about this "Lust Caution". The character of the male protagonist Jack is too difficult to control and substitute.
To be precise, Leonardo did not have the confidence to play such a role. Especially when it comes to split personalities, he never tries it. For Yi Feiyang's worried exposed ~ bone lens, he said pediatrics.
In fact, Leonardo likes this kind of violent erotic ~ challenging role, such as the "Wolf of Wall Street" he starred in in his previous life, and the whole play is full of erotic~ erotic and foul language. Facing the camera, Leonardo scolded more than 2,000 "FUCK". even proudly told the reporter who interviewed him, "In the bed scene in the play, he did it himself, and he didn't find any stand-in!" ”
Therefore, the erotic part of the play "Lust and Caution" is not too abrupt for him, and he can definitely accept it. And this is also the biggest difference between Western actors and Eastern actors, which is more open. It's just that Leonardo feels challenged by the character of the male protagonist. He vowed to be a powerful actor in the future, but he never thought that it would be so difficult to play a powerful actor.
"Dear Yi, I'm afraid I can't simulate the complex split personality of Jack's character!" When Leonardo handed the script back to Yi Feiyang, he was honest. "I've tried to play it in my head just now, but it turned out to be ...... Oh my God. It's so hard! ”
Yi Feiyang certainly understands why Leonardo is distressed, you must know that when Cannes actor Tony Leung starred in this drama in his previous life, he also broke his head for how to interpret the role, and even suffered from insomnia and hair loss for this role. After the most embarrassing thing, it is said that the great director Li Press used a very ingenious and weird method to remind him, Wei Zai suddenly woke up and played the role of "Mr. Yi", but afterwards, Tony Leung took a break for more than half a year after filming this drama, because he was overly addicted to the role and could not withdraw from the role.
"Also, dear Yi, I don't think I'm deep enough, especially not enough to play such a deep Frenchman......" Leonardo continued.
"Oh no, it seems to me that you're playing this role right now!" Yi Feiyang interrupted Leonardo's words, "I have watched "Gangs of New York" starring you, since you can play an Irishman vividly, then I believe that you can also be qualified for the role of a Frenchman!" In addition, the film was filmed in English, and it was only changed to French when it was released in Europe, so you don't have to worry about the language. ”
"As for the character you are afraid of not being able to interpret, then I can tell you that there are many things in this world that need to be tried, and if you don't try, you will never know if the Tao will work."
Leonardo pondered, and suddenly he raised his arms and roared, "You're right, dear Yi, if you don't try, you don't know if it's okay, so I took this play!" With that, Leonardo took a leap and threw himself into the water from the deck of the yacht, causing a splash!
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Compared with such a "difficult" persuasion of Leonardo to play the leading role in "Lust and Caution", Yi Feiyang lobbied Kate Winslet much easier. This surprised Yi Feiyang. In Yi Feiyang's opinion, it should be more difficult for women to accept filming such explicit erotic movies than men, but Winslet's reaction directly told Yi Feiyang that she liked the role of "Ruth" in it. and told Yi Feiyang that she would work hard to play this role well.
This made Yi Feiyang puzzled.
In fact, this is the biggest difference between American actors and actresses!
If you study carefully, you will find that in the United States, it is more difficult for actresses to become popular than male actors, and it is even more difficult to stay popular for a long time.
No matter how beautiful a woman is, there will be a day when you will age, once the red face fades, then who will remember you?!
In Hollywood, the United States, where actors shuffle super fast, male actors can become more and more mature, more stable, and masculine as they grow in grades, but women are forgotten with the disappearance of time, and even quit the entertainment industry after the most reluctance.
Compared with Leonardo, Kate became popular with him with "Titanic" and became popular internationally, yes, Kate kept making appointments in the past year or two, but she chose to take over the film cautiously, so that she only took over a "North African Lover" in those two years, but unfortunately this drama was neither popular nor popular, and it directly ruined Kate's hard-earned fame.
At this time, Kate was in a hurry, and the divorce incident in her private life made her personal image plummet. In order to save her career, she even took over the filming of "Holy Smoke" with nudity~exposed shots.
The filming of this drama was smoky. Magical and quirky. Kate plays an innocent girl who falls into an Indian cult~. In order to save her, the family invited a tall priest, but she didn't expect that the originally powerful priest was tempted in front of Kate, so that he lost his way and became her slave......
In this play, although there is only one bold nudity ~ exposure performance of the heroine played by Kate, it is absolutely amazing, directly recalling the shadow of Ruth in Titanic's jade girl, but unfortunately the script of the whole play is too monotonous. The content is so boring that the whole scene is filmed very badly, and Kate's jade girl can be regarded as a waste.
Now, Kate has read the script of Yi Feiyang's "Lust and Caution", and her first feeling is that the opportunity has come!
This is definitely a great opportunity to do so once! Especially the heroine in it, she is simply the soul of the whole play!
If you miss it, you won't come back!
Kate, who had already let go and was ready to accept everything, agreed to Yi Feiyang without hesitation, since he had already been exposed in other plays. Why not in this play?!
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invited Kate to participate in "Lust and Caution", and the smooth process made Yi Feiyang himself a little doubtful whether it was true. But when Kate joined hands with her old buddy Leonardo to Dream Entertainment and officially signed a contract with Yi Feiyang. Yi Feiyang is finally confirmed, "Lust and Caution" is really going to start filming!
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The tense North American summer vacation has passed, and major film companies have taken stock of their gains and losses. Among them, some made a lot of gold and silver, and some lost a lot.
But there's no way, movies are business, and doing business is like that, either lose money or make money.
In contrast, Dream Entertainment once again ran out of the dark horse in this rare summer vacation, a fast-food "I Am Legend" won the global box office of 880 million US dollars, which made many companies that cooperated with Dream Entertainment happy, and also made many companies that worked against Dream Entertainment Company angry.
These are nothing, those good deeds, at this time moved out of the great director Spielberg, saying that he is preparing to shoot an "artistic and connoisseur" therapy film, called "Happiness Terminal", starring Oscar winner Tom Hanks and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.
This film is produced by Spielberg's DreamWorks, because Spielberg's directing ability was interfered with by the producer in the last few films, so this time he directly produced it independently and served as the director. In other words, Spielberg went all out for this play...... Why do you want to do this? Those who do good things immediately find out the answer, in order to defeat the magic Yang, China Yi!
The last time Spielberg and Yi Feiyang ended in a draw, this time, the great director Spear must save face!
The media reporter wrote about this situation very heroically, as if Spielberg was the Spartan warrior of Hot Springs, and he was bound to kill Yi Feiyang to the point of blood.
"Spielberg's decisive battle with China Yi is about to break out!"
"The last game was a draw, and this time Spielberg vows to be ashamed!"
"Looking forward to it, China Yi has ushered in an old opponent, and the competition between the two heroes will be exciting!"
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The hype of the media, the loud shouts and cheers of those gossip reporters, and the provocative articles that are afraid that the world will not be chaotic make Yi Feiyang the focus of attention again.
Those guys who squeezed their heads in Hollywood and wanted to make headlines hit the wall with their heads again, how could they have a bad year, and they were all preemptively debuted by Yi Feiyang at any time.
In the face of such a declaration of war, provocation.
Yi Feiyang remained silent,
Be silent again.
In fact, during this time, Yi Feiyang was very low-key, writing scripts and screening actors in a very low-key manner, so the outside world has become accustomed to this guy who continues to create miracles and constantly exceed people's expectations, and when he stopped, everyone had a thought: "Is China Yi timid?" ”……
Yes, as a director, how can you be constantly inspired and creative? After all, he is a human being, not a god, and it is estimated that his inspiration is now exhausted, and he has no creative passion and motivation.
Besides, the fantasy entertainment company led by Yi Feiyang, although it has developed well in recent years, it is because it is so good, it always gives people an unreal feeling, feeling that this company is like a beautiful Babylon garden, a castle in the sky, and it will collapse one day.
People say that the spiritual pillar of fantasy entertainment is Yi Feiyang, and Yi Feiyang alone can support half the sky of fantasy entertainment. If this god-like person falls into a creative crisis, will fantasy entertainment also be affected, so that it will move from rapid progress to stagnation?
And just when everyone thought that Yi Feiyang's inspiration was exhausted, his creation had encountered a crisis, and Dream Entertainment would face an earthquake of development, suddenly, Yi Feiyang, who had been silent, spoke up, and to everyone's surprise, he actually announced a news that made everyone fall through their glasses.
"Our company will hold a new film press conference on Wednesday, please come and guide ...... media friends"
Many media outlets have received invitations from Dream Entertainment to attend a press conference at the Hilton Hotel two days later, announcing the upcoming release of Gigay's new film, but there is no mention of the content of the new film.
In this short period of time, Yi Feiyang, who calls himself a "low-key emperor", ignores all the rumors from the outside world, let alone reply, making those rumors more and more evil, and some people even say that he has depression, and he is taking medication during this time, and there is even a big revelation of the internal reform of the dream entertainment company and the change of leadership, but Yi Feiyang, who is the party concerned, seems to have disappeared, there is no news, no one knows what he is doing, or what he wants to do. (To be continued......)