"Lee Shengyao's new film will hit the Cannes Palme d'Or again, and he wants to set a new record in Cannes."

"The president of Disney appreciates Lee Shengyao's talent and invites Lee Shengyao to direct "Avengers 2".

"Lee will take a break for three years and come back after three years."

"Li Shengyao and Zhang Manyu are in good spirits and will enter the music scene together."

"Fenghua's next investment project is online live broadcast, and Fenghua live broadcast will be launched soon."

"Fenghua Special Effects Department is producing an animated blockbuster, and the script is written by Li Shengyao himself, telling the story of pure love movies."

"Lee Shengyao will return to TV drama production, and he will remake "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"."

……

At 8 p.m. on August 24, 2012, the recording hall of Yanjing's "Super Interview" invited almost 200 professional audiences.

These people have rushed several times today, and at this time they are playing one by one, as if they are about to fall asleep.

Li Shengyao took his assistant and sat on the sofa, watching the script given to him by the program team.

Above is the access process, and some questions.

Opposite him, sitting Dai Jun and Li Jing, the hosts of "Super Interview", were looking at Li Shengyao, smiling and with gentle eyes.

Li Shengyao watched attentively, and after reading it, he handed it to the assistant, "It's okay." ”

Basically, there is no problem, as long as it does not involve family or personal feelings, Li Shengyao can answer.

Recently, there have been a lot of rumors about his next destination, some say that he is going to make a TV series, some say that he is going to enter the music industry, and some say that he is going to hit the third Palme d'Or.

There are all sorts of speculations.

Li Shengyao decided to participate in "Super Interview", and in this interview, he will announce the next plan, which can be regarded as an official explanation to the audience.

When Li Jing and Dai Jun heard this, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Super Interview" has been recorded since 2001, but it has been tepid, and it is not as famous as the big head's "Luyu Appointment".

The two of them were really unconvinced.

Isn't Li Jing prettier than a big head?

Isn't Dai Jun taller than Big Head?

They have two mouths, how can they not be as good as big heads and one mouth?

But the audience just prefers to watch talk shows with big heads, no way.

By 2012, "Super Interview" was even more tired, the show had not yet started, and the professional viewers invited were dozing off.

This time, Li Shengyao was finally invited, and Li Jing and Dai Jun attached great importance to it.

Li Jing ate a corn for breakfast and didn't eat it at noon, hoping that she would look thinner.

Dai Jun looked in the mirror for two hours, and finally felt a little bit of Liang Chaowei's hesitant temperament.

In general, "Super Interview" has always been very cooperative with celebrity artists, and the intensity of the questions asked is not large, but some celebrities are more sensitive and can't ask anything.

Li Shengyao's current reputation and status almost did not cut the questions, which surprised Li Jing and Dai Jun.

Li Jing looked at Li Shengyao's handsome face, and almost became a nymphomaniac.

Handsome, talented, and very friendly, there are too few men like this.

"Don't look at it, we're going to work."

As Li Jing's male best friend, Dai Jun knows his friend's personality very well and reminded him in a low voice.

Moments later, the recording of the "Super Access" program officially began.

Li Jing and Dai Jun after a boring and embarrassing opening.

Dai Jun asked as if he was chatting about homely things: "Director Li, you may not know me, but I have known you for more than ten years, I am a singer and an actor, why don't you ask me to act?" ”

Many hosts like this, laughing at themselves and using themselves as a hook to cause topics.

This will reduce the vigilance of the guests.

When Li Shengyao heard this, he chuckled and glanced at Dai Jun, "I know yours, "Ah Lian" is popular, and then I have been singing "Ah Lian", if someone sets up the role of a singer in the nineties in the future, I will consider you." ”

"Director Li, why do you want to point out the nineties? I'm a lot older this way. ”

Dai Jun and Li Jing sat together, and it seemed that Li Jing was the one who led the interview, which seemed to be more important.

But those who know how to interview know that Dai Jun can gag without embarrassment, and it takes more skill, and Li Jing's questioning is much simpler than reading from the script.

With Dai Jun's lively atmosphere, the interview is more feeling.

The professional audience applauded at the right time, and this time the interview was more like that.

Li Jing knew that it was time to go out on her own, she glanced at Li Shengyao, and still thought that Director Li was good-looking.

After I ask these questions, will he hate me?

She was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Director Li, there has been a lot of news related to you recently, can we ask you about your future plans?" ”

"Yes."

"Are you going to Hollywood next?"

"No," Lee said, cocking his leg and tapping his right hand on his knee, "it's very difficult for us Asian directors to succeed in Hollywood, unless we are people who are well versed in European and American cultures, such as Mr. Ang Lee."

I can't, I can't make movies that fit the mentality of European and American audiences like Mr. Ang Lee.

The main thing is that I want to stay in China, I don't like to go to the beautiful country very much, and I haven't met a story that excites me enough in the past few years to let me give up the habitual living environment and go to work in the beautiful country. ”

Li Jing was puzzled when she heard this, "Didn't you say that many big Hollywood companies invited you to make new movies?" Don't you want to go over? ”

"No, most of Hollywood's current movies are assembly-line commercial films, and I don't think it's interesting."

"What about "Avengers 2", such a movie should be able to take more than a billion dollars, right? That's a huge honor. ”

Li Shengyao smiled when he heard this, some media said that Disney asked him to direct "Vengeance 2", but in fact, no, the "Avengers" series is a key project of Disney, how could they give Li Shengyao.

Of course, even if Disney did send out an invitation, Lee Shengyao would refuse.

Superhero movies like "The Avengers", let alone him, the bigwigs in the Hollywood circle can't look down on themselves.

For example, Ridley. Scott, Martin. Scorsese, Woody Allen can't look down on it.

Xiao Lizi, Brother Tom can't look down on it.

Disney invited Xiao Lizi I don't know how many times, but he refused.

Some things can't be explained by money, and being a man always has to have some pursuits.

In fact, Hollywood media producers know very well that the directors and actors of superhero films cannot be compared with the directors and actors of other types of films.

For example, the widow sister, the salary for acting in superhero movies is completely two prices for acting in other movies.

She plays superhero films, she can get 20 million US dollars, and she acts in ordinary feature films, and 5 million US dollars is capped.

She doesn't have box office appeal at all.

In the same way, other actors in superhero films are like this, leaving superhero films, they have no appeal at all.

No one will take superhero movies as the achievements of these people.

Even if Lee Shengyao directed "Revenge League 2" and got a global box office of more than one billion US dollars, no one would recognize him for this.

"For a movie like "The Avengers", the director has too little room to play, and the editing right must belong to Disney, the director is a wage earner, and it has little to do with the director to get more than a billion or two billion, I don't want to direct such a movie."

Li Jing nodded, and then looked at Dai Jun, who rolled his eyes, and the next question was a little sensitive.

"Director Li, you are the most successful commercial film director in Asia, so do you think Chinese films can be as popular as Hollywood movies?"

In fact, this question will be discussed by many high-profile bigwigs in the post bar.

Many people think that as long as the content is good, they can challenge Hollywood, and this view is wrong.

There are two main reasons, the first is that Chinese films do not have the ability to be distributed globally, you can't distribute them globally, so why do you harvest the box office globally?

If you're really fierce, will the big Hollywood companies help you?

Dream on.

What happened to the birch?

What is the end of Douyin?

The beautiful country is very sensitive to the right to speak, if one day the Chinese film is very strong and good-looking, the big Hollywood companies will definitely block the Chinese film collectively and refuse to cooperate, and you will not be able to distribute it globally.

As for finding the group of cowards in Europe, it is also impossible.

After Hirakrypton, there were no men in Europe.

After Merkhal, there were no politicians in Europe.

The beautiful country wants to be blocked, and it is impossible for the Europeans to help distribute it.

The second is that it often takes twenty or thirty years for the audience to accept the change of Mu Qiang's concept.

Hollywood's real confidence is not special effects, not truth, goodness and beauty, nor Oscars, but the beauty of the world's largest economy and the strongest military country, which is the fundamental reason for Hollywood's popular world.

If you are the number one in the world, audiences in other countries will naturally worship you and study your films, TV series.

It was not until after the 2008 Olympics that mainland audiences gradually accepted the fact that their country was strong.

It wasn't until after "Wolf Warrior" that I gradually came to the realization that a beautiful country can save the world, and the Chinese people can.

And why didn't Gu Tianle's later filming of "Tomorrow's War" work, isn't the biggest reason that the audience doesn't believe it?

If you want to save the world, you are also a superhero of a beautiful country, or a Chinese soldier, what is the turn to get the little policeman on Hong Kong Island?

In the same way, even if the mainland produces a very good movie, even if it can be distributed globally, it will be difficult to make a big hit.

European and American audiences don't believe that you can save the world at all, people think it's fake, what can you do?

"No, you can't."

Lee then stated his reasons, and finally said: "In the thirties of the last century, the center of world cinema was in France, and it was not until the fifties that it moved to Hollywood, which was a transfer of power.

In the thirties and forties of the last century, although the economy of a beautiful country was the largest in the world, the center of gravity of the world's power was in Europe, and the common people still yearned for Europe more.

When our country's economy comes first, the military comes first, and the younger brother ranks first, our movies will be able to sweep the world. ”

Dai Jun was stunned when he heard this, "Isn't the content of the movie important?" ”

"Of course not, when you are economic first, military first, science and technology first, naturally talent first, Hollywood is to attract talents from all over the world, so many talents gather, it is easy to collide with classic movies.

If our country is the first in the world, movies can also develop rapidly. ”

In his previous life, "The Wandering Earth 12" was very good, but the overseas box office did not exceed 10 million US dollars.

You are not the boss of the world, and you are delusional to save the world, and viewers in other countries will only think that you are delusional.

So Li Shengyao has never thought about movies in this area, the Chinese movies he made are good if he can make three or four billion US dollars, and if he wants to get more than a billion US dollars like "Avatar" and "Avengers", he didn't wake up.

Before Huaxia became the world's boss, no matter how good your movie was, no one would recognize it.

Li Jing looked at the next question and felt that she could ask.

"Director Li, do you want to hit the third Palme d'Or?"

"Yes, but not next year, I won't be able to win the Palme d'Or next year, it's not a matter of the quality of the film.

Let's put ourselves in their shoes, if I were Jacob, Lord of Cannes, I would never give the same person the Palme d'Or three times in a row.

This will seriously undermine the confidence of other participants and will undermine the credibility of the festival.

The Ming Dynasty had to take care of the northern scholars, and the Cannes Film Festival still had to take care of the filmmakers from other countries, so it was impossible for me to be three times.

In two years, three years, maybe I have a story that interests me, and I will hit the Cannes Palme d'Or. ”

"Would you like the Golden Lion in Venice or the Golden Bear in Berlin?"

"Yes, but it's still difficult, for the same reason I just said, Cannes doesn't give it, and Venice and Berlin have to take into account the ideas of other filmmakers."

Dai Jun snapped his fingers, "Director Li, since it will be difficult to win the award next year, will your next movie be a commercial film?" ”

"It's not a purely commercial film."

"Why?"

"I've always wanted to make some films, so that more people can like movies, or more people can think, so that more film school students can progress, and the country can be proud.

To be honest, I don't think there is a shortage of me when it comes to making commercial films.

Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, Wu Ersan and this group of people will all get up, I am very optimistic about them, if I compete with them next who is the most awesome commercial film director, I don't think it's interesting.

I hope to go the other way and become the pride of our national film industry, to become the legendary director of "Sight and Sound", "Cinema Handbook".

Of course, I don't like the kind of literary films that only focus on personal expression, such movies are too out-of-the-way, and it is difficult for ordinary audiences to understand, I hope it is both commercial and artistic. ”

"You've got two Palme d'Or already, don't you think it's enough?"

"It's not enough, director Zhang Yimou has two Golden Lion Awards, a Golden Bear Award, a Cannes Jury Award, a Silver Bear Award, and a Silver Lion Award, compared to him, I am far behind."

There was a burst of applause, no matter what netizens said, no matter how unconvinced, compared to honor, Lao Mouzi is well-known all over the world.

"Do you hope to be able to compete with director Zhang Yimou in the future?"

"Yes, I hope to stand next to him and add luster to Chinese films together."

Dai Jun turned the ballpoint pen in his hand and asked, "Then what movie do you want to make next?"

"I'm not idle, I will prepare three movies at the same time, these three movies are stories I like very much, I hope to help Chinese films add some honor and earn one or two actors."

(End of chapter)