tearjerker director

Chapter 1191 There is suffering, the actors just eat it
"Warm Spring" is simpler, because the requirements for acting skills are not as high as "Into the Dust".

To put it bluntly, "Warm Spring" is more of a commercial drama, and the story it tells is not novel.

Compared with "Into the Dust and Smoke", the requirements for actors are not so high.

And even though Zhuo Yixiong took over, Li Yi was quite at ease with him.

Although he is from Hong Kong Island, Zhuo Yixiong has made so many movies with Li Yi, and most of them are aimed at the mainland market, so he has long been familiar with it.

For these two films, Li Yi was not in a hurry to promote them.

All along, he didn't have any special expectations for the box office of these two films. After all, for his sake, if he really wanted a high box office, it would be completely OK to directly shoot those commercial blockbusters.

It's not that the box office of "Into the Dust" and "Warm Spring" must be lower, but it's not that important.

Of course, this is not to say that these two films do not need to be promoted, on the contrary, just because the two films do not have any real big stars to join, so Li Yi, the biggest director, has become the main force of publicity military.

After all, the smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys.

Although he doesn't care much about the box office, he always hopes that the works he shoots will be recognized by more people, right?

However, fortunately, it is really too easy for Li Yi to do publicity.

It is an exaggeration to say that there is no domestic media that does not want to interview Li Yi, but unless Li Yi wants to promote a movie, otherwise, most of the time, he does not particularly like to be interviewed.

After "Into the Dust" and "Warm Spring" were finished, the post-production work became much easier, and publicity was naturally on the agenda.

This time, Li Yi accepted an exclusive interview from the Huaguo Film Report Team of the Six Princesses Channel.

The Six Princesses Channel will produce a program exclusively for Li Yi.

In fact, this is also the treatment of great directors, not only Li Yi, but many famous directors have such treatment.

The difference is that others can at most promote one movie at a time, but this time Li Yi directly wants to make two movies.

However, after the news that Li Yi directed two films at the same time, and both were rural-themed films, the reaction of fans was a bit strange.

"Director Dog makes a local film? What's the situation? And there are two in one shot."

"The titles of the two films, "Warm Spring" can tell something from the titles, but what does "Hidden in the Dust" mean?"

"I'm very curious, why are there two?"

"By the way, Director Dog doesn't seem to have made a rural movie, right? "Paradise Cinema" is from a foreign country even if it is a rural one. He himself didn't come from a rural area. To be honest, he doesn't like it very much."

In fact, this kind of reaction is normal. After all, Li Yi's background and background are not a secret to the public.

Some people were born in Rome and some people were born as cattle and horses, and Li Yi is obviously the former.

Although his parents are not top-notch celebrities, they are all considered rich.

This can be seen from the fact that he can independently direct a theater movie right after graduation, and he still has the opportunity to continue directing movies independently after hitting the street. It is enough to see that his starting point is higher than most of his peers. Not a lot.

You know, even some second-generation directors, at the beginning, it is difficult to have such an opportunity.

And Li Yi is from Hong Kong, so when he went to shoot local films, it naturally made people feel strange.

"Why do you want to make a local film?" This is also what Zhou Binbin, the host of the Six Princesses Channel who is in charge of this interview, asked curiously.

"How should I put it? By chance, I participated in an internal seminar in the director circle before, and everyone mentioned rural films. We all know that before the 21st century, domestic rural films were once the mainstream film genre for a while. Not too much.

Moreover, many of the award-winning films in the world are local films, but in recent years, there have been very few outstanding local films, so we started discussing them.

Is it because there is no market for rural films, or is it because the rural areas are so different from the past?
So, I thought of giving it a try. "Li Yi talked eloquently.

"Then why open two films at once? Is there any connection between "Warm Spring" and "Into the Dust and Smoke"?" Zhou Binbin continued to ask.

"Actually, there is not much connection. Even the stories of the two movies took place in different years. If you insist on talking about the same place, it may be that the two movies are both rural-themed." Li Yi smiled. road.

"As for why two films of this type were shot at the same time, the main reason is that everything has two sides. If there is a dark side, there will naturally be a sunny side. So to a certain extent, these two films are of the same genre. But they are completely different, even diametrically opposite two films."

"I heard that in order to shoot these two films, you and the main actors of the crew went to the countryside to experience life?" Zhou Binbin asked.

"They are really experiencing life. I'm just going to see it." Li Yi laughed immediately.

The division of labor between the director and the actor is different. The actor needs real experience to be able to control the details, but the director does not need it. He just needs to know the general situation and the general environment.

Just like actors, what role they are playing, they have to experience and observe the lifestyle of similar archetypal characters.

But Li Yi is different. It is impossible for him to simply understand the life of a certain character, but he needs to understand the life pattern of the entire countryside.

"Oh? How do you say that?" Zhou Binbin asked curiously.

"For example, the protagonists want to experience life, which is a real experience, including food and housing, working in the fields, etc. They all need to observe the local target villagers, and then follow the other's way of life, and eat the same as them It's almost the same, and the living is almost the same!

But I am different, although I also live in the village, but the house in the village has better conditions, food and drink, I am actually not particularly able to endure hardship, so I say it is to experience life, but in fact, I eat The drinks are all brought by myself, which is different from them. "Li Yi didn't find anything strange about this.

He is a director, not an actor.

He really can't bear hardships, he has also tried, and experienced life like the actors, but he couldn't bear it after two days.

"So, maybe I'm not born to be an actor." Li Yi said again.

Zhou Binbin was a little stunned by this. After all, few directors said directly that they couldn't bear the hardship like Li Yi.

But when he thought about it carefully, there was nothing wrong with it. Li Yi didn't say that he was rich in clothes and food, but he definitely didn't lack in material things.

And he is not an actor, but a director, and he really doesn't need to experience it like an actor.

It is enough for him to observe more.

Observation to know what kind of effect this role needs to perform, how to perform it specifically, and he does not need to be proficient in skills.

(End of this chapter)