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Chapter 1391 Twelve Angry Men
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button comes to an end.

It's just that before Li Yi started eating, something came to his door.

The person who came was Chen Weijie.

Li Yi was a little surprised by Chen Weijie's intention.

Because he actually came here to raise money.

The cause and effect of the incident also made Li Yi feel quite sad.

Chen Weijie came here on behalf of the Hong Kong Island Performing Artists Association. Li Yi himself did join this association, but most of the time he was basically just in name.

Chen Weijie represented the Performing Artists Association, which did not exceed Li Yi's expectations because he was the president of the association this time.

The Performing Artists Association was first established in the 90s. The birth of the Performing Artists Association coincided with the golden age of Hong Kong's film industry. However, because movies are easy to make money, they once became the coveted target of those associations in Hong Kong. One of the purposes of the establishment of the Performing Artists Association is One is to gather the strength of the industry to fight against the intervention of evil forces.

However, by now, this purpose has long changed. After all, Hong Kong Island has returned.

Therefore, the functions and purposes of the Performing Artists Association have gradually begun to change.

One of them is to protect the rights of entertainers.

The Entertainers Association has indeed done a lot in recent years. However, the reason why Chen Weijie came to Li Yi this time was because of the recent news about the misery of some old stars and entertainers in Hong Kong Island in their later years.

There was even a once-popular female star who was reduced to begging on the streets in her later years with no one to help her.

And he passed away recently. The key is that the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association hoped to help him after his death, but was rejected by his family.

This incident has put the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association under tremendous pressure from public opinion.

Because although the female star has never joined this association, she knows many people in the association and has even collaborated with them.

However, Li Yi looked a little surprised when he looked at Chen Weijie.

Because as far as Li Yi knew, that person had once partnered with Chen Weijie. After all, the other party should be considered friends with Chen Weijie. With Chen Weijie's personality, Li Yi didn't quite understand why Chen Weijie didn't help her?
Although there were rumors that that person had a sharp personality, was arrogant and proud, and was banned for offending people.

But the specific reason is unknown. After all, Li Yi is not from that era and does not know the other party.

"The rumors are indeed true. She was really difficult to get along with at the beginning. You must be curious about why she has worked with so many old actors, but no one helped her, right?" Chen Weijie seemed to have guessed what Li Yi was thinking.

Li Yi nodded.

"Actually, she was indeed blocked at first, but she was soon unblocked, but then she went "crazy!" "" Chen Weijie said.

"Why are you crazy?" Li Yi wondered.

"Didn't you watch the news?" Chen Weijie was a little surprised.

Li Yi shook his head. He indeed didn't watch the news.

After all, although he sympathized with the other party, Li Yi still didn't recognize her.

"I don't know!" Chen Weijie shook his head.

"Don't know?" Li Yi became even more confused.

"Because she told several versions herself. Her mental condition was already bad at that time, so you know what she said." Chen Weijie said with a wry smile.

"Actually, we tried to help her, but..." Chen Weijie smiled bitterly and shook his head again.

"What do you think of her character? She is rather sharp, and after she suffered a mental problem, her character became even more explosive. We once wanted to support her, but nothing happened." Chen Weijie seemed to have something to hide, and was not very specific.

However, Li Yi had no intention of getting to the bottom of it.

"So?" Li Yi asked doubtfully.

"Actually, the situation of many veteran actors in Hong Kong is not very good. Those of us who are lucky and successful can make a lot of money and have savings even after retirement. But for more people, their wages are very low, especially Film production on Hong Kong Island has been reduced for many years.”

"The incident involving Sister Ying this time has touched us all a lot, so we want to set up an internal assistance fund in the name of the Hong Kong Island Performing Artists Association to assist veteran entertainers like Sister Ying who are miserable in their old age. .”

"Then just donate directly!" Li Yi was a little confused. After all, the top members of the Performing Artists Association are not short of money.

It’s really not a big deal to raise money.

Chen Weijie shook his head and said: "Initially we did decide to make a direct donation, but after everyone discussed it, we felt that since we are an entertainers association and our members include directors, screenwriters, and actors, why not team up and make a film? Movie to raise money”

Li Yi nodded. This is quite true. In fact, this has been the practice on Hong Kong Island for a long time.

In order to prepare for the construction of the association building, the original Screenwriters Guild made a movie together to raise funds.

The Directors Guild has had similar examples.

When Li Yi and the others started an actor training program together, they also made a movie to raise funds.

Although the same thing is fundraising, direct donation is indeed not as good as this model of film fundraising.

"But you came to me all of a sudden, and I had no idea." Li Yi frowned slightly.

Speaking of which, Li Yi never thought of rejecting this kind of thing, but as he said, how could he have so much inspiration so suddenly.

The key is that this kind of fundraising film is definitely not a big production, and it is best to be a low-budget film with a short production cycle.

In fact, in Hong Kong, this kind of movies usually include a lot of actors and stars starring together.

To make this kind of movie well, it really tests the director's skill and screenwriter's ability.

"It's a pity, Sister Ying. I've heard some things about her before. Why do you think she became like that?" Li Yi and Mu Qing also chatted about this matter, and Mu Qing said with some regret.

"I don't know. I guess that although the versions she told are different every time, something bad must have happened. Otherwise, how could a promising artist suddenly go crazy overnight? ? I just don’t know why even Chen Weijie keeps it secret." Li Yi shook his head and said.

In fact, the Golden Age of Hong Kong Island movies was the best era for Hong Kong Island movies, but that era was definitely the most chaotic era in the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry.

The original intention of the establishment of the Hong Kong Island Entertainers Association can be seen.

Therefore, in fact, if so many people can shut up and not talk about this matter, even superstars like Chen Weijie keep it secret, then there are actually only a handful of people behind the scenes.

"Then you agreed?" Mu Qing asked.Li Yi nodded and shook his head.

"I have no inspiration at the moment. This kind of fundraising film is not that easy to make."

"Yes, there are actually quite a few movies like Hong Kong Island, but very few of them have good reputations. On the contrary, many of them are criticized by fans as money-making movies." Mu Qing nodded.

This kind of thing means Chen Weijie came to the door in person, otherwise, Li Yi really wouldn't accept it easily.

Because it’s a bit thankless.

From a film perspective, the more main characters there are in a film, the more difficult it is to make the film and make it exciting.

After all, when there are too many characters, it is difficult for the audience to easily take them on, and human memory is limited. Why do you want those characters to have a sense of existence?

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" seems to have a lot of characters, but in reality?

There are actually only a few real main characters.

Of course, Li Yi is more supportive of the ideas of the Hong Kong Performing Artists Association and Chen Weijie.

In the following time, Li Yi did not deliberately look for inspiration to inspire the golden finger. After all, he still doesn't understand what the triggering mechanism of the golden finger is.

So, I still do what I should do every day.

I do read the news occasionally.

Another piece of news slapped these touts in the face.

Because at this moment, big news suddenly broke out in Hong Kong Island, a shocking serial murder case.

And the deceased in this serial murder case were actually members of the jury in a previous case.

The Hong Kong Island police immediately arrested the suspect in the original case shortly after he was released from prison. At this point, the case seems to be clear.

But the result quickly turned around.

The original suspect who was convicted and imprisoned for many years turned out to be innocent!
And the serial killer who killed the jury members this time turned out to be the murderer in that case!
Suddenly, these two pieces of news were linked together, and one can imagine the public opinion they aroused.

As a result, discussions and controversies on the Internet became more and more heated. People who previously admired the jury system were slapped in the face.

After all, the case in Hong Kong Island was also proved to be an unjust case, and it also proved that there is no such thing as a perfect system.

At this time, Li Yi's golden finger was unexpectedly inspired.

A movie about a jury comes to mind.

"Twelve Angry Men"!
This movie has been remade in many versions, and each version appears in Li Yi's memory.

It goes back very far.

But without exception, every version has a very good reputation.

The domestic version of "[-] Angry Men" performed the worst at the box office. Of course, Li Yi can understand this.

After all, in the world in memory, there are original works and many remakes, which makes the domestic version of "[-] Angry Men" less fresh.

And because of the different national conditions in the country, the plot cannot give domestic audiences such a good sense of immersion.

Although it had a good reputation, it failed to get any good box office feedback.

Some netizens summed up several reasons for the failure: First, the real case judgment was changed into a mock trial.

This is of course because there is no real jury system in China.It would be a bit weird to try to create a real jury trial story in China, so it had to be adapted into a mock jury course taught at the University of Political Science and Law.

Moreover, such a change would seem to greatly reduce the true value of each person in the discussion process, because no matter how serious and responsible you are, it does not matter a person's life, death or innocence.

Therefore, it seems a bit embarrassing to talk about the changes in emotions during the process.

After all, moot court is just a simulation, not real. Since it is not real, where do all the emotional reactions come from?

Secondly, there is no truth in the original version of "Twelve Angry Men" because the jury members, in fact everyone is just a bystander. Many of them firmly believe that the child is the murderer, but as a juror who decides life and death, they insist Not guilty because the prosecutors did not produce evidence that would make them doubtful. This is in line with the legal spirit of this system.

In other words, under this system, it is impossible for them to really find the truth through these. The truth is important, but not important.

Li Yi watched several versions. To be honest, he actually felt that the domestic version of "Twelve Angry Men" was quite good. However, he could also understand why the movie failed at the box office in the end, because, first of all, Mock court, this prerequisite, makes it difficult for this movie to be successful.

Simply put, no matter how much you win with virtual stocks, it is still fake.

In the same way, no matter how simulated the moot court is, you still can't really decide anything.

It’s just a discussion or debate!

Li Yi's favorite is the black and white version of "Twelve Angry Men"!
But this is indeed not easy to adapt locally. Putting aside the fatal flaw of the mock court in "Twelve Citizens", in fact, each of the twelve citizens in it represents a different profession, which is quite in line with Li Yi's taste. .

However, the premise is that it cannot be simulated, cannot be simulated, cannot be simulated.

The script of "[-] Angry Men" is really good and the concept is very clever, but it is based on the jury system, which is actually quite appropriate in Hong Kong Island.

Because Hong Kong Island also has a jury system, although it may be different from that in the movie.

But as long as these are real juries, that's OK.

Moreover, the cost of this kind of movie can actually be very low because the scene is single, but it is really difficult to shoot well.

As mentioned before, if there are too many characters in a movie, it will be difficult for the audience to distinguish them clearly and have an impression of each character.

Therefore, this is a test of the screenwriter and director, as well as the acting skills of the actors.

Because from beginning to end, the focus is on the jury room, on the twelve jurors around a table.

If everything goes well, the photoshoot can be completed very quickly!

(End of this chapter)