Chinese Entertainment: Academic Director

Chapter 176: Being a Big Scissors
The project of "District 9" has begun to move forward, and the assistant director, photography, art director, production designer, costume designer, visual effects designer, set designer, and casting director have all been confirmed.

The main photographer is still Gu Changwei. There are three assistant directors, and Cao Yang gave one to Ning Hao. This guy really passed the entrance exam for Lao Tian's graduate program. I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for him.

The art director originally wanted to hire Ye Jintian, but since this was a science fiction film, they were afraid that he had no experience, so they gave him a position as an art designer.

Cao Yang doesn’t have to worry about what happens next for the time being. The crew members will design the mothership, small spaceship, mecha, alien “prawns”, alien weapons, etc. according to Cao Yang’s requirements.

Once they have designed the drawings, Cao Yang only needs to make suggestions for improvement.

Hollywood is still very professional in this regard, with a clear division of labor, so directors don't need to worry about everything.

So, Cao Yang returned to China to finish the work of "Nine-Tailed Demon Fox".

After Cao Yang returned to China, he went to Gao Yuanyuan.

After not seeing each other for a while, the first thing we do when we meet is to eat.

Solve the problem of food and clothing first.

Food and clothing, lustful thoughts.

Then it will be natural to solve the second thing.

After a long time, Da Meiyu, who was singing, suddenly turned into a soprano with a very penetrating voice.

"Cao Yang, I want to give you a baby..."

Cao Yang was well prepared and stopped her from saying anything else.

"Well……"

The soprano was completely exhausted and turned into a lazy little cat, snuggling in Cao Yang's arms.

"Let me tell you something. Columbia has invested in a movie about daily life. Spielberg is the producer and supervisor. The investment is about 8000 million US dollars. They want to invite you, Li Xiaoran, and Yu Feihong to play the leading roles."

Gao Yuanyuan raised her head suddenly and asked in surprise, "Really?"

Then he muttered, "Why are there two of them?"

Although she is the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, her endorsements are also top-notch in Greater China or East Asia.

But for Hollywood, especially big productions of $8000 million, big directors like Spielberg, as well as producers and executives, are not resources she can access.

"of course it's true."

Cao Yang glanced downward. He still looked bigger with his head raised and his body lowered like this, at least much bigger than when he was lying down.

Gao Yuanyuan could clearly see what Cao Yang was looking at and rolled her eyes at him. "Isn't this size just right? You can hold it in one hand."

"Maybe in the next few days, Spielberg will send a formal invitation."

"Boom..."

Gao Yuanyuan happily lowered her head and kissed Cao Yang on the face. Then she held her chin with both hands and looked at Cao Yang with watery eyes.

"What's your opinion? I want to hear your opinion."

Cao Yang smiled. He was not stupid. He was not overwhelmed by the surprise and still knew to ask for his opinion.

"As for my opinion, I'm afraid your excitement will be in vain. I don't recommend you to take this movie."

Gao Yuanyuan pouted, but she didn't seem too disappointed.

"Why? 8000 million, that's to million. It would be a shame not to go for such a big production."

"It's hard for this movie to succeed. Not only will it not improve its status, it might even be criticized in China. The pay is not high, so it's a thankless task."

Cao Yang lifted her chin with his hand, "Besides, there are many passionate scenes, the kind that exposes nipples."

Gao Yuanyuan looked as if she understood and began to chuckle.

"What are you laughing at?" Cao Yang scratched Gao Yuanyuan's nose and said unhappily.

Gao Yuanyuan held her chin up and opened her mouth to bite Cao Yang's hand, but she missed, so she chuckled again, "Don't you want me to shoot a passionate scene?" "Director Cao will teach you how to shoot a passionate scene now."

Cao Yang turned around and began to teach by example.

As a great director, Cao Yang's ability to direct actors is obvious to all. After a while, Gao Yuanyuan couldn't help singing.

Cao Yang also gained some knowledge of music.

Gao Yuanyuan sang and Cao Yang clapped the beat.

The sense of rhythm is very good.

The two of them cooperated very well.

The faster Cao Yang beats the beat, the more compact and high-pitched Gao Yuanyuan's singing becomes.

The next day, before leaving, Cao Yang gave Gao Yuanyuan some instructions.

"After Spielberg sends you the invitation, don't rush to refuse it. Leak the news first and make it a reality. Let the country know that you are the first to be invited and the first choice. Make good use of this to hype it up."

Cao Yang patted Gao Yuanyuan's head and continued, "When the time comes, let the agent contact them for negotiation. Just make one thing clear: they don't accept passionate scenes. You don't have to refuse. They will definitely not agree to it, and you won't offend anyone because of it."

"Hate."

Gao Yuanyuan pushed Cao Yang's hand away and said, "Okay Director Cao, I'll remember that."

Yu Feihong and Li Xiaoran were not in Beijing, so Cao Yang called them separately to remind them of this matter.

Neither of them had any objections, and they were not like several actresses in later generations who were eager to break into Hollywood.

Yu Feihong really doesn’t care. She only takes on some high-end endorsements now and is very picky.

Because of this, she has few endorsements and is the Venice Film Festival Queen, so she is more popular with some high-end celebrities because of her status.

When Mr. Han from China Film heard that Cao Yang had returned, he called anxiously.

Through the conversation, Cao Yang finally understood what he meant.

"Meanwhile Milk" is no longer a gay movie, but a movie that satirizes American conservatives and politicians. This can be considered "politically" correct to a certain extent in China.

In the eyes of politicians in capitalist countries, the people are the ones to be fooled.

For comparison.

And because this movie was directed by Cao Yang and it also won a lot of attention at the Oscars, it was introduced in China and prepared for release, and it was also scheduled to be released on March 3 in conjunction with the US release date.

I remember when the big ship was first introduced and released, there were almost no cuts.

It’s not that there were no cuts in Cao Yang’s film, it’s that no one was willing to do it.

This movie has a great influence, and it was mentioned above. In addition, Cao Yang is now a world-class director and won the Oscar for Best Picture. The big scissors also depend on the person.

However, there are indeed quite a few restricted scenes in this movie.

Depp and Anne Hathaway have some rather perverted passionate scenes.

And under Cao Yang's bad taste, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Hardy, James Franco, Pedro Pascal, Ryan Reynolds, Henry Cavill, Chris Pratt, Chris Evans, Bradley Cooper, Cillian Murphy, Zachary Levi...

These future Hollywood big stars, well, male stars, all have direct or indirect mouth-to-mouth intimate scenes.

These scenes, whether they are passionate scenes between men and women or passionate scenes between men, are all satires on Americans, but when they are shown in China, it seems a bit... inappropriate.

Well, this is what Mr. Han said.

Cao Yang understood what Mr. Han meant. Others didn't dare to cut their hair and wanted Cao Yang to cut it himself.

Uh, this is really...

Cao Yang never thought that one day he would become a pair of big scissors and edit his own movie.

(End of this chapter)