Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 216 From Performing Roles to Creating Roles

Liu Yifei was delighted.

She has had the system for a year and a half.
The acting points have increased from the initial 57 to the current 75.
The two digits just happened to switch.
But his acting skills have undergone a complete transformation!
"My biggest achievement now is no longer the lower limit of my acting skills that I can always maintain, but the upper limit of my acting skills that I can break through!"

Liu Yifei thought to herself.

In the initial period after obtaining the system
Liu Yifei benefits from the system's permanent certification feature, allowing her to easily reach the lower limit of her acting points.

This greatly helped her in her entrance exams for the Yale School of Drama and in her audition for Mei Lanfang.

Liu Yifei in the past,

I thought that once my acting points reached 100,
I strive to give my best in every performance.

But recently,
She then realized that maintaining the minimum standard was not the biggest gain.

The biggest gain,

It must have been when her acting skills improved significantly.
She found herself gaining a deeper and deeper understanding of the script and the character.

These understandings did not appear out of thin air, but were closely related to the books she had read and the things she had experienced.

In a more literary way

She is now transitioning from acting roles to creating roles!
In theory, every character is created jointly by the screenwriter, director, and actor.

But before adulthood,
Liu Yifei primarily follows the director's instructions when acting.

She would review her performances with a DV camera, but whenever the director spoke, she would try her best to match the director's ideas.

At this moment, she was like a prop for the director, trying her best to pursue the role in the director's mind.

And these three films after he became an adult,

When it was Whiplash,
To prepare for her role as a ticket seller, Liu Yifei spent a long time observing ticket sellers at the cinema.
She did indeed use a lot of the results of her observations during her subsequent performances.

At that time, she only felt happy performing and did not realize that this was a fundamental change from the performance mode she had used when she was a child.

By the time of the King of Kung Fu,
Liu Yifei initially followed the same old pattern.

Until that mission, "Do you even understand the value of 91 points in physique?!"
She found that her opinions received more feedback than when she was a child, and the character of Golden Swallow began to incorporate elements of her own personality.

After the kissing scene was cut after returning from Cannes, director Rob Minkoff paid more attention to Liu Yifei's opinions, and the Golden Swallow incorporated more of Liu Yifei's own ideas.

The biggest change

It was during the time when the Mei Lanfang film crew was filming.

Fu Zhifang is a very important supporting female character, but she is split into two periods: her youth and her adulthood. Liu Yifei, who plays the young Fu Zhifang, has relatively few scenes.

But she stayed on set for two months.

At this point, her acting skills score had reached 70 points.
I have a certain understanding of the script and the characters.
In addition, the crew includes director Chen Kaige, who possesses top-notch artistic taste.
Liu Yifei could already sense that the young Fu Zhifang had delivered her strongest acting performance to date, absolutely surpassing the level of her 70-point acting skills at that time!
And in the future, as her experience grows and her acting skills improve,
The best acting performance by the young Fu Zhifang will only be temporary.

She's definitely capable of creating even more and better characters!
"Gu Bei, I'm going to start pursuing you!"

Liu Yifei gazed at the darkening sky outside the window, thinking of Gu Bei across the Pacific Ocean.

She was about to start chasing after Gu Bei's achievements.
Set a small goal first.

I started following Gu Bei with a Best Actress award!

……

"Achoo!" Gu Bei sneezed while holding his coffee.

He took a sip of black coffee.

Continue walking into the sound stages at Warner Bros. Studios.
This is a studio rented by film artists specifically for shooting interior scenes in movies.

"Eric, how are the technical details being adjusted?"

Gu Bei greeted Eric, the director of photography.

When Eric was the sound engineer, he was Eric's photographer.

Originally, he wanted to collaborate with Eric during the Whiplash project, but unfortunately Eric was working with Spielberg on Indiana Jones 4 at the time, and their schedules ultimately missed each other.

Now we're finally collaborating again.
Moreover, it's a collaboration aimed at winning an Oscar.

Eric looked up at Gu Bei, still somewhat dazed.

When he first met Gu Bei, Gu Bei seemed like a whimsical dreamer. Hollywood is never short of such dreamers, so he reduced his salary as an encouragement to such dreamers.

Unexpectedly, Gu Bei made rapid progress from the very beginning of the short film.

From Sundance to Cannes, and then from Cannes to the Oscars.

A year apart made Eric feel as if he had lived through another world.

After a while,
He snapped out of his reverie: "We're still experimenting. The film we're shooting on right now is all in color."

To recreate the feel of black and white film through color grading, calibration is necessary for the lens, lighting, and camera movement.
To ensure aesthetic consistency with the Golden Age of Hollywood.

"And the frame rate!"

Gu Bei pointed out, "Modern movies are all at 24 frames per second, while movies from that era were at 16 and 18 frames per second. If we want to recreate the slightly sped-up feel of Hollywood's golden age movies, we can only use a maximum of 22 frames per second."

Too little is also not good.

To allow current movie theater audiences to watch movies at 16 frames per second,
The audience's eyes can no longer accept this huge generational gap!
"Understood, Director!"

Eric laughed and said, "You've emphasized this many times, and the screen aspect ratio should be the 1.33:1 of the silent film era, I remember that!"

After a pause, Eric continued, "By the way, Mr. Spielberg asked me to convey his congratulations to you, but you should have already received his call."

"Yes, Mr. Spielberg invited me to the premiere of Indiana Jones 4, but at that time, I should still be in China."

Gu Bei shrugged.

He left Eric and went inside.
I happened to run into Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard, who were chatting.
This French beauty, who just won the Oscar for Best Actress a few days ago, is the artist and female lead that Gu Bei and Michael jointly decided on.

She has the air of a Golden Age actress.

The key is that it's cheap and easy to use, and the salary is only $300 million.

Add to that Leonardo DiCaprio's $1000 million salary (half off) and $1500 million in other costs,

Gu Bei kept the production cost for the artist's film at $2800 million.
This is already the lowest-budget film Leonardo DiCaprio has made in recent years.

And with Leonardo DiCaprio's addition,
Product placement alone can recoup $300 million in costs, with the largest single instance being Coca-Cola's $150 million in product placement.

Furthermore, the tax refund policy for films shot locally in Los Angeles can recoup two to three million dollars in costs.

(End of this chapter)