Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 358 Interview with the "Bull Nose Syndrome" I want to see what you just did... What is it?
Wu Gang turned and glanced at Gu Bei.

Gu Bei simply smiled faintly, indicating to Wu Gang to do as he pleased.

After learning that Gu Bei and Liu Yifei didn't have time to go to North America for promotion, Peak Entertainment...

The first actor named to promote the show in North America was Secretary Dakang, and they were even willing to pay extra for the promotion because Wu Gang's acupuncture interrogation scene had already become a hit in North America.

The scene in the trailer where Wu Gang is seen pinching a needle and grinning wickedly has even been made into a widely circulated GIF.

Because no one knew Wu Gang, he was nicknamed "Needle Man".

This also confirms Gu Bei's previous conjecture.

There must be fans of Gu Bei, Liu Yifei, and Zhang Ziyi among the audience of "The Message".

However, the vast majority of viewers who drive the box office are still fans of R-rated films.
For them, the sound of the wind was somewhat like those horror movies set in the future A24.

It's light on suspense and heavy on thrills, with a simple and uncomplicated script structure that leaves you wanting more after watching it.

However, Gu Bei also secretly slipped in quite a few personal messages.

One of the biggest personal touches was that all the actors used English dubbing.

Only characters from Japan, such as Huang Xiaoming, received Japanese dubbing and subtitles.
Otherwise, given the limited historical knowledge of North Americans, they would have long forgotten the pain of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and might even think that the Japanese are as innocent as Doraemon and Luffy!

Personal agenda,
It should be done in this subtle and gradual way.

Of the three Axis powers, Hitler is constantly being dragged out and criticized.
Tom Cruise directed only two films for the two artists involved in the collaboration: one was Lions Go to Sheep, where Summers slapped him to death, and the other was Hitler, the action target from last year.

Rome and cherry blossoms are relatively less popular, appearing more often in niche cultures, simply because they haven't been promoted like Hollywood has for decades.

"There's no other way, the director doesn't have time to go, so only this old man like me can go."

Wu Gang raised the microphone and said with a smile, "As for my thoughts, I'm just looking to learn and see what the most developed film industry in that place is like!"

"So how did Mr. Wu Gang and Director Gu Bei create the character of Sixth Master?" the reporter asked, clearly very interested in Wu Gang's success both domestically and internationally.

"I need to explain this in detail!"

Wu Gang, microphone in hand, became excited. He glanced at Gu Bei and began to spill the beans, "When I first took the script to Director Gu, I asked him how to act out this acupuncture interrogation scene."
He then told me, "Just tone it down a bit!"

Good heavens, when have I ever played a role like this? Director Gu must have mistaken me for someone else. To avoid being replaced, I had to think and think and think again before I could finally play the role of Sixth Master well.

"Looks like my reverse psychology worked pretty well!"

Gu Bei also answered, holding the microphone.

"Oh dear, it seems we've been fooled by Director Gu!"

Wu Gang slapped his thigh and said regretfully.

The two were bickering, and the reporters in the audience kept taking notes—this was great material for tomorrow's news!

A short story about the battle of wits between the director and the actors can then be produced.

Of course, this is all hype.

Actually,
Back then, Gu Bei and Wu Gang's banter was limited to that one joke: "Just tone it down a bit!"

When Gu Bei watched the original film, the interrogation scene with Wu Gang left the deepest impression on him, so he blurted out this joke.

Most viewers who watched "The Message" also remember Wu Gang the most.

In all the interrogation scenes in The Message, the character in charge of the interrogation rarely does the work himself; instead, he sends an unnamed bystander to carry out the violence.

Only Wu Gang, the character of Sixth Master,

From the very beginning, a tenacious female agent speaks.
Finally, a highly tense interrogation scene was staged to complement the character of Wu Zhiguo.
Sixth Master is the only perpetrator in the entire film with a name and a surname, which naturally leaves the deepest impression on the audience.
If Wu Gang performs exceptionally well, it's questionable whether this film will even pass censorship.
Subsequently,

The reporters then asked the other actors present.
The most popular actresses are undoubtedly Liu Yifei and Zhang Ziyi.

"Teacher Liu Yifei,"

I'd like to ask, before "The Message" aired, your acting skills had been consistently questioned by the public and film critics.
But after the initial positive feedback, everyone gave it rave reviews. What was different about filming "The Message" for you this time?

When Gu Bei heard the reporter's question, he looked at Liu Yifei with a hint of worry.

After all, this question sounds quite conventional, but at the same time, there are some pitfalls hidden within it, waiting for Liu Yifei to fall into them.

Even Gu Bei was quite surprised by Liu Yifei's progress in The Message.

But if she answers based on this premise, then the directors she's worked with before—Chen Kaige, Rob Minkoff, and Zhang Dahuzi and his directors—will naturally appear to be far too incompetent.

However, if you don't answer according to this principle, your answer will seem too fake and arrogant.

"Are there many questions and criticisms?"

Liu Yifei, holding the microphone, calmly asked in return.

"Uh……"

The reporter was somewhat speechless.

Don't say he might not have seen it at all.
Even if he had actually seen it, he couldn't possibly say it out loud in this kind of situation. Wouldn't that be like blatantly attacking someone right in his face?

This not only offended people, but also the fans of those shows, making it a losing proposition.

Gu Bei almost laughed when he saw the reporter stammering.

Sure enough, there was no need to worry about Liu Yifei's interview at all.

She interviewed someone with bovine nose syndrome!
After a pause,

Liu Yifei continued to answer the previous question: "Actually, I rarely look back at my own works. If I happen to see them, I might take a look, but most of the time, I just miss them."

But now I feel I can see myself as an ordinary viewer.
Even when looking at their own work, they don't scrutinize their performances with a magnifying glass.

It's simply because I feel that live performances have an unrepeatable quality; even if you could do a retake on the spot, you could never achieve the exact same result as before.

Everything, like time, flows ever forward.

If people think I performed well, I'll feel pretty good; at least I didn't embarrass myself.

Liu Yifei's remarks surprised the reporters quite a bit.

Such insightful remarks are usually made during magazine interviews.

In these words, one can clearly see her growth and changes in mindset. It is as if she has gone through a journey from her own perspective, and one can also see her sincere attitude towards external evaluations.

It seems a bit wasteful to put it at this kind of victory celebration.
After all, this is the press release for a victory celebration banquet.

What people will be more interested in are the sensational stories that Gu Bei and Wu Gang created together.

After an interview,
The celebration banquet then came to an end.

The essence of such celebration banquets is simply to get the media to release press releases, maintain the buzz, and attract audiences to the cinema.

The real celebration banquet will be a private gathering of the crew members in the future.

However, the crew of "The Message" disbanded on the spot.

Zhang Ziyi, Wu Gang, and Huang Xiaoming were invited by Top Peak Entertainment to travel to North America for promotional activities.

Gu Bei and Liu Yifei will return to the Gravity crew tomorrow to continue filming.

In the hotel,
Gu Bei was watching videos on his laptop.

Then he heard the sound of a hotel door opening.

"Who?"

Gu Bei frowned and asked.

No one responded to him.

He paused the video, got up, and walked towards the door.
Just as I reached halfway, a dark figure darted out from the side: "Surprise!"

"Hey!" Gu Bei had already vaguely guessed it.

After all, besides the hotel staff, only the assistant and Liu Yifei had access to his room key.

He grabbed Liu Yifei, who rushed in, and hugged her tightly, laughing as he said, "We're in Kyoto! How dare you not go back?"

"As a member of the crew of 'The Message,' is there any problem with me staying at a hotel if the celebration banquet goes late?"

Liu Yifei hugged Gu Bei's neck, pulled away from him, and looked at him with a self-righteous expression.

"No problem, of course there's no problem!"

Gu Bei said with a smile.

Although it's less than an hour's drive from the celebration banquet to Liu Yifei's home.

But she said it was no problem.

There's definitely no problem!
He gently weighed the person in his arms: "Have you gained a little weight?"

"Hum~"

Liu Yifei twisted her waist in dissatisfaction.

Normally, she wouldn't be so easily fooled. Since Gu Bei dared to say such things, she would make sure he knew what it meant to have trouble with his words.

However, this time the two were separated for too long.

About half a month has passed since I returned from Yunnan Province.

We see each other every day, yet we force ourselves to avoid exchanging more than a few words.
You could say the greatest distance is the distance between two people.

A short absence makes the heart grow fonder!
She pretended not to hear, leaned on Gu Bei's shoulder, and gently inhaled his familiar scent.

Gu Bei pulled her even closer.
You can even clearly feel her heartbeat.

Subsequently,

A sound of clenched teeth.

A voice rang in his ear: "If you don't make a move soon, I'm going to!"

After saying that, Liu Yifei reached out and started to pull at Gu Bei's tie.

"Don't worry, don't worry!"

Gu Bei chuckled and slapped her little hand away, then looked at Liu Yifei, whose lips were pouting so much they could scrape off an oil bottle, and said, "I'll turn off the computer first, you go take a shower."

What were you doing just now?

After getting off Gu Bei, Liu Yifei looked at him curiously and asked him a question.

"Watch the video!"

Gu Bei replied casually.

Then, as if remembering something, he covered the laptop screen: "Don't look at it anymore, go take a shower first!"

"Oh!"

Liu Yifei's eyes lit up immediately.

The more you forbid her from seeing something, the more she wants to see it!

She looked Gu Bei up and down curiously, then seemed to realize something and chuckled, "You wouldn't happen to be......"

"Think too much!"

Gu Bei pushed Liu Yifei away, "I'm not that..."

Before he could finish speaking,
Liu Yifei dodged Gu Bei's hand with a quick movement.

She walked to the desk and flipped open the laptop screen: "I want to see what you just did... Why is it the Legend of Sword and Fairy?"

"if not?"

Gu Bei crossed his arms and looked at her with a smile.

Then, under Liu Yifei's horrified gaze, he pressed the space bar.

A familiar voice came from the computer screen: "Brother Xiaoyao~"

Although it wasn't my own voice

But this highly recognizable "Brother Xiaoyao",
Even if she deliberately avoids looking back at her own work, she cannot prevent others from seeing it and showing it to her.

How does it feel to hear it now?

It's like having your own elementary school essay read aloud in front of everyone!
How do I turn this off?

Liu Yifei was in a flurry of activity.

However, all she knows how to do is use a computer.

I don't understand why the playback started when Gu Bei pressed the space bar.
But even after pressing the space bar and all the other keys on the keyboard, she still couldn't turn off the video in front of her.

Gu Bei picked up the mouse and clicked the screen twice to stop the playback.

He smiled at Liu Yifei and brought up today's interview: "Haven't you already considered yourself an ordinary viewer?"

"That's a recent work. Why did you have to dig up something from so long ago?"

A faint blush crept onto Liu Yifei's cheeks. She puffed out her cheeks like a wronged goldfish. "Wait a minute, you don't have any DVDs here. You're such a big boss, you wouldn't be watching pirated copies, would you?"

Gu Bei smiled as he watched Liu Yifei change the subject.

He exited the full-screen browser and pointed to the webpage icon: "Look what this website is called?"

Liu Yifei frowned: "Linlang Video?"

Subsequently,

Looking at the interface in front of her, she suddenly realized: "This is your Netflix-like business!"

The reason Gu Bei put Zhang Xiaolong into Liu Yifei's studio was to tell Liu Yifei that Linlang Entertainment was going to launch a business that imitated Netflix, so Linlang Entertainment can be considered one of Tencent's competitors.

Now we can finally see the finished product.
Liu Yifei sat down curiously and tried it out.
Something occurred to her, and she turned to ask, "Did you buy this copyright from Tangren?"

She didn't have a very good impression of Cai Yinong.
After all, when the Legend of Sword and Fairy was being filmed, Cai Yinong visited the Beijing Film Academy several times to persuade her to join the project. At that time, the Beijing Film Academy allowed production companies to enter freely.

As a result, when filming began, the entire crew was in complete chaos.
Moreover, they intentionally or unintentionally ostracized them. The image of Liu Xiaoli holding her and crying in the room is still vivid in her memory.

After all, sometimes she can endure a little hardship, but she can get through it. However, she cannot let her mother suffer any more.

Her relationship with the Legend of Sword and Fairy crew was the complete reversal of the actor-creation crew relationship.

Generally, actors are the ones who grovel before the production team even begins.
Once the actors join the production team, it's their turn to fawn over them.

After all, they wanted to replace him.

That would mean a large additional production cost.
Therefore, after filming began, the production team tolerated as many of the actors', especially the lead actors', demands as much as possible.

"Of course, we got the license through a third-party copyright agency!"

Gu Bei said calmly, "Moreover, the copyright of Legend of Sword and Fairy is very complicated, and it hasn't returned to Tangren's hands yet, at least not now."

A five-figure annual licensing fee,

Let alone the fact that the big boss himself got involved,
Even the travel expenses for ordinary employees of Linlang Entertainment to go out for negotiations are too expensive.
Apart from the most valuable first- or second-round licensing agreements with satellite TV stations, or exclusive licenses, local stations usually use third-party copyright agencies; otherwise, the annual licensing fees for local stations wouldn't even cover their travel costs.

Internet copyrights are no longer as valuable as local TV station broadcasting licenses!
Even a dog wouldn't want this stuff now!

He also noticed that Liu Yifei was in a bad mood, so he sat down and put her on his lap: "Let's not talk about this anymore, I'll show you something fun!"

(End of this chapter)