Chapter 880: Time to join the crew

"Yan He."

Suddenly someone came to greet him.

Lu Yan He looked up.

It was actually Yu Mengling.

"Sister Mengling." Lu Yan He showed a surprised smile.

"Where are you going?" Yu Mengling asked first, and then followed up, "Is there anyone next to you?"

"No, sit down."

Yu Mengling sat down.

"I'm going to the United States for work with an endorsed brand," Yu Mengling said, "Are you going to film?"

"Yes, I'm going to film 'Men in Black'."

"Ah, this film!" Yu Mengling laughed, "Big production."

Lu Yan He nodded.

He asked: "Sister Mengling, how many days are you working? If you have time, come to the crew to see?"

Yu Mengling asked: "Where are you filming?"

"Filming in New York recently," Lu Yan He said, "Filming some exterior scenes in New York first."

"Okay," Yu Mengling nodded, "That's great, my work is in New York, very convenient."

Lu Yan He laughed, "If possible, come and cameo a role for us?"

Yu Mengling said yes without hesitation.

"Is Sister Mengling's next filming decided?"

"Looking at the script, not yet," Yu Mengling shook her head, "I also want to rest for a while. I was too tired in Xitu'er before, and I will be released in April, with a lot of promotion work. I will consider taking a new play at least until the second half of the year. My state is not good enough now."

Lu Yan He nodded.

Yu Mengling's output has indeed always been very low.

Moreover, the plays Yu Mengling took were almost all art films, and she had never acted in genre films, let alone commercial films.

In the past few years, the most commercial play Yu Mengling took was the drama version of "Rouge".

But strictly speaking, "Rouge" is not a traditional commercial theme film.

Lu Yan He still admires Yu Mengling's practice of insisting on her artistic aesthetics.

Especially in an industry that is easily tempted and easily shaken by various related interests.

It can be said that the entertainment industry is an industry circle that completely puts the gap between rich and poor and class gap on the table.

In the entertainment industry, actors with salaries of millions and millions are next to assistants with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.

The popular actors who are flattered, cared for, and even nodded and bowed by producers and directors everywhere may be small actors who have been at home for half a year and only received a small role.

This is a mixed environment, it is not an exaggeration to say so. Huge exposure, ubiquitous attention, differential treatment everywhere, ups and downs of career, precarious popularity... It is really difficult to maintain an original intention and insist on one's artistic pursuit in such an environment. People who have experienced temptation and setbacks can understand.

Yu Mengling is not a poor actress, but she can keep her heart, which is very rare. Lu Yan He knows exactly how rare this is.

Yu Mengling did not hesitate to agree to cameo in "Men in Black". This is her trust in Lu Yan He, and she did not really treat this cameo as a performance. If she were really asked to act as the heroine of "Men in Black"—if there is a heroine, she might not be willing.

However, her performance style may not be suitable for commercial films.

Lu Yan He looked at Yu Mengling, and the figure of Maggie Cheung suddenly appeared in his mind.

Speaking of which, the one who truly opened up commercial films with a literary temperament and can span multiple themes and character types is this legendary actress.

Can act in "Ruan Lingyu", and can also act in "Dragon Inn".

Can Yu Mengling break through her performance limitations one day, further broaden her acting path, and broaden the types and styles of films she participates in?

Who knows about such things in the future.

"Men in Black" has started filming.

Hollywood is familiar with filming such films and has a very mature industrial system.

Fu Kai served as the director and started preparation work early.

At that time, Solun also wanted to assign another American director to the film. Although Lu Yan He recommended Fu Kai, Solun still felt that Fu Kai was a Chinese director who had never directed a film in Hollywood before, and this was such a big production, he might not be able to handle it.

If there is an American director co-directing, many problems can be communicated and negotiated by this person.

Moreover, he is more familiar with the Hollywood filming system.

Lu Yan He firmly refused and asked back, if you invite Liu Bige to direct "Men in Black", will you arrange another American director to co-direct?

To put it bluntly, Solun felt that Fu Kai was not enough to be the director of this big production alone.

After all, among the works Fu Kai directed in the past, only "Road to Glory" had some voice in the North American awards season. Except for this film, Fu Kai's other directed works only had popularity in China and had never received attention internationally.

Lu Yan He knew very clearly that Fu Kai had directed many mature commercial films in China, such as "Carpe Diem".

Now the Chinese film environment is not the environment of twenty years ago.

The film projects that Fu Kai once directed, whether it is the capital volume or the production scale, are not bad compared to most Hollywood productions. Except for not being familiar with the Hollywood industrial system, there is nothing Fu Kai can't do. Not being familiar with this shortcoming, just learn more and understand more.

Facts have also proven that he has no problem at all. It couldn't have been a problem—

It's not a newcomer director, he is experienced, plus the script of "Men in Black" is very easy to film. Early before, Lu Yan He had already communicated with Fu Kai about what kind of conception he had when writing the script.

Fu Kai brought his team to the United States, started location scouting two months in advance, discussed the filming plan, what to shoot in the studio, what to shoot on location, and how to design each shot.

When Lu Yan He came to the "Men in Black" crew, Fu Kai had already relied on his ability to make the crew recognize him.

Lu Yan He once told Fu Kai why Hollywood does better than other places in the world in filming such films?

On the one hand, the technology is more mature and cheaper. On the other hand, because they have many years of film production craftsmanship, they have accumulated a lot of production experience for science fiction films and action films, so their film art, visual effects, and various departments have sufficient experience to make every scene very realistic.

Just the production of a scene, different eras, different industries, different styles, they have a very professional database and production experience, maybe it only takes an afternoon to make a 100% restored, realistic scene.

So, when filming "The Wandering Earth 2", Guo Fan specially invited college students from film academies to stay on the set every day to make various records, including various production materials, which would be classified and organized—they made this film from scratch. With materials and complete records, others who want to make such a theme film in the future can not only get various records of production, including various scene designs, electronic information materials, clothing materials, etc., but also don't have to go through the hardship of "from scratch", but can optimize and upgrade on this basis. This is not only twice the result with half the effort, but also can significantly reduce production costs, research and development costs, and design costs.

Hollywood has accumulated a large amount of experience and material libraries through past productions.

"There is no need to think about making a unique science fiction action film. It is a very orthodox, conventional, and at most a bit funny Hollywood film," Lu Yan He said, "The original materials that can be used can be used directly. Don't have psychological pressure. For such a film, as long as there is 15% of creativity that has never appeared before, it is enough to surprise everyone."

Lu Yan He didn't want Fu Kai to be under pressure, or out of some mentality, to make "Men in Black" into some kind of epic classic. "Men in Black" is not this way at all. To give an analogy, its style is actually like youth comics. The rhythm and style are typical and relatively lively. It is not "The Matrix", let alone "Star Wars".

"The style you are best at is actually the style I imagined when writing 'Men in Black', relaxed, lively, fast-paced, and you can insert jokes in the gaps. It is slightly more mature than youth fantasy, but more comic-like than mature science fiction films."

This is also why Lu Yan He found Fu Kai to direct this film. ===== CHAPTER 881 =====