Chapter 885: Trust

Lu Yan He has never been a boss who can be called qualified by industry standards.

He has always used his own set of methods to manage his company and the people working under him.

Chen Ziyan has always said that once Lu Yan He's "crown of success" is taken off, or his almost miraculous vision and judgment fail, these subordinates of his, each with their own abilities, will sooner or later choose to leave.

Lu Yan He understands what Chen Ziyan is talking about.

He feels that perhaps it is because he relies on the fact that he clearly knows his "crown of success" cannot be taken off in the short term, so he has not really worried about these problems.

Even, just like Lu Yan He's support and trust in Wan Qingqing, Lu Yan He almost holds a certain idealistic belief. Perhaps, Linghe could really become a utopia?

Not to say it is a complete utopia, but it should be better than those companies full of games, calculations, and infighting between superiors and subordinates, right?

They don't need to face the pressure of KPIs every day when they wake up, nor do they need to guess his thoughts and preferences every few days.

They can fully exert their talents to achieve success. They can also get the returns they deserve without being sacrificed by capital.

Lu Yan He feels that it may also be because the returns brought by such trust in Xu Tianming and Chen Yin make him more convinced that he can do this.

If there was no trust in Chen Yin at the beginning, Chen Yin could not have brought movies like *Corpse Phase* and *Summer Night Villa Horror*.

As for why the budget given to Wan Qingqing is 20 million US dollars.

This is because of the environment.

In Hollywood, 20 million US dollars is a low-cost project for a film project.

Just like *Flypaper*, because of the salaries of several actors, the production cost was not lower than 20 million US dollars. There is no reason to let Wan Qingqing have a lower budget for the second work she is responsible for after the independently produced *Flypaper* achieved box office success. This would be very unfavorable for her to do this project later.

Lu Yan He feels that since he wants to give someone an opportunity, he should give everything he should give.

Moreover, although it is a budget of 20 million US dollars, no matter what, it won't be that not a penny can be earned back.

Lu Yan He has never doubted Wan Qingqing's ability.

In the *Men in Black* crew, Lu Yan He also fully trusted Fu Kai.

Especially when on set, this is even more so.

Even Sick, because of his status in the *Men in Black* crew, never puts on the airs of a veteran best actor, which shows his influence on this crew.

The more this is the case, the more Lu Yan He needs to use his influence to help Fu Kai establish his director authority.

Fu Kai himself is also a very talented director.

Although his talent is not in capturing human nature and interpersonal relationships, he has a particularly good sense of rhythm.

This point can be seen from the performance rhythm of the actors.

Fu Kai never raised any objections to the content of Lu Yan He's performance, but he often asked Lu Yan He to watch the playback after filming a take and told him that he hoped to film a take where Lu Yan He paused somewhere, or the speaking speed of some parts was faster, or the rivalry with Sick could have more contrast... Every such adjustment could make the whole shot smoother. This smoothness is based on the standards proposed for a commercial blockbuster. Both Sick and Lu Yan He are top-tier actors who understand performance, so even if they make their performance details more refined, they still cannot avoid the completeness of "introduction, development, twist, and conclusion."

However, in good commercial films, many times the performance is not necessarily complete, but just a look, a fragment.

In *Men in Black*, basically the slowest shot was the scene Lu Yan He filmed with Sick on his first day in the crew.

That is an indispensable literary scene.

But such scenes must not be too many. If there are too many, the rhythm will be slow.

This movie is mainly filmed for those non-art film audiences.

They all know this well.

Of course, this does not mean they lower their requirements for their own performance.

This is not the same thing.

This is the control that the director needs to do well.

Fu Kai undoubtedly showed his rich experience in filming movies for so many years.

One day, Sick chatted with Lu Yan He on set, saying that he watched *Road to Glory*, directed by Fu Kai and starring him, two days ago, and not only that, but also watched *Carpe Diem*, also starring Shang Yongzhou.

Sick curiously asked Lu Yan He: "These two movies are filmed quite well. It can be seen that he is a director with many ideas. However, from these two movies, I actually can't see that this is consistent with the style of *Men in Black*. How did you think of inviting him to direct this movie at that time?"

Lu Yan He laughed.

He said: "Actually, for a movie like *Men in Black*, in my heart, I didn't write it as a pure commercial movie. Many people divide movies into commercial movies and art movies, and I often make a distinction myself."

"Hmm?" Sick was curious and asked: "What distinction?"

"Some movies are filmed for people with relatively mature minds, and some movies are filmed for people with relatively innocent minds. In my heart, *Men in Black* is a movie filmed for people with relatively innocent minds, and for such a movie, accurately speaking, for me, I should say, for such a story, I hope it has a simple, clear, and consistent style from beginning to end. It won't suddenly give you a melancholy look halfway through the jokes, nor will it try to elevate this movie to some grand philosophical or value proposition. It is just a simple, fantasy story about protecting the world. In this era, the greatest difficulty in filming it into a movie is to make everyone believe in this worldview of 'protecting the world.' Director Fu's greatest advantage is actually that he will never do useless addition."

Lu Yan He laughed.

"Look at him filming *Carpe Diem*. You may not know that the lead actor of this movie, Shang Yongzhou, is a top-tier male actor in China. He films at most one movie a year, and many directors line up to wait for his schedule. And when they filmed *Carpe Diem*, that movie was a very pure road comedy. Many people felt at first that Fu Kai finally had a chance to cooperate with Shang Yongzhou, shouldn't he give his character enough space to display his acting skills? But no, in Fu Kai's movies, it is always his original intention of filming this movie that takes precedence. Shang Yongzhou is a best actor, but he doesn't need to prove that he is a best actor in this movie. You won't see any shot in this movie that says 'Shang Yongzhou is a well-deserved best actor.' Every shot of his serves the overall style of the movie, and the theme of the movie has not changed from beginning to end. We can watch this movie very happily."

Sick nodded.

"I understand what you mean." Sick smiled. "You mean, you need him to not treat us as performance artists at all in this movie."

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "More importantly, I need a director who can truly like this story. For a movie filmed for people with relatively innocent minds, if the person filming it doesn't truly like the core of this story, doesn't truly believe in such an impulse to protect the world, then I think it is also difficult for the audience to feel such an emotion from the shots, from the pictures, from the rhythm."

Just like those similar movies filmed according to algorithms on streaming media, a plastic AI taste. ===== CHAPTER 886 =====