Chapter 197: *The Domain* Promotion Meeting

Liu Liu Yifei and the gangster were fighting fiercely in the car. Between the fists and feet, it seemed that the tearing sound of the air could be heard. Here Lu Kuan has many clever designs to serve the character image.

The car still had an accident as expected. The huge impact made Liu Liu Yifei give the robber a fatal blow and was also thrown heavily to the top of the car.

The little girl was suddenly pulled away under a special pulley device, smashing on the roof of the car with a loud noise, making Liu Liu Xiaoli on the sidelines both regretful and distressed.

The flames licked the car body, making a terrifying crackling sound, which also woke up Liu Liu Yifei who had fainted temporarily.

With her last desire to survive, she kicked out of the window with both legs, walked fast to avoid danger, and barely escaped thrillingly.

The whole process was done in one go. The martial arts movements designed by Yuan Yuan Heping were perfectly implemented by Liu Liu Yifei. Her control of her body has grown to a new stage.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared to Zhang Zhang Ziyi, whose martial arts movements seemed to be delicate, Liu Liu Yifei's performance basically hit a new height.

This stems from her persistent exercise for nearly two years. The action routines taught by Yuan Yuan Heping are just moves, so what is the mental method?

The mental method is the extremely strict and almost perverted physical training of Grotowski. It is a mixed tutorial combining Indian yoga, Japanese Noh, Chinese Peking Opera, and Western drama.

For Liu Liu Yifei, who was only fifteen years old when she first came into contact, this was a very unique opportunity.

Her growing body gradually adapted to this degree of exercise, laying an unusually solid foundation for the improvement of acting skills after growing up.

The time has come, Lu Kuan quickly picked up the microphone and commanded: "Kevin, detonate!"

The loud explosion cooperated with the raging fire tongue to impact Liu Liu Yifei, and the last long-focus lens was given to her staggering yet heroic back.

"Click! Perfect!"

Boss Lu took the lead in applauding excitedly, thanking the team members for their tacit cooperation. Such a difficult scene was passed at once.

Kevin laughed on the walkie-talkie: "I have to say, Lu, your compatriot is too powerful, not like a little girl in her teens at all."

Yuan Yuan Heping also nodded happily. He had never seen a female actor of this age who could have such understanding of action scenes.

Comparing her to some famous or female martial arts actors who have practiced for more than ten years is of course incomparable, but that is also very unfair, right?

After all, the routine moves he gave Liu Liu Yifei during the audition in September, she practiced for a month and was more heroic than Zhang Zhang Ziyi who had undergone closed training.

The potential and perseverance shown in this process are the most valuable qualities.

Lu Kuan waved his hand to let Liu Liu Yifei and Liu Liu Xiaoli watch the playback at the DIT workstation screen.

"Little Liu, you did a great job, you are really a desperate third sister!"

Liu Liu Yifei's face was still a bit dirty with black ash, and her eyes stared at her performance just now without blinking.

As a stunt double, of course, it cannot be a front face when it really appears in the movie.

But in order to shoot this scene from three angles before, the crew set up multiple lenses at different angles. What Boss Lu showed her was a set of front and side lenses.

The little girl was as excited as if she were reviewing her full-score test paper, and she talked endlessly about her thoughts just now when she saw the key points.

"Lu Kuan, look here! The robber gave me a hook punch. I subconsciously used the support hammer of Baji Quan taught by Director Yuan!"

Yuan Yuan Heping laughed: "This support hammer is indeed good. It gave the feeling of flesh and blood. The robber's face was smashed by you, this lens is very great."

Leonardo also leaned over and praised in English: "Liu, you are the most beautiful Chinese girl I have ever seen, it's wonderful!"

Only Zhang Zhang Ziyi stood behind the crowd, her expression dark and unclear.

The little girl proudly picked her eyebrows at Lu Kuan.

Just thinking about her desperate and near-perfect performance can only appear as a back in the movie, she couldn't help but be silent.

The emotion paused, the adrenaline secreted by the body during the fight scene receded, and Liu Liu Yifei stumbled and hit Lu Kuan.

Boss Lu hugged her shoulders with quick eyes and hands: "Are you okay?"

Liu Liu Xiaoli rushed over and hugged her daughter: "Sister Xixi, what's wrong?"

Liu Liu Yifei wiped the black ash on her face a bit embarrassedly: "I was too involved just now, and I'm a bit dizzy now."

Yuan Yuan Heping is of course experienced, and ordered his apprentice to bring cooling oil, and gently applied it to the two temples of the little girl with his thumb belly.

"How do you feel?"

"Well, much better, thank you, Grandpa Yuan!"

Yuan Yuan Heping looked at her and was quite fond of hunting, as if the founding master met the last closed disciple.

It's just that he can only teach martial arts, and female actors with such conditions cannot only develop on this road.

"Take a break, it was too involved just now, and now it's a bit overworked, and it will recover in a while."

Boss Lu picked up the walkie-talkie: "Fireworks group, please clean up the scene after extinguishing the fire, we are preparing for the next scene."

The cast and crew around the DIT are all doing their own duties.

Lu Kuan helped Liu Liu Xiaoli put the little girl on his director's chair and put the director's standard vest on her legs.

Liu Liu Xiaoli said embarrassedly: "Director Lu, should I take Sister Xixi to the side? Will it affect... here..."

Lu Kuan smiled: "It's okay, Little Liu is weak in the legs now, and she was shaking when I touched her just now, which is just over-excited just now."

"Sit here for ten minutes before leaving."

Liu Liu Yifei is naturally happy that he showed a gentle side to her rarely, pursed her mouth and didn't speak, just stared at him commanding the crew with big eyes.

Liu Liu Xiaoli, who was clear-eyed on the side, looked at this scene with a worried face, and sighed secretly in her heart.

Sinful fate!

US Pacific Time, October 9, 2003, Los Angeles, Mulholland Drive, Beverly Hills.

Tang Mu Cruise has a European-style mansion here, covering an area of 2.5 acres, with a luxuriously functional movie screening hall.

Therefore, it was also used as the venue for this *The Domain* viewing meeting and promotion meeting, and was even turned into a party form by Tang Mu Cruise.

Party culture is one of the signs of American social culture. Whether it is public or private, the success rate of commercial negotiations is always high in such an entertaining and relaxing atmosphere.

Of course, there are also dirty dealings under the table.

Zhang Zhang Ziyi asked for leave to return to the country, and Liu Liu Yifei is Boss Lu's female companion today.

As soon as you enter the door, it is extremely luxurious with flowers, and there is a bit of a chaotic scene.

However, neither Lu Kuan nor Liu Liu Yifei are characters who are addicted to enjoyment and money worship. They just paid attention to it with curiosity and followed Tang Mu Cruise to greet major distribution companies.

They had already chatted with Jason of Lionsgate for a long time before.

"Lu, this is Mr. Owen from Disney."

"Lu, this is Mr. Bob Dean from New Line."

"Mr. Edmundo from Columbia."

"This is..."

A fat face of Jewish An Lushan was full of flattering fake smiles: "I don't need to introduce it, Lu and I have already done several businesses."

Immediately, he was not without blame and pretended to be angry: "It's just that every time I am the one who suffers!"

Tang Mu Cruise laughed: "Is there anyone in Hollywood who can make you Weinstein suffer? I'm really curious."

Liu Liu Yifei on the side sneered in her heart, she really hadn't seen many people who could take advantage of him.

Boss Lu also frowned: "Harvey, you can't say that. One of the production assistants of *The Domain* crew told me a few days ago that your *Fahrenheit 9/11* only cost 6 million USD! And I paid you 9.5 million!"

"Some time ago, I communicated with the authorities in the country about the filing and approval of *Fahrenheit 9/11*, but it was unfortunately strictly prohibited from appearing in theaters because it would affect the current stable China-US relations."

Harvey couldn't help but laugh loudly, he was indeed particularly proud of this business.

It was originally bought for political speculation, but it was scolded by Disney CEO Eisner, and almost smashed in his hands.

Fortunately, relying on his three-inch tongue and keen business sense, he sold it in time and found a takeover.

Harvey has always had a generous attitude toward the genius directors in his mind: "Lu, in order to make up for the losses of friends, I hope you can hand over the North American distribution of *The Domain* to me this time, and I will give you a discount on distribution points!"

Boss Lu glanced at Tang Mu Cruise calmly, and his vigilance in his heart became more and more intense.

During the business party break, Lu Kuan took a glass of lemonade for Liu Liu Yifei, and the two rested on the railing for a while, waiting for the opening of the banquet.

"Little Liu, do me a favor later."

"Huh?"

Lu Kuan said in Chinese: "Those two people just now, I suspect they have something tricky."

"I will host the introduction on stage when watching the movie later. You stay not far away and help me listen to whether they will say anything?"

Liu Liu Yifei said in surprise: "Is it to let me be a secret agent? Just like in the movie!"

Boss Lu smiled: "That's right, the time when the party and the people need you has arrived, let's see how your lurking ability is."

"They should be relatively cautious, in short, hit two poles whether there are dates or not."

After thinking about it, he reminded her: "Be careful of that An Lushan, he is not a good thing."

"Like you?"

Boss Lu's face turned cold: "Civilized communication, personal attacks are prohibited."

"Dang dang dang!"

Tang Mu Cruise knocked on the wine glass with a fork and walked to the party table.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome everyone."

"Before watching the movie, let's invite the Golden Lion Award director from Asia, Cannes Best Director winner, Lu! To briefly describe the overview of the film."

Scattered applause sounded. These Hollywood Big Six and independent film company buyers came today, basically for Tang Mu Cruise's name.

This is also the key to Lu Kuan finding him as a producer.

In the eyes of these buyers, Lu Kuan is just a tool director invited by Tang Mu Cruise for his project.

It is just to increase the bargaining chip against Paramount to prepare for such a blockbuster. Only Harvey and Jason of Lionsgate and others who have cooperated with Lu Kuan before know a little bit about the inside story.

Boss Lu went on stage with the disdainful eyes of arrogant Hollywood celebrities.

He first conducted a self-introduction routinely, and introduced the script source, cultural connotation, and main selling points of the film.

Including the powerful production team behind the film:

Williams' fireworks team, Animal Logic's special effects department;

James who won the Oscar for *Titanic*'s soundtrack, etc., and so on.

The buyers of the distribution companies on the scene are all human spirits. Such a lineup and production team can be said to be luxurious even in Hollywood.

It's just that everyone is here to buy movies today, so they are not stingy with applause, and they will lose the initiative in the bargaining that may appear later.

The atmosphere at the scene was still relatively cold. Liu Liu Yifei had been moved to sit next to Tang Mu Cruise and Harvey by Lu Kuan, and the 15-minute pre-sale film officially started.

A line of subtitles floated at the beginning, accompanied by James's solemn and magnificent soundtrack, and began to introduce the story background.

【In 2077 AD, the earth's population expanded. In order to solve the increasingly intensified food crisis, mankind abandoned the shackles of skin color and nationality and formed the Earth Federation.】

【Dr. Ximai, a genius scientist of the Earth Federation, developed a farm that can transport products to the outside world every ten minutes, named Ximai Farm, and the story started from here...】

The beginning is that thrilling flying car scene.

When all the "professional audiences" in Hollywood saw this slightly plain beginning and were ready to accept this mediocre flying car scene, they suddenly found that they were wrong.

Why is Zhang Zhang Ziyi so different from *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*?

This set of routine actions seems to be more fierce and direct in style, giving people a feeling of flesh and blood and breaking the wind!

Zhang Zhang Ziyi broke into the robber's car in casual clothes. The lens perspective from the left rear clearly showed how she used various fierce boxing movements and almost folded body movements.

This is a brand new design for Hollywood, which is accustomed to seeing traditional kung fu plays.

Here we have to mention Yuan Yuan Heping's innovation and progress in kung fu movies.

For example, in *The Matrix* two years ago, Keanu Reeves' classic "class iron plate bridge" action, he spent four months starting to teach Keanu authentic Chinese kung fu, combining technical movements such as iron plate bridge with Hollywood's advanced special effects technology.

In this cooperation with *The Domain*, Boss Lu also put forward a very clear design outline for him:

Attach importance to the effectiveness of martial arts movements in promoting the plot, and rather abandon some seemingly beautiful movements, but also better display character relationships, convey character emotions, and truly serve the story.

Just like Zhang Zhang Ziyi (Liu Liu Yifei) in this segment, this fierce boxing method is a routine action he mixed from Baji, Wing Chun, and even Ah Fei, this underground boxer.

A northern martial artist studying southern boxing is a proof of learning from each other and breaking technical barriers.

The buyers of Hollywood film companies were amazed and couldn't help whispering.

"Zhang Zhang Ziyi fought too beautifully, I don't know how she changed her style so quickly in these two years!"

"Not to mention anything else, just this life-and-death fight in the car is enough to attract the audience to see the content of the next half hour."

Liu Liu Yifei listened to the low discussion of the crowd on the side, although it was Zhang Zhang Ziyi who was praised, she was also particularly satisfied in her heart.

Another visual explosion brought to them is undoubtedly this carefully designed flying car special effects lens.

First of all, it is a realistic visual effect. The collaborative cooperation of various top teams displays all the details in front of the high-definition lens of the camera.

Even the color changes, dynamic shapes, smoke concentration, and flow direction of those flames were roughly calculated to cooperate with the director's arrangement of lenses and composition!

These realistic visual effects make the audience treat the sudden visual impact as a real threat in an instant, thrilling and exciting!

Secondly, it is the use of high-speed dynamic lenses.

Audiences who have seen *The Fifth Element* will have a deep impression of the old-fashioned flying car scene in it.

At that time, Luc Besson's idea was to let the audience immerse themselves in the slow-motion special effects lens, giving them more interesting details.

But Lu Kuan, who had experienced countless flying car scenes in the future, decisively instructed the special effects team to adopt a high-speed dynamic lens design.

This high-speed dynamic is not a short-term instant climax, but a combination of high-speed photography and slow-motion playback.

This is a technique that refers to the car chase scene in *Fast and Furious*, using high-speed photography to capture the moment the car flies by. Details such as water splashes splashed by wheels and reflections on the car body are clearly visible.

The on-site feedback of this part is even more enthusiastic than the kung fu play!

Because in the hearts of all Hollywood filmmakers, even if these action scenes are amazing, they are just the technical innovation of Chinese action stars and teams themselves.

They were originally excellent film culture characteristics in this field, just like the samurai movies and animations of the Japanese.

But special effects technology has always been a patent that Hollywood is proud of. How can a Chinese director bring them such shocking special effects scenes now?

There are even buyers who understand technology on the scene who are ready to ask Lu Kuan to play back certain segments later. They want to study, why is the effect of Animal Logic different in sensory perception?

Generally speaking, the role of artistic, aesthetic-accomplished film directors and film special effects technology is mutual.

Teams that lead the world in technology can bring more possibilities to their creation, but without the image structure designed by these genius directors, technology will also be useless.

Just like the liquid metal robot image created by Cameron using digital synthesis technology in *Terminator 2*;

In *Titanic*, he used computer special effects technology to restore the sinking process of Titanic;

In *Avatar*, Cameron brought 3D technology and motion capture technology to the extreme, bringing an immersive viewing experience to the audience.

These pictures and character, scene designs are not self-generated by technology, but completed under the guidance of film directors and special effects directors.

James Cameron can not understand technology, but he can propose excellent plans for the technical team to overcome.

Returning to the flying car scene in *The Domain*, why do the film buyers who have read countless movies on the scene have the doubt of "orange born in Huainan and Huaibei" from the bottom of their hearts?

It is because Lu Kuan used the hanging function to carry out artistic fusion and creation (plagiarism) from countless wonderful flying car scenes in the future, and put those special effects designs that have been verified by box office and audience feedback into practice.

How can it not be eye-catching?

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