As mentioned before, as one of the younger generation of Hollywood filmmakers, Gyllenhaal has transformed from a carpenter to a popular actor, and Yi Feiyang deserves a lot of credit for this.
Regarding Gyllenhaal, Yi Feiyang also spent a lot of effort to promote him as the protagonist. However, there is a saying that God is not as good as man. After Gyllenhaal became famous for a while, he began to fall silent. No matter how Yi Feiyang worked behind the scenes,
Push, he was originally very popular, but he was not angry. This made Yi Feiyang very distressed and a headache. This time, Yi Feiyang boldly used him to lead the villain in the play, and he was also a vicious terrorist leader. In fact, he was
I'm making an attempt... trying to break Gyllenhaal's stereotype of a handsome boy and repackage him as a personality star.
In fact, in his previous life, Gyllenhaal followed the character route. For example, in his filming of "Brokeback Mountain", the characters were very contradictory and entangled. But now, because Yi Feiyang tried too hard to help him,
On the contrary, it fixed his image on the idol route, thus hindering the development of his acting skills and not broadening his acting career. This is also the main reason why Gyllenhaal has never been shy.
Now, playing the role of a terrorist is obviously an attempt and a challenge. Gyllenhaal seems to understand Yi Feiyang's intention, so he strives to do his best in grasping the role. In order to make the audience completely forget the handsome and handsome self before, Gyllenhaal
Hill also asked a makeup artist to create hideous scars on his face. He chewed a cigarette and laughed while touching the scars, which made him look hideous.
The appearance is perfect, but he lost to Downey in terms of acting skills. Gyllenhaal didn't want this, knowing that Downey suddenly became powerful because of Yi Feiyang's training. So Gyllenhaal was like a angry child.
.Find Yi Feiyang privately and asked him to open a small stove for him.
Yi Feiyang has a kind of love for Gyllenhaal like a master has for his apprentice. Seeing his sad face and wanting to make this movie a success, of course he supported him and started to teach him.
"What's the bad guy, Hill?"
"People who do bad things, evil people?"
"What about the terrorists?"
"The person who caused the terrorist incident!"
"So do you know the difference between a bad guy and a terrorist?"
"This..." Gyllenhir had some thoughts in his mind, but they didn't feel right.
Yi Feiyang smiled. "Actually, the bad guys may be terrorists, but terrorists don't think they are bad guys!"
"Huh?" Gyllenhaal was stunned. This proposition was too bold and outrageous. You know, the United States is fighting terrorism at this time.
Seeing Gyllenhaal's mouth wide open, Yi Feiyang explained: "Don't get me wrong, I mean, bad guys are recognized by everyone as bad guys, but for terrorists, they never think of themselves as bad guys, on the contrary.
They have a very narrow view that they are engaged in jihad and doing the right thing. Even if they kill countless innocent people, they will find excuses to excuse themselves! So the character you want to play cannot be just an ordinary bad guy.
But say to yourself, you are a saint, you are doing great things... Use a method of self-deception to put yourself into this kind of evil character, then you can touch the soul of the character, and
Not fur!”
"But I think I have done a good job, such as when I shot American soldiers and ignored civilian casualties..."
"These are not enough!" Yi Feiyang shook his head and said, "How can I put it, your performance method is too direct, you are too accustomed to expressing your inner emotions directly. Although it is very explosive, it greatly weakens it.
The characters are three-dimensional from the inside out." Yi Fei pointed out Gyllenhaal's shortcomings in a concise and concise manner.
Although this handsome guy's acting skills have been improving all the time, his performance method is very simple. He is very good at mobilizing his inner emotions, and then erupts like a volcano, creating a huge impact on the camera.
This is also the most direct way to express the character. Gyllenhaal finds out that he is very sincere in his heart and all his emotions are very strong, but it always feels like he is using too much force. This is his biggest problem.
"Three-dimensional character? I don't understand what you mean." Gyllenhaal obviously didn't understand.
"Let me put it this way." Yi Feiyang thought for a moment before trying to explain: "Most of the roles you played before were young people with direct tempers. Whatever you think in your heart, you will express it.
It's easy to get excited when you come out. If you speak directly, you can express yourself well... But in this play, I want you to break through your own image and play a villain, a terrorist. You have never tried such a role before.
But you must have seen such a movie, so subtly, you brought out the image of the bad guy in the previous movie, such as smoking a cigarette, pulling scars and grinning, etc. Yes, these expressions and behaviors can express a bad guy.
Vicious, but it appears on the surface and cannot penetrate deep into the bone marrow.”
"It's easy... just be more restrained." Gyllenhaal couldn't help but say. He was like this in the previous film "Buried Alive", often lowering his voice or being more silent.
"But if you are too restrained, how can you express clear emotions to the audience?" Yi Feiyang asked rhetorically.
"Well..." Gyllenhir was speechless. He looked at Yi Feiyang and raised his eyebrows to make a helpless expression.
In fact, Gyllenhaal's situation is different from that of Robert Downey Jr. Downey was asked by Yi Feiyang to use his eyes to act, using a smile... a cynical expression to express the character's emotions; as for Gyllenhaal,
Yifeiyang's requirement for him is to succeed in transformation and work hard to forge himself into a good piece of steel, able to build various types at will.
"You really can't understand it yet?" Seeing that Gyllenhaal was still confused, Yi Feiyang asked.
"Yes, and a little more!"
"So what now?" Caught off guard, Yi Feiyang slapped Gyllenhaal with a snap.
Gyllenhaal was immediately stunned, and the others were also stunned, thinking, what happened?
Before anyone could react, Yi Feiyang slapped him and slapped him again.
Gyllenhaal was furious.
"What are you doing now, don't you understand?" Yi Feiyang stared at him.
Others wanted to come over to break up the fight, but Yi Feiyang shouted: "Everyone, stop here. Don't come over!"
Gyllenhaal's chest was heaving and his hands were spitting out fire. He didn't understand why Yi Feiyang suddenly hit him and hit him so hard.
"Don't you understand?" Bang bang bang! Yi Feiyang slapped him three times in a row.
Gyllenhaal was full of grievances and anger, but looking at Yi Feiyang who was swearing, he didn't dare to let it out. This feeling of suffocation was not to mention how uncomfortable it was.
"Are you a man? I've hit you so many times, but you don't even dare to move your hands?" Yi Feiyang's words were sarcastic and provocative.
"Why...why?" Gyllenhaal gritted his teeth.
"For no reason, I just want to hit you!" Yi Feiyang raised his hand again, but this time, his hand was caught by Gyllenhaal.
Gyllenhaal looked at him with fire-breathing eyes and gritted his teeth, "Can you please stop hitting me?"
The corner of Yi Feiyang's mouth curled up, and he suddenly kicked Gyllenhaal directly to the ground!
"Idiot, don't you understand?"
Gyllenhaal, who was kicked to the ground, clutched his stomach and was in pain. Suddenly he laughed like crazy.
"I understand! I understand!" he shouted, loudly.
Everyone around looked confused.
"Was he beaten stupid?"
"Why did the director hit him?"
“Does a tyrant need a reason to beat people?”
…
Besides, Gyllenhir, who was on the ground, was confused from the beginning and was suddenly slapped by Yi Feiyang. He was also stunned and had no idea what Yi Feiyang was doing. Then Yi Feiyang kept asking him: "Do you understand or not?" This made him
It was even more confusing, but after another slap came, he couldn't bear it anymore. When Yi Feiyang was about to hit him again, he defended himself and held Yi Feiyang's hand.
In Gyllenhaal's view, the matter should end here. But unexpectedly, Yi Feiyang kicked him!
This time Gyllenhaal was completely enraged. Just when he turned over and wanted to stand up and start fighting with Yi Feiyang, Yi Feiyang's words "Do you understand?" were like the sound of a bell ringing his nerves.
Yes, he understood at that moment.
The feeling of suppressed anger inside.
That feeling of hatred.
That feeling of wanting crazy revenge...
The real terrorists are not bad guys, but they are a group of beasts packaged with reason!
Suppress yourself, but the malice and resentment in your heart are overwhelming!
"I understand!" Gyllenhaal shouted. At that moment, he understood everything about the two of them!
…
The next period of filming became very weird.
The reason is that after being trained by Yi Feiyang, Robert Downey Jr. and Gyllenhaal burst out with enthusiasm for competing in acting. And the villain Nicolas Cage and Ivanka Trump, who were originally bystanders in the film,
Pu and Pals Hilton were also infected by this enthusiasm.
The acting competition was like a plague, instantly spreading to the entire "Iron Man" crew.
As a director, Yi Feiyang was dumbfounded because during the filming process, Cage and others actively asked him to reshoot many scenes that he thought were pretty good.
"Director, I feel like my performance just now was not good enough!"
"Director, I think my performance will be better if I try it again!"
"Director, do it again, I'm not tired!"
"director!"
"director!"
…
This is what Yi Feiyang has heard the most during this period. Check, are these still actors? They are just a bunch of lunatics! They are not making literary films, so why are they so demanding of themselves? Someone is beginning to feel sorry for his own film.
This weird phenomenon continued until two weeks later, when Downey, Hill, Cage and others realized that if it was always re-shooted with n-cameras, it is estimated that the film would not be completed until 2008. Therefore, everyone became even more concerned.
Concentrate and strive to get the shot right in one step.
This finally made Yi Feiyang breathe a sigh of relief, it's my film!
In May, when Yi Feiyang created Iron Man, there was a strong oriental martial arts style in Hollywood. This strong storm came from the Chinese kung fu film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" produced by Fantasy Entertainment and directed by Li Yin!
That’s right, it’s this drama that was finally released in North America after almost half a year of filming!
Before it was released, both the Chinese-speaking region and Hollywood were not very optimistic about this drama from Fantasy Entertainment, thinking that this drama must be a "cannon fodder" for Fantasy Entertainment.
Asia: "The declining Chinese martial arts want to find a way out in North America. They are undoubtedly seeking death!"
North America: "The Chinese-speaking talents discovered by Fantasy Entertainment will severely discredit this amazing company!"
…
But what no one expected was that this underappreciated cannon fodder movie caused a storm in North America after it was released.
People were surprised!
People were surprised!
Many people’s jaws dropped!
Maybe martial arts moves are the biggest selling point, maybe Oriental movies satisfy fans who are tired of Hollywood movies, maybe this is really a great movie, anyway, the U.S. box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has reached 94.5 million US dollars as of May 11
, breaking 100 million is just around the corner.
The Hollywood media here boldly believes that as the highest-grossing foreign language film in the history of the United States, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has opened the door for Americans to appreciate Asian films.
And those media in Asia said that the reason why this movie became popular in North America was entirely due to "good luck". So many Chinese martial arts movies before were not popular, but this one was the only one that had such bad luck.
In fact, only Yi Feiyang knows that there is a reason for the popularity of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and it is not just "luck".
First of all, in terms of taste. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has a win-win situation at the box office and word-of-mouth, because once Americans and Europeans get tired of watching their own movies, they will look for exotic flavors, and "Orientalism" will prevail. And this will also be the future of "In the Mood for Love"
And one of the main reasons why Korean movies are popular in North America.
Secondly, in terms of technology, the Hollywood film industry has always had a certain sense of rejection towards works that are "obsessed with technology". For example, science fiction films, such as gunfights, are generally difficult to get into the eyes of Oscar judges, just because "technology" will always be
It will become obsolete. All "technology", no matter how beautifully presented or spectacular it is, will definitely become outdated in a few years.
Especially for the Oscars, what they want to select are masterpieces that can exist beyond time. The good thing about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is that it has many techniques, and these techniques are so moving, so novel, and so beautiful. For example, overhead shots
The flying eaves and walls, such as the confrontation in the bamboo forest, such as the sword chopping in the courtyard, will linger in people's minds no matter how long after watching it.
Is the technology of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" truly unprecedented and unprecedented? No, the Hong Kong martial arts films of the 1990s and even the 1980s had many more powerful things than it. But,
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has an atmosphere that "exists beyond time and space." Yi Feiyang didn't know how to describe it, so he reluctantly said that it is "an elegant atmosphere imagined by scholars." In order to preserve this elegance, Li Yian worked hard to
To show it, maybe he could use a blue screen or use more wires, but it didn't work.
Li Yin created a hallucination-like, dream-like picture of Chinese Kung Fu.
Chu Yuan tried it before, and Hu Jinquan tried it before, but only "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was successful.
Finally, there is the humanities aspect.
In Yi Feiyang's view, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is actually a very nihilistic movie.
The knight in it is running for an official. The reason for running is because of the wild and unruly children of officials, and because of the evil deeds of a teenager. This knight has to track down thousands of miles, and ultimately sacrifices his own life. Before his death, he
Only then did he desperately complete the level that his martial arts cultivation had never been able to break through. After completing it, he died. The teenager, ashamed of himself, also committed suicide.
The entire plot of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually nonsense plus nonsense. It is not to save the common people, not to resist violent power, not to protect loyal and good people, and not to demonstrate fairness and justice.
It is nothing.
It is a futile chase, an unintentional fight, and ultimately, a waste of life. But perhaps it is this new "nihilistic plot" that gives "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" a completely different viewing experience.
It doesn't matter if they are all dead, they have fought, so they exist. A brand new existentialist, Chinese philosophical martial arts movie, it can be said that the spiritual and psychological aspects explored in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are exactly what Hollywood lacks
.
In short, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" produced by Fantasy Entertainment is so unbelievable that a fanatical Chinese hurricane is blowing in North America, Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago!
The editor-in-chief of the most authoritative film magazine in the United States commented: "Popularity speaks for itself. Asian films may also be accepted by the American public, rather than being limited to the small circle of art films."
Hollywood box office expert Paul pointed out: "The performance of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is enough to encourage Hollywood to release more Asian films that were considered unmarketable in the past. After all, Asian films can also create a box office of 100 million US dollars in the United States. This phenomenon is worthy of further study.
Research."
Film critics here believe: "The film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" played a major role in opening up the U.S. market for Asian films."
British writer Lucidi pointed out: "If "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can win multiple Academy Awards in the future, it will further prove that the American market needs the stimulation of Asian films, and more diverse cultures will have its impact on the American film market.
Necessary, after all, Hollywood produces many dispensable 'bad movies' every year."
In addition, the actor Zhou Yunfa of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has also gained international fame and has become a target of foreign film producers.
The new film "Bulletproof Monk" starring him has not yet started filming, but it has already become a hot commodity for foreign film producers. In the recent "afm", the largest film market event in the United States, four of the eight major American film producers negotiated with them to purchase the film.
The U.S. distribution rights of "Bulletproof Monk" are available, and there are even film producers in France who are willing to pay eight figures to purchase the distribution rights of "Bulletproof Monk" in France.
Needless to say, in the eyes of many people, this Chinese superstar will replicate his good fortune in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and continue to exert his martial arts energy.
However, in Yi Feiyang's view, it is not a good sign for Zhou Runfa to do this. You must know that the "Bulletproof Monk" in his previous life failed both in terms of reputation and box office, which also made Zhou Runfa, who had only had a promising career in Hollywood, weaken again, and even became a Hollywood star.
supporting role.
"Maybe I should remind him!" As a proud figure in the Chinese entertainment industry, Yi Feiyang couldn't help but think this way.
Just do what you say. Yi Feiyang first made serious modifications to his original script. If you remember correctly, there were actually many Chinese elements in the previous "Iron Man". Because at that time, China had become the largest exporter of Hollywood movies.
market. In order to please the Chinese audience, the movie "Iron Man" has several very good Chinese characters. Of course, most of these characters are just soy sauce, and the roles are not very important.
After careful research and consideration, Yi Feiyang finally chose the role of Dr. Wu in "Iron Man 3" and perfectly inserted him into this new version of "Iron Man". Of course, the role of the character is not very important, but it is different.
Rather than being a soy sauce character who could be present or not in the previous life and it didn't matter if he deleted it, he is a key figure that affects the development of the plot. If deleted, the drama will be disconnected. Such modifications of course carry great risks.
However, for Yi Feiyang, making such an attempt in advance may not be a bold marketing strategy. If you remember correctly, there are hundreds of millions of blockbusters in the Chinese market today.
After revising the script, Yi Feiyang, as director and company boss, directly proposed to the company in writing that "Chinese actor Zhou Runfa needs to guest star as a Chinese character in "Iron Man"" in order to "further open up the booming industry."
China Film Market”.
This proposal was quickly approved by the company. Besides, Yi Feiyang is the director of "Iron Man" and the big boss. Now he wants to find someone to guest star in his movie. Who can object?
In addition, everyone also knows that during this period, the Chinese actor Zhou Runfa was very popular in Hollywood. The box office of the martial arts film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" he starred in has exceeded 100 million. It can be regarded as making a lot of money for Fantasy Entertainment, allowing him to
Making guest appearances is also a good publicity strategy.
In short, it has become a certainty that Chow Run-fat will guest star in "Iron Man", and this news immediately attracted the attention of many Hollywood and even major media in Asia.
Because in the eyes of many media, Yi Feiyang is purely "his own family helping his own family" and he is taking an adventure. There is nothing he can do about it, Chinese people just like to act emotionally!
As for whether it is the icing on the cake or a rat that spoils the soup in the end, we don’t know.
For Hollywood filmmakers, many people believe that Yi Feiyang's move is an olive branch extended by actors who are also Chinese and proves the characteristics of Orientals to help each other. Some people also say that as the president of Fantasy Entertainment, Yi Feiyang seems to have already planned it.
In order to prepare for the Chinese-language film industry in the future, after all, it is too difficult for Hollywood to compete for hegemony, and for the Chinese-language film industry, he is the unique king, and settling for second best may be the best choice.
For Fantasy Entertainment's old rival Columbia, Yi Feiyang is doing this to "accumulate popularity for his plays like a clown." He also said, "Our "Spider-Man" will never engage in such low-level guest appearances.
What we are shooting is a blockbuster, not a child’s game!” (To be continued...)
