After editing the script of "Eight Hundred Heroes" several times, Li Yi submitted it to Zhao Guangming.
There was no big surprise. Li Yi was asked to delete a few plots and directly marked the areas that needed to be deleted.
This is definitely a huge preferential treatment for domestic film review.
If other directors find out about it, they will definitely feel all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred.
Again, as Zhao Guangming said, if another director had made this movie, it might not have been so smooth, but Li Yi was different.
After the casting news was officially announced, male and female stars and actors in the entertainment circles on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places immediately started to move.
Of course, the first thing they have to do is to collect various information on the defense battle of Sihang Warehouse.
After all, this is Li Yi's movie.
Maybe they don't pay too much attention to it, but as long as they can star in Li Yi's movies, not to mention skyrocketing, at least for them, it will definitely be of great help to their careers.
What are resources? This is a resource! And it is a top-level resource.
What's rare is that Li Yi's movies have never been threatened or influenced by capital, so for those actors who don't have a particularly strong background behind them, this is naturally the best news.
Many actors even spontaneously began to recharge their batteries in private in order to strengthen their competitiveness.
Time passes day by day, and the history of the "Battle of Sihang Warehouse" that was originally not familiar to the public has come into public view.
Netizens started discussing it themselves.
It is not unreasonable that this period of history can be frequently adapted into movies, etc.
Because looking at the entire history of China’s Anti-Japanese War, the defense of the Sixing Warehouse was a very special battle.
Not only that, but the subsequent ending of Eight Hundred Heroes also made many people sigh.
Hero, what is a hero?
Soldiers who die on the battlefield for their country are of course heroes.
What about these people?
Is it a hero?
This is recognized! But their endings and experiences have made many people hesitate.
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Li Yi doesn't like to use newcomers because he feels that he is not the kind of director who is good at teaching. Of course, the newcomers here refer to amateur actors.
Students in some colleges with majors and star reserves are not included in this category.
However, this casting selection is not completely open to the public.
It must at least meet some of the conditions set by Li Yi, based on the characteristics of each character.
This time the audition was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Zhonghai City.
Early in the morning, many media reporters who came after hearing the news were waiting outside.
Although it is just a movie audition, everyone knows that the lineup of this audition is definitely not low.
Including popular niche students, powerful actors, and even movie kings and queens.
However, unlike usual travels, the actors who came to audition this time seemed relatively low-key. After all, this is an audition, not a commercial performance.
The chief director of "Eight Hundred" is naturally Li Yi himself.
As for the assistant director, Li Yi still chose to find someone from China Film Group to cooperate this time...
A historical consultant was also hired.
Auditions are a bit different from other movies. In other movies, most of the time there may be several important roles such as audition actors, representatives of investors, producers, etc.
But for Li Yi's movies, there are quite a few people in charge of auditions and casting, but except for Li Yi, no one else can affect the results of the auditions!
By the way, Chen Wen was also in charge of the audition this time, but this time, he was not as an actor, but as an assistant director.
Acting leads to directing. For Chen Wen, as an actor, he has almost achieved the ultimate.
If Li Yi is the first Chinese film director, then Chen Wen's achievements as an actor can be regarded as the leader among domestic entertainment film and television actors.
If you want awards, you have awards; if you want box office, you have box office.
And many actors actually have dreams of directing.
In fact, this is not the first time that Chen Wen has become a director. He also worked as a director in his early years, but it is a pity that the movies he made were immediately dumped on the street.
This time, when Chen Wen found Li Yi, Li Yi initially thought that Chen Wen wanted to star in his movie.
In fact, there are many roles in "Eight Hundred", and Chen Wen is completely qualified for them, but what I didn't expect was that he wanted to be Li Yi's assistant director, or to learn from them.
Li Yi naturally wanted this.
Soon, the audition began.
The first person to come to the audition was also an old acquaintance of Li Yi, a powerful actor nowadays, Li Tongzhou.
The role he wants to audition for is that of Captain Xie.
This character is not the absolute protagonist in the original version of "Eight Hundred" because it is an ensemble drama. In fact, although his character has a lot of roles, he cannot be regarded as the real protagonist.
But in Li Yi's version, Captain Xie has a lot more scenes, especially after the battle to defend Sihang Warehouse, he is the absolute protagonist after crossing the bridge.
This role is of course very important.
"Hello, Director Li, Director Chen, and Director Zhuo!"
"Teacher Li, long time no see." Li Yi greeted with a smile.
Of course it is impossible for these famous actors to audition like those new actors.
And it’s not like everyone doesn’t know each other, on the contrary, they are very familiar with each other.
So after some polite remarks, we went straight to the topic.
"Have you learned about the history of the Sihang Warehouse Defense War recently?" Li Yi asked with a smile.
Li Tongzhou nodded.
This is for sure, especially when he wanted to win a corner role, he naturally put in a lot of effort.
Li Yi asked again: "You want to play the role of Captain Xie, so what kind of person do you think he is? Or, what do you think of this character?"
Don't think that Li Yi's question seems to be a panacea. In fact, it is really not.
This question is very pertinent.
Because, from a historical perspective, Commander Xie is a hero recognized by both sides.
But from the perspective of the movie and the character itself, this character is not a perfect hero.
Therefore, personal opinions are still very important.
Li Tongzhou was obviously prepared for this.
"I personally think that he is a truly pure soldier!"
"Oh? How do you say that?" Li Yi was quite surprised by Li Tongzhou's statement.
"I just look at the history from the beginning of the Sihang Warehouse Defense War to the time after entering the concession. First of all, a soldier has a bounden duty to obey orders. It can be said that he carried out the orders without any discount, even if he was
There were also hesitations, hesitations, and confusions about some orders, but he still chose to execute them!
To a certain extent, Yabai's final outcome is closely related to him.
It was he who decided to carry out the order and lead the troops to evacuate Sihang Warehouse. It was also he who carried out the order of "patience" and insisted on sticking to the lone army camp, refusing to find another way out for the lone army. Therefore, in fact, many people in the lone army hated him.
of!
Because of his persistence, he has indeed fulfilled his status as a soldier, but for other soldiers, he is one of the people who led to their final tragic ending! He is also the direct leader!
So, in a big way, he is indeed a hero, but in the eyes of those soldiers, I don’t think so!”
