401: Producer Li Donglai (seventh more)
(This chapter has a lot of information. I counted yesterday in the early morning, and I finally made an appointment!)
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"hi, guy, what are you looking at?" Robert Downey Jr. walked over with a bottle of Coke.
Li Donglai raised his head, knocked on the computer in his hand with a little depressed expression, and said, "It's still the script, "Iron Man 2"..."
"no, no, don't mention Iron Man to me now, I'm Peter now." Robert Downey Jr. shook his head and was about to walk away.
Li Donglai laughed, Peter was the role he played in "The Expiration Degree". After the two of them had a very disharmonious running-in at first, even if they were familiar with each other, they had to maintain this feeling of "very contradictory but had to be together". It seemed to be getting better and better, and the entire "The Expiration Degree" required this atmosphere. A great running-in effect, right?
In fact, the story of "The Expiration Deadline" is not complicated. It only revolves around the joys, sorrows and sorrows of two men from beginning to end. Donny plays a man who is about to be a father, and his wife is about to give birth. He drives home to prepare for the birth of his child but unfortunately causes trouble. On the way home, he meets an unreliable partner (played by Zach), which causes unimaginable trouble.
The character of Donnie is a successful man, a well-behaved and good man, but he is always troubled by Zach. This reminds people of the very embarrassing and second-hand Donnie in "The Little Thief Beauty Detective" he worked with Monahan before!
And Zach is always so crazy, you can't even describe his performance using improvisation, because no matter whether the scene needs to be needed or not, he will always do what he wants to do!
The two have completely different personalities and also well balanced Zach's comic-style exaggerated performance. They are really a good pair of partners.
"What's the problem?" Donny, who had just walked halfway, turned back and couldn't help but continue to ask the topic just now. Li Donglai laughed again, grabbed a chair and handed it to Donny, letting him sit down. He pointed to the notebook and said, "How to say it, the dialogue is fine. The general plot is fine, but some of the beginning is light and the end is heavy."
Donnie frowned. He had read the script. If he wanted to film it, he felt it was fine. But the guy in front of him was very good at making scripts, otherwise he would not have sold 1.6 billion yuan worldwide. "Can you explain it clearly?"
Seeing that he was interested, Li Donglai carefully read out the paragraph: "The previous conflict was not set thoroughly enough, and the villain's background was a bit abrupt. So the villain was always accumulating strength in the early stage. And this plot of locking in a cell always made me feel that I imitated the scenes of Richs in "Batman: The Dark Knight". I don't plan to do so. If I continue to shoot like this, the climax part will only be concentrated in the last twenty minutes of the film. The head is light and the tail is heavy, which is not in line with my expectations."
Donnie thought about it seriously and found that it was really like this. He turned his head and looked at this guy and thought to himself: It's true that he has a skill. No wonder he can make my "Solmes" die so unknown. He spent a long time filming last year, and this year's schedule selection was wrong. He was completely frustrated by two crazy 3D movies, which made him feel very embarrassed. Now after listening to Li Donglai's unique insights, he really feels that he is famous. It's not because of luck that he can achieve such achievements.
He stood up and patted Li Donglai on the shoulder. He pointed to Li Donglai coolly and said, "If you leave it to you, if you don't, just push it down and start over. I believe you can get it done, man." Then he turned around and walked away unkindly.
Li Donglai was speechless for a while. This guy was here to spend the time.
The following shot is Donnie's scene, with some scenes of road overturning, and the set needs to be set for a while. The scene was busy, and the photography guides were laid on the ground farther away, and the photographer controlled the camera. It was Galen. After "Inception", he had a good cooperative relationship. In addition to the photography team, there were also lighting engineers, sound recorders and others gathered together to listen to Todd's arrangements.
These are also acquaintances, both of them, "Hangover" and "Inception".
After a while, Todd explained clearly, walked over and asked Li Donglai, "Li, do you need to do something?" Li Donglai shook his head and said, "no, no, that's your life Todd, you have to believe in yourself. I am learning how to be a good producer recently, and many people have told me some experience. As a producer, my task is to cooperate with you, and you don't need to let me point fingers."
Todd smiled and said, "I don't think so. Although I am older than you, you are ahead of me in the profession of directorship. If I have any opinions, I will listen humbly."
"I can." Li Donglai smiled and saw Donnie who was putting on makeup over there, saying, "How do you think Donnie should control?"
"Donny? He is a genius." Todd Phillips said: "I don't need to control him. He can play freely. It seems that everything I do at will is what I want, and the performance is wonderful. If the director wants to control the actors, he can only control the picture, but not the movie. Movies are a sorting of pictures. So what the director wants to control is a sorting method, not the picture."
Li Donglai fulfilled his responsibilities as a producer and asked: "A lot of lines and scenes in your script are not written?"
Todd apologized a little, "sorry, although the script has been slowed down for a long time, I don't want to belittle the script writer. I think controlling the picture is the most important thing. I gave Donny a relaxed working atmosphere, so naturally I have to give Zach the same atmosphere. Zach is an "adapter adapter". He will add some lines and scenes at any time, and he is tuned by you. He is well taught, I mean in "Hangover".
"So I let him play it by himself, and I feel relieved. Only in this way can the two of them have many sparks of shots to be drawn. Many lines and scenes are not written in the script. It can be said that a large proportion of this movie is improvised on the spot."
Li Donglai pinched his chin, thinking about something.
Todd continued: "Zach himself is a very good, very thoughtful comedian. His mind is full of crazy, crazy ideas. I have to say that his ideas always become the highlights and laughs of the film, such as the dog, which provides the biggest jokes and most of the atmosphere in the film. I know this is a bit funny. But it does do it."
Li Donglai nodded in agreement and smiled and said, "Yes, he has his own set." He reached out and patted Todd on the shoulder and said, "I believe you can do it well, man!" Then he stretched and walked up the RV.
Todd: "…"
Li Donglai, who returned to the RV, did not sleep well. In fact, Todd's words just now reminded him that scripts are dead and people live. If he sticks to scripts, there will inevitably be some restrictions. In the next movie "Iron Man 2", we must also work with Donnie. He is the soul of the film and his style will not change. Then the change must be Li Donglai himself.
Thinking of this, he quickly typing on the keyboard, and a series of concise and intense plots were written.
This will be a brand new Iron Man, which will be very different from what one expected to see.
After staying in the crew for a few days, Li Donglai returned to Los Angeles.
Because of that little mistaken bet, Justin Bieber's concert was approaching and was already urging him. When Li Donglai mentioned this, he was annoyed. He really only knew those few operas. He also learned some music theory and creations in other songs, but asking him to sing was destroying other people's songs.
"Man, you finally come to eon, I'll take you to visit my recording studio." Justin, little, jumped up and down when he saw Li Donglai appear. Li Donglai rolled his eyes and said as he went in, "You'll mess it up. I remember that Madison Garden seems to be the most important part of your cycle concert, right?"
"yes. Many big names have sang somewhere, and I'm looking forward to the response that will come." Bieber said: "What song do you choose to sing? I have already chosen a program for you, my 'baby' rab! But you still have to choose a song to sing." This kid is getting more and more demanding, Li Donglai is depressed, "Then you can sing opera, and you can make sure the whole audience will be cold."
Bieber watched the video of him singing an opera and smiled and said, "It's not impossible, it's just that there's no new meaning. If you don't mind, can we choose songs now and practice it?"
"I mind very much." Li Donglai rolled his eyes.
Seeing Li Donglai's expression of being a ghost and obviously not admitting his claim, Bieber clapped his hands and jumped straight: "Hey eon, you can't be fooling around, I've been looking forward to it for a long time."
Li Donglai was speechless. Why did this kid decide him? Could it be that his charm is so high? Brother Donglai pinched his chin and admired himself for a while. Or was this kid a gay? His eyes suddenly became a little wrong, and he looked at him strangely.
"Haha, what are your eyes? I'm not gay." Bieber was amused and smiled: "Can you be serious? My news has been released."
Li Donglai was speechless for a while. This was a decree and then a report. He saw that the boy really regarded him as a friend, so he was not easy to refuse and said, "Do you want to be my teacher?"
Bieber glared at him, Li Donglai was a little resistant, and he was younger than Li Donglai. If he wanted to be a teacher, he might not be obedient, so he said helplessly: "Okay, I'll find you a teacher."
Li Donglai made an opinion and said, "I have to need a female teacher."
Bieber looked like a little adult, looked out his cell phone to check the phone number, and suddenly said, "Yes! You are blessed, she is better than me." Li Donglai turned his head to look at the phone, and a slightly fat woman's avatar appeared on it.
Li Donglai looked familiar. After thinking for a long time, he remembered who it was. He was surprised and said, "Are you sure you know her? Well, man, if you really ask her to be a teacher for me, I have to be a little serious. At least you are loyal, and I can't be too ruthless."
He stretched and lay half on the sofa, almost making the enchantress faint, "Did I take the wrong medicine? Why do you want to invite you? It's so difficult to serve."
"Hehe...you can drive me away!"
"That way I'll tell you about your evil deeds on Twitter."
"You can't threaten me, just do it, I won't enter the music industry anyway."
"...god! I really suffered from it myself." Bieber slapped his forehead and fell on the sofa.
His agent couldn't help but feel funny when he met his opponent this time. If anyone has a high popularity this year, it is undoubtedly Li Dong who came. When these two people met, they were considered to be a match for the opponent!
He recorded all the scenes of the first meeting and discussion of the two on camera. He prepared to put them online at the appropriate time, which would probably trigger a craze. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!