Seeing that Leonardo's own explanation was still a little confused, Yi Feiyang explained to him more directly: "Leon, you have always played a fighter, whether it is a hero who sacrificed for love in "Titanic", or a man who avenged his family in "Gangs of New York", so what you have to do now is to let go of all the shadows of the characters you have created before, completely say goodbye to the past, and perform a more real Jack." ”

Yi Feiyang looked at Leonardo's eyes, Leonardo was still at a loss, Yi Feiyang sighed in his heart, knowing that the other party was in a bottleneck and couldn't pull it out. It can be said that this popular student with the most potential in Hollywood, although he works hard, his realm in performance is still a little worse, no wonder he has entered the Oscar throne several times in the future, but he has lost to different opponents, which makes people sigh.

Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang could only use his index finger and thumb to pinch together and make a "very small" gesture to lure Leonardo: "Leon, I know that you don't understand now, as long as I let you do a little training, I can make you understand, are you willing to accept this training?" ”

"Of course...... Willing. Leonardo obviously hesitated, he still didn't quite believe Yi Feiyang's words in his heart.

"Okay, then I'll explain it to you in advance, this training is a bit weird, if you really want to, we can sign a waiver agreement first, I'm afraid you'll make trouble for me then." Although Yi Feiyang's words seemed like a joke, his expression was indeed very serious.

"Hehe, what kind of training, Leon, you promise him, and let me open my eyes!" Luc Besson smiled and put his arm around Leonardo's shoulder. "It's a big deal, I'll find you to be the leading actor in the future. Then you'll have both sides of France and Hollywood! ”

"Of course. As long as it's for the sake of the movie. After thinking about it for a few seconds, Leonardo nodded resolutely, although he didn't know what Yi Feiyang was going to do, but after so many things, he had no reason to question Yi Feiyang's decision, Yi Feiyang as a director and producer, he was the real king in the crew.

Yi Feiyang had people draft a very simple waiver agreement.

Suddenly, everything is in order.

"Easy. What exactly is the training, you can start now. Leonardo said a little impatiently, he wanted to see what kind of medicine was sold in Yi Feiyang's gourd.

"It's not that hard to train." Yi Feiyang looked at him and said calmly: "I will stuff you in a small room for three hours, surrounded by mirrors, you stay alone with the script, yes, no matter where you look, you can see yourself, or see the 'Jack' in the play!" ”

"Of course, this approach is evil. You may feel depressed and depressed. You can't even bear it mentally, so when you encounter this kind of problem, you can shout loudly, and I will release you from the gang. It's just that I'm afraid that this training will be in vain. ”

In fact, to put it bluntly, although a waiver agreement has been signed, everything still depends on the actor's consciousness, and the director is not illegally imprisoning any actor.

"Understood, as long as I don't miss the opportunity to shoot, I will complete this training." Leonardo nodded resolutely, although it sounds a little perverted, but in order to play a good role, he is definitely willing to try, as an actor of his level, in order to be able to improve his acting skills and increase the weight of the Oscar in the future, he is willing to give everything.

"Okay, let's get started now." Yi Feiyang arranged it, cleaned up the prop room, and then moved a few large mirrors, and after simply preparing everything, he stuffed Leonardo in.

"Keep all your belongings out there and don't leave anything behind." Yi Feiyang instructed, Leonardo also shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and was not afraid of this kind of "prisoner" treatment, he is not an ordinary actor, but a performance maniac who can really give everything for the role, as long as it is for the good of the role, he can do all crazy things. What's more, in Leonardo's opinion, three hours is only there, and it will pass quickly.

The room is very narrow, and it was originally used for props, but now there are a lot of floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Leonardo looked around, and in each mirror there was a self, either stunned, confused, or in a daze.

He didn't understand whether Yi Feiyang's method had worked, but he knew one thing very well, he was trying to do something very interesting.

Leonardo looked in the mirror, and if he was standing on himself, then in the mirror was his doppelganger.

"Perhaps, this is the beginning!" He picked up the script, flipped through the content about his character, and then made a variety of different expressions and movements in the mirror.

Time passed slowly.

Leonardo suddenly felt that everything around him had become very dark and depressing, and he seemed to be smiling at himself in the mirror.

He knew that he had encountered a challenge, to be precise, he had encountered a bottleneck in his acting skills. He didn't expect it to come so soon, he tried to take a deep breath, trying to calm his emotions down, telling himself that he was just figuring out, yes, figuring out.

As time passed, his forehead gradually began to sweat, and he gritted his teeth, as if he was enduring some kind of suffering, and in the mirror, he had already been covered with green muscles and a hideous face.

……

Three hours.

When Yi Feiyang opened the door, he saw Leonardo kneeling on the ground, sweating profusely and panting.

He looked at Yi Feiyang, and Yi Feiyang also looked at him.

Yi Feiyang asked him, "Is it done?" ”

Leonardo nodded.

Yi Feiyang smiled, "Okay, do you need to take a break now?" ”

Leonardo shook his head and said, "While that feeling is still gone, let's start quickly!" ”

The next shooting was done in one go, and the characters created by Leonardo had almost no superfluous places, in Yi Feiyang's opinion, he was simply a plump and flesh-and-blood real person!

Leonardo's sudden performance surprised Luc Besson, and in his opinion, Leonardo, who was acting just now, was completely different from him before.

Could it be that China Yi really trained him to be a master of acting? Just keep him in a small dark room and put on a show in front of the mirror?!

Incredible, incredible!

If Luc Besson was still in the mood to play before, he came to watch Yi Feiyang filming. Well now. For Yi Feiyang, he already admires the five-body throw!

It's no wonder that China can dominate Hollywood. With such skills, what else can't he do in the future?!

……

During the time when Yi Feiyang was working overtime to film in France, Spielberg in the United States was also speeding up the filming of his major drama "Happiness Terminal".

For this play, Spielberg poured countless efforts, not only inviting his queen general Tom Hanks to star, but also inviting an Oscar-winning actress to help.

Security measures prevented the crew from filming at a real airport, so Spielberg had his production designer in charge of designing and building a functional, full-scale airport terminal. Almost all of the filming will be done here.

Spielberg's vision airport was built in a large hangar in California, and it took 200 craftsmen several weeks to complete. The three-story building is an all-steel structure with a total of 60,000 square feet of granite flooring. There are 4 motorized roller ladders in the airport, which were specially installed in the studio for the filming of films.

Because the airport must be functional, every drawing completed by the art department must be carefully reviewed by professional engineers, and even every simple solder joint cannot be ignored. Of all the design work, the largest was the huge backdrop outside the airport's glass windows, which was enclosed on three sides to create a night view of the airport, with a total of 2,000 miniature light fixtures installed in the background. Use the blue screen technique as the aircraft approaches the terminal.

In order to create the effect of sunlight shining through the glass to the terminal, the crew erected 100,000 watts of lighting equipment on the steel beams above the set. They will shine on the reflective material that envelops the entire set, and the reflected light will permeate the scene like sunlight. Other than that. Spielberg's cinematographer Kaminsky also uses colors in the light to convey the changing circumstances of the male protagonist, Victor. As the main shooting came to a close, the crew moved to filming at Montreal's Mirabell Airport, and United Airlines provided a Boeing 747 for a key scene in the film.

It can be said that Spielberg's play uses all his interpersonal relationships and consumes countless manpower and material resources, although it does not have too many special effects design in his previous plays, but there are more tangible things, making this play more real and vivid.

On this day, just after filming, Spielberg heard someone say that someone was waiting for him outside.

After briefly telling the people around him, Spielberg walked out, only to see James Cameron, the famous director of his own name, standing there waiting for him.

"Hey, old man, why don't you go in and wait here?" Spielberg asked.

"I'm afraid of disturbing your filming! Well, why don't we have a drink nearby? ”

"Of course, it's been a long time since we've been chatting together!"

Suddenly, inside a nearby bar.

Spielberg and Cameron each held two large glasses of draught beer, laughing and talking.

"To be honest, Lao Ka, are you worried about my play?" Spielberg asked.

"Yes, I'm worried that you'll lose to that China Yi."

"For what?"

"Because we are all Hollywood, but we lost to a Chinese, don't you think it's very faceless?"

"Oh no, no." Spielberg shook his head, "Your idea is too narrow, in my opinion, Hollywood is an open place, it doesn't belong to anyone, and as directors we have to help each other, don't we?" ”

"Hehe, you still haven't changed, old man, you are so kind, you don't understand the unpredictability of people, especially those outsiders!" Cameron sneered.

"Outsider ambitions? Do you mean China is easy? Oh, I'll admit, I've had a lot of contact with him, and he's an ambitious lad, but don't forget, man, you and I came from that time when we were ambitious! I think that at the beginning, you and I were nothing, we didn't even have a bite to eat, we did special effects for people in the crew, and we did chores for people, but it was that kind of ambition to constantly pursue progress that made us have today's achievements, didn't it? ”

"It's different! Our ambition is nothing more than to get ahead and make a good movie! But what about China Yi, do you know what his ambitions are? He wants to swallow up all of Hollywood! Cameron said with a grim expression.

"Swallowing up Hollywood?" Spielberg was stunned for a moment, "Oh God, this can't be!" ”

"Nothing is impossible! Haven't you noticed the speed of development of his fantasy entertainment? Even your dream factory didn't have such an amazing speed back then. It's only been six years. Buddy. Dream Entertainment has become an industry giant, if you give him another six years, or even ten or eight years, what do you think will become at that time? Cameron's tone was solemn.

"At that time, Hollywood may lose the seven major companies, DreamWorks, and you and I will lose our own careers. All of them have become his part-time workers! ”

"This ...... I don't know how to explain it...... But Yi can't be that kind of person! Spielberg took a heavy sip of his wine.

"Nothing impossible, man! You know, there are no absolute things in this world, and no one can say for sure in the future, right? And what you and I have to do is to prevent the most terrible things from happening and do our best! ”

"Oh, old card, you're too pessimistic! The world will not become so bad, we must have hope for the future! ”

"Hope? I think you have to fight for hope! ”

"Okay, let's not talk about it, let's have a drink. Skip this annoying topic! ”

"All right, old man. Cheers to us! Come, I wish you a victorious start and a big defeat to China! Cameron clinks glasses with Spielberg.

Although he didn't listen to Cameron's words much, these words also left a shadow in Spielberg's heart.

……

Hollywood's Christmas schedule is about to begin, starting from October, a series of Hollywood blockbusters have been released one after another, if the schedule is divided into upper, middle and lower, then now is the beginning, but even so, the competition is still fierce.

The first thing that catches people's attention is the period drama "Pentium Age" directed by the great director Gary Ross. As soon as this drama was released, it received a North American premiere box office of 40.87 million. As an inspirational film with a strong literary nature, it can be said that it is very good to have such results.

The film is a typical inspirational film, and the historical background that takes place in the Great Depression makes it an epic and a portrait of the soul of that era from a certain point of view. In addition to depicting the main characters, the film also touches on many ordinary people in the background of the times, and the black-and-white photos and narrations of the Great Depression period are always interspersed, which is the grand background of the times that the director tries to detach and express. Several powerful horse races and speeches in the film seem to be separated from the dispassionate historical statement, but in the jagged images, we can clearly feel the hope and spiritual fire that is faintly beating and unquenchable in the lowest years in American history. And the appearance of the interval between color and black and white adds to this feeling.

After the release of this play, due to the special background of the times and the influence of the original novel, it immediately received very good reviews from the audience.

"We watched as the little jockey and his beloved racehorse faded away from the screen, and the black-and-white background of the bleak early thirties of the last century may have become a thing of the past with the end of the film, but we know that just by gazing at the little flame that flutters in the depths of Seabiscuit's brown eyes, and as long as we think of the starry images of this film, it will reach the agitated life that everyone longs to dream back to."

"Again and again, when Seabiscuit stands behind the white picket fence at the starting point, the fence at the turning point of life also opens again and again to the frustrated people. You never know what awaits you at the next intersection of life, so you never stop running and never stopping. ”

"Why is it that a small horse with a flaw can win a race countless times? What makes it take on a near-self-harming approach that doesn't slow down in turns? When Sebiskot's sweat-soaked eyes turned slightly sideways to look at his opponents and the audience, I think everyone felt the fire burning in the depths of their souls. ”

"After watching this movie, touching your chest and mine, is there something beating eternally; Don't give up easily, you can reach the end of your dream and exciting life. ”

……

Due to the good word-of-mouth effect, the box office of this drama has continued to rise, making the distributor and the producer Universal Company have a close mouth, but for the senior management of Universal, they want not only a good box office, but also expectations for the Oscars in the future.

In addition to the eye-catching inspirational blockbuster "The Pentium Age", the historical blockbuster "Raging Sea" released by 21st Century Fox Films was followed by the early Christmas season.

This drama is starring Hollywood late-blooming superstar Russell Crowe, who has been making film appointments since he became famous for starring in "Gladiator", and he has also played various roles in various plays, giving full play to his acting skills. As for the director of this play, it is the great director Peter Weir, who directed the popular "Truman's World", but what makes him more talked about is that he has a discerning eye and has won the popularity of Harrison Ford and Mel Jebson.

Funded by Fox for $1.2, "The Furious Sea" reinvents the simple but gunpowder life of the British Navy. The film required hundreds of sailors, scholars, sculptors, casters, shipbuilders, actors, and technicians from four continents.

During the five-and-a-half-month filming, most of the time was spent at the filming base in Fox, near Mexico, and the crew used the 50-foot-high, 20 million-gallon pool that Cameron built at great expense during the filming of "Titanic."

The Miracle was modeled after a $1.5 million replica of the French Revolution-era battleship Rose, which was transported to Mexico via the Panama Canal for all-round filming.

Such a large-scale and well-crafted blockbuster received more than $80 million at the box office on the opening day upon its release, which finally made the investor 21st Century Fox feel a lot more at ease. But what made them even happier was the overwhelming number of reviews.

"It's a film that most viewers can relate to, from the smoke-filled battles to the frighteningly raging storm scenes. Peter wanted "The Fury of the Sea" to be the best film of its time – and he did. ”

"This is an awe-inspiring action movie, especially the grand war scenes, which directly killed our eyes!"

"Russell Crow gladiator returns!"

……

Fox's "Raging Sea" has really become a masterpiece of super blockbusters, and compared to Universal's "Pentium Age", this drama is more commercial. Therefore, it is better than the other party at the box office.

But it's all just beginning, and the real showdown is yet to come. At least there are other major companies that have not yet released Christmas blockbusters. These include Spielberg's "Happiness Terminal" and Yi Feiyang's "Lust and Caution"!

And these two dramas are also the two Christmas "horses" that are most favored by the outside world, the main reason is that the production cost of these two dramas is not worse than the above two blockbusters, and the director's name is even greater, so it is also expected by many fans to become the final winner of the Christmas file.

But in the end, who will win?

Everyone is looking forward to it. (To be continued......)