When Makino Technology invited all media and announced the press conference time to the whole society, people across the country were waiting for the announcement of the cast of "Flying Tigers".
It would be even better if Li Mu could come out and give a positive reply to the CSC club and the comments made by netizens in recent days.
Li Mu has been accompanying more than 50 Chinese and American Flying Tigers in Spring City these days. In the days after the old people got together, the staff of the Veterans Immortal Foundation arranged very complete and thoughtful activities for them, including A daily group meal, free communication salon, and revisiting old places.
Not only these American Flying Tigers have not been back for many years, but also many Chinese Flying Tigers. After the victory of the war, few of them have been to Spring City, so this time so many old comrades set foot on the land of Spring City again. , is of great significance to them. Almost all the old people lamented that when the Anti-Japanese War was just victorious, they always said that they must return to Spring City often in the future, but almost the vast majority of them violated their original determination. If it were not for the organization of the Veterans Immortal Charity Foundation, I am afraid they would leave this world with this unfulfilled promise. Now, they finally fulfilled their promise and returned to Spring City sixty years later, but this It should be the last time in their lives that they return to this land.
The sighs of the old people made Li Mu very sad. Before he graduated from college in his previous life, his classmates drank together, hugged each other and cried. They swore that they would go back to his alma mater every year to see and get together, but he left. When you go to school and enter the society, you immediately enter a strange circle: no one restrains you, but you just can't help it. Everyone is busy with work, life, and love, and sometimes they don't even go home all year round. A few times, I still have the time and energy to go to my alma mater, which is hundreds of kilometers away, to have a look. Moreover, my alma mater has long since changed, and I can’t find any familiar people when I go back.
This is true for Li Mu who is relatively close to Jinling, and it is even more so for those students from other provinces. Almost no one makes a special trip to Jinling just to return to his alma mater. After Li Mu comes out of school, until Li Mu is reborn, We couldn't get together either.
Even I, who was born in a peaceful era and lived in a modern society, could not fulfill my promise due to various reasons, not to mention these old people who left here 45 years ago and were scattered across the country or even across the ocean? What they have experienced are countless overall turbulences and world changes. Before the 1990s, if an American wanted to come to China, the various documents and requirements were complicated enough to drive people crazy. A simple individual in such a world environment Wow, it's really too small.
Life is originally an involuntary practice.
Li Mu has been reborn and has no chance to fulfill the promise he made back then with his college classmates in his previous life. However, what makes him extremely gratified is that he helped these more than 50 veterans fulfill the promise that had been buried in their hearts for 60 years.
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On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, all the Chinese and American Flying Tigers and their relatives spent a very meaningful Lantern Festival here in the hotel's largest banquet hall.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, all the important Chinese actors of "Flying Tigers" arrived in Spring City one after another. Among them were Du Wei, Liu Ye, Huang Bo, and Tang Wei, the four contracted artists of Makino Image, as well as teachers Li Xuejian and Chen Daoming. , Teacher Chen Baoguo, these are the three actors with the best acting skills in China in Li Mu's eyes. In addition to these seven, there is also Su Yingxue's cousin Wang Xinran.
The roles of these actors have already been arranged by Li Mu. Du Wei is the leading female lead on par with Anne Hathaway, Liu Ye is the leading male lead on par with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Huang Bo plays an ordinary villager. His character has a crush on Du Wei's character, and the two have a lot of rivalry scenes. When Leonardo's character crashes, Huang Bo is mobilized by the militia to rescue him, and then hides Leonardo in Du Wei. In Wei's family, Huang Bo also had a small amount of interaction with Leonardo. From the beginning of his character, he could see that the village girl played by Du Wei had some feelings for the American pilot played by Leonardo, so that Huang Bo felt He was extremely struggling and had no good feelings toward Leonardo, but every time the Japanese searched him, he would still help the Du Wei family hide Leonardo at all costs until Leonardo was safely sent away. He and Du Wei's relatives died in the Japanese raids.
The role played by Tang Wei is a female nurse in the Flying Tigers. There is nothing tragic about this character. She is a progressive young man from a big city. In order to contribute to the anti-Japanese war, she joins the Flying Tigers unconditionally. The Air Force Hospital of the Tigers worked together with Anne Hathaway. After Anne Hathaway fell in love with the pilot role played by Liu Ye, the little nurse played by Tang Wei played a role in the relationship between the two, but in the end she With Liu Ye's sacrifice, her character has basically completed her mission in the play.
Teacher Chen Daoming plays the role of Principal Jiang in this movie, which is also the chairman of the committee. His role is not many, but it is very important;
Teacher Li Xuejian plays the highest commander of the Chinese side of the Flying Tigers in this movie, opposite Chennault played by Tom Hanks. He has relatively more roles, and in Li Mu's eyes, he can compete with Tom Hanks. He is the only one who plays the opposite role to kes;
Teacher Chen Baoguo is relatively young, so in this movie, he plays a Chinese officer in the Flying Tigers, who is Liu Ye’s superior and teacher Li Xuejian’s subordinate. His role is not many, but the focus is on the rival roles played by many Chinese and American actors. They play an overall role of inheritance and cooperation, because the combination of Liu Ye, Leonardo, Du Wei, Anne Hathaway, Li Xuejian, and Tom Hanks account for almost the vast majority of the entire film. play, so in this process, teacher Chen Baoguo is needed to be an overall catalyst;
As for Wang Xinran, Li Mu chose her this time out of care. Fortunately, Wang Xinran's acting skills are relatively good overall, so Li Mu arranged for her to play a progressive female student who came from Shanghai to Spring City to promote the Anti-Japanese War. She had a small role in the play. , the requirements are not high, mainly to heighten the atmosphere of the national war of resistance;
There is also a relatively important role, that is, Li Mu agreed to the conditions of a certain political and legal leader in Shanghai and arranged a role as a Flying Tiger for his nephew because of Wei Lan's father Wei Jun, but Li Mu did not invite him Come to the press conference.
The press conference is scheduled to be held at seven o'clock in the evening on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month. The reason why Li Mu notified the main actors to come so early is for two reasons. One is to let them come over and get familiar with these old Flying Tigers members. Since he is playing them story, so to pay tribute to them in advance is a must-have respect; Furthermore, this is the first time that Spielberg has left more than half of the main actors to others to make full decisions, so Li Mu also has to let He met the actors in advance and got to know each other well. Li Mu believed that there would be no problem with the acting skills of these actors. However, Spielberg is the director. He needs to know enough about these actors before he can tailor the lens language for them. .
On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Li Mu did not go to the airport to pick up the plane. He left all the pick-up work to the staff. He and Spielberg were waiting at the hotel. In this way, as long as one of the actors came, they could follow him first. Meet Spielberg for a chat.
At 10:30 in the morning, Teacher Li Xuejian was the first to arrive at Spring City Airport. Knowing that he would meet with Spielberg today, Teacher Li Xuejian deliberately booked the earliest flight and flew directly from Yanjing with an assistant.
After Ning Hao received Teacher Li Xuejian at the airport, he handed Teacher Li Xuejian to the staff of Makino Imaging, who immediately drove a commercial vehicle to pick up Teacher Li Xuejian from the airport to the hotel.
When Teacher Li Xuejian arrived, Li Mu was working with Spielberg to communicate with the documentary's post-production team about the editing of the promotional video.
In order to ensure that the best promotional short film can be produced at this conference, the documentary team temporarily set up a post-editing studio in a luxurious business suite of the hotel. During the day, the staff edited various previous materials. After combing and rough cutting, in the evening, the material captured by the front-end photographer that day was brought in for screening and editing. Li Mu and Spielberg watched together to make the final edit.
Because he pursued absolute documentary and shocking people, the final promotional video was interspersed with many real historical video materials. At the same time, Li Mu also insisted on choosing a piece of his favorite pure music to use for this This background music was originally the soundtrack of a documentary. With the help of Spielberg, Li Mu obtained the authorization letter faxed from the copyright company in a very short period of time, and the video was used The real image materials were also communicated with the descendants of the photographers, and all of them were authorized by the copyright owner without exception.
Fortunately, everyone, including Spielberg, was full of praise for the pure music selected by Li Mu, and no one had any disagreements on this point.
A staff member knocked on the door, came in and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, teacher Li Xuejian is here."
"Oops!" Li Mu said in surprise: "Teacher Li is here so early? Why don't we invite Teacher Li to come here first, and let him see some of the materials we have shot these days in advance."
The staff member nodded and said, "Then I'll ask Teacher Li to come over."
After the staff left, Li Mu said to Spielberg: "Steven, the actor who plays opposite Tom Hanks is here. His name is Li Xuejian. He is a Chinese actor that I like very much. He has played many roles. Classic roles with various styles. Mr. Li’s performance in historical dramas and modern dramas is very good. He is also talented in both virtue and art. I believe that after you meet him, you will be full of praise for him!"
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