Chapter 359: Time Management Master (Subscribe to support!)
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The crew of "Rush Hour".
The set of shots that Linda was going to shoot was very difficult, requiring Xu Kai to quickly climb up to the second floor from the ground with his bare hands, then climb to the third-floor balcony and jump to another building.
After listening to Linda's idea, Brett Ratner shook his head, thinking that the action Linda requested was simply impossible to accomplish.
——In fact, it’s no wonder that Brett Ratner thinks so. The truth is, the surface of the building is too smooth to use as leverage. In addition, the lifting platform is very high, so it is impossible for ordinary people to do such a move.
Moreover, Brett Ratner is a director who pursues realism. He cannot accept the exaggerated shooting techniques used in Chinese film and television dramas.
However, Lin Da had great confidence in Xu Kai. He believed that such an action would not be a problem for Xu Kai at all, so he insisted on his own idea.
The two soon got into an argument.
Linda's English is not good and Brett Ratner doesn't speak Chinese, so when they quarrel, they have to bring two translators.
So, Linda and Brett Ratner had a fight, and it was a mess.
In fact, the discord between Linda and Brett Ratner has existed for a long time.
The reason lies in the co-directing.
Linda always believed that he was the chief director of "Rush Hour" and Brett Ratner was only assisting him in coordinating the American staff and actors, and Brett Ratner had to listen to him.
Brett Ratner is a famous Hollywood director with talent, fame, and box office appeal. So it is natural to think that he is the chief director of "Rush Hour" and Linda is just his assistant.
Brett Ratner also felt that the fact that his salary was 10 million dollars higher than Linda's was proof of this.
As for Linda, although his salary is 10 million dollars less than Brett Ratner, he is one of the investors and also the producer, so his status is definitely not lower than Brett Ratner.
In fact, Linda kept thinking that if they weren't making a movie in Hollywood, he would have fired that bastard Brett Ratner long ago.
Let's talk about Brett Ratner. He has the support of New Line Cinema, a local boss that Xu Kai and his group of Chinese people cannot avoid. Therefore, he is not afraid of Linda at all.
The key point is that Linda is a stubborn old man. When filming in China, he didn't even give the producer's face. And Brett Ratner is also a stone in the toilet, smelly and hard.
As a result, not long after the filming of "Rush Hour" began, Linda and Brett Ratner fell into an irreconcilable conflict.
The relevant parties were therefore forced to hold a meeting to discuss ways to resolve the problem.
Change player?
As one of the investors, Linda would definitely not be replaced. Besides, Linda was counting on "Rush Hour" to make him famous in Hollywood, so he would not be willing to be replaced. And Xu Kai could not sit idly by and watch his old friend Linda being replaced.
New Line Cinema particularly trusts Brett Ratner, and it is impossible for them to completely hand over the Hollywood movie "Rush Hour" to the Chinese director Linda. This means that if Linda and his team insist on replacing Brett Ratner, then "Rush Hour", a project that they have worked so hard to promote, may be ruined.
Since we can't change the person, we can only find someone who can reconcile the conflict between Linda and Brett Ratner.
So, Xu Kai was credited as the director of "Rush Hour" again, and co-directed "Rush Hour" with Linda and Brett Ratner.
There are many reasons why the three parties chose Xu Kailai to co-direct "Rush Hour" with Linda and Brett Ratner: First of all, of course, Xu Kailai's English is very good, so good that he has no problem communicating with anyone from the United States.
Secondly, not only is Xu Kai and Lin Da old friends for many years and Lin Da listens to Xu Kai very much, but after joining the group, Xu Kai also gets along very well with Brett Ratner. Brett Ratner even invited Xu Kai to watch a striptease.
Furthermore, in addition to being one of the leading actors in "Rush Hour", Xu Kai is also a very successful director. His title as the number one commercial director is also of some use in Hollywood - people who are not well-known or professional enough cannot convince the two old stubborn people, Linda and Brett Ratner.
Also, Xu Kai was very busy as he was shooting four movies at the same time and directing one of them himself. It was impossible for him to compete for power with Linda and Brett Ratner, two guys who liked to be autocratic, which made Linda and Brett Ratner feel relieved.
In addition, Xu Kai is a person with extremely high emotional intelligence and ability, and he always finds a way to appease Linda and Brett Ratner.
In the end, Xu Kai became the third director of "Rush Hour" with almost unanimous votes.
Of course, Xu Kai couldn't be a director for nothing - he received another 5 million yuan in salary, and his total salary reached 20 million yuan.
Xu Kai also deserves the extra 5 million in pay.
With Xu Kai mediating, the conflict between Linda and Brett Ratner was resolved, and the "Rush Hour" crew got back on track.
At the same time, after summarizing and reconciling the ideas of Linda and Brett Ratner, Xu Kai gave Linda and Brett Ratner many pertinent and even eye-opening suggestions.
Whenever there was a conflict between Linda and Brett Ratner, Xu Kai always found a way to appease these two stubborn people.
Just like now.
Xu Kai smiled and said to Brett Ratner: "Brett, I'll do it first. If it goes well, we can do the official shoot. If it doesn't go well, we won't lose anything, right?"
After hearing what Xu Kai said, Brett Ratner shrugged and agreed to let Xu Kai try.
Linda smiled profoundly.
Then, Xu Kai took a deep breath, took three steps, and suddenly jumped up, stepping one foot on the wall. While his body was rising up, his right hand had already reached the railing of the second floor. Then he climbed up by hanging on the railing like a monkey.
Without stopping, Xu Kai stepped on the railing and jumped onto the second floor window sill, and soon reached the third floor balcony. Then he took a running jump, landed on another building, rolled over to release the force, and completed the whole set of movements without stopping.
Brett Ratner and a group of American people were all stunned when they saw this scene.
After a moment's reaction, the entire crew burst into warm applause.
After Xu Kai jumped down, Xu Kai's partner Chris Tucker performed a set of Hip Hop gestures with Xu Kai in perfect tacit understanding.
Sophie March could see that Xu Kai had won the respect of everyone in the crew.
As a foreigner who also came to Hollywood to make a living, Sophie March knew clearly how difficult it was to win the respect of these beautiful Chinese people who were arrogant.
It can be said that Claude Binaudot, the leading director of the romantic country, has not yet been recognized by the beautiful people.
And don't forget that although Claude Binaudot is not American, he is also a Westerner - it is much easier for American people to recognize Westerners than any Orientals.
This also further illustrates Xu Kai's excellence.
Thinking about Xu Kai's magical moves just now, Sophie March suddenly felt that "Rush Hour" might not be the muscle movie she imagined.
"At least this isn't something that other people can do, right?"
What Sophie March didn't expect was that Xu Kai shot the movie very quickly - after the filming started, there were almost no NGs due to Xu Kai's reasons. Xu Kai could always do anything that directors Linda and Brett Ratner asked him to do. It can be said that as long as others didn't make mistakes, Xu Kai could almost always get it done in one take, which was very efficient.
Because Xu Kai was very efficient, the "Rush Hour" crew finished shooting a scene that was originally expected to take a whole day in just half a day.
After declining Brett Ratner's suggestion to go to the strip bar for a drink, Xu Kai brought Sophie March to the crew of "Detective Chinatown 2" and filmed "Detective Chinatown 2" for another half a day.
On the set of "Detective Chinatown 2", Sophie March saw Xu Kai's side as a director.
Unlike Claude Binaudot who always liked to yell in the crew, Xu Kai is very amiable, but the effect of Xu Kai's directing is much better than that of Claude Binaudot.
——Xu Kai's words were like an imperial edict to the crew of "Detective Chinatown 2". Whatever he said was what it was, and there was absolutely no second thought. The people of the "Detective Chinatown 2" crew, whether they were Chinese or American, all carried out Xu Kai's orders without compromise. The entire crew seemed so orderly and made rapid progress.
At around five o'clock in the afternoon, the scenes for "Detective Chinatown 2" that were scheduled to be filmed today were almost finished. Then Xu Kai directed the actors to finish the filming while arranging the work for tomorrow's filming.
Sophie March noticed that when Xu Kai arranged tomorrow's work, he first arranged the work for the beautiful Chinese and set their working hours.
In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, the American people’s work will definitely be completed tomorrow, and it will be completed as soon as possible.
Xu Kai was much more flexible in arranging work for the Chinese people, and he explained this to all personnel, including the two male protagonists, asking them to be on call at all times and that the estimated workload was also flexible.
In Sophie March's opinion, Xu Kai's work arrangement would definitely be boycotted by the Chinese people, because it was obviously double standards.
But what surprised Sophie March was that no Chinese questioned Xu Kai's work arrangement.
What Sophie March didn't know was that Xu Kai's arrangement of work seemed unfair to the Chinese people, but first of all, Xu Kai's position in the Chinese entertainment industry was too transcendent, so that those who needed to make a living in the Chinese entertainment industry were too busy trying to curry favor with Xu Kai, so how could they question Xu Kai's approach? The key point was that everyone knew that Xu Kai never treated people who followed him unfairly, and if they suffered a loss, Xu Kai would definitely give them more compensation.
In other words, Xu Kai treats the American people in a completely impartial manner and acts in accordance with the contract. No matter how much money Xu Kai makes, he will not give them a penny, while the Chinese people may receive extra red envelopes from Xu Kai.
In short, all Chinese people know that if they listen to Xu Kai, they will not suffer any loss, and the American people are also very satisfied with Xu Kai's working style that respects them.
Hello, I'm fine, hello everyone, the filming of "Detective Chinatown 2" is naturally going very smoothly.
After finishing the work for the "Detective Chinatown 2" crew and arranging tomorrow's work, Xu Kai took Sophie March and got into the luxury RV that Yang Xinchun specially rented for Xu Kai - they were going to the "Grandmaster 4" crew to shoot a night scene.
The crew of "The Grandmaster 4" did not shoot mainly in Chinatown like the crews of "Lovers' First Kiss", "Rush Hour" and "Detective Chinatown 2", but shot in an Aboriginal tribe in the suburbs of Manhattan.
On the way, Sophie March thought Xu Kai would take a break. After all, she saw with her own eyes that Xu Kai had been busy all day.
But what Sophie March didn't expect was that Xu Kai took out "Farewell My Concubine" again and started reviewing the post-production work.
Looking at the assistants, bodyguards and other accompanying personnel who had been running around with Xu Kai all day and were resting or taking turns to rest, only Xu Kai seemed to be working tirelessly. Sophie March was really shocked by Xu Kai's energy.
At the same time, Sophie March was also shocked by Xu Kai's time management ability, as he did not waste any fragmented time.
——Sophie March, who had been running with Xu Kai silently for the whole day, witnessed with her own eyes that Xu Kai did everything in an orderly and methodical manner. The key point was that Xu Kai could receive messages from many women or send them pleasant messages during the process. The key point was that all of this did not affect Xu Kai's work.
Sophie March looked at Xu Kai and thought: "This man is really a master of time management! No, he is a master of time management!"
This made Sophie March even more curious about this mysterious man Xu Kai.
Driven by curiosity, Sophie March quietly came behind Xu Kai and watched him work quietly.
However, Sophie March's attention was soon attracted by the almost finished "Farewell My Concubine" in front of Xu Kai.
——The editing of "Farewell My Concubine" has been completed, and the only thing left is the post-production color grading.
In fact, Xu Kai also asked an expert to do the post-production color adjustment, and he only needed to make the final fine-tuning.
So "Farewell My Concubine" can be considered a complete movie.
The version of "Farewell My Concubine" in Xu Kai's hands was intended to win an award in the romantic country of Cannes, so it happened to be subtitled in French.
It is also because of this that Sophie March can understand "Farewell My Concubine".
Upon seeing this, Sophie March, who loves art, couldn't help but immerse herself in it.
Seeing that Sophie March was fascinated by the show, Xu Kai stopped fine-tuning and let Sophie March become the first audience member of "Farewell My Concubine".
Since he couldn't work, Xu Kai simply pulled Sophie March to his seat, and then went to the sofa to meditate and rest for a while.
When Xu Kai's RV arrived at the set of "The Grandmaster 4", "Farewell My Concubine" had not yet finished playing.
Xu Kai glanced at Sophie March, whose eyes were red from crying, and did not call her. Instead, he got out of the car with the others and then devoted himself to the filming of "The Grandmaster 4"...
Let’s talk about Sophie March. As soon as she watched "Farewell My Concubine", she started crying, even though she didn’t understand Peking Opera at all.
When Cheng Dieyi committed suicide at the end, Sophie March completely broke down and tears burst out like a spring.
——"Farewell My Concubine" has strong emotions, twists and turns in the plot, and is full of dramatic conflicts of life and death. It has both epic structure and cultural connotations. Against the profound background of Peking Opera art, it shows in a very tense way the versatility and richness of people when they are dislocated in roles and face disasters. The power of humanity contained therein and the actors' wonderful performances, all of this completely conquered Sophie March.
Sophie March felt that this was the film that best represented art that she had been searching for.
Since Sophie March didn't see the meeting, after watching it, she rewound the film to the beginning.
Then, Sophie March was surprised to find that the director of "Farewell My Concubine" was Xu Kai, the producer was Xu Kai, the screenwriter was Xu Kai, the editor was Xu Kai, the music was Xu Kai, and even the chief conductor of post-production was Xu Kai.
At this moment, Sophie March remembered the man who had just aroused her curiosity.
For some reason, Sophie March suddenly wanted to see Xu Kai!
Looking around, there was no sign of Xu Kai. Sophie March quickly got out of the RV, and without asking the bodyguards around the RV where Xu Kai was, she ran straight to the set.
Coincidentally, when Sophie March ran to the set, she happened to see Xu Kai defeating many American natives cleanly and neatly without the help of wires.
In the past, Sophie March would definitely think that Xu Kai's exaggerated fighting style was fake and meaningless, and she would have disdained it.
But at this moment, Sophie March felt that Xu Kai was so handsome and cool. Even the strange braid on Xu Kai's head was very interesting to her.
Sophie March said to herself: "Others' are all fake, but his is real. He really knows Chinese Kung Fu. Look how agile and strong he is. Those natives are no match for him. It's so fascinating!"
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(End of this chapter)
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