Chapter 254 265 [Building a domestic brand, the young Lin Zhiling]

After San Shangye left in a hurry, Li Jiaxin’s eyes were full of heat: “Director Li, I didn’t expect that Pioneer Electric was actually invested by you. It’s incredible. How did you think of investing in VCD?”

Although Li Jiaxin doesn’t understand business matters, the fact that the well-known Sony Group sent people to discuss the acquisition and offered a purchase price of US$1 million is enough to show that Pioneer Electric is valuable.

As the major shareholder behind the scenes, isn’t Li Yishu’s net worth equivalent to a billionaire? !

“Haha, this is a long story.”

Li Yishu glanced at her watch and said with a smile, “If you want to hear it, why don’t we go back to the hotel and I’ll tell you in detail?”

“Yeah yeah!!”

“Director Li, I can’t wait to hear you talk to me.”

Li Jiaxin’s eyes were burning.

Li Yishu is a billionaire with a net worth of at least hundreds of millions of dollars, and she is still so young. If she can succeed in rising to the top, she will not only be the wife of an internationally renowned director and the godfather of Asian films, but also a wealthy wife.

At this moment, Li Jiaxin felt that her legs could not close together, and even when walking and getting into the car, she snuggled in Li Yishu’s arms.

In fact, Li Jiaxin really couldn’t close her legs.

After returning to the hotel, Li Yishu successfully unlocked the latest body photography technology.

Early the next morning.

Li Yishu received a call from Mikami Ueno. Sony Group was very interested in the cooperation in setting standards proposed by Li Yishu and was preparing to send a team.

In response to this, Li Yishu asked people from Sony Group to go to the mainland to contact Huo Wenxi. He didn’t understand business, so instead of talking to him, it would be better for Huo Wenxi to form a professional team to talk to them about how to start cooperation.

For VCD and the next generation DVD products, relevant standards should be established first.

And it’s not just Sony. When Li Yishu was calling Huo Wenxi, she also told him that the licensing fee was not the key. The key was to establish industry standards and to reach a OEM cooperation with Sony Group as much as possible, and to introduce some advanced electrical manufacturing production lines and related equipment from Sony.

If Pioneer Electric wants to develop, it cannot just stay in the VCD field. Televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc. are all the most important home appliances of this era.

Even though the industry competition is fierce, Pioneer Electric must master the relevant technologies. Otherwise, when pirated VCDs and DVDs start to run rampant in a few years, Pioneer Electric will probably decline instantly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to cooperate with Sony, introducing advanced technology and equipment from there, and then gradually developing its own core patents, this is the key to Pioneer Electric’s thriving growth.

After pushing Sony to Huo Wenxi, Li Yishu no longer cared about this matter.

He doesn’t understand business in the first place. It would be best if Pioneer Electric can develop. If not, the worst that can happen is that he can just sell it in the future.

Moreover, Huo Wenxi has grown very fast in the past year or so. If she continues to work hard, who knows, she might be able to create a domestic home appliance brand?
A week passed in the blink of an eye.

The crew of “Rumble in the Bronx” has been in Toronto, Canada for several days of filming.

Today’s night scene is about Li Jiaxin having a motorcycle race with a group of thugs.

The scene is quite simple. It involves two gangs of local thugs, each of which sends out a female motorcyclist, who then rides the motorcycle across other people’s cars.

“This helmet won’t work.”

Li Yishu looked at the half-covered motorcycle helmet in her hand and frowned, saying, “Go change it for a full-covered helmet, and tell those stuntmen to wear full-covered helmets as well.”

“Okay, Director Li.” The props team immediately arranged for someone to find a fully covered motorcycle helmet.

“Director Li, why did you change your helmet?” Li Jiaxin walked over curiously.

Li Yishu smiled and said, “Of course I want to make you look better. When we shoot later, you can do this…”

Li Jiaxin is very beautiful in herself, and she shows her pretty face from the very beginning, which is really attractive.

But if both sides of the game wore face-covering helmets, and when Cheng Long stopped her during the game, she took off the helmet and lifted her hair, the feeling would naturally be different.

Hearing this, Li Jiaxin’s eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly: “Yes, Director Li, don’t worry, I will definitely act well.”

“Director Li, the helmet is ready.”

“Okay, let the stuntmen prepare to shoot.”

Seeing that the props team was ready, Li Yishu also began to prepare for the filming.

The stuntmen riding motorcycles were all members of the Jacky Cheung Stunt Team from Hong Kong, so motorcycle skills were naturally not a problem and the shoot went smoothly in just one take.

After checking the surveillance footage and making sure there were no problems, Li Yishu shouted, “Cut! That’s all for today. Aaron, remember to get up early tomorrow. We finally managed to get the local government to block a coastal highway, so we only have one day to shoot!”

What we are going to shoot tomorrow is the scene of the motorboat going ashore. This is one of the big scenes of the crew. It was originally planned to be shot later, but we didn’t expect the local government to approve the application for road closure so quickly. Naturally, the sooner it is finished, the better.

“I understand, Director Li. I’ll be up early tomorrow morning.”

Cheng Long nodded. He knew that tomorrow was a big show and he had to conserve his energy.

The next morning.

The shooting location was not on the sea, but on Lake Ontario in Toronto.

Lake Ontario is one of the largest freshwater lakes in northern North America, covering an area of ​​about 19554 square kilometers. It is so large that no one would think it is a lake but an endless sea.

Lake Ontario is also a famous tourist attraction in Toronto. Every year, a large number of tourists come here for vacation and go fishing on yachts on the huge lake that is like the sea.

At this time, a lakeside road had been blocked, with a section of about two kilometers blocked.

When many nearby residents learned that the area was going to be blocked off for filming a movie, they rushed over to watch the fun.

Seeing that there were many people outside the cordon, Li Yishu frowned and called the producer arranged by Golden Harvest, Ma Yingfang. Ma Yingfang had worked in Toronto for seven or eight years and was very familiar with the local society and had an excellent network of contacts.

Ma Yingfang came over and said, “Director Li, what can I do for you?”

“Director Ma, there are too many people watching. Can you notify the local police station and ask them to arrange some police officers to come and stop them?”

At this point, Lee Yi-su explained, “Otherwise, if someone breaks in and gets hurt while we’re filming the motorboat scene, it won’t be worth it.”

Ma Yingfang glanced at the people outside the blockade and agreed: “It’s okay, Director Li. I’ll call the police right away.”

The crew came to Toronto to film, and the Ma Ying side had already paid the venue fees and corresponding benefits in advance. They asked the police station here to arrange some policemen to come and maintain order. I believe they will not refuse.

after an hour.

Around nine o’clock in the morning.

After the crew was ready, Li Yishu turned to look at a huge motorboat on the lake. He picked up the intercom and shouted, “Along, are you ready?”

wheeeeeeeeeeeee…

“Director Li, we’re ready!” Accompanied by the sound of the sea breeze, Cheng Long was ready.

In order to ensure that the scenes of the motorboat driving on land could be filmed in one day, Li Yishu also postponed the scenes on the lake.

We filmed the motorboat landing first, and then later filmed the fighting scenes of Cheng Long on the motorboat.

“Is the car ready?” Li Yishu turned and looked at the assistant director behind her.

The assistant director nodded repeatedly: “Yes, Director Li, everything is ready, and the scrapped vehicles have been arranged to their original locations.”

“Yes!” Li Yishu responded, picked up the intercom, turned on all channels and shouted: “All departments, take your positions, filming will begin in ten seconds.”

As the countdown began, Li Yishu gave an order, and on the beach, captured by the camera, a two-story motorboat as high as a building rushed up from the sea and headed towards the highway.

The moment the huge motorboat rushed ashore, the local residents watching exclaimed in surprise.

“This is so exciting!”

“What kind of movie is this? They actually drove such a big thing ashore.”

“Oh my God, this is spectacular!”

“This seems to be a movie made by Chinese people?”

“I don’t know if it will be shown in Vancouver?”

“It’s Jack Cheng, the Hong Kong Kung Fu superstar.”

“…”

This scene is very common in later generations. In the era of special effects blockbusters where tanks can be driven down from airplanes, it is not a big deal to drive a two-story motorboat ashore from the sea. However, in the 1990s when there were not many special effects blockbusters, this scene was indeed very shocking.

Not to mention that it was witnessed by the audience.

The huge motorboat rushed ashore, crushing passing vehicles along the way. The sensory stimulation caused constant exclamations at the scene.

Li Yishu did not care about these people’s exclamations. Instead, he thought it was pretty good. After all, the big guy had come ashore. It would be strange if there was no sound in the radio equipment.

“Crack!”

After seeing the motorboat coming ashore and crashing into the first car, Li Yishu immediately asked someone to shout “cut” and then hurried over to take a close-up shot.

At that time, there were no unmanned cameras as small and convenient as those that are available later. If you want to shoot such a large scene, you have to use multiple cameras to shoot from multiple locations.

Fortunately, several cameras were installed on the motorboat in advance, and when the footage is edited, the audience can see from a “first-person perspective” the shocking moment when the motorboat rushes ashore and hits the vehicle.

This scene took more than four hours to shoot.

The filming started at nine in the morning and ended at about two in the afternoon, but that didn’t mean it was over, because we still had to shoot shots of the motorboat on the sea.

Lee Yi-su also had to get on a motorboat for this scene, and he asked the props team to prepare the speedboat to prevent anyone from falling into the sea during filming.

This kind of sea action scene must ensure safety.

He didn’t want someone to get killed while filming a movie.

“Have the extras been arranged?” Li Yishu asked the crew’s staff after finishing lunch.

“Director Li has already been arranged.”

“Well, let’s have everyone gather at the beach by the lake.”

The next scene mainly captures the moment when the motorboat rushes ashore and crashes into the “seaside tourists” playing on the beach, forming a sharp contrast between the panicked tourists and the huge motorboat.

When hundreds of extras gathered, two girls suddenly stood behind the crowd.

One of the girls nudged her companion with her elbow and pointed excitedly at the actors not far away: “Hey, Zhiling, do you see them? That’s Cheng Long, Li Jiaxin, and Anita Mui!”

“I see it.” Lin Zhiling also looked at the big star not far away with joy on her face.

This should be the movie that Cheng Long and director Li Yishu collaborated on, right?

When Lin Zhiling went back to Taiwan for the Chinese New Year, she saw related reports in the newspaper. She didn’t expect to be so lucky that when she went out to play with her classmates during the holiday, she could actually see a big star coming to Toronto, Canada to film a movie.

But then again, weren’t you planning to film in the US? Why are you in Canada?
Just as Lin Zhiling was watching the big stars join in the fun, a stagehand came over and said, “Hey, you two, come with me. There’s a play for you to perform.”

“I’m sorry, we’re not…”

Lin Zhiling realized that she was mistaken for an extra. Just as she was about to explain, a female classmate next to her said excitedly, “Here they come!”

“Xiaojuan, what are you doing? They are just extras in a movie, we are not…”

“It’s okay. Since we’re here, let’s have some fun. This is my first time being a supporting actor. What’s more, there are big stars here, Jackie Chan and Anita Mui. Don’t you like listening to Anita Mui’s songs? Maybe I can ask for her autograph after the filming is over.”

Without waiting for Lin Zhiling to speak, Xiaojuan immediately took her arm and walked over.

“You two…” Seeing two girls coming, Li Yishu was just about to make some arrangements, but when he caught a glimpse of one of them out of the corner of his eye, he was slightly stunned. Lin Zhiling?
I took a closer look and it was really her!
Taiwan’s No. 1 model, Kurosawa Chi-ling, who was highly anticipated by netizens to enter the adult entertainment industry in the future, unexpectedly appeared here.

But then again, Lin Zhiling was really young at that moment, with a thin face, bangs covering her forehead, a hairband, and a somewhat flat figure. Her features were more immature and shy, and less charming and mature than they would be later.

You can tell at a glance that it has not been developed yet.

Li Yishu looked at the two of them with interest: “You two are not extras, right?”

Lin Zhiling was extremely embarrassed. She didn’t expect to be recognized as not an extra at first sight. She immediately apologized, “I’m sorry, Director Li Yishu, I…we are students from the University of Toronto. We are here on vacation and came here to have fun. We just happened to see you guys filming and came here. I’m really sorry to disturb you.”

The coquettish Taiwanese accent also made Li Yishu certain that Lin Zhiling’s accent was not intentional but genuinely coquettish.

Moreover, Lin Zhiling, who was still very young at that time, had a voice that was much softer than when she was more mature in the future. It was really milky and coquettish.

Li Yishu asked knowingly, “From your accent, are you from Taiwan?”

“Yes, Director Li, my name is Lin Zhiling, and this is my classmate Chen Meijuan.” Lin Zhiling nodded quickly.

“Yeah, it’s alright. I see you guys have a great image. Are you interested in making a cameo appearance?”

“I…”

Before Lin Zhiling could speak, her classmate Chen Meijuan immediately said excitedly: “Interested, interested, Director Li, can we have a guest appearance?”

“No problem at all.”

Li Yishu smiled and nodded: “You should have seen it just now. Later we will shoot the scene of the motorboat landing on the beach. You two will play the role of panicked tourists. I will ask the photographer to take a close-up of you.”

(End of this chapter)