My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 491 The script of "Dragon Inn", the behind-the-scenes lineup comes to Hong Kong
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The third floor of Longcheng Ice Room was converted into a private bar with dim lights.A large wine cabinet and bar counter were placed where the TV was originally placed.

The walls of the original three bedrooms were broken, and only Wu Xiaozu's original room was kept, and expanded into a personal creative studio.

In the past few days, Wu Xiaozu has been writing scripts here.

Longcheng Ice Room frequently appears in movies, and "Young and Dangerous" alone has become a place of pilgrimage for many movie fans.There are many pictures of celebrities hanging on the walls.

Because of the convenient transportation, the lobby and the second floor here are overcrowded every day.

The original guy has been upgraded to manage the store manager and manager.

Su Liyao has already applied for the brand of 'Dragon City Ice Room', and at the same time founded a company called "Kowloon City Catering Management Co., Ltd.".The registered capital is 1000 million.The legal person is himself.

The shareholders are four brothers.

He is planning to open 3-5 directly-operated stores before the end of this year.Make it a brand, and then use Pengcheng as a springboard to enter the southern coastal market.Cantonese cuisine and tea restaurants may have certain limitations in the mainland, but they are not without development potential.Su Liyao himself believes that the branded catering industry is the blue ocean market in the Mainland.

Or to put it another way... In the 90s right now, the mainland is full of blue oceans. . .

As the restaurants began to be formalized and commercialized, the paparazzi have disappeared.

Maybe it's the darkness under the lights.

Wu Xiaozu was much more relaxed and quiet on the third floor, and could have more time to think about the script and study the characters.

"How busy are you lately?"

Wu Xiaozu was wearing a cotton and linen off-white T-shirt and the same series of cotton and linen harem cropped trousers. He stood at the bar counter, holding a trident awl to chisel the ice puck in his hand, and stunned two ISO cups with the ice puck.

Each poured a small glass of Johnnie Walker whiskey, and walked out of the bar with a smile.

"The Strange Case of Three Wolves, co-produced by Golden Harvest and Mai Dangxiong, made me very depressed."

Liang Jiahui has a white shirt rolled up around his forearm, and a pair of dark slacks underneath. He leans lazily on the independent leather sofa. He takes the whiskey, looks at the crystal clear and sexy ice hockey, and smells the unique vanilla-flavored smoke of whiskey. Smoked, took a sip——

"Mai Dangxiong's team is really sharp in filming. The whole crew is in a hurry. A movie, day and night, reminds me of the feeling of filming "Rainy Night Butcher". Mai Dangxiong is just like you. It's like..."

Wu Xiaozu stretched his long legs to get to the independent sofa on one side, the two of them surrounded a small round glass table, the surrounding lights were dim, and relaxing jazz music was playing, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he asked with a faint smile: "Like me?"

"Just as crazy."

"Haha~"

Wu Xiaozu sipped the wine in his glass, stood up with a smile, "Leave me a three-month schedule, my new script draft, take a look..."

"Wow~ Cannes Palme d'Or director's new play..."

Liang Xiaokou frowned and teased, quickly finished the whiskey in the glass, and solemnly wiped his hands with the coat that Director Wu put on the sofa next to him, "What's the theme?"

"Ah…"

Wu Xiaozu held a few hand-painted sketches in his hand, and smiled slightly: "Martial arts!"

"?"

Liang Xiaokou was taken aback, but before he could think about it, his eyes were attracted by the sketch in front of him.

An ink figure painting.

On the white paper, only the outlines of the characters can be seen, but this is what gives people more room for reverie.

In the smoke, a fierce horse came roaring, and immediately one of them was wearing a bamboo hat, holding a narrow knife, howling the west wind, and came majesticly.

The face can't be seen clearly, but it is resolute.

The sword's cold light was unrealistic, but it was full of blood.

The yellow sand flew up, and the horseshoes flew into the air.With Kunlun courage in his heart, he regards death as dust!

"What kind of sword is this? Or Dongying Dao?" Liang Jiahui asked in a low voice.

"The knife is called Xiuchun, and the clothes are brocade clothes."

Wu Xiaozu said, and took out a few photos with a smile, "These are some photos I found from Uncle Quan."

"Flying fish suit, Xiuchun knife, is this Jinyiwei?"

Liang Xiaokou is not illiterate, he has gone to college seriously...he has no birth.

"That's right."

Wu Xiaozu smiled and said: "This script is adapted from Uncle Quan's "Dragon Inn". However, this script of mine is mainly placed after the defeat of Tumubao in Zhuqi Town and before returning to the country. , Internal strife and entanglement, loyalty and traitors are difficult to distinguish. This history is very interesting. The emperor guards the gate of the country, and the British clan closes the gate. Do you think it is interesting?

This story happened in the borderlands, people from Oala, Tatars, Emperor Jingtai, Yingzong, speculators...the four forces all gathered in a small inn.

The Supreme Emperor returns to court, to kill or not to kill?To save or not to save?

In history, Ming Yingzong was not the No. 1 emperor who was captured by foreigners, not to mention Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were both captured.But... At that time, Song Chaoben was dying of illness, and the sun was dying.

The Yingzong period was different, and the Ming Dynasty was still very strong at this time.The Oirats and Tatars have not been able to truly shake the country of the Ming Dynasty... This kind of capture makes the struggle between factions within the dynasty even more cruel.

The problem is that Emperor Jingtai is not yet a cruel emperor, and at the same time he promotes honest and loyal ministers..."

"Is the loyal minister not good?"

Liang Xiaokou was puzzled, and flipped through the hand-painted manuscript below. The lower one was an inn standing in the lonely smoke of the desert.

The signboard made of a rag flag is hard to identify.

The four horses were idly tied to the rough fence next to the stone pier. The brawny man with a bare upper body and a sheepskin jacket on his waist lowered his face and sharpened his knife.

At the eaves, there is a graceful woman wearing a skirt with her legs crossed on top, with a silver hairpin on her head. Although the facial features cannot be seen clearly, the charm is very tasteful.

Inside the door, there are only a few strokes, describing the scenes of people from the Jianghu drinking and having fun.

This painting uses a stick figure sketch, and the group portrait shows a sense of camera.

"Upright and loyal ministers always lack a bit of ruthlessness... When an emperor who cares about his feelings meets loyal ministers of upright gentlemen, he is good to Daming, but not to them themselves... Especially in this turbulent conspiracy—"

Wu Xiaozu smiled, "When the Supreme Emperor comes back, the enemies will try their best to protect him, and the loyal ministers will kill him instead. Don't you think it's very interesting?"

It is difficult to discern why Emperor Jingtai did not kill Ming Yingzong back then. There are many speculations by modern people, but they are not ancient people after all.History is a little girl who can be dressed up by others, who can really tell?
Wu Xiaozu didn't even want to become a Ming historian, he just learned from this history.

Rivers and lakes temple.

Seemingly separate from each other, they are always ingeniously united together.

Among Mr. Cha's novels, he himself also likes "Swordsman", which is full of sophistication and sophistication.Every age has a different perception.At this time, he felt sympathy for Yue Buqun instead. . . .

What is a hero?The simplest standard: self-sacrifice for others!From this point of view, Yue Buqun should also be considered a hero.His whole life seems to be for Huashan...

"Dragon Gate Guest Inn" may be such a story.

"How many months will this play take?"

Liang Jiahui collected all the sketches, fixed his eyes on Wu Xiaozu like a torch, and raised the blueprint in his hand, "I want to play this Jinyiwei hundred households!"

"He's not the leading actor, think about it."

Wu Xiaozu smiled, "He is not the kind of hero that the public likes, but he is burdened with heavy shackles and is not popular..."

"Dragon Gate Guest Inn" must choose some stars to play.For a martial arts film, if there is no celebrity popularity, even Wu Xiaozu can't guarantee that the audience will buy it.

Hou Xiaochen, that street-smart guy, knew that Luo Dong should be invited to play Ah Si.Because Hong Kong Island stars are more appealing to the market.Naturally, Wu Xiaozu would not give up his advantages.

"Lin Guoyun is just as unpleasant. When I acted in this play, I was chased and beaten by my grandmother when I went to the street..." Liang Jiahui couldn't help but rolled his eyes and laughed.

The Lin Guoyun he played at the beginning was really born out of nowhere. Now when many movie fans select the villains of Hong Kong Island, they still rank Lin Guoyun first. Among the top ten villains, he is also in "Young and Dangerous" Liang Kun played in the movie.

"It takes at least five months. Now you need to receive some basic martial arts routine training, as well as some Ming Dynasty etiquette and movements. By the way, can you ride a horse? It is not required to be able to cross the desert, but at least not all use doubles. Although some close-ups can use a three-horse carriage... But the middle shots and close-ups require you to participate in person." Wu Xiaozu made the request neatly.

Five months is not a long time for a costume martial arts film, and now Tsui Hark and Hu Jinquan's "Swordsman", which has been in preparation for nearly half a year, doesn't even have a shadow yet.

This drama involves a lot of martial arts actions, which requires the main actors to receive basic martial arts training.

In movie shooting, doubles can naturally be used for dangerous actions, but many non-dangerous actions also need to be performed by actors themselves.Basic training is essential.

At this time, Hong Kong films were criticized for being exaggerated and fabricated because of the lack of preparatory work.

However, Wu Xiaozu has always emphasized this point.

Especially after winning the Palme d'Or, he is now more or less a feathered man... ╮(╯▽╰)╭!
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Luohu Port, Joint Inspection Building.

At this time, it is not as convenient for Pengcheng to go to Hong Kong Island as later generations. You can just take the bus and go out.Now the requirements are very strict, and there are not as many transit ports as there were later.

The hall is full of people.

Every day, there are a lot of people going back and forth between Hong Kong Island and Pengcheng. Many Hong Kong businessmen and Pengcheng people with relatives in Hong Kong Island "make money" every day through this.Of course, there are more smugglers at this time...

However, Chen Kai and his party naturally don't need to smuggle to Hong Kong Island, they are going through regular channels.

It was all in the name of "going to Hong Kong for study and inspection" on the high school at this time.

At this time, mainlanders can go to Hong Kong Island for study and inspection, which is really a matter of breaking their heads.What's more, the Hong Kong Island company took the initiative to send the invitation letter...the local government will pay attention to it!
As for the business investment situation, because of the question of whether it is a society or a capital, the local governments in the inland are still swinging from side to side, especially in the west.But cultural exchange has nothing to do with the political system! ! !

Especially Wu Xiaozu, the internationally renowned "patriotic director".

The phrase "the more national, the more global" has been published in the internal magazine, and the Ministry of Culture has specially issued local cultural departments to learn and understand "the more national, the more global"...

Wu Xiaozu himself didn't think how good he was, but mainland politicians knew his influence.

This is a director who represents the level and honor of the Chinese in the world.

And it is different from Xiao Mouzi's behavior of "exposing national ignorance and flattering imperialism".Director Wu won the Palme d'Or in Cannes with his oriental love!

From his identity, to his film conception, to his political orientation, Wu Xiaozu definitely belongs to the kind of "progressive person" that various local governments are vying to win over.

Before leaving, the government of the place where the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located knew that seven or eight people, including Kai Ge, Gu Changwei, and Gong Li, were going to Hong Kong Island, so they directly assigned the task, and they must invite them to "Douyin City" to invest in filming and conduct cultural exchanges... …

Asia Pacific, Nantes, Three Continents, Golden Horse, Golden Statue, Cannes... who doesn't like nonsense and self-motivated five-good young people? ?
Brother Chen Kai was smoking a cigarette, frowning.

You said, he is a literary and art director who makes movies, and you insist on asking me to discuss business with him... How vulgar! ! !
It's so short!

Gu Changwei did not have the worries of old Chen. He stretched his neck and looked at the long queue in front of him. Today, he specially wore a leather jacket suit that he bought from Wangfujing Street for 170 yuan, and he wore European-style leather shoes that he bought in France last time. , with big white socks!

Black leather shoes and white socks are so stylish!The trousers of the suit were pulled up above the navel, pockets were inserted from time to time, the hem of the suit was lifted, and a BB machine was slung on the belt.Otherwise, open the cuffs and take a look at the Seagull watch with a perpetual calendar on your wrist.

"I don't know. Is there a signal when we arrive on Hong Kong Island..."

Gu Changwei flipped through the BB machine and muttered softly, "This thing is high-tech, so it shouldn't be a problem...Xiao Gong, have you ever been to Hong Kong Island?"

Next to him, Emperor Gong stood there with a calm expression. . . .

"I've been there once before, but I didn't go around much..." Gong Li pulled the suitcase, "At that time, I felt that Hong Kong Island was really prosperous."

"I don't even envy its prosperity, I just like the excitement of going to strange places..." Gu Changwei said solemnly, "Every time I pass by some strange small alleys, I get very excited..."

"..." Gong Li glanced at him, but didn't answer.

"Director Wu is said to be the big boss in Hong Kong Island. I don't know if he is going to treat us to a big meal." Gu Changwei looked at the endless long queue, "When I think of being able to cooperate with Director Wu, I can't help being excited. You Have you seen Director Wu's movie? The one...really, it's definitely different from those Hong Kong movies, it's very good! Every movie is a textbook guide for the filmmakers.

The color, light, lens, and picture are really amazing!
I like his "Life, Death, Wealth and Fortune" the most. The design is so bold!The pinnacle of film architecture!It's a pity that it was not selected for the main competition unit that year, otherwise, it would have won the award long ago. "

"Pass the test, don't ink it." Brother Chen Kai glared at Gu Changwei angrily. During this period of time, he is in a hurry with whoever mentions the award! !

His mentality is like that of Shen Gongbao...Jiang Ziya, who is inferior to him in everything, suddenly becomes a favorite, but he achieves nothing.

In the past few days, a group of bastards in the circle of the imperial capital have been talking to him all day long: Man, let us embarrass the people of the imperial capital!

Brother Kai's face is getting bigger and bigger, his nostrils are like a blower, especially these days, the little schemer is in the newspapers all day.

He felt that the other party seemed to be wearing Pinru's clothes...

"Xiaogong, work hard this time, this drama will definitely be fine!"

Brother Chen Kai encouraged Gong Huang, "I made a telegram before, and Director Wu planned to invest at least 1500 million to shoot this movie. It is definitely a big production!"

"En." Gong Huang also nodded.

She considered this play for a long time, and finally took it.There are many reasons for this, some are avoiding public opinion, some want to quiet down, and of course there is also the reason of Wu Xiaozu, a great director.

After a while, it was their turn to pass the security check.Under the leadership of Lao Chen, several people embarked on the road to Hong Kong Island...

(End of this chapter)