Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 199 The First Arm Finger
If there was no "Five Lucky Stars" drama, Run Run Shaw would not have directly intervened in the casting of this drama.

Even if he has any opinions, he will discuss it with Lin Daoqiu first, and then make a decision.

But because Lin Daoqiu helped Golden Harvest film "Five Lucky Stars", Run Run Shaw was very upset, so he decided to take over the casting rights.

"Sixth Uncle, this movie will eventually be aimed at Hollywood audiences. If the supporting roles are all from Shaw Brothers, I'm afraid it will only stop in Southeast Asia."

Hollywood has always been very xenophobic. If you want to gain a foothold there, it is absolutely impossible to succeed if you use people of foreign descent in the whole show.

Movies like kung fu movies can attract a part of the audience in a short period of time.

But they all watch it with a curious mood, and they don't regard this type of movie as the mainstream.

If "Mission Impossible" were all cast by Chinese, one can imagine the difficulty of breaking into the mainstream Hollywood market.

"What does Mr. Lin mean?"

Run Run Shaw has worked with Hollywood for so long, and he also knows that Lin Daoqiu is not lying.

How xenophobic Hollywood is, Run Run Shaw is probably the one who knows best.

If it weren't for this, it would have been impossible for just one piece of "The First Punch in the World" to cause a splash in Hollywood after so many years.

After that, Shaw Brothers also made a lot of action films, but none of them had a good box office in Hollywood like "The First Punch".

"How about this, let Jiang Dawei act as the blasting expert, and Jing Li act as the make-up expert."

This is already Lin Daoqiu's bottom line, and he plans to find someone from Hollywood for the rest of the roles.

Unless the target of this film is not set in Hollywood, then Lin Daoqiu will not object to using all Shaw Brothers people as supporting roles.

"Jing Li has a few films to film, and if she can't spare time, she will let Guo Youhua play this role."

Fang Yihua, who had been silent all this time, suddenly changed Jing Li's role to Guo Youhua.

When Lin Daoqiu heard Fang Yihua's arrangement, his head suddenly became dizzy.

"Ah Hua and Qingxia also acted in "A Dream of Red Mansions" before, so you don't have to worry about their tacit understanding."

Fang Yihua looked at Lin Daoqiu with a half-smile, although she was not sure what relationship he had with Brigitte Lin.

But she wanted to stuff Guo Youhua into this "Mission Impossible" no matter what.

"Let's decide David Jiang and Guo Youhua. I believe that Mr. Lin will not have any objections?"

If Lin Daoqiu still objected, then Run Run Shaw might be more than dissatisfied.

Looking at Run Run Shaw and Fang Yihua, Lin Daoqiu felt that he had no possibility of objecting, so he could only nod his head and agree.

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"Ba Ye, someone is looking for you."

Yuan Heping is serving as the martial arts director of Jackie Chan's new play at this time.

Hearing that someone was looking for him, Yuan Heping looked back and found that it was a young man he had never seen before.

"Hello, Ba Ye, my name is Lin Daoqiu."

Lin Daoqiu reached out to Yuan Heping first.

Yuan Heping didn't expect that the person in front of him turned out to be the famous Lin Daoqiu, so he quickly stretched out his hand.

"It turned out to be the famous Mr. Lin. He has admired his name for a long time, and he dare not call him Ba Ye. Just call me by my name."

Yuan Heping learned opera and martial arts from his father, Yuan Xiaotian, and Yu Zhanyuan from the Yuan family class.

This has allowed him to lay a very solid foundation since he was a child, and he is talented and intelligent, and has unique insights into martial arts routines and national skills.

Compared with Liu Jialiang, another well-known martial arts instructor at this time, Yuan Heping is not rigid in a certain form, he is good at using it flexibly.

According to the director's request, he can choreograph martial arts actions that suit the characteristics of the characters, so it is not unreasonable for Lin Daoqiu to find him.

"Baye, you're welcome. You are a senior I admire very much. It's only natural to call you Baye."

Yuan Heping was naturally very happy to be praised by Lin Daoqiu in person.

"Mr. Lin is too polite, don't dare to act..." Yuan Heping waved his hands repeatedly.

After exchanging pleasantries, Lin Daoqiu directly explained his purpose of coming to the other party.

"I came to see Ba ​​Ye today because I want to ask Ba Ye to be my martial arts instructor for my new play."

Yuan Heping didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu would find him.

He remembered that Lin Daoqiu and Hong's class were very close before, and in several dramas he asked people from Hong's class to be in charge of martial arts guidance. How could he suddenly find him?
But in this case, Yuan Heping would not ask. Since Lin Daoqiu was willing to cooperate with him, of course he would not refuse.

"Mr. Lin came to see me in person, how could I refuse, but I don't know when the filming of this movie will start?"

Because Yuan Heping is still instructing Jackie Chan in martial arts, and he can't get away for a while.

"Don't worry, Ba Ye, the filming of this film will start in two months, but most of the scenes will be filmed in Paris."

Going abroad to shoot scenes is also a common thing, so Yuan Heping nodded and agreed without thinking too much.

"That's no problem, Mr. Lin, don't worry, I will keep the schedule."

Yuan Heping originally thought that he would wait two months before starting preparations.

But Lin Daoqiu shook his head suddenly.

"This movie is an action movie that focuses on women, but the heroine Brigitte Lin has mostly been in literary dramas before, and I have to trouble Ba Ye to train her to be a hit girl before filming begins."

"Mr. Lin is talking about Miss Brigitte Lin from Treasure Island?"

After Yuan Heping heard Lin Daoqiu's request, his eyes widened immediately, and a shocked expression appeared on his face.

Because in his impression, Brigitte Lin was a weak girl, and the word "beating girl" had nothing to do with her.

Lin Daoqiu asked him to train Brigitte Lin to be a hit girl within two months, which is not at all difficult.

"That's right, this drama is mainly about her, and fighting is a very important part of it, so Master Ba needs some refreshments this time."

Lin Qingxia used to train with Chen Yiyan and the others, but Lin Daoqiu didn't ask them to teach Lin Qingxia any routines.

Just let her exercise her physical fitness every day, stretch her tendons, and practice kicking.

Lin Daoqiu still felt that Yuan Heping should be the one who really wanted to train Brigitte Lin.

Yuan Heping didn't expect that Lin Daoqiu would make such a request, which made him into trouble all at once.

"As for Ba Ye's salary, I plan to give you 50 Hong Kong dollars for this movie."

Just when Yuan Heping was still thinking about how to train Brigitte Lin, Lin Daoqiu's words completely shocked him.

You must know that in Xiangjiang at this time, it costs only 30 to 50 to make an ordinary movie, and the better ones are between [-].

As for the remuneration of the actors, because the Xu Brothers and Golden Harvest's box office splits are [-]/[-], they didn't get paid.

Therefore, Yuen Biao is now the one who gets the highest salary. According to a reporter's report, Golden Harvest offered him a salary of one million yuan for Yuen Biao's new play.

As a martial arts director, basically, it is pretty good to get between [-] and [-] yuan for a play.

Unexpectedly, Lin Daoqiu multiplied himself five times at once, which made Yuan Heping's mind go blank for a moment, and he couldn't react for a while.

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