Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 25 The Trial at Midnight
After twelve hours of waiting, the first rough cut of "Master Qian" was finally finished, but it cannot be called a movie because there is still a lot of post-production work to be done.

And this kind of rough cut work, even if it is to be used as a sample, it can be a little bit to see how the movie is shot.

There is a small projection room in Golden Harvest Post-production Company, where post-production films can be brought here for screening.

Feilong couldn't wait to bring the rough-cut "Master Qian" to the screening room. After the arrangements were made, they were the first audience of "Master Qian".

There are no titles, subtitles, soundtracks or even narration. This is the first time for Lin Daoqiu to experience this kind of movie watching.

However, in his time, he had never seen any strange things, and this little thing was not enough to surprise Lin Daoqiu.

The scene at the beginning of the movie is in the biggest brothel in the town. A group of people don't give money after having sex with women, but they are caught by Yuen Biao staying here overnight.

After some jokes, Yuen Biao started to fight with each other, and Lin Daoqiu remembered that it took three full days to shoot just this fight scene.

It was after the filming of this martial arts scene that Yuen Biao, Lin Zhengying and others understood what type of martial arts Lin Daoqiu wanted.

As the plot progresses, the film slowly reveals to the audience the character of the leading actor. It turns out that he is a son of a rich family, but he idles around all day long and likes to cause trouble. Even his father can't help him.

After fighting wits with his father at home, Yuan Biao heard that a very beautiful woman came to the teahouse in the town, so he immediately took someone to check to see if she was really beautiful.

And here is one of the most exciting places in the whole play. The heroine played by Guo Youhua beat Yuen Biao hard with her skirt skills, and beat him so hard that she couldn't find her way.

The flying dragon next to him has long been fascinated by watching, and he made a surprised voice from time to time during the watching process: "How can kung fu be played like this?"

After that, the big devil played by Zhong Fa appeared on the stage, and Lin Zhengying, who played the heroine's father, and Yuen Biao's father were killed by Zhong Fa one after another. After that, Yuen Biao, who was seriously injured and fell into the river, was rescued by the monk played by Sammo Hung.

Then he practiced hard with Sammo Hung, and finally they and Guo Youhua teamed up to deal with Zhong Fa. The ending was naturally revenge and the film ended like this.

Feilong didn't have much confidence in this film at first, but when he watched "Master Qian" from the beginning and compared it with his own "Flying Dragon Fist", he realized the difference between a good movie and a bad one. .

"This is the best movie I've seen in the past few years. Brother Qiu is really good." Wen Jun, one of the screenwriters, couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Lin Daoqiu quickly shook his head and said, "Stop flattering, this script was written by you and Ari, and I won't take your credit away."

Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui felt very guilty when they heard it. Except for some dialogues written by them, most of them were edited by Lin Daoqiu.

Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui are sure that "Master Qian" would be far less exciting than Lin Daoqiu's revised one if they were filmed according to the script they wrote before.

"Don't worry, as long as this movie makes money, your dividends will definitely be indispensable." Feilong looked confident, he was very satisfied with the quality of the movie.

Lin Daoqiu smiled, if he told them He Guanchang's views on this drama, he wondered if they would still be so confident.

But Lin Daoqiu would not do such a disastrous thing, and he didn't think that what He Guanchang said must be right. Lin Daoqiu even dared to bet that Mr. He might lose face this time.

After watching the rough cut of the film, I don’t know if the requirements for this film are getting higher and higher. Feilong has to come to the post-production company almost every day. The film that can be cut normally in half a month is forced to be cut by Feilong. It took seven more days.

At first, Lin Daoqiu was worried that Feilong, who didn't understand movies, would mess up his direction, but after watching the final version of the film in the screening room, he felt that this version was already cut very well.

Although Feilong doesn't understand movies, he knows who is a good editor. In order to make this movie more brilliant, he spent money to hire the best editor to edit the movie. Perfect.

Sometimes Lin Daoqiu thinks that if Feilong doesn't mess around in the world, it might be suitable for him to be a film producer, but he just thinks about it and will never put it into action.

May 1978, 5 was Sunday, and that day was also the day when "Master Qian" was going to be screened.

Since early in the morning, Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun have been restless. Even though they have experienced the baptism of the midnight show before, it seems that they still have no way to calm down.

Finally, the fateful moment came. A few minutes before the movie was released, Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun hid in the backstage trembling, they did not dare to see the reaction of the audience outside.

Lin Daoqiu was not worried about this, he bought a sugar cane and sat in the auditorium directly, no one would recognize him anyway, so there was nothing to worry about.

At exactly eleven o'clock, the surrounding lights slowly dimmed. After the title of "Master Qian" was typed out, it was the first time that this film met the audience.

"Fuck the street, what a bad title, you can tell it's definitely not a good movie just by looking at it."

"Wow... this play is so fucking good. My grandpa is terrible at it. It's not good at all."

During the playing of the movie, Lin Daoqiu heard someone criticize the movie loudly from time to time. At first, Lin Daoqiu didn't pay much attention to it, after all, the reaction of the surrounding audience was still very involved.

But as the plot went further and further, the yelling voices of these people began to grow louder, but while they were yelling, Lin Daoqiu found that these people couldn't give any reason, they were just talking nonsense and criticizing casually.

But fortunately, those were just a few very few voices. Most of the audience still recognized this movie, especially the fighting scene between Yuen Biao and Guo Youhua in it, which made the surrounding audience scream from time to time.

When the subtitles appeared at the end of the film, Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun's hearts were in their throats, and the next thing was the audience's most intuitive trial of the play. If there was no applause, or even not enough applause, then the play would definitely be over.

But just as they were nervous, sporadic applause suddenly broke out in the auditorium. It didn't take long for almost everyone on the scene to applaud "Master Qian".

And when they heard thunderous applause backstage, Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun slumped on the ground, and the show seemed to be okay.

As soon as the movie ended, Lin Daoqiu immediately found the Dongnan brothers, and then quickly whispered a few words in their ears.

The two nodded while listening, and then looked at where Lin Daoqiu was pointing. After recognizing each other's appearance, Brother Dongnan immediately led people to follow those guys quietly.

Feilong and the others still don't know what happened, they are still immersed in the applause of the previous audience and cannot extricate themselves.

"Don't go back tonight, everyone go to my disco to have fun, and you won't go home until you're drunk."

At this time, the popular disco culture in Hong Kong, which is the predecessor of nightclubs, was very popular in the 80s and [-]s.

"Brother Feilong, go and play, I still have something to take care of." Lin Daoqiu wanted to know if those guys who came to make trouble just now really felt that the filming of this movie was not good, or there were other reasons.

But Feilong didn't know this, he thought that Lin Daoqiu didn't like going to the disco, or he didn't want to give him this face, only to see Feilong pull his face down all of a sudden.

After thinking about it, Lin Daoqiu leaned into Feilong's ear and whispered a few words.

The other party's originally elongated face showed surprise after hearing Lin Daoqiu's words: "Is there such a thing?"

(End of this chapter)