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Chapter 439 Isn’t This Just a Waste of Time?

Chapter 439 Isn’t This Just a Waste of Time?
This is an impromptu play, which is Li Jing's style. He will simply "measure" every student.

This is a habit that Li Jing developed since he first became an action director.

You’re like some martial arts directors who don’t care whether the actors can perform the moves or not, because if the actors can’t, they have stunt doubles anyway.

Let’s put it this way, among these martial arts directors, only Li Jing will tailor his work according to the actors’ physique and see to what extent the actors can achieve.

Because of this, you can see that among all the martial arts directors, only Li Jing created the Kung Fu Emperor Chen Sheng, and he also made the female action star Su Ying famous.

In addition, Li Jing has also made many action actors famous. Of course, it’s better not to talk about them now because they are all out of date.

Even if you randomly mention a name, it was very popular at the time, but now few people know it.

After all, there are only a handful of people who have been popular for forty years and are still popular now.

Especially for artists, when you no longer have any works, you will become out of fashion very quickly.

Even Chu Xingrui, who was once called a god, has lost all his influence after not producing any good works for 10 years.

This is not to mention Li Jing behind the scenes, but he has a very high status in the industry. After all, he is the leading figure in the entire action director.

Even though one of his films flopped, many people still wanted to invite Li Jing to be the action director.

If nothing else, Li Jing's action direction is exceptionally good to watch.

As for today, this impromptu scene is actually a fight scene.

“You, you, you, you…”

Li Jing pointed at five people and said, "Later, you will do everything you can to fight Lin Xing..."

As for the moves, Li Jing also performed some counters, all of which were the most basic ones.

You have to know that the most difficult part of fighting scenes is group scenes, because you need to focus on the protagonist, while also making sure that every supporting character has a role to play.

This is the hardest.

Li Jing spent half an hour just talking about countering moves, and while he was doing that, he was surprised to find that Lin Xing could actually understand it all.

"Have you really practiced martial arts?"

You have to know that the students have learned a lot during this period of time, and these students already have a foundation in martial arts.

So there is no problem at all with their moves.

What's more, they have learned a lot of moves in recent times. After all, Situ Hui taught them literary drama during this period, and Li Jing was the action director.

This [Kyoto Martial Arts Hall] does not just train action actors. As I said before, action actors also need acting skills.

What's more, in today's TV dramas, how many pure action actors have a market???
Even their acting skills cannot be said to be bad, but they are still not recognized by the market.

Many action actors who debuted as child stars are now over 36 years old and have no more roles to play.

There are also some child stars who debuted but ended up shooting crappy movies for online dramas.

That's right.

They just make online movies, and they don’t have any chance to make better TV series or movies.

This is the market right now.

Even the famous Kung Fu superstars have no market, how can you guarantee that newcomers can make a name for themselves through action movies? ?
It's not difficult, it's simply impossible.

Because of this, [Kyoto Wu Hall] actually provides a way out for some action actors, and because of this, the enrollment of [Kyoto Wu Hall] is subject to many restrictions.

Otherwise, so many people would be vying to take this class.

You know, without mentioning Li Jing, Situ Hui's resources are enough for everyone to curry favor with her.

In the entertainment industry, doesn’t everything depend on resources?

For this purpose, each batch of students of [Jingwu Hall] were selected through screening.

Take Xie Long for example, he debuted as a child star. Of course, he is far from other popular child stars. Some of the other child stars even reached their peak, but Xie Long has always been an unknown star.

But having been in the circle for almost 30 years, Xie Long naturally has his own abilities.

First of all, he has a solid foundation. He started practicing martial arts at the age of 4. Later, he participated in national martial arts competitions in boxing, gun and swordplay, and won runner-up.

Secondly, Xie Long's parents have always felt that the job of an actor is not stable, so they did not let Xie Long focus all his attention on acting.

He still learned step by step steadily, and because of this, Xie Long lost many opportunities.

Of course, Xie Long was eventually admitted to the Imperial Capital Film Academy, but child stars often have limited acting options when they grow up.

Because of this, in the past few years, Xie Long has actually been playing supporting roles in various film and television dramas. After all, he is not like some child stars who have ever reached their peak.

Even Xie Long only has a pitiful few thousand followers on Weibo, and each of his Weibo posts only gets a few dozen comments at most.

In the past decade or so, the role Xie Long played most often was male No. 4. Other than that, all the roles he played only had a few scenes.

This time, Xie Long came to participate in [Jingwu Hall] also to try his luck.

He was the only one who was invited by Li Jing over the phone.

This is because when Xie Long was 7 years old, he had collaborated with Li Jing on many films and achieved good results.

Although Xie Long was only 7 years old at that time, he was able to complete all the movements set by Li Jing, and he did it quite elegantly.

At that time, Li Jing said in an interview that in another 30 years, Xie Long would definitely become a new generation of kung fu superstar.

Because Xie Long also looked cute and handsome when he was a child, if he grew up proportionally, he might become the new Kung Fu Emperor.

Who could have imagined the result?
30 years have passed, and Xie Longxiu said he had become the Kung Fu Emperor, but he couldn't even find a second male lead role.

As for Li Jing, he still gave Xie Long an important role when filming "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China", but the movie was a flop, let alone the role.

The box office of this movie was less than 3000 million, and almost no one paid any attention to Xie Long.

It's really just bad luck, but in the entertainment industry, "luck" is often also a part of strength.

Just like some people are lucky, so every movie they make is a hit, but some people are unlucky and either their movies are ratings poison or box office poison.

There are too many of these.

Before today, all Li Jing's knowledge of Lin Xing came from the people around him. After all, he and Lin Xing had almost no interactions.

Even yesterday, Li Jing heard Guo Teng praising Lin Xing, but he himself didn't really believe it.

He is a martial arts master and has been an action director for decades. He is one of the top three action directors in China, so he has seen a lot.

Because of this, Li Jing just thinks Lin Xing is lucky.

One after another, whether it is a TV series or a movie, the performance is quite good. Do you think this is not good luck or what? ?

But in today's improvisation, Lin Xing performed very well. Not to mention the literary scenes, Lin Xing performed just right, showing all the emotions of anger, sadness, confusion, etc. when he learned about his master's death. As for the fighting scenes, Lin Xing fought even more coolly, and this fighting scene was exactly what Li Jing wanted.

It was an improvised play, with 3 minutes of literary drama and 2 minutes of fighting scenes, and Lin Xing performed it almost in one go.

"it is good."

Li Jing said "OK".

He originally thought that Lin Xing was just being modest when he said that he had a foundation in martial arts, but he never expected that Lin Xing actually had a foundation in martial arts.

“Have you seen my play before??”

But Li Jing was still a little confused.

Because if Lin Xing only had a basic knowledge of kung fu, he wouldn't be able to perform this set of moves in one go.

To what extent will it reach?

Even in this scene, there were only two mistakes.

Xie Long and the others are fine, they are all the first batch of [Jingwu Hall] students invited and selected by Li Jing himself, and they have a very good understanding of each other during this period.

But how come Lin Xing has such good rapport with them? ?

What should I say? ?
It was as if Lin Xing had been working with them for many years.

So, Li Jing's first reaction was to wonder if Lin Xing had seen his play, and his second reaction was: "Ah Xing, have you worked with Xiaolong and the others?"

"I have seen your plays, Mr. Li, but I have never worked with Xie Long and his team, and this is the first time we have met..."

Lin Xing said hurriedly.

In fact, as early as when filming "Death Knell", Lin Xing had talked with Guo Teng about many issues regarding action guidance.

Especially regarding the fighting scenes' moves, and how to make the fighting scenes realistic, exciting, and exhilarating, etc., Lin Xing has gained some knowledge on these.

You have to know that different fields have different meanings. Action director is actually quite difficult. Even though action movies are not popular nowadays, action directors have always been in high demand.

Later, Lin Xing watched some wonderful action scenes, and he also learned something about action guidance.

The action directors back then were truly a battle of gods. Even though Li Jing was already so awesome, he lost too many times at the award ceremonies back then.

After all, there are too many great action directors, but now some of them have retired or passed away, and action directors are gradually no longer in everyone's attention.

Action movies are dead.

Kung Fu movies are dead.

The martial arts film is dead.

You have to know that Li Jing is already so awesome, but the action director Cheng An whom he admires the most is truly the ancestor of "action director".

Let's put it this way, in the field of 'action guidance', Li Jing can be said to be in the top 3, and others like Lu Jiu, Ping Jin and others can still compete for the top 2, but the real top 1 has always been Cheng An.

Whether it is based on seniority in the film industry, or the classic martial arts films in which Cheng An served as action director, he can be called the ancestor.

Cheng An has been retired for 15 years, but the "King of Martial Arts" he made before his retirement is still the last kung fu film, or the glory of martial arts films.

Because there hasn't been a good movie since "The Forbidden Kingdom".

It is precisely because of this that media people often interview Cheng An, and sometimes even when Cheng An attends award ceremonies, there are media people who want Cheng An to come out.

"Forget it. I can't save martial arts movies, and I can't save kung fu movies either. I've already retired from the martial arts world, so I shouldn't come out and embarrass myself."

"Even though you are looking forward to my release, I believe that if a movie I make doesn't perform well, you will be the ones who criticize me the most."

"Every generation has its own martial arts world. I believe that kung fu movies will not disappear. I also believe that martial arts movies will eventually revive, but that has nothing to do with me anymore."

……

I have to say that Cheng An is very open-minded. He is not like some people who say they have retired but actually come back to make films again within a few years. He really retires.

Later, Cheng An even stopped attending some award ceremonies.

It was really like a hero retiring, and there was no news about him.

But people increasingly felt that what Cheng An said was right, especially after the flop of "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China" directed by Li Jing, everyone felt that Cheng An was truly wise.

You should know that before the release of "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China", the media, marketing accounts, and even the industry regarded this movie as a savior.

After all, the entire film market has not had any kung fu movies for a long time, let alone martial arts films.

Under such circumstances, everyone really has high expectations for Li Jing's movie.

And the more crucial point is that this movie is quite awesome in terms of production and cast.

Some people even expected that the box office of this movie would start from 30 billion.

result.

Everyone knows about it.

Then, just as these people praised Li Jing for how powerful he was in the past, now these people are stepping on Li Jing just as harshly.

Many people even started to think that it was good that Cheng An didn't come out. What if Cheng An came out and his reputation was ruined? ? ?

In short, this movie "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China" basically welded the "martial arts films" and "action films" together.

Whether it is the industry, investment companies, or other people, everyone basically no longer has any hope for martial arts films, or action films.

As for Li Jing, he was obviously hit hard, otherwise he wouldn't have wondered yesterday why Lin Xing didn't want to do the action scenes.

"You said you've watched all the scenes where I acted as director?"

Li Jing asked Lin Xing in some surprise.

"Yes, not only you, but also the wonderful performances directed by Cheng An, Lu Jiu, Ping Jin and others..."

Lin Xing said: "But I don't have that much time, I basically just watch the highlights of Station B."

Li Jing frowned slightly: "Aren't you shooting a science fiction film? Even if a science fiction film needs action scenes, they can't account for too much of it, right?"

"Well, that's not necessary."

Lin Xing thought for a moment and said, "Besides, there aren't many real action scenes in this science fiction film, because they all require props..."

"I don't understand this. If that's the case, why are you working so hard?"

Li Jing was really a little curious, and as a person who had experienced it, he advised: "I don't mean anything else. I just think that there is no market for action movies and kung fu movies now. Aren't you just wasting your time?"

(End of this chapter)

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