Rebirth 96: Begin the life of a monster from kindergarten

In early April, "The King of Kung Fu" was released in China.

When the film was on the road show in Quancheng, Zhang and his party attended the event as guests.

Because the film's publicity was strong enough, and the first collaboration between Li Lianjie and Cheng Long, the two kung fu superstars, was quite a gimmick, so in addition to the premiere, only a few key cities were arranged for the film's roadshow promotion.

Quancheng is one of them.

Cheng Long and Liu Yifei were doing promotional roadshows in northern cities, while Li Lienjie and other personnel were doing roadshows in southern cities. The troops were divided into two groups and had a leisurely schedule.

After the road show, Zhang and his party followed the creative staff back to the lounge.

After chatting with Liu Yifei and Cheng Long for a few words, he said goodbye and left.

"Hey, our group, I don't have any other activities planned next. I heard that you have set up a very interesting shooting base there. I want to take a look!"

Zhang and his party had just stood up when they heard Cheng Long make such a request.

For Cheng Long, even though his house is a little dilapidated more than ten years later, for people of Zhang Yixing's age, Cheng Long is definitely one of the most important memories of the movie he watched since childhood.

Each generation has its favorite stars.

More than ten years later, many movie audiences of the new generation no longer know who the Four Heavenly Kings Cheng Long and Zhou Xingxing are, and the movies they made gradually no longer have the influence they have today.

Who would have thought at this time that a movie starring Andy Lau would be withdrawn due to being unable to compete with other competitors?

Many millennials asked questions under their short movie videos: Who is this old man? Not handsome at all!

But now, Cheng Long is still the eldest brother in the industry. He has earned a reputation with his life and injuries. Even foreign audiences give him a thumbs up.

Hearing Cheng Long's request, Zhang and his party nodded and replied: "Welcome to you!"

Liu Yifei also smiled: "I'll go too!"

Chen Ru thought the matter was settled and quickly sent a message to Dream Weaver Culture so that they could prepare.

Zhang and his party led Cheng Long, Liu Yifei and others out of the cinema, and then took a bus to Yueshan.

But after an hour and a half of driving, there was just enough time for small talk.

After arriving at DreamWeaver Culture, Cheng Long directly asked to visit the filming base first.

"How about taking a rest first?" Zhang Yixing suggested.

"No, let's take a rest after seeing the shooting base!"

Seeing Cheng Long's insistence, Zhang and his party asked people to lead the way and went straight to the shooting base, which were several large studios built by Zhumeng Visual Effects.

"Is this a shooting base built in cooperation with Cameron? Is this the technology from Chou Country?" Looking at the busy staff and various shooting machines in the studio, Cheng Long walked behind a camera and took a few glances , couldn’t help but ask.

Zhang Yixing nodded, "Yes, Chou Country has synchronized shooting technology!"

Cheng Long nodded and looked at the video image presented by the motion capture technology. Suddenly he fumbled in his pocket, took out a pair of glasses and put them on, then continued to stare at the screen. Zhang Yixing and Liu Yifei looked at each other, a little surprised.

Cheng Long's body seemed to be a little rickety at this moment, and he no longer looked like the Kung Fu superstar in the movie who seemed to be able to jump from mountains to buildings and planes.

The reality is that after Cheng Long finished filming "The King of Kung Fu", he took on the next movie "Shinjuku Incident". In this movie, he played an old man who didn't know Kung Fu and started his own transformation. do.

After staring at the screen for three or four minutes, Cheng Long shook his head and straightened up. Seeing Zhang and his party looking at him, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Old, old, my eyes are a little blurry. I guess it won't be good in the future." It’s an action movie!”

Pointing to the machine in front of him again, Cheng Long sighed and said to Zhang Yixing: "When I first went to Hollywood, when I saw the machines used by Ugly Filmmakers, I felt like a country bumpkin had entered the city. We didn't have any!"

"What should I do if I don't have any? Try your best! When actors from Ugly Kingdom shoot jumping off buildings, they only need to set up a green screen and the person jumps twice on the green screen. Finally, after post-production, the effect is almost the same as our real jumping off buildings. Sometimes it is even better than the real one. The action is even more exciting! This is actually quite sad and pitiful!”

Hitting his waist hard, Cheng Long said with a smile: "It almost broke here. If it weren't for nothing, who would be willing to shoot like this, or his life would be lost! The so-called pursuit of real effects is just that the technology is not as good as others. It’s just a helpless choice!”

Listening to Cheng Long's chatter, Zhang and his party couldn't help but think of the scene of Xiaomi adding rifles to fight against Chou country's aircraft and cannons. They were both inferior in skills and had to fight hard. It wasn't that they didn't want to choose, but that they had no choice!

After leaving this studio, several people went to visit other studios.

Cheng Long seemed to be in a particularly excited mood, just like a child seeing a favorite toy. He would look at this one, touch that one, and even put on motion capture equipment to do a drunken fist fight.

After seeing the action images on the computer screen, Cheng Long nodded with satisfaction and took off his equipment with the help of the staff.

"High technology, an old guy like me can't handle it!" Cheng Long laughed, his iconic big nose twitching.

He was a little excited. There are also good special effects companies in Xiangjiang, but compared to Hollywood and Japan, there is still a huge gap.

And Cameron almost represents the highest level of American film production technology.

After visiting all the studios, Zhang and his party left with a reluctant Cheng Long.

On the way back to the Dream Weaver Courtyard, Cheng Long remained silent until he walked into the courtyard. Cheng Long suddenly said: "Yixing, I have a merciless request. I hope you can consider it!"

Zhang Yixing said: "Just say it!"

Cheng Long smiled sheepishly, "Well, if you have a suitable movie script in the future that can use these advanced shooting technologies, I hope you can consider asking me to film it. It doesn't matter if it's not a kung fu movie. I'm quick anyway." I can’t get enough. As for the salary, it doesn’t matter how much I pay, I’ll try my best, haha~!”

Seeing that Cheng Long seemed to be serious, Zhang and his party couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Cheng Long himself is quite influential in Chou Country. If he has the script and technical support from Dreamweaver Culture, he may be able to surprise the film market.

The movie that I plan to make recently is "The Martian", and I'm currently considering starring in it!
Being older is not a problem. After all, Cheng Long is now in his fifties, so it's not a big exaggeration. He can also look younger with makeup, which fits the character of the protagonist.

Once this idea came up, Zhang and his party felt that Cheng Long was more suitable, not to mention that Cheng Long could really support the movie box office by himself, not only domestically, but also abroad.

Seeing that Zhang Yixin didn't speak, Cheng Long thought that Zhang Yixin wanted to reject him but was embarrassed, so he couldn't help but smile heartily, "If you are in trouble, just pretend that I never said this!"

Zhang Yixing came back to his senses, shook his head and said: "It's not difficult, I just suddenly remembered that there is a movie waiting to be shot. It depends on whether you are interested, Brother Cheng Long!" (End of Chapter)