new kung fu king

Chapter 132 Ambition
As expected, "Water Margin", which gathered Shaw Brothers' super lineup, really lived up to expectations. It won a box office of 40 in the first three days. The method of the restaurant is to build a Shaw Brothers "Five Tigers" teahouse near the Shaw Brothers studio. Fans who like the Five Tigers (Chen Guantai replaced Wang Yu who left) can not only go to the teahouse to enjoy authentic tea, and even get to pass a lottery. Waiting for ways to visit the set and watch the idol filming process.

"Ha, Shao Sixth Uncle is indeed a business genius. I have never thought of using a lottery to mobilize the enthusiasm of movie fans. It seems that this time Shao has really put in painstaking efforts!" Wang Xiaohu looked at the purchase with relish while drinking tea. newspaper.This time, Shaw Brothers seemed to be at the same level as Golden Harvest. After the release of "Water Margin", major mainstream media newspapers in Hong Kong rushed to publish various achievements of "Water Margin", such as box office, extension of the release period, etc., using data to declare Seeing that his position as the leader cannot be shocked.

Of course, not all newspapers are singing praises. For example, Zhang Meijuan, a female reporter from "Hong Kong Women's Daily" who was once "molested" by Wang Xiaohu, raised her objection this time: "Water Margin" feels extremely extreme at first glance. Novel, but after I walked out of the theater, I felt a lot of confusion. The whole story denounced blood and violence, especially when the familiar heroes of the Water Margin broke through Zengtou City and killed all the way without prejudice, I couldn't help but think of it. With the events that happened in Temple Street before, I kept asking myself, what is the central idea of ​​"Water Margin" to tell the audience? Is it advocating revenge and wanton killing like the heroes in the film? The image of a hero in your mind?
"Tsk tsk, this female reporter is eloquent, and she thinks far, not bad!" Seeing this, Wang Xiaohu gave Zhang Meijuan a thumbs up in his heart.

This opinion is unique, although it did not directly tell everyone that this film is not nutritious, but it also vaguely expressed the meaning that Wang Xiaohu analyzed in his mind: applying the usual methods to the villain, the effect is often counterproductive, you see Didn't reporter Zhang just feel that the villain's death was very heroic, and that the people in the protagonist's camp were cold-blooded and ruthless and too violent?
Wang Xiaohu is now a little bit aggrieved by Jiang Dawei and others. After all, as actors signed by Shaw Brothers, they do not have the right to choose films, and they often have to succumb to the coercion of the director and boss. If you want to make a movie, you don't know how much influence a good script can have on an actor's career. Don't you see that Chow Yun-fat didn't pick up scripts indiscriminately and eventually became box office poison?
Hey, why did I think of Chow Yun-fat again? Wang Xiaohu scratched his head in distress. In fact, he could vaguely understand why Chow Yun-fat did that. If it wasn't for raising his salary, the other possibility was to get his attention and achieve another goal. The purpose, such as entering the film and television industry or something.

However, Wang Xiaohu doesn't like his current state of mind. Although he knows that Fa Ge will be very attractive in the future, and his salary ranks among the top three Asian actors, but now he is just a waiter, and he still needs to be tempered in life to grow. There is no rush.

The weather in Hong Kong in early April has begun to show signs of early summer. Hong Kong citizens have also changed into cooler clothes, or go outing in groups of three or four, or organize some activities.

Wang Xiaohu's daily life is extremely fulfilling. During the day, the editor does the final editing of the film, integrating the dialogue recordings of the actors, the background music of the whole film, episodes, and ending songs. At night, he goes to the abandoned factory to teach Zhou Xingchi Wing Chun, At the same time, I will also give classes to Yuan Heping, Yuen Biao and others, and arrange some normal rehearsal routines, anyway, I will not let them idle.

Zhang Yuan has also been discharged from the hospital, but he has been injured for [-] days. His right arm can only be hung with a plaster cast, and he cannot do some normal activities. He usually learns from Wang Jiaxin, as if he is humbly eager to learn. Apprentice look.Although Wang Jiaxin is more than ten years older than him, he is surprisingly good-natured, so he is naturally willing to teach hard-working apprentices.

"Brother Xin, A Yuan, this is a sketch of a camera lift I designed. Do you see any difficulty?" The blueprint Wang Xiaohu showed them was the sketch of the remote control camera lift that he had mentioned to Yuan Heping before. However, the current technology has not yet developed to that point, so I have to make a part of it first.

Wang Jiaxin took the blueprint and thought for a moment, then said: "Director Wang, I have never touched the remote control device. I need to study it before I can give you the result, but it doesn't matter. This thing can be replaced by gears or other equipment. I'll give it a week, and I'll show you a model when the time comes."

"That's really great." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile, "Brother Xin, you've worked hard."

"Hey, Director Wang, you are so polite. Since I followed you, my old Wang feels full of vitality and has the momentum to show off his skills. Many things that I wanted to do before have no conditions, but now I want to do them." Just because I'm afraid of wasting money." Wang Jiaxin said excitedly.

Wang Xiaohu stroked his chin, looked at Wang Jiaxin and asked, "Oh? What do you want to do?"

Wang Jiaxin pointed her fingers like a few treasures and said: "Well, for example, the explosion scene is mainly used in the directional blasting scene, but the current bomb is not very stable, and sometimes it will inevitably cause the actors to be injured. Many directors are taboo. On the one hand, they stopped letting me try it after I did it once, forgot to tell you, I used to be a dedicated demolitionist, and then I went to the set to do fireworks and lighting for a few years"

Wang Jiaxin's words made Wang Xiaohu's mind flash brightly. He remembered the explosive stunts in "Super Cop", "Thunderbolt", "Bloodfire" and so on in his previous life. As we all know, after Hong Kong movies entered the Jackie Chan era, they immediately Playing adventurous action scenes, in order to pursue reality, the actions are often very evil, dangerous, and desperate. I am afraid that the explosion scenes are used the most. Sometimes there are real explosions. The distance between people and bombs is very close, so I have a family There are often several white cars parked outside Ben's studio on standby (white cars are ambulances, people who shoot action movies like to call them that.).

There were not many explosive scenes in Hong Kong movies in the 70s, and Wang Jiaxin in front of him turned out to be such a rare talent, so he had to be trained and trained by Wang Xiaohu. Wang Xiaohu suppressed his excitement and asked in a tentative tone: "Brother Xin Can you play flying cars?"

"I've played it, but I can't go out these two times. A few young friends I know are very good at it. Let me introduce it to Director Wang sometime?" Wang Jiaxin replied honestly. (That who, the friend who played stunts in the top post is about to appear, leave a comment in the book review area after seeing it.)
"Okay, don't be in a hurry, you and A Yuan will study this blueprint first, and ask me for how much money you need." Wang Xiaohu said without hesitation, if it can improve the shooting effect, he doesn't care about spending some money. Because there are too many classic Kung Fu movies in his mind to shoot, but the current equipment cannot meet his requirements, he had to do it himself to promote the development of the process.If possible, he would like to set off a wave of computer stunts, but the current computers are too bulky, and it is estimated that they are not as useful as a typewriter.

What is lacking these days is talents like Wang Jiaxin. Shaw Brothers is now holding training courses to reserve talents for the future. Who would have thought that TVB, a self-produced and self-used star training base, would support Hong Kong in the future, or in other words It is half of the entire Chinese performing arts circle. .Although the talents of the first and second rounds were not very outstanding, they had already made a good start.

Wang Xiaohu felt that he couldn't keep repeating this process of suddenly discovering talents. After all, it was too long and too far away. In order to realize the dream in his heart, he had to speed up the development of certain things. "Well, if Uncle Shao can organize a training class for wireless artists, I will create a training class for dragon and tiger martial artists. He will send actors to the Hong Kong film industry, and we will send martial arts instructors, stunt performers, etc., against Uncle Shao!"

I don’t know if it’s because he’s tired of being bullied by the two giants of Golden Harvest or Shaw Brothers, or because Wang Xiaohu’s heart is moved when he sees Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow in the future. In short, this afternoon he made this film that affects Hong Kong and even the world. The decision of development, he wants to stand up, he wants to be strong not only for money, but also to achieve the goal in his heart.

Wang Xiaohu is very clear that it will take a long time to promote this process, and it needs a lot of contacts and money to maintain it, so he is not in a hurry now, he is still young, he is still a reborn person, and he will move in that general direction in the future. What he has to do now is to gain a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film industry and accumulate funds for his squandering and experimentation.

With the surge in his heart, Wang Xiaohu took a taxi back to Jiahe's editing room and continued to immerse himself in the crazy work. It was this kind of ambition that made him enter the best state of creation. Scenes of classics flowed out of his hands: the gangster appeared in a cool suit, the gangster wore sunglasses, and when he appeared on the stage, he edited fast and slow motion, interspersed with close-up shots and large panoramas. Surprised.

"Hey, Boss Zou, I want to talk to you about the release of the new movie. Well, you're on the set, that's great. I'll have an interview with you later." After Wang Xiaohu hung up the phone, the corners of his mouth curled up stand up
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