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Chapter 166 Inspired by Long Ge's "Game of Death"

The news that Bruce Lee and Wang Xiaohu, master and apprentice, respectively defeated three masters in Japanese karate circles and made another master abstain was featured on TV Tokyo that night. In order to show great concern and interest in karate when Dragon and Tiger were promoting their new film in Japan, they impromptu had a friendly discussion with several players in the karate circle. made an immeasurable contribution.

Tampering has always been a tactic used by little Japanese. They tampered with their own history textbooks and did not recognize the war of aggression against China. The state apparatus was used to completely falsify the reports of all parties in the media, in order to achieve the purpose of deceiving ears and stealing bells.

For such things, Wang Xiaohu has seen a lot in his previous life, so after Zhao Yazhi translated it, he just complained a little, and didn't pursue anything further. After all, Little Japan has such awareness, and they will not be wrong. Admitting mistakes, when their prime minister still stared at the anger of the Asian people to pay homage to the gods, this kind of falsification of news reports is simply a child's play for them.

Seeing the indignation on the faces of Bruce Lee and Zhao Yazhi, Wang Xiaohu sighed and said, "Don't be angry, even if you are angry, it is useless. Although we have won, it is also a personal victory. Only the country is rich and the people are strong, no matter whether it is technology or military. All become stronger, and it is the kingly way to frighten the little Japanese with comprehensive strength."

Bruce Lee nodded thoughtfully. Don’t think that Bruce Lee’s liking for Japanese food negates his patriotism. After all, he also experienced the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in his childhood. That is, since then, he has hated the Japanese nation in his heart, which is also the main reason why he has conducted many karate discussions in the United States.These can be seen in many Cantonese films made by Bruce Lee from his childhood to before he left Hong Kong, such as "Lonely in the Sea of ​​People" and "Xiao Lu Xiang".

"Xiaohu is right." Bruce Lee nodded and stopped talking. After the victory, he was not ecstatic, but fell into a rather helpless depression.

After a long time, Wang Xiaohu said: "Brother Xiaolong, these international situations cannot be reversed by just a few of us. What we have to do is to make movies that shock the world, so that all foreigners will no longer peep at our Chinese movies. Use your fists to let the world know the pride of our Chinese people."

"Well, Xiaohu, after these two days of my travels in Japan, today's karate contest, and what you said just now, I want to shoot a movie that is completely my own style. How should I put it, I want to The best kung fu masters in the world gathered together to have an unlimited mixed martial arts." Bruce Lee was not sure about his idea: "Of course, this is mainly influenced by you, you once told me about MMA, Now I am yearning for that kind of fighting competition without restrictions, can you understand what I mean?"

I understand, what can I not understand!In Wang Xiaohu's mind, the movie "Game of Death" that was released four years after Bruce Lee's death came to mind. In 1977, Golden Harvest Film Company completed the reshoot of Bruce Lee's unfinished posthumous work "Game of Death" and named it "Game of Death". game". There is only one word difference between "Game of Death" and Bruce Lee's "Game of Death", but major changes have been made in the content. It broke Bruce Lee's original idea, and it was just a tool for Golden Harvest to use Bruce Lee's fame to earn box office.

Wang Xiaohu suddenly became excited. You must know that in his previous life, Bruce Lee and Warner Company went to India to film "The Silent Flute" and failed. He was also inspired by the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai". With unique thinking and insights, the shooting plan of "Game of Death" was born. In Bruce Lee's conception, "Game of Death" tells the story of a martial arts master and his companions bravely rushing to a high tower in order to win treasures and save people.Each floor of the tower is guarded by a top master representing different martial arts schools, and each master can put the passers-by to death.Therefore, breaking through the level has become a veritable death game. Every time a level breaker rushes to a level, it is like experiencing a death.

This is a grand plan. First of all, it must be able to fully display Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and Budo ideas; And fights are shown in front of the audience.In Bruce Lee's view, this will be an unprecedented Kung Fu blockbuster, and it will also be the last film he shoots in Hong Kong.In other words, in Bruce Lee's plan, after filming "Game of Death", he will bid farewell to Hong Kong and go to the United States again to continue his unfinished Hollywood dream.It's just that fate made a big joke with Bruce Lee. Before he could finish filming "Game of Death", he and Warner Bros. were busy filming "Enter the Dragon". Leave a lot of regrets and mysteries to future generations.

Now, perhaps just as Bruce Lee said just now, under the influence of Wang Xiaohu's daily intentional or unconscious influence on this great idea, coupled with the stimulation of today's martial arts competition, Bruce Lee had this crazy idea. How can you make Wang Xiaohu not excited? Not bloody!
"Brother Xiaolong, tell me about your general idea." Wang Xiaohu didn't rush to express the thoughts that had been brewing in his heart for half a year this time, but let Bruce Lee speak first.

Bruce Lee frowned and thought for a while before saying: "This idea is not very mature. Of course, it may be naive in the eyes of you, a screenwriter with a box office of 500 million."

"How can it be!" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile, "Hurry up and tell me, I want to hear." Zhao Yazhi felt very curious as he listened to the side, this was the first time he saw such a dislike for the script on Wang Xiaohu's face. With an expectant expression, she also became interested, but before Bruce Lee said his idea again, she went to bring two glasses of water, one for Bruce Lee and one for Wang Xiaohu.

Bruce Lee took it and said "thank you" before starting to say: "Well, let me first assume that there is a very tall pagoda with a treasure hidden in it for everyone. There is a pagoda on each floor. People with strong martial arts are guarding, and then the main character fights up from the first floor, passing through all levels to challenge kung fu masters from all over the world, and finally get the treasure, Xiaohu, do you think this idea is ridiculous?"

Bruce Lee's words are not very confident, the main reason is that Wang Xiaohu in front of him is the best script in Hong Kong, and the scripts of the two films he succeeded were written by the other party, so Bruce Lee showed a very humble attitude and asked for Wang Xiaohu's opinion .

Although he knew the plot of "Game of Death" early on, Wang Xiaohu still pretended to think about it seriously, and after thinking about it for a while, he pondered: "Well, Brother Xiaolong's idea is very good, and the framework of the story itself is very good. It has a very good appeal, and no one is shooting treasure-hunting-type movies now, and I think it will definitely trigger a trend of following the trend.” Wang Xiaohu’s following the trend is not chasing after the wind. After the game "gained a high box office, Hong Kong also appeared in such treasure-hunting movies as "Tower of Death" and so on. It was ruined by the Hong Kong people. The same plot, the same fighting style as Bruce Lee, and the bad tactics of changing the soup without changing the medicine, made Hong Kong people disappointed in kung fu movies.

"Really? Brother, do you think this kind of movie can be shot?" Bruce Lee seemed inspired.

Wang Xiaohu nodded vigorously and said, "Of course! Brother Xiaolong, I think the frame is very good. Are you going to do it yourself, or let me do it?"

"Are you referring to the script? Oh, of course you did it. You have to know that you are a screenwriter with a box office of 500 million. It would be a waste for me to let a big celebrity like you not use it!" Bruce Lee laughed and patted Wang Xiaohu on the shoulder. Said: "Brother, hurry up and conceive, I am very relieved about your script, and there are martial arts moves, you can come up with a draft for me as soon as possible, I can't wait."

Wang Xiaohu grinned bitterly when he heard the words: "Brother Xiaolong, do you think I'm a typewriter? I need time to conceive it!" This is not false at all, although Wang Xiaohu has a complete plot of "Game of Death" in mind , It is even possible to take out the original 47-minute "Game of Death" that Bruce Lee saw in his previous life, but he doesn't want to do this.

The original version of "Game of Death" strictly followed Bruce Lee's creative ideas back then, and the second half of the film's 47 minutes consisted entirely of shots shot by Bruce Lee's real body.In these 47 minutes, the first 38 minutes are three complete fighting scenes between Bruce Lee, Inosanto, Ji Hanzai, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the last 9 minutes are the filming highlights.The original Bruce Lee-style fighting and the hilarious NG extras make this 47-minute content the most widely circulated Bruce Lee movie clip.

However, Wang Xiaohu, who has been influenced by many martial arts and kung fu movies, does not want to repeat such plagiarism work. For the half of Bruce Lee's unfinished movie, he has a strong desire in his heart: if you don't do it, you can do it, if you do it, you have to make it into a movie. A classic, Bruce Lee's classic, my Wang Xiaohu's classic!
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