new kung fu king

Chapter 501 The most difficult action design in "Myth"

In the conference room of Xiehe Film Company, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Yuan Kui, Yuan De, Yuan Bin, Yuan Hua and other Seven Little Fu brothers and Yuan Heping are having a heated discussion. The focus of the discussion is naturally the action design of "Myth". In the previous half a month, they completed the design of the basic martial arts movements in "Mythology", except for the design of the big scenes in the two wars.

As the executive martial arts instructor of "Mythology", Yuan Heping was arguing with Sammo Hung with his eyes wide open.

"Sanmao, although the movements you designed are very imposing, and the general's movements are also very beautiful, but don't forget the fact that there were no stirrups in the Qin Dynasty, so the cavalry in the Qin Dynasty could only act as spies. What you proposed Immediately, fighting with swords against spears cannot appear in the movie!"

Both of them are among the top directors in Hong Kong. Sammo Hung was definitely not happy when Yuan Heping shamelessly overthrew his actions that he had pondered for several days. He stood up and stared at Yuan Heping with the same eyes, waving his fat hands back and forth: Does he have stirrups? When we make movies, we only care about whether the action scenes are good-looking. Ahu has said that as long as the scenes are grand and the actions are enjoyable, we can adjust and modify them appropriately!"

"If there were stirrups, Qin Shihuang would have led the Qin Dynasty's iron cavalry to break through the Qiang people and go straight to the Western Regions. The territory of the Qin Dynasty must be larger than in history, just like the unrealistic tool that appeared in the Qin Dynasty. Pistol, you There is no respect for history!"

"We are making a movie, not real history. If everyone thinks you are so fussy, then the movie can't be made!" Sammo Hung threw the script on the table and said angrily.

"This is tampering with history. If foreigners see this obvious mistake, they will laugh at our lack of respect for history, and they will say, look, the movies made by the Chinese themselves are not rigorous!" Yuan Heping was not convinced, Hong Focus on sticking to your point of view.

"Dayan, please don't be so rigid, okay, we are making movies, not doing historical research."

When Sammo Hung slapped the table, the loud sound was extremely ear-piercing in the meeting room. Seeing that the two of them were about to escalate from quarreling to martial arts, other brothers hurried over to persuade them.

"Eldest brother, calm down!" Jackie Chan tugged Sammo Hung who was eager to try.

"Big Eye, sit down quickly, sit down and have a sip of herbal tea." Yuan Hua pulled Yuan Heping to the other side of the table, and quickly poured him a cup of herbal tea.

"That's right, calm down, since Ahu entrusted us with this difficult task, it is trust in us, we should kindly hand over the work to Ahu, this is the attitude of doing things, everyone Listen to my words, first sort out the action design plans that have no differences, and count the areas where there are differences so that Ah Hu can make up his mind."

Even though Yuan Hua was not as popular as everyone present in the movies, he was also the second senior brother in the Seven Little Fortunes, and everyone was willing to buy him. The noisy conference room finally quieted down.

While persuading Yuan Heping, Yuan Hua ran to do ideological work for Sammo Hung, sweating profusely from work, and when the meal was delivered at noon, Yuan Hua was already tired and rolled his eyes.

"Ah Hu, this is the action plan made by everyone this morning. More than [-]% of it has been finalized. Big Eye and Sanmao have disputes over the rest, and they are almost about to do it." Yuan Hua sorted it out before eating. Yuan Heping or Sammo Hung should have done the work, but now both of them are sulking and no one wants to come, so the second senior brother has to work hard.

"Do it?" Wang Xiaohu chuckled: "Both of them are not impulsive people, why did they almost do it?"

Yuan Hua hurriedly talked about what happened in the meeting room in the morning, then grabbed the red bean soup on Wang Xiaohu's table and poured it into his mouth, but the red bean soup was too hot, so Yuan Hua stuck out his tongue, "Huh~ It's too hot!"

"Ha, Ah Zhi just delivered it, I want to wait for it to cool down before drinking it, who made you rush." ​​Wang Xiaohu smiled and put the motion design plan on the table, stood up and patted Yuan Hua who was still sticking out his tongue and said : "Let's go, stop making funny faces here, let's go over and adjust."

The restaurant of Xiehe Company is definitely not a class higher than your TVB. The main reason is that the employees of the company are all gluttons, especially the sisters Xia Houmo and Xia Houjue. For this reason, Wang Xiaohu also went to the restaurant to eat a few times, and found that this phenomenon did exist, so he invited a few chefs from the restaurant of the Long family to sit in charge, and no one raised any opinions in the future.

Usually, the employees had to finish their work all morning with great difficulty, so they would naturally chatter and chatter during meals, but something was wrong today. The most noisy Xiahou sisters were also hiding in the corner to eat obediently at this time, and there were more than a dozen people sitting in the middle , all around them are empty seats.

These dozen or so are of course Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, all of them are popular movie stars or famous directors, and they treat people kindly and kindly, but when they came to eat today, the attentive staff found that they were not talking and laughing like before When they came in, Sammo Hung and Yuan Heping had pale faces, while Jackie Chan and the others stood nervously between them, as if the smell of gunpowder permeated.

This extremely oppressive atmosphere was not relieved until Wang Xiaohu and Yuan Hua walked into the restaurant.

"Ha, I said Big Eye, San Mao, what are you two doing staring here without eating?"

Sitting down in the middle, Wang Xiaohu saw Sammo Hung and Yuan Heping looking at each other with chopsticks in their hands. The rice and vegetables in the rice bowls had been messed up by the two.

"Hmph!" Yuan Heping turned his head aside, and Sammo Hung simply threw his chopsticks on the dining table, pointed at Yuan Heping and said, "It's all him, he's so stubborn that he's not in the mood to eat."

"You still say to me that something that didn't exist in history, you have to make a mess, and you won't be laughed out of your teeth when it's filmed!" Yuan Heping is not a vegetarian either. He complained to Wang Xiaohu immediately when he complained about Sammo Hung.

"We're making movies, not archaeology!"

"Ahu said that this movie must respect history, otherwise would it still be filmed in mainland China?"

"What does this have to do with framing!"

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The two exchanged glances at each other, slapped the table, stared and blushed, and everyone in the restaurant stopped to watch them lose their temper.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaohu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he knocked on the table and said, "Okay, okay, you two are my right-hand men, and you can be regarded as the elders of the company, don't you be afraid of embarrassment when you are arguing in front of a group of employees, please sit down for me."

Wang Xiaohu didn't speak, but when he spoke, Sammo Hung, who was the most troublesome, immediately lost his temper, sat down, and vented his anger at the rice bowl. Yuan Heping also sat down angrily, picking up the food in the bowl with chopsticks in a daze.

"Grandma, eat, who will ruin the food and school rules!" Wang Xiaohu finished this sentence with a straight face, took Xinsheng's rice from Jackie Chan, chewed and ate it slowly, and at the same time put a piece of rice for the two of them Cai, "After dinner, you two come to my office."

Sammo Hung and Yuan Heping didn't eat at all, and walked into the office anxiously. They knew that Wang Xiaohu was angry just now. In recent years, he mentioned that the company should be united and united, and The two had a quarrel because of work matters. If it got out, there would be no face for Xiehe Company and Seven Little Fortunes.

Wang Xiaohu looked at the two with their heads down, "Stop arguing?"

"Hmm." They both said at the same time.

"Sit down." After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he picked up the revised action plan and said to Sammo Hung: "Sanmao, do you still remember what I said at the mobilization meeting?"

Sammo Hung scratched his head and said, "You said that the film we are going to shoot this time is not looking for box office, but to enter Hollywood and promote oriental culture."

"Very good, it's good that you haven't forgotten." Wang Xiaohu nodded and said, "In the past, what I told you were all about the operation elements of commercial films. In the past few years, we have also adopted a business model in Xiehe. These commercial elements include kung fu, funny, Adventure, excitement or horror, etc., audiences can find things that they recognize or are familiar with in the movie, which resonates with them, and this is the main factor to measure the success of a commercial film.”

"But what we want to shoot this time is not just a commercial film, but to accommodate elements such as oriental military, history, and art, so to some extent, we are not allowed to be sloppy." Wang Xiaohu said here Paused, thought for a while and continued: "I told Big Eyes at the beginning: Try to reproduce the momentum of the Qin Dynasty army, and we are not allowed to deviate too much from history in terms of military clothing, weapons, and props. So I It supports big eyes."

Hong Jinbao was immediately dejected when he heard the words, and sighed heavily, with a particularly lonely expression, while Yuan Heping beside him was beaming with joy, secretly complacent in his heart, when he heard Wang Xiaohu say: "Big Eye, don't be too happy It's too late, although you insisted on my policy, you forgot another entrustment of mine."

"What entrustment?" Yuan Heping asked with big eyes.

"I told you that when you encounter disagreements, you should try to avoid quarrels, because quarrels will only make things worse, and will not help solve the problem at all." Wang Xiaohu said: "You should avoid quarrels calmly, use More direct and beneficial knowledge resolves conflicts, just like how I got along with Brother Xiaolong back then."

Everyone knows Bruce Lee's temper back then. He was called a tyrant by the crew during the filming of "Way of the Dragon", but when he worked with Wang Xiaohu, Wang Xiaohu always had a way to calm down his anger, and he would The problem is explained from multiple perspectives. The advantage of this is that the two of them have almost never blushed in their work.

Yuan Heping frowned for a long time before saying, "Well, I will pay attention next time. Sanmao, I have a bad temper today, and my attitude was very bad when I spoke to you. Please forgive me."

Hong Jinbao grinned and scratched his head and said, "It's all because of my bad temper. I'm also to blame for today's incident. I didn't understand Ah Hu's request. I'm sorry."

Although Yuan Heping was reasonable about this matter, through Wang Xiaohu's words just now, he realized that there were deficiencies in his work, especially when he was working with people of the same level or higher than his own level, he was not good at handling things. There is still some lack of experience.He knew that the more it was like this, the more he should lower his posture and take the initiative to shake hands with Hong Jinbao. After all, Ah Hu had already given the steps, so he had to borrow the slope to go down the donkey, right?

There was a burst of hearty laughter in the office. After the laugh, Wang Xiaohu greeted the two of them to the table and said, "I will handle the rest of Qin Chao's action design in the script. Here is the current part of the script. You are all experts, and the purpose of designing movements is: to embody traditional Chinese martial arts and modern free fighting in Hong Kong, and to have a clear distinction from the martial arts of the Qin Dynasty."

Yuan Heping glanced at the script quickly, "This princess also knows kung fu?"

"Of course, there was Mulan who joined the army in place of her father in ancient times. It's not a big deal for a princess to know how to be a woman, but don't be too strong. It's enough to be able to defend herself. What's more, it mainly reflects the princess's familiarity with the various organs of the Qinhuangling Mausoleum. .” Wang Xiaohu said.

"Uh, isn't it a little high?" Sammo Hung mused, "This scene was quite difficult to shoot. It had to show the beautiful images of ancient beauties flying into the sky, as well as mergers of free fighting and traditional martial arts. Ah Hu, do you feel that the mainland Which national art is better to use here?"

"Tai Chi!" Wang Xiaohu said without hesitation: "Just use Tai Chi, preferably Chen Style Tai Chi."

After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he looked at Yuan Heping with a smile. You must know that Baye Yuan was a Tai Chi professional in his previous life. The famous "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" and "The Master of Tai Chi" were written by Yuan Baye.

It's just that Yuan Heping is not an experienced Yuan Baye, but I believe that after the filming of "Mythology", he will be very interested in Chinese martial arts.

"Ah Hu, the difficulty is so high, and it also involves Qimen Dunjia Mechanism!" Yuan Heping didn't know that Wang Xiaohu was looking at him, but the more he read the script, the longer his embarrassment became, and finally he became bitter. "I started as a martial arts director, and this is the most complicated and difficult film I have ever encountered."

"That's right, Tai Chi from the north, free fighting from Hong Kong, what kind of martial arts are good for women from the Qin Dynasty?" Sammo Hung was also pondering.

Wang Xiaohu didn't answer either, just smiled and looked at the two frowning worriedly.

"Ahu, how about, why don't we make it simple?" Yuan Heping raised his head and asked.

"How simple?"

"Well, do you think this is possible? Anyway, the real Qinhuangdao in your script is suspended, and people can float around in it. Let's transform the ancient princess into the appearance of Chang'e flying to the moon, which is in line with Chinese legends. , and it can fit the title of the film, and it can also cover up the shortcomings of the princess who is not very good at kung fu."

"Ha, Big Eye, it seems that you are indeed a genius as an action director. You have figured out all of this. Very good, let's make it look like Chang'e flying to the moon. Go and design these actions boldly!"
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I just got the news this afternoon that Bai Yunsheng, the author of "Entertainment Apprentice" and "Ace Director", was hospitalized due to illness, and will have surgery in the near future. I called Xiaobai to check. Hey, I used to wonder why he stopped changing , It turned out to be hospitalized, pray for him.

(End of this chapter)