new kung fu king

Chapter 555 The National Selection of "Shaolin Temple" Actors

As Wang Xiaohu said, when Donnie Yen called his parents, he immediately felt relieved when he heard Yuan Heping's brother Wang Xiaohu.

For no other reason, Mai Baochan had heard of Wang Xiaohu's personality for a long time.

Mai Baochan is the first Chinese to open a school in the United States under the name of "Wushu".For more than ten years, she has explored the connotation of martial arts culture overseas through teaching, publishing, and performances, and her peaches and plums have spread all over the world.Taught for many years at Boston University, she made martial arts an official physical education course for credit at American universities.

In a sense, Mai Baochan, Bruce Lee, Wang Xiaohu and others are all on the road of promoting Chinese martial arts, but she is more pragmatic, telling foreigners what martial arts is through her own words and deeds.

From another angle, Bruce Lee and Wang Xiaohu used movies to promote the concept of Chinese Kung Fu to the world. Their influence is far greater than that of Mai Baochan, and in recent years, Wang Xiaohu has broken away from the narrowness of purely promoting martial arts. Mai Baochan admires it very much for sublimating it to the lofty level of promoting Chinese culture.

Moreover, Mai Baochan also knew that Wang Xiaohu had a good character. After Bruce Lee passed away, he took the burden of taking care of Bruce Lee's wife and children, and left a good reputation in the martial arts and film and television circles. After he became famous, he did not forget Taking care of his fellow brothers and sisters, he is righteous, respects the old and loves the young, and his movies are very influential in the world. If his son hangs around with him, there will be no problems.

Mai Baochan said on the phone: "Danny, obediently follow your Uncle Wang, be obedient, and don't make trouble for Uncle Wang, you know?"

Donnie Yen, who has always been against his parents, gave a rare hum this time, "I see."

Before closing the line, Mai Baochan did not forget to ask: "By the way, what movie is he going to shoot this time?"

Donnie Yen said with some embarrassment: "It seems to be about Shaolin Temple. Mom, do you think he will ask me to shave my head?"

"Hehe, you can deal with it according to your needs, Danny, you are already 18 years old, you are a big kid, you should make up your own mind."

Mai Baochan said with a smile on the phone, she has always been worried about her son's situation in China, and now she is fine, Wang Xiaohu picked her son away, as long as she is with Wang Xiaohu, Mai Baochan feels a big stone in her heart She put it down safely, then picked up the phone and called Yuan Heping, who was far away in Hong Kong, and asked him to help take care of his son.

Poor parents in the world.

When Donnie Yen finished making overseas calls, he happened to see Wang Xiaohu holding two hamburgers in his hand, and he immediately smiled happily.

"Here, I just asked the driver to buy it at BJ's restaurant, eat it while it's hot." Wang Xiaohu handed over the hamburger in his hand.

Donnie Yen chuckled, subconsciously wiped his nose again, grinned in embarrassment halfway through, stepped forward to take the hamburger and devoured it.

"It's delicious, I haven't had it for almost three months." Donnie Yen said while eating.

"Eat slowly, the hamburgers made by BJ's restaurant are not very good, and the taste is not pure. When I take you back to Hong Kong in a few days, you can eat as much as you want." Wang Xiaohu said.

Donnie Yen wiped out a hamburger in less than a minute, took a sip of boiled water and burped comfortably, "Uncle Wang, how did you know I wanted a hamburger? Also, how did you know me?" ?”

The matter of the hamburger was learned by Wang Xiaohu from a certain interview program of Donnie Yen. He has forgotten the specific time. Anyway, Donnie Yen said that he had a miserable life in the BJ martial arts team and complained that the diet of the martial arts team was poor, which made him unable to adapt. Yunyun, he also said that if he wants to eat a hamburger in BJ, he needs to walk two kilometers, and he can buy two at the BJ restaurant for 10 yuan.

Of course, Wang Xiaohu would not tell him the truth, but replied selectively: "I heard from Yuan Heping in the early years that his sister's good friend had a very naughty son who didn't study the piano well all day long, and didn't take lessons well. Biansheng likes to fight with bad kids in Chinatown, so he has a headache and wants to send him to China to be disciplined."

Upon hearing this, Donnie Yen lowered his head in embarrassment, because Wang Xiaohu was talking about his depraved youth.

I heard Wang Xiaohu continue to say: "As for the hamburger, it's actually easy to explain. Since you are Jet Li's fellow apprentice, I know all about Jet Li's food in the BJ Wushu team. For you who grew up in the United States As a child, the food here will definitely not get you used to it, so I feel like you need it."

"Well, do you have any questions?" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

Donnie Yen was holding another hamburger that had not been torn off the wrapping paper, and his heart was warm. To be honest, it has been almost two years since he came to BJ, and Wang Xiaohu was the first one who cared about him so much. Moved by tears, he raised his hand and wiped his nose with his thumb, then raised his head and smiled and said, "Uncle Wang, you won't let me shave my head and play a monk?"

"Hahaha!" Wang Xiaohu laughed, raised his hand and squeezed Donnie Yen's long hair and said, "It's not easy to keep such long hair. If you are really willing to shave it off, I have no problem. If you are not willing, I won’t let you act in Shaolin Temple.”

"Why? Didn't you choose me to shoot Shaolin Temple?" Donnie Yen asked with a frown.

"Do you really want to act?" Wang Xiaohu crossed his shoulders and looked at him with a smile. Seeing that Donnie Yen could not make up his mind for a moment, he said, "Danny, listen to me, Shaolin Temple is not suitable for you. Your specialty is real kung fu. The kind that punches to the flesh, just like Brother Xiaolong!"

Donnie Yen was a little disappointed, but after hearing about real kung fu, about punching to the flesh, and hearing about Bruce Lee, his eyes lit up with hope again.

After patting him on the shoulder, Wang Xiaohu said: "Let's go, follow me to the hotel, have a good rest, and then follow me to several other provinces to select actors for Shaolin Temple."

"Yeah." Donnie Yen bit his lip, clutching the hamburger that was still hot in his hand, followed behind Wang Xiaohu with his head down and full of thoughts.

Wang Xiaohu's work will become a little busy in the next few days. Xiaosun drove him, Zhao Gang, and Donnie Yen to Shandong, and first went to Shandong. Yu Hai, who will be the captain and head coach of the Shandong Wushu Team Poach away.

Such abnormal behavior made Yu Hai confused. He said to Wang Xiaohu: "Mr. Wang, don't you want young players, can someone like me who is almost 40 do it?"

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "Who said there are only young monks in Shaolin Temple, there must be old monks, right? Otherwise, who would lead the young monks to practice!"

"Uh!" Yu Hai was at a loss for words.

Yu Hai's hair is very thin, and he doesn't need to shave his head at all. He is a typical middle-aged monk who plays the role of a monk, and this "monk" is very talented.

Yu Hai was born in Yantai, Shandong in 1942. In 1954, he became a teacher of Mr. Lin Jingshan, the master of Qixing Mantis Boxing, and learned authentic Mantis Boxing. His technical achievements were recruited by the SD Provincial Sports Technical College, and he became a national official martial arts athlete. From then on, he began his glorious martial arts career.

From 1958 to 1966, represented the Wushu Team of SD Province in all major competitions held in East China and the whole country.He has won many championships in fencing, cudgel, mantis boxing and all-around.He was a famous Chinese martial arts athlete at that time.

Later, he accompanied Prime Minister of the Communist Party of China and Foreign Minister Chen Yi to visit Myanmar. After 1964, he served as the coach and captain of the Chinese Wushu delegation for many times, and visited more than 30 countries including the United States, France, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Tanzania, and Somalia.Wherever he went, he received a heroic welcome and became an excellent performance for the delegation.It has made due contributions to the mutual understanding and friendship between the Chinese people and people from all over the world.

"Then, what about my team members?"

Yu Hai stroked his sparse hair and asked disappointedly. After all, everyone had been waiting for this day for a long time. After Wang Xiaohu came, he didn't even watch the performances of the team members. He directly let himself, the head coach, act in the film. How could there be such a wicked thing? what.

Wang Xiaohu looked at these team members with a smile, shook his head and said, "Old Yu, let everyone go away, and if there are other roles in the future, I will choose them again, don't worry, as long as the filming of "Shaolin Temple" is completed, these boys Don’t worry about having no way out.”

"Okay! You can do whatever you want." Yu Hai stomped his feet and went up to comfort the boys and girls, saying that Mr. Wang said that there would be opportunities in the future, so the team members reluctantly left.

Everyone was about to leave when they heard a hurried voice outside the Provincial Gymnasium: "Wait, wait, there are still people who want to apply."

I saw the curator of the gymnasium running over with an "old man" with a long beard. The unselected team members were overjoyed when they saw it. You said that none of us young people were selected. What kind of excitement are you "old man" coming over? what.

"Yu Hai, are you done with the selection?" the curator asked out of breath.

Yu Hai looked at Wang Xiaohu and said, "Mr. Wang said he wanted me, but no one else!"

The curator said: "Let's not introduce it first, let us try Master Yu Chenghui, he is one of the head coaches of our Shandong team."

"Yu Chenghui?" Wang Xiaohu fixed his eyes on Chenghui when he heard the words. Isn't this guy the one who plays Wang Renze in "Shaolin Temple"?
Seeing that Yu Chenghui was not blushing or out of breath, he was calmly holding a waxed wisteria stick and a pair of cowhide shoes.

"Master Yu, it's up to you." The curator took a step back and said politely to Cheng Hui.

Yu Chenghui nodded, holding the red sandalwood stick and clasped fists at Wang Xiaohu and the crowd to salute, seeing him suddenly pull away, the wooden stick in his hand whistling with wind, matched with his powerful figure, some almost crazy movements, immediately attracted The eyes of many people.

The so-called layman watches the excitement, while the insider watches the way. Wang Xiaohu, Yu Hai and others watched and nodded secretly.

It is said that during his long-term martial arts training, Yu Chenghui painstakingly pondered the idea of ​​the "two-handed sword" sword technique.On the morning of September [-]th, [-], there was heavy wind and rain, lightning and thunder. He was inspired by the movement and image of the praying mantis "fighting with the sky with a huge ax" after encountering heavy rain in the forest, and completed the painting. The design of the "two-handed sword" routine.

Later, the "Gang of Four" was overthrown, and Chinese martial arts saw the light of day again.Yu Chenghui was invited to be the coach of the Ningxia Wushu Team; together with Jiang Hongyan, he taught Muslim young athletes by precept and example.The Ningxia Wushu team quickly made its mark in national competitions, and its level improved rapidly.During this period, he further theoretically summed up the "two-handed sword" swordsmanship, rejuvenating this long-lost swordsmanship, and proudly appeared in the garden of martial arts.

What he is practicing now is this set of two-handed swords, and its movements are completely in line with the main points of "drawing and lifting clouds, pointing and stabbing, twisting, chopping, chopping, provoking, hanging and washing.".

After a two-handed sword performance, Yu Chenghui still maintained the composure he had when he first arrived, and Wang Xiaohu took the lead in applauding: "Master Yu is really good at kung fu! Admiration, admiration!"

"You are welcome." Yu Chenghui smiled, staring at Wang Xiaohu with eyes like torches and said, "I also heard that Mr. Wang is very good at martial arts. He was the brother of Bruce Lee, the master of Jeet Kune Do. I read your "Myth" Yes, although there are a lot of props to help, it can still be seen that Mr. Wang has a very deep foundation in martial arts."

"Master Yu is absurd." Wang Xiaohu clasped his fists in return. To be honest, this was the first time he met such a master character, and he was also the original cast member of "Shaolin Temple". Originally, Wang Xiaohu was worried about where to find him Well, I didn't expect him to come to the door automatically.

"Master Yu, we are missing the role of the villain Wang Renze in "Shaolin Temple". I wonder if you are interested?"

Yu Chenghui smiled: "It can contribute to the promotion of Chinese martial arts, so there is no reason not to agree."

As soon as the two spoke, they heard a thump.

Everyone hurriedly followed the sound, and saw two team members fell to the ground on the spot, with strange expressions on their faces, and they could vaguely hear them saying: "How can this director do this, why do you pick old guys, and don't want to see young ones?" boy."

"Hahahaha~" Intensive laughter came from the Provincial Gymnasium. This incident also became a behind-the-scenes tidbit of "Shaolin Temple", which was reported by many domestic newspapers in turn. Everyone who heard it was filled with joy and sorrow, and burst into tears.

In order not to make the team members sad, Wang Xiaohu still watched the performances of the team members and planned to choose an athlete from them.

Now the two academy moaning on the ground hurriedly jumped up, one with a knife and the other with a gun, preempting everyone to perform.

After looking at it for a while, Wang Xiaohu said to Yu Hai beside him, "That young man with a knife is not bad, what's his name?"

Yu Hai chuckled and said, "That's my apprentice, the national swordsman champion, Sun Jiankui."

"Oh?" Wang Xiaohu frowned, looked carefully for a long time, and suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, almost, almost lost a good seed, he is the only one!"

Yu Hai was immediately happy when he heard it, and said at the top of his voice, "Jiankui, Chuanyang, take it, take it, don't practice any more."

"Master, who should we choose?" Sun Jiankui asked while holding the knife.

"Who else to choose, Mr. Wang said just now, it's you." Yu Hai went to pat him on the shoulder and said, "It seems that your somersault just now was very effective."

Du Chuanyang said with a bitter face, "What about me?"

"This." Yu Hai turned his head again, and said a bit embarrassed: "Mr. Wang, look, this child is not easy."

"Hehe, that's fine, I want both! This is your second apprentice, right?" Wang Xiaohu has already seen that these two boys have some skills.

Especially the one named Sun Jiankui, he didn't recognize it at first, knowing Yu Hai said his name, he also remembered that this guy played the role of "Se-Kong" in "Shaolin Temple", that is, the guy who played the drunk stick.

Let’s talk about this guy. Wang Xiaohu’s deepest memory is the monster monk from the Western Regions in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors". It is the "monk with makeup" that Avalokitesvara described in detail in the movie. The one kicked to death.

It was only later that Wang Xiaohu found out that Yu Hai and Yu Chenghui were masters of martial arts of the same generation, so in terms of seniority, Teacher Yu Chenghui should be the senior of Mr. Sun Jiankui.In addition to their collaboration in "Shaolin Temple", the two also joined forces again in "Legend of Bruce Lee". Yu Chenghui played Bruce Lee's master Ip Man, and Sun Jiankui played Huang Piboy's master in it.

In this way, Wang Xiaohu directly selected four masters and apprentices in his hometown, and the Shandong Martial Arts Team. By the end of September, Wang Xiaohu had traveled all over northern China and selected 9 qualified actors for "Shaolin Temple".

Looking carefully at the cast list of "Shaolin Temple" that I had drawn up, only Ji Chunhua, who played the vulture, was left missing.

"The next stop is Zhejiang Wushu Team and Liuzhou Wushu Team, and see what surprises await us."

With a big wave of Wang Xiaohu's hand, the jeep carried three people to the south. As for the selected athletes, they were arranged by Wang Xiaohu to stay in their respective teams for intensive training, and let them choose the most satisfactory set of movements. At that time, it will be left to Yuan Heping and Sammo Hung to screen.

After all, the director Zhang Xinyan was not a martial arts director, so the biggest contributors to "Shaolin Temple" in the previous life should be those martial arts athletes, because Zhang Xinyan didn't have any action guidance at all when filming, and the actors choreographed the actions themselves. Whoever plays routines in front of the camera, from head to tail, does not know how many times, sometimes it can exhaust people to death.

But now it's different, "Shaolin Temple" is in Wang Xiaohu's hands, and my group of Seven Little Fortune brothers rely on martial arts instructors to earn a living, so how can we let these athletes suffer and suffer.

"Old Wang, I've been thinking about it for a long time, who is the leading actor among the actors you selected?" Zhao Gang, who was sitting in the co-pilot, suddenly turned his head and asked.

"I chose either a supporting role or a villain, and I didn't plan to find a leading role among these people." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

"Then how do we shoot without a starring role?" Zhao Gang asked with a frown.

Wang Xiaohu smirked, thinking that the leading role, I poached it four years ago! ——
Send me [-] words, ask for a monthly ticket!

Xiaomi may be a little angry today. In fact, I want to use this kind of explosive behavior to let everyone see my determination, that is, I can't be defeated. In addition, I would like to advise some people, don't think that changing the vest and spraying me will make me Be shaken, in this book, I am the author, not you!
(End of this chapter)