new kung fu king

Chapter 559 Hong Kong Emergency

It took less than a month from Liao Gong to Wang Xiaohu to talk about the idea of ​​filming "Shaolin Temple" to Wang Xiaohu's selection of actors and bringing the crew to the mainland. If so, such a fast speed greatly surprised the people in the Ministry of Culture.

This shows what?
It shows Wang Xiaohu's enthusiasm!
So after Wang Xiaohu asked Zhao Gang to help report that he wanted to invest in Longsan Village of Pingling Commune, the comrades who were attracting investment immediately went to the hotel where Wang Xiaohu stayed to discuss in person, not to mention the efficiency and enthusiasm.

Fortunately, there is nothing to talk about such a thing. It is nothing more than Wang Xiaohu's first batch of capital injection of 100 million yuan to improve the living standards of Longsan Village. First, the villagers in Longsan Village have access to electric lights, tap water, and roads in the village. .

Some people may think that Wang Xiaohu is really stingy, but it is not the case. A million dollars is definitely not enough to make movies. If it was used to improve the water and electricity problems in a village of five or six hundred people in the early 100s, it would be nothing to worry about. Can do more.

Wang Xiaohu still has a certain skepticism about whether the money can reach the bottom smoothly, and plans to explore the way first. If the matter goes well, then he will spend the second batch of funds on it. There are many "deductions" in many cases, and things will be handled better after that. I only give Wang Zhenrong money, and no one can expect to get half a dime.

"Old Zhao, tell the martial arts teams to gather in Dengfeng, Henan in the next two days."

After dinner, Wang Xiaohu sat on the sofa in the hotel and said this to Zhao Gang.

The current Zhao Gang is not so much sent by the superiors to protect Wang Xiaohu, but as Wang Xiaohu's accompanying secretary. Some words and requests are conveyed through Zhao Gang. Throughout the country, there is no one more suitable for this position than Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang nodded, "Is there anything else that needs to be done as soon as possible?"

"Clothes!" Wang Xiaohu said after thinking for a while, "The cassocks of the young monks, the cassocks of the old monks, and the costumes of the two teams of King Tang and King Zheng. By the way, I will get more than 200 People's Liberation Army soldiers for me later." Well, more than 50 cavalry battalions from the previous cooperation were transferred."

"." Zhao Gang pouted and said, "Salary?"

"Didn't the filming of "Mythology" be free?" Wang Xiaohu raised his head and said.

"It's different now, "Mythology" didn't let you earn less!" Zhao Gang said disapprovingly: "Our soldiers don't ask for money for eating, drinking, and messing around?"

"Okay then, I'll write an application to the higher-ups later." Wang Xiaohu said with a sigh.

Zhao Gang became anxious when he heard this: "Don't, don't! I'll report the truth, but we have to agree in advance, you have to take care of the food."

Wang Xiaohu's words just now scared Zhao Gang very much. You must know that once Wang Xiaohu wrote an application to the above, it meant that he did not trust his work a little bit.

Wang Xiaohu smiled, it seems that this trick is not working well, nodded and said: "Well, I was basically responsible for your food expenses last time, and I took care of thousands of people, so it's not a big deal to ignore these 200 people .”

It's hard for Zhao Gang not to hear the sarcasm inside and out of these words, but there is an advantage to cooperating with Wang Xiaohu, he will not treat the people below badly, even if it is an ordinary crew member, Wang Xiaohu treats their food expenses the same a standard.

Wang Xiaohu said a few more things, and finally said to Zhao Gang: "Okay, that's all, get out of here, it's too late, my room is full of cigarette butts, I'm not afraid of smoking you to death!"

Zhao Gang laughed and left.

Wang Xiaohu opened the window in the room to let in the outside air. After a while, he called Jet Li and Yuan Heping into the room.

"Dayan, have you set up the movements of Drunken Stick and Drunken Sword?"

When the two sat down, Wang Xiaohu said to Yuan Heping with a smile, if Wang Xiaohu was picky about the original version of "Shaolin Temple", the first ones to bear the brunt were the Drunken Stick and Drunken Sword. Maybe they felt good when they watched it when they were young, but later he was serious about it. After a summary, it was found that neither Sun Jiankui nor Yu Chenghui designed the movements very exciting.

In this regard, Yuan Heping has the richest experience. When he directed "Drunken Fist", Jackie Chan's well-regulated drunken boxing style in the film was created by Yuan Baye. Kung Fu" has authority.

Yuan Heping nodded, as if he had long expected that Wang Xiaohu would talk to him about this issue. He went back to his room and took back a set of action design plans for "Shaolin Temple", handed it to Wang Xiaohu and said, "Ah Hu, Drunken Sword, Drunken Stick!" The moves have already come out, and I am currently designing the moves for the Shaolin Five Hundred Arhats to practice, as for the moves of the Thirteen Stick Monks, I will have to wait until I meet the athletes and understand each of their movement styles before I can design it."

Wang Xiaohu looked through the action design plan and found that Yuan Heping was much better than himself in drawing sketches. He could only draw stick figures, but Yuan Heping could at least draw the movements of the whole person, and even marked the movement trajectory. Drunken Stick VS Drunken Sword's whole set of movements is also well designed, and I immediately praised it.

"not bad."

Then he said to Jet Li: "Jie Tsai, have you practiced Drunken Sword?"

Jet Li grinned and nodded vigorously, "Master, I have practiced, I will show you a set later."

"Okay!" Wang Xiaohu patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I will meet with your colleagues in a few days, after all, you have been in the film industry for several years before them, and you need to communicate with them more about some precautions. "

Even though Jet Li only filmed one scene after following Wang Xiaohu, and he also played the guest role of Wang Xiaohu's son in "Hong Xiguan", but Jet Li has not been idle in the past four years, except for practicing in the Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Union every day, just like other students In addition to training and familiarizing himself with the entire production process of kung fu movies, in his spare time, he would also go to TVB artist training classes for acting classes with Zhou Xingchi, Huang Rihua, Andy Lau and others.

Wang Xiaohu can't guarantee other things, but he is still very confident in one thing, that is, if the current Jet Li plays "Shaolin Temple", he will be better than the original version in terms of acting skills and action display.

In his previous life, Jet Li didn't have any acting skills before he played "Shaolin Temple". He just followed the national martial arts troupe to perform martial arts in various countries. The accumulated acting skills like that were negligible, and there was the silly and dull Jue Yuan seen by Wang Xiaohu's generation. .

Of course, it doesn't mean that the original ecology is not good. In fact, the best part of the whole "Shaolin Temple" is the actors. The martial arts athletes back then were nothing but a blank sheet of paper.

They don't know what camera sense is, and they don't know anything about the film industry. Each actor has to play five or six roles at the same time, and plays extras in different appearances in each scene.

As long as the machine is set up and the director calls out to start, everyone will start shooting seriously. They don't even know whether this shot captures you, whether it is a panoramic view or a close-up.

Wang Xiaohu and Yuan Heping sat together to discuss the action design of the five hundred arhats practicing in "Shaolin Temple". They had great differences on how to show Shaolin 72 stunts. According to Yuan Heping's understanding, at least a dozen groups should be filmed and edited.

But Wang Xiaohu does not advocate such tossing, according to his thinking: long shot from far to near, through a single shot to fully demonstrate Shaolin 72 stunts.

"Long shot!?" Yuan Heping frowned when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Ah Hu, we are just shooting a Kung Fu movie, not a documentary, so there is no need to be so extravagant and wasteful. A lot of film will be wasted."

Yuan Heping didn't care much about the long-shot concept proposed by Wang Xiaohu. The so-called long-shot is for short-shot.

In movies, long shots and short shots are two kinds of shots that play completely different left and right. The difference between the two is mainly in the length of duration.The length of time between when the camera is turned on and when it is turned off determines the length of the shot, that is, long shots usually last longer, and vice versa for short shots.
The concept of long shot is not without precedent in Hong Kong kung fu movies. In "Fist of Fury" and "Walking the Dragon", the long shot was the most applauded by the audience.

In the final decisive battle between Chen Zhen and Fujita Takeshi in "Fist of Fury", the two fought from the beginning, from the house to the yard. Since the camera was turned on, it had never been turned off in the middle. It was the photographer who followed the camera from the beginning At the end, Wang Xiaohu and Bruce Lee fought for more than 10 minutes, and the photographer also carried it for more than 10 minutes.

So decades later, when the audience watches "Jing Fu Men", they still feel that the fighting at the end is very realistic.

Later, Bruce Lee also tried this shooting method in "The Way of the Dragon", but Luo Lishi did not perform as well as Wang Xiaohu in some aspects, so that shot was far from "Fist of Fury" in the history of world kung fu movies. high.

It can be said that Wang Xiaohu started his career with a long lens, and the long lens is Wang Xiaohu's signature lens!
Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "It's not that you don't know me. If you want to make a certain movie well, you don't care about the film. I want the audience to have a No. 1 sense of substitution, so that everyone who has seen it People see a real and colorful Shaolin Temple."

Looking at Wang Xiaohu's firm gaze, Yuan Heping could only sigh. He is also a director, so why do he always think about the cost? When will he be able to reach the height of Ahu!

I heard Wang Xiaohu say: "This is how I think about it. Our camera moves forward steadily, enters the mountain gate, turns a corner, starts from an ordinary monk sweeping the floor at the gate, transitions smoothly to the monk ringing the bell, and then several times. A monk cooking, while cooking porridge, they told about the recent increase in the number of disaster victims and the growing shortage of food in the temple. Then the camera slowly exited and shifted to the host who was knocking on the wooden fish in the meditation room. The host recited two scriptures and knocked Muyu, and then the monk on duty severely reprimanded a few young monks who violated the rules, and finally followed the sound and fixed on the monk who was practicing kung fu."

"How long will it take to rehearse?" Yuan Heping said with a wry smile.

He heard that in order to film the final decisive battle of "Fist of Fury", Wang Xiaohu and Bruce Lee rehearsed every day for more than a month, so as to ensure that there were no mistakes in front of the camera.

Good job this time!It is not a problem of one or two people, but to show all aspects of Shaolin Temple. God knows if the actors in mainland China will be as professional as Hong Kong. This is definitely a very big challenge!As the director of the film, Yuan Heping felt a headache and went crazy!
"Give it a try, at worst, take a few more shots."

Wang Xiaohu smiled and comforted Yuan Heping, as long as he could get the effect he wanted, he would not care how long the rehearsal was or how many shots he would take.

Yuan Heping can only be depressed now, sometimes once Wang Xiaohu becomes addicted, even eight horses can't pull him back.He was already praying secretly for the actors who took part in the filming of "Shaolin Temple": Amitabha, Buddha bless them all!

Early the next morning, Wang Xiaohu and Zhao Yazhi were about to get up and rush to Shanghai. Just as they were about to board the car, they saw Zhao Gang running over panting.

"Old Wang, you wait before leaving, there is an emergency in Hong Kong that needs you to deal with!"

Wang Xiaohu frowned, wondering if Xiang Huaqiang led Xin Yi'an to cause riots in the film industry?No, if that's the case, Shen Zhong should be able to suppress the situation. Even if Shen Zhong can't handle it, Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong police, and even Hong Kong Governor MacLehose will personally come forward to solve it.

"What's the matter?"

Zhao Gang said: "We received a call this morning. The call came from a confidential line at your home. The caller was Yuen Biao. He said that Yuan Heping's father, Yuan Xiaotian, was seriously ill."

"What's wrong with my old man?" Yuan Heping panicked when he heard that, and asked, grabbing Zhao Gang's arm tightly.

Zhao Gang shook his head and said, "I didn't answer the call, and I don't know the specific situation. Yuen Biao said to let Yuan Heping go back as soon as possible."

"Ahu!" Yuan Heping yelled, looking at Wang Xiaohu with excited eyes: "I, I have to go back!"

"Let's go back together." Wang Xiaohu said.

"No need. Your tasks on the mainland are relatively heavy. You can't delay your major events because of my personal affairs. I can go back by myself." Yuan Heping can still distinguish the priorities.

Wang Xiaohu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Dayan, don't worry too much, Uncle Tian is fine."

"Well, just not this time."

"I understand." Wang Xiaohu nodded to comfort him and said, "I'm here in "Shaolin Temple", so don't worry about things here, go back and take good care of Uncle Tian."

"I see!" After Yuan Heping said this, he followed Zhao Gang to the BJ train station in a hurry.

"Azhi, I'll take you to Shanghai first." Wang Xiaohu said.

Zhao Yazhi shook her head, looked at her husband with beautiful eyes and said: "Your affairs are important here, don't worry, I am also one of the producers of "Shanghai Bund", I have learned the director's job from you for so long, you should give me an internship opportunity Bar?"

(End of this chapter)