new kung fu king

Chapter 615
The story of Hua Mulan joining the army on behalf of her father has been passed down from generation to generation in various forms. It has been passed down in China for more than 1000 years.

However, one day suddenly, Hua Mulan was labeled as Mickey Mouse, performing her heroic feats around the world, attracting everyone's attention, conquering the hearts of the world, and making Americans a lot of money. And we have to pay Americans to read the stories of the Chinese themselves.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

For a while, someone in the country shouted: "Wolf is coming!"

Someone shook his head and sighed: "Is this still the story of Hua Mulan joining the army? What has it changed to?"

Someone raised their thumbs: "It's another classic Disney movie!"

An animation "Mulan" seems to have broken the five-flavor bottle, with all kinds of flavors.

Wang Xiaohu used to be one of the members of the shaking head and sighing army. The reason why the new film was determined to be Hua Mulan was partly because of Brigitte Lin. Taking advantage of Brigitte Lin still maintaining the image of a jade girl and her innocence, she can also play Wang Xiaohu The image of Mulan in my mind.

If you wait a few years, Lin Qingxia will become a big royal sister, and it will be even more difficult to play the innocence of Hua Mulan.

On the other hand, under the banner of cooperating with the mainland to promote Chinese culture, continue to make some money to realize the dream in my heart: to make Hong Kong the cultural center of the world's movies, so that the first thing that comes to mind when the world audience mentions movies is Hong Kong, not Hollywood.

This is a long and arduous task. The first thing to do is to turn the eyes of people all over the world with a few big productions, make them aware of the development of Hong Kong films, and by the way, enhance the status of the Hong Kong Film Awards in the film industry.

When writing the script, Wang Xiaohu thought very seriously, especially the changes in Hua Mulan's image in film critics between China and the United States.

Before that Mickey Mouse "hugged" Mulan, Chinese people's development of the legend of Hua Mulan can be described as "a hundred schools of thought contend" and "a hundred flowers bloom", exploring its cultural value in various forms.

In terms of opera alone, there are more than 20 types of operas, including Henan Opera, Pingju Opera, Bangzi, Pingtan Opera, Yue Opera, Kunqu Opera, Teochew Opera, Longjiang Opera, Cantonese Opera, and Qin Opera.

In the 20s, Chang Xiangyu, a performing artist of Henan opera, became famous for his "Mulan".

"Brother Liu's words are too biased. Who said that women enjoy leisure, men go to the border, and women weave at home." This "Who says women are not as good as men" is already a classic aria of Henan opera, and it is familiar to everyone.

Other operas that have been put on the screen include Mei Lanfang's "Mulan Joins the Army" as early as 1926, Bai Shuxian's "Mulan Legend" in 1994, etc.

In addition to opera art films, there are also drama films, such as "Mulan Congjun" starring Liang Menghen in 1928, "Mulan Congjun" starring Chen Yunshang in 1939, "New Mulan Congjun" starring Wang Yuanlong in 1953, and "Mulan Congjun" starring Tang Xingtu in 1957. "Mulan Joins the Army" and so on.

In terms of the variety and quantity of creations, the many domestic "Mulan" teams are truly spectacular, while the Disney villains are all alone. The comparison of strength and weakness is self-evident.

But in fact, it was this Disney villain who conquered cities and conquered territories all over the world, and established a great country, which made the heroine of the Hua family famous all over the world. Relatively speaking, she has become Xiaojiabiyu.

After Uncle Sam's version of Mulan, China's development of Mulan has more or less relied on the reputation and foundation established by Disney.

Therefore, Tang Jili, who once directed "Mythology", announced at the end of 2005 that he would remake Mulan in order to promote the "Mulan" in the eyes of the Chinese people to the world. The Chinese are fooling around!
Wang Xiaohu's current advantage is that Uncle Sam has not bought outstanding folk cultures from all over the world as crazy as in his previous life, and they have not thought that the so-called cultural invasion and competition for the cultural market are major issues related to economic and cultural development.

Therefore, Wang Xiaohu's version of "Mulan" has a lot of room for development in terms of script creation. This time, he will no longer engage in any combination of Chinese and Western, and will no longer resort to opportunistic means to cater to the tastes of European and American audiences.

In fact, after the success of the two films "Mythology" and "Shaolin Temple", Wang Xiaohu can openly use the Chinese cultural background and show his own works through films. I got my own things, deleted some places that seemed unreasonable and dragged the plot, and added new elements.

For example, this time Wang Xiaohu highlighted Hua Mulan's inner struggle for war, hesitation for love, and bitterness for soldiers who died on the battlefield. .

This is also the reason why Lin Qingxia told Wang Xiaohu before that she was not qualified for the third stage of the script. Although she has a lot of acting experience, she has no experience in such an epic movie.

When Wang Xiaohu gave Brigitte Lin the script, he once said: "This is not Qiong Yao's romantic and entangled love drama, nor is it an adventurous drama like a police story, nor is it Yingying Yanyan in the Dream of the Red Chamber, but a national heroine."

Now that she has experienced a tangled relationship, Brigitte Lin has finally realized the complexity of emotions. In her own words: "Now I am 100% sure that I will play Mulan well."

Naturally, Wang Xiaohu rushed forward and announced that the machine would start up at the end of September.

In order to avoid repeating the hard work of filming "Mythology", Wang Xiaohu decided to fully use Xiehe Film and Television City as the set this time to complete more than 60% of the filming tasks of "Mulan".

Most of the remaining 40% are large-scale war scenes, which must be filmed in NMG and other places, and a large number of PLA soldiers must be used as extras.

In terms of actors, apart from Brigitte Lin playing Mulan, Chow Yun-fat as the male lead, and Weng Meiling playing Rouran's daughter, other actors Wang Xiaohu also have preliminary plans.

For example, the big guy in Rouran has a ready-made veteran actor Qin Pei. Anyway, he will play Genghis Khan in "Shooting the Condors".

The role of the big villain is left to a domestic actor. Wang Xiaohu decided to let Yu Rongguang play the role. Anyway, Yu Rongguang usually plays the role of a villain like a gangster boss in Hong Kong movies. Besides, he also studied Peking Opera. It is also understandable.

The rest of the main actors are the brothers around Hua Mulan. For example, the role of bullying the recruits because of their physical strength is given to Zhao Gang, and Zhou Xingchi plays the cowardly but pure man at the end, which is bitter. Xiong Xinxin was given the role of being mean and telling bad jokes but always being ridiculed by everyone
Wang Xiaohu didn't take any action to audition actors at all, because in his mind, these actors were selected after his careful consideration.

Although there are few actors these days, they are all waiting to be mined like gold.

After confirming the start time, Wang Xiaohu called the Ministry of Culture non-stop, asking Zhao Gang, Yu Rongguang, and Xiong Xinxin to come to Hong Kong for filming first.

Yu Rongguang and Xiong Xinxin arrived in Hong Kong on September 9th. This was Yu Rongguang's first time traveling far away. He was still dazed until he stood on the ground of Hong Kong. He said to himself that I just went to apply for the film school and was rejected. Why didn't I hear it? Is there any news that someone from Hong Kong will fall in love with a big director in Hong Kong?

When "Shaolin Temple" became popular in China, Yu Rongguang, who grew up in Peking Opera in elementary school, finally couldn't hold back. After all, his martial arts foundation is not bad, so he directly wanted to apply for a martial arts actor at the Film Academy. However, the Film Academy did not set up such a subject. He was dismissed without passing a single level, and while he was at home dejected, he received the news of going to Hong Kong.

Along the way, he kept asking Xiong Xinxin what he was going to do in Hong Kong. Xiong Xinxin touched his bald head for a long time before popping out two words: "Acting."

"What play?"

"Martial Arts!"

"Is it a martial arts scene like "Shaolin Temple"?" Yu Rongguang's heart became hot.

Now Xiong Xinxin couldn't figure it out, and shook his head and said, "I don't know, the coach didn't tell me, anyway, when I called Jiezi last night, he said it was a big production, better than "Shaolin Temple"."

So both of them were dizzy and were taken to Wang Xiaohu's house by Jet Li.

As for Zhao Gang, because of his special status, he has to explain some things. The higher-ups are not disgusted with Zhao Gang's filming, and even like it a little bit. After all, the better the relationship between Zhao Gang and Wang Xiaohu, the better it will be for further cooperation in the future.

"Brother Hu, we're here." Upon seeing Wang Xiaohu, Xiong Xinxin greeted him with a big grin.In any case, he also followed "Shaolin Temple" to do publicity around the world, and he is much better than Yu Rongguang in terms of communication.

But Yu Rongguang stared at Wang Xiaohu for a long time.

"Guangzi, what are you looking at?" Wang Xiaohu finally couldn't help laughing after being watched by him for a long time.

Yu Rongguang hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, I feel like I'm dreaming now, and I'm afraid I'll wake up from the dream all of a sudden, and everything is just an illusion."

Wang Xiaohu laughed out loud when he heard the words, tapped Yu Rongguang's head with the script in his hand and said, "Does it hurt?"

"It's okay." Yu Rongguang said foolishly.

"If you have a feeling, it means it's not a dream. This is your script. You have many years of experience in Peking Opera stage performances. Compared with Xiong Xinxin and the others, you have a better foundation. Get familiar with the script in the past few days."

(End of this chapter)