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At a celebration banquet, Jiang Heng met too many people, talked too much, and drank a lot of wine. He didn't get up the next day and slept until after ten o'clock.

After getting up, he went downstairs to have lunch and then drove to the crew.

"Good morning, Director Jiang!"

"Yeah!"

There were voices of greeting along the way. Jiang Heng just nodded and yeah, and went straight to the set that was arranged in advance according to the shooting plan, and found that everyone was waiting for him.

"Sorry, let everyone wait for a whole morning!"

"It's okay, Director Jiang, it's okay!"

Everyone spoke up and came out to shoot. There are many cases of actors being arrogant and delaying.

Jiang Heng invested in this play himself, so it must not be counted that way.

In a very classic "battle in the rain" scene in the recent filming of "The Matrix 3", the crew has been busy for more than a week, and almost everyone is very tired.

Jiang Heng didn't come in the morning, and everyone was lazy for a rare time, and they were too happy.

All ready, the actors started working.

In the studio full of blue screens, Wu Yuzu, who plays the male lead, and Yuan De, who plays the villain Smith, both wear waterproof suits, and then costumes.

There are mechanical arms on their waists, which can fix them in a specific position in the air to perform actions.

In the studio, the water flow is almost sprayed at a speed of one ton per minute, and almost everyone in the scene is wet.

With Jiang Heng's "action", the mechanical arm moves, first taking Wu Yuzu and Yuan De into the air, and then letting the two meet and attack each other.

Then Wu Yuzu made a falling action, and Yuan De flew down in a circle under the control of the mechanical arm.

"Ka!"

After the shot was taken, Jiang Heng took a look and felt that the action was still a little bit worse, so he repeated it again.

A few hours later, after this shot was taken, the two fought in the rain on the ground.

There were many people dressed the same as Yuan De on the scene this time. In the finished film, there were several rows of identical Smiths, which looked creepy enough.

During the filming, the crew selected 80 people with similar body shapes to Yuan De, and used superb makeup technology to make them look like "Smith".

Another 150 dummies were prepared, with faces made of silicone, painted, and controlled by real people to make movements, which made the fake look real.

After this scene, the scenes of "The Matrix" 2 and 3 were all shot, and the relevant shots of "The Matrix 2" had long been subcontracted for special effects.

Because this time Jiang Heng invested exclusively, the number of shots subcontracted to special effects companies in the United States, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and other countries was less than one-fifth of the entire film.

A small number of shots were given to Beijing Good Time under his name, and the rest were all handed over to overseas shell companies and completed by Jiang Heng's "super microcomputer".

The special effects shots of the third part were basically the same operation, and this alone could save a lot of production costs.

Just after the crew was done with the work, Zhou Xingxing came again.

The post-production of "Kung Fu" has been completed long ago, and the copyrights in Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and other places have also been sold.

In the mainland, Bonna Films is responsible for the film's distribution.

Because Zhou Xingxing is so famous and has a strong market appeal, Bonna is not going to spend too much money on publicity and promotion, but only the conventional publicity mode of putting posters on buses, subways and theaters.

The premiere was scheduled relatively late, on September 27, very close to the National Day holiday.

However, because it was jointly produced by iQiyi, Youku and Xinghui Films, the scale of the premiere was very grand.

It was still recorded and hosted by CCTV Movie Channel, and there were also many guests present, most of whom were there for Jiang Heng's face.

After all, Zhou Xingxing is in the entertainment industry and doesn't care much about human relationships.

Perhaps because he learned from Jiang Heng, Zhou Xingxing did not refuse to play the entire film at the premiere, and thousands of guests and audiences saw the full picture of "Kung Fu" at the first time.

Feng Xiaogang's role as the boss of the Crocodile Gang was really outstanding.

After watching the movie, Jiang Heng couldn't help but praise him.

Feng Xiaogang smiled modestly, thanking Jiang Heng for the recommendation.

Because of Jiang Heng's appearance, Feng Xiaogang in this life has no reputation as a big commercial film director. Who makes him the second!

Although every movie makes money and the performance is also 30 to 50 million, but compared with Jiang Heng's performance, the gap is too big, so no one praises him.

The box office is not outstanding, and there are no awards. Feng Xiaogang is very modest at this time, but he doesn't have the airs of Chen Kaige.

"Director Jiang, I'm planning to shoot a movie about a thief protecting migrant workers. Are you interested in playing a cameo role?"

Jiang Heng smiled, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, shooting two movies in a row really exhausted me. You don't know how busy I am recently. I can fall asleep as soon as I lie down! I plan to take a good rest for half a year from now on and not shoot any movies!"

Feng Xiaogang listened to this, his expression was embarrassed, but he couldn't persuade him anymore.

He picked a time to ask Zhou Xingxing, but Zhou Xingxing refused, which really pissed Feng Xiaogang off.

Because Jiang Heng was in the limelight at the moment, he couldn't say anything, but he said Zhou Xingxing was not authentic. I participated in your "Kung Fu", and you refused to guest-star in my film when I invited you. It was really not authentic.

Zhou Xingxing heard about it later, but he didn't respond, and the matter just passed.

But in the blink of an eye, it was November 1st, and "Kung Fu" was officially released.

Soon, senior movie fans discovered that there were many tributes to Jiang Heng's films in the film, the most typical of which was the scene where Tiancan and Dican fought against the three masters of Zhulongchengzhai.

The ghost general with a helmet and armor and holding a knife transformed by the string sound wave power was almost exactly the same as the scene of the inn in "Lion Camel Ridge".

If there is a difference, it is that Tang Seng and his disciples have more faces in the inn, and they are more realistic.

In the movie "Kung Fu", because the special effects did not cost so much money, it looks like a "copycat version".

"Wow, Zhou Xingxing actually used the content of Director Jiang's work!"

"This is a tribute to "Lion Camel Ridge"!"

"There are too many classics paid tribute to in this movie!"

"Wow, there is also this fighting method of falling from the sky, which has been used many times in Director Jiang's movies!"

"So exciting!"

"Kung Fu is really good!"

Because of the influence of Jiang Heng's topic, the theater line has arranged a large number of films, and the box office of "Kung Fu" in this life is obviously stronger than that of the previous life.

Judging from the box office trend, it will be no problem to exceed 200 million.

And this will also be the first Chinese-language movie in the mainland film market with a box office of over 200 million, except for Jiang Heng's works.

For a while, there were words about the revival of Chinese-language movies everywhere.

Hot money began to pour in, and more projects were established.

An investor went to Zhou Xingxing and asked him when he planned to shoot the next movie and what the subject matter would be.

Zhou Xingxing said that he would not consider it for the next two years.

An investor asked Jiang Heng when and what the next part would be.

Jiang Heng said that he would not consider it within half a year.

An investor asked Chen Kaige the same question, and Chen Kaige was very enthusiastic. He first recited a poem and finally said that he would shoot "The Legend of Wukong".

He has already purchased the copyright of the novel, invited the original author to participate in the adaptation, and prepared to invest 400 million yuan in filming.

Finally, he said contemptuously that it is not difficult to shoot a mythological special effects blockbuster!