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Chapter 514 The Adorable Li Lianjie (Part [-])
It is said that there will be three great characters in the Chinese film industry in the future. These three heroes will rush out of Asia to the world and enter the Hollywood entertainment circle. , and the "Kung Fu Emperor" Li Lianjie in front of him!

Among the three, Li Lianjie is the one who makes foreigners realize real kung fu the most, and he also won the throne of Kung Fu King with a series of kung fu movies, becoming the only Chinese superstar to receive this honor after Bruce Lee.

Speaking of it, Li Lianjie’s family was very poor when he was a child, because his parents liked to work around in bed, so that family planning was not done well, and there were five brothers and sisters, which made the family almost comparable to Yang Bailao’s family—— big, still Can't open the pot.In order to survive, Li Lianjie was sent to the martial arts team to practice martial arts. The reason is very simple. As long as he is willing to practice martial arts, the team will take care of his food.As for why he joined the martial arts team in the legend, it was because "he had great ideals since he was a child, to win glory for the country" and "practice martial arts for the rise of China", these are all pure fucking bullshit.You let a hungry kid talk about ideals, ideals for your sister!
Later, due to his "talent" and his "acquired" hard work, Li Lianjie made his mark in the martial arts team. He won an award at a young age and became famous, and because of this, he was also given benefits every Chinese New Year. The younger brothers and sisters in the house also had steamed buns to eat. One person learned martial arts, and the whole family was not hungry.

Then in 1980, Li Lianjie participated in an important amateur work in this year, that is - making movies!
According to the requirements of the organization at that time, it was a "voluntary work" to "promote Chinese martial arts", and the salary was 120 yuan.

120 eight yuan, this is a huge sum for Li Lianjie.Because he grew up so big, he had never seen a big bill of 100 yuan!
But who would have thought that after the Kung Fu movie "Shaolin Temple" he starred in was released in the mainland, the cumulative box office reached 1.4 million at the time at a dime price!Set a historical record in the entire Chinese film industry!And this movie was released in Hong Kong. As the first mainland movie to be released in Hong Kong, under the complicated political environment at that time, "Shaolin Temple" set a super high record of 2616 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong.In one fell swoop, it broke the highest grossing record in the history of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies.

Later, "Shaolin Kid", the companion piece of "Shaolin Temple", premiered in Hong Kong, setting a brilliant box office record of more than 2200 million Hong Kong dollars.Due to the big sales of the two Shaolin series films in Asia, they attracted the attention of Shaw Brothers.

In the following year, Shaw Brothers came to the mainland to shoot the movie "North and South Shaolin", and invited Liu Jialiang to be the director.When filming the movie "North and South Shaolin", because all the staff in the mainland were paid three yuan per day, and the staff in Hong Kong and even the extras who played dead bodies were paid 50 yuan per day, and the other main personnel were even more unreasonable. Climbing, two completely different treatments, Li Lianjie had an important conflict with director Liu Jialiang, and once thought of giving up his film career.

But at this moment, Li Lianjie met the great director Xu Xiaoming, or through some Hong Kong friends, he got to know this all-powerful Hong Kong Kung Fu director.

Xu Xiaoming told Li Lianjie that not all Hong Kong people are what Li Lianjie thinks, and they will not look favorably on mainlanders. At least in his opinion, Li Lianjie should use his strengths and advantages , to help the Hong Kong entertainment industry change their views on mainland actors, instead of passively wanting to retreat, this is not the attitude that a martial arts practitioner should have.

These words were like enlightenment, which gave Li Lianjie the idea of ​​creating an original Hong Kong entertainment circle, allowing Hong Kong people to know mainland actors and Chinese martial arts.Taking this opportunity, Xu Xiaoming formally invited Li Lianjie to join the Kung Fu drama "Jing Wu Heroes" directed by Moying Entertainment.

Because of the emergence of Moying Entertainment in history, Li Lianjie appeared in the Hong Kong film industry ahead of schedule.It also made him realize more kind and amiable Hong Kong filmmakers.

"Ajie, we are here!" Xu Xiaoming called Li Lianjie over.

Li Lianjie was wearing a suit he had just bought. Looking at the style and texture, it was the kind of street stall, and he didn't even tear off the trademark on the cuffs.However, Chen Xiaotang will not underestimate this shy and shy man because of this, only he knows how high the gold content of the other party is in the future.

"This is Chen Xiaotang, a famous Hong Kong star I want to introduce to you. He is also an investor in this drama." Xu Xiaoming introduced Chen Xiaotang to Li Lianjie.

"You, hello, Mr. Chen!" Li Lianjie tried his best to make his handshake more natural, but his arm was still a little stiff.

Before Li Lianjie raised his hand here, Chen Xiaotang had already grasped his hand, Li Lianjie hurriedly changed to holding it with both hands, looking very funny and reserved.

"Don't be so cynical, Ajie, I have watched the "Shaolin Temple" you filmed many times, and I can even say that I am your fan!"

Li Lianjie was flattered by Chen Xiaotang's words.

You must know that after receiving Xu Xiaoming's invitation, he had done his homework in private and inquired about Chen Xiaotang's information.It’s okay if you don’t inquire, but once you inquire, this person is simply a genius. He has become a billionaire in just two years since his debut. What’s more difficult is that he is proficient in everything from film and television to songs, and he is even more famous than himself. I don’t know How many.Now that Chen Xiaotang said so modestly that he is his fan, how could Li Lianjie not be excited.

"Mr. Chen, please don't say that. I'm far behind you..." After Li Lianjie finished speaking, he didn't know what to say.

Chen Xiaotang also knew that Li Lianjie was not good at words, so he said with a smile: "I think we should sit down first, and then have a proper discussion about filming, how about?"

"Yes, sit down, Ajie, don't be too restrained, Tang Zai is a good man, he has no airs!" Xu Xiaoming said with a smile on the side.Seeing that the person he introduced, Chen Xiaotang, was so satisfied, Xu Xiaoming also had an indescribable sense of accomplishment.

Li Lianjie took a deep breath and sat down on his buttocks. It was the first time he faced such a big figure, which made him feel very nervous, even more nervous than when he participated in martial arts competitions back then.

"I don't know Ajie, what would you like to drink?"

"Soda, is there any?" Li Lianjie swallowed and said.

Drinking soda at the Peninsula Cafe is probably the funniest "order" Chen Xiaotang has ever heard. Smiling, Chen Xiaotang snapped his fingers to ask the waiter to come over, "Please, miss, please have two cans of Coke, and some more snack……"

The waitress with a bow around her neck looked at Chen Xiaotang and recognized him as a big-name superstar. She was so excited that she couldn't speak clearly, "Okay, I, I'll serve it for you right away!"

Li Lianjie saw all the admiration on the waitress' expression, and said to himself, this is the star, look, it makes the girl's eyes shine.Compared with others, it is better to start from scratch.

After a while, the coke and snacks were brought up. It seemed that it was so easy for the waitress to serve such a superstar as Chen Xiaotang, and she almost passed out from excitement behind.

Here Chen Xiaotang and Li Lianjie started talking.

"Ajie, I have great confidence in your skills, especially the role of Huo Diange that you want to play. After being a famous family, you are upright and dignified. Your image is also very suitable. But now I still want to know a little bit about you. How do you plan to handle the characters?" Chen Xiaotang got straight to the point, wanting to know some of his personal thoughts from Li Lianjie, after all filming is not a child's play, it has to be serious enough.

As for Chen Xiaotang's trust in Li Lianjie's real kung fu, it was due to a piece of gossip about Li Lianjie in his previous life.

It is said that Li Lianjie was born in martial arts routines. He is good-looking but not practical. This sentence makes people laugh. Fortunately, Li Lianjie participated in a talk show during his overseas development. The fist was weak, Li Daxia was no longer calm, kicked a few times in front of the foreigners, smashing the host's table, the host blushed in embarrassment, and the audience below applauded like thunder.As soon as this video came out, fewer and fewer people laughed at Li Lianjie's inability to fight in actual combat.

But good kung fu does not mean good acting skills, especially for an actor like Li Lianjie who "has become a monk halfway through", Chen Xiaotang still feels that he needs to know more about him, and see if he needs any special training in acting skills.

Li Lianjie didn't expect Chen Xiaotang to directly test his grasp of the role.To be honest, after Xu Xiaoming talked with him about this drama, Li Lianjie also imitated those professional actors to figure out the role in a decent way, but after all, he is not from a major, and he is not good at acting that has not yet reached the future. The level of mastery, so it is still superficial in terms of character grasp.

After Chen Xiaotang inquired briefly, he understood Li Lianjie's strength in acting. Although this gentleman had filmed three or four films, the characters in the plays were similar, basically they were monks from Shaolin Temple, which in itself was not consistent with Li Lianjie's asceticism. Life in martial arts coincides with each other, so it seems to be the same when shooting.But now the role of Huo Diange has setbacks and tribulations in the play, as well as the emotional scene between him and the brothel woman, which must be handled well, which is quite difficult for Li Lianjie.

Li Lianjie is an honest person, and he knew that he didn't understand the role well, so after speaking his opinion, he said with some shame: "I'm sorry, Mr. Chen, I let you down, but the most I can do is That's it!"

Instead, Chen Xiaotang laughed and said: "It's okay, you are much better than I imagined, after all, this is a kung fu movie, not a romance movie, you don't need to be good at emotional scenes, you just need your fists to be strong enough, It’s OK if you’re flexible enough!”

Upon hearing this, Li Lianjie said happily: "Don't worry about this, Mr. Chen, I still have confidence in my skills!" His face was full of confidence.

(End of this chapter)