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Chapter 524 Creating the Hong Kong Version of "Looking for Buddha"

It is said that the handsome Li Lianjie wears this super "nostalgic" Chinese tunic suit, which gives people a retro, stunning, and of course "shocking" feeling, but the atmosphere of the venue also reached the peak when Li Lianjie appeared. highest peak.

Director Xu Xiaoming was very satisfied with the current situation, and he smiled and indicated that the staff could ask questions from reporters.

"Mr. Li Lianjie, I am a reporter from "Entertainment Weekly". May I ask why you participated in this movie?" A female reporter asked.

Li Lianjie participated in this kind of Hong Kong-style press conference for the first time, so he was inevitably a little nervous, but fortunately, the staff thought out most of the questions that would be asked beforehand, and wrote the answers to Li Lianjie. So Li Lianjie could barely handle it.

After clearing his throat, Li Lianjie replied directly in Mandarin: "I was originally a member of the mainland martial arts team. Later, I started filming "Shaolin Temple", and then I embarked on the film road. Now I came to Hong Kong from the mainland. I feel that I am not only going to make movies, but to represent some mainland filmmakers. I hope you can get to know us and understand us. Of course, the reason why I came to Hong Kong alone to enter the entertainment industry is for the purpose of training myself. I didn’t expect To be appreciated by Mr. Chen Xiaotang and director Xu Xiaoming for giving me this opportunity to play such an important role. Here, I would like to thank them, and I will definitely do my best to play this role well.”

After Li Lianjie finished his answer, director Xu Xiaoming said, "Let me add a word, the reason why we chose Li Lianjie to play the male lead is because he fully meets my requirements. I believe that Ajie will play this role well." , I have great confidence in him."

"Mr. Li Lianjie, I'm a reporter from "Film Weekly". May I ask you to come to Hong Kong for the first time as the male number two and play opposite Ms. Wang Zuxian, will there be a lot of pressure?"

"Excuse me, do you like fish balls from Hong Kong?"

"What do you think of Hong Kong?"

"Do you hate certain Hong Kong directors?"

"What do you think about the difference in salaries for actors in mainland China and Hong Kong?"

Li Lianjie on the stage finally understood the power of Hong Kong reporters today. The questions they raised were all kinds of questions. If Li Lianjie hadn't prepared in advance, he really couldn't handle it.Fortunately, with the assistance of Chen Xiaotang and Xu Xiaoming, Li Lianjie didn't make a fool of himself in public.

At the end of the press conference, Li Lianjie, who was so strong, couldn't help but secretly wiped a cold sweat.

On the second day after the opening ceremony, major entertainment newspapers, magazines and other news media reported on the "Jing Wu Hero" starring Chen Xiaotang. For a while, Chen Xiaotang and the entire crew were widely praised by people from all walks of life. focus on.

Especially as a mainland kung fu star who came to Hong Kong alone, Li Lianjie showed off his tough side as a martial arts practitioner, so he became the most concerned figure in the entire crew after Chen Xiaotang, and his popularity even surpassed this A section of "Gossip Queen" Joey Wong.

In addition, Chen Xiaotang helped him stand out intentionally or unintentionally, helping him to expose, and Li Lianjie's image as a kung fu niche in the mainland is very popular, so Moying Entertainment perfectly completed the purpose of using Li Lianjie to hype movies.And Li Lianjie has also gathered a lot of popularity in the Hong Kong film industry. The film has just started shooting, and it has received strong support and attention from people...

1984 10 Month 8 Day.

The filming scene of the Kung Fu drama "Jing Wu Hero" of Magic Shadow Entertainment.

Opening scene one:
In a Japanese school classroom, Chen Zhen single-handedly defeated many members of the Black Dragon Society. What Chen Zhen used should be the capture in Chinese Kung Fu—the "separated muscles and bones" often mentioned in martial arts novels.

Yuan Heping's martial arts design for the whole movie in his previous life highlighted the characteristics of Chen Zhen's Kungfu "fighting fast and slow". The fighting in the opening chapter is also very prominent, the movements are simple and smooth, and it takes only a second or two to fight everyone Immediately subdue it, it is simply "paodingjieniu" in martial arts.

But that was the movie version from the previous life after all, now with Chen Xiaotang as the leading actor, Cheng Xiaodong as the martial arts instructor, and Xu Xiaoming as the director, everything is different.

First of all, as a director, Xu Xiaoming felt that since it is the opening chapter of a play, it is necessary to highlight the character and characteristics of the characters.What is Chen Zhen's personality?It means being jealous and patriotic.He is characterized by first-class kung fu, especially not sticking to traditional Chinese martial arts, and is good at actual combat.

As an action director, Cheng Xiaodong has always focused on the chic and elegant action shooting, which is different from the weird and swiftness of Yuan Baye in his previous life.Therefore, there was a conflict with Xu Xiaoming in the design of this scene.

Both of them are practitioners, Xu Xiaoming is a master of the northern school, and Cheng Xiaodong is a master of the southern school.When the two started arguing, they pulled out the martial arts of the North and South Schools for comparison.

This one says that the northern school pays attention to leg skills, the other says that the southern school pays attention to boxing skills; the other says that the northern school's martial arts are performed with great momentum, and the other says that the southern school's kung fu is smooth, agile and colorful.

In short, neither of the two will give in to the other, and neither can compete with the other.

Seeing the two arguing hard, Chen Xiaotang just felt very depressed.

Both of them are talents, but I have forgotten that as long as they are talents, they have the habit of being a little arrogant.I tied two bullies to a chariot by myself, so it's no wonder that nothing happened.

There was no other way, Chen Xiaotang, who was the leading actor, had no choice but to intervene, saying: "You are all right, but the kung fu film we ask for is to break the original martial arts context, so whether it is northern kung fu or southern kung fu, For martial arts, we only take the essence and discard the bad. We must pursue the coexistence of strength and speed, and we must present our unique style of Moying Entertainment on the action screen..."

Xu Xiaoming stared bull-eyed: "What do you mean by that?"

Cheng Xiaodong: "It's too fancy to understand."

Chen Xiaotang had no choice but to cough twice and said: "For example, Golden Harvest has Cheng Long's joking style, New Art City has Xu Guanjie's secret agent style of play, Debao has Hong Jinbao's iron bridge and hard horse skills, and we are about to break through Their route is to design kung fu moves that only belong to our Shadow Entertainment."

Xu Xiaoming looked at Cheng Xiaodong, Cheng Xiaodong looked at him, and they said together: "We still don't understand!"

Chen Xiaotang was sad, he understood what it means to play the piano against a cow, and wished he could say: "You KO each other, we will listen to whoever wins." Trying to suppress his emotions of wanting to explode, Chen Xiaotang said: "I mean It is already very clear, it is to combine martial arts with actual combat, to give people a visual enjoyment of punching to the flesh!"

"Isn't it just the real thing, you said it earlier, it's such a big circle!"

"That's right, why do you engage in so many literary and artistic styles? It's OK to just tell the truth!" The two who were originally noisy stood on the united front.Chen Xiaotang suddenly felt a pain in the ass.

Next, according to the new ideas given by Chen Xiaotang, the scene was designed and shot with a "real" rhythm.

This time, those dragon and tiger fighters were in a tough situation. You must know that Chen Xiaotang's fists and kicks are top-notch, but their beating skills are not top-notch.Even though they had taken sufficient measures from the beginning, such as laying iron sheets, hiding bandages, and even covering their clothes like mummies, under Chen Xiaotang's hard fists, these men became a group of "vulnerable men" through and through!
Chen Xiaotang flew out with a punch, and fell to the ground with an ah!
Chen Xiaotang kicked out, and a person flew out with a whoosh!

Before Chen Xiaotang moved his fist, some of the extras who were frightened by the beating said, "Oh, I'm dead!" and lay down on the ground with a plop.

Chen Xiaotang was speechless, tell me, how can we continue shooting like this? !
There is no way, who told him that this style of play is too "cruel", the entire movie circle does not have his "playstyle".

In the words of these hard-working actors, "This is not filming, this is terrible!"

For a little money, there is no need to risk your life like this.

There was no other way, so Chen Xiaotang had no choice but to raise their wages, hoping that this would inspire their fighting spirit and start a real fight with himself in the play.

I originally thought that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, but those extras are not fools. Damn, who are they fooling, the extra money is not even enough for medical expenses!
Director Xu Xiaoming frowned, action designer Cheng Xiaodong folded his arms, and cameraman Du Kefeng smoked a cigarette, looking at this group of "actors" who were bargaining and unwilling to start work.

As the lead actor and boss, Chen Xiaotang is even more helpless, he doesn't understand why these people don't have the slightest "professionalism".Chen Xiaotang clearly remembered that in his previous life he had seen a Thai film called "Looking for the Buddha", which was the work of the famous Thai action superstar Tony Jaa. It is said that in order to shoot this film, Tony Jia had a real fight with almost all the action actors in the film. , and many actors were seriously injured; and in its sequel "Tom Yum Goong", it was reported that some action actors took the initiative to ask for no mercy in the fight for the sake of filming authenticity, and things often happened that limbs were cut off , the brutal fight with each other, won applause from audiences all over the world.

Of course, Chen Xiaotang was not so "cruel", requiring these actors to be beaten hard until their arms and legs were broken.In Chen Xiaotang's view, he just wanted to make this scene more realistic, and in some aspects of the action, these actors needed to make a small sacrifice in coordination and suffer a little bit of flesh and blood.But I didn't expect that this group of people would react so strongly. They didn't have the consciousness of being an "actor" at all, and they kept bargaining, which felt like "taking the opportunity to blackmail" and "rip off".

The spitting haggling continues.

Suddenly, "Fuck you mother! You have already paid so much money, and you still don't want to do it, what are you going to do?" Xu Xiaoming had a bad temper and couldn't help cursing.

"What's the use of adding more money? We're here to film, not to be beaten! If you want real results, you'll beat us to the brim, it's inhumane!"

"That's right, although we are extras, we are still human beings. If you mistreat us like this, be careful that we will sue you at the Film Association!"

"What kind of bullshit is this, I don't care if I don't shoot it!"...

These actors booed for a while, and they were about to stand up and leave.

"Okay, can I call your relatives, okay?" Xu Xiaoming, a vulgar man, was in a hurry, how could he make a movie without these actors, "You can even help out, is it OK to finish this scene?"

"Okay you bastard, unless each of you gives me an increase of 1 yuan, maybe we will consider staying in Haikou!" The gang of dragons said loudly.

"Yeah, if it doesn't increase by [-], we won't do it. You can find someone else!"

"Haha, I don't think you can find anyone except us!"...

As mentioned earlier, the quality of Hong Kong dragon and tiger martial artists is very complicated. To put it bluntly, the quality of these people is almost the same as that of those who come out on the street.After everyone has been in the circle for a long time, there will be some old-fashioned people who just want to make more money but are unwilling to contribute more.

This time, the filming of "Jing Wu Heroes" started relatively hastily. Originally, some dragon and tiger martial artists could have been well selected, but these people had to be used.Now the trouble came out, this group of people stepped forward and threatened to quit to talk to the crew.

At this moment, the gang of dragon and tiger warriors looked at Chen Xiaotang, Xu Xiaoming and others with contempt, especially in their view, since Chen Xiaotang is such a big name, he must be able to extract a lot of money from him.They have been in this industry for so long, and they understand the psychology of these people best. If they are in a hurry to make a movie, they will agree to any conditions.Well, after they agree to this condition, I will make a few shots with them, and then stop raising the price. It is possible to earn him hundreds of thousands or even millions more for a movie, quack quack! ! !
The situation is very clear at this moment, the initiative is in the hands of these dragon and tiger warriors. If the crew does not agree to their conditions, then this scene will not be able to be filmed, and the first scene of the new film will be messed up. This is not a good sign, especially For Hong Kong, which is praying for a start-up, this is a very unlucky thing.Second, venue rentals, cast announcements, and all the other sundries and preparations will go down the drain, and the loss is definitely far greater.

Could it be that he can only agree to the demands of these "rascals"? !
Seeing that Chen Xiaotang and the others were forced to do nothing, and were about to open their mouths to agree to the terms, suddenly, a voice said: "A Tang, let them go, I'm here!" The big villain "Zhou Billi brought a group of people from his own martial arts gym to come in a threatening manner.

Chen Xiaotang was surprised.

Xu Xiaoming was stunned.

Everyone else was dumbfounded.

What do you mean, are you here to kick the field, or to help with boxing? !Why bring so many people? !

But soon everyone understood.

"A Tang, these are all students of my martial arts school. I heard that you are filming here, so I came here to visit. I didn't expect to meet this group of bastards taking the opportunity to blackmail me!"

"What are you talking about extorting or extorting, keep your mouth clean!" a dragon and tiger martial artist roared.

Zhou Bili glared at the other party, that guy tightened his neck like a rat, you must know that Zhou Bili is a well-known Chinese boxing champion in Hong Kong. fierce enough.With such a hard stare, it would be strange not to scare some timid people to the ground.

"Okay, Ah Tang, don't negotiate with these bastards, see, the people I brought here are all good players, just in time to help you film a movie!" Zhou Bili said, patting his chest.

Chen Xiaotang was amazed, looking at the students in the martial arts school, all of them had hot eyes and were inexplicably excited, some even began to prepare their fists, as if they were eager to fight.

In fact, this group of people is really excited. First, it is not easy to meet the big star Chen Xiaotang, not to mention acting opposite him; It was released, so when the time comes, your family will not be so proud when they see you? !
Therefore, these martial arts students eagerly hope that Chen Xiaotang can agree to Master Zhou Bili's words, come on, Come Baby, let us die after enjoying ourselves!
Being an actor is the dream of many people.

Especially for those who practice martial arts, Bruce Lee is his idol.

Bruce Lee has acted in "Fist of Fury", and now if they can join "Heroes of Fist of Fury", it can be regarded as a tribute to their idols.

Chen Xiaotang looked at Zhou Bili, besides being grateful, he still dared to accept it. What is "sending charcoal in the snow"?This is!
The gang of dragon and tiger martial artists didn't expect that the beautiful thing that was already firmly established was ruined by this group of martial arts apprentices who suddenly appeared. The anger in my heart, I really want to have a PK with them and vent my anger; but Seeing such a "violent god" like Zhou Billi, these guys retreated, and could only say: "Okay, you are doing well, let's wait and see!"

Zhou Billi waved his fist, "Why are you making so much noise?! If you don't leave, I'll break your legs!"

Wow, that group of people jumped faster than rabbits, and their demeanor was long gone.

No one expected that the noisy matter would be resolved in such a dramatic way.Chen Xiaotang cupped his fists at Zhou Bili and said, "Thank you, Master Zhou!"

"Haha, thank you. Besides, I also have a role in this play, so it's all from my own family. Why are you being polite!"

At this time, Chen Xiaotang had seen Zhou Bili's boldness and boldness. In his previous life, Chen Xiaotang had a bad impression of this gentleman, because the other party always played some big villains and villains, and he looked fierce.

In particular, Chen Xiaotang remembered clearly that this gentleman acted in a movie with Guan Lijie called "Blood Splattered Red Light ~ District".In the movie, Guan Lijie played a convulsion patient who fell in love with a lady. Zhou Bili was a loan shark. Zhou Bili forced Guan Lijie's father to jump off the building. The day he died was his father's birthday. Guan Lijie and her girlfriend gave him Dad bought a cake...Later, in this movie, Lao Zhou raped Guan Lijie's girlfriend very beastly~ He pressed the heroine on the table and did it in front of many people. , and also cheaper to a group of my brothers, saying that they are blessed to enjoy together, so the big guys started their rounds.

This is not over yet, after this guy caught the male lead in a frenzy, he found a huge ugly beggar in front of the male lead, shouted "Emperor Superstar" and came on stage. The ugly beggar who took drugs was drooling stinkingly, and walked towards the heroine step by step with his teeth and claws... The hero shouted heartbrokenly: "Let her go, don't!"

Chen Xiaotang had a deep memory of this scene, so he hated Zhou Bili to the bottom of his bones.I think this guy is probably a big villain.But now Chen Xiaotang knows that people are not judged by their appearance, and sea water cannot be measured. Those who are vicious are not necessarily bad, and those who are good-looking are not necessarily good.

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(End of this chapter)