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Chapter 676, Old Opera Bone, "Excalibur Demon Sword"

Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Chen Xiaotang designed the drama "New World", removing the Korean elements and adding Hong Kong characteristics, especially adding the essence of Hong Kong's "Infernal Affairs" series, just like making old-fashioned braised noodles. The material is beef soup base. Only with such an essence of soup base can we fish out the fragrant and full-bodied beef stewed noodles.In other words, the current "New World" is no longer the original version, but a new version of the film after Chen Xiaotang's design and processing, incorporating the essence of Hong Kong's "Infernal Affairs". Its birth will soon herald the arrival of a new milestone for Hong Kong films.

Under Chen Xiaotang's persuasive lobbying, the great director Du Qifeng agreed to join the movie "New World", but the condition is: Chen Xiaotang must be the leading role in this movie!

Chen Xiaotang couldn't refuse, so he nodded in agreement.

But a play cannot be played by two people. There are at least three very important roles in this play. In addition to the undercover "Li Zicheng" played by Chen Xiaotang, there are also "Officer Jiang" and "Ding Qing" Two very characterful characters.

Anyone who has watched this movie in the previous life knows that Officer Jiang is the ultimate boss of this movie, but he is only one step away.It really echoed the words in the Dream of the Red Chamber, "The organ is too clever to calculate, but it missed Qingqing's life."Hey, it's hard to say.Officer Jiang is really the character who strategizes and decides to win thousands of miles.But he also knew that he had forced "Li Zicheng" to have no way out, and Li Zicheng had no way out.He also hoped that Li Zicheng could be relieved from it, and he even sympathized with him.
But once it has started, it will never end.It's true that people are in the arena and can't help themselves.But if you come out to play around, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.Officer Jiang's sophistication has reached the point of perfection. When watching "New World", Chen Xiaotang once sighed secretly for his good chess.Killing two birds with one stone is very insidious and cunning.Calmly, he played with the two gang leaders in the palm of his hand.Don't blame him, people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes.He is also a police officer.
In fact, in Chen Xiaotang's previous life, he always couldn't tell the difference between Korean stars "Cui Minzhi", "Song Kanghao" and "Kim Yunseok".Cui Minzhi is very suitable for this kind of old and spicy role. The previous "Old Boy" was very good, and "New World" did not disappoint.
Now if you want to adapt this play into a pure Hong Kong film with a Hong Kong taste, you must find an actor who is suitable for this role.Looking at the entire Hong Kong film industry, there are very few who can match the acting skills of the former Korean superstar Cui Minzhi. Chen Xiaotang counted and counted, and suddenly, he thought of someone.

This person is sure to be competent!
Chen Xiaotang shouted.

Hong Kong TVB, the crew of the martial arts TV series "Excalibur".

The main body of this play is based on Wolongsheng's martial arts novel "Heavenly Sword and Sword", and the pirated martial arts name "Enemies All over the World". Ying, Bai Zhanwen, and Bai Zhanwu each have their own adventures and are eventually reported to their families.

As a veteran actor Qin Pei, this time he played Feng Yue in the play, a big role, and only had two episodes. Regarding this, the media once asked him if he was angry, and Qin Pei said with a smile: "Angry What? 'Huang Laoxie' Zeng Jiang was worse than me, he died shortly after the first episode appeared."

It turns out that in order to support this drama, TVB has called all the old actors, besides Qin Pei, Zeng Jiang, Liu Zhaoming and others.

This group of old tricksters should be on vacation for filming this scene, because acting in such a scene is easy for them, and they don't have to worry about anything, but it's rare for everyone to get together, chat, and have fun. Cool thing.

Today, the No.13 episode of "Excalibur and Demon Sword" was filmed in the dense bamboo forest of Shaw Brothers Studios.

The pre-shooting of this episode went very smoothly. Several actors and actresses, as well as supporting actors worked hard, but there was trouble in the next episode.

It turned out that when the next scene was filmed, the plot was a fight in a bamboo forest. Qin Pei, who played Feng Yue, wanted to fight with Liu Zhaoming's character. A lot of explosives were planted around them, and when they fought, they would crackle and explode, and the bamboo in the bamboo forest would fall into one piece, reflecting their amazing internal strength. When they stretched out their palms and legs, it was a formation of heaven and earth shattering.

Everyone has shot a lot of action scenes like this, so no one is worried about any accidents.

The martial artist obviously spent a lot of thought in order to shoot this scene, and asked to deliberately portray the sharp and smooth feeling of each move in the fight, so he had to take close-up close-ups of the actors, so that they could not be replaced by substitutes. show.

It doesn't matter to Qin Pei and Liu Zhaoming, the two old drama stars. After all, they are both old people who have participated in several martial arts dramas, and they don't care much about such difficult moves.

But when the filming started, Liu Zhaoming, an old drama player, couldn't stand Diao Weiya. After all, he was over 40 years old and his physical strength was exhausted very quickly, so when he was fighting with Qin Pei, he accidentally turned his body towards Qin Pei flew over.

Qin Pei held a prop sword in his hand. Although it was custom made of wood, the tip of the knife was also very sharp.

Seeing that Liu Zhaoming lost control in mid-air and was about to hit the tip of his knife with "open teeth and claws", Qin Pei had no choice but to reverse the tip of the knife, and then couldn't dodge in time. With a bang, Liu Zhaoming directly knocked him to the ground.

The distance from the ground in mid-air was about three meters. Even if Via was hanging there, it would still be very sad to be knocked down so hard.

At least Qin Pei felt as if his butt had exploded, and his ears were buzzing like bees.

"Brother Pei, are you okay?" Seeing the accident, Xiao Sheng, the TVB director who was the producer, hurried over and asked.

"It's okay, it's just old Liu, why did you play trapeze all of a sudden?!" Qin Pei looked at Liu Zhaoming who also fell down and smiled. "Fortunately, I'm the last one this time, otherwise you'd be basking in the sun with your legs upside down!"

"It almost happened, you still have the nerve to joke." Liu Zhaoming, who was still in shock, said. "See if you're alright?"

"My iron body, how could something happen?" Qin Pei stretched out his arms and kicked his legs, moving around ostentatiously, but he didn't move twice before he heard "Ouch", his face was ugly.

"What's the matter, what's wrong?" Liu Zhaoming asked hastily. If Lao Qin hadn't become so fast just now, he might be the one who was injured.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Qin Pei rolled up his sleeves and saw that his arm was already swollen and high.It must have been caused by the impact just now.

"You said it's okay. Look, your arms are thicker!" Liu Zhaoming stabilized his emotions.Said with a serious look on one side. "I really want to thank you. If it weren't for you, I don't know what would have happened."

"What are you talking about? We have been partners for so long. Although we fight on the set, we are friends outside the set. How can I not help my friend when he is in trouble?" Qin Pei endured the pain in his arm and smiled. Said.

Director Xiao Sheng could see that he was smiling very reluctantly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. It may be that he didn't feel the violent impact just now, and now he started to feel pain.

"Stop talking, Brother Pei, you need to go to the hospital!" After finishing speaking, Xiao Sheng was about to call for someone to find a car.

Unexpectedly, Qin Pei stopped him and said: "This little injury is nothing. I'll be fine when I go back and rub some medicinal wine. Our show can't be delayed, otherwise the broadcast schedule will be changed. The audience hates it the most." It’s like this kind of thing, it’s like reading a martial arts novel, and when you just read the highlights and find that a few pages are missing, you still don’t want to scold the person who wasted time in your heart.”

Liu Zhaoming next to him couldn't help it: "You old guy, even if people want to scold you, they should scold me. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be hurt... Don't hold on, I'll accompany you to the hospital for a checkup! "

Qin Pei disagreed desperately: "You can't let everyone's day's work be wasted because of me. Besides, if someone was injured before, it's not the same as persevering."

Director Xiao Sheng understood what he meant. The filming process of "Excalibur and Demon Knife" was very hard, especially these old actors were very dedicated. Because of the limited conditions and no computer stunts, many scenes were performed in person, and injuries were even more serious. Inevitably.

Seeing that he was being persuaded not to move, Xiao Sheng had no choice but to say: "Okay then, brother Pei, just keep trying, I'll shoot other people's scenes first, and after you rest for a while, I'll make up your scenes."

"No, the effect won't be good that way. Let's have someone wrap my arm with gauze first. Let's all work together to finish filming this scene first!" After saying this, Qin Pei took the initiative to stand up , Smiling and asked someone to find gauze to wrap their arms.

Seeing that Qin Pei is so strong, Xiao Sheng, as an old director, couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, thinking, at critical moments, we still have to rely on these old people.

Over there, Qin Pei bandaged his injured arm without delaying too long.

The martial arts instructor next to him called other actors to slightly modify some martial arts movements that touch the arms, and added some kicks and other moves.Everyone understood what he meant, so they learned it very carelessly.

Shortly thereafter, filming resumed.

With the sound of "Aikesh", the camera moved slowly from above the bamboo forest, and the unfinished "air battle" in the bamboo forest started again.

This time, everyone was fully concentrated, punching and kicking, and after some serious "fighting", they finally successfully completed the one-off shot.

After work was over, the old director Xiao Sheng once again suggested Qin Pei to go to the hospital. Qin Pei stretched his arms and said, "No need, look, it's nothing serious."

Seeing that he was so persistent, Xiao Sheng didn't say anything anymore. At this moment, the photographer called him to watch the effect editing of the shooting, so Xiao Sheng told him to leave again.

Qin Pei, an old drama player, left the set. Looking around, passers-by were hurrying, and they went through another whole day without knowing it.He first took a bus to the nearby Apliu Street to buy an old TV receiver, then went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables, and then wandered home.

Because he is not a superstar, Qin Pei does not live in a rich place, but a seven-storey apartment, carrying things in his hands, and as soon as he went up to the third floor, he saw the neighbor Qi Po struggling with a big bag of garbage. Come down from upstairs.

Qin Pei hurriedly said: "Qi Po, be careful, the stairs are very steep, be careful not to fall."

Qi Po put down the trash and wiped her sweat, and said, "So it's Abei, thank you for your concern, hey, who made this building not have an elevator, it's very troublesome to go up and down."

"Why don't you let your son Mingzai do it?"

"He, the factory works overtime. Will he come back tonight? I, the old woman, will be the only one left to eat." Qin Pei knew that there were only her and her son in the seventh wife's family. Quite sleepy, Mingzai often has to work all night in the factory, so Qi Po is very frugal, reluctant to make good food for herself, and her health is getting worse and worse.

"Forget it, let me help you carry it down." Qin Pei looked at Qi Po struggling to reach out to lift the garbage bag, but accidentally touched the wound on his arm. The pain made him clutch his arm and gritted his teeth to hold back .

"What's the matter, you seem unwell?"

"Oh, I got hurt a little while filming."

"Well, it seems that it's not easy to do anything...Let me do it myself." Qi Po shook her head and said.

"It's okay," Qin Pei smiled, "This hand is hurt, and there is another one." After speaking, he picked up the garbage bag with the other hand and walked downstairs.

Looking at his back, Qipo sighed, "What a good man."

After helping Qi Po take out the trash, Qin Pei returned home, opened the door and saw that his wife was cooking in the kitchen, and handed in his own food and said, "I bought char siew, and I will have a big meal tonight."

The wife glanced at him and said angrily, "Did you get hurt again?"

"how do you know?"

"Every time you get hurt, you either buy barbecued pork or sausages. I've already figured out your veins." The wife clacked the lid of the pot.

"Hehe, my wife, you know who I am." Qin Pei said with a sneer.

"Where did it hurt this time? An arm or a thigh?"

"Oh, it's not too bad, just hit the arm."

"Show me." His wife rolled up his sleeves. "It's not too heavy. I don't think you need to eat char siew. Your arms are enough to last you for a few days!"

Qin Pei looked at the red and swollen appearance of his arm, which was really comparable to the red barbecued pork. He laughed and said, "Sometimes filming is like this. How can you be a good actor if your body is not injured."

"You don't have to work so hard to be a good actor!" As the wife said, she took out medicinal wine from the closet, opened the lid, poured some on the palm of her hand, and spread it evenly on Qin Peidi's arms. "If someone is filming, you should also be filming. If he can make a lot of money, you are lucky. You will get hurt all over!" The more he said, the angrier he became, the force in his hand became too strong before he knew it, and Qin Pei grinned his teeth in pain and yelled Said: "Don't use such force, okay? It hurts."

"Now I know it hurts, why did you go earlier?! I married you and expected you to take care of me for the rest of my life, but instead I took care of you. I'm always careless when I'm so big!"

Qin Pei endured the pain, sighed and said: "I know that I have wronged you, and I can't become a big star, but there must be someone to play a supporting role in filming. Besides, this is my job, and I should do my best no matter what. Row."

"You are beautiful, I'm going to cook, you can wipe it yourself!" The wife stuffed the medicinal wine into his hand.

"Oh, by the way, Qi Po is at home alone tonight, and I'll send her some barbecued pork later." Qin Pei turned his head and shouted.

"Understood, you are a good person!" the wife muttered.

Just then there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it, it's so late." Qin Pei put on his shirt indiscriminately, held his injured arm, walked over and opened the door to have a look, but it was... a big star, Chen Xiaotang!

"A Tang, why are you here?" Seeing Chen Xiaotang suddenly, Qin Pei couldn't help being taken aback.

You must know that Chen Xiaotang's status is very important today. He is not only an international superstar, but also the owner of Moying Entertainment, and even a well-known justice of the peace. This title is so enviable.

How could Qin Pei not be excited when such a big man appeared in front of his eyes.

"Hehe, master, can't I be an apprentice so I can't come to visit you?" Chen Xiaotang walked into the room with a smile, and put the fruit basket in his hand on the table.

"I came in a hurry and didn't prepare anything. This is the right thing to honor you."

"Haha, you, Ah Tang, are too irritating. Just come and bring anything." Qin Pei was very happy, especially since Chen Xiaotang did not forget his roots and was still thinking of himself as a "master".

In the kitchen, the wife shouted: "Who is it, is it Qipo?"

"No, it's our former crew member, my half-disciple, Tang Zai!" Qin Pei couldn't help but feel a little proud, what an honor it would be to have an apprentice like the superstar Chen Xiaotang come to visit him.

"Which Tang Zai?" asked in the kitchen.

"Big star Chen Xiaotang!" Qin Pei said loudly.

"Boom!" The kitchen seemed a little surprised and dropped the spoon on the ground.

……

"A Tang, come, sit down!" Qin Pei happily tidied up the newspapers and sundries on the sofa, and gave up his seat.

Chen Xiaotang sat down with a smile, glanced at Qin Pei and said, "Speaking of which, I've been your apprentice for so long, and this is the first time I've come to visit you. I'm really embarrassed!"

"Hehe, whatever you want to say, it's good that people come." Qin Pei's heart was even more refreshed, especially Chen Xiaotang's words of "Master", made him extremely happy.

In fact, before coming here, Chen Xiaotang had already decided to let Qin Pei, known as "Hong Kong's No. [-] actor", play the role of "Officer Jiang" in "New World".

Qin Pei's acting is very exciting, and the characters are both good and evil, such as the traitor Yan Tong in "The Legend of Lei Luo", the mental patient in "The Story of Epilepsy", and Hong Ye in "The Saint of Gamblers".It can be said that every look and every body language is very intriguing, and it is definitely the best among good actors.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Xiaotang immediately found his old man.

The two talked cordially, and mentioned that when they were filming "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Chen Xiaotang played the big villain Ouyang Ke, and Qin Pei played Temujin. Let him pass on some acting skills to him.

When this matter was mentioned, the two couldn't help laughing, and Qin Pei said happily: "Now you are more promising than me, and you have become an actor at such a young age. It seems that I will not be able to teach you anything in the future!"

Chen Xiaotang hurriedly said: "What's the matter, you are always an expert in filming, even if I study for a lifetime, I probably won't be able to finish it."

Hearing what Chen Xiaotang said, Qin Pei was even more happy, so he shouted into the kitchen: "Honey, make some more side dishes, I want to have a few drinks with Tangzai!"

(End of this chapter)