In the conference room next door, there were many directors who came to participate in the film festival at this time, and today's cocktail party was temporarily initiated, which was a party before the start of the film festival.

"Old Hu, what did you just talk to about that ghost? ”

Li Hanxiang walked to Hu Jinzhuan with a wine glass, and looked curiously at a ghost guy who walked away.

"We talked casually, and we didn't talk about anything. ”

Hu Jinzhuan took a sip of champagne and said with a smile: "Just now that is a French director I met when I was attending the Cannes Film Festival, named Claude Tsdy, and I was just asking if I knew a Hong Kong film distribution company. ”

"You still know French?"

Li Hanxiang thought that the ghost guy spoke English, but he didn't expect it to be French.

"How do I know French, isn't there an interpreter?"

Hu Jinzhuan glanced at him and pointed to the translator who was following the French director.

"I didn't expect that this film festival organized by the association could have so many ghost directors. Li Hanxiang lifted the frame, and was still surprised that the first film festival could attract so many people.

"It's not all President Toho's blessings. Hu Jinzhuan said.

He knew that the dozens of directors who came to participate in the film festival this time were basically invited by Huo Yaowen, although most of them were not well-known directors, except for a few famous ones, the rest of them had never even heard of them, but at least there were so many foreign directors here, it would be nice to say it.

"Mr. Hu. ”

Suddenly, three people walked over, and the leader was none other than Akira Kurosawa.

Kurosawa!

Hearing the translator say the name of the director, Hu Jinzhuan looked at him in surprise, for this Japanese director, Hu Jinzhuan heard it when he was young, and he also watched his "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai" in the early years, but he didn't expect him to come today.

With the help of the translator, several people got to know each other, and Kurosawa asked seriously: "Mr. Hu, I have seen the movie "Chivalrous Girl" directed and filmed by you, and I like this film very much. ”

After Kurosawa heard about this film from a friend last year, he asked someone to find film tape, and watched it alone at home for a whole day, and he liked this martial arts movie full of traditional Chinese style very much, so when I came today, I heard that the director of "Chivalrous Girl" was also here, so I came over and wanted to talk to him about this film.

The movie "Chivalrous Girl" was filmed for four years, and the original cut version was more than three hours long.

The whole story structure is adapted from the same name in Pu Songling's "Liao Zhai", but he also used the political struggle between the traitorous eunuch Wei Zhongxian of the Ming Dynasty and Yang Lian of the Donglin Party to package the nameless chivalrous woman in the original book as the daughter of the loyal minister Yang Lian, making the audience more realistic in the process of watching the movie.

At the same time, almost all of the martial arts action scenes between the heroine and Jinyiwei in the movie can be called classics, which has made a good demonstration and guidance for future martial arts movies.

One of the most exciting places is the bamboo forest fight scene, which is regarded as a stroke of genius by the industry, and the major directors since then have learned from it in many movies, such as "Ambush on All Sides", "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and so on, among which the highest achievement is Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

And now it seems that the design of the martial arts action is still very outstanding, in the bamboo forest, the light is interspersed in the forest, four people, two against two fight for their lives, and finally the chivalrous girl played by Xu Feng completes the fatal blow to the two brocade guards, like flying immortals outside the sky.

Whether it is the details of the characters, the fight scenes, the transformation of light and shadow, the combing of the story structure, every expression, and even every frame is like an ancient landscape painting.

If Bruce Lee created a precedent for kung fu films, then "Chivalrous Girl" directed by Hu Jinxuan is the pinnacle of Hong Kong's new martial arts films, and it also provides too many fantasies about rivers and lakes and chivalry for later generations of martial arts directors.

Listening to Kurosawa's praise for his film, Hu Jinxuan was still very happy in his heart, waved his hand and said modestly: "Mr. Kurosawa is too famous, and I also like your filming of "Seven Samurai", which almost captures the most realistic fights to the fullest. ”

Unlike Hu Jinshuo's "Chivalrous Girl", Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" is not so elegant.

If you have watched these two movies, you should be able to see that the directing styles and concepts of Hu Jinshuan and Akira Kurosawa can be said to be very different.

Li Hanxiang, who was left out in the cold, saw that Hu Jinzhuan and Kurosawa were chatting happily, and he didn't seem to have the intention of stopping, and he didn't want to be a background wall here, so he turned around and left with a wine glass.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Huo Yaowen and said in surprise: "Yaowen, why are you here?"

"Haha... Director Li hasn't seen him for a long time. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled and hugged Li Hanxiang, the relationship between the two has always been very good, and they haven't seen each other for a long time, so it is inevitable that they are a little enthusiastic, he said: "I heard Wen Yingguang say a few days ago that you went to India to make a movie some time ago?"

"yes, this is the first time I've been to a foreign country. Li Hanxiang took a sip of wine, he has been making movies for decades, and this is the first time he has gone abroad to shoot, and most of the past is to build a studio on Hong Kong Island.

"What are you shooting? Uncle Sixth has made a lot of money? I thought of going to India to shoot. ”

Almost all Shaw Brothers movies were shot in Shaw Brothers Studios, whether it was ancient costumes or modern times, the first time I heard that the following directors were asked to shoot movies abroad, Huo Yaowen couldn't help but ridicule.

"This ......"

Li Hanxiang hesitated for a few seconds, not knowing whether to say it or not.

After thinking about it, this movie was going to be screened at the film festival anyway, and it shouldn't be anything to reveal to Huo Yaowen now, so he opened his mouth and said: "It's a movie adapted and shot based on the story of the American movie "King Kong". ”

"Not really. ”

Huo Yaowen touched his nose, he didn't expect Uncle Shao to follow the trend of foreign movies, but when he turned his head and thought of the "Rainbow Superman" that followed Ultraman a few years ago, he was relieved.

"The name of the movie is "The Orangutan King", and Uncle Six is going to screen it during the film festival to see if it can be sold abroad. ”

Li Hanxiang is still very optimistic about the movie he directed, although it is a follow-up work, but it also made something different, and the heroine is also a foreign beauty, so it should be no problem to sell it overseas, right? ?

Seeing his confident look, Huo Yaowen also smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll go and see it then, if it's good, I'll personally help you introduce this movie to foreign film companies." ”

Hearing this, Li Hanxiang's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "Really! Then it's decided!"

"It's decided. Huo Yaowen replied with a smile.

In this film festival, if one or two films can be successfully promoted abroad, it will still be of great benefit to the film festival.

At present, except for "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Zombie Daochang", which can try to sell to Asian countries, other films are not very suitable, and at this time, Shaw Brothers has released a "Orangutan King" similar to King Kong, which should be quite suitable for European and American audiences to watch movies, so he doesn't mind helping Uncle Shao Liu.

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