Chapter 6 Big Brother Tangshan

Li Ping'an has made certain modifications to "Big Brother Tangshan", adding many action scenes in addition to the main line unchanged. For the old driver who has read countless films in his previous life, Li Ping'an feels that the original "Big Brother Tangshan" has many loopholes, and it is not exciting, but in the current era when film technology is still relatively backward, "Big Brother Tangshan" can be regarded as a sincere work.

Li Ping'an poached Li Xiaolong, and Shao Yifu didn't care about it, but he made Zou Wenhuai angry, Zou Wenhuai found Shao Yifu, and repeatedly emphasized that Li Xiaolong was the hope of the Shaw Brothers to go to the next level, and even used his resignation to show the stakes of the incident. Shao Yifu is very recognized by Zou Wenhuai's vision and ability, coupled with Fang Menghua's magnanimity under the influence of Li Ping'an, and he knows how to delegate power to capable subordinates, in contrast, Shao Yifu is also much more generous now, far from being as slamming the door as in the original time and space.

After an afternoon of quarrels, it was finally decided that in the future, Li Xiaolong's film Shaw Brothers would take half of the shares, on the condition that Shaw Brothers fully supported all the films shot by DreamWorks, including the preliminary preparation and post-publicity release.

In October 1970, "Tangshan Big Brother" officially started filming in Shaw Brothers Clear Water Bay Cinema, and the producers were Fang Menghua and Zou Wenhuai. In terms of director, Li Ping'an asked Chu Yuan by name, as for Zou Wenhuai's Zhang Ji and Hu Jinquan, Li Ping'an vetoed it, for no other reason, the style of the two is too strong and distinct, although Chu Yuan also directed the filming of many martial arts films, but Chu Yuan is also very good at other types of films, plus he knows how to be flexible and knows how to advance and retreat, so Li Ping'an asked Chu Yuan to be the director of "Brother Tangshan", as for the director of the original film, Luo Wei also came to the door to recommend himself, but Li Ping'an's attitude is to let him think as far as he goes.

Luo Wei has a discerning eye but no wisdom root, plus he likes to follow the trend and has no bottom line in doing things, Li Ping'an is not sensitive to such a person. Luo Wei in the original time and space, his talent for making movies may be limited, but his luck is surprisingly good. Li Xiaolong was invited back to Xiangjiang by Golden Harvest from the United States to film, and he did not receive special attention at first, "Tangshan Big Brother" is not a high investment, only filmed in Thailand, director Wu Jiaxiang is famous, and he is not good at kung fu martial arts themes, and it is difficult to continue halfway through the filming, so Luo Wei rescued the scene halfway, and the box office exceeded 3 million, setting a new record, which made him and Li Xiaolong raise their eyebrows! After that, Luo Wei wanted to call himself the mentor of "Li Xiaolong", but Li Xiaolong did not appreciate it, and even murdered him with a knife. Facts have also proved that Luo Wei has a discerning eye, and Li Xiaolong's self-directed and self-starred "Raptors Across the River" has finally become world-renowned and has become a generation of superstars. And without Li Xiaolong's Luo Wei, only "Cold Tiger" with veteran Wang Yu did well at the box office, and other films starring newcomers, whether it was Xu Guanjie's screen debut "Little Heroes Havoc in Chinatown", or Cheng Long starring in "New Jingwumen" and "Shaolin Woodman Lane", the response was mediocre.

Compared with the original film, many actors in "Tangshan Big Brother" are unrecognizable, the actress Zhou Mei's actor Zou Wenhuai found Ding Pei, and Xiang Huaqiang, who was pursuing Ding Pei, also used various relationships to play the role of Xu Jian, as for another actress Mao Kexiu Li Xiaolong still found Miao Kexiu to play the role, after all, Li and Miao can be regarded as world friends.

According to Li Xiaolong's assumption, his movements in this film must fully show the sharpness of his leg skills and the ruthlessness of his fists, but many of Li Xiaolong's action designs have been rejected by Li Ping'an, and he doesn't want to get such a brainless evaluation that the more powerful people are, the higher they jump. Under the guidance of Li Ping'an, many of Li Xiaolong's actions are quite similar to the style of Li Lianjie in later generations, and the martial arts scenes are also much more beautiful. Although Li Ping'an corrected many places in "Big Brother Tangshan", to be honest, Li Xiaolong's acting skills are really not flattering, and in some respects he is not even as good as the little fresh meat of later generations, in the filming of one of the scenes, Li Xiaolong NG more than ten times because his facial expression was not in place, and finally annoyed Li Ping'an.

"Mr. Li Xiaolong, I hope that after this film is over, you can find someone to learn how to act, I don't want you to be in this state in the next film. ”

Li Xiaolong has not become famous yet, and he respects Li Ping'an in private, so he also understands his current shortcomings, "I will definitely find someone to learn acting skills." ”

During the filming break, Li Ping'an took out his notebook and began to write "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", this book Bantam Books has been urging for a long time, and Li Ping'an is ready to finish it in the near future.

"Brother Li is really working hard! He is worthy of being a prodigy with a good reputation in Xiangjiang!" Xiang Huaqiang found Li Ping'an. Regarding Xiang Huaqiang, Li Ping'an is neither disgusted nor appreciative. Xiang Huaqiang is still more sincere about movies, but his background determines that movies are at best just a tool for him to make money and launder himself, although he has merits for the Xiangjiang film industry, but Li Ping'an doesn't want to contaminate this person, just be at peace with nothing.

"I won the award to my eldest brother, I was just fooling around, if I didn't have my parents, I would be a native child in the countryside. Li Ping'an's attitude was flat.

Xiang Huaqiang knew that it was impossible to have a deep friendship with Li Ping'an in the short term, this time he just came to get to know him, and now he has a little idea about the film industry, but if he wants to enter this industry, the behemoth of Shaw Brothers is inescapable, Xiang Huaqiang always has a feeling that he will be inseparable from this teenager in many things in the future. As for using some partial means, Xiang Huaqiang didn't even think about it, not to mention Shao Yifu behind Li Ping'an, as far as Li Ping'an himself is concerned, his financial situation makes Xiang Huaqiang need to think carefully.

Xiang Huaqiang and Li Ping'an just talked a few words and left, and in the subsequent shooting, as long as he had spare time, Xiang Huaqiang would find Li Ping'an to chat for a while, and Li Ping'an had no way to do this, after all, he didn't stretch out his hand to hit the smiling person.

After nearly four months of filming, "Big Brother Tangshan" was finally completed, and the preliminary file was tentatively scheduled to be fully released in Shaw Brothers Cinemas on June 1, at this time Li Ping'an proposed the concept of a trailer to Fang Menghua and Zou Wenhuai, and finally decided that Chu Yuan would quickly edit out a three-minute wonderful shot and put it on TVB and Zhuque Channel, and at the same time, the paper publicity for "Big Brother Tangshan" was completely handed over to Xiangjiang Daily and Ming Pao.

The initial line of the story of the movie "Big Brother Tangshan" Li Ping'an was changed to Xiangjiang, and the protagonist Zheng Chaoan was sent back to Xiangjiang by his mother to work in an ice factory. Due to his mother's advice, he often swallowed his anger under the humiliation of local bullies and supervisors, but fortunately received the help of his co-worker Brother Shi. Who knew that the boss hid drugs in the ice to sell under the guise of making ice, and the workers who knew the secret were poisoned one by one, and even Brother Shi, who was strong in martial arts, was brutally killed when he negotiated with the boss.

Seeing the mysterious disappearances of the workers one after another, the workers began to become suspicious of the factory and went on strike to protest. The factory gathered a gang of thugs in an attempt to suppress the workers' revolt. Faced with the workers who were brutalized by the ruffians and hooligans, Zheng Chaoan finally couldn't bear it anymore and knocked down the thugs one by one. Zheng Chaoan is determined to find out the truth, but at the beginning, he almost fell into the treacherous scheme set by his boss. When the boss saw that the matter was exposed, he secretly sent a killer to kill all the remaining workers who knew about it and arrested a female worker.

Zheng Chao'an sneaked into the ice factory late at night to investigate, found the body of the missing worker frozen in ice, and was furious, and started a desperate struggle with the killer in the ice rink, and the killer and the boss's son were all killed. The next day, Zheng Chaoan came to the boss's house to ask the ruthless boss to repay the blood debt, and the final outcome was that Zheng Chaoan, who had taken revenge, was taken away by the police in Zhou Mei's eyes.

Overall, "Big Brother Tangshan" is just a history of revenge of small people, and the connotation is not profound, but a large number of wonderful fight scenes that tend to be actual combat have been added. When Li Ping'an wrote the script, he changed many of the characters of the ice girl, which increased the weight of Miao Kexiu in the play, making the plot fuller. Li Ping'an's fundamental purpose is not only to make Li Xiaolong popular, but also to practice with this drama, after all, watching the film and shooting the film are two different things after all, although Li Ping'an has the accumulation of his previous life, but not everything will happen.