After staying in Guangzhou for a day, the crew took a plane to Beijing and stayed at the Wuzhou Hotel. The staff of the front station had already arrived first and made some preparations.

The main body of Wuzhou Hotel has 13 floors, located in Chaoyang District, which was famous for the masses in later generations, next to the National Olympic Sports Center. Chen Derong didn't come, otherwise he would probably have associations: A good name, it means that this movie can be sold on five continents.

The production of this film involves three companies in three places, in addition to the Hong Kong company, there are also Beijing Film Studio and Taiwan's Xinfeng Film Co., Ltd., so the actors also come from three places, the main actors from Taiwan are Chen Songyong, who plays Ma Dashanren, and Xie Xinda, nicknamed "Brother Pig", who plays the role of Master Ji Po.

In addition to some professional actors in Beiying, the actors in the mainland also need some young actors with martial arts skills, and there are no ready-made young actors, so they need to be selected on the spot. After the staff in the early stage communicated with Beiying, they had already contacted the juvenile martial arts class of the Beijing Children's Palace, and waited for the director Wang Jing to interview and select in person.

This movie was written and directed by Wang Jing, and his initial age setting for the role of Brother Jie's son was 8 years old, and later after seeing Wang He's image, temperament and height, he adjusted it slightly and became 10 years old. Therefore, the martial arts teenagers interviewed in this batch are also around 10 years old.

Wang Jing went to the Children's Palace to select actors, in addition to the assistant director, martial arts instructors and assistants and other staff, Wang He was specially requested to go with him, in order to match the young actors who were about the same height as him on the spot. And the other actors didn't go with them, Sister Zhen went shopping, Brother Jie went to visit his teacher and fellow brothers, and his alma mater was Shichahai Sports School in Xicheng District.

The selection was held in an indoor practice room in the Children's Palace. In addition to nearly 40 teenagers, there are more than a dozen teachers or parents, and a few teenagers are obviously older or younger, Wang He estimates that it is stuffed into the relationship, and he, a layman, can see it, let alone Wang Jing, but he didn't say anything, and sat behind the desk with the assistant director and martial arts instructor.

A teacher from the Children's Palace took the list and began to call people, and the person who read the name walked to the middle of the field and played a set of kung fu that he was best at.

This set of processes goes very quickly, because this is only a primary selection, and there is no problem with the skills of the teenagers present, Wang Jing mainly looks at the image of the character, whether it matches the character in the script.

Wang Jing also has a list in his hand, and he finally selected more than a dozen people, and these people have to try out the play before they can finally make a decision on which five people will play the "Five Ancestors of Shaolin". These are the main supporting roles, he must personally choose, and there are also some juvenile tricks that basically have no lines in the play, so he doesn't choose them himself, but lets Zhang Jinbao, the assistant director sent by Beiying, be responsible for the selection.

Wang Jing is very good at being a man, Beiying, as a landlord, has some power to score points, and being too strong will only offend people.

Seeing Wang Jing doing this, Zhang Jinbao felt comfortable, stood up, picked up the list and read more than a dozen names, even if it was the end of this primary election.

The teenager who wasn't selected was a little frustrated, but there was no way, this kind of thing all depended on the director's words.

Just when the crew was grouped and managed according to the people selected by the director and said some precautions, a big fat man in his forties with a horizontal face came over next to him, and he said like a bell:

"I said, director, what does this kid do? He doesn't seem to be running, right?"

The people present were stunned for a moment, and they didn't know what was going on, and the teacher of the Children's Palace saw this situation and hurriedly came over and said:

"Lao Jin, this child was brought by someone else's director, not from our Children's Palace. Okay, okay, the selection is over, so let's go back first. Lao Jin, take your children back first. Come back when you're in class. Don't be late again. ”

After the big fat man left with a little fat man, Wang He, who looked confused, remembered that this little fat man caused a burst of laughter as soon as he appeared on the scene, laughing at his body shape really didn't look like practicing martial arts, but after he practiced, the laughter stopped abruptly, although he was fat, he was not clumsy, on the contrary, his movements were very flexible.

No one cared about it, and it passed in a flash. The crew and the selected teenagers got on the bus parked in the yard, Wang Jing, Zhang Jinbao and the leaders of the Children's Palace complimented each other, shook hands and said goodbye and were ready to get on the bus.

Wang Jing saw it inadvertently, and after being stunned for a moment, her eyes lit up, and she beckoned to the little fat man and said:

"Who's that...... Come over here. ”

The little fat man was still chewing with his head down, his father was tall and big, and he noticed the gestures and voice of Wang Jin, who was also a fat man, and hurriedly pushed his son and said:

"Xiao Xin, the director is calling you. Hey, you unlucky boy, don't eat it, when are you going to kill me......"

Wang He sat by the window in the car, saw Wang Jing beckoning to the golden little fat, after chatting a few words, the little fat man threw the chicken leg in his hand, ran to the sink by the wall and washed it casually, and then turned around without turning off the faucet and ran, wiping the water and greasy on the clothes and pants on his body while running.

Seeing Jin Xiaopang follow Wang Jin's ass and get into the car, Wang He suddenly understood that the young man who played the fifth ancestor had one more competitor, and it was very likely that they could only compete with the fourth ancestor, because this fat man was obviously the little fat character who was timid, loved to eat chicken butt, and spoke Shandong dialect in the movies he watched in later generations.

On the way back to the Wuzhou Hotel, Wang He remembered a report that he had read in later generations. said that Hong Kong films in this era, especially martial arts films, are not too fixed, there is only a general framework, and some plots, lines, and actions are all designed and played on the spot. Although there are many on-the-spot changes, the filming progress is very fast, like Wang Jing's films, from filming to release in cinemas, the average time is only about two months.

In the 80s and 90s, it was the golden age of Hong Kong films, and the production cycle was very fast, with an average of 3 or 5 months to produce a film, which was still because literary films dragged on, like the famous literary director Wong Kar-wai, one of his films often had to be made for a year or two.

The teenagers in the car, except for Wang He, are all students of the Children's Palace, and the others get on the bus first, only there is a vacant seat next to Wang He, Jin Xiaopang got in the car and sat in, and the two informed each other of their names, which is considered to be acquaintance.