Chapter 180: Master
"Kung Fu Panda will be a genre first, an action-comedy CG animated film. We will use all the latest technologies of Blue Sky to bring you a delicate and beautiful ancient Chinese world. "It's a very funny and traditional story, and Po the Panda is definitely a likable guy. - Producer & Screenwriter Jonathan Abel. "We will strive to create the most authentic and beautiful kung fu, and the eight extremes, tai chi, tiger boxing, mantis boxing and other boxing methods will appear. I learned Bajiquan, which kind of Panda Bao learned? - Screenwriter & Producer Wang Yang.
With the first anniversary of 911 has become a thing of the past, including film entertainment and other industries have returned to liveliness, recently Flame Movie and Blue Sky Studio officially announced two new plans, the first is to invest 75 million to produce "Ice Age 2", this sequel will be launched in the summer vacation of 2004, and the second investment of 100 million to produce a new animation "Kung Fu Panda", will be released in the summer vacation of 2005.
This CG movie is really "all Chinese elements", the story is set in the ancient Chinese world, the characters are pandas, tigers and other anthropomorphic animals, Blue Sky Studio seems to be full of confidence, but the media are a little surprised, it is not surprising that Magic Yang made such a movie, what is surprising is that their pace of development will be 200 million in three years, which is equal to the 476 million global box office of "Ice Age".
Compared with Pixar and DreamWorks' animation plans, China's entertainment media and fans should pay more attention to this matter, because of Magic Yang and Panda. Most of the voices on the Internet seemed very excited and full of anticipation, Tang Bohu lit mosquito coils and said: "It's cool now, you can see the cute giant panda on the big screen!" Handsome enough to alarm the Party Central Committee and say: "Wang Yang, the labor and management are served! It will take 05 years to see it......? However, there are also some doubts and insults, selling blood on the Internet and saying: "An ABC like Wang Yang knows what Chinese culture is? Hurry up and ask Lao Mouzi to be the director! Don't come out with all the nondescript things!" Aunt Wu said: "What a gift for Chinese fans, phew! Don't want to make a penny from me!" Climb up the wall and wait for the first red apricot to say: "Pandas can be used casually to make cartoons? This is our national treasure!" ...... The question of whether you understand Chinese culture is still only popular on the Chinese Internet, but "do you understand kung fu" has surfaced with "Kung Fu Panda", and has become a question in the hearts of all fans who pay attention to Magic Young, because it has always been him who says how it is, Daniel Wu Hao, who began to practice martial arts at the age of 11, also has the fifth place in the Beijing International Wushu Changquan Group, and also founded the Wushu Association at the University of Oregon. Now it seems like that's all there is.
At this time, Anderson, who photographed the baby on the beach of Santa Monica that day, saw the heavy atmosphere of the first anniversary of 911 fade away, the entertainment gossip rose again, and "Kung Fu Panda" jumped out, which was simply the best time to sell that set of photos and videos! So he contacted the media and newspapers of all parties, and the rights in North America and Asia were quickly sold at high prices, making a lot of money.
Then the photos and videos were exposed by the media for the first time: "Kung Fu master is magical!"
There are dozens of pictures in that whole set, from Wang Yang and his group laughing and talking in front of the Flame Film Company, to on the beach, Wang Yang and Wu Yanzu fighting, Joshua Alba and Rachel McAdams watching nervously.
He dodged and threw a punch that swelled in his arm and landed on Wu's lower abdomen...... If these very clear high-resolution photos aren't enough to show a "kung fu master", then the equally clear images pretty much speak for themselves. Everyone immediately knew that Magic Yang didn't brag, he was really a kung fu master, and he was not an ordinary master.
That video is not as carefully edited as a kung fu movie, but the fists and feet of the two of them are a real ferocity, those hard-hitting and solid impact grappling, agile and thrilling blocking and dodging, and the strength, speed, and moves shown are by no means idle.
The gossip media "Hollywood Vanguard" even found a kickboxing champion John Odell to analyze the strength of Magic Young, he said: "Wang Yang's style of play is very, very fierce, and it can be seen that he has a lot of actual combat experience, according to his height and weight, I think he said that he can fight 20 ordinary people at a time is modest." β
"Amazing Jan looks like a big brown bear! That last punch is so hard!wooooo-" On the Internet comment, the text of kick-ass was full of exclamation, and Brooke also wrote in amazement: "I think Amazing Young can easily defeat Jackie Chan and Jett Lee, it's so much to look forward to his kung fu movie! I mean he is the starring actor!" Kents sighed, "Why! Do Chinese people know kung fu?!" Evelyn said: "Another reason to like Magic Young, it's so cool!" ...... In the dimly lit editing room, Debra Fisher, who once edited "Ace Spy" 1 and 2 and is now the editor of "The Hangover", sat in front of the editing table, looking at several computer screens in front of him with a mouse, working with a mouse in his hand; Wang Yang stood not far away with his mobile phone in his hand, listening to the question of "Los Angeles Times reporter Kim Sylvie" with some impatience on his face: "Young, why did you play a friendly match with Daniel Wu on the beach?"
He had a pretty good relationship with Kim Sylvie, and now that she offered to do a little interview, he didn't want to ruin the relationship with the Los Angeles Times, so he agreed. Hearing her question, Wang Yang shrugged helplessly and said to the phone: "Jin, you know that I also have a life." Why? Because that's life. We hit when our interest comes, and it's not a big deal. β
βokγ Kim Sylvie smiled and asked, "How good is your kung fu, what kind of professional competition do you think you are suitable for, and what results can you achieve?"
Wang Yang rolled his eyes angrily, he thought about it and said seriously: "Let's put it this way, I don't think I am suitable to participate in any professional competition, unless that competition is a life and death contract, zero rules have no referee, you can punch the crotch and hit the vital point...... But obviously it's impossible and cruel, and even if there were, I wouldn't play, and I don't support this kind of fight. β
"You mean you can beat anyone with zero rules?"
Hearing Kim Sylvie's question with great interest, Wang Yang couldn't help but laugh and said, "No, I didn't say that. But the ultimate goal of all martial arts and fighting is to knock down the opponent and kill the opponent, and if there are a bunch of limitations, then you will always be behind in strength, and you can't make up for the disadvantage in some other way. It's like hitting my opponent in the back of the head with an elbow, it's one of my best moves, and how can I fight without them?"
Kim Sylvie hummed and casually asked, "This is a question that fans are very concerned about, who is better to fight between you and Jackie Chan and Jett Lee, and Dwayne Johnson?"
"I don't know, I'll have to fight to find out. But if you want to see if I can play well, buy a DVD of "The Hangover" in the future!Man, that's it, bye!" Wang Yang pressed the end call button, put down the phone and shook his head and smiled, walked to the editing table, and muttered softly: "Why don't I seem to be called Yang-Wang anymore, but fist-wang?"
The DVD of "The Hangover" not only has tidbits of the director and the lead actor fighting, but also has photos of all the foursome's crazy night at the end of the film, which is exactly what attracts fans to buy the disc. As for the accompanying pictures when scrolling through the credits at the end of the theatrical version, they will all be crazy but fall within the range of PG-13.
"The Hangover" will undoubtedly be R-rated, but the reason Wang Yang planned it to get an R-rated from the beginning was because of "a lot of foul-mouthed, vulgar language." And the vulgar seven-word **, piss, **, cunt, cocksucker, mother**er, tits, the film basically just uses**and**; there are no dew points, R-rated sex shots and embarrassing ultra-vulgar shots, anyway, this kind of shot is not particularly funny.
This is mainly to take care of a major movie-going group during the Christmas schedule and win more family box office. The main consideration is for teenagers under the age of 17, especially those families with children aged 12-15, so that parents can safely say "We want tickets for "The Hangover" when making Christmas movie choices. β
Wang Yang has always thought about a question, that is, can the lines and jokes of R-rated comedies integrate vulgarity and humor?
Vulgarity is very direct, say some foul language, including **,, pee and fart, take down half of the body to joke, etc., of course, if anyone in the world is so full of swearing, no one will find it funny, will only think that you are offensive and hostile;
"Juno" has a lot of slang and neologisms, and when he chooses, he makes the lines more cute and humorous, and he can use "Juno said" in life, while the future "The Hangover" mostly uses some explicit and indecent vulgar words, and even many characters only have "**", including dentists and teachers, probably because most of its lines rely on improvisation on the set.
In that "Hangover", only the fat man did the best job in terms of character lines, and many of his inexplicable and whimsical funny lines fit the positioning of weird geniuses, but the lines of dentists and teachers are not prominent, there are no professional jokes, and they don't make people feel that they are dentists and teachers, which can obviously be further explored.
So for such a story, when he wrote his lines and shot on the set, he thought about how to maximize the character's personality and identity, and let everyone think together, the goal is to create more "vulgar humor" that can be savored, just like the fat man's sentence in the original version, "Card counting is like jerking off on a plane, not illegal but not very good." β
"The slow motion here is a little bit slower. "Debra, don't you think it's funny to freeze this image on the screen for three seconds?", "Hey, let's give him a close-up!"...... Time passed day by day, and soon came to the end of September, during which Wang Yang spent every day in the editing room, but compared to "District 9", the workload of "The Hangover" was not very large. Although its theatrical version is also 120 minutes, there is no need to think about the arrangement of special effects shots, and he and Harry George are very freewheeling when shooting. If you want slow motion, slow motion, and super large close-ups, super large close-ups...... It's like a hilarious and exaggerated drama.
In the production of special effects in the later stage of the film, that is, to add some setting effects to some scenes, such as card counting symbols, electric shocks, etc., the drawings obtained by the image engine are also very noisy;
Anyway, he and Debra Fisher both cut very quickly and expected to be fully edited in mid-to-late October, and the work was also carried out at the same time, with the old partner David Lawrence as the soundtrack, and the color grading under the supervision of Harry George, who had been studying for a long time, with the goal of "making Las Vegas more textured", with brighter and darker colors...... All work goes hand in hand.
"Acupuncture is amazing! My head has gotten a lot better these days, and now the pain has become very mild, it's really as comfortable as **!" Ray Werner on the other side of the phone was very excited, realizing that he had said foul language, he quickly laughed and said: "Sorry, Jan, I'm so happy, I can't believe it! Why didn't anyone tell me earlier? Then I won't have to be in pain for a year! Damn James!"
Wang Yang, who was standing next to the balcony railing, was very happy that acupuncture could cure Ray Warner's headache, and said with a smile: "Maybe you should have gone to do an exorcism with James earlier and get that ghost boy away, maybe it's completely healed." As he spoke, a cool breeze blew in his face, and he looked at the dark night and the swaying leaves of the plane tree, and suddenly felt a little hairy in his heart, and immediately walked to the room.
"Haha, maybe! By the way, I'm going to learn some kung fu to get some exercise. Wow!" Ray Werner suddenly said in a tone of admiration, "I watched your boxing match with Daniel Wu, it's so handsome! I want to learn your kind of kung fu, that's called Bajiquan, right?"
"Yes buddy, Bajiquan!Welcome to the world of kung fu!" Wang Yang suddenly laughed, speaking of which, there is also a person who is going to start learning kung fu, and he wants to worship him as a teacher, this is also his first official apprentice, the founding disciple, not Jaden Smith, but Jessica.
If you want to be a good hardcore action actor, being good at it is one of the key things. Because in addition to lens design, shooting, editing, etc., actors who really have kung fu foundation and temporary short-term training have very different senses when they fight, including speed, strength, fluency, etc., there is no doubt that understanding kung fu is more professional than not knowing.
And no matter what the next movie is made after "MIT-21-team", Wang Yang hopes that Jessica can become a kung fu girl, because he knows that he will always make the "Ranger" that was given to her as a gift for her 17th birthday and planned since childhood, but not now, he needs to accumulate more experience and more ideas.
In addition to making movies, another benefit of practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body. Jessica has been frail since she was a child, and although she has moved out of the hospital now, she still returns to be a guest from time to time, and learning kung fu can improve her body's poor immune system. It's not that Wang Yang is forcing her to learn, Jessica has been clamoring for a long time to "talk with her fists".
β»β»Early in the morning, the sky is still hazy, and on a wide green lawn surrounded by trees in the park, Wang Yang, who is wearing a black long-sleeved white shirt and a black pants suit, has a face, carrying his hands in a very grandmaster style, and slowly circles around Jessica in front of him.
Jessica was wearing the same women's tracksuit, but the long sleeves and midpants were blue, her long brown hair was tied back with a white headband into a ponytail without bangs, a pair of big black jewel-like eyes full of spirit, her eyebrows were flying, and her sweet and sexy pretty face was full of seriousness, and she stood up straight, as if she was in a Marine Corps boot camp now.
"Do you know what Bajiquan is! Since ancient times, I think it is the Republic of China, who has said something 'Wen has Taiji to secure the world, Wu has Baji Dingqiankun'!" Wang Yang shouted out word by word in Chinese, seeing Jessica's somewhat puzzled look, he continued to circle and said in a deep voice: "Anyway, it means very powerful, Baji Fist is fierce, moving hurts people, tigers are afraid when they meet, what do they rely on!"
He slapped his shoulder with his right hand, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Do you know what you have experienced with this shoulder you are leaning on every night!" Hit the tree again and again, like an idiot!" He raised the index finger of his right hand and shouted: "I hit the locust tree in my master's yard a thousand, ten thousand, ten million times!"
Jessica blinked, not quite believing it: "Not a hundred million times, right?" Wang Yang suddenly took a deep breath and continued to say in Chinese: "No! Okay, you can only practice chivalry and righteousness in the future, and you must not bully the weak, this is the first rule of the door, understand!" Jessica, who probably understood the meaning, nodded heavily: "Understood!" Wang Yang glared at her and roared: "Are you dumb? I didn't hear it!"
"Understood!" Jessica pursed her lips and roared in a rough voice, her hands and fists clenched hard, and she shouted with great momentum, "I can do it!"
Wang Yang, who had circled around again, walked up to her and stood in front of her, hummed in a deep voice, stroked his non-existent long beard, and said lightly: "Jessica Marie Alba, now I officially accept you as an apprentice, and you will call me master and professor in the future, you know!"
Jessica clasped her hands into fists and saluted, and continued to laugh in a rough voice: "Well, master!" Wang Yang endured that strong smile and nodded: "Very good, you originally wanted to give me tea, and I will make up for it when I go home." Then, you are now the second-generation descendant of Wang Yang's Bajiquan, the eldest disciple of the head, and the lady of the head, you have a heavy position and a heavy responsibility, understand!" Jessica shrugged her shoulders and held back a smile, shouting, "Understood!"
"You are over 18 years old, so the teacher is going to give you a table now, which is another affectionate name to indicate the meaning of your real name. Wang Yang thought for a while, looked at Jessica with an interested face, and said with a smile: "Jessica means God's grace and wealth, and after some careful consideration, the teacher decided to give you the word "Ah Cai, money......" As he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh.
Jessica pretended to be proud, tilted her head, and smiled, "Cool! Then I have honey and money now, which is cool!"
"Good! Let's practice the basic skills for a month to loosen your stiff muscles; but considering that you have already had a certain foundation for years of dancing, the teacher will give you a chance to prove yourself." Wang Yang put his hands on his back again, took two steps back, and said, "Kick your leg!" β
Jessica raised her right leg and kicked it high, she said confidently: "Master, how is it? Can you start learning kung fu?" Wang Yang said solemnly: "Yes, but for the teacher, you can't wear a skirt when practicing kicking, understand!" Jessica smiled and showed two rows of clean teeth, and shouted: "Understood!"
Wang Yang nodded with great satisfaction and said: "Then let's start learning kung fu, footwork is the foundation of all kung fu, without it is like a sports car without wheels, just a joke!
Before the words fell, he squatted with his legs open, tied up a steady horse step, looked at Jessica, who was much taller in front of him, and said with a smile: "Your horse steps are well practiced, to ensure that your calves and thighs can always remain slim, which is very beneficial for girls and teachers!"
"Huh!" Jessica looked too lazy to pay attention to him, imitating the steps he had just taken, moving her feet away a distance and slowly squatting down, with a snort, her fists closed on both sides of her lower abdomen, and said in a rough voice: "How about this?"
Wang Yang got up and circled around her, naturally there could be no martial arts miracle, and said with a smile: "There is nothing on the surface, there is no shape!" Jessica already felt a little shaky feeling in her legs, and asked incomprehensibly: "What do you mean?" He came behind her and said: "It means that it is very unstable, as long as the teacher is like this......" He raised his foot and kicked her ass lightly, she suddenly "ah", and the whole person threw herself forward on the lawn.
"Hahahaha-!"
Listening to his unscrupulous happy laughter, Jessica, who was lying on the lawn, gritted her teeth viciously, she wiped the dew on her face, stood up and looked at Wang Yang with a wicked smile, with a mysterious smile: "Master, I'll tell you a secret...... Money is determined to teach you a good lesson!" she roared rudely, slamming her clenched fists at him.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Wang Yang didn't use any force to keep blocking her flower fist legs, and stepped back again and again, laughing and shouting: "Hey, you're doing this rebelliously, stop!hey, cut!good-take!" The director shouted cut!" Jessica continued to thrash hard, gritted her teeth and smiled: "Ah, I don't care! You shit master, you don't teach people kung fu at all! Beat you to death-"
"In this case, then the master will teach you a trick first, and when you face a master you can't beat at all, then run!" Wang Yang pushed her away a little harder, and immediately turned around and ran away, looking back at Jessica behind him, and shouted with a smile: "So that your opponent can't beat you!"
Jessica clenched her fists, and then ran up, chasing him at full speed, laughing and shouting, "Young, I also told you, run, run! just-run, run, run,
In the early morning on the lush lawn of the park, a string of happy laughter was heard, and an old white man with a black and white border collie glanced to the right, only to see a young couple in tracksuits laughing and chasing and fighting, the man was chased by the woman, and then she beat the head of the rat. The old man smiled and withdrew his gaze and continued to walk leisurely and walk the dog.
(To be continued)