Chapter 19: Bruce Lee's Drinking Party
Frankly speaking, for Bruce Lee, what is now in front of him are two scripts of kung fu films with strong Western meanings that are heavily patterned. Whether it is "Blood and Steel" provided by Warner Bros. or "Enter the Dragon" provided by Disney, in fact, in the eyes of Bruce Lee and the people who came to the United States to negotiate with him, they are basically Hollywood assembly-line works.
Of course, all of this is just Bruce Lee's self-brain supplement, in their opinion, the reason why the scripts provided by Warner Bros. and Disney are similar is because Hollywood movies are used to this model, and the screenwriters invited to write the script are also homogeneous, and automatically ignore whether there is plagiarism, after all, whether it is Warner Bros. or Disney, they are Hollywood's first-class film companies, and they shouldn't make such a despicable move.
If Walter knew Bruce Lee's thoughts, he would have laughed, because Walter's actions have actually been plagiarized very close to plagiarism, after all, Disney's "Enter the Dragon" has been basically the same as the script of "Blood and Steel" written by the original Warner Bros.
However, although the main plot is the same, after all, many details in the two scripts are different, which is also the reason why Bruce Lee and his party did not suspect that the two scripts with the same main plot were plagiarism, because in terms of style, the script of "Enter the Dragon" provided by Disney is more Chinese-style.
Because in the original history, the script of "Blood and Steel" provided by Warner Bros., although it was initially agreed by Bruce Lee, but after filming, because Warner Bros. hired Hollywood senior screenwriter Michael Allin - Michael Allen, in Bruce Lee's opinion, does not understand the connotation of Chinese culture, nor does he understand Chinese kung fu, the story written cannot attract Chinese, let alone show his style of Jeet Kune Do, requiring producer Winterdall to replace and reinvent the script.
After several discussions to no avail, Bruce Lee directly wrote the script himself and revised many plots and details of the movie, which led to the later "Enter the Dragon", which was also similar to Western personal heroism, but had an obvious plot of Chinese style in it.
Therefore, firstly, the details of the two scripts are obviously not consistent, and secondly, it is also the most important point, just like there will always be people in later generations who criticize Hollywood's assembly-line production, resulting in many commercial films actually having similar plots, so even if Bruce Lee and his party have seen the two scripts, some people suspect one side, and in the end, it can only be attributed to the improvised scripts of the two screenwriters, the reason why they are the same is just a coincidence.
It is precisely because he knows that the plot details of Hollywood commercial films are too similar, and his version has been modified by Bruce Lee's final version, so Walter dares to be so fearless, knowing that Disney's script may be similar to Warner's original script, and dares to let Disney's screenwriter write the script from memory.
And even if it is Hollywood in later generations, although there are many high-quality movies, there are more movies on the street, and the plots of many high-quality movies are still used from the street-fighting movies, and no one has ever blamed them, after all, unless the plot and details of the movie itself are similar, almost identical, it is difficult to identify and accuse whether it is plagiarism.
Of course, the reason why Bruce Lee did not give up Disney when he was faced with two similar scripts, knowing that Warner was in better condition, was also because Disney's plot seemed to him to be more in line with the setting in his heart, and he needed Chinese-style films that enhanced the image of the Chinese, rather than the western cowboy-style adventure style of personal heroism like the West.
Obviously, the script completed by Walter's plot to tell the memories of later generations made Bruce Lee feel a lot at this point, and on the other hand, naturally Walter is Chinese and familiar with Chinese culture, which makes Bruce Lee even more reluctant, because he has been in Hollywood for many years, and he has long understood in his heart that only people who are familiar with Oriental culture can make good Chinese-style kung fu movies.
"I almost forgot, by the way, Walter, I held a drinking party at the hotel where I stayed, just three days later, are you free?" After Bruce Lee got angry because Walter mentioned "The Silent Flute", he remembered that in addition to talking, the most important thing for him to come to Yowater today was to invite Walter to the drinking party, and hurriedly turned around and said.
"Cocktail party?"
Walter asked suspiciously, surprised that Bruce Lee had a cocktail party. Because firstly, although Bruce Lee is an American citizen, he accepts Chinese culture, and in Hong Kong it is not a family of justices of the peace appointed by the British Empire, so naturally there is rarely a tradition of holding a drinking party, and secondly, Walter has personally verified Bruce Lee's drinking, knowing that he has strong control and rarely drinks, so he is naturally a little disgusted with drinking parties, but now Bruce Lee, who has always been respectful of wine, suddenly wants to hold a drinking party, which naturally makes Walter a little strange.
"Hmm!" Bruce Lee responded, turned his head and saw Walter's puzzled and surprised face, naturally guessed his thoughts, and quickly explained: "Don't look at me, the drinking party is not for me to open, it is for the old street to open, let me remind you." ”
"Who?"
"Yes!" Bruce Lee's eyes widened, and this time he realized that he had slipped out again, but Walter had already asked, and then replied, "Raymond." ”
“Raymond?Who?”
"Oh, I forgot, you haven't met him yet, he's a partner of my Concord Company, his name is Zou Wenhuai. ”
Walter was stunned at first, because obviously he hadn't heard of this English name, but with Bruce Lee's explanation, he knew that it was the godfather of the famous Golden Harvest Film Company in the Hong Kong film industry.
After all, Zou Wenhuai's English name is Chow Man Wai, and Bruce Lee just called Zou Wenhuai's English abbreviation Raymond, whether it is in his past life or in his current body, he is not a senior filmmaker, and he has only heard of his name for those bigwigs in the Chinese film industry.
As for in-depth understanding, of course it is impossible, after all, the other party is not a beauty, how can he have the leisure to collect information about the other party, is he really a god? If it were not for the fact that later documentaries often mentioned the Chinese hero Bruce Lee, I am afraid that Walter didn't even know some things about Bruce Lee, how could he be today?
However, when he heard Bruce Lee call Zou Wenhuai "old fight on the street", thinking of the old news in the documentary in his previous life, and what happened recently, Walter couldn't help but think that all this could be the old fox's game?
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