Chapter 51: The Beginning of the Break
Just as Walter was flipping through the script, Rowe, who had been paying attention to Walter's side, glanced at it, but found the list of props for the "Enter the Dragon" script that Walter casually put on the table, looked at it a few times, and his face suddenly became thoughtful.
"Mr. Luo knows the trick on this list?" Walter read the script quickly, and at a cursory glance, he knew that this was a kung fu commercial film, and the plot was clear at a glance, and when he looked up, he saw Luo Wei's gaze, and asked suspiciously.
"Walter, you're too polite, just call me Lowe. Luo Wei smiled, then picked up the list, and continued: "This is the list of props for Xiao Long's "Enter the Dragon"?" Speaking of Bruce Lee, Walter obviously felt that Luo Wei's words were wrong, obviously, the almost bloody festival between the two had penetrated into his heart.
"Yes. Wo nodded his head, but he was thinking in his heart, pretending to be stupid, can't he read the English names on the list? He didn't believe that this guy didn't recognize those English characters.
"You see that this list is wrong, right?"
"Hmm!"
Luo Wei saw Walter take the bait, and then with a meaningful smile, he pointed to some props that were obviously purchased more in the few lines of the list and said, "These props are actually purchased more, you should be able to see it." ”
"That's right, I was about to ask Mr. Zou to ask why. ”
"Don't ask, they know about it, they just tell you it's normal. ”
"Huh?" Walter was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Why?"
"Because it's normal to buy more props, not only in "Enter the Dragon", but also in our other crews, we have to do these things often. ”
"Why? Do Hong Kong people like to waste?"
"It's not, but I buy more props because the props will be taken away by some temporary extras or production staff, such as Dragon and Tiger Warriors. ”
Luo Wei said this very vaguely, but Walter still heard some of the meaning, what props were taken away, and directly said that they were secretly stolen by those temporary personnel after they were filmed. By the way, it can't be said that there are more than temporary personnel, maybe those formal filmmakers, when they are short of money, will also steal crew resources in private.
As for the reason, it is also very simple, the only real money in Hong Kong movies now is film companies like the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. And other directors, actors, screenwriters, and secondly, are squeezed out of all the value by the film company with the remuneration that reaches the price of their hearts.
Of course, these three kinds of people must have a rich life, at least a good life, and others like those grassroots dragon and tiger martial artists and production staff who take odd jobs are obviously impossible to have a stable income to live, and they will naturally want to make money by other means of sideways, and stealing crew props and selling them for money is undoubtedly the easiest and quickest business.
Thinking about this, Walter glanced at Luo Wei and said, "Don't they want to stop Mr. Zou?"
"How could it not be?" Luo Wei immediately replied, and then explained hesitantly: "Mr. Zou, they invited some people to take care of the crew, but it had little effect, after all, the people who took away the crew's props were not one or two. ”
"Hmm!" Wohl nodded, at this time he remembered that in his previous life, he had also heard that "Enter the Dragon" was full of disasters during the filming process, and props were often lost and damaged, thinking about the fact that there were many more people sent by Warner Bros. to cooperate with than Disney in this life, or still stolen props, obviously this is a gang of filmmakers, and it is really difficult to stop it.
Seeing Walter like this, Luo Wei continued: "Actually, there is no way to prevent such a situation from happening, but ......"
"What's going on?" Seeing Luo Wei pause, Walter hurriedly asked, if he can prevent the loss of props, it is still very important to him, at least stop it now, and when the time comes, to avoid the continued loss of props and the reduction of the shooting cycle.
"If you want to stop it, there's a lot of resistance. Luo Wei continued.
"If you have something to say, just say it. Seeing that Luo Wei was spitting and spitting, Walter knew in his heart that there was a lot of catty in this, and hurriedly signaled that Luo Wei didn't have to care.
"In fact, as long as you can send someone to strictly find out the past of these dragon and tiger martial artists and production personnel, all those who have bad deeds will be used, and you can even invite ghosts...... Oh, no, it's foreigners who supervise the crew, and those people will naturally not dare to mess around and restrain themselves. Luo Wei just wanted to talk about ghosts when he spoke, and then he realized that what he was looking at was a half-race foreigner, and quickly changed his words.
"Well!" Wo nodded, not minding Luo Wei's words, but agreed with his proposal, and then said, "I will propose with Mr. Zou." ”
Luo Wei's words Walter recognized very much, after all, the crew has not started up yet, and the props have been stolen due to the delay in filming, and we can meet each other, and there will be no less theft of props in the official shooting in the future. Therefore, it is very important to check the criminal records of film participants, at least reasonably avoid some risks. As for asking foreigners to supervise, it is also very reasonable, after all, Hong Kong is still under British colonial rule, and these ordinary people at the bottom are still a little afraid of foreigners.
However, what Walter didn't know was that just as he nodded, Rowe, who had been watching him, showed a meaningful smile again, quite playfully.
"Walter, how's my script?" After a while, Rowe gathered his mind and continued his purpose for coming to Walter today.
Glancing at Luo Wei in front of him, Walter was silent for a moment before replying: "I'm sorry, Luo Wei, your script is very ordinary and not suitable for us to invest." ”
After all, he was just suggested, and Walter couldn't directly say that his script was very poor, so he could only politely refuse, to put it simply, this "Dragon and Tiger King Kong" is basically a kung fu movie that follows the trend, probably Luo Wei thought he liked kung fu movies, so he came to try his luck. It's just that, apparently he was wrong, Walter chose to invest in "Enter the Dragon", purely because he knew that Bruce Lee's film would explode at the box office, and "Dragon and Tiger King Kong", sorry, Walter didn't have much impression of this one.
After chatting a few more words, Luo Wei took his script and left in disappointment, Walter turned around and went back to his office, thinking about how to communicate things with Zou Wenhuai.
Walking out of the door, Luo Wei held the script in his hand and smiled, he came here purely to hear Liu Hong They said that Walter was a China expert, and wanted to use the script to fool him to invest in himself, since he couldn't attract investment, of course it didn't matter. However, thinking of his proposal to Walter, Luo Wei smiled secretly in his heart, Bruce Lee, Lao Tzu won't teach you a lesson, do you really think I'm afraid of your knife?
In the distance, Bruce Lee, who had just been walking around the Golden Harvest set, suddenly saw Luo Wei appear in front of him, and his anger immediately soared, but because he had a handle in Golden Harvest, he didn't dare to trouble Luo Wei, so he could only turn around and detour.
However, when he noticed that Rowe had just come out of Walter's office, his face suddenly clouded, and he stretched out his fist and waved it around a few times, and finally scolded "dead foreigner" before he was relieved and left......
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