Chapter 33: Chow Yun-fat's Humility
Thanks to Fieng Leng Mo for his 100-point tip
"By the way, Brother Fa, do you know a director named John Woo, I want to invite him to film this film. ”
Chow Yun-fat, hearing that Zhang Yi was going to find John Woo to shoot this film, obviously, Chow Yun-fat also knows John Woo's current fame, and knows that he is a very good director, if he shoots this film, he will definitely be able to shoot this hero's true colors very well, and then he will be able to become famous in Hong Kong and wash away his bad reputation of poison, so Chow Yun-fat said happily to Zhang Yi: "To be honest, I don't know him either, but I have met him a few times, I know his contact information, if Mr. Zhang needs it, I can help you find him and ask." ”
Zhang Yi thought to himself, John Woo is now a well-known director in Hong Kong, and the movies he made are good-looking and high at the box office, so he has won him a great reputation, and now many people in Hong Kong want to find him to make movies, but most of these movies are comedies, in contrast, John Woo still wants to make his ideal movie shootout film.
Although he is now quite famous, but no one is willing to throw gunfight movies for him, everyone is afraid that his comedy films are so good, but gunfight movies may not be made well, and now the mainstream movies in Hong Kong are comedies, gunfight movies, which are relatively unpopular, they are afraid that they will invest in John Woo to make movies, and they will not be able to make money when the time comes, and they will lose a lot, which makes those film company owners and investors who want to make money How can they invest money to let him make gunfight movies.
This led to John Woo being unable to shoot his ideal movie shootout movie for a long time In 1982, Golden Harvest Film Company told him to only make comedies and did not allow her to make other movies.
Compared with comedy movies, John Woo prefers to make gunfight movies, and the classic heroic nature made in 1986 made him famous, and the box office of the hero's true color broke the box office record of Hong Kong films, and for many years there was no movie to break it, and John Woo also began his violent aesthetic road.
Zhang Yi thought about it this way, and felt that he had a high possibility of finding John Woo to direct this movie, after all, John Woo now wants to make his own shootout movie, if he goes to him now, and is willing to invest in him to make this movie, he will definitely agree very happily.
Historically, it was only after he joined Tsui Hark's Film Studio that he had the opportunity to make the shootout movie he wanted to make.
Therefore, Zhang Yi felt that it was not difficult to find him to make a movie, so he could make him agree to come down Now, now the director and the actors for the role of Brother Xiao Ma have been found, and now there is a shortage of Dillon, as for the role played by Leslie Cheung, it is better to find another person, originally Zhang Yi thought about it again, and felt that it was better to find Leslie Cheung to act, but he later changed his mind, there are so many people in Hong Kong, and I don't know how long I have to find Leslie Cheung, besides, his movie is about to start filming, and he has no spare time to find Leslie Cheung, in addition, he also thinks that Leslie Cheung is not famous at all now, and his acting skills are not good, even if you go to him, it is estimated that it is not cost-effective, but it is better to wait for him to become famous in the future, and he is looking for him to make movies, so that he can make more money.
"Brother Fa, since you know director John Woo, then you can ask him to come to our café in the morning in the afternoon, I want to talk to him about filming. ”
"No problem, Mr. Zhang, I'll go to Director John Woo later, and ask him to come here in the afternoon, and Mr. Zhang, don't call me Fa Ge, just call me Fa Zai. ”
Now Chow Yun-fat is very humble in the face of Zhang Yi, he really needs the role of Brother Xiaoma so much, he is afraid that Zhang Yi will be unhappy and find someone else to shoot this role, so he is very humble to Zhang Yi and wants to please Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi looked at Chow Yun-fat with a humble look, and didn't say anything, now that he has money, he can invest in making movies for him, and he can let him play the important role of Little Pony, Chow Yun-fat naturally wants to tie himself up, besides, the current Chow Yun-fat is not the fat brother who will be red and purple in the future, now he is just a bad movie actor, and because he has made a lot of bad movies, he is called poison hair, and he is willing to give him a chance to play the important role of Little Ma, which can be said to be his honor, so Zhang Yi thinks that Chow Yun-fat is so humble to himself, Zhang Yi doesn't feel that there is anything wrong, who makes himself rich now, can let him make a movie, if he doesn't have the money to invest in this drama and let him play the role of Little Ma, it is estimated that he will not even be a bird.
"Okay, then I'll call you a boy in the future, just ask him to come here at two o'clock in the afternoon This is the script of the hero's true colors, you can show it to him when the time comes, saying that Zhang Yi took out the script of the hero's true colors that he spent a few days driving out, and do you recognize Dillon, I want to ask him to play the leading role of this movie. ”
Chow Yun-fat took the script and heard that Zhang Yi also wanted to invite Dillon to play the leading role.
He said to Zhang Yi: "Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry, I don't know Dillon, but I can help you ask." ”
"Okay, let's do it first, we'll see you at two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Yi got up and left. ”
Chow Yun-fat saw that Zhang Yi was leaving, and he immediately got up and left, and walked out of the door of the café with Zhang Yi like a follower, I didn't know, I thought Chow Yun-fat was Zhang Yi's follower. ”
After Zhang Yi walked out of the door of the café, he saw that it was time for lunch, so he found a good tea restaurant and prepared to have lunch, and Zhou Run just wanted to complete the task given to him by Zhang Yi as soon as possible, and as soon as he returned to TVB, he hurried to find John Woo and contact Dillon.
Zhang Yi was leisurely eating lunch in the tea restaurant, and after eating, he came to the café where he talked to Chow Yun-fat this morning, and after finding a place in it, he ordered a cup of coffee from the waiter, just like a rich young master, drinking coffee leisurely there, looking forward to a better future in his heart, Zhang Yi seemed to see that after the hero's true colors were filmed, the box office was a big hit, and he earned a lot of money, and then he could continue to realize his film plan, and he watched so many classic Hong Kong movies in later generations, and he was confident that he would make them all, and then he would make money and make a lot of money, the most important thing is that you can see so many beautiful stars and famous actors in Hong Kong.