229 [Leg King Tan Daoliang]
Wang Zijun asked Li Jinghao to put on his makeup, and he took a taxi by himself and came to Wang's Cinema in Linkou in a very low-key manner.
Compared with the sparsely populated area a year ago, the road from Taipei City to Linkou is now full of vehicles and pedestrians.
"Big brother driver, do you usually have a lot of people in this studio?" Wang Zijun asked the taxi driver.
The driver replied, "Normally, I can pull one a week." ”
"Have you ever been to the studio?" Wang Zijun asked.
"Been there once. You're also traveling there, right? "A lot of words," the driver said suddenly, "there is nothing to see except for a garden, and I heard that a palace will be built in the future." You can go and see how the director makes the movie. ”
When you arrive at the studio, you can see a few sparse tourists, most of whom are interested in making movies. These people were fooled by advertisements in newspapers and magazines, but the number was still too small. Most of the shops in Changde City are also empty, and only some of the places where they are filming are occupied.
Large film companies such as Central Studios and Federal have their own studios, so naturally they don't have to come to Wang's Cinemas. The people who come here to shoot are small and medium-sized companies, because Wang's Cinema is more complete than other studios, and although the rent is higher, many sets can save a lot of prop costs.
Even so, the money earned is still not enough to maintain the daily expenses of the staff here, and it is still losing money.
I could only grit my teeth and persevere.
The economy is in recession, the entertainment industry is shrinking, all of this is done by the American devils of Dog Day.
In the past few years, the United States has been in recession for many years, and in order to reverse the sluggish economic situation, Washington has had to sharply lower interest rates. As a result, investors in search of higher short-term gains have moved their money to Europe and elsewhere, totaling $20 billion. By May 1971, the United States had its first-ever monthly trade deficit and triggered a worldwide panic sell-off of the dollar, bringing the situation to the brink of despair.
The U.S. immediately announced the decoupling of the dollar from gold, unilaterally tore up the Bretton Woods system, and then made the people of the world pay for the U.S. recession, and the widespread economic crisis erupted. Since last year, the current economic crisis has gradually affected Hong Kong and Taiwan, causing a setback to Taiwan's export-oriented economy and causing prices to skyrocket.
This economic crisis has been going on for almost two years, and it seems that it is about to pass, but Wang Zijun knows that more powerful is yet to come.
Two months later, the first oil crisis broke out, and the international price of crude oil soared from less than $3 to $13. As a result, several developed countries experienced another recession, with GDP growth falling by 4.7 in the United States, 2.5 in Europe, and 7 in Japan.
With two months to go before the oil crisis broke out, Wang Zijun was thinking about whether to take the opportunity to make a profit.
wandered all the way, and finally came to Lin Fengjiao's filming crew.
Since Lin Fengjiao, Zhao Yazhi and others became famous, there are now continuous film appointments, and now this movie is "Chaozhou Angry Man" invested by Crown Pictures.
"The Angry Man of Teochew" is a kung fu film that completely follows Bruce Lee, but in the history of Taiwanese cinema, it is not only a box office hit, but also has a very important impact.
Because this movie is the screen debut of Tan Daoliang and Lin Fengjiao.
In another time and space, "Chaozhou Angry Man" was filmed at the end of last year and released in the first half of this year, and the two newcomers Tan Daoliang and Lin Fengjiao also became popular.
Lin Fengjiao didn't say it, only said that Tan Daoliang was an overseas Chinese in South Korea, the founder of the Taekwondo Committee of the Republic of China, the grandmaster of Taiwan's taekwondo world, and one of the masters of Bruce Lee's daughter Li Xiangning in the future. A few years ago, when Chiang Ching-kuo was still Minister of Defense, when he was an envoy to South Korea, Tan Daoliang was arranged to perform taekwondo in front of Chiang. …,
This person is known as the king of legs, but he quit the showbiz after going to the United States to open a martial arts gym in the 80s.
It's just that this movie, which was supposed to start filming in the second half of last year, has been delayed until now because of the appearance of Wang Zijun.
The reasons are, firstly, because Wang's "Bloody Lonely City" was a box office hit, so Crown Pictures followed suit and temporarily remade war films; The second is that director Wang Xinglei wants to invite Zhen Zhen to be the heroine, hoping to use her fame to increase the box office. As a result, Zhen Zhen didn't like Tan Daoliang, a newcomer, and refused directly, so Lin Fengjiao entered the film industry in another time and space, and she played the heroine as soon as she came.
This time, Crown Pictures had a war film to make, and after Zhen Zhen refused, he directly shelved "The Angry Man of Chaozhou" and went to make a war film that hit the streets.
And this year, Bruce Lee once again caused a sensation in Europe and the United States, and Crown Pictures was moved again and started the filming plan of the kung fu film "Chaozhou Angry Man", which had been shelved.
"Be careful, be careful," director Wang Xinglei shouted, directing the transfer of Weiya above.
Wang Xinglei is in his 40s, and he became famous by making martial arts films a few years ago, and he is a quasi-first-line director in Taiwan.
Wang Zijun took a look at the footage they were about to shoot, and couldn't help but complain in his heart: **
But it was the male protagonist Tan Daoliang who was holding a four or five-year-old girl in his arms, with his legs on two parallel high walls more than one meter apart, and climbed to the roof seven or eight meters high by the so-called gecko skill.
As a newcomer to the film and a martial artist, Tan Daoliang naturally cannot use a stand-in, and the little girl in his arms is also a real person.
Although there was a soft cushion on the ground, and Tan Daoliang also hung Weiya on his back, he still saw Wang Zijun frightened.
Because Tan Daoliang was holding the child with both hands, he couldn't use his hands at all, so he completely used his feet to kick and jump on the walls on both sides, climb up one by one, and deliberately did a few dangerous actions that almost fell down in the middle.
If it rises directly, it can be pulled up by a tightrope, but in order to be realistic and show the magical "gecko skill", Tan Daoliang must rely on his strong leg skills to act.
Seven or eight meters high wall, Tan Daoliang has been shooting from the bottom to the top for an afternoon and has not finished filming. The director divided this set of shots into several sections in different positions, and failed in the middle could be pulled by WIA, and finally edited together. Even so, there are countless times in the middle.
The most difficult thing is not here, but the little girl in Tan Daoliang's arms, after a few meters in the air, she began to be afraid, and she cried to find her mother, so she had to stop filming and coax the child, and make the child happy before continuing.
Wang Xinglei clenched his fists, watched Tan Daoliang finally go to the roof, and shouted happily with a happy face: "Click"
"Huh" Tan Daoliang put down the child, his hair was so soft that he was on the roof, he had been kicking the wall with his legs all afternoon, and now his legs were almost numb.
Wang Zijun asked the staff, and when he heard that Tan Daoliang had been filming like this for an afternoon, he was immediately stunned, this mother is really iron-legged.
If you want to say that there are actors with real kung fu in the 70s, Tan Daoliang can definitely rank in the top three.
Can you sign him?
"Chaozhou Angry Man" is just Tan Daoliang's test work to enter the film and television industry, and his main business at this time is still taekwondo boxer, and he has not signed a contract with any film company.
If you want to sign it, you have to sign it as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to sign it after "Chaozhou Angry Man" is a big hit.
Lin Fengjiao was filming in another director team, dressed as a lower-class woman in the early years of the Republic of China, with a taste of small jasper.
Originally, in order to be in a hurry, it was to shoot day and night, like Tan Daoliang's highest record is that he has not gone home to sleep for 27 consecutive days. But today's shooting was so tired, Tan Daoliang's legs couldn't even stand steady, Wang Xinglei simply shouted to turn off the machine and call it a day, and shoot again tomorrow. …,
Lin Fengjiao was changing clothes in the dressing room, Wang Zijun walked over with a rose, was stopped by the staff, and asked vigilantly: "Who are you?" ”
Wang Zijun said with a smile: "Visiting the class." ”
"Looking for whom?"
"Lin Fengjiao, I made an appointment with her yesterday." Wang Zijun said.
The staff looked at Wang Zijun several times, and finally said, "You wait here, there is a women's dressing room inside, and I will call someone for you." ”
Not long after, Lin Fengjiao came out wearing a dress with a gentle temperament. She looked left and right, but didn't find where Wang Zijun was, and said angrily: "This villain is playing tricks on me again." ”
Wang Zijun had a rose branch in his mouth, walked up to Lin Qingxia and said with a thick voice and a hippie smile: "Hey, pretty girl, enjoy your face and eat together tonight?" ”
Lin Fengjiao didn't recognize Wang Zijun in disguise, she was already a little unhappy, and said directly with a straight face: "I'm sorry sir, I don't know you." ”
"It's okay, I know you." Wang Zijun stepped forward and hugged Lin Fengjiao suddenly.
"Ah, let go of me" Lin Fengjiao was shocked, and in a hurry, she raised her knees to Wang Zijun's crotch.
Wang Zijun was so frightened that he bowed back and whispered: "I'm Wang Zijun, you want to murder your husband."
Lin Fengjiao heard his voice at this time, and changed from anger to joy: "Bad guy"
Wang Zijun broke off the rose branch, inserted the flower on Lin Fengjiao's sideburns, admired it left and right, and praised it sincerely: "It's really more beautiful than flowers, you can make this rose ashamed to death." ”
Lin Fengjiao smiled sweetly when she heard this: "Why are you so good at coaxing people today?" ”
Wang Zijun said solemnly: "I'm telling the truth, I'm not coaxing you." Why is it that telling the truth is always suspected? ”
Lin Fengjiao smiled like a flower when she heard this, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go in and get something and come out." ”
Soon, Lin Fengjiao came out with her handbag and took the initiative to hold Wang Zijun's hand, and the two walked together like a couple.
The crew looked at them in surprise and guessed who Lin Fengjiao's mysterious boyfriend was.
Wang Zijun took Lin Fengjiao's hand, but saw Tan Daoliang change his clothes and walk this way, he said to Lin Fengjiao: "How is Tan Daoliang a person?" ”
Lin Fengjiao said: "It's not very clear, after all, I haven't been in regular contact yet." However, judging by his performance, he should be a very down-to-earth person who can endure hardships, and he is also very gentle when talking to people, and has a good temper. ”
Wang Zijun said: "I want to sign him. ”
"Sign him?" Lin Fengjiao thought for a while and said, "It's okay, I heard that he has real kung fu." ”……,