At the door of the hotel, the two reporters had been waiting for more than an hour, but they had not seen Lin Youlun and Li Lianzhuo coming.

"It's been so long, are we going to keep waiting?"

The companion looked at the time, and was already a little tempted to retreat.

The reporter who decided to squat at the door couldn't help but reprimand: "If you give up without taking anything, didn't you just wait in vain?" ”

"Okay!" The companion sighed helplessly.

The two continued to stand on the side of the road as if nothing had happened, and a passing passerby stopped in front of them.

"Friend, can I borrow a fire?"

The reporter touched his pocket, and then pushed his companion next to him: "I didn't bring a lighter, did you bring it?" ”

The companion took a lighter out of his pocket and handed it to the passerby.

The other party lit a cigarette, returned the lighter, thanked him and left.

The attention of the two reporters was attracted by the man who borrowed the fire, and when they looked at the door of the hotel again, a car had been parked at some point.

A man in sunglasses got out of the car and walked straight into the hotel lobby.

The reporter who had forgotten to bring a lighter turned his head and glanced at his companion.

"Isn't this person's back a little familiar?"

The companion nodded.

The reporter asked again, "Do you see who it is?" ”

There was a look of uncertainty in his companion's eyes, "It seems to be ...... Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda. ”

——

In the café, Li Lianjie was carefully reading the script of "Rat Guts".

When dealing with a bomb kidnapping incident, Li Jie, a mainland military officer, was unable to correctly judge that the wrong lead caused the bomb to explode. A carload of hostages was killed. Among them are Li Jie's wife and son. Li Jie was heartbroken and resigned from public office. came to Hong Kong incognito to find the murderer of his wife, and the only clues he had were that the gangster was called "doctor" and his voice, and he had no clue about anything else.

The character setting of Li Jie in "Rat Guts" made Li Lianjie involuntarily think of Xu Zhengyang in "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", these two characters do have a lot of similarities: they are both from military backgrounds, and they both appear as bodyguards, the only difference is the purpose of the two to Hong Kong, one is to avenge personal revenge. One is for the performance of official duties.

Continue to look down, and the script can be regarded as entering the official main line.

In order to disguise his identity, Li Jie changed his name to Li Daring, and served as a bodyguard and stand-in for Hong Kong kung fu superstar Long Wei, and performed death scenes for Long Wei from time to time. TV host Le Huizhen was suspicious of Long Wei's performance, and did not hesitate to follow and investigate secretly filming, and finally found evidence of Li Jie's performance instead of Long Wei. At this time, the criminal gang headed by the "doctor" was planning to steal the diamond jewelry of the Hirsh diamond jewelry exhibition held by the Cointreau Hotel in Hong Kong, and sent the female assistant Zhu Fei to infiltrate the hotel as a public relations undercover agent.

On the day of the diamond jewelry exhibition, Longwei was invited. Li Jie accompanied him but was turned away, so he had no choice but to drive back. On the way to wait for the traffic light, he met the sports car that met the car, and during the phone call of the sports car driver, he heard the other party's voice as the voice of the "doctor", followed the other party back to the hotel, and saw through the other party's intention to rob the diamond jewelry exhibition.

Li Jie immediately called the police, but the police were slow to react, at this time the diamond jewelry exhibition has been controlled by the "doctor" group, Li Jie had no choice but to enter the hotel building with the only police officer who believed in him.

Judging from the content of the whole story, "Die Hard" is indeed very similar to "Die Hard", especially the part where Li Jie broke into the hotel alone and fought with many bandits after the most scandal, which can be said to be a copy of "Die Hard".

If others write the script like this, it will definitely attract questions of plagiarism, but Lin Youlun does not have this problem, the "Die Hard" that helped Cheng Long successfully enter the Hollywood sight back then was from him, of course, the suspicion of fried cold rice is inevitable.

Li Lianjie also had such worries when he first watched it, but after reading the entire script, he found that "Die Hard" was not simply a reinvention of "Die Hard" and re-shooting, and the existence of another actor in the film, Long Wei, made this movie from a pure action movie to an action movie with a comedy nature.

Li Lianjie first compared "Rat Guts" with Cheng Long's "Die Hard", and then involuntarily compared "Rat Guts" and "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard".

"Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" failed at the box office in Hong Kong, Li Lianjie has been reflecting on it recently, on the surface, this movie is indeed like Lin Youlun said, the name was not good, but after reading the script of "Rat Guts", Li Lianjie kept asking himself in his heart, if "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" was released in Hong Kong under a different name, would it still be the box office result like now.

After the last come, Li Lianjie still came to the same conclusion.

The name of "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" is indeed misleading to Hong Kong audiences, but the real problem lies in the plot.

Li Lianjie didn't realize this problem before, but now comparing the plot of "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" with the "Rat Guts" in his hand, almost the same plot is expressed in different ways, and the feeling is indeed different.

"Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" has always been smaller in terms of pattern, although the identity of "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" will give people a little mystery, but this identity does not bring much help to the actor in the movie, but makes the plot constrained, and "Rat Guts" is different, the protagonist is a retired soldier who does not have too many scruples, and he can naturally be happy with revenge.

The audience is restricted by various rules and regulations in reality, and they definitely don't want to see an aggrieved and uncontrollable protagonist in the movie.

If Xu Zhengyang in "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" did not come to Hong Kong to perform official duties, the box office of this movie may not be what it is now, but it is ......

Li Lianjie sighed secretly in his heart, and then closed the script in his hand.

"Done?"

Lin Youlun put down the coffee in his hand and looked at his watch, it was exactly an hour and a half since Li Lianjie opened the script. It's not too fast, it's not too slow.

Li Lianjie nodded. The first question I asked had nothing to do with me.

"Mr. Lin. I'm curious, who do you plan to let play the role of Long Wei? ”

Lin Youlun glanced at the door of the café, shrugged his shoulders and said, "He's already here!" ”

Li Lianjie turned his head along Lin Youlun's gaze and saw a man wearing sunglasses walking over here under the leadership of a waiter.

Although the other party was dressed in a low-key manner, and half of his face was covered by sunglasses, Li Lianjie still recognized the identity of this person at a glance, and then a thought flashed in his heart: How could it be him!

Zhou Xingchi also had the same doubts in his heart, and walked into the café. He had already noticed Lin Youlun's table, Li Lianjie had been facing away from this side just now, so Zhou Xingchi didn't recognize him, and now as soon as he turned his head, Zhou Xingchi immediately saw his face clearly.

In the courtesy of the meeting, Li Lianjie stood up from his seat, and Lin Youlun still sat still.

"Mr. Lin, I'm here."

After Zhou Xingchi walked over, he first said hello to Lin Youlun, and then nodded at Li Lianjie with a smile.

Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie are not familiar with each other, and it is already very good that he can do this with his character.

Li Lianjie's heart suddenly moved at this time. Could it be Long Wei in "Die Hard", Lin Youlun is ready to let Zhou Xingchi play it?

With this doubt. Li Lianjie and Stephen Chow sat down together.

Lin Youlun didn't rush to tell Li Lianjie the answer, but chatted with Zhou Xingchi first.

"Xingzai, have you finished reading the script I asked you to take?"

Zhou Xingchi read the script as soon as he got it, and he has been waiting for Lin Youlun to find him for the past two days, and while answering Lin Youlun's questions, he also deliberately glanced at Li Lianjie.

Since Lin Youlun asked about the script of "Rat Guts", of course this meeting was to say some things about the filming of the film, Zhou Xingchi was mentally prepared before he came, but he didn't expect that this time it would be Li Lianjie who cooperated with him.

Li Lianjie was also surprised, because from the conversation between Lin Youlun and Zhou Xingchi, he had basically confirmed his guess just now.

Because this is the first cooperation between Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie after becoming famous, the feelings of both of them are very complicated at the moment.

Li Lianjie had heard a lot of rumors about Zhou Xingchi before, and he knew that Zhou Xingchi was not easy to work with, especially after he was unmatched in the Hong Kong comedy market in the past two years, and was called "Star Master", the shelf became bigger and bigger.

In the past, there were many directors who would take the initiative to ask Zhou Xingchi to film, but now in addition to the movies that Zhou Xingchi invested and shot himself, Wang Jing is the only director in Hong Kong who can work well with him.

The reason is that Zhou Xingchi only likes to act in his own way when filming, and ordinary directors can't control him at all. Wang Jingneng and Zhou Xingchi have been working together, on the one hand, because he knows Zhou Xingchi very well, and on the other hand, without Wang Jing's appropriation back then, Zhou Xingchi is likely to be still an actor who plays tricks.

Of course, there is a more important reason, Wang Jing and Lin Youlun have a bad relationship.

Zhou Xingchi is arrogant, and there is only one person in the Hong Kong film industry who can convince him, Lin Youlun, and with Lin Youlun's identity and power, Zhou Xingchi can't be convinced.

Li Lianjie is worried that there will be problems with Zhou Xingchi, and Zhou Xingchi is also having the same headache.

Zhou Xingchi himself has no prejudice against Li Lianjie, but he is used to being the protagonist alone, but now he wants to give up half of the limelight, which makes him a little unaccustomed. If Li Lianjie is not very famous, it would be better to say that he can suppress the other party a little stronger, but in the costume action movie, Li Lianjie came from behind, not only surpassing Zhao Wenzhuo, who became famous earlier, but also in Hong Kong, he already has the capital to compete with Cheng Long, and his fame and influence are not inferior to himself.

What makes Zhou Xingchi most depressed is that Li Lianjie is from the mainland, and because he can't speak Mandarin well, what he is most afraid of is cooperating with mainland actors.

When filming "Journey to the West", Liu Zhenwei, the role of Bodhi Ancestor, originally looked like a long-necked mainland actor, but it was because Zhou Xingchi couldn't understand the other party's lines and couldn't cooperate, so Liu Zhenwei had to go into battle in person.

Although they were not very happy in their hearts, "Rat Guts" was proposed by Lin Youlun to be filmed, neither Zhou Xingchi nor Li Lianjie could refuse, and even when Lin Youlun asked them if they had any problems, the two shook their heads in unison, saying that they were very happy to cooperate with each other.

Lin Youlun didn't know what Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie really thought, even if he did, Lin Youlun wouldn't care very much.

Zhou Xingchi's two career troughs were Lin Youlun who gave him the opportunity to rise again, and he has always been grateful in his heart, and Li Lianjie is no longer the young man who returned to Hong Kong from the United States and was ambitious and ready to do a big job, after experiencing the shooting of his agent Cai Zhiming, he was controlled by the film company in disguise, and then he established a film company and was suppressed and excluded by all parties, Li Lianjie has recognized how deep the water in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is, and has a clearer understanding of Lin Youlun's power.

Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie are both knowledgeable people, even if there is something wrong in the cooperation, they will be very restrained to compress the contradiction within a controllable range, at least they will not tear their faces openly, otherwise they will not give Lin Youlun face.

And Lin Youlun must bring Li Lianjie and Zhou Xingchi together to make this movie, mainly for two reasons.

Originally, if Lin Youlun had not disturbed the normal history, Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie would have cooperated once in 89, when Zhou Xingchi had just finished his career and entered the film industry, and he was not yet famous for his nonsensical comedy, and Li Lianjie was still in the United States and did not finally make up his mind to return to Hong Kong, but this identity contributed to the first and only cooperation between the two.

The appearance of Lin Youlun completely changed the fate of Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie, and of course the movie called "Dragon in the World" was not made.

If Lin Youlun does not force intervention, Zhou Xingchi and Li Lianjie may not cooperate once in their lives, in Lin Youlun's opinion, this is somewhat regrettable.

Of course, another reason is more "oolong", originally remembered that "Rat Guts" should have been co-starred by Li Lianjie and Zhang Xueyou, but when Lin Youlun watched this movie for the first time, he accidentally mistook Zhang Xueyou for Zhou Xingchi, and later realized that he was mistaken.

was originally an unintentional episode, but when Lin Youlun was preparing to start filming this movie, he provided him with a new idea, and he really wanted to see what kind of effect it would be to change Zhou Xingchi to play Long Wei.

As soon as this idea came out, Lin Youlun couldn't contain it anymore, and finally "made a mistake" and handed over the role that was supposed to be Zhang Xueyou to Zhou Xingchi.

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The first time I watched "Rat Guts" was on the bus, because the seat was in the back, when I watched it, I directly saw Zhang Xueyou as Zhou Xingchi, but I felt that this Zhou Xingchi was awkward, and I rewatched it later and found that I was making trouble, I don't know if there are people with the same experience in Lu Dao.

On the last day of March, continue to ask for a monthly pass! (To be continued......)