"Well, that makes sense." After listening to Li Xiaole's eloquent explanation, Cheng Long finally nodded with satisfaction, but still looked at Li Xiaole's eyes and asked, "Then I still have to ask, why do you have to be the protagonist?" Isn't it Tingfeng yet? ”

He and Zeng Zhiwei both have an idea, that is, to support the "own people" in the Hong Kong film industry, and among the Hong Kong actors of this generation, only Nicholas Tse has this potential, if Li Xiaole uses Nicholas Tse, they will agree immediately, so that they can rest assured.

As we all know, the generation of actors in Hong Kong has already withered in talent, and now young people, not to mention being willing to suffer losses and make progress, are already good if they are willing to work hard, and Nicholas Tse is a well-known person who is rarely diligent, Zeng Zhiwei and Cheng Long all think that he is very similar to Lau Dehua, so in their minds, Nicholas Tse is the hope for the future of their Hong Kong entertainment industry, and Li Xiaole is an actor, in their opinion, it is purely a ticket, even if it is popular, it is meaningless, why waste this effort?

"That's why I'm going to say the second one." Li Xiaole put down his wine glass and smiled in a calm and calm tone: "This "Shooting the Condor" will be filmed in 3D, and there will be a lot of close-ups of the protagonist's actions, there is no way to use a stand-in, and the protagonist needs to be very skilled, and among the actors under the age of thirty, I can't find a better one than me." ”

As soon as Li Xiaole said this, Zeng Zhiwei and Leslie Cheung almost choked the roast goose in their mouths, Zeng Zhiwei seemed to be stuck in his throat by a bone, coughed violently a few times, and then reluctantly quickly picked up a glass of wine and poured it into it and swallowed the bone, and then stared at Li Xiaole with wide eyes for a long time, crying and laughing:

"Director Li~~~ I heard that you are good, if you are the best under 30 in the mainland, I believe it, but this is Hong Kong, I don't believe you when you say this."

"Even if you don't count the martial arts of the younger generation, among the young actors of this generation, Wu Yan's group and Tingfeng's skills are not bad." Cheng Long looked at Li Xiaole for a long time and finally came to a conclusion: "I don't think they will be worse than you at least, besides, the current martial arts films don't need to be so good." ”

Li Xiaole's remarks make people feel that he is making excuses for himself to be the leading actor, today's martial arts films have long passed the era of hard bridges and hard horses, many things can rely on stunts, and an explosion effect can be played with one palm, won't the spirit of a martial arts master come out?

When Zhang Guorong heard this, he also found the right time to interject: "Big brother, in fact, Director Li is very good at action design, not the faction that you imagine to rely on special effects to express moves, you can take a look at the design draft he drew, this is the martial arts style in "Shooting the Condor" he designed. After speaking, he took out a stack of A4 printed color pages from his document bag and handed it to Cheng Long.

"Well, I'll see, even the action design is done?" As soon as Cheng Long heard that there were action design drafts, he immediately came to the spirit, stood up and took over those design drafts, and Zeng Zhiwei, who was born in martial arts, also immediately came over, wanting to see what kind of ability this cowhide blew through Li Xiaole, a literary and opera director, actually doing action design by himself? This inevitably doesn't take people seriously.

You must know that in Hong Kong, all martial arts, or any film and television with action scenes, will have two directors, a literary director, and a martial arts director, that is, an action director, literary drama and martial arts are completely different concepts, and there is almost no intersection with each other.

And in the entire Chinese circle, only Xu Ke and Xu Laowei can take care of civil and military dramas, and he is the only special case, Li Xiaole, who is only in his 20s, also thinks he has this ability? This does sound a bit ridiculous.

But after reading a few pages, Cheng Long and Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help but glance at each other and were very surprised, Li Xiaole's action design draft is very particular, every action is drawn on the draft, many action designs are ingenious and beautiful, and strictly abide by the basic principles of many boxing techniques, very exquisite, at first glance, it is from the hands of Lian Jiazi, Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help muttering: "This style is very similar to the Liu family class in the four major classes......

Cheng Long was also surprised in his heart, Li Xiaole's action design was indeed very similar to Liu Jialiang's handiwork of Liu Jiaban...... It's shocking that such an action design is from a young man in his 20s.

In the eyes of outsiders, when it comes to martial arts movement design, everyone will think of Hong Kong action designers, but the concept in everyone's mind is very general, and they only think that Hong Kong action design is very good, but it is not very clear how it is good.

In fact, according to the era of popularity, there are four main representatives of Hong Kong's most famous movement directors, that is, the "four major classes" with different styles called by the industry.

The oldest is the "Liu Jiaban" represented by Liu Jialiang, their style is very respectful of tradition, every move is a hard bridge and a hard horse, extraordinary bearing, completely required and real martial arts, their style is like the drunken boxing shown by the dragon in the middle of "Drunken Fist 2", it seems to be free and easy, in fact, it is very disciplined, with the principle of dismantling moves, strictly implementing the basic principles of martial arts, every move and every style will be the basis of real martial arts tricks, this style is the absolute mainstream in the Shaw Brothers Golden Harvest time, After 80 years, the style completely declined.

Cheng Long's breakthrough lies in the fact that he can often complete those scenes where other action directors can only stay in the concept stage, such as the handcuff chase in "A Plan Sequel", the wind tunnel fight in "Operation Flying Eagle", the underwater shark fighting in "Simple Mission", etc., the adventurous spirit of life and death hanging by a thread adds infinite impact to his movements.

After Liu Jiaban's hard bridge and hard horse disappeared, Cheng Jiaban's sharp and bright contemporary fighting mode became the mainstream.

And although "Cheng Overtime" is mainly based on humorous and flexible action design, but the "Hong Family Class" led by Hong Jingbao is characterized by fast, ruthless and fierce movements, which causes a very intuitive visual impact, and it is also a school of its own in the later stage, but it is all a sharp and bright style, and the shortcomings are of course obvious, that is, it looks very Westernized with the fight, and the overall style and artistic conception are far from the control of the traditional martial arts movements.

The most ruthless thing about the film market is that no matter how good it is, the audience will get bored if they watch too much. With the development of the times, since the early 90s, a new school of martial arts movies led by Xu Ke has debuted, and in the field of action direction, it has also ushered in the era of Cheng Xiaodong. The elegant, agile and whimsical movements designed by Cheng Xiaodong are completely different from the realistic style of other teams, and are loved by young people who like romantic style. The Dugu Nine Swords in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", the embroidery needle in "Undefeated in the East", and the fierce battle in the desert in "New Dragon Gate Inn" all give people a refreshing feeling.

This style has excellent visual effects, but it has been criticized for not having much to do with "martial arts", and is completely treated in an artistic way, ignoring the laws of physics.

Entering the year 2000, the martial arts guidance industry has come to a new era, the glory of the four major classes is coming, Yuan Heping with his Yuan family class with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" swept almost all the international awards that year, and became the banner of Hong Kong action directors, Yuan Baye's overall style of martial arts and the control of artistic conception has reached the point of perfection, so that "martial arts" has become not only a fighting technique, but also sublimated into an artistic conception of action, and his style is changeable and no one in the circle.

The difference between Yuan Baye and the previous "three major classes" is that his action guidance is more adaptable and popular, suitable for both ancient and modern times; can have both hard bridges and hard horses and the elegance in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and if you look closely, fans can find that the actions in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are not a hard play, many careful fans can experience the light skills of Zhang Ziyi and Yang Ziqiong's city wall chasing, which is obviously different from Cheng Xiaodong's volley void crossing, but has footwork;

And the fight between Zhang and Yang with all kinds of weapons in the courtyard is also a move that can't be more real. However, whether it is real or virtual, it seems to be very harmonious with the tone of the film, which is the most powerful thing about Yuan Baye.

To this day, it is now believed in the martial arts circle that it is not only difficult to make these ancient shots of hard horses to shoot martial arts, but also to produce these ancient shots of hard horses.

In people's impressions, many martial arts in martial arts films are martial arts masters as soon as they make a move, and they can't wait for a burst of sword light to fly, and they will take people's heads like exploring the bag, and now martial arts have long been reduced to relying on stunts to support the scene, and those old-school action designers who are obsessed with the beauty of punches and kicks have invested in another type of "kung fu film".

Li Xiaole actually returned the action design of martial arts films to the style of Liu Jialiang in the most ancient era of the "Four Classes", which really surprised Cheng Long and Zeng Zhiwei.

But after the two of them carefully looked at these action designs, they began to shake their heads again, although these action designs are from the hands of experts at first glance, and the design is very particular, but the difficulty of the moves is too great, and the rhythm of the moves is too tight, too fast, even Cheng Long himself may not be able to do it.

Although Li Xiaole's design draft is "Shooting the Condor", whether it is the fierce "Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending" or the dog-beating stick method that requires skill, it is a beautiful and real fighting action, and on the basis of Liu Jialiang, the speed of the action has more than doubled.

You must know that this difference alone is very different for action actors.