Chapter 100: Stunts and Real Kung Fu

"Qiu Degen is really too deceitful!" Shao Yifu was angry for a while, trembling all over, his thighs shook, and he touched the table all of a sudden. With a bang, the teapot and bowl were turned upside down, and the tea on the table flowed sideways.

The servants at home hurriedly stepped forward to clean up, Fang Yihua helped Shao Yifu to stand up, and persuaded softly: "You were angry first, Lin Youlun sold the adaptation rights of "Sou Shen Ji" to ATV, which is not necessarily a bad thing for wireless. ”

Shao Yifu stopped, turned his head and looked at Fang Yihua with a serious face, "Why are you talking to outsiders?" ”

Fang Yihua suddenly felt a little aggrieved, Shao Yifu saw that her eyes were red, and then he realized that his tone just now was a little excessive, and he was also confused about this matter, so he was so angry.

Shao Yifu has always regarded the TV adaptation rights of "Sou Shen Ji" as a wireless bag, but he never thought that ATV would be able to snatch food. In terms of the relationship between the two sides, Lin Youlun and wireless are more closely connected; In terms of adaptation fees, the wireless price is not lower than that of ATV; In terms of strength, wireless has also been pressing ATV. In this seemingly unsuspenseful competition, the winner was ATV, but Shao Yifu couldn't accept this result no matter what, so there was the thunderous anger just now.

Lin Youlun does not have too high requirements for the adaptation fee of "Sou Shen Ji", according to the price of 100,000 yuan for an episode of "Kunlun", it is enough, but he put forward a very harsh condition in the eyes of wireless, requiring that the cost of filming this TV series should not be less than 20 million.

Lin Youlun knows that he can't have too much expectations for Hong Kong film and television special effects at this time, but he can't be too casual, this is a mythological drama, not a martial arts drama, and he doesn't expect the special effects to be good, but the sound, light, smoke, and set models must be in place. 20 million is enough for Xu Ke to toss out a "New Shu Mountain Swordsman", and the TV series adapted from "Sou Shen Ji" with 60 episodes is really not a lot of money.

But wireless doesn't think so, 20 million to shoot a TV series, which is unheard of in Hong Kong, the large-scale studio system pursued by wireless has always been strict in controlling shooting costs, but such conditions are unacceptable to wireless.

Lin Youlun thought that if he didn't agree, it didn't matter if "Sou Shen Ji" would be made into a TV series for a few years, but at this time, Li Zhuanglie found him on behalf of ATV. Hearing about Lin Youlun's conditions, Qiu Degen agreed without thinking about it, and the TV adaptation rights of "Sou Shen Ji" were taken away by ATV.

"I was not good just now, and the tone of my voice was too heavy."

Shao Yifu calmed down and let Fang Yihua finish his words.

"20 million is not a small amount, ATV took out this money to shoot "Sou Shen Ji", and the funds for filming other TV series will be squeezed out. ATV's loss has nothing to do with Qiu Degen, so he dares to bet, but we can't, once there is a problem, other directors will jump out and make trouble. Wireless response to ATV, or should be based on stability, "Sou Shen Ji" was successfully filmed, a TV series is not too much pressure on us, at most, the limelight is temporarily suppressed by the other party for a while, and Lin Youlun will have more works in the future, at this time lost to ATV, there will be more opportunities to win back in the future. If this TV series is smashed, ATV will have to take off a layer of skin even if it doesn't hurt its muscles and bones, which is even better for us. ”

Fang Yihua's words are certainly reasonable, and the anger in Shao Yifu's heart has calmed down a lot, but he faintly feels in his heart that letting ATV and Lin Youlun go online, this kid is left and right, and I am afraid that I will have to pay more price to cooperate with him in the future.

This matter is not only Shao Yifu is reflecting, but Lin Youlun is also thinking about it in the past few days. The limitations of special effects techniques are like a transparent ceiling, most of the Hong Kong filmmakers have not touched this level at this time, so they can't feel its existence, from "Legend of the Night" to "Sou Shen Ji", Lin Youlun really feels its existence, it seems that it is time to consider setting up a special effects production company. …,

It happened that Wu Yusen called, and asked Lin Youlun to go out for tea in the afternoon. After several twists and turns, the actor of "Legend of the Night" finally found a suitable candidate, originally Lin Youlun said that the candidate for the actor did not need to ask for his opinion, but Wu Yusen asked Lin Youlun to come out, just for this matter.

Lin Youlun went to the café half an hour early, originally wanting to learn from Wu Yusen about the latest progress of the "bullet time" special effect experiment, but he didn't expect Xu Ke to be there.

John Woo has been with the stunt team for more than a month since he returned to Hong Kong, and some progress has been made in the experiment, but Wu Yusen has a cautious personality and did not boast in front of Lin Youlun before the most difficult results.

Lin Youlun said that he wanted to set up a special effects company in Hong Kong, Xu Ke was quite interested in this, after "New Shu Mountain Swordsman", he had the idea of setting up a special effects studio, but Hong Kong movies now use less stunts, and no film company is interested in his idea.

However, to set up a special effects company, Xu Ke feels that the time is not yet ripe, at least wait for the release of "Legend of the Night", so that Hong Kong filmmakers have a new understanding of special effects techniques, and it is more appropriate to mention this matter at that time.

Lin Youlun and Xu Kezheng were discussing the development of special effects techniques with great interest, and a discordant voice suddenly appeared next to them.

"The special effects of foreigners are all fancy shelves, where can they compare to the real kung fu of the Chinese?"

The young man who spoke was bright-eyed, wearing a white silk shirt, light gray suit pants, a jacket-style blue cloth top in his hand, and a pair of sunglasses hanging from the neckline, showing a very fashionable appearance.

Before he could speak, he was stopped by a middle-aged man dressed casually beside him: "Danny, shut up!" ”

"Big Eyes, is this your new disciple?" Xu Ke was familiar with the middle-aged man, stood up with a smile, and when he shook hands with the other party, his eyes kept looking at the young man who was "disrespectful".

Baseball cap, black T-shirt, jeans, casual shoes, Yuan Heping's dress is very recognizable, and Lin Youlun recognized this famous "Yuan Baye" at first sight. And the young man standing next to Yuan Heping, Lin Youlun didn't react at first, and when he heard that Xu Ke was Yuan Heping's new disciple, he looked at the other party's appearance carefully, only to realize that he almost lost his eyes, and he didn't even recognize the later kung fu superstar Zhen Zidan.

Zhen Zidan was only in his early twenties at this time, and he had just come to Hong Kong, and he was not familiar with the situation here.

was ordered to shut up by Yuan Heping, but Zhen Zidan didn't feel that he had said the wrong thing, he was born in a martial arts family, and he idolized Bruce Lee since he was a child, and he worshiped the kind of real kung fu, and at this time, Hollywood's special effects techniques have not yet developed to the point where they are fake and real, and they are breathtaking, so in Zhen Zidan's eyes, the special effects skills that Lin Youlun and Xu Ke value are not as powerful as the two said.

Wu Yusen and Lin Youlun also stood up with Xu Ke, Wu Yusen introduced the two sides, Yuan Heping took a step forward, stretched out two hands, held one of Lin Youlun's hands, and said "Lucky meeting" in his mouth, his attitude was very polite, and the expression on Zhen Zidan's face who was standing aside instantly became very strange.

Xu Ke and Wu Yusen stood aside, seeing Yuan Heping's reaction, they all had a natural expression on their faces, and Zhen Zidan realized that the identity of the young man in front of him was not as simple as he thought before.

Lin Youlun smiled modestly and asked Yuan Heping and Zhen Zidan to sit down together.

Yuan Heping was addicted to smoking, so he sat down and asked the waitress on the side, if you can't smoke here, and after getting a positive answer, he lit a cigarette, which was a sign that he was a little nervous. …,

Yuan Heping finally got in touch with Wu Yusen through Xu Ke's relationship this time, and recommended Zhen Zidan to play the leading role in "Legend of the Night", Wu Yusen also felt that Zhen Zidan's image and temperament were good, so he asked him to bring someone to Lin Youlun to see, if there is no problem, the actor can be decided like this. I didn't expect Zhen Zidan, this kid, to be so uncompromising, and provoked Lin Youlun as soon as they met, and the originally certain things became mysterious again.

Zhen Zidan sat on the sofa with his buttocks, his heart seemed to be stuffed with a mess, watching Wu Yusen whisper a few words in Lin Youlun's ear, and then Lin Youlun's eyes looked around him, thinking that this is bad, he just said that he must have left a bad impression on the other party, if he loses the opportunity to play the leading role in "Legend of the Night" because of this, it will be worth the loss.

Both the master and apprentice were worried about this, but Lin Youlun opened his mouth but did not mention the filming of "Legend of the Night", and only asked Yuan Heping how he thought about the relationship between real kung fu and special effects.

Yuan Heping thought that Zhen Zidan's answer just now had already made Lin Youlun unhappy, and he was extremely careful with his wording when answering.

"I still prefer real kung fu, but making a movie depends on the need, to take the most superficial example, we want to show a person jumping from a height, if you don't use special effects, then the actor will die, special effects play a role of auxiliary and modification, which can make the movie look better."

When it comes to the contact and use of movie stunts, Yuan Heping, who likes to shoot real kung fu, did not start with "The Matrix" as many people think. In fact, Yuan Heping began to combine fist and foot kung fu with movie stunts 2 years ago, and created a unique genre of Hong Kong films - "psychedelic kung fu films". However, what the eighth master played back then was not computer stunts, but Hong Kong local stunts including smoke, Wia, magic, and acrobatics.

Inspired by Hong Jinbao's "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", Yuan Heping directed the psychedelic kung fu film "Qimen Dunjia" in 1982, he injected great effort into this film, not only designed extraordinary acrobatic body movements, but also used a large number of traditional magic techniques, so that the character modeling, props, sets and fighting scenes of "Qimen Dunjia" presented a terrifying and humorous weird style. It can also be called unique in Hong Kong films.

Lin Youlun nodded after listening, but did not express any opinions, but just said a few words in Wu Yusen's ear.

Seeing Wu Yusen's thoughtful expression, Yuan Heping and Zhen Zidan's hearts were raised.

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