Chapter 219: The hard work was not in vain
Shao Tycoon left after negotiating with Gu Weiqi, Gu Weiqi saw that it was noon, and was thinking about having lunch with that beautiful woman, but suddenly received a call from Laura Fangna, saying that she wanted to invite him to lunch, so she readily agreed. To say that there is no idea for this beautiful Western woman would be a lie. It's just that he has been busy working in the mainland some time ago, but he hasn't had much contact with the other party.
After talking to Gu Weiqi, Laura Fonta quickly came to the hotel. However, to the latter's surprise, the other party also carried a rather heroic woman, the woman was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, blonde hair and blue eyes, white skin Saixue, chestnut-colored long hair casually draped behind her, fluffy and sexy. The figure is tall and sexy. The twin peaks are so tall that they burst out. But there is always a sense of familiarity when you look at it.
While he was searching his stomach and thinking about this woman, Laura Fonta introduced that this was her good friend Cynthia Rothrock, who was from the United States.
"Cynthia-Rothrock? Isn't that Loflo? No wonder he looks so familiar," Gu Weiqi's heart moved, and he finally remembered who the other party was.
Born in 1957, Lo Flo won the World Karate Routine Combination and Apparatus Championship for five consecutive years from 1981 to '85. is a world-renowned female martial artist, and in 1985 she played the role of police officer in the movie "Royal Sister" and "Kelly". Later, in the 90s when Xiangjiang films were booming, she has been active in the Xiangjiang film industry, because she likes Xiangjiang, so she later joined Xiangjiang nationality.
But what puzzled Gu Weiqi was, how could Laura Fanna know Lofro? After thinking about it, he shook hands with Luo Flo and said his doubts.
After Laura Fangna's explanation, he learned that some time ago, when this woman was shopping with Nicole Kidman, she met a few ruffians, and happened to meet Luo Flo who came to Xiangjiang to play, and helped her beat away those ruffians, and the two sides knew each other. Then he talked about movies, which aroused Lofelo's interest and wanted to enter the film industry, and there was today's scene.
Gu Weiqi recruited the waiter, and after ordering, he looked at Luo Flo with interest and said: "Miss Luo Flo, I have heard of your name, I heard that you are very good at kung fu, if you join the film industry to develop, you will definitely be able to become popular." ”
Luo Flo smiled and said, "This requires more attention from Mr. Gu." ”
"It's easy to say, it just so happens that our company is currently about to shoot seven new dramas, and I'll see if there is a role suitable for you when I go back. I'll let you know if so. ”
"Then I'll wait for Mr. Gu's good news."
"Okay, I'll get back to you when the time comes. By the way, Lola, the 'horror cruise' you starred in is finished? ”
"It was finished before the Spring Festival, and now post-production is underway."
"That's good."
While they were talking, the food had already arrived.
After eating, Gu Weiqi asked Lola Fangna to take Luo Foluo to sign a contract with "China Entertainment International Superstar Entertainment Agency", and then returned to the company himself, and convened the heads of various departments to discuss the start of filming of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance".
The film is a comedy film produced by Yongsheng Film Production Co., Ltd., directed by Zhou Xingxing and Li Lizhi, starring Zhou Xingxing, Gong Li, Zheng Peipei, etc. The plot of the story is not complicated, it mainly tells the story of Tang Bohu, a genius in the south of the Yangtze River, who fell in love with Qiuxiang, the maid of Huataishi's mansion, at first sight, and with the help of the boatman, he used a trick to sneak into Washington. After some twists and turns, Tang Bohu finally married Qiu Xiang Baitang.
The film is known as "a classic of postmodernism", and it is also one of the masterpieces of Zhou Xingxing's costume comedy, the film continues his nonsensical and funny style, released in Xiangjiang in July 1993, and became the box office champion of the 1993 Xiangjiang film year with a box office of 40.17 million Hong Kong dollars.
Moreover, this film is also a representative work of a typical Xiangjiang movie "all crazy, all over-the-top", this style can be found in many footnotes in this movie, whether it is "I am superior and majestic, showing a tiger courage; You are obscene and cheap, revealing half of your trickery", or when Tang Bohu was interrogated by Mrs. Hua, Mrs. Hua's reciting of the blood feud between her and Tang Bohu made people laugh.
In addition, "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" is not only very funny, but also the few martial arts scenes in the film also show the careful design of the choreographer. Especially the passage of Tang Bohu's battle against the deadly scholar at the end of the movie, starting from Tang Bohu's one-shot pick off the tip of the sword, the overlord gun is almost a move, pressing step by step, and arrogant, presenting the audience with a duel scene that is drenched and overwhelmed.
In fact, before this, Shao's Film Company had filmed "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" starring Gu Guanzhong, but the response was not great. However, the weekly version of Tang Bohu left the audience with a lot of classic dialogues, such as calling the cockroach "Xiaoqiang". The film showcases the imagination of Hong Kong filmmakers who subvert classical themes, with a variety of postmodern techniques, including performance art paintings, modern percussion performances, fashion model gaits, poison introductions full of advertising terms, and hilarious ideas such as "unrecognizable feet".
This film is full of jokes, Zhou Xingxing gave full play to his talents in this kind of modern costume film, and the story of Tang Bohu's character is also very in line with Zhou Xingxing's path: on the one hand, this character has a low status, although this kind of little person's behavior is inevitably a bit despicable, but it also has the psychology of a small citizen; On the other hand, this role has its nobility, Tang Bohu's amazing martial arts and painting skills are his capital, so when he thinks that "beauty and wisdom are equally important, heroes and chivalrous incarnation", the audience should not think that it is all a joke.
The performances of most of the supporting roles in the film are very good, Zhu Zhishan played by Chen Baixiang, Sister Pomegranate played by Yuan Qiongdan, and Mrs. Hua played by Zheng Peipei are all funny. However, the autumn fragrance portrayed by the heroine played by Gong Li made some viewers uncomfortable, and it was impossible to talk about being funny in this movie, and the acting skills were also substandard. However, since Gu Weiqi knew this in advance, he could naturally avoid making this kind of mistake.
For the selection of the leading actor, after everyone's discussion, it was unanimously decided to use "Liang Huihui", but because he was originally going to let him star in the role of "Kang Xingui" in "Happy Ghost Summer Vacation", it is inevitable that he will be staggered in the schedule. As for Zhou Xingxing's classmate Gu Weiqi, it is not that he has not thought about it, but the other party only entered the Phoenix artist training class before the end of last year, and he has no acting skills at all, so it is definitely not possible for him to be the leading actor of this drama at present.
However, if you want "Liang Huihui" to play the leading role in this play, the schedule cannot be staggered. After discussion, he asked He Jinjin to replace the role of "Kang Xingui", which solved the problem of the male protagonist. The heroine's "Qiu Xiang" Gu Weiqi proposed to be starring Zhong Chuhong, and everyone has no opinion on this. Zhong Chuhong, who has filmed many films, is now a red star.
The most important thing is that after tempering and growing up in the entertainment industry, she has become more and more beautiful, and it is more suitable to play this role.
Chen Xunqi, the role of "Mrs. Hua", proposed that Xiao Fangfang play the role, and Gu Weiqi agreed after thinking about it. Because he had seen Fang Shiyu's mother played by the other party in "Fang Shiyu", there was no problem in playing such a costume role. And the other party has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and his acting skills are obvious to all. Therefore, the matter of inviting the other party made Chen Xunqi come out.
The original versions of characters such as "Pomegranate", "Zhu Zhishan", "Zhu Qian", "Hua Taishi", "Wu Zhuangyuan", "Deadly Scholar" and "Ning Wang" were played by Yuan Qiongdan, Zhu Mimi, Huang Zhan, Liang Jiaren, Liu Jiahui and Lin Wei. Now, after everyone's discussion, in addition to Huang Zhan's cameo appearance in "Hua Taishi", the others have become Wei Haohua, Xu Shaoxiong, Ye Dexian, Xu Jinjiang, Li Zixiong and Zengjiang and others cameo.
Just when everyone was about to discuss it, Gao Zhisen came over and said that "King Kong Gourd Baby" had been completed, and asked him when he would arrange for the release. Gu Weiqi became interested as soon as he heard this, this film took nearly 20 months and invested nearly 50 million Hong Kong dollars, and now it is finally time to harvest, so he announced the end of the meeting and asked everyone to watch the finished film with him.
"King Kong Gourd Baby" is one of the most famous cartoons in China in the 80s, which was originally made of paper-cutting, and once it was broadcast on CCTV, it caused a national sensation and became an image that will never be buried in the minds of children, and has made many adults unforgettable.
The story is said to be based on folklore, but it is not found in general literature. According to the content of the work, it can be seen that the location of the cup is a southern mountainous area, and the time is "no dynastic chronology to be examined", which only generally indicates that it is ancient. As an animated film, under the constraints of the audience, the film still strongly highlights the characteristics of traditional culture, which is very valuable.
The plot of this film is not complicated, telling the story of seven magical gourds, seven brothers with outstanding skills, in order to save their relatives, the goblins have boundless power, the gourd baby brothers show miraculous ability, the competition is exciting, and the failure again and again touches people's hearts, and the seven brothers work together, with a strong story and mythological color. Under the leadership of Director Huang Bingyao of the screenwriting department, the storyline written by Gu Weiqi was excavated and processed, making the plot more full and tense.
After everyone came to the screening room, Gu Weiqi asked people to put the film on the projector, and as soon as the lights went out, it started playing. With the end of the "Oriental Hollywood International Film Company", the beginning is a paragraph next to the "legend that there are scorpion spirits and snake spirits in the gourd mountain." A pangolin accidentally pierced the cave, and the two goblins escaped, and the people suffered. The pangolin hurriedly went to tell an old man that only by planting a seven-colored gourd could the two goblins be destroyed......"
Now it is the first part of "King Kong Gourd Baby", after the film was officially screened, I saw that the old man got the gourd seeds, and after planting the seeds, he produced red, orange, yellow, green, green, blue, and purple seven big gourds, but they were glimpsed by the goblins from the wishful mirror. They tried their best to destroy the seven gourds, but to no avail, so they captured the old man and the pangolin......
With the change of the camera and the advancement of the plot, the seven gourds matured and landed one after another into seven boys, wearing seven colors of clothing. In order to eliminate the goblins, they rescued the old man and the pangolin, and one by one they went to fight the goblins. Despite being an animated film, the crowd in the screening room was quickly hooked.
Especially the brave and unscrupulous Hercules Red Wa, who fell into the spider's web and was captured; The orange baby, who has "clairvoyance" and "ears to the wind", is blinded by the fairy magic mirror; The hard-iron-headed yellow baby was outnumbered and was sucked by the goblin with a magnet; When the green baby who knows fire skills turns into an iceman by the cold light of the demon mirror and so on, everyone is worried about it.
Until the end, the goblins sent the seven brothers into the alchemy furnace, wanting to refine the Seven Heart Pill. At that time, when they united, used their own spells, rushed out of the alchemy furnace, and finally defeated the goblins and collected them into the treasure gourd, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, the first part of "King Kong Gourd Baby" is over. Everyone immediately applauded Gao Zhisen and the others.
However, it has to be said that the film is very well made. In fact, although this is a cartoon, Gao Zhisen, Lan Naicai, Luo Lixian and Zhang San still spent a lot of effort. For almost 20 months, they worked in an animation studio in the special effects department. But now listening to everyone's warm applause and incessant admiration, they all feel that this hard work has not been in vain.
And the most important point is that through the production of this cartoon, everyone not only accumulated experience, but also explored a set of effective special effects technology, which laid the foundation for the future development of films in Xiangjiang. And this is what Gu Weiqi values the most, after all, the box office income of a movie is not the most important, but the accumulation of technology is the most important.