172 Inspired the idea of Brother Long's Game of Death
Bruce Lee and Wang Xiaohu master and apprentice respectively defeated three masters in the karate world, and let the news of another master abstain from the news was reported on TV Tokyo that night, but the report of the TV station was somewhat tampered with, and the invitation from the country became the dragon and tiger The two expressed greater concern and interest in karate when promoting the new film, and improvised a friendly competition with several players in the karate world, and the two sides won and lost each other in the competition, and made immeasurable contributions to the development of martial arts in China and the two countries.
They have tampered with their own country's history textbooks and have not acknowledged the war of aggression against China; they have tampered with the lines of "Jingwumen" and have turned a blind eye to the plots with a lot of anti-rhetorical sentiments.
For things like this, Wang Xiaohu has seen a lot in his previous life, so after Zhao Yazhi translated, he just scratched a little, and didn't pursue anything more, after all, Xiao Yue was such an enlightenment, they would not admit their mistakes if they were wrong, and their prime minister still stared at the anger of the Asian people to pay homage to the essence pot, this kind of tampering with news reports is a pediatric thing for them.
Seeing the indignation on the faces of Bruce Lee and Zhao Ya, Wang Xiaohu sighed and said: "Don't be angry, even if you are angry, it is useless, although we have won, it is also a personal victory, only the country is rich and the people are strong, both science and technology and military are strong, and it is the king to use comprehensive strength to deter the little ones." β
Bruce Lee nodded thoughtfully, don't think that Bruce Lee likes to eat this dish to deny his patriotism, after all, his childhood also experienced the invasion of Hong Kong by the Yue army, and he also witnessed the burning and looting of Xiao Yue Ben in Hong Kong, that is, since then, he has a hatred for the nation in his heart, which is why he has studied karate in the United States many times. These can be seen in many Cantonese films from Bruce Lee's childhood to before he left Hong Kong, such as "The Lonely Hung in the Sea of People", "Thin Road Xiang" and so on.
"Xiaohu is right." Bruce Lee nodded and stopped talking, and after the victory, he did not have ecstasy, but fell into a more helpless dullness.
After a long time, Wang Xiaohu said: "Brother Xiaolong, these international situations cannot be reversed by a few of us, what we have to do is to make movies that shock the world, so that all foreigners will no longer underestimate our Chinese films, and let the world know the pride of our Chinese through kung fu and fists." β
"Well, Xiaohu, after the two days of my play in Yuben and today's competition with karate, as well as what you just said, I want to make a movie that is completely my personal style, how to say, I want to gather the best kung fu masters in the world for a mixed martial arts without limits." Bruce Lee wasn't quite sure about his idea: "Of course, it's mainly influenced by you, you once told me about MMA, and now I'm yearning for that kind of fighting tournament without limits, can you understand what I mean?" β
Understand, what can you not understand! Wang Xiaohu came up with the movie "Game of Death" released four years after Bruce Lee's death, which was in 1977, when Golden Harvest Film Company completed the reshoot of Bruce Lee's unfinished posthumous work "Game of Death" and named it "Game of Death". "Game of Death" and Bruce Lee's "Game of Death" are only one word different in name, but they have made big changes in content, and even many dragon fans call it a fake of "dog-tailed mink", which completely deviates from Bruce Lee's original concept, and is just a tool for Golden Harvest to earn box office under the guise of Bruce Lee's fame.
Wang Xiaohu suddenly became excited, you must know that in the previous life, this masterpiece was Bruce Lee and Warner went to India to prepare for the filming of "Silent Flute", and was inspired by the famous director Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai", plus he himself has unique thinking and insights on Buddhism, so he came up with the shooting plan of "Game of Death", in Bruce Lee's conception "Game of Death" tells the story of a martial arts master and his companions who bravely enter the tower in order to seize treasures and save people. Each floor of the tower is guarded by a master representing a different school of martial arts, each capable of putting the trespasser to death. As a result, breaking through the level has become a veritable death game, and each time the player rushes to the next level, it is as if they have experienced death.
This is a grand plan, first of all, to be able to fully display Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do and martial arts thoughts; Secondly, it is necessary to bring together the best martial artists and athletes in the world to show the best martial arts and fights in the world in front of the audience. In Bruce Lee's view, this will be an unprecedented kung fu blockbuster, and it will also be his last film shot in Hong Kong. In other words, in Bruce Lee's plan, after filming "Game of Death", he will bid farewell to Hong Kong and go to the United States again to continue his unfinished Hollywood dream. It's just that fate played a big joke on Bruce Lee, and before he finished filming "Game of Death", he was busy filming "Enter the Dragon" with Warner, and then the smash hit kung fu superstar died suddenly and mysteriously, leaving a lot of regrets and mysteries for future generations.
Now, perhaps, as Bruce Lee just said, this great idea was intentionally or unintentionally influenced by Wang Xiaohu, and under the stimulation of today's competition, Bruce Lee had this crazy idea, how can you make Wang Xiaohu not excited, how can you not be enthusiastic!
"Brother Xiaolong, tell me about your general idea." Wang Xiaohu did not rush to say the idea that had been brewing in his heart for half a year this time, but asked Bruce Lee to speak first.
Bruce Lee frowned and thought for a while before saying, "This idea is not very mature, and of course it may be naΓ―ve in the eyes of you, a five-million-dollar box office screenwriter." β
"How can it!" Wang Xiaohu smiled and said, "Hurry up and talk about it, I want to hear it." Zhao Yazhi was very curious when he listened to it, this was the first time he saw this kind of look of anticipation for the script from Wang Xiaohu's face, so she was also interested, but before Bruce Lee said his idea again, she went to bring two glasses of water, one to Bruce Lee, and one to Wang Xiaohu.
Bruce Lee took it and said "thank you", and then began to say: "Well, let's assume that there is a very high pagoda, and there is a treasure hidden in it, and there is a person with strong martial arts in each layer of the tower to guard it, and then the protagonist will fight up from the first floor, and he will challenge the kung fu masters of all countries in the world, and finally get the treasure, Xiaohu, do you think such an idea is ridiculous?" β
Bruce Lee's words are not very confident, mainly because Wang Xiaohu in front of him is the best in Hong Kong in terms of scripts, and the scripts of his two successful movies are from the pen of the other party, so Bruce Lee showed a very humble attitude and asked Wang Xiaohu's opinion.
Although he already knew the plot of "Game of Death" early, Wang Xiaohu still pretended to think about it seriously, and after thinking for a while, he muttered: "Well, Brother Xiaolong's idea is very good, and such a story framework itself has a good attraction. After Golden Harvest's re-shooting of "Game of Death" won a higher box office, Hong Kong has emerged such as "Tower of Death" and other treasure-hunting movies, and the protagonist also chooses Tang Long, who looks very similar to Bruce Lee, has also received a lot of protection, but such a theme was quickly ruined by Hong Kong people, the same plot, the same fighting style as Bruce Lee, and the bad deeds of changing the soup but not the medicine, made Hong Kong people disappointed in kung fu movies.
"Really? Brother, do you think this kind of movie can be filmed? "Bruce Lee seemed to be inspired.
Wang Xiaohu nodded vigorously and said, "Of course! Brother Xiaolong, I feel that the framework is very good, are you going to do it yourself, or let me do it? β
"Do you mean the script? Oh, of course you're here to do it, you know you're a 5 million box office screenwriter, it's a waste for me to let a big celebrity like you don't have to! Bruce Lee laughed, patted Wang Xiaohu on the shoulder and said, "Brother, hurry up and think about it, I'm very relieved about your script, and the martial arts action, you can come up with a draft for me as soon as possible, I can't wait." β
Wang Xiaohu grinned bitterly when he heard this: "Brother Xiaolong, do you think I'm a typewriter?" I need time to come up with it! This is not true at all, although Wang Xiaohu has a complete plot of "Game of Death" in his mind, and can even take out the original 47-minute "Game of Death" of Bruce Lee that he saw in his previous life for filming, but he doesn't want to do it.
The original "Game of Death" strictly followed Bruce Lee's creative ideas, and the 47 minutes of the second half of the film were entirely composed of footage shot by Bruce Lee's real body. Of these 47 minutes, the first 38 minutes are the three complete fight scenes between Bruce Lee and Ino Shandu, Ji Hanjae, and Jabbar, and the last 9 minutes are the filming highlights of the film. The original Bruce Lee-style fights and hilarious NG tidbits make this 47-minute content the most widely circulated Bruce Lee movie clip.
However, Wang Xiaohu, who has experienced many martial arts and kung fu movies, does not want to repeat such plagiarism work, for Bruce Lee's unfinished half of the movie, he has a strong ** in his heart: If you don't do it, you will make it a classic, Bruce Lee's classic, my Wang Xiaohu's classic! ββ
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(To be continued)