004 Creation of "Jingwumen"
Yuan Lou and Yuan Hua accompanied Wang Xiaohu to say goodbye and leave, Yuan Biao also went out, Wang Xiaohu knew that they must have gone out to play, sighed and picked up the paper and pen that Yuan Biao bought.
The manuscript paper is very rough, far from the smooth surface of the later A4 paper, and it feels very abrasive in the hand. The pen is a pencil, and the fountain pen is still a luxury in these days.
After rolling out the manuscript paper, Wang Xiaohu fell into deep thought, "Tangshan Brother" is the beginning of Bruce Lee's fame, and then he will shoot the second classic kung fu film "Jingwumen" with Golden Harvest, Wang Xiaohu also remembered that the screenwriters of this famous work were Luo Wei and Ni Kuang, the script editing at that time was very slow, they were all edited with the shooting, and the so-called script was just a general trend of the story, which can be said to be very simple, Bruce Lee said more than once back then: Such a script is very bad, and the filmed film has no box office guarantee.
Bruce Lee has also struggled more than once for a good script, and he has been furious about how to explain his style of Jeet Kune Do, so Wang Xiaohu's plan is also very simple: handwrite the complete script of "Jingwumen", and produce a storyboard script, and also draw the action design in "Jingwumen" through the manuscript paper and pencil in his hand.
The ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, Wang Xiaohu, who is used to using computers, finds that it is a tragedy to write by hand, but fortunately, he can finally write traditional Chinese by integrating part of Yuanhu's memory, but it makes him feel very awkward to write the manuscript from right to left.
"Jingwumen" depicts Shanghai Tang in 1906, and Bruce Lee plays Chen Zhen in the movie. The founder of Jingwuguan, Chen Zhen's master Huo Yuanjia passed away, Chen returned to Shanghai and wanted to marry his childhood sweetheart's sister (Miao Kexiu), but when he came back, he got the news of his master's death, so he was not sad. said that the Hongkou Dojo I ran sent people to Huo Yuanjia's public sacrifice and presented a plaque of "The Sick Man of East Asia"; Chen Zhen was unwilling to be insulted, concealed from all the brothers and sisters, and sent the banner back to the Hongkou Dojo alone, defeating Yue himself with one enemy and one hundred, with "Lost Trace Fist" and nunchucks; and smashed the "Dogs and Chinese are not allowed" sign in the park. At that time, Chen Zhen was in the public concession, and the people in the Jingwu Pavilion knew that Chen Zhen was in trouble, and strongly persuaded him to leave Shanghai for temporary refuge. On the night before leaving, Chen Zhen accidentally discovered that there were two people in the Jingwu Pavilion who were sent by him, and they were the culprits who poisoned the master. So after Chen Zhen killed the two, he changed his original intention and decided to stay in Shanghai to find out the mastermind behind the killing of the master to take revenge. In the end, it was found out that it was the Hongkou Dojo who did it, and he was angry and bloodied the Hongkou Dojo. At this time, the people in the dojo found a leased patrol officer, and in order not to drag down the Jingwu Sect, Chen Zhen was brave and righteous.
It can be said that "Jingwumen" is Bruce Lee's classic masterpiece, which is after "Tangshan Big Brother" he once again proved to the world his value, this film breaks through the narrow theme of revenge in previous kung fu films, and raises the film to the national righteousness, with its strong patriotic sense and national spirit to cause widespread resonance. This is the main reason why all Chinese like this film and like Bruce Lee.
From the perspective of Wang Xiaohu, who is a later generation, Bruce Lee's movements may not be very beautiful, but in the context at that time, Bruce Lee's movements were undoubtedly absolutely impactful.
A simple story overview took Wang Xiaohu about two hours, not that he had a vague memory or forgot the plot, but that he was thinking about how to connect several versions of Chen Zhen's story. He has been struggling with the action design of Bruce Lee's version and Donnie Yen's version, there is no doubt that Donnie Yen's later TV series version of Chen Zhen is better than Bruce Lee in terms of action, viewing surname and actual combat type, but this kind of good is only processed under the premise that Bruce Lee created actual combat kung fu.
If there is no Bruce Lee's Jingwumen, just Donnie Yen's Jingwumen, Donnie Yen's Chen Zhen cannot be surpassed by all Chen Zhen actors, even if Wang Xiaohu saw the final trailer of Donnie Yen's "Jingwu Fengyun" before his rebirth, it is also a narration of Chen Zhen's life after his successful escape, in which Chen Zhen's angry entry into the Hongkou Dojo is only a reprocessing of the scale and action design of the Hongkou Dojo on the basis of the TV series of that year, but it cannot be surpassed.
So after thinking about it again and again, Wang Xiaohu decided to make a bold processing of the action design of "Jingwumen", anyway, Bruce Lee hasn't filmed yet, and the script has no shadow, so he can plagiarize as much as he wants.
Bruce Lee is very demanding in action design, he wants to indirectly teach everyone his concept of Jeet Kune Do through the screen, streamlined, direct, and non-traditional are the characteristics of Jeet Kune Do, and it is expressed through the screen that there is no fancy punch and kick in "Jingwumen", and one move to defeat the enemy.
Wang Xiaohu's thinking gradually became clearer, and the overall framework of the story did not make any changes, after all, he can't tell too much in 90 minutes, what he wants to integrate is the plot of Chen Zhen's angry entry into the Hongkou Dojo, and he added Donnie Yen's action design on the basis of Bruce Lee's actions.
Wang Xiaohu knew that Bruce Lee didn't like to use auxiliary tools such as trampolines, and that kind of high-flying action was disdainful of Bruce Lee, which can be seen from his later filming of "Raptors Across the River" and "Enter the Dragon".
After studying and understanding these, Wang Xiaohu is more confident in the fight of Hongkou Dojo that set off the blood of the Chinese, and the names of flying three feet, air word horse, super burst kick, invincible inch fist, and fierce nunchucks have all been captured and applied by Wang Xiaohu, and he is confident that these actions will be accepted by Bruce Lee, how to say that these things are bred from Bruce Lee, and the descendants have been processed and strengthened, and they definitely have a visual impact and actual combat appreciation surname.
He first recalled these classic actions in his mind, and as the memories deepened, he became more and more excited in his heart, as if he was Chen Zhen facing hundreds of warriors in the Hongkou Dojo, when Chen Zhen jumped up and kicked the plaque of "The Sick Man of East Asia" and let the little devil swallow it, Wang Xiaohu screamed, opened his eyes violently, and his blood boiled!
"That's it!" Wang Xiaohu nodded and began to draw sketches on the manuscript paper, starting from Chen Zhen stepping into the Hongkou Dojo with the plaque, a series of fighting actions trickled through Wang Xiaohu's hand on the manuscript paper, until the beginning of the lantern Yuan Biao pushed the door and entered, Wang Xiaohu was still forgetting to create.