The promotional effect brought by the trailer of the theatrical version of "Ip Man 2" is extraordinary, and it stirs up a thousand waves with one stone. 【】

First of all, the concept of "Wing Chun vs. Hung Boxing" was thrown, and then the doubts of the citizens who were enthusiastic about "whether to fight foreign devils" were answered.

In Hong Kong, the most popular boxing styles are Hung Boxing and Wing Chun.

In terms of Hung Boxing, Zhang Che has directed films such as "Hung Boxing Kid", "Hung Boxing and Wing Chun", and Tang Jia also has a "Hung Boxing Master", but it was not until the authentic successor Lau Kar-leung directed that the boxing method was carried forward on the screen.

Sammo Hung has also filmed films of the same type such as "Mr. Zan and Looking for Qian Hua" and "The Loser".

Wang Xiaohu wants to shoot this kind of subject, which cannot but be said to be too challenging.

"Mr. Wang, Hong Boxing has always been known for its big opening and closing, full of strength, simple and practical boxing, hard bridge and hard horse, and the action is mainly smashing and splitting. Wing Chun, on the other hand, is good at hand-to-hand short fights, maintaining delicate and dignified movements while carrying out fierce and aggressive attacks and defenses, and at the same time can hit the explosive "inch strength" in a very short distance, although created by female surnames, but suitable for both men and women. ”

"How are you going to show the two fist fights on the screen?"

A reporter from a newspaper in Hong Kong went to Concord International to interview Wang Xiaohu and raise this question.

"Looks like you know a lot about kung fu." Wang Xiaohu smiled.

The reporter scratched his head shyly, obviously a kung fu fan, or a kung fu movie fan.

Wang Xiaohu coughed lightly twice and said: "Hung Boxing and Wing Chun have a long history, as the two most powerful and influential boxing methods in Southern Boxing, the two fists have not been really 'one point higher' on the big screen, but now everyone is blessed, you can see the peak duel of these two different boxing techniques in "Ip Man 2", and we will do our best to design it wonderfully and beat the audience to the satisfaction of the audience." ”

"A real one!"

The reporters are all gossip masters, so they can naturally hear the Zen machine in Wang Xiaohu's words.

In other words, Wang Xiaohu believes that the kung fu films of Hung Quan and Wing Chun that he filmed before are not in the stream.

However, Wang Xiaohu was born in kung fu films, and he can bring Chinese kung fu and Chinese culture to the world to promote, and his professional level is undoubted.

The reporters present did not dwell too much on this issue, and directly asked the next question that they were most concerned about and most urgently needed to know.

"Mr. Wang, why do you insist on letting Ip Man fight foreigners? Is this deliberately catering to the mainland market? ”

Wang Xiaohu shook his head and smiled bitterly and said: "To be precise, I am judging the situation by making this arrangement. Even if it is considered for the commercial box office, it is also for the personal feelings of Hong Kong citizens. ”

"Fighting foreigners is not my patent, Bruce Lee's "Jingwumen" is the first disseminator and beneficiary of fighting foreigners, and every movie he has since been related to fighting foreigners, do you think Bruce Lee deliberately caters to the mainland market?"

When the reporters heard Wang Xiaohu's answer, they immediately shook their heads.

Whether it is fighting Orientals in "Jingwumen", or Westerners in "Raptors Across the River", "Enter the Dragon", or "Warrior's Journey" fighting Orientals and Westerners, the audience does not feel that Bruce Lee is catering to the mainland market.

On the contrary, everyone feels that Bruce Lee is beating foreign devils of all colors on the screen, which is very relieving!

After Wang Xiaohu's reminder, the reporters suddenly realized, slapped their thighs and said secretly: Grandma's, say a thousand things and ten thousand, Wang Xiaohu is the initiator and disseminator of fighting foreigners!

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "I said, judging the situation is very important, the success of "Jingwumen" was not unrelated to the fishing action, and now I still advocate fighting foreigners in "Ip Man 2", do you still think I cater to the mainland market?" ”

One by one, the reporters fell silent.

Now is indeed a sensitive time, the strong attitude of Chinese mainland, the departure of the new Governor of Hong Kong Youde to the United Kingdom, and the special historical background of the 50s.

There are rumors in the streets and alleys: the British have abandoned Hong Kong, and Chinese mainland wants to storm Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is bound to return to the mainland, and it is understandable that Wang Xiaohu arranged the plot in this way.

Although everyone has not watched "Ip Man 2", through Wang Xiaohu's lightly smiling words, they can probably guess: This time the fight against foreigners is absolutely extraordinary, otherwise Wang Xiaohu would not have withstood the negative pressure from the outside world and launched the signboard of "fighting foreigners" in this sensitive period.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Xiaohu to say in depth, the Hong Kong reporters present also know more or less about the era and environment in which the film is located.

Although the concept of the Hong Kong people's home and country is a bit vague because of the colonial history, in the 50s, under the management of the British political axe, the so-called others had to bow their heads under the roof, and the police at that time did not restrict illegal activities such as collecting black money.

If "Jingwumen" came into being under the general trend of "Baoyu", if "Ip Man" was successful under a round of foreshadowing, then "Ip Man 2" is definitely a film that judges the situation.

Wang Xiaohu said it so clearly that the reporters suddenly felt that it was no longer important whether they beat foreigners or not.

"Hong Kong is originally a concentration of cultural deserts, and it is more prominent in movies, mainly taking the route of spoofs and laughter, and movies are entertainment commodities, so there is no need to pursue too much educational significance." A journalist wrote

This is the first time that Wang Xiaohu has officially held a press conference to discuss matters related to the plot of "Ip Man 2" with media reporters.

Of course, the press conference is an indispensable part of the propaganda means, and the trailer with a little Q&A can quickly increase everyone's attention to the film.

However, in Asia, Southeast Asia, mainland China, and even Europe and the United States, Wang Xiaohu will never use such cumbersome propaganda methods.

For example, the propaganda in Chinese mainland can be called simple to the extreme: posters and trailers of major TV stations bombed in turn, the main patriotic tone, the bombing was a mess, and hundreds of millions of Chinese were looking forward to the release as soon as possible!

As early as a week ago, the Ministry of Culture conducted a comprehensive review of "Ip Man 2", and felt that the film was very in line with the current broadcast conditions, otherwise the Ministry of Culture would never have spent so much manpower and material resources to cooperate.

Needless to say, Wang Xiaohu's "pass" with one punch and kick plus centralized public relations such as the "Shaolin Boxing Alliance", as long as it can be done with money, Concord International has never been ambiguous

Wang Xiaohu ended the press conference, stood on the balcony on the sixth floor of the company and drank tea, and saw three black cars slowly driving into the company's parking lot from a distance.

After a while, the reception staff at the front desk called: "Mr. Wang, Mr. Shen of Colorful Pictures is looking for you." ”

Colorful Pictures is the largest entertainment film company under 14K, and it is also a company that Shen Zhong has just established less than half a year after following Wang Xiaohu's advice, mainly in response to the upcoming "film censorship system" of Hong Kong and Britain.

To put it bluntly, Colorful Pictures is mainly engaged in "tertiary films" and "Fengyue films", but now the Hong Kong market is not very mature, Wang Xiaohu has contacted the company through Bruce Lee, and from the second half of the year, Little Kirin will secretly help Colorful Pictures to focus on the "A-V" business in the book.

If you have money, you must make it, even if you make Hollywood money, it is not as refreshing as making the money of a little devil. As a reborn person, Wang Xiaohu will not give up the most critical link in the film industry.

"Let them come up." Wang Xiaohu said.

Generally speaking, if Shen Zhong is looking for himself, he will choose the evening, either he will go to his house by himself, or he will come to find himself, and today he suddenly ran to the company to find himself, which is somewhat unprecedented.

As soon as Wang Xiaohu made tea for Shen Zhong, Old Man Shen pushed the door in, and the big fat man Wang Hongxing came in with him.

"Why is Lao Dou interested in coming to Xiehe to find me today?" Wang Xiaohu asked with a smile as he handed Shen Zhong tea.

Shen Zhong's spirit is not very good, after all, he is also 76 years old, and it is not easy to run around outside.

After taking a sip of tea, Shen Zhong said with a serious face: "Xiaohu, the line you asked me to keep an eye on has started to move recently. ”

"How?" Wang Xiaohu also became very serious when he heard this.

Because he knew what the line that Shen Zhong was staring at meant.

Since Shen Zhong told him: After the Hong brothers invested in Siyuan Pictures and set foot in the film and television industry, he and Shen Zhong paid special attention to it, so Shen Zhong specially sent several groups of horses to secretly watch him.

A few years have passed, and the Hong brothers are behaving in the film and television industry, but they didn't expect there to be movement today.

Shen Zhong pointed at Wang Hongxing and said, "You tell Xiaohu about the situation." ”

Wang Hongxing nodded hurriedly and said: "Brother Tiger, here's the thing, the location protection fee system that has disappeared for ten years has revived, and today several crews filming outside have been asked for protection fees, according to our investigation, the leaders are several small leaders of Hong Xingshe, He Shenghe, and Lianying. ”

"Protection money?" Wang Xiaohu raised an eyebrow, he couldn't be clearer about the protection fee.

When I was filming "Righteous Heroes" on Temple Street, I was asked for a protection fee of 50 Hong Kong dollars by Iron Blood Hall!

It is said that since Wang Xiaohu's first battle on Temple Street, the entire Hong Kong underground organization has not dared to collect protection fees from the "Concord" company.

The reason why they didn't dare was because Wang Xiaohu became famous at the beginning, and he blocked two hundred people at the mouth of the alley with a bamboo pole, that blood bravery, that might is not something ordinary people can have, and they are still Bruce Lee's

Brothers.

Later, Bruce Lee died, and they didn't dare to collect the protection fee from the Concord studio, that was because the "Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Union" established by Wang Xiaohu began to exert its power, just imagine that more than 2,000 people are dragon and tiger martial artists who can fight, who has nothing to do with such a big company to collect protection money?

So Hung Xingshe, Heshenghe and other underground organizations specially collected the protection fees of other film companies, but in the following years, Concord Company became bigger and bigger, not only to bring down Golden Harvest, but also directly forced Shaw Brothers to step down and became the largest entertainment company in Hong Kong.

Except for Siyuan Company, other film companies are small-scale workshops, and they can't collect a few protection fees, so the surname Suo canceled the protection fee project of mopping the floor on the set.

Ten years later, when he heard these three words again, Wang Xiaohu really felt a little strange.

(To be continued)