I have to say that Wang Xiaohu proposed to travel at this time, which was cheered by everyone in the crew, although even if Wang Xiaohu did not arrange it like this, everyone would continue to work, but the non-stop high-intensity work for two consecutive months not only made Wang Xiaohu unbearable, everyone's body and mind were tired, Wang Xiaohu was aware of this, and the generosity of the surname Suo conformed to the people's will, even for the quality of the film, he also had to rest and rest. [No pop-up novel network]

So, the crew of "A Tiger" and more than 50 people spent more than a week walking around the whole of Thailand, and Wang Xiaohu was not idle, every time he went to a scenic spot, he would let people shoot the picture, which can be regarded as filling in some materials for the few Thai backgrounds of "A Tiger", making the Thai style in the film more intense.

After returning from the trip, Miao Kexiu, who had been carefully recuperated for a week, now returned to the crew, and the first thing she said when she saw Wang Xiaohu was full of complaints: "Ah Hu, you owe me a trip to Thailand." ”

Wang Xiaohu scratched his head in embarrassment: "Hey, let's play again after the finale, and make sure that Sister Xiu has a good time." ”

"Hehe, I'm kidding you." Miao Kexiu held the bangs in front of her forehead, picked up the script and said: "I can't wait to finish filming this drama as soon as possible, my body has never been able to adapt to high-intensity shooting, and I plan not to take over this drama anymore." ”

Wang Xiaohu was stunned when he heard this, and joked with a smile: "Sister Xiu, you are in your prime now, I don't know how many companies want to poach you in the past two years, if I hadn't signed you first, I'm afraid you would have been popular all over Xiangjiang, and I still want to delay your future, and I plan to write a few more books to make you popular again, which can be regarded as making up for the guilt in my heart." ”

"Gee, when did you kid get flamboyant." Miao Kexiu scolded a few words with a smile, then shook her head and said: "Actually, others want to sign me, just to use my cooperation with Xiaolong to engage in some gimmicks to increase the box office, and I am not in the mood for the past two years, even if I am in the mood, I don't want to follow Xiaolong's fame in the circle." ”

When Miao Kexiu said this, she sighed and said, "Ah Hu, I still want to thank you." ”

"Let's be so polite." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile, and sighed at the same time in his heart, it seems that the butterfly effect of his rebirth is still very broad, for example, the two women who have had a relationship with Brother Xiaolong, Ding Pei has not carried a heavy burden in this life, and now with the outstanding performance of "Ghost Horse Double Star", she is a female artist of Xu's company, although she still plays some dusty women, and she wins everyone's attention by scratching her head and making gestures, but it is far easier than carrying the infamy of a lifetime.

Another example is Miao Kexiu in front of him, in the two years after Brother Xiaolong's death, he did not appear in the shoddy films of Golden Harvest Company imitating Bruce Lee like in his previous life, so as to maintain his reputation in the circle, you must know that Yiyi, who also cooperated with Bruce Lee in "Tangshan Big Brother", was not as lucky as her, and the box office visit of "New Jingwumen" directly confused her star journey, I heard that she changed careers last year and did not mix in the circle, and found a rich businessman who was good to her to marry.

All of this is Wang Xiaohu's unintentional move, sometimes he also feels very tired, before Brother Xiaolong died, he had to work hard and even make a gesture of an old mother to stop Brother Xiaolong's untimely death, I don't want to end up with a bamboo basket to draw water, after Brother Xiaolong's death, he has to take over the mantle of real kung fu, and on the premise of not letting Hong Kong movies have huge twists and turns, he carefully maintains and develops Oriental Hollywood, if it weren't for these burdens on his shoulders, he would have left with Zhao Yazhi to travel around the world, I live a happy life.

It's just that there is no regret medicine sold in this world, if it is a bug to be reborn, Wang Xiaohu doesn't want to do it again, some things are enough to experience once in a lifetime!

There are not many remaining scenes in "Ah Hu", mainly to shoot the plot of Ah Hu's infinite scenery in the ring before he was imprisoned, and interspersed with emotional scenes with female reporter Pim, when the film was turned on again, everyone showed an unprecedented positive surname, and the filming progress made Wang Xiaohu amazed, especially Miao Kexiu's acting skills have also made a breakthrough now, and the female reporter Pim is independent and ruthless to the fullest, I believe that after the film is released, everyone will be greatly praised for Miao Kexiu's current image.

The intense and orderly filming continued, and in his spare time, Muay Thai King Naifo would come to the crew to visit the class, and every time he came, he was surrounded by a group of fans, and those Thai locals, especially the young people who practiced Muay Thai, refused to let go of the usual competition between the two strong men.

Several battles have won or lost, but at this time the victory or defeat is no longer important, Nai Buddha is very impressed with Wang Xiaohu, he once said to others: "If you want to defeat Wang Xiaohu, there is only one way, that is, to exercise more durable endurance than him, but also to practice super resistance to hits, improve your speed, because his inch punch on you will suffocate you, his burst kicks and volleys will make you have a kind of despair that you can't start, if you think that by close quarters, with elbows, knees can trap him, I tell you." , you are very wrong, his Wing Chun will make your face disappear! ”

No one will doubt that Nai Buddha said this sentence, not only because he enjoys a high status in the Thai sports world, but also because many people who saw Wang Xiaohu and Nai Buddha compete in martial arts were shocked by Wang Xiaohu's terrible ability to resist and explosive power at that time.

Among them, the most excited is Yadsanklai, the young man who has always admired Nai Buddha is now also on the verge of defection, and regards Wang Xiaohu as the idol target of a new generation, and he will pester Wang Xiaohu to learn a few tricks in his spare time for filming, Wang Xiaohu was helpless to be entangled by him, so he had to call Nai Buddha to replace himself, in Wang Xiaohu's words, "Kung Fu is not all of a person." ”

After saying this, Wang Xiaohu was stunned there for a long time and didn't come back to his senses, because he suddenly thought of the ending of "Ah Hu", it is undeniable that Ah Hu finally wanted not to disappoint his daughter, in order to complete the sustenance of his ex-girlfriend pim, in order to give himself an explanation, he had to weigh it again and again, and finally completed his sublimation in an almost masochistic way, won the respect of the audience and opponents, and achieved the classic image of a tragic hero on the screen, but what about Ploy? What about nuns?

At the end of the film, Ploy and the children in the orphanage grow up overnight under the influence of Ah Hu's spirit, and the nun develops a strong interest in filming. But this kind of joy is almost cruel to the audience, and it is completely irresponsible.

Whether it is Miao Kexiu, or 14-year-old Weng Meiling has protested more than once, the end of the protest script is too tragic, too sad, Weng Meiling has complained after suffering in her arms last time: "What if Ah Hu admits defeat at the last moment for the sake of Ploy and for the sake of the nun?" What will happen to him in the future? Secluded in a certain alley in Hong Kong, he gets up early in the morning to buy breakfast for Ploy, then begs for life during the day, and lazily hugs the nun at night to watch boring soap operas, not heroic, calm and warm. Should such a tiger be scolded? ”

Wang Xiaohu still remembered answering at the time, he smiled and said indifferently: "It's just a movie." ”

"But this movie made me unable to extricate myself!" Weng Meiling was extremely excited: "I have already lost my father, and I don't want to experience such pain again in the movie!" After speaking, she hid her face and left in tears, at that time, Wang Xiaohu thought that she was too deep in the play, and she would be fine after a while, who knew that the little girl was angry with herself for a few days.

Wang Xiaohu flashed these pictures in his mind, sitting on the recliner with a headache and reading the script, Zhao Yazhi came to the opposite side with a bowl of red bean soup at this time, and said with a smile: "Are you still having a headache for the end of the film?" ”

Wang Xiaohu nodded awkwardly, took the red bean soup and drank it in small sips, his eyes still did not leave the script, Zhao Yazhi sighed and said with a wry smile when he saw this: "You, you have become more and more domineering on the set in the past few years, and whoever wanted to change a word on the script before, you would come up with a desperate posture with them." ”

"Because my script is the guarantee of the box office, and the suggestions they make are very naïve, they don't know where the excitement of the audience is." Wang Xiaohu said a little proudly, even Brother Xiaolong didn't have any temper with himself, because the box office after the release of the film was ironclad in the end.

"Hmph, you're stinky!" Zhao Yazhi said angrily: "It seems that someone has made an exception to revise the script several times. ”

"Isn't that all for you!" Wang Xiaohu pretended to complain: "At the beginning, someone said that the kissing scene was not good, but in the end, it was not filmed according to the original script. ”

Thinking of this past, Zhao Yazhi's face immediately turned red, raised her pink fist and slapped him on the shoulder and said: "It's all your fault, if your eyes weren't so sensational at that time, it would be uncontrollable, and the ghost would have fooled you into taking advantage!" ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled, bearing the beating of his wife with a shy face, after the little couple made a fuss for a while, the corners of Wang Xiaohu's lips were emptied twice, and he said with a straight expression: "Lady, even you think the ending of "Ah Hu" is not good?" ”

"Someone is machismo, and I won't be fooled if I say the same." Zhao Yazhi rolled her eyes and turned her head away as if she was angry.

Yes, the subtext of this sentence is: This lady has a big opinion on the ending of the film! Seeing this, Wang Xiaohu gently pinched his wife's duck egg face, and said with a smile: "It's okay, even if you have any opinions, you can put them forward, I'm not a man-eating tiger." ”

"That's what you said." Zhao Yazhi suddenly sighed, and then smiled and said tentatively: "Ah Hu, have you thought about the ending of "Rocky", although Rocky lost the game in the end, he won Adrian's heart, why can't Ah Hu do this?" ”

"Because there is a huge surprise between Chinese and Western cultures." Wang Xiaohu explained without thinking: "Hollywood has always followed individual heroism since the opening of the port, they will not accept their heroes to end up in a tragedy, which has a lot to do with the fact that they have always advocated the so-called humanitarianism, although in reality the Yankees are just using humanitarianism as a guise, but they must ask for this empty check to be cashed in the movie, otherwise the trade unions of those authorities will be difficult without waiting for the audience to provoke." ”

"Then why didn't you stick to your point of view when you wrote Rocky, and arrange for Rocky to win or be killed by Apollo?" Zhao Yazhi asked inexplicably.

"Actually, it's very simple, I don't want "Rocky" to win so easily, otherwise how can I make a sequel to cheat the Yankees out of their money! You see that Stallone's current "Rocky 2" is also in post-production, and it will be released in 900 theaters in North America at the same time next month, and the limelight is tight, if Rocky wins, the sequel will lose a lot of flavor, and it is inconvenient to continue the charm of the first part, because the audience is now eager to see how Rocky gets the boxing belt. ”

"Oh, in the end, it's still the officials who are cunning!" A wry smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Yazhi's lips: "What about Ah Hu, you also plan to shoot a sequel?" ”

"Absolutely no such intention!" Wang Xiaohu shook his head like a rattle, and said in an extremely firm tone: "This "Ah Hu" is already a classic, and there is no need to shoot a sequel or even a prequel. ”

Wang Xiaohu said this sentence is not unreasonable, the memory of "Young Ah Hu" disappointed him to the extreme, the same crew, the same director, just changed the leading role, but the overall quality of "Young Ah Hu" fell I don't know how many levels, empty plot, empty performance, a typical dog's tail continuation mink, unceremoniously called "Young Ah Mao" is more appropriate.

In fact, it is not the director's fault that caused such a huge contrast, but because Andy Lau's version of "A Tiger" is really a Thai classic, and the combination of Wu Jianhao and Kim Hyun-joo cannot break through the shock and emotion left by the previous work to the audience. If Wang Xiaohu shoots "Young Ah Hu" first, and then shoots "Ah Hu" a few years later, I believe that this kind of shocking surname will make the audience talk about it, but Wang Xiaohu does not have this idea, and he will never star in those films that are not popular at the box office.

"So" Zhao Yazhi's eyes flickered and looked at Wang Xiaohu, "So you might as well make Ah Hu more classic, so that it can also leave us the audience with a no regret ending, I believe the audience will agree and applaud." ”

Originally, Wang Xiaohu was hesitating in his heart, but now Zhao Yazhi said this again, his heart moved slightly, and after a while, he slowly nodded and said, "Let me think about it." ”

Wang Xiaohu sat on the recliner and didn't know how long he thought about it, he thought a lot, from the perspective of the script, the previous life of "Ah Hu" was filmed in 2000, which borrowed the essence of "Rocky", such as shooting running shots, in the boxing gym, hard training on the beach, it can be said that Ah Hu is the epitome of Rocky's life, from being in the ring, when lost, and then reinvigorated, with the shadow of Rocky. But it's completely different, because Ah Hu is more delicate, and he is fuller than Rocky in terms of love and family, which is also the cleverness of Hong Kong filmmakers.

There is no doubt that the previous life of "Ah Hu" was extremely successful in terms of artistic and commercial surnames, because the scripts are all classic successful cases, but the script of "Young Ah Hu" has lost this brilliance, both the director and the screenwriter are immersed in the great success of the previous work, they gave up their most worthy beliefs, no wonder Andy Lau did not agree after reading the script, on the one hand, because of the age does not match, there is a suspicion of pretending to be tender, and the most important thing is that the script does not meet Andy's appetite.

Since there is no idea of filming a sequel or prequel, Wang Xiaohu's mood suddenly brightened, anyway, it is not a big deal to modify the ending, it is nothing more than to pull Naifo and those viewers over to reshoot, it doesn't cost a few dollars, and it can make everyone happy, why not? Wang Xiaohu thought like this, slapped his thigh and shouted: "Sanmao, Brother Ping, call Naifo and reshoot the scene of the ending of the ring!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the crew suddenly fell into the opportunity, and after a while, everyone gave a warm cheer.

"Ah Hu, do you really want to reshoot, Ah Hu doesn't have to die?" Sammo Hung rushed over and asked.

Wang Xiaohu nodded and said, "Yes, Ah Hu doesn't have to die." ”

"Haha, that's great! Brothers, clean up the guys, let's make the set even if we don't sleep tonight! Sammo Hung showed an unprecedentedly high positive surname, and other people were even more so, Wang Xiaohu sighed in his eyes, it seems that everyone thinks so, but because he is a director, it is inconvenient to say it and dare not say it.

"Dad, you're so wise!" Just as Wang Xiaohu shook his head and sighed, Weng Meiling, who rushed to hear the news, jumped up happily, threw herself into Wang Xiaohu's arms at once, hugged his neck and kissed him twice: "Dad finally doesn't have to die!" Aung doesn't need to be sad anymore! In the entire crew, only Weng Meiling is obsessed with the tragic ending, and now that Wang Xiaohu has opened Chrysostom to reshoot the ending, she couldn't be happier.

Wang Xiaohu smiled and enjoyed this intimacy, that is, since the last time, Weng Meiling no longer called herself "Brother Xiaohu", I don't know if she was too deep in the play or what, and finally opened and closed her mouth to put "Dad" on her lips, for which Wang Xiaohu also complained, but it attracted Weng Meiling's eyes, and over time, Wang Xiaohu reluctantly acquiesced to this title, but this "daughter" seemed to be deliberately angry with herself, calling herself father, but calling Zhao Yazhi "Sister Zhi", making trouble as if she was old.

The ending of the ring duel could not maintain the pathos of the original version, and the style of the whole film had to be adjusted, and the floating clouds that crossed the gray sky and hinted at the sad blues of the whole film were also replaced by clouds at the end, of course, only when Ah Hu decided to fight Tawang.

Although there are not many places to modify, but it has also been tossed for more than half a month, in this half a month, everyone is very happy to cooperate, Wang Xiaohu also spent an extra 500,000 Hong Kong dollars for this, but this money is no longer in Wang Xiaohu's eyes, as long as everyone is happy, he will be happy.

When Wang Xiaohu held the loudspeaker and shouted out the sentence "cut", the whole crew was overjoyed and cheered for relief, "Ah Hu" is definitely the longest shooting cycle since the establishment of Concord Company, everyone is the hardest, the most dedicated film, all the personnel involved in the shooting, in the past three months have been the largest scale of exercise, they are just like Ah Hu in the film, influenced by the spirit of Ah Hu in the steady growth step by step.

The banquet was held in the largest hotel in Bangkok, in addition to the crew of more than 50 people, there were also many people in the Muay Thai industry led by Naifo, "Ah Hu" focuses on the realistic style of real Muay Thai, to some extent it is also a good opportunity to promote Muay Thai, these Muay Thai fighters are naturally happy to come to the field, by the way, also to see the legend of the young master who defeated Naifo.

"Ah Hu, we are very happy to cooperate this time, hold a cup!" Naifo walked over with a big wine glass and smiled, accompanied by a bewitching Thai woman, who stared at Wang Xiaohu with undisguised eyes, making the latter smile bitterly and shaking his head, and after clinking glasses with Naifo, Wang Xiaohu said: "I will pay the salary of you and the dozen Muay Thai fighters before leaving Bangkok." ”

"Those are the little things." Naifi patted the bewitching woman beside him, signaling that he had something to discuss with Wang Xiaohu, the bewitching woman looked at Wang Xiaohu's gaze with some reluctance, and finally turned around and left step by step, causing Naifo to laugh: "Ah Hu, you are now deeply favored by our Thai women." ”

"Hehe, if you want to tell me this, I'm afraid it will disappoint you." Wang Xiaohu raised his finger and tapped the wine glass lightly, and said casually, he knew that Nai Buddha must have something to say to himself.

Sure enough, Naifo quickly changed the subject, "I don't know if we will have a chance to cooperate in the future." ”

Wang Xiaohu groaned slightly, frowned and said, "There should be, I still have a few scripts about Muay Thai in my head, but it's not time to shoot yet." ”

"Oh?" Nai Buddha became interested, shifted from opposite Wang Xiaohu to his side and said, "Why can't you shoot?" ”

Wang Xiaohu shrugged, pointed to the scars on his arms and shins, and said: "The real Muay Thai is fighting, not acting, in the past two months of filming with you, you never know what it means to be up to the point, every kick and knee has terrible lethality, if it wasn't for my timely dodge, I'm afraid I would have been lying in the hospital a long time ago." ”

Thai people don't know how to film, not to mention that Muay Thai Wang Nai Fo didn't think of it as filming at all, so every time he was filming against Wang Xiaohu, he did his best, which made Wang Xiaohu suffer, not only to pursue the real surname of the camera, but also to worry about being kicked by Naifo, resulting in being tired and half dead every day after filming, fortunately, Bruce Lee's hell training for him played a key role at this time, that is to say, although the shooting was hard, Wang Xiaohu was able to enjoy the opportunity to be a sparring partner of a Muay Thai master in addition to filming.

"Well, I don't understand, I still think that it can only be realistic if I put it all in." Nai Buddha explained aggrievedly.

"Hehe, fortunately, the opponent is me, and if the others don't die, they will have to be crippled." Wang Xiaohu didn't mean to accuse, "So if you cooperate in the future, you should avoid hurting people by being too heavy during shooting, I suggest that you set up a training team, select some Muay Thai fighters with good foundations, look good, and train them on how to control the strength of punches when they shoot fight scenes, and stop at the point." In this regard, I recommend Yodsanklai to you. ”

(To be continued)