Maybe "Shaolin Temple" is a little too simple in terms of plot, or maybe the star lineup watched by the audience in Hong Kong is a little uncomfortable with the actors from all over the mainland. [Full text reading]

In short, "Shaolin Temple" directed by Wang Xiaohu only received 16.5 million box office, which can surpass Jackie Chan's "Dragon's Heart", and it cannot achieve a new box office record again.

Although the outside world said that Wang Xiaohu's golden body that he had maintained for many years was broken, he was quite calm in an interview, and he told reporters: "As a filmmaker, refreshing the box office is no longer the only goal of my life. ”

"And what's your next goal in life?" The reporter asked.

"Of course, I am trying to make all kinds of interesting attempts, such as this cooperation with the mainland, such as the three-month promotion plan for Hong Kong films in the mainland, which are all the work I am currently promoting."

Wang Xiaohu smiled and spread his hands and said: "Besides, you have seen it on the screen every year, and it will also produce aesthetic fatigue after a long time, so I still do behind-the-scenes work, and it is better to recommend more newcomers to everyone." ”

The reporters all laughed, in fact, Wang Xiaohu is a guy that people love and hate, as his fame has increased in recent years, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to deal with the media, whether it is to promote the new film or to premiere, it is Concord's spokesman Xu Junlong to do it.

Even when "Myth" was released, major newspapers condemned him, but he avoided it and directly remained silent, so to a certain extent, media reporters hated Wang Xiaohu to the point that his teeth itched.

However, during this interview, Wang Xiaohu was very cooperative, chatting with reporters with a pleasant face just like a few years ago, and didn't want other film company bosses to come up with a "I'm a big boss" style, so most reporters still like him.

"Ah Hu, can you reveal what kind of movie Concord will make next?" A reporter from Film Fortnight asked.

"In terms of movies, it seems that there is only one work, and like "Mythology" and "Shaolin Temple" that everyone sees, they are all co-produced with the mainland." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "The subject matter must be my old kung fu film, but this time it will be very different, the protagonist of the story is a female surname." ”

"Wow!"

"No, will it hit the street, after all, the current screen is dominated by male stars."

Everyone looked at Wang Xiaohu in surprise, it was not for nothing that they were so surprised, the movie era when actresses were in charge was the end of the 40-60s, when it was very unseemly to be an actor, it was rare to see men on the screen, and generally the roles with male surnames were completed by women disguised as men.

Filmed in 1967, "Seven Princesses" geomedied the popular Cantonese film actresses Chen Baozhu, Xiao Fangfang, Feng Baobao, Xue Jiayan, etc., which can be described as huge, and it is the last collective appearance of actresses.

In that era, literary romance films, song and dance films, Huangmei tunes, and martial arts films were all actresses in charge, and male stars were reduced to foils.

Even director Hu Jinquan, who created a new era of martial arts, also likes to use actresses the most, for example, it is not Yue Hua who is popular in "The Drunken Man", but "Golden Swallow" Zheng Peipei, and later simply filmed "Chivalrous Girl".

It is precisely in view of this that Zhang Che proposed the masculine revolution with the male surname, and launched various types of men such as Wang Yu, Jiang David, Dillon, etc., and the male star spit out sulk, turned over and changed positions, and then Bruce Lee completely established the hegemony of the male star dominating the screen with "Tangshan Big Brother", and the female star began to gradually decline into a vase, and became a foil on the screen.

Now that Wang Xiaohu openly said that he wanted to shoot a movie with actresses as the main star, the reporters were naturally surprised to death, and looked at Wang Xiaohu again in puzzlement, trying to guess why he made this unexpected decision on the face of this young Hong Kong film tycoon.

After a long time, they saw that Wang Xiaohu didn't speak, so they scrambled to ask questions.

"Is it Ah Zhi to star?"

"Didn't Ah Zhi announce his retirement?"

"Do you invite Bruce Lee's former celebrity Miao Kexiu to star?"

"Zheng Peipei or Yang Panpan?"

The reporters saw Wang Xiaohu shaking his head and smiling bitterly again and again, and one person raised his hand and said, "It won't be Pan Yingzi, right?" ”

When the reporters heard it, they suddenly realized, yes, Pan Yingzi performed very well in "Hong Xiguan", and she was also the only cooperating actress of Wang Xiaohu except Zhao Yazhi, all the reporters looked at Wang Xiaohu with a look of hope, hoping that he could say the answer.

Wang Xiaohu smiled, waved his hand and said, "Don't speculate, this is a trade secret." ”

"It's a trade secret again!" All the reporters complained that this Wang Xiaohu was good at everything, Guan completely aroused everyone's curiosity, and the key was to sell Guan Zi to kill people at all times

After the interview, Wang Xiaohu asked Xu Xiaoming to come to his office.

"The mainland has allowed our scripts to be filmed in Tianjin, Shanghai and other places, and during this time, you can organize the actors and let them understand the script thoroughly, because the filming conditions in the mainland are relatively difficult, and it is good for everyone to be able to complete the filming work one day earlier."

After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he tilted his head and thought about it, then took out a few pieces of paper from the drawer, handed them to Xu Xiaoming and said: "Although the progress of filming may be a little nervous, I still hope that you will finish the past few years after you arrive in Tianjin." ”

Xu Xiaoming looked at what was written on the paper, frowned and said, "Why did you go to Huo Yuanjia's tomb to sweep the tomb first?" ”

"Of course, it shows the sincerity of our crew."

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "After all, we are going to shoot Huo Yuanjia, he is a big hero, and he has provided a lot of inspiration for our TV series shooting, not only to sweep the tomb, it is best to take the leading actors to communicate with the descendants of the Huo family to see if they have any objections to the content in the script, and try to make some changes if there are objections." ”

Xu Xiaoming said puzzledly: "Won't this be very troublesome, if they put forward some non-divisive ideas, such as asking us to pay or something?" ”

Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about these things, the Ministry of Culture will take care of them, you intuitively do what I say, and I originally planned to cooperate with the Huo family to repair the ancestral hall for them, Huo Yuanjia's former residence and so on are within the scope of my plan." ”

"Hu, can you tell me what exactly you want to do?" Xu Xiaoming really doesn't understand what Wang Xiaohu is going to do now.

"Do something interesting." Wang Xiaohu stood up, walked over and patted Xu Xiaoming on the shoulder and said, "There are some things that are not film-related, and I need to get the support of the Huo family." ”

Xu Xiaoming didn't get an answer, shook his head bitterly and said, "Okay, I'm only responsible for filming." ”

"Hehe, the detailed precautions are written on these pieces of paper, and if you encounter something that you can't do, remember to contact the phone number left above, which is Minister Huang of the Ministry of Culture, and he will notify me as soon as possible." Wang Xiaohu said: "Come on, after filming this TV series, I will consider giving you a movie to make, making a movie is far more profitable than making a TV series." ”

Xu Xiaoming smiled bitterly when he heard this, in fact, even if Wang Xiaohu didn't ask for it, he planned to talk to Wang Xiaohu after filming "Huo Yuanjia", after all, Concord is a film company, and if he always lets himself shoot TV series, there is always a feeling that he is a supernumerary member of the company.

That kind of cordiality and approachability, so that Xu Xiaoming felt very warm, the outside world's rumors about Concord Company are really true, in Concord you can enjoy the high level of attention that other companies can't get, after nodding excitedly, Xu Xiaoming left satisfied.

Although "Shaolin Temple" did not break the box office myth maintained by Wang Xiaohu in Hong Kong, it has achieved very high box office results in Southeast Asia.

As of June 10, the mainland came to the box office statistics, and the cumulative box office of the country reached 2.61 million yuan in a month, which may seem a little small at first glance, and Wang Xiaohu also knew that the mainland must have done a job at the box office, with only one purpose, that is, to distribute as little money as possible to himself, but for Wang Xiaohu, this data is still relatively satisfactory.

On the one hand, Wang Xiaohu only has a general impression of the box office of "Myth", and on the other hand, "Shaolin Temple" is more appropriate to fulfill the martial arts dream hidden in the hearts of young people, which is a very critical one, and it is also the main reason why "Shaolin Temple" can succeed in the mainland.

Yanyu Building in Concord Film and Television City has become the temporary crew of "Shooting the Condor", and the actors who have no schedule will go to Yanyu Building every day to have afternoon tea, discuss the script, and start auditions according to the script, the most active is Weng Meiling, she is currently mainly pestering Zeng Jiang and Liu Dan to play.

Occasionally, Huang Yuehua would teach Huang Yuehua a lesson as a senior sister, Huang Yuehua was usually in awe of this senior sister, and after being taught a lesson by Weng Meiling, the image of a silly nerd was even more expressive.

Yuan Heping is not idle, he has been busy playing tricks for "Shooting the Condor" during this time, you must know that this is the first time he has designed actions for such a large-scale TV series, in addition to holding the script and the novel every day, he is looking for Jin Yong to drink tea and talk, wanting to find inspiration from the original author.

Helplessly, Jin Yong Daxia can write martial arts novels, and it must be an impossible task to let him help design the action, so he simply pushed this difficult task to Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaohu took a cursory look at Yuan Heping's embarrassment, pouted and said, "Hey, eighteen palms of dragon descending?" This I will! ”

After that, under the attention of everyone, Wang Xiaohu took a step, lifted his palm up from his lower abdomen, reached his chest and pushed it out, and then circled his left and right waists, and shouted loudly: "Go!" ”

"Poof!"

Weng Meiling, Zeng Jiang, Yuan Heping, Huang Yuehua and other people in the Yanyu Building all squirted out a mouthful of tea, and said in their hearts Is this the action designed by Hong Kong's No. 1 martial arts instructor, how is it similar to a child's dancing flowers?

After Wang Xiaohu finished fighting, he smiled, and said that he couldn't understand it, this is the 83 version of "Shooting the Condor", which has been tried and tested by the eighteen palms of the dragon and has regrets, I learned it after watching TV for a month! -

This chapter is made up, and I occasionally go to sleep.

(To be continued)