753 Kidnapping
On 3 April, teachers from the Chinese University of Chinese, the Institute of Science and Technology, and several other Hong Kong colleges and universities formed a delegation to visit Yanjing. γReading.comγ
This is the first spontaneous group of Hong Kong people to visit Beijing, and the second group of Hong Kong-born college students and teachers after World War II is the main team, and its behavior fully shows the importance that the public attaches to Hong Kong's return to the motherland.
Immediately after the new Hong Kong Governor Youde took office, Xu Xu, the head of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency, was active in major public forums in Hong Kong and conducted a public questionnaire survey of Hong Kong residents, hoping to obtain their expectations, worries, and other matters on the return to the motherland.
The outside world is in an uproar, and the crew of "Ip Man 2" in Victoria Harbor is also in full swing.
Under the full spur of Wang Xiaohu, Donnie Yen's role has been completed by 80%, which has exceeded more than half of the original planned schedule.
If it is said that it is filmed according to the original version, Donnie Yen does not play a lot of roles as Huang Liang, and it can be done in a week, but after Wang Xiaohu adapted the script six times, the role of this role has increased a lot, and the role is much fuller than the original version.
"Ajohn, I'll give you Daniel back tomorrow?" Wang Xiaohu discussed the schedule with John Woo, who came to the theater every day to visit classes.
Wu Yusen smiled bitterly and nodded: "Okay, anyway, the rest of "Seraph" is all emotional dramas, and there is not much difference between filming in Hong Kong or the United States, but I have to trouble the boss to ask Cameron for a leave." β
In fact, when John Woo directed "Seraph" in the United States, he also served as the martial arts instructor of "The Terminator", and Cameron valued John Woo's excellent gunfire design in "First Blood", so when the film was filmed, he asked Wang Xiaohu to drag John Woo away.
Anyway, John Woo is also going to film in the United States, Wang Xiaohu didn't even want to agree, and it is also necessary to increase the communication between John Woo and the big American directors, after all, Cameron is not famous now, and John Woo and him becoming partners will be of great help to future development.
"OK, none of this is a problem!" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "There is one more thing, at present, "Seraph" is nearing the end stage, and you can start preparing "The True Color of Heroes" when you have time." β
"Ready to boot?" Wu Yusen looked excited, clenched his right fist and knocked on the table and said, "I've been waiting for many years, and if I don't turn on the phone, I'm going to suffocate to death!" β
"There's no way to be in a hurry, you have to wait for the right time and the right person!" Wang Xiaohu said.
The right time is that the news of Hong Kong's return to the motherland has caused all kinds of panic in Xiangjiang, and Hong Kong people have fallen into various speculations, worries, and confusions about the future future.
The right person refers to Leslie Cheung, now Leslie Cheung was excavated by Lifeng Records, and Long Zichen spent two years packaging him, Huang Jiaju and Andy Lau as idol singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In the previous life, "The True Color of Heroes" was filmed at a low point in the lives of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat, John Woo was persuaded to go home and hold the child, and Chow Yun-fat became box office poison, so Leslie Cheung was included in the list of actors for the sake of box office, and Leslie Cheung had become an idol singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan at that time.
In this life, after Wang Xiaohu's promotion, Chow Yun-fat has become popular after several movies, and John Woo has also grown into a big director, and it seems that there is no necessary "trough".
In fact, Wu Yusen has been making comedies with Xu Guanwen and others for a few years since he followed Wang Xiaohu, and then Wang Xiaohu was sent to the United States to shoot "First Blood", and in the two or three years after returning to Hong Kong, he has been revising the script of "The True Color of Heroes", which can be said to have been tortured, and when he received the script of "Seraph", it caused a lot of gossip, and the pressure he was under from all parties can be imagined.
And Chow Yun-fat rarely took on films after filming "Shanghai Tang", because his acting skills have been recognized by everyone, and Wang Xiaohu didn't let him take bad movies, so he was stunned for two or three years and didn't work with his salary, and he didn't know what to do when he was idle, and his depression index increased even more.
The general environment is in place, the actors are in place, and there is absolutely no problem in starting the filming of "The True Colors of Heroes", so Wang Xiaohu directly asked John Woo to let go and prepare, lest this guy come to the crew every day to visit the class, like a "life-urging ghost".
After seeing off John Woo, Wang Xiaohu immediately turned into a "life-urging ghost" and boarded a luxury cruise ship moored in Victoria Harbor on a speedboat.
When he walked into the entertainment center of the oil tanker, he saw Donnie Yen chatting with Schwarzenegger and a few Hollywood stars, and immediately picked up the director's microphone and shouted: "Lao Tzu invited you to the oil tanker not to talk about fart, hurry up and prepare for filming." β
You must know that this luxury oil tanker was leased by Wang Xiaohu from the ship king Bao Yugang for filming, although Bao Yugang does not need to pay for leasing, but Wang Xiaohu does not want to take advantage of Lao Bao, after all, other people's cruise ships cannot be used for filming for themselves every day, which is very popular!
For this, Wang Xiaohu also has to put the words "Thank you Hong Kong Environmental Transport Group" at the end of "Ip Man 2" to provide luxury cruises for free, which is a product placement!
Everyone was frightened by Wang Xiaohu's loud voice, and hurried to the dressing room to change costumes, and prop masters, lighting engineers, recording studios, and photographers also set up the scene with their hands and feet.
The boxing king in "Ip Man 2" must have the aura of a boxing king, and it must not be just knocking down Hong Zhennan, the master of Hong Boxing, to prove that the boxing king is very powerful.
In order to show the power of the boxing king, Wang Xiaohu added two matches in the middle, namely Donnie Yen and one of the foreign boxers, which was easily handled by the foreigner boxer, and then the foreigner boxer fought with the boxing king, and was handled by the boxing king.
In such a comparison, the strength of the boxing king is more obvious, after watching it, the audience knows that this foreign devil is very good, and it is not something that ordinary people can defeat, and when Hong Zhennan is knocked down by the boxing king again, the audience will be worried about Ip Man and the boxing king.
When filming Donnie Yen boxing with a Hollywood star (too lazy to check the information) boxing, Donnie Yen's Wing Chun has a foundation of more than three years, and the Hollywood star also has a nose and eyes, although connoisseurs can see at a glance that his boxing is very rudimentary, but people are also Hollywood stars, and if they can't do it, they use their acting skills to make up for it, and after shooting it three times, the lens effect that came out made Wang Xiaohu very satisfied.
Wang Xiaohu handed Donnie Yen a towel when he walked down from the ring, and instructed: "Daniel, your scene is almost finished, go to John Woo tomorrow to finish "Seraph", and then come over to make up the scene of the final battle of "Ip Man 2". β
Donnie Yen snorted, took the towel and wiped the sweat vigorously and said, "Master, I know." β
"Go and rest!" Wang Xiaohu patted his lover on the shoulder, and then picked up the directing microphone to continue to arrange the next shooting scene
In the course of the normal shooting, the muscular man wore a boxing king robe and a gold belt at his waist and crotch rushed into the ring, knocking out the Hollywood star with only three punches, and then he raised his fists high and looked around the audience like a ring hegemon.
"Man, is this the boxing champion you trained? Fair! Wang Xiaohu pursed his lips and complained to Ali, the boxing champion next to him.
"Tiger, I've done my best, you should know that Arnold is Mr. Bodybuilder, his muscles have been set, and he has long missed the best age to practice boxing." Ali said aggrievedly.
Wang Xiaohu did not object to this, don't look at Schwarzenegger's muscular mass is very strong, maybe his fist is also very powerful, but it is not as explosive as a boxer of the same level.
"Hey!" Wang Xiaohu sighed, there is such an embarrassing situation for martial arts action actors, either they fight for their skills or their acting skills, you see that the Hollywood star just now is not skilled, and people still have acting skills to support it, poor big man Schwarzenegger currently has no acting skills, and he has no skills.
"Maybe that's the biggest difference between Hong Kong action movies and Hollywood action movies." Wang Xiaohu said: "Kung fu movies and action movies still have to watch Hong Kong, and foreign devils can only fight for muscles, but they can't make real moves." β
Yuan Heping saw that Wang Xiaohu didn't seem to be very satisfied, so he quietly walked over and asked, "Ah Hu, do you want to reshoot?" β
"No need to reshoot." Wang Xiaohu shook his head and said: "Actually, this is better, Arnold's muscles just illustrate the boxing champion's ability to resist hits, and there is also a good basis for us to blow up the shortcomings of Chinese martial arts." β
Yuan Heping nodded thoughtfully and stopped talking, and returned to the ring to be the on-site executive director.
After a day's shooting, Wang Xiaohu felt more tired than participating on stage, and after returning home, he lay in the bathtub and soaked for a long time before he came out lazily.
Zhao Yazhi was cooking in the kitchen, and Wang Xiaohu was sitting on the sofa with his son watching TV.
Suddenly, a piece of news on TV caught Wang Xiaohu's attention.
"After three days and overnight police investigations, the kidnapped Hong Kong Chinachem real estate tycoon was finally rescued safely."
Someone kidnapped Wang Dehui?
In fact, Wang Xiaohu didn't know Wang Dehui, but he knew his wife Gong Ruxin.
Nina Gong is ranked 50th among the richest women in the world, and she is also the richest woman in the United Kingdom, with more than five times her fortune as Queen Elizabeth II.
When Wang Xiaohu was surprised, the host had already begun to report in detail the details of the kidnapping case.
According to the police, Wang Dehui, who has always kept a low profile, and his wife Gong Nina were kidnapped by several bandits armed with knives and guns on April 19 on their way to work at the Pak Lok Trail on the top of the mountain. The bandits put Wang Dehui in a large refrigerator and transported him back to the bandits' den, released Gong Nina home, asked her to prepare a huge sum of 100 million US dollars to ransom people, and threatened Gong Nina not to call the police, otherwise he would tear up the ticket"
"Due to the careful planning of the kidnappers and the intricacy of the case, the senior superintendent who solved the case said that if it were not for the kidnappers' mistakes in several important mitigations, it might not have been solved, and the police once again reminded the general public to take the necessary safety measures."
After listening to the news, Wang Xiaohu felt that something was very strange, if he remembered correctly, Jackie Chan's "Serious Crime Team" seems to be related to the kidnapping case of a rich man, maybe it is based on Wang Dehui.
(To be continued)