When Wang Xiaohu determined the filming plan of "Hong Xiguan's New Shaolin Five Ancestors", he was thinking about involving the two senior brothers Yuan Kui and Yuan De in the whole process, because in his previous life, when he studied the history of the development of martial arts action films, he paid special attention to the situation of these two senior brothers, and the most impressive moment for him was that these two behind-the-scenes heroes gained a firm foothold in the field of the Academy Awards with the rise of Jet Li. [Full text reading]

"Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu", "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", "Rat Guts", "Letter to Dad", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard" and other films designed a series of wonderful action scenes, Jet Li's distinctive shape, chic appearance, quiet as a virgin, moving like a rabbit Athletic hands all reflect the hard work of the Yuan Kui brothers, thus making the two of them unique in Hong Kong's martial arts instruction, their own faction.

In terms of the action scenes designed by "Kung Fu Emperor Fang Shiyu" alone, Jet Li and Hu Huizhong are watching the heads of the lively crowd compete to show their chic posture, while the fight between Zhao Wenzhuo and Jet Li in the low mezzanine in the prison is flickering but winning with dexterity.

Coupled with the confrontation between Li and Zhao in the dyeing workshop, the long stick to the short stick - this ingenious contrast between high and low, short and long is really dazzling and breathtaking, Yuan Kui and Yuan De won the Best Martial Arts Instructor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards that year with this film.

Since the cooperation between these two brothers is so amazing, Wang Xiaohu will naturally not give up this best opportunity, and more importantly, he wants the two brothers to contact Jet Li as soon as possible, so that they can determine the future martial arts coaching style.

Just like the real fighting style he designed for Bruce Lee, every martial arts instructor must have his own style if he wants to mix well in the circle, and the style of the martial arts instructor determines the viewing surname of the martial arts action to a certain extent, and it is also directly linked to the box office.

Among the two brothers, Yuan Kui's achievements are far better than Yuan De.

Yuan Kui and Jet Li later collaborated in Hollywood on "Romeo Must Die" and "Savior." His action directing style was accepted by Hollywood, and he later filmed Luc. "The Extraordinary Traffickers" produced by Besson. His directorial fame is far greater than his fame as a martial arts actor, "Fang Shiyu", "Comic Weilong", "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", "Gambling Saint", "Dragon's Kiss", "New Jingwumen" (Stephen Chow version) and dozens of other movies are directed by him, but as one of the Seven Little Blessings, his martial arts are real, which may be what makes him more outstanding. Yuan Kui is a low-key person, a doer who talks less and does more, and buries himself in work. He was the one who cut all the pieces of wool and let the musician score the music for him. In Hong Kong, this is a rare figure that is unique in ten thousand.

Yuan Kui and Yuan De are not like Yuan Bin, Yuan Bin has already followed Cheng Gang (Cheng Xiaodong's father) to start working the Shaw Brothers set three years ago.

In fact, Yuan Bin's development prospects are also good, he and Ma Yucheng jointly became Cheng Xiaodong's deputy, assisting him to design many classic action scenes for martial arts films such as "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Oriental Undefeated", "New Deer and Ding Ji", etc., so he was deeply appreciated by Tsui Hark, and Yuan Bin made great efforts to dismantle martial arts moves, so the realistic surname is very strong, but unfortunately sometimes I want to learn Cheng Xiaodong's whimsy, and the result is inevitably self-defeating, which is very prominent in "The Wind of the Four Kings of Huang Feihong" and "Huang Feihong's Five Dragon City Annihilation" - As for the action scenes that Yuan Bin later directed for many classic gunfight films of "Galaxy Image", although they are wonderful and realistic, they are difficult to play arbitrarily compared to kung fu movies.

Through these, you can see that in addition to the Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuan Biao, Yuan Hua and other brothers in front of the stage, several brothers behind the scenes are still developing in the field of martial arts instruction, they have either become the leaders of the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards, or through the springboard of Hong Kong movies in Hollywood, the Seven Little Blessings have made immeasurable contributions to the development of Hong Kong films, especially martial arts action films.

And "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" is precisely the classic work of Yuan Kui and Yuan De's first cooperation, taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Xiaohu has to train the two senior brothers, after all, the limelight can't always be occupied by himself, sometimes enjoy the fun of being a director and actor, and it is not necessarily a bad thing for the senior brothers to try it too.

"What is the position of an action director?" Yuan De and Yuan Kui looked at Wang Xiaohu together. Yuan De said: "I only know that there are directors and martial arts instructors, when will there be action directors?" ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled, "Action director is not something anyone can call. This position requires martial arts instructor Reading Li to direct more than ten films, which is the promotion of martial arts instructor to director, of course, it can't be said that a martial arts action film is divided into two parts: literary drama and martial arts, you may also have noticed when we filmed "Ip Man" and "Ah Hu", I filmed separately, and then combined literary drama and martial arts. ”

"And what I'm going to try this time is that the director of the literary and opera part will do it, of course, the director of this movie is me, the action design part is completed by the two senior brothers, and the connection of the literary and martial arts is handed over to the action director and the director to improve in the later stage, in the movie "Hong Xiguan", I am both the director and the action director."

The new term action director not only makes Yuan De and Yuan Kui feel fresh, even if you look at the entire Hong Kong film industry, I am afraid that no one has any impression of action directors.

As Wang Xiaohu just explained, the future of martial arts action films is divided into two categories: director and action director, the director is responsible for the drama part, the action director is responsible for the martial arts part, and the action director is under the martial arts director and deputy martial arts director.

This is the inevitable way for the development of Hong Kong martial arts action movies in the future, Wang Xiaohu put it forward at this time, just to instill the concept of the two senior brothers, the specific situation may not be able to understand for a while, but I believe that after the filming of "Hong Xiguan" is completed, they will understand this process.

Let the two senior brothers mature as soon as possible, let them get along with Jet Li, and contribute to the development of movies in the future.

Wang Xiaohu's words made the two brothers fall into deep thought, obviously, it was the first time they heard these concepts from Wang Xiaohu in the past few years, a long time ago, Wang Xiaohu just told them how to design good-looking movements, design logical and camera sense of tricks, but today Wang Xiaohu specially asked them to come out and say this, so that the two brothers thought of something at once.

"Ah Hu, you, you don't want to put the two of us on the throne, do you?" Yuan Kui blinked vigorously and asked, after all, they have been accustomed to the actions designed by Wang Xiaohu, Sammo Hung, and Yuan Heping for many years, and they helped on the side and made cameo roles or villains, and when they suddenly heard this, they really didn't dare to take responsibility.

"That's right!" Wang Xiaohu nodded, smiled and said to the two senior brothers who were a little dazed: "Through my observation, I found that the two senior brothers have cooperated very well in the past few years, I believe that if you are promoted to martial arts instructor, this tacit cooperation will collide with new sparks, since there is such a good opportunity, why not give it a try?" ”

"Huh." Yuan De said with a wry smile: "The most popular thing about your movie and the most attractive to the audience is the martial arts action design, and the audience has always been accustomed to your style characteristics, isn't it a bit nondescript to replace us?" Besides, if you don't do it, you will really smash the company's signboard! ”

"Ade is right, and you have filmed the early Republic of China or fashion films before, and the audience's image of you has been frozen, this time it is a costume martial arts, if we design the action during the transformation"

Yuan Kui also said worriedly, indeed, Yuan Kui's worries are very reasonable, Wang Xiaohu will shoot a movie interview every year, and each movie will be the first of the top ten grossing films of the year, this depends on the continued style of "Righteous Hero" launched when he and Bruce Lee cooperated, and the subsequent "Ip Man" will carry forward this real style, and even sensational to the extreme, last year's work "A Hu" is leading the trend of urban fashion dramas, and each of Wang Xiaohu's works is a new style and new trend.

The current "Hong Xiguan's New Shaolin Five Ancestors" is a costume martial arts film, everyone knows that Wang Xiaohu has not filmed a martial arts film, and there are two works about Hong Xiguan this year, one is "Shaolin Five Ancestors" directed by Zhang Cheda, and the other is "Hong Xiguan", the founder of Hong Quan in Liu Jialiang for a few years, Wang Xiaohu's film is sandwiched between these two major costume martial arts movies, and the pressure of remake is self-evident!

"Hey, let's put it that way!" Wang Xiaohu also noticed what the two senior brothers were worried about, he pursed his lips and smiled and continued: "You design the action, I will review, if the action you design is not satisfactory to me, then I will personally design, as long as the action you design meets the style requirements of the film, how about you keep it until the filming is completed?" ”

"Take 10,000 steps back, the martial arts instructor of each movie needs the help of two deputy martial arts instructors, not to mention that I, the first action director in Hong Kong, need two martial arts instructors to help, isn't it too much?"

Wang Xiaohu's words have already come to this point, Yuan Kui and Yuan De have nothing to say, and it will be too uninteresting to shirk it again, and Ah Hu uses such a key film to promote himself and point himself, if he is not angry, I am really sorry for Ah Hu's hard work in directing in the past five years.

"Ah Hu, we know you're helping us." Yuan Kui said excitedly: "Don't worry, Ade and I are out this time, we can do whatever you say, even if our brothers go into battle in person as stand-ins!" ”

Wang Xiaohu finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, everyone knows that these two are well-known behind-the-scenes gold medal action directors, but these are all things in the future, and now their self-confidence is not enough, and this ideological work is hard to do! But fortunately, as long as they are willing to agree, the rest of the work will be much easier!

ps: Tonight is still a tragic overtime shift, the first time I made a promise failed to fulfill, please be considerate of Xiaomi's difficulties. There's only one chapter tonight, hey!

(To be continued)