605 "Shaolin Temple" is launched

Wang Xiaohu and Jet Li showed almost all the essentials of marksmanship in the 3-minute gun fight. [No pop-up novel network]

From beginning to end, Wang Xiaohu used Xingyi [***] marksmanship, and occasionally took into account the fact that the surname played a few gun flowers, Xiong Xinxin, Ji Chunhua, Hu Jianqiang and others only felt that the gun flowers he played were fundamentally different from Jet Li, but they couldn't figure out the key.

Only Yu Hai and Yu Chenghui looked carefully: Wang Xiaohu pressed the tail of the spear with his back hand and stuck it on the ribs, and the spear flower that shook out was not only by the strength of his arms, but with his waist strength and arm strength to attack smoothly at the same time, and he could still maintain "holding the gun four flat" when attacking, at first he could only see the gun trembling slightly, but when it came to the head of the gun, the arc drawn out of the gun head was getting bigger and bigger, which was obviously a sign of strength.

The same offensive and defensive actions, under the joint efforts of Wang Xiaohu and Jet Li, are more lethal than these martial arts champions, more rhythmic, and more ornamental!

The two of them were already standing with guns in the field, Wang Xiaohu was smiling, Jet Li was sweating, even if it was November at this time, he felt hot all over, and there had been no sparring between masters for a long time.

In the past year or so, Wang Xiaohu has either been in the mainland or busy in the United States, and rarely fed Jet Li as he did in the first three years, in fact, since Jet Li officially entered martial arts practice from martial arts performances, Wang Xiaohu no longer pointed out Jet Li too much, because Jet Li has a good foundation, and many places can be figured out with just one click, and the rest is to train hard and reorganize the force system formed in the early years.

Don't look at the reason so simple, it is indeed extremely difficult to practice, just like a person who is used to eating with his right hand, you let him use his left hand to eat at first glance, it is quite unaccustomed and unadaptable, fortunately, Jet Li has that kind of perseverance and understands what he is pursuing.

"That's the basic difference between a stage show and a film." Wang Xiaohu threw the spear to Jet Li, paced back and forth in the arena with his hands behind his back, and said slowly: "Maybe everyone used to be used to the standard movements stipulated in various martial arts competitions, but if these equipment and fist dismantling are copied to the screen, there is only one result: the audience looks fake!" ”

"Of course, this is dazzling enough for ordinary people, and for me there is still a big gap."

Wang Xiaohu smiled, his eyes swept over the faces of Xiong Xinxin, Hu Jianqiang, Sun Jiankui, Ji Chunhua and others, and then said: "Starting from today, we will conduct a month-long intensive training, and at the same time we will shoot several sets of shots near the Yellow River, so that everyone can find the feeling of filming." ”

"Director, how long will we have to shoot this drama?" Xiong Xinxin asked.

"If it's fast, it's two months, if it's slow, hum, half a year is short." Wang Xiaohu smiled and said to them: "I know that you are all top-notch personnel in the provincial teams, if you don't want to delay your participation in the martial arts competition next year, then work hard, otherwise I won't let you go." ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately lost their temper, they really wanted to make movies, but their foundation is in the martial arts teams, and it is their job to represent the provinces and win the championship in the national martial arts competition.

However, Wang Xiaohu's next sentence made everyone's hearts happy.

"I understand your feelings, I am afraid that I will not be paid if I delay the competition, so at the beginning, I signed a contract with the coach of each of your teams." Wang Xiaohu asked Yu Hai and Yu Chenghui to come over to testify.

"That's right." Yu Hai nodded and said: "In this contract, in addition to giving each martial arts team a fee ranging from 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan according to the standard, there is also a living allowance of 100 to 200 yuan per person per day for the athletes participating in the actual shooting, and the sports team will not take everyone's living allowance." ”

"Really!" Xiong Xinxin was happy when she heard it, and so did the others.

Because at the beginning, each martial arts team had to draw the athlete's commission, for example, the contract signed was to shoot for two months, and the Concord Company paid each martial arts team according to the standard of 10,000 yuan per person, of which the athlete's salary was one dollar per day, and after two months of shooting, it was 60 yuan, and the remaining 9,940 yuan was all owned by the martial arts team.

Now, the Concord Company will also subsidize the athletes at least 100 yuan per day, which is 6,000 yuan in two months, and 6,000 yuan is a huge amount of money for everyone! Whoever listens is not happy, who is not excited.

"Since Mr. Wang has given everyone such a good treatment, I also hope that everyone can show the spirit of training in the martial arts team and fully cooperate with the filming of "Shaolin Temple". Yu Chenghui said loudly: "Is there any determination? ”

"Yes!"

Ma Wuye grass is not fat, under Wang Xiaohu's consideration for everyone, the enthusiasm of more than 50 bald heads is unprecedentedly high.

"In the past few days, everyone's task is to familiarize themselves with the script first, because considering that it is the first time for everyone to participate in a film performance, the company will shoot a few teachers to conduct the most basic training for everyone, so that everyone can understand the whole relief of filming and how to bury it"

Wang Xiaohu also told you about some preparations and precautions before starting, after all, in the past seven years, Concord has always implemented the glorious tradition of training first and then starting, and only in this way can we ensure that every movie produced by Concord is a high-quality product.

Subsequently, Zhang Yuan, Li Hanwei, Wan Hanfei, Luo Jianhua and other employees of Concord cultivated by Wang Xiaohu took the training materials they prepared and went to the athletes to pair up for training.

"Director, what should I do?"

Everyone went to work, but Ding Lan was lonely and no one received her, which made the little girl a little worried.

"You" Wang Xiaohu scratched his head and said, "You should have some acting foundation, right?" ”

Ding Lan nodded and said, "Well, but I don't know martial arts." ”

Wang Xiaohu thought about it, Ding Lan is the only woman in "Shaolin Temple", and the shepherdess she plays is a highlight in the film, not only beautiful but also with a kind heart.

However, from the perspective of a reborn person like Wang Xiaohu, Bai Wufang played by Ding Lan is a bit old-fashioned!

You see, Ding Lan in front of her looks very young without makeup, but if she is given makeup according to the requirements of the original version and has that kind of hairstyle, she will be the same as a twenty-four or five-year girl.

So after Wang Xiaohu saw Ding Lan, the first thing he considered was not how to make her a "kung fu girl", but how to make her hairstyle and clothes younger.

"Costume artists, makeup artists, come here." Wang Xiaohu shouted, and then two professional costume artists and makeup artists from Concord Company immediately arrived.

"Oh, this is Ding Lan, the heroine of this film, you take him to put on makeup first, remember, whether it is clothing or makeup, it should not be too mature and Taigang, what I want is pure, young, and in line with the aesthetic views of mainlanders."

The costume artist said that it was a big deal to change the costumes one by one, but the makeup artist frowned and looked at Ding Lan carefully, why? Because he has been applying makeup in Concord all the year round to consider the aesthetic views of Hong Kong and Taiwan audiences, as for the aesthetic views of mainland audiences mentioned by Brother Hu, he really can't understand it.

"What's going on?" Wang Xiaohu saw that the makeup artist had not moved for a long time, so he asked, "Difficult?" ”

"Brother Hu, I feel that Miss Ding Lan is very beautiful without makeup, how about I give her a haircut?" The makeup artist hesitated.

"Whatever you want, as long as you meet the requirements." Wang Xiaohu is not an expert in this regard, and waved his hand to let the two of them toss casually

Compared with the original "Shaolin Temple", Wang Xiaohu has made the biggest changes in several aspects.

First of all, of course, the martial arts action, not only requires real, but also more realistic, which is why Wang Xiaohu has repeatedly emphasized the difference between competition performance and movie performance, he not only let the actors play completely and smoothly according to the designed movements, but also require them to carry out secondary sublimation in terms of momentum and expression.

According to Wang Xiaohu's overall requirements, except for the last scene on the Yellow River ferry, which needs to borrow a trampoline, the other fighting scenes cannot even borrow a Weiya, and all the actors are required to work hard.

Wang Xiaohu feels that since these actors in his previous life could shoot the classic "Shaolin Temple" in the hands of Zhang Xinyan, who is not a professional in kung fu films, then in his hands, they will definitely be able to shoot more brilliant actions.

The second change is the costumes, props, and sets, continuing the several costume units used in the filming of "Myth", Wang Xiaohu asked them to rush out several batches of costumes from the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, and each actor has at least two sets of replacements, which can be said to be absolutely bright in terms of costumes, bright colors, very formal and standard.

Here I have to mention those garment factories, since they received the order of "Mythology", several factory directors discussed afterwards, and felt that their business development direction could be comprehensively adjusted, such as cooperating with major film studios, customizing their costumes, etc., which also requires the designers in the garment factory to have a deep historical professional surname, for which they recruited students and professors from various historical dynasties from major schools to sit in town, and created a new business experience.

The third point is somewhat depressing, Wang Xiaohu wants to make "Shaolin Temple" the kind of movie that is higher than the action, to put it bluntly, the martial arts action is the auxiliary, and the Zen Zen of the Shaolin Temple is expressed, this great ambition originally fell on the abbot and the monk, who knows that the Ministry of Culture said that this is not good.

Why is it bad? The Ministry of Culture did not explain it, and Wang Xiaohu didn't bother to ask, so the plan was cut by "Radio and Television".

For a week in a row, the entire "Shaolin Temple" crew was busy with the rehearsal work before the start-up, and Yuan Kui, who symbolized his surname, designed several sets of thrilling actions for "The Mysterious Buddha", hurried back to Henan, and began to teach Ding Lan how to become a "kung fu master".

Of course, Yuan Kui will not borrow any stunts to make Ding Lan quickly, but start from the basic work, as long as Ding Lan completes the established movements, fortunately, Ding Lan has some dance foundation since he was a child, and the movements designed by Yuan Kui can basically be easily made by Ding Lan.

Wang Xiaohu took a general look at the "long whip" action designed by Yuan Kui for Ding Lan, and on the whole, it is still very camera-sensitive, especially in terms of rhythm, it definitely has Yuan Kui's label, that is, fast and fast!

"How long will it take to complete the renovation of the Shaolin Temple?"

At lunchtime, Wang Xiaohu said to Zhao Gang.

"It will take about half a month."

Zhao Gang pondered for a while and said, after all, this repair work is not only to remove the wild grass in front of the mountain gate, in fact, after entering the winter, those wild grass has withered, and there is basically no need to clean it up.

At present, the main work is to restore the "original appearance" of Shaolin Temple, at least to ensure the normal filming of "Shaolin Temple".

"You know, it's not a matter of painting the columns and changing a few tiles for the roof, those murals were damaged to varying degrees during the Cultural Revolution, and since the state allocated funds to repair them, Henan definitely wants to repair them all at once."

Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly when he heard this. He knew that the renovation of the Shaolin Temple was not a work completed by a surname, as if in his previous life he had heard that the Shaolin host had a visit to the Shaolin Temple in a certain time, and found that the Shaolin Temple had a clear picture of the original appearance of the Shaolin Temple in China, which clearly drew the overall layout of the Shaolin Temple during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and the Shaolin Temple that existed in reality turned out to be a fake.

The mountain is still Shaolin Mountain, the temple is still Shaolin Temple, but after the ups and downs of the dynasties, the Shaolin Temple was burned and rebuilt, rebuilt and burned, the monks of the past dynasties are not as good as the monks who know how to protect the cultural relics, in the end, the Shaolin monks also have to take back the original layout from the book, and after research, it was decided to overhaul the pictures preserved in Shaolin

Isn't that a tragedy?

Wang Xiaohu didn't bother to explain this, although the monks on the mountain tossed it, anyway, it wasn't Lao Tzu's investment, and even if it was invested, what was the benefit?

Wang Xiaohu just used the culture of Shaolin Temple to shoot a movie, thinking of the Shaolin Temple in his previous life, which was full of copper smell and dignified commercial atmosphere, he sighed with emotion, in a few years, he would have to have a master's degree to be a monk!

After thinking about it, Wang Xiaohu said: "In this case, we will leave for the Yellow River crossing tomorrow, and we can't delay it any longer, now the weather is getting colder and colder, if it snows, then we can't shoot this film." ”

Zhao Gang nodded, and after taking two mouthfuls of food, he took out a cigarette and lit it: "I'll arrange the car." ”

On November 10, 1980, the main actors of the "Shaolin Temple" crew set off from the temporary crew at the foot of Shaolin Mountain and rushed to the Yellow River Ferry, where Wang Xiaohu held a simple start-up ceremony, and then took a loudspeaker and began to show all the filming machinery in place, and urged the actors to hurry to the temporary tent to change their costumes.

Standing on the wooden boat borrowed for filming, Wang Xiaohu's clothes fluttered in the wind blowing on the bank of the Yellow River.

"Attention from all departments"

(To be continued)