541. The Ministry of Culture attaches great importance to it
Zhao Yazhi has a big complaint about Li Guohao going to the United States, and Li Guohao was taken back to Hong Kong by Huang Chunliang after participating in the Yueben Wushu Invitational Tournament and winning the junior championship last year. [No pop-up novel network]
At the same time, Huang Chunliang lobbied Wang Xiaohu, saying that Guohao's study in Hong Kong had come to an end, after all, he was an American and should return to the United States for development, and in order to make Wang Xiaohu agree, Huang Chunliang even invited Linda to come out.
Wang Xiaohu was resolutely opposed at first, after all, Li Guohao's absence made him feel very uneasy, he knew that Li Guohao died very strangely in his previous life, and he was afraid that someone was playing behind the scenes, maybe it was the same group of people who killed Brother Xiaolong.
But Wang Xiaohu couldn't refuse Linda's request as a mother, he couldn't trap Li Guohao in Hong Kong for the rest of his life without reuniting with his mother, so he struggled for several days, until Huang Chunliang said that he went to the United States with Li Guohao, Wang Xiaohu reluctantly agreed.
As for why Wong Chun-leung went to the United States, his reason was to promote Wing Chun culture in the United States. Wang Xiaohu is convinced of this, and he knows that the reason why Wing Chun can be carried forward all over the world is that in addition to Bruce Lee's influence in the international field, Wong Chun Leung and Liang Ting are the biggest contributors.
Li Guohao is gone, the saddest thing is Zhao Yazhi, for which she secretly cried several times, after all, she has raised Li Guohao as her own son in the past few years, Li Guohao promised to take advantage of the summer or winter vacation to visit relatives in Hong Kong every year. usually writes letters to his family to report his situation in the United States, which makes Zhao Yazhi feel at ease
After the male and female lead actors of "Myth" are finalized, all that remains is the choice of supporting roles.
This time, Wang Xiaohu did not waste brain cells, and first made a choice within the Concord Company.
Professor Gu's character requires him to enter middle age, and his appearance must look very gentlemanly and knowledgeable, after all, he is a big villain, he is selected and chosen, Wang Xiaohu was finally handed over to Yuan Hua, who let the second senior brother play the role of a villain in these years, he has become a famous villain king in Hong Kong.
Because there are too many discrepancies between the revised script and the original version of "Myth", some actors will not appear in Wang Xiaohu's version, such as William played by the original Leung Ka-fai, the poor guy who was kept in the dark by Professor Gu.
The personnel of the Meng Jiajun in the original version are relatively vague, and the only one who has given a lot of scenes is Nangong Yan played by Shao Bing, but this role has caused dissatisfaction among many audiences, including Wang Xiaohu. Because this role is too thunderous, Ya actually took the elixir of life with the princess, and stayed in the underground palace for two thousand years, what are the two immortal people doing in the underground palace, how to pass the time? Isn't this obviously making the audience think crookedly?
Therefore, Wang Xiaohu did not plan to let General Nangong eat the elixir, but arranged for him to be ambushed on the way to escort the elixir, and to send the medicine to Qin Shi Huang with his injured body before burping, so as to avoid the scene of thunder in the future.
For this character, Wang Xiaohu feels that it is more suitable to let Jackie Chan come, after all, how to say that people were also the starring role of "Myth" in their previous life, Wang Xiaohu robbed other people's ideas and scripts, and also robbed other people's leading actors, I already feel sorry for Jackie Chan, so let Jackie Chan play General Nangong, which can be regarded as making up for it.
In addition, Wang Xiaohu also asked Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui, Yuan De, Yuan Wu and others in the Seven Little Blessings to play the role of the Meng Jiajun, these people will have a lot of shots on the battlefield, mainly writing the bloody pictures of the generals of the Qin Dynasty who would rather die than give in, so that their brothers can show their faces more in the mainland, and it will be easier to enter the mainland for development in the future, right?
Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, Qin Shihuang and others did not appear much, just a few simple scenes, so Wang Xiaohu did not include these three in the list of actors, but asked the mainland to choose suitable candidates.
After all this is done, it is already May, and it has been half a month since the mainland side reviewed the script.
Although Wang Xiaohu was anxious, he also arranged all the work progress in an orderly manner on the surface.
At more than 11 o'clock in the evening at the end of May, Wang Xiaohu received an urgent call from Zhao Gang, and as soon as the phone was connected, Zhao Gang's loud voice came: "Mr. Wang, great joy!" The script of "Mythology" has been approved by the Ministry of Culture, thanks to your detailed explanation, Minister Huang Zhen of the Ministry of Culture said that this movie coincides with the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang who are now in full swing in our country, and he has given high praise to your script, and the military war part is also very good at promoting the image of ancient soldiers in our country. ”
"The script passed?" Wang Xiaohu's voice was extremely loud, it was finally passed, if he didn't pass again, Lao Tzu would have to hit the wall!
"Yes, it's passed, haha, Mr. Wang, I'll tell you a little secret, you must not spread it around." Zhao Gang was also happy for Wang Xiaohu, and whispered on the phone: "Our country plans to adjust and strengthen the current army, after all, the morale and combat effectiveness of the army have been greatly weakened in the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, and this time you have a good opportunity again, haha!" ”
"Uh, what do you mean, it seems that my hiring of the military to cooperate has also passed?"
"That's not what's wrong, and ah, this time the army is all free, and you don't have to pay extra money." Zhao Gang laughed and said: "This is the decision from above, after all, you spent a lot of money last time you came to China to make a movie, and the above can't treat you badly, right?" ”
"Yo, thank you for the thoughtfulness of the leaders above!" Wang Xiaohu was in a good mood when he heard this, whoever encounters such a good thing will be happy, that is a thousand eight soldiers, their amount of food Wang Xiaohu has been taught, two years ago when filming "Shocking", those PLA soldiers ate a meal to the food of three ordinary people, think about their amazing amount of food, Wang Xiaohu has a headache, this cost can be saved, the cost of "Myth" will be reduced a lot again.
In order to better shoot this film, the Ministry of Culture held a special meeting this evening, and planned to send history professors from Peking University and Tsinghua University, and experts currently in charge of terracotta archaeology to help the crew shoot. Now that these people have taken the script, they have done a detailed study of your doubts, and I believe that when you arrive, these problems will be solved. ”
Zhao Gang's words greatly encouraged Wang Xiaohu, while explaining the script, Wang Xiaohu put forward a few points that he couldn't grasp, such as the costumes and props of the Qin Dynasty, since he wanted to shoot this movie seriously, these things need to be understood, and Hong Kong's research on this aspect is not very in-depth, Wang Xiaohu can only ask the country to help.
I didn't expect the Ministry of Culture to attach so much importance to it this time, and even sent history professors from Tsinghua University and Peking University to the horse, I believe that with their help, there will not be too many mistakes in this play, these things seem to be details, but you can see Wang Xiaohu's carefulness and meticulousness.
"I finally lived up to your hopes, otherwise I wouldn't have known what to tell you." After finishing his business, Zhao Gang asked in a softened tone.
"If you can handle it over there, I can breathe a sigh of relief, you don't know how I've been suffering for the past month, for fear that the leaders of the Ministry of Culture will not give approval." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile, in fact, his words are also compliments, he is very sure that the mainland will pass the review, otherwise he would not have bothered to explain so many scripts, although "Myth" is not the main theme, but it hides the meaning of this aspect.
"Look at what you said, Minister Huang Zhen of the Ministry of Culture has already seen your "Earth-shattering", and is very interested in your skills in promoting Chinese culture, especially Chinese people, so you have another task this time, which is to train domestic screenwriters."
"Well, I'll do my best whenever I can." Wang Xiaohu said perfunctorily, saying that as long as the movie starts, he will be busy flying all over the set all day long, who will care about this training.
"What's good, now let's enter the last part of the call, when do you plan to enter the mainland for filming?"
"It's the end of May, so let's do it, I raised the issue of setting up several scenes in the film, because this time the investment is relatively large, and my crew can't go over at once, so I decided to go to the mainland to inspect the venue first, and then decide how to enter the filming." Wang Xiaohu said after thinking about it.
There are many crew members of "Myth", twice as many as the last filming of "Earthbreaking", hundreds of people directly entered the mainland like this, if the set of the mainland is not set up, the salaries and food expenses of the personnel every day are not a small amount, Wang Xiaohu will not be stupid enough to lead the team to set up the set, so the most rational way is to bring a few people over, first inspect the terrain, meet with those old professors, and discuss how to shoot in the future.
In addition, Wang Xiaohu has another layer of consideration, since the mainland has been released, he must consider the post-production special effects of "Myth", although the proportion of special effects in the film is not much, it is indeed the most finishing touch, and the special effects lens is the most time-wasting work, and his plan is to carry out it simultaneously.
That is, when he went to the mainland to shoot, Hong Kong also started special effects production, so that after the mainland filming is completed, the special effects set is also close to perfect, and the double line can save a lot of time and cost.
suffered a big loss last time, and this time Wang Xiaohu can't tolerate a little sloppiness.
"Okay, call me when you come back, I'll go to Guangdong to pick you up, brothers can wait to drink with you!" Zhao Gang laughed loudly-
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(To be continued)