586 "Shanghai Tang" four major starring
Gu Zhaofeng's positive surname is still very high, and he told a few of his friends that Wang Xiaohu was going to invest in the filming of "Shanghai Tang" that night. 【】
Among them is Chen Qiaoying, who has just come to work at TVB, who is currently working at TVB, working as a screenwriter for the sketch of the comprehensive program "Happy Tonight", and lives in the same dormitory as Koo Zhaofeng.
Liang Jianzhang, Liang Yonghua, Liang Yongmei, Chen Lihua and Koo Zhaofeng are usually good colleagues, and they are also good players in TVB's screenwriting circle, and they also promised to help Gu Zhaofeng complete the creation of the script.
So the six of them discussed the plot all night, and the six of them had discussed it before, but they were all some details, and many things couldn't grasp the idea, for example, they were seriously affected by Wang Xiaohu's "Righteous Heroes Bravely Entering the Beach" that year, and focused the story on the vendetta of the rivers and lakes, almost wrote Feng Jingyao's daughter Feng Chengcheng as a deaf and mute, and even wrote Feng Jingyao, a Shanghai tycoon, as a strong martial arts character.
But after Wang Xiaohu's golden finger, the six people suddenly found that the plot had a new interpretation, and things like vendettas in the rivers and lakes were downplayed instead, and the depth of the storyline, from the country and the nation to the emotions of ordinary people, suddenly made the story and the characters more full.
So when the six people came to the Concord Building with a simple salute, everyone had panda eyes.
"It's early." Wang Xiaohu and Zhao Yazhi saw the six of them in the screenwriting conference room on the second floor of the company, and found that they all had dark circles under their eyes and quipped: "I definitely didn't sleep well last night, this is not good, and you will all be behind in the future." ”
Gu Zhaofeng smiled, and the other five people were also smiling, not knowing how to answer, after all, this is the most prestigious Concord editorial conference room in Hong Kong, and the current blockbuster movies produced by Concord are basically released from this conference room, in contrast, the six of them are only TV screenwriters on TVB TV, and the social value generated is very different.
Wang Xiaohu asked Li Shaonan to call all the members of the company's screenwriting team over, and after greeting each other, Wang Xiaohu knocked on the table and said, "Everyone wait, there are still three people who have not been present." ”
A room full of people wondered, and there were three more people, didn't they talk about the script today?
In about five minutes, the door of the conference room was pushed open again, and Chow Yun-fat, Liu Dan, and Lu Liangwei walked in.
"Danye, I'm sorry for you this time!" Wang Xiaohu got up and went over accordingly, held Liu Dan's hand and said.
Liu Dan is the actor of the villain Feng Jingyao in "Shanghai Tang", and the role that really makes Liu Dan a household name is the role of the nine-fingered beggar Hong Qigong in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", he has played the same role in the four dramas of the new and old versions of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" filmed by TVB for more than ten years, which shows the audience's love for the character he created.
It is said that Liu Dan was born as a construction worker at the earliest, but in the late 60s, Hong Kong's construction industry was sluggish, and many people engaged in construction lost their jobs, Liu Dan later became a crew member, and by chance joined the actor training class of Cathay Pacific Company in 1968 and served as an actor after graduation.
In 1970, he officially played the leading role in "Little Apple". In 1971, he switched to Shaw Brothers and participated in many works, such as "Wind and Thunder Magic Mirror" and "Bull Ghost and Snake God". He left Shaw Brothers in 1972 and worked as a voice actor at the same time. Later, he struggled for two years on Jiayi TV, and he was a full old actor.
"Brother Tiger, don't call me that." Liu Dan looked a little excited, he received a call from Qin Pei last night, saying that Wang Xiaohu was looking for him to shoot a TV series, and he was so excited that he didn't sleep well all night, just like Gu Zhaofeng and the others.
After all, in the circle, the three words Wang Xiaohu represent the box office, that is, the hand of God, all the movies or TV series he invests in are produced at the box office and word of mouth, and Liu Dan feels very honored to be named by him to participate in the filming of the new drama.
"Dan Ye is a powerful faction." Zhao Yazhi chuckled and agreed: "Last night, Ah Hu told me that he was going to play against Dan Ye, and I was happy for a long time. ”
"Oh, it's tormenting me, Ah Zhi, you are the acting school, I have watched your "Myth", and the acting skills are great!" Liu Dan's eyes flashed with excitement, he gave Zhao Yazhi a thumbs up, and then said with a smile: "I'm only 10 years older than you, okay, just call me Adan." ”
"Let's call it Brother Dan." Wang Xiaohu said and asked Liu Dan to sit beside him, and then said to Chow Yun-fat and Lu Liangwei: "You two also sit here, Wei Zai, don't be so nervous." ”
Lu Liangwei is not nervous, it is no wonder, as a student who graduated from the sixth TVB training class in 77, he is currently only worthy of playing some inconspicuous small roles in TVB, when Chow Yun-fat came to him, he was stunned, you must know that Zhou Yun found that he was very popular in Hong Kong, and "The Story of Ah Lang" made him a first-line artist in the Hong Kong film and television industry worth more than 500,000.
But after becoming famous, Chow Yun-fat was not satisfied, but followed the advice of his boss Wang Xiaohu and continued to hone his acting skills in various TV series in TVB, and serials such as "North and South of the River" and "Crazy Tide" made his acting skills gradually stand out. During this period, Chow Yun-fa acted in a number of classic dramas such as "Family", "People in the Net" and "Fire Phoenix", which gradually became well-known and made him the first student of TVB.
In fact, not only Chow Yun-fat, but also Stephen Chow, Huang Yuehua, Andy Lau, and Shen Moyan of the New Seven Little Blessings were all stuffed into the artist training class by Wang Xiaohu for formal training. Of course, this is all at the beginning of this year, and the trainees of the 9th session of the wireless artist training course are destined to go down in the history of Hong Kong films.
After everyone sat down, Wang Xiaohu coughed twice, and said under the gaze of everyone: "The purpose of inviting everyone here today is very simple, that is, to determine the script of the first TV series since the establishment of our company. ”
"Shaonan, you should pay attention here, the script of this TV series is mainly based on Gu Zhaofeng and other six people, you do full cooperation, give full play to the advantages of your assembly operations, and when Gu Zhaofeng comes up with the outline of the script, quickly sort out the plot of each episode."
Li Shaonan nodded, glanced at Gu Zhaofeng, he had no doubts about Master's decision, after all, the cooperation over the years let him know that Master's decision was unquestionable, and his main role in Concord was reasonable allocation.
Concord's screenwriting team is notoriously tough in Hong Kong, and no one in this group is more prominent, but each of them has their own strengths, such as being good at fighting plots, handwriting emotional rivalries, and like to be imaginative
Li Shaonan assigned tasks according to each person's strengths, and then he summarized and sorted out, and then handed it to the master for viewing, if the master nodded and passed, the script was directly sent to the director of the satellite company, if the master did not agree, he would leave a comment behind the script, and the group would revise it according to the requirements until Wang Xiaohu passed.
Wang Xiaohu's team was later learned by TVB, and TVB's screenwriting training class was borrowed, obviously, Uncle Shao only applied this method to TV dramas, not movies, otherwise Shaw Brothers Film Company would not have declined.
After separating the main and secondary tasks of the screenwriter, Wang Xiaohu said to the group of people around him: "Fa Zai, Wei Zai, Brother Dan and Ah Zhi, the main task of the four of you is to participate in the creation process of the script, understand your character's surname, and you can also put forward your own opinions for them to improve." ”
Zhao Yazhi, Chow Yun-fat, and Liu Dan are all veteran actors, so they naturally understand the importance of participating in the creation of the crew, in fact, Wang Xiaohu's method is very meaningful, allowing actors to participate in the creation of the script, so that they can grasp the prototype of the characters written by the screenwriters in the first time, which is beneficial to their more perfect interpretation in the shooting.
Especially Zhao Yazhi and Chow Yun-fat, the former's stunning performance in "Myth" is impressive, but except for Wang Xiaohu, few people know the hard work his wife has put into playing the princess.
Chow Yun-fat suffered from Wang Xiaohu's "poisoning" of the first experiment, "Ip Man" almost went crazy and split his personality in order to play the translator Li Zhao well, but fortunately, Wang Xiaohu was correctly guided later. It can be said that both of them are experiential players.
And Liu Dan has his own set of methods, and he doesn't need Wang Xiaohu to worry.
Only Lu Liangwei's acting skills were relatively immature, so Wang Xiaohu also took care of him: "Wei Zai, you study more with Fa Zai." ”
"Oh." Lu Liangwei's eyes showed a light of joy, and he nodded fiercely and said, "Brother Tiger, I will work hard." ”
Such a good opportunity, Lu Liangwei naturally refuses to let it go, his name is in his current embarrassing position, Wang Xiaohu can choose himself to be an actor, if he doesn't work hard, I'm afraid there will never be such a good opportunity again.
"You can't fail, you have to work hard! Can't let Brother Tiger down! Lu Liangwei cheered himself up in his heart.
“ok! It's nine o'clock in the morning, let's start a discussion, and in two and a half hours we will all go to the small restaurant in the cafeteria. ”
After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he walked out of the conference room, and there was a heated discussion in the conference room, and the first to speak was naturally Li Shaonan, who first explained the general process of the Concord screenwriting team, Gu Zhaofeng and others nodded and secretly praised, and only such a team can write a popular script.
After returning to his office, Wang Xiaohu let out a long sigh, resisted the excitement in his heart, and picked up the phone to call Run Run Shaw.
"Hey, Lao Dou, all 7 people on your side are in place, let me tell you, I'll pay the salary here!"
"You kid almost me off, half of the screenwriters in the TV station were borrowed by you, sincerely dismantle my station!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Xiaohu hurriedly made a haha and hung up the phone-
Ahem, there was a bit of a problem with the timing, especially the bugs of "Chu Liuxiang" and "Shanghai Tang", according to historical development, these two TV series have been broadcast a long time ago, but I was busy planning the plot of "Myth" a while ago, which led to forgetting, Khan, to justify myself, as a butterfly effect
(To be continued)