133 Warm-up before the box office war

"As long as you are sincere once" is specially given to Zhao Yazhi by Wang Xiaohu, although he plagiarized other people's songs, but in this era, he even plagiarized the script, let alone a song, so after discussing with Gu Jiahui, he still decided to let Zhao Yazhi sing this song.

In her previous life, Sister Zhi had made a lot of achievements in the film and television industry, so in this life, she will change a little, and increasing her development in different fields can be regarded as an innovation and change.

When I got home, it was already more than one o'clock in the morning, Wang Xiaohu couldn't wait to tell Zhao Yazhi the good news over the phone, Zhao Yazhi was naturally very happy when she heard it, she was excited on the phone for a long time, and kept asking about the recording of songs.

After a short period of snickering at Fa Ge in the restaurant, Wang Xiaohu began to work heavily the next day, and now the film has entered the post-production stage, and many things are very locked. Post-production work is often much more difficult than shooting, and it is often too busy to consider the editing and music of the film.

Golden Harvest Company has four studios, namely A, B, C, and D, all of which are on a hillside, because there are a lot of costume films to be filmed, there are trees, mountains and forests, etc., and the next part of the hillside is the review room and dubbing room of the printing field. At the bottom of the hill near the road is the office building, which is the office building of Golden Harvest. The whole set is very large-scale, and it is the largest set in Hong Kong outside the set of Shaw Brothers Clear Water Bay.

In order to facilitate work, Wang Xiaohu built a small house between the two studios of AB, which is the dubbing room and editing room dedicated to Concord Company. At this time, he grabbed Zhang Zongyao, the chief editor of Golden Harvest, and was busy with post-production here.

After the last cooperation experience, Zhang Zongyao didn't dare to peek at the young Wang Xiaohu this time, after all, the achievements of "Jingwumen" were in front of him, and Zhang Zongyao couldn't blame anything, but this time he was a little surprised to see Wang Xiaohu bring so many film boxes.

"How is this one more box than before?" Zhang Zongyao asked suspiciously, after all, there were only three boxes of film boxes that Wang Xiaohu took last time.

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "This box has another wonderful use, I have completed the initial cutting procedure, and I will see which scene is suitable for the content in this box." ”

Zhang Zongyao nodded confusedly and began to work

"Wait, this scene can't be cut, here, and here, don't cut it." The current editing work must be completely done by half-manual and semi-mechanical, and after each cut-off, those films will be invalidated, and Wang Xiaohu is reluctant to edit any scene he sees.

Zhang Zongyao put down the tools in his hand depressedly, sighed and said: "Director Wang, I know that these scenes are very good, but a film is only 90 minutes, if these places are not cut, it will affect the overall effect." ”

"Well, I know that too." Wang Xiaohu looked at the film with a magnifying glass in distress, how to say that this is also the first time he directed the film alone, especially these scenes are between him and Zhao Yazhi, in order to achieve the best lens effect, Wang Xiaohu specially asked to shoot a few more sets.

"Why don't you deal with the first two boxes first, and I'll handle the two boxes myself." Wang Xiaohu pointed to the two boxes of specially filmed action scenes and said.

Zhang Zongyao shrugged helplessly and had to obey the order, not to mention, the editing of these two boxes of Director Wang was very smooth, and it was the same as the last time "Jingwumen" was to carry out a few simple bonding work, so that Zhang Zongyao had no room to play.

"Wang Xiaohu has firmly ranked first in Golden Harvest in martial arts action shooting, no, maybe it is the first level in Hong Kong!" Zhang Zongyao looked at Wang Xiaohu, who was carefully handling part of the film of the literary drama, and felt a sense of frustration in his heart for no reason. "It's really better than people to die, people are among the ranks of first-class directors at a young age, and why are they still complacent as the chief editor of Golden Harvest, it seems that they have to work hard!"

Deeply stimulated, Zhang Zongyao began to slowly observe Wang Xiaohu's movements, and he learned a lot from this young man that he had not learned before: he was serious and serious at work, and he had a natural talent for a keen sense of the camera.

Wang Xiaohu didn't know that Zhang Zongyao was observing himself, he was completely immersed in the fun of this kind of editing, about the part of his rivalry with Zhao Yazhi, he handled it extremely carefully and seriously, often comparing several sets of films more than five or six times, before taking out the best part and handing it over to Zhang Zongyao for processing, although this kind of work seems boring and heavy, but it is better that there is a strong love power in his heart to support and nourish it, but he is also busy with relish.

This kind of self-entertaining busyness did not end until Yuan Heping arrived. Yuan Heping came on a mission this time, "Ah Hu, now the media is praising Shaw Brothers' "Water Margin" everywhere, why don't we go to the theater tonight?" ”

"Water Margin?" Wang Xiaohu frowned and thought about it for a long time before he remembered this film, and then shook his head and said: "There is nothing to see, a work that lacks novelty, although the lineup is very luxurious, but this time Director Zhang Che's violent aesthetics were not used in the right position." ”

"Have you already been to the theater?" Yuan Heping asked, but he was very surprised in his heart, this film has only been released in the past two days, you are either busy filming or the cat is editing here, and I saw you go to the theater in time to watch this drama.

Wang Xiaohu didn't raise his head and said: "I didn't go to the theater to watch it, I just heard about it." In this film, there are constant fights, spears and knives, fists and feet sumo, single group fights, infantry and horse battles and so on, which are larger than the previous Shaw Brothers' small fights and many tricks, but this is an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that the five tiger generals of the Shaw Brothers are all heavyweights, and the disadvantage is that Zhang Che's violent aesthetics cannot be used well, and his bloody scenes are good, but the complete victory of the heroes of Liangshan cannot be expressed too much, and the tragic death can only be used on the villains, which lacks the shocking effect of the past. ”

"Brother Ping, this film is a bit noisy, but I feel that the villain is more tragic." Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and shook his head and continued to work, this film has been called the 41 classic masterpieces of Shaw Brothers, he has watched it a few times in his previous life, although the scene is very grand, but as he just said, the audience has a weird feeling after watching it, and of course the box office results will not be very good.

And Wang Xiaohu also knew that Shaw Brothers also used the original version of "Water Margin" to create the film "Dangkou Zhi", which is said to be a film that shows the story of the heroes of Liangshan who joined forces to conquer Fangla after accepting Zhao'an. This time the story is most suitable for Zhang Che's style, because most of the protagonists in the film are killed and injured, which can show the tragedy and heroism that he is most passionate about and make up for the regrets left in the previous film.

However, after the film went through a battle, dismemberment, and blood splashing, Yan Qing, played by Jiang David, left the battlefield of the corpse pillow with sadness and regret, and the main impression of the film is one word - miserable!

The two big-budget films of the Shaw Brothers only recovered their costs, and the box office response was average, far less popular than "Ma Yongzhen" they were filming.

If you really want to talk about it in detail, Wang Xiaohu's "Righteous Hero" has a striking similarity with "Ma Yongzhen" starring Chen Guantai, the story also takes place in Shanghai, the opponent is also the Axe Gang in black and the axe, and the era is also the early Republic of China. I don't know if Donnie Yen watched this film back then, or what, anyway, these two films tell the story of Shanghai's struggle for hegemony.

Different Wang Xiaohu rushed to shoot in front of the Shaw Brothers Group, and after the first few rounds of hype, the audience has a preliminary impression of "Righteous Heroes", if the Shaw Brothers does this, it is a imitation of the trend, which shows that the important surname of the filming progress, if it can be released one day in advance, it will win the box office, and the latecomer will inevitably be tongue-in-mouth unless he is a great sage and a powerful person like Bruce Lee.

"Well, I'll go and see it with the others." Yuan Heping saw Wang Xiaohu's lack of interest, so he had no choice but to leave the editing room.

"Go ahead, go ahead, and when you spend money and read it, you'll know that what I said is true!" Wang Xiaohu continued to work after speaking.

"I want to start the theme of Shanghai hegemony, I want to be the first box office record to write a gang melee, and of course, I want to create the first classic image of the Black Axe Gang!" The corners of Wang Xiaohu's mouth curled, his heart was now full of confidence, and the magnifying glass in his hand happened to fall on Yuan Heping and the others who were wearing black suits and holding axes.

It wasn't until more than nine o'clock in the evening that Wang Xiaohu left the editor to take a taxi home, and as soon as he got out of the car, he heard the deafening sound of music coming from Bruce Lee's house, if he wasn't Bruce Lee, he was the number one superstar in Hong Kong, and he had a lofty status among fans, it is estimated that the neighbors around here will complain, of course, now Bruce Lee's only neighbor is himself.

"Hey, Brother Xiaolong, are you having a concert?"

"Ha, you're just in time, listen to the song we rehearsed." Bruce Lee is holding a microphone in his hand, and six foreigners who have made cameo appearances in "Raptors Across the River" are beating various musical instruments with serious expressions.

When Wang Xiaohu was outside the door, he knew the rehearsal of their rehearsal - "I am Bruce Lee". When he handed over the lyrics and composition to Bruce Lee, he didn't bother anymore, and he didn't expect that now they had already started rehearsals.

The familiar melody sounded, making Wang Xiaohu hear the excitement and surging in his ears again, but the good times didn't last long, and Bruce Lee's broken gong voice disrupted his good interest: the horse pricked, and the mouth mumbled

Oh my! It's going crazy! Wang Xiaohu held his ears and found that Linda and a pair of children also had this helpless expression

(To be continued)