On April 9, 1975, the 47th Academy Awards were superstars at the Los Angeles Music Center in California, compared with the unpopular of the previous year, this session was particularly light, and "The Godfather 2" won the crown of Best Picture and Best Director and Best Supporting Actress with its super popularity, becoming the biggest winner of this Oscar. 【】

On the same day, after reporting on the Oscars, the "Los Angeles Daily" wrote in a very lonely tone: "I don't know why, I always feel that this year's Oscars lack passion. It is somewhat regrettable that the king did not submit the examination papers, and God knows what this young man from the East is busy with, and perhaps he is still worrying about how to squander it! ”

Those who are familiar with Wang Xiaohu in the United States know that this guy is currently busy in a group, and three of his four satellite companies have started filming now, "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" and "Lin Shirong" are in full swing, and "The Story of Ah Lang" is also in the stage of intense preparation.

Only "Seven Little Blessings" is still preparing unhurriedly, every morning, Stephen Chow, Shen Moyan, Weng Meiling, Andy Lau, Huang Yuehua The five little guys will be dragged up from the bed by Wang Xiaohu, and run more than a dozen laps around the big field of the base, which is not counting, after the long-distance run, they have to stand in a row to hang their voices, pull ligaments, sing and play, and do all kinds of things that the children of Peking Opera schools have done.

With Wang Xiaohu personally supervising, the five little guys will naturally not be lazy, even if Wang Xiaohu sometimes shows a distressed posture, Sammo Hung will pretend to be a black face and come over to forcibly suppress it, who asked Sammo Hung to play "Yu Zhanyuan" in the film - the apprentices of the five little guys, if you don't deter these little guys, it will inevitably be a mess when filming in the future.

Yu Zhanyuan, the main son, will also come over to supervise every once in a while, every time the children surround Lao Yutou to complain, saying that Sammo Hung is not like this, that is not, Lao Yutou touches the children's heads and smiles very satisfied, and occasionally reprimands Sammo Hung and Wang Xiaohu with a black face, and Sammo Hung is angry, Wang Xiaohu shook his head and persuaded Sammo Hung to say: "Senior Brother Sanmao, there is no way, who makes the family a relative of the next generation!" ”

The more severe Wang Xiaohu, Sammo Hung and others are to them, the more Yu Zhanyuan loves and cares, as if he will repay all the debts to the Seven Little Fortunes in the New Seven Little Blessings, although the five children have relied on, they are only limited to making small reports, and they have not done anything excessive.

Every morning after two hours of practice, there is breakfast, an hour of rest, and then the children's favorite part - learning kung fu.

The professor's kung fu is Wing Chun, Wang Xiaohu is the teacher himself, Stephen Chow has two years of experience, barely half a teacher, that is, only at this time, Stephen Chow will show his style as a senior brother, and even took out the senior brother's shelf to put on Weng Meiling's small shoes a few times, the angry Miss Weng only gritted her teeth, dangled her small fist and said viciously to Stephen Chow: "Xingzai, when the old lady learns Wing Chun, the first thing is to knock out your front teeth!" ”

This move made Wang Xiaohu and others laugh, and at the same time, it also reminded them of all kinds of learning art back then, wasn't the Seven Little Blessings like this, very cordial and warm.

In Wang Xiaohu's memory, Seven Little Blessings is a play that has been staged for 50 years, which is more exciting than the movie "Seven Little Blessings", and it is the most accurate footnote to life as a play.

Yu Zhanyuan has more than 70 apprentices, among them Jackie Chan has become a world-renowned superstar, Sammo Hung has become a leader in the film industry, Yuan Bin has become a martial arts instructor of his own school, Yuan Hua and Yuan Qiu have been going through twists and turns or marrying a wife for many years, they have been old enough to get the opportunity to get the honor of the Golden Statue and the Golden Horse (with "Kung Fu"), Yuan Wen disappeared after making a few movies, Yuan Wu has been a martial artist for many years, and finally went to Sichuan to learn to change his face and return to the drama world, and then was swept away by the TV station, and Yuan Bao went behind the scenes and became the boss of the movie.

There are also some Qixiaofumen who have been exiled to foreign countries and become restaurant owners, golf course owners, lawyers, and other life experiences, which are subtle.

The fate of the Seven Little Blessings has completely changed because of Wang Xiaohu, and the changes are quite large, their potential has been developed by Wang Xiaohu for four years under the intentional arrangement of Wang Xiaohu for four years, such as Sammo Hung has become the top 30 directors in Hong Kong, Yuan Biao and Jackie Chan have become the top five stars in Hong Kong, Yuan Hua, Yuan Qiu, Yuan Kui and others have become the most sought-after supporting roles in the kung fu film circle, and Yuan Bin and others are martial arts instructors on TVB or other sets, They were all influenced by Wang Xiaohu and changed dramatically.

The afternoon time is arranged to be familiar with the script of "Seven Little Blessings", Sammo Hung took five children to conduct various rehearsals according to the script, the story of "Seven Little Blessings" mainly says that Sammo Hung , Jackie Chan , Yuan Hua , Yuan Qiu and other seven children followed Yu Zhanyuan to learn art, fourteen-year-old Huang Yuehua is the highest among the five children, and he was arranged to play the role of the teenager Sammo Hung , Andy Lau played the teenager Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow played the teenager Yuan Biao, and Shen Moyan, who has been silent and golden, was arranged to play the teenager Yuan Hu, The only girl, Weng Meiling, naturally plays the role of the teenager Yuanqiu.

As for the other members of the Seven Little Fortunes who don't have much of a role in the film, Wang Xiaohu directly asked Xu Junlong to select a few children with some dance foundation in Hong Kong to play, and the Seven Little Fortunes did not raise any objections internally, anyway, when the young Seven Little Fortunes grow up, they will go into battle in person. (Who will play Sammo Hung when he grows up?) Uh, a small bug, count birds. The script creation of "Seven Little Blessings" was not completed by Wang Xiaohu, but by all the brothers and sisters sitting together and starting to reminisce, and Li Shaonan sorted it out.

When making the script, Wang Xiaohu said: "Eliminate the character of Yuan Hu, he shouldn't appear in it." ”

There is no role of Yuan Hu in the original version of "Seven Little Blessings", and the reason for this is very simple, because the previous Yuan Hu was lazy and timid, and he was annoying since he was a teenager. did not leave anything to be remembered in history, nor did he become a leading figure in Hong Kong martial arts instruction like Yuan Tai, Yuan Wu, Yuan De and others, or even excluded by his brothers.

"How can that be!" Not only did the Seven Little Blessings not agree, but even Yu Zhanyuan objected.

"Ah Hu, you were really bad when you were young, but now you have become the number one person in Hong Kong, and the Seven Little Fortunes are proud of you, no one can miss you!"

Yu Zhanyuan's words made the other apprentices nod silently, in fact, when "Seven Little Blessings" was planned to be filmed, these brothers have been counting how they bullied Ah Hu back then, such as Jackie Chan sent Ah Hu to send love letters to the girl he liked, but the girl had a boyfriend, Ah Hu was beaten by a group of people with a blue nose and swollen face, for example, when everyone was eating, Ah Hu sat at the very end, and according to the regulations, he and his personality were less than half a la carte to eat, but every time Yuan Biao would deliberately leave half a mouthful of vegetable soup, so as not to eat white rice every day, For example, there are too many things like this, and it almost became a memoir about Yuan Hu.

A "Seven Little Blessings" evokes the brothers to reminisce about the past, when writing the script, everyone sometimes laughs and staggers, sometimes silently choks up and weeps, sighs and sighs, Wang Xiaohu's shooting plan moved them very much, and also made Seven Little Blessings achieve unprecedented unity and cohesion

In the entire Concord Company, in addition to Wang Xiaohu being busy, the second busy person is Sammo Hung , he not only has to prepare for "Seven Little Blessings", but also star in "Lin Shirong" directed by Yuan Heping and his son.

According to Yi Xiujia, a film review columnist from "Ming Pao", recalled: 1975 was the year of "Seven Little Blessings", in this year, the Seven Little Blessings led by Wang Xiaohu contributed a number of classic productions to Hong Kong films, and the biopic of the same name "Seven Little Blessings" is even more touching, allowing all audiences to have an in-depth understanding of the past of the Seven Little Blessings. It is more accurate and appropriate to define inspirational films as Hong Kong filmmakers.

Sometimes Wang Xiaohu did not dare to compliment the efficiency of domestic affairs, President Liang finally contacted Wang Xiaohu again in mid-May after hitting a wall for the second time, perhaps after many inquiries to domestic leaders. As soon as they met, they said straight to the point: "Comrade Xiao Wang, I brought you a secret letter, I believe you should be completely relieved this time!" ”

After President Liang finished speaking, he took out an envelope wrapped in kraft paper from the clothes of the stand-in, and said: "All your questions are here, because it is a secret letter, I haven't read it, this is a special explanation from above!" ”

Wang Xiaohu opened the envelope suspiciously, the letter was written with a brush, and he saw that the handwriting on it was like a rhyme through the ages, melting hundreds of schools in one furnace, dragons and snakes flying, handsome and elegant, majestic, bold and hearty.

This handwriting alone has already made Wang Xiaohu fall into a deep shock, because the person who wrote this letter is a big man!

Wang Xiaohu took about ten minutes to barely finish reading the letter, and then he took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement and excitement in his heart, folded the letter very carefully and carefully, and after smiling, he said to President Liang: "Please tell your leader, saying that I, Wang Xiaohu, thank the leader for opening up a green channel for me, and at the same time, please also ask the leader to give me half a year to prepare, I will invite the world's best film production team together to build "Earthbreaking" into the world's best movie!" ”

(To be continued)