The story of Mulan's father's enlistment in the army has been passed down from generation to generation in various forms, and has been passed down in the land of China for more than 1,000 years, which can be described as a household name and has long formed a part of traditional Chinese culture. [No pop-up novel network]

However, suddenly one day, Mulan actually labeled Mickey Mouse, performed her feat of not letting the eyebrows on a global scale, forcefully attracted everyone's attention, conquered the hearts of the world, and made Americans make a lot of money, while we have to pay Americans to see the stories of the Chinese themselves.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

For a while, someone in the country shouted: "The wolf is coming!" ”

Someone shook his head and sighed: "Is this still the story of Mulan's joining the army?" What has it become! ”

Someone cocked his thumb: "It's another Disney classic!" ”

An animation "Mulan" seems to have broken the five-flavor bottle, and there are all kinds of flavors.

Wang Xiaohu used to be one of the members of the army who shook his head and sighed, and the reason why he was sure that the new film was Mulan was because of Lin Qingxia, on the one hand, because Lin Qingxia still maintained the image of a jade girl, and still retained that innocence, and she could also play the image of Mulan in Wang Xiaohu's mind.

If you wait a few years, Lin Qingxia will become a big royal sister, and it will be even more difficult to play the innocence of Mulan.

On the other hand, under the banner of cooperating with the mainland and promoting Chinese culture, we should continue to make some money to realize our dreams: to build Hong Kong into the cultural center of the world's films, so that the world's audiences will first think of Hong Kong, not Hollywood, when they mention movies.

This is a long and arduous task, and the first thing to do is to turn the eyes of people all over the world with a few big productions, make them aware of the development of Hong Kong films, and by the way, raise the status of the Hong Kong Film Awards in the film industry.

When creating the script, Wang Xiaohu once thought about it very seriously, especially the change in Mulan's image in film reviews between China and the United States.

Before the Mickey Mouse "forcibly embraced" Mulan, the development of the legend of Mulan by the Chinese people can be described as "a hundred schools of thought contending" and "a hundred flowers blooming", and excavating its cultural value in various forms.

In terms of opera alone, there are more than 20 types of opera, including Henan Opera, Ping Opera, Bangzi, Pingtan, Yue Opera, Kunqu Opera, Teochew Opera, Longjiang Opera, Cantonese Opera, Qin Dialect and so on.

In the 50s of the 20th century, Chang Xiangyu, a Henan opera performance artist, became famous for a play "Mulan", which was put on the screen in 1956 and filmed into an opera art film and became well-known.

"Brother Liu's words are too biased, who said that women enjoy leisure, men fight at the border, and women weave in their homes." This passage "Who said that women are inferior to men" is already a classic singing segment of Henan Opera and is well known.

Other operas that have been put on the screen include Mei Lanfang's "Mulan in the Army" as early as 1926, Bai Shuxian's "The Legend of Mulan" in 1994, and so on.

In addition to opera art films, there are also a variety of drama films, such as "Mulan in the Army" starring Liang Mengchen in 1928, "Mulan in the Army" starring Chen Yunshang in 1939, "New Mulan in the Army" starring Wang Yuanlong in 1953, "Mulan in the Army" starring Tang Xingtu in 1957 and so on.

In terms of the type and number of creations, many domestic "Mulan" teams are spectacular, while Disney villains are alone, and the contrast between strength and weakness is self-evident.

But in fact, it is this Disney villain who conquers cities around the world, is invincible, and has laid a great foundation for the country, making the fame of this flower heroine resounding all over the world, letting the world know Disney's foreign Mulan, while China's local Mulan has relatively become a small jasper, and the door is not out of the door, and the second door is not out.

After Uncle Sam's version of Mulan, China's development of Mulan has more or less relied on the reputation and foundation that Disney has created.

Therefore, Tang Jili, who once directed "Myth", announced at the end of 2005 that he would remake Mulan, in order to promote the "Mulan" in the minds of the Chinese to the world, but as a result, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and Tang Dao fooled the Chinese miserably!

Wang Xiaohu's current advantage is that Uncle Sam has not been as crazy as his previous life to acquire the excellent folk culture of all countries in the world, and they have not yet thought that the so-called cultural invasion and the competition for the cultural market are major events related to economic and cultural development.

Therefore, Wang Xiaohu's version of "Mulan" has a lot of room for development in script creation, this time he no longer does any combination of Chinese and Western, and no longer takes any opportunistic means to cater to the tastes of audiences in Europe and the United States.

In fact, after the success of the two films "Mythology" and "Shaolin Temple", Wang Xiaohu can use the Chinese cultural background in a dignified manner and show his own works through the movie, although this "Mulan" is also a reference to his previous life, but it integrates his own things, deleting some seemingly unreasonable places that drag on the plot and adding new elements.

For example, Wang Xiaohu highlights Mulan's deep struggle for war, his hesitation about love, and the bitterness of the soldiers who died on the battlefield.

This is also the reason why Lin Qingxia said to Wang Xiaohu before that she was not qualified for the third stage of the script, although she has a lot of acting experience, she has no experience in being competent for such an epic movie.

When Wang Xiaohu gave Lin Qingxia the script, he once said: "This is not Qiong Yao's romantic and tangled love scene, nor is it an adventurous scene like a police story, let alone Yingying Yanyan in the Dream of Red Mansions, but a national heroine." ”

Now that she has experienced an emotional entanglement, Lin Qingxia has finally realized the complexity of her feelings, in her own words: "I am now 100% sure that I will play Mulan well." ”

Wang Xiaohu naturally stepped up quickly and directly announced that it would start at the end of September.

In order to avoid repeating the hard work of filming during "Myth", Wang Xiaohu decided to fully use Concord Film and Television City as the set this time to complete more than 60% of the filming tasks of "Mulan".

The remaining 40% is a large-scale war scene, which must be filmed in Inner Mongolia and other places, and a large number of PLA soldiers must be used as extras.

In terms of actors, in addition to confirming that Lin Qingxia plays Mulan, Chow Yun-fat plays the male lead, and Weng Meiling plays the daughter of the Rouran Han, other actors Wang Xiaohu also have preliminary plans.

For example, the Rouran Han has a ready-made old drama bone Qin Pei, anyway, he also wants to play Genghis Khan in "Shooting the Condor", he is also a big man, but one looks a little weak, and the other looks iron-blooded.

The villain is handed over to domestic actors, Wang Xiaohu decided to let Yu Rongguang play it, anyway, Yu Rongguang generally plays the role of a villain like a gangster boss in Hong Kong movies, and he is also from Peking Opera, and the previous Seven Little Fortunes are peers, and it is understandable to take care of his peers.

The rest of the main actors are the brothers around Mulan, such as Zhao Gang who relies on his strong body and loves to bully recruits, and let Stephen Chow, who was cowardly at the beginning and finally behaved as a pure man, and Xiong Xinxin, who is bitter and loves to tell cold jokes but is always ridiculed by everyone

Wang Xiaohu didn't take any action to audition actors at all, because in his mind, these actors were carefully selected by him.

Although the actors in these years are scarce, they are like gold waiting to be mined.

After determining the start time, Wang Xiaohu called the Ministry of Culture non-stop and asked Zhao Gang, Yu Rongguang, and Xiong Xinxin to come to Hong Kong to shoot first.

Yu Rongguang and Xiong Xinxin arrived in Hong Kong on September 25, this is the first time Yu Rongguang has gone far away, until he stands on the land of Hong Kong, he is still confused, and said I just went to apply for the film school and was brushed down, why didn't I hear any news and was caught by a big Hong Kong director?

When "Shaolin Temple" was broadcast in China, Yu Rongguang, who had been in Peking Opera since elementary school, finally couldn't hold back, after all, his martial arts foundation was not bad, and he directly thought of the film academy to sign up as a martial arts actor, but the film academy did not set up such a subject, and he was brushed off without even passing the first level, and he was depressed at home, and he received the news of going to Hong Kong.

Along the way, he kept asking Xiong Xinxin what he was doing in Hong Kong, and Xiong Xinxin touched his bald head for a long time before he popped out two words: "Acting." ”

"What's the play?"

"Martial arts play!"

"Is it a martial arts scene like "Shaolin Temple"?" Yu Rongguang's heart was hot.

At this time, Xiong Xinxin also lost his head to the second monk, shook his head and said: "I don't know, the coach didn't tell me, anyway, when I called Jie Zai last night, he said that it was a big production, better than "Shaolin Temple". ”

So both of them were taken to Wang Xiaohu's house by Jet Li in a daze.

As for Zhao Gang, because of his special identity, some things must be handed over, and he is not disgusted with Zhao Gang making movies, and even likes it a little, after all, the better the relationship between Zhao Gang and Wang Xiaohu, it will also help for further cooperation in the future.

"Brother Tiger, we're here." As soon as he saw Wang Xiaohu, Xiong Xinxin greeted him with a grin. How to say that he also followed "Shaolin Temple" to promote it around the world, and he is much stronger than Yu Rongguang in terms of communication.

And Yu Rongguang stared at Wang Xiaohu for a long time.

"Light boy, what are you looking at?" Wang Xiaohu finally couldn't help laughing after being watched by him for a long time.

Yu Rongguang hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, I just feel like a dream now, I'm really afraid that the dream will wake up all of a sudden, everything is an illusion." ”

Wang Xiaohu laughed when he heard this, knocked Yu Rongguang's head with the script in his hand and said, "Does it hurt?" ”

"Okay." Yu Rongguang said stupidly.

"If you have a feeling, it's not a dream, this is your script, you have many years of experience in Peking Opera stage performance, the foundation is better than Xiong Xinxin, let's familiarize yourself with the script these days."

(To be continued)