There is some interesting news from the Yanjing Wushu team and the Shandong Wushu team, saying that the director of the "Shaolin Temple" crew has a unique taste for selecting actors, although there have been no decent martial arts films in China, but they know a little bit that the director selects actors should be athletes who are handsome in appearance and have a solid foundation in martial arts. [No pop-up novel network]

However, Wang Xiaohu, a great director from Hong Kong, is a different style, those athletes with handsome appearance and solid martial arts foundation are directly ignored by him, he has selected a bad student from the Yanjing Wushu team, and selected the two head coaches and apprentices of the Shandong Wushu team.

As a result, the martial arts teams of other provinces began to worry, why do you say that the director from Hong Kong does not follow the usual path, the actors in "Myth" are basically not handsome and beautiful?

So when Wang Xiaohu and others came to the Zhejiang martial arts team, the enthusiasm of the actors was not as high as before, why? Who knows which type of actor the director picks.

Each athlete symbolizes his or her surname and performs his or her own unique skills.

"You, you, and you." Wang Xiaohu pointed to a few athletes in the queue and said, "Just the three of you." ”

The athletes were stunned, what's going on? Today, Director Wang was extraordinarily gracious, picking up three athletes at once.

After Wang Xiaohu finished ordering the three athletes, he said to their head coach: "By the way, is there a person named Ji Chunhua in your team?" ”

"Ji Chunhua?" Originally, the head coach was still beautiful, and he said that the special circumstances encountered by the other two martial arts teams were not staged in the Zhejiang team, how could he know that as soon as the other party said Ji Chunhua, the head coach's face suddenly drooped.

"Mr. Wang, Ji Chunhua used to be true to our team, but he had a strange illness and retired from our martial arts team half a year ago."

"Retired?" Wang Xiaohu frowned, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of strange disease do you have?" ”

The head coach's expression was very strange, he said: "I can't tell you the specifics, I had a serious illness a year ago, and then my hair fell out inexplicably, isn't this idle at home, do you plan to meet him?" It's good that he came to the team today to play with his teammates. ”

"Well, call him over." Wang Xiaohu nodded.

The head coach asked an athlete who had a good relationship with Ji Chunhua to call someone, but he secretly said with a bitter face: Hey, I still haven't been spared, this director's temper is really not ordinary weird!

Following the errand and the elderly, the Zhejiang Wushu team also reported that Wang Xiaohu selected actors to find athletes with less hair, and some people speculated that Hong Kong people are shrewd, and there is less hair and shaving fees.

When these rumors spread to the martial arts team of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the athletes here immediately tried their best to start making their hair short, as long as their hair was short, they might have more opportunities to enter the crew of "Shaolin Temple".

After all, some actors who participated in the filming of "Myth" also said that the salary they received was according to the standards of Hong Kong, more than 100 a day, far more than 100 times more than one dollar a day in China, who doesn't want to spread such benefits, more than 100 a day, 3000 a month, and 6000 if they were filmed for two months, compared to what they earned in the team for two years.

"How so?"

When Wang Xiaohu came to the Guangxi martial arts team, he almost shook his eyes, and saw 20 young men with bright and bright bald heads, standing in a neat row from tall to short, the formation was absolutely bluffing, and people who didn't know the inside story still thought that the Liuzhou martial arts team had become a training class for Shaolin Temple overnight.

The athletes looked at Wang Xiaohu one by one, and everyone's mouth was grinning, which meant: Our gang has shaved our heads, so it will be time to choose us.

So far, "Shaolin Temple" has selected a total of 22 athletes, more than 50 short of the "monk army" required by Wang Xiaohu, look at the bald heads of these young men one by one, Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and said to their coach: "It's all over, it's all over!" Thank you for your ingenuity! ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a cheer in the courtyard of the Guangxi martial arts team, more than 20 bald heads, you hugged me, I hugged you there to cheer and celebrate, bouncing, laughing so lively, suddenly, Wang Xiaohu came with a very familiar name in his ears.

"Xiong Xinxin, I was selected, haha, I was selected."

Wang Xiaohu was stunned, Xiong Xinxin, it can't be that ghost foot seven, right?

If Jet Li was the luckiest of the domestic martial arts athletes that year, then Xiong Xinxin was the unlucky one.

In the last time and space, "Shaolin Temple" was born, and the shock to the martial arts world was too strong, and people found that martial arts can also be promoted through movies, so many martial arts athletes have an extra layer of consideration, that is, what else can they do if they don't become athletes? Look at Jet Li, who has been living in a mess across the country, this answer is about to come out: be an actor and make movies!

Xiong Xinxin is one of them, the movie he shot was "North and South Shaolin" directed by Liu Jialiang, but the box office of "North and South Shaolin" was dismal, and the director Liu Jialiang, who made a fortune with Shaolin themes, directly ended with "North and South Shaolin".

Whenever Jet Li's leg is broken, his arm is dislocated, and his waist is twisted, well, Xiong Xinxin got on the horse, changed into Jet Li's clothes and tossed hard, tossing for seven or eight years, until "Huang Feihong: The Lion King", Xiong Xinxin made a stunning appearance with the image of Ghost Foot Seven.

Of course, in order to shoot "The Lion King", Ghost Feet Seven endured hardships, Jet Li used to play with his life to do dangerous actions, but now he has Xiong Xinxin to do dangerous actions, he not only has to complete his own actions, but also help Jet Li's stand-in to complete various dangerous actions, in short, after the filming of "The Lion King", Xiong Xinxin's cervical spine and lumbar spine were basically unlucky, and he recuperated in the hospital for more than half a year before relieving himself.

The unbeatable "Ghost Feet Seven" also began to circulate in the Hong Kong film circle at that time.

In 2000, he was nominated for Best Action Design at the Hong Kong Film Awards for "Against the Current", and in 2005, he won the Best Action Design at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for "Seven Swords", and became an internationally renowned martial arts instructor.

This is the familiar bald bear Xinxin in Wang Xiaohu's memory, but the face of Xiong Xinxin in front of him is still a little immature, far less ruthless than on the screen.

"Very good, focus on cultivation." Wang Xiaohu wrote down Xiong Xinxin in his heart, and planned to slowly train these scavenging martial arts athletes after filming "Shaolin Temple".

Jet Li, Yu Hai, Yu Chenghui, Sun Jiankui, Du Chuanyang, Ji Chunhua, Xiong Xinxin, this is the top force in the major domestic martial arts teams, except for Jet Li who was abducted to Hong Kong by Wang Xiaohu four years ago, all the athletes who were selected by Wang Xiaohu are basically not swordsmanship, swordsmanship, spearmanship, boxing champions, or demolition champions.

It can be said that Wang Xiaohu's vision is still relatively vicious, and many of these actors may not be the actors of the original "Shaolin Temple", but Wang Xiaohu wants to create a package that is not the original "Shaolin Temple", and the plot will not be too much corrected, and the actors and actions will always be comprehensively adjusted, and even large pieces of knives.

Wang Xiaohu doesn't want "Shaolin Temple" to be a routine performed by martial arts athletes from more than a dozen countries on the screen for more than a few minutes.

As the first action director in Hong Kong, I don't allow it!

If Wang Xiaohu's previous movies have worked hard around the plot, then "Shaolin Temple" is Wang Xiaohu's pure action efforts, and he wants to create a new "Shaolin Temple".

In Wang Xiaohu's words, this is his first "martial arts" pioneering work.

In the past seven years, Wang Xiaohu has gradually put into practice the theories accumulated in his previous life about action movies, although "Myth" has achieved an unprecedented sensation in the world, to put it bluntly, he still relies on Weiya and special effects to assist, and the era of real kung fu seems to be gradually leaving him.

Others may not be able to see it, feeling that this is the only way for the development of kung fu films, Wang Xiaohu also admits that the route he is taking now is the only way for kung fu films in his previous life, but he always plagiarizes like this, if there is no innovation in the East, ten years later, Hong Kong films will go astray.

Now Wang Xiaohu is not just a plagiarist, after laying a solid foundation, he tried to innovate comprehensively, after all, he can't hollow out everything in his previous life, so as not to cause a situation where future generations have no films, so for him, the most serious problem in front of him is: innovation, broaden the development route of martial arts kung fu movies.

This topic is an embarrassing situation in the previous life such as Yuan Heping, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen, Cheng Xiaodong and other action directors who have studied for more than ten years without a breakthrough, Wang Xiaohu feels that he needs to try, even if he fails, he still has a chance to turn the tables, and "Shaolin Temple" is the first work he tried.

"Uncle Wang, when will we go back to Hong Kong?"

Donnie Yen was wearing a sweatshirt, and after the necessary training every day last night, he pushed open the door of Wang Xiaohu's room and asked with a smile.

Wang Xiaohu put down his hand, he was just writing a plan for the overall action design of "Shaolin Temple".

"How many times have you said it, don't call me Uncle Wang in the future, I'm only 8 years older than you, just call me brother." Wang Xiaohu shook his head and said.

"How can that be, that would mess up the seniority." Donnie Yen said stubbornly.

"Hey!" Wang Xiaohu sighed, and no longer delved into it, and after thinking about it, he said: "Early tomorrow morning, we will arrive in Guangzhou from Guangxi, and then return to Hong Kong from there, and we will arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow night at the latest." Aren't you in a hurry? ”

Donnie Yen nodded and said, "Well, I'm in a bit of a hurry, I haven't been back to Hong Kong for many years." ”

"Danny, after returning to Hong Kong, you still need to enter the film industry in a hurry, you should study well in the Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Union." Wang Xiaohu said very seriously: "I don't want you to just want to be an actor who can fight in the future, and I also ask you to be an action director who knows how to fight." ”

(To be continued)