When Wang Xiaohu, Jet Li and their Concord crew in charge of "Shaolin Temple" rushed to Dengfeng Shaolin Temple in Henan, Yanjing Film Studio started filming a movie "Mysterious Buddha" at the same time. 【Reading.com】

The Ministry of Culture conveyed this news to Wang Xiaohu through Zhao Gang, and at the same time hoped that Wang Xiaohu would help review it if he had time to see if he could make some good suggestions on the plot and action.

"The Mysterious Buddha?" Wang Xiaohu was stunned at first, to say that this movie is definitely some years old, according to the history of the previous life, this should be the first martial arts action movie filmed after the founding of New China, but the influence is far less than "Shaolin Temple" three years later.

"Who is the director and who is the main actor?" Wang Xiaohu asked.

"The old man Zhang Huaxun, a veteran employee of Beiying, starring, seems to be a well-known actor in Beiying in "Look at This Family" last year, called Liu Xiaoqing, I know one actor, called Ge Cunzhuang, who is an old actor of Beiying."

Wang Xiaohu didn't care at first, but after hearing that the actress was Liu Xiaoqing, he felt a little interesting, after all, everyone knows Liu Xiaoqing's status in the domestic film and television industry, and she is quite a sister!

As for Ge Cunzhuang, few people may know his name, but Wang Xiaohu knows that he has a rather bullish son - Ge You!

"What does the script say?" Wang Xiaohu asked after pondering for a moment.

Zhao Gang scratched his head and said: "People from the Ministry of Culture told me that after participating in the filming of "Myth", the people from Beiying learned a lot of things, and they felt that "Myth" did not do a thorough job in protecting national cultural relics, and wanted to follow up with a film that emphasized the people's creation of culture and the protection of cultural monuments. ”

Wang Xiaohu said "oh" and didn't speak.

If it is really as Zhao Gang said, then the idea of this movie is very clear, and it can completely follow the residual heat of "Myth" to find an entry point in the audience's positioning, even Wang Xiaohu himself feels that Beiying's approach is very commendable.

But the problem is that Beiying is not a concord, and it is true that Beiying is a relatively influential film production company in the mainland, but it is limited to a deep political background, which may cause unexpected negative effects to others.

Of course, this is just what Wang Xiaohu felt a little inappropriate, he didn't think deeply about it, nodded and said: "I'm in charge of the filming of "Shaolin Temple" here, and I may not be able to go over to help, so how about I let another martial arts instructor from the company go over?" ”

"Well, this seems to be a bit of a bit" Zhao Gang was a little embarrassed, after all, the Ministry of Culture's request was to try to let Wang Xiaohu himself go over to help guide, but since Yuan Heping returned to Hong Kong because his father was seriously ill, the overall work of "Shaolin Temple" has completely fallen on Wang Xiaohu, and people really can't spare time.

Wang Xiaohu just glanced at Zhao Gang's expression, and immediately understood what he was embarrassed about, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I didn't just send a small soldier to fool people, you should have watched "Hong Xiguan", right?" It's the one I shot with Jet Li. ”

Zhao Gang nodded and said, "I've seen it, I've seen it!" ”

After the great success of "Mythology", Concord Company began to conduct further consultations with the Ministry of Culture, and arranged for the kung fu films and action films shot by Concord in recent years to enter the mainland market for screening, among which the first batch of films to enter the mainland included "Jingwumen", "Ip Man", and "Hong Xiguan".

When these three films followed Wang Xiaohu into the mainland to shoot "Shaolin Temple" this time, the copies were sent to the Ministry of Culture for review, the first two are patriotic films, and the chairman has seen and applauded them back then, so naturally there is no need to conduct too many reviews, just this "Hong Xiguan" has been reviewed several times.

As for the reason, it's very simple, because the leaders of the Ministry of Culture think that "Hong Xiguan" is completely an entertainment film and has no educational significance.

After Wang Xiaohu heard the news, he went to Minister Huang Zhen on the spot and theorized! What is an educational film? Is commercial entertainment films not allowed to be introduced?

Huang Zhen was embarrassed for a long time, and he couldn't give a four, five or six, and felt that the leaders above should make the final decision.

Soon the above gave a response: it can be released.

This incident made Wang Xiaohu realize a very serious problem, that is, mainland films have not introduced a relevant film censorship system from beginning to end, which has largely restricted the tension of mainland filmmakers and Hong Kong filmmakers in the all-round development of the subject matter.

However, this problem is not something that Wang Xiaohu can solve alone. On the contrary, it was cheaper for those people from the Ministry of Culture, and it was not enjoyable to watch it seven or eight times under the guise of "audit", and Zhao Gang saw it at this time, so he was naturally impressed.

"If you know! The martial arts instructors of that movie were my senior brothers: Yuan De and Yuan Kui. Wang Xiaohu said: "I asked Yuan Kui to go over and help them design the action, you should be able to make it easy." ”

"Okay!" Zhao Gang nodded, there is no better way than this.

"In addition" Wang Xiaohu suddenly frowned and said: "In addition, there is no need to tell me such things in the future, if the mainland wants to make a difference in martial arts films and kung fu films, it is completely possible to send a group of people to our Concord's Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Union for training, anyway, the first phase will take three months, and it will only cost 3,000 Hong Kong dollars per month, which is very cheap." ”

"That's more than 9,000 in three months!" Zhao Gang rolled his eyes and said: "There are not many film studios in China who are willing to bleed like this." ”

"Then don't come to me to borrow someone!" Wang Xiaohu snorted coldly, and immediately asked people to call Yuan Kui over, roughly explained the situation, and whispered: "Just the general meaning, don't hand over all your housekeeping skills." ”

An industry has its own rules, and the seven Xiaofu gang can win half a century of applause in the Hong Kong and even the world film industry, which is inseparable from the diligence of each of them, and at the same time, each of them has their own unique skills, such as Jackie Chan's desperate and invincible.

The level of Yuan Kui and Yuan De is definitely among the top ten in the Hong Kong film industry, and their talent in controlling the rhythm of martial arts sometimes even Wang Xiaohu sighs to himself.

This time, in order to highlight the camera sense of the martial arts of "Shaolin Temple" in terms of actual combat ability, Wang Xiaohu not only brought an old qualification like Yuan Heping to be the director, but even called Yuan Kui to be a martial arts instructor, which can fully show how much Wang Xiaohu attaches importance to "Shaolin Temple".

Yuan Kui nodded after listening for a long time and said, "Ah Hu, I understand." ”

When Zhao Gang was about to get into the car with Yuan Kui, Wang Xiaohu said a word, which almost made Zhao Gang fall on his heels.

"Hey, Lao Zhao, my senior brother's salary is more than 300 Hong Kong dollars a day, you can let the meaning over there give 300 yuan!"

"Lao Wang, the director of their Beiying has a salary of only 50 yuan a month, you" Zhao Gang looked at Wang Xiaohu with a bitter face, and said in his heart, "Are you so picky?

Wang Xiaohu said confidently: "When I was filming "Myth", the salaries I offered to the employees of several of their film studios were also according to Hong Kong standards, and most of them were soy sauce. ”

Zhao Gang didn't understand what it meant to hit soy sauce, and he felt that it was probably not a good word, so he stepped on the cigarette butt on the ground and got into the car at a speed.

In fact, Wang Xiaohu doesn't care about this money, it's just to vent his grievances with the Ministry of Culture, Lao Tzu drives the development of mainland films and helps you train professionals, you even have to review a pure commercial film more than ten or twenty times, who are you worth!

After successfully asking Zhao Gang to help convey his dissatisfaction, Wang Xiaohu took the loudspeaker from Zhang Yuan's hand and said loudly to more than 50 champions and runners-up of the provincial martial arts teams: "Come on, come on, come here, let's have a big competition before the start." ”

More than 50 bald heads ran to Wang Xiaohu in unison when they heard the words, and they straightened their waists one by one.

From the beginning to the end, Jet Li, Hu Jianqiang, Xiong Xinxin, Sun Jiankui, Ji Chunhua, Du Chuanyang, and finally Ding Lan in the team.

Ding Lan, that is, the actor who played Bai Wufang in "Shaolin Temple", Ding Lan is only 16 years old this year.

Don't look at Ding Lan's young age, he loves music and dance since he was a child, he began to learn violin at the age of 9, trained basic dance skills, was admitted to the dance training class of the Henan Provincial Song and Dance Troupe at the age of 11, and was admitted to the actor class of the Henan Provincial Opera School at the age of 12.

Ding Lan, who is still now, has not yet graduated from the actor class of Henan Provincial Opera Academy, and was unprepared and was selected into the crew by Wang Xiaohu in a daze.

Among all the actors, Ding Lan is under the most pressure, because in addition to not being on the big screen like athletes from other provinces, she has not learned the slightest martial arts.

"Who is that, Sun Jiankui, you and Xiong Xinxin will come to a sparring first, and pick up your best skills." After Wang Xiaohu looked at it, he began to say the request.

Sun Jiankui held the knife, Xiong Xinxin walked out of the team with a gun, the two had not cooperated before, so they were a little unfamiliar with the sparring and dismantling moves, and they couldn't find the slightest feeling for a while.

Seeing this, Wang Xiaohu hurriedly asked them to stop: "Xiong Xinxin, how do you feel?" ”

Among the martial arts athletes present, Wang Xiaohu favored Jet Li, and the rest was Xiong Xinxin, so he was the first to ask him first.

Xiong Xinxin said with a bitter face: "It doesn't feel very smooth, I haven't used tricks before, and it's very awkward to fight." ”

"Didn't you realize that according to your playing style, we can't watch this movie at all?"

Wang Xiaohu hugged his shoulders and looked at the more than 50 wushu athletes with a smile, it was time to train these champions and runners-up.

(To be continued)