At the beginning of September 1980, "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" was finally launched quietly.

It's normal to say that it's quiet, but the Shaw Brothers set is closed management, and outsiders are generally refused to visit. Even the opening ceremony of this movie was only attended by everyone in the crew, but many other dragon and tiger martial artists of the Shaw Brothers came over to watch the excitement, and Li Xuan vaguely saw a few people from the Liu family class in the crowd.

In this big drama of Shaw Brothers and Li Xuan's cooperation, Li Xuan has never seen Shao Yifu except for meeting Shao Yifu during the first negotiation, and he didn't even participate in the movie opening ceremony, but sent Huang Jiaxi, an acquaintance, to come over to take a look. And in the past half a month, Shao Yifu has not appeared in Hong Kong.

Combined with the conversation between Shao Yifu and Jin Yong that he had heard before, Li Xuan vaguely guessed that Shao Yifu should have secretly gone north at this time.

I just don't know myself, when will I be able to go back and take a look?

At the same time that "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" was quietly launched, Li Xuan heard the gossip, and the famous New Art City in the future finally opened silently.

Mai Jia, Huang Baiming and Shi Tian silently rented a small office room in Lei Juekun's Lei Group Headquarters Building, and the three of them began to prepare for the new movie like ducks on the shelves.

It's a pity that these three guys don't have any confidence in their company's first work, and next, they should find Wu Yusen from Golden Harvest, right?

And Golden Harvest's Zou Wenhuai is also very interesting, although he knows that Li Xuan is cooperating with Shaw Brothers, he does not get stuck in the neck of the "Black Man" foreign release. Now that this movie is being screened in other cities, I heard that Zou Wenhuai still intends to release this movie to the United States.

This made Li Xuan quite proud, and buddy's movies could also be sold to the United States?

Of the people in the company, Xu Anhua took a few away, and he took a few more, and now there are only a few stubborn personnel left in the company who are watching the scene. So in addition to sending a producer to Wang Jin's new play, the rest of the crew had to be recruited by Wang Jin himself, but he needed fewer personnel for the crew this time than in "The King of a Thousand Kings" last time, which was not a trouble for Wang Jin.

"Props team, ready to smoke!" Zhang Ce raised his hand to measure the direction of the wind, and hurriedly took the loudspeaker to start directing all the way, and saw that the people of the props team were ready in the grass, so he shouted loudly: "Buried in their positions, ready to start shooting, and the props team will smoke!" ”

Plumes of smoke drifted from the grass, and the breeze blew, and the half-foot-wide path between the grass was covered with a veil.

"Eleventh scene, two shots."

“action！”

"Smack!"

The clapperboard tapped lightly, and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard on the other side of the mist. A moment later, two men wearing scarves and green clothes galloped through the smoke on two horses, ran directly in front of the camera and pulled the reins to stop.

"Click, it's over!" Li Xuan shouted, stood up from behind the monitor, clapped his hands and praised: "Master Ding's kung fu is really good." ”

"Haha, that's just a small thing!" Li Jiading, who was dressed nondescriptly, jumped off the horse and smiled quite smugly.

"Master Ding, don't be modest, who doesn't know that you are the best in our Shaw Brothers' equestrian skills." Hui Yinghong on the other horse answered the call next to her, she waited for a play on horseback, but she didn't have to come down.

The most surprising thing for Li Xuan since the start of filming is that Xu Yijie can't ride a horse, so he can only teach and shoot at the same time. In the first few scenes on horseback, Li Jiading had to be used as a stand-in. Then Li Xuan learned the method of Zhou Xingchi in the later generation when filming "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er", using a car to simulate the back of a horse, and letting Xu Yijie sit on it with the reins as a horse to ride, filming the effect of him riding a horse.

"Okay, okay, you two don't praise me, let's start the show." Li Jiading was a little embarrassed by Li Xuan's praise, and quickly waved his hand and said.

"Okay, then it's time for the show." Li Xuan immediately picked up a wine gourd and shouted at a piece of grass behind the monitor: "Ah sam, it's time for the show, it's your turn!" ”

Xu Yijie was learning to ride a horse with a dragon and tiger martial artist at this time, and he had a lot of fun, but he didn't know if he had learned it. Hearing Li Xuan's shout, he awkwardly rubbed off the horse's back and hurriedly ran to the horse that Li Jiading had ridden just now.

"I didn't expect it to be quite interesting to ride a horse in ancient costumes, Ah Xuan, do you want to try it?" Xu Yijie said as he got on the horse. It seems that he has practiced well, at least the action of getting on the horse is decent.

"Excuse me, I'm the director, can I not know, do you remember your lines?" Li Xuan waved his hand and asked directly.

"Do you need to ask?" Xu Yijie took the rattan rope of the wine gourd and put it on his back, and said quite chicly: "My profession is singing, and I can't remember how to mix the words!" ”

"Hey! I'm optimistic about your chic, and few people in Hong Kong can learn it. Alright, it's time to start the show. Li Xuan gave a thumbs up, patted the horse's head again, and turned to the monitor. As for Li Jiading, he still stayed next to the horse, and he still had a task to do.

This time, Huang Yuetai is no longer a small photographer, he has been promoted to director of photography. Originally, he and Li Xuan only planned to use him as a photographer, and they could do it alone, but they didn't expect Shaw Brothers to shoehorn two photographers over, and they had to be promoted if they didn't get promoted. For this obvious act of stealing teachers, Li Xuan only turned a blind eye. If a person wants to become a gold medal photographer, talent is still very important.

"They're all in their own hands, ready to start filming!" Zhang Ce shouted loudly again, being an assistant director at such an age and managing so many things can be regarded as tiring for him. However, Zhang Ce now admires Li Xuan's one point, that is, these costumes and props are very good-looking. Whether it is the Tsing Yi suit of the Huashan faction, or the undefeated red and white hunting clothes in the East, they all give him a refreshing feeling.

According to Zhang Ce's words, Li Xuan's movie color matching is quite Hu Jinquan's film style, which gives people a strong sense of visual impact.

However, the old man also has something to worry about, he likes to fight in the old-school martial arts director, after knowing that many of Li Xuan's martial arts scenes have to be exaggerated by Weiya, this old man has always been quite complaining. When he watched Li Xuan's "Black Man", there was still a lot of real kung fu in the fights.

Li Xuan directly ignored the old man's complaint, isn't it an exaggeration, is it still called a new-school martial arts movie?

"Twelfth 1st shot, action!"

This scene is Xu Xijie's one-man show, Li Jiading grabbed the reins under the horse's neck to prevent the horse from startling. Then Xu Xijie sat on horseback, holding the horse rope in his left hand and holding a wine gourd in his right hand to drink in the sky, while swinging his body around, making the appearance of driving a horse and drinking.

This is a very simple scene, and Xu Xijie only has one "Yu" horse-pulling line in the whole shot, and the scene is over once.

However, there are also not easy places, in order to be able to shoot a scene that makes Hu Chong go up the cliff with light skills, the entire stunt team rehearsed more than 30 times under the leadership of Cheng Xiaodong to meet Li Xuan's requirements. In this way, two Wia ropes were directly scrapped, and they were lost even if they were 10,000 Hong Kong dollars.

There are many such scenes in the future, and Li Xuan estimates that when this movie is made, it will cost more Wia rope than other film companies in Hong Kong have used this year.

The new school of martial arts movies is really a money-consuming thing! (To be continued.) )