Chapter 142: Casting
"Luo Python, Wei Bo, Guo Xuan, Lu Bee, Sun Jian, Jiang Sheng, Di Wei, Wang Li, Yu Taiping, Qian Xiaohao, Li Yimin, Liu Trance Shi, Xiao Yu, Tan Zhendu, Lu Jianming, Ye Tianxing, Wang [***], Li Jiading, ......"
This series of information almost blinded Li Xuan's eyes, looking at the thick stack of data paper in his hand, Li Xuan looked up at Zhang Ce and said, "Tsk! Director Zhang, your subordinates are really talented. ”
"These are still few." Zhang Ce smiled quite proudly and continued: "Because you only need supporting roles, I only found these people for you, and it would be a waste for you to invite others." ”
"That's right, these people, just by looking at the name is powerful enough." Li Xuan patted the information in his hand and praised.
There are really few simple people in the information, and there are several people Li Xuan knows in later generations.
Needless to say, Qian Xiaohao was the actor of Qiusheng in the original "Mr. Zombie", and later starred in "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" with Li Lianjie, playing the villain inside. He also has a younger brother named Qian Jiale, who has also acted in many Hong Kong movies.
As for Li Jiading, he has played villains in many dramas of TVB in later generations, such as Yan Ping, the giant in "Looking for Love". And he is also a senior equestrian coach in Hong Kong, who has won several international equestrian championships, and he must be brought to the film shooting.
And Di Wei, this guy can often play against Chenglong, Hong Jingbao and Li Lianjie later, such as "Plan A", "Lucky Star Gaozhao" and "Dragon in the World", these movies have this guy.
The last person Li Xuan is more familiar with is Luo Python, this guy later shifted his focus to the TV circle like Li Jiading, and starred in a lot of green leaves. Li Xuan's most familiar role is that he played the silly and stupid Zha Xiaocan in Ouyang Zhenhua's version of "Clearing Grievances".
And among this group of people, Guo Xuan, Lu Bee, Sun Jian, Jiang Sheng and Luo Python are five people, but Zhang Ce's current right-hand man, many Zhang Ce movies are starring them. As for others, they have also participated in the movies directed by Zhang Ce to a greater or lesser extent.
So if you have to define the identity of this group of people, you can definitely be regarded as a member of the Zhang family class!
It's a pity that there is no one from the Liu family class in this group, and Li Xuan really wants to cooperate with them. But since Li Xuan knew that Zhang Ce was the assistant director of this play, he knew that this hope was impossible.
Because Liu Jiaban and Zhang Ce have already fallen out!
As early as the 60s in Hong Kong, there were two very famous martial arts in the film industry - Liu Jialiang and Tang Jia, Liu Jialiang was the southern faction, and Tang Jia was the northern faction. Although these two people have different kung fu factions, they have a very good relationship at the beginning. It's just that more and more martial artists followed these two bigwigs to eat, and they gradually divided into two factions. Although they still often train and communicate together, the relationship is not as good as before.
Later, these two bigwigs in the martial arts world were also taken over by the Shaw Brothers and became Zhang Ce's royal martial arts.
Unlike Tang Jia, who likes to do things quietly, Liu Jialiang is a very ambitious and dreamy person. So he, like Yuan Heping later, embarked on the road of directing.
However, when he chose to take this path, he chose the wrong time.
In 1973, Zhang Ce went to Taiwan with the support of Shaw Brothers to found Longbow Film Company, and Liu Jialiang led Liu Jiaban to follow, and he also dreamed that he could break into the world. It's a pity that Liu Jialiang found out when he got over there that in such a small company as Longbow, the chance of coming out was smaller than when he was in Shaw Brothers. So it didn't take long for the two to fall out, and Liu Jialiang returned to the Shaw Brothers with Liu Jiaban, leaving Zhang Ce there alone to support the scene.
After Liu Jialiang returned to Shaw Brothers, he became a director as he wished, and several movies he made have achieved good results. On the other hand, Zhang Ce was difficult to support alone in Taiwan, although he later promoted many martial arts actors in Taiwan, but the company finally went bankrupt.
The frustrated Zhang Ce also returned to Shaw Brothers with several martial arts actors he had recruited in Taiwan, and formed a new group with a group of martial artists under Tang Jia.
Since then, Zhang Ce's plays basically do not use people from Liu Jiaban. And Liu Jiaban is also self-sufficient, and he is too lazy to pay attention to Zhang Ce. The two directors and Wu Zhi, who had worked closely together before, became strangers in the blink of an eye.
"How? Who doesn't have a good choice? Zhang Ce asked, sitting at his desk. At this time, the two of them were selecting actors in Zhang Ce's dormitory on the Shaw Brothers studio, and the work of the primary selection of actors was done by assistant director Zhang Ce, but the final selection was done by director Li Xuan himself.
Li Xuan did not answer, but began to write and draw after everyone's name with a pencil.
There are not many literary dramas of Ling Hu Chong's seven brothers in the movie, and any seven of them can be competent. Guo Xuan, Lu Bee, Sun Jian, Jiang Sheng, Luo Python, Di Wei, Liu Trance Shi, seven people were drawn out by Li Xuan in the blink of an eye, and this can be regarded as the candidate for the seven gourd babies.
As for Qian Xiaohao, Li Xuan smiled and added an ape to his name. This role was played by his younger brother Qian Jiale in the original "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East", and now it has been transferred to him, which can be regarded as Li Xuan returning the role to their old Qian family.
There is also a fellow party in the ape non-moon play, called Hattori Qianjun, which is a big annihilation horn who is loyal to the undefeated East. In the list provided by Zhang Ce, Lu Jianming is famous for playing the role of annihilation, but he feels very wrong to Li Xuan, he only sees annihilation but does not see Zhong. After Li Xuan thought about it for a while, he put a question mark behind this name.
Xiang Wentian's role, Li Xuan was directly assigned to Yu Taiping. This guy has good skills, and Li Xuan has seen the half-old man he starred in once, and he performed very well, and he will be done with makeup when the time comes.
There is still one important male role left - let me do it, the most suitable candidate among them, Li Xuan feels that it must be Li Jiading. Originally, Li Xuan also wanted to find Ren Shiguan, the actor in the original movie, to play the role, but unfortunately this guy left Shaw Brothers four years ago and followed Yuan Heping into the world, Li Xuan could only sigh that he was a step late.
Leaving a few documents on the final candidates, Li Xuan casually threw aside the information of the others.
"Selected?" Zhang Ce looked at Li Xuan and asked, then stretched out his hand and said, "Show me!" ”
"Give!"
Li Xuan handed over the selected materials, and picked up the stack of actresses' materials on the table. This stack of paper is much thinner, less than one-third of the actor's.
But the first time he opened the information, Li Xuan was stunned.
"Eh, Director Zhang......" Li Xuan raised his head and pointed to the information in his hand and called Zhang Ce.
Zhang Ce, who was reading the actor's profile, turned his head and asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?" ”
"Why is the first one Hui Yinghong's information?" Li Xuan asked suspiciously, "She's not Shao ......"
"Ahem!" Zhang Ce interrupted Li Xuan's words with a dry cough, and said slowly: "Yinghong is an actor of the Shaw Brothers, but she is still my goddaughter." ”
Didn't you go through the back door? The corners of Li Xuan's mouth twitched, and he didn't speak anymore, and looked down directly at some of Hui Yinghong's previous stills in the information.
At this time, Hui Yinghong was just twenty years old, and she still had a little baby fat on her face, and she didn't see the fierce and murderous face of later generations.
Li Xuan wrote the words "little junior sister" directly after her name and handed it to Zhang Ce.
"Hehe, it's still Ah Xuan who has a vision!" Zhang Ce took Hui Yinghong's information and praised it.
"That's right, Director Zhang." Li Xuan suddenly asked, "Does Hui Yinghong have an elder brother named Hui Tianci?" ”
Zhang Ce looked at Li Xuan suspiciously and said, "Yes, how do you know?" ”
I don't know? Li Xuan complained helplessly in his heart, can I say that in the years before his later life, many old Hong Kong actors died. Among them, Hui Tianci and Xu Xiying died the worst, both of them died at home for several days before they were found.
"To know is to know, he is also an actor of Shaw Brothers now, right?" Li Xuan opened the topic and asked directly.
"yes, but it's just a trick."
"That's fine, there's a role for him."
Li Xuan walked up to Zhang Ce, took out Lu Jianming's paper from the actor's stack of materials and threw it aside. Hattori Chijun, a role that is both good and evil, and Hui Tianci, a rather evil actor, is just right to play.
After arranging Hui Yinghong properly, the other actresses in the information are much more normal, at least they all look like wireless people. However, Li Xuan still asked tentatively while looking at the information: "Director Zhang, these actresses should have signed contracts with Shaw Brothers, right?" ”
"Well, I signed it, and those who don't sign it won't be here."
Zhang Ce admitted it so bluntly! This shocked Li Xuan a little dumbfounded, and after being stunned for a while, Li Xuan smiled helplessly: "You are really sincere." ”
"If you are not honest, can you be deceived?" Zhang Ce said eloquently: "The filming time of your drama is not short, if they leak out of their mouths at that time, it must be a trouble, so I will tell you directly now." ”
Li Xuan smiled helplessly and looked carefully at the information in his hand.
There is not much information left, only six or seven copies, and a few stills of the girl on the top make Li Xuan's eyes shine. With a round face, a fleshy nose, and eyes that smile like crescents, this girl looks like a delicate and lively girl.
took a look at the information, but the girl's name was Jing Daiying, an actor who had just graduated from the wireless artist training class. Blue Phoenix is such a naughty character, it's her!
Now the artists of wireless are obviously not as carefully selected as later generations, and Li Xuan is not interested in the next two materials after taking a look at the stills. According to Li Xuan's aesthetic point of view, people are still a little ugly......
It wasn't until he saw a girl named Huang Minyi that Li Xuan decided on another role, and the role of Dongfang's undefeated concubine Shishi belonged to her.
It's a pity that after reading these six or seven pieces of information, Li Xuan didn't find Ren Yingying who matched his mind. Ren Yingying, played by Guan Zhilin in the later generations, had too deep an impact on him, and that role was played by her so well-known and beautiful. Now these wireless artists, no one can give Li Xuan this feeling.
As for going to Guan Zhilin to play now? Please, this girl is only eighteen years old now, how can she play the feeling of a mature woman in the future.
"Director Zhang, are there no other actresses in wireless?" Li Xuan asked with a frown.
"How?" Zhang Ce looked at Li Xuan and asked suspiciously, "Are you not satisfied with these?" ”
"Not satisfied." Li Xuan directly shook his head and replied.
Zhang Ce also frowned, and asked slowly, "How many roles are missing?" ”
"One."
"Just one?"
Li Xuan nodded and responded, "Hmm." ”
"It's just one thing missing...... Zhang Ce pondered for a moment and continued to ask, "Then what kind of character do you want to find?" ”
"Knowing the surname, beautiful, plus ......" Li Xuan said while recalling: "Plus the eyes are better to be bigger." ”
"Knowing the surname, beautiful, big eyes!" Zhang Ce muttered, opened his drawer casually, found a piece of paper and handed it to Li Xuan.
"Forehead......" The corners of Li Xuan's eyes jumped unnaturally, and he took the information and said with an unhappy face: "Director Zhang, you still have a private hiding!" ”
Zhang Ce waved his hand and said disdainfully: "What kind of private collection is this, if it weren't for this woman being in love with our Shaw Brothers actors, I wouldn't bother to show you, and I would have asked you to find an actor in our Shaw Brothers." ”
“……”
Li Xuan, who was quite speechless by Zhang Ce, didn't bother to reply, and looked directly at the information in his hand.
This is really a beautiful woman with a knowing surname, beauty, and big eyes, the woman's name is Gao Miaosi, and she is still a student of the first phase of the wireless artist training class. She has participated in dozens of wireless TV series, such as "Chu Liuxiang", "Peerless Double Pride", "Riding the Wind and Waves", etc., which is one of the most popular flowers in the 70s of wireless. It's a pity that her light is all covered by Zhao Yazhi and Wang Mingquan, and she has not been very famous.
Seeing her photo, Li Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the candidate to play Ren Yingying was found. (To be continued.) )