Chapter 203: Kamikaze Stunt Team
"Mr. Lin, please forgive me." Li Xuan slowed down and continued: "Although you have supervised several TV series, I also know that TV producers are generally doing the work of directors, but as soon as you came to our company, you thought that I would invest in making movies for you, which is impossible. So, I hope you can show me a little bit of results first. ”
"Oh, I wonder what Mr. Li wants to think of my grades?" Lin Linggu asked curiously.
"So be it." Li Xuan nodded lightly on the dining table with his right hand, and then said, "I have a new drama to start filming soon, how about Mr. Lin as my assistant director?" ”
Lin Linggu frowned and asked tentatively: "Is this new drama the same martial arts film as Mr. Li's "Smiling Proud Jianghu"?" ”
"No!" Li Xuan looked at Lin Linggu and smiled playfully, and said, "Doesn't Mr. Lin like action movies the most, my new drama is an action movie." ”
As soon as Li Xuan's words came out, Lin Linggu's brows furrowed even deeper, and he asked a little coldly: "The same type as "Black Man"?" ”
"Forehead......" Li Xuan smiled bitterly and waved his hand, and said: "No, my new drama doesn't have so many fancy shots, if you have to classify it, you can just call it a Chenglong fashion kung fu movie." ”
"Shhhh
Lin Linggu gasped and asked in astonishment: "Mr. Li's new drama is a collaboration with Chenglong?" ”
"Hmm." Li Xuan nodded calmly and said, "To be precise, it is to cooperate with Jiahe." ”
At this time, Lin Linggu was not calm, and replied with envy next to him: "It's another big production!" Just finished cooperating with Shaw Brothers and cooperating with Golden Harvest, Mr. Li, Lin really admires you. ”
"Haha." Li Xuan chuckled, waved his hand and said, "Don't admire, it's just ......"
"What are you two talking about? What to admire and not admire? ”
A voice suddenly interrupted Li Xuan's words, and the two turned their heads to look, but it was Zhou Yanfa, who had just finished toasting at the woman's table, and walked back with a wine glass. There were two tables at this table, and naturally the two tables for men and women were separated, which was also convenient for these men who ate meat and drank a lot, and they let go of talking a lot at the table.
"What are you talking about, you don't know yet." Lin Linggu looked at Zhou Yan and said with a smile: "We, Director Li, are about to cooperate with Jiahe Chenglong to make a new film." ”
"Oh?" Zhou Yanfa glanced at Li Xuan in surprise, raised his wine glass and said, "This is good news, then I have to toast Ah Xuan to you now!" ”
"Ha, I remembered a glass of salute. Ah Fa, you performed well in "The Story of Hu Yue" this time, and I want to toast you too. Li Xuan also stood up with a wine glass and said.
"No matter how good you behave, it's not your investment, so I have to toast you twice." Zhou Yanfa looked at Li Xuan with a smile on his face and teased, it could be seen that Li Xuan said that he was very proud of his good performance in the movie.
"Okay, okay, I can't stand the compliments you two have to give each other." Lin Linggu also stood up with a smile, raised his wine glass and said loudly: "Come on, everyone, in addition to Yulian's birthday banquet, today is also Ah Fa's movie celebration banquet." We are here to wish Ah Fa's movies better and better, and the more they are filmed, the more they will be blockbusters, everyone cheers! ”
"Cheers!"
As soon as Lin Linggu's words fell, more than ten wine glasses were raised in an instant, and looking at Zhou Yanfa with a helpless face, everyone was in a commotion again.
On April 1, 1981, April Fool's Day, after nearly a month of calm in the Hong Kong film industry, suddenly broke a super big news: Li Xuan, who had just finished co-producing "Smiling Proud Jianghu" with Shaw Brothers, was about to start filming a fashion kung fu film "Police Story" starring Cheng Long. This movie is not only produced by Xuanhe, a satellite company of Golden Harvest, but also gathers two superstars, Chenglong and Lin Qingxia, to co-star!
As soon as this news broke, the first reaction of people in the film and television industry was not to believe it, because today is April Fool's Day, how could Golden Harvest cooperate with Li Xuan, who had just made a movie with Shaw Brothers; The second reaction was to quickly start asking insiders to ask each other whether the news was true.
It turned out to be dumbfounded, the news turned out to be true!
For a while, there was a lot of discussion in the media, some thought that Chenglong was not suitable for making fashion kung fu films, and thought that this movie would become the second "Killer Trench"; has analyzed what this "Police Story" will look like from Li Xuan's "King of Killers" and "Black Man"; There are fans of Chenglong and Lin Qingxia, looking forward to how wonderful this movie will be.
In short, all kinds of media in Hong Kong are in a mess again, and they are all discussing this movie. It's just that this time it's different from the last time "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Li Xuan doesn't have the heart to hold a press conference to engage in publicity, this time just a Chenglong name is enough.
And when the Hong Kong media was making a lot of noise, Li Xuan took five or six people to a wooden house village in Cha Kwo Ling, Kowloon.
Cha Kwo Ling is located in the eastern part of Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Lam Tin in Kwun Tong District, and most of its residents are new immigrants from Chinese mainland, most of whom are former refugees. After these refugees came to Hong Kong, it was extremely difficult for them to find good jobs, and the standard of living in Hong Kong was not low, so they had to pick up some wooden planks and iron sheets and so on, and build a simple house on a vacant piece of land to live in. Over time, villages of wooden houses appeared on the flat lands of these hillsides.
Moreover, the conditions of these wooden housing estates are even worse than those in Hong Kong, and they are even called squatters.
The small wooden house village that Li Xuan came to was located on a slightly steep hillside, with a road passing through it up and down. The tin houses and wooden houses in the wooden house village are staggered indiscriminately, which is extremely irregular. Sewage can be seen everywhere on the hillside, and right next to the garbage, there are women who are cooking with gas canisters. Many children who were dressed simply and with oily faces saw Li Xuan and his party in straight suits, and they were curiously following behind them and probing their brains to observe.
The group walked directly through the wooden house village to the top of the road, Li Xuan pointed to the wooden house village below and said, "How about it, Yi Yan, do your special team have the ability to drive four cars all the way down from here?" ”
"Haha, definitely capable." Chen Yiyan laughed and said without hesitation: "Our special team eats this bowl of rice, how can we say no!" ”
At the end of World War II, in order to resist the strong superiority of the US [***] team and save its defeat, he gathered a large number of pilots who were not afraid of death to form a kamikaze special attack team, and carried out a series of suicide attacks on US ships, landing forces, and fixed cluster targets with a large amount of explosives in their planes.
Now more than thirty years have passed since this history, and the kamikaze has long ceased to exist. But in Hong Kong, there is a group of people who are not afraid of death to form a movie stunt team, and they are also carrying out some tasks that are not afraid of death. And this time, the name of the team is called the kamikaze stunt team.
And Chen Yiyan is the head of the kamikaze stunt team.
Chen Yiyan, the first generation of Chinese stuntmen in Hong Kong, has a variety of stunts such as explosives and flying cars. In the 60s, he attended the Cathay Pacific Film Company's artist training course and also worked as a stuntman for Bruce Lee. Later, in 1977, Chen Yiyan set up a special stunt company, the kamikaze stunt team, to do stunts for some dangerous scenes in Hong Kong movies.
It's not that Li Xuan didn't think about using Chenglong's family class to do these stunt shots directly, because the family class in later generations was famous for playing hard. But at this time, I inquired and learned that although the family formation class had been established a long time ago, there were only five people, and they had no habit of fighting for their lives at all, and they were all obedient.
In the end, there was no way, Li Xuan had to find the well-known kamikaze stunt team.
It's just that to Li Xuan's surprise, he met another "acquaintance" in this stunt team, such as the person who always follows Chen Yiyan now, is Chen Yiyan's Taiwanese apprentice Ke Shouxuan. The appearance of this "flying man" made Li Xuan quite confident in this kamikaze stunt team.
"That's good, in the past few days, Yi Yan will take your team members to explore the road here more and get acquainted with it." Li Xuan nodded and continued: "It's best to be able to do it all at once, otherwise this wooden house village won't be able to withstand a few tosses." ”
Chen Yiyan replied with a chuckle: "No problem, I think not only the wooden house can't withstand a few tosses now, but this car shouldn't be able to withstand a few collisions." ”
"You don't have to worry about the car." Li Xuan nodded slightly, and replied: "Some of Chenglong's movies are sponsored by automobile companies. ”
"Oh? Which company is so rich that we can crash casually. ”
(Note: I'm tempted to spit out why that stunt team was named the kamikaze stunt team, but that's what it is...... )