A gym converted from a large warehouse in Kowloon, which is full of sponge pads, fitness equipment, knives, guns and sticks and other things, is the base for the Hong family class under Hong Jingbao to practice their skills.

To be a dragon and tiger martial artist is to exercise regularly to maintain physical fitness, otherwise there will be danger when doing dangerous actions, and I don't know how many dragon and tiger martial artists are injured every year because of shooting accidents, and some people even lose their lives for this.

It can be said that the dragon and tiger martial artist is a man who makes money with his life.

Hong Jiaban is very famous in the Hong Kong film industry, broadly speaking, a film team hosted by Hong Jingbao, in addition to the Dragon and Tiger Martial Artists, there are also some photographers and producers, such as Liu Guanwei, the director of "Mr. Zombie", said in an interview that he was from Hong Jiaban

In a narrow sense, it only refers to the martial arts instructors and dragon and tiger martial artists with Hong Jingbao as the core.

In the Hong Kong film industry in the eighties and nineties of the 20th century, Hung Jiaban once dominated one side and produced many popular action masterpieces. And the formation of the "Hong Family Class" has something to do with one person, that is, Li Xiaolong.

It is said that when Hong Jingbao was 19 or 20 years old, although he was very young, he had already done martial arts instruction with his outstanding skills and flexible mind. One day, he met Li Xiaolong to visit the class. Li Xiaolong was invited by Golden Harvest to return to Hong Kong at that time, but the film had not yet opened, so Hong Jingbao had only heard of some of his deeds.

Because they are all martial arts students, the young and vigorous Hong Jingbao was a little unconvinced by Li Xiaolong, so he said to Li Xiaolong: "Your name is Li Xiaolong?" Listen to your feet fast? ”

Li Xiaolong thought that Hong Jingbao was going to challenge, so he immediately said, "What, do you want to try?" ”

Originally, Hong Jingbao just asked casually and didn't want to challenge, but as soon as Li Xiaolong's words came out in public, he couldn't take the stage without defeating, and for the sake of face, Hong Jingbao had no choice but to fight hard.

The outcome of the competition was very simple, according to Hong Jingbao later recalled: "Li Xiaolong's movements were too fast, I just got up, and his feet were already in front of me......"

The master's moves are not like ordinary people's martial arts competitions, and they can't tell the winner for half a day, only one round, and the young and arrogant Hong Jingbao knows that he is not Li Xiaolong's opponent.

Ordinary people compete in martial arts, and the general consequence is to make enemies.

Li Xiaolong and Hong Jingbao, two kung fu wizards, are not so worldly, and the two became friends because of martial arts.

Later, Li Xiaolong told Hong Jingbao that he wanted to shoot "Game of Death" and would reserve a good role for Hong Jingbao, and Hong Jingbao immediately said that he would cooperate.

It's just that for unknown reasons, the filming of "Game of Death" has been postponed again and again, but in 1973, Li Xiaolong started filming "Enter the Dragon" and thought of Hong Jingbao, who had already gone to Thailand to film.

Bruce Lee called Hong Jingbao and said that he wanted to have two tricks with him at the beginning of the film, and Hong Jingbao immediately rushed back to Hong Kong to co-star with Li Xiaolong in the movie "Enter the Dragon".

Since then, Hong Jingbao has followed Li Xiaolong as a martial arts instructor and become the boss of the martial artists around Li Xiaolong, because Li Xiaolong is very bold, Hong Jingbao has lived a life of big fish and big meat.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, 1 month before the release of "Enter the Dragon", Li Xiaolong died suddenly, and Hong Kong kung fu movies have lost a giant dragon since then.

In those years, Li Xiaolong already had some fixed martial artists, and it can be assumed that if Li Xiaolong had not died, there might have been a "Li family class".

After Li Xiaolong's death, the martial artists with Li Xiaolong did not work and became a plate of loose sand, so they had no choice but to follow their boss Hong Jingbao.

Because these people are familiar with Li Xiaolong, their understanding of kung fu movies has been ahead of others' martial arts to follow Hong Jingbao, which has laid a solid foundation for Hong Jingbao's rise.

It's just that Li Xiaolong's death led to the sudden decline of kung fu films, which made the lives of Hong Jingbao and others plummet in an instant, and they slipped to the bottom, and there was no longer a good day of big fish and big meat.

However, Hong Jingbao's talent is not boasted, plus he has worked hard for his brothers, and has a good relationship with several bosses of Jiahe, and has been a national martial arts instructor in many films in Jiahe, such as "Ghost Horse Double Star", "Huang Feihong Shaolin Boxing", "Yan Cave Detective", "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" and other films.

During that time, as long as there was money, Hong Jingbao would take his brothers to spend time and drink, and if there was no money, everyone had to eat steamed buns and pickles together.

Until last year, Hong Jingbao's talent was recognized by Golden Harvest, and he joined Golden Harvest as a director, and wrote, directed and acted in the movie "Sande Monk and Chung Mi Liu", the box office was not bad, and the box office was more than 2 million box office, which was the sixth place at the box office last year.

It was also at this time that Hong Jingbao began to have a little surplus, but because there were too many brothers, Hong Jingbao was a famous Meng Weijun in the Hong Kong film industry, and he also recruited a lot of brothers.

Because it was daytime, there were not many people in the training base now, and there were only a dozen people practicing, fighting, wrestling, fists and feet, and physical strength...... Everyone is in full swing.

"Big brother, Yuanlou is here!" Hong Jingbao, who was sitting in the lounge in the corner of the base, was awakened by Yuan Biao's words.

"Oh! Let Yuanlou in! Hong Jingbao said casually.

The lounge is also where Hong Kyung-bo discusses stunts with his brothers.

In the movies shot by Hung Jiaban, many wonderful action scenes are designed here, and everyone expresses their opinions in every word, and this method of teamwork is called "brainstorming", which was once the only magic weapon for the rapid development of Hong Kong films.

Yuan Lou, that is, Cheng Long, was chatting with a group of martial artists in the base at this time. Because they are all brothers and sisters, although Cheng Long flew solo, he still has a good relationship with everyone! Come to the base often!

Cheng Long's original surname was Chen, he entered the Chinese Drama School in 1960 to study opera, was named Yuanlou by his master, and entered the film industry as a martial artist.

However, in 1976, when Cheng Long was in Australia, through the relationship of manager Chen Ziqiang, he was favored by Luo Wei, a filmmaker at the time, and since then he has broken away from Qixiaofu and started to fly solo.

immediately returned to Hong Kong to shoot "New Jingwumen", Luo Wei named it "Cheng Long", but several movies were unsuccessful, and now Cheng Long is still an unfamous martial arts actor.

"Big brother!" Cheng Long, who walked into the lounge, shouted affectionately, now Cheng Long's status in the Hong Kong film industry is not as good as Hong Jingbao, so he is very polite when he sees Hong Jingbao Cheng Long.

"Sit, Yuanlou! How about now! Anyway, this is your mother's home, so if you have anything to do, just come here! Seeing Cheng Long giving face to the senior brother like this, Hong Jingbao is also very proud, showing the demeanor of a big brother.

"Hah! Senior brother, I'm here to ask for your help! There are a few movies that want you to help with martial arts instruction! Cheng Long politely explained his intentions.

"Oh!" Hearing that business was coming, Hong Jingbao immediately came to the spirit, there is no way there are too many brothers, and the brothers who rely on Jiahe's movies alone can't eat enough, and now they have to take on outside movies to subsidize.

"That's right, senior brother, someone came to Mr. Luo yesterday, and he talked about ten movies at once, two a year, all of which are starring me! Now because there is still a lack of a lot of martial arts actors and martial arts instructors! I'm here to ask the senior brother for help! ”

Yesterday afternoon, in order to prevent a long night from dreaming too much, Cheng Long was snatched away by others.

Zhang Aijia directly found Luo Wei to sign Cheng Long's contract, and because Lei Weidong spoke highly of Cheng Long, Zhang Aijia made his own decision and directly changed the contract of four films to ten films.

As for Luo Wei, he is already a little disappointed with Cheng Long now, you must know that from 76 to the present, Luo Wei has helped Cheng Long contact several movies, but for some reason, Cheng Long just can't become popular, and the box office of several movies he made is not very good.

Now I finally got a big customer, and I signed ten movies at once, all of which were starring Cheng Long. Rowe was certainly pleased. If Zhang Aijia could contribute more money, Luo Wei even agreed to transfer Cheng Long's contract to Zhang Aijia's Bigao Company.

It's a pity that Zhang Aijia didn't pay attention to this at the time, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many things in the future, and the relationship between Lei Weidong and Cheng Long was not very good for several years.

However, because of Lei Weidong's reminder, Zhang Aijia set the liquidated damages at a very high level, if Cheng Long can't complete the indicators of these ten movies, each movie will have to accompany 100 million Hong Kong dollars.

This high liquidated damages almost scared Brother Cheng Long to death.

You must know that Cheng Long's salary at this time is only a few thousand yuan, and 100 million Hong Kong dollars can't afford to lose even if Cheng Long's brother is sold. However, for the sake of the high salary, Cheng Long and Luo Wei still signed the contract. At this time, Brother Cheng Long would never realize that he would be worth so much money in the future, and it would be too late by the time he realized it.

The liquidated damages of 100 million Hong Kong dollars for a movie, even Jiahe can't get it, there is no way, Jiahe's Zou Daheng had to pinch his nose and let Cheng Long finish the contract.

When Cheng Long knew that Zhang Aijia's company still lacked some martial arts guidance, he immediately patted his chest, and the matter of martial arts guidance was wrapped up on himself.

"Wow, Yuanlou! Congratulations! It's going to play the leading role again so soon, or ten movies. As long as a movie is popular, you will be popular! After listening to Cheng Long's narration.

Qi Xiaofu immediately surrounded Cheng Long in the middle to congratulate.

"Yuanlou, you have developed, and someone asked you to be the protagonist so soon! Treat, treat! ”

Everyone coaxed together, to be able to be the protagonist again so quickly, and it was also ten movies Cheng Long also felt like he was dreaming yesterday, "Yes, today's food stall, I'll invite you to dinner!" ”