At first, I just wanted to make money

The story of "Black Man" was born in 1991, from "The Story of a City Stranger" published by Hong Kong Subculture Hall, the author is Peng Zhiming.

Later, the cartoonist Li Zhida turned it into a cartoon and named it "Legend of the Black Man".

It is said that the source of inspiration is the assistant Kato in "The Green Hornet"...

The story template of "Black Man" is exactly the same as "John Wick", "The Wronged Man" including "Taken"-the retired uncle comes back in a rage and flicks the cool routine of the world.

The hero Xu Xi of "Black Man" is the instructor of Unit 701 of the killer organization. His body has been modified, and his fighting power is very strong without pain. He is the best killing weapon.

But he was tired of the life of fighting and killing. After defecting from the organization, he went to Hong Kong and found a job as an administrator in the library.

Then he was forced to come back out of the rivers and lakes...

This kind of movie is about fighting!

Li Lianlian is really awesome...

Agile, ruthless, and deadly moves!
——Li Lianlian is simply an action star model tailor-made by God for Chinese-language action movies.

In terms of chic and beautiful movements, there is no other person except Li Lianlian.

Moreover, the opponents in "Black Man" are all members of Unit 701 according to the setting. The transformed biochemicals have amazing strength and endurance, and have the vitality that Xiaoqiang can't kill.

Therefore, when Heixia encounters these hard bones, he must do his best and use many very cruel methods.

The appearance of those extremely violent and bloody action shots also gave the whole film an extraordinary look and feel!

Therefore, Shen Xudong suggested: "Actually, it's quite good to get tired of fighting and killing like "Black Man", and then quit the arena, because of certain things and have to come back out of the arena!"

Xu Ke immediately noticed something: "...do you have an idea?"

"Hmm...I want to make some cool action movies!"

"An action movie?"

"It's just about selling action, it's a cool movie about love and hatred!"

Xu Ke was very interested: "Why do you have such an idea?"

Shen Xudong explained: "I have a company in the United States that specializes in producing mid-to-medium-budget films, mainly horror, thriller and even pornography... It is unlikely that such films will be released in the mainland, only action movies can be released in the mainland! "

"...Not necessarily, I heard that "Rush Hour 3" has not been approved."

"Then don't involve any Chinese elements..."

"Rush Hour 3" didn't get approval because the villain is a Chinese gangster...

The New Line said that it doesn't matter, anyway, the mainland market is pitifully small - at most, the box office is over [-] million U.S. dollars...

Shen Xudong continued: "Fill up a killer organization, and the hero is a retired member of the killer organization..."

Xu Ke immediately asked: "Who do you want to play?"

"Sammo Hung or Yuen Biao?"

Xu Ke immediately reminded: "...they don't have the North American market."

"Try it... It's better than Jackie Chan and Li Lianlian, they are too expensive!"

"...Who do you use as the director?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "This is just a setting... The rules of the killer organization, the setting of the underground world, etc., all need a complete improvement... I will consider the director after the setting is completed."

"…All right…"

Xu Ke is a little regretful...

But he has already taken over the "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" series, and he also has the "Embroidered Spring Knife" series, "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom"...

I don't have time to worry about action movies...

The movie Xu Ke made with his own heart is very similar to the one-character electric sword in Swordsman. The sword moves are very gorgeous and dazzling, but if you look closely, there are many flaws, which can be easily deciphered.

"The True Colors of a Hero 3", "The Legend of Shushan", "Seven Swords" including the later "Looking for a Man in the Deep Sea"...

On the contrary, when the producer tinkered with a bunch of classics.

Typical good sentences but no good articles!
When I was young, I was full of youthful spirit, and the density of "good sentences" was relatively frequent, so looking at it as a whole, it would make people overlook the major flaws in the overall structure.

As we get older, there are fewer and fewer good sentences, and they will naturally collapse.

And... I went in the direction of technical flow in the later stage, and didn't care about the logic of the script at all.

Therefore, we must strictly restrict him, at least in terms of the script, and we must not appear "Yuhuatian, if you have the ability, enter the tornado to compete!" 'This kind of stupid plot that doesn't even need basic logic for special effects...

……

On August 8, Shen Xudong left Xiangshan and went directly to Edinburgh.

"Old Thousands" premiered here.

In the film market, "Transformers" is still ranked first. Even if the invincible Zhou Jielun's "Unspeakable Secret" was released, it still failed to shake the fourth week of "Transformers"...

But the box office of 1100 million in three days is not bad.

After all, it is a cross-border director, and it is set as a campus youth type.

The publisher, China Film, was a bit disappointed——China Film had previously given Zhou Jielun a golden pig, hoping that he could shake up "Transformers", after all, "Transformers" has been released for the fourth week...

Still a little bit worse!
The box office of "Transformers" in the fourth week was 3800 million, and the cumulative box office was 2.32 million.

Well, it surpassed "Zhao Zilong" and temporarily ranked first in the year.

It hasn't been released yet——in Yuanshikong, "Transformers" has been released for two full months!
The pressure is on "Crazy"...

Oh, and the director of "Old Thousand" is Cao Baoping, starring Deng Chao, Gong Li, Wang Yu, Huang Bo and Liang Jiahui...

Liang Jiahui played the ultimate villain, the old ghost.

Well, a co-produced film by a Mainland director + actors from both sides of the Taiwan Strait!

Wang Yu was suggested by art director Xi Zhongwen to play Deng Chao's master...

Considering the Taiwan release of "Old Thousand", Shen Xudong agreed.

Anyway, he is not expensive, and casting him in the role can add a lot of gimmicks to the movie, so there is no reason to object.

At the Edinburgh premiere press conference, more than 1.79 media came, all wanting to interview Shen Xudong——"Life Events" ended with [-] million yuan, many media wanted to interview Shen Xudong, and they slipped away without morality!

It’s hard to make a public appearance, of course, you have to do a good interview.

Of course, the first question asked by the media must be "Crazy":
"Actually, it is very difficult to come up with new routines for movies about gamblers. "Gambler" is a typical gambler movie: a young man with extraordinary talent enters the rivers and lakes, worships a famous teacher, meets a beautiful woman, decides his life and death, and eventually becomes a generation of gamblers, and then quits. Rivers and lakes, go back to the life of ordinary people..."

"Then how to be unconventional? I asked the director to show how cheaters are beaten, as well as many underground rules, such as chopping hands, waists, ears, tendons, etc..."

"The gambling films in Hong Kong are purely for fun, and they have nothing to do with the situation in the Mainland. The story of "Crazy" is actually quite true. Before we officially started filming, we found a lot of masters to learn gambling skills..."

"The whole movie is actually quite depressing...so a sexy mature actress is needed..."

"The poster is just a still photo... I always thought that Sister Gong Li was quite sexy, but she didn't have much chance to show it when she was young, so it's a pity..."

The poster of "Old Thousand" is Gong Li's short hair, hanging silk skirt, sitting on the sofa with his legs crossed and smoking, um, the screen is full of Nako...

"Director Cao Baoping...Have you watched "The Wrath of Glory"? I recommend you to watch it...After watching it, you will know why I specifically asked him to be the director of "Old Thousand"."

"Then Xudong, what are your expectations for the box office of "Old Thousand"?"

"I think if piracy is well controlled, the box office in the mainland should reach [-] million..."

"So confident?"

""Manslaughter" 1.5 million, the quality of "Crazy" is not inferior to "Manslaughter"..."

Speaking of this, Shen Xudong said again: "Also, let me tell you some news, the Korean and Japanese copyrights including the rights to remake were sold in Cannes "Girls"..."

Well, he thought what he said was what the media was concerned about, but when he asked questions freely, the reporter's first question stumped him: "Xudong, it is said on the Internet that you and Gong Li are lovers, is it true?"