Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

Chapter 164 Master, you are so bad

Chen Yulian is a talented person who has been in the industry for less than a year.

This was my first time filming a movie, and my first scene was a kiss scene with Yang Ye.

The first time, I was shy. After NG, I became nervous the second time and ended up NGing again.

Yang Ye didn't care, anyway, he just lay down and pretended to be a dead body. A young girl sat astride him, kissing him with two red lips, and she felt very happy riding a horse.

After being NGed three times in a row, Yang Ye felt that Chen Yulian was about to cry, and said helplessly: "Pause for a moment and talk about the show."

Yang Ye said and sat up.Chen Yulian said sheepishly: "I'm sorry, director, I..."

Yang Ye asked: "Have you read the script after you received it?"

Chen Yulian said: "Yes, I have read the script and the novel several times, and I have also thought about how to act, but I didn't expect that as soon as I started..."

Yang Ye nodded and said, "I can't blame you. Firstly, you are a newcomer and lack experience. Secondly, in order to finish filming the exterior scenes before winter comes, the order of the plot was reversed. The first feeding was indoors. , you should act shy, but that scene will have to wait until you return to Hong Kong and be shot in a studio.

What we are filming now is the second dose of medicine. The plot is that we are being chased by Zuo Lengchan. It will definitely not work if you act hesitantly at this time.Let's do it like this. I'll act it out once, and then you can feel it and act accordingly. "

Chen Yulian nodded and said: "Okay!"

Yang Ye shouted: "Who will help me fight... Damn, forget it."

He originally wanted to find someone to play Linghu Chong in his place, and then he would play Ren Yingying and let Chen Yulian learn from him.

But he suddenly thought that a man was lying on the ground instead of him, and then he kissed her. This was so disgusting.

The people around him understood what he meant and laughed secretly, but no one dared to step forward.

Hui Yinghong, who was standing aside, suddenly said: "Master, can I do it?"

Although kissing a female disciple in public is a bit perverted, it is better than kissing a boy. Yang Ye nodded and said: "A Hong, come on."

Hui Yinghong lay down obediently and closed her eyes, but her heart was racing like a deer.

It's really a bit embarrassing to be mentored in front of so many people.

Yang Ye recalled how Zhang Min kissed Xu Guanjie, and when he lowered his head, the reenactment came!
Hui Yinghong closed her eyes and felt that her little mouth was blocked by the master's mouth, but she did not dare to move.

Chen Yulian squatted beside her, watching carefully with a red face.

Yang Ye let go of Hui Yinghong, turned to look at Chen Yulian, and asked, "Alian, do you understand?"

Chen Yulian recalled Yang Ye's movements and expressions just now, and was surprised by his superb acting skills. She nodded quickly and said: "I understand!"

"Give you 3 minutes to brew!" Yang Ye said, pulling Hui Yinghong up from the grass.

……

Again.

Chen Yulian looked back and said resolutely: "We must force the poison out!"

As he spoke, he pressed Yang Ye's chest with his palms, lowered his head and kissed Yang Ye's lips.

This time it went very smoothly and Chen Yulian completed the task well.

She has a very cold temperament. In fact, as long as she keeps a straight face, she can perform this scene very vividly.

"OK, next time, Ah Hua, it's your turn!"

Yuan Hua agreed and stepped forward.

Next, we filmed the scene where Zuo Lengchan chased Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying. Ren Yingying ran away with the seriously injured Linghu Chong while fighting Zuo Lengchan from a distance with a whip.

Every time he swung the whip, the dust flew up and the grass was scattered in all directions.

This depends on the explosive points that Ke Shouliang has buried in advance.

When Ke Shouliang buried the explosive points, he took Yuanhua with him. Yuanhua had to remember the location of each explosive point to avoid accidental damage.

The next fight scene subverted everyone's understanding. They were actually divided into two groups, each filming their own.

Here Yuan Hua jumped up from the trampoline, chasing in the air while dodging the explosions, while Ren Yingying was minding her own business with her whip.

Everyone was surprised to find: If editing and special effects can be used in this way, wouldn't anyone be able to make kung fu movies in the future?

That's what happened.

The "Swordsman" in 90 was just Xu Ke's experimental trial. In "Once Upon a Time" in 91, something happened. During the filming of the "Ladder" sequence, Jet Li injured his foot.

Wouldn't you stop filming if you were injured?Of course not, how much would it waste if I stopped for a day?
Because of his experience in "The Swordsman", Xu Ke directly found three stand-ins, Gu Xuanzhao, Xiong Xinxin, and Ling Zhihua, to replace Jet Li and Ren Shiguan during the filming.

Li Lianjie and Yam Shiguan basically don't play. They only need to show their faces, pose and take close-ups at critical moments.

Just like this, the "fighting on the ladder" sequence in "Once Upon a Time" actually became a classic scene in Kung Fu movies. "Once Upon a Time" also won the Academy Award for Best Editing that year.

It can only be said that Xu Ke is awesome, but Xu Ke's actions also changed his subsequent martial arts style.

From then on, cats and dogs were able to film action movies, with doubles throughout.Just use montage techniques to collage actions and portraits.

Having said that, this is not a good thing. Hong Kong kung fu movies later died violently, which is also one of the root causes.

……

In order not to delay the filming, everyone stayed on the mountain at night.The crew made an agreement with the mountain people in Wushe to send supplies every two days.

In the evening, the sky was filled with colorful clouds, and a group of people had a picnic with a bonfire on the grassland, which had a unique flavor.

"Pah!" Yuan Hua casually swatted a mosquito to death and complained: "There are too many mosquitoes!"

Yang Ye smiled and said: "There is no way, it's in the wild."

"I feel like I'm eating mosquito rice."

“Special food, great flavor!”

Don't use mosquito coils in the tent. If it ignites the tent while you are sleeping, you will be dead.

Yang Ye held up the electric light and pinched the mosquitoes one by one. His technique was so accurate that he killed one of them as soon as he stretched out his hand.

Hui Yinghong came in and asked, "Master, do you want mosquito repellent?"

"Just right!"

Yang Ye took the mosquito repellent water and wiped it on his body, fearing that it would not be applied anywhere.

"A Hong, can you wipe my back for me?"

"Oh!"

Yang Ye hugged up his vest, revealing his broad shoulders.Then he felt a small hand touching his back. It was cold and comfortable!
Yang Ye said: "It's your turn tomorrow. Play well. Although you are not the heroine, the role of Lan Fenghuang is very exciting. There will be a second part of this movie. When the audience gets familiar with you, I will measure it for you." Make a movie about yourself.”

Yang Ye drew a big cake for Hui Yinghong, and Hui Yinghong was very moved.She said: "Thank you, Master, you treat me so well!"

"You are my good disciple, how could Master treat you badly?"

"Master, when you were giving a lecture today, I discovered that not only are you the best in martial arts, but your acting skills are also superb."

"I've made so many movies and you just found out? You deserve a spanking."

"Um..." Hui Yinghong blushed and said, "Master, can you teach me acting?"

"After learning Master's Kung Fu, you still want to learn Master's acting skills?"

"Then I want to learn from you." Hui Yinghong started to act coquettishly.

"Then let me test your acting savvy first."

Yang Ye was willing to teach, Hui Yinghong was immediately overjoyed and said quickly: "Okay, master, you can test me!"

Yang Ye thought for a while and said, "You play the scene during the day and I'll watch it!"

With that said, he lay down on the sleeping bag.

Hui Yinghong was dumbfounded. She actually asked me to act in this scene. The master is really bad.

She looked at Yang Ye's handsome face and felt her heart tremble. After a moment, she finally lowered her head and kissed him.

……

The filming continued the next day. Before the filming of "The Swordsman" started, Yang Ye asked Chen Yulian to go to Yuan Heping to practice whipping for a month in advance.

Now officially filming, she dances like a dragon with a whip in one hand, and combined with the explosive spots prepared in advance, the visual effect is quite amazing.

Hui Yinghong is also good. Girls are naturally afraid of snakes, but she actually overcomes it and can play with snakes very smoothly.Ren Yingying was no match for Zuo Lengchan. She was about to be overtaken, but Linghu Chong woke up at the critical moment.

Zuo Lengchan flew up in the air: "Look at the palm!"

Linghu Chong shouted: "Down!"

Holding Ren Yingying and rolling to the ground, there was a "boom", a flash of fire, and the ground was blown up with dust.

"It's my turn to play with you!"

The decisive battle between Linghu Chong and Zuo Lengchan begins.

In this fight, Xu Guanjie used all his stand-ins in the 90 version.

Firstly, he doesn't know kung fu, and secondly, when this movie was made, he was already over 40 years old and his muscles and bones were no longer strong, so it was difficult for him to direct.

When it came to the second film "The Invincible East", Xu Ke replaced him and found Jet Li to act, and the action scenes were improved to eighteen levels.

Yang Ye is only 25 years old, in his prime, and he is so agile that he naturally does not need a substitute.

In this battle, Yang Ye and Yuan Hua both took part in person. The filming lasted four or five days, and all trampoline wires were used. Compared with the original version, Xu Guanjie did not even dare to give a frontal shot, which was already far beyond.

"Fan! Fan! Ready, start!"

Yang Ye broke a tendon of grass, flew up in the air, and struck Yuan Hua on the face.

In the next shot, Yuan Hua's eyes are blood red and have been stabbed "blind!"

……

"Very good, get ready for the next one. Where is the beekeeper?"

The assistant director brought a lean, dark-skinned middle-aged man over and said, "Yes! This is the beekeeper we found from Wushe. His name is Basso Mona."

Yang Ye shook hands with the beekeeper and said, "Hello, are you from Desai?"

Basso Mona said in very difficult to understand Mandarin: "Hello Director Yang, you defeated the Japanese, you are a hero!"

The Desai people hated the Japanese so much that they launched the Wushe Uprising in 1930 to resist Japanese aggression.However, they were brutally suppressed by the Japanese with aircraft and artillery, causing heavy casualties and leaving only more than 200 survivors.

Yang Ye swept the Japanese martial arts world, so Basso Mona admired Yang Ye very much.

Yang Ye said: "Thank you, I'll trouble you this time!"

Basso Mona smiled and said: "It's a trivial matter!"

Basso Mona puts on Yuanhua's clothes.Next, the crew saw a strange sight. Driven by Basso Mona's shouts, bees were densely crawling all over his body.

Chen Yulian swung the whip, Yuanhua added another shot of falling off the cliff, and the decisive battle was completed.

At this time, the red clouds in the western sky were brilliant, and Yang Ye asked Hua Huiying to take a video of the sky.

Then he announced: "Okay, we're done. Let's go down the mountain early tomorrow morning."

……

When Yang Ye and his party returned to their residence in Xiluo Town, they saw Xu Feng sitting there chatting with Yuan Xiaotian.

Yang Ye quickly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Old man, thank you for your hard work."

The role of Feng Qingyang in the 90s version was played by Han Yingjie, but Han Yingjie is now playing the role of Gu Jinfu in the crew, so naturally he can only replace him. Yang Ye thought of Yuan Heping's father Yuan Xiaotian.

Mr. Yuan was 66 years old, and Yang Ye asked Xu Feng to go back to Hong Kong in person and pick him up.

Yuan Xiaotian smiled and said: "Playing your role as Young Master is just to make my old man famous. Why do you have to work so hard? I'm always here when you call me!"

Yang Ye exchanged greetings with Yuan Xiaotian and said, "I just came down from the mountain and I'm covered in dust. I'll clean it up first and then I'll drink with you in the evening."

Yuan Xiaotian said: "Please, please!"

In order to cover up the shortcomings of special effects, the classic scene where Feng Qingyang teaches Linghu Chong to learn swordsmanship was ultimately chosen to be a night scene.

"Linghu Chong, see clearly my swordsmanship!"

"Sword swing!"

The tip of the sword touched the ground a little, and the whole person rose into the air. An enemy was wiped across the neck by Feng Qingyang's long sword.

"Waving Sword Power!"

With a "whoosh" sound, Feng Qingyang and his sword pierced an enemy through the chest.

"Falling sword pose!"

An enemy attacked Feng Qingyang's bottom lane. Feng Qingyang rose into the air. When he fell, the tip of his sword passed by and the enemy fell onto the street instantly.

"Strike the sword!"

An enemy struck down in the air, and the wind was clear like an arrow leaving the string, flying out diagonally, killing another person!
"Depress the sword's momentum!"

Feng Qingyang led Linghu Chong and fought around the tree with the enemy, cutting the enemy's knees with a sword.

The enemy fought to the death and swooped down from the tree.

"Li Jian Shi!"

With a swing of the long sword, the enemy was instantly cut in half, neatly!

"Another batch of souls killed by the sword!"

Feng Qingyang took two steps with his hands behind his back, and the camera gave him a close-up.

"We are all just flesh and blood, why do we want to make the world a mess?"

Linghu Chong held the sword and asked: "Senior, which sect are you the master of?"

Feng Qingyang turned around and said: "Brother, why do you value this 'name'? It is this 'name' that has caused countless misfortunes and misfortunes in the world."

"Senior, if your martial arts skills are so good, why do you still live such a homeless life?"

"What's the use of having high martial arts skills? Heroes are also flesh and blood. As long as you are controlled by these hypocrites and villains, your relatives are not a tool at their mercy. I withdraw from the world and separate from my relatives. It's for their safety. In fact, human emotions are more powerful than any martial arts! You are a disciple of Huashan, so be careful about your master, he has evil intentions!"

"Why do you say this about my master?"

"Jianghu factions are full of truth, but it is just a power game. Back then, Huashan was closed to internal strife due to differences in martial arts. The disciples were divided into two factions, the Sword Sect and the Qi Sect. They fought from literature to martial arts, leaving corpses everywhere. To put it bluntly, Are you still arguing about who should be the leader? Your master also sacrificed many disciples in order to be the leader. So, you have to be careful."

"Since it's an internal fight behind closed doors, how do you know so much about the Huashan Sect?"

"If you have a chance in the future, ask your master who Feng Qingyang is."

"The wind is clear?"

Feng Qingyang stood up and slowly walked away with his hands behind his back: "The moves I taught you just now are called Dugu Nine Swords. Each move is derived from the failed moves. In the martial arts, those who can find the truth from the failed moves are also How many people are there? Although I teach you a few tricks, I don’t think it’s necessary to be a master and a disciple, just be a pair of good brothers!"

"Brother Feng... Feng!"

The long grass was swaying and the clear wind had disappeared.

I worked every night to shoot this scene, and it took seven or eight nights to complete it.Since I had little experience and had to pay attention to safety at night, it was very hard to shoot.

Everyone says that all Hong Kong directors are fast shooters. In fact, some high-quality movies are not fast to shoot.

The ladder-fighting scene in "Once Upon a Time" is a classic and took 31 days to shoot. The final battle between Chen Zhen and Tsuyoshi Fujita in "Fist of Heroes" is also a classic and took 28 days to shoot.

Even though Yang Ye knew what the final effect would be, it was not easy to present it perfectly.

After filming this scene, Yang Ye smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, old man. I'll take you to Taipei tomorrow morning!"

Yuan Xiaotian smiled and said: "The hard work is really hard, and the fun is really interesting. My old man has been filming movies for decades, and I have never seen a filming method like yours. Now I can't wait for it to be released and watch the finished film." "

Yang Ye smiled and said, "I'll invite you to the premiere then."

"Then it's settled!"

Yang Ye said to Xu Feng: "A Feng, I'm going to Taipei tomorrow to attend the Golden Horse Awards. The crew is left to you. You take Mr. Hua to the north to shoot the Miao wedding in the bamboo forest."

The Miao wedding is a scene from the movie.In the movie, the Sun Moon God Sect was changed into a smuggler of salt, and they used Miao marriages to cover up their smuggling of salt.

This scene does not require a performance. A group of extras dressed as Miao people will carry Chen Yulian's sedan chair through the scene. It will be fine if Yang Ye is not there.

Xu Feng nodded and said, "I understand, don't worry!" After saying that, he went to make arrangements for tomorrow's shooting.

Guan Zhilin came over and said, "Brother Ye, I want to go to Taipei with you."

(End of this chapter)