new kung fu king

Chapter 452
For the first time in charge of the action design of Ahu's movie, the two brothers Yuan De and Yuan Kui expressed a lot of pressure. For this reason, the two did nothing for more than a week before the start-up, and they have been doing tricks at the base. Wang Xiaohu had to look at the movements for review. At the beginning, the two of them were restrained in their movements. Wang Xiaohu also knew that this was caused by their lack of self-confidence. At the same time, it was also the invisible influence he had made on Qi Xiaofu and even the entire action world over the years. In front of him, he made an axe.

Therefore, in the process of Yuan Kui and Yuan De's moves, Wang Xiaohu usually seldom speaks, and only when he encounters some action designs that are really unbearable, he will speak.

"Akui, Ade, the action you designed just now is very good, but it will look a little out of place in our "Hong Xiguan", and it will cause irresistible damage to the overall style of the film."

"Think about it, our story is set in the early Qing Dynasty, and the actions and behaviors of the characters should be in line with the background of the era at that time, so the action design should be biased towards traditional Kung Fu, rather than this kind of linear attack with straight punches, whips and legs. The tight defense of the elbow and head guard, the movements designed in this way are good-looking, but it is like performing a modern free fight in the Ming Dynasty."

Wang Xiaohu tried his best to slow down his speech and try to be instructive, just like the fight between Ma Ning'er and Hong Xiguan at the beginning of the two people's design. Binding steel claws, Wang Xiaohu requested that this scene show the martial arts and weapons of good and evil people through body language, so that the audience can know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy through a single encounter.

However, Yuan Kui and Yuan De gave up the use of weapons and designed a large number of movements as boxing kung fu, which seemed somewhat nondescript, saying that it was he who used enlightening words to enlighten the two senior brothers.

"Oh, we got it."

"Let me think about it."

The two senior brothers immediately fell into deep thought. At this time, Wang Xiaohu can't say anything more. Of course, he can design this fight based on his memory. Although it may not be exactly the same as the original action, he can grasp the core idea. .But now he wants to let the two brothers form the habit of loving and diligent thinking.

After all, some directors today do not have very high requirements for action design. For example, Zhang Che’s requirements must be masculine and violent. The actions in the film often appear "shirtless", "fighting", "five horses torn corpses", etc. full of cruelty and tragedy. Hu Jinquan is represented by femininity. In the film, "slight steps", "arc movements plus straight sprints", and "endless running" are all about expressing the characters' graceful momentary shapes, rhythms and aesthetics, as well as movements. mood of the scene.

As for Wang Xiaohu, on the basis of continuing Bruce Lee's real fighting, he carried forward this real style. The few movies he made after his rebirth may not be exaggerated or fancy, but each movie will mobilize the audience very well. Emotions give people a feeling of fists and blood.

At the same time, he also created the genre of Kung Fu comedy. The original version of "Hong Xi Guan" was directed by Wang Jing, who seemed to focus more on commercial and comedy elements. Fundamentally speaking, this version is more inclined to the synthesis of comedy kung fu and real fighting, and it can be regarded as a major breakthrough in Wang Xiaohu's film career.

There are some things that must be said, and it’s not clear if you don’t say it, but there are some things that you know the result, but you can’t say the answer, because once you say it, you will lose all meaning. Training is not only for future stars, but also pay attention to it. In terms of martial arts instructors and action actors.

Wang Xiaohu has not forgotten his roots, and he also knows that there is no rush at this time, so he waits patiently until Yuan De and Yuan Kui gradually find the trick. Fortunately, the two senior brothers did not disappoint him. After thinking for half an hour, A few more actions were set up, this time the designed actions were basically in line with the plot of the story, but still lacked a little flexibility.

"The arc movement of the weapon, and then consider the meaning of the move of the poisonous dragon piercing the heart." Wang Xiaohu put forward a new thinking link with a smile on his face. You must know that this is a very cool action in the whole film, and other than that, " Foshan Shadowless Foot" and Avalokitesvara with Thousand Hands jumped up and sat on the trolley to burst out hidden weapons. The two actions are the highlights.

Since it was the first time to propose the concept of an action director, Wang Xiaohu also wanted to make this a position that cannot be ignored in the film industry in the future. Therefore, after "Hong Xi Guan" was launched, the staff and actors of the crew were divided into two groups by Wang Xiaohu: composition drama and martial arts. For the filming, he was naturally in charge of the literary drama, while the martial arts part was handed over to Yuan Kui and Yuan De.

The division of labor between literary and martial arts does not mean shooting together, but Wang Xiaohu divides the script according to the scene, and decides to shoot literary or martial arts first. In this way, when filming literary scenes, the martial arts director does not need to be present. When filming martial arts, the director can go back to drink. It's time for tea, how to combine literary and martial arts is a headache for action directors and directors.

In "Hong Xi Guan", Wang Xiaohu has two jobs at the same time, so he is not in the good job of being a shopkeeper after apportioning the plan and playing leisurely. What's more, he is still the leading actor, and he is indispensable in both literary and martial arts.

"Brother Hu, which scene should we shoot today?" Li Hanwei, who had just been promoted, ran over and asked.

Li Hanwei asked whether to shoot literary dramas or martial arts first.

Wang Xiaohu rubbed his nose, and chose to start the film on an ancient street about 30 meters long in the Shaw Brothers studio. According to the progress of the script, the filming of the drama will be completed here: Hong Wending, who has grown up from the official head of Hong Xi, passes by. By the way, it leads to several plots of Hongdou selling her body to bury her mother and Ma Dashan's greed for the beauty of Hongdou.The martial arts scene involved is: Officer Hong Xi went to a teahouse to talk with his eldest brother, found out that he was betrayed by his eldest brother, and killed someone in the teahouse, and then led Ma Dashan to hire bodyguards, so that the following story proceeded logically.

A few simple words in the script, and several sets of scenes switching between literary and martial arts, that is, Hong Kong movies in the 90s were approaching the stage of commercialization and maturity to complete such a difficult shooting. In the minds of most filmmakers in 76 , This is the first time for this shooting mode, so most people are confused about the division of the boundaries of action director, literary drama, and martial arts.

"Film the martial arts part first, and start filming from the confrontation in the teahouse." After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking to Li Hanwei, he walked quickly to Xie Xian and said, "Fourth brother, have you finished reading the script?"

Xie Xian is a Hong Kong film and TV actor. Because he is ranked fourth, he is called "Fourth Brother" by insiders. Young people call him "Xie Laosi", and the older generation call him "A Shen". He is handsome and stylish, so he is called "the handsome guy who is not old".

Xie Xian played Hong Xiguan's eldest brother in the film, and he didn't appear in many scenes before and after, and the martial arts movements were mainly sneak attacks. Therefore, in line with the principle of preparing for "The Condor Shooting", Wang Xiaohu hired the fourth brother who had just finished filming "The Rich Man" Come to help out, after all, the fourth brother has a pseudonym outside, and he has some box office appeal in the circle.

"Just a few lines! It's easy to handle!" Xie Xian, who has just entered his [-]s, looks extraordinarily hearty, without the stability of his forties at all, giving people a feeling of being full of firepower. "What's more, Ah Hu, you paid a lot for the film. It's just a few lines and a few actions. To be honest, I really have to thank you for increasing my popularity."

Xie Xian's past few years have not been very glamorous. In the early 70s, he founded the Xie Brothers Film Company and directed "The Narrow Ladder" for the first time. After that, he also directed or wrote seven films. He once formed a team called "Silver Rats". However, in the mainstream of martial arts and kung fu movies, Xie Xian's film company is struggling to develop, so sometimes Boss Xie will take over films as a freelancer, and has starred in many Hong Kong and Taiwan movies.

"The Big Rich" is Xie Xian's representative work to earn pocket money. Xie Xian expressed great interest in being invited by the best Hollywood director Wang Xiaohu. It is definitely a huge progress in the career of an actor to be valued by him for the unmatched film dynasty.

"Fourth brother is really humble, I still rely on fourth brother's popularity." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

Xie Xian is very comfortable now, at least Wang Xiaohu does not have the bad temper of other great directors, he is humble, and his words make people listen to speculative, there is a feeling that you are always the key person in the film, which also makes him less than 1 minute on the stage The villain's role is taken seriously.

"What did Ah Hu say? You are only modest. Don't forget to take care of my job in the future."

"Definitely!" Wang Xiaohu said that it must be a firm matter. After saying a few words politely, he and Xie Xian began to talk about roles. The first cooperation must be serious. Whether the acting skills of any character is in place is also the link that Wang Xiaohu pays attention to. , because these old drama bones will play a finishing touch in the film.

"Brother, we are brothers, even you betrayed me!" Sitting on the bench with his head lowered, Wang Xiaohu said these words slowly with a serious expression of grief and indignation.

Xie Xian snorted coldly while grabbing the "throat lock gun", and said with a disdainful smile: "People die for money, it can only be blamed on you being stupid enough to oppose the court."

"Fortunately, I saw you in time." Wang Xiaohu still had that cool look, and at the end he smiled: "Damn, it's too much a test for me."

It can be said that in this movie, Wang Xiaohu always had to talk about the scene with this cold poker face, which sometimes really made him very embarrassed. Just this scene was filmed and he laughed N times, but this time it was NG again.

"Take a break for the whole audience." Wang Xiaohu helplessly held the fake braids in his hands, and said to Jet Li who was watching the whole process, "Zhengdong, how do you feel?"

"A little nervous." Jet Li said honestly.

"It's okay, you will take it as if you are participating in the national martial arts championship later, and your first scene has very few moves, and you basically don't need acting skills." Wang Xiaohu comforted, but Jet Li didn't think so, he only knew it was him For the first time acting, everyone is very professional, only he is a newcomer, and later he only needs to work hard to win the approval of the master and everyone.

(End of this chapter)