Movie tycoon

Chapter 640 "Martial Arts" (second update)

On the plane seat, after talking about the history and humanities, Chen Xiaotang and Wang Zuxian discussed about performance.In this regard, Chen Xiaotang has a wealth of experience, especially screen experience, but he gave Wang Zuxian a lot of rare tips, and he has a deeper understanding of how to behave in the actual shooting.

Such a situation seems to be a good omen, but in the hearts of Chen Xiaotang and Wang Zuxian, they feel that although the two are getting more and more familiar and understanding, behind this superficial speculation, the distance between the two of them as "lover" is getting more and more getting closer.

"Actually, Zuer is also a pretty good girl." Chen Xiaotang thought so.

As soon as this kind of thought came into being, even if Chen Xiaotang was liberated, the previous embarrassment disappeared, and a trace of imperceptible tenderness was produced.

Chen Xiaotang's subtle changes could not be seen by others, but Wang Zuxian who was beside him felt it, and his heart was as sweet as drinking honey, his cheeks were pink, like a girl in first love, arousing affection.

Fatty Wang Jing is a natural treasure, and he is quite courageous. He dares to talk nonsense with the two big guys, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Longger, and teases them from time to time; In the same way, I was still putting on airs and trying to separate my noble "Hollywood superstar" status from these ordinary "Hong Kong stars".

But as the fat man teased them unscrupulously, this kind of fortress was quickly captured. The specific reason was that after listening to something funny about you, you couldn't move your fists. It was very frustrating, and I ended up being canceled by everyone like a clown.

In this way, the two big guys showed their rude side. As for Hollywood's reserved "superstar" demeanor, the exhaust fumes of the planes have long since disappeared with the wind, like shit, worthless.

It was precisely because of the "gags" of these men on the plane that the journey was not lonely, and the plane finally landed at Cairo Airport.But as soon as they got out of the airport, the crew encountered an unexpected blockage.The reason for this blockage is unknown, but the scene is extremely vast. First of all, there are huge crowds of people just watching the excitement. In addition, there are a large number of policemen maintaining order as if facing an enemy, but the most eye-catching thing in the middle is the huge scale. luxury fleet.

From this scene, it can be seen that something extraordinary has happened, and it may be impossible to leave for a while, so the members of the crew simply joined the ranks of watching the excitement.

After watching for a long time, everyone was still baffled, not knowing what happened.

Fatty Wang Jing was the most active, and volunteered to inquire about the news. After some inquiring, the result surprised everyone, but it was actually reasonable.

According to the news obtained by the fat man, it turned out that such a large-scale event was due to the birthday of an Egyptian princess, and many Arab chiefs came to congratulate her in person.These Arab chiefs happened to arrive at about the same time as Chen Xiaotang and the others, so they blocked them at the airport and couldn't get out.

After knowing what was going on, everyone understood that this matter should not be rushed, and such a scene is rare, so they just continued to watch the excitement.

The sheikhs dressed in Arabian costumes and their entourages came and went at the airport arrogantly, followed by clouds of bodyguards. The scene can be described as spectacular.Originally, coming to a completely unfamiliar place is full of novelty everywhere, and it is a great pleasure to watch this excitement.

Before the filming started, the crew members first saw a scene of realistic drama.

After making noise for a long time, the road was opened to ordinary people only after the delegates appointed by various ethnic groups left safely.The crew members were finally able to leave the airport at this time.

Along the way, Chen Xiaotang didn't see any Arabs wrapped in white robes riding on camels. The whole city is very prosperous, even more grand than Hong Kong. This is Cairo, Egypt, a tourist attraction.

There is no such feeling of simplicity, wind and sand, and scorching sun, but some are fashionable and modern.

The hotel was reserved, and the crew went straight to the reserved hotel as soon as they left the airport.Coincidentally, when all the crew members arrived at the hotel, they found that quite a few chiefs who came to congratulate the princess on her birthday were also staying here.Not to mention other things, the long queues of luxury cars in front of the hotel are already a big scene --- oil really makes money.In addition, there are a large number of bodyguards patrolling near the hotel. Anyone who sees anyone entering the hotel must be questioned by them first.This situation immediately reminded Chen Xiaotang of scenes from Hong Kong gangster movies.

The crew of "Assassin's Creed" also failed to escape the fate of being interrogated. Fortunately, Chen Xiaotang and others identified themselves as film workers from Hong Kong.

This unexpected event was absolutely unexpected. After the tossing was over and the crew members finally moved in safely, everyone couldn't help laughing when they thought about what they had just experienced.Chen Xiaotang didn't care much about this situation, but it always made him feel strange to think of living with rich and powerful Arab tycoons.

Tired from the journey, and this unexpected incident happened, except for Chen Xiaotang, the rest of the crew were exhausted.After dinner, everyone went to rest separately.

Chen Xiaotang discussed the script with Fatty Wang Jing and director Cheng Xiaodong, as well as the upcoming filming work.

Fatty suggested going to the shooting location first to see if he could collect some shooting materials, but director Cheng Xiaodong had a lot of suggestions for the action of this movie. In his opinion, he had to choose between hanging wire and real fists. focus.

In the past, Chen Xiaotang filmed "Jing Wu Heroes" and "Uncle" with a hard bridge and hard horse kung fu school. This time "Assassin's Creed" is different. If he continues to be hard bridge and hard horse, it will definitely affect the "beauty" of this film. Therefore, he suggested that the shooting should be more romantic, and the moves should be "martial arts".

Chen Xiaotang didn't quite agree with Cheng Xiaodong's point of view. Although he understood that Cheng Xiaodong wanted to make this movie into the model of "Invincible in the East" in his previous life, this movie followed the Hollywood route. We all know that Hollywood sci-fi movies are awesome. Kung fu movies are very silly!
If you ask a novice to taste such a "deep" martial arts movie, I am afraid that with their understanding ability, they will regard this movie as the Chinese version of "Superman". To put it more bluntly, Yankees now The mindset is very scientific, and excuses must be found for any unreasonable existence.For example, Superman came from Helium, Spiderman was bitten and mutated, and even Popeye got his strength from eating spinach. You let them suddenly see a group of people flying around in the sky, With a wave of the palm, there is a stormy sea. With their scientific intelligence, it is difficult for them to understand the mysteries of Chinese martial arts stories.Just think of this as an absurd movie.

In fact, Chen Xiaotang was right in thinking this way.Americans like to watch movies and fly around in a sci-fi style, but they don’t like flying around for no reason. You tell them what is internal strength, that’s playing the piano against the cow, and then they may ask about the strange meridians and acupuncture points , what... made you a mess, and he was even more confused.

It was not until 20 years later that the great director Ang Lee filmed the classic "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in a timely manner as Americans became more familiar with Chinese martial arts films.Even so, Director Ang Lee did not dare to follow Cheng Xiaodong's "Invincible in the East" route when filming, but took the very traditional 80s and [-]s Shaw Brothers martial arts route, so it made many Chinese audiences think that the filming of this film was well done. For a bird, the fighting scenes are too childish, not good at all.

But in fact, it is this kind of "low-level" fighting design that we think is very in line with the aesthetic requirements of the old Americans for Chinese-style martial arts at this stage.

Looking back, let’s look at Hollywood kung fu movies, such as "Black Hawk" starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, "King of Fighting", and "Thunder Killing" starring Longger, "Dragon Fist and Tiger Might", and Steve Vinciger's "Rage of the Hidden Dragon", "Devil Warlord", etc. These so-called kung fu movies almost all pay tribute to Bruce Lee's kung fu school. They take the line of fighting, capture, boxing, and Sanda without any "martial arts" at all. film" shadow.

Therefore, the movie mode of martial arts only belongs to the Chinese market, and Hollywood only has western cowboys and arena fighting.

Chen Xiaotang told the director Cheng Xiaodong and Fatty Wang Jing about the results of his analysis, and explained to them that taking the martial arts route will not work now, and whether the Yankees will buy it, they will ask why people can fly and why a slap can Beat the stone to pieces, what is "sword energy", what is "internal strength"...

Cheng Xiaodong is also a sensible person. Hearing what Chen Xiaotang said, he thought about it in his heart, and he was right. He couldn't forget the low-level kung fu movie appetite of those ghosts for the sake of making tricks too fancy.

"A Tang, what you said makes sense, but if we don't shoot like this, how can we shoot to show the essence of our Hong Kong martial arts?" Cheng Xiaodong asked immediately.

"Yeah, it seems that it's not easy to get those ghosts to buy it." The fat man also muttered to the side.

Seeing that they were so worried, Chen Xiaotang smiled and said: "I have considered this too, we must control ourselves, don't shoot this drama as a real martial arts drama, on the contrary, we can learn from Japanese ninjas as material, The assassin in the movie is portrayed as a master mode who comes and disappears without a trace..."

Chen Xiaotang had already said it very implicitly, but Fatty Wang Jing and Cheng Xiaodong understood it right away, but they immediately retorted: "No, how can we label our movie as a Japanese ninja?!"

Yes, how can Chinese kung fu movies help the Japanese to promote them? !
Anyone who hears it will have such a big reaction.

(End of this chapter)