Chapter 1170

Chapter 89 Give a living...

Xu Ke is the kind of hero who likes to help his friends...

Needless to say about Wu Yusen and "A Better Tomorrow", Xu Ke took the initiative to help with the re-editing of "The Taiping Wheel";

It was also his idea to add Shi Tian as Long Si in "A Better Tomorrow 2".

In 1985, Shi Tian represented New Arts City in the most important Spring Festival. His self-written and directed "Gong Xi Fa Cai" was crushed by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung's "Lucky Star". He was also hit hard because of this and felt that his My comedy style was out of fashion, and I later went to the United States to relax...

In order to help his old friend regain his confidence, in "A Better Tomorrow 2", Xu Ke and Wu Yusen tailor-made a role for Shi Tian, ​​a gangster who has retired for many years - Long Si...

The fourth uncle's role is even more important than Zhou Runfa's "Little Ma Brother 2.0".

Lam Ling-tung came back from the United States, and his two films "High Alert" and "Eye with Evil Eyes" failed at the box office. It was also Xu Ke who teamed up with Johnnie To and Lam Ling-tung to create "The Iron Triangle"...

The same goes for Yuan Heping this time!

Ba Ye started out as a director, and his masterpieces include "Snake" and "Drunken Master". Later, fantasy kung fu movies started a trend, and he made "Qi Men Dun Jia"...

When a large number of movies on this subject follow the trend, the trend will eventually pass.

Later, Yuan Heping switched to making urban action films and martial arts films, but most of them received mediocre response. Even if he made a classic martial arts film like "Iron Horse", it was not well received at home, but it caused a sensation abroad.

Later, the Hong Kong film market became worse and worse. Yuen Woo-Ping could only focus most of his time on the position of martial arts instructor. He became famous for a while and was invited to Hollywood at his peak. "The Matrix" was the masterpiece of that period.

In addition, he has also entered the mainland, serving as the martial arts designer for the CCTV version of "Water Margin", and collaborated with Zhang Xinyan on "The Master of Tai Chi" and "Little Li Fei Dao".

To this day, when it comes to martial arts design, the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind is Yuen Woo-Ping.

The best martial arts instructor in the world!

But...it’s difficult for older people to find what the audience is interested in, they can’t keep up with the changes of the times, and they can’t figure out the audience’s preferences.

In fact, the action design of "The Sword of the Blue Underworld"... relies on slow motion and montage to create the rhythm of the picture. The rhythm is well controlled, and the fighting is quite interesting, but this light and airy feeling is just used to fool Americans...

It's a pity that "The Sword of the Blue Dark" was not released on a large scale in the United States!

After the failure of "Su Qier" and "Qingming Sword", Yuan Heping became more and more cautious, so he approached Xu Ke!

Xu Ke readily agreed, but then it was a disservice...

However, "The Ming Dynasty" is Shen Xudong's project, with chief director Lu Yang and seven or eight directors, including Sun Huyi, the director of "A Thousand Miles Away", Yang Bingjia, the director of "Defiant", Liu Chun, the director of "Yin Yang Sword"...

Well, they were all promoted through online universities.

Are you joining Yuan Heping at this time?

Does Lu Yang have any objections?

Therefore, Shen Xudong refused directly, and then said: "Jiahe is going to remake "Thirteen Iron-blooded Eagles", "One-Armed Sword" and "Tathagata Palm"... If Mr. Ba is interested, you can pick one!"

"A Shaw Brothers movie?"

"right!"

"All of them?"

"Well, the copyright has been taken over by us..."

Xu Ke immediately asked: "Where is "The Drunken Man"?"

""The Drunken Man"... I'm going to remake it!"

The plot of "The Drunken Man" is very simple: the bandit captor intends to change the gangster, and a member of the government, Jin Yanzi, breaks into the gangster's den to save his brother, and finally retires successfully with the help of the market expert Drunken Man.

Since the story is simple, the highlight is how it is presented!

Hu Jinquan is really awesome. Based on the Peking Opera "The Drunkard", he filmed this ancient martial arts themed "The Drunken Man", which broke out the martial arts world of Hu's literati and rescued the martial arts from strange power, chaos and shoddy production. It opened an era of martial arts movies in the history of Hong Kong movies.

Back to the subject, when Xu Ke heard that Shen Xudong was planning to remake the film, he immediately asked: "Have you found the candidate for Golden Swallow?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "If we find it right, we won't be preparing for a remake, but we have already started preparations!"

"The Drunken Man" has not been remade since it came out - the 2002 TV series "The Drunken Man" has little to do with the film, it is just a borrowed name. The main reason is: No one can replace the golden swallow Zheng Peipei - A classic is a classic, it cannot be copied.

"I once wanted to ask Brigitte Lin to shoot a version..."

"Why didn't you take a picture?"

Xu Ke spread his hands: "Director Hu Jinquan and I can't get along... we can't get the copyright..."

"I know this..." Shen Xudong was curious: "Why?"

"We have different requirements for movies... When we were filming "The Swordsman", he struggled with a simple price for seven or eight days... We set "The Swordsman" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and he searched everywhere for information. It's like, 'A writing brush costs one tael of silver, tea leaves cost one tael of silver per catty; Zaoli earns three taels of silver per year for work and food, and tea leaves cost one tael of silver per catty. Is it fragrant or Longjing? He was particularly entangled in these things... What we filmed is It’s a martial arts movie, not a historical documentary, so who cares about the so-called prices?”

Shen Xudong chuckled: "That's not to say, 'The biggest mistake in filming "The Swordsman" was hiring King Hu!"

"I was so angry at the time... Including the later filming of "New Dragon Inn", I didn't get the authorization at all, so it was called "New Dragon Inn"..."

"Then why do you take pictures?"

"Wu Siyuan got the copyright and asked me to shoot it. At that time, we were divided into two groups. Li Huimin shot the exterior scenes, and I was mainly responsible for the indoor scenes..."

"Have you been hired as a producer?"

"right!"

In fact, he is the producer of many of Xu Ke's works, including "A Chinese Ghost Story", "New Dragon Gate Inn" and "Swordsman"...

Why is it considered Xu Ke’s work?

This is mainly due to Xu Ke's background - he first worked in a TV station to earn a living. The producer is the largest in the TV station and is the core position in controlling the entire creation.

For example, Johnnie To is the director of TVB's 83 version of The Condor Heroes, but he is only an executive. The real person in charge is his master, Wang Tianlin, the producer of the 83 version of The Condor Heroes.

Directors like Xu Ke and Johnnie To are all from TV stations, so they are inevitably tainted with the habits of TV stations.

As long as he is named as a producer, he likes to have full control: he has to control the script, teach the actors by himself, shoot the shots by himself, and have the final say in editing... Isn't this what the public defines as a director?

What does the director do?

Just do the job of the director!

"...You can contact Master Ba..." Shen Xudong continued the previous topic: "Shaw Brothers movies can be regarded as memories of a generation. If he is interested, he can try to take on a few..."

"How many?"

"If the quality is good, it will go directly to theaters. If the quality is average, it will be broadcast on PPTV..."

Tsui Hark nodded and finally asked a question: "Then... what do you think of "Qi Men Dun Jia"?"

"...Forget it...PPTV will not exclusively purchase copyrights!"