Chapter 439 Isn’t This Just a Waste of Time?

This is an improvisational play, which is Li Jing's style. He will simply "measure" every student.

This is a habit that Li Jing has developed since he first became an action director.

Some martial arts directors don't care whether the actors can do the action, because there are stunt doubles if the actors can't do it.

Let's put it this way, among these martial arts directors, only Li Jing will tailor the production according to the actors, that is, to see the actors' physique and see to what extent the actors can do it.

Because of this, you can see that among the martial arts directors, only Li Jing created the Kung Fu Emperor Chen Sheng, and he also made the female action star Su Ying famous.

In addition, Li Jing also made many action actors famous. Of course, it's better not to talk about them now, because they are all out of date.

Even if you randomly say a name, it was very popular at the time, but now few people know it.

After all, there are only a few people who can be popular for forty years and are still popular now.

Especially for artists, when you no longer have works, you will be out of fashion very quickly.

Even Chu Xingrui, who was once called a god, has no influence when there are no good works for 10 years.

Not to mention Li Jing behind the scenes, but he has a very high status in the industry, after all, he is the leader of the entire action director.

Even though he failed in one movie, many people still want to invite Li Jing to be the action director.

For no other reason, Li Jing's action director is very good.

As for today, this impromptu play is actually a fight play.

"You, you, you, you..."

Li Jing pointed at 5 people and said: "Later, you will do everything possible to fight Lin Xing..."

As for the moves, Li Jing also performed some counter-moves, which are all the most basic counter-moves.

You should know that the most difficult part of the fight play is the group play, because you need to focus on the protagonist, and at the same time let every supporting role have a role.

This is the most difficult.

Li Jing spent half an hour just talking about countering moves, and when he was talking about countering moves, he was surprised to find that Lin Xing could understand all of them.

"Have you really practiced martial arts?"

You should know that the students have learned a lot during this period, and these students already have a foundation in martial arts.

So they have no problem with the routine.

Moreover, they have learned a lot of routines in recent times. After all, Situ Hui taught them literary dramas during this period, and Li Jing was the action director.

This [Jingwu Hall] is not just about training action actors. As I said, action actors also need acting skills.

Moreover, in the current film and television dramas, how many pure action actors have a market? ? ?

Even their acting skills cannot be said to be bad, but they are still not recognized by the market.

Many action actors who debuted as child stars are now 36+, but they have no movies to shoot.

Some child stars who debuted can only fall into the bad movies of online movies.

That's right.

Even if they shoot online movies, they don't have much chance to shoot better film and television dramas.

This is the current market.

Even the famous Kung Fu superstars have no market, how can you guarantee that newcomers can make a name for themselves with action movies? ?

This is not difficult, it is simply impossible.

Because of this, [Jingwu Hall] actually gives some action actors a way out, and because of this, [Jingwu Hall] has many restrictions on enrollment.

Otherwise, how many people would have to compete for this class.

You know, if you don’t mention Li Jing, just Situ Hui’s resources are enough for everyone to hug thighs.

In the entertainment industry, isn’t everything based on resources?

For this reason, this time, the students of [Jingwu Hall] are screened out in each session.

You are like Xie Long, he debuted as a child star. Of course, he is far behind several other popular child stars, and even several other child stars have had their peaks, but Xie Long has always been a small transparent.

But being able to stay in the circle for almost 30 years, Xie Long naturally has his own abilities.

First of all, he has a solid foundation. He has been practicing martial arts since he was 4 years old. Later, he participated in the national martial arts competition and won the runner-up.

Secondly, Xie Long's parents always felt that the work of an actor was not stable, so they did not let Xie Long focus all his attention on acting.

He still studied step by step, and because of this, Xie Long lost many opportunities.

Of course, Xie Long was finally admitted to the Imperial Capital Film Academy, but child stars often have a narrower range of acting when they grow up.

Because of this, in the past few years, Xie Long has actually been a minor in various film and television dramas. After all, he is not like some child stars who have ever reached the peak.

Even Xie Long's Weibo fans are only a pitiful few thousand, and each Weibo post has a maximum of dozens of comments.

As for the past ten years, the most role Xie Long has played is also a male No. 4. In addition, the roles he played are all just a few scenes.

This time, Xie Long came to participate in [Beijing Wutang] to win an opportunity.

He is the only one who was invited by Li Jing over the phone.

This is because when Xie Long was 7 years old, he had worked with Li Jing in many movies and achieved good results.

Although Xie Long was only 7 years old at that time, he could completely complete all the actions set by Li Jing, and he did it quite coolly.

At that time, Li Jing was interviewed and felt that in another 30 years, Xie Long could definitely become a new generation of Kung Fu superstar.

Because Xie Long was also well-behaved and handsome when he was a child, if he grew up in the same proportion, he might also become the new Kung Fu Emperor.

Who could have thought of the result?

30 years have passed, Xie Long has not become the Kung Fu Emperor, he can't even find a role for the second male lead.

As for Li Jing, he still gave Xie Long an important role when filming "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China", but the movie was a flop, not to mention the role.

The box office of this movie was not even 30 million, and Xie Long was almost ignored by no one.

It's really just bad luck, but in the entertainment industry, "luck" is often also a part of strength.

Just like some people are lucky, so every movie they make is a hit, but some people are unlucky, either ratings poison or box office poison.

There are too many of these.

Before today, Li Jing's understanding of Lin Xing came from people around him, after all, he and Lin Xing had almost no intersection.

Even yesterday, Guo Teng praised Lin Xing, but Li Jing didn't really believe it.

As a martial artist, he has been an action director for decades, and he is one of the top 3 action directors in China, so he has seen too much.

Because of this, Li Jing just thinks Lin Xing is lucky.

One after another, whether it is a TV series or a movie, the results are quite good. Don't you think this is not a good life or something else? ?

But in today's improvisation, Lin Xing performed too well. Not to mention the literary drama, Lin Xing performed just right, and the anger, sadness, confusion and other emotions of learning that his master had passed away were all displayed.

As for the fighting scenes, Lin Xing fought even more coolly, and this fighting scene was exactly what Li Jing wanted.

An improvisation, 3 minutes of literary drama, 2 minutes of fighting scenes, Lin Xing performed it almost in one go.

"Good."

Li Jing shouted good.

He originally thought that Lin Xing was just being modest when he said he had a martial arts foundation, but he never thought that Lin Xing actually had a kung fu foundation.

"Have you seen my play before?"

But Li Jing was still a little puzzled.

Because if Lin Xing only had a kung fu foundation, he couldn't have performed this set of moves in one go.

To what extent?

In this play, there were only two mistakes.

Xie Long and the others were fine, they were all the first batch of [Jingwu Hall] students invited and selected by Li Jing himself, and they had a very good understanding of this part.

But how did Lin Xing also have a good understanding with them? ?

How to say it? ?

It was as if Lin Xing had worked with them for many years.

So, Li Jing's first reaction was to think whether Lin Xing had seen his play, and the second reaction was: "Axing, have you worked with Xiaolong and the others?"

"I have seen your play, Mr. Li, but I have never worked with Xie Long and the others, and it was the first time we met..."

Lin Xing said hurriedly.

In fact, as early as when filming "Death Bell", Lin Xing had talked with Guo Teng about many issues about action guidance.

Especially about the routines of fighting scenes, how to make fighting scenes real, exciting, and hearty, etc., Lin Xing has gained some knowledge.

You know, different trades are like different mountains. Action guidance is actually quite difficult. Although action dramas are not good now, action guidance has always been in high demand.

Later, Lin Xing watched some wonderful action dramas, and he also learned a little about action guidance.

The action guidance back then was really a fight between gods. Although Li Jing was so awesome, he lost too many times at the award ceremony.

After all, there are too many great "fighting directors", but now those great directors have retired or passed away, and action guidance has gradually been ignored by everyone.

Action movies are dead.

Kung Fu movies are dead.

Martial arts movies are dead.

You should know that Li Jing is already so awesome, but the action director Cheng An, whom he admires the most, is the real ancestor of "action director".

Let's put it this way, in the field of "action director", Li Jing can be said to be the top 3, as for others like Lu Jiu, Ping Jin and others, they can still compete for the top 2, but the real top 1 has always been Cheng An.

Whether it is based on the seniority in the film industry, or the classic martial arts films in which Cheng An was the action director, etc., he can be called the ancestor.

Cheng An has retired for 15 years, but the "King of Martial Arts" he made before his retirement is still the last kung fu film, or the glory of martial arts films.

Because there has been no good movie since "King of Martial Arts".

It is precisely because of this that media people often interview Cheng An, and sometimes even when Cheng An attends award ceremonies, there are media people who want Cheng An to come out.

"Forget it, I can't save martial arts movies, and I can't save kung fu movies. I've already retired, so don't come out and embarrass yourself."

"Don't think you're looking forward to my return, but I believe that if I make a movie and it doesn't perform well, you will definitely be the ones who criticize me the most."

"Every generation has its own world. I believe kung fu movies will not disappear, and I believe that martial arts movies will always have a revival, but that has nothing to do with me anymore."

……

I have to say that Cheng An was very open-minded. He did not say he was quitting the industry like some people, but in fact he came back to film within a few years. When he quit, he really quit.

Later, Cheng An stopped even attending some award ceremonies.

It's really like the hero retreating, there is no news about him.

But everyone felt more and more that what Cheng An said was right. Especially after Li Jing's "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China" hit the streets, everyone felt that Cheng An was really wise.

You must know that before the release of "Eighteen Heroes of the Republic of China", the media, marketing accounts, and even the industry regarded this movie as a bailout.

After all, the entire movie market has been without kung fu movies for a long time, let alone martial arts movies.

Under such circumstances, Li Jing's film really has great expectations.

And more importantly, this movie is quite awesome in terms of production and cast.

We even have milk. The box office of this movie started at a minimum of 3 billion.

result.

Everyone knows it too.

Then when these people praised Li Jing for how fierce he was, now these people stepped on Li Jing as hard as he could.

Many people even began to think that it would be good if Cheng An couldn't come out. What if Cheng An came out and it would be too late? ? ?

In short, this "Eighteen Knights of the Republic of China" basically welded "martial arts movies" and "action movies" to death.

Regardless of the industry, investment companies, or other people, basically everyone no longer has any hope for martial arts movies, or action movies.

As for Li Jing, he was obviously hit hard, otherwise he wouldn't have thought yesterday why Lin Xing didn't want to start action scenes.

"You said you've watched all the scenes where I directed action?"

Li Jing asked Lin Xing in surprise.

"Yes, not only you, I also watched the wonderful scenes with action guidance from Teacher Cheng An, Teacher Lu Jiu, Teacher Ping Jin and others..."

Lin Xing said: "But I don't have that much time. I basically just browse the highlights of Station B."

Li Jing frowned slightly: "Aren't you filming a science fiction film? Even if this science fiction film requires action scenes, it can't account for too much, right?"

"Well, you don't need that."

Lin Xing thought for a while and said: "And this science fiction film actually doesn't have many real action scenes, because they all require props..."

"I don't understand this. If that's the case, why are you working so hard??"

Li Jing was still really curious, and as someone who had experienced it, he advised: "I don't mean anything else. I just feel that there is no market for action movies and kung fu movies now. Isn't this just a waste of your time?"