When Kang Jianfei was studying photography at Beijing Film Academy in his previous life, he also learned some Chinese film history in a hurry.
Chinese martial arts films originated in the 1920s, but after the 9/18 Incident, the country entered a special period and the government forced the ban on martial arts films. It was not until Japan's large-scale invasion of China that many filmmakers fled south to Hong Kong that martial arts films flourished again.
By the 1960s, new-story martial arts represented by Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan rose, and for a time, the box office was swept Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. However, since Bruce Lee, sword martial arts films began to decline. In the 1970s, there were 445 kung fu films released in Hong Kong, while only about 100 sword martial arts films were released.
The sword martial arts film has declined, and everyone in Hong Kong knows this. Zeng Zhiwei's "The Stolen Stories" is not a real sword martial arts film, but a combination of sword martial arts films and Cheng Long's hobby kung fu films. It's a pity that he made it inconsistent.
"Fly, you just use your light skills to fly around the sky, flying and fighting!" Kang Jianfei saw that this guy didn't understand yet, so he had to explain further.
Zeng Zhiwei couldn't turn his mind away and asked, "How to take pictures of flying around?"
Kang Jianfei sighed and said, "Holding steel wires, you are from a martial arts industry, don't say you can't lift steel wires."
Of course, Zeng Zhiwei can lift steel wires, but now he lifts steel wires just to show his light skills for the convenience of shooting a certain shot. He often just pulls the actors over and then lands. At most, the villains fight a few tricks in the air before falling down, and I have never heard of them flying in the sky and fighting.
"Your script is not good either," Kang Jianfei rubbed his forehead and asked, "Have you ever been a director before?"
Zeng Zhiwei replied: "Last year, the director directed a kung fu film called "Kicking the House".
Zeng Zhiwei answered a little guilty. "Kicking the House" was invested by Luo Wei. There was a boss Luo Wei as the producer, and stars such as Jiang Dawei and Xu Shaoqiang as the starring actors. Zeng Zhiwei, the director, was quite cowardly in the middle. Especially Luo Wei, he always pointed fingers during filming. If it weren't for Zeng Zhiwei's martial arts team, he would probably not even be a director.
Kang Jianfei said: "You take a note and we will make a new script."
"Oh," Zeng Zhiwei quickly grabbed the paper and pen on the desk, "Mr. Kang, you said."
Kang Jianfei originally wanted Zeng Zhiwei to make a new martial arts movie flying around Xu Keshi, but he felt that Zeng Zhiwei could not make that elegant and romantic feeling. It seemed that he should change to other ideas. He could not think of a copycat for a while, so he simply made up the scene. Anyway, any idea of ​​a future movie would make the current audience feel fresh.
"First of all, this movie takes place in modern Hong Kong. Well, this is an urban martial arts film!" Kang Jianfei thought.
Zeng Zhiwei, who was about to remember the plot, thought he had heard it wrong and asked, "Urban martial arts movie?"
Kang Jianfei said speechlessly: "You can't play martial arts in the city? Ni Fu's "Wesley" was not in ancient times."
Zeng Zhiwei could only shut up. He felt that it seemed like a mistake to come to Kang Jianfei to invest today.
Kang Jianfei continued: "Awei is an ordinary company employee. He is very handsome, but his personality is very cowardly. He is always teased by his colleagues. Well, you and Huang Xia are good at funny plots. How can Awei be teased and designed jokes? You should think about this yourself. Awei's secret love for Xiaohong, a female colleague of the company, but Xiaohong likes Xiaoming, the company's department manager. Well, the name is like, if you don't think it sounds bad, you can choose it yourself... Huh, where did I just talk about it?"
Zeng Zhiwei reminded: "Xiaohong likes manager Xiao Ming."
Kang Jianfei had forgotten, but in fact he didn't know how to continue editing. He racked his brains and said, "This Xiao Ming is not an ordinary person. He has learned karate, taekwondo, and judo. Anyway, several of them are black belts. On Xiaohong's birthday, Awei mustered up the courage to show his love to Xiaohong. Xiaohong was very moved and rejected Awei. After Xiaoming learned about it, he beat Awei and warned him not to harass his girlfriend again. Awei refused to give in, but eventually met Uncle Da, a scammer in the martial arts world. Uncle Da claimed to be a hidden master. He cheated Awei's savings away in the name of teaching Awei's martial arts... Uh, it seems that he had seen this plot somewhere?"
Zeng Zhiwei was just remembering it, but when he saw Kang Jianfei stop talking, he asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Kang Jianfei slapped his head and found out that he accidentally copied Zhou Xingxing's "King of Destruction". But just copy the village. Maybe in the future, Zhou Xingchi will say that Zhou Xingchi is paying tribute to him Kang Jianfei.
Anyway, a plot has been copied, Kang Jianfei simply told many funny plots of "King of Destruction" and made Zeng Zhiwei remember them.
The plot of the whole movie is extremely cliché. After Awei learned fake martial arts from the liar, Uncle Da, he wanted to show off in front of Xiaohong, but ended up being ugly.
At this moment, Xiaohong's father was owed to gambling debts and was caught by the underworld. The boss on the road fell in love with the beautiful Xiaohong at a glance and wanted Xiaohong to pay his gambling debts to be his little wife.
Xiao Ming, the department manager who has become Xiao Hong's boyfriend, relied on his skills to negotiate with the boss, but was beaten up by the martial arts master under the boss. Xiao Ming was scared to death and begged for mercy in front of his girlfriend, giving Xiao Hong to the boss.
In the face of pain, Awei went to save his sweetheart desperately, but was beaten to death. At the critical moment, the liar Da gave Awei a pill that could make people's skills increase. As long as he took the pill, he would increase his skills by 20 years, but this medicine only lasted three minutes to be effective.
The ending was naturally Awei killed the bad guy, and finally moved Xiaohong and hugged the beauty.
"Well, I have thought of the name of the movie, it's called "Three Minutes Heroes"." Kang Jianfei smiled. He was quite proud of his idea of ​​coming up with a complete script within ten minutes.
Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Kang, this kind of martial arts scene in modern times is too out of reality. Will anyone watch it?"
Kang Jianfei said: "So you need to be innovative when shooting. Especially in the last fight, the villains can do light skills, and the houses and buildings are flying everywhere, so you must have a wonderful fight. Think about it, is it better for the audience to see the protagonist flying on the building they are familiar with than flying on the ancient city tower?"
Zeng Zhiwei was quite speechless, but since Kang Jianfei was the financial backer, he couldn't say anything else. He just tried to fill in the storyline.
Kang Jianfei said: "I will give you a budget of 1 million. You can choose actors and other actors yourself. The martial artists who shoot movies will use the people from our Kang family."
The Kang family class is still recruiting people, and Zeng Zhiwei doesn’t know which starring actors to choose. After thinking about it, he said: “Dong Wei, who came back from Taiwan, is good at being good and looks very handsome. Why not let him play the male lead Awei.”
Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "Okay, as long as you think it's appropriate. But who are you going to let the heroine Xiaohong?"
In the story told by Kang Jianfei, Xiaohong is obviously a vase character, so she must find a beautiful woman.
Xiaohong, Xiaohong, Xiaohong...
Zeng Zhiwei muttered it several times, suddenly remembered himself and said, "Mr. Kang, how about you let Zhong Chuhong play Xiaohong?"
Kang Jianfei said in surprise: "She is the fourth place in Hong Kong Miss last year. Now she is probably signed with the wireless station, so it's a bit difficult to borrow."
Zeng Zhiwei smiled and said, "Zhong Chuhong did not sign a contract with the wireless station. Because she refused to sign a long-term contract, TVB gave up her directly..."
After hearing Zeng Zhiwei's explanation, Kang Jianfei understood the situation.
It turned out that Chung Chuhong was not convinced of TVB's "discipline", but the Miss Hong Kong competition only won fourth place. After the game, the media named Chung Chuhong as "the most beautiful Miss Hong Kong", but because TVB wanted to deal with her in a cold manner, Chung Chuhong couldn't even pass the supporting role in the TV series on TVB, so she had to continue to go back to work as a jewelry store salesperson in disheartened.
It was not until some time ago that Du Qifeng filmed "The Deadly Gold of the Blue Water and Cold Mountains" that he invited Zhong Chuhong to be the heroine.
Unfortunately, Du Qifeng was too young at this time. The filming and narrative techniques of "The Deadly Gold of the Green Water and Cold Mountains" were very advanced, but there were too many dark and depressing elements in it, and the plot of the abuse made the audience extremely unhappy and frustrated.
After the release of this movie, Du Qifeng, who felt that he was not capable enough, returned to TVB to do TV series, while Chung Cheung continued to be his own salesperson.
Kang Jianfei thought Zhong Chuhong had signed TVB, but he didn't expect that Zhong Chuhong is in a downturn now.
There was a saying in Hong Kong in the 1980s, "No matter how popular Zhong Chuhong is, no matter how popular it is, no matter how popular it is, no matter how popular it is, no matter how popular it is." Zhou Runfa is now on TVB, but Zhong Chuhong must not let it go.
Kang Jianfei decided to invite him in person so that he could show his sincerity.
What? You said you didn’t sign a ten-year long appointment!
Chapter completed!