When Kang Jianfei was studying photography at Beijing Film Academy in his previous life, he also learned a lot about Chinese film history.
Chinese martial arts movies originated in the 1920s. However, after the September 18th Incident, the country entered a special period and the government forcibly banned the screening of martial arts movies. It was not until Japan's large-scale invasion of China that many filmmakers fled south to Hong Kong that martial arts movies flourished again.
In the 1960s, the new martial arts genre represented by Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan emerged and swept the box office in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. However, after Bruce Lee, sword and martial arts films began to decline. In the entire 1970s, there were 445 kung fu films released in Hong Kong.
There are only about 100 sword and martial arts movies.
Everyone in Hong Kong knows that sword and martial arts movies have declined. Tsang Chi-wai's "The Profit" is not a real sword martial arts movie, but a combination of sword martial arts movies and Cheng Long's funny kung fu movies. It's a pity that he made it neither fish nor fowl.
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"Flying means using Qinggong to fly around in the sky, hitting while flying!" Kang Jianfei saw that the guy didn't understand yet, so he had to explain further.
Zeng Zhiwei was a little confused and asked, "How do I take pictures of flying around?"
Kang Jianfei sighed and said: "Hanging a wire, you are from a martial arts background, don't tell me you can't lift a wire."
Of course Zeng Zhiwei knows how to hang wires, but now, hanging wires is just for the convenience of shooting a certain scene and to show off his light skills. Usually he just pulls the actors to fly over and then land on the ground. At most, the good and bad guys have to fight a few times in the air before falling.
I have never heard of flying in the sky all the time.
"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, I directed a kung fu movie called "Kicking Hall"."
Zeng Zhiwei answered a little guilty. "Kicking the Hall" was invested and filmed by Luo Wei. The boss Luo Wei was the producer, and stars such as Jiang Dawei and Xu Shaoqiang were the leading actors. The director Zeng Zhiwei was caught in the middle and was quite a loser. Especially Luo Wei.
Wei, who was always dictating during filming, if it weren't for the martial arts team brought in by Tsang Chi-wei, he probably wouldn't even be a director.
Kang Jianfei said: "Take your notes and we will make a new script."
"Oh," Zeng Zhiwei quickly grabbed the pen and paper on his desk, "Mr. Kang, tell me."
Kang Jianfei originally wanted Zeng Zhiwei to make a Xu Ke-style new martial arts movie about flying around, but he felt that Zeng Zhiwei couldn't produce that elegant and romantic feeling. It seemed that he should change his mind to other ideas. He couldn't think of it at the moment.
Which work should be copied? Just make it up on the spot. Any idea of a future movie will make the current audience feel fresh.
"First of all, this movie takes place in modern Hong Kong. Well, this is an urban martial arts movie!" Kang Jianfei pondered.
Zeng Zhiwei, who was about to memorize the plot, thought his ears had heard it wrong and asked: "Urban martial arts movie?"
Kang Jianfei said speechlessly: "You can't play martial arts in the city? Ni Jian's "Wesley" is not from ancient times."
Zeng Zhiwei could only shut up. He felt that it seemed like a mistake to come to Kang Jianfei for investment today.
Kang Jianfei continued: "Awei is an ordinary company clerk. He is very handsome, but has a very cowardly personality and is always teased by his colleagues. Well, you and Huang Xia are both good at funny plots. How did Awei get teased and how he planned it
The joke is, you can think about this yourself. Ah Wei has a crush on Xiao Hong, a female colleague in the company, but Xiao Hong likes the company's department manager Xiao Ming. Well, if you don't think it sounds bad, you can choose your own name... Hey, I just said
Where did you talk about it?"
Zeng Zhiwei reminded: "Xiao Hong likes manager Xiao Ming."
Kang Jianfei had forgotten something. In fact, he didn't know how to make it up. He racked his brains and said: "This Xiao Ming is not an ordinary person. He has learned karate, taekwondo, and judo. Anyway, he has a black belt in several disciplines. Once Xiaohong
On his birthday, Ah Wei mustered up the courage to express his love to Xiao Hong. Xiao Hong was very moved and then rejected Ah Wei. When Xiao Ming found out, he beat Ah Wei violently and warned him not to harass his girlfriend again. Ah Wei refused.
After giving in, he met Uncle Da, a charlatan. Uncle Da claimed to be a hidden master, and in the name of teaching Awei martial arts, he defrauded Awei of all his savings... Um, where have I seen this plot before?"
Zeng Zhiwei was just remembering to work hard. When Kang Jianfei stopped talking, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Kang Jianfei slapped his head, and it turned out that he had unintentionally copied a scene from Zhou Xingchi's "Lord of Destruction". But copycats are just copycats. Maybe in the future when Zhou Xingchi makes "Lord of Destruction", people will say that Zhou Xingchi is paying tribute to Kang Jianfei.
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Anyway, he had already copied a plot, so Kang Jianfei simply told many of the funny plots of "Lord of Destruction" and asked Zeng Zhiwei to take note of them.
The plot of the whole movie is extremely cliche. After Awei learned fake martial arts from the liar Uncle Da, he wanted to show off in front of Xiaohong, and ended up in a ugly state.
At this time, Xiaohong's father was approached by the underworld because of gambling debts. The gangsters took a fancy to the beautiful Xiaohong at a glance and wanted Xiaohong to repay his gambling debts and become his wife.
Department manager Xiao Ming, who has become Xiao Hong's boyfriend, relied on his skills to negotiate with the boss, but was beaten up by the boss's martial arts master. Xiao Ming was frightened and begged for mercy in front of his girlfriend.
I gave Xiaohong to the boss.
When Xiaohong was in pain, Ah Wei desperately tried to save his sweetheart, but was beaten half to death. At the critical moment, the liar Uncle Da gave Ah Wei a pill that can increase a person's power. As long as he takes the pill, the power will increase.
20 years of skill, but this medicine is only effective for three minutes.
The ending of course is that Ah Wei kills the bad guys, and finally touches Xiao Hong and hugs the beauty back.
"Well, I've already thought of the name of the movie. It's called "Three Minutes Hero"." Kang Jianfei said with a smile. He was quite proud that he came up with a complete script idea within ten minutes.
Zeng Zhiwei couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Kang, this kind of modern martial arts drama is too unrealistic. Will anyone watch it?"
Kang Jianfei said: "So we have to be innovative when filming. Especially in the last fight, the protagonist and villain are both skilled in Qinggong. Houses and buildings are flying around and jumping around. The fight must be exciting. Think about it, the audience sees the protagonist in his own
Isn’t it more enjoyable to fly on a familiar building than on an ancient tower?”
Zeng Zhiwei was quite speechless, but since Kang Jianfei was the financial backer, he didn't have anything to say. He just wanted to fill in the plot of the story as much as possible.
Kang Jianfei said: "I will give you a budget of 1 million, and you can choose the actors yourself. For the martial arts masters in the filming scenes, we will use people from our Kang family class."
Kang's class was still recruiting people, and Zeng Zhiwei didn't know which one to choose as the leading actor. After thinking about it, he said: "Dong Wei, who came back from Taiwan, is very good and good-looking, so why not let him play the male lead?"
Great."
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: "Okay, whatever you think is suitable. But who are you going to let play the heroine Xiaohong?"
In the story narrated 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, then suddenly remembered someone and said, "Mr. Kang, what do you think about letting Zhong Chuhong play Xiao Hong?"
Kang Jianfei was surprised and said: "She was the fourth Miss Hong Kong last year. I'm afraid she's signed with a wireless station now. It's a bit difficult to borrow someone."
Zeng Zhiwei laughed and said: "Zhong Chuhong did not sign a contract with the wireless station. Because she refused to sign a long-term contract, tvb gave her up directly..."
After listening to Zeng Zhiwei's explanation, Kang Jianfei figured out the situation.
It turned out that Zhong Chuhong refused to accept TVB's "discipline" and ended up only getting fourth place in the Miss Hong Kong competition. After the competition, the media rated Zhong Chuhong as "the most beautiful Hong Kong sister". However, because TVB wanted to treat her coldly, Zhong Chuhong couldn't even audition for supporting roles in TV series.
I couldn't pass, so I had no choice but to go back to being a salesperson in a jewelry store in frustration.
It wasn't until some time ago that Du Qifeng was filming "Blue Water, Cold Mountain, and Gold" that Zhong Chuhong was invited to be the heroine.
It's a pity that Du Qifeng was still too young at this time. The filming and narrative techniques of the movie "Blue Water, Cold Mountain and Gold" are very advanced, but there are too many dark and depressing elements in it, and the sadistic plot makes the audience extremely unhappy, and it is a complete mess.
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After the movie was released, Du Qifeng, who felt he was lacking in ability, returned to TVB to work on TV series, while Zhong Chuhong continued to be her salesperson.
Kang Jianfei thought Zhong Chuhong had signed a contract with TVB, but he didn't expect Zhong Chuhong to be in despair now.
There was a saying in Hong Kong in the 1980s, "No matter how popular he is, he can't be compared to Zhong Chuhong, and no matter how popular he is, he can't be compared to Zhou Runfa." Zhou Runfa is now in TVB, but Zhong Chuhong must not let him go.
Kang Jianfei decided to invite him in person so that he could show his sincerity.
What? You said you won’t sign a ten-year contract!
Ahem, five years is fine, at worst we can sign for three years...