From Xiangjiang Martial Arts in the 70s

Chapter 13 Breaking up on the first day of filming?

The normal process of filming still requires market research, and Wu Changyun can completely skip this step. When it comes to Hong Kong’s two box office box office hits in 1973, they were "72 Residents" and Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", it is worth mentioning that five months after Bruce Lee's death, this film, which can be called Bruce Lee's swan song, only won the third place in the Hong Kong box office at that time, but it gained a lot overseas. Box office, while 72 Tenants, as a representative of Hong Kong local films, crushed foreign films and achieved No.1 box office results.

From this point of view, the people of Hong Kong are still very enthusiastic about authentic local films, but unfortunately, Wu Changyun has no advantage in this regard.And in the middle period until Jackie Chan's Drunken Fist was released in 1978, and after entering the 80s, it was really called Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea and each showed their magical powers. The Shu Mountain with a unique style, the happy ghost with the theme of ghosts and ghosts, all kinds of flowers are blooming.

With this knowledge, how could Wu Changyun not know how cool his script is? After staying up all night, Wu Changyun made preliminary changes to the script, but the whole still did not break away from the plot frame of the martial arts drama. It was changed to a thief with a sense of justice, and the insulted childhood sweetheart was changed to being imprisoned after being framed by local snakes and joint patrols. I wanted to try to change the overall background of the era from martial arts to urban action, but such a change required a complete change of shooting venues and costumes. , It is very difficult to push the new script to be filmed.Wu Changyun is very clear in his mind. Many martial arts films in Hong Kong during this period are big IPs with high-quality and well-known scripts. It is definitely a big pitfall to make martial arts films with Wu Changyun's current situation.

"What are you doing? Don't sleep this early in the morning." Fu Shun rubbed his eyes and saw Wu Changyun sitting at the door with a candle lit.

Both of them washed their faces and came to the yard. Wu Changyun told Fushun about the movie, and the other side was surprised.

"You really agreed to come down?"

I thought that Fu Shun would oppose him, but he changed his attitude and began to congratulate Wu Changyun.

"What? Don't you hate that director?" Wu Changyun was a little curious.

"Didn't you hear what Zhou Huiting said? This is my brother's big deal. Every girl knows how to play ball. No matter how bad you are, you are still a leading role."

"You're right, but not entirely right." Wu Changyun didn't continue to explain to him.

Under Fushun's repeated request, Wu Changyun took him to the set by taxi, and finally found Liu Xiao in the crowd. There were many people around him, and he looked very busy.

"what's the situation?"

Liu Xiao glanced at Wu Changyun, and replied perfunctorily: "It's okay, just go inside and wait."

"Who is this?" Wu Changyun asked the staff next to him.

"This is someone from the venue company. They came early in the morning and said that there is another crew planning to reserve this venue, which collided with our schedule."

"Isn't this a first-come, first-served way?" Wu Changyun realized after the words came out that Liu Xiao must have not paid the money that should be paid in advance.

Now that the matter has developed to this point, Wu Changyun is not in a hurry. Anyway, his ideal venue is not a place for martial arts movies. Instead, he can see how Liu Xiao ends up, and maybe he can use this opportunity to change the venue.After a while, the two gangs were arguing fiercely, and the other crew surrounded the door. In fact, it was something that could be explained clearly by talking, but Liu Xiao kept hiding inside and making phone calls without showing his face.

After a while, a group of gangsters came from outside the venue and clashed with the crew outside, and quickly dispersed the people outside.

"Liu Xiao, did you give the money to buy the venue to those gangsters outside?" Wu Changyun couldn't sit still at this moment. If the filming is not good, it is a professional issue, then Liu Xiao's current behavior is suspected of defrauding the producer.

"What the hell are you yelling about?" Liu Xiao lost his temper after being yelled at by Wu Changyun. He straightened up and continued, "You're not here to make money. Don't worry, your salary will not be less."

"You didn't plan to make money from making movies from the beginning, right? You were targeting the funds that Lardboy gave you from the beginning."

"What kind of money is not earned? Are you really pointing to being an actor to get ahead? You don't look for a mirror to see yourself, are you worthy?" Liu Xiao also relied on himself to contact many people outside, without any Put Wu Changyun, an unknown person, in your eyes.

"Am I worthy? If I hadn't tried my best to act as a stand-in before, lard boy would have given you the money? After all, you are not using my reputation to trick you?" Wu Changyun became more and more angry, and simply pushed down the person in front of him. table, pointed at Liu Xiao's nose and cursed: "Take your money and get lost, as far as you can."

Liu Xiao thought that if he and Wu Changyun parted ways now, Lei Luo would not let him go.

"Why are you so stubborn? Without me, how can you make this movie? You have no money and no one."

Fu Shun was thinking of persuading the whole situation, but when he saw Wu Changyun's temper, he understood, held the broken stool leg in his hand, pointed at Liu Xiao and said, "Don't think that there are too many of you, if they dare to move, I will get rid of them first." kill you."

"You also know that you can't run away? The movie is not over yet, and Lei Luo won't eat you alive. I'll give you two ways to go now. One is that you take what you should take and keep the rest of the money. Fuck off, the second is that you continue to stay here, but I have the final say on everything about the filming, the cost will be paid from the funds lard boy gave you, and you can get your dividends if the film makes money." Wu Changyun said Waiting for Liu Xiao to give himself an answer.

Wu Changyun was sure that Liu Xiao would not leave, let alone hand over the money easily.

Liu Xiao didn't expect Wu Changyun's attitude to be so tough. Before, he had always underestimated this mud-legged person who was born as a double, and he didn't expect to cause himself such a big trouble at a critical moment.

A good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. Liu Xiao can't completely break up with Wu Changyun at the moment, so he might as well agree to it first. Director Wu Changyun can't make the film without him, and he's not good enough. Wu Changyun doesn't have any loved ones or friends, so he just needs to control Wu Changyun. As for the weakness, I still have the final say when the time comes.

"You're making a big joke. The conflict between us shouldn't be involved on the set. Since you have your own ideas, you should try it first. However, if the filming schedule is delayed and you can't make the job, everyone will be in trouble." Liu Xiao waved his hands and ignored the two people in front of him.

Wu Changyun thought about this problem before he came here. In Hong Kong in the 70s, professionals made movies, but in the era before Wu Changyun traveled, everyone in the streets and alleys made plots.Anyway, it's all about this, Wu Changyun will never let Liu Xiao intervene in the filming, he can make this movie even if he takes the helm himself.

(End of this chapter)