Superstars start as villains

Chapter 219 cools down traditional martial arts.

The debate between martial arts and muay thai has only recently appeared. When martial arts novels were brilliant at the end of the last century, Chinese people would not think that muay thai and martial arts had any confrontation. Did you beat Muay Thai away?

When Bruce Lee successfully introduced Chinese Kung Fu movies into Hollywood, no one would think that Muay Thai was comparable to martial arts. After all, Bruce Lee was a world idol and an international Kung Fu superstar at that time, and all Chinese people regarded him as glory.

Li Lianjie and Jackie Chan jointly created the golden age of Hong Kong kung fu movies, and no one doubts that Muay Thai can wrestle with martial arts.

In fact, in Zhou Xing's view, it is a good thing that someone raises such a question, which shows that the Chinese people have not been living in the illusion of past glory.

It's like when Zhou Xing was a child, he never doubted whether anyone in the world knew the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and whether the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms were powerful or not.

Only when people have the cognitive ability can they begin to learn to doubt.

In fact, it is a very simple truth. Muay Thai and martial arts are techniques that have been studied by predecessors with countless painstaking efforts, but Muay Thai began to incorporate scientific training methods very early. Hands grow.

Today's martial arts is still using the training methods of a hundred years ago, and at the same time, there are no competitions for boxers to conduct actual combat training.

In fact, it is clear at a glance which hatchback is better than the other. Of course, as the saying goes, there is no superiority in technique, but there are depths in skill. If traditional martial arts are introduced into modern scientific strength training, adding resistance training, and combined with martial arts techniques, it is not necessarily comparable. Boxing and muay thai techniques are less effective in actual combat.

In fact, Bruce Lee is a good example. According to the current perspective, his training method is actually very similar to the MMA training method. Combined with the unique power-generating technique of Wing Chun, he can explode into a very strong actual combat ability.

In Zhou Xing's view, the one who is really strong is always an individual. He may be invincible in a certain period of time, but if he is allowed to retain his peak period, let him fight against the strongest person at that time in a few decades, maybe He will appear vulnerable, because science is constantly improving.

The training methods of each era have its limitations. After decades, countless people have summed up the crystallization of experience that cannot be competed by individuals.

In Zhou Xing's view, the reason why "Slaying the Wolf 2" just held its launch conference, and the debate on martial arts and muay thai is so fierce is that some unscrupulous businessmen are taking advantage of the patriotic sentiment of the public, and they are making a fuss about this topic. Constant hype to get a lot of traffic.

Naturally, the traffic needs to be realized, and the way they finally realize it is often to hold some so-called "China-Thai Boxing Championships". In fact, the so-called Thai boxing champions invited are either boxers who can't get along in Thailand, or simply have no education at all. Thai international students who have experienced muay thai boxing can earn thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars after a simple training. Anyway, they are beaten on stage. How profitable is this money?

For such a competition, the supply of tickets is several thousand or even tens of thousands, and the supply is still in short supply. If the organizer sells one thousand tickets for one game, the profit will be tens of millions.

It seems that the audience enjoys watching such a match, their patriotism is vented, the boxers make money, and the organizer makes a lot of money. It seems that there is nothing wrong with it?

However, it is just such a group of swindlers who put traditional martial arts on the steel wire rope, and they can’t go up or down. In order to show the strength of martial arts and help them cheat next time, they will promote martial arts in a miraculous way, such as internal boxing, what Boy's skill is omnipotent.

When many people who don't know the truth really learn traditional martial arts, they find that it is not so magical, so they naturally blame traditional martial arts.

In this regard, Zhou Xing directly posted several long Weibo posts to appeal to the public to view martial arts objectively.

After Weibo was published, to Zhou Xing's surprise, Liu Jialiang was the first to repost it, presumably his disciples must have helped to operate it.

Immediately afterwards, Wu Jing also reposted it, and not long after, Li Lianjie, Cheng Long, Zhao Wenzhuo, and even Zhen Zibao and Hong Jinbao, who had been at odds with Zhou Xing, also reposted related Weibo.

Soon Xiong Xinxin and Kwan Zhaolong also entered the reposting list, and then martial arts instructors such as Yuan Baye and Cheng Xiaodong also started reposting.

In addition to those in the martial arts circle, the artists of "Zhixing Film and Television" saw that the boss posted so many microblogs, and they retweeted them to save face.

In addition, some friends in the entertainment industry also reposted it. In just one hour, more than [-] celebrities reposted it. With the surge in reposts, "Zhou Xing: Please let go of traditional martial arts" also entered Topped the Weibo hot search list.

Of course, if someone praises it, others will naturally criticize it. Zhou Xing's words can be regarded as the last fig leaf for those liars who deceived the people by traditional martial arts.

Some "heads" of traditional martial arts schools that Zhou Xing had never heard of began to clamor, saying that Zhou Xing deceived his masters and exterminated his ancestors, degraded traditional martial arts to nothing, and was not worthy of being the inheritor of traditional martial arts.

Not to mention these so-called traditional martial arts schools, the names are quite bluffing, such as Hunyuan Xingyi Taijimen, Taiji Wuji Baguamen and so on, if it weren’t for Zhou Xingpai [Grandmaster] through Sunglass King’s information Go through the information of most martial arts schools, maybe you really believe it.

In fact, none of these so-called traditional martial arts sects has been a serious teacher. Looking at the masters announced by them, they seem to be quite awesome. After checking, it is found that many of them have passed away since the Republic of China. Old seniors, I don't know if they are the masters of Tuo Mengbai.

Moreover, this group of people all have an obvious characteristic. They basically teach northern boxing styles, especially the three major internal boxing styles of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua. of.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. This group of people seems to have no way to survive. The revenge against Zhou Xing is quite violent, and even a so-called one hundred traditional martial arts masters are formed, and they jointly demand Hongquan to generalize Zhou Xing. Expelled from the division.

Needless to say, this group of people are fighting for their lives, and the momentum is not insignificant.

However, before Zhou Xing could figure out how to refute them, Mr. Liu Jialiang asked his disciples to publicly support Zhou Xing on Weibo, saying that Zhou Xing's name had entered the Hongquan family tree, and that he was the eighth generation successor of the Huang School Hongquan. There is no right to expel him from the division.

While Zhou Xing was moved, he couldn't help being a little worried about the old man's health. He was still worrying about these messy things at such an old age.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xing didn't bother to continue entanglement with this group of people. He directly quoted a line from Ye Wen in "The Great Master" and posted it on Weibo.

"Don't tell me how deep your kung fu is, how powerful your master is and how profound your martial art is. Kung fu, two words: one horizontal and one vertical, wrong, lying down, standing up is qualified to speak."

Immediately, a stone stirred up a thousand waves, and those so-called martial arts sect leaders who were mad by anger began to clamor from the air, wanting to show Zhou Xing some color.

In this regard, Zhou Xing posted on Weibo again, announcing his location in Xiangjiang, and said that if he wins, he will pay for all board and lodging.

Such arrogant arrogance was even criticized as having no manners and education, which aroused a lot of scolding.

However, the people who eat melons soon discovered a very strange thing. These so-called "heads" and "grandmasters" clamored to give Zhou Xing some color, but in fact none of them actually went to Xiangjiang.

So someone posted this question, and soon there was an answer.

"Isn't this obvious? Zhou Xing once held a similar arena before. He even went to the professional Sanda champion, and he lost in a mess. These so-called masters and masters are at least 50 years old. Even if there are The strength has passed the peak period, can't you go to Xiangjiang to find it?"

This farce ended anticlimactically, and netizens gradually became sober, and began to look at issues related to traditional martial arts with a normal mind.

For the crew of [Slaying the Wolf 2], this is definitely a good thing. A film has just started filming, and there is such a high popularity, which is definitely a great benefit to the box office.

Going back to the filming of "Slaying the Wolf 2", although Du Qifeng's style is very sharp, he was still very reliable when directing the filming, and the filming progress was not a bit faster than Sunglasses King.

After a month of intense filming, the scene of Xiangjiang was finished, and the entire filming team rushed to Thailand for follow-up filming.

Speaking of which, [Slaying the Wolf 2] has more scenes in Thailand than in Xiangjiang. It is estimated that Thailand will also be able to reap a good box office by then.

Summer is definitely not a good time to come to Thailand. Although the temperature here is not very high, the sunshine time is very long, and many small hotels do not have air-conditioning. The last time Zhou Xing visited the crew of "囧囧 in Thailand", I was deeply impressed It’s just that I was visiting the class at that time, and I could leave after staying for two days, but now I have to stay here for at least several months.

In order to save costs, ordinary actors must only live in small hotels without air conditioning, but the main creators like Zhou Xing lived in five-star hotels grandiosely.

Zhou Xing has no interest in pretending to be an approachable boss who shares weal and woe with ordinary actors. In this industry, different coffee positions are treated differently. Otherwise, why would so many people want to climb up by any means?

Even Wang Zhi had to live in an ordinary hotel, so Wang Zhi had no complaints about it, after all, she was a newcomer now.

The plot of "Slaying the Wolf 2" is more complicated than ordinary kung fu movies. It tells the story of the protagonist Chen Zhijie who was discovered when he was undercover for selling organs and tissues, and was hijacked into a prison in Thailand. The warden of the prison has long been Bought by the big villain, the prison is the place where the big villain detains organ donors, and there are many young children in it.

And Chen Zhijie was also imprisoned here. Achai is the second male lead in the play, that is, the character of Tony Jia. He is a prison guard with a sense of justice. His daughter has leukemia and needs bone marrow donation, and Chen Zhijie is the one who is eligible for the donation.

"Crack." Du Qifeng suddenly frowned and stopped the performance.

Zhou Xing, Ren Dahua, Zhang Jin, and Tony Jia all looked at each other strangely. Everyone put their heart into the performance just now and didn't feel that there was anything wrong.

Du Qifeng picked up the script and walked in front of the three of them: "Do you think that the plot here is a bit too thin, if A-Chai just sits by and does nothing because he needs a job to support himself and treat his daughter, this character is too weak." It's one-sided, and the plot impact is not enough."

Zhou Xing, Ren Dahua and Zhang Jin fell into deep thought, while Tony Jia frowned slightly under the interpreter's explanation.

Du Qifeng thought for a while: "I mean, can we subvert the structure that only Chen Zhijie's bone marrow can save Achai's daughter, assuming that there is a donor in the prison who also meets the conditions for Achai's daughter's bone marrow transplantation? The warden takes this Come to blackmail Ah Chai, doesn't it seem more impactful?"

I have to admit that Du Qifeng's vision is very poisonous. According to this change, the impact of the comedy explosion is indeed several times stronger, and in the follow-up, let the warden kill the girl in front of Achai, erasing his only Hopefully, the whole plot will be more tense.

Of course, in Du Qifeng's opinion, it would be better if Chen Zhijie died, but when he thought of the happy ending later, he was very depressed.

However, with such a change in the plot, Tony Jia couldn't keep up. He was not from a major, and his acting skills were average. Now that Du Qifeng suddenly added a role to his role, the requirements for his acting skills were naturally higher, especially in Du Qifeng gave him a lot of close-up shots of the scene of the struggle between the daughter and the moral bottom line that he has always adhered to. In addition, the two sides are bilingual, and the communication is not smooth enough.

When filming this scene, Tony Jia suffered a lot, but it can be seen that his growth is also huge. Du Qifeng is definitely a director who is very good at training actors.

Of course, Du Qifeng's temper is also very bad. It is common for him to swear on the set. Fortunately, Tony Jia can't understand Cantonese, so the translation of the swearing is skipped.

Of course, compared to the martial arts in this drama, literary drama can only be regarded as trivial. For this drama, Zhou Xing brought Xiong Xinxin and Kwan Zhaolong into the crew, plus Tony Jia, a total of four martial arts directors.

We often argue over a simple fight scene, and at the beginning we didn't cooperate well enough, so injuries were inevitable.

There are four masseuses resident in the crew, and all the martial arts scenes are cut out one by one.

Especially in the last fight scene, Zhou Xing and Tony Jia faced the final villainous boss Zhang Jin at the same time. In terms of action design, in order to highlight Zhang Jin's leg skills, his suit pants are specially made, which looks leggy. Very long.

Of course, Zhang Jin was injured a lot during the filming of this movie. He even refused to let his wife Ada Choi worry about her coming to Thailand to visit the set.

Fortunately, after a period of running-in, everyone gradually developed a tacit understanding, and the shooting progress of the martial arts gradually caught up.

Finally, [Slaying the Wolf 2] was announced in November.

(End of this chapter)