China Entertainment 1997

Kowloon, Hong Kong, a waste warehouse

Now it has been changed into a filming scene for "New Police Story", which is the plot of several villains playing tricks on Cheng Long.

Cao Xuan was dressed in a black combat uniform with a red and yellow clown mask on his face. He was sitting on a chair next to him playing with his mobile phone. He looked up from time to time to glance at Cheng Long, who was fighting with An Zhijie.

In this scene, after the villain and others commit a crime, the police dispatch the elite police force, the male protagonist Chen Guorong, played by Cheng Long, to arrest them.

Little did he know that there was a traitor within the police, and the plan was leaked. The entire team was wiped out. Except for the sacrificed ones, the rest were captured and hung on the house.

Then the villains played tricks on Cheng Long and had a bet with him. If Cheng Long won, he would drop 1 or 2 people. If Cheng Long lost, he would kill 1 or 2 of his teammates.

This is undoubtedly an extremely unfair matchup.

Not to mention that all the villains are elites, and it is difficult to win. The key point is that Cheng Long bears the lives of his teammates. If one party plays the game, the other party cannot afford to lose.

Losing a game and losing a teammate had a great mental impact on Cheng Long, who was even on the verge of a mental breakdown.

After setting up the move, Cheng Long came over wearing a police uniform. Cheng Liuzi obediently handed over a towel, and he wiped his sweat casually.

"Axuan, it's okay to assemble the gun."

A week after the filming started, the two of them became familiar with each other, and Cheng Long also called Ah Xuan, who was closer to him.

Cao Xuan didn't reply. He suddenly pulled out the pistol from his waist. He stood up and faced the chair. He saw his hands flying. The people next to him didn't see clearly. The gun in his hand turned into a pile of parts.

After dismantling it, Cao Xuan put the parts back together. Compared to disassembly, he loaded the gun slower, but it still took less than a minute.

click

There was a crisp sound of loading, Cao Xuan's eyes were sharp, and he pointed the gun in front of no one with both hands.

From drawing the gun to disassembling and assembling, all actions are done in one go, smoothly and quickly, which is called standard neatness.

Cheng Long's eyes lit up when he saw it: "It's pretty fast. Have you practiced?"

Turning off the safety and putting away the gun, Cao Xuan calmly replied: "I have a bodyguard who is from the army. I will practice with him when I have nothing to do. I play with real guys in the United States and with props in China."

"Like playing with guns?"

"It's okay. It's mainly convenient for acting. I don't have to worry about many arts. I'll use it this time."

Just like Cao Xuan often practices martial arts, in addition to exercising, in most cases it is to prepare for filming, and the same is true for related training.

During the filming of "A Better Detective", he specifically practiced drawing and holding a gun. This time when filming "New Police Story", he also consciously practiced using the gun.

Although it's not particularly fast and can't compare with those warrior kings or professional players, it's still considered proficient.

As long as the posture is okay, the movie can be sped up or slowed down through editing.

"Did you see it? This is a good habit. Learn from your brother Xuan later. Don't always hang out with those gangsters."

The longer Cheng Long stayed with Cao Xuan, the more he admired Cao Xuan, and as a result, he became displeased with his own son and would often pass along a few words about Cheng Liuzi.

He was born as an apprentice in a theater troupe and never went to school seriously, so Cheng Long believed in repressive education. He looked down on his son Cheng Liuzi and often reprimanded or even scolded him.

However, in most cases this approach will only push the child further.

Cheng Liuzi was okay, at least he was obedient on the surface, but who knew if there might be a deeper rebellion in private.

In fact, Cao Xuan tried to persuade him once or twice, but Cheng Long obviously didn't take it seriously. After all, there was no need for Cao Xuan to interfere in other people's family affairs. They had done their part as far as they were concerned, and the rest was their own business.

After chatting for a few words, the machine and personnel were debugged and the official shooting began.

Several police officers were hung up. Cheng Long looked at his injured teammates in panic and said with a broken expression: "How could this happen?

Then the collapse turned into anger, with tears in his eyes, he raised his gun and shouted: "Who are you? Come out!"

He shouted, but was unable to squat down. The entire team was wiped out. This was partly due to his pride. He did not wait for the support of the Flying Tigers. Various emotions such as despair, panic and guilt defeated this man.

To be honest, although Cheng Long is famous for his kung fu comedies, his acting skills are actually not bad.

Although it can't be said to compete with those top actors, it is definitely top-notch. In many similar serious and tragic plots, Cheng Long's performance is not bad, even brilliant.

Da da da……

Black thick-soled combat boots stepped on the concrete floor. Cao Xuan, wearing a mask and chewing gum, appeared at the stairs next to the warehouse, looking at Cheng Long with a playful look.

"Officer Chen, hello."

Several villains also appeared around. Cheng Long, who regained his composure, pointed his gun at Cao Xuan, but several infrared rays also appeared on his body and face, proving the situation between the two sides.

"Who are you?"

"If you beat the police, of course they are the bad guys."

Cao Xuan is not as frivolous and arrogant as Azu in the original version. He almost has the bad guy written on his face. His movements and expressions are actually very relaxed, more of a cat-and-mouse banter.

There are two main reasons. One is that several of his subordinates are already crazy enough, and each of them seems to be suffering from mania after taking drugs. If he continues to be crazy, it will be a bit homogeneous.

Another villain who he felt was truly neurotic and antisocial didn't have to act crazy all the time.

Cao Xuan believes that villains are usually relatively normal, and only in key scenes do they break out into that ruthless, crazy, or even completely indifferent indifference, which can shock the audience even more.

So from the beginning to the end, even though Cao Xuan's tone was joking and he kept teasing and playing with Cheng Long, there was always an unwavering calmness deep in his eyes.

Crazy criticism makes people scared. This extremely calm and inhuman madness makes people feel chilled from the inside out.

The villain showed up and a bet was set up. Cao Xuan took the lead and competed with who could disassemble and assemble guns faster.

Cheng Long was highly nervous and couldn't concentrate at all. His hands kept moving rapidly, but he was obviously a little panicked.

Cao Xuan, on the other hand, was very laid-back, occasionally teasing Cheng Long, and the whining of his teammates behind him would also cause irritation.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Long, whose mentality was highly unbalanced, was obviously destined to lose.

Cao Xuan, who was the first to finish the assembly, pointed his gun at Cheng Long and shook his head: "You lose."

After that, a shot was fired to the back, hitting the rope hanging by a policeman. The policeman fell from the air and fell heavily to the ground. He struggled for a while and made no sound.

Cao Xuan threw the gun on the stage and admired the blushing and sad expression with great interest. He paused for more than ten seconds before he seemed to think of something.

"Oops, we agreed to bet two."

Lifting her finger and gently bending it, the female villain played by Gillian Chung flipped a switch without hesitation. Amidst Cheng Long's screams, another one fell to death.

Seeing Cheng Long with tears streaming down his face, Cao Xuan showed a particularly sincere and honest smile and snapped his fingers: "This is what keeps your word."

"leave!"

Looking at the close-up of Cao Xuan's smiling face on the monitor, director Chen Musheng couldn't help scratching his scalp.

Damn, it was so evil, it gave him goosebumps.

Cheng Long and Cao Xuan finished the filming and watched the monitor playback. The eldest brother couldn't help but marveled.

"Axuan's aura is so strong. He looks like a particularly difficult villain. I was completely overwhelmed."

"Brother, you are being humble. Originally, this episode was about me suppressing you. The emotion you gave me just now was so great that I almost couldn't hold my breath."

The two exchanged blows in their daily business, but they were also somewhat sincere in it.

For example, in this scene, Cao Xuan, the villain, was originally in control of the situation, and it was normal for him to have a stronger aura than the "plaything" Cheng Long.

Cao Xuan has to keep teasing and insulting him. The humbler Cheng Long is and the more arrogant the villain is, the stronger the conflicting effect will be and the more aroused the audience's emotions will be.

However, although he understood the reason, Cao Xuan's performance still surprised many people and even scared them.

Some people almost thought that Cao Xuan was really a neurotic and crazy villain...

The next scene, according to the original version, started with a fight between An Zhijie and Cheng Long. Because Cheng Long's mentality was unbalanced, he won one round, and then kept letting people fall to death, causing Cheng Long to continue to collapse and lose completely.

But now that it has been changed to a duel between two heroes, Cao Xuan's role has increased, so he must be more outstanding.

Therefore, the scene was modified. An Zhijie did beat Cheng Long at first, but Cheng Long realized that it would be over if he continued like this, so he desperately adjusted his mentality and successfully counterattacked while An Zhijie was underestimating the enemy.

At this time, Cao Xuan appeared and took over the bet, and the two played again.

If Cheng Long wins, 5 people will be released. If Cheng Long loses, the 2 people he won just now will all die.

Cheng Long refused to bet, and when the bet was over, he left with the two people he saved, and all the remaining people died.

There is no choice but to continue fighting.

Cao Xuan is designed as an all-around elite, more capable than An Zhijie.

Moreover, his attack was even more vicious. He directly inserted his eyes, raised his foot and kicked the throat and heart, aiming for the vital points. The force was also very heavy, and it was very difficult for Cheng Long to parry.

Cao Xuan was killing like crazy, but Cheng Long had scruples and didn't dare to kill him. He could only be beaten by Cao Xuan, his ribs were broken, and he knelt on the ground and vomited blood.

Looking at Cheng Long lying on the ground, Cao Xuan threw his hands away in disappointment: "A fighting coach like this, no wonder the guys are trash."

With a snap of his fingers, five more people were killed.

Cheng Long's eyes were bloodshot, his veins were bulging, his face was red but he couldn't say a word, so he could only cry out in despair.

"Ah ah ah ah ah……"

This feeling of despair followed by disappointment is heartbreaking.

Cao Xuan didn't care, squatting in front of Cheng Long, grabbing his hair, his tone was as normal as inviting him to lunch.

"There are three more people, do you want to bet or not?"

At this time, Cheng Long looked at him with despair, anger, hatred and a trace of fear.

"Bet or not?"

"just kill me."

Cheng Long, who had completely collapsed, answered the question incorrectly, his eyes were filled with death, and Cao Xuan was a little angry.

"I hate it when you guys give up in the middle of playing like this. Let's do this. If you beg me, I'll let you go if I'm satisfied."

Cheng Long might have sensed that Cao Xuan was playing tricks on him, but he still couldn't help but take a gamble and struggled to get up to plead with Cao Xuan.

"You don't even kneel down, you're not sincere, Officer Chen."

Cao Xuan expressed dissatisfaction, Cheng Long closed his eyes, knelt down and begged softly, Cao Xuan patted his face, and made his first sincere laugh.

"Police, haha, police, hahaha, this is the police."

Cheng Long was no longer angry at the sarcasm. He just cried and continued to beg: "I beg you to let them go."

"louder please."

"I beg you, let them go."

"Kowtow, louder."

Cheng Long cried bitterly, slowly knelt down and kowtowed, and then shouted with all his strength: "I beg you, let them go."

Cao Xuan took a deep breath, flicked his ear with his little finger, and said in a troubled voice: "You are too loud, you scared me."

After saying that, he drew his gun and raised his hand, fired two shots, and two more figures fell away.

leave!

To be honest, when seeing this scene, all the crew and actors on the scene, including several of Cao Xuan's villain brothers, couldn't help but grit their teeth and clenched their fists tightly.

The performances of Cao Xuan and Cheng Long were so wonderful that everyone was completely attracted to the drama.

So when they saw this scene, many people turned their heads slightly, fearing that they could not help but rush up and beat Cao Xuan violently to vent their frustration.

Cao Xuan also realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere at the scene, and hurriedly helped his eldest brother up, acting like a good younger brother in the entertainment industry.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Cheng Long stood up, wiped away his tears, looked at Cao Xuan quietly for two seconds, and sighed: "When the movie is released, it's best to stay away, I'm afraid you will get beaten."

"That's not true, is it?"

Cao Xuan was a little hesitant, but Cheng Long was very determined: "Too bad, just seeing your face in the play, I wanted to strangle you to death."

"Fuck."

Cao Xuan hurriedly took two steps away from Cheng Long, and then solemnly reminded: "Brother, this is just acting, don't get involved."

"Don't worry, I'm not involved in the drama."

Cheng Long glanced at his neck several times, and then said with a hint of regret: "If you were into the drama, I would have pinched you with my hand just now."

The crowd was furious, but Chen Musheng, who came in a hurry, gave Cao Xuan a very high evaluation.

"The acting is excellent. I found that Cao Sheng has a very high talent as a villain. He is very able to arouse people's emotions. He is real and brilliant."

Does this mean that my acting is not good enough?

Cao Xuan hesitated for a moment, making sure that the other party was not yin and yang, so he took it as a compliment to himself.

However, for the sake of Cao Xuan's safety, the scene was stopped for a while and he had lunch before continuing to reshoot the morning's scenes, especially a few fight scenes, which had some flaws and had to be reshot.

While he was having lunch, Cao Xuan called all four of his bodyguards to the scene so that if they really got into trouble with the Cheng family, there would be someone to cover their escape.

But this is completely unfounded. Unless Cheng Long can't help but take action himself, if others want to kill Cao Xuan, Cheng Long will be the first to do it.

If Cheng Long takes action himself, Cao Xuan's four bodyguards, including the dozens of members of the Cheng family who are mostly practicing family members, and Cao Xuan's four bodyguards will not be able to last long...

It took two days of filming to finish the previous plot points, and the remaining content was shot on the fourth day.

Cao Xuan didn't keep his word and killed two more, leaving only one teammate, who was also the brother-in-law in Cheng Long's play. Cheng Long fell into madness and shot wildly with a gun, intending to die together with Cao Xuan and others.

There was no way he could hit him with this kind of beating, so Cao Xuan finally ran upstairs, doused the rope hanging his brother-in-law with gasoline, and then lit it on fire.

After that, Cheng Long disregarded the danger to save people, and even performed a stunt, which was to put his hands on his sleeves and then play with a match rope sling.

This scene was shot for real, and the fire was real. Cheng Long's hands were even burned because his sleeves got a little gasoline on them.

To be honest, Cao Xuan could not help but be impressed when he saw Cheng Long only using cloth to protect his hands and directly using a match rope sling, even though he had protective equipment on his body.

In his fifties, he has become famous and has a lot of wealth. His wife, children and family are happy, and he can still be so generous.

Comparatively speaking, if he is as old as Cao Xuan, he can endure hardships during filming, but I am afraid he will not risk his life easily.

Maybe this has something to do with their personalities, but Cao Xuan couldn't help but admire Cheng Long...

When Cheng Long rescued his brother-in-law, Cao Xuan led his people to retreat and barely managed to save him. The brother-in-law told him that there were bombs around and pointed to a countdown timer on the door, which only had one minute.

After his brother-in-law finished speaking, Cheng Long looked at the corpses of his teammates around him in confusion, and at the numbers that had begun to count down at the gate.

He didn't want his teammates' bodies to be left alive. Regardless of his exhaustion and injuries, he found a cart, loaded the bodies with difficulty, and then ran out.

However, the cart was too small. When Cheng Long pushed the cart, the piled corpses slipped and fell to the ground.

Unwilling to give up anyone, Cheng Long moved the body up again, but before he could take more than two steps, the other person fell off the cart. Cheng Long could only struggle to move it up again, and ran frantically out of the gate.

During this scene, the bomb countdown on the door flashed from time to time, creating an extremely tense atmosphere. Cheng Long's sadness and powerlessness, as well as the various accidents, made it look increasingly desolate and helpless.

After all, Cheng Long did not escape before the countdown came. Watching the timer reach zero, Cheng Long stopped, his face ashen.

However, what people didn't expect was that the bomb did not explode, but a few small sparks. Cheng Long, who realized this, had ecstasy on his face and pushed the car towards the door.

He was only a dozen meters away when he suddenly saw Cao Xuan, dressed in black and wearing a red face, standing on the other side of the gate.

"Goodbye, Officer Chen."

Cao Xuan waved to him, then pressed the detonator in his hand, and the warehouse began to explode into a sea of ​​fire.

First give Cheng Long and the audience hope, and then crush the hope. This contrasting effect has been played once before, and it is played again here.

There is no better way to kill someone than to kill one’s heart!

The cruelty of a villain is sometimes not only reflected in how ruthless he is, but also how he plays with people's hearts and makes people shudder.

"interesting!"

Looking at the exploding warehouse, Cao Xuan took off the mask on his face. His eyes were calm and indifferent, but the corners of his mouth were raised crazily, and then he laughed wildly and wantonly.

The eyes and expressions are divided into two completely different emotions. The calm but crazy look makes people sincerely feel a kind of fear and timidity that goes deep into the bones.

The crew of "New Police Story" on set were originally angry because of Cao Xuan's previous scenes, but now they got goosebumps when they saw this scene.

Cao Xuan turned his head. Several people didn't even dare to look at him. They felt uncomfortable when he saw him and couldn't help but run away in despair.

Cao Xuan was also more or less entranced by the drama. It took him two minutes to return to normal, and he took a cup of pearl milk tea to rest.

Cheng Long, who had just become disgraced, came over to laugh and asked jokingly.

"Axuan, tell me the truth, how many lives are on your hands?"

"It's a small hundred billion, I haven't counted it carefully."

Cheng Long: "..."

If you think about it this way, I have many more lives in my hands than you, and I have more accomplices...

………

The warehouse scene took about five days to shoot. After the filming, Cao Xuan completely formed the "King of Hell" that most people are afraid of in "New Police Story".

It’s not that he is cruel, in fact Cao Xuan is the good-tempered member of the crew and takes good care of the staff.

But just because the villain acted so well, many people were afraid of him.

Usually when Cao Xuan is filming on the set, there are always little girls thinking about him. But this time, except for a few silly and bold girls, all the girls on the set walked around when they saw him.

Some people were dissatisfied with Cao Xuan before, thinking that Cao Xuan's fame came from singers, and actors may not be good at it. After the scenes in the warehouse, all similar sounds disappeared.

The crew of "New Police Story" recognized that Cao Xuan was the best in acting. Cheng Long and several veteran actors were ranked behind him. Many people even suspected that he was acting in his true colors.

The king of pop in this world is a heart-rending scumbag at heart...

On the one hand, Cao Xuan's professional standards are indeed good, and his acting skills have become increasingly sophisticated in the past two years.

Whether it is eyes, emotions, body language, or exploring characters, he is very good at it.

But at the same time, the role of Ah Xuan itself is more outstanding and plays a big factor.

This outstanding performance does not mean how good this character is, but that this character is easier to perform, and it is easy to steal the scene no matter which character he is paired with.

Cao Xuan himself also handled it well, and also borrowed the acting techniques from some excellent works of later generations, which made the role of A Xuan even more eye-catching.

Cheng Long's personal scenes are okay. In the scenes between the two of them, except for a few scenes such as the warehouse, Cao Xuan basically performed better.

This is not to say that Cao Xuan is a better actor than Cheng Long, but that positive roles are inherently disadvantaged in this situation, so Cheng Long can only be played under the pressure of Cao Xuan.

To be honest, since the role of Ah Xuan has been played, Chen Musheng and Boss Yang once wanted to change the script.

They felt that the role of Ah Xuan was so brilliant that it would definitely become a hot topic after its release. Such a character should not die. He could have made two more movies later.

But Cao Xuan insisted that evil will be punished, and such bad people cannot live and must die.

The director and Boss Yang couldn't defeat Cao Xuan, so they didn't change the ending and still let the character of A Xuan be killed by the plot.

Filmmaking in Xiangjiang is very fast. As one of the two male protagonists, Cao Xuan's shooting cycle is only about 40 days.

Cheng Long takes longer. On the one hand, he has many roles, and there are also many large-scale stunt scenes, which require various arrangements and waste some time.

But even with this calculation, "New Police Story" can be completed by early May at most.

According to the plan, it will be released simultaneously across Asia in late September, which is the National Day period.

Of course, the release time may not be on the same day, there will be a relative delay.

While the summer season has not yet fully emerged, the Mainland’s National Day season can be regarded as the second-most popular movie season after the Lunar New Year season.

This can also be seen from last year's blockbuster "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" and Hong Kong's "Hedong Lion's Roar" and other movies crowded here.

If "The Dragon Reborn" hadn't been synchronized with the American summer schedule last year, 80% of it would have been released on the National Day schedule.

In fact, after last year's "When Men Fall in Love" grossed 50 million at the box office, some domestic film producers began to pay attention to summer releases.

But I can’t stand the fact that there is “House of Flying Daggers” on the summer schedule this year, and although Cao Xuan’s “Xiu Chun Dao” has not yet been released, it is basically confirmed to be released during the summer vacation.

There is also Star Master's "Kung Fu". Although it is said that this movie is likely to enter the Lunar New Year movie, it is not clear whether it will enter the summer movie.

Several movies are very popular in the film market this year. Boss Yang is not willing to fight with them head-on, so he plans to take a step back and dominate the National Day movies.

After Cao Xuan learned that "Spring Knife" and "New Police Story" would not overlap in schedule, he didn't care about the rest and just lived his drama addiction.

For the role of Ah Xuan, the screenwriting framework does not have too many restrictions.

And there is no need to worry about the character plot like "When a Man Falls in Love" and "Xiu Chun Dao", Cao Xuan can have more freedom to play.

In the years since his debut, Cao Xuan has not acted in many film and television works, but there are still double digits.

He dare not say that this role is the best he has ever played.

After all, from the heart, Cao Xuan feels that the best roles he has played so far are Linghu Chong and Gu Chao in "When Men Are in Love".

Next are Shen Lian in "Xiu Chun Knife" and Ah Xuan this time, and Ximen Daguanren can barely count, mainly because of their passionate acting.

However, although Cao Xuan is not necessarily the best character, he is definitely the most enjoyable character he has played so far.

Other roles can only make Cao Xuan feel the joy of acting. In this play, Cao Xuan felt the heartfelt and refreshing feeling for the first time.

Even now, Cao Xuan is a little impatient when he goes to the scene to shoot every day.

This discovery made Cao Xuan happy and a little panicked at the same time. He planned to talk to a psychiatrist after filming the film.

Enjoy it as much as you want, don't get into trouble by digging out your inner potential personality or thoughts.

We like to evolve into evil villains, but we don’t want to become perverts...