Since 1983

Xu Fei has many things to do in Hong Kong.

Industrial layout, selection of movies; the end of the financial turmoil and speculation, earning more than one billion Hong Kong dollars; negotiation of copyright; and participation in the Academy Awards.

He was nominated for the best screenplay for The Wind, ouch, I'm so ashamed!

There are also best film, director, etc. Gong Li and Zhang Manyu are both nominated. Gong Li is filming Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin in Xiangshan, and we will meet up in a few days.

On this day, Xu Fei met with Jin Yong.

Jin Yong knows very well that black and white are all in history, and there is no discussion. In the study room, the old man is 74 years old, he is hale and hearty, and his tone is vague, so he has to listen carefully.

Mr. Xu is young and promising. When I went to the mainland, I heard people around me tell me that your plays are good. I saw them when they were introduced in Hong Kong. They are really good...

You win the prize because of your strength.

Hehehe!

The old man laughed for a while. With his status, whoever is not respectful. This one doesn't care a bit.

To be honest, I'm here to negotiate copyright on behalf of CCTV and Tianxia Company, and I'm planning to make a martial arts drama together.

CCTV?

Jin Yong's eyes lit up, and he asked, Which book is the copyright?

Dragon Ba Bu.

...

The old man was silent for a moment, and said: Copyright is not a problem, it's not bad after selling so many times, but I want to hear if there is anything that impresses me more.

Heh, what do you think of the movies made in Hong Kong? Xu Fei asked.

Hong Kong directors changed my novels indiscriminately. I am very angry. They often add content. If you want to add it, why don't you write martial arts yourself to become famous?

The child is not good, you can help me teach, but you can't give birth to a child and say it is Jin Yong's child.

The old man was filled with righteous indignation.

Um, so you sold it to Mama Yu? Also sold several times!

Of course it doesn't mean how good my book is, but the current screenwriters like to take shortcuts and don't spend their time creating. If you change it well, I certainly don't object.

I've heard a saying that there are only 36 kinds of joys and sorrows in people, and it depends on how you match them.

for example?

For example, Mrs. Ma, she is not only a Pan Jinlian-style bad woman, she has her own tragic elements. If only the former is shown, it is a lazy match. The characters are complicated, and the three-dimensional sense is the most important.

Xu Feibalabala spoke for a while, and the other party nodded frequently, and finally said: Actually, in all your dramas, my favorite character is Zhou Zhiruo in the Taiwanese version of Yi Tian Tu Long Ji.

Oh why?

She was enlightened by Zhang Sanfeng, she was enlightened, she handed over the Emei sect to Zhang Wuji, she became a monk and traveled all over the world.

I think this is a place with a lofty artistic conception. Such a woman should be free and unrestrained, and in the end, like Zhang Sanfeng, she will become a generation of masters.

Haha, this ending is really good.

The two chatted for a long time, Xu Fei didn't promise anything, but Jin Yong was very satisfied, this is someone who knows martial arts. Moreover, he was also envious of the strength of CCTV and the resources of the mainland, and wanted to add some background to the work.

Mr. Xu lives up to his reputation. I am looking forward to your works. I just don't know how much you want to pay for the adaptation? Jin Yong half-jokingly said.

Our budget is tight, this is a big production, and it will take two to three years to complete.

Two or three years?

Jin Yong frowned, exaggerating.

Let me do the math for you. First of all, I plan to build a martial arts city. Dragon Babu and the Condor Shooting trilogy will be expanded into it. The first phase of the project will cost tens of millions, and it will take a year to build, right?

Then the location selection, the real mountains, the real water, the great rivers and mountains, and the Fuhuadao of thousands of people, the casting...it will take more than half a year to prepare, right?

Anyway, even if the house and the area are filmed, it can't be worth less than 100 million!

...

Jin Yong was stunned for a while, it costs 100 million to make a drama, boy, how about you play me?

So you should raise your hand for copyright, and count less.

Xu Fei raised a finger and said with a smile, How about a dollar?

………………

When Li Yu was filming Eating and Drinking Men and Women, he read Wang Dulu's novel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Wang Dulu is one of the five great masters of the Northern School, and Bai Yu, Zhu Zhenmu, Huanzhu Louzhu and so on. The new martial arts are Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng and so on.

Li An liked this story very much, and was preparing to shoot, but the financial turmoil hit, and the film studio withdrew its capital.

Looking for money everywhere, I finally found a good friend of Columbia, a Chinese-language film. Colombia took more than 6 million U.S. dollars, and Li An made up the rest of the funds by finding a bank loan.

The association was busy looking for money, and when they heard that Sunshine was interested, they immediately came over to discuss.

Xu Fei, as the boss in the mainland, met with Lao Song. For some reason, he always felt that Li An had a bitter face and a bitter smile.

In Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films, very few can relate to real emotions and culture, and they have remained at the level of sensory stimulation for a long time.

And martial arts films are the best channel for foreign audiences and overseas Chinese to understand Chinese culture. But what they come into contact with is often some vulgar and inferior parts.

In fact, what do you mean by Chinese culture, I don't understand it myself. Just like when you talk about rivers and lakes, foreigners don’t understand it, but do Chinese people understand it? How do you translate it?

So my idea is very simple, to make a martial arts film that foreigners can understand.

I want to integrate some traditional things, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and ethics, with certain Western things, and I am eager to achieve a balance.

It's hard to explain this film with a single cultural factor...

ha!

Lao Song couldn't help but yawned, he didn't quite understand this set of polite rhetoric.

Li An stopped talking, showed a trademark wry smile, and asked, So Mr. Song, what do you think?

Very good, I'm very interested!

Li An: ...

Are you so fucking interested? ? ?

Lao Song looked like an uneducated turtle, and said cheekily: Just tell me, who do you want to play?

Uh, I think the yin and yang relationship between Yu Jiaolong and Yu Xiulian is very interesting. There are not many scenes of Yu Jiaolong in the book, and the film is too thin. I want to add some weight to Yu Xiulian.

One is Yu Jiaolong with external yin and internal yang, and the other is Yu Xiulian with external yang and internal yin. The exchange of the two is used to promote the plot and amplify the proportion of female drama in this movie.

The politeness started again, and Lao Song continued to yawn.

The script has not been finalized yet, but there are five main characters, Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian, Yu Jiaolong, Luo Xiaohu and Bi Yanhu.

Why is it called a closed-eyed fox? Lao Song wondered.

Blue-eyed! Green-green Bi!

Xu Fei couldn't bear it.

Li Mubai, I want Jet Li to play the role; Yu Xiulian, I want to get in touch with Gong Li; Yu Jiaolong, I think Shu Qi is pretty good, the rest is to be determined.

The process of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is complicated.

Li An really wanted to find Jet Li, but it was said that Li Zhi was pregnant and gave birth at that time, so he was pushed by his wife.

Gong Li has also been in contact with it. There is a report that she participated in an event after filming Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin, and mentioned that if Li An's role is suitable, I am very happy to play it.

Then I felt that it was not suitable and was rejected. She often does this, but she still thinks it's inappropriate to play Lang Ping, so she pushed it three times...

Shu Qi herself refused, the reason is unknown.

In the original script, Yu Xiulian and Yu Jiaolong had the same roles, the so-called yin and yang. Due to Michelle Yeoh's accidental injury, the scenes were cut, highlighting Yu Jiaolong.

Xu Fei listened to the whole process, Lao Song had already been signaled by him, and finally said: Sunshine can invest in this film, and we can also bring in funds from the mainland and the United States.

Without waiting for Li An to be happy, he continued: But for the two characters Yu Xiulian and Yu Jiaolong, we have some suggestions. Of course, we need to reach a consensus together.

...

Li An had nothing to say, but with a bitter face, he reluctantly nodded.

(Third update today!!!)