Dreams of the Fragrant River

: Xiao Ming And Ah Wei]

When Kang Jianfei studied photography at Beijing Film Academy in his last life, he also studied some Chinese film history in his entirety.

Chinese martial arts movies originated in the 1920s, but after the September 18th Incident, the country entered a special period, and the government forcibly banned martial arts movies. It was not until after Japan’s large-scale invasion of China that many filmmakers fled south to Hong Kong, martial arts films flourished again.

In the 1960s, a new school of martial arts, represented by Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan, emerged, sweeping Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia at the box office. However, after Bruce Lee, sword and martial arts films began to decline. Throughout the 1970s, there were a total of 445 kung fu films released in Hong Kong, while only about 100 sword and martial arts films.

Sword and martial arts films have fallen, everyone in Hong Kong knows that. Zeng Zhiwei’s “The Thief’s Loot” is not a real sword and martial arts film, but a combination of sword and martial arts films and Cheng Long’s humorous kung fu film, but unfortunately he made it nondescript.

“Flying, just using light energy to fly around in the sky, fighting while flying!” Seeing that this fellow didn’t understand, Kang Jianfei had to explain further.

Zeng Zhiwei couldn’t turn his head away, and asked, “How do you shoot when you fly around?”

Kang Jianfei sighed and said, “Hanging the steel wire, you come from martial arts, don’t say you can’t hang the steel wire.”

Of course Zeng Zhiwei can hang steel wire, but now he hangs steel wire just for the convenience of shooting a certain scene and to show his light work. It is often enough to pull the actor to fly over and then land. At most, the pros and cons will fight a few knives in the air before they fall. I have never heard of them flying in the sky.

“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 film called “Kick the Pavilion”.

Zeng Zhiwei replied with a guilty conscience, “Kicking the Pavilion” was made by Luo Wei. The boss Luo Wei is the producer, and the stars like Jiang Dawei and Xu Shaoqiang are the leading actors. The director Zeng Zhiwei is quite useless in the middle. Luo Wei, in particular, was always instructive when filming. If Zeng Zhiwei brought the martial arts team from the crew, it is estimated that he would not even be a director.

Kang Jianfei said, “Take your notes and we’ll make a new script.”

“Oh,” Zeng Zhiwei quickly grabbed the pen and paper on the desk, “Mr. Kang, say it.”

Kang Jianfei originally wanted Zeng Zhiwei to make a new Xu Ke-style martial arts movie that flies around, but he felt that Zeng Zhiwei couldn’t make that elegant and romantic feeling. It seems that he should change other ideas. He couldn’t think of which work to copy for a while, so he just made up on the spot. Anyway, any idea of a future movie would make the 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 Jiao’s Wesleyan is not from ancient times.”

Zeng Zhiwei could only shut up. He felt that it seemed like a mistake to seek investment from Kang Jianfei today.

Kang Jianfei continued: “Awei is an ordinary employee of the company. He is very handsome, but he has a cowardly personality and is always teased by his colleagues. Well, you and Huang Shrimp are very good at funny plots. How can Awei be teased and how to design it? Jokes, think about this for yourself. Awei has a crush on Xiaohong, the company’s female colleague, but Xiaohong likes Xiaoming, the company’s department manager. Well, if you don’t think it sounds bad, you can choose your own… Hey, I just now Where did you say it?”

Zeng Zhiwei reminded: “Xiaohong likes the manager Xiaoming.”

What did Kang Jianfei forget? Actually, he didn’t know how to continue editing. He racked his brains and said: “This Xiao Ming is not an ordinary person. He has learned karate, taekwondo, and judo. Anyway, several of them are black belts. On Xiaohong’s birthday, Awei mustered the courage to show love to Xiaohong. Xiaohong Very moved, and then rejected Awei. When Xiao Ming learned about it, he beat Awei violently and warned him not to harass his girlfriend again. Awei refused to admit defeat, and ended up meeting Da Shu, a liar in all corners of the world. Da Shu claimed to be The hidden master, in the name of teaching Awei martial arts, defrauded Awei of his savings… Uh, where did you seem to have seen this scene?”

Zeng Zhiwei was just remembering to be energetic, and seeing Kang Jianfei stop talking, he asked, “What’s wrong?”

Kang Jianfei slapped his head. It turned out that he had inadvertently copied a passage from Zhou Xingxing’s “King of Destruction”. But the cottage is just a cottage. Maybe Zhou Xingchi will make “King of Destruction” in the future, and people will say that Zhou Xingchi is paying tribute to him Kang Jianfei.

Anyway, he has already copied a plot, Kang Jianfei simply told many funny plots of “King of Destruction”, and let Zeng Zhiwei write it down.

The plot of the whole movie is extremely cliché. After Ah Wei learned fake martial arts from the liar, Uncle Da, because he wanted to show off in front of Xiaohong, he ended up being full of ugliness.

At this moment, Xiaohong’s father owes gambling debts to the underworld. He will come to the door, and the big bosses on the road immediately fell in love with the beautiful Xiaohong, and wanted to make Xiaohong pay his gambling debts to be his wife.

Xiao Ming, the department manager who has become Xiaohong’s boyfriend, relies on his skill to negotiate with the boss, but he is beaten by the martial arts master under the boss. Xiao Ming was frightened, begged for mercy in front of his girlfriend, and gave Xiaohong to the boss.

When Xiaohong was in pain, Awei desperately tried to save his sweetheart, but was beaten to death. At a critical time, the liar, Uncle Da, gave Ah Wei a pill that could increase his power by leaps and bounds. As long as he took the pill, his power would be increased by 20 years, but the drug was only valid for three minutes.

The ending is naturally that Ah Wei killed the bad guy, and finally moved Xiaohong and hugged the beauty back.

“Well, I’ve already thought about the name of the movie, so it’s called “Three Minutes Hero”.” Kang Jianfei laughed. He was quite proud that he had come up with a complete script idea within ten minutes.

Zeng Zhiwei couldn’t help but ask, “Mr. Kang, this kind of martial arts drama in modern times is too out of touch with reality. Will anyone watch it?”

Kang Jianfei said: “So you need to be innovative when shooting. Especially in the last fight, the pros and cons will be light-hearted, the buildings and buildings are flying everywhere, and you must play wonderfully. Think about it, the audience sees the protagonist in their own hands. Is it better to fly over a familiar building than to fly over an ancient city tower?”

Zeng Zhiwei is quite speechless, but since Kang Jianfei is the gold owner, he can’t say anything else, just try to fill in the story as well as possible.

Kang Jianfei said, “I’ll give you a budget of 1 million. You can choose the actors and so on. For the martial artists who shoot the drama, just use people from our Kang family class.”

Kang Jiaban is still recruiting people, Zeng Zhiwei didn’t know which ones to choose as the leading roles, he thought about it and said, “That Dong Wei who came back from Taiwan is very good and looks very handsome, why don’t you let him play the leading role? Great.”

Kang Jianfei nodded and said, “Okay, it’s fine if you think it’s suitable. But who are you going to let the heroine Xiaohong play?”

In the story Kang Jianfei narrated, Xiaohong is obviously a vase character, so she must find a beautiful woman.

Xiaohong, Xiaohong, Xiaohong…

Zeng Zhiwei recited it a few times, suddenly remembered a person, and said, “Mr. Kang, how about letting Zhong Chuhong play Xiaohong?”

Kang Jianfei said in surprise: “She was the fourth Hong Kong sister last year. I’m afraid she is now signing a contract with TVB~www.readwn.com~ It’s a bit difficult to borrow.”

Zeng Zhiwei said with a smile: “Zhong Chuhong did not sign a contract with TVB. 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 as a result, she only won the fourth place in the Miss Hong Kong competition. After the game, the media rated Zhong Chuhong as “the most beautiful Hong Kong sister”, but because TVB wanted to treat her coldly, Zhong Chuhong couldn’t even audition for a supporting role in a TV series on TVB, so she had to go back to work as a salesperson in a jewelry store in a disheartened manner.

It wasn’t until some time ago that Du Qifeng filmed “The Killing Gold of Clear Water and Cold Mountain” that Zhong Chuhong was invited to be the heroine.

It’s a pity that Du Qifeng was still too tender at this time. The filming and narrative techniques of the film “Bright Water and Cold Mountain” are very advanced, but there are too many dark and depressing elements in it, and the plot of the abuse of the main character makes the audience extremely unhappy, and it is a mess on the street. .

After the film was released, Du Qifeng, who was conscious of his lack of ability, returned to TVB to do TV dramas, while Zhong Chuhong continued to be his salesperson.

Kang Jianfei thought that Zhong Chuhong had already signed with TVB, but he did not expect that the current Zhong Chuhong is actually in a downfall.

There was a saying in Hong Kong in the 1980s, “No matter how popular you are, Zhong Chuhong is nowhere near as popular as Zhou Runfa.” Zhou Runfa is now on TVB, but Zhong Chuhong must not let it go.

Kang Jianfei decided to invite him in person so that he could show his sincerity.

What? You said you didn’t sign a ten-year contract!

Cough, five years is fine, the big deal is that we sign for three years…