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Chapter Thirty-One: Hello, Pretty Boy

The dialogue between Li Xue and Murong Fu is very simple, with only one sentence.

"Ten days, 10,000 yuan a day, do you want to go?"

"go."

Talking about anything else is nonsense, talking about money is the most practical thing.

"Hundred Years of Love" has to be released in time for the Chinese New Year, so time is tight.

In order to ensure quality and quantity, Du Qifeng offered Murong Fu a high price of 10,000 yuan a day.

This is already the daily salary of a front-line martial arts instructor.

Of course Murong Fu is willing to make money, but it is still unknown whether the crew of "Dragon" is willing to let him go.

The filming of "Dragon" was also very intense and time was tight.

His scenes are currently being filmed. If he wants to change the shooting plan, all subsequent shooting plans will have to be changed as well, which is very troublesome.

Moreover, Zhang Jizhong is famous for hating drama, so how to convince him is also a problem.

But Murong Fu didn't need to worry about this matter. Yuan Bin had already helped Murong Fu say hello to Zhang Jizhong.

Johnnie To and him are old acquaintances. They had already worked together when they were filming "The Trial of Death" and "The Three Heroes of the East".

In addition, Du Qifeng personally called Zhang Jizhong to borrow someone, so Zhang Jizhong still let him go.

That's how it is in the industry, with multiple friends and multiple paths, he still has to give him this face.

Jiang Xin was very envious when she learned that Murong Fu was going to rescue the scene to make a movie.

But because Murong Fu changed the shooting plan, her delayed scenes were moved forward. She was very dissatisfied with this and kept complaining in front of Murong Fu.

"You go away to make extra money, and leave me here to kiss the old man!"

Murong Fu calmed her down with just one sentence: "I'll bring you something delicious when I come back."

Jiang Xin borrowed the donkey from the slope and said, "I want to eat Leshan sweet-skinned duck! Ten of them!"

The martial arts drama of "A Hundred Years of Love" was filmed in Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, near Ls City.

"Where are you feeding the pigs? Just one, you can try it!"

"Damn it! Deal!"

Jiang Xin was busy taking advantage of the situation, but Liu Yifei, who also heard that Murong Fu was about to leave suddenly, was silently eating her lunch.

"Cousin, do you want to eat sweet duck? I'll bring you two."

Murong Fu sat opposite her and asked with a smile.

"No, just come back soon."

Liu Yifei smiles very well.

Murong Fu felt warm in his heart: "I'll be back soon after I finish my work there."

After saying hello to Zhou Xiaowen, Murong Fu left the crew and went to Mount Emei in Sichuan Province.

The crew of "A Hundred Years of Love" is already waiting there.

This was the third time Murong Fu took a plane.

After the previous two experiences, he felt much better this time.

At least I'm not as nervous as the first time.

At noon the next day, he finally arrived at the foot of Mount Emei and met Du Qifeng who was busy on the set.

Du Qifeng is one of the most popular directors in the Hong Kong film and television industry.

He has been in the industry for almost 20 years, and has filmed "Happy Ghost 3", "A Lang's Story", "The Death Judge" and other well-received and best-selling movies.

Among them, the 1992 film "The Death Trial" was still the box office champion in Hong Kong that year.

But the most dazzling person that year was not him, but Zhou Xingchi, the protagonist of "The Death Trial".

Five of the top ten movies at the box office in Hong Kong that year were works by Stephen Chow.

Therefore, that year was also called "Zhou Xing Chi Year".

Since 1999, Du Qifeng has successively produced three movies with his strong personal style: "Gunfire", "Dark War" and "Goodbye Alang".

He won the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Director for "Gunfire", and also helped Andy Lau, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, win another Academy Award for Best Actor with "Dark War".

Since then, he has officially taken over, becoming the first person to make a Chinese-language gunfight movie after Wu Yusen.

But even though he won awards and won a lot of money, the box office of these movies didn't make him much money.

Therefore, like before, in order to ensure the normal operation of the company, he began to shoot some commercial movies to make money.

"A Hundred Years of Love" is such a purely commercial film.

Since it is a commercial film, it must make money.

However, after the film viewing meeting within the company, I directly told my boss that the martial arts scenes in the film were poorly shot and it was best to reshoot them.

Du Qifeng also had trouble saying this.

He originally invited Yuan Kui to be the martial arts director for this drama.

However, because they were not familiar with the filming rules in the Mainland, when filming the martial arts scene at the Feilai Hall of Mount Emei Temple, the crew did not report the relevant procedures to the superior cultural relics department in advance as required. Therefore, the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau ordered them to stop filming and complete the procedures.

This pause lasted for more than half a month. After the procedures were completed, there was not much time left for the crew to shoot the martial arts scenes.

And because Feilai Hall is a purely wooden structure, in order to protect cultural relics, the Cultural Relics Bureau strictly prohibits the drilling of steel nails in Feilai Hall.

Moreover, the building in Feilai Hall is relatively tight and a crane cannot be driven in, so the actors cannot lift wires at all.

Without Wia, many of Yuan Kui's choreographed actions could not be filmed, and he could only hastily shoot a few childish martial arts scenes.

Due to the limited location conditions and the need to meet the Lunar New Year schedule, Du Qifeng could only select some watchable shots and cut them into the movie, and then cut it into the final film.

It's a comedy anyway, as long as it can amuse the audience.

As long as the martial arts drama is watchable and can be connected to the plot, that's pretty much it.

He needs to leave enough time for the film to be submitted for review and subsequent revisions in order to make it in time for the Lunar New Year release.

But Xiang Huaqiang doesn't think so.

"A Hundred Years of Love" is a love-action light comedy. Although love comes first and action comes last, that doesn't mean that action scenes are unimportant.

Although Stephen Chow's costume comedy is very funny, the fights in it are equally exciting.

If nothing else, let's just say that Du Qifeng's previous film "The Death Judge", the martial arts scenes in it were also remarkable.

Showing such a martial arts show to the audience will only make the audience feel that the crew is fooling people.

Affected by the collapse of the Bay Area market and the impact of Hollywood movies, the Hong Kong film market has become increasingly sluggish in the past decade.

Xiang Huaqiang has long been paying attention to the mainland market and wants to turn to the mainland for development.

This is China Star's first attempt to test the waters in the mainland market. If this shot does not take off, the road ahead will be difficult.

Therefore, even though time was tight, Xiang Huaqiang also asked Du Qifeng to reshoot the martial arts scenes and never use a foolhardy attitude to deal with the errands.

But Yuan Kui had already started working on another movie, "The Great War in Huadu" and had no time to reshoot, so Du Qifeng could only rely on connections to find a martial arts instructor to save the situation.

After searching around, he finally hired a helper from Yuan Bin, who was said to be a master.

Therefore, he arranged for the director's assistant to go to Chengdu Airport one day in advance and wait for pick-up.

The director's assistant immediately received Murong Fu and brought him to Du Qifeng.

But after seeing Murong Fu, Du Qifeng's heart suddenly went cold.

Why did Yuan Bin get a little guy to play pranks on me when he was on the street?

What I want is a martial arts instructor, not a handsome actor!

Is this guy twenty years old?

Do you know how to move the mirror?

Alas! It’s all over now.

He sighed in his heart, but he still held a trace of fantasy and came forward and asked: "Hello, handsome, are you the martial arts instructor introduced by Yuan Bin?"


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