Tsui Hark! Who is he? One of the Seven Monsters of New Art City, a great director known as Tsui Hark. He is a Vietnamese overseas Chinese and was born in Saigon, Vietnam (now Ho Chi Minh City). After moving to Hong Kong to complete his studies,
Went to Southern Methodist University and
He majored in film at the University of Texas at Austin. During his studies, he and his friends co-produced a 45-minute documentary about Asian-Americans, "New Roads Are Found", which made him completely fall in love with film.
express your feelings and dreams.
After returning to Hong Kong, he couldn't rest and worked as a director and producer in TVB and Jiashi. He became famous in one fell swoop after filming the 9-episode TV series "The Lover of the Golden Sword" adapted from Gu Long's novel.
Talent is a film producer
Note. In 1979, he was promoted by Wu Siyuan and filmed his first costume feature film "Butterfly" at Siyuan Film Company. This film was based on "The Birds" shot by American director Hitchcock and was added to the Hong Kong
and Chinese
Adapted from elements. His unique style and skillful skills made "Butterfly" stand out from the Kung Fu movies that flooded the market at that time (it only received 1.15 million box office that year, which was barely enough, but not bad. But I still enjoyed watching it)
Not bad, don't look at it from the perspective of today's computer 3G. Being able to produce such a film in 1979 shows Tsui Hark's talent). It has received attention and praise from colleagues in the film industry, and is considered one of the representative works of the "new wave" of Hong Kong films.
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It is because of this ability that Tsui Hark soon became a famous director in Hong Kong. Many film companies rushed to invite him to participate in filming. Among them, "The First Danger" (this film is divided into
The two versions, because the film was too violent and dark at the time, were banned when it was released, forced to be shortened, and another completely different version was filmed.
The ending. What you can see now is a trimmed and reshot version of the ending. Originally, in the film, there was a big explosion on the street, but it was modified to four people playing with firecrackers. All the explosion scenes were trimmed, resulting in
Tsui Hark was very angry and dissatisfied) and "Ghostbusters" both had very good box office and reputation, establishing his position in the Hong Kong film industry.
Feng Yifeng's understanding of Tsui Hark also comes from the movies he shot, "The Queen's Secret Order", "A Better Tomorrow iii Sunset Song", "The Swordsman" (Xu Guanjie version), "The Swordsman ii The Invincible"
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"Once Upon a Time" series, "Seven Swords", etc. were all top box office performers of the year. His works created a new era for Hong Kong movies. Among the figures in front of and behind the scenes in the Hong Kong film industry today, Tsui Hark is definitely the most popular.
One of the influential figures.
How could Feng Yifeng not be surprised or excited to meet this great man, this great god? Fortunately, the discipline he had developed over the years and his decades of experience in two lives allowed him to calm down his emotions, otherwise he would have been a long time ago
Holding Tsui Hark's hand, he expressed his inner admiration for him.
However, Feng Yifeng's excitement at that moment still fell in the eyes of everyone present. Zeng Zhiwei's Lianshan had lost his sullen look and asked curiously: "What do you think Mr. Xu is? When did you know him?"
Huang Baiming and Tsui Hark were also like curious babies, staring at Feng Yifeng, because Tsui Hark asked himself that he had never seen Feng Yifeng, and even if he had, he might not have a deep impression. Huang Baiming was even more sure that Tsui Hark would not recognize him.
Feng Yifeng,
If Tsui Hark knew such a financial backer, would he still be so troubled? Would he still want to submit the script to Golden Harvest? If Huang Baiming hadn't seen the potential of the script and grabbed Tsui Hark, maybe the script would have been placed in Golden Harvest.
Zou Wenhuai's desk is on.
"Hehe...hehe..." Feng Yifeng tried to cover it up with a silly smile, but Zeng Zhiwei would not let him go so easily. He kept staring, as if to say: "Hurry up and explain clearly, don't try to get away with it."
"You don't have to look at me like that. I have also gone to the cinema to watch movies. Last year, director Xu's movie "Ghosts and Horses" (also called "Tuberose" in many Mandarin versions) was a very good comedy film. I am
I have seen it, so I remembered the director's name, but I just had the chance to meet him today. Do you need to get to the bottom of it?" The last sentence was said by Eric Tsang with a cold look.
"Oh!" Regardless of whether they believed it or not, they all acquiesced to Feng Yifeng's explanation, because there would be no good in getting entangled, right? However, everyone could still see that Feng Yifeng admired Tsui Hark and seemed to have a good impression of him. Tsui Hark also seemed to see hope.
, hurriedly took out a thick script from the satchel whose original color could be seen, handed it to Feng Yifeng, and said eagerly: "I have completed a new script this time, but I lack investment. I hope Mr. Feng can read it.
look."
"Script?" He glanced at Tsui Hark strangely, why did he seem to be prepared? Then when he saw Eric Tsang's chubby face, he knew that this guy must have said something, and even let him know something about himself.
Everything was told to Huang Baiming and Tsui Hark, otherwise Huang Baiming would not have any expression of surprise when he saw him.
Looking at the thick script, his eyes followed Xu Kexiqi's face to Huang Baiming. Feng Yifeng did not open the script to read it, but asked Huang Baiming: "Is there anything wrong with this script? Isn't Xinyi City unwilling to invest?"
Shooting?”
Huang Baiming knew there would be such a problem, because he has explained this problem countless times to different people and different companies. Of course, it’s up to you to believe it or not. “It’s not because of the funding problem. When Mr. Xu came up with this
When we were writing the script, several of us had read it and felt
It's very good, because this is a brand new subject, completely beyond the scope of martial arts, or it may be more appropriate to use the term "Xianxia". I discussed it with Mai Jia and Shi Tian, and originally decided to invest in this movie.
Let Mr. Xu plan the preliminary preparations as well."
At this point, Huang Baiming looked at Tsui Hark with apologetic eyes, but Tsui Hark was already focused on the script that Feng Yifeng was still pressing, and he didn't even notice Huang Baiming's look.
Huang Baiming continued: "Old Monster Xu has paid a lot for this film, which I can see in my eyes. But because of this, what he imagined and conceived has greatly exceeded the scenes described in the original script and the invitations he wanted to invite.
There are actors and many superstars working together, but the original budget is simply not enough to complete the film. So when Mr. Xu put the latest revised script and budget at the company meeting to study, the bald man and Boss Lei rejected it.
Invest in this film. We don’t want to deceive you. In fact, we have approached many film companies and individuals, but after reading the script, no one was willing to continue investing. Mr. Xu even wanted to send the script to Jiahe. He said he believed it
Jiahe will definitely have a keen eye for talents and will definitely invest in this movie. After a long time of persuasion, Mr. Xu was willing to try again. Later, Zhiwei told me that he would definitely be interested in this and would take us with him.
Came here to find you."
Frowning, Feng Yifeng realized that Xinyi City was not monolithic. The film that was originally planned for production actually rejected the entire previous plan at the last minute, negating all of Tsui Hark's efforts. Mai Jia and Lei Jue
Kun's denial, Huang Baiming's running for Tsui Hark, and Zeng Zhiwei's willingness to reveal the secret of Feng Yifeng, a long-time friend, all show that the Seven Monsters of New Art City have never been truly harmonious from the beginning until they fell apart.
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Smiling slightly, Feng Yifeng felt that his opportunity was about to come. He opened the script he had been holding down, and five large brown characters appeared in front of him [New Shushan Swordsman].
These five words shocked Feng Yifeng. It was not that these words were well written, but that he had watched the movie based on this script countless times. From video tapes, DVDs, TV and the Internet
He has watched it all before. No matter which local TV station, CCTV, ATV, or TVB, it has played this movie. In fact, this movie marks an epoch-making creation in Hong Kong, and it is also the first Hong Kong film to use computer stunts extensively.
Movies with fantasy themes.
Tsui Hark also unveiled the new school of martial arts movies with an epoch-making film in the history of martial arts films [New Shushan Swordsman], thus changing people's past perception of traditional kung fu films as "just fighting around" or "
A narrow view of real Kung Fu. Martial arts movies
The film no longer simply shows Chinese Kung Fu, but integrates elements of many other types of films. In addition to bold innovations in visual effects, it also formed the "unbridled" style of Tsui Hark's martial arts films in the future.
It seemed a bit "alternative" at the time.
There is a saying that was most commented on at the time and best reflects the charm of Master Xu: "There are only kung fu skills that you can't imagine, and there are no moves that he can't capture." This also made the Hong Kong Film Awards from the very beginning.
A special "Best Movement Guidance" has been set up
The award is an important symbol that distinguishes the Hong Kong Film Awards from any other film festival. Once this film was released, it not only caused a sensation, but also introduced Hollywood stunt experts (Star Wars Computer Stunt Team, also known as Lucas's
That "Industrial Light and Magic Company" (a working group under ILM) has trained a group of local film stunt people.
It laid the foundation for the mature development of Hong Kong's action special effects in the future (although the special effects were done well at the time, Hong Kong audiences may not have accepted this new concept of films, so in the end the film only had a box office of 1.58 million, which was a huge loss. This is surprising.
How embarrassing! But this only proves that the box office does not equal the quality of the movie, the box office is only a reference standard for the success of the movie).
I didn't see any name of the actor playing the role written on the cast list, which made Feng Yifeng look at Tsui Hark strangely.
In fact, Tsui Hark is the most nervous now, because he doesn't want to fail again. If this is the case, he will have to send the script to Jiahe. But he also knows that if he does this, even if Huang Baiming does not blame him, Xinyi
The rest of the city must have grudges, especially Mai Jia and Lei Juekun, who will definitely not treat him well. But this is helpless, because Tsui Hark has put all his expectations on this movie.
He really had no choice but to go.
Seeing Feng Yifeng looking at him, Tsui Hark asked nervously: "How is it? Mr. Feng, is there something wrong? Or did you not understand the script? I can explain it to you slowly."
"Oh! No, it's not." Feng Yifeng waved his hand, pointed to the actor column and asked: "Why is there no name of the leading actor? Didn't Mr. Huang just say that you chose many superstars to co-star? Why didn't you see any of them?"
Although it has been such a long time, Feng Yifeng can still barely remember the actor who starred in this film, but now I want to ask if there has been any change from the original one.
"This...!" Tsui Hark was a little embarrassed to speak. He looked at Huang Baiming and saw the other person nodded. Tsui Hark gritted his teeth and said: "Actually, the actors have been drafted, but the funds are not in place, so we can't negotiate contracts and remuneration with the actors at all.
." He took out a wrinkled white paper from his bag again, unfolded it and placed it on the table.
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