Chapter 233: God-making (Subscribe to support!)
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The fighting style is completely different from the Nagahashi-Daima route in "The Grandmaster".
In "The Chase", martial arts director Tang Jiping asked Xu Kai not to do the kind of grand and sweeping fighting, but to make it look like he was just hitting randomly, using some techniques to amplify the excitement of the fighting, thereby giving the audience a stronger visual impact.
Tang Jiping also requested that Xu Kai's fighting scenes should not be so serious, and that more use should be made of the environment, and that they could be more humorous, or that exaggerated comedy elements should be incorporated to make people smile knowingly while being thrilling, thus making the film's rhythm well-paced.
Specifically, what Tang Jiping wanted Xu Kai to present was a "good-looking" fighting scene.
In order to make the film look good, Tang Jiping abandoned those overly violent and bloody scenes, and tried to make the action scenes look clean and cool.
To this end, Tang Jiping helped Xu Kai change the movements designed by Yuan Xiaoliang for Xu Kai.
Taking a one-on-many situation as an example, we no longer arrange for each player to take turns fighting, but instead want to present a smooth and reasonable group fight scene.
In addition to changing Xu Kai's fighting style, like Lin Da, Tang Jiping also required Xu Kai to perform with real people, and added difficult and dangerous desperate kung fu to Xu Kai, challenging the limits of the human body time and time again, and requiring Xu Kai to create incredible mythical records again and again, helping Xu Kai to shoot real desperate stunts.
In the words of Linda and Tang Jiping: "We don't want an action actor, we want a god."
Xu Kai initially refused Lin Da and Tang Jiping's excessive demands.
But Linda and Tang Jiping gave too much.
All right.
This is just a joke.
Tang Jiping is actually not an ordinary action director - he is an action director who has worked in Hollywood.
After seeing the operating model of Hollywood and the decline of Chinese in Hollywood, Tang Jiping particularly wanted to create a Chinese international superstar, a spokesperson for Chinese stars with global influence.
The person Tang Jiping was optimistic about was Xu Kai.
In fact, it was not Linda who found Tang Jiping, but Tang Jiping who found Linda for cooperation.
Tang Jiping said to Linda: "Although there are differences between Eastern and Western cultures, Westerners' understanding of Kung Fu and Kung Fu movies is relatively superficial, and although Hollywood movies have unrivaled economic and cultural value, we still have to overcome all difficulties to create a Chinese international superstar, and then accompany him to transcend cultural differences and limitations, so that fans all over the world can be intoxicated by it, and then let people all over the world re-recognize our Chinese-language movies."
Lin Da, who has always been ambitious, was persuaded by Tang Jiping. Therefore, he did not cooperate with his old partner Yuan Xiaoliang, but instead cooperated with Tang Jiping and fully adopted Tang Jiping's suggestions. His goal was to make Xu Kai a god.
For this purpose, after fully discussing with Lin Da, Tang Jiping abandoned the traditional thinking and designed kung fu for Xu Kai, which not only included amazing martial arts and accurate marksmanship, but also a series of other incredible and difficult moves.
For example, under Tang Jiping's design, in a scene of chasing fugitives, the policeman Yu Jiaju, played by Xu Kai, had to rush down from the top of the mountain to fight a drug gang. The scene was thrilling, heart-pounding and blood-pumping. Xu Kai was not allowed to use a stand-in or have special effects done. It was completely up to Xu Kai to perform realistically.
Linda and Tang Jiping's crazy idea was strongly opposed by Yang Xinchun. Even Zhu Bing, who played the leading actress, and Dong Ni, who played Xu Kai's girlfriend, strongly opposed Linda and Tang Jiping's actions. The three women all insisted that it was just a movie and the actors didn't need to risk their lives.
But in order to maintain the authenticity of this spectacle, these two crazy people, Linda and Tang Jiping, insisted that Xu Kai give this life-threatening performance, and repeatedly told Xu Kai that only in this way could Xu Kai go international and become an international superstar.
In order to convince Xu Kai to follow their lead, Linda said to Xu Kai: "Xiao Tang and I are going to portray Yu Jiaju's hard-working spirit to inspire people. At the same time, we are going to instill in you the comic image of a simple, honest and lovely young police officer who never gives up despite setbacks and hardships. On this basis, you will create a myth of the human body with your life-threatening performances and repeated challenges to the limits of the human body, and then become a god. Then, you can conquer Hollywood and the world with this shocking power!"
Tang Jiping tempted Xu Kai and said, "China needs international superstars and spokespersons for Kung Fu movies with global influence. Only in this way can we show people the concept of heroes in Chinese traditional culture and open a window for the world to understand Chinese culture. You should become the disseminator and promoter of Chinese traditional culture, and you are the most suitable savior. Believe me, you can definitely become a god."
Xu Kai glanced at the two big liars, Lin Da and Tang Jiping, and said calmly: "The little money you gave me is not worth my hard work, right?"
Seeing that they had already fooled Xu Kai in this way, but Xu Kai was still so calm, Lin Da shook his head at Tang Jiping: "I told you, this kid is definitely not so easy to convince."
But Tang Jiping still didn't give up and said, "Qingyun, are you short of money now?"
Without Xu Kai's answer, Tang Jiping asked himself, "As long as you don't squander money, one movie, "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands," will be enough to support you for several lifetimes. What you lack now is a lofty spiritual pursuit. The key is that China lacks superstars with international influence. You don't want to not have a single Chinese star who can make an impact internationally, do you?"
Linda also said: "Yes, Qingyun, think about it, how much money do those Hollywood blockbusters take away from China every year? Why can't we go to Hollywood and get some back?"
It has to be said that Xu Kai was fooled by two big liars, Lin Da and Tang Jiping.
The key point is that Xu Kai knew that Lin Da and Tang Jiping's approach had the potential to succeed, because in the previous life there was a Chinese superstar who had actually done it in this way and made the whole world know him.
So, even though he didn't verbally agree to anything Linda and Tang Jiping said, Xu Kai still began to try his best to cooperate with these two crazy people.
Then Xu Kai's thrilling days followed one after another.
All kinds of real fighting and real beatings - when fighting, if the force on the feet is too light it will look too fake, but if the head is really kicked, it will cause pain at the very least and unconsciousness at the worst. In order to ensure the personal safety of the actors and martial artists, Lin Da and Tang Jiping specially made "soft shoes", which weakened the lethality a lot. However, when encountering actors or martial artists with heavy fists and kicks, Xu Kai would also be hit hard. To be honest, if Xu Kai was not good at hard qigong and force unloading, he would definitely be covered with bruises every day.
Various ways of hitting the glass themselves - in order to create a realistic effect, the props used by these two crazy guys, Lin Da and Tang Jiping, are twice as thick as ordinary props, so many stuntmen were injured.
Really touching the electric shock with their own hands - In pursuit of authenticity, these two crazy people, Linda and Tang Jiping, actually let Xu Kai really touch the electric shock, but Xu Kai was electrocuted to death.
The most dangerous move was to have Xu Kai leap from the railing of the sixth floor and jump out of the window onto the patio, then grab the high-hanging chandelier and slide down. The thrill of it was unimaginable.
Let me put it this way, after every dangerous scene, Linda’s first words were not “CUT! Call it a day!”, but “CUT! Save people!”.
From this, we can see how dangerous the filming of "The Chase" is.
Because the process of filming "The Chase" was too dangerous, Xu Kai did not allow any of his women except Zhu Bing, Yang Xindong and Dong Ni to visit the crew of "The Chase". Even Dong Ye, Yang Xindong and Tian Haitang, who had always been with him during the filming, were not brought by Xu Kai this time...
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