Chapter 158 What a pity
In the lounge, Zhang Yuan and Wu Jing waited for a long time.
Although he has filmed many film and television dramas, Wu Jing, who can be considered a half "veteran actor", is still restless.
After all, this is Xingye's movie. If it can be filmed, if it can perform well, if it can attract people's attention... it may skyrocket!
Break down Xing Ye’s record, especially the record at the end of the Ng Man Tat era and the post-Ng Man Tat era.
"The King of Comedy" brought out a generation of "beauties" Zhang Bozhi.
"Kung Fu" brought out the "mute girl" Huang Shengyi.
"Yangtze River No. 7" praised Zhang Yuqi.
"Mermaid", praised Lin Yun.
Just like what Jia Mu said in "A Dream of Red Mansions": Not to mention eating it, just smelling it will prolong your life.
The same is true for Xingye's movies. Not to mention being the protagonist, even a supporting role can be successful for a while.
Especially Wu Jing.
He looked at his two seniors, Li Lianjie and Zhao Wenzhuo.
Needless to say, Li Lianjie, when it comes to martial arts, he is the best among his generation. When he was around, no one could win the martial arts championship.
Just like Zhang Yining's status in the table tennis world, he belongs to the devil who has absolute dominance in his generation.
In terms of film and television, the first movie "Shaolin Temple" starring Li Lianlian took in a box office of 160 million yuan with an average ticket price of 10 cents. If converted, it is at least equivalent to the tens of billions of box office results in later generations.
When we arrived at Zhao Wenzhuo, we discussed martial arts. There were several strong men at the same time who no longer had any dominance to speak of, but they were still among the best and were famous throughout the country.
When it comes to film and television, his starting point is movies. In his first year, he starred in the two masterpieces "Fang Shiyu" and "Once Upon a Time in the King". In "Fang Shiyu", he played the role of Admiral E of the Nine Gates. Erdo has become a classic villain of a generation, and his debut is the peak.
Coupled with Anita Mui’s resource support, Zhao Wenzhuo’s development in Xiangjiang is very smooth.
When it comes to Wu Jing, in terms of martial arts, although he is a good player, he will always be pained by not getting the "Wuying level". The top two are both Wuying level.
Speaking of movies and TV shows, "The Kung Fu Boy", "The Grandmaster of Tai Chi", "Little Lee Flying Knives"... the reputation and popularity of these works are certainly not bad, but compared with the two predecessors who made movies, his works They are all just TV series.
Not only that, he also went back and forth with his acting. He was the first male lead when he debuted. After that, his status gradually declined. When it came to "A Chinese Ghost Story", it took a lot of effort to get the third male lead.
Every time Wu Jing compares himself with his two seniors, he feels that he is living up to the saying, "If a phoenix lays a chicken, one generation will be inferior to the other."
As for his own situation, "Wang Xiaoer's New Year celebration is worse than the last."
In fact, he is a fan of the authorities, while Zhang Yuan is a bystander.
If he doesn't do well, it's not entirely his fault that he's not as capable as his two predecessors, but that the entire kung fu film market is rapidly declining and withering.
Standing on the wind, pigs can take off.
But if you walk against the wind, even if you walk well, you will be knocked off your feet.
So Wu is panicking!
I was so anxious that my forehead was sweating.
But when he turned around, he saw that the man who came with him was very calm.
He even hummed a little tune and took a sip from the paper cup from time to time, as if he was drinking afternoon tea leisurely.
"I am obviously older than him, but my mentality is not as good as his." Wu Jing laughed at himself in his heart.
"Wu Jing, prepare for the audition!"
Not long after, a staff member came and called his name.
"Brother, I'm sorry, this role is very important to me." Wu Jing greeted him with fists in his hands.
Why did he apologize in advance?
Because he understands that his kung fu is superior. If he goes first and Zhang Yuan comes last, then the directors and judges will be able to tell at a glance that Zhang Yuan is not as good as him, and the other party's audition success rate will be greatly reduced. .
Of course Zhang Yuan understood what he meant, and said to himself that Brother Jing was quite an honest man and worthy of being from the imperial capital.
"It's okay, I wish you success." He replied immediately.
The other party gave a look of thanks, then opened the door and left.
It’s a pity that neither you nor I can get this role... Zhang Yuan slowly uttered these words after he left.
So he didn’t care at all about the order of the two auditions.
Half an hour later, the staff entered the room again and called Zhang Yuan.
When I was going out, I happened to bump into Wu Jing who was walking back with sweat all over his body.
"You rest first, I'll be back as soon as I go."
"Hey..." Wu Jing looked at his back and shouted: "I didn't use the stick."
He knew Zhang Yuan is best at knives and sticks, especially sticks, so he deliberately didn't show his stick skills in the audition just now, which was to leave an opening for his friends.
“Thank you!”
Entering the large conference room used for the audition, it was not as pompous as Zhang Jizhong’s audition, nor was there a long table similar to a rostrum.
There are just a few household duel artifacts and folding stools.
Sitting on the folding stool is today’s “judge”.
He only knew two people.
Hong Jinbao, a fat man, and a thin middle-aged man sitting next to him, with a few strands of gray and silver hair occasionally emerging from his black hair.
Who would he be if he wasn’t Zhou Xingchi!
At this time, his hair was not full, and although his eyes were not big, they were bright and shining.
"Hello everyone, my name is Zhang Yuan." He stood in the empty space and said his name.
“Don’t you tell me about your performance experience?” Hong Jinbao reminded him when he saw that he stopped talking after saying his name.
Why is this kid so stupid and doesn’t know how to show himself?
“I feel that my past acting experience is of little use when making a movie about Star Master. I will break it all over again anyway, so it’s better not to talk about it.”
Hey hey hey... Hearing this, Zhou Xingchi, who was originally serious, pursed his lips and chuckled.
Hong Jinbao rolled his eyes.
Oh, it turns out that this kid had already gotten better, and he did it on purpose.
As soon as others came up, they wrote a lot about their past performance experiences, and they couldn't wait to tell them.
But he didn't say anything. Instead, Xingzai immediately left a unique impression.
The eldest brother thought of the scene where Zhang Yuan leaned back to avoid the previous test.
"Sure enough, this guy is very slippery, and what he said is right."
No matter what you have played before, when you are in Xingye's film, you will gradually become Xingye's Shape...
And Stephen Chow, like his old partner Liu Zhenwei, likes to use young actors, even laymen and non-professional actors.
Because these people have a simple temperament and because they cannot act, they will present a special sense of dissonance in the film.
This sense of dissonance is one of the sources of laughter in their films.
Zhou Xingchi can laugh and thinks that someone is interesting. At least he understands himself.
"Okay, you can show your strengths first." Mr. Xing raised his hand and gestured, meaning...
Please start your performance!
Zhang Yuan looked at the weapon rack aside and stepped forward.
On the shelf are common weapons such as knives, swords, guns, and sticks, as well as a pair of non-mainstream... nunchucks.
Zhang Yuan could tell at a glance that this was specially placed by Master Xing. After all, he was a die-hard Bruce Lee fan.
Even the movie "Kung Fu" is a semi-homage work, which contains many Bruce Lee elements.
Of course Zhang Yuan's target was the wooden stick, but before picking it up, he scanned all the weapons carefully.
There are some wet marks on the sword handle and gun handle, which should be sweat stains, but the long stick and knife handle are dry.
This proves that Wu Jing did not deceive himself. He did not use a long stick just now.
Don’t blame Zhang Yuan for being too cautious, but there are too many smart people in the entertainment industry.
Let’s find someone with a dirty mind. He will first make friends with you and gain your trust, and then trick you into using the weapons he is good at in order to outdo you in your audition performance.
This is not uncommon.
After confirming that Brother Jing was indeed a real person, Zhang Yuan was completely relieved and took off the long stick from the weapon rack.
Hurrah!
Clenched his hands, twisted his hands while turning around, exerted force on his waist, and performed a stick trick, causing bursts of wind. "Oh." Hong Jinbao straightened his body that was leaning back.
As I said before, Big Brother is good at using sticks, and sticks are afraid of Lao Lang, who is an expert in stick techniques.
Seeing Zhang Yuan take off the stick, he became energetic.
And seeing the stick trick he was playing, he became even more interested.
"Is this kid an expert at playing with sticks?"
As the saying goes, an expert knows the way, and he doesn't even bother to watch the tricks that come out of the stick.
What he looked at was the technique of exerting force.
The biggest difference between playing with sticks and playing with swords is the focus of efforts.
To wield a sword, you use your arms, but to wield a stick, you use your waist!
The stick is the ancestor of the spear, so the technique of using the spear is the same.
Zhang Yuan's arm moves with his waist, and the stick moves with his arm. The power is transmitted smoothly. Hong Jinbao can tell at a glance that this kid often uses the stick.
Look at his grip again, one hand is weak and the other is strong.
When blocking, the real hand is in front and the empty hand is behind.
When thrusting, the virtual and the real are switched, the virtual is in front and the real is in the back.
In this way, by exerting force with your real hand and adjusting the direction with your empty hand, the stick can be shot at the enemy like a bullet.
Bang!
Zhang Yuan took a fierce step and split the air in front of him with a stick.
Then the stick was like a white snake coming out of its hole in his hand. It was soft and long. While the tip of the stick was swinging up and down, it kept shaking left and right, while also making rhythmic circles.
Master Xing was used to seeing the big opening and closing of the stick technique, so he was quite puzzled by Zhang Yuan's "confined" stick technique.
But while he was hesitating, Hong Jinbao clapped his hands and shouted.
“Good stick technique!”
The big fat man stood up: “If I read it correctly, you are using the Ziwu Yin and Yang stick.”
“Used It’s the circle method!”
Hong Jinbao was so excited that he rushed forward, picked up a stick, came to Zhang Yuan, raised his hand and chopped it.
Zhang Yuan did not panic at all. He knew that this was a competition and not a martial arts battle that "demonstrated superiority and life and death", so he went ahead and went ahead with it.
With a muffled bang, Zhang Yuan turned sideways and used the "dial" in the stick technique to drive away the opponent's chop and at the same time release the power of the opponent's blow.
Hong Jinbao's blow was exhausted, and he immediately raised his hand again, sweeping towards Zhang Yuan's waist.
Xing Ye on the side smiled when he saw the big brother's stick skills.
This kind of wide open and close play is what he is most familiar with.
According to Big Brother's past performance, such a "kid" might not be able to survive five moves in front of him.
But for a second, his eyebrows became solemn.
Because of Hong Jinbao's movements, he suddenly became restrained and no longer as fierce and strong as before.
However, his change was not voluntary, but was done as a last resort after being "coerced" by Zhang Yuan.
The two stick tips were stuck together as if they were tied with rubber bands.
Hong Jinbao took a step forward, and Zhang Yuan took a step back. At the same time, the long stick in his hand circled the tip of the opponent's stick from time to time.
The eldest brother showed a tangled look on his face, and kept exerting force with his hands, but the stick in his hand seemed to never be able to escape Zhang Yuan's pursuit.
As soon as you stop your hand, you will soon be pressed tightly by the opponent's stick.
“Hmph!”
Two minutes later, Hong Jinbao sharply closed his stick and said nonchalantly: "This move of yours is so troublesome!"
"Uncle Hong, please be merciful."
Hong Jinbao threw it in the air. , threw the stick back to the weapon rack, and sat back on the folding stool.
"What happened just now?" Mr. Xing asked, seeing the eldest brother's expression of embarrassment.
“His style just restrains me.” Hong Jinbao’s frown revealed a hint of regret: “The stick technique he used was not for performance, but for actual combat.”
"So I went up and tried it, and it turned out to be very difficult to solve."
"The technique he used is called 'sticking' in the stick technique."
"Once stuck by his stick , no matter how hard you exert your force, he will spin in a circle to release your strength, and at the same time disrupt the direction of your stick's force."
"No matter how fast I am, once I am stuck by him, I will lose my strength. Like a bird with its wings plucked, it cannot escape."
Hong Jinbao was also surprised. He first saw Zhang Yuan using the circle method and thought that he should be able to do so with his speed and strength. Break it by force.
But after getting started, he discovered that the opponent's power control skills exceeded his expectations.
If it were a true martial arts contest, both sides would suffer if he tried to break through.
Zhang Yuan's move is a combination of Yu Dayou's Ziwu Yin and Yang stick technique and the natural door's special force-generating technique. It is far more difficult to deal with than ordinary sticky sticks.
Four ounces can move a thousand pounds, which is the most powerful way to defeat Hong Jinbao.
Of course, this was what he planned.
Knowing that Hong Jinbao is good at wielding a stick and using a domineering and fierce approach, I deliberately found a routine to restrain him for the performance.
Only in this way can we leave a deeper impression on all the judges.
Master Xing nodded, roughly understanding.
Most of Zhou Xingchi's kung fu skills were wild. Because he was poor when he was young, he only followed his master for three months and then lost the qualification to continue practicing martial arts.
He was very envious of young people with real skills.
Most people spend their entire lives making up for the shortcomings of their childhood, even if they are successful like Zhou Xingchi.
"Oh, what a pity, what a pity..." Hong Jinbao suddenly sighed.
What is a pity for him is not that Zhang Yuan is not good at stick skills.
"It's a pity that he is too handsome and too young."
"Otherwise, the fried ghost who uses sticks and guns in the script would be quite suitable for him."
"But this character should be in his early 40s, with a plain appearance, which does not match him."
"What a pity."
Hong Jinbao sighed and chuckled at the same time.
“I didn’t expect to find another young master today.”
“My junior brother’s vision is not bad.”
Xing Ye stuck his head and asked.
"Brother, how does this person's kung fu compare with Wu Jing just now?"
"Wu Jing is definitely stronger. Wu Jing's marksmanship and swordsmanship are both top-notch. I Not an opponent." Hong Jinbao told the truth.
"Oh, I understand." Master Xing nodded.
Since he is not as good as Wu Jing, then he must choose Wu Jing.
Besides, Master Xing also had the same impression of Zhang Yuan, thinking he was too handsome.
It’s not that he is afraid of being outdone, but that both he and Liu Zhenwei like to use “weird” actors.
Those who are too handsome tend to be burdened by idols, so they are not suitable for comedy roles.
"Okay, we know your level, go back and wait for notification." Master Xing smiled and waved his hand.
“But I haven’t finished showing it yet?” Zhang Yuan spread his hands and smiled.
"We have already counted your efforts, there is no need to continue." Hong Jinbao agreed.
Young people should strive to make progress, but they still need to hone their skills.
“But what I want to show next is not Kung Fu.” Zhang Yuan replied confidently.
"Oh?" Mr. Xing and Hong Jinbao looked at each other and looked at him at the same time.
Next, Zhang Yuan’s performance will open their eyes...
(End of this chapter)