Liu Qingshan himself does not need to learn this aspect, because his level is so high that he can completely shoot passive action scenes.
For example, during official filming, he does not need any prior action planning. The person fighting him is completely free to perform, and he passively makes various coping moves.
Moreover, he was able to achieve complete retraction and release as early as two years ago. Even if he punched someone hard, the other person would not feel a trace of pain.
And all the difficult actions were performed by Liu Jiaban's stand-in. Therefore, it can be said that other kung fu actors in the action movies shot by him are the happiest.
Because there is no possibility of getting hurt in a fight scene with him, and you can even boldly do any fancy moves, and he will be able to match them with equally exciting moves.
But Liu Qingshan's main purpose of coming here today is not that. He is here to deliver the script, and he has summoned most of the main creatives to polish the script more refinedly.
Compared with the first part, the original drama is overall more full-bodied, and it also adds family-centered simple elements and humor. The truth is seen in the ordinary, and the director's sincerity is also seen.
Except that Huang Liang and others are dressed in "trendy boy" outfits that are a bit out of place, there are no major flaws in the film.
Even at the climax of the ending, the scene where fans applauded "Ip Man" in the first film once again appeared, and a sense of national pride arose spontaneously.
But shortcomings also exist, such as the problem of formulaic kung fu movies, and the problem of "two" characters and some plots in the play.
There is no real story or characters, and the two-part structure is too obvious, so that the warm details and small humorous techniques that were so well received in the previous episode cannot be effectively connected in the main story line.
Of course, the main point of watching kung fu movies is the wonderful battle of skills, but times are progressing, and today's audiences will no longer recognize and empathize with them immediately after reading the reasons for the battle given by the story.
So the logic of the story and the rationality of the reasons for participating in two arena matches are where we need to brainstorm next.
Previously, Hong Dabao and others only got most of the story outline and various character settings. The details about the entire plot were commercial secrets, and no crew would leak them early.
The same is true this time, but it also falls into the usual shooting routines and procedural problems of Hong Kong Kung Fu movies.
The Ip Man series is strictly differentiated from Hong Kong's traditional kung fu films. In terms of film content, it returns to the origins of kung fu films, which is storytelling. The plot can at least reflect the protagonist's unique personality and world view as a knight-errant.
At the same time, with the silver-like wax gun heads in Kung Fu movies, Chinese Kung Fu is now in a rather embarrassing situation. Another outstanding point of the Ip Man series is fighting. How to make the fighting look good and taste good enough is enough.
Therefore, after everyone watched the entire script together, they started a heated discussion on the addition and deletion of some plot points proposed by Liu Qingshan.
Among these participants, there is also a rather special person, he is Darren Sahrawi, who plays the role of the foreign killer Tornado in the film.
He is a British action actor who is active in Asia and is familiar with martial arts from many countries. The subtle thing is that he had already formed a relationship with the original protagonist Zhen Zijian about twenty years ago.
Twenty years ago, he had learned boxing from Zhen Zijian, and he was considered a foreigner's disciple who had never really learned from a master.
This guy with a fierce face to begin with has a domineering and arrogant expression throughout the entire film, coupled with his extremely ferocious punches, and was dubbed the "ultimate villain" by Liu Qingshan.
However, Sahrawi, who is extremely arrogant on stage, is a British gentleman off stage.
He was also invited to join the crew in advance, and he was extremely humble to Liu Jiaban, the action director, Hong Dabao and other stunt doubles.
In order to facilitate sparring at any time, even during the few days when the temperature in the martial arts hall dropped sharply, he still only wore shorts and walked around the set shirtless so that he could respond to the call of the action director at any time.
He often went to one side to pull the spring and stretch his muscles
Maintaining the best condition, these down-to-earth performances have been repeatedly praised by Hong Dabao.
Liu Qingshan asked him to participate because this person often participated in film shootings in Europe and the United States and was very familiar with the operating techniques and shooting experience of commercial films there.
To put it bluntly, the Ip Man series is a purely commercial film. There are many factors that can be learned from, and it is indispensable to invite him to participate in the discussion.
Liu Qingshan's mentality of so solemnly dedicating a whole day to polishing the plot after his busy schedule is actually very simple.
Because he believes that how to get rid of the commercial film rule of "sequels = tasteless" will be the biggest challenge that "Ip Man 2" will face.
Moreover, this sequel is filled with a strong sense of patriotism. It would be particularly important if so many positive things could be placed in a more reasonable manner without making people have time to shout slogans.
Although the sequel's hard-core kung fu is the biggest guarantee for the film's success, the script's extensive display and presentation of Chinese martial arts and culture has gone beyond the martial arts action itself.
Liu Qingshan believes that these plots that have reached the level of showing national wisdom and integrity are necessary to exist, so he really wants to let more people understand Chinese martial arts and Chinese culture through this film.
It is precisely on these contents that he almost showed a very stubborn reservation, which led to fierce verbal confrontation among those participating in the discussion today.
Fortunately, after his patient interpretation, people gradually recognized his attitude.
However, Liu Qingshan actually knew very well that patriotism would explode in a concentrated manner more than ten years later. This was related to the abnormal situation in Xiangjiang for a period of time.
Therefore, he does not have a complete sense of reality about today's locals in Xiangjiang, because the education they received since childhood is hugely different from that of mainlanders.
It is for this reason that he does not have high requirements for these people. He is satisfied if they can at least respect Chinese culture.
However, Hong Dabao is an exception. In other words, the childhood education he received is closer to that of the mainland. Therefore, he is often the first to understand Liu Qingshan's interpretation.
Then he added his own point of view to describe it, so that the day's plot changes could proceed smoothly.
It wasn't until almost half of the afternoon that the script issues were completely improved. Among them, the most thoroughly investigated part was the part about "trendy men" dressing up inappropriately.
There are also a few plot changes related to the two arena matches.
The remaining time is to verify the fighting display of the past two months on the spot.
Regardless of the main and supporting roles or the martial arts actors responsible for the extras, they all took extracts from Liu Qingshan's plot and stepped forward to show them one by one.
Since he replaced two actors with real kung fu in this version of the movie, the effect is quite obvious, and it seems that the overall realism of the overall hard bridge and hard horse is highlighted at once.
For example, the person who plays Huang Liang is Geng Cheng, and the person who plays Jin Shan is Mi Jianxiang. Both of them are real masters of the sixth and seventh levels of acquired skills. Their every move is really not comparable to the martial arts in Xiangjiang.
You know, according to the strength of the mainland martial arts community, martial artists who have entered the second or third level of acquired martial arts are considered martial arts masters. This level is the Wuying level in the official classification.
For example, Li Liangjie and Zhen Zijian are Wuying-level action actors, but there is still a big gap in their actual combat abilities compared to civilians of the same level.
The next level up from the Wuying level is the Grandmaster level. Before Liu Qingshan appeared, there was only one recognized martial arts master in the entire mainland martial arts world, and that was Yu Chenhui. At his peak, his strength was probably between the fourth and fifth levels.
Today, both Geng and Mi have surpassed Yu Chenhui's strength back then. It is conceivable how powerful their leading role will be in the crew.
Moreover, the actual strength of many people in Liu's class is not lower than these two people, but they have their own ambitions. Most of them are more focused on improving their realm, rather than just showing up and becoming a star.
Just imagine how powerful it would be to have such a group of people
With so many incredible people participating in the filming, the overall level of the crew has skyrocketed even though it's not visible to the naked eye.
This is also the reason why Hong Dabao is so enthusiastic about this series of films, because he is a martial arts fanatic himself, and he has a strong aura of martial arts, so he likes to deal with real masters of this category.
Of course, he also invested money in this series, but with his character, his own hobbies are the first prerequisite, and his full trust in Liu Qingshan is also the basis for his willingness to start the project.
In the afternoon of that day, Liu Qingshan not only watched every fighting display carefully, but even personally participated in the martial arts design, and went on stage to do it himself, striving to make the most reasonable use of every action. ..
Whenever there is a part where he participates, the Five Martial Arts Hall will be crowded with people watching.
There's nothing you can do about it, who has the best kung fu, and the moves he uses are quite pleasing to the eye!
What is even more worthy of people's expectation is that after filming, if he gets emotional, he will take the initiative to show his true strength to others.
For example, a seemingly random tumbling in the air can have a jumping height far exceeding the world record for high jump. Such a shocking scene cannot be seen on other occasions.
Often at this time, Liu Qingshan's deliberate showoff has an idea. For example, someone who secretly took photos may put a certain picture on the Internet.
Or, through this method, we can attract some potential students to the Guowu Tang martial arts gym in the mainland.
In short, most of his superficial excitement is fake, at least it has a purpose, but others can't tell it and just think it is caused by his emotions.
After all, he is only 25 years old now. Based on his appearance alone, he is still a big boy who has not long grown up.
As evening approached, he accepted Sahrawi's invitation and walked to the middle of the venue to rehearse a final battle scene.
