Chapter 45: The Mysterious Director, Who is the Sacred One?

  In the editing room, Wang Wei's hair was disheveled, like a bird's nest on his head. He looked at editor Song Ming with panda-like eyes, who already had stubble, then stared at the just-edited footage and said: "Alright, let Dragon Brother and Zou Big Brother come over to take a look."

  Song Ming responded with a sound, and then he went out with his tired body. Originally, the original editor of this play "Tangshan Big Brother" was Song Ming, but Wang Wei added many long shots during filming. Wang Wei was afraid that Song Ming could not cut out the results he wanted, so he asked to edit "Tangshan Big Brother" together with Song Ming.

  After a while, Zou Wenhuai and Li Xiaolong came over. "Ah Wei, are you okay?" Zou Wenhuai asked as soon as he entered the door.

  "It's okay." Wang Wei weakly responded, having been working non-stop since filming in Thailand. If it weren't for his good physical condition from practicing martial arts, he would have been exhausted long ago.

  "Let's take a look at the movie first."

  The two sat down and opened the projector, and soon they were both drawn into the screen. Because Wang Wei added long shots when shooting, the fighting scenes became more realistic and more objective.

  Bruce Lee looked at Wang Wei and said: "Wang Wei, thank you. This is the kind of martial arts film I want."

  Zou Wen said with a happy face: "Yes, Ah Wei, I believe this play will definitely be a big hit and slap Shaw Brothers in the face!"

  Seeing the two not in the required pruning area, Song Ming finally couldn't bear it and stood up, yawning and saying: "Alright, I'm going to sleep now." Song Ming was dragged by Wang Wei, this madman, for day and night overtime, counting today is already the seventh day. At this time, he really can't bear it anymore.

  After Song Ming left, Wang Wei felt that he had also reached his limit. He looked at Zou Wenhuai and asked, "Have you found the composer?" Zou Wenhuai nodded and said, "I have found him, Gu Jiahui is the composer." Wang Wei knew that Gu Jiahui was a top-notch composer in Hong Kong, alongside Huang Zhan as one of the two brightest stars. He was an important creator of Cantonese pop songs and was known as the godfather of the Hong Kong music scene.

  "What's with the question?" Zou Wen asked suspiciously. "Nothing, I have a poem here, see if it can be used as the theme song for this movie."

  Zou Wenhuai took the lyrics from Wang Wei and looked at the four big words "Content with Whatever One Encounters" written on it. Then he scanned through the lyrics again and said to Wang Wei, "I don't quite understand this either, I'll show it to Gu Jiahui when I see him." Seeing Zou Wenhuai's response, Wang Wei stood up, stretched his waist and said, "Alright, everything from now on is up to you guys, I'm going to sleep too."

  Zou Wenhuai originally wanted to ask someone to drive and send Wang Wei back, but Wang Wei firmly disagreed. So Zou Wenhuai and Li Xiaolong sent Wang Wei to take a taxi together.

  Watching the taxi drive away, Zou Wen suddenly sighed: "This Ah Wei is really too difficult to understand. If someone like him were an enemy, it would be truly terrifying."

  On the other side, Li Xiaolong didn't know why Zou Wenhuai said that, but after hearing her words, he instinctively furrowed his brow and felt a little displeased in his heart. Because whether it was during the past month of filming or when celebrating with Wang Wei over drinks, Li Xiaolong thought Wang Wei was someone he could get along with as brothers. More importantly, Li Xiaolong saw his own shadow in Wang Wei, who was also very diligent. So Li Xiaolong had already subconsciously treated Wang Wei like a brother. Therefore, when he heard Zou Wenhuai's words at this time, he felt some displeasure in his heart.

  Zou Wenhuai let out a sigh, then turned to Li Xiaolong beside him and said: "Xiaolong, it's up to us now!" After hearing Zou Wenhuai's words, a hint of excitement flashed in Li Xiaolong's eyes.

  Wang Wei went home and fell asleep on the bed, sleeping for three days. During these three days, earth-shattering events occurred outside.

  After seeing off Wang Wei, Zou Wenjuan invited Gu Jiahui over.

  In the projection room, Gu Jiahui stared at the screen, his eyebrows furrowed and then relaxed. The expression on his face was also exceptionally rich.

  When the movie was over, Zou Wenhuai stared at Gu Jiahui with both eyes, wanting to ask if he had any inspiration. But unexpectedly, Gu Jiahui said that just now, because the fighting scene in the movie was too attractive, he only watched the movie and didn't think about composing music. This sentence made Zou Wenhuai roll her eyes.

  On one side, Li Xiaolong was about to explain to Gu Jiahui what kind of idea this play wanted to express, but as a result, he was choked by Gu Jiahui's sentence and didn't open his mouth.

  Actually, Gu Jiahui was just joking earlier, because as a composer, one should first invest emotions in the object of composition. Only then can music be distilled from those emotions.

  So when he played it for the second time, Gu Jiahui hummed a disjointed tune in a low voice while watching.

  When the second round of shooting was finished, Gu Jiahui turned to Zou Wenhuai and said: "I'd like to hear the thoughts of the lead actor and the director."

  Zou Wenhuai then called over Li Xiaolong from the side and said to Gu Jiahui, "This is the lead actor of this film. The director has gone to sleep." As he mentioned the director, a apologetic expression appeared on Zou Wenhuai's face.

  "Sleeping?" Gu Jiahui was somewhat amused by his anger.

  Can this director still make a good movie?

  Seeing Gu Jiahui about to lose his temper, Zou Wenhuai quickly took out the words written by Wang Wei in advance and handed them to Gu Jiahui, saying: "This is what the director wrote before going to sleep, he said let you take a look."

  "What a joke." This film director is really interesting, without mentioning that he went to sleep during the music recording session, and even wrote a poem in advance.

  Gu Jiahui's curiosity was piqued by this director who could shoot such wonderful fight scenes, yet was so out of tune. He took the script from Zou Wenhuai's hands.

  What caught his eye was the four big characters "Content with Whatever One Encounters". This name is quite interesting, he thought to himself as he continued reading. But then, Gu Jiahui's brow furrowed involuntarily. There are people outside of people and mountains outside of mountains.

  Not afraid of hard work, but afraid of being ordinary.

  There is gain and loss, debt and repayment.

  Heaven does not allow people to be too greedy

  Stand up straight and grit your teeth

  Dying is easy, but bowing one's head is hard.

  Even if I don't become a hero

  Also be a good fellow

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  As he watched, Gu Jiahui himself was stirred up with a surge of passion. "This song is simply too fitting for Tangshan Brother's play," Gu Jiahui said in a low voice.

  Gu Jiahui frowned and muttered to himself, Zou Wen thought Gu Jiahui was dissatisfied with Wang Wei's lyrics, so she spoke up: "If it doesn't work, then forget it, we don't have to use this song."

  "It's perfect, why wouldn't it be? This song matches the play so well, with a hint of elegance and grandeur amidst the passion." Gu Jiahui exclaimed excitedly.

  "The person who wrote this must be a mastermind, I'd like to meet the director of this play." Zou Wenhuai didn't expect that he had misunderstood. He was stunned for a moment and asked: "Do you still need to make changes?"

  "If such a good phrase is still not satisfactory, then I won't be able to come up with anything better." Gu Jiahui shook his head and said.

  "Should we call the director over?" asked Zou Wenhuai. "Forget it, let's just sleep on it. But when there's a chance, you have to introduce me to him." Gu Jiahui knew that all talented people had quirks, his good friend Huang Zhan was like this, saying whatever came to mind without restraint or reserve. He recalled how he had been ridiculed by Huang in front of many people just a few days ago.

  "The tune will be given to you in a few days." Gu Jiahui thought for a moment and said: "The lyrics will be left with me first."

  After the dubbing and editing were completed, the next step was promotion. At that time, Hong Kong's film promotion was not as extensive as it is now, with media such as television and the internet being underdeveloped. The most commonly used promotional methods at the time were posters and newspapers. Of course, the opinions of film critics were also very important.

  Zou Wenhuai invited reporters from several newspapers and started the pre-publicity of "Big Brother of Tangshan".

  As soon as the reporter walked into the newly decorated reception hall, he saw a poster of Lee Xiaolong jumping in mid-air with his muscles all over.

  A reporter from the Ta Kung Pao said to a reporter from the New Evening Post, "I heard that Heung and his company have invited Bruce Lee back from Hollywood, hoping to make a comeback with him. Now it seems like they are about 80 or 90% successful."

  The reporter from Xin Bao nodded in agreement and said, "However, Jiahe also made a few martial arts films when it was first established last year, but the effect wasn't very good."

  And I also heard that this film is a low-cost film. The Xinbao reporter looked at Hai Dafu on the press conference podium.

  While the two were talking, Zou Wenhuai brought Li Xiaolong in from outside.

  All the reporters rushed forward and surrounded Zou Wenhuai and Li Xiaolong as soon as they saw today's protagonist come out.

  "Apple Daily's reporter asked first: 'Mr. Zou, I heard that your company's new play is a low-cost film'"

  Mr. Zou heard that during the filming of this play, the director fainted due to insufficient ability and exhaustion.

  These reporters' questions were getting more and more pointed. However, Zou Wenhuai was clearly an old hand at this sort of thing, and with a calm smile said: "Everyone, don't be in such a rush, let each other go first, everyone will have the chance to ask questions."

  After finishing speaking, he led Li Xiaolong slowly up to the podium. "Alright, you can ask now, one by one."

  Reporter from Apple Daily asked, holding a notebook: "Mr. Zou, I'm a reporter from Apple Daily. Your new film 'Tangshan Big Brother' is a low-cost martial arts film. Do you think its box office will surpass your company's previous martial arts films?"

  "As for the issue of Tangshan Big Brother's production cost, I don't want to say much. What I want to say is that Tangshan Big Brother has opened up a new style of action scenes, which is currently non-existent in movies and absolutely thrilling."

  "Mr. Zou, I'm a reporter from the Sun Newspaper. According to sources, Wu Jiaxiang, the original director of Da Brother's film 'Tangshan', was replaced halfway through production due to incompetence. Is this true?"

  "Those are just rumors, Wu's director was not feeling well due to the water and soil being incompatible, so he had to withdraw halfway and replace a director. However, the new director is very good at handling fighting scenes."

  "Mr. Li, what are your thoughts on this martial arts film? What kind of box office results do you expect it to achieve? And how does filming in Hong Kong differ from Hollywood?" the Xin Bao reporter asked.

  "I just want to tell you that this play is fantastic and it will surely sweep Hong Kong's box office." said Lee Small Dragon confidently.

  "Mr. Zou, I'm a reporter from Ming Pao. May I ask, since I haven't seen the director of this play so far, is it because the director is afraid to come to the press conference due to a guilty conscience or for some other reason?"

  Zou Wenhuai smiled and said, "It's not that he's avoiding you, it's just that the director is too tired from work, so he didn't show up today. But I can let you in on a secret: this play's director has a very deep connection with your chairman, Mr. Jin Yong." At this point, Zou Wenhuai suddenly stopped and smiled without speaking. The reason Zou Wenhuai didn't let Wang Wei attend the press conference today was first because Wang Wei wasn't famous enough, and secondly to create an air of mystery.

  "Mr. Li, I am from Oriental Daily News..."

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  The next day, all major newspapers in Hong Kong reported on nothing but the news of Ka Wah's new play "Big Brother from Tangshan".

  Can low-cost films create big box office? Who is the mysterious director He Fangsheng? - Apple Daily

  "Li Xiaolong Returns to Hollywood, Mysterious Director Joins, Will Jiahe Rise?"

  Unlike Apple Daily and The Sun, Oriental Daily is more concerned with the quality of fight scenes and reform. Headline: "Is 'The Big Brawl' a beacon for fight scenes? Where is the future of Kung Fu fight scenes? Worrisome!!!"

  Ming Pao focused on film directors with the headline "Where did the mysterious director come from?"

  While other newspapers mostly wrote about the director and Bruce Lee's return, they put aside the grudges between Chia-Hui and Shaw Brothers. This is exactly what Chow Yun-fat wanted, because Shaw Brothers' influence in the Hong Kong film industry was too great at that time, Chow Yun-fat did not want the audience's feelings towards Shaw Brothers to have a psychological impact on Chia-Hui.

  So when the newspaper was placed in Zou Wenhuai's office, there was a burst of laughter and applause.

  At Shaw's, a middle-aged woman in her thirties stood in front of the office desk with a newspaper in hand and furrowed brows. Behind the desk sat an elderly man in his sixties wearing gold-rimmed glasses. The old man had a cold smile on his face, exuding an air of superiority that made him seem authoritative without being angry. He glanced at the newspaper in his hand, let out a cold laugh, and said to the middle-aged woman beside him, "Just a clown jumping around. Don't take it to heart."

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