Entertainment 1998

Chapter 317 Chapter 316, Jin Yong is here

[Entertainment Weekly: Jiang Feng creates another miracle!

April 2000, 4, April Fools’ Day

It was on this day that the horror thriller "Saw", shot and produced by our own Chinese people, was publicly released in the North American film market. On the day of its release, 2000 cinemas across the United States opened simultaneously.

After a week of release, Saw took the weekly North American box office championship with a box office of 2500 million US dollars, surpassing the Hollywood movie Romeo Must Die starring Chinese Kung Fu superstar Jet Li [Note: Romeo Must Die took 1800 million US dollars in its first week].

It is worth mentioning here that the production cost of "Romeo Must Die" was 2500 million US dollars, while the production cost of "Saw" was 176 million RMB, which is less than 22 US dollars.

For this reason, a Hollywood film critic commented on Yahoo News that Jiang Feng, a good-looking young Chinese man, actually conquered Hollywood twice, the first time was the movie "Moon" and the second time was the movie "Saw".

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After a brief exchange with Wang Jinghua via text messages, Jiang Feng bought a copy of Entertainment Weekly on the street and returned to the Zhonghua Garden Hotel where the "Swordsman" crew was staying.

On the way back in the car, Jiang Feng simply flipped through the entertainment magazine and suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Well... he felt that Han Shanye praised him a little too much and almost put him on the altar.

However, although he felt a little embarrassed, Jiang Feng still wanted to take the magazine back to his room and read it carefully. After all, the entertainment reporter who wrote this report was quite literary.

To sum it up in one sentence, what I want to see is not the compliments from others, but the literary talent of this entertainment reporter.

But when Jiang Feng got out of the car at the entrance of Zhonghua Garden Hotel, he saw Dawei head-on!
"Brother Dawei..."

Jiang Feng shook the entertainment magazine in his hand, wanting to share his joy with this guy. The movie shot by his buddy was shown in the United States for only one week, and the box office exceeded 2 million yuan.

But before he could finish his words, Dawei grabbed his hand and hurried into the hotel.

"Mr. Jin Yong is here. He is drinking tea in the lounge area on the second floor of the hotel. He said he wants to see you. Please follow me now."

"what?"

The news came too quickly and Jiang Feng was a little confused. Holding the entertainment magazine in his hand, he went to the tea room on the second floor of the hotel with Dawei.

Jiang Feng walked into the tea room. Zhang Da Huzi, Huang Jianzhong, Xu Qing, Li Lianhua, Zhang Ziyi, Wei Zi and others had already arrived. They were talking to an old man with slicked back hair, glasses and a slightly round face.

And this old gentleman is the martial arts master who laid the foundation of the martial arts culture of the entire Chinese community~~Jin Yong and Cha Liangyong.

"Mr. Cha, I'm sorry, I didn't know you would come. I just went out for a while." Jiang Feng came in and took the opportunity to apologize.

"Do not worry about it."

Jin Yong was very friendly. He looked Jiang Feng up and down for a few times and said with a smile, "Before, Director Zhang Jizong showed me your Linghu Chong makeup photo, and I thought it was very good. Today I have the honor of seeing you in person, and I found that you are even more beautiful than in the photo."

"Well, do you think that having me play Linghu Chong fits your vision?" Jiang Feng asked the point directly.

"conform to."

Jin Yong nodded: "Linghu Chong must be handsome, cool and manly. Otherwise, why would Ren Yingying, Yi Lin and others like him as soon as they met him?"

"You are right." Jiang Feng was very happy to be recognized by the original author. Of course, he also knew that the old man's aesthetics did not represent everything.

You know, over the past few decades, Jin Yong has expressed his opinions on dozens of actors in Jin Yong's martial arts dramas countless times, but many of them went against the public's perception.

For example, when it comes to the role of Little Dragon Girl in The Return of the Condor Heroes, everyone agrees that Li Ruotong is the best. Of course, Liu Tianxian also has many supporters, and the supporters of both sides even fought for this role for many years.

But in Jin Yong's heart, he thinks the best performance was by Chen Yulian, Chow Yun-fat's ex-girlfriend. Chen Yulian's version of Little Dragon Girl and Liu Tianwang's version of Yang Guo are the "Return of the Condor Heroes" that he personally acknowledged.

As for Principal Gu, who was called "Yang Guo" who came out of the book by the audience and was at the peak of his appearance, Jin Yong felt that he should be ranked behind King Liu.

There is also Huang Rong. It is generally recognized that Maggie Cheung played this role best. Jin Yong also thought that she performed well. However, after seeing the version played by Master Zhou, he immediately said that he liked this version the best.

At that time, the Internet was in an uproar. Mr. Zhou's Huang Rong was ridiculed by everyone, and many people said that Jin Yong was kidnapped by Zhang Da Huzi.

But in fact, if Jin Yong didn't want to say it, Zhang Da Huzi couldn't force him, even if it was just a polite remark, he wouldn't praise Zhou Xun so much. It can only mean that the image of Huang Rong in this old man's mind is indeed more inclined to Zhou Xun.

Therefore, getting Jin Yong's recognition does not mean that everything is fine. The TV series is facing all audiences, and Jin Yong is just one of them.

There is a saying that goes, Louis Cha is just a book writer, what does he know about martial arts?

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Zhang Da Huzi attached great importance to Jin Yong's arrival. Not only did he hold a grand welcoming banquet, he even held a special seminar and invited Mr. Jin Yong to talk about his thoughts on creating "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer".

At this seminar, Zhang Da Huzi also sold out Jiang Feng. In order to perform a play, Jiang Feng had nothing to do a few days ago, so he squatted in his room and deconstructed the entire novel "Swordsman" from the perspective of a novelist.

From character traits, character relationships, character analysis, to plot development... Jiang Feng wrote a 10-word character biography covering all the main characters in the play.

Originally, Jiang Feng prepared this thing for his role as Linghu Chong, but who would have thought that when Zhang Da Huzi saw it, he was so surprised that he immediately asked the crew to print dozens of copies and distributed them to every actor in the crew, asking everyone to study it carefully.

Now, what Jiang Feng wrote was brought to the seminar by Zhang Da Huzi again.

Of course, this is a good thing in the eyes of outsiders. Zhang Da Huzi intends to let the original author see how hard our actors work to play the characters you created.

But Jiang Feng was a little embarrassed.

Because in the biography I wrote, I made too many criticisms of the original author Jin Yong. Well, it can't be called criticism, I just complained that his plot design was not reasonable enough.

For example, there is no need to recover from injuries after castration. There were many eunuchs in the ancient imperial palaces, and eunuchs were also called castrated men. However, there are great risks in turning a normal man into a eunuch, because without superb skills, it is easy to die in the process. But in "Swordsman", this is not the case for those who castrate themselves.

For another example, in "Swordsman", when Ren Woxing was imprisoned at the bottom of the West Lake prison, he left the secret book of "Star Absorbing Art" on the iron plate, which was accidentally discovered by Linghu Chong. So the question is, how did Ren Woxing leave this secret book when he was locked up? There is another question, if he had the ability to carve words on the iron plate, couldn't he destroy the chains and escape?

Fortunately, when Mr. Jin Yong read the biography written by Jiang Feng, he did not get angry because of the complaints. Instead, he praised it highly and said that this was the attitude an actor should have.

I don't know if it was influenced by the "biography", but when the old man left the crew and accepted media interviews, he made some harsh remarks.

"In my opinion, among the current young generation of actors, Jiang Feng is the most suitable actor to play Linghu Chong, no doubt about it."

(End of this chapter)