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Chapter 162 The First Person Conquered by the Script
Writing scripts is not very difficult for Cao Sheng.

Especially when he was familiar with the plot of "A Man's Martial Arts", writing the script was just a matter of changing his writing habits and writing all the plots in the format of a script.

What surprised him was that when he asked someone to submit the script to Hong Jinbao, he learned a piece of surprising news: Hong Jinbao and his family went to the United States to develop two years ago.

I heard that he has been filming TV series in the United States in the past two years and has also dubbed cartoons.

Cao Sheng was surprised when he heard director Liu Junjie say this on the phone.

Before his rebirth, he really didn't know that Hong Jinbao had also gone to the United States to develop.

He originally planned to ask director Liu Junjie to help submit the script to Hong Jinbao. He felt that it would be more reliable to entrust this kind of kung fu film to Hong Jinbao.

Who would have thought that the other party would have run away to the United States two years ago?

Or move the whole family to the United States?

There was no other choice, he could only submit the script to another option - Huang Baiming.

Huang Baiming did not run away. The information Cao Sheng found on the Internet showed that Huang Baiming founded the Oriental Film Distribution Company in 1991.

Electronic script delivery is very convenient. After receiving the script, Huang Baiming called to thank Cao Sheng for giving him the script and said that he would read it carefully.

For Cao Sheng, his main business is online writing, and writing scripts is just a side job. Anyway, "One Man's Martial Arts" is one of the story backgrounds in his next book, so it's a pity to just use it as the story background in the next book.

It just so happened that he wanted to buy a car recently, so he decided to try to see if this script could sell for some money.

Since the script had already been submitted, he didn't think about it any more.

After all, the film and television industry is a bit far away for him.

He doesn't think he can have much say in matters like making a movie.

Even if Huang Baiming doesn't like this script, he doesn't care. At worst, he can submit it to other directors in a few years.

As for why he didn’t submit the script of “Ip Man” to Huang Baiming?
Firstly, the only script he had written so far was "A Man's Martial Arts World".

Secondly, he hasn’t decided whether to use the “Ip Man” series when writing the infinite flow.

His memory shows that the movie "Ip Man" had troubles beyond the movie.

For example: Ip Man’s descendants are still alive.

If Ip Man's descendants do not allow the filming of this kind of movie, they will be asking for trouble. In the original time and space, Ip Man's descendants have been involved in the "Ip Man" series from the very beginning.

When he writes novels now, he will consider whether his works can be adapted into film and television dramas or games in the future. Compared with the royalties, the film and television adaptation rights and game adaptation rights are the big money.

He has no interest in writing a work that can neither sell the rights for film or television adaptation nor the rights for game adaptation.

……

"One person's martial arts world?"

Hong Kong.

After get off work that night, Huang Baiming had dinner and went to the study. He opened the script sent by Cao Sheng on the computer with a curious look in his eyes.

He had just heard the name Cao Sheng.

Before receiving this script, he had never heard of Cao Sheng, only heard of "a little dust in the Central Plains".

He entered the entertainment industry as a screenwriter. In the past few years, he also wrote a serial column in Hong Kong's Oriental Daily News. He has always been paying attention to the literary world of Hong Kong.

I also have the habit of reading newspapers.

Therefore, he had long heard that in recent years, a mainland writer with the pen name "A Dot of Gray in the Central Plains" had emerged, his novels were selling very well, and there was already a saying in Hong Kong that he was "Little Huang Yi".

It is said that this mainland writer, like Huang Yi, also pioneered a new way of writing martial arts novels.

The difference is: Huang Yi pioneered fantasy, while Zhongyuan Yidianhui pioneered immortal heroes and cultivation.

Xianxia, ​​he understood what it was.

He didn't know what cultivation meant.

Combining the immortality and cultivation together, he has a question mark on his forehead, wondering what the hell this is?

He is usually very busy with work and doesn't have much time to learn about these emerging terms.

He never thought that one day, this little grey from the Central Plains would ask someone to send him a script. Did he think that the novel world was no longer suitable for him? Did he want to cross over to the film and television industry?
He was quite curious about what the script written by this Zhongyuan Yidianhui would be like?

It is not uncommon in Hong Kong for novelists to write scripts.

Many writers have done this before.

Film and television companies also like to commission articles from well-known writers.

Huang Baiming was very relaxed when he first started reading the script. After a day's work, he just wanted to relax when he got home. Reading Cao Sheng's script was also a way for him to relax, just like reading a newspaper to pass the time.

In his hand was a cup of freshly brewed coffee.

It's just that the coffee was still hot, so I didn't rush to drink it.

but……

After reading the story outline of the script, he couldn't help but push up his glasses on the bridge of his nose, frowned and thought for a while, then he sat up straight unconsciously, put his eyes close to the screen, and looked much more serious.

What should a good script look like?

Huang Baiming, who entered the film and television industry as a screenwriter and founded Cinema City and later Oriental Film Company, has his own criteria for judgment.

He believes that the intention of the script is of paramount importance.

For example, in a comedy script, all the plots should be for the sake of comedy. In a ghost movie, is it to celebrate the love between humans and ghosts? Or is it to talk about the horror and evil of ghosts?
The intention is different, and the resulting film will give the audience a completely different feeling.

A good idea can naturally add some color to the script.

The story synopsis of "One Man's Martial Arts" gave him the feeling that the idea of ​​this script was very good!

——A martial arts fanatic in modern society has no worries after killing his wife with his own hands. He plans to go to the underworld to accompany his wife in the near future. But before going to the underworld, he still has a wish: to compete with the heroes of the world. He decides to follow the ancient tradition and challenge the best in each field of the martial arts world one by one, to determine the superiority and the inferiority, and to decide life and death.

From the story outline of just a few hundred words, Huang Baiming felt the determination to die of the character Feng Yuxiu. This character intended to die in the process of challenging various masters.

Huang Baiming quickly found evidence for this feeling when he was reading the main text of the script.

——Before his wife got cancer, Feng Yuxiu was just a pure martial arts fanatic. Every day when his wife was reading, he practiced martial arts next to her. Occasionally, he went to the prison to visit Xiahou Wu, who was once the best in the world, and sincerely asked Xiahou Wu for advice on kung fu. During this period, Feng Yuxiu lived a happy life and was harmless to people and animals.

But when his wife was diagnosed with cancer and her condition worsened step by step, he was powerless to do anything. He could not cure her disease, nor could he help her share or relieve her pain. He considered it for a long time and decided to free his wife by killing his most beloved woman with his own hands.

From then on, he had the determination to die.

After challenging the masters one by one, he always liked to sit by the sea and whisper to himself: "Snow, it's coming soon, soon..."

Xue is his wife's name.

He was planning to go and accompany his wife after challenging the top masters in various fields in the world.

Perhaps, he also hoped that when challenging various masters, he would die at the hands of a master.

only……

The masters are so disappointing.

There is no one who can fight.

They all died in his hands.

Until he met Xiahou Wu who had just come out of prison.

Xiahou Wu, who was both his teacher and friend, made Feng Yuxiu excited. He finally had a decent opponent. Unfortunately, after a series of exciting duels, Feng Yuxiu was still disappointed.

Because the Xiahou Wu in front of him was not the best in the world in his mind. Although he had the best martial arts in the world, he did not dare to kill Feng Yuxiu. He was too soft-hearted.

This isn't what being number one in the world looks like.

Therefore, in anger, he decided to kill Xiahou Wu by surprise. He wanted to let Xiahou Wu understand that Kung Fu is a killing skill! If you want to decide who is better, you must decide who lives and who dies.

but……

With a gunshot, he fell under the police's gun.

……

After reading the script on the computer, Huang Baiming felt lost and absent-minded.

As a mature screenwriter, when he reads the script, he can imagine in his mind how the script will look like when it is filmed.

Is this script good?

He didn't think much about it, his instinct told him: this is a good script.

It is clearly a Kung Fu movie script, but it expresses a very sad theme: times have changed, and even after decades of hard training, a Kung Fu master cannot defeat a bullet that costs a few cents. Even if one becomes the best in the world in Kung Fu, he is still an insignificant little person.

Just like a line in this movie: The swallows that used to fly in front of the mansions of the wealthy and powerful now fly into the homes of ordinary people.

A kung fu master is nothing more than a swallow flying under the eaves of a king's house, insignificant.

Huang Baiming, who has always liked investing in comedy movies, suddenly wanted to make this movie.

He believed that with this script paving the way, he would be able to invite the best Kung Fu stars in Hong Kong.

Which kung fu star could refuse such a script?

He thought about it for a while and felt that perhaps only Jet Li and Jacky Cheung could refuse.

……

late at night.

Cao Sheng is typing in the study.

The sound of typing continued, and the sudden ringing of the cell phone startled him.

He frowned and took out his cell phone, very unhappy that someone interrupted him while he was typing.

But the call was from Xiangjiang.

Xiangjiang?

He thought of Huang Baiming.

So, the call was connected.

Huang Baiming's voice came from the phone, "Mr. Cao! Your script is so well written, I like it very much! I want to film it, thank you for giving me such an excellent script, but before I officially invest in it, I want to ask you, the screenwriter, when you were writing the two roles of Feng Yuxiu and Xiahou Wu, did you have any favorite actors in mind? In other words, which two actors do you hope to play these two roles?"

Cao Sheng: “???”

The speed at which Huang Baiming read the script was a little beyond Cao Sheng's expectations. He thought he would have to wait a few more days before getting any news, and even thought that Huang Baiming might not be interested in reading his script at all.

"I originally thought that Hong Jinbao was very suitable for the role of Xiahou Wu, but I heard that he went to the United States to develop his career..."

As Cao Sheng had just said this, he heard Huang Baiming's laughter, "Oh, him! He is indeed suitable, it doesn't matter! As long as he has not gone to heaven, no matter where he went, we can find him to film. I have a good relationship with him, so I should be able to invite him back. What about Feng Yuxiu? Who do you want to play the role?"

(End of this chapter)