On a new day, when Zhao Donghuai had eaten and drank enough and was about to go to Tung Chung New Town, Qiu Shuzhen reported, "Boss, Director Xu is here, and Ayou and the others."

Director Zhao was speechless, "You didn't tell me earlier."

It's already past 9 o'clock...

When he saw Xu Ke and his party, Xu Ke and others quickly said hello and then expressed their intention, "Zhao Sheng, (Good Will Hunting) has been filmed and the film has been produced. Do you want to watch it?"

"Ah Yo is indeed a talented actor. When I approached him to film the second and third parts of (A Chinese Ghost Story) in 1985, I felt that Ah Yo had good potential. This time Good Will Hunting lasted for several months, and it was very good."

Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "Azhen, please call the crew and let the assistant director shoot it first, and we will see the finished film."

Zhao Donghuai first took out the movie Good Will Hunting on June 8 and gave it to Chen Hong, and then also gave it to Gong Li and others. However, at that time, the female version was only one of the options and had not been decided.

He had already said that if Chen Hong and others were not good at acting and couldn't get into shape, they would be replaced.

On June 16, he handed the script to Xu Ke and asked Lao Xu to prepare.

In the end, Xu Ke started filming in August, with a two-month preparation period. He interviewed Chen Hong, Gong Li, Zhang Min, including Qiu Shuzhen, and among the male stars, Hua Zai was not available, Zhang Guorong was not available, and Liang Jiahui was not available...

The Dragon also seamlessly joined the cast of The Last Emperor from Forrest Gump. There is also a story about Good Will Hunting, which is about a rebellious teenager who returns to the right path and breaks out academically.

A sense of youth is also important.

It's not impossible to let Zhang Guorong play a young boy. After all, he played the handsome policeman in "A Better Tomorrow". He was also 30-year-old Ah Wing, but in "A Better Tomorrow" he felt young.

It's just that Lao Xu went back and forth with the selection, and after various requests and reports to Zhao Donghuai, he still chose 25-year-old Zhang Xueyou. Director Zhao also agreed before filming started.

Ayou, before this, the most important resumes in the film and television industry were (A Chinese Story 2 and 3), (Eight Stars Announcement), other minor supporting roles are not worth mentioning in detail.

From the start of filming in August to December 12th, it has been quite slow to get everything done. I heard that Xu Ke secretly gave him some tricks in order to keep up with his snow friend's performance.

Talent is one thing, but when you can perform at a super level is another.

When the project was approved, Zhao Donghuai said that Good Will Hunting was an award-winning film, and Lao Xu also attached great importance to it.

In this big team, Ah You plays the protagonist, a genius and a troubled boy, and the professor of the University of Hong Kong is Xu Jinjiang. Ah Jiang is also a veteran and often plays the role of such professors or university academic talents.

The psychiatrist character is Al Pacino.

That's right, Al, a visiting professor at the Asian Theater Academy who originally wanted to retire from the industry for a few years and settle down, was finally pulled into the trap.

The psychological battle scene in this movie was set in Hollywood in the 2020s. It is also one of the best psychological battle scenes in the history of film.

It is one of the living textbooks on classic healing and self-salvation for psychiatrists and mental illness patients that can be reflected in reality.

Warmth, inspiration and self-redemption are the core themes of this movie. For the role of a psychiatrist, one of the redeemers, Al Pacino...he did not resist the temptation.

Originally, Al Pacino was attracted by the script of (Rain Man). It was like one of the best chefs encountering the temptation of one of the best ingredients in the world. He didn't agree with his mouth, but his body couldn't help but want to get closer.

Observe some people with autism.

After observing more, before he even talked about acting in "Rain Man", Xu Ke came to the door and wanted to hire Al to play a psychiatrist? The purpose was to cure the psychological problems of an autistic male protagonist in "Good Will Hunting".

Yes, the main character played by Zhang Xueyou can also be regarded as one of the psychological problems of autism. It is just that the degree of autism of this protagonist is not as serious as that in (Rain Man).

(Rain Man), the autistic male protagonist needs to live in a nursing home, while (Good Will Hunting), the autistic male protagonist can still work in college and support himself.

Al Pacino was not able to perform surgery for Xu Ke at that time. I have been studying autistic patients for several months and want to play the autistic protagonist in (Rain Man). You ask me to redeem him in another script.

An autistic protagonist??

And this protagonist is also super smart like the protagonist in the (Rain Man) story? Is he a super genius?

Where is this big furry bear nesting doll?

In the end, Al Pacino jumped into the trap.

Even though he felt that Xu Ke was trying to trick him, he still jumped into the trap after reading the script. After all, he first played the role of a doctor, rescuing and redeeming a young genius with mild autism, and then played the severely self-inflicted character in "Rain Man".

Autistic genius.

Al thought it was more interesting than playing a gangster or a cop.

During the three months on the set, Zhang Xueyou was not only trained by Xu Ke, but also by Al, an acting master who was nominated for the Oscar winner four times.

In the movie, Johnny Depp plays the role of Zhang Xue's friendly gay friend, who often hangs out with him, gets into fights and causes troubles, and treats him with sincerity. He also works with a psychiatrist to help Ayou re-embrace life and redeem himself.

Playing the role of Zhang Xueyou’s girlfriend is Luo Meiman.

After watching a 120-minute movie, as the ending song played, Zhao Donghuai clapped and exclaimed, "Ayou's acting is really good, the filming is good, and the theme of warmth and inspiration, including self-redemption, is fully presented."

Being praised by Zhao Donghuai, Ayou also looked excited and expressed his gratitude.

He is now also a second-tier red star among male singers. In addition to the two songs that Zhao Donghuai personally wrote for him, he relied on Zhao's record department to recruit lyrics and songwriters from outside for his original album (Smile) and (Distant Her).

) album has been produced and released.

The first Hong Kong album (Smile) sold more than 200,000 copies and achieved four platinum status. She and Yue Banwan have also become Ayou's masterpieces.

Therefore, when promoting this movie (Good Will Hunting), in addition to promoting Al Pacino as the godfather protagonist, the reputation of the second-generation godfather can also be promoted by Ayo as the running actor.

Singers rely on their appeal to rally fans to support movies, which has always been one of the main promotion models in the global film industry.

When the crowd walked outside, Zhao Donghuai said, "(The Legend of Wang Wenxia) has been released for more than a month, let (Good Will Hunting) be released as soon as possible."

"Whether it's Ayou's appeal or Professor Pacino's influence, they are both good themes."

It needs to be released as soon as possible, it will be the Christmas movie soon, and (Home Alone), which has been released for more than half a year, is the main masterpiece of the Christmas movie around the world this year.

A group of people nodded happily.

By the time we got to the big office, the regular crew and main creators had already left, and Xu Ke came up with a new script, "Zhao Sheng, I want to shoot a new version of Once Upon a Time in America, and make it into Once Upon a Time in China, based on Once Upon a Time in America."

"What do you think of this theme? Have you made any progress?"

Zhao Donghuai's eyes lit up. Are we going to shoot a new version of Once Upon a Time? This is Xu Ke's unavoidable masterpiece and classic series in his directorial career.

But he also knew that Xu Ke had been thinking about remaking Once Upon a Time in 1983 and 1984, but at that time, he could not find suitable martial arts actors. No matter Cheng Long, Hong Yinbao or Yuan Biao, they were not suitable.

His new ideas.

Li Lianjie? Ajie, who had just become popular in Asia with Shaolin Temple in 1983, was too young. At that time, he still did not fit the feeling of Mr. Xu.

"Have you found the right actor?"

Tsui Hark nodded, "Let's go with Ajie. In fact, when he was filming the first and second installments of The Dark Knight, I felt that he could play the role of a gentry from the old era and a representative image of traditional scholars in the late Qing Dynasty."

"But he was still too young at that stage, so I told him as early as a year ago that if he could develop a handsome and elegant image of a great master, I would give him a script. He is almost done now."

Jet Li...

It was in 1984 that under the direction of Cheng Xiaodong, he made a movie called Black Man, which was released in North America in the summer of 1984 and grossed more than 10 million US dollars at the box office. In the following period, Li Lianjie was not idle either.

In the summer of 1984, he returned to the mainland and used his own salary to join this film studio and that film studio to co-operate and make another movie "North and South Shaolin..." which was a big hit. The only good thing is that he was not seriously injured like in the original track.

In 1985, Cheng Xiaodong continued to coax Ajie to prepare the story of (Black Man) 2. He just put together the team himself, recruited some white supporting actors, made up the story well, filmed and acted, and then Black Man 2... wasn't too big of a hit.

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Dark Knight 2 still grossed more than 20 million U.S. dollars at the box office in North America, but at that time, Zhao Donghuai had not yet gained access to AMC theaters, so Warner still bought it out and gave it a buyout fee of 3 million U.S. dollars.

This buyout recovered the cost and made a profit.

However, regardless of whether it is Black Man 1 or Black Man 2, both are relatively popular in Hong Kong. The overall project is definitely profitable. The cost of the film is not high. The two films sold out in North America for 5 million US dollars, which is 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

There is also a buyout fee of HKD 30 million in the Asia area where Li Guoxing operates.

That is, compared to such Ajie, who relies on new-age action to succeed, such as Lin Zhengying, Andy Lau and even Tony Leung Ka-fai, he is currently in the third level in the field of Asian action movies.

In the second gear are Cheng Long, Hong Yinbao and others.

Xu Ke laughed again and said, "He was only 20 years old in 1983. He was too young. Now he will be 24 years old after the New Year. He has also experienced the North and South Shaolin wars, and Black Man 2 was not as strong as expected, and he has experienced a certain blow.

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"I think that even if we start the team now, his feelings are not quite there yet, but my idea is based on Once Upon a Time in America. In 1987, if I can finish filming the first part of Once Upon a Time in America and produce it, I will be satisfied!"

"Ayou can afford it (Good Will Hunting) after three or four months. If Ajie is willing to cooperate with me for a year, it won't be a big problem."

Zhao Donghuai nodded. Xu Ke's skills in training and directing actors are indeed good. After all, he can shoot well even if he "hold down his nose". "Who are you going to use as the heroine?"

Xu Ke thought for a while and asked, "Chen Hong is asked to play the role of Thirteenth Aunt?"

He had thought about it for so long and felt that Guan Jiahui was the most suitable person to play the thirteenth aunt. However, the current Sister Guan was too high and her interest in acting plummeted...

When Zhao Sheng directs a movie, no matter who is invited to be the vase, it is just a matter of one sentence, and many female tycoons still rush to take the role.

But how can he, the mere old Xu, have that kind of appeal? And if he invites Guan Jiahui, he has invited a living ancestor to join the group.

Even for the movie "Good Will Hunting", he had seriously considered casting Gong Li or Chen Hong. In the male and female versions arranged by Director Zhao, Gong Li and Chen Hong were one of the earliest candidates.

He passed Gong Li and Chen Hong. It's not that the two women have no acting skills, nor that they have no potential and can't survive. Similarly, he is not discriminating against women, it's just... he is trying to improve the acting skills of actors. During training, if the male actor does not perform well, casually

Swear as much as you like to stimulate.

He didn't dare to curse those beautiful actresses from the Zhao family...

During the three or four months that he struggled with Zhang Xueyou's acting skills, Xu Ke couldn't stop talking about the fragrance. Ayou, who was also shocked at one point, began to doubt his life, so after three or four months, he had the talent and survived.

Directors, many directors have the reputation of being a tyrant on the set. Although Xu is not the most vicious one, it is definitely not that as long as he talks well, all the actors can cooperate to achieve his expectations.

The kind of violence and intimidation used by Mak Yuen-hsiung when filming the Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers, where he directly threw the actors into the car, closed the door and started burning the car, almost burning someone to death. These are just one of the small acts of "plagiarizing and imitating Zhao Sheng".

Think about the dragon and tiger martial arts masters and temporary acting teachers who have contributed their limbs and even their lives to Zhao Films' blockbusters? Xu Ke feels that he belongs to the literary school among directors and is a good person, but when he has a bad temper,
To be continued...