Japanese Entertainment: From special effects actor to action superstar

Chapter 353 American Kids, You Need to Practice Kung Fu Too
Everyone knows the Yuan family when it comes to movies.

This is the top action design team.

Even in Hong Kong, where there are many talented people, the Yuan family is the best.

The design effects of various other martial arts teams in Hong Kong are actually not as good as those of the Yuan family.

And most importantly, the Yuan family is not expensive at the moment! Hearing that there are US dollars to be made, and with Cheng Long, an old friend, intervening, the Yuan family really came.

The most famous member of the Yuen Clan is of course Yuen Woo-ping.

There are also Yuan Xiangren and others.

——Yuan Xiangren is the old beggar, Hong Riqing, in The Legend of the Beggar.

Outside the gate of Industrial Light and Magic, Gu Ming saw from a distance that there were several large cars, which were packed with people. They were all young and energetic, and were not afraid of being in a foreign country.

Seeing them getting off the car one after another, Gu Ming took the initiative to step forward.

"This must be Master Yuan, right? I've heard of your name for a long time. I've seen all the action movies you've made with Jackie Chan. They're truly spectacular, arguably the best in Asia."

"Ah yo..."

Yuan Heping just felt flattered.

Everyone can say nice things, but it depends on who says them.

Compared to the still relatively unknown Yuan Clan, Gu Ming is now quite famous, especially since a movie starring him was recently released in Hong Kong.

Shadow Warriors and the others are boring to watch, but the jokes and action design in the Ghost Scroll are deeply loved by Hong Kong audiences.

Yuan Heping greeted them a few times, and after walking over, he couldn't help but ask a few questions in a low voice.

"How come this Japanese guy can speak Chinese?"

Cheng Long explained: "He learned it on his own! We've known each other for a long time. He's a good guy and we can get along well."

Yuan Heping understood and didn't ask any more questions.

The Yuan family is famous for one thing.

As long as you are paid, you can do any job, no matter who you work for.

Since the US dollar is real, they certainly don't care about Star Wars or ball-throwing battles.

Even if you have ten thousand big dice in front of you, they are not as real as the US dollar!

Gu Ming walked over to greet everyone one by one. By chance, his eyes turned and he saw a young man in the crowd who looked very arrogant.

"Ouch me!"

Gu Ming was surprised and happy.

Master Ye!
Master Ye, Zhen Zidan!
Speaking of Zhen Zidan, she is amazing. She immigrated to America a long time ago, but later immigrated back.

Young Zhen Zidan spoke English better than Chinese. Because she admired Bruce Lee, she returned to China and received several years of training in a martial arts team. In 80, Zhen Zidan left the martial arts team and passed through Hong Kong. Because her family had a long history with the Yuen Clan, she was valued by Yuen Woo-ping. Later, Yuen Woo-ping made several movies and strongly promoted Zhen Zidan.

——But none of them were picked up.

As we all know, the young Zhen Zidan had a bad temper, a bad personality, zero emotional intelligence, and an aggressive appearance. She did not have the image of a leading man like Jet Li. Apart from her good skills, she had no other advantages.

Although Jet Li later had a bad reputation, when he stood in front of the camera, people would ignore his height and regard him as the protagonist.

The young Zhen Zidan was much worse.

Only after Zhen Zidan grew older did she gradually take on the image of the protagonist.

The battle between Zhen Zidan and Hao Jing in the back alley in SPL is a timeless classic in action movies.

The battle with Chang Wei in the fuse is even more exciting.

Gu Ming glanced at her a few times and then met Zhen Zidan's eyes. He saw that Zhen Zidan had her hands in her pockets, slightly tilted her head, squinted her eyes and looked at him with an arrogant look. She didn't care at all about Gu Ming's scrutiny.

"Okay, okay... Master Ye."

Gu Ming shook his head secretly, but still walked over and said hello.

"Who is this?"

"My name is Dennis!"

Zhen Zidan raised her head and said, "You asked me to come here, just expect a surprise! Even Americans can only worship me!"

"Danny!" Yuan Heping came over quickly and bowed his head to Gu Ming. "This kid is from an old acquaintance of mine. He's young and doesn't know much."

"It's okay. It's good to be young."

Gu Ming was amazed.

Only seventeen years old!
Master Ye was really young when he was young.

"Okay, if you have anything to say, let's go inside and talk. We're just waiting for you guys to come and make some American money. I'm going to do the last few moves."

Gu Ming was about to leave when Zhen Zidan suddenly raised her voice a bit: "Hey, Japanese, I heard you are a good fighter."

Gu Ming stopped and his expression suddenly became a little strange.

Cheng Long gasped, Lin Fengjiao. Don't fight!

He was afraid that if they started fighting, Gu Ming would beat Zhen Zidan to death!
Although Cheng Long didn't know Zhen Zidan, he knew someone from the Yuan family.

Gu Ming didn't say anything, but just tiptoed and picked up a steel pipe on the set and grabbed it in his hand.

Gu Ming held the steel pipe with both hands and took a deep breath.

Everyone looked over, wondering what Gu Ming was going to do.

"drink!"

Gu Ming pretended to shout loudly, as if he was exerting force, and broke with his hands.

The steel pipe broke with a sound.

In an instant, there were cries of surprise one after another. The temperature in the United States dropped by at least 20 degrees.

Even Yuen Woo-ping couldn't help but open his eyes wide, not sure whether this was a prop or a real steel pipe.

Gu Ming casually threw half of the steel pipe to Zhen Zidan.

"If you want to fight, then come on, let's try using weapons."

Zhen Zidan: ...

I'm crazy.

Not like a human!

He looked down at the steel pipe, then looked up at Gu Ming, and wisely chose to put down his weapon.

We humans generally do not fight aliens.

Gu Ming laughed.

"There's no point in fighting me. Dennis, right? You're very confident in your skills? That's great. When we're doing the motion capture design later, you can be the model and scare the Americans into submission!"

"I'll take the job! I'm definitely better than them all!"

Zhen Zidan put down the steel pipe and quickly caught up.

Yuan Heping lowered his head, picked up the steel pipe and tried it.

"hiss……"

I originally thought it was a prop.

Unexpectedly, it is true.

He tried it with both hands, and the short steel pipe remained motionless, with no sign of bending at all.

Seeing a few people walking further and further away in the distance, and Gu Ming introducing Industrial Light & Magic as they walked, Yuan Heping suddenly felt his mood becoming more and more complicated.

feel.

Not like a human!

……

……

There is no need to say much about the special effects that Industrial Light & Magic is proud of.

Gu Ming took everyone around, and even a young and energetic person like Zhen Zidan fell silent.

That's really amazing. Only a company like Industrial Light & Magic, which spares no expense and has a large business, can afford such special effects.

They actually used several computers to make that kind of drawing equipment. One machine can be comparable to one hundred or even two hundred hand-drawn and hand-made special effects machines in Japan.

Hong Kong does not even have a dedicated special effects department, and many films rely on primitive special effects or simply scraping the film with a knife in the post-production.

——For example, there is a movie called "Tathagata Palm", which has been paid tribute to by both Andy Lau and Stephen Chow.

The special effects are created by scraping the film with a knife.

The price of the Industrial Light & Magic machine was incredibly high. Zhen Zidan took advantage of his good English to ask about it, and was shocked after hearing the cost.

It’s so expensive, I might as well hire someone to do the hand-painting.

"Alright, everyone, gentlemen."

Gu Ming automatically switched to trilingual mode and spoke in Japanese, English and Mandarin respectively.

"To make a long story short, we were invited by Mr. George Lucas, an American, to come here to work on the action design. However, they don't have a martial arts choreographer or a formation master, so our current task is to design authentic sword moves for the swordplay in Star Wars. I'm afraid I'm not capable of this alone, so I'm seeking help from all of you."

"Americans have money, and we can't produce their special effects blockbusters. So, let's not compete with them on this. Let's compete on what we can show off. This is called using our strengths to attack their weaknesses!"

"Let's use these seven lightsaber techniques to leave our mark, leaving our Asian presence in the special effects blockbusters that Americans are most proud of! When their children raise their glow sticks and pretend they're holding lightsabers, they're actually practicing 'kung fu'!"

American kids?

American kids, you need to practice Kung Fu too!
(End of this chapter)