Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

After twelve hours of waiting, the first rough cut of "Master Qian" was finally completed, but it cannot be called a movie yet because there is still a lot of post-production work to be done.

As for this kind of rough cut, it is not suitable even if it is to be used as a sample film, but it does allow you to take a look at how the film was shot.

There is a small screening room at Jiahe Post-Production Company, where films can be brought in for post-production and screening.

Feilong couldn't wait to take the rough cut of "Master Qian" to the screening room. After making arrangements, they were considered the first audience of "Master Qian".

There are no titles, subtitles, soundtrack or even narration. This kind of movie-watching experience is the first time for Lin Daoqiu.

However, in his time, he had never seen any strange things, and this little thing was not enough to surprise Lin Daoqiu.

The scene at the beginning of the movie is in the largest brothel in town. A group of people refused to pay after playing with women. As a result, they were caught by Yuan Biao who was staying here.

After some fun, Yuan Biao started to fight with his opponent. Lin Daoqiu remembered that it took three days to film this fight scene alone.

It was only after filming this martial arts scene that Yuen Biao, Lin Zhengying and others understood what type of martial arts Lin Daoqiu wanted.

As the plot progresses, the film slowly reveals to the audience the character of the male protagonist. It turns out that he is a kid from a rich family, but he spends his time idle and likes to make trouble. Even his father can't do anything to him.

After a battle of wits and courage with his father at home, Yuan Biao heard that a very beautiful woman had come to the teahouse in the town, so he immediately took people to see if the woman was really beautiful.

And this is one of the most exciting parts of the whole drama. The heroine played by Guo Youhua used the skirt technique to beat Yuan Biao so hard that he couldn't find his way.

Feilong next to him had long been fascinated by it. While watching, he made a surprised sound from time to time: "Kung Fu can be played like this?"

Then the big devil played by Zhong Fa appeared, and Lin Zhengying, who played the heroine's father, and Yuan Biao's father were killed by Zhong Fa. Yuan Biao, who was seriously injured and fell into the river, was rescued by the monk played by Sammo Hung.

Then he practiced hard with Sammo Hung, and finally they and Guo Yuhua joined forces to deal with Zhong Fa. The ending was naturally to take revenge by killing each other, and the film ended like this.

Fei Long originally had little confidence in this film, but when he finished watching "Master Qian" from the beginning and compared it with his own film "Fist of the Flying Dragon", he finally understood the difference between a good movie and a bad one.

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"This is the most brilliant movie I have seen in the past few years. Brother Qiu is really amazing." Wen Jun, one of the screenwriters, couldn't help but sigh.

Lin Daoqiu quickly shook his head and said: "Stop flattering, you and Ari wrote this script, and I will not take away your credit."

When Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui heard this, they immediately felt guilty. Except for some dialogues written by them, most of them had been modified by Lin Daoqiu.

If they had followed the script they wrote before, Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui are sure that "Master Qian" would be far less exciting than the one revised by Lin Daoqiu.

"Don't worry, as long as this movie makes money, your dividends will definitely be indispensable." Feilong looked confident. He was very satisfied with the quality of this movie.

Lin Daoqiu smiled. If he told them He Guanchang's views on this drama, I don't know if they would be so confident.

But Lin Daoqiu would not do such a disgraceful thing, and he did not think that what He Guanchang said was necessarily right. Lin Daoqiu even dared to bet that Mr. He would be embarrassed this time.

After watching the rough cut of the film, I don’t know if the requirements for the film have become higher and higher. Feilong has to come to the post-production company almost every day. The film that could normally be cut in half a month was cut by Feilong.

It took seven extra days.

At first Lin Daoqiu was worried that Feilong, who did not understand movies, would give random directions, but after watching the final version of the film in the screening room, he felt that this version was already edited very well.

Although Feilong didn't understand movies, he knew who was good at editing. In order to make the movie more outstanding, he spent money to hire the best editor to edit the movie. The dubbing guy was the music genius Chen Xunqi, and he tried his best to do everything.

Perfect.

Sometimes Lin Daoqiu felt that if Feilong didn't mess around in the world, it might be suitable for him to become a film producer, but he just thought about it and would never take action.

May 7, 1978 is Sunday, which is also the day when the preview screening of "Master Qian" will be held.

Since early in the morning, Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun looked restless. Even though they had experienced a midnight show before, they still seemed unable to calm down.

The final fateful moment finally arrived. There were only a few minutes left before the movie was released. Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun were hiding in the background and shivering. They didn't dare to watch the reaction of the audience outside.

Lin Daoqiu didn't worry about this. He bought a sugar cane and sat directly in the audience. No one would recognize him anyway, so there was nothing to worry about.

At eleven o'clock sharp, the surrounding lights slowly dimmed. As soon as the title of "Master Qian" was played, it was the first time for this film to meet the audience.

"Fuck off the street, what a terrible title, you can tell at a glance that it's definitely not a good movie."

"Wow... this scene was so bloody good. My grandpa's performance was terrible. It didn't look good at all."

While the movie was playing, Lin Daoqiu heard people criticizing the show loudly from time to time. At first, Lin Daoqiu didn't pay much attention to it. After all, the reactions of the surrounding audience were still very involved.

But as the plot progressed, the voices of these people began to become louder. But while they were shouting, Lin Daoqiu found that these people could not give any reason, and they were just making random comments.

Fortunately, it was just a few isolated voices, and the vast majority of the audience still approved of the movie, especially the fight scenes between Yuen Biao and Guo Youhua, which made the surrounding audience exclaim from time to time.

Finally, when the subtitles appeared at the end of the film, both Cheng Danrui and Wen Jun's hearts were in their throats. What followed was the audience's most intuitive judgment of the drama. If there was no applause, or even if the applause was not loud enough, then the drama would definitely be finished.

But just as they were nervous, sporadic applause suddenly broke out from the audience, and before long, almost everyone at the scene was applauding "Master Qian".

When they heard the thunderous applause backstage, Zheng Danrui and Wen Jun collapsed directly on the ground. It seemed that this drama should be fine.

As soon as the movie ended, Lin Daoqiu immediately found the Southeast brothers and quickly whispered a few words in their ears.

The two of them nodded while listening, and then looked where Lin Daoqiu pointed. After recognizing each other's appearance, the Southeast brothers immediately led people to follow those guys quietly.

Feilong and others still don't know what happened. They are still immersed in the applause of the audience before and cannot extricate themselves.

"Don't go back tonight. Come to my disco and have a good time. You won't come back until you get drunk."

At this time, Hong Kong's disco culture, the predecessor of nightclubs, was very popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

"Brother Feilong, you go and play, I have some things to deal with." Lin Daoqiu wanted to know whether those guys who came to cause trouble just now really felt that the filming of this movie was not good, or if there was another reason.

But Feilong didn't know this. He thought that Lin Daoqiu didn't like going to the disco, or was unwilling to give him the face, but Feilong suddenly lost his temper.

Lin Daoqiu thought for a while and whispered a few words into Feilong's ear.

After hearing Lin Daoqiu's words, the other party's originally elongated face immediately showed surprise and asked: "Is there such a thing?"