Inspired by Xia Tian, ​​Zhou Liangshuyi and Zhang Aijia suddenly became enlightened and soon came up with a good idea.

They decided to film the prequel of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", first filming "The Southern Emperor and the Northern Beggar", then filming "The Central Power King Chongyang", and finally filming "The Nine Yin Jing". The first Huashan Sword Contest was centered on the story of the Five Legends of the Condor Heroes when they were young.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is one of Jin Yong's most influential works. Guo Jing, Huang Rong, the Southern Emperor, the Northern Beggar, the Eastern Evil and the West Poison, the Old Naughty Boy, etc., are all well-known figures, and are well-known in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even in South China.

They decided to film the prequel of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" first, and they also wanted to use its famous name to test the waters. If the response is good, they will adapt Feng Qingyang, Dugu Qiubai, Tianshan Tonglao and others one by one.

Xia Tian didn't ask too much about their approach.

If you don’t doubt the employer, don’t use it. Since the company is handed over to them to manage, you should let go. Otherwise, too much participation in management will not only not help the company’s operations, but will instead cause the company to split.

Second, he now spends most of his energy on filming the movie, and he really doesn’t have so much idleness and worries about so many things, so he simply leaves it to them to take care of it.

After Zhou Liangshuyi and Zhang Aijia established the project, they arranged for the creation department to write the script.

Because the experience of the Southern Emperor and the Northern Beggar when they were young was described in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", but the description was not detailed, which just gave the screenwriters room to create, so they quickly wrote the script. After passing Jin Yong's assessment and modification, the drama began to be officially produced.

The series co-produced by Hong Kong and Taiwan is actually no longer news in the year of Hachino.

Before, many Hong Kong stars have gone to Taiwan to film, such as Zheng Shaoqiu went to Taiwan to film "The New Legend of Chu Liuxiang", and thus met his second wife, Guan Jinghua; Chen Yulian also filmed "The Legend of Heroes of the Desert" in Taiwan last year, but she no longer played Xiaolongnu, but changed to Huang Rong; earlier ones were Pan Yingzi, Meng Fei, Gu Guanzhong, etc. They were all Shaw Brothers stars before, and then went to Taiwan to develop.

The reason why so many Hong Kong celebrities go to Taiwan to develop is because the Taiwanese filmmakers have high pay. For example, when Zhao Yazhi was filming "The Legend of the New White Snake", her pay was 40,000 Hong Kong dollars per episode. She could easily earn a million Hong Kong dollars by filming a TV series. In comparison, when Hong Kong actresses made movies, Mei Yeon-fang, who had the highest pay, was only 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars.

Second, there are also considerations to break the bottleneck and seek breakthroughs. For example, in the 1990s, Huang Rihua stayed at TVB and ATV for a while, and his development had fallen into a bottleneck and could not improve any further, so he set out to Taiwan to develop, hoping to make a breakthrough in his career.

And because of so many precedents, the joint shooting progressed very smoothly. After discussion and deciding on the crew members, the two sides then started filming in full swing.

The shooting location was in Taiwan. First, Taiwan has more scenic spots than Hong Kong, so it is convenient for scenes. Second, Taiwan's economy is not as developed as Hong Kong, so it costs less to film.

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Just when the filming of "The Southern Emperor and the North Beggar" started, two beauties, He Qing and Zhang Li, also began to learn Cantonese from their language teachers, learn four hours of pronunciation skills every morning, and in the afternoon, they went to the crew of Asian TV to visit to adapt to the filming mode, performance skills and work rhythm of Hong Kong film and television people.

After some investigation, they found that Hong Kong TV people were different from their mainland. Filming in Hong Kong is a matter of time, and they had to shoot more than a dozen scenes a day, which was very efficient.

In order to ensure efficiency, the actors have more routines in their performances. For example, crying, laughing, acting cruelly, and acting cool are all fixed modes. Once the filming is started, just follow this routine of roadshow. In addition, Hong Kong filming often uses interior scenes, so as to avoid external interference as much as possible.

In comparison, when filming in mainland China, it does not blindly pursue efficiency, but instead takes art as the first consideration, so it is not uncommon for a movie to be filmed for one or two years.

Moreover, most of the mainland adopt external scenes. For example, "Journey to the West", "Dream of Red Mansions", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", etc., all of which have obtained scenery from truly famous mountains and rivers and classical gardens. For this reason, they do not hesitate to travel through mountains and rivers and travel around China.

In mainland filming, actors are also required to enter the role and combine it with the role. For example, before the filming of "Dream of Red Mansions", the actors are gathered to attend classes and learned classical literature for two years, including piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. They must cultivate their sentiments so that their image and temperament are in line with the people in the play.

When Zhang Yimou starred in "Old Well", he also went to the mountain village for three months to experience life. He farmed with the villagers and worked together, with the wind, rain and sun. By the time the filming was officially filmed, he had already polished himself into a real farmer.

Therefore, they have enough time to experience and integrate into the role in filming in the mainland. In order to help them integrate into the role, the crew will also ask teachers to teach and teach carefully. However, Hong Kong TV does not have these. They must choose to act and be able to act well after acting, and there is no sufficient time to prepare.

"I didn't expect that what we were like when filming in Hong Kong was like, and the one we learned was not applicable here at all." He Qing shook his head with emotion.

She has starred in "Shaolin Lesbian Disciples", "Journey to the West", "Dream of the Red Chamber" (movie version), etc. She has learned a lot of acting skills from the teachers. Although she feels that she is not very outstanding, she is still considered to be an entry. But when she came to Hong Kong, she found that the skills she learned in the mainland may not be useful.

The performance style in the mainland is incompatible with that of Hong Kong. She must abandon what she had learned before and start over, otherwise she will be struggling. This makes her very frightened.

Zhang Li was also very worried. Because she spent three years on the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions", the acting skills she learned were similar to those of He Qing, and she would first get into the role and then start performing.

Her current acting skills are not enough to quickly enter the role. To be honest, she has been planning to play Xue Baochai for more than two years, but before each filming, she still has to spend a few minutes to integrate into the role. So she is also not used to the fast filming rhythm of Hong Kong and feels very scared.

She could even imagine that the company asked her to act, but after she entered the scene, she could not get into the role, and the embarrassing scenes were inconsistent. At that time, everyone in the audience might laugh at her incompetent and say that no actors from the mainland would not act. In that case, it would be really embarrassing.

"Yes, I didn't expect that Hong Kong and the mainland are so different." Zhang Li also sighed, "What should we do? You can't just sit there and wait for death."

They only received a work visa for one year. If they could not achieve any results, they would be sent back to the mainland.

"Learn hard first. Others can do it, we should be able to do it too. In the end, if it really doesn't work, I'm sent back to the mainland, so I have to admit it." He Qing thought for a while and said.

When Zhang Li heard this, she nodded.
Chapter completed!