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Chapter 344 Officially Instructing "The Grandmaster"

After acquiring Jimmy Butler, the perfect starting lineup for the Warriors in Li Du's mind is finally complete.Li Du, Yao Ming, Curry, Klay Thompson, plus Jimmy Butler, five people are enough to sweep any team in the NBA, including the Heat after the long-term shooting is stable!
Moreover, the NBA is destined to be suspended for a long time this season. For the Warriors, who are young and have experienced a large number of players changing teams, it just gives them enough training and running-in time.Even though Clay and Jimmy are still rookies, under the training of Li Du and Nelson, they can quickly adapt to the NBA and begin to show their talents.

Originally, Li Du wanted to go to China to see how the filming of "The Grandmaster" directed by Wong Kar-wai was going. Speaking of which, the filming time of this film was really long, from preparation to shooting, and then to various aspects. Such a modification, it has been almost 10 years!When Li Dugang made his debut in the NBA, he heard from Zhang Ziyi that he planned to visit the team last season, but because of Yao Ming's foot injury showing signs of recurrence, he never had a good communication with the film crew.

As a result, when Li Du called Director Wong Kar Wai, he heard from the great director that the filming was in trouble again, and he was planning to temporarily disband the crew and start filming again next year.And he also asked Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Jin to rush to the United States in a few days and continue to learn Xingyiquan and Baguazhang from Li Du.

After Li Du heard this, he frowned and said, "Director Wang, I heard from Sister Ziyi that you have been planning to make this movie for almost 10 years. I don’t understand, but if you need advice on martial arts, maybe we can discuss it. In this way, if it’s convenient, you can come to San Francisco with Sister Ziyi and the others with the script.”

Wang Jiawei originally hoped to get Li Du's suggestion, but Li Du has been busy with the game, and they were the defending champions last season, and they met the Heat with a strong lineup. Wang Jiawei didn't have the nerve to disturb Li Du. Of course, he couldn't wish for it, so he agreed immediately.

About a week later, Wang Jiawei brought several film crew members to San Francisco to look for Li Du. He seemed to have always had a good impression of Mingyue Martial Arts, so he came directly to the martial arts hall to meet Li Du.

After the two parties were seated, Preti brought a group of disciples recruited from the martial arts hall to make tea for everyone. Li Du took the script from Wang Jiawei and read it carefully.

"The Great Master" takes Ye Wen, a master of Wing Chun during the Republic of China, as the protagonist. Through his experience of having to travel around due to the war, he tries his best to restore the martial arts at that time, involving many famous martial arts masters at that time.For example, Gong Baosen, the head of the Xingyi Bagua School in the movie, is based on Gong Baotian, the master of the Baguazhang of the Gong School, and his elder brother Li Cunyi didn't even change his name.

And if Li Du's guess is correct, the prototype of the Bajiquan master Yixiantian in the movie is Liu Yunqiao, the closed disciple of the Bajiquan master Li Shuwen.The two fictional characters, Gong Er and Ma San, respectively practice Baguazhang and Xingyiquan. The demonstration of these two boxing techniques in the film depends on these two.

After carefully reading the script, Li Du asked, "Director Wang, what problem do you encounter now?"

Wang Jiawei sighed and said: "Mr. Li, after reading the script, I believe you can understand my thoughts. I hope to restore the martial arts at that time to the greatest extent, and hope to show the best martial arts movements. But for Xingyiquan and Baguazhang , how should the two boxing techniques be filmed so that the audience can distinguish them, and the fight looks good, so that the audience can feel the lethality of the two boxing techniques?"

Li Du frowned in puzzlement, and asked, "Sister Ziyi and Brother Zhang Jin practiced very well, you just need to design the corresponding movements, don't you?"

"Alas!" Wang Jiawei stomped his feet, "This is the difficulty!"

It turned out that Wong Kar-wai hoped to shoot in the most authentic way while retaining the real boxing movements, which made the action design very difficult.You know, no matter what kind of boxing technique it is, it won't look very good in real combat.At the moment when either you die or I die, as long as the purpose of killing can be achieved, who cares whether the movements look good or not!

Moreover, in real combat, many unsightly moves are the most lethal.Wong Kar-wai and the others have considered for a long time, but they have not designed a set of satisfactory movements.Wing Chun and Bajiquan are relatively easy to handle. The movements of Wingchun are taught by Master Ip Man’s disciples, and Bajiquan is also taught by the current direct disciple of Bajimen in Mengcun, Hebei. Only Xingyiquan and Baguazhang are not good. manage.

When Wang Jiawei and others carefully studied these two styles of boxing, they discovered that it is precisely because these two styles of boxing have produced many masters that there are many schools. Just like Taijiquan, each school is related to each other. Not the same again.This made it difficult for them to choose, dragged on for a long time, and finally had to temporarily disband the crew.

When Wang Jiawei was talking, Li Du was thinking seriously all the time. After getting a general understanding of the situation, Li Du said to Zhang Jin: "Brother Zhang Jin, please, give me a complete Xingyiquan."

Zhang Jinjin had already gotten used to Li Du's orders when he studied boxing with Li Du in the past year. Now when he heard Li Du's words, he immediately stood up and began to practice Xingyiquan seriously, starting from Wuxingquan to Zingyiquan. Complete and serious.

During Zhang Jin's boxing, Li Du pointed to Zhang Jin and said to Wang Jiawei: "Wang Dao, look. In fact, Xingyiquan is the most lethal and the most beautiful, and it is Wuxingquan. Every punch is full of momentum. Moreover, the difference between the Xingyiquan genres is mainly in the twelve forms and combined strikes, and there is not much difference in Wuxingquan, so I suggest that you let Zhang Jin mainly show Wuxingquan in the movie."

While Li Du was talking, Wang Jiawei asked someone to write down what he said, and then Li Du asked Zhang Ziyi to play Baguazhang, and also followed her movements to suggest: "All schools of Baguazhang are exerting their strength. There is a big difference in terms of aspect, but the basic movements are similar, and the biggest feature of Baguazhang is that the palm moves with the movement, and rushes to attack the enemy's side. I think, if a beautiful woman like Ziyi makes a circle The movement of Zhuan Ruyi will attract many spectators, and the attack power of Baguazhang is mainly to hit the enemy's weak point, not how powerful it is, you can start from this aspect."

After Li Du's two suggestions, he asked Zhang Ziyi to practice Baguazhang and Xingyiquan against her, and then asked Zhang Jin to use Xingyiquan to practice Baguazhang against him.Wang Jiawei recorded the whole process, for fear of missing any details, and he has decided to put these two sparring moves of Li Du in the movie!

(End of this chapter)