"I went to Xiangjiang with my family when I was 14 years old, and the first time I came back was in '79, I remember when I visited the Beijing Film Studio to shoot "Little Flower", I asked the crew how many shots a day to shoot, and they said to shoot four or five.

The crew asked me rhetorically, and I said that we shoot fifty or sixty shots a day, and they were shocked, because at that time, when filming movies in the mainland, whether it was lighting or lens setting, they were still the same old way as before, which was very outdated, and it took a long time to make a movie. ”

Three-seven points back hair, meticulously combed, silver-framed glasses, beige suit, in front of Li Qian, the "Godfather of Xiangjiang Films" Wu Siyuan "Old Koehler" is full of style, and recalls with some nostalgia what he saw and heard when he returned to the mainland.

Li Qian shook his head and was noncommittal, "In the early years, the domestic labor cost was very low, and the film was reluctant to be wasted, so it was very appropriate to spend more time and waste a little less film." ”

How low wages were in China at that time, and most of the studios received fixed wages, so they would rather shoot slower than waste more film.

3:1, and even some directors who were forced out could achieve a 2:1 matching ratio, which was common in that era.

This means that each shot has an average of only two chances at most.

Moreover, film films cannot be seen in real time, and no one knows if they can pass until the sample is developed.

In that case, you can only work slowly and carefully, and the film quota given by the superior is so much, I would rather slow down and spend more time, but I can't waste film.

After all, labor is cheap.

was refuted by Li Qian, Wu Siyuan was not angry, he was still easy-going, he continued, "Yes, Director Li is right, the mainland movies of that era were very serious, and they really regarded movies as a work of art.

When the mainland film industry was still backward, I knew that the future of Hong Kong films must be in the mainland, and if there was no mainland market, the development of Hong Kong films would be very limited.

We lacked filming locations, and at the end of the shooting of martial arts films, we found that the suburbs of Xiangjiang were full of high-rise buildings, and there was no place to shoot, while in the mainland, there was not only a vast film market, but also a variety of beautiful rivers and mountains.

So in 92, when I was filming "New Dragon Gate Inn", I specially came to the mainland to find Xiaoxiang Film Studio and co-shoot it, which was filmed in the desert Dunhuang area.

The conditions there were very bad, and when the wind came, everyone had nowhere to hide, so they had to hold hands and lean against each other face to face to block the sand and dust with their backs. ”

As soon as he talked about it, Li Qian wondered if all older people liked to remember the past, especially in front of young people.

But it's okay to just listen to the story.

Li Qian listened patiently, and Wu Siyuan became more and more emotional.

"Guess what, when a gust of wind passes, my mouth and nose are full of sand, and after a day of shooting, I go back to a humble hotel to take a shower, and I can't wash it clean.

Later, after filming, I returned to Xiangjiang, for a long time, I didn't know where some sand would fall out of my body, although the conditions were difficult, the whole crew felt very excited, this never-before-seen desert landscape opened their eyes, and they didn't expect that there would be such a place in the world. ”

Li Qian nodded, Xiangjiang, of course, can't see this.

After sighing with emotion, Wu Siyuan said with a smile, "In fact, many years ago, there were a group of Xiangjiang filmmakers who yearned for the mainland, and since the 90s, I have been committed to promoting the integration of Xiangjiang films and the mainland.

I explained to him how to divide the accounts and how to let most of the box office revenue go to the filmmaker, and Minister Tian immediately made a decision: "Okay! Let's start the first experiment, starting with your "Once Upon a Time III: The Lion King." ”

As a result, this martial arts film co-produced with Beijing Film Studio has become the first film in the history of Chinese film to share the box office, which will be written in the history of Chinese film!"

Speaking of this, Wu Siyuan's pride is beyond words.

Selling himself and boasting, Li Qian only felt a little like falling asleep.

Then he continued to talk about his achievements over the years, including negotiating with the chief executive to establish a film bureau.

In 88, he began to prepare for the director seminar of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, and under the pressure from all directions, the preparations were finally completed after four years, and most of the top directors and actors from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places attended.

...

Li Qian couldn't help but wonder if he had come by mistake, it had been half an hour, and he had listened to the old man's bragging.

It's basically true, but I can't say it all at once.

I had heard before that Wu Siyuan always liked to express himself, and he couldn't go on a show at every turn, so he said that Cheng Long was discovered by him, and he suggested that Cheng Long open his double eyelids, and then he became popular.

Li Lianjie, Xu Ke, Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi, Zhang Guorong and so on are in his mouth, all of them were discovered by him.

I have said these words countless times, but what I don't know is because Wu Siyuan picked it up.

Moreover, after Zhang Guorong's death, Wu Siyuan often came out again, thinking that he was a teacher, saying that if Zhang Guorong had more contact with the society, he would definitely not jump off the building, he should not lock himself in the room and only see his achievements, so it is easy to be empty, if he can get in touch with the society more, he will see more miserable people and will find the beauty of life.

This incident made Zhang Guorong's fans chase Wu Siyuan and scold him for a long time.

Publicity, love to brag and show off, like to show off, and like to take any good thing to himself.

Li Qian understands, but he is indeed the first Xiangjiang filmmaker to move closer to the mainland, and in his early years, he directly gave up the Xiangjiang film market, stopped making films, and returned to the mainland to open a theater.

Finally, when Li Qian was about to fall asleep, Wu Siyuan finally said his purpose.

"Director Li, in fact, this time, I am here on behalf of the Xiangjiang film industry, and I want to have in-depth cooperation with you, the Xiangjiang film industry should be integrated into the mainland, we have a large number of excellent directors and behind-the-scenes workers. ”

Cooperate?

Or on behalf of the Hong Kong film industry?

Rao is relatively calm Li Qian, and his eyes widened unconsciously.

You represent a hammer, Yinghuang has a big enmity with you, at the beginning, he pulled Cheng Long, Tan Yonglin, Zeng Zhiwei and a group of people to engage in Dongmei Entertainment, and wanted to wrestle with Yinghuang's version, Wu Siyuan and Yang Hunting Cheng are already incompatible.

can't represent Yang Hunting, nor does it represent Lin Jianyue, Xiang Huaqiang, and the Xiangjiang film industry that represents a hammer?

However, if you brag about it, Li Qian also endured it.

"Why did Mr. Wu find me, you should go to Huayang and Berner for this kind of thing. Li Qian pretended to be surprised.

"I have always been very accurate in my vision of people, although Director Li's future film industry has just been established, it will definitely be able to make great achievements in the future!" Wu Siyuan said quite complacently.

Come on, Li Qian had already thought that a few years later, Wu Siyuan said on a certain show that he had long been optimistic about Li Qian and his company.

If it weren't for the fact that Wu Siyuan was really a real Chinese, Li Qian would even think that he was a Nanbang person.

Talking about business, Li Qian didn't talk nonsense, shook his head and said, "However, the vast majority of people in the Xiangjiang film industry don't want to integrate into the mainland, and I heard a while ago that Xiangjiang films are trying to "find their roots", and there is a deliberate tendency to "de-mainlandize". ”

These Xiangjiang filmmakers, although they don't want to see the reality, but the gap between the two markets is too big, and the co-production has given Xiangjiang films vitality, but there are gains and losses, they have gained the market, and they have lost the taste of Hong Kong.

was debunked by Li Qian, Wu Siyuan was not embarrassed, and continued to smile, "It's just that some people are unbalanced, and they will slowly recognize the reality in the future, and they are all a minority, and most filmmakers are still very active in integrating into the mainland market." ”

Saying that, he began to cite examples, "Ah Xing is one, his new movie "Journey to the West", I talked to him, there is not much Hong Kong flavor anymore, Chen Kexin is the same, I chatted with him for a while yesterday, Director Li, you have a great influence on him, listen to his ideas, and plan to make a realistic movie about the mainland, which is also actively integrated into the mainland." ”

"Chen Kexin?" Li Qian smiled.

"What is Director Li laughing at?" Wu Siyuan was a little puzzled.

Li Qian shook his head, "I can't afford to be Director Chen, a "October Siege" spent 40 million to build a port city, Zhang Hanyu's face is worth millions of reluctantly said in the past, Jin Chengwu's straw hat in "Martial Arts" cost 6,000 US dollars, not counting the freight from Mi Lijian to Western Yunnan. ”

40 million to build a location, there is really no one, which big director in China wants to use the location, not in cooperation with the local government, and there is no need to pay any money at all.

With Chen Kexin's luxurious lineup of "October Siege", it is not difficult to cooperate with the government and get some support to build a city, but you have to spend your own money to build it.

Chen Deshen was busy with the film for five or six years, and Chen Kexin brought in an investment to hang up a producer to build a city for him, but what was created was not Xiangjiang Central, but more like Guangzhou in that era.

The pillars, bars and windows have been reshaped, the crowding, clutter and old structures of the Chinese community have been renewed, and a large number of iconic buildings in Central have been lost.

There was another deep meaning in the movie, and the meaning of survival in the gap between the people of Xiangjiang was also gone.

This gap was dealt with by Chen Kexin's sentence "This is a commercial movie", which made Chen Deshen stop playing with Chen Kexin.

The hat of Jin Chengwu in "Martial Arts", worth 6,000 US dollars, was airlifted from Mi Lijian to Tengchong, which is said to be a precious antique and unique in the world.

A straw hat costs $6,000, and God knows what kind of rare antiques the other props are.

The production cost of that film was 20 million US dollars, and I don't know where the money went.

This kind of lavish loser director, Li Qian can't afford it.

After wasting so much time, Li Qian didn't talk to him anymore, so he simply went straight to it.

"Mr. Wu, among the directors of Xiangjiang, most of those who want to integrate into the mainland are just for money, and some of them look a little ugly, which is no secret in the circle.

There are even some people who eat inside and out, forget where they earned the money, make our money, and turn their heads without a good word, but they can't see us well, and they target us everywhere.

If I really want to integrate into the mainland market, of course I welcome and support it, but the premise is to recognize my own positioning, otherwise I will not have the slightest interest in them whether it is a director or an actor. ”

It is rumored that Li Qian has no good impression of the Xiangjiang film industry, and he and his directors all use mainland actors, and almost never use a Xiangjiang actor.

Originally, this time, Wu Siyuan planned to see if Li Qian could give some Xiangjiang directors and actors a little support, after all, none of the movies invested by Li Qian were not big sellers, whether it was for the director or the actors, it was a great help.

"Mr. Wu should go to Huayang and Berner, they are very short of directors, and it is relatively simple for Xiangjiang actors to play their roles. ”

Li Qian smiled, and after speaking, he got up and planned to leave.

These Xiangjiang directors, that kind of thinking has been deeply rooted, and it is estimated that the next generation will understand the current situation.

Director Li waited. Wu Siyuan called out to Li Qian, "All UME cinemas can join the future cinema chain." ”