The first co-production kung fu film between the two places has caused huge repercussions at home and abroad, and it has caused a sensation in Southeast Asia and even the world for a while, and the box office in the mainland does not need to be mentioned, it is almost a miracle, and the box office of Xiangjiang is also very impressive, winning more than 16 million, ranking fourth in the box office list of Xiangjiang that year, and even in Japan and South Korea have set box office records of 4 billion yen and 5.1 billion won respectively.

This is just the real cooperation between the two places, and before that, the exchanges between the film and television industries of the two places have been very frequent.

Although the cooperation and exchanges between the two places have since caused a sharp decline in the sense of mainland practitioners to their counterparts in Hong Kong because of some people, it is undeniable that at the beginning of the reform and opening up, the film industry in Hong Kong played a very important role in the opening up of mainland culture.

The unique social background of Xiangjiang has created a unique social system that is compatible with Eastern and Western cultures, and the film has a long history of development, high output, and many genres, and its influence has spread all over the world, becoming a legendary story in the history of film.

In the early days of reform and opening up, it coincided with the golden age of the development of Hong Kong films. Since the 70s of the last century, Hong Kong films have been highly commercialized and have begun to be screened in mainland cinemas.

For example, horror films, historical films, comedy films, fashion films and other films have allowed mainland audiences to experience the diversity of Hong Kong films for the first time, and Hong Kong films have also demonstrated a new form of literature and art.

While Hong Kong films continue to pour into the mainland, co-productions between the two places are gradually becoming a climate.

Of course, in the earliest days, it was not called a co-production, but an assistant or co-production.

In the 80s, Heung Kong Film Company began to cooperate with the mainland, using its own capital and technological advantages, coupled with the mainland's abundant location resources and relatively cheap mainland film talents, to achieve complementary advantages.

In the context of reform and opening up, from to, from, to Xiangjiang TV dramas, etc., which are popular in the mainland, themes such as rivers and lakes, kung fu and kung fu are deeply loved by mainland audiences, and kung fu films and martial arts films have always been important genres of Chinese commercial film culture in the next few decades.

In the early days, Hong Kong filmmakers brought outstanding talents, new aesthetic concepts and production concepts to the mainland, and with the rapid development of the mainland economy, mainland films gradually gained a firm foothold, and the role of Hong Kong films in mainland films gradually changed from one-way inspiration to mutual integration.

In the 90s, the cooperation between Hong Kong Film and the Mainland became increasingly close, and more and more films were co-produced by the two places, and the works shot with talent and funds from the two places gradually took shape, among which the most representative film was not only a box office hit, but also won the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Since 1992, the number of co-productions cooperated with various studios in the mainland has gradually increased, such as Zhang Yimou's and Jiang Wen's, which have achieved a bumper harvest in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, and co-productions have become the mainstream of blockbuster films.

After the return of Hong Kong to the motherland in 1997, the two places have become more closely connected in artistic creation and the market, especially after the signing of the agreement in 2003, which gave Hong Kong Films the reassurance of entering the mainland market, and a large number of Hong Kong filmmakers have since actively explored the development path in the mainland.

Opening up the mainland market to Hong Kong Films, introducing a competition mechanism to the film market, and introducing more good films to the audience is a win-win situation. With the acceleration of the reform and opening up process and the reform of China's film industrialization, Xiangjiang filmmakers have gone north one after another to become participants in the rise of Chinese films.

Cooperation is a win-win situation, Yi Qing naturally wants to actively promote it, now the cooperation in the film has gradually become frequent, but the TV industry is lagging behind, until now, in addition to direct introduction, there is no precedent for cooperation, he doesn't mind being the first person to eat crabs.

It's just that Yi Qing's idea has matured, but Li Hong is difficult to accept for a while, not that she doesn't want outsiders to get involved, but because of low self-esteem.

That's right, it's inferiority!

In Li Hong's view, the production level of TV dramas in the mainland is still relatively backward compared with Xiangjiang, for example, Beijing and Taiwan have also introduced this drama, and the wonderful martial arts scenes, she asked herself if the mainland can't shoot it, don't look at her literary background, and she also knows little about the technical problems of TV drama shooting, but she can also see that in some technical aspects, the mainland is obviously inferior to Xiangjiang.

Can people be willing to cooperate?

Li Hong expressed his skepticism: "Xiao Yi! Are you a little whimsical? What conditions do people have, what conditions do we have, and people are willing to cooperate with us?"

Before I skimmed the eight characters, I doubted myself first!

Yi Qing was also very helpless about this: "Director, cooperating with Xiangjiang, what we want is people's advanced shooting techniques and technical conditions, don't be busy talking about it first, in fact, we also have advantages." ”

Have an edge?

"What advantages?"

"Think about it, Xiangjiang is only a little bigger, when they want to shoot the location, they can have the convenience of our mainland, not to mention anything else, just the mountains and water in our mainland, Xiangjiang is not available, in addition, our labor here is cheap!"

When Li Hong heard this, she also remembered that she had heard someone say before that when she was filming, the staff in the mainland only received a subsidy of more than a dozen yuan per month, but the staff from Xiangjiang, even if it was just a bottom one, had a few hundred yuan a month, and even thousands of them, which was dozens or hundreds of times that of the workers in the mainland.

Hearing Yi Qing say this, Li Hong was also a little moved, but he cooperated with Xiangjiang in the field of TV drama production, and it seems that there has been no policy in this regard, can it be done?

"Xiao Yi, what you said is good, but can the above agree?"

"Why don't you agree?" Yi Qing asked rhetorically, "This is a good thing, it can let the people on the other side of Xiangjiang understand the mainland, hasn't the country been advocating that the two places should strengthen cultural exchanges, let's also respond to the call of the country, I'm afraid it's too late to support it, and we can still oppose it?"

Why not, it doesn't make sense!

Li Hong was completely moved, if this thing was done, even if it was not a great achievement, it could be regarded as a precedent in a certain field.

"Do you really think this can be done? We don't have any contact with that side!" Li Hong said, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Xiao Yi! You were able to invite a big star from Xiangjiang last time, did you already have contact with that side!?"

With Li Hong's understanding of Yi Qing, this kid has never done anything that he is not sure of, since he said it, he must be targeted, maybe the last time he went to Xiangjiang, he had already talked about it with that side.

Obviously, Li Hong is thinking too much, but it's not too bad, although Yi Qing didn't mention cooperation when he met with Qiu Degen, but thinking about it, this kind of cooperation, Qiu Degen is also very happy to see, after all, Xiangjiang has been determined to return to the motherland, like him, a local snake in Xiangjiang, if he doesn't take advantage of the current time to strengthen ties with the mainland, what are you waiting for.

Not to mention that Yi Qing is still a shareholder of ATV, if he wants to operate this matter, Qiu Degen will definitely not object.

However, since Li Hong thinks so, Yi Qing did not deny it: "It is true that I mentioned this matter, and I am also very much looking forward to cooperation over there, but I don't know the situation on our side, people don't dare, and it's not convenient to take the initiative!"

Ten years of turmoil have made Xiangjiang have a deep misunderstanding of the mainland, which is why after the signing of the joint declaration between China and the UK, the main reason why so many Xiangjiang people are in a hurry to emigrate, they are also afraid!

Li Hong can probably guess what people are worried about: "Okay! Xiao Yi, I'll talk to Taili about this matter later, but you're sure it can be done!"

Yi Qing didn't speak, just nodded very affirmatively.

"That's okay, let's do it, you write me a plan first, I'll take it to the station to find Director Wang, as long as he also nods, this matter will be settled!"

It is said that the production center is now an independent unit, and what they want to do does does not need the consent of the station at all, but in this matter, Li Hong feels that it is better to be cautious, with the endorsement of Director Wang, even if there is a problem in the future, there will be a big one on top.

Yi Qing understood what the old lady was thinking, so he didn't say anything, he wasn't worried that Director Wang would object, after a few contacts, he also saw that Director Wang was a person who liked new things, and he was energetic in doing things, otherwise, why had no one mentioned that Beijing and Taiwan would also hold the Spring Festival Gala before, as soon as Director Wang took office, he made such a big move.

What he is worried about is that once this matter passes through the stage, when the time comes, the station will definitely get involved, and there will be more mother-in-law on the head, and there will be more interference.

But there are pros and cons to doing everything, at least in this matter, with the participation of Beijing and Taiwan, the advantages still outweigh the disadvantages.

"By the way, do you have an idea for what to shoot now?"

Yi Qing directly took out this book, which he bought when he was in Xiangjiang, in fact, not only this one, Jin Yong, Gu Long's, as long as it can be bought, Yi Qing bought a copy.

When he thought of cooperating with ATV, the first thing that came to mind was the villain martial arts.

In these years, there are too few entertainment items, and it is usually a pastime to watch it.

"Just shoot this, a martial arts-themed TV series!"