Li Hanxiang is a native of Beiping, went to Xiangjiang before liberation, and gradually grew into a famous director in Xiangjiang. In 1978, Li Hanxiang became seriously ill and had to go to the United States for heart surgery. The operation was very risky, but life and death were uncertain. He felt that as a descendant of Yan and Huang, he had been away from his hometown for 30 years, and if he didn't go back to his hometown to see, he would die blindly. Under the ingenious arrangement of his friends, Li Hanxiang returned to China, visited many cities, and met with many colleagues in the film industry. When talking to Liao Chengzhi, Liao Chengzhi invited him to return to the mainland to make a movie. Li Hanxiang is good at making costume films, and it is difficult to shoot in real time in Xiangjiang and Taiwan, but in the mainland, he can shoot in real scenes, which is very attractive to him.

At first, Li Hanxiang was ready to shoot Lao She's "Teahouse", but after communicating with the filmmakers, he found that the filmmakers were not optimistic about "Teahouse", thinking that the local colors were too strong and it was difficult to attract the interest of Chinese and foreign audiences. After giving up "Teahouse", he was ready to put Pu Yi's "The First Half of My Life" on the screen, but because of historical problems, it was rejected by the higher authorities. In the end, he thought of filming "Listening to Politics with a Curtain".

After Li Hanxiang's idea of filming "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" was recognized by the state, the Ministry of Culture arranged for Changying to cooperate with Li Hanxiang. In November 1979, Li Hanxiang signed a formal contract with Changying and a co-production company in Beiping. However, after conducting cost accounting, Changying found that to make this movie, the cost would need to be millions. Changying itself has a filming task, and the funds are limited, so he can't spare a lot of money to shoot this historical blockbuster. Later, Li Hanxiang contacted Nortel Youth Film Studio and some other film studios, but they were all stranded due to the need to invest huge amounts of money.

In November last year, Li Hanxiang was invited to Beijing to participate in the 30th anniversary of Rong Bao Zhai. After going to Beijing this time, he met Wang Lanxi and expressed his wish to Wang Lanxi to shoot "Listening to Politics with a Curtain". The export company invested in "Falcon", as well as several other films, and also built the export company's own studio, and there was no extra money at all. Wang Lanxi said to Li Hanxiang that "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" is a good project and is very educational, but the export company can't come up with so much money now, and when it comes to next year or the year after, the funds in hand will be abundant, and then it will cooperate.

Now that "Falcon" has been released for two weeks, the box office has reached 9.41 million. According to this trend, the final box office should be able to exceed 100 million yuan, and the export company can divide 17.5 million. In addition, Dongying's copyright is 4 million US dollars, and 3.73 million in Europe and the United States, which is another income of several million. Coupled with the income from the screening of "Falcon" in Xiangjiang, the copyright in Southeast Asia, and the copyright of socialist countries, the income of companies going abroad will definitely exceed 30 million. Now that the export company has enough funds in hand, the project can be officially launched.

After meeting Wang Lanxi, Xu Wangqiu realized that including Li Hanxiang in his plan could give a huge boost to the development of his plan. Li Hanxiang is well-known in Xiangjiang, Taiwan, and even the whole of Southeast Asia. Inviting Li Hanxiang back to the mainland to make films will inevitably arouse the great attention of filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. With Li Hanxiang taking the lead, Xu Wangqiu only needs to throw out the bait of co-producing with export companies to enjoy the share of the mainland market, and filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan will inevitably rush to cooperate with exports.

If Xu Wangqiu's plan can be successfully realized, the Taiwan film market will be opened to Hollywood in advance, and the Xiangjiang film will collapse in advance, while the mainland film will step on the bones of the Xiangjiang and Taiwan movies and rise strongly.

There are many reasons why Hong Kong Films was able to rise strongly in the 80s. One of the reasons is that after the decline of Dongying films, a large number of Dongying filmmakers went to Xiangjiang to eat. Li Hanxiang's film "Yang Guifei" won the Best Cinematography Award at Cannes, and the photographer is Dongying's Nishimotomasa. The participation of these Dongying filmmakers has brought more advanced technology and production concepts to Xiangjiang Films, and has also cultivated countless Xiangjiang filmmakers, laying the foundation for the rise of Xiangjiang Films.

In the 90s, after the collapse of Xiangjiang films, a large number of Xiangjiang filmmakers went north to seek development. After entering the mainland market, these Hong Kong filmmakers brought with them the technical and managerial experience required by the mainland market, and also enriched the genre of films in the mainland market. With the help of Hong Kong's mature experience in "star-making", mainland filmmakers have created their own box office stars and activated the local market.

What Xu Wangqiu wants to do is to advance this process, so that Xiangjiang films collapsed in the late 80s and early 90s, forcing Xiangjiang filmmakers to go north in advance, forcing them to integrate into the mainland market, so as to accelerate the industrialization process of mainland films.

Three days later, Xu Wangqiu and the crew of "Falcon" flew to Xiangjiang to promote the release of the movie. However, after arriving in Xiangjiang, Xu Wangqiu did not rush to start the propaganda work, but asked Xu Dunle to help him contact Li Hanxiang.

Xu Dunle knew Li Hanxiang and knew that Li Hanxiang wanted to go back to the mainland to shoot "Listening to Politics", but he had not been able to make the trip due to financial problems. After hearing Xu Wangqiu's request, he contacted Li Hanxiang as soon as possible.

On the afternoon of the next day, Xu Wangqiu, under the leadership of Xu Dunle, came to the Mountain View Building and rang the doorbell of Li Hanxiang's house.

The doorbell rang only twice, and the door opened, and a middle-aged man with a Chinese character face wearing glasses appeared at the door. It's none other than the famous director Li Hanxiang in Hong Kong. When he saw Xu Dunle, he said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, you are here." I've been waiting for a long time. Come in!

When he walked into the living room, Xu Wangqiu's eyes swept in the room, the TV wall was decorated with cement gray tones, combined with the Chinese TV cabinet, the decorative vase on the side, and a small square table; Obviously, Li Hanxiang is a very particular and tasteful person.

Li Hanxiang beckoned Xu Wangqiu and them to sit down, and asked the maid to make tea for them. He looked at Xu Dunle and said with a little puzzlement: "Didn't you say that the director of the art center of the export company wanted to meet with me, why didn't you see anyone?"

When Xu Dunle heard this, he laughed and said, "Li Sheng, you really don't know gold and jade. Let me introduce you to Xu Wangqiu, the director of the art center of our film export company. ”

Li Hanxiang shook his head with a smile when he heard this: "Don't joke with me." Do you think I'm the kind of person who doesn't listen to anything outside the window and is all focused on the movie? Mr. Xu Wangqiu is not the director of the art center, but a film director, and his new film was screened in Cannes a few days ago!"

Xu Dunle said with a smile: "It's true that Wangqiu is a director, but he is also the director of the art center. Because export companies mainly make commercial films, and bear the heavy responsibility of exporting to foreign countries. You know more or less about the situation of mainland films, there are very few people who understand commercial films and overseas markets, and Wangqiu is an expert in this area. "Hoe Rape" sold very well overseas, and "Falcon" was even more sought after by film companies. Therefore, the company appointed him as the director of the art center, who was responsible for the review and management of the project. ”

Li Hanxiang saw that Xu Dunle was not joking, and looked at Xu Wangqiu and said apologetically: "I really don't know how much gold and jade I have eyes, I was offended just now, and I ask Director Xu not to be surprised." ”

Xu Wangqiu waved his hand and said, "No, no." I'm here to promote Falcon. However, before leaving, Minister Wang specially explained that I would come to you and settle the matter of "Listening to Politics with the Curtain". Minister Wang asked me to tell you that when you talked to him about "Listening to Politics with the Curtain", the company had difficulty in capital turnover and could not invest in the auction; now that the company has enough funds in hand, "Listening to the Politics of the Curtain" can be officially launched. ”

Li Hanxiang has been working on this project for more than two years and has always looked forward to this day. Now that he heard that "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" could finally be launched, the excitement in his heart was like a flood that had surged out, and he said excitedly: "I have been looking forward to this day for a long time! Minister Wang is really a believer, and he told me last year that when he has enough funds, he will cooperate with me." I didn't expect to fulfill my promise so quickly. ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "Now that the country is carrying out reform and opening up, the country hopes to welcome overseas travelers to come back to make movies with an open attitude, and at the same time, we also hope that our films can enter the world market and show our splendid culture to the world." In addition to this, our export company also has a purpose, which is to earn foreign exchange. There are not many directors in mainland China who can make good commercial films, and it is even more difficult to enter the overseas market, and Hong Kong directors are more experienced in this area, so we hope to strengthen our cooperation with Hong Kong directors. This time, we are ready to convey this intention to the Hong Kong film industry and promote the cooperation between filmmakers from the two places. ”

Li Hanxiang shook his head slightly and said: "Except for Changfeng Xinzuo School director, and directors like me who are determined to return to the mainland to make movies, I am afraid that it will be difficult for other directors to cooperate with you, because cooperating with you means being banned by Taiwan Bend." ”

Xu Wangqiu said confidently: "In the past, Taiwan was able to ban filmmakers who were close to us at every turn, relying on the market of 20 million people in Taiwan; we have a larger population and a larger market, but in the past, the market was not open to the outside world, and Xiangjiang films could not enter, and most of the Xiangjiang filmmakers fell to Taiwan." Now the situation is different, and the films we work with can enter the mainland, which is a big market with a population of one billion. The benefits obtained from cooperating with us will be several times or even dozens of times that of cooperating with Taiwan. In the future, it will no longer be Taiwan who will block us, but we will block them!"

Li Hanxiang has talked to Changying and some other film studios about cooperation, and these film studios are unwilling to spend huge sums of money on the filming of "Listening to Politics with the Curtain", the most important reason is that the mainland implements unified purchase and sales. If 400 million is filmed "Listening to Politics", the final income is only a few hundred thousand, which means that it will lose more than 3 million, and the film studio is naturally reluctant to invest.

Now hearing Xu Wangqiu say that the benefits obtained from cooperating with export companies will be several times or even dozens of times that of cooperating with Taiwan, Li Hanxiang's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Is the mainland ready to carry out the account-sharing system?"

Xu Wangqiu chuckled: "Other film studios don't have them, but the export company is special, and we share accounts with the China Film Company responsible for distribution." They take 65 and we take 35. My film "Falcon" was jointly invested by an export company and Xiuying Studio, and the two families were one and a half. Now that the movie has been released for two weeks, the box office is 9.41 million, and the final box office should be able to exceed 100 million. Xiuying Studio should be able to share 17.5 million, which is 35 million when converted into Hong Kong dollars. ”

Li Hanxiang was taken aback by the number reported by Xu Wangqiu, thinking that 35 million, he couldn't make so much money selling 10 movies to Taiwan, so he said: "If this is the case, then after the Xiangjiang Film Company knows the news, I am afraid that it will sharpen its head and try its best to cooperate with the export company." ”

Xu Wangqiu looked at Li Hanxiang and said, "In two days, we will announce this policy to the media." We plan to announce at the same time, the news that you will return to the mainland to shoot "Listening to Politics", I don't know if it is okay?"

Li Hanxiang felt that this was nothing, the export company "Listening to the Politics of the Curtain" had already decided to invest, and the Taiwan side would know sooner or later that there was no difference at all if it was earlier or later, so he said: "Of course you can." ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a bright smile: "I believe that after the announcement of these two news, the entire Xiangjiang will be a sensation." ”