For Liu Lin and his family, participating in the production of "Falcon" is a process of learning from Xu Wangqiu. Even if there is no benefit, they will do their best to think of it, not to mention that there are electronic watches to take it now. They slapped their chests with a crackle: "Wangqiu, we all listen to you!", "Where you point, we hit!"

Xia Gang stared at the electronic watch on his wrist and said with a smile: "Wangqiu, what is it like over there in Xiangjiang?"

Xu Wangqiu thought for a while and said: "It's similar to the scenes seen in foreign movies such as "Fang Thomas", which is more prosperous than in China, there are more cars on the street, and people are beautifully dressed, but there are even more messy things. You'll know when you have a chance to see it later, there's nothing to say. This time I went to Xiangjiang, and I came into contact with some data of the Xiangjiang Film Market. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Wangqiu took out a few pieces of paper from his bag and put them in front of everyone: "This is the top ten box office movies in the Xiangjiang Film Market in the past five years, taking last year as an example, the first place "Deed of Sale" is a comedy, the second place "Drunken Fist" is a kung fu film, the third place "Grease" is an American song and dance film, the fourth place is "Wild Goose Expendables" is an American gunfight film, similar to "Hoe Rape" and "Falcon"; the fifth place "Contact of the Third Kind" is an American science fiction film ......"

Xu Wangqiu gave a brief introduction to these movie types, stared at everyone, and said: "This is the top ten movies at the box office in Xiangjiang in the past five years, I don't know if you have found it, among these fifty movies, there are various types of movies, but the local film genre in Xiangjiang is very single, mainly kung fu films, comedies, and Fengyue films." ”

Everyone present nodded slightly, and they also found this problem: "That's true, among these fifty movies, there are movies of various genres, but Xiangjiang movies only have kung fu movies, comedy films, and Fengyue films." ”

Zhang Yimou asked, "Why is this happening?"

Xu Wangqiu smiled: "Because the Xiangjiang market is too small to support large-scale productions, Xiangjiang has no conditions to expand the film genre. For example, the anti-Japanese movies "The Legend of Jianqiao Heroes" and "Eight Hundred Heroes" in Taiwan are very good at the box office, but can Xiangjiang shoot them? Not to mention costume war films, there are no such conditions at all. I was thinking that if we made films that could not be made in Hong Kong, such as costume blockbusters, such as large-scale war films, then our films would be able to succeed in overseas Chinese societies such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The same cultural background, coupled with excellent production, is enough to guarantee the success of our film. ”

Xu Wangqiu has always felt strange, the Taiwan market is obviously larger than Xiangjiang, why did it not establish a film industry, but instead became a dumping ground for Xiangjiang films? On this trip to Xiangjiang, he finally figured out this problem.

The 60s was the golden age of Taiwan films, and the prosperity of the Taiwan market even attracted Hong Kong filmmakers to develop in Taiwan, Li Hanxiang founded Guolian Film Company, and Hu Jinquan joined the Federal Film Company. In 1967, Hu Jinquan's "Dragon Gate Inn" caused a sensation in Hong Kong and Taiwan, setting off a frenzy of movie-watching. Seeing that a trend of martial arts films is about to rise, but at this time, Taiwan restricts martial arts films. In 1973, Chiang Ching-kuo personally came forward to attack the pornographic violence in the film as having an adverse effect. In October of the same year, the film industry launched a campaign to purify morality, and commercial films, including martial arts films, were comprehensively suppressed.

However, even so, Xiangjiang films did not really capture the Taiwan market, and local films in Taiwan still occupy a dominant position. It's just that due to the lack of entertainment in Taiwan movies, they are slowly losing their dominance, while Xiangjiang movies are gradually becoming stronger. According to this trend, in two or three years, Xiangjiang Films will completely conquer the Taiwan market.

To a certain extent, it is precisely because of the domination of the Taiwan market that Xiangjiang Films has enough funds to produce more sophisticated films, and it has the glory of Xiangjiang Films in the past 80 years. In 1993, a conflict broke out between Taiwan Film Company and Heung Kong Film Company, and Taiwan began to vigorously introduce Hollywood films. Xiangjiang Films, which was the opponent of Hollywood films that completed industrial upgrading, was quickly driven out of the bend market. Without the stable source of income of Taiwan, Xiangjiang Films declined rapidly.

After understanding this, Xu Wangqiu began to think about a question, Xiangjiang films can dominate Southeast Asia in the 80s by relying on the Taiwan market, and the mainland market is much larger than Taiwan, and can even support "Star Wars"-level movies, so can mainland films replace Xiangjiang movies?

In 1978, the total box office of mainland films was 9 yuan, which was more than 3 billion yuan when converted into Hong Kong dollars, dozens of times that of Hong Kong. Movies that perform well in the mainland market have a box office of tens of millions of yuan, and the cost of "Star Wars" is 11 million US dollars, which is 18.7 million yuan when converted into RMB, and the mainland market can fully support "Star Wars" level movies.

If the mainland market can shoot "Star Wars" investment-level films, then the small-scale Hong Kong films will definitely not be a rival. In this way, it will not be Hong Kong films that will dominate the Asian market, but mainland films!

However, the key to all this is the account sharing system, if you can't share the accounts with the movie theater, everything can only be a pipe dream. There are many problems in Chinese films, and there are many interests involved, and it is impossible to implement the account-sharing system across the country in a short period of time. The only hope is to set up a film export company, and in the name of exporting, let the state open a seam for the export company.

After chatting with Zhang Yimou and them for a few minutes, Xu Wangqiu came to the office of the director department and reported to Zhang Ke. When the teachers in the office saw Xu Wangqiu's body, they all laughed at him for going to the capitalist world and getting contaminated with capitalist habits.

Zhang Ke also joked with a smile: "If you are seen by the pickets, you have to cut your pants with scissors." ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "If they come over, I will speak a foreign language, and when they hear a foreign language, they think I am an international friend, so they don't dare to embarrass me." ”

"Look at you like this, you really look like those fake foreign devils in the Demon Capital Concession!" Zhang Kehaha laughed, and then said seriously, "You went to Xiangjiang this time, didn't you poke out any baskets?"

Xu Wangqiu said dissatisfiedly: "Old Ke, what you said makes me seem to poke the basket a lot." This time I went to Xiangjiang, but I won the benefits for our school, I knew that you would say this, so I didn't fight for it. ”

Zhang Ke was stunned: "What benefits?"

Xu Wangqiu said triumphantly: "Because "Hoe Rape" performed very well in Xiangjiang, it achieved a box office of 1.83 million in the first week, and the final box office should be 4 million, or even 5 million. The movie was made by our school, but we didn't benefit at all. I suggested to Xu Dunle, the boss of Southern Pictures, that they donate a batch of televisions and video recorders to our school, and by the way, a batch of American commercial film tapes. In this way, our school can build a pull-tab room to facilitate students to pull pieces. ”

When Zhang Ke heard this, he thought that this was a great thing, and immediately asked, "What did the other party say?"

When the other teachers in the office heard this, they also looked at Xu Wangqiu, wanting to know the final answer.

Xu Wangqiu chuckled: "Of course I agreed." He said that the time would give us 10 televisions, 10 VCRs, and videotapes of the top 10 Hollywood grossing films in the last five years. He also said that if the box office of "Hoe Rape" can reach 5 million, donate five more units!"

The teachers present all knew that pulling films is the best way to learn film, but Nortel is a poor school, and the annual teaching practice fund is only 40,000 yuan, and there is no money to make a pulling room. Unexpectedly, this problem was solved by Xu Wangqiu. They looked at Xu Wangqiu's eyes and were suddenly full of approval.

Zhang Ke couldn't help but say: "Wangqiu, you have made a great contribution to our school!"

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "Ke Lao, I have made such a great contribution to the school, is there any reward?"

Zhang Ke also felt that he should be rewarded, but material rewards were obviously impossible, so he said: "In this way, I will be your introduction to the party and introduce you to the party!"

Xu Wangqiu almost sprayed, what kind of reward is this, an outstanding young man like me should be enthusiastically invited by the party to join, and I have to think about it carefully, whether to enter or not, what kind of reward is it to introduce me to the party?

In the second week of the release of "Hoe Rape" in Xiangjiang, two new films were released, and the stronger one was Zhang Guoming's "Pointing Soldiers". This is a gunfight film, but the level is far from "Hoe Rape". In the end, "The Rape" defeated the opponent with a score of 1.75 million and won the box office championship for a second time, "Finger Soldiers" ranked second with 1.35 million, and Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery" ranked third with 950,000.

Zhang Guoming's "Pointing Soldiers" and Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery" are representative works of the Xiangjiang New Wave, while Xu Wangqiu's "Hoe Rape" is the pioneering work of the fifth generation. Many years later, the film industry called the collision between Xu Wangqiu and Xu Anhua the first encounter between the fifth generation of directors and the Hong Kong New Wave. The Hong Kong film industry regarded "The Rape" as part of the new wave of Hong Kong, because "The Rape" inspired a large number of Hong Kong directors and set off a wave of gunfight films in Hong Kong.

"Hoe Rape" was released in Xiangjiang for a total of five weeks and achieved a box office of 5.23 million. This result is second only to the 7.86 million of "Iron King Kong Bravely Breaks the Space City" and the 5.44 million of Cheng Long's "Laughing Fist Tricks", becoming the third place at the box office in the Xiangjiang market in 1979. This achievement surpassed "Liu Sanjie" and became the new overlord of mainland films in the Xiangjiang market.

If Shuangnan Cinema has the scale of Golden Harvest, the box office of "Hoe Rape" is likely to exceed 6 million, surpassing Cheng Long's "Laughing Boxing Tricks" and becoming the champion of Chinese films in the 1979 Xiangjiang market.

This is indeed a pity, the mainland film won the championship in Xiangjiang back to the 60s. However, the achievement of 5.23 million still shocked the entire Chinese film industry. When this news spread to China, it also attracted great attention.

The success of "The Rape" in Hong Kong has also attracted the attention of South Korea, as well as many Southeast Asian film companies, who have seen "The Rape" and think that such a popular movie must have a market in their own country. However, most of these countries are anti-communist and have stricter precautions against mainland films. There are scenes of "The Internationale" being sung in "Hoe Rape", and the People's Liberation Army entering the city, and it is almost impossible to pass the censorship.

In order to solve this problem, the filmmakers asked Southern Pictures to cut out the scenes of singing "The Internationale" and the scenes of the People's Liberation Army entering the city. They also proposed that the title of the film should not be marked by the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers of the Magic Shadow Factory, and that it must be changed.

In the end, Southern Pictures edited "Hoe Rape", cut the movie into a pure gunfight film, and registered another company named "Yangfan", which justifiably sold "Hoe Rape" to South Korea and Southeast Asia.

The copyright fees in several regions, plus the box office share of Xiangjiang, the overseas revenue of "Hoe Rape" reached 1.25 million US dollars.

Wang Lanxi smiled after receiving the news, Dongying copyright plus, the revenue of the Southeast Asian market has exceeded two million US dollars, and Southern Pictures is still negotiating with several socialist countries, and it is not a problem to sell hundreds of thousands of US dollars. This is enough to prove that it is feasible to export films, and there is no need to wait to go to Cannes to regret that the report on the establishment of a film export company can be written.

Wang Lanxi put the manuscript paper in front of him, unscrewed the pen, thought about it, and solemnly wrote: Proposal on the establishment of a China Film Export Company.