In Shaw's office, Shaw stares at the company's young screenwriter Wang Jin, her fingers tapping lightly on the table. On the desk there is a stack of newspapers, including the left-leaning "Ta Kung Pao", the right-leaning "Xiangjiang Daily", and the neutral "Ming Pao". Without exception, the entertainment pages of these newspapers are all talking about "hoe rape".

Run Run Shaw said slowly: "Jin Zai, "Hoe Rape" has been very popular in recent days, with a box office of 1.83 million in the first week, while our "Golden Arm Boy" only has a box office of 300,000. I think this kind of theme is very interesting, you can write a similar script. ”

Wang Jin's face changed when he heard this, his father Wang Tianlin has a good relationship with left/faction filmmakers, and last year his father made a "Ghost Horse Zhiduoxing" for Xinlian under the pseudonym Wang Tao. I didn't expect to be known by Taiwan, saying that it was going to be blocked, which made a lot of noise. He didn't want this to happen to him: "Mr. Shao, the Communist Party fights the Kuomintang in "Hoe Rape", if I write this kind of script, the bend will not block me! How will I mix it up in the future? You better find someone else, I really can't write this!"

Run Run Shaw laughed when he heard this: "I didn't say that you should write about fighting the Kuomintang, I mean that the shootout movie has a head." You think, there are many people in Xiangjiang who don't want to see the mainland, and there are political things in "Hoe Rape", the audience doesn't like these, but now the box office in the first week is 1.83 million. If we made a movie like this, wouldn't it be better at the box office?"

Wang Jin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be a shootout movie, which scared me! He pondered for a few seconds, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "I thought of a story, we can make a movie about the assassination of the traitor Zhang Xiaolin, and a group of patriots worked hard to finally assassinate the traitor Zhang Xiaolin." This story could make a great shootout movie. ”

Run Run Shaw slapped the table: "Let's shoot this, you hurry up and write the script." ”

At the same time, in the Golden Harvest conference room, Zou Wenhuai was discussing with his good partner He Guanchang about following the shootout film. Their views are similar to Run Run Shaw's, since the mainland can achieve good results in Xiangjiang if it makes a gunfight film, then the gunfight film made by Xiangjiang's own people must be more popular, and the shootout film should be very interesting.

Zou Wenhuai took a puff of his cigar and said: "If you want to make a gunfight movie, the director is a problem, do you have the right candidate?"

He Guanchang groaned: "It seems that Wu Yusen is quite interested in gunfight movies. ”

The year before last, Wu Yusen filmed the comedy "Fa Qian Han", which won the second place at the annual box office with a box office score of 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and last year's "Big Evil Star and Little Sister's Head" also ranked among the top ten grossing films of the year. In Zou Wenhuai's eyes, Wu Yusen is a genius who does comedy, and letting a comedy genius do gunfight movies is simply a tyrannical thing, so he directly rejected it: "No, Wu Yusen's comedies are very popular, and he can't be allowed to shoot anything else." ”

He Guanchang groaned: "If you don't let Sammo Hung try, young people have a good brain, and if you combine gunfights with kung fu, it should be very interesting." ”

Zou Wenhuai clapped his hands and said: "It's decided, let Sammo Hung make a gunfight kung fu movie." ”

Not only Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, but also Wu Siyuan, and some other small film companies are also preparing to follow the trend and make gunfight films. Of course, Chang Fengxin is no exception, and he also has the idea of following the trend to make gunfight movies, but because they listened to Xu Wangqiu's advice, their ideas for making gunfight movies are a little different from others. Other people make shootout movies thinking that we want to make the scene more hot like "Hoe Rape", but their idea is that we want to quietly blacken the British government while the shootout.

The popularity of "Hoe Rape" has also attracted the attention of many Xiangjiang directors. Because both left-leaning and neutral media believe that "Hoe Rape" is a milestone work, with a comprehensive breakthrough in content and form, even the right-leaning and pro-Taiwan media cannot deny this, but they say it in a critical tone, saying that "Hoe Rape" is a skill for the sake of skill, and a breakthrough is a breakthrough. This aroused the interest of directors of Xiangjiang, who wanted to see what the breakthrough of "Hoe Rape" really was.

This is the case with Xu Ke, Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong, the three of them were colleagues of TVB, and they have co-produced many programs and have a very good relationship. This year, Xu Ke filmed his first film "Butterfly Change", and Du Qifeng also filmed his debut film "Blue Water and Cold Mountain", only Lin Lingdong is still waiting for the opportunity to make a movie. The three of them are all movie lovers, and when they heard the critics praise "Hoe Rape" so highly, even if they see how the movie is.

"The Rape" is a mainland movie that can only be screened in Shuangnan Cinemas, and the Nanhua Cinema on Polan Street is a cinema under Shuangnan Cinemas. So, the three of them organized a group to watch a movie at the South Wah Cinema on Polan Street.

When they came to the ticket hall of the cinema, Xu Ke and they found that there were many audiences in line, dozens of them. It's past two o'clock in the afternoon, and it's not a weekend, so many people are queuing up to buy tickets, it seems that "Hoe Rape" is really popular.

After queuing for more than ten minutes, Xu Ke and the three of them bought the box office. But just as they were about to enter the venue, they unexpectedly met an acquaintance, Xu Anhua was coming out of the screening hall after watching the movie.

Xu Ke has a good relationship with Xu Anhua, and knows that Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery" and "Hoe Rape" were released on the same day. "Crazy Robbery" was filmed well, and the box office was okay, with more than 800,000. If it were placed in other periods, there should have been a lot of media and critics discussing this movie, but because "Hoe Rape" is too bright, they are now talking about "Hoe Rape", and "Crazy Robbery" seems to have been forgotten.

Xu Ke was a little sympathetic to Xu Anhua, but he knew that Xu Anhua had the strength and would explode sooner or later, so he asked with a smile: "Are you here to reconnoiter the enemy?"

Xu Anhua said with a smile: "I can't talk about reconnoitring the enemy, I just want to see if it's really as good as I say." ”

Xu Ke asked, "Then how do you feel after reading it?"

Xu Anhua thought for a while and said: "I think China may have Kurosawa or Sergio Leon." ”

Xu Ke was taken aback when he heard this, Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leon are both god-level directors, Xu Anhua actually compared this young director in the mainland with two god-level directors, is it because of the filming of "Crazy Robbery", is his brain not normal, and asked: "Isn't it a bit exaggerated when you say that?"

Xu Anhua shook his head lightly: "You will know when you go in and see." With that, she walked away slowly.

100 minutes later, Xu Ke, Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong came out of the screening hall, and the audience around them were excitedly talking about the plot of the movie. The two men next to them were particularly excited, dancing and telling their inner excitement: "This film is so real, it looks like a documentary." "Yes, I've never seen such a real war movie, and I feel like I'm on the battlefield, which makes people worry. "It's as real as a documentary, but it's better than a documentary. ”

There was a fire flashing in Xu Ke's eyes: "This director should have returned from studying in the United States, and the movie is a routine of Hollywood genre films, but it integrates a lot of new things, and it is making Hollywood genre films in the same way as the author's films." Anhua Xu is wrong, he is not like Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leon, he is like Hitchcock or Coppola. ”

Du Qifeng filmed his debut / debut film "Blue Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold" at the beginning of this year, and recently completed the post-production, and even he was not satisfied with the finished effect. Now after watching "The Rape", he was even more deeply shocked, and said dejectedly: "It's amazing! This is a movie, I really want to go back and burn "Blue Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold", I don't want to take it out and be embarrassed." Maybe I'm really not suitable to be a film director, so let's go back and make TV series!"

Lin Lingdong also sighed and said: "I also feel that I still have to practice for two years, and it's too early to make a movie." ”

Just when Du Qifeng and the others were hit, Xu Wangqiu returned to Nortel with his luggage. Wearing a jacket and jeans, sneakers on his feet, and sunglasses on his face, he looked very stylish, in the words of decades later, a fashion hipster. In fact, these are all stall goods he bought in Xiangjiang, and they didn't cost a lot of money.

At present, there is a shortage of foreign exchange in China, and the state is particularly strict in foreign exchange control, and people who go abroad for business can only exchange 50 US dollars. Xu Wangqiu knew that he could buy many things that could not be bought in China when he went to Xiangjiang, so in addition to exchanging $50 at the bank, he also exchanged $200 on the black market. The current exchange rate is 1.7 yuan for 1 dollar, but 10 yuan for 1 dollar on the black market. Redeeming the $200, Xu Wangqiu used up all the money for a script.

During his stay in Xiangjiang, Xu Wangqiu used his free time to make some purchases. With Bao Qijing, a local eldest sister, leading the way and helping to bargain, Xu Wangqiu spent the $250 he brought. In the end, he returned to Beiping City with a bag full of clothes, shoes, and all kinds of miscellaneous items.

When Xu Wangqiu walked into 303, Zhang Yimou and the others were gathering around the table to discuss the script of "Falcon". They almost didn't recognize Xu Wangqiu's dress when they saw it: "Wangqiu, I went to Xiangjiang once, and your dress is on par with the people of Xiangjiang." "This one looks good, and it cost a lot of money. "Did you bring some good things for my brother?"

Xu Wangqiu said triumphantly: "That's right, when did I forget my brother when I had a good thing? It's rare to have the opportunity to go to Xiangjiang, so I must bring some gifts to my brother!"

Everyone looked at Xu Wangqiu all over the place, wanting to see what good things he had brought to everyone.

Xu Wangqiu drove everyone away, put the bag on the table, unzipped it, took out a few electronic watches from it, and each of them issued one. They contributed a lot to the script of "Falcon", and then they need to help draw the storyboard, and they must not let them do it in vain. Electronic watches cost a few dollars a piece in Xiangjiang, but they are a rare thing in China, and they are very suitable as gifts.

Xu Wangqiu said triumphantly: "This thing is called an electronic watch, you don't need to wind it, you can go by pressing the battery, as long as you know the Arabic numerals, you know what time it is, and you don't have to bother to look at the needle on the clock at all." ”

Zhang Yimou They have never seen an electronic watch, and when they see that there is no need to wind up, and the number is displayed, they all think that it is a high-tech product, which is very tall. They took the electronic watch and looked at it over and over in their hands, as if they were looking at treasures. Even Zhao Ban, a child from a rich family, can't put it down. They felt that Xu Wangqiu was too embarrassed to give themselves such an expensive gift, and at the same time they were a little embarrassed: "Wangqiu, this thing is too valuable, we can't ask for it." "Yes, if you give some gadgets, we'll take it, but this one is really too valuable." "How much does this electronic watch cost? We'll pay you!"

Xu Wangqiu waved his hand and said arrogantly: "This thing is also rare in China, it is rotten on the street in Xiangjiang, and it is not worth a few dollars at all, so don't worry about me, just help me do a good job of "Falcon". ”