Chapter 229: Reactions from all sides
The reporters present knew that in the past 20 years or so, the fundamental reason why the entire Hong Kong film industry has turned to Taiwan is that except for Chang Fengxin's works, Hong Kong films have not been able to enter the mainland market at all. On the contrary, the door of Taiwan has always been open to Xiangjiang Film Company, and it has been given the treatment of national films.
Now the mainland market is open to the Hong Kong Film Company, and the conditions are more favorable than those of the Taiwan Film Company. The mainland market is much larger than the Taiwan bend market, and coupled with the favorable cooperation conditions, the benefits obtained from cooperation with the mainland will be several times or even more than ten times that of Taiwan bend. The boss of the Xiangjiang Film Company, as well as the filmmakers, may not be tempted.
In addition to being shocked, the on-site reporter couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and smashed at Xu Wangqiu like a series of inner questions, wanting to know the answer from his mouth: "Director Xu, may I ask, is it for the United Front that you launched this policy?"
"May I ask if I cooperate with you to ensure that the dividends can really be cashed out, will it be like Golden Harvest with left hand and right hand?"
"In addition to Li Hanxiang, which other directors are your cooperation goals, are Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan in your consideration?"
"Do you have any plans to work with Hong Kong actors, and if you do, which star would you most like to work with?"
Xu Wangqiu was calm in the face of the overwhelming number of questions from the media, and replied calmly: "Now is not the time to answer reporters' questions, there will be a special time for questions, please be impatient." I just talked about the policy of the export company, and Manager Fu Qi also has important things to announce, so let's listen to what Manager Fu Qi has to say. He smiled at Fu Qi and said, "Manager Fu, I'm done, now you can come!"
Fu Qi is the husband of Shi Hui, the second princess of the Great Wall, and was once a very famous student in Xiangjiang. During the June 7 riots, the two of them not only protested outside the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion, but also became standing committee members of the Committee for Fighting Against the Persecution of the British in Hong Kong. The two of them were arrested and imprisoned by the British government for eight months for participating in the protests. Later, when they were released, the British government of Hong Kong threatened them, saying that they would be sent to Taiwan, and Fu Qi said directly: "I dare to guarantee that it will not be two people who can go to Taiwan, but two corpses." "Now Fu Qi and Shi Hui have both disappeared and are doing management work in Yindu.
Many reporters at the scene did not agree with the concept of Fu Qi and his faction, but they still have great respect for people like Fu Qi who have been imprisoned by the British government in Hong Kong. Everyone looked at Fu Qi quietly, wanting to hear what he was going to announce.
Fu Qi looked at the reporters at the scene and said with a serious expression: "Changfengxin was quite influential in the 5 and 60s, the first film in Xiangjiang with a box office of more than one million was Phoenix Company's "Golden Eagle"; But in the last decade or so, we've barely made a truly impactful film. In the past, we had big stars such as Shi Hui, Xia Meng, Chen Sisi, and Zhu Hong, and in the past few years, we wanted to cultivate a new princess of the Great Wall, but we didn't succeed.
We have been thinking about how we can regain our strength, how we can restore the glory of the past. We felt that Changfengxin was fighting alone like in the past, and it was difficult for him to survive, so we integrated Changfengxin into a Yindu institution. Our failure to train the new princess of the Great Wall made us realize that there is a serious problem in the talent training mechanism, and it is difficult to retain talents according to the past model. In order to adapt to the requirements of the new era, we decided to set up a separate Great Wall Agency to be responsible for the management of actors. We have the following policies for the actors of the Great Wall......"
After listening to the content announced by Fu Qi, the reporters at the scene were in a commotion. In the past 20 years or so, only other companies have dug the corners of the Great Wall, and we have never seen the Great Wall poach actors from other companies. The current silver capital is really different from the Changfeng Xin in the past.
The pro-mainland media rejoiced, their faces glowing with excitement. Export companies have launched co-production policies to attract Hong Kong film makers and film companies to cooperate; Yindu has set up a brokerage company to train new actors, and at the same time introduced generous policies to attract celebrities to join; and Xiangjiang Zuopai Films is really about to rise again.
The pro-Taiwan media looked solemn one by one, just now they heard Xu Wangqiu's bet with Qin Xianglin and Lin Qingxia and felt that Xu Wangqiu was crazy, and made a bet with no chance of winning at all. But now after listening to the export company's co-production policy and the Great Wall's artist brokerage policy, they feel that Xu Wangqiu may not be able to do it. If big directors such as Li Hanxiang and Zhang Che, as well as big stars such as Cheng Long and Sammo Hung all fall to export companies, what should Taiwan do?
For the neutral media, there is not much difference between the mainland forces and the Taiwan forces, and what they really care about is whether there is news or not, and the sales of newspapers. The foreground bend forces have a great influence on the Hong Kong film industry, while the mainland forces are on the margins. Now the situation is different, and the mainland forces have begun to exert their forces in Xiangjiang. In the next few years, Xiangjiang will become a wrestling field between the mainland and Taiwan, and the two sides will definitely continue to make moves, and there will definitely be no need to worry about the news.
After Fu Qi announced the artist management system of the Great Wall, the reporters finally waited for the moment to ask questions freely. They threw their inner questions at Xu Wangqiu and Fu Qi like a barrage, wanting to get the answers they wanted. Xu Wangqiu and Fu Qi are both veterans, and they are very calm in the face of various questions from reporters. They know everything that should be said, and they don't say a word about what should not be said.
Chen Ziqiang quietly listened to Xu Wangqiu and Fu Qi's answers at the scene, figuring out the various possibilities revealed in their words. After the press conference, he rushed back to Cheng Long's villa as soon as possible and told what he heard at the press conference. He told Cheng Long very seriously that the cooperation policy launched by the export company and the agent system introduced by the Great Wall will attract many film companies and filmmakers to cooperate with them, and Zuopai Film Company will rise in an all-round way.
Soon after the press conference, some well-informed filmmakers already knew about the cooperation policy of the export company. Partnering with an exporting company is a huge attraction for them to not only enter the mainland market, but also get a high share. So, they called Yindu one after another to ask about cooperation.
Throughout the afternoon, the phones in Yindu's office rang one after another, and even Xia Meng, the boss of Blue Bird, received several calls asking about the co-production policy.
In the evening, the evening newspapers of the major media in Xiangjiang reported the relevant content of the press conference in the form of front-page headlines. It's just that due to different positions, the evaluation of these media on the press conference is very different.
On the morning of June 16, 1981, China Film Export Corporation held a press conference on the set of Clear Water Bay. At the meeting, Xu Wangqiu, director of the art center of the export company, announced the co-production policy, and the cooperation between Heung Kong and Taiwan Film Company and the export company can enter the mainland market and at the same time receive profit dividends in the mainland market. Xu Wangqiu also announced that the famous director Li Hanxiang will cooperate with the export company to return to the mainland to shoot two films. - Ta Kung Pao
At the press conference, Fu Qi, manager of Yindu Institution, announced the establishment of a special Great Wall brokerage company and announced the company's relevant policies. The Great Wall has cultivated big stars such as Xia Meng, Shi Hui, and Chen Sisi. Now that the Great Wall has become a specialized artist brokerage company, let's wait and see whether the new Great Wall can cultivate Xinxiameng and Shi Hui with the support of Yindu institutions and export companies. βOriental Daily News
At the press conference, Xu Wangqiu announced the mainland's cooperation policy for Hong Kong and Taiwan-bend films, hoping to rely on the cooperation policy to promote the cooperation of filmmakers from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, which is actually a united front conspiracy of the CCP against filmmakers in Xiangjiang and Taiwan. ββ"Hong Kong Times"
The overwhelming media coverage, coupled with the great reputation enjoyed by the Great Wall in the past, has attracted the attention of many young people who are interested in acting and aspiring to pursue a career in the film industry.
One of them is 16-year-old Liu Jialing, who was born in Suzhou, where her grandfather and mother were accomplished Chinese painting artists, and her father was a Thai overseas Chinese. Liu Jialing has an outgoing and active personality and has not inherited the craft of painting. Once she went to participate in an event in the Children's Palace, and it happened that the repertory troupe was recruiting young actors, and she joined the repertory troupe with curiosity, who was interested in acting.
After the Spring Festival last year, 15-year-old Liu Jialing immigrated to Xiangjiang with her parents. In fact, Liu Jialing doesn't want to immigrate, she has good friends and classmates at school, and the teacher also likes her very much, and she doesn't want to come to the completely unfamiliar world of Xiangjiang, but this is not her final say at all. After arriving in Xiangjiang, Liu Jialing's life has improved a lot, but she is not happy. When she was in Suzhou, she studied very well and was very favored by her teachers, but what she learned in Xiangjiang was different, and she couldn't keep up with the teaching progress. What's worse is that because of her different cultural background and Mandarin, she was discriminated against.
Liu Jialing looks soft and weak, but she has a strong desire to admit defeat, and she is very dissatisfied with being discriminated against for speaking Mandarin. One time she went to buy bread, and the bread seller heard her speak Mandarin and said you say in Cantonese, and I will sell it to you. Liu Jialing was very tough, but she didn't say it, and finally went to school hungry. Now that she suddenly saw that Yindu was going to recruit actors, and she could speak Mandarin, Liu Jialing was like a traveler walking in the dark in the wilderness, and her heart was lit with endless hope when she saw the lights.
Liu Jialing took the newspaper and read it carefully twice, and after making sure that it was okay to really speak Mandarin, she walked up to her father excitedly and said loudly: "Dad, I'm going to take the actor training class on the Great Wall, I want to be an actor!"
At the same time, nineteen-year-old Zhou Xingchi was holding a copy of "Ming Pao Evening News" by the flower stage, and he was full of excitement to his friend Liang Chaowei about the news of the Great Wall's recruitment of actors. Zhou Xingchi likes to watch movies, especially Bruce Lee's movies. After watching the movie, he often thought that I would be an actor in the future. Once he asked Liang Chaowei to make a short film, and asked Liang Chaowei to play the bad guy, and he himself played the good guy and director. The plot is that the good guys fight with the bad guys in the mountains, and in the end the good guys kill the bad guys.
Zhou Xingchi waved the newspaper in his hand and said excitedly: "The Great Wall recruits movie actors, let's go to the exam together when the time comes! I think it's better to take the Great Wall exam than to rely on TVB, the TVB exam can only act in TV dramas, and can only be a star, while the Great Wall can act in movies and become a big star like Bruce Lee." β
Liang Chaowei didn't have much interest in acting, and said with little interest: "I'll forget it, I'm not very good at acting." β
Zhou Xingchi doesn't like to deal with strangers very much, and if he takes the exam alone, it will be very stressful. Liang Chaowei is his good brother, and Liang Chaowei must be pulled in this matter, and he persuaded: "What is your future as an accountant in the factory, do you really want to be a small accountant for the rest of your life? If you don't pass the exam, just continue to come back to work, and you won't delay anything." If you do, your life will change forever. People always have to have a little dream. β
Liang Chaowei felt that Zhou Xingchi's words made sense, and he wouldn't lose anything by trying, but he really didn't have confidence in taking the actor exam, so he said: "Okay, I'll accompany you to try it when the time comes." The main thing is to accompany you, I will definitely not pass the exam. β