The rise of the nonsensical comedy martial arts film style was a turning point in the entire film history of Hong Kong. Since Li Xiaolong became famous, the fighting style of martial arts films has been rigid and serious.

Li Xiaolong created a myth that was a dazzling star in the dreary film market at the time. But when he died, the sun was gone, and only the stars were left - all kinds of plagiarism spread throughout the market.

When people were tired of action movies, some paranoid directors even used bloody violence as the theme, which caused a lot of public outrage. Many overseas regions are directly one-size-fits-all and no longer import Hong Kong action movies. This has also led to a slump in action movies.

Without Xu Zhi's intervention, in a few months, independent filmmaker Wu Siyuan will invite Chen Long to start filming Hong Kong's first action comedy film, Serpentine Trickster.

The film was released before Drunken Boxing and had a box office of 2.7 million Hong Kong dollars, which was basically the top ten results of the year in the era when millions were blockbusters.

And Drunken Boxing is a movie that several big directors only remembered to make after they got drunk at the celebration banquet of the serpentine trickster. Of course, after that, I made some random outline plans, and then the shooting started!

Just like a certain novel in later generations, an idea came out, I was excited, I wrote a beginning and uploaded it, with a daydream of hoping to have an annual salary of 10,000 yuan, and then TM succeeded.

The box office of Drunken Fist in Hong Kong exceeded 6.7 million Hong Kong dollars, but this is only the tip of the iceberg, just in RB, the box office exceeded 1.9 billion yen, the total global box office added up to almost 100 million US dollars, and the video tape sold more than 20 million US dollars. Even if the various shares that have been deducted are calculated, the return of investors is 100 times the return.

What's more, Chen Long has formed his own style with his drunken fists and previous serpentine tricks, and has also become a superstar who has taken Asia by storm.

Of course, because of Luo Wei's lack of eyes, in the end, this superstar cheapened Golden Harvest.

However, in order to reproduce the peak of drunken boxing again, Xu Zhi handed over this play to the original director Yuan Heping, who was also the world's first action director in later generations. Even though Yuan doesn't have the ability to make movies as a director now, in the previous life, Drunken Fist was only his second work. And the time is only one year away, and the plot has been set to die, so if he is allowed to shoot now, he should be able to shoot eight or nine without leaving ten. Even if it is not as good as the 6.7 million in later generations, it can have four or five million, which is actually a good start.

And Yuan Heping has been rolling in the film and television industry for decades and has a huge network, so he came forward to convene cameramen, lighting, prop masters, etc., and the other party has also had a lot of cooperation with Golden Harvest. Previously, when they were separated, Xu Zhi had given him a manuscript of Zou Wenhuai.

The manuscript is a handwritten letter that allows Xu Zhi to act cheaply on the Golden Harvest set and within the company, if Xu Zhi is a stranger who uses this to find some high-level executives on the Golden Harvest studio, it is estimated that he will be directly ignored, and even if he really helps, it is estimated that he may not be willing to contribute much.

But Yuan Heping brought the manuscript, plus he knew this business, and both of them were able to do it, and the effect would be better.

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The matter of the movie has been handed over to Yuan Heping, he is first responsible for forming the entire team, and he and Chen Long and others will re-discuss Xu Zhi's script, and if some revisions are agreed, they will be handed over to Xu Zhi.

On the other hand, Golden Harvest Daily has all begun to be ready to be published, and the OEM printing factory has printed 20,000 newspapers at one time.

The newspaper itself is an advertising carrier, but when a new newspaper appears, it also needs to be advertised. However, the other newspapers in Xiangjiang were surprisingly cooperative, and none of them refused to accept the advertising fee. Lin Wenzhou was angry, and after asking for instructions, he directly spent 50,000 Hong Kong dollars to advertise on TVB, Lidi and Jiayi TV stations for half a minute in prime time for a week.

Monday, June 20

Xu Zhi sat bored in his small office writing some stories, experienced the process of writing a novel, and his hand had almost recovered, but he really didn't want to write another one.

Kunlun's word count is only a little over a million, and several other classic novels are often 3 million words, so if he writes it in a short time, it is estimated that his hand will really have to be completely abolished.

What's more, Xu Zhi can't look down on the profit from writing novels at present, if it weren't for the newspaper to lure Zou Wenhuai, and the cooperation he sought, I'm afraid Kunlun would only be able to earn one or two hundred thousand at most, this money is not small, but it takes a long time to get it, there is no cooperation plan, or interest bundling, who will give you hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars at the beginning? Do you think your surname is Kang?

And the stories written now are just the main plots of some novels or TV series that have become popular in later generations, including various character relationships, power rankings, storylines, etc., which are staggered together to form the outline of a story.

Whether a novel is good or not depends on the level of description of the supporting characters. What Xu Zhi values most is the comparison of the relationships and personalities of various supporting characters, even if he remembers all the previous plots, it is another thing to describe all the stories in their entirety.

But this has an advantage, that is, it will not be like copying novels, desperately and almost with your eyes closed, but think about it from time to time, write it, and the opponent's damage is not so great.

"Knock knock. ”

There was a knock on the door, but before Xu Zhi could respond, Lin Wenzhou pushed the door in with a smile and said, "Xu Sheng, our sales on the first day have exceeded 20,000." ”

Xu Zhi looked at the sky, habitually picked up his mobile phone, and immediately reacted and looked at his watch, it was already half past five. But it's still early, and the sun is still hanging in the sky.

Xu Zhi asked, "What was the reader's reaction?"

This is Xu Zhi's biggest concern, it has been a while since the end of the iron-blooded Tianjiao serialization, and the novel is a thing that looks good and fascinates me, but in fact, it really takes a few days not to read it, and I get used to it.

In the words of later generations, it is to raise and raise and not want to watch it.

Kunlun's quality is okay, but if he starts to encounter this kind of problem, it will not bode well for his cooperation with Zou Wenhuai.

Lin Wenzhou said with a smile: "We randomly investigated, Kunlun is still very popular. Moreover, we have been advertising on several major TV stations a few days ago, and basically everyone in Xiangjiang should know about our newspaper, otherwise there would not be 20,000 people coming to buy newspapers today. ”

Xu Zhidao: "Well, it's okay now, but I'm worried that Liang Wenjing's death will cause some trouble." I don't know if Kim Yong Kim's dragon riding incident will be repeated. ”

Lin Wenzhou shook his head with a smile and said: "If I repeat the enactment, I will die of happiness, and a bad reputation for a while is actually a kind of fame." Besides, the protagonist of your book has basically been decided, and after a while, everyone will get used to it. Kim Yong Kim's story is completely different!"

From ancient times to the present, the times have changed people's interest in novels, from the very beginning of martial arts to the blooming of a hundred flowers in later generations, but one of the eternal laws is that the female protagonist must be the male protagonist.

Treat the male protagonist, you can temper him, break a few bones, fall off a cliff, be poisoned in his body, and be trapped in prison, these are actually small problems, readers can see it very much, but they will look forward to the follow-up.

But the Little Dragon Girl incident is to add a piece of feces to a bowl of Australian dragon meat fried rice, and the feces are highly poisonous, mixed with some fish hooks and iron nails.

It is said that Ming Pao was splashed with red paint at that time, and people in later generations have basically become accustomed to all this, and that is because we have begun to contact such plots when we were hazy and unknown children, so we are used to it, and we accept it when we don't know.

But this era is different, and even though almost 20 years have passed now, many people still don't want to talk about it.

With the simplest example, people in the 80s and 90 years should have seen Sou Shen Ji and Zhu Xian. If the plot of the little dragon girl happens to the Gu Shooting Fairy and Baguio among them, it is estimated that these two gods can switch to wholesale blades - wholesale starts by the ton.

Kunlun is only the death of the protagonist in the prequel, and the impact is estimated to be some, but it shouldn't be too big.

"By the way, when will you install a phone here, and all the people looking for you will call my landline?" Lin Wenzhou complained with a smile.

Xu Zhi didn't answer directly, and asked, "Who is looking for me, what's wrong?"

Xu Zhi did not install the phone because it was too expensive, and the initial installation fee of the phone would cost several thousand yuan, and it was better to use the phone of Jiahe Daily with this money, and he was a small shareholder anyway.

Lin Wenzhou said: "It's your little secretary, she said that your film team has been organized, let you go tomorrow morning." ”

Xu Zhi smiled: "Okay, I understand"

The film team is finally complete!

After talking to Yuan Heping before, there was nothing to do on his side, so he sent Lin Siqi over to help.

One let her understand the whole process and learn more now. Second, even if it is to spy on Yuan Heping, no one can absolutely trust it, although Lin Siqi is a rookie, but there is a person who does not belong to him by his side, and some ideas will always be suppressed.

And the establishment of the crew also marks that "Drunken Fist" can finally start filming