Chapter 1225: A Unique Way to Welcome
Before the Four Heavenly Kings, the mainland had already solved many Hong Kong and Taiwan stars through other audio-visual works such as tapes, "elder brother", Liu Furong and Li Tianming, these people have long become idols of young people, and they have also appeared on the Spring Festival Gala from time to time.
It's just that at that time, they still seemed to be fighting alone, and they didn't form an overall army, and after the appearance of the Four Heavenly Kings, it was different.
Under the leadership of Tianwang, singers from all walks of life in Hong Kong have opened up new horizons, and at the same time, in the video halls that have sprung up, Hong Kong films, martial arts, gangs, and nonsense are menacing.
In this way, under the leadership of tens of millions of pirated copies, mainland audiences witnessed the graceful demeanor of Hong Jinbao, Zhou Xingxing, Liang Chaowei, Wang Guxian, Qiu Shuzhen, Lin Qingxia, Zhang Manyu and others.
The Four Heavenly Kings are the pinnacle of the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry, but after the peak is the decline, these four people have dominated the "traffic" for a long time, and the others are very uncomfortable, counting from 90 years, these four people have monopolized the award of the most popular male singer at the Hong Kong Island Golden Melody Awards Ceremony for 11 years, and the annual golden song has almost been divided by Zhang Xueyou, Li Tianming and Liu Furong.
This means that throughout the nineties, almost no newcomers could pose a threat to the status of the "Four Heavenly Kings", and the growth space of newcomers was extremely compressed.
During the heyday of the Four Heavenly Kings, the Hong Kong Island music scene was full of prosperity, record sales could break records every year, and few people would feel a sense of crisis and not hear any death knell. Under the anesthesia of the illusion of the prosperous era, the Hong Kong Island music scene has lost the motivation to seek innovation and change little by little, and when the era of the Four Heavenly Kings has passed, the crisis that cannot be resolved in time will suddenly erupt.
At that time, with the continuous advancement of reform and opening up in the mainland and the development of Wanwan, Hong Kong Island's absolute advantage in cultural freedom gradually began to be overtaken.
From the early nineties to the beginning of the next century, it was a magnificent era in the entertainment industry, and now Liu Lang is in it and has witnessed the arrival of this era, in fact, even Mr. Shao himself does not know how much impact these stars will have on the Chinese entertainment industry in the next seven or eight years, and it is not an exaggeration to affect two or three generations.
However, no matter how popular these entertainment stars are, they must bow their heads and bend down in front of capital, which is the rule of the capital market, even if they are world-class superstars, they dare not challenge those capital predators.
So who are the capital predators? The Shaw Brothers Group and Shengtang Company are, Mr. Shao, Liu Lang, and Ye Jinsheng are the controllers of capital, and they are high in front of the artists, and they dare not slack off at all.
In order to welcome Liu Lang, Mr. Shao brought the most well-known artists on Hong Kong Island, the "Four Heavenly Kings" who had just ascended to the altar, as well as other artists under the Shaw Brothers, came more than ten, and Mr. Shao specially chartered a small theater, and these people performed for Liu Lang.
Well, Liu Lang couldn't imagine that the old gentleman would greet him in this way, this way is probably unprecedented!
However, Liu Lang is fully worthy of this specification, and even those stars will be proud of Liu Lang's performance, who makes Liu Lang the CEO of the entertainment company with the highest market value in the world, even if he is the most lazy boss, but his words can definitely make the world entertainment industry "earthquake", it is too easy to become popular with a person, of course, if he doesn't like anyone, a word will also make him lose everything.
Liu Lang sat in the audience, watching these artists sing their own songs with some "flattery", which was really interesting.
"Liu Lang, the four of them are the Four Heavenly Kings, but you are the Jade Emperor, if you let them be on fire, they will be on fire, and if you let them extinguish, they will be extinguished, isn't this feeling very good?"
The old gentleman on the side whispered to Liu Lang.
The old gentleman's attitude towards entertainment stars is very old-fashioned, he thinks that these are just artists, in ancient times, they belonged to the lower ninth rate, and they were not allowed to be on the stage at all, so that many stars will leave the Shaw Group after becoming famous, and the old gentleman doesn't care, if you leave, I will train the next person, and there is no threat or intimidation or other behavior.
Therefore, many artists are still friends with the Shaw Brothers Group, and they will invite you if they need you to act, and the price will not be lower than other companies, besides, the entertainment company on the entire Hong Kong Island is the largest in the Shaw Group, and you have to endure it for me if you have any opinions in your heart.
But today they are all working hard to perform, to give Liu Lang a good image, if they sign a contract with Shengtang Company, it will be the best.
"Mr. Lao, Hong Kong Island is the most important place in the Chinese entertainment industry, affecting the whole of Southeast Asia, they will be big stars in the future, and they will leave a heavy mark in the history of Chinese entertainment!"
"Hehe, I know that you little guy knows a lot about history, but how can they compare with you? Entertainment is just for people's entertainment, and they can't be on the stage, unlike you............ Liu Lang, I heard that the country has a CNC machine tool, which is in Fucheng, did you bring it out?"
The old gentleman asked in a whisper.
"The old gentleman has won the award, the CNC machine tool is the result of everyone, I am just their boss!"
Liu Lang did not hide it and admitted it directly.
"Haha, I guessed it a long time ago, I thought, with your wisdom and ability, you will definitely not focus on entertainment, that is a big loss for the country, I thought of you as soon as I heard the news, and only you can have such great ability, okay!"
Mr. Shao felt that Liu Lang told him about this matter as a kind of trust, and he also understood that some of these things involved the attitude of Western countries towards Liu Lang, so he would not talk about this matter.
The artists performed on the stage for more than an hour, some sang and some danced, and some performed some similar martial arts programs, Liu Lang saw such a performance for the first time, for example, there were two male artists, he knew both, one was Fang Shaohuang, who had played the role of King Li, and the other was called Qian Hao.
The two of them wore a black kung fu suit to fight, and they turned their heels and kicked, and the tiger and tiger style was very exciting, this is simply playing monkey! From this point, it can also be seen that Mr. Shao is really the one who sells his art, these people are used to it, and they may also identify with their own identity in their hearts, at least that body is real kung fu.
By the way, Liu Lang also saw a person, it was the most famous Chinese kung fu star "Brother Long" after "Brother Xiaolong", he is now the most well-known kung fu movie star on Hong Kong Island, many movies have won high box office, he presented a song "Men should be self-reliant", although the voice is not as good as the "Four Heavenly Kings" but heroic, very exciting.
"Liu Lang, this young man is amazing, he is not afraid of death when making movies, I am very optimistic about him, doesn't Hollywood like kung fu movies very much?
Mr. Shao's words reminded Liu Lang.
"Don't worry, old man, I will pay attention to the people you recommend!"
Mr. Shao also hopes that Hong Kong Island can produce a few world-class superstars, but he also knows that it is not easy, even if Shengtang Company has an important influence in Hollywood, it is difficult.