Chapter 234: It's Profiteering!
With the advent of Saturday and Sunday, the major movies of the three theaters have begun to be released one after another!
Because of business wars and propaganda, it seems that the atmosphere of the New Year has arrived a few months in advance. Originally, I couldn't even see so many good movies during the Chinese New Year, and stars stood up, participated in variety shows, and canvassed for their own theaters and movies.
However, in Hong Kong, Halloween's Day at the end of October, 1992 was very different. Climax after climax!
He Zilong and his entourage, in order to participate in the premiere of their own movie and activities, got in the car and came to a nearby movie theater. As soon as I arrived near the cinema, I saw a sea of people waiting in line to buy tickets and enter the theater.
There are even some scalpers who are reselling tickets for some good positions and good viewing time. All kinds of small vendors are also fighting guerrilla warfare everywhere, doing business while the iron is hot. For stores, event days, Chinese New Year, and the second half of the year are all good times to make money. The same is true for small vendors.
"Do you feel strange, I didn't feel it before, but now I finally reflect it, it seems that in my memory, on the streets of Hong Kong, it is rare to see the chengguan ......?" He Zilong actually didn't have much time on the street, looking at the crowds in front of the movie theater, and then looking at the street, he looked at the Guan sisters and others with some doubts, and asked curiously.
"What, Brother Long, ......are there many chengguan in the city on your mainland?" Guan Zhilin, who was wearing makeup and big sunglasses, asked He Zilong in a low voice.
"Well, it's pretty much it......" The topic of chengguan is quite tangled, and I can't say whether it is right or wrong in some law enforcement processes. He Zilong had no choice but to make a haha, mix it up, and continue to carry out the topic of Hong Kong.
Every day, in the bustling Causeway Bay and Mong Kok, small stalls and vendors are hawking on the streets, but it is rare to see street vendors blocking the streets; in Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, where there are many trafficked people, there are few people smoking, spitting, and littering, but it is rare to see the police or "chengguan".
There are groups of people crossing the street and waiting for the bus, but there is no one to keep order...... This is the city management of Hong Kong.
Of course, although this is related to some qualities, it is also related to strict law enforcement.
There is no dispute, and there is no need to "be rude", everything is done according to the rules. If you do not rectify the situation immediately after receiving a warning, you will be fined up to $10,000 and imprisonment for 3 months, and a fine of $300 per day for late payment.
Hong Kong's urban management fines are not lenient, but they are well-behaved, civilized and convincing. Spitting and littering are punishable by a minimum fine of 1,500 yuan and detention for six months, a fine of up to 2,000 yuan for eating on a bus, and a fine of 10,000 yuan for dripping water in an air-conditioning system.
There is a saying that when the cost of crime is high, there will be fewer people who naturally want to commit crimes and take the initiative to make mistakes. Of course, there are some places where law enforcement cannot be enforced, and there must be places that the sun cannot take care of, and Hong Kong also has such places.
It is not surprising that even the United States, the world's most developed country, will have slums and beggars.
After listening to the explanations of the two sisters of the Guan family, He Zilong sighed in his heart. As far as the issue of chengguan is concerned, it is not advisable to insult chengguan in a blank manner, and the key lies in whether the legal system is in place and whether it is operable.
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"Look at my sister, the movie poster has us on it, there is us!" Before entering the movie theater, Guan Xiaolin saw the poster, and suddenly pointed to the poster at the door of the movie theater and shouted happily.
Her beautiful voice, familiar tone, and different names immediately caused many viewers in line to turn their heads to look at the four blows. I want to find out where the source of the sound is!
Fortunately, Guan Xiaolin was the first time to call out the first sentence, and asked her sister Guan Zhilin to cover her mouth. Then Guan Zhilin jokingly slapped the back of his sister's head, leaned over to his ear, and whispered:
"Sister, be quiet, don't you remember the agreement we made before we left home? This time, we are watching the movie we shot as a normal audience, from the perspective and experience of the audience...... You screamed so much, revealing who we are, how can you watch movies like a normal audience?"
After listening to his sister's words, Guan Xiaolin, who was also wearing makeup and big sunglasses, suddenly stuck out his tongue, made a grimace, and stopped talking loudly. However, a whispered answer is still inevitable, after all, it is a child!
"Sister, look, almost all the promotional posters here are promoting the movies you participated in. And it also deliberately gave you a large close-up shot of the C-position appearance, at first glance, it looks like you are the leading actor of a diva-level female star, it really feels like a dream. I remember that my sister used to have a dream of becoming a big star, and now it's halfway there, right......?"
Guan Zhilin listened to his sister's words, and also looked around at the huge poster, and sighed in a low voice: "Yes, now I really feel like a dream!"
He Zilong waved the movie ticket in his hand and responded with a smile: "Don't sigh anymore, this time it's the supporting role that sighs like this, next time you are the heroine No. 1, when you want to sigh, it's not ...... yet."
Guan Zhilin listened to He Zilong's words, his pretty eyes were full of camouflage, and in the eyes of his man, there was a special spring flow.
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The cinema that He Zilong and his entourage chose to watch the movie is the largest leading cinema under the name of Boss Lei Cinema, and the indoor audience can only sit more than 1,000 people. If the illusion is not large, you can imagine the picture of a school with a thousand students in the eighties and nineties in China when all students watched a movie in a movie theater at the same time!
The luxurious giant screen here, with all high-end configurations, brings unimaginable shocking effects to viewers!
When it was their turn to check in the tickets, there were only 90% of the people inside, if they hadn't booked a box, they were afraid that such a large scale, and they came so late, and they might not be able to find their seats if they changed people.
With the help of the waiter in the box, the group quickly entered the box and took their seats.
Just as they were waiting for the movie to start in the box, in Boss Lei's office, dozens of movie theaters under his name were summarized, and the attendance rate of the day. The statistics obtained were that when the average reached 90%, Boss Lei had an unusual smile on his face.
"Originally, I didn't care too much about whether the box office was good or not, after all, I made a lot of money from stocks this time. But now it's surprisingly good, and it's gone now. In the future, I am not afraid of those small shareholders biting their tongues...... Well, the movie hype will continue to follow this in the future!"
After the smile on his face receded, the city government reappeared. Boss Lei frowned, suddenly thought of something, and picked up the landline phone on the table. Got through the movie of the secretary's assistant: "Check it out for me, the attendance rate of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest at this time is ......"
"Okay, boss......" replied the secretary.
Ten minutes later, the phone on Boss Lei's desk rang. "Jingle Bell ......" "Jingle Bell ......"
Boss Lei picked up the phone, and the secretary's answer came from inside. When the phone was put down, Lao Lei's brows were locked in a ball, and he walked back and forth in the office.
"How can it be? We have been promoting for so long, we have done so many activities and rewards, and they have responded so late, but we can still achieve full attendance, this is unreasonable, where can Hong Kong get so many additional audience ......?"
At this moment, Boss Lei was a little puzzled!
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(End of chapter)