From the 80s to the 90s, the Hong Kong government ushered in a golden age for the entertainment industry.

However, the Hong Kong government is a cultural desert, where are there so many excellent creators?

The mainland smuggled a batch of immigrants in the past, and Baodao attracted a number of them, but they still could not meet the market demand of the Hong Kong government. The transformation of imported products has become the main source of Hong Kong government's film and television music works.

The songs are mainly based on Japanese songs, and the movies are copied from Hollywood.

The Hong Kong government has created the concept of "saving movies", and saving up movies is to collect and quote from all directions, take their essence for their own use, and integrate them into a localized style, which has become a unique Hong Kong film.

Among them, the master is Wang Jing, Zhou Xingzhi, Zhuang Wenqiang and others.

The "Infernal Affairs" trilogy does not borrow enough elements, and the more typical example is "Happy Events in the Family". The film is a mix of many Hollywood movies such as "Pretty Woman", "Edward Scissorhands", "The Terminator", "The Shining", "Ghost Love" and many other Hollywood movies. Accumulate the classic clips in it and localize it, and it will become a big-selling Hong Kong film.

It's no wonder that this kind of movie production mode can last!

Especially after the opening up of the mainland market and more and more Hong Kong filmmakers went north to survive, Hong Kong films plummeted and completely lost their creative ability...... Either it's nostalgia playing sensationalism, or it's even more blatant plagiarism.

For example, "The Great Pursuit", which plagiarized the Japanese movie "The Devotion of Suspect X", "The Murderer", which plagiarized the Hollywood movie "Orphan's Resentment", and the best-selling "Wushuang" copied "The Extraordinary Suspect" to the fullest.

Tang En didn't want to intervene in this matter, after all, the audience of Hong Kong films is getting smaller and smaller, and the money he makes is insignificant. If you start a copyright lawsuit, even if you win, you won't make much money, and you may not even have enough legal fees.

However, now that the Hong Kong government filmmakers have taken the initiative to mention this stubble, and slandered that "The Departed" is plagiarizing "Infernal Affairs", which is too intolerable!

With Donne's current international influence and the coffee position in the world entertainment industry, what is the difference between saying that he plagiarized and slapping him in public?

"Boss Lin of Media Asia Pictures is on the scene, you can go and ask, whether "The Departed" is plagiarism! When it comes to plagiarism, you really provide me with an idea, if I remember correctly, there are many movies in Hong Kong films in the past that have a lot of plagiarism. After I go back, I will definitely communicate with the MPAA about this matter and resolve this series of copyright disputes. ”

The corners of Donn's mouth hooked, revealing a bit of mockery.

Okay, you say I'm plagiarizing?

Then have fun!

With legal means, everyone is playing with real knives and guns, I want to see who copied whom!

New Universal's two major studios, Universal Pictures and MGM, have a film library of more than 6,000 films, not to mention thirty or forty films, which have been stolen by the copyright of Hong Kong films.

After debating with so many people for so long, Don seemed to have figured it out.

Today's big drama is probably not just a simple difference between "Infernal Affairs" and "The Departed", it is likely to be a rebellion by Hong Kong filmmakers against the New Globe Group!

Don has high hopes for Netflix and plans for the future streaming platform. In order to avoid Netflix having to pay a large amount of copyright dividends after the rise of streaming media platforms in the future, Tang En began to lay out in advance early, acquiring a large number of movie copyrights around the world, in an attempt to do it once and for all.

Hong Kong films are naturally the highlight.

Forget about one or two, but Netflix wants to buy the rights of hundreds of movies, which is tantamount to hollowing out the old bottom of Hong Kong government movies. This is even worse for the already bleak Hong Kong film market.

I'm afraid this is also a big reason for today's farce.

……

"Don, I didn't expect you to have such a good temper!"

This premiere ended hastily and ended unhappily.

It is conceivable that the promotion of "The Departed" in Hong Kong this time will inevitably end in failure.

However, the entire crew of "Departed" didn't care much, they didn't do anything wrong. Even if you really offend the Hong Kong filmmakers, it's not a big deal.

What a big market the Hong Kong government has, it can be ignored.

Leonardo was even very surprised, thinking that Don would be furious and throw the table with those rude and rude Hong Kong filmmakers. Unexpectedly, Tang En did not show too much excitement from beginning to end.

Don glared at him angrily, "You know a fart!"

"What do you mean by being angry with me?" Leonardo said indignantly.

"Angry?" Donn smiled, "When did I get angry?"

"Huh?"

"Look at Martin!"

Leonardo turned back to Martin Scorsese and found him ruddy and beaming, as if he had celebrated a holiday.

"The Departed" has been questioned so much, and it has even been satirized as plagiarizing Hong Kong films, he, the film director, is quite happy? This is too unreasonable, right?

"Do you understand?" Don got into the car with Leonardo, escorted by bodyguards, and looked at him with a smile.

Leonardo frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "What's the matter?"

"The Oscars are not only the highest award for American films, but also a platform for American cultural exports. If you want to win the Oscar for Best Picture, artistry is actually secondary, and the most important thing is actually political, which is to uphold the values of the American left and advocate the universal values of freedom, equality, and democracy. Films with obvious value controversy like "Vulgar" and "Saving Private Ryan" can hardly be the best film in the end. ”

"'The Silence of the Lambs' also has a value controversy, right?"

"Yes? Think again! What's controversial is the two sequels. The movie "The Silence of the Lambs" is still relatively restrained, Hannibal is helping the police find the criminal, and finally successfully kills Bison Bill, overall, this is also a work around the theme of punishing evil and promoting good. ”

Leonardo nodded thoughtfully.

In order to win the Oscars, the values of the film must not be too controversial, and must conform to the universal ideas of "equality for all" and "democracy and freedom".

As soon as "Hero" came out, it shocked the whole United States and shocked the heavens. The demand is far higher than any other film of the same era.

As a result, "Hero" still failed to win the Oscars.

The reason is simple, there is a problem with values!

In the same way, Lao Mouzi's later "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling" also has such regrets, which are very good-looking, but the tendency to discriminate against prostitutes is too obvious.

Female students are nobler than dusty women?

This kind of movie, no matter how well it is made, will not win an award.

"Martin is a recognized master of cinema, and after Francis Coppola retired, he was the first person in the art of film language! It stands to reason that with his level, he should have won the Oscar a long time ago." ”

Leonardo nodded: "It's because his films are too paranoid and wander on the edge of universal values, and they can't be promoted to the world as a representative of American-style democracy." ”

Donn smiled: "That's the truth! His films are not conducive to promoting the mainstream values of the United States." ”

"But "The Departed" is not orthodox enough, right? As long as it is mainstream, it will not be subject to such a big controversy by Hong Kong filmmakers. ”

"Yes. ”

"Huh?"

"There are pros and cons. The public questioning of the filmmakers in the Hong Kong government is a big gift to us!"

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors