Within two days, Li Yadong's status in the crew became a little different.

Although the job of boiling sugar water has not changed, there will be no one who treats him as an ordinary studio worker.

Almost everyone in the crew knows that there is a rich young master on the set, who pays out of his own pocket every day to boil sugar water for everyone, today it is rock sugar bird's nest, tomorrow it is papaya snow clams, and he always changes tricks to supplement everyone's nutrition.

Being a person can do this, it's hard not to be liked.

Especially those group performers, when they meet every day, they must shout "Dong Shao". No matter what kind of mentality they have, it is what Li Yadong expects.

Because after talking to Andy Lau last time, he specially bought a lot of books and magazines about movies to read, although his understanding of this industry has improved by leaps and bounds, but what he can know is still very limited, and the more specific situation is learned through those group performers who have been in the industry for a long time.

If it weren't for them, Li Yadong wouldn't have known until now that the famous Shaw Brothers Pictures had actually stopped production, and now he is dedicated to the development of the TV industry, that is, TVB.

It's like the "Jianghu Love" that their crew is filming, you must know that this film is from Golden Harvest Pictures, and everyone probably knows that Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest were old rivals in the past, and they wish each other were dead, if it wasn't for Shaw Brothers Pictures to stop production, how could they rent the set to Golden Harvest to make a movie?

Since there is no business conflict, there is naturally no need to be an enemy, there is never an overnight feud in the mall, only eternal interests.

In short, Hong Kong's film industry has changed a lot from the era of the Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and Golden Princess, which have a slight impression in Li Yadong's memory.

At the end of the 80s, it can be said that Hong Kong films really took off, there were more theaters and the threshold for entry was shallower, and Li Yadong stepped on a good time.

But there are troubles, precisely because it is simple to make a movie and has a high rate of return, so almost all the owners who are not bad for money in their pockets want to get a piece of the pie, and even the old boy wants to get involved, resulting in a shortage of internal resources, good directors, good actors, there is no schedule at all.

Li Yadong even recalled one thing, that is, Liu Jialing shook it out that year, and was later confirmed by Wen Wei, a Hong Kong gold medal screenwriter, director, and chairman of the Academy Awards Organizing Committee, that the kidnapping of actors for filming in "Booming Dragon and Tiger Club" should have happened two years later, in addition to Liu Jialing, Wan Ziliang was kidnapped, and even Andy Lau was pointed at gunpoint to the head, and he went to the Netherlands to finish filming this film.

This shows how hard it is to find resources.

Wen Wei once said that now is the best moment for Hong Kong films, and it is also the worst moment.

Li Yadong felt a little pain in his brain, with his current interpersonal relationships in Hong Kong, as well as his tight financial situation, wanting to grab some resources from such a fierce competition environment and find someone to help make a movie is tantamount to a fool's dream.

"Pony, what's going on, why hasn't today's script come out yet......"

There was a roar outside, director Huang Tailai was furious, the crew had been working for almost an hour, and the script hadn't arrived yet, so why still shoot a big-headed ghost? Everyone has to wait, but this is money, and the release date of the movie has already been scheduled, if the goods can't be handed over by the time, then it will be a big trouble.

This is a very normal phenomenon, Hong Kong is a city with a very fast pace of life, so fast that when many movies start shooting, they don't even have time to write scripts. Friends who are familiar with Hong Kong films must be familiar with the title of "Flying Paper Boy".

To put it simply, it is that the two masters who pay for it sit together and discuss, "Eh, I have a little fun watching gunfight movies", and the other one says, "That's the shooting", and then find the director and actors, everything is ready, only the script is needed, but it doesn't matter, shoot first. The screenwriter writes a little, let's shoot a little first, and in this era, most people don't use computers to write, they all fax today's scenes to the crew after handwriting, so they are called "Flying Paper Boy".

Including "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Crazy Boy" and many other movies, they all flew out like this.

When Xu Ke asked Ruan Qianzhi to write "A Chinese Ghost Story", Ruan Qianzhi had never written a ghost movie, and his heart was a little drumming, so Xu Ke said to him: "Just write the female ghost as a public relations lady." Because the female ghost Nie Xiaoqian, like Miss Public Relations, is fierce at night, but she doesn't dare to come out during the day, they also try their best to cheat things from men. ”

Then Ruan Qizhi followed this method, scratched his head and squeezed out a little bit a day, and then flew to the set.

"A Chinese Ghost Story", which can be called a classic, was also filmed in this way.

When Wu Yusen directed "The True Color of Heroes 2", he didn't even have a flying paper boy, only a story outline, and he still started filming directly.

There is no cowardice at all, he once said: "Flying Paper Boy" is not only a way of working, but also a spiritual totem, David Bordwell concluded that "everything is overdone, all crazy", this is the "soul" of Hong Kong films!

Li Yadong sat on the bench, looking at Huang Tailai in the open space outside, jumping and scolding at the assistant pony, his eyes flashing.

There are two screenwriters of "Jianghu Love", both of whom have great backgrounds, one is Wen Yan, and the other is Xiao Ruoyuan, who is known as "Xiao Caizi", it is said that when the two wrote the script at that time, they had a big difference, and they wrote it very painfully, and they couldn't deliver it for a long time. Otherwise, I wouldn't have found two gold medal screenwriters to work on them at the same time.

But what they racked their brains and couldn't write, for Li Yadong, it was not difficult at all, because he was too familiar with the plot of this movie, and he had seen it three or four times, to say the least.

Li Yadong feels that this is an opportunity, as Andy Lau said a few days ago, he imagined making movies too simply, completely ignoring the social background of this era, and even the old boy who is not short of money has to take out a gun to grab resources, not to mention a foreigner like him, who is almost indifferent in comparison?

If you are still unwilling to give up, the only way may be to mix up some fame in the Hong Kong film industry, and with fame and status, there is probably a glimmer of possibility.

His thoughts came to an abrupt end here, Li Yadong didn't think about it anymore, ran out of the sugar water house with a smoke, and found Fang Pengyu, "Yu Zai, get me a pen and paper." ”

Fang Pengyu didn't ask much, he had been stained with a lot of light in the past few days, and after asking him to wait for a while, he went into the simple room next to him, took out a few pieces of letter paper and a ballpoint pen, and handed them to him.

After getting the things, Li Yadong returned to the sugar water house, lying on the small wooden table, writing hard, only hoping that today's script would arrive as late as possible.

A movie is just over an hour, and the plot is not long, and the movie has already been filmed partially, so Li Yadong started writing from the place where it has not yet been filmed.

"Eh, Dong Shao, what are you busy doing?" an extra walked over and greeted with a smile.

Li Yadong replied without raising his head: "The sugar water is in the pot, and I will serve it myself." ”

"Oh?" the actor was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "Whatever?"

"Whatever you want. ”

"Then thank you, Dongshao. This actor was immediately happy, and now everyone knows that Dong Shao will pay out of his own pocket to stew the best sugar water every day, but usually speaking, they have no share in the extras in the morning, and only after those stars and leaders have drunk at noon, if there is any left, will it be their turn.

No one will have an opinion, after all, it is people's own money, who they like to drink, and they actually drink it less.

Li Yadong's language skills are still okay, from elementary school to high school, his Chinese scores have always been among the best, and his compositions are often praised by teachers, and it took about half an hour to finally write out all the remaining unfinished plots of "Jianghu Love", which was written in great detail, a full two pages of stationery.

When he found Mrs. Huang in a hurry, he was talking on the phone in the director's room, the door was not closed, but even if it was closed, it was useless, the houses on the set were all improvised, very rough, and could not cover anything except for the **.

"Oh, Brother Wen, the rivers and lakes are in emergency, you just said half an hour, and now half an hour has passed, and you said half an hour, isn't this playing me, the entire crew on my side can be all consumed here......"

He uses a landline, which is hands-free, and it is not difficult to guess from the title, and the person on the other end of the phone must be undoubted.

"Lao Huang, don't worry, give us a little more time, Lao Xiao and I haven't slept all night, and after discussing it until now, the plot behind it is really not easy to arrange, and it doesn't feel appropriate to get it, you also know that this drama is a big production, the box office is not in place, and the boss is definitely going to go crazy...... "Grass era."