"Is Director Lei too optimistic, don't forget that there are also Hong Kong filmmakers, if the mainland market rises, you say that those people will give up, they will definitely come over, how will you deal with it then!" Li Bin on the side pouted, very optimistic about Lei Weidong's optimism.

"Hong Kong movies are dead, and those filmmakers can only survive under the oppression of Hollywood, what's so terrible!" Lei Weidong said loudly.

"Hong Kong movies are dead?" Fan Bin shrugged, let alone her, even Li Bin and Li Yan disagreed.

"Don't believe it, let's argue, Cao Cao and Liu Bei cooked wine and talked about heroes during the Three Kingdoms period, let's come to taste tea and talk about movies today, and we will comment on Hong Kong movies!" Lei Weidong picked up the teapot and filled it for the three girls, and made a gesture of please.

"Okay, I'll come first!" Fan Ye is not a loss to Fan Ye, that surname is naturally very gentlemanly, and he is not embarrassed, and said directly and magnificently.

"Hong Kong has box office giants like Shuang Zhou Cheng, martial arts superstars like Brother Jie, and newcomers and directors like the Four Heavenly Kings, Scum Hui, Gu Tianluo, Chen Yanchun, Wang Jing, and Xu Ke, why do you look down on them?"

"I look down on Hong Kong filmmakers because they play themselves to death!" Lei Weidong said.

"The golden age of Hong Kong films was the decade from 84 to 94, and after 94 years, because of their own death, the reputation of Hong Kong films plummeted, and in just two or three years, Hong Kong films that swept the invincible opponents in Asia were destroyed.

The film can't be sold, the stars can't eat, and the company can't open!

A large number of female stars, such as Aunt Lin, Qiu Doudou, Honggu, Aunt Thirteen, Xiaoxian, etc., retired and retired, married and married, and the top female stars were left with only Sister Manyu struggling to support.

So much so that now, it has only been a few years, and when everyone talks about Hong Kong and Taiwan movies, it feels like decades have passed.

Female celebrities have a hard time, and so do male stars.

There is also Brother Jie on a trip a week, why did he go to the United States at this time and try to open up a second spring of his career there, it was not because Hong Kong really couldn't get along, as for Xing Ye, because of his strict performance. relied heavily on the local audience in Hong Kong, so he did not go to the United States and had to stay.

If you go to Hong Kong now to see and understand it, you will know that Hong Kong films are dead" This sentence is not something I said nonsense.

The reason for this is that Hong Kong is different from Hollywood and us!

In addition to the fact that the market is too small, it is also because Hong Kong does not even have a professional film and television talent training college.

Hong Kong actors are all from wild roads, in the past, because there were many movies made, and everyone ran a lot of tricks, so their acting skills naturally came out, but now, the number of Hong Kong movies is less than one-tenth of what it used to be, and these movies are not enough for those big stars to eat, how can they give the opportunity to newcomers.

And there are a large number of film and television schools here or in Hollywood, and I don't know how many elite talents are cultivated every year, although these people are not famous, but they have a solid foundation, what they want to act, as long as there is a market, money, give a chance, these people can fly straight to the sky, it can be said that there is a strong foundation.

It's like Li Bin, he lacks a chance, only a chance......

It can be said that Hong Kong films without a strong reserve force will inevitably decline.

"Director Lei, you seem to be mistaken, I'm talking about these actors on the weekend, how did you get involved in Hong Kong movies?" Fan Bin glanced at Lei Weidong with disdain, "What if Hong Kong movies collapse, as long as the mainland market rises, those filmmakers can come to the mainland to make money, with their fame, how will we mainland filmmakers deal with it at that time." ”

"They're easy to deal with, or we'll debate them one by one!"

"Yes!" Fan Bin glanced at Lei Weidong with a provocative gaze, although Queen Fan was very weak, it had already begun to take shape.

"In the Hong Kong film industry, there is a Meng Weijun, who is not only famous and has a high status, but also likes to promote newcomers. ”

"You're talking about Brother Sanmao, a martial arts superstar, the head of the famous Seven Little Blessings!" Fan Bin's dumb riddle couldn't stop Lei Weidong at all.

"Brother Sanmao is the big brother in the Hong Kong film industry, the fame of the Hong family class is known to everyone in Hong Kong, even Brother Long has to call him big brother when he sees him, in the eighties when he was the busiest, he supported two film companies by himself, but unfortunately, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a generation of newcomers is better than the old!

The Hong Kong film industry generally has a reincarnation in ten years, the ghost horse brothers in the 70s, Mai Jia and Sanmao brothers in the 80s, and in the 90s, they have to admit that the era that belongs to them has passed, and the 90s of the Hong Kong film industry is a world of double schedules. ”

Otherwise, Brother Sanmao wouldn't have been able to hold his son up, so he could only let him do chores on the TV station, but he really had very few resources for filming by himself, let alone bringing others. ”

"Is this really the case? Brother Sanmao can't do it!" Fan Bin's big eyes blinked, obviously not believing Lei Weidong's words.

"What am I lying to you about! It's no good!" Lei Weidong spread his hands and said a little angrily, "You only need to look at Brother Sanmao's recent movies and you will find that he has been the protagonist before, but now he can only be a supporting role or a villain, after all, he will be fifty years old soon." ”

"What you say is reasonable!" Fan Bin thought about it carefully, as if this was the case, Brother Sanmao had not been a big brother for many years.

"What about Brother Long!" Li Bin suddenly said, "He is now the second person after Li Xiaolong who has entered Hollywood!"

"Brother Long is really powerful, he regards movies as his own life, pays attention to excellence, and constantly improves, which has also made him famous for 20 years, a "Red Fan Zone" made him enter Hollywood, and "Rush Hour" made him a world-renowned action star.

It is said that "Rush Hour" 2 has been approved, and Brother Long's salary has reached 16 million US dollars, which is already the price of a Hollywood A-list superstar, but!"

Lei Weidong's tone changed suddenly.

"Brother Long is now a Hollywood superstar, making dollars in Hollywood, will he come back for a while and a half, and by the time he wants to come back, it will be too late!"

"Why is it late?"

"Brother Long is an action star, famous for his hard work in the film, but don't forget that Brother Long is a 53-year-old person, and he will be fifty soon, he can still play for a few years, that is, more than ten years, and Brother Long, who can't fight, can have a lot of box office attraction just by selling feelings!"

"Yes, Brother Long is old!" Li Bin and Fan Bin glanced at each other and couldn't help nodding.

Brother Long has been fighting for more than 20 years, and he can fight for more than ten years at most, and what people want to see is the brave and invincible Brother Long, not an old man who stumbles.

Speaking of which, Lei Weidong remembered the "British Showdown", the reason why the box office is a bit Waterloo is not because Brother Long is old and can't move.

"What about Brother Jie, Brother Fa and Xing Ye?" Seeing Fan Bin and Li Bin asking questions one after another, Li Yan's interest also came, and she asked three people as soon as she opened her mouth.

"Let's talk about Brother Fa first, because he is the same as Brother Long and Brother Sanmao, they are all post-50s!" Lei Weidong picked up the teacup and took a few sips to moisten his throat.

"Unlike Brother Long and Brother Sanmao, Fa Ge is not an action star, so he has a wide range of acting and good acting skills, but in that place in Hollywood, what is lacking is an action star, not an actor, and it is estimated that Fa Ge will come back after two years.

It's just that Fa Ge is old, and his famous works are movies like "The True Color of Heroes" and "God of Gamblers", and if you want to release such a type of movie in the mainland, don't think about it in ten years, and ten years later, Fa Ge, who is close to sixty, will still have any threat.

It is estimated that except for some specific movies, Fa Ge, like Sanmaoge, will serve as a supporting role or villain, unless the policy is relaxed in the future, Fa Ge and Wang Jing will cooperate to shoot the sequel to "God of Gamblers".

As for Brother Jie, he, like Brother Long, is now making dollars in Hollywood, as a scarce martial arts superstar in Hollywood, he is less than forty, and he can play in the United States for at least ten years.

In addition to Xing Ye's higher threat, like Brother Jie, he is still a fighting year after 60, but Xing Ye's quirks make him strive for excellence in movies, at most one a year, the market is so big, everyone has enough points.

Subsequently, the Four Heavenly Kings, Liang Wuzhi and others were analyzed by Lei Weidong one by one and commented on their weaknesses.

"You don't like actors, what about directors, Hong Kong directors' abilities are far above the mainland, if they come, will we still have good fruit to eat?"

Lei Weidong's evaluation of Hong Kong actors, Fan Bin felt that it was wrong, but he couldn't say why, this somewhat subverted his three views, did Hong Kong movies really decline.

Fan Bin, who didn't pay attention, thought about moving back to the director.

"Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Wu and Shen are all well-known directors, especially Wu and Shen are all big directors in Hollywood, a "Changing Face" has a global box office of more than 200 million, which is US dollars, and you are a big director who doesn't have a movie!"

"Compared with Hong Kong actors, I look down on those Hong Kong directors the most, because the root of the decline of Hong Kong movies lies in them!"

Lei Weidong began to teach the three girls.

"Do you know? In 1992, at the end of the golden decade of Hong Kong films, more than 200 Hong Kong films entered the stage in a year!

Because of the popularity of Hong Kong films, it has led to bends, and hot money from Korea, Singapore, and Thailand has poured into Hong Kong.

As long as the actor is famous, the contract does not need to be signed to attract tens of millions of investments.

Unlike now, my script and shooting plan are listed in detail, and I have only been able to attract more than one million investments. ”

"That's because you are not famous, if you are famous, you see if the investment is good or not!" Li Yan scoffed at Lei Weidong's hypocrisy, "You are a college entrance examination student who has not yet entered college, and you can bring in more than one million to make a movie, and your luck is already heavenly, you must know that many directors who graduated from major classes have not directed a movie for more than ten years." ”

"Yes, since I'm lucky, I'll buy a lottery ticket later, and if I can win five million, I'll kick you away!"

"Kick try, you eat me now, wear me, drink mine, want to ......"

"Stop!" Lei Weidong had a black line, "This is a line in a nightclub!"

"Yes!" Li Yan nodded, "I think this line suits me very well, let me play this role, as for you to play that little white face, you can also save some money." ”

"No!" Lei Weidong shook his head, "I think this role is very suitable for Fan Bin, I can let her make a cameo!"

"Is there any mistake, Fan Bin is only 19 years old, how can he play a strong woman with a little white face!" Looking at Fan Ying's blown-up skin, Li Yan shook her head.

"It doesn't matter, the script can be modified, the strong woman and the little white face can be changed to a savage girlfriend and an angry boyfriend, and an easter egg will be left in the movie, if "Nightclub" is a big hit, Fan Bin will be invited to be the heroine in the next play, telling the story of the savage girlfriend and the angry boyfriend. ”

"How is it, Miss Fan!" Lei Weidong turned his head and asked.

"Let me be the heroine, of course I agreed!" The shrewd Fan Bin would seize any opportunity to take the position, and she made a decision in just a moment.

If Lei Weidong's next film can be filmed, it means that "Nightclub" is a great success, and there is a great chance of continuing to succeed with the successful director, and Fan Bin will certainly not give up.

As for the failure of "Nightclub" and the difficult birth of the movie, I have nothing to lose, after all, this movie was picked up, don't do it in vain, as long as there are no unspoken rules.

"Because Hong Kong films are so popular, many people invest in movies and don't read the script, resulting in a lot of bad movies!"

After the chat, Lei Weidong continued to teach the three girls.

For example, Director Tuo Shen Wang relied on the all-star lineup of his brother and Aunt Lin and the "plan" to adapt Jin Yong's martial arts to deceive scholars into tens of millions of investments.

Because "East Evil and West Poison" exceeded expectations, and Changhong's "New Butterfly Meteor Sword" failed at the box office, plus "Jigong" starring Xing Ye was sold to a bent film dealer at a high price of more than 30 million.

As a result, it only received 15.48 million box office in Taipei, Taipei is the largest box office base in Wanwan, and the box office in Taiwan is generally twice that of Taipei.

As a result, the film companies collectively put forward opinions to the Hong Kong film companies, asking the Hong Kong film company to set a "ceiling", and at the same time asking the Hong Kong film company to deliver the film security contract that was signed and not delivered as scheduled.

It is said that there are nearly 250 famous investment films from the eight major film companies in Wanwan, if you count other film companies in Wanwan, Southeast Asia, Singapore, and other film companies.

It is estimated that there will be more than 400 unfinished Hong Kong films.

This figure is not to mention Hong Kong, even in Hollywood, it is unimaginable, it can only be said that the Hong Kong filmmakers of that era have gone crazy, and the influx of hot money has also gone crazy, and they don't even think about whether the film can be completed or not to invest.