Hong Kong films in the 90s were known as the "Hollywood of the East", and a large number of outstanding directors, screenwriters, and actors and stars with personality characteristics emerged, and their influence went far beyond Hong Kong itself, extending north to the mainland and Taiwan, south to the whole of Southeast Asia, and to the real Hollywood.

However, just as the sun has its own shadow, even the Hong Kong film industry, which has a very complete industrial chain, is still mixed with a lot of dark sides.

These forces cannot be eliminated at all, because in the initial stage, there are prefix community forces mixed in, and it can even be said to be support and help, which over time has formed the unique unspoken rules of Hong Kong films, and has also left those scenes that amazed time.

Xiong Baizhou wanted to find Chen Long to shoot an advertisement, but was blocked, and asked Hong Kong's No. 1 Society, Xinji, to come forward to solve it.

At this time, Chen Long, who was filming "Simple Mission" in Perth, the capital of Western Australia, completed several scenes, and director Tang Jili shouted "cut", and Chen Long returned to his RV from the shooting site.

The climate in Perth is almost completely opposite to the mainland, Hong Kong is the beginning of January, the climate in Perth is the hottest, the agent in the RV Chen Zhiqiang handed over a cup of cold coffee: "Jackie, today is a good finish." ”

This is Chen Zhiqiang's professional habit, every time he accompanies his stars to go out to film, he will be on the scene in person.

Chen Long drank two large sips of ice water, and then realized that the expression on Chen Zhiqiang's face was very heavy: "Look at you are very melancholy, Willie." ”

Chen Zhiqiang sighed and silently lit a cigarette.

"Don't be sad, tell me something. Chen Long patted Chen Zhiqiang's shoulder heavily: "We are friends." ”

"Xu Liyan came to me and hoped that you would go back and shoot an advertisement. ”

Chen Long immediately shook his head: "It's definitely not going to work now, the schedule of the movie is not enough, and there was a famous company in the mainland that asked me to shoot an advertisement before, but I was also rejected by you." ”

Chen Zhiqiang said "um" and said in a low voice: "Enterprises on the mainland are easy to refuse, but Xu Liyan is not easy to shirk, they dare to force people to make movies with guns." ”

The story of the popular student Liu Dehua being pointed at four guns to make a movie is almost transparent in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

"What did they do?" said Chen Long, who gradually discovered the seriousness.

Chen Zhiqiang looked at Chen Long and only said one sentence: "Xinji found my family." ”

The rest of the thousand words don't need to be said again, Chen Long "snapped" and dropped the cold drink in his hand, watching the frozen coffee gurgling on the ground, Chen Long roared loudly: "Pick the fuck, I went to Hollywood and still forced it like this, now go back to shoot commercials, I will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars before and after, and I am still humiliated." ”

Chen Zhiqiang didn't squeak, and he didn't want to compromise.

Chen Long dropped a few more items, and after the resentment in his heart gradually calmed down, he said in a deep voice: "Willie, you go to find a relationship, the police, and other associations are fine, I can't go back now." ”

"I've found it, but it's useless. ”

Chen Zhiqiang talked about the ashes and said: "The north wants to take back Hong Kong, and the ghosts don't want to give it, and all forces in the world are slowly infiltrating and infiltrating, and the police force itself can't touch the edge." ”

"As for the club, the one who dares to wrestle with Xinji is Hutchison and the Number Gang, but the big D Rong, who has always been greedy for money, is rarely reluctant to come forward this time, and the number gang is too expensive, and he opens 2 million to settle this matter. ”

"2 million, why doesn't he eat!" Chen Long took a sip.

"Then forget it!" Chen Ziqiang suddenly said ruthlessly: "They don't dare to kill people left and right, it's just intimidation, let's finish filming the movie in Perth and go back!"

Looking at the determination on the face of this old friend who had known each other for twenty years, Chen Long finally shook his head and said, "Let's go back, I will make up for the hundreds of thousands of losses myself." ”

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The director who shot this advertisement was Tsui Hark, which was also set by Xiong Baizhou.

At this time, Tsui Hark had already filmed the first few installments of the "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Wong Fei Hung" and "Fang Shiyu" series, and others only saw the dazzling fighting actions and changes in the scenes of light and shadow in these movies, which is also a guarantee of the box office.

However, Xiong Baizhou feels that Tsui Hark has strong local feelings, national feelings and national feelings, and traditional cultural elements often appear in Tsui Hark's film works.

He inherits traditional Chinese culture through film, and roots profound connotations in the storyline of the film, revealing the wonderful cultural roots-seeking journey of Hong Kong filmmakers.

Seeing the box of Hong Kong dollars in front of him and the menacing Xinji Ma Zai, Tsui Hark didn't say anything, accepted the box of Hong Kong dollars and began to ask Lu Licun if he had any special requirements for this advertisement.

Lu Licun was introduced by Xiong Baizhou to take charge of the four seas, including contact with these Hong Kong word associations, but to really talk about these things, Xiong Baizhou needs to come out in person.

"I don't know anything about this, and I can't say it clearly, but someone else will explain it to you. ”

Tsui Hark nodded, he felt that Lu Licun might just be a funder, like those bigwigs, but the script still needs to be discussed by professionals.

The venue of the exchange was just an ordinary café in Mong Kok, which surprised Tsui Hark a little.

What surprised him even more was that when the handsome and profound young man in front of him communicated with him, whether it was the fierce Xinji Ma Zai just now, or the funder Lu Licun, they all stood outside the door in a proper manner.

There are only a few ordinary white-collar workers in the coffee shop eating bread and drinking coffee, accompanied by the melodious and low-key piano sound, the warm sunshine shuttles through the breath of the slight gap, and the comfort is long, and occasionally the wind chimes "jingle bell" rings, and the ordinary citizens who come in.

In such a relaxed and comfortable environment, Tsui Hark's mood also slowly relaxed, Xiong Baizhou did not talk about too specific requirements, but exchanged more traditional Chinese culture, and Tsui Hark also had his own perception on this point.

Until the phone ringing broke the comfortable environment, Xiong Baizhou took the phone and stood up and said goodbye: "Everything I want is expressed in the conversation, you are in a casual style, so I didn't give you a specific framework, everything is free to play." ”

After saying that, Xiong Baizhou left, and it was the first time for Tsui Hark to talk about movies in this way, he forgot the nature of his coercion, and he was a little reluctant.

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Three days later, a box of film rolls was handed to Xiong Baizhou.

Put it into the video camera, I saw that the picture immediately appeared a desolate landscape full of yellow sand and lonely smoke in the desert, and an injured dart master held a dart flag high and was riding a horse in embarrassment.

The dart master played by Chen Long is embarrassed, but the dart flag is clean and tidy, waving in the wind in the desert.

There are four big characters on the dart flag: Connect the dart board.

followed closely by a team of killers, raising the yellow sand in the sky, with the murderous atmosphere in the background music, solemn and tragic.

Finally, the dart master was caught up by the killer, and the two sides did not see any superfluous movements, so they drew their swords and fought.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, the yellow sand was turbulent, and the scene of the fight was hidden in the wind and sand.

After half a ring, the wind subsided, the sand fell, and the music ended, and all the killers fell to the ground, but the dart master was also covered in blood.

I saw him spit out a mouthful of blood and foam, pull up the banner of "Connect Dart Bureau" on the ground, turn over and leave.

The Qiang flute played a melodic melody, and the whole camera focused on the four words "connecting the dart game".

The whole picture is actually only more than 20 seconds, but the rhythm is tight, the subject is clear, and there is no nonsense.

What's more, the role played by Chen Long actually became the foil to the "Connected Dart Game".

He is green leaves, and the connection is safflower.

Lu Licun saw that Xiong Baizhou was silent and did not speak, and asked anxiously: "Big man, what do you think?"

"Fuck it, it was beyond my expectations!"

Suddenly, Xiong Baizhou laughed "hahaha": "Lao Tzu is going to shake the small waist of EMS!"

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