Chapter 1191: Shame for Filmmakers
When Yin Jun returned to Xiangjiang, "Dragon Tiger Boys 2" was being screened.
Although Wu Siyuan manages the light in the United States, a series of people from Siyuan Film Company are also old horses, and the actors are also fixed teams, so the filming went very smoothly.
In terms of release, since Wu Siyuan is already his own person, Kirin Film Company has given them the greatest help, not only did they take 15 movie theaters from Golden Harvest themselves, but Kirin Film also won them 30 other movie theaters, and 45 movie theaters were co-screened in one go.
The box office of "Dragon Tiger Youth Team 2" is also very good, with a box office of more than 8 million in the first week, and the future box office of 30 million is also very promising.
Because the ticket price has risen by about 10%-20%, the box office results of 20 million were good in the past, but now it has to be 25 million at the box office to be considered a popular film.
has a box office of 30 million, so it has to be a very good movie.
40 million, now I can only watch Kirin Film Company and Cheng Long, and so far only they have been able to do it.
Since the large-scale co-screening of "The Speed of Life and Death", the number of theaters has also been added to the film measurement standards of Hong Kong.
Whether it is a blockbuster or not, you can see if it is jointly released by more than 40 movie theaters.
Movies like Shaw Brothers' that were released in more than ten or twenty movie theaters are indeed much worse in grade.
In 1982, even if there was still a blockbuster copyright such as "Police Detective School 2" in hand, the overall Shaw Brothers Film Company was inevitably in a state of decline.
Even if there is still an overseas market, in the first quarter of this year, Shaw Brothers Films made a historic loss.
Although there is only a loss of hundreds of thousands, this is something that has never happened before.
Thinking that the superlord who has ruled the film industry in Hong Kong for decades has actually fallen to the current point, it is very impressive.
And everyone can see that Shaw's weakening is inevitable.
This is not only the increasing external competition, it seems that Shao Liuye himself also has the intention of giving up.
Because, the two generals of the Shaw Brothers, Zhang Ce has set up his own company, and with the series of movies "Jin Yiwei", he has become very popular, and the profit of eight million a year is very moisturized.
Chu Yuan went to Jiahe and recently made two movies, although the box office is not too high, but the local box office of 8 million and 12 million, plus there are many people in other cities who buy him, and he can always make money.
After the success of "Blind Man", Du Qifeng, the new director carefully cultivated by Shao Liuye, made three movies in a row, all of which hit the streets, and now he has returned to TVB to produce TV series to fight against the increasingly aggressive ATV and Kirin Satellite TV.
There is also a cutting-edge director, Wang Tianlin's son Wang Jing, who is not a director of Shaw Brothers at all, he opened a small production company by himself, but he cooperates with TVB on weekdays.
So you see, so many big directors and good directors have stopped working for Shaw Brothers, how can you say Shaw Brothers can get better?
They still have a lot of actors, but without a good script and a good director, what is the use of these actors?
I'm afraid it can only be left to others to poach, right?
Yin Jun saw such a report.
Then he immediately remembered a major event, a shame of Shaw Brothers, a shame of the Xiangjiang film industry.
Thinking of this, the young man immediately called Shao Liuye and invited him to have tea in the afternoon.
Shao Liuye's current health is not bad, it is not appropriate to say that the dragon spirit and tiger are fierce, but it is still very suitable to be old and strong.
So in the afternoon, he wandered into the Peninsula Hotel café alone.
Along the way, many people came to greet him, and Shao Liuye sat opposite Yin Jun with a smile on his face.
"Ah Jun, you went to France this time, and you did a good job!" Shao Liuye took a sip of coffee before he said slowly, "Cannes, you have already conquered, the next step should be the Oscar, right?
"Oscar and Cannes are not at the same level, so it's a bit difficult. Yin Jun smiled.
In fact, the most difficult thing for the Oscars to overcome is the gap between culture and social outlook.
An original Oriental filmmaker must have received a Confucian education, or the influence of Buddhism is very deep, so what he shows must be related to his own cultural influence, and it will also be very suitable for his own social outlook.
But this is different from the cultural expression of the West, and it is completely incompatible.
Foreigners can appreciate "Huang Feihong", they can appreciate "Hero", but they are just appreciating, just watching, you want them to understand the kind of Confucian forbearance, righteousness, self-improvement, and suppression...... And so on, they don't grasp it at all.
In their opinion, if you don't accept it, just do it, whatever you are!
On the other hand, Chinese people only appreciate foreign movies, and they still don't recognize the concepts expressed by foreign countries, especially when they see Europeans being tortured to death all day long, and they are rumored all day long, everyone still thinks that our Huaguo is much more stable and happy.
Why did Li Yan win the Oscar for Best Director twice in his previous life?
That's because Li Yan has been completely Americanized.
His direction of thinking, his life values, and his handling of movies are all done by an American, so he won the Oscar for Best Director.
It can also be said that Li Yan's victory was not a victory for us Chinese, but a victory for the Americans—they successfully assimilated a Chinese into an American, a real American!
"Don't be so modest, Uncle Sixth is optimistic about you!" Shao Yifu waved his hand, "I'm just waiting here, waiting for us Xiangjiang people to win the first Oscar!"
"I will get this award for the Chinese. Yin Jun said with a smile.
The two of them meant the same, but there was a little difference in the words, but Shao Yifu heard it, he shook his head and smiled, "Ah Jun, MacLehose has already left, if you insist so much here, I'm afraid you will suffer." ”
"Don't be afraid. ”
The young man also shook his hand, "In life, how can you give up your own ideas because of some bastard ideas? I am from Xiangjiang, but I must also be a Chinese, and there is no way to change this." ”
Shao Yifu shrugged and didn't mention it again.
He is also a person who came out of Huhai, and he is the same as Yin Jun in this regard, but this old man is much more sleek, and before the Chinese side has gained an overwhelming advantage, he has maintained neutrality and cannot be offended on both sides.
That is, after the complete victory in 1984, Shao Yifu began to donate more and more generously to the mainland, and Shaw House or something began to appear slowly.
However, the sixth master is still much better than Li Chaoren, at least people will not say "I am a businessman, I and the mainland are mutual assistance and mutual benefit, and no one owes anyone" such bastard words.
"Sixth uncle, I invited you over today, I have something to discuss with you. Yin Jun began to get to the point.
"Well, you say. Shao Yifu said.
"I heard you're going to close Shaw's business temporarily?"
"Who said that?
"Not only did I hear about this, but I also heard that you are going to let those male and female stars who have contracts go to shoot Fengyue X movies before Shaw Brothers closes down, so as to make such a final payment?"
Hearing this, Shao Yifu's eyes froze, and the coffee cup he was holding was almost unstable.
"Nonsense! Who are you listening to? Who wants to stamper my innocence like this?! I want to settle accounts with him!!" After a long time, Shao Yifu put down his cup and shouted loudly.
It's just that in Yin Jun's eyes, he has a bit of a strong voice.
The boy didn't hear from anyone, but really saw it.
In his previous life, that is, two years later, around 1984, before he sold Shaw Cinemas to Pan Gongzi's Debao Company, Shao Yifu did just that.
He spent a few months in more than a dozen rooms, and called those actors and actresses under his command to shoot dozens of Fengyue X films, and made a lot of money.
Fengyue X film is not the three X film that I will talk about later, but there must be a little bit of exposure.
In those years, when Xiangjiang's xx films were not so self-free, such movies were very hated by the actors and felt too humiliating.
So most of the people who want to shoot Fengyue X movies are just desperate little stars.
Like Shao Yifu, there has never been a situation where the stars of his film company have all made one or two Fengyue X movies more or less.
But if you don't shoot, then Shao Yifu won't let these stars go, the contract is held by Shaw Brothers, and if they don't act for two or three years, they will only be forgotten or starved to death.
In the end, there was no way, under the persecution of Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua, these stars, especially female stars, could only shoot Fengyue X with tears, and "contributed" the last strength to the Shaw Brothers, which was about to be discontinued.
In Yin Jun's opinion, this is simply an insult to the filmmakers of Xiangjiang!
Whether it is a star or not, even if Xiangjiang can make a three-X film, or even a real film, then you have to make the actor willing, so that one of you is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, so that you can be justified.
How can you be like you Shao Liuye, taking advantage of the last to make a fortune, but still ruining people like this?
In fact, after Shao Yifu did this, most of the female stars who came out of Shaw Brothers retired in shame and never appeared on the screen again.
There is also a fault line among the female stars of Xiangjiang movies, and it will be three or five years later, when a new batch of TV female stars grow up, they can be filled with movie screens again.
Yin Jun recalled this incident, and then saw that Shaw Brothers was now showing signs of early closure, so he hurriedly came over to find Shao Yifu, hoping to stop him from such a shameful idea.
This can be regarded as making the film industry in Xiangjiang less of such an embarrassing shame that makes people sigh!nt
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