Chapter 467: Enter first to make money
Several people present didn't know Chen Kexin, Feng Gang looked more personal, Shi Yuzhu met him and said hello.
As for Maggie Zhang, although she has never seen it, she knows them all.
She won the award because of the two literary films "The Woman Who Doesn't Take Off Her Socks" and "Ruan Lingyu", but she is really well-known in the mainland, but it is a movie and a TV.
The movie is a police story with Jackie Chan, a TV series, and the Yang family general who cooperates with TVB stars such as Andy Lau.
In the early 90s, there was a great lack of entertainment activities in the mainland, the film output was low, and there was a big gap between Hong Kong and Taiwan movies in terms of entertainment, so Hong Kong and Taiwan movies were very popular at that time. Whether it is ordinary people, such as Liang Yifei, Shi Yuzhu or even the so-called successful entrepreneurs of Zong Qinghou's age, the way to contact Hong Kong and Taiwan movies is basically to rent a video tape to watch it, and later when the technical conditions are better, they rent a VCD.
Among Hong Kong and Taiwan movies, Maggie Cheung is definitely an unavoidable character, with a very high appearance rate, and after the police story became popular, she starred in a series of popular movies.
Tales of Two Cities, Plan A, New Dragon Gate Inn, Double Dragon Club, Jigong, New Dragon Gate Inn...... has played with almost all the top male stars in Xiangjiang, and if you take out one at random, it is the memory of an entire generation or even several generations. Even an old comrade like Zong Qinghou has seen her movies, and there are more than one.
As soon as she and Chen Kexin got out of the car, even the two children Zong Fuli and Shi Jing, who were playing on the side, widened their eyes.
The two little girls looked up at her, and she smiled at them and said, "Hello." ”
"Yo, it seems that I don't need to introduce this beauty. Feng Gang said with a smile on the side: "This is Director Chen, the hero behind the scenes." ”
"You've praised yourself by the way. Liang Yifei stretched out his hand to Chen Kexin and said, "Director Chen, Ms. Zhang, welcome." Let me introduce you to both of you......"
After a brief introduction, Chen Kexin used very non-standard Mandarin to get straight to the point, wanting to make a movie about the changes between the two places, but lacked investment.
chatted a few words about the idea, not surprisingly, it was really sweet honey, this is a movie that is biased towards literature and art.
The investment in the whole drama is not very large, but this type of movie is generally not optimistic, although Ruan Lingyu won the Cannes Award before, but in the box office list of Xiangjiang that year, she did not even enter the top 20, and the export data is even more bleak, earlier, that Maggie Cheung went from a vase to a real actor's 'woman who does not take off her socks', the popularity is even lower, don't talk about the mainland, even many Xiangjiang locals have not heard of it.
"Director Chen, I take the liberty of asking. Liang Yifei nodded slightly, glanced at Feng Gang first, and then said: "As far as I know, although literary films do not make money, Xiangjiang is a place where a hundred flowers bloom, and there is a living space for literary and artistic films.
It is said that if there is no box office in literary films, there will be no investment, and there is no such problem in Xiangjiang, it is just that investment is more difficult. The last time Feng Gang mentioned this matter, Liang Yifei felt a little strange at the time, because it was empty, and Sweet Honey finally started filming and release.
"Mr. Liang, I would like to thank Director Feng for the inspiration he gave me. Chen Kexin smiled slightly, although he came to ask for money, his attitude was not humble, it can be seen that Liang Yifei was right, this guy is very confident, he said: "The last time I met Director Feng was on the set, he was filming a movie where you wrote the script, Party A and Party B, after I read the script, I felt that this movie was very different from the movies shot in the mainland before." ”
"Oh, you can also write scripts?" Zong Qinghou and Shi Yuzhu on the side were stunned, looking at Liang Yifei strangely, Zong Fuli suddenly burst out and said: "Oh, then Uncle Liang will definitely make up stories to deceive people!"
Children speak childishly, often in a word, several adults can't help laughing, Liang Yifei glared, said: "I ate half of my crocodile for nothing!
Zong Fu pouted and grimaced.
"What is the difference between this movie and previous Chinese films?" Shi Yuzhu asked.
"Hmm...... Personally, I feel that the previous Chinese movies were meaningful, and this movie is interesting. Or let's put it this way, there have been some interesting movies in the mainland before, but the ultimate purpose is to express meaning, and this movie, although there are some touching and meaningful places, the purpose is to make the audience feel that it is very interesting. ”
Chen Kexin said a lot, smiled embarrassedly, and said: "My Chinese is not very good, I don't know if I can express it clearly." ”
"It's clear and it's precise. Liang Yifei nodded and said, "But what does this have to do with Tianmi's coming to the mainland to find investors?"
Chen Kexin said: "The fact that this film can pass the censorship shows that the mainland's reform and opening up has really been developing in a very good direction, which has given us the creators of Xiangjiang a lot of confidence." 97 is coming, and it is foreseeable that there will be a large number of Hong Kong creators to communicate with the mainland, and Eric and I ...... Oh, it was Mr. Zeng Zhiwei who discussed, it is better for us to take the first step and co-produce and contact with the mainland side first, so as to lay a good foundation for the future, and this drama happens to be about mainlanders going to Xiangjiang, so it is an opportunity. ”
He said a lot of exchange creations, Liang Yifei and Shi Yuzhu both understood that this is a Xiangjiang filmmaker, realizing that the mainland market is a huge cake in the future, and wants to cross the river to share the cake.
In the past, the mainland's film censorship system caused Xiangjiang films to be stuck out of the door, and pure entertainment films like Party A and Party B passed the review, which made Xiangjiang people with a keen sense of smell realize that the opportunity had come.
This kind of thing, of course, is the first to divide the pie, and it is the largest and the earliest.
To put it bluntly, there is no shortage of money in Tianmi, but the investment money is best from the mainland, and the actors and directors are from Xiangjiang, which is a cross-strait co-production.
"What does Miss Zhang think of the mainland's film market?" Liang Yifei suddenly asked Maggie Zhang.
Maggie Zhang smiled faintly and said: "Although my ancestral home is from the mainland, I moved to Xiangjiang with my family since I was a child, and when I was a little sensible, I went to the United Kingdom to study, and after I came back, I have been making movies, and I really don't know much about the mainland......
Very politely nodded slightly at a few bosses, before continuing: "But after all, I am Chinese, it was inconvenient to come back before, now I have the conditions, I still hope to come to the mainland to have a look, there is a quarter of the world's population, there are hundreds of Xiangjiang such a large area, I think there must be a lot of very interesting friends and very interesting things, so I personally look forward to it." ”
On the big screen, Maggie Cheung often plays a spicy role, but in reality, she has been very strict with her family education since she was a child, and she studied in a girls' school in the UK, cultivating a good temperament and ladylike demeanor, and she seems to be very quiet.
"Then since everyone is looking forward to it, if I don't invest, won't I become a villain?" Liang Yifei laughed and said, "Director Feng, you will cooperate with Director Chen in this matter." ”