On May 28, 1982, the script of "Happy Ghost" was resubmitted to Lin Qi after being revised by Gao Zhisen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because, Lin Qi is not only an investor in this movie, but also a screenwriter. Just the fact that Lin Qi is the screenwriter may attract a large number of viewers' curiosity. After all, a big boss like Lin Qi, a legendary and old man, wants not to be popular, it is impossible.

The script of this movie was originally the script of "Happy Ghost" downloaded by Lin Qi in the 21st century. Moreover, the script has also been optimized to a certain extent, and some of the plots that are not too compact have been changed to be more compact.

You must know that the attraction of the first paragraph of the "Happy Ghost" movie is very average, and it is like a third-rate ghost movie. However, as the heroine of the movie, Lin Qingqing, picked up the rope that Zhu Xiucai hanged herself and brought back to the school, the plot entered an explosive period, as if it was not written by a screenwriter at the beginning. Later, the original music in the movie also added several layers of quality to the movie. Therefore, Lin Qi's script, in addition to the plot, is also accompanied by the music of the movie.

This is already a classic script, and after the re-polishing of the original screenwriter and director Gao Zhisen, although there are not many changes, it shows that Gao Zhisen has digested the script and made it his own.

"Not bad!" Lin Qi said, "The changes have not destroyed the plot structure, but there are still outstanding points." It means that you have carefully studied the script. ”

"Yes, Boss Lin, although the script can't be said to be able to be recited, but let me recreate it without reading the original manuscript now, I can restore the plot and lines of the original script for seven or eight points, even if some lines have changed, the general meaning is close. Gao Zhisen naturally knows that "Happy Ghost" is his biggest opportunity since he started his career, and if something happens, I don't know when he will have the same opportunity in the future. Therefore, during this time, Gao Zhisen almost repeatedly held the script, read it over and over again, and even played various roles and lines in front of the mirror.

"So, are you ready to shoot?" asked Lin Qi.

"Mr. Lin, the funds are in place, and we immediately entered the casting and filming process. Huang Baiming said, "It's best to release it from July to August, so that you can catch up with the summer season." If you miss the summer box office, it will definitely be greatly discounted, and at the same time, the plot of this movie itself caters to students about China, and it is most suitable to be released during the summer vacation of students. ”

"In other words, it will be completed and released in less than two months?" Lin Qi couldn't help frowning, Hollywood movies, normally, require more than half a year of production cycle. The production cycle of blockbusters with large investments is generally more than one year, and some movies even sharpen their swords for several years. This difference in creative concepts has caused Hollywood to polish movies more seriously, even if it is a commercial film that sells money, more polishing will definitely improve the quality.

Although the "Happy Ghost" series of movies is also as fast-paced as Hong Kong films, basically a movie will be released in about a month or two. The reason why it is so fast-paced is because the Hong Kong film market is very small, and hundreds of movies (including ***) are released in turn every year. Because, although the extension of the release time will increase the box office data of a single movie, it is more than worth the loss for theater operators.

Because, in this era, all Hong Kong cinemas are single-hall cinemas. A single movie screen can have as few as five or six hundred seats and as many as thousands. Therefore, once a certain movie declines at the box office, it will affect the attendance of the entire cinema.

Theater owners usually only give movies less than a month to be released, and sometimes the movie test screening is not ideal, and even less than a week later. Because, the vast majority of Hong Kong films can only be released in Hong Kong. Hong Kong produces hundreds of films a year, but only a few dozen are distributed overseas. It is precisely for this reason that most film investors tend to measure their investment budgets by the standard of being able to return on their investment in the Hong Kong market.

After the 90s, Hong Kong's cinema market, like the cinema market around the world, changed from a large single-hall cinema to a cinema composed of small cinemas with multiple screening halls. In this way, several different films can be released at the same time, allowing the audience to choose. After that, the release time of the movie gradually began to increase to about 2 months. Because, in the multi-hall of the cinema, a certain movie hits the street, in fact, it has little impact on the overall attendance. Giving the audience different films to choose from makes the performance of the theater more stable, so the time for the movie to be drawn will be extended.

At present, the box office range of movies above the standard in the Hong Kong film market is between a few hundred thousand yuan and more than two million yuan. Most movie crews have no illusions of getting more than 5 million at the box office. Therefore, the normal Hong Kong film production budget is mostly less than 3 million yuan. Only a very small number of blockbuster directors or superstars have reliable salaries and box office appeal, so they dare to make a big production with a production cost of more than 5 million yuan.

That's right!

A budget of more than 5 million is already considered a big production, and a budget of more than 10 million is even rarer in this era.

Lin Qi thought for a moment and said: "The budget of this movie should be increased to 10 million Hong Kong dollars." 10 million yuan budget, of which, fifty percent of the shooting, fifty percent of the post-production. Hopefully, the quality of the movie won't disappoint me!"

"Happy Ghost", which was originally released in 84, had a budget of only 2 million Hong Kong dollars, although it was still a low-budget movie on the whole. But relying on the fit of the plot and actors, as well as the music of the movie, it became the finishing touch. But due to budget issues, it is still not polished enough.

The film film that needs to be consumed during the filming process alone needs to be carefully calculated. Because, the budget is not much at all, and if you don't save on shooting, the film may not be enough to support the plot until the plot is completed.

Hollywood film peers shoot a movie, even if it doesn't use special effects, it is a little more refined than Hong Kong films, and in essence, the film consumed by its shooting is several times or even dozens of times more than that of Hong Kong counterparts. In this way, there is a lot of material to edit during post-production, and there is naturally more room for quality improvement.

Lin Qi raised the budget to 10 million, and the salaries of the actors and crew were not prepared to be too high. Then, most of the budget will be invested in the consumption of film equipment and props. In this way, the film at least does not have to worry about running out of film and making do with it.

In Hong Kong films of this era, most of the shots are just as good as they can be. The so-so attitude is also the key to the improvement of the quality of Hong Kong films.

It can't be said that Hong Kong filmmakers can't, it can only be said that the pattern is still not atmospheric enough. As a Chinese-language commercial film, Hong Kong films play a role in connecting the past and the future, and the talent pool and experience of Hong Kong films directly affect the level of later domestic films.

You must know that the level of those stupid literary film directors in China who lick the best of the European Film Festival is even worse.

Because, literary films are only tested by a very small number of people, and the feedback they receive points to the aesthetics of a specific circle, and does not represent the mainstream aesthetics of human beings.

And commercial films for the purpose of making money directly bear the test of the mass market and get more feedback, it is precisely because of this that the real level of commercial films is far more than that of niche literary films with a good reputation.

The word-of-mouth of literary films is essentially a mutual blow in the industry, and the comparison is not quality at all, but a deeper political factor, or the qualifications of people in the circle. It is equivalent to paying attention to pedigree, and some directors are recognized by the circle, so even if they shoot shit, the circle will blow it into the sky, and it is usually proposed that this is indeed shit. Then, the literary circle said that you are not forced enough to understand......

Obviously, it is reversed to the butt, not open and transparent, and there is no relatively complete evaluation system that can be quantified and convince. Through mystery and opacity, the circle of self-talk explains what art is, and the works it evaluates can be imagined to be mostly deformed and ugly monsters.

The general public thinks that some literary and artistic films with high reputation and high ratings are very dull and the quality is also very rubbish, don't doubt it, your point of view is right! Believe in yourself, it's obviously not good-looking, and you don't let people tell the truth. Once someone tells the truth, they will be besieged by a small group of circles, what is there to respect.

After the 21st century, the output of Hong Kong films has decreased sharply, and the number of domestic commercial films has increased significantly. A considerable part of the factor is because after the decline of the Hong Kong film market, most of the senior practitioners who were mixed in the Hong Kong film and television industry in the past did not make movies in the name of Hong Kong films, but directly domestic films.

"Budget 10 million yuan?!" Huang Baiming felt shocked.

You must know that the cost of the "Best Partner" series, which is now the highest-grossing in Xinyicheng, has not yet been raised to the standardization of tens of millions of yuan!

And the candidates used in "Happy Ghost" are not superstars. Including Huang Baiming, his salary has reached the standard of two or three hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars.

"Is 10 million Hong Kong dollars a lot?" Lin Qi asked strangely.

"......" Huang Baiming and others were completely suppressed, isn't 10 million Hong Kong dollars not much? You know, if this money is not used to invest in films, but to do business, it can also build a factory employing hundreds of people.

For example, in the 80s, Lin Zhongqiao, the king of Hong Kong TV, just managed to raise 15 million yuan with his friends to establish Hong Kong's largest TV production factory, Ganghua Electronics Factory. Towngas may have been unknown in the 90s, but in the 80s, at its peak, it produced 500,000 TVs a year. If that's not enough to be amazing, then ...... In the 80s, there was no Konka, and it was in China that a series of policy-oriented collective farms were established in order to resettle overseas Chinese who had fled from Vietnam and returned to China. And the very little farmland alone, of course, did not settle hundreds of thousands of overseas Chinese. Therefore, some collective enterprises were set up to give them some policies to support themselves, among them, there was a famous central enterprise OCT.

In later generations, OCT occupied a large amount of elite land, and it was definitely a rich man. But now there is no OCT at all, only some overseas Chinese farms. There is relatively little land on the farm, so I can only find a way to engage in industry. As a result, the country continued to attract investment in Hong Kong, and Lin Zhongqiao of Ganghua Electronics began to respond to the country's call to invest in the mainland soon after the counterattack against Vietnam. With the establishment of Konka Electronics Group, a subsidiary of OCT, Ganghua Electronics has made a lot of efforts, such as providing technology, equipment and orders to help thousands of overseas Chinese farm laborers transform into TV factory workers.

As for the reason why Ganghua Electronics was silent in the 90s, it was because Lin Zhongqiao, the TV king, converted the factory and other assets into shares and sold them to Konka Electronics. Looking at Konka Electronics' later status in the TV industry, you can know how awesome Ganghua Electronics was at the beginning. Moreover, in the 80s, the industry position of producing hundreds of thousands of TVs per year was far greater than the production of millions of TVs per year in the later years. Because,80The TV set is far more expensive than the 21st century,Factoring in the price inflation factor,It can be known,In addition to the false growth caused by price changes,The real profitability and asset scale compared to the end of the 80s,There is not much growth at all。

"HK$10 million, it's really nothing. Lin Qi said, "Nowadays, the budget for a small cost of a very ordinary video game is several million, and the budget for an ordinary video game starts at 10 million. As for the big production, the budget will soon rise to more than 100 million!"

"How can we make movies compare to those who make games?" Huang Baiming couldn't help but feel a little inferior.

"No, Hollywood movies are definitely comparable to games. "And our games are basically distributed all over the world, similar to Hollywood." The opponents of the game are also from all over the world. Hong Kong films pay too much attention to the interests under their noses, and the pattern is not as good as Hollywood, and of course there is not much budget to make movies. However, I have said in advance that I am against a fixed salary. For this movie, I'll give you a fixed salary of 100,000 plus 5% of the box office account, what do you think?"

The salary of 100,000 yuan is, of course, lower than Huang Baiming's normal salary. However, the distribution of accounts after the release of the movie has a certain temptation.

Therefore, Huang Baiming of course agreed to this clause. In essence, it is easy for Hong Kong directors and actors to get a fixed salary, but it is difficult to get a box office account.

Lin Qi went the opposite way and adopted a low salary and a high score. For directors and actors, they will not be given a high fixed salary, so that the budget cost is controlled, so that more budget can be used for the production of the film itself, rather than on the salary of personnel.

After that, the box office after the release is used to motivate the crew members to share the risks and benefits. In order to obtain a higher income for themselves, the crew will also be more serious about making movies.

After this mechanism matures, Lin Qi is even ready to engage in a zero remuneration for directors and actors, and a pure box office account sharing mechanism. In this way, it can stimulate the serious attitude of the film crew even more. After all, under the 0 remuneration mechanism, if the results are popular, the account sharing will be miserable.

A deformed market like Hong Kong's electricity is now unimaginably cheap. But in the 90s, the salary was high. Because the remuneration of actors is as high as the first in Asia, but in fact, the market for Hong Kong films has shrunk sharply, and most actors are unwilling to lower their prices. From the third largest film in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood, to the lowest production of the 21st century, less than 10 films were released in Hong Kong each year.

The decrease in production does not necessarily lead to an increase in quality. Because, during the high-yield period of hundreds of movies every year, although there are many bad movies, it gives practitioners in the film industry a lot of opportunities to exercise. Therefore, there is no shortage of talents in Hong Kong films in this era.

Later, after the production of Hong Kong films decreased, most of the veteran practitioners in the film industry lost their jobs and changed careers, resulting in a sharp decline in industry talent. If you want to make up a qualified crew, it is much more difficult than in the 80s~90s.