Chapter 152: Sun Cannon Second
Li Xing's hands and feet were not clean and he was fired from Daguan Pictures, not because of his embezzled distribution fees.
Bu Wancang almost forgot about it......
It's because Li Xing, this guy, grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, and he cheated another person as before.
This person's name is Yue Feng.
Who is Yue Feng?
This person was a famous director in the thirties and forties, and Li Lihua's famous works were filmed by him, and he was also a well-known figure in the Shanghai film industry at that time.
However, Yue Feng was also unlucky, when the Anti-Japanese War was about to end, he was forming a drama troupe in the northeast to perform a drama, and he didn't think that Chuan Xi Duochang was inviting him to Beiping to help carry out reforms for Huaying.
How Chuan Xiduo's character has been described before, so I won't say more.
Anyway, Yue Feng is also a guy who can't see the current situation clearly, and under the kind invitation of Chuan Xi Duo Changzheng, he really joined Huaying, and by the way, he also made a movie.
It's just that halfway through the filming, they were still filming in the Summer Palace that day, and they heard the radio broadcast of neon surrender.
Then, the movie was gone.
Then Yue Feng also followed Zhang Shankun and took on the name of a traitor, and once became a difficult brother.
However, compared to Zhang Shankun's escape experience, Yue Feng's matter is much more interesting.
Because this master shook a shot, and before the court arrested him to come to the door, he ran from Beiping to Tianyanwei and tried his luck to sign up for the art troupe of the Eighth Division of the Thirteenth Army of the Blue Army.
As a result, he was really let in!
And he Yue Feng not only entered, but also became the head of the art troupe as soon as he entered.
In a blink of an eye, this girl has changed from a 'traitor' on the list to a Blue Army soldier who is loyal to the monarch and protects the country, and has also reached the rank of colonel.
Naturally, the person who wanted to arrest him quickly disappeared.
Yue Feng also turned the corner......
But as soon as the matter was understood, this girl took off her military uniform again, and the blue army didn't care about it, so she returned to the magic capital and started filming again.
Then, until 49 years, the demons were unstable, Zhang Shankun established the Great Wall, and wanted to make an entrepreneurial work, so he invited Yue Feng from the demon capital to Xiangjiang and filmed a movie.
Later, he made two or three more films at the Great Wall one after another.
At the end of last year, Yue Feng saw that he had saved a little money, so he and his wife Luolan formed an independent production company 'Dafang', thinking about making a movie for himself.
So I called a group of old friends from the Great Wall, and the two of them spent 70,000 yuan to shoot a movie called Daguan on the set.
The movie will always be released after it is made, but as soon as Yue Feng came to Xiangjiang, he entered the Great Wall, where did he come from.
Therefore, the copyright of the film in the Xingma area was directly sold to Cathay, and as for the distribution of Xiangjiang and other cities, it was handed over to Li Xing, the director of the studio.
And then the ending that followed, Cathay and Li Xing watched this kind of hairy director who became the boss for the first time, how could it be reasonable not to take advantage of it.
In the end, Yue Feng only got a total of 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, counting the base fee and other miscellaneous expenses, a net loss of 40,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Li Xing got it this time, and it was even more ruthless than last time.
Yue Feng is younger and more vigorous than Bu Wancang, and he was not so angry that he was bedridden for two months, how could he bear it, and soon he made a big fuss on the set.
Zhao Shushen, who has always ignored the practice on the set, only then did he know that Li Xing had done so many things behind his back, so he directly dismissed him, and then paid some money to Yue Feng himself, so that the matter was suppressed and did not spread widely.
As for why Yang Qiu wants to rent a Daguan studio, instead of Youqiao, who has always cooperated well?
Of course, it is not because of the aging of the equipment of Youqiao.
It's because of him Yang Qiu this time, he wants to shoot a color film!
At this time, 99.5% of the movies produced by Xiangjiang were basically black and white, even the few films made by Yang Qiu before. Since he wants to try his luck with it to go to the United States, he must not be able to use the black and white films that are now somewhat weak in the United States.
That's some looking for death.
In black and white mode, you can also say that you pay tribute to the classics when promoting. But if black and white are also used, I am afraid that few people will pay attention to it on the American side.
The only place where Heung Kong can shoot and develop color film is the Daguan Studio in Diamond Hill, where the only color film, which accounts for 0.5%, was shot by Daguan Pictures.
Farther away than where you can shoot color films, there's neon, but that's obviously not realistic.
As for Zhao Shushen, his father is an overseas Chinese leader and the director and treasurer of the San Francisco Chinese Association, so he has no worries about food and clothing since he was a child, and grew up educated in the United States, and also studied photography, set and other professional skills in Hollywood.
In the early thirties, he founded Grand View Pictures in the United States, specializing in Cantonese films.
Later, after the persuasion of friends, it didn't take long for Zhao Shushen to move Daguan to Xiangjiang, and by the way, he set up a set for filming. Since the gradual rise of color films in the United States after World War II, Zhao Shushen has also been deeply affected, and in the past two years, he has purchased a series of machines and began to develop and shoot color films on the Daguan studio.
Although the progress is not too good, it is a big step forward compared to the filmmakers in China now.
The next morning, through Er's introduction, Yang Qiu finally met Zhao Shushen on the Daguan set.
This man was nearly 50 years old, with a single hair, short and thick eyebrows, and a slightly round face, which looked funny, but he was not accompanied by his brother Zhao Shutai, but a young woman in her twenties.
This woman's name is Li'er, and she is Zhao Shushen's confidante.
This Lier was also born in the United States, and her mother is a fan of Cantonese opera and movies, so she has been deeply taught by Cantonese speakers since she was a child, and can sing a lot of Cantonese opera, and has performed Cantonese opera in the 'Greater China' and 'Big Stage' theaters in San Francisco since she was a child.
When he performed on stage at the age of nine, he was taken by Zhao Shushen, who was twenty-nine years old...... Phew, excavation! participated in Zhao Shushen's films, and thus stepped into the film industry.
The year before last, the situation in Xiangjiang gradually stabilized, and Zhao Shushen brought Lier to Xiangjiang and started filming a movie.
Zhao Shushen was obviously very enthusiastic about Yang Qiu, and even personally greeted him from the office: "Boss Yang, welcome, welcome, welcome." ”
"Boss Zhao, excuse me. Yang Qiu replied.
"Ha, don't bother, don't bother, I received a call from Brother Er last night, and I haven't slept all night. Zhao Shushen gently supported Yang Qiu's shoulders and said as he walked towards the office: "Brother Yang is the first person to take the initiative to ask me to make color films, I am deeply honored." ”
"Why? With such good technology, no one has ever looked for Boss Zhao?"
"Boss Yang, you think too much, now this Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia, where is not the world of black and white films, and what kind of energy do other people waste to shoot more expensive color films. ”
"Then it looks like I'm going to have to be the first to eat crabs. Yang Qiu smiled.
"No, no, no......" Zhao Shushen shook his head and said, "I have already eaten crabs." ”
"How's it taste?"
"So-so. ”
Yang Qiu suddenly stopped, frowned and asked, "Boss Zhao, can you take me to see this crab?"
"Look at the crabs, okay, let's go, let's go to the testing room." Zhao Shushen turned a corner and gestured, and then said to the confidante next to him: "Li'er, go and help me find the film and show it to Boss Yang." ”
"Good. ”