CHAPTER XXXIV

Is there no need to ask the question of whether movies make money or not? The annual output of Heung Kong films, and the influx of a large amount of money, undoubtedly show that the industry is in its golden stage.

And since the bandwagon, many opportunists will use a lot of money to throw a lot of money into it, and a few days after the release of your new film, make a similar movie. Although it is shoddy, it is better because the plot and plot are similar, and the faster you follow the trend, the more you will earn.

This kind of quick money has been made, so many independent film production companies have sprung up in the past two years. As far as the new companies are concerned, although the helmsman of Qiangsheng Film Company is a layman, he is indeed making movies with his heart.

What is the identity of Xiang Zhisheng, the person at the helm of Keqiangsheng Film Company? That is Xinji, one of the three major gangsters in Xiangjiang, and a member of the leading family. Even this kind of character has come out to play movies, whether it is the so-called money laundering or not, it can be seen that the film market is like a bloody prey, attracting countless beasts.

From the late 80s to the mid-90s, the entire Xiangjiang movie was claimed to be controlled by the underworld. The words may be a bit excessive, but it is enough to show the unrest of the Xiangjiang entertainment industry at that time. However, for Chen Jialuo, the underworld in Xiangjiang is not as terrible as many people imagine.

A real big gang is actually equivalent to a circle, and everyone playing in a circle must follow a rule. Crazy boys, gangsters get some tea money, and the big guy spends money to ask you to make a film, these are all within the rules of the game. Once someone breaks this rule, then he is not far from being out.

And have you ever said that the underworld dares to provoke the real upper rich people? No, they are not bandits after all. They are mixed with power, and the bandits are playing with life, and everyone is fundamentally different.

Take Chen Jialuo as an example, if he has been filming under Lei Zhen Cinemas with peace of mind, there will be no problems at all.

It's just that according to Chen Jialuo's plan, time waits for no one, and if he wants to accumulate original capital in the past few years and then play his own movies, he must speed up his pace. Today's filmmakers in Hong Kong regard Taiwan as a big box office, and everyone yearns for Hollywood, but Chen Jialuo wants to do the opposite.

Taiwan is just a small place, speaking of movies, there were not many filmmakers in Xiangjiang back then, and Taiwan was already playing well. Even the Academy Awards are imitations of the Golden Horse Awards. But so what?

"It's all overdone, it's all crazy", David Bordwell commented on Hong Kong films in the book "The Secret of Hong Kong Cinema".

"Where there are Chinese, there are 'Hong Kong films'", Hong Kong films have created the highest peak of Chinese commercial films, and as a representative of Hong Kong culture, they have swept the world. With decades of commercial film background, profound film soil and full creative freedom, Xiangjiang Paradise has nurtured a local Chinese film industry that integrates East and West, and civilian films based on grassroots culture have followed the Hollywood dreams of the thirties and forties of the last century, and are known as the Chinese Dream Factory and Oriental Hollywood.

The various illogical plots in the movie or the settings that can't stand scrutiny at all still make Hong Kong movies leap forward and dominate Southeast Asia, and even the current Hollywood movies can't afford to sell under the influence of Hong Kong films.

However, Chen Jialuo is a human being and knows very well that the glory of Hong Kong films is not eternal. As we entered the new century, with the large-scale shrinkage of Hong Kong films and the restrictions of the market, some of the directors and actors of the New Wave who had gone through the most glorious era of Hong Kong films left Hollywood, and some of the Hong Kong filmmakers went north to the mainland for development.

Compared with the geographical restrictions of Xiangjiang and Taiwan, the mainland is different. With a vast territory and a large number of talents, if we can bring Xiangjiang's advanced film technology over and lay a good foundation early, we can definitely make Chinese films dominate.

However, no matter how long-term the planning, it must start from the very beginning, step by step, primitive accumulation. The people of Xiangjiang are too unfamiliar with the mainland, and many people advocate Britain to smear the mainland, so many people are not friendly to the mainland.

This situation can be seen from the fluctuations of real estate at that time. Since the Sino-British Joint Declaration was issued in '82, housing prices can be said to have plummeted, and everyone is panicking. However, the emergence of the program of "one country, two systems" has given some comfort to the people of Xiangjiang.

Not only that, but in many Xiangjiang movies, there are many main creators who intentionally or unintentionally smear the mainland and demonize GCD people. As a filmmaker, Chen Jialuo may not be able to do anything in other aspects, but in terms of publicity, he is fully capable of packaging and beautifying.

In Xiangjiang, film companies such as the Great Wall and Phoenix are all leftist film companies that advocate the mainland, but it is a pity that leftist films lack entertainment and commerciality, so they are destined to be unable to do commercial films.

In fact, in the 50s and 60s, leftist films were still very influential in Xiangjiang, but it is a pity that the old rightists who later regained the right to speak began to attack the leftist group, portraying all left-related works as black, and even directly doing negative cold treatment.

Left, the positive influence in the minds of the people of Xiangjiang has been swallowed up, replaced by the constant chaos in the hinterland, and the constant influx of refugees and "big circles" into the village.

Now, with the date of Xiangjiang's return being finalized, the panic and disdain of Xiangjiang people towards Zuo has reached a climax, and the constant appearance of Ah Can, mainland sister, cousin, and cousin in movie works represents the mentality of Hong Kong people. They decided that Zuo was just such a ridiculous looking terrible thing in his bones.

Chen Jialuo wants to awaken the 'left' in people's hearts, and it is not difficult for him to use commercial films to package. During this period, they were all funny movies, and there were few famous people and righteous people, and he had a lot of choices, especially a big killer - "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard".

The film failed to pass the mainland's censorship in the previous life, because in reality, there would be no Zhongnanhai bodyguards going to Xiangjiang to have such a story. But in Xiangjiang, I don't know how many people admire the People's Liberation Army, especially Zhongnanhai bodyguards.

As long as Chen Jialuo can make this movie, it will be a good propeller for him to enter the mainland for cooperation in the future. Since he can be a human being in two lives, Chen Jialuo will certainly not be willing to be a director.

However, any dream must be realized step by step, and Chen Jialuo believes that as long as "A Chinese Ghost Story" hits the first shot, his pace will accelerate infinitely and become a filmmaker in the true sense.