Now listening to Liu Haitang's narration, Comrade Liu Zhenwei, who has been the general manager of a film company, decided to go it alone.

It may be that the success of two consecutive films made him forget the depression when the original film company went out of business. It is also in the past two years that Hong Kong movies have become more and more prosperous, and everyone has money to make and wants to try it.

"Actually, this guy is quite interesting. ”

"How?"

"I chatted with him, he belongs to the type of person who loves to talk, saying that he and Wang Jiawei used the name of writing scripts, drinking beer, eating hamburgers in hotel rooms every day, and watching football all night, and they were very happy, but the script was far away. I became nervous when I heard Mr. Deng's call, so I thought about it overnight, and I thought about the script of the movie in one night...... Speaking of this, thinking of Liu Zhenwei's appearance at that time, Liu Haitang couldn't help but laugh.

And before he became a director, he was the owner of a film company, not a creative staff, and the team formed at that time was very unfamiliar, he only knew the photographer, but he didn't expect that the first day of filming would make him completely unable to let go. Because he didn't understand the lens, the photographer asked him whether the lens should be 35, 45 or 75 or 85, and he said that he almost cried. And in a matter of seconds, he swallowed the tears. When everyone looked at him in an uproar, he asked the photographer to help him. Later, when more than 20 or 30 shots were taken, the photographer put down the camera......"

When Chen Jialuo heard this, he smiled and said: "He is showing off his active brain, and he made a book of "Fierce Ghost Mission" with Wang Jiawei in one night, he has never made a movie, and the box office of the first play exceeded 10 million!"

"I heard that Wang Jiawei was fired by Boss Huang because he never published a book. Liu Haitang said with a smile.

Chen Jialuo said: "Yes! He fired a director who broke 10 million yuan in his debut film, and he has been made fun of. ”

"Since Liu Zhenwei wants to do it alone, let's talk about it. Originally, Chen Jialuo planned to pull Liu Zhenwei into the gang, but since he chose to open his own company, it didn't hurt.

"I looked at it and he was a real talent. How can an independent production company be so easy to mix now, maybe he will go out of business again one day, this person is still worth fighting for. ”

Liu Haitang said seriously: "He was able to shoot "Fierce Ghost Mission" when zombie films were popular last year, and he did not become a follow-up work, but with the help of the popular partner comedy mode, with the thriller and funny plots of various Chinese and Western ghost films, he made a fashion version of the thriller and funny comedy of the police and zombie fighting methods, which is very different from the Maoshan zombie film with the background of Lin Zheng Yingmin." ”

Chen Jialuo nodded and said, "You just praise him for borrowing the bridge!"

It's not a derogatory term, but it's really powerful. Liu Zhenwei has always been known for his "ghost horse madness", and he can be the best partner with Wang Jiawei, becoming Stephen Chow's main creative lucky star, and he can be regarded as a representative figure in the Hong Kong comedy industry.

As for borrowing bridges, it is actually a kind of shrinking of the new art city model.

After the Hong Kong New Wave Film Movement, a series of major changes took place in the Southeast Asian film market, on which Hong Kong independent production companies depended.

Singapore has begun to invest mainly in Hong Kong TV series, Thailand has struggled with Hong Kong films due to the impact of the global economic crisis and restrictions on import quotas, and Vietnam has lost its market due to political reasons.

As a result, Hong Kong's independent films have fallen into a trough, and films with strong artistry and ideology but weak commerciality have lost the soil for survival. Hong Kong films have entered a historical period of more commercialization and fierce market competition.

In such a harsh ecological environment, one of the most important topic selection strategies adopted by New Arts City is to closely track the popular themes in the world film industry in order to ensure box office profits.

Since 1981, New Arts City has paroded the 007 movie and launched the "Best Partner" series.

The adaptation and remake of a popular theme in the world film industry is not a simple transfer of the space where the story takes place to Hong Kong, and then the characters in the film are replaced by Hong Kong people. Taking "Best Partner" as an example, the series does not stop at a simple imitation of 007 films, but rewrites it locally from the spiritual core.

In short, "Best Partner" deconstructs the heroism, romanticism and elitism of 007 films with a philosophy of pragmatism, opportunism, utilitarianism and hedonism, showing strong local cultural characteristics of Hong Kong, and initially showing the postmodernist tendency of Hong Kong films to subvert all authority during this period.

This tendency has been continuously reinforced in the films of Wang Jing and others, and has become one of the prominent cultural characteristics of Hong Kong films around the 90s.

The "Best Partner" series was a huge success in the market. Subsequently, the localization adaptation and remake of popular themes and blockbuster films in the world film industry has become one of the common topic selection strategies of New Arts City.

Take the later "Ah Lang's Story" as an example, the film was inspired by a Korean movie called "My Most Beloved Person".

In the process of remaking, New Arts City paid special attention to the compatibility of the film with Hong Kong and even Asian audiences in terms of values and aesthetic tastes. This can be called an effective "take-it-or-leave-it" doctrine in Hong Kong films.

New Arts City not only implements the doctrine of bringing in popular themes and blockbuster films in the current world film industry, but also is good at finding nourishment from the treasure house of world cultural heritage. "The Age of Burlesque" learns about Chaplin's portrayal of characters and his artistic style. The script for Best Partners drew inspiration from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. "Taming the Shrew" is about a man who tames a, and "Best Partner" contains a plot line of a bald man conquering a man's wife. "Pry the Foot of the Wall" is based on Molière's famous play "The School of the Wife".

Therefore, it is very common for "Fierce Ghost Mission" to borrow the bridge of Western genre movies, and "Tiger Guard" to borrow the bridge of "Wonderful Detective", and they present more than the former, and the success of localization has brought considerable benefits.

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"Boss, Long Xiaomi hopes to give you an interview!"

In the office, Chen Jialuo was chatting with Liu Haitang about movies, and suddenly heard Xu Chang, who knocked on the door, say who wanted to interview him, and he didn't come back to his senses and said: "Didn't I ask you to push down all the interviews, Long Xiaomi? Which newspaper is it?" ”

Liu Haitang on the side thought for a while and said, "The name is quite familiar." ”

"He is the editor-in-chief of Cinema Weekly. Xu Chang looked at the two bigwigs who didn't look like jokes, and was a little speechless.

"Film Weekly" was originally the only professional film magazine in Hong Kong, and now it is the most influential film magazine, and it is the creation of the Hong Kong Film Awards, and his lofty status in the Hong Kong film industry can be imagined.

I didn't expect the two bigwigs of my company to even know the editor-in-chief of others......

"Oh, "Movie Weekly" Long Xiaomi, I said it so familiar. Liu Haitang suddenly realized.

On the other hand, Chen Jialuo also looks like 'it turned out to be him'. It's not that he is familiar with the name Long Xiaomi, but recalls that when he first came here, the author of the "Mong Kok Night" film was not called Long Xiaomi!