Chapter 27: Preview

"Thank you for being able to afford it, Ms. Le, but we don't have much interest in singing. We prefer to make movies. ”

"Mr. Xu should have just come to Xiangjiang for a short time, and he doesn't know much about the resources we have TVB, as long as you sign a contract with TVB, we will package you with a full range of resources, whether it is singing or filming, I think there is no company in Xiangjiang that can compare with our TVB, which is much greater than the opportunities and space you have in Jiuzhou Company. ”

"Ms. Le may not know that I am the largest shareholder of Jiuzhou Film Company. ”

Xu Jing naturally wouldn't be fooled by her like this. Although TVB does have this strength, it is also famous for its domineering and oppression of its artists. There are countless celebrities who have jumped ship for this reason.

"Well, I was abrupt, sorry. Since Mr. Xu is not interested in singing, I wonder if Mr. Xu is willing to sell us the copyright of this song?" Le Yiling was stunned, how could she have thought that this young man in front of her would be the behind-the-scenes boss of Jiuzhou Film Company, this is poaching people to dig into other people's bosses. But after all, he was the one who could achieve the position of TVB director, and he immediately apologized when he realized that something was wrong, and he also started the idea of copyright of the song.

"I'm sorry, but I don't plan to sell the copyright for the time being, and I won't authorize it. However, I wonder if your company is interested in releasing my soundtrack album and theme song MV tape?"

This song was used by Xu Jing to promote the movie, so naturally it will not be sold like this. The movie soundtrack album is a music album with the theme song or soundtrack of the movie, and the MV video of the theme song is naturally the album version of the MV trailer cut by Xu Jing.

"Heh, of course, I'll ask the person in charge of Huaxing Records to come over and discuss the specific details. Mr. Xu waited for a moment. Le Yiling didn't expect that although she couldn't get him, she could get some of his works.

After a series of negotiations, in addition to buying TVB's advertising space for a month with 1.5 million advertising fees, Xu Jing also signed the Asian distribution rights of the movie soundtrack, album and theme song MV tape with TVB's Huaxing Records. The soundtrack album actually has only two songs, namely "Sunset Song" and "Shape of My Heart".

Xu Jing is really not very interested in singing, and he has never wanted to develop an amphibious life, he doesn't want to take up too much time on things that he is not interested in, and he has sung a few songs just for fun and the theme song for the movie.

What he likes is a quiet life, and what he likes is to interpret all kinds of life in movies.

Moreover, with his temperament, he is not suitable for the stage, in reality he wants to be a real person, not a star who is packaged on the stage.

And the release of movie soundtracks, albums, and MV tapes is just to promote the film.

"Why don't you release the song "I'm a Little Bird" that I sang?" came out of the TV city and got into the car, Zhou Xiaoxun asked.

"You don't release children's songs. ”

"You... I... I've grown up! It's all fast... Ten... Fourteen years old!" Zhou Xiaoxun suddenly became a little furious, and his face was stumbling with anger.

"Good, good, you're the biggest, you're the biggest. Fasten your seatbelts. Xu Jing thought it was funny to tease Zhou Xiaoxun like this, and glanced at the two small bean bags on her chest with a wicked smile.

Zhou Xiaoxun held his breath and straightened his chest vigorously, seeing Xu Jing holding back a smile, he also looked down, and then hung his head sadly, fastened his seat belt and stopped talking all the way.

That night, a radio and a song were pushed to thousands of radios and taxis in Xiangjiang.

"Good evening everyone, welcome to the TVB Radio channel's Golden Songs Daily Song Column, I am your friend Stephen, today I want to recommend a new song to you, this song is the theme song of the movie "This Killer is Not Too Cold" to be released on the 12th of next month, the name is "Sunset Song", friends who like it can buy the album of this song in major video stores three days later, and interested friends can also go to see the story about this song on the 12th of next month. Okay, without further ado, let's listen to this "Sunset Song" together. ”

As the host finished speaking, a melodious tune sounded.

Also on this night, at ten o'clock TVB Entertainment News Channel's "TVB Entertainment News Report" program, the host even sent a MV short video of a song.

In the short film, as the melody of "Sunset Song" sounds, a small forest appears in the picture, and a little girl in the grove plants a green evergreen tree.

"The sun is infinite

Helplessly, it was brilliant for a while

As the clouds fade away

The glory that has been lost is gone

Late years

I can't bear the changes of this life

Like clouds gathering and scattering

Entangled in the vicissitudes of life

It's a long road

Suddenly, time faded

Joy never returned

Which sees through my dreams is bland"

A deep male voice began to sing. Accompanied by the ups and downs and warm joys experienced by an uncle and a little girl in the short film, the atmosphere conveyed by the short film is just consistent with the emotional tone conveyed by the song, which makes people can't help but immerse themselves in it.

When the deep male voice stopped, and after a while, another female voice with a slightly baby voice sang.

"There have been a lot of ups and downs

Weave my staggered dreams

I have met the crook of your heart

Walk with me through tribulation

The rush center is gray

The road is full of twists and turns

One day I thought about it and it was too late."

In the original time and space, after the release of the original Japanese version of "Sunset Song", it was covered by Chen Huixian as "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" in June of the same year, and only a little more than a month later, Mei Yanfang's version of "Sunset Song" was released and used as the theme song of "The True Colors of Heroes 3 Sunset Song". Because the release time of the two songs was too close, it was inevitable that there would be a dispute between Mei and Chen, and even decades later, the two songs were still compared and debated by fans on both sides.

The theme of "Song of the Sunset" lies in the philosophy of life, lies in the perception of life, and the lyrics are very artistic, depicting all kinds of living beings in the rush and the real sweetness and sorrow in life, and the feelings brought by the life that there is no choice, giving people a faint regret.

However, the theme of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" is positioned as "parting with sadness", and its lyrics are beautiful and full of poetry, which can cause people to have a kind of "This past year should be a good day and a good time." Even though there are thousands of styles, who to talk to. A sense of resonance. In addition, the lyrics are catchy, which makes people listen to sadness but not sadness, even tears and laughter.

When choosing the theme song of "Killer", if you start from the perspective of market popularity, it is undoubtedly a better choice for "Song of Qianqianque", and the farewell of life and death at the end of the movie is also in line with the parting sorrow of "Song of Qianqianque", but in the end, Xu Jing still chose "Song of the Sunset", because this song is not only suitable for the ending, but also more suitable for the artistic conception of the whole film.

And the market performance of "Song of the Sunset" is not bad, as long as "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" is not released more than a month in advance like in the original time and space, it will not have much impact on the promotion of the movie, which is also the reason why Xu Jing is reluctant to sell or authorize the copyright.

As the melody of "Sunset Song" slowly ended, the end of the short film returned to the grove, and then subtitles such as "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", "Starring: Xu Jing, Zhou Xiaoxun", and "Official Release on August 12" appeared.

In a luxury apartment, a woman with flaming red lips but a hint of heroism bent her legs bent on the sofa and hugged her knees, looked at the TV in front of her, her eyes were a little red, and then picked up the phone next to her.

"Leslie, it's me, are you busy next month, how about going to a movie together if you have time. ”

July 14 is the day of the premiere of the comedy film "Chicken and Duck" starring Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanying and Xu Guanjie, the three brothers of the Four Heroes of the Xu Family.

Throughout 1974-1984, nine of the 11 years of box office champions were won by the Hui brothers (group or individual), and Hui Guanwen also became one of the representatives of Hong Kong comedy films. Although Hui's comedy has gradually become less popular in the market at this time, Hui's movie box office appeal is still not small.

In a cinema under Xinbao Cinema Line, after three days of midnight test screening, "Chicken and Duck Talk" has achieved a very good reputation, and now on the premiere day, there is an endless stream of people coming to watch the movie outside the theater. As soon as people enter the theater, they are attracted by the many posters posted on the walls of the cinema.

Some of them are a bearded face that occupies almost the entire page, wearing a pair of round-framed eyes on the face, but the whole poster is bright red and extremely dazzling.

Some are middle-aged uncles wearing black melon skin hats and round-framed sunglasses, holding a little girl with short hair and leaning against the wall, both of them raising their hands, each holding a pistol and aiming in one direction coolly.

Some are middle-aged uncles and little girls lying on the ground, aiming at a sniper rifle.

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Uncle and little girl, little girl and gun, coupled with the blood-red words "This killer is not too cold", this contrast and the novel elements of "killer" all give people a particularly fresh feeling.

When people walked into the screening room and sat down, as soon as the lights went out, a group of horse-like people were killed by a mysterious person suddenly appeared on the big screen, and then the speakers in the screening room sounded a "sudden" gunshot, and a fat man on the big screen held a phone in one hand and panicked to smash the roller shutter door into a sieve, and then he hid in the dark.

At this time, there was a lot of noise in the screening room, and many people wondered if they had entered the wrong screening room, or if the projectionist had put the wrong film, because this was not the "Chicken and Duck Talk" they wanted to watch at all. It's just that before the audience can ask clearly, they are attracted by the plot behind.

A hand suddenly stretched out in the darkness on the screen, holding a dagger on the fat man's neck. A face slowly appeared, it was the middle-aged uncle wearing round-framed small sunglasses and a melon skin hat on the poster.

followed by the scene of the middle-aged uncle and the little girl appearing together, there is a scene of deceiving people to open the door and then killing people, and there are also interesting scenes of the two imitating Zhou Yanfa Xiaoma and Mei Yanfang like a flower. There are also clips of Zeng Zhiwei and Wu Zhenyu killing people in the middle.

Finally, after the sound of a cannonball flying into the room, there were subtitles of "This killer is not too cold", "Director: Xu Jing, starring: Xu Jing, Zhou Xiaoxun, Wu Zhenyu", and "Officially released on August 12".