Speaking of which, in Zhang Junyi's view, the rise of Huangmei tune movies in Xiangjiang is related to three Chinese films: the Yue Opera movie "Liang Zhu", the folk song movie "Liu Sanjie", and the Huangmei Opera movie "Tianxian Pei", which were very sensational when they were released in Xiangjiang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In 1958, Li Hanxiang released his first Huangmei film - "Diao Chan", which was well received by the film market and won 5 awards at the Asian Film Festival. So Uncle Shao Liu allocated a huge amount of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars to him to shoot "The Beauty of the Mountains", in the film industry where the box office of general fashion films was tens of thousands of yuan at that time, Uncle Shao Liu was almost regarded as a madman at that time, even Zhang Junyi had to admire the courage of Uncle Liu at that time.

However, in the first week after its release, the box office of "Beauty in the Mountains" broke through 400,000 Hong Kong dollars, becoming the highest-grossing film in the history of Hong Kong, and also won 10 awards at the Asian Film Festival, and the 34-year-old Li Hanxiang became the number one Chinese director. And Shaw Brothers Film Company has also completely gained a firm foothold, and the "fashion play" of "Denmao" is dwarfed by the gorgeous costumes, and has since been ridiculed as a "bad shirt play".

Regarding the rise of the Shaw Brothers, to be honest, even if Zhang Junyi has a golden finger with the memory of his previous life, if it was changed to that time, he would have to admit that he would not be able to do more than the sixth uncle, after all, but the rise of the Shaw Brothers under the sixth uncle, the three points of time, place, and people are indispensable.

If the implementation of the "blockbuster strategy", the Shaw Brothers relied on "Huangmei Tune" to win as the sixth uncle's harmony, then "the times create heroes" and the rise of "kung fu films" is indispensable for the time and place.

There is a supporting role in "The Beauty of the Mountains" called "Da Niu", and he is Hu Jinquan.

Through the past few years, Zhang Junyi's understanding of the history of the Xiangjiang film industry has shown that in 1964, a major event occurred in the Xiangjiang film industry, when Uncle Shao's opponent for many years, Lu Yuntao, suddenly died in a plane crash, and "Dianmao" has been sluggish ever since. Also in this year, Lin Dai, the heroine of "Jiangshan Beauty" and the most popular Huangmei actress under Uncle Shao Liu, suddenly committed suicide, and Uncle Shao Liu lost his cash cow.

Many people believe that Lin Dai's death means the end of the Shaw Brothers Huangmei film era, and that she directly promoted the Shaw Brothers film to turn to male-dominated kung fu films. But Zhang Junyi does know that this is not the case, but in fact, although Lin Dai is dead, Shaw Brothers still has Le Di and Ling Bo; And even if Lin Dai is still there, it can't reverse the trend of Huangmei tune movies declining after the audience loses their freshness.

In October 1965, the official film magazine of the Shaw Brothers, "Southern Films", under the title of "New Offensive of Color Martial Arts", introduced the seven new martial arts films that Shaw Brothers had made and put into production. The article reads: "These films use real actions to determine life and death fights, replacing the fake, weird, and staged martial arts and so-called 'stunts' of the past...... Please come and enjoy it together, full of 'action' - the martial arts century. ”

Why did Shaw Brothers switch from the delicate and feminine Huangmei to the masculine martial arts films? Zhang Ji's memoirs in his previous life are prefaced by Xiangjiang film critic Shi Qi, in which he believes that the "new martial arts century" of the Shaw Brothers in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century was a "martial arts revolution". He said: "The situation is very important, and the masculine and violent style of the album and the youthful rebellion that he loves to shoot are in line with the transition period of Xiangjiang society at that time. ”

Zhang Junyi clearly knows that the rise of Zhang Ji and Hu Jinquan is "the times create heroes". Unlike his previous popular Wong Fei Hung series, the Zhang Book series is full of strong personal rebellion and the theme of "defeating the strong with the weak".

Zhang Ju often said back then: "Actresses are more popular than male stars, and male characters are often weaker than female characters, which is very abnormal." It should be like the western film and the small island country film, reviving the martial spirit and reinvigorating male heroism. "Before the album, female stars were paid more than male stars; After the album, this trend was completely reversed.

Zhang Ji selects male stars, and the emphasis is on the four words "blood and gas". His male stars are all bronzed and muscular. But when he was casting, he liked "unruly" actors.

Dillon and Jiang Dawei were Zhang Ji's two favorite male stars that year. Dillon started his career in 1969 and learned Wing Chun from an early age. Dillon did not shy away from saying that he entered the industry to "get ahead", which he called "Bo Bianmen".

Dillon still remembers that in the year he finished filming "Stinging Horse", he became the most popular actor of the year, and the company distributed bonuses, and the money allocated to him was enough to buy a building. He was excited and grateful to the company, and the filming was even more life-saving.

Moreover, Zhang Junyi thinks it is very funny that Zhang Ju always likes to put Dillon and Jiang Dawei in a movie, which hurts the two of them, and inevitably gives birth to the suspicion of "both Shengyu and He Shengliang". Dillon's image is handsome and sunny, he is Prince Charming, and Jiang Dawei shows a "stingy" appearance in and out of the play, with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Stinging Horse" was filmed in 1973, Dillon played Ma Xinyi, and Jiang Dawei played Zhang Wenxiang. In the play, for the first time, two people turned against each other on the screen, and they fought to the death; Outside the play, the two were rumored to ignore no one. In and out of the play, it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, so that the media has done enough articles. Back then, the fight between the two was the biggest selling point of this play, "I was young at the time." Now that this story is mentioned, Dillon has become an old man in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry, and he laughed at it with the demeanor of an elder.

The values are old-school: women are not important, what matters is the friendship and hatred between men. Zhang Junyi clearly remembers that in his previous life, he died at the age of 80 in 2002, but his life was like the male protagonist in his movie, always a tough guy, and always stuck in adolescence. As a person and filmmaker, he is very different from Hu Jinquan.

To be honest, because of the relationship between plagiarizing many popular scripts over the years, Zhang Junyi has done a detailed study of the director of Xiangjiang, unlike Zhang Ji, what Hu Jinquan left to Shaw Brothers is a 19666 "The Drunken Man", and he left the Shaw Brothers after the filming of "The Drunken Man" and went to Taiwan Island.

Hu Jinquan left Shaw Brothers mainly because of the different ideas, and his films also have male heroes, but they don't have to die tragically. Yue Hua's image in "The Drunken Man" is a prodigal son who carries a bamboo pole and swings chic.

This is related to Hu Jinquan's martial arts enlightenment when he was young. Born in Beiping in 1931, he was a frequent guest at home as a martial arts novelist and told stories to their children.

Through the study of Shaw Brothers, Zhang Junyi knew that Hu Jinquan's martial arts world was completely literati, and he once said: "Many people think that I have made a lot of 'martial arts films', but in fact, I don't know anything about martial arts."

The movements I shoot are completely borrowed from Peking Opera, and my martial arts movements are a combination of dance, music, and drama, and I break down the movements of Peking Opera and try my best to make them achieve the most amazing and prominent effect in the film. ”

The former sixth uncle because of his courage, so that the Shaw Brothers rose at a rocket-like speed, this courage is modeled after the system of the big studios established by Hollywood, but it is impossible for any system to make a company maintain continuous glory, with the continuous progress of the times, if you do not seek breakthroughs and changes in time, then the result of loneliness is absolutely inevitable, which Zhang Junyi is convinced of, otherwise he would not have begun to seek the idea of establishing a think tank now.

In Dillon's acting career, what surprised Zhang Junyi the most was that he played the role of "Guangxu" in "Alluring Country and City", which marked that he really changed from a kung fu actor to an actor with acting skills.

1975's "Alluring the Country and the City" was the last epic masterpiece of Shaw Brothers films, bringing together all the best stars that Shaw Brothers could invite at that time: Lu Yan's Cixi, Dillon's Guangxu. On the premise of not having an exterior location, the interior scene was built to capture the majesty and solemnity of the Forbidden City in Kyoto. But now, Shaw Brothers has slowly reduced its film business and switched to television.

Li Hanxiang's filming of "Alluring the Country and the City" is, to a certain extent, a concentration of his life's work. After becoming famous in the 1960s, he abandoned Shaw Brothers and fled to Taiwan, hoping to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie tycoon, but he was repeatedly defeated by the Shaw Brothers influence.

In 1971, he had no choice but to return to Shaw Brothers to make Fengyue films and deception films to entertain himself and others. In 1975, Fengyue films were in power, filming historical dramas like "Allure of the Country and the City", Shao Liushu was not optimistic at the time, but the success of "Allure of the Country" pushed the glory of Shaw Brothers to the peak.

This year, the newly joined Liu Jialiang also brought fresh blood of the Southern Boxing style to Shaw Brothers' kung fu films with "God Fight", and even Zhang Ji began to try to gradually enrich the original "one move and one style" action with the decomposition and combination of lenses under his influence.

1978's "Shaolin Room 36" became a masterpiece of the later Shaw Brothers kung fu films. In 1974, Shaw Brothers produced 49 films, becoming the industry leader.

However, at that time, a new opponent appeared in Shaw Brothers: Golden Harvest. In 1970, Tycoon Chow, an important partner of Shao Tycoon, left Shaw Brothers and started with 400,000 Hong Kong dollars to establish a new "Golden Harvest" company. Uncle Shao didn't realize at the time that the departure of Zou Daheng meant the rise of a new production system.

Uncle Shao's management system is modeled after the "big studio system" of the eight major Hollywood companies, and Uncle Shao's dream is to build Shaw Brothers into "Oriental Hollywood". His management style is an oriental-style family management, where the family operates alone and is responsible for its own profits and losses.

However, Uncle Six did not realize that at that time, the "Big Eight" in Hollywood had gradually transitioned to an independent production system: large companies selected suitable producers to provide financial and distribution support, and finally distributed profits. Before leaving, Zou Daheng suggested that Uncle Shao Liu follow the trend and implement the "dividend system", but Uncle Shao Liu is used to controlling everything personally and is not suitable for the "decentralization" under the independent production system.

It was in this way that he missed Li Xiaolong, Xu Guanwen, and Xu Guanjie's brothers. Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie brothers once carried the script of "Ghost Horse Double Star" to Uncle Shao Liu, asked for fifty-fifty shares, and after being refused, they switched to Zou Daheng's Golden Harvest, this matter is already an open secret in the current Xiangjiang entertainment circle, but because of the majesty of Uncle Liu, no one will mention it in front of Uncle Liu; And Golden Harvest also used a more humane dividend system to win Li Xiaolong from the Shaw Brothers.

In the late 1970s, Golden Harvest gradually replaced Shaw Brothers in the film industry. Looking back on this period of history, even Zhang Junyi has to sigh a thing or two, basically, the rise and fall of 'Shaw Brothers' is the epitome of the rise and fall of Hollywood, the film capital of the United States.

However, although the Shaw Brothers declined in the film industry, they left more than 1,000 works for Chinese-language films. Although many movies were rough and ridiculous in order to rush the work, the characters of this era can never be replicated.

Although the current sixth uncle is still too old, anyone in the entertainment circle in Xiangjiang will respectfully call him "sixth uncle" when he mentions it, even Zhang Junyi, who has gained greater achievements than the sixth uncle.

Even Wu Siyuan, who has already made a lot of achievements, was also a member of the Shaw Brothers back then, he said: "The biggest contribution of the sixth uncle is to cultivate a lot of talents. When Shaw Brothers was prosperous, it represented Xiangjiang movies, and Xiangjiang movies were Shaw Brothers. Wu Siyuan's words were definitely not an exaggeration at all ten years ago.

Shaw Brothers has made more than 1,000 movies in his life, is Uncle Six trying to make money or does he really love art? The control of the cost of the film is almost harsh, but he can spend a lot of money for charity, is he slamming the door or generous? To be honest, even Zhang Junyi, who is in this era, can't figure out these questions, after all, even if he is in the same era as Uncle Shao Liu, but a person's true inner thoughts are so easy to guess, not to mention that this person is Shao Tycoon.

However, if it is the last straw that overwhelmed the decline of Shaw Brothers Film and Television, I have to mention "Blade Runner", a wonderful movie shot by the sixth uncle.

For Uncle Six, life is like this, in order to make an ideal movie, he may have to make 1,000 movies that make money in reality.

"Blade Runner" is a science fiction film shot by Shaw Brothers this year, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, it is set in Los Angeles in 2019, depicting a group of replicants with exactly the same intelligence and feelings as humans, from space to Earth to seek a way to survive forever, is a science fiction film with strong ethical overtones. This film is very outstanding in the history of world cinema in the previous life.

One may have seen Luc Besson's The Fifth Element, and many of the futuristic cities are a copy or homage to Blade Runner. In the ranking of the 100 films of the century selected by the 21st century British in the previous life, "Blade Runner" ranked second only after "Citizen Kane". The sixth uncle participated in the filming of this movie and was obsessed, Zhang Junyi can be sure that he pinned his artistic ideals on this movie, and it also shows that he has a keen artistic vision.

But just like Uncle Six said in his previous life, in order to make such a cutting-edge and artistic film at the time, he may have to make 1,000 movies that make money in reality.

Anyway, no matter what kind of positive role "Blade Runner" played in film history, but the fact is that "Blade Runner" hit the street, and it was not wanted to hit the street, and the final result was to make Uncle Six sad, and since then, Shaw Brothers has slowly withdrawn from the film circle in Xiangjiang.

In fact, because of Zhang Junyi's relationship, "Blade Runner" in this life is more powerful than the previous life, after all, in the previous life, no matter what, without Zhang Junyi's intervention, the Shaw Brothers at that time still used the Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and in this life, hehe, the Shaw Brothers has long been in Zhang Junyi's pocket, so there is no Shaw Brothers in the cinema, basically this sixth uncle's largest production in this life, and the sixth uncle who directly pit is a bloodless one.