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Mid-October 1988. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the suggestion of Wan Qiwen and Li Ruotong, Xu Cun took his daughters to Phuket in Thailand for more than ten days, and by the way, Xu Cun went to Thailand to take a look at DreamWorks Cinemas (Thai Cinemas) - last year, when Xu Cun invested part of his funds in Bangkok, he asked He Chaoqiong and Jiang Zhiqiang to build Thailand's largest cinema chain composed of 19 multiplexes in Thailand, DreamWorks Cinemas (Thai Cinemas). At the same time, Xu Cun also asked He Chaoqiong and Jiang Zhiqiang to build many multiplex cinemas in other countries in Nanyang, joining the Shaw Brothers (Nanyang) Cinema Line and Cathay Cinema Line respectively. In other words, DreamWorks Cinemas has begun to land in the South Seas.

Late October.

The Heung Kong Film Directors Association was established.

In order to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the director's association, Xu Zheng returned to Xiangjiang from Phuket with his daughters on October 28.

In the creative stage of the director's meeting, Xu Cun is already the best candidate for the president.

After pushing it several times and failing to push it off, Xu Cun agreed to be the first president of the directors club (the specific work is in charge of vice president Wu Siyuan, Xu Cun is actually a nominal one) - no wonder Wu Siyuan and others have to let Xu Cun serve as the president of the directors club, it is really Xu Cun's fame and status are too high, so big that if Xu Cun is the president of the directors club, the directors club will be like the film industry association, and it can attract countless directors to join as soon as it is born.

In fact, because Xu Cun is the president of the directors' association, almost all directors of Xiangjiang, big and small, have joined the directors' association - not only film directors, but also television directors, advertising directors, stage directors, and so on......

As the first president of the directors' association, Xu Cun had to do something for the directors' association.

After much consideration, Xu Cun decided to donate HK$100 million to the Directors Association to set up a 'New Directors Fund' to support new directors.

Here's how:

First, a new director (a director who has not directed a released film independently) asks for his own script, and then presents the script to the director's board for review.

If the script brought by the new director can be approved by the director's meeting, the director's association will allocate a certain amount of production fees to the new director - if the new director needs it, the director will also send a consultant to direct the new director's film.

After the film is produced, the copyright is owned by the Directors Guild, and the Directors Guild looks for cinemas for the film – at present, DreamWorks Cinemas (Heung Kong Branch) mainly provides cinemas for the Guild at market prices.

After deducting the production cost and publicity cost, the income earned by the film will be distributed between the new director and the director according to 19, and 90% of the income earned by the director will be put back into the 'New Director Support Fund' to continue to support new directors.

The 'Fund for Supporting New Directors' established by Xu Cun is a great act of kindness for those new directors who do not even have the opportunity to direct, and even for the entire Xiangjiang film industry, and it will also be a hope that Xiangjiang films will not decline - in the last life, since the golden period of Xiangjiang films in the early and mid-90s passed, there has been a shortage of directors in Xiangjiang, and it can even be said that there are almost no decent new directors born in Xiangjiang, which is also one of the reasons for the decline of Xiangjiang films.

Due to the establishment of the 'New Director Fund' by Xu Cun, Xu Cun's prestige in the film industry has reached a new high.

The next thing that happened pushed Xu Cun's prestige in the film industry to a higher height - this incident was that the Xiangjiang Film Classification System promoted by the Xiangjiang Film Association, of which Xu Cun was the president, was officially implemented.

In accordance with the Film Censorship Ordinance (Cap. 392), films intended for display or distribution on videotapes or CDs in Hong Kong are required to be submitted to the Hong Kong Film, Television and Entertainment Administration (Hong Kong Film and Entertainment Administration) for grading and approval by the Director of the Hong Kong Film and Entertainment Administration.

The film classification is mainly divided into I., II., III. three poles according to the age limit of the audience:

Classes I and II are exhortatory in nature and there is no fixed age limit;

For Grade II.A or II.B films, parents are encouraged to accompany and guide their children to watch them.

Class III is the most stringent and does not allow tickets to persons aged 18 or below to enter cinemas, and the law allows ticket inspectors to check the identity cards of entrants.

(People outside of the Hong Kong area may misunderstand that "Grade III films" are blue films.) In fact, films with genres full of graphic violence, horror, and depictions of controversial moral values in society will also be rated as Grade III films, while nudity may appear in non-Category III films. However, at the beginning of the classification system, only the blue films that were banned in the past were sent for inspection, so the public would have such an illusion, until the later "The Case of the Three Wolves" was sent for inspection, which was the first film to be rated as Level III because of excessive violence. ）

Packaging of Class III videotapes or DVDs, as well as promotional materials for Class III films, must be submitted to the Film Censorship Authority for approval before they can be distributed or publicly displayed.

A copy of the "Certificate of Approval of the Film Censorship Ordinance" ("Screening Paper") issued by the Film and Television Department ("Film Inspection Paper") is required for all graded films, whether they are shown in cinemas or distributed on CD.

The classification system can be said to be a double-edged sword - the emergence of the classification system means that the scale of Xiangjiang electric inspection has begun to be relaxed, which has led to the proliferation of a large number of films that exaggerate violence and color. On the other hand, Hong Kong filmmakers have also been given more freedom to create, and then they have been able to produce masterpieces that break through the taboo of subject matter, and it is precisely because of the emergence of the classification system that the period from 1989 to 1995 has become the most prosperous period in the history of Hong Kong films.

But-

In view of the fact that the previous Xiangjiang film went astray because of its blue color, which led to the decline of Xiangjiang film to a certain extent, and there was the bright light of Japanese movies in front of the way, on the second day of the implementation of the Xiangjiang film classification system, Xu Cun asked Phoenix Channel, TVB and DreamWorks Newspaper to publicly pass on a solemn statement of his own - DreamWorks will never produce and distribute Class III films, Class II.B films and strictly control the distribution.

Xu Cun's statement is to clearly tell Xiangjiang filmmakers: I, Xu, do not support filmmakers to make films that exaggerate violence and color!

As soon as Xu Cun's statement came out, many filmmakers who wanted to make a lot of money by using violence and sex as a gimmick scolded Xu Cun for his "hypocrisy", and began to hesitate to make any more Class III movies!

The day after Xu Cun issued a statement, Zou Chongjin on behalf of Golden Harvest and Huang Baiming on behalf of New Arts City also issued a statement: All the staff of Golden Harvest and New Arts City support Mr. Xu, and Golden Harvest and New Arts City will never produce and distribute Class III films, and Class II.B films will also strictly control the distribution.

Under the attitude of Xu Cun, the emperor of the Xiangjiang film world, the vast majority of filmmakers have retreated from making Class III films, which in turn has led to the flood of violent and erotic films in Xiangjiang like in the previous life.

Mid-November.

Xu Cun began to personally arrange the development direction of his own companies in the coming year......

Late January 1989.

Xu Cun took his family, more than 1,000 of his bodyguards and more than 500 maids to Musa Island for a vacation.

Before leaving, Xu Cun solemnly handed over to He Chaoqiong, Mei Aifang, Li Zhi, Hu Yizhong, Meng Guangmei, Weng Hong, Li Cheng, Zheng Haiquan, Yuan Tianfan, Lin Fannan and Wu Zimei and his wife: "In the next six months, except for you and Deng Gong, I will not see anyone and answer anyone's calls!" ”

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