"Deshuang!"

A familiar voice sounded, and Lu Deshuang heard the prestige, it turned out to be Cheng Long, who had not been seen for a long time, but the old man beside him made Lu Deshuang's eyes shrink slightly, although Lu Deshuang had never met this old man, but he had been friends for a long time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the history of Xiangjiang films, two kingdoms have risen one after another since the middle of the last century: the Shao brothers and Jiahe Pictures.

Echoing this, the development of Xiangjiang films is also inseparable from two people: Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai. The former is known as the "Sixth Uncle" and is a household name; The latter's reputation is far less than the former, but in fact, Zou Wenhuai laid the foundation for the Shao brothers for the first thirteen years, and single-handedly created the glory of Jiahe Pictures for more than 30 years.

For the two giants who have influenced the development of Xiangjiang films for half a century, the grievances between them have long attracted much attention.

In the 50s, Shaw moved from Singapore to Hong Kong to take over the family business as a family member, when Shaw's Cinema had just been built, and he was in dire need of a reliable assistant who knew how to promote and could take care of his public and private affairs. 30-year-old Zou Wenhuai, recommended by his old boss and famous newspaperman Wu Jiatang, became the earliest team of Shao Yifu.

And Zou Wenhuai and Shao Yifu's life of being friends and enemies also began here.

Before joining Shao's Company, Zou Wenhuai graduated from the Department of Journalism of St. John's University in the Magic City, and returned to Hong Kong to work for the New York Times and other media. There was a saying that many of the decisions made at that time were actually made by Zou Wenhuai, but they were only issued to various departments through Shao Yifu's instructions.

As the brainchild behind Shao Yifu, Zou Wenhuai has made two important contributions to Shao's family.

In the fifties and sixties, Shao's main opponent was Cathay (Dianmao), at that time, Shao's was on the rise, and was in urgent need of talents, it was Zou Wenhuai who poached the famous director Yue Feng, Tao Qing, Yan Jun and the popular Xiaosheng Cheng Hou from Cathay Pacific, and Lin Dai, Li Lihua, Lin Cui and other big flowers also made a lot of movies for Shao's.

In addition, Zou Wenhuai proposed to Shao Yifu to focus on making martial arts films, and to shoot the realism of punching to the flesh. He asked director Zhang Che, who was unambitious at the time, and newcomer Wang Yu to test the waters, and found the writer Ni Mad who he met when he was working in the media to write the script "One-armed Knife". The response to the movie was huge, with a box office of over one million. A new generation of martial arts star Wang Yu and great director Zhang Che were born, and the classic "Shao's martial arts" era has also been created since then.

As Zhang Che said in his memoirs, Shao Yifu's way of employing people is "first-class talents, third-class positions, and special powers", and Zou Wenhuai is a classic example.

He has been in Shao's thirteen years, successively in charge of publicity and production, and is the boss's most powerful cronies, and his actual authority has far exceeded that of the general manager, but over the years, the general manager has changed three times, but he has not had Zou Wenhuai's share. He once hoped to participate in the company's dividends as a senior executive, but was treated coldly by Shao Yifu, and the two have been estranged since then.

Soon, Shao Yifu's confidante Fang Yihua entered the management of the Shao family, and Zou Wenhuai's power was subtly reduced.

In private, Zou Wenhuai and his partner friend He Guanchang discussed, thinking that in the family-owned Shao's company, they had touched the "glass ceiling" and there was no room for growth. So, in 1970, Zou Wenhuai left Shaw Brothers, and it was rumored that because of the disagreement in ideas, Shao decided to focus on the development of the television industry, but Zou Wenhuai thought that this was a good time for Xiangjiang films. It is also believed that under the leadership of Fang Yihua, Zou Wenhuai was excluded.

"When people stay in one place for a long time, there will always be times when they want to change. Moreover, Shao Lao Liu and I are actually the same kind of people. There are two of us in a small piece of the world, which is too crowded. Zou Wenhuai said that he left with the team he had cultivated, including He Guanchang, deputy director of Shao's production department, and Liang Feng, editor-in-chief of Shao's publication "Southern Film", although he only founded a small company "Jiahe" with 2 million, it was enough to make Shao Yifu restless in the next 20 years.

It can be said that since its birth, heyday and even its decline, Jiahe has never gotten rid of the fate of constant collision and entanglement with the Shao family.

Not long after Zou Wenhuai started his business, he found Wang Yu, who had been popular, to shoot "One-armed Knife vs. Blind Man", but was sued by Shao for infringement, intending to use a lawsuit to bring down this small company, but unfortunately, although Jiahe lost the lawsuit, he only needed to pay 100,000 yuan in compensation, which did not cause a devastating blow.

The following year, there was another "Li Xiaolong battle".

At that time, Lai Xiaolong returned to Hong Kong for development, but was asked by the stingy Fang Yihua to play a supporting role with a low salary, and broke up unhappily. It can be said that the appearance of Li Xiaolong gave Jiahe, who was still weak at the time, a shot in the arm and broke the situation of the Shao family's dominance after the decline of Cathay.

It was only at this time that Shao Yifu was extremely remorseful and wanted to try to poach Li Xiaolong with a lot of money, but he didn't know if Li Xiaolong did it on purpose, so he actually used the phone of Shao Yifu's office to call Zou Wenhuai like a prank.

Zou Wenhuai once said that he really sweated at that time, in order to keep Li Xiaolong, Jiahe introduced the "independent producer system" that had just become popular abroad, delegated power to let Li Xiaolong be a writer and director, and established Concord Company to share accounts with Jiahe films, which successfully left Li Xiaolong.

Jiahe, who kept Li Xiaolong, gradually rose to prominence, and gradually formed a confrontation with the Shaw Brothers in the late 70s.

Although Shao's wealth is powerful and has the reputation of "Shao's production, it must be a good product", Jiahe has gradually launched a new generation of kung fu stars such as Xu Guanwen, Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, Yuan Biao, etc., and cooperated with Zou Wenhuai in the form of satellite companies such as Xu's, Weihe, Baohe, Taihe, etc.

In the face of Jiahe, who wanted to challenge its position, Shao also stepped up the pace of co-production with foreign companies or investment in Western films in the mid-70s, but several films were not successful, and Shao, who had never worried about the cost but lamented the cost, began to shrink its policy of "rushing out of the world".

However, Zou Wenhuai completely used Hollywood production methods, made 19 Western films in two years, and spent $5 million as a salary for "Cannonball Speed", which broke the global record at that time. Ten years later, he released a live-action version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which ranked third in the world's highest-grossing film that year.

Whether it is pioneering the independent producer system in Hong Kong or actively promoting Hong Kong action movies to the world, Jiahe, led by Zou Wenhuai, is full of the spirit of the enterprising and innovative times in the 80s, and the trend has soared. And Shao Yifu is getting older, and the old-fashioned Shao can't hide the twilight, facing problems such as conservative themes, actors leaving, and declining production. From the mid-80s to the early 90s, Xinyicheng, Debao, and Yongsheng emerged in the Xiangjiang film industry successively, and under the impact of these rookies, Jiahe's league dominance stood tall, and Shao's was finally thrown away by the times.

Under Cheng Long's greeting, Lu Deshuang stepped forward quickly, first greeted Cheng Long, and then smiled and said with a sincere greeting on his face: "This is Mr. Zou, you are my idol." This is definitely not a compliment, it can be said that taking the initiative to help a star or director open a studio affiliated with Dessin Media Group is to learn from Jiahe's satellite subsidiary model.