Chapter 342: The Script

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Hong Kong's glorious 80s and early 90s were diverse, with music, films, and TV dramas reaching historic heights.

At the same time, with Hong Kong as the center, the entertainment of the whole East and Southeast Asia is radiated by Hong Kong.

Although it is only the early 80s, this kind of influence is not profound, but the singers represented by Teresa Teng and Chen Lang have become the superstars of the whole Asia.

The films made by film companies represented by New Arts City and Golden Harvest are also popular in all Asian countries.

At the same time, with the rapid and mature development of the Hong Kong music and film industry, this influence continued to increase year by year, until it reached its peak in the early 90s.

As a person born in the early 90s, Chen Lang is both familiar and unfamiliar with Hong Kong in the 80s.

is strange because when I grew up, the glory of Hong Kong entertainment was already a thing of the past, and I am familiar because of the classic Hong Kong films, superstars and goddesses who have attracted much attention.

For the glorious and brilliant 80s, Chen Lang was longing for it in his previous life, and now he is reborn here, of course, he will not miss it, and he will leave the most colorful stroke in it.

Chen Lang started by copying books, and then released records, but what Chen Lang hopes most is to reproduce classic films.

Fortunately, after two and a half years, Chen Lang has gained considerable popularity and a certain net worth, and it is time to touch the unrealizable dream of his previous life.

Therefore, after Chen Lang was promoted to Form 7, he had already bought back relevant books and began to learn to write scripts.

In fact, the creation of the script is simple and simple, but difficult to say.

Simplicity is because the format of the script is certain, and it is very simple to write a script that meets the requirements in form.

The difficulty is to write a script that is full of creativity or selling points, but this is precisely Chen Lang's biggest advantage, so Chen Lang decided to write a formal script and prepare for shooting after learning to imitate it for a while.

But there are too many classics in my mind, and it has become a question of which one to write first.

As far as Chen Lang himself is concerned, in his previous life, he liked to watch movies like science fiction, magic, action, animation and comedy.

The intense visual stimulation and light-sensitive enjoyment in American blockbusters is surprising and addictive.

Becoming a kung fu master is believed to be the dream of countless boys.

Comedy movies make people laugh and relax.

Most of the animated movies are family-friendly and full of love.

These are all things that Chen Lang likes.

However, there are so many classic films, except for movies that cannot be shot with the corresponding technology for the time being, there are still many options, but there are two genres in Hong Kong that will never go out of style, and that is action and comedy.

As for many gangster films, variants of hero films, new martial arts films and police films, in 1983, they have not yet become completely popular and popular, so Chen Lang targeted comedy films.

What really made Chen Lang start writing his first script was that Chen Lang happened to see a drama, and this script almost passed by Chen Lang.

At that time, a classmate invited Chen Lang to watch a drama competition for middle school students, Chen Lang didn't want to go, and was still thinking about his first script, until his classmates said that this drama competition might bring inspiration, Chen Lang agreed to come to watch.

And this drama competition did give Chen Lang a big surprise, and there was a one-act play called "Zhu Xiucai" among more than ten dramas.

The whole performance is the story of a hanging neck ghost and three schoolgirls in the ruined temple, and this one-act play also won the competition in the final competition.

After reading it, Chen Lang immediately ran to the back stage and found Ma Weihao, the director and screenwriter of this drama, and wanted to buy the script of this drama in his hand.

Ma Weihao was only a high school student at this time, and he was also a member of the Lang Lang Fan Club, he was very excited and happy when he saw Chen Lang, and after hearing Chen Lang's intention, he wanted to agree, but was stopped by a word.

"This classmate, are you the screenwriter of the first "Zhu Xiucai" in the drama just now?" At this time, a familiar figure walked over.

That's right, it's Huang Baiming, one of the seven-member groups in the New Art City.

"Mr. Huang, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here." Chen Lang looked at Huang Baiming and said hello with a smile, but he was alert in his heart.

"It turned out to be Lang Lang, who has admired his name for a long time." Huang Baiming only thought about buying the script, and he really didn't notice Chen Lang.

"Why is Mr. Huang here?" Chen Lang was a little anxious in his heart, and asked knowingly.

"I was one of the judges for this play." Huang Baiming said, and then looked at Chen Lang and Ma Weihao suspiciously, "Lang Lang, do you have anything to do with this classmate?" ”

"To tell you the truth, I also want to buy the script of "Zhu Xiucai". Chen Lang simply confessed his purpose directly.

"So that's the case, I also think this script is good, and I want to buy this script on behalf of New Art City." Huang Baiming obviously didn't expect Chen Lang to have the same purpose as himself, "Could it be that Lang Lang, are you going to change jobs to become a screenwriter?" ”

"Yes, I have graduated now, I usually like movies very much, and I feel that my ability to write stories is not bad, so I want to write a movie script to try first, I happened to see this drama today and thought it was very interesting, so I moved the idea of buying it, I didn't expect you to have this idea, Mr. Huang." Chen Lang shrugged and said.

"That's a coincidence, so let's play fair." Huang Baiming didn't feel embarrassed, but said directly, "I'm willing to spend 20,000 yuan to buy this script." ”

Ma Weihao heard the conversation between the two, and his heart was excited, he didn't expect that a script he wrote would be loved by the beautiful New Art City and his favorite singers in the past two years, but the same purpose of the two made Ma Weihao hesitate for a while.

To be honest, the script sold to Xinyicheng will have a great chance to be put on the big screen and make his work appear in front of all Hong Kong and even Southeast Asian fans, but Chen Lang also seems to value his script.

It's really hard to decide if you have your favorite singer on the one hand, and a movie company with infinite scenery on the other.

But now that the two are competing fairly, Ma Weihao doesn't think about it anymore, anyway, the future has nothing to do with him, so it's better to sell it at a good price.

After hearing the offer of 20,000 yuan, Ma Weihao was excited, he didn't expect that one of his ideas could be exchanged for 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is the income of many people for more than half a year.

Ma Weihao held back the surprise in his heart and looked at Chen Lang again, but found that Chen Lang seemed to be very surprised, could it be that the price was too high?

Chen Lang was indeed shocked when he heard Huang Baiming's offer, not because the price was high, but because he felt that the price was too low.

Although Xu Guanjie told Chen Lang before that it was difficult to be a screenwriter, it was too cheap for such a popular script to sell for only 20,000 Hong Kong dollars.

This is obviously because Chen Lang doesn't know the current market of movie scripts.

Although the Hong Kong film market is on fire now, the highest box office is 26 million Hong Kong dollars for last year's "Best Partner", which is far from being comparable with the box office of 40 million or 50 million in the future.

In other words, the film market is on fire now, but it is not too amazing, and the corresponding costs are not high.

The price of stars has also not reached the point of madness, unlike the cost of a movie in later generations, more than half of which is used to pay the remuneration of the starring big-name stars, and the price of the script is generally low now.

In addition, Hong Kong movies themselves don't care much about movie scripts, resulting in a very low status of screenwriters and very little income, so the price of the script is not high, not to mention that this is still a high school student's drama script.

Now the script of the average newcomer is only about 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the price of 3-50,000 yuan for those who are famous, of course, if you are a gold medal screenwriter, it is different, and the price of 100,000 yuan is also available.

Huang Baiming offered a drama script for a newcomer at a price of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is already a very good price.

What's more, although Huang Baiming thinks this script is good, he can't predict the prophet, knowing that this script will sell well, so he doesn't have the determination to win, and now Xinyi City has a lot of momentum, and he receives countless movie scripts every day, even if he can't buy this script, it doesn't matter much.

Chen Lang didn't care why Huang Baiming would give a price that seemed so low to him, and said directly, "I'm willing to pay 50,000 yuan to buy this script of yours." ”

After Chen Lang finished speaking, he turned to Huang Baiming, "Mr. Huang, I am studying screenwriting now, and I finally saw this script that I am interested in, I hope you can be an adult." ”

Huang Baiming looked at Chen Lang when he heard this.

Although I am somewhat interested in this script, it has not yet reached the point where it is inevitable, and the price of 50,000 yuan is a bit high, not to mention that I can get the favor of a hot star in the music industry now, why not.

"Since Lang Lang you like it so much, then I don't like it, but since Lang Lang is a screenwriter, with your storytelling methods, there must be many excellent works, I hope we can have the opportunity to cooperate in the future." Huang Baiming said with a smile.

"Then thank you so much Mr. Huang, I will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, and I would like to ask you to teach me more." Chen Lang was ecstatic when he heard this, how he looked at Huang Baiming and how he felt cute, as for whether he would regret it later, it had nothing to do with him.

"It's too obvious to call Mr. Huang, it's better to call me Brother Ming, Tsui Hark is still waiting for me outside, I'll leave first." After Huang Baiming finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Chen Lang heard that Tsui Hark was also there, and wanted to go and see this old monster Xu, but when he saw Ma Weihao, he still felt that it was important to get this script, as for Tsui Hark, I believe that there will be no less opportunities for the two to meet in the future.

"Hao, I don't have that much money on me right now, I'll give you the check tomorrow, and then we'll sign a contract, okay?" Chen Lang looked at the excited Ma Weihao in front of him and asked.

"Yes, yes, of course." At this time, Ma Weihao was already excited about 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, and nodded directly in agreement.

Chen Lang was also very happy, he finally got the script, and his first movie started with it.