Chapter 107: Public Opinion Strikes Back

Zhang Shaojie stared at the active "Chen Guanyu" in the media, this person he had already investigated, and there was no direct relationship with the "Chen Guanshui" who spread rumors before.

However, it is obvious that this person is also hostile to Zhang Shaojie.

Therefore, Zhang Shaojie honestly and unceremoniously wrote an article in the newspaper to greet him:

"Greetings film critic Chen Guanyu, how is your mother? I heard that you made a strange argument in the media, from the case of a girl who was almost forcibly annihilated because she sang "The Demon Girl", to the strange point of view that "whoever sings "The Demon Girl", you should be the one who seduces you, and then after secretly changing the concept, it makes people feel that the girl who sings "The Demon Girl" is seducing people by singing, such a fallacy! According to the analysis of psychological experts, the vast majority of the strong murderers are psychologically examined because they think that the woman is seducing him. Can I be based on this argument and insist that you are suspected of being a strong annihilator? ”

After scolding, Zhang Shaojie began to calm down, borrowing all kinds of love songs from ancient and modern China and foreign countries to counter the fallacy: "The lyrics of "Demon Girl" are nothing more than a bold girl taking the initiative to pursue a boy, in addition, this is a very ordinary love song. Love and the feelings between men and women have been transmitted in the form of poems, articles, and so on since ancient times. There are a lot of bold love songs in the Book of Songs! Can you think that reading the Book of Psalms and singing the Book of Psalms is to seduce people? Tang poems, Song songs, Yuan songs, as well as Chinese folk tunes, as well as folk songs from all over the world, also have this kind of bold love songs. According to Mr. Chen Guanyu's point of view, they are all vulgar and seductive -- is it not because of this that singers can be forbidden to sing love songs, and it is better to prohibit others from expressing the feelings between men and women, wouldn't it be good for everyone to be a gentleman and a lady? ”

Zhang Shaojie's article full of gunpowder was published in the entertainment edition of "Ming Pao".

Soon after, solidarity erupted.

"There is no sin in singing love songs!" A citizen said in an interview with a television reporter.

"The strong * annihilation * criminal is definitely not just what the girl sings, but he himself has psychological problems, this is the motive for the crime!" A police officer looks at the problem from his own professional point of view.

"The old lady is going to sing "The Demon Girl", and if there is a kind of force, I will come to annihilate it, and see if the old lady does not kill the disciples!" A girl who looks like a dinosaur said to the TVB camera, her eyes are full of fantasy - if it is a handsome guy, she will not resist

After Zhang Shaojie's article was issued, it not only reversed the trend in the media, but also inspired many Zhang Shaojie's fans to come out to support!

This is one of the benefits of being a writer. If it is a star like Jackie Chan, even if he has been married for decades, he will not dare to make it public, and when his son is in his twenties, Jackie Chan himself is no longer active in the film and television industry, and he dares to admit that he has actually been married to Lin Fengjiao for more than 20 years.

A writer like Zhang Shaojie does not rely on his personal idol temperament, or external things such as performance and image to attract fans. So even if he has a girlfriend, it doesn't affect the fans' love for him. Of course, some beautiful female fans will definitely make some emotions.

Regarding the emotions of a few beautiful female fans, Zhang Shaojie could only smile indifferently after knowing it.

Even if the writer is Guo Xiaosi, who is widely popular with female fans, his real life is like an otaku who stays at home, and there are few romantic scandals.

For another example, a well-known online writer in later generations is "catty", and his new *wave*micro* blog often mentions topics such as "beautiful female readers", "beautiful readers", and "female readers". But everyone can guess that his real purpose is to use these muffled words to attract everyone to reply and forward

――――――――Of course, Jin Yong knew that Zhang Shaojie was in "Ming Pao" like this, rebutting the scolding and scolding, and immediately called over and drenched Zhang Shaojie's criticism on the blood: "You are so talented and capable, the whole article is scolding, you can't see the literati's temperament at all, but like a little rascal, don't you know how to grow up and use more clever words?" The advanced method of scolding is that you can't see a dirty word, and there is no smell of gunpowder, but the other party who said it didn't use the courage to scold you."

Zhang Shaojie hurriedly said: "Teacher, don't be angry, haven't I been confused by that villain?" ”

Jin Yong said: "You also know that it is a villain? The more you scold, the more he gets scolded! If you ignore him, he will be forgotten after a while! ”

Zhang Shaojie said: "Well, teacher, I remember, the next time you encounter this kind of thing, you will either be elegant and scolded, or ignore him"

Jin Yong said: "This is actually not a clever way? ”

Zhang Shaojie said curiously: "Isn't this the method you just said?" ”

Jin Yong said: "That's because you have used a worse method, so I will say a few words." If it were me, I wouldn't come forward myself at all, but let others come forward and fight with each other. Win or lose, my own face will not be lost. ”

Zhang Shaojie suddenly realized: "High! It's really high! The teacher's methods are really impressive to the students! If you come forward by yourself and fight too hard, no matter you win or lose, in the eyes of others, it is a bad impression of being competitive. If you don't speak and let others speak for you, you won't hurt your face if you win or lose! Haha" Hearing Jin Yong's explanation, Zhang Shaojie knew that he was still too tender, the teacher deserved to run a newspaper, and he also had a lot of experience in public opinion warfare.

―――――――――― the box office of "Modern Bodyguard" exceeded 10 million in the first week, which not only once again proved Xu Guanwen's ability to refresh the box office record of Hong Kong films, but also proved that Golden Harvest's career in recent years has once again reached a new height.

Hollywood blockbusters such as "Mr. and Mrs. Kramer", "007" and "Star Wars", which were introduced in Hong Kong this year, are only five or six million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Hong Kong.

The second place of other Hong Kong films, Anle Film Company's "Tragic War" only achieved a box office of more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars, and the fourth place "Modern Dirtyman" has recently benefited from the strength of "Modern Bodyguard", because the titles are similar, and the box office has also begun to increase.

However, at this time, although the box office of "Modern Bodyguard" is higher than the historical more than 4 million, it is only a box office of 5.3 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not enough to threaten the top position of "Modern Bodyguard"!

Moreover, "Modern Dirtyman" has been in theaters for 2 months, and Hong Kong movies in this era are generally only between 20 and 60 days old.

Because, the first period of a movie's box office is generally about a month, and after that, the box office will drop rapidly, even if it is an extremely popular movie, if it is released for three months, the attendance rate will be reduced to extremely bleak.

Golden Harvest Company.

Zhang Yimou was interning in the company at this time and gradually gained the trust of Golden Harvest Studio. In Jackie Chan's "Young Master Dragon", Zhang Yimou also became one of the photographers, although he was only an assistant to the photographer, but the photography talent of this young man in the early thirties of the mainland, Jackie Chan couldn't help but praise him.

After Anita Mui became popular with "The Demon Girl" sung in "Modern Bodyguard", she was criticized by the media and was in the doldrums for a while, but under the persuasion of Zhang Shaojie, she also began to cheer up and continued to learn a little on the Golden Harvest set. Although Golden Harvest does not have an artist training class like TVB. But in the crew, you can learn more. Because, even if an actor keeps participating in bad movies, he can exercise some acting ability if he plays more and is instructed by old actors and directors. And if an excellent actor doesn't perform for a few years, then no matter how talented he is, he will be wasted.

Zhang Shaojie doesn't come to Golden Harvest often, but after he came, screenwriters and directors kept coming over - screenwriters came to ask Zhang Shaojie for guidance on the lack of scripts, and directors came to ask for scripts.

"Zhang Shaojie, can you help me write a script?"

"Brother Zhang, how about reading my script, can it be popular?"

"Jie Shao, take me as an apprentice"

For the entanglement of a group of screenwriters and directors.

The faces are full of anticipation, or admiration. Zhang Shaojie was more helpless and said: "I ask the director of the script to disperse first, my script is not what I want to have." Moreover, I usually write a script to choose a director, rather than someone asking me to write a script! Screenwriters, if I have a chance in the future, I can give you an open class, which has nothing to do with the basic knowledge of screenwriting, just some of my own ideas and so on."

Although Zhang Shaojie refused, some directors and screenwriters were a little disappointed, but there were still some people who kept pestering, which made Zhang Shaojie very annoyed!

It wasn't until Zou Wenhuai came that many screenwriters and directors dispersed in a hurry.

After Zou Wenhuai saw Zhang Shaojie, he said with a smile: "I originally thought that discovering Bruce Lee, Xu Guanwen, and Jackie Chan was the most proud of the few big moves in my life. However, Zhang Shaojie is not inferior to the first three! ”

Zhang Shaojie naturally smiled politely: "Boss Zou is not old, and his vision for the film industry is unparalleled!"

Zou Wenhuai shook his head and said, "No." Although I don't want to be old, the world film industry has changed too much in recent years. "Star Wars" and movie special effects are all unprecedented. There are a lot of things I want to understand, but I haven't been able to figure it out. In the film industry in the past, with your eyes closed, you know whether that movie can be popular or not! In recent years, the number of eye walks has also increased."

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "It's normal to look away. People are not immortals, and the film industry itself is an industry that is difficult to predict. Every movie investment is like a gamble. It is not necessary to win all bets, a winning rate of 6 percent is enough to be undefeated, and a winning rate of 7 percent is a well-deserved winning general! ”

Zou Wenhuai smiled very happily and said: "It is not easy for young people to be so rational! By the way, this time you have won the first battle of "Modern Bodyguard"! With a first-week box office of more than 11 million, your dividends are more than 500,000. With this momentum, I think it will be easy to get a box office of 20 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong. Are you interested in guessing the final box office figures? ”

Zhang Shaojie frowned and said, "It's hard to guess!" "Because, if the average movie ticket in Hong Kong is 8 Hong Kong dollars, the box office of 20 million Hong Kong dollars means that 2.5 million people have watched the movie. Although there are people who enter the market repeatedly, they are not the mainstream audience after all. It is conservatively estimated that if the box office is 20 million, at least 2 million Hong Kong people have watched the movie, which means that 40% of the citizens have gone to the cinema to watch "Modern Bodyguard".

Zhang Shaojie knows that the local box office of 20 million Hong Kong dollars in this era is already a very exaggerated and perverted data, and if you guess further, will you still let all the citizens go to the movies?

Even if movies are mass entertainment, the market penetration rate in developed countries is generally only 30%, but Hong Kong, as a region with rich film culture, has a market penetration rate of 50%! But half of the citizens in Hong Kong don't watch movies all year round, so you can't be whimsical and expect those who don't watch movies to go to the theater to cheer up, right?

"Let's guess, it doesn't matter if you guess wrong!" Zou Wenhuai begged like an old child.

Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but laugh and said with a smile: "Then I guess, Hong Kong has a box office of 25 million Hong Kong dollars, and overseas markets have a box office of 55 million Hong Kong dollars!" ”

Zou Wenhuai said with satisfaction: "Okay, 80 million global box office, you predicted!" If it can be realized, you will have a pre-tax dividend of HK$4 million! If there were so many benefits, would you write me a few more scripts? ”

Zhang Shaojie chuckled, this Boss Zou was originally tempting himself.

first asked himself about his prediction of the box office, and then said that if the prediction was realized, how huge the dividend income would be, and finally, the original form was revealed, and it turned out that he begged himself to write more scripts for Golden Harvest.

"No, no, at least not recently! When the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is released, if it can be a big hit, I will write the script, and I will hit the street, and I will not write the script for at least a year! Zhang Shaojie said.

Zou Wenhuai said with a smile: "In order to prevent the movie "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" from hitting the streets, Golden Harvest must definitely support it!" When the time comes, I will prepare you for the second only theater show of "Modern Bodyguard"! ”

At this time, the box office of "Modern Bodyguard" remained above HK$1.5 million per day, while "Modern Dirtyman" added HK$200,000 per box office. Although "Modern Dirtyman" is far from enough to threaten the momentum of "Modern Bodyguard", it is a visual shock for the entire film industry!

After Xu Guanwen's "Ghost Horse Double Star" in the past, the whole Hong Kong is full of ghost horse films.

Now "Modern Bodyguard" is making more than 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in one day.

In the Hong Kong film industry, senior filmmakers from all walks of life have sighed - "The modern era is coming!" Not to mention the perverted demon of "Modern Bodyguard", even "Modern Dirtyman" can earn 200,000 a day! "Xu Guanwen is worthy of being Xu Guanwen, who used to make ghosts and horses. Now, "Modern Bodyguard" is estimated to drive modern-related movies to become popular again! ", "Zhang Shaojie is amazing, and an episode of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" written by others can sell more than 500,000 copies. The movie script "Modern Bodyguard" written by him broke the relevant box office movie record in the first week of release, and the song "Demon Girl" he wrote casually in the movie became popular with his girlfriend Anita Mui! ”

If "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" can really arrange the same number of scenes as "Modern Bodyguard", as long as the quality can be guaranteed, most of them will not hit the street!

Zhang Shaojie knows that when his strength is weak, it is undoubtedly beneficial to be able to cooperate with giants! Microsoft's early success was because of Bill. Gates was born in a very wealthy family, he could have the capital to take a leave of absence to start a business, and the second is that her mother was an executive at IBM, so she received a lot of support from IBM before Microsoft was strong in the early days. By the time Bill Gates' mother left IBM's management, Microsoft's scale had grown, and it could live without relying on giants like IBM!

Golden Harvest is in the Hong Kong film industry what IBM is in Silicon Valley. Although Zhang Shaojie has infinite potential in Hong Kong, in the early stage of development, with the support of Golden Harvest, the road to development is undoubtedly much faster than doing it alone!

(To be continued)