Chapter 54: Modern Bodyguard
At the beginning of his rebirth, Zhang Shaojie's goal was simply to make money to support his family.
In order to achieve the simple ideal of making money to support his family, Zhang Shaojie plagiarized Huang Yi's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".
In fact, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" exceeded Zhang Shaojie's original goal! This novel not only lifted his family out of poverty, but also brought Zhang Shaojie a huge influence in the field of culture.
If it weren't for "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", great gods such as Jin Yong and Huang Yulang would not look at Zhang Shaojie differently.
If it weren't for "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Zhang Shaojie would not have had the opportunity to worship Jin Yong and become the only disciple of Old Man Jin!
More than three months have passed, and at this time, the identity and environment have been completely different, and Zhang Shaojie's goal has naturally expanded, expanding the entire entertainment and cultural industry from the field of novels.
Movies are the backbone of Hong Kong's entertainment and cultural industries!
If you want to truly become the helmsman of Hong Kong's culture and entertainment industry, you must have the right to speak in the film industry!
If the film industry wants to gain the right to speak, the best thing is to be rich like Run Run Shaw, secondly, to have connections like Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Golden Harvest, and secondly, to be a talented director or big star himself
Zhang Shaojie doesn't have these conditions!
He has a movie script, though!
After Zhang Shaojie apprenticed with Jin Yong, he not only made great progress in cultural literacy, but also learned the basic knowledge of film screenwriting!
Of course, what he learned was only the correct format of the script, as well as the common sense and skills of the screenwriter. However, this theoretical knowledge is only a guiding role, and it does not allow him to write a good script immediately after learning it!
A good script depends not only on the correct formatting, but also on the talent and experience of the screenwriter!
Only talented editors can write plots that make the audience addicted, and can write classic lines that mobilize the audience's emotional fluctuations!
These, for Zhang Shaojie, are not a big problem!
A large number of future classic movies can provide Zhang Shaojie's reference!
Zhang Shaojie's laptop hard drive stores at least 500 classic movies in the future.
Some classics of the 80s, naturally, are not lacking.
Zhang Shaojie only needs to watch the plot and dialogue of the film. While writing out the plot and lines inside.
There are more than 500 movies stored in the computer, so he has more than 500 good scripts at hand!
Using the movie script as a breakthrough is a good way to intervene.
The 80s, the golden development era of the Hong Kong film industry, was also the most sought-after era for excellent scripts!
Hong Kong filmmakers in this era have no scruples and are imaginative, dare to shoot anything, and dare to try any novel theme!
Fantasy films, zombie films, gambling films, hero films, and new martial arts are all trends created in the 80s.
It's a pity that in the Hong Kong film industry, low-cost production, coupled with copycat imitation, has become a trend. A movie with a novel theme appeared, and soon countless followers followed.
For example, in the 70s, kung fu superstar Bruce Lee became popular, so the entire Hong Kong film company desperately made kung fu movies.
After Bruce Lee's death, Hui Guanwen's ghost horse comedy film was born, breaking the box office record of Bruce Lee movies and becoming the leader of the Hong Kong film industry.
So the entire Hong Kong film industry, whether it is a big-name director or a rookie director, wants to make money, and the first choice is to follow Xu Guanwen's ghost horse funny movie.
From the mid-70s to the early 80s, the entire Hong Kong film industry was full of ghosts. Countless street directors have relied on following the trend of ghost horse movies to "turn over" at the box office!
It wasn't until the advent of zombie films that the ghost horse theme dominated the local box office in Hong Kong.
If you follow the trend, it is a sincere tribute, and it looks better than the previous movies with similar themes!
The problem is that the vast majority of Hong Kong films are shoddy, and such a follow-up will only cause huge damage to the Hong Kong film market!
Zhang Shaojie pondered for a moment and decided to give up writing the creative movie script in advance!
Come up with good ideas in advance, it's a harm to Hong Kong movies!
With the impetuousness of Hong Kong filmmakers now, as long as a certain theme shines, there will be at least 100 follow-up works within a few years.
Because there are too many followers, it won't be long before the audience can get tired of aesthetics and get tired of a certain theme.
In such an environment where plagiarism has become a trend, new themes will be developed in advance, and Hong Kong movies will accelerate their decline by one step!
Therefore, Zhang Shaojie decided to make some movie scripts with more classic plots, but the creativity is not amazing.
"Modern Bodyguard" - the local box office champion in Hong Kong in 1981!
This film is a masterpiece directed and acted by Xu Guanwen, the grandmaster of the founding sect of the ghost horse theme!
In fact, Xu Guanwen was a miracle in the mid-70s, from 74, he directed and starred in "Ghost Horse Double Star" shortly after the release of the box office record of Bruce Lee movies.
After that, Xu Guanwen's popularity was unmatched!
Basically, every time Xu Guanwen makes a film, he can ensure that the box office ranks among the top ten.
Moreover, Xu Guanwen also makes a masterpiece that breaks the Hong Kong box office record every year or so!
"Modern Bodyguard" is based on a real robbery in Kowloon. Because it was Xu Guanwen, the "Ghost Horse Flow" grandmaster, who wrote, directed and acted in himself, which made this film have amazing market appeal.
After the release of "Modern Bodyguard" in Hong Kong in 1981, the Hong Kong local box office record was once again refreshed to a height of 17.76 million Hong Kong dollars - more than 6 million more than the box office of the Hollywood blockbuster 007 series "King Kong Bravely Breaks the Sea Dragon Gang" released in Hong Kong that year, which shows the strength of this film!
"Modern Bodyguard" not only once again proved Xu Guanwen's ability to direct and act, but also made Xu Guanjie, who was originally famous for his pop songs in Hong Kong, soar in the box office appeal of the film industry.
Later, Xu Guanjie's "Best Partner" series was able to become popular all the way, which is not unrelated to the large number of popularity it has gathered in Xu Guanwen's ghost horse movies.
"Modern Bodyguard" has a luxurious cast, Xu Guanwen is the director, and the three heroes of the Xu family - Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanjie, and Xu Guanying co-starred.
Zhang Shaojie revisited this movie again.
Although Zhang Shaojie has been baptized by Stephen Chow's nonsensical and funny style, he still can't help but laugh at this film and laughs many times.
can make people who have experienced Stephen Chow's nonsensical funny movies and Ge You's cold humor movies laugh.
It can be seen that the comedy effect in Xu Guanwen's movies can still stand up to scrutiny and testing.
The plot outline of this movie is very simple-
The No. 1 actor, Zhou Shichang, has worked in a long-established security company for 15 years, and has now been promoted to an instructor, responsible for training new security guards and managing all the company's affairs. In fact, he is a greedy person who is afraid of death, and his subordinate Mori Lao wants to tease him.
The No. 2 actor Deng Xiaolong originally wanted to take the police exam, but he was not admitted due to color blindness and short stature, and was later selected by Zhou Shichang for the guard exam.
The No. 3 actor is Wang Pingfan, the son of the company's boss, who came back from studying in the UK, and he disguised himself as a security guard to find out the real situation of the company, and he also had a practical understanding of Zhou Shichang's incompetence and meanness.
Soon, Deng Xiaolong and Sen were promoted for their meritorious work in catching robbers, and the boss also took this opportunity to introduce Wang Pingfan, and Zhou Shichang was dismissed. But in order for him to work for 15 years in half a month and enjoy the provident fund, he still has to endure it.
At the end of the play, although Deng Xiaolong made meritorious contributions in the mission, he was arrested for stealing 50,000 yuan from the cash protected by the company in the previous mission, and if he did not have bail, he would face imprisonment.
Zhou Shichang, the boss who was often teased by his subordinates, showed his kindness in the end, and actually took out the 50,000 yuan provident fund reward check given to him by the company to bail Deng Xiaolong, so that Deng Xiaolong could marry his girlfriend Ah Zhen
Although the plot is simple, it has Xu Guanwen's ability to control the funny movies of ghost horses, which makes the film a cold humor.
In the details, it is witty, humorous, and comic.
Although it is not as exaggerated and nonsensical as the later Stephen Chow movies, nor is it as famous as Ge You's cold humor, it is enough to meet the public's pastime needs for relaxation
Good! That's it, the 1981 Hong Kong movie box office champion, come out a year ahead of schedule!