"Brother Fa, in fact, I think that TV is popular and movies are hitting the streets. It's not necessarily your problem, it's more about the script, director, movie theme, and so on. A good theme, script, director, and investment can make a new actor with ordinary acting skills rise to the sky in one step. And a third-rate movie may make a superstar who originally had the potential to be an actor be applauded all the time! Zhang Shaojie said with a smile.

Chow Yun-fat shook his head and said: "Actually, at first, I also thought that the problem was someone else. However, more and more viewers told me that what they liked to watch was Xu Wenqiang in "Shanghai Tang". So, no matter how hard I put in the film, the audience couldn't accept it."

"Then how do you explain the 3.8 million box office of "The Story of Hu Yue"?" Zhang Shaojie said.

Chow Yun-fat smiled bitterly: "This is luck, this irreproducible luck." After this movie, I took on a few new films, but none of them were popular, and all of them hit the streets. Some people secretly call me 'box office poison'."

Television went viral, and movies hit the streets.

Applause or not!

A few little reds, and a few more on the street. In this way, this is a portrayal of Chow Yun-fat in the film industry in the 80s.

"Don't worry, Brother Fa. Director Xu Anhua is probably your destined nobleman, with her help, you can probably be popular! Lin Qingxia comforted on the side.

Chow Yun-fat's eyes seemed to show some hope.

Xu Anhua shook his head and said: "Not all of my movies are blockbusters. In fact, more of the movies I make are also like the fat boy, which is not popular. In terms of the commercial name and personal art of the film, maybe I haven't found enough balance! ”

Tsui Hark said: "If the cost is enough, the director has a bold vision and makes a high-grossing movie, it is not too difficult. The script and lines should be good, and more big scenes should be made to stimulate the audience's vision. Where it is plain, it should also look exquisite. Be sure to make any clip have a viewing surname! Like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", the film technology, investment scale, and script level have all reached a certain level of blockbusters, basically, as soon as they are released, they are the focus of the market, and it is difficult to hit the streets! ”

Everyone laughed and said: "Tsui Hark, you don't have a pain in your back when you stand and talk, how much did "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" cost?" More than 40 million! The cost of the movies we make is only hundreds of thousands. The budget of "Datang" is seventy or eighty times that of ordinary movies. How can I compare with you? ”

Zhang Shaojie keenly observed that Fa Ge seemed to be a little hesitant, and seemed to have the intention of defecting to Baolong, but he couldn't make up his mind

Now Chow Yun-fat's main source of income is to shoot TV dramas for TVB, and Asia Television is the opponent of TVB, and Zhang Shaojie is a shareholder of Asia TV, Powerlong Film and other companies.

Chow Yun-fat considered the stable income of wireless, and would definitely not defect to Zhang Shaojie immediately. Unless, when Chow Yun-fat is determined to go all out in the film industry, is Zhang Shaojie's best chance to win him over.

Everyone is in KTV, three rounds after drinking, and more than ten K songs.

In this era, everyone is young, and it is inevitable to point out the country and the movie pattern of the pulpit.

Zhang Shaojie was a little drunk, and said with a smile: "The current Hong Kong film market, in my opinion, the technical threshold is still too low. As long as it relies on Hong Kong's film and television industry, veteran filmmakers will support this market. Even if it's a New Wave style, it's actually nothing more than a new bottle of old wine. In essence, it is still the traditional technology and concept accumulated in the 60s. As for the core film technology research and development, Hong Kong's foundation is too poor, except for Baolong, who is still engaged in a film special effects studio, there is no second company that is researching computer CG special effects. In the future, if some countries and regions imitate and learn from the production model of Hong Kong films and vigorously develop the film industry, it is normal for the Hong Kong film industry to lose to the students."

Xu Anhua shook his head and said, "Shaojie, you are alarmist." Looking at the world, European films have their own system, and American films dominate most parts of the world. Indian films, Chinese mainland and Soviet films are all self-entertaining. This movie, that is, the 50s ~ 60s, was popular for a period of time, and since then, it has been reduced to a niche movie. You see, who in the world but Hollywood can beat Hong Kong films? ”

Hui Yinghong also smiled: "That's it, that's it, the film industry, but if you don't want to do it well, you can do it well." This is a systematic project, cinematographer, lighting, editing, directing, makeup, screenwriting, props, martial arts instructors, etc., all need dozens of different professionals to cooperate in order to make a successful film. The reason why Hong Kong has been so successful is also because of its accumulation, since the 50s, it has accumulated tens of thousands of filmmakers. Hong Kong film directors can easily find a sufficient number of professionals, but how can there be so many film professionals in other parts of Asia? ”

"Be prepared for danger in times of peace, sisters! In the future, countries such as South Korea and Japan will make every effort to revitalize the film industry. Ten years to cultivate talents, ten years to invest heavily. Hong Kong films, compared to those regions, are only 20 years ahead! If there is no progress in 20 years, it will definitely be surpassed by other movies! Zhang Shaojie looked worried.

"20 years later? Haha, maybe we all made enough money at that time to enjoy life," Tsui Hark suddenly laughed.

"Damn, despise you!" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Hui Yinghong broke the atmosphere and said with a smile: "Hahaha, sisters, are you teasing, are you really being tricked?" ”

"There are you, the big boss, thinking about the future of Hong Kong films, what are we anxious about. The sky is falling, and there is a big boss to support it! Chow Yun-fat said with a timely smile.

Zhang Shaojie suddenly realized that in fact, the deep-seated crisis of Hong Kong films, who did not know about it.

But knowing a bunch of crises, they are at most directors, screenwriters, and actors. How can the power of the individual affect the overall situation?

However, for Baolong Film Company's large-scale investment in special effects blockbusters, it has opened up a broader way out for the future of Hong Kong films. Everyone present was also impressed.

Take the current state of Hong Kong films. Most film companies can make more money on small budget films. It is unlikely that film companies in the industry will be willing to take the risk of investing 40 million blockbusters like Baolong Film Company.

At present, more than 95% of the films, investors are only willing to invest less than 1 million, what can the directors and actors do.

After all, for most filmmakers, the main purpose is nothing more than to provide for their families.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but secretly say in his heart that Baolong Company still has to continue to develop, and wait until the way out explored by Baolong is recognized by more and more film investors.

Only then can the Hong Kong film industry be like Hollywood, reduce the number of films, and gradually win by quality.

Judging from the current situation, there are as many as five or six hundred Hong Kong films shot every year, which is completely unnecessary. After all, Hollywood dominates most markets around the world, and only three or four hundred movies are produced a year.

As soon as the number of movies increases, the overall quality will definitely deteriorate.

If there is a consensus in the Hong Kong film industry, the number of films will be gradually reduced to one or two hundred, and the scale of investment in a single film will be increased, and the quality of Hong Kong films will be gradually improved.

Only by truly focusing on improving quality can Hong Kong films have a future!

Like the current Hong Kong film development model, if you are obsessed with winning by quantity. Inevitably, a new idea became popular, and hundreds of directors quickly followed suit. Among them, the vast majority of creative follow-up products belong to the low-quality plagiarized products that are in a hurry and before the trend is over.

Historically, in 85 years, Lin Zhengying filmed "Mr. Zombie", which opened the theme of "zombie flow" and introduced Hong Kong movies into the era of "big zombies".

Because too many "zombie films" almost copy the creativity and setting of "Mr. Zombie", these zombie films will continue to rob the business of Lin Zhengying, the originator, so that many zombie films made by Lin Zhengying later are constantly plagiarized by imitators. The box office took a big hit.

Lin Zhengying, the master, starved to death and fed those apprentices who followed the trend, but these apprentices were unscrupulous, with more than 100 zombie films every year. made this originally promising theme, but in the early 90s, it became a street theme.

More and more innovative masters like Lin Zhengying have been robbed of their jobs by apprentices who follow the trend and imitate.

And more and more themes are being filmed by these "apprentices". One day, the masters suddenly spread their hands - we couldn't think of ideas anymore.

As a result, the apprentices who relied on plagiarism lost the goal of imitation, and the entire market entered the end of the depression.

If Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" is a little more complicated, it has more technical content. It is more difficult to make others plagiarize, and plagiarists need to invest more capital and energy to be able to imitate some. Then, this theme will not be filmed in just a few years.

For example, Hollywood's "Star Wars" is also creatively excellent, and has been imitated by a bunch of directors. However, because of the technical content of "Star Wars", the threshold for imitation is relatively high. So, decades later, this kind of interstellar movie is still enduring.

It is precisely because of that the two creative movies "Mr. Zombie" and "Star Wars" have completely different endings after being plagiarized by the trend.

made Zhang Shaojie can't help but want to appeal loudly: "Please copy the brothers who plagiarize with sincerity and copy slowly." A creative idea can tolerate a few follow-up works a year, but don't pop up dozens or hundreds of follow-up works overnight, and shoot the subject matter badly, which is equivalent to smashing the job bowl of the entire industry! ”

(To be continued)