April 3, 1980.

Zhang Shaojie was anxiously waiting.

He was waiting for the news of the official launch of the "Modern Bodyguard" movie.

"Modern Bodyguard" was originally a ghost horse funny movie written, directed and acted by Xu Guanwen in 1981, perhaps after Stephen Chow's movies became popular in the future, Xu Guanwen's movies will be overshadowed.

However, in the 80s, the film was quite successful, not only breaking the local box office record in Hong Kong again, but also winning the Best Actor award at the first Hong Kong Film Awards.

Being able to cooperate with Xu Guanwen is undoubtedly a blessing that countless screenwriters in the Hong Kong film and television industry dream of!

Zhang Shaojie knows that being able to cooperate successfully with Xu Guanwen can gain great prestige in the film and television industry!

"I don't know how Xu Guanwen is preparing." Zhang Shaojie muttered a little.

"How can there be millions of investments in this film, although Director Xu is an important figure in Golden Harvest Company, but for such a big production, it must take a long time to prepare." Although Anita Mui is also waiting for the news of the official start of filming of the movie, there has been no news for a few days since she signed the script contract with Xu Guanwen last time.

Despite this, in the past few days, Anita Mui has also been holding the script and memorizing lines hard.

"I'm going to have to tell some news. It's been almost a week. Zhang Shaojie said depressedly.

"It's only been a week, just wait. I guess there will be news soon! Although Anita Mui was less anxious than Zhang Shaojie, she comforted him.

Seriously, Anita Mui's hard-working and serious attitude really surpasses the vast majority of stars in the future showbiz.

Of course, compared with Anita Mui's talent on stage, in fact, her acting skills in movies are still inferior. In the 80s, the golden age of the Hong Kong film industry, the screen was occupied by more beautiful images such as Brigitte Lin, Wang Zuxian, Zhao Yazhi, Michelle Yeoh and so on.

And Anita Mui, who can play good roles, is mainly in literary films such as "He Yuejun Comes Again", "Half Life", as well as controversial films such as "Yoshiko Kawashima"!

In the vast majority of commercial blockbusters, Anita Mui has been reduced to a foil for other more popular movie stars. "The Judge of the Dead" and "Truant Weilong 3" have captured most of the eyeballs because of Stephen Chow, and Anita Mui is regarded as a stupid big sister by others in order to cooperate with Stephen Chow's nonsensical funny.

"Zhong Wuyan" and "New Crane Needle" Anita Mui is the leading actor in the reverse performance.

In "Three Heroes of the East", which is favored by senior fans, but the box office is quite a hit, the image of Anita Mui's female flying man can be called an epoch-making work.

This typical superhero film with a modern urban background is the theme that Hollywood later used to kill all sides.

It's a pity that the Hong Kong film industry stopped further attempts at this quasi-"superhero" theme because of the acclaim of the experimental work "Three Heroes of the East"!

Now, Anita Mui has not been discovered by Huaxing Records and TVB TV in the music scene she is best at. However, under the influence of Zhang Shaojie, Anita Mui has entered the film industry a few years earlier than in history!

Moreover, her first film is "Modern Bodyguard", which is very promising to break the box office record of Hong Kong movies, which will undoubtedly improve her future film career.

In the future, let her not become a foil for Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow and other bigger movie stars in the film industry!

Anita Mui is reciting lines seriously, and Zhang Shaojie is not idle!

In fact, Zhang Shaojie has already bought "Understanding Movies", "Director's Homework", and all kinds of textbooks related to the film industry that can be bought from bookstores.

In the past few days, Zhang Shaojie has been fighting at night, often all night when the lights of thousands of homes are extinguished, and he is reluctant to put down those books.

Fortunately, Zhang Shaojie's memory is very amazing, and after a few days of hard reading, he has memorized his head full of knowledge related to the film industry.

However, because of the lack of practice, it is difficult for Zhang Shaojie to distinguish between the key points and trivial aspects of theoretical knowledge.

In addition, film directing is a profession that pays great attention to practice and talent, and it is not possible to become a good director by memorizing a lot of theoretical knowledge at once.

In Hong Kong, quite a lot of excellent directors have not been trained in theoretical knowledge, but have purely worked hard in the film industry for many years, and have learned directing skills step by step.

The movie "Modern Bodyguard", in fact, Zhang Shaojie is even more nervous and looking forward to it than "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"!

Because, after Zhang Shaojie was reborn, in just a few months, he became a popular novel writer, but because "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" was plagiarized by Huang Yi, this is not his own thing, so after becoming famous, he is also relatively weak-minded, for fear that others will see through his "true face" of deceiving the world and stealing his name overnight.

In the past few months, in order to solve the psychological panic, Zhang Shaojie has constantly enriched himself. apprenticed to Jin Yong to learn art, and by instructing his younger brother Shaohuai, he distracted others' attention.

However, there is a sense of panic in the heart, which has always been there.

And although the script of "Modern Bodyguard" is watched at future movies, it is recorded while watching.

However, there are still a lot of Zhang Shaojie's own original texts in it, so this script work can be regarded as semi-original and semi-plagiarism, which can be regarded as a big improvement in Zhang Shaojie's writing career after being reborn!

From copying "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" purely word for word, he has gained huge benefits. Progressed to the point where there is both plagiarism and original "Modern Bodyguard" script.

The practice of "Modern Bodyguard" not only allowed Zhang Shaojie's original writing ability to begin to recover, but also integrated with what he learned!

Although Zhang Shaojie didn't dare to say that he didn't need to plagiarize the works of future famous artists, he could be popular if he was original.

However, he at least has the confidence to say that he is also capable of writing his own things.

Now it is only a limited originality, one day, Zhang Shaojie can do his own original works, and he can also be recognized as a boutique by the world!

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By the beginning of April, Zhang Shaojie's manuscript of "The Biography of Shuanglong of the Tang Dynasty" had already handed over 4.5 million words, only about 1 million words were missing, and he could be temporarily relieved from the errand of the scribe.

The manuscript fee brought to him by "Datang" is enough to make all Hong Kong and Taiwan writers envious to death!

In "Ming Pao" and "Martial Arts and History" alone, Zhang Shaojie earned 1 million manuscript fees.

In terms of physical books, 3 episodes were published in Hong Kong. The first episode of the first edition has already sold more than 150,000 copies, and the latest third episode has sold 110,000 copies. The cumulative circulation of these three books has exceeded 400,000 copies, and the remuneration brought to Zhang Shaojie has reached more than 1.2 million Hong Kong dollars.

Taiwan Wansheng has published two episodes, and Zhang Shaojie can get a fixed amount of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars for each episode.

In fact, the circulation of each episode of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in Taiwan has exceeded 500,000 copies. It is 5 times higher than the circulation of Huang Yi Publishing at the end of the 90s!

In fact, this is also due to the factors of the times.

In the future, Taiwan's market will be rich in entertainment products, and its comics and animation products will rob a large number of readers.

Coupled with the impact of many game consoles and computer games, the market for martial arts novels is even more bleak.

At the end of the 90s, Huang Yi could sell more than 100,000 copies at most, and the average sales per episode were more than 50,000 copies, which was already a miracle within a miracle!

You must know that in the future, books that can sell thousands of copies in an episode in the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets can be regarded as red books and bestsellers!

"The martial arts novel industry, at this time, it seems that the market is still huge, but in fact it is full of dangers, and if you are not careful, the market will shrink to a miserable state where there is no one in a hundred!" Zhang Shaojie sighed, "Martial arts novels, to break through the predicament, can only keep pace with the times and integrate with the entire entertainment industry!" And, it is necessary to develop from tradition to various branches such as national arts, fantasy, Xianxia, Xiuzhen, and abilities, so that there is a way out."