There was a low sip sound in the theater from time to time, and Fang Yihua felt a trace of tears slipping down his face, and quickly stretched out his finger to wipe it away.

Movies produced in Hong Kong often laugh at the audience, or use violence to arouse people's desire for destruction, which stimulates the senses. If there is any word that can describe Hong Kong films, it is - catering to the audience. Among them, the midnight test screening is the most intuitive embodiment.

As long as they can cater to the audience and allow the audience to pay for tickets to watch movies out of their pockets, Hong Kong filmmakers will do everything they can. Once you find out which element, which type of movie, will appeal to the audience, then use it until it rots.

The strange thing about this "If the Wine Sells Nothing" is that it does not make the audience enjoy the violent scenes, although there are a few places that make the audience laugh, but in the middle and late stages of the movie, its main tone is sad until it is heartbreaking.

Movies that make people feel pain and can touch people's hearts are naturally successful. But it is impossible to surpass a commercial blockbuster like "Enter the Dragon" at the box office, so what's the problem?

Fang Yihua watched Lin Qingxia singing on the stage on the screen, singing the song "If the Wine Sells Dry" that has been sung on Hong Kong Island in the past few days, and carefully pondered the secret of the success of this movie.

Fang Yihua suddenly remembered "Recruitment Girl" more than two months ago, since the beginning of the year to the present, the low-cost "Recruitment Girl" still ranks first with a box office of 3.07 million at this time, beating Shaw Brothers' "Northland Rouge", which is also a Fengyue film.

"Recruitment Girl" first relied on her name to attract the audience, playing the ** card, and there were indeed very over-the-top scenes in it, which made the audience stunned. But what really made this movie popular was its content - this is a movie about the girls, respectively telling the tragic experience and process of their becoming recruitment girls, and there is a lot of sympathy for the girls, so it has caused a huge social controversy.

With controversy, more people go to the theater to watch it, and the movie itself is of excellent quality, and people can still think after they are addicted. As a result, the box office grew rapidly, and finally achieved results that directors and producers could not even imagine.

Fang Yihua thought about it repeatedly, and suddenly her face was happy, but she found the common point between "If the Wine Sells Nothing" and "The Girl Who Recruited". The two movies seem to be incompatible, one plays the ** card and the other plays the emotional card, but they are both very realistic techniques, delicately filming the lives of the lowest people in society!

After this discovery, Fang Yihua's thinking worked quickly: under normal circumstances, movies are used for entertainment, so commercial films with entertainment surnames are often successful. But this time is different, Hong Kong is still in the midst of a stock market crash, and the Hang Seng Index has been falling for two or three months, and it is still falling.

It doesn't matter if the Hang Seng Index falls, the worst thing is that before the crash, Hong Kong society was speculating in stocks, and if you find ten people on the street, there are at least seven or eight stockholders. A large amount of private wealth has evaporated, and many people can't afford to eat, where will they go to the movies for entertainment? Even if you're Bruce Lee, it's not as important as my meal.

Fengyue film can make some wolf friends tighten their belts, and they also have to buy tickets to go in and see those actresses who are usually high and unattainable, and get a glimpse of privacy. But it is also a ** film, but "Recruiting Girl" defeated Li Hanxiang, the holy hand of Fengyue, and there must be a deep-seated reason.

Contacting the two movies, Fang Yihua has roughly understood the reason. That is the pathos and realistic content in "Recruitment Girl" and "If the Wine Sells Nothing", which resonated with the audience in the stock market crash, as if the story played in it happened to them.

There were bursts of applause in the theater, and people had not yet come out of the sad mood after watching the movie, but Fang Yihua walked out of the movie theater quickly, and heard the discussion of the surrounding audience: "Lin Qingxia is so beautiful!" ”

"yes. is more beautiful than those golden hairpins of the Shaw Brothers, I think she can be called the first beauty in Hong Kong and Taiwan. ”

"I watched her "Outside the Window" last year, and I felt that she was a pure girl, and in just one year, she actually became a big beauty."

"Haven't you heard of the eighteen changes of the female college?"

"Hey, why are you men like this? Uncle Dumb is so pitiful, people's eyes are swollen from crying, you are still talking about who is not beautiful, do you still have a conscience? ”

"Why do you have no conscience? Lin Qingxia is beautiful, and I'm not lying. ”

Fang Yihua hurriedly returned to the Shaw Brothers Company, told Run Run Shaw everything he saw and heard, and said: "I think we should reduce costume and martial arts scenes, and shoot more market dramas and Fengyue films that are close to life, so as to better please the audience." ”

Run Run Shaw thought for a while, frowned and said, "You are right, it just so happens that the filming of "Seventy-two Tenants" is about to be completed, so let them hurry up a little bit." Stop the few costume dramas that haven't started filming yet. Now the top priority is how to suppress Zou Wenhuai, an anti-bone boy! ”

Shaw Brothers is still the leading boss of the Hong Kong film industry, but its current form is in jeopardy.

The popular Huangmei opera of the Shaw Brothers has been left behind by the times, and the costume martial arts films that once attracted thousands of empty alleys have also been replaced by Bruce Lee's kung fu films. Shaw Brothers films are still following the old path, with little innovation and flexibility, but Golden Harvest is actively going out of Hong Kong to connect with international standards, and is more willing to spend money on film production than the stingy Shaw Shaw, so Golden Harvest's film pictures are more exquisite than Shaw Brothers films, which attracts most young people.

Shaw Brothers has been pressed by Golden Harvest last year, and this year, no matter how big or small the cost of the film, all of them are completely defeated when they meet Golden Harvest, and if this continues, Zou Wenhuai, the horse boy of Run Run Shaw, is about to ride on his head and.

It's not that Run Run Shaw hasn't thought about innovation, but innovation costs money, but even a plate of props and dishes has to be used as plastic, and the Shaw Brothers has been used for more than ten years (here, I suddenly remembered Xingye's artifact big rooster porcelain bowl, and I don't know how to go to Baidu for children's shoes), how can I spend money? In Shaw's mind, it's nothing more than a rough picture and a fake prop, as long as the content of the film is okay, the audience will not be picky.

It's a pity that this concept is all old and yellow, there are movies with better pictures, why choose a bad one?

To deal with Jiahe, normal means can't work, so you can only use the old way.

In the evening of the next day, at the door of several large movie theaters where "Enter the Dragon" was screened in Golden Harvest, a group of people in coolie coats suddenly came.

"Bastard, you're stepping on my feet!" A vicious guy suddenly walked into the ticket buying line, indiscriminately pushed a fan queuing up to buy a ticket, pushed it straight backwards, and broke into two ticket buyers on the way.

"What are you pushing me for?" The man who had been pushed down got up from the ground and asked angrily.

"Fuck, dare to speak to me in such a tone, do you know who the uncle is?" The murderer shouted, "Hit me!" ”

A group of rotten boys behind him immediately rushed up and beat people when they caught them. Many of the people queuing to buy tickets had no idea what was going on, and they were punched a few times and turned around and ran away in fear.

In the blink of an eye, the door of the lively movie theater suddenly became crowded, and when the police arrived, those troublemakers had long since disappeared, and the movie theater of Golden Harvest had to pay the police for work.

"Old horseman, another trick! I want you to look good! Thinking that this is not the first time, after Zou Wenhuai received the situation, he was so angry that he slammed the table and scolded, and then hurriedly called the Dragon and Tiger Martial Artist who was eating under his own hands to go to the Shaw Brothers movie theater to make trouble.

Run Run Shaw sneered behind his back, during this time, his Shaw Brothers released some low-cost crash films, plus the stock market crash, there were few audiences, and he was not afraid that Zou Wenhuai's troubles would affect his income. On the contrary, Golden Harvest's "Enter the Dragon", although the attendance rate has decreased, it is still a lot of money, and it was sent by Run Run Shaw to make such a fuss, which has affected the box office for several days.

The immortals fought and mortals suffered, and Wang Zijun was lying on the ground and was also shot by Zou Wenhuai.

Because of its popularity, "If the Wine Sells Nothing" has added a lot of canvases, and many of the theaters released are owned by Shaw Brothers. Zou Wenhuai's order was to let people go to Shaw Brothers' theaters to make trouble, and Shaw Brothers' movie theaters are now the hottest to show "If the Wine Sells Nothing", and as a result, it has become the first target of those dragon and tiger martial artists.

"What? The audience was chased away? Wang Zijun received the news in Taiwan and felt inexplicable. Seeing that his movie form has just improved, he can't sell tickets because of the mess!

The person who dares to smash and has the motive to smash the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line is naturally Zou Wenhuai. As soon as Wang Zijun's mind turned, he understood that it was Zou Wenhuai's hand, and now he couldn't wait to grab Zou Wenhuai and throw it into the toilet bowl and flush it directly into the sewer.

Is it easy for Lao Tzu to make a movie?

"Call Yuanlou in." Wang Zijun held back his anger and said to the female secretary that Bai Muyang matched him.

The female secretary's name is Anqin, 25 years old this year, a returnee from the United States. A set of office uniforms was worn on the body, and the round and slender legs made Wang Zijun's eyes eat a lot of ice cream.

An Qin was recruited not long ago, when Bai Muyang gave Wang Zijun a man, two women and three secretaries, but Wang Zijun took a look at the file and found that this An Qin actually looked a little like Lin Chiling, and immediately made a decision.

"Okay, boss." An Qin tucked the file bag under her armpit, limped out of the office with a twist of her waist, and went straight to the classroom of the acting training class.

Wang's Film Company's acting training class has reached its third phase, and the number of people in the first two phases is very small, but the scale of this phase has reached more than 30 people.

If the company has signed a contract, the training class is free, while ordinary people need to pay the registration fee and tuition fee if they apply for the exam. Every six months, those with excellent grades can directly sign a contract with Wang's company, and those with poor grades can also go to the set to make a living.

The tall and charming Anqin walked outside the classroom and knocked on the door.

The acting teacher who was in class looked back, and An Qin said, "The boss has something to do with Yuanlou." ”

"Looking for me?" Cheng Long asked in surprise.

It has been half a month since their brothers and sisters came to Wang's, and after they came, Bai Muyang made it clear to them: if they want to continue to be stand-ins or action directors, then they can go directly to the set to shoot films, and the company can arrange them for them. But if you want to further develop and become a full-fledged actor, then you need to go to a training class to learn acting. Of course, because Wang Zijun introduced the company, the study time will be much less, and you can graduate in one to three months, depending on your talent.

Cheng Long naturally didn't think about it, and directly chose to study in the training class.

"Yes, the boss has something important to ask you to come over right away." Wen Qin said.

"Okay, I'll go." Cheng Long stood up and ran out with a "whoosh".

There is only one person in the company who is called the boss, and that is Wang Zijun, and the other students have speculated about what the boss is looking for Cheng Long.

"It's not going to be a kid, is it?" Some people said enviously.

"Hold him? Dream on! This kid is not handsome, not tall enough, rude in speech and behavior, can't even recognize a few words, and learns slowly in class. If he can be a star, I will kneel on the ground and learn how to bark. Another student said dismissively.

"Hey, what do you say? Tell me again! Yuan Biao and the others immediately lost their temper when they heard Cheng Long being counted down like this.

"What did I say? You Hong Kong rotten boys, you just run around the tricks, and you don't know what a movie is! ”

"Kill this Taiwanese guy!" The Dragon and Tiger Martial Master's temper suddenly exploded, and Yuan Kui directly pounced on it and punched it.

The students from Taiwan immediately came up to help, and the two gangs suddenly became a mess, and the acting teacher couldn't persuade him, and he was knocked out of his glasses by someone who didn't know how.

Cheng Long walked beside Wen Qin, his nose was full of the fragrance of a woman, and his eyes naturally glanced at his graceful body, making his soul fly out of the sky. Outside Wang Zijun's office, Cheng Long bit his tongue and walked in cautiously.

"Hello boss!" Cheng Long bowed flatteringly.

"Yuan Lou, how did you learn in the training class?" Wang Zijun asked him to sit down across from his desk, and asked Wen Qin to make a cup of coffee.

Cheng Long said with a smile: "I learned a lot of things, and the teacher taught well and taught very seriously. ”

Wang Zijun said: "The company is now preparing to shoot a martial arts film, are you interested?" ”

Is this a hint of reusing yourself?

"Knock knock......" Cheng Long could even hear the loud sound of his heart beating faster, he realized that a huge opportunity was in front of him, and he was about to agree immediately, but he found that his mouth was dry and his throat couldn't make a sound.

Cheng Long took a sip of the coffee in front of him before panting and replied, "Yes, I'm interested." ”

Wang Zijun said: "Your name for Yuanlou is too ordinary, it's better to change your stage name." ”

Yuanlou itself is a stage name, and now that the boss said that he wanted to change it, Cheng Long naturally didn't dare to object, and quickly nodded and said okay.

"Why don't I give you a name, let's call it Jackie Chan." Wang Zijun pushed a script in front of Cheng Long. "Look at this."

"Drunken Fist?" Cheng Long opened the script and saw the cast list on it, his pupils suddenly contracted, his Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed his saliva vigorously.

I saw that it was written: Cheng Long - Huang Feihong.

Male number one.

Cheng Long rubbed his eyes, and when he opened it again, the script was still there, he stood up suddenly, knocked over the cup of coffee without noticing, and bowed vigorously repeatedly: "Thank you boss, thank you boss, I will definitely try my best to act well......"

As he spoke, Cheng Long was so excited that tears fell.

(To be continued)