Just when Zou Wenhuai was a little scratched.

The door was pushed open with a bang.

Zou Wenhuai was startled and looked up.

However, the general manager of Golden Harvest, He Guanchang, strode into his office.

"Guanchang, is that you? Knocking on the door silently scared me!"

"Daxi, a rare high-quality script has been delivered to the door!"

"Oh, it's just a little script that makes you so carried away?" Zou Wenhuai looked a little surprised.

He Guanchang laughed and said: "This is a tailor-made script for Xu Guanwen, I dare to say that as long as this script is taken out, Xu Guanwen will definitely be willing to shoot!" ”

"Oh?" Zou Wenhuai took the script and read it carefully.

"Modern Bodyguard"?

Screenwriter: Zhang Shaojie.

Director (suggestion): Xu Guanwen.

Zou Wenhuai almost choked on the spot!

This screenwriter's tone is not small, and he actually specified that Xu Guanwen should direct and act himself?

Who is Xu Guanwen, and now there is no bigger name than him in the Hong Kong film circle!

Although he was a little surprised by screenwriter Zhang Shaojie's overconfidence, Zou Wenhuai still read the whole script seriously, but was soon amused by some humorous lines in the script.

"Haha, done! This script is really very consistent with Xu Guanwen's style, let's go find Xu Guanwen! Zou Wenhuai looked energetic.

In the early 80s, the status of "cold-faced smiler" Xu Guanwen in the Hong Kong film industry can only be described as "like Zhongtian"! When it comes to Xu Guanwen, many people quickly think of it - a man who broke box office records, surpassed Bruce Lee, and Hong Kong comedy films.

Xu Guanwen is the first strongman to surpass Bruce Lee at the box office, and the "ghost horse" trend triggered by Xu Guanwen not only formed a ghost horse movie trend after the mid-70s, but also profoundly influenced the nonsensical humorous movies represented by Stephen Chow in the 90s.

In 1974, Xu Guanwen's "Ghost Horse Double Star" surpassed Bruce Lee with 6.25 million Hong Kong dollars and broke the Hong Kong box office record.

In 1976, Hui Guanwen's "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" once again sold for 8.53 million Hong Kong dollars, once again setting a new record for the highest box office in Hong Kong.

And now Xu Guanwen's self-directed and self-acting works, the box office can be calculated in tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars!

Of course, this is only worth the local box office in Hong Kong, if you count the overseas box office, Xu Guanwen's movies have hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars at the global box office!

Under the leadership of Hui Guanwen, the four Hui brothers - Hui Guanwen, Hui Guanwu, Hui Guanying, and Hui Guanjie, have all become extremely influential figures in the Hong Kong film industry.

Unlike most filmmakers with low academic qualifications, Xu Guanwen was a rare "excellent student" among filmmakers of that era.

Born in Panyu, Guangdong Province in 1942, Xu Guanwen moved to Hong Kong with his parents when he was a child. Xu Guanwen has excelled in character and learning since childhood, and was a classmate of Bruce Lee in the same grade in middle school. However, when Bruce Lee went to the United States, Xu Guanwen was admitted to the Department of Sociology of Hong Kong Chinese University step by step.

In 1967, when Xu Guanwen was in his second year of university, it coincided with the official opening of Hong Kong's TVB TV station, and Xu Guanwen actively participated in the production of the program "Happy Tonight". In 1971, Xu Guanwen officially joined TVB TV and hosted the tricky and funny show "Double Star Annunciation".

In fact, a large number of funny skills and episodes in the movie "Ghost Horse Double Star" written and directed by Xu Guanwen were all exquisite tricky abilities that he had exercised by hosting funny shows for a long time.

Xu Guanwen's entry into the film industry began in 1972, when Li Hanxiang, the director of Shaw Brothers Film Company, filmed the comedy "The Great Warlord", he invited Xu Guanwen to play the leading role in the play.

Although "The Great Warlord" was defeated by Bruce Lee's "Raptors Across the River" and "Jingwumen" at the box office that year, it ranked third in the local box office in Hong Kong in 72 with a box office income of HK$3,464,724.

Since then, Xu Guanwen has participated in films such as "Yile Ye", "Scandal", "Sound of Dogs and Horses" and other films in Shaw Brothers Film Company, all of which have done well at the box office.

Xu Guanwen's excellent performance attracted the attention of Shaw Brothers' main rival, Golden Harvest Company.

The success of Golden Harvest Film Company, which rose in the 70s, is believed by some to be a factor of Bruce Lee.

However, in essence, it still depends on the fact that Golden Harvest's system is more humanized than Shaw Brothers and is more suitable for the development trend of the Hong Kong film industry!

Shaw Brothers Film Company regards the entire company as a big factory, and treats actors and directors as ordinary screws in the factory. In Shaw Brothers, any big-name director or star who wants to have more self-help rights, or wants to ask for a box office share in addition to a fixed salary, is wishful thinking.

Golden Harvest Film Company is willing to help its big-name directors and stars set up their own film production companies in the form of investment. Although the production company is essentially just a satellite company of Golden Harvest Film Company, Golden Harvest has to supervise the progress and cost control of film shooting.

However, compared with the patriarchal reading system like Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest has given its satellite film production companies enough autonomy.

Through this kind of support for its directors and stars to set up their own companies, Bruce Lee's "Concord", Jackie Chan's "Weihe", Sammo Hung "Baohe", Yuan Biao's "Taihe", a series of small companies of the Golden Harvest system have sprung up.

Golden Harvest Cinemas has obtained stable and high-quality film sources, gradually replacing Shaw Brothers' cinemas and becoming the largest cinema company in Hong Kong!

In 1974, "Dogs and Horses" had just been released with an excellent box office. Xu Guanwen completed the script of "Ghost Horse Double Star" by himself, submitted the script to Shaw Brothers Company, and asked for a share of the box office, but this request that seemed very reasonable to later generations was categorically rejected by Shaw Brothers Film Company.

However, Golden Harvest Company extended an olive branch in a timely manner, not only investing in "Ghost Horse Double Star" written, directed and acted by Xu Guanwen, but also helped Xu Guanwen establish "Xu Brothers Film Company"!

The Shaw brothers have no eyes, and Xu Guanwen, who devoted himself to Golden Harvest, made the first movie that made the Shaw Brothers feel that they couldn't get off the stage!

Because, "Ghost Horse Double Star" released in 1974 is too popular!

When he was painted, he actually won a box office of 6.25 million Hong Kong dollars in one go, breaking the box office record set by Bruce Lee's "Raptors Across the River" in 1973.

Since then, Xu Guanwen's movies have not only been unrivaled in the limelight in Hong Kong, but also entered the international arena like Bruce Lee's movies, and have rolled up a whirlwind of funny movies in Ben, Canada, Southeast Asia and other places.

The two major labels of Hong Kong film commercial success are kung fu films and comedy films. The kung fu film Bruce Lee pushed it to the top, and the comedy Xu Guanwen pushed it to the world!

The office of "Xu's Brothers" is also located on the set of Golden Harvest.

Golden Harvest boss Zou Wenhuai, general manager He Guanchang, and Golden Harvest Film Company's right-hand man Xu Guanwen gathered together to seek great things.

Although the Xu Brothers Company is a satellite company under Golden Harvest, the controlling stake is firmly in the hands of Golden Harvest.

However, for all kinds of things related to film investment, Zou Wenhuai will generally only seek consensus in the form of suggestions, rather than forcing Xu Guanwen to comply with orders in the way of a big boss.

In fact, characters like Xu Guanwen, even Jiahe have to serve his emotions carefully.

Xu Guanwen leaned back in his chair, wore a pair of glasses, and slowly flipped through the script of "Modern Bodyguard", although it was only more than 30,000 words.

However, Xu Guanwen was able to close his eyes and quickly give birth to the plot and dialogue of the entire movie in his mind, and every scene of the script was too thin to add one point or subtract one point.

The lines and dialogues in it are all tailor-made for Xu Guanwen!

Xu Guanwen has a strange feeling - this script is like a script written by himself, and every step of the plot development coincides with what he expected.

Even, the dialogue inside can also find Xu Guanwen's unique style.

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