Between the 60s ~ 80s, the pop music scene in Hong Kong and Taiwan can be described as a "big cover era"! In this era, more than half of the pop songs of Hong Kong and Taiwan can actually find the corresponding original versions in Europe and the United States.

Because international music copyright companies, for the sake of commercial interests, clearly mark the price and sell the cover copyright of classic songs.

And the cover of international pop songs can easily get a big hit in the market.

Therefore, starting from the singer Xu Guanjie, countless Hong Kong singers also competed to cover it.

During this period, the most popular music scene in Hong Kong and Taiwan was not composers, but lyricists!

The role of lyricists is mainly to write some Chinese lyrics for those classic songs in the world. The original excellent score is accompanied by wonderful writing and exquisite lyrics. Then, basically, you can guarantee that the record will sell well.

Zhang Shaojie personally wrote a song for Anita Mui, and he also had to ensure the first classic.

After careful consideration, he chose "Manzhu Sahua", the original song of Yamaguchi Momoe, which has been covered by different singers and has become a classic. Anita Mui also covered this song in history.

Of course, to cover this song, you need to pay the copyright fee to the relevant record company.

Because this music company attaches great importance to business operations. Basically, the copyright authorization of any record song can be purchased conveniently through a licensing organization.

This also makes many Hong Kong and Taiwan record companies keen to buy the copyright of popular songs in bulk, and on this basis, write Chinese lyrics, and then quickly and well make do with a record.

Although Zhang Shaojie did not appreciate it, he filled in the Chinese lyrics of foreign pop songs and made up a crooked way of a record. However, he does not mind using a small amount of international classic songs to carry out Chinese covers to obtain commercial benefits.

After writing the lyrics to "Manju Sahua".

He also wrote several songs, "Heart Debt", "Missing Me at Night", and "Life for Me".

Among them, "Missing Me at Night" is still a cover of Yamaguchi Baihui.

And "Heart Debt" and "Life for Me" are the songs in the original record of Anita Mui's first record "Heart Debt" in history, which are some early classic songs jointly created by famous Hong Kong composers and lyricists such as Gu Jiahui, Huang Zhan, Li Xiaotian, Peter Lai, etc.

With the addition of "Demon Girl" and "It Seems to Be an Old Man", 6 songs have been made up, and a small disc can already be released!

Blowing dry the paper and ink, Zhang Shaojie took the manuscript paper to Anita Mui, Teresa Teng and others to read.

Teresa Teng said with a smile: "Two of them are from Yamaguchi Baihui!" ”

Back then, when Teresa Teng was in the music world, her main rival in the music world was Yamaguchi Baihui. For every classic song of Yamaguchi Baihui, Teresa Teng is familiar with it.

Zhang Shaojie nodded and said with a smile: "The two songs "Manzhu Shahua" and "Remembering Me at Night" are by Yamaguchi Baihui. Others, not! ”

"It's rare!" Teresa Teng tried to sing "Manzhu Sahua": "The night has gently stepped into the window, the tired little star is leaning on the clouds, and the leaves are flying all over the window in the wind." Put on the evening clothes of the day, apply lipstick as if it were that night, and look forward to meeting the road alone late at night, like waste paper left on the ground, and give the wind to blow into this heart window"

"It's so talented, although the song is from someone else, but this word is written in the style of a first-class lyricist!" Teresa Teng has cooperated with many lyricists, and naturally has an appreciation for lyrics.

Zhang Shaojie blushed and said: "False praise!" ”

"These six songs are of very high quality, and the platinum record should be fine!" After Teresa Teng's auditions one by one, she commented.

With Teresa Teng checking and confirming the quality of these lyrics and songs, Anita Mui couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said with a smile: "You have a conscience!" ”

Saying that, Anita Mui proudly contacted Zhou Liang Shuyi of Li Music Company and asked Zhou Liang Shuyi to prepare the recording studio and related talents.

Anita Mui is anxious and ready to rush to the recording studio to make a record.

———————————— May, Baolong Film Company's "Six Fingers Piano Demon" was officially released.

In the past few months, Hong Kong has seen a steady stream of good films.

Therefore, the audience is very confident in the films produced in Hong Kong.

And Tsui Hark and Lin Qingxia have achieved a good reputation with "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

Therefore, in May 1982, after a little publicity in Asia Television, Ming Pao and other media, "Six Finger Piano Demon" quickly began to attract a large number of audiences to the cinema.

At this time, Zhang Shaojie also came to Baolong Company to inquire about the box office situation.

"How's it going at the box office yesterday?" Although the investors of "Six Fingers Demon" are mainly Baolong Film Company, Zhang Shaojie only shares the rights and interests of shareholders. However, as Zhang Shaojie, the second shareholder of Baolong Company, the interests of Baolong Company are also very important to him.

Gu Long's eyebrows flew and smiled: "The box office on the first day was about 860,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is already firmly ranked first at the box office!" ”

Zhang Shaojie said with satisfaction: "Now Tsui Hark's reputation has resounded internationally. The box office appeal in Hong Kong is also unparalleled! With an investment of 7 million, it is really rare for a film to achieve such a good momentum! By the way, how is Cheng Xiaodong's "A Chinese Ghost Story" prepared? ”

Gu Long said: "For the time being, it is still in the preparation period, after all, it is a big deal of 50 million, and if you want to do everything and create a high-quality product, the preliminary preparation work is to be done sufficiently." ”

In terms of "A Chinese Ghost Story", the actor Ning Caichen did not invite Zhang Rongguo, but invited Wu Dairong, who played Xu Ziling in "The Tang Dynasty".

In terms of actresses, Nie Xiaoqian still invited Wang Zuxian as in history, grandma is still Liu Zhaoming, and Yan Chixia is Wuma.

In the whole scene, in addition to the use of traditional special effects such as art and props, computer CG special effects are the most important.

At the end of April, the special effects team of Baolong Company has developed a "Longteng movie special effects engine".

The birth of this set of special effects engine software marks that Baolong Film Company took the lead in producing special effects, from the era of handicrafts to the era of industrialization.

The special effects engine software can not only save a lot of special effects production cost and time, but also control the quality of movie special effects more effectively.

The "Dragon Movie Special Effects Engine" has a good performance for rendering pictures, creating ice and snow, internal forces, whirlwinds, and various incredible scenes.

Richard. Taylor patted his chest and assured that Baolong Film's computer CG special effects technology has surpassed Industrial Light and Magic and reached the world's first-class level.

Of course, this advantage is not obvious, as long as competitors invest more costs, they will soon be able to catch up.

To this end, more capital investment is needed to enable Baolong Film Company to continue to maintain its dominant position in the field of computer CG special effects.

Due to the investment of 50 million in "A Chinese Ghost Story", at least 35 million is used for computer CG special effects, which is enough to feed the special effects team for half a year.

"Let's go, let's go see Richard's performance" Zhang Shaojie suddenly thought that he hadn't seen Richard for more than a month.

Gu Long smiled: "Good! ”

——————————— with the release of "Six Fingers Demon".

Film critics who make a living from film judges have also entered the cinema one after another.

Shi Lei is a young film critic, and the manuscript fee for writing film reviews has reached the level of 300 yuan per thousand words, watching some new movies every month, and then writing a few film review articles, which is enough to support his family.

After the release of "Six-Fingered Love Demon", Shi Lei naturally won't miss it.

Soon he bought tickets at a cinema in Mong Kok to watch the plot of "The Devil of the Six Fingers".

Writing a film review, the first time I read the plot, the second time I gradually carefully analyzed many details of the movie. Generally, you have to watch it at least three times before you can write a brilliant movie review.

In the dark theater, Shi Lei closed his eyes and listened to the whispers of some ordinary audience members before the screening.

"Nasty, villain, watching movies is fake, taking advantage of others is real. Don't touch, don't, don't," a woman said in a coquettish voice.

"Don't you just like people to touch you, you're so sensitive," the man's lewd voice said.

In the dark, many viewers couldn't help but look at the over-the-top movements of the men and women over there.

"Don't, a lot of people are watching!" The woman's breath was short.

"It just needs people to watch it, so it can be exciting!" The man said.

Shi Lei laughed sullenly in his heart when he heard this, and said in his heart: "These young people now, they are really boring, they are playing so much in the cinema, and they show others the Spring Palace drama for free?" ”

Finally, when the movie was officially released, the audience's discussion began to be quiet.

Shi Lei began to open his eyes and looked at the subtitles of the movie.

Honorably produced by Baolong Film Company.

Director: Tsui Hark Starring: Lin Qingxia, Yuan Biao Tsui Hark's box office appeal cannot be ignored.

And Lin Qingxia, with the performance of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", is regarded as the most box office appeal of Hong Kong and Taiwan actresses.

In addition, there are also some old drama bones such as Yuan Biao and Wu Ma, which also makes the team of this movie not seem thin. Some other eye-catching new actors - Carina Lau and Zheng Shuang are quite powerful.

When entering the plot of the movie, in the first paragraph, Lin Qingxia played the music with the "Heavenly Demon Qin", which was extremely infectious.

The classical music of "Dragon Ba Yin" actually invited Huang Zhan to compose music and soundtrack. In the movie, it seems to be played by the character played by Lin Qingxia.

But in fact, it was Huang Zhan who used a classical dulcimer and zither to make up the talk and recorded it in the recording studio. After that, the music is dubbed into the movie.

Lin Qingxia's performance of the guzheng is actually just a fake performance. However, the atmosphere and artistic conception really made people feel a huge impact.

"The sound of this piano is very powerful, it makes people's blood boil!"

"Lin Qingxia actually has such good music skills?"

"This is the classical Yang Qing performance, of course it is a cow, now it can play the guitar and piano, and it is estimated that it is as rare as a giant panda!"

At the beginning, the plot has not been launched, but the music of "Dragon Ba Yin" has already taken the lead.

(To be continued)