Wang Zijun was happy that his plan succeeded and made the Shaw Brothers disgraced, but he received a call from his father Wang Xianzhi, who scolded him: "You rabbit cub, you said that you went to Hong Kong for a few days, and you haven't come back for more than half a month, and Qingxia has come to the house several times." ”

"Well, she just called me directly." Wang Zijun said.

"She's afraid of disturbing your work," Wang Xianzhi complained, "and she doesn't cherish such a good daughter-in-law!" Tomorrow you will be born, will you come back? ”

"Tomorrow I'm going to be born?" Wang Zijun slapped his forehead, his 18-year-old last year was lying in the hospital, and he forgot about it this year. However, the matter in Hong Kong is not over yet, and he is afraid that Run Run Shaw will make any more bad moves, and he will not be able to leave.

In the first week of the release of "Bloody Lonely City" in Hong Kong, several theaters with an attendance rate of less than 50% were forced to paint him under pressure from Run Run Shaw and replaced it with "Fourteen Heroes". If it weren't for Jiahe Zou Wenhuai running behind, and the box office of "Bloody Lonely City" was getting better and better day by day, I was afraid that the screen would be robbed by Shaw Brothers.

Now that the third week has passed, "Bloody Lonely City" still maintains its upward momentum, and the cumulative box office of more than 2.2 million has left "Fourteen Heroes" far behind. The owners of several theaters that tore their faces and forcibly painted them at the beginning came to the hotel last night with gifts to personally apologize for him, hoping that their theaters would continue to show Wang Zijun's movies.

In the future, his own movies will depend on these people, and Wang Zijun doesn't care about them, besides, a few more screens are also a good thing.

said that Wang Zijun's record is selling well in Hong Kong, and Bruce Lee's "Jingwumen" has been released in Taiwan for two weeks, and it is almost full. Two weeks has made "Bloody Lonely City", which has been screened for more than a month, a lot colder.

At this time, Taiwan's Information Office suddenly called on the "military, public education" personnel to study history and memorize the contributions of the party and the state. As a result, "Bloody Lonely City", which was originally squeezed a little bleak by "Jingwumen", became popular again. Some theaters even postponed the screening time of "Jingwumen", and the prime time was all given to "Bloody Lonely City".

Haha, Wang Zijun hid in the hotel and snickered, Zou Wenhuai is probably scolding his mother now.

Originally, the Information Department prepared that Wang Zijun's movie would be released as soon as it was released. But at that time, Wang Zijun felt that the copy was not enough, and the military and public religion would come to grab it from ordinary citizens, so he set the time for a month and a half.

At that time, Wang Zijun didn't know that "Jingwumen" would be released in Taiwan at this time, and it was purely Zou Wenhuai who hit the muzzle of the gun.

Zou Wenhuai was indeed scolding his mother, and when he heard the news announced by the Taiwan authorities, he broke two cups. It's so shameless, this Wang Zijun is really shameless. He opened all his theaters to help "Bloody Lonely City" fight Shaw Brothers fiercely, and he couldn't imagine that he would repay him like this in Taiwan.

This year's Taiwanese economy has improved greatly compared with last year, and with the increase in theaters, Taiwan's box office should be almost on par with the Hong Kong box office.

However, Nima, no matter how good "Jingwumen" is, it will not be subject to the coercive measures of the political axe!

Wang Zijun had just finished talking to his father on the phone, and the bell rang again, but this time it was Gu Jiahui calling.

"Wang Sheng, you have deceived us so hard." Gu Jiahui counted down as soon as he made a phone call.

Wang Zijun said with a smile: "Mr. Gu, I also crossed the river by feeling the stones, who knows if the Cantonese song can be successful?" ”

"Well, who would have thought that Cantonese songs would be so popular?" Gu Jiahui echoed.

Historically, the Cantonese dialogue of "Seventy-Two Visitors" was also considered for a whole night before deciding to use the Cantonese dialect; The first popular Cantonese song "Laughing Marriage" was composed by Gu Jiahui, but he also trembled at the time, for fear that the audience would think that Cantonese songs were earthy.

Gu Jiahui praised: "Wang Sheng is really a genius, I can't imagine that he is so proficient in Cantonese." ”

To create Cantonese songs, you really need to be proficient in Cantonese, and you must at least understand the nine tone changes in Cantonese, otherwise not only the melody will not be right, but even the meaning will change.

For example, in the 50s, the "Good Color" cigarette commercial, the person who created the advertising song was not proficient in Cantonese, and as a result, "Fresh from the United States" became "Fairy America Comes" as soon as it was sung. There were a lot of jokes like this at the time, and a group of advertising singers, including Gu Jiahui, appeared later.

And Koo Ka-fai was also a leader in Cantonese songs at this time, but he wrote advertising songs. For example, "Kyoto Nenjian Sichuan Shell Loquat Ointment", "Chrysanthemum Brand Latex Paint", "Hang Seng Bank", "Quick Cleaning Washing Powder" and other products, until many years later, their advertising songs can still be memorized by some old people.

It's just that Gu Jiahui has never thought of singing pop songs in Cantonese, because in the inherent concept, Cantonese is a representative word of "earth" and "low-level", and it has nothing to do with pop and fashion.

Wang Zijun said: "Mr. Gu, don't say that, my understanding of Cantonese is not as good as that of Hong Kong's local musicians. ”

Koo said: "No, although we are familiar with each other, we never thought that Cantonese songs would become popular. Wang Sheng is unexpected. ”

Wang Zijun laughed and said, "Mr. Gu is too exalted to me." The authorities are fascinated, and the bystanders are clear, and people tend to ignore things that they have been exposed to for a long time, and it is precisely because I don't live in Hong Kong that I just stumbled into them by mistake. ”

"Wang Sheng, listen to me," Gu Jiahui said excitedly, "I talked to my good friend Huang Zhan a few days ago, and we agreed that the author of the record "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" has opened a strange door to Hong Kong music. On the other side of the gate, there will be a whole new world, which can be called a generation of grandmasters. ”

"Hehe, don't dare to be." Wang Zijun snorted, but was thrilled by Gu Jiahui's beautiful words.

"When will Wang Sheng be free to come out and drink tea together?" Gu Jiahui asked, at this time, he no longer had the contempt he had when he met Wang Zijun last year.

"Okay, then tomorrow." Wang Zijun said.

…… Sure enough, as Wang Zijun expected, the front pages of the major newspapers the next day were reporting on the birth of Hong Kong's first Cantonese record. Due to Wang Zijun's nearly two weeks of brewing on the radio, and the lyrics and songs are classics, this album is much faster and more widely sung than the first Cantonese song in history.

The famous lyricist Huang Zhan wrote: "The six Cantonese songs in the record "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" will surely change the listening habits of Hong Kong people. Cantonese pop songs are different from Chinese pop songs and English pop songs, and have obvious and profound local cultural signs, let's call it Hong Kong pop songs...... Cantonese has a demographic advantage in Hong Kong that is difficult to match with other languages, and the release of this record has opened a wonderful door to Hong Kong music. Judging from the current market reaction, Cantonese songs have become popular, and I can guarantee that in the next 20 years, Hong Kong will be the world of Cantonese songs...... For musicians, what it has changed is the way we write songs, the steps of 'music before lyrics'. Filling in the text according to the score and relying on the sound was originally a method that has existed since the Sui and Tang dynasties. Song Wangzhuo's "Biji Manzhi" said: "Since the Sui Dynasty, the so-called tunes of today have gradually flourished. Zhang Yan's "Etymology" also said: "Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, there have been long and short sentences between sound poems. The dialects in the Wuyue area are closer to ancient Chinese than those in Chinese, which is equivalent to returning to the origin...... Speaking of the songs on the rap record, my personal favorite is "What Do You Want in Life". The leaf rhyme of the lyrics in it is very free and smooth, which makes people sound familiar and memorized, and it is very fresh and natural......"

Huang Zhan's article praised Wang Zijun a little blushing, in addition to him, many celebrities, including Yishu, also praised these songs as geniuses, and there was nothing on the ground.

However, the more conservative newspapers and upper-class people scolded again, saying that Cantonese is rustic and used to sing advertising songs, and now it has become a popular song, which is simply a social regression!

Wang Zijun doesn't care if he regresses or not, he just needs to be able to make a positive name in Hong Kong, and then a large amount of money comes in.

When major media reported Cantonese songs, they also treated Wang Zijun as a focal point. This time, most of them are mainly positive reports, after all, they were still praising Cantonese songs just now, and in the blink of an eye they scolded their creators, wouldn't they slap themselves?

What Wang Zijun hates the most is those newspapers that don't scold Cantonese songs and scold him Wang Zijun, as if he can't eat for a day if he doesn't scold him. One of the representatives is "Yanbao", as if it is on the same bar as him, and the death of its editor-in-chief Chen Hong has actually become a reason for them to scold Wang Zijun.

However, the report of "Yanbao" can no longer set off waves, and not only that, but even the "Great Warlord" promoted by Shaw Brothers seems to have become a wave in the sea.

What many Hong Kong people do now is to turn on the record player and radio immediately after work, lie on the bed, sofa or chair, and quietly listen to Wang Zijun's Cantonese songs.

Some enlightened companies even allow employees to turn on the radio when Cantonese songs are played on the radio.

So a result that made Wang Zijun cry and laugh appeared, including "Bloody Lonely City", the attendance rate of all theaters in Hong Kong generally dropped by two points. Everyone is hiding at home and listening to songs, and they don't want to come out to watch movies.

The sales volume of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" reached 10,000 copies in the first day, and this number frightened Wang Zijun. You must know that last year's "Loyal to the Country" in Hong Kong only sold tens of thousands of copies after a few months.

And now "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" is priceless in Hong Kong, vinyl factories are working overtime to produce it, and the anxious citizens love the house and Wuxia, and the "Loyal to the Country" that is still on the shelves has been bought out.

In the past week, the sales of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" have reached 63,000 copies, which can only be described as crazy when compared to the purchasing power and population of Hong Kong people at this time.

By the way, the thousands of copies of "Loyal to the Country" left on the market were all sold out.

At this time, Wang Zijun's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" began to be serialized in "Ming Pao", and announced that the single book "Sou Shen Ji" will be sold in half a month.

In the past, except for some hardcore martial arts fans, few people knew that Wang Zijun was a novelist, even if he knew it from some reports, he forgot it in a blink of an eye.

It wasn't until the publication of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" in "Ming Pao" that the entire Hong Kong Island was shaken three times.

Because behind the author's signature Kong Xuan, there is actually a parenthesis - original name: Wang Zijun!

(To be continued)