After Ye Han finalized the plan, he immediately ran around for the gambling ship on the high seas, and in just half a month, he attracted five or six investment partners. Ye Han's ability is beyond doubt, and everyone is very optimistic about the new thing of gambling ships on the high seas, so many people are willing to join the gang, and Ye Han himself is a little surprised by the smooth operation.

After discussing the matter, some of these partners took care of the relevant formalities and the relationship between black and white, some were responsible for buying luxury cruise ships, and Ye Han was responsible for recruiting experienced dealers and other staff, as well as other gambling boat operations.

What surprised Wang Zijun the most was that Ye Han actually brought in Taiwan's arms king, Shan Yicheng and the old man. Shan Yicheng was responsible for recruiting a group of "guards" with loaded guns and ammunition to serve as the defense force of the gambling boat, and also attached several military speedboats.

Everything went so smoothly that it was only two months later for the renovated ship to be launched.

At this time, Wang Zijun really saw Ye Han's power, and Stanley Ho, who could crush Ye Han to death, was probably even more terrifying.

As for the little money that Wang Zijun invested in the gambling boat, it is really a drop in the bucket, and it is probably worth the decoration cost on the gambling boat.

In the revised script, Wang Zijun also changed the scene originally set in the Lisboa Casino to a gambling boat. Anyway, there aren't many of these scenes, so you can keep the final reshoot, and you don't have to worry about delaying time.

After distributing the new script, Wang Zijun took people to look for filming locations everywhere in Hong Kong in the dark, and then went back to Taipei to gather people and decided to go to Hong Kong to start work in a week.

As soon as I returned to Taiwan, I heard the news that Zhang Che's Longbow Film Company, which had not been in Taiwan for two years, had closed down and returned to Hong Kong with his people.

The collapse of Longbow Company is the best interpretation of the complete decline of traditional martial arts films.

An industry always needs to innovate, and now it is no longer possible to attract audiences by relying on tomato juice.

But some of the innovations are impressive

Wang Zijun returned to Taiwan this time, in addition to gathering people, he was invited to come back to attend the premiere of a movie.

The film is a co-production between Prince Pictures and Xinghua Pictures, the strength of the two film companies is not very strong, but the director of this film, Chen Hongmin, is very popular in Taiwan. Wang Zijun couldn't save face, so he had to be invited, and by the way, he took his wife Lin Qingxia out to watch a movie to relax.

Wang Zijun had seen this movie in his previous life, and the image was very deep.

There is no way not to be deep, Peng Haoxiang restored this film back then, put it on the Internet and stirred it up, many people call it a cult film. Wang Zijun ran to download it out of curiosity, and after reading it, he was scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.

By the way, let's talk about the name of this movie first, the Taiwanese title is called "God of War", and the Hong Kong title is "Hong Kong Catastrophe", or "Guan Gong vs. Aliens".

The director said that this is a science fiction film, a disaster film, but you can also see it as a fantasy film, a mythological film. For viewers decades later, it's a thoroughly hilarious film.

The general plot is that aliens attack the earth with flying saucers, and an old craftsman spends four years carving a statue of Guan Erye, and before he dies, he points out the eyes of the second master, and Guan Sheng appears to fight aliens.

Interestingly, the film was originally planned to be filmed in Ximending, Taipei, but after reviewing the script, the Information Bureau decided that Ximending was too close to the "Presidential Palace" to be used as a war-themed film. The crew had to move to Hong Kong, tear down and redo the previously prepared model, and the story also changed from an alien invasion of Taipei to an alien invasion of Hong Kong, spreading the war to Hong Kong Island and Kowloon: The Peninsula Hotel, Connaught Building, Queen's Square, and the Harbour Tunnel were all unfortunately hit and reduced to ruins at the end of the film. So a Taiwanese film caused a Hong Kong disaster.

A certain theater in Ximending also specially laid out a red carpet at the door.

Reporters are not stingy with film, quickly press the shutter, and occasionally one or two topical characters appear, and many reporters will crowd up to interview. However, this is the premiere, and the main interview task is after the film airs, so the reporters are still very restrained.

A black Bentley drove slowly, and a reporter stretched out his head and said, "Wang Zijun is here." ”

Other reporters, along with some of the guests invited to the premiere, turned their heads to look over.

The car stopped, and after Wang Zijun got out of the car, he ran to the other side to open the car door, took Lin Qingxia's hand and said, "Be careful"...,

"I'm fine." Lin Qingxia got out of the car with Wang Zijun's support, she was nearly four months pregnant, but she was not very pregnant.

"Click"

"Click"

“……”

There was a shutter sound, and the photos of Wang Zijun getting out of the car with his beloved wife were published in major media the next day. This is Lin Qingxia's first appearance in public since she became pregnant.

Seeing that the reporters were about to come around, Wang Zijun took the lead and said: "Everyone, let's talk about it later, Qingxia's body is inconvenient and she can't stand being disturbed." ”

When the reporters heard Wang Zijun say this, they all retreated in understanding and let the two of them in.

Journalists in this era are still very humane.

Lin Qingxia waved and smiled at the reporters so that they could take pictures, and then clasped Wang Zijun's fingers and walked into the theater side by side.

Director Chen Hongmin is a film technician, and he is one of the first batch of technicians in Taiwan, and he cut out the best-selling "Dragon Gate Inn" a few years ago. In addition to being an editor, he also worked as a screenwriter before turning to making films as a director.

Most of the guests here today are directors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and many of them have been cut by Chen Hongmin.

Walking to the front row with Lin Qingxia, Wang Zijun's eyes swept over, and he saw Li Xing, Hu Jinquan and others.

"Hello Mr. Wang, hello Miss Lin" Chen Hongmin stood up and shook hands with Wang Zijun, he sent invitations to many big names, but only at this time only Wang Zijun came over, like Huang Hanzhuo, who directly said that something was pushed away.

As soon as Chen Hongmin stood up, the main creators behind him also came over. The two actresses Tang Rui and Xie Lingling, and Wang Zijun don't know each other, but they are quite familiar with the actor Gu Minglun, and Zhao Yazhi also filmed with Gu Minglun the year before last.

helped Lin Qingxia to sit down, and next to Wang Zijun was Hu Jinquan.

Although Hu Jinquan is a famous director, he couldn't get investment if he wanted to make a film a few years ago, but since his film won the award at Cannes last year, it immediately sprouted new sprouts and became popular again.

For Wang Zijun, Hu Jinquan looks at it differently, because when he was at the lowest point in his career, only Wang Zijun was willing to pay for him to make a movie.

"My brother and sister are fine, but you should pay attention to your body when you are pregnant." Hu Jinquan asked.

Lin Qingxia held Wang Zijun's hand and smiled at Hu Jinquan: "I'm fine, thank you Director Hu for your concern." ”

The woman sitting next to Hu Jinquan suddenly interjected: "This can't be careless, when I was pregnant a few years ago, I just didn't pay attention, and I almost had a miscarriage when I bent over, which frightened the whole family." ”

"Oops, Miss Zheng is here too." Lin Qingxia was pleasantly surprised, "Miss Zheng, I'm your movie fan, and I liked to watch your movies when I was in high school. ”

Sitting next to Hu Jinquan is Zheng Peipei, Hong Kong's No. 1 actress a few years ago. (Zheng Peipei is Mrs. Hua in Stephen Chow and Gong Li's version of "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" in the future, everyone must remember it with a smile and half a step.) ）

Zheng Peipei smiled: "When Miss Lin said this, I suddenly felt old. ”

"Miss Zheng, you are not old, you are getting more and more beautiful." Lin Qingxia rarely met her idol when she was a girl, so she simply changed positions with Hu Jinquan and ran to sit down next to Zheng Peipei. You must know that when Zheng Peipei was fascinated by thousands of men, she was still an ugly duckling among women.

The two chatted about the movie, chatting and chatting about the children. A few years after Zheng Peipei gave birth to a child, she is now taking care of her children at home, and she is also very interested in it.

The more the two women talked, the more speculative they became, from the precautions during pregnancy, to the education of the child in the future, until the premiere began, and they didn't notice it.

After Chen Hongmin and a group of main creators went up to do some publicity, they suddenly said: "At today's premiere, we are fortunate to have Mr. Wang Zijun and his wife Miss Lin present. As we all know, Mr. Wang Zijun is a representative of our Chinese directors, and his work won the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards in the United States last year. Now, let's give the floor to Mr. Wang. ”

Wang Zijun didn't expect this to happen, and it is estimated that Chen Hongmin also had a temporary idea and wanted to use him to promote this movie.

Some of the fans present below applauded loudly and shouted Wang Zijun's name.

Wang Zijun couldn't refuse in public, so he got up and walked up, holding the microphone in his hand and looking down, Li Xing and other Hong Kong and Taiwan directors had a tasteful expression. Chen Hongmin praised Wang Zijun as a representative of Chinese directors, so what are these directors? And all of them are older than Wang Zijun, although Wang Zijun's achievements are obvious to all, but if they are represented by a junior, it is still a bit difficult to get over the face. …,

"Then I'll say a few words," Wang Zijun didn't want to attract people's jealousy, and said, "Director Chen was tormenting me just now, our Chinese films have become more and more influential in recent years, and good directors of Chinese films are also emerging in endlessly." Like Director Li Xing and Director Hu Jinquan in the audience, they are my old-timers, and I grew up watching their movies, and I have also learned a lot of them. Director Li and Director Hu, I'm really sorry that I didn't pay your tuition......"

"Hahaha......" There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

Li Xing, who was originally a little tasty, was also smiling and beckoned to Wang Zijun kindly.

Wang Zijun continued: "Chinese films are gradually becoming international, not only do we have a great influence in Southeast Asia, but also successfully enter the European, American and Japanese markets, and more and more people are paying attention to Chinese films. ”

Wang Zijun paused for a few seconds, and the audience immediately burst into applause. Wang Zijun changed his words: "But we also have to see our own weaknesses, that is, our genre is single." As a company, it is very dangerous if the product is single. If the product is outdated, or the market for this product shrinks, then the company will decline, or even go out of business, and the same is true for making movies. ”

Ordinary audiences didn't react much to Wang Zijun's words, but some directors agreed with Wang Zijun's words, but they knew this truth, but they couldn't resist. Since Zou Wenhuai gained power in Hong Kong, directors have developed independently and can make films with their own ideas, and Wong's Film Company in Taiwan also supports independent production.

But in addition, the content of the directors' shooting has been kidnapped by market trends, production companies, and investors, and many directors can't say what they are suffering.

Hu Jinquan smiled at Lin Qingxia and Zheng Peipei: "Our director Wang Da is young and promising, and he dares to say anything." ”

Zheng Peipei said: "Only he dares to say this, others will definitely be said to be ashamed." I was a little envious of Miss Lin and found a young talent to be my husband. ”

Lin Qingxia smiled sweetly, looking at Wang Zijun on the stage with affection in her eyes, and at this time she also forgot the troubles brought by Lin Fengjiao.

Hu Jinquan laughed and said, "Pepe, don't let your husband hear what you say, otherwise there will be trouble." ”

Zheng Peipei said: "He, he doesn't care about this, he only thinks about his business all day long." ”

“…… Chinese-language films need to innovate and expand the genre of films. Today I am very happy to attend the premiere of God of War, because it is a rare sci-fi film in Chinese-language cinema. I sincerely wish that "God of War" will be a box office hit, and I also wish Chinese films can go further and better. Thank you," Wang Zijun bowed and stepped down.

"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Wang." The host took the microphone, said some compliments, and finally announced that the movie had begun.

The beginning of the film is unremarkable, but the seemingly high-end scientific research institutions and scientists in white coats make the audience a little interested, after all, this kind of scene has rarely appeared in movies before. These scientists, as well as the scientific instruments that do not know what they do, make people feel mysterious.

It wasn't until the flying saucer floated over the city, the earth lost its gravitational pull, and everyone floated, that it completely grabbed the attention of the audience and attracted bursts of amazement.

Then Guan Gong appeared and fought with several aliens with the Qinglong Glaive, and the aliens and Guan Gong's bodies were taller than skyscrapers. When the alien single-handedly pulled up the entire clock tower of the Hong Kong Kowloon Railway and smashed it at Guan Gong as a weapon, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the theater.

This simple special effects and thunderous plot made Wang Zijun only doze off, but for the audience at this time, it was a very novel setting. After all, few ordinary viewers have seen Japan's "Ultraman", and how this person is taller than the building was filmed makes them very puzzled.

In Wang Zijun's view, the preciousness of "Guan Gong vs. Aliens" is that when Taiwanese movies are full of romance, action and mythological films, some people dare to come out and make science fiction films.

On the screen, the Teletubbies-like alien and Guan Gong are still fighting, Wang Zijun has his arms on his chest, staring at the screen with a smile on his face, if no one else is present, he will probably laugh.

Guan Gong vs. aliens, screenwriter and director Chen Hongmin's imagination is too strong......