Chapter 018, 1984
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The three-day vacation passed quickly, and the crew began to shoot in the United States and other regions, but this veritable producer is also in the team, and it is estimated that he is one of the most responsible screenwriters in the Hong Kong film and television industry.
During the filming in Malaysia, Europe and the United States, Mo Fei not only worked with the crew, but sometimes he was like a nanny, taking care of everything for the crew, which also played a very positive role in the filming process of the crew.
In fact, everyone in the crew understands that the reason why Mo Fei did this is because of Honggu in the crew, and if there is another heroine, it would be strange that this investor and producer will follow.
This idea is really a bit wronged, although it is the main purpose of Honggu, but this is his first film, he must ensure that he comes up with a high-quality product, and he also has to figure out the entire production routine of Hong Kong films in the 80s during filming, and it is inevitable to shoot with the crew. It's just because of Zhong Chuhong's existence, those are naturally put on the back burner by people, or they are simply ignored.
The filming and editing of "Sky Trap" ended at the end of mid-March, and it was relatively easy to do some things with the name of the Dian family, and the electrical inspection office passed it in the shortest possible time, and it could be officially released at the end of March.
But these have nothing to do with Mo Fei, with the participation of the Wei family, he naturally won't join in the fun. Especially the legendary extremely vicious Miss Fang Yihua Fang After watching the sample film and determining that this movie must be a hit, she also wants to go to the premiere to join in the fun, but he doesn't even want to participate in the premiere, and he now feels like he wants to vomit when he thinks of that woman.
On the day of the movie's premiere, Mo Fei bought a movie ticket to support himself in person, and went to a relatively remote theater to watch it, ready to listen to the audience's evaluation of the movie in person.
At the beginning of the film, a masked man dressed in black arrives on the top floor of a building, takes out various instruments and tools from his backpack, and quickly assembles them into a small simple lift. After adjusting the settings, the man in black stood on the top floor of the building with dozens of floors and jumped down.
After a few soft screams from a timid girl, the entire theater was in a tense atmosphere, with everyone staring at the rapidly changing digital display on the machine on the screen. After about five seconds, the digital display began to slow down, and then stopped at "176.2", at which point the picture was already the camera of the man in black hanging in the air and looking inside the window, and it turned out that the changing number was the length of the rope.
The man in black used an electric screwdriver to open the glass, remotely turned off the surveillance equipment in the house, and stole the famous paintings on the wall, without the security personnel in the building noticing. But there was a pair of eyes in another building, and the movements of the man in black were clearly seen through the telescope from beginning to end, and at this time the audience thought that this would be a suspense film.
However, in the following plot, various fragments and plots continue to appear, which make this film out of the orbit of suspense films and into the category of crime and love.
Especially Luo Meng, played by Zhou Runfa, sneaked into Zhong Chuhong's room, and when the two were talking, Zhou Runfa said, "When you were a child, your mother didn't educate you, can't you trust beautiful women, and of course I don't believe in ugly women." Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, you're not a man", and Zhong Chuhong asked Zhou Yanfa "You stole my suitcase?" Zhou Yunfa replied, "I'm a thief, so go sue me", which makes people see the factor of comedy.
I felt the laughter of the audience around me, and I was also thinking in my heart, with this joke of "beauty is not credible" as the foundation, when the time comes, add "handsome men can't believe it" in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and the joke will be even more sufficient.
When Zhou Yunfa fell from the pre-arranged steel cable with Zhong Chuhong, and another steel cable popped out of his sleeve at a critical moment, and the two were hung in the air between the twin towers of the World Trade Tower, struggling to move to the escape facility at the other end, the film was a bit like a thriller and action movie again.
After watching the whole movie, Mo Fei was already able to determine that this was a successful film. The method of judging is also very simple, during the screening of the film, everyone's attention is completely attracted by the story on the screen, except for when they are amused by the joke, there is not even a single voice to speak, and no one has left their seats halfway, which is enough to explain the attractiveness of the film.
And an audience member next to him said to his girlfriend after the screening that this movie is really exciting, and he wants to inform his friends to watch this film. When leaving the theater, I heard someone in the audience mention again that he wanted to tell his relatives and friends to watch this good film.
After the film was released, some film critics who like to find trouble also stood up and criticized. Some say that the plot of this film is too ridiculous, and it is simply a fantasy to enter the banks of every country to steal money through the broadcast satellites of the Olympic Games. Some people say that this film is a kind of beautification of criminals, and the crime process is romanticized through the cooperation of handsome men and beautiful women, and this kind of film is likely to have a very serious negative impact on the psychology of teenagers.
It's just poor nitpickers, their voices don't matter anymore, what the audience wants to see is a wonderful performance and a fascinating plot, and no one still knows that movies are all stories.
As one of the investors, Mo Fei, who traveled from the 21st century, he doesn't care about these voices that are not as loud as mosquitoes, and the outcome he cares too much about is to be manipulated by them and lose himself completely.
For him, the box office of the film is the best proof that investing in this film is to gain fame and fortune. Because of Zhong Chuhong's participation, the box office reached a good number on the first day of release, and it has been rising steadily since the second day, and there is a great unstoppable posture.
It seems that everyone in Hong Kong knows that there is a good-looking movie called "Sky Trap", and the cinema chain of the Shan family took out sixty percent of the screen to play this film, but it still can't meet the needs of watching the movie. Golden Harvest Cinemas also put forward a request to broadcast this film in a timely manner, and the two cinema chains each took 70% of the screens to broadcast in turn, barely able to meet the needs of Hong Kong audiences.
In 1984, this number appeared on the front page of many entertainment media in Hong Kong, and this day was the first day of the second week of the release of "Sky Trap", this number does not tell everyone what year it is, but refers to the first week box office of "Sky Trap".
In the week of its release, it has made a crazy fortune of 19 million, and if you calculate according to the average ticket price in the back row of 16 Hong Kong dollars, more than 1.2 million people have already seen this movie, reaching almost a quarter of the population of Hong Kong, which is only a week.
The media are excited, the heyday of Hong Kong films is about to begin, starting from "Plan A" in late December last year, followed by "Shaolin Kid" and "Brave Double Cannon", the box office of the two films exceeded 20 million, and the box office of the other film also exceeded 19 million.
is completely different from the madness of the media, Mo Fei is sorting out the script of "Peace Hotel" in his office at this time, and he has spent the rest of his time writing scripts and songs except for being in the crew and resting during this time. No matter how the outside world is, it doesn't have much to do with him, people in the media are the most unscrupulous, how to praise you today, you can belittle you a hundred times tomorrow, there is no need to be the most unwilling to deal with the media.
But this news has alarmed many people, the number of "1984" has shocked and surprised too many Hong Kong filmmakers, since 1982's "Best Partner" broke through the 20 million box office, there have been five films in Hong Kong box office more than 20 million, but no film can be so close to 20 million in the first week, if it is screened for a month, how much box office will there be?
This movie is not much different from previous Hong Kong films, most of the actors used are Hong Kong actors, as well as Hong Kong directors, and even the crew members are basically from Hong Kong, and the production company is the old film company Tsushi and a new film company called "Phoenix Culture". In the past two years, he has been struggling to catch his breath, and he has no energy to jump, and it is almost impossible to make such a good film.
And the biggest difference between this movie and the previous films is that there is an additional film company called "Phoenix Culture", and the screenwriter is a person who has never heard of it, called Mo Fei. Obviously, the success of this movie must have a lot to do with the Phoenix culture and the person named Mo Fei.
Zhong Chuhong looked at the big headline in the newspaper in her hand - 1984, she really didn't expect that this movie would have such a terrible box office result. At this time, he remembered that when Mo Fei asked her about the box office that day, he didn't have any surprise and joy at some idealized overestimation in her heart, and her performance was so bland. It turns out that he has already thought that there will be a current box office, or that his confidence in himself has reached a rather strong point, or can he not only see people's hearts, but even the future?
The broadcast said, in the TVB TV station, there were four people sitting in the office of the tycoon, and there were four people sitting in a meeting at this time, the tycoon himself, as well as his concubine Fang Yihua, and the two directors of TVB, Wang Tianlin and Xiao Sheng.
"Tianlin, this Mo Fei has a good relationship with Xiang Zai, you see if you can invite him to our side, the conditions are easy to say." The tycoon didn't know the friction between Fang Yihua and Mo Fei, stretched out his hand and patted his leg rhythmically, and said: "Most of the talents of Hong Kong films have gone to Golden Harvest and New Arts City, and the Shan family has been getting worse and worse in the past two years. ”
Wang Tianlin had already learned Mo Fei's thoughts through his son Wang Jing, and said: "Sixth uncle, this matter is not easy to do, that Mo Fei has already started his own company, and it is very difficult for him to come to the Wei family." ”
"It's normal to have your own film company, how can young people do it without a little motivation and drive. Then talk to him about cooperation, our theater chain is also a big advantage, will he refuse to cooperate with a theater chain? The tycoon continued.
Wang Tianlin didn't know how to answer this question, the tycoon obviously wanted him to be this lobbyist, but Fang Yihua had already offended Mo Fei miserably, and it was difficult to describe how difficult it was to cooperate with Mo Fei. But he couldn't say this matter in front of the tycoon, so he could only cast a look at Fang Yihua for help, you provoked this matter, and now you should also stand up and solve it.
Fang Yihua did see Wang Tianlin's eyes, but she didn't plan to help Wang Tianlin speak. She is planning to do a big job inside the wireless to show that her talent is no less than that of men, and old people like Wang Tianlin and Xiao Sheng are the stumbling blocks and obstacles to her ambition to dominate the industry, I wish these people were leaving one by one, how could they help them speak, even if it was because of her.
Fang Yihua didn't say anything, but the tycoon saw Wang Tianlin's eyes looking at her, and then thought about the way his little concubine acted, and he understood a little bit at this moment.
After a moment of silence, he nodded and said, "Then let's put this matter aside for a while, I'm also a little tired and want to rest for a while, so let's do it today." ”
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