Chapter 180, so conservative
In the eyes of mainlanders in the 80s, Hong Kong was a world of flowers that had been watered by capitalism for many years, a free island of drunken money, and perhaps in the eyes of some ultra-leftists, it was still a decadent place waiting to be rescued.
But these can't stop the feeling that Hong Kong brings to everyone, and only after really setting foot on the land of Hong Kong can you feel what it means to be advanced, which is completely different from watching it on TV.
Xu Qing is still a little girl, and the biggest feeling in the face of all this is freshness, the legendary Cantonese that she can't understand, the high-rise buildings, and the fashionable Hong Kong people, these are all things she once imagined, but she didn't fully think of.
But Xu Qing's mother is different, she has the thinking that an adult should have, in her eyes, this is the performance of advancement, everything points to the final point, Hong Kong's economy is very developed.
In the past year, she has also asked friends to inquire about the company Phoenix Culture from people here in Hong Kong, or through friends who have had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong, and the final result is inseparable from the four words "Ding Da Ming", but in her heart she still holds the idea of seeing is believing.
Now sitting in the car specially sent by Phoenix Culture to pick up the airport, Xu's mother is also more confident in the strength of this company. Even in places like the capital on the mainland, automobiles are not something that can be easily owned, and the buses on the units are basically inseparable from the brands of Volga, Hongqi, and Shanghai, and only those very good units may occasionally have the opportunity to get an imported car from a capitalist country.
But the car sent by Phoenix Culture to pick up the airport is obviously a foreign car. This is not because Hong Kong does not yet have domestically produced cars, but because it is the general perception of most people in the country that they habitually call the products of capitalist countries "imports". Xu's mother learned about it from a friend who claimed to be a car fan. I can also recognize a few foreign brand-name cars, and the one they sit on seems to be a brand called "Buick", which can only be sat by big officials in China.
After feeling the comfort of the seat for a while, Mother Xu leaned forward and asked the driver who was driving, "Master, let me disturb you, a car like the one we are sitting in now." How many units do you have in your company? ”
The driver was specially arranged to be fluent in Mandarin, although he didn't know what Xu's mother was going to do when he asked about it, but he knew that the little girl in the car was the company's contracted artist. said that these problems should be nothing, and replied: "Mrs. Xu, there are about a dozen cars like this, and they are all specially equipped for the company's contracted artists." ”
As long as the contract is signed. You can get a car like this. Mother Xu couldn't believe it, how rich this company is, so that every contracted actor can be equipped with a Buick car, which can only be enjoyed by department-level cadres above the level of key departments in the mainland, and Volga is highly equipped in the army.
Could it be that the driver was bragging, and asked: "Master, is every actor in your company worthy of such a car, and the actors are all in such a good car." So what kind of car does your boss take? ”
Is this car good? The driver looked at the three-sided shield logo on the steering wheel and didn't think the car was any better. Compared with Mr. Mo's car, it is simply 108,000 miles worse. But looking back, Xu Mu is from the mainland, and he himself has not been from the mainland for many years, so he still has some understanding of the situation in the mainland, and it is indeed not good for such a car to appear in the mainland.
said: "Mrs. Xu, just call me Xiao Wang." Not every artist in the company sits in such a car, this is the company's standard configuration for artists, and the cars of more popular artists are better, such as BMW or Mercedes-Benz. Miss Chung Chuhong, the most popular in our company, is the most popular and highest-paid actor in Hong Kong, and her car is a Porsche sports car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; Another eldest sister of the company is Miss Ye Qianwen, a singer of Mingjiang Music, and her car is a Mercedes-Benz sports car. Artists of their level are all cars rewarded by the company.
Mr. Mo's car is even more remarkable, including Mr. Mo's bodyguard's car, all of which are individually customized cars, I don't know the specific situation, but I heard that the car that Mr. Mo sits most often in, at least millions of dollars, and there is only one Mr. Mo in Hong Kong......"
The driver just wanted to show the company's strength in front of the new artist, he didn't care if the Porsche and Mercedes-Benz were given to Honggu and Ghost Sister as the object of patting, in short, in his opinion, this is the proof that Phoenix Culture is stronger than other companies, but he didn't know that his words really shocked Xu's mother.
What the driver said behind her, Xu Mu didn't listen to it at all, and her mind was already in a mess since the "hundreds of thousands of dollars". What is the concept of hundreds of thousands of US dollars, the official exchange rate given by the mainland now is about one US dollar to about three yuan, but it can really be exchanged on the black market, it is far beyond this ratio, hundreds of thousands of US dollars are definitely a super huge wealth for a mainlander, but in Phoenix Culture, it is only the price of a car rewarded by the boss to an artist.
Fortunately, Mother Xu is not the kind of old feudal who is stubborn to the extreme, and has a strong sense of vigilance against capitalism, otherwise his words are likely to make Mother Xu have a rejection mentality and bring Queen Pear Vortex back directly. Mo Fei's film lost one of the important actors, not to mention, the plan for the future will also be problematic because of this, if you don't strangle him, you have to strangle him.
Later, I continued to talk with the driver about some topics, and after learning more, Xu Mu was in a shocking normalcy along the way, and now she has a concept in her mind, Phoenix Culture, a company that is rich, especially rich.
It wasn't until she entered the office building where Phoenix Culture was located that Xu's mother's shock was alleviated a lot, so a rich company actually has only one floor of office space, which is really not worthy of the company's identity and the so-called status in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
But then she understood that in Hong Kong, where every inch of land is valuable, it is already great to have a one-story company, and I don't know how many companies are nesting in hundreds of feet, that is, dozens of square meters in the actual sense to seek development. Hong Kong has such a small land area. To accommodate millions of people to work and live, how can there be so much space for people to use.
Could it be that in the first two days of Xu Qing's arrival in Hong Kong, he only held a simple private welcome ceremony. did not arrange any other activities and work, let the company take the mother and daughter around Hong Kong, and then it was time to officially talk about work, and another point is that Xu Qing's stuntman will not be in place until four days later.
Xu Qing's mother and daughter's residence in Hong Kong was not arranged in a hotel, but lived in Mo Fei's mansion, and Mo Fei also took Li Zi to his home. This arrangement is also to allow the two young actors in the film to have a process of getting to know and understand each other, and to cultivate a little tacit understanding after the filming work really begins.
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Sure enough, as expected, after seeing the script of "Samantha". Mother Xu's face changed immediately, gloomy as if she was about to storm violently, and even forgot all the words that Mo Fei had just said about the stand-in.
put the script on the table and said, "Mr. Mo." We believe in the leadership of Guoshi. I believe that Mr. Mo, you are an honest and patriotic Hong Kong businessman, so you agreed to sign a contract with your company, how can you do this? We can't act in this movie, this is simply a pornographic movie, how will she meet people in the future? ”
Could it be that he was a little stunned, didn't he already say it just now, all the super-scale shots were all done by stand-ins, and there was nothing Xu Qing did at all. Why is there such a big reaction, it can't be that I didn't hear clearly, right?
To show their sincerity. Mo Fei had no choice but to preach again: "Mother Xu, I think you must have not understood what I just said, so there was a little misunderstanding, all the scenes in this film that involve the exposure scale are completed by stand-ins, and there is absolutely no need for Xu Qing to do anything she is not willing to do." And we specially followed Xu Qing's conditions, and it took a long time to find a suitable stuntman, who is almost exactly the same as Xu Qing in terms of height and figure, and even looks seven or eight points similar, we spent so much effort just to provide convenience for Xu Qing. ”
"That's not going to work, not with a stand-in." Xu's mother still resolutely objected, and said: "The stand-in portraits are not all the same, this movie will definitely be branded with Xu Qing's name, and everyone will think that she acted in those scenes, and we can't tell if we are full of mouths, which will ruin her reputation." I'm not someone who hasn't watched a movie, I know that it's not two people who sleep in the same bed, but sleeping naked together, what's the difference between that and two people, and naked to so many people, will you not be alive in the future? ”
Could it be that he instantly felt that he had a big head, having such a conservative idea was definitely one of the biggest obstacles, and this Xu's mother refused too harshly, and it was not negotiable at all.
You don't even care about other people's naked substitutes, why are you so conservative, but the movies are already ready, and it won't work if you don't persuade them, so you have to stubbornly continue: "Mother Xu, I understand your mood and thoughts very well, and I also understand that you are worried about Xu Qing, but we can't look at the problem so narrowly, movies are a kind of performing art, not hooligans, otherwise we can't arrange a stand-in, right." You may have little contact with this aspect, but I will show you some of the latest movie information and posters in the world, and you will understand that the world today is an extremely open world, and people's thinking has long been separated from the old feudal consciousness, and it is impossible to be so ignorant that such a performance is a disgraceful act. ”
No matter how Mo Fei persuaded her, Mother Xu just didn't listen, didn't listen, didn't want to be unwilling, the two of them spent an afternoon talking about it, and in the end, Mo Fei even took out the matter of Honggu starring in "Pretty Woman in the Wind and Moon" as an example, and also took the photos of Honggu and the stand-in as a witness, but still failed to impress Xu's mother.
Just when Mo Fei was about to give up and consider choosing another actor to star in "Samantha", the stand-in that the company found for Xu Qing from Vietnam finally arrived, it was a small girl who had already reached adulthood, except for only one pear vortex, she looked very similar to Xu Qing, and her figure was also very close, but she was plumper than Xu Qing, and she was more similar than Honggu's stand-in.
And what made Xu's mother finally make a decision and agreed to Xu Qing to star in the movie "Samantha" was the stuntman who arrived temporarily. In Xu's mother's words, the shape of this actor's nails is different from Xu Qing's, and there is a black mole at the base of the neck that Xu Qing does not have.
This reason makes Mo Fei really a little crying and laughing, this is completely similar to a mentality similar to covering her ears and stealing the bell, according to what she said, even if Xu Qing personally starred in all the shots, as long as Xu Qing's skin makeup was made up in some shots, wouldn't it be said that she could also use a stand-in, I really don't know how conservative she is. (To be continued......)