Chapter 313: A National Entertainment Event Approaching
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When Andy Lau arrived, Fan Wuxian couldn't help but feel a little emotional in his heart.
Liu Tianwang's conscientiousness in the industry can be said to be well known, Andy Lau's most filmmaking was in the three or four years before 1992, in those years, he had to make more than a dozen movies every year, and it seemed that in his life, there was nothing else except movies.
In 1991, on average, one film he participated in was released every month, and the box office was very hot, with a total box office income of 200 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking first among Hong Kong actors.
In South Korea, he starred in "Heavenly Love" for nine months, and Korean audiences called him the most popular foreign actor. No matter who is overjoyed with such an achievement, Andy Lau is not happy. After much deliberation, he signed a manager contract with ICM in the United States.
Years of hard work have made Andy Lau taste a lot of sweetness, including flowers, applause, and honors, but he has also gradually tasted the bitterness of being a celebrity, such as gossip, scandals, and encroachment on interests, and the most terrible thing is the entanglement from the underworld.
Young people in the mainland have relatively little contact with the word triad, and because the mainland authorities have cracked down on the triad with great intensity, they have repeatedly cracked down so that ordinary participants in criminal cases have been severely punished, not to mention the triad, and they have no soil for existence.
However, in Hong Kong, this kind of triad-like organization is not uncommon, and they use various means to forcibly infiltrate various fields. (All overdrive updates:\. SOSO999\.COM)
For a period of time, Hong Kong's heroes were optimistic, and the Hong Kong underworld also wanted to dress themselves up as heroes, and for a while, the showbiz became the hardest hit area for the infiltration of the underworld. It is nothing new for the underworld to use filming and box office to launder money.
Andy Lau, a star who specializes in heroes in the rivers and lakes, naturally suffered deeply. At that time, Andy Lau once set a record of 16 films in a year, and even appeared in three films he starred in competing for the box office at the same time, and was known as the iron man of Hong Kong's entertainment industry.
However, such a high output will inevitably affect the quality of the film, Andy Lau knows very well in his heart, he also thought about saying no to shoddy scripts, but he can't say it. Even, he doesn't even have the right to refuse to act.
Don't look at him on the screen he is a hero, but off the screen, his heroism doesn't work.
Once, Andy Lau tried to refuse a film from a certain company, but who knows, at the production site, in full view of everyone, the evil forces actually pulled out guns and threatened! Some people will say why not call the police, but what is the use of calling the police? They can keep you for a while, but they can't protect you for a lifetime, and they will only have deeper enmity in the future.
Although in Hong Kong movies, they have the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Flying Tigers, the Overlord Flower, and the invincible Royal Hong Kong Police, but in reality, these are all sprayed out, and there is no practical significance at all, and the strength of Hong Kong's underworld is something that the police can't afford and don't want to provoke. (Mobile AP browsing search 999)
So, in an unwilling situation, Andy Lau had to take on one film after another that he didn't like.
At that time, similar forced filming happened from time to time in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, because Andy Lau had a good sales guarantee in other cities, and he did not sign a contract with a large company that had the ability to compete with various forces, so he encountered more trouble. Only by starting from scratch and avoiding dealing with those people can you give yourself a relatively free space.
As a result, Andy Lau first joined ICM in the United States to serve as an umbrella for himself with the help of powerful large companies.
In 1991, he joined forces with several friends in the circle, became his own boss, and established Tianmu Film Company.
Forming a canopy company and avoiding the entanglement of the underworld is naturally one of the important reasons, and another important reason is that you can make some movies that you want to make.
In Hong Kong, Andy Lau's salary is one of the highest local male stars, if you just want to make money, you can make more money by making more movies, you don't have to work hard for this, now investing in a company, whether it is a loss or a profit, the risk is big, this kind of business seems to be too cost-effective.
But Andy Lau doesn't invest in making movies just to make money, he thinks that if he is only filming to make money, where will he only make so much money like now?
Investing in filmmaking is to make something new and what you really want to make, but this kind of creative freedom is far from being bought by money. (All overdrive updates:\. SOSO999\.COM)
After the establishment of Tianmu Company, the first movie in the filming location was "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
According to later box office statistics, the total box office revenue of this film in Hong Kong reached 20 million Hong Kong dollars, although this figure is still far from the capital preservation figure announced by Andy Lau, but it should still be regarded as a blockbuster film anyway.
But the investment in this film was more than 24 million Hong Kong dollars, and it was lost.
After that, he made seven more films, all of which were lost.
In the early 90s, when Hong Kong films were at their most glorious, many stars, including Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Stephen Chow, etc., had opened film companies, but they all went bankrupt due to poor management. Only Andy Lau's Tianmu Company has always stood up, and he has never given up even when he lost tens of millions of dollars on filming, which shows that he really loves movies.
Fan Wuxian was idle and bored, so she told Shen Ying some real and false gossip, and Shen Ying was shocked when she heard it, she never thought that there was really such a dark place in this entertainment industry.
"It is said that Andy has lost more than 40 million yuan this year, and now he is holding on, what is it called when you listen to his songs? Forget the water! Give me a glass of forgetful water, so that I don't shed tears all night. To say that he is not troubled in his heart, that is a fake land. Fan Wuxian said to Shen Ying. (Mobile AP browsing search/search/999)
Shen Ying sighed, looked at Andy, who had stepped down, shook his head and said, "Hong Kong is really not a good place, no wonder many people have come to the mainland to develop, not only are there more people and more money here, at least there is no underworld harassment." β
Fan Wuxian nodded and replied, "Yes, it is already an irreversible process for Hong Kong and Taiwan artists to enter the mainland market in the future." In this way, my new Silk Road Entertainment company has to develop a little bit new, and the current artist team is still a little weak. β
"Now many second-tier actors in China are not worth much? Why don't you absorb some? Shen Ying asked with some curiosity.
Fan Wuxian replied with a smile, "You don't know the situation here, that's why you say that." β
Most of the performing arts resources in the mainland have been monopolized by the military, especially the first-class actors, and they have been wiped out by song and dance troupes and art troupes such as the General Staff Department, the General Political Department, the General Air Force, and the Maritime Administration, so that when some large-scale programs are performed, especially in the military group
In motion, as long as you look at those celebrities, you must be in the body.
In this way, it is unrealistic to compete with the military for these artist resources, but it is impossible to find promising seedlings in ordinary life.
The actors who Fan Wuxian discovered before, and the pillars of the company, were all discovered by accident, so Fan Wuxian was also a little emotional, wondering if he should be ready to officially launch the talent show. (All overspeed updates: search/search/9/9/9/COM)
Only by creating a lineup of civilian stars can it be possible to make your entertainment company stand on the commanding heights of entertainment.
The previous national draft work has progressed well, and many good seedlings worth cultivating have been selected in each competition area, but in order to improve the quality and watchability of the program, Fan Wuxian asked the company to conduct all-round training for the selected local players in each competition area, and signed a series of contracts.
After a few years, the work will be officially launched.
Fan Wuxi's opinion is that when the weather starts to warm up, it will be time to officially compete, and watching the contestants wear less and less lichens little by little, everyone's enthusiasm for the show will become higher and higher.
The instigators of the talent show were Popular Idol in the United Kingdom and American Idol in the United States. This kind of show builds a platform for overnight success, and boys and girls with idolatry complexes or dreams of stardom see their own opportunities for success in this highly participatory entertainment. At the same time, this form of program will also be refreshing, close to life, close to oneself, constant suspense and a lot of interaction can attract people's attention all the time.
It is not difficult to imagine that in this period of fluctuating people's hearts, a talent show will inevitably cause great repercussions and sensations across the country, and countless teenagers with idolatrous tendencies will enthusiastically pay attention, compete to emulate, worship wildly, and vote enthusiastically, which will push these draft contestants who were originally just ordinary people to the pinnacle of life. ()
On the show, what people see is the individual vivid face and undisguised ** light. Under the show, people accompanied the transformation and growth of these ugly ducklings, and cheered together, bringing China into a situation of national entertainment.
Although the talent show itself has a good original intention and a good market, if too many and excessive talent shows emerge, it will destroy the ecological balance of the TV program, cause the audience's aesthetic fatigue and psychological disgust, and directly lead to a significant shortening of the life cycle.
In addition, if the organizer of the talent show does not hesitate to use vulgar and inferior hype methods in order to attract ratings, such as hyping up the negative factors of the contestants, etc., it will make the draft go astray and misunderstood, and the focus is not on the quality of the program and the cultivation of contestants, but to shift more attention to things outside the competition, deliberately creating topics, attracting attention, kitsch and even low-level fun, then it will come to a dead end.
is also a civilian talent show, whether it is SuperrIdol in the United Kingdom or American Idol in the United States, the champions of dol every year have become pop singers and superstars, their songs frequently appear on the charts, and some have won many awards such as Grammy Awards.
Why can this kind of talent show survive abroad and exert a lasting influence?
The first is the uniqueness of the show. Although there are many reality shows of all kinds in the United States, they all have different elements, and DOL, as a talent reality show, has a strong monopoly, and there is no second program of the same type to compete with. And if you rush to the top, just to see the popularity of the draft, they compete to imitate, do not seek differences but seek common ground, and take the old road of imitation, then this road can still survive in the period or field where the market competition is not sufficient, but it will be difficult to get through after the competition is fierce.
The second is the professionalism of the program. Although the participants of Amerrican Idol are all amateur singers or enthusiasts, the content of their competition is singing, which is a competition of singing skills and strength, and the influence of other factors is relatively small. If a talent show is held in China, singing skills are often only one aspect, and some organizers who are eager for quick success are often accustomed to using various hype and rendering to extend and expand the content of the program horizontally and vertically, and the contestants' family situation, growth environment, private emotions, etc., whether true or false, have been widely exposed, and the show has changed its flavor and lost its purity.
The talent show allows the audience to witness the process of a group of newcomers from ugly ducklings to artists, integrating the audience and growing together. Therefore, if you want to do a talent show for a long time, the only way to do it is to take the initiative, plan for the long term, and constantly bring forth the new. To put it simply, it's really a question of choosing an end point or choosing a starting point.
"Your talent show, is it a beauty pageant?" After listening to Fan Wuxie's description of his own planning, Shen Ying asked in a low voice a little depressed.
In Shen Ying's heart, if she wants to say that she will not be a little troubled by Fan Wuxi's excellence, it is simply impossible, in the face of having such an excellent fiancΓ©, Shen Ying is a little self-satisfied and reserved, and it is not excluded that there will be a slight sense of crisis.
Although she feels that she is actually very good, not only is she perfect, but she also has a smart heart that is far beyond ordinary people, but it is difficult to regulate this kind of thing with the word reasonable, so Shen Ying still eats Fan Wu's flying vinegar a little, and feels a little stupid for his entertainment company, especially the beauties in the entertainment company.
Fan Wuxi glanced at Shen Ying a little strangely, then laughed slightly, and laughed for a long time before saying, "I thought that a girl like you would not eat flying vinegar indiscriminately, but I didn't expect that this kind of thing has little to do with IQ." The talent show is a show of talent, and it is also possible that it is a middle-aged aunt who will be supported by the audience, which is completely different from a beauty pageant. β
"Auntie?!" Shen Ying's eyes widened and looked at Fan Wuxi, and after a long time, she said, "Okay, if I can't see a middle-aged aunt winning an award in this event, you don't have to think about paying me back!" β
"Alas! You can't do that! That's more than 100 million! Fan Wuxian listened, and immediately said with some tears and laughter.
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