134 [Box Office Battle II]
"Boss, has today's "Word Newspaper" arrived?" After Liu Cheng read the unveiling article yesterday, he became interested in the usually inconspicuous "Yanbao" and wanted to see what was published today.
The boss picked up a newspaper and said with a smile: "It's early, and today it's written that the singer surnamed Wang colluded with corrupt officials and killed innocent citizens." ”
"Grab a copy." Liu Cheng paid for it and said.
After he paid the money, the boss asked again: "Do you want to come to another newspaper, all of which report on Wang Zijun." "Ta Kung Pao", "Ming Pao", "Wen Wei Po...... There is also the "New Evening News", which was not sold out yesterday. ”
"It's all his? Looks like a big shot. Liu Cheng bought five or six newspapers in one go, sat in the car and read them slowly.
The first is the article in the "Yan Bao", the content of today's report is even more outrageous, and it says that the singer surnamed Wang colluded with corrupt officials. However, the wording is very vague, and the interrogative words or uncertain tones are used at critical times, so that the newspaper can pull itself out when it comes to litigation.
Now the underworld in Hong Kong is very rampant, and Liu Cheng, as an ordinary citizen, also hates the underworld characters very much, and even hates this "singer surnamed Wang".
Liu Cheng opened "Ming Pao", and the headline on the front page was "Landing in Xiangjiang, 20% of the box office relief rain disaster". There is also a large photo on the front page, which is a still from "Bloody Lonely City", in which the [***] soldiers played by Wang Zijun and Deng Guangrong are fighting with the army in tattered clothes and covered in gunsmoke and blood and sweat.
This report surprised Liu Cheng, you must know that the front page of "Ming Pao" is full of important news, and the entertainment movie version is behind.
The article briefly introduced the film, and said that the box office of the film in Taiwan has reached more than NT$18 million, according to the convention that Hong Kong has a slightly higher box office than Taiwan (for example, last year's Bruce Lee's "Tangshan Brother" Hong Kong box office 300 Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to NT$18 million, while the Taiwan box office is only 11 million yuan. However, due to Taiwan's rapid economic development and population base, it will surpass the Hong Kong box office within a year or two), and the box office of "Bloody Lonely City" in Hong Kong is at least 3.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and 20% of the box office means that 700,000 Hong Kong dollars will be donated. This is a very remarkable number, you must know that last year's Hong Kong box office tenth "Naughty Girl" was only 940,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the ninth and eighth box office was only 1.02 million Hong Kong dollars.
The article also analyzed that Wang's box office in Hong Kong can only be divided into 505, that is to say, in the end, Wang Zijun can only get 30% of the Hong Kong box office. The article commented: "As a Taiwanese, Wang Zijun resolutely donated 20% of the box office to the Hong Kong rain disaster, and this spirit and personality are worthy of admiration. We know that Wang Zijun is not only a singer, a businessman, and a director, but also a well-known patriotic youth, who was shot in retaliation by himself during the Baoyu Parade last year, and the incident of rescuing him for a day and a night (the propaganda language of the Taiwan authorities) is vividly in my mind. Recently, it has been said that some irresponsible media, in order to increase sales, deliberately insinuate and satirize, and even have the support of Hong Kong's underground forces, and their hearts can be condemned......"
The credibility of the article in "Ming Pao" is much higher than that of "Yan Pao", and Liu Cheng's balance in his heart is now a little wavering, and he doesn't know which one is true. took a look at the signature of the article, and it was actually a joint name of Jin Yong and Ni Kuang.
Then Liu Cheng looked through several other newspapers, and "Ta Kung Pao" and "Wen Wei Po" had some impartiality flavor, but there was a sour taste between the lines, which were all satirical to the Kuomintang. Both of these are leftist newspapers run in Hong Kong, and it is normal for them to have this kind of reaction.
However, the film review written by Yishu is a bit interesting: "...... I watched two rare films last night, one is the big drama "Fourteen Heroes" produced by Shaw Brothers, and the other is "Bloody Lonely City" by Taiwan's Wang. Both films are patriotic films that promote the national spirit, the difference is that one takes place in the Song Dynasty and the other in the Republic of China.
"Fourteen Heroines" is star-studded, and the appearance of the actresses has added a lot of audiences to the film, and its scene is also rare in Hong Kong films, which is worthy of a big production costing 4 million Hong Kong dollars. Among them, the scene of the human bridge flying across and the flooded army is a classic. However, in terms of the plot, "Fourteen Heroes" does not have any outstanding features, to put it more harshly, it has several places that cannot be scrutinized. This is more like a romance novel on the big screen...... And what about "Bloody Lonely City"? It's a real surname that's extremely close to history, and the scenes inside are all real shots, so it looks even more magnificent. I heard that in order to create the atmosphere of war with gunpowder and artillery, the director spent three months with a group of veterans in the mountains to study the effect of the explosion with real explosives, and even injured as a result. We can see that the director's good intentions finally succeeded, and I sat in the cinema last night, as if I was really on the battlefield of Changde 30 years ago, and as the plot went, it was sad or happy or angry......"
Seeing this, Liu Cheng was even more confused, not knowing whether Wang Zijun was good or bad. But listening to what Yishu said, these two movies are good, you can take the time to watch them. Especially in "Bloody Lonely City", if you watch a movie by yourself, 20% of the tickets can be donated to the victims, why not?
Turning the back page again, it was an announcement issued by Wang Zijun's lawyer: demanding that "Yan Bao" stop insinuating and satirizing Wang Zijun, and publicly apologize to Wang Zijun, otherwise the newspaper will be sued three days later.
Liu Cheng took a look at it and felt that a good show had been staged, and he would continue to pay attention tomorrow.
…… Wang Zijun was in the hotel, looking at the reports of "Ta Kung Pao" and "Wen Wei Po", and was shocked into a cold sweat. Fortunately, Lin Zhenfa didn't have time to throw the black materials into these two companies that day, otherwise with their mainland background, it might be even more distorted than the report of "Yanbao".
Lin Zhenfa also didn't know that these two newspapers were from the mainland, otherwise he would have voted for them a long time ago.
However, Wang Zijun's worries are actually unnecessary, although "Ta Kung Pao" and "Wen Wei Po" are [***] propaganda positions in Hong Kong, but if they want to gain a foothold here, some basic rules still have to be followed. Just 20 years ago, due to the "Ta Kung Pao", "Wen Wei Po", and "New Evening News" vigorously advocating for the mainland, the result was that the three newspapers were successively seized by the British and Hong Kong political axes, and the editor-in-chief was arrested.
At this time, the CEOs of these two newspapers were honest and open-minded real newspaper people. Among them, Jin Yaoru, the editor-in-chief of Wen Wei Po, is one of the responsible persons for Hong Kong's united front work and propaganda work, but his reporting principles are fair and truthful, and the same is true for his reporting on Taiwan. Later, Mr. Jin wrote in the article. During the revolution, he was arrested and returned to the mainland, and was released from prison and reinstated after the end of the movement. It wasn't until the late 80s that the movement (as everyone knows) that Jin Yaoru heard about it and wrote four words in an editorial for Wen Wei Po: Heartbroken. Then he took the initiative [***] and went to the United States.
Jin Yong and Run Run Shaw have friendships, so "Ming Pao" is sandwiched in the middle, and the report on the two films is very objective. However, other newspapers are not so calm, except for "Ming Pao", the articles that applauded Wang Zijun received money, and by the way, they also ridiculed Shao Daheng's stinginess. said that although his wireless station called for celebrities to perform and raised 9 million, it was all citizens and actors, and the tens of thousands of yuan he paid were not commensurate with his property and status at all, but he was not as good as Wang Zijun, a foreigner.
Moreover, this miser's movie was full, but it was not a dime, after Wang Zijun's movie was suppressed by him, the average attendance rate was only 50%, but he still took out 20% of the box office donations, and the verdict was made.
Other newspapers related to Shaw Brothers intentionally or unintentionally used the arguments in "Yan Bao" and the naked bloody talk in "Bloody Lonely City" to criticize Wang Zijun and try their best to be sarcastic.
All of a sudden, the people of Hong Kong were dizzy about the three arguments of Wang, Shao, and Yanbao.
There are even more people who hate the rich who think that whether it is Wang Zijun or Run Run Shaw, there is no good rich person anyway, and the dog eats the dog deserves it!
Guan Weihua went to contact Teresa Teng's singing club today, and Teresa Teng frowned as she looked at various newspapers. She still believes in Wang Zijun's personality, she still remembers the early summer of last year, the sunny boy whose singing skills were a little green in the singing competition. How is it possible to say that he is a villain who is innocent and good?
Picking up the newspaper, Teresa Teng came to Wang Zijun's room and saw him smoking and writing at the same time. When I walked over, I was composing music for some new songs.
"Do you still have time to write songs?" Teresa Teng couldn't cry or laugh, she originally wanted to come over to comfort Wang Zijun, but this person didn't take it seriously at all.
Wang Zijun smiled: "I'm preparing to release a new record this year. ”
"Oh, is it? When is it going to be released? Teresa Teng asked.
"Just this month." Wang Zijun said.
"No, you've just started writing songs, and it's too late." Teresa Teng said.
"Who's to say it's too late? The recording of the song is done this week, and it will take another week to record and promote it. Wang Zijun said.
Teresa Teng worried: "But now the rumors outside ......"
Wang Zijun said with a smile: "I'm in a hurry to release a record, that's because of this." In Hong Kong, I have always been inferior to the locals, and even Jin Yong and Ni Kuang can only stand in the middle and scold the "Words". If I want to win this scolding battle, I can only go off the rails. ”
Teresa Teng didn't understand it, and she was embarrassed to ask again, so she only set her eyes on the new song written by Wang Zijun.
"Cantonese songs?" Teresa Teng was surprised.
Wang Zijun said: "Yes, on the plane that day, didn't Mr. Guan say that the Hong Kong music scene is very chaotic now?" Then I'll help sort it out. ”
"The people who listen to Cantonese songs are low-level citizens and local aborigines, and very few of these people are willing to spend money to buy records, they all listen to the radio." Teresa Teng said worriedly.
Wang Zijun shook his head and said, "Whether it is English songs or Chinese songs, although these people are willing to spend money, the base is always inferior to the Cantonese listeners at the bottom. It's not that Cantonese fans are reluctant to spend money, but there are few records that are worth their hard-earned money. And the popularity of a kind of music, either from the top down, or from the bottom up, the lower riba people can also become sunny and snowy. ”
"Jingle Bell ......"
Wang Zijun picked up the phone, and it was from Hong Kong Weiqing Publishing House: "Mr. Wang, "Sou Shen Ji" has been typeset last night, and it is now being printed. ”
(To be continued)