In early August, the Miss Oriental beauty pageant finals had not yet been held, and "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The Undefeated East" starring Lin Qingxia had just been released.

The first part of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", which was produced by Xu Ke and directed by Hu Jinquan, had a good reputation, but the box office revenue did not rank among the hottest ones, and the box office of more than 10 million could only be regarded as the top second-tier.

And when Xu Ke personally directed and Lin Qingxia came back to star, "The Undefeated Smile of the East" was released, but it suddenly detonated the box office, and it can almost be said to have swept the summer file.

Before the release of "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East", the most watched movie in Hong Kong was the disaster relief film "The Night Banquet of the Wealthy", with a box office income of more than 20 million, which was commendable, after all, the film only took a few days to shoot.

In addition, the most popular is "Lame Hao" filmed by Mai Dangxiong for Golden Harvest. Because the movie is based on a real person, and the prototype of the protagonist Wu Xihao has just passed away, coupled with the wonderful artistic creation of the director and actors, "Lame Hao" won the box office championship at the end of June and early July as a three-pole film.

The success of "Lame Hao" caused the adaptation of Real Black. The craze for gang films, but this type of film is too sensitive, because the influence of the prototype protagonist is still there, and there are very few people who really dare to shoot it.

The reason why Mai Dangxiong dared to help Golden Harvest shoot "Lame Hao" was because Lame Hao himself was dead, and the gang Yiqun where Lame Hao belonged back then had gone from a big club that could compete with Xin Yi'an and 14K to a small gang with only a thousand people left.

The Xiang brothers didn't care so much, after seeing the sale of "Lame Hao", Xiang Huaqiang directly asked Liu Dehua to shoot "500 Million Inspector Lei Luo", and its character prototype Lu Leke is alive and well, and he is still related to the Xiang brothers.

"Lame Hao" is followed by the opening movie of the summer file, the sequel to "Cousin, Hello" produced by Golden Harvest, "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" produced by DreamWorks and the last film "Prison Storm 2" by Vientiane Pictures to reorganize Yonggao Company have been released successively, with a "Rich Night Banquet" sandwiched in the middle.

The final box office results were: "Cousin, Hello 2" ranked first with 25.09 million, "Prison 2" ranked second with 24.36 million, and "A Chinese Ghost Story 3" ranked third with 15.01 million, and DreamWorks lost first.

And the release of "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" just found a venue for DreamWorks and cut down all the other films released at the same time.

Lin Qingxia has long faded out of the film industry for many years, and when the news of her comeback just came out, many people thought she was outdated, but her performance in "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" shocked countless eyeballs.

"Film Fortnightly" praised Lin Qingxia for playing the undefeated East as "reversing the male and the female, seducing all beings", and even called "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2 The East Undefeated" a masterpiece in the history of martial arts films. The commentary of "Xin Pao" also praised Lin Qingxia for her "unparalleled beauty", completely subverting the audience's inherent impression of the undefeated East.

In various newspapers and magazines, stills of Lin Qingxia's undefeated Oriental have appeared, and Kang Jianfei's "Daily Daily" is even more directly sycophant, saying that Lin Qingxia's comeback is "the return of the king".

And some publications represented by "Next Magazine" are completely contrary, saying that Xu Ke is grandstanding, using the undefeated men and women in the East to create gimmicks, and even more sarcastically Lin Qingxia's old aunt came out to pretend to be tender.

"Smiling Proud Jianghu 2 Undefeated in the East" has added countless new fans to Lin Qingxia, and the disrespectful remarks of "Next Magazine" have offended these fans ruthlessly, and even the door of the magazine has been splashed with feces.

At this moment, Jin Yong, the original author of the novel, suddenly accepted an interview, saying that Xu Ke's adaptation was difficult for him to accept, and Lin Qingxia's undefeated Dongfang ruined his three views.

"Next Magazine" seems to have received spiritual help, and constantly quoted Jin Yong's interview to criticize "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2 Undefeated in the East" for being a bad film, on the grounds that even the original author can't stand it.

Other media that praised "Oriental Undefeated 2 Smiling Proud Jianghu" have refuted the fallacy of "Next Magazine", saying that Xu Ke's "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and Dongfang Undefeated have made new ideas.

The media hype further increased the popularity of "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2", and in just half a month, the box office of this movie exceeded 25 million.

Speaking of which, this year's Hong Kong films can be described as unprecedentedly prosperous, not only are they selling hot in overseas markets, but even the box office in their own cities is staggeringly high. Only half of the summer season has passed, and there are already 4 Hong Kong movies with a box office of more than 30 million this year, and 7 Hong Kong films with a box office of more than 20 million, which is more than double last year.

And "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2" is not the trump card played by DreamWorks in the summer, the real hole card is "Truant Weilong" in the back, this movie starring Zhou Xingchi and Zhang Meng, and the director is Chen Jiashang, who joined DreamWorks three years ago.

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At the time of the hot screening of "Smiling Proud Jianghu 2", a 16-member mainland writers' exchange group came to Hong Kong, and the "Writers' Exchange Meeting between the Two Places" led by the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua News Agency and sponsored by Oriental Publishing House was officially held.

After arriving in Hong Kong, the mainland writers' troupe did not stay in a hotel, but was directly taken to live in the dormitory building of Tseung Kwan O Film and Television City. Perhaps because of the communication problem, none of the members of the Ministry of Culture who came to Hong Kong for exchanges this time came to Hong Kong, but all of them were young writers, such as: Jia Pingwa, Zhang Kangkang, Liang Xiaosheng, Wang Xiaobo, Mo Yan, Tie Ning, Wang Anyi, Shi Tiesheng, and so on.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the young writers got up one after another, washed up and prepared to go downstairs to breathe.

But before they could walk out of the door of the apartment building, the team leader sent by the Ministry of Culture shouted: "Don't walk around, the exchange meeting at 9 o'clock in the morning, I can't find anyone if I get lost." ”

There were leaders to say hello, everyone could only follow the arrangement, and they all gathered at the gate on the first floor to chat.

From time to time, a working actor walked by the door, looked at the gang curiously, and then hurried by.

"Hong Kong people are so fast-paced, they walk as if they are racing against time." Stetson, who was in a wheelchair, said.

Tie Ning said: "I went to Shenshen last month. Zhen, the rhythm over there is similar, time is money. ”

Wang Anyi has lived in Shanghai in the past few years, and she prefers foreign film and television music works, she pointed to the back of a woman who was gradually moving away and said: "Is that woman Guan Yonghe just now?" ”

Zhang Kangkang asked rhetorically: "Who is Guan Yonghe?" Your friends in Hong Kong? ”

Wang Anyi said: "Kwan Wing-ho is a Hong Kong actress. Haitai has broadcast the TV series "Rich and Expensive" in which she acted. ”

"I haven't heard of it." Zhang Kangkang, who has lived in the Northeast for many years, has no idea what Wang Anyi is talking about.

Wang Xiaobo took out a bag, and the gay man went to most of the bag, and he squatted on the steps and said to the team leader: "Old Miao, why don't we go to the conference room and sit down, it looks like a flower child from the countryside entering the city." ”

Lao Miao thought about it, so he said to the young writers: "Wait a minute, I'll ask if the door of the conference room is open, and if it doesn't, I'll wait there." ”

Shi Tiesheng asked: "Xiaobo, which writers do you say will come to Hong Kong today?" ”

Wang Xiaobo shook his head and said: "I don't know, I know Hong Kong writers, Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and Ni Kuang." ”

Liang Xiaosheng said: "It's good that Mr. Jin Yong can come, for a while I was particularly obsessed with his martial arts novels." ”

Jia Pingwa smoked a cigarette in his trouser pocket with one hand, turned his head and asked Mo Yan beside him: "Old Guan, I heard that you know this Mr. Kang in Hong Kong?" ”

"I've seen it from afar, and he has an investment in "Red Sorghum". Mo Yan didn't say much, and after speaking, he lowered his head and smoked.

Jia Pingwa said: "I have watched his "Searching for Qin", and it is so yellow that you can go to prison if you leave the mainland." ”

Mo Yan pointed at Wang Xiaobo: "His is also yellow, isn't he not in prison?" ”

Wang Xiaobo said with a smile: ""Looking for Qin" looks boring, that Mr. Kang's "Tomb Robbery is better than you" is very good. ”

A group of writers chatted and talked nonsense, and soon the team leader Lao Miao came back and led the team to the conference room of the writers' exchange meeting.

When he walked downstairs to the No. 2 Administration Building, Wang Anyi suddenly shouted: "Look, Zhou Runfa!" ”

Everyone turned their heads to look at it, and sure enough, they saw Zhou Yanfa coming out of the building. New actors like Kwan Yonghe may not be known to everyone, but "Shang/Beach" is so famous in the mainland that it is difficult for these writers to know it.

Tie Ning asked curiously, "There will be so many stars here?" ”

Team leader Lao Miao had already done his homework and explained: "This is the largest film and television base in Hong Kong, and Zhou Yunfa is also an actor in Mr. Kang's company. ”

Jia Pingwa sighed: "I heard that Mr. Kang also started by writing books, and it is really amazing to be able to write books to this extent." ”

A group of writers came to the conference room and stayed for more than ten minutes before waiting for the arrival of the first Hong Kong writer.

Wen Rui'an is the editorial director of the company, and the meeting room of the writers' exchange meeting is one floor away from where he usually works, and he is followed by two followers when he arrives.

The two attendants were holding a large bundle of books in their arms, and when they opened them, they were all Wen Ruian's "Wonder Men of China".

"Hello, hello, I'm Ryan Wen." Wen Ruian walked in and shook hands with mainland writers one by one, and handed out a copy of his masterpiece "Wonder Heroes of China".

Although "Wonder of China" is a martial arts novel, it does not lack literary and ideological qualities, and it is the strange book with the highest artistic value among Wen Ruian's works.

Anyway, it was still early before the meeting, and several mainland writers who got the book simply looked to pass the time on the spot, and they were directly fascinated. I heard that Wen Ruian was a screenwriter for a TV company, and several mainland writers who were also screenwriters chatted with him about the screenwriting profession in Hong Kong, and Wen Ruian also passed on his screenwriting experience privately.

Wen Rui'an, a Malaysian who spent several years in Taiwan, has Chinese as his native language, and has no communication barriers when talking to mainland writers.

Lao Miao, the team leader of the Ministry of Culture, was overjoyed, and before the meeting began, everyone was already chatting energetically, and there was no need to worry about communication problems.

After that, Hong Kong writers such as Xixi, Yesi, Ye Hui, Li Bihua, Zhang Xiaoxian, and Huang Yi arrived one after another, although Jin Yong did not come, but Dong Qiao, the editor-in-chief of "Ming Pao" and a famous writer, came.

Kang Jianfei didn't spend much experience on the matter of the writers' exchange meeting between the two places, but Oriental Publishing House took a lot of thought. For example, Xixi and Yesi were representatives of the Hong Kong literary scene in the 60s, and Dong Qiao was very famous in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and it was not easy to invite them to a meeting.

Kang Jianfei estimated that he appeared more than ten minutes in advance, and also handed out a copy of "Notes on Tomb Robbery". "Notes on Tomb Robbery" was serialized in newspapers only two months ago, and the Oriental Publishing House immediately sorted it out and published it, and has now sold more than 500,000 copies.

As for the exchange meeting or something, after half an hour of serious discussion, everyone began to talk casually. All of you here are famous writers, and you can explain it clearly in a few words by exchanging writing experience or something, and having an understanding is the biggest gain.

After the meeting, Kang Jianfei specially sent people to take mainland writers to visit and shop around Hong Kong, so as to make them have fun as much as possible. This group of people will be the most influential writers in the mainland in the next decade, and if they leave a good impression on Kang Jianfei and the Eastern Group, they will inevitably be featured in their works, which is a good opportunity to improve the reputation of the group.

Originally, Wang Shuo was still on the list of this exchange meeting, but the guy felt that the exchange meeting was boring, and directly rejected the invitation from the Ministry of Culture.

While the mainland writers were eating, drinking, and having fun in Hong Kong, the Oriental Publishing House was not idle at all, and organized people to study all the works of these writers by hand, and finally came to the conclusion that the literary works of Wang Xiaobo and Shi Tiesheng are the most valuable in the Hong Kong market.

As for Wang Anyi, who is known as the successor of Shanghai-style writers, she is now mainly creating scar literature and root-seeking literature, and the famous Shanghai-style masterpiece "Song of Long Hatred" has not yet come out.

In the envious eyes of others, Wang Xiaobo and Shi Tiesheng signed a contract with Oriental Publishing House before leaving, and sold the paper copyrights of all their previous works (only in Hong Kong) to Oriental Publishing House, and Oriental Publishing House was responsible for packaging and promoting them.

Wang Xiaobo and Shi Tiesheng came to Hong Kong for a trip, and when they went back, their net worth rose by two or three hundred thousand, which was a huge amount of money in the mainland in the early 90s.

On the first day of the departure of the mainland writers' group, it was the day of the Miss Oriental beauty pageant finals. At Kang Jianfei's kind invitation, more than a dozen mainland writers and officials from the Ministry of Culture came to the beauty pageant to watch the grand occasion.

A few years ago, the mainland studied in Hong Kong and held a beauty contest, which caused a sensation at the time, but because of public opinion and market reasons, the beauty pageant industry has never been done.

The Taiping Theater, which has more than 2,000 people, is full, and the beauty pageants on the stage are exchanged like marquees.

Until the swimsuit session, writers from the mainland, both men and women, looked intently at the stage, a scene that is rare in the mainland.

"Foreign countries are open, and walking around the stage in such a revealing swimsuit will not be scolded to death if you put it in the mainland." A female writer whispered.

"Ahem!" Lao Miao, a leading official, coughed, and then watched the beauty pageant intently, but he couldn't hear the writers' complaints.

As the general manager of Oriental Entertainment Agency, Zhang Guozhong will be present in person at the beauty pageant finals every year. At this time, he whispered to Kang Jianfei: "That Deng Peiqian is good, her face is very photogenic. ”

Kang Jianfei nodded: "Yes, she is the contestant with the best face shape this year." ”

Zhang Guozhong listened to Kang Jianfei's indifferent tone, and seemed to be not too satisfied with this Deng Peiqian, he asked, "Which one is Mr. Kang most optimistic about?" ”

Kang Jianfei said: "What do you think of Carina Chow? ”

Zhang Guozhong looked at Zhou Jialing carefully for a while, and commented: "The appearance and temperament are very good, and they are highly educated, and their words and deeds are decent." It's just that although she is sexy, she has some problems with her face. ”

"What's the problem?" Kang Jianfei asked.

Zhang Guozhong said: "Her face is too demonic, not suitable for playing a positive role, but more suitable for playing a killer, a girl and other negative characters." If you win it, you can become a gold medal actress or star at most, and few hope to become a popular star. ”

Linked to Zhou Jialing's acting experience in another time and space, Kang Jianfei smiled and said: "Ah Zhong, your eyes have been refined into fiery eyes!" ”R1152