"Manager Yao, China Television wants the broadcast rights of "Detective Di Renjie", and I really can't see where your sincerity is if you use such a 'parallel import' as a condition for cooperation."

Zhou You's words sounded a bit harsh, but Yao Guanwen keenly captured a certain change in attitude, and then he guessed that it was probably related to the phone call that Zhou You went to answer.

In order to verify his judgment, Yao Guanwen decided to test Zhou You's tone first.

"Aunt La, what do you think of Zhongshi as sincere?"

"When filming the sequel to "Detective Di Renjie", China Television must unconditionally agree to Jin Chaoqun and He Jiajin to star."

Zhou You's request was reasonable in Yao Guanwen's opinion, originally he wanted to delay it and continue to test the bottom limit here, but he didn't expect to be pushed back by Zhou You's words.

"This request is what Mr. Lin meant, China Television promised us to cooperate, and if we didn't agree, we would break up!"

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In the study, Lin Youlun was answering the phone, and there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the door.

"So the ZOSE side has already agreed?" Lin Youlun raised his head and glanced at the door of the study while talking on the phone.

Wang Jing appeared at the door with an anxious expression, and was about to knock on the door to remind Lin Youlun that he was coming, but behind him, Mother Wu's face looked a little ugly.

"It's good, I know about it."

Lin Youlun hung up the phone, and Wu's mother immediately rushed to speak: "Mr. Lin, I told Mr. Wang that you were on the phone, but he refused to listen to me, and insisted on breaking upstairs ......."

I heard that Wu's mother was complaining. Wang Jing hurriedly interrupted her.

"Mother Wu, you misunderstood. I'm really in a hurry with Aaron! ”

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel. Lin Youlun had no choice but to tell them all to keep their mouths shut.

"Okay, Mother Wu, you're going to be busy, I'll call you if you need to."

Mother Wu glared at Wang Jing and turned to leave.

Wang Jing didn't have time to care about Wu's mother's attitude towards him, so he walked straight to Lin Youlun and cried with a sad face: "Aaron, you must help me this time!" ”

"What's wrong again?" Lin Youlun pulled out a chair and sat down angrily.

Wang Jing picked up the cup on the table and wanted to take a sip of water. suddenly realized that this was Lin Youlun's cup, and then put it down again.

"Xiang Huaqiang asked me to help him make a movie, I didn't want to make it, but there was no suitable reason to push it, now only you can help me."

Lin Youlun stretched out his hand and pinched Wang Jing's cheeks, turned left and right, and said to himself: "It's strange, your head doesn't look like it's been caught by the door?" ”

Wang Jing broke free of Lin Youlun's hand, and was so anxious that he almost jumped in front of him.

"I'm not kidding you, it's serious."

"If you don't come, I won't know who you are?" Lin Youlun snorted. I don't eat Wang Jing's set at all.

"Do you really want to force me to die in front of you to help me?" Wang Jing put on a posture of being out of the blue, and I have to say that this guy's expression is quite realistic.

"Do you want me to ask Mother Wu to get you a knife?"

Wang Jing's eyes widened. looked at Lin Youlun with a desperate expression, "You can't really be so ruthless, right?" ”

Lin Youlun waved his hand impatiently, "I'll give you two choices, either talk about things well, or get out of here immediately!" ”

Wang Jing stared at Lin Youlun's eyes for three seconds, "Then I'll talk about it." ”

He pulled a chair and sat down in front of Lin Youlun, and then told Lin Youlun about the cause of the incident.

"Wasn't there a lot of biopics last year? Mai Danxiong filmed a "Lame Hao" and Xiang Huaqiang filmed a "The Legend of Lei Luo", both of which made a big profit at the box office, and then I also wanted to make a ......"

"You make a biopic?" Lin Youlun couldn't help but laugh, "This is the funniest joke I've heard this year!" ”

"Okay, I admit that I really don't have experience in making biopics, but I didn't think like that at first, and I met Xiang Huaqiang again, and I told him this idea, and then Xiang Huaqiang said no problem, he supported me to shoot...... I thought he was just joking, but I didn't expect him to come to me some time ago and say that he had a biopic in his hand and asked me to shoot it for him. ”

Lin Youlun pouted, "Then you can help him shoot it, are you still worried that he won't be able to cover it?" ”

Hong Kong's biopics, because they are mainly about the deeds of underworld heroes, are not just ordinary people who can shoot casually. is as bold as Mai Danxiong, and when filming "Lame Hao", he also had to add a paragraph in front of it, indicating that this story is not specifically alluding to Wu Xihao; And Xiang Huaqiang was able to start filming "The Legend of Lei Luo" smoothly, also because he was related to Lu Le, the prototype of Lei Luo in the film, but even so, after the filming of "The Legend of Lei Luo" was completed, there were still rumors in the city that Lu Le was unhappy and wanted to block the release of the movie.

"But this time he really can't cover it!"

Wang Jing's answer surprised Lin Youlun, and at the same time became a little interested in this movie.

"Who the hell is he asking you to shoot?"

"Stanley Ho!"

When Wang Jing said this name, even Lin Youlun was slightly moved.

Macau is a gambling paradise, and Ho Hongsen is the king of this paradise, rightly named, among the Chinese who are engaged in the gambling industry, there is no one who can have his scenery, which can also show his strength.

In order to start filming "Ocean's Eleven" at Lisboa Casino, Lin Youlun had a deal with Stanley Ho, and he knew more about Stanley Ho's power, but he couldn't figure it out, why did Xiang Huaqiang suddenly think of why Hongsen wanted to make a biopic?

"You should, the gambling king at the beginning of Macau was not Stanley Ho, but a man named Ye Han."

Stanley Ho was born in Hong Kong, when he was a child, his father's brothers miscalculated in the stock market and ruined the family, Ronsen Ho did not enjoy the glory and wealth since he was a child, and even went to Macau to start a business and do business before graduating from the University of Hong Kong, but unfortunately the business was soon booming Ho Hongsen was driven out of Macau by the power of Macau, and returned to Hong Kong gloomily.

During his time in Hong Kong, Mr. Ho began to get in touch with the emerging real estate business, and became a multi-millionaire in just a few years.

The fact that Ho Hongsen was able to return to Macau has a lot to do with the Ye Han that Wang Jing mentioned.

Before 1961. Macau's gambling licenses are owned by the Fu and Gao families. And Ye Han was the right-hand man of Fu Laorong, the last head of the Fu family. Ye Han was unwilling to live under the family for a long time, and his request to invest in the gambling company was rejected by Fu Laorong, and the two fell out.

In 60 years, the Macau authorities were ready to re-issue gambling licenses, Ye Han thought that he was weak and could not compete with the old Bo and Gao groups, so he first pulled the playboy Ye Deli in to form a bidding consortium, and Ye Deli used Portuguese nationality and Macau business as the reason. persuaded Ye Han to let Ho Hongsen join. In October of the same year, the consortium won the bid and became the new owner of the Macau gambling industry, and then the Macau Entertainment Company was established, with Ye Deli as the company's chairman, Ho Hongsen as the general manager, and Ye Han as the general manager of the casino.

Ye Han is proud of his meritorious bidding and proficient in gambling, and as the general manager of the casino, he always calls himself the "gambling king". And in the first years of the establishment of the Macau Entertainment Company. Hong Kong and Macao media mostly call Ye Han the "gambling king".

SJM has made a lot of money in hosting Macau's gambling industry, and the shareholders' wallets have also been full. But the contradiction between Ye Han and Stanley Ho is getting deeper and deeper, the two of them have their own moves, and Ye Han lost his momentum and withdrew from the management in the name of retirement, and the power of the gambling company has been controlled by Stanley Ho so far.

Lin Youlun is no stranger to Ye Han's story, but he doesn't understand what it has to do with why Xiang Huaqiang made a biopic?

"Of course, it is related, only Stanley Ho has a gambling license in Macau, why do you think Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng brothers should go in and get a piece of the pie?"

"Because of what?"

"Oriental Princess!"

"You're talking about the famous high-seas gambling ship?"

Wang Jing nodded, "The first owner of that gambling ship was Ye Han, and gambling on the high seas also started to develop from him. ”

Ye Han was squeezed out of the entertainment company by Stanley Ho, but did not quit the world, he once founded the Horse Racing Club, and obtained the franchise in this project, but the good times did not last long, the horse racing car could not make ends meet, and the situation deteriorated, and even left a tragic record of 1 billion yuan after the last horse race was held on January 30, 1988.

After the carriage club was liquidated at a low price, Ye Han leased the Oriental Princess and drove the ship to the high seas to gamble, hooking away a large number of gamblers who originally wanted to go to Macau, and more and more gambling boats went to sea, getting bigger and bigger.

Ho Hongsen was angry and helpless, and in the end, he could only rent a boat to others, which was actually a disguised participation in gambling on the high seas.

Ye Han went to the high seas to gamble, making money was not the main purpose, but to vent his grievances, he ignited the fire of gambling on the high seas, watched the gambling ships sail into the high seas one after another, and fought with He Hongsen for him, but he accepted it when he saw it, and the next year he transferred the "Oriental Princess" to Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng brothers.

The Xiang brothers have a certain friendship with Stanley Ho, and after purchasing the "Oriental Princess" that made Stanley Ho anxious, they secretly negotiated with Stanley Ho to contract a "Jincheng gambling hall" in Macao on the condition that the ship withdraw from gambling on the high seas.

The Xiang brothers did well in the casino business in Macau, and then they thought about expanding their business, so they began to develop the Grand Hyatt hotel casino, and Yin Yuju of Macau 14K wanted to intervene after hearing about it.

Yin Yuju's family name was Tan, and when he was poor, Yin Yuju's father used to raise others, so he changed his surname to Yin. Can't read a book, Yin Yuju joined Macau 14K in his teens, stealing and smashing, going to prison and getting out of prison, making brothers, and his status is rising. During this period, Wan Yuju was involved in the drug business, but his younger brother Wan Kwok-leung became addicted to drugs and died of overdose. Since then, Yin Yuju has given up the drug business and started to switch to casinos, sharing the stacking of casino stacks and loan sharks in Ho Hung-sen.

Yin Yuju and the Xiang brothers not only did not talk, but also clashed, and Yin Yuju even sent someone to set a bomb at the Grand Hyatt Hotel as a threat.

The Xiang brothers are not easy to match, they recruited people to kill in Macau, but it is always "a strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake", Yin Yuju received the wind and hurriedly organized a battle, after a period of rapid pursuit and fierce fighting, the people of Xin Yi'an were beaten back to Hong Kong.

Things have come to this point, and people on both sides are fighting around on the turf in Macau, which has affected the casino business, and Ho has to come forward to settle the matter.

In order to thank Stanley Ho, the Xiang brothers wanted to help him make a biographical film, and it happened that Wang Jing had mentioned this before, so Xiang Huaqiang found Wang Jing and asked him to direct this movie.

"It's not that I don't dare to make this movie, but I'm worried that it won't be what Stanley Ho wants, and now almost all the gangsters in Macau are begging for a living under Stanley Ho...... It's not good for me to talk to Xiang Huaqiang about this, and let Stanley Ho know that it's even worse if I refuse to make a biopic of him, and after I think about it, only you can help me. ”

Wang Jing looked at Lin Youlun with a blank eye, as long as Lin Youlun casually found an excuse to explain to Huaqiang, and another person would direct this movie, even if He Hongsen knew about it, he would not blame him for Lin Youlun's face.

"Do you think Xiang Huaqiang and He Hongsen's favors are so good to owe?" Lin Youlun glanced at Wang Jing angrily, but he was thinking about how to help him.

The last time I borrowed the Lisboa Casino to film, I already owed a favor to Hung Ho, Lin Youlun didn't want to owe more and more favors, and the trouble Wang Jing encountered this time seemed to be a bad thing on the surface, but if it was handled properly, maybe he could pay back the favor owed to the gambling king.

"If I don't help you this time...... I mean, if you can't push this movie, then how are you going to make it? ”

Although Wang Jing didn't understand what Lin Youlun meant by this, he felt that Lin Youlun should be able to help him, so he replied along with his words: "Of course, the actor is shaped as much as possible to the good, those bad things can not be mentioned, if you have to mention it, try to dilute it instead, it is best to show him the script, and all the plots will be filmed with his consent!" ”

In Lin Youlun's impression, Wang Jing did help Xiang Huaqiang make a biographical film "Casino Tycoon" with Stanley Ho as the prototype, starring Liu Dehua, and the situation of that movie is similar to what Wang Jing is saying now, only entangled in trivial trivial things, small disputes, and big events are either explained in words or simply not said.

Although compared with other Wang Jing movies, the low-level fun and pee farts in that play have been greatly reduced, the whole play still seems too entertaining and does not have the documentary flavor of a biopic.

And in order to curry favor with Stanley Ho, he even did not hesitate to slander Stanley Ho's opponent Ye Han in the movie, portraying him as a traitorous character.

"You've already figured out how to shoot it, and you're coming to me for help?"

As soon as Wang Jing heard this, his whole face suddenly collapsed, and he explained with a bitter face: "It can't be too spoofed, and it can't be completely realistic, maybe Ho Hongsen has no opinion on making such a movie, but Xiang Huaqiang should quit, he paid for the movie, how could he do a loss-making business?" If the audience doesn't buy it, I can't explain it. (To be continued......)