Chapter 90: Golden Harvest Shaw

Zhao Yazhi and Deng Lijun looked at Li Lingtian with inexplicable smiles and murderous intent on their faces. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Zhao Yuqin's eyes swept away, and she still had a kind smile on her face, and she didn't say much.

Li Lingtian's heart suddenly suddenly, and he looked at Zhou Xiaomin on the side with bitterness on his face, "Xiaomin, are you wrong!?" As he spoke, he also glared at Zhou Xiaomin.

However, his actions seemed to be in vain, and Zhou Xiaomin didn't understand what he meant by such actions. Instead, Zhou Xiaomin put down his chopsticks, approached Li Lingtian, and said in a glutinous voice: "Brother Tian, what's wrong with your eyes?" How do you keep blinking? Is it in the dust? Why don't I blow it for you? ”

These words of innocence and concern warmed Li Lingtian's heart, and Zhao Yazhi and Teresa Teng immediately stopped thinking about making trouble for Li Lingtian.

Li Lingtian shook his head and chuckled, "It's okay, Xiaomin, let's continue eating!"

Zhou Xiaomin didn't quite understand what was going on, so he threw this thing out of his mind, grabbed his chopsticks and continued his dinner.

After dinner and cleaning up, Zhao Yuqin took Zhou Xiaomin back to 1002, seemingly deliberately not letting Zhou Xiaomin disturb Li Lingtian, Zhao Yazhi, and Deng Lijun.

"Ah Tian, where are you going at night? So boring! On the sofa, Deng Lijun stretched her waist and turned to Li Lingtian, who was sitting between the two women.

"Well, why don't you go to the movies, what do you think, Ah Jun and Ah Zhi?"

"Okay!"

After the two girls disguised themselves a little, they got into Li Lingtian's car and went to the nearest theater, which was one of Golden Harvest's cinema chains.

Today, the most well-known film companies in Hong Kong are Shaw Brothers (Shaw Brothers (Heung) Limited) and Golden Harvest (Golden Harvest Entertainment Business Co., Ltd.).

In 1958, Shao Yifu and Shao Renmei established the "Shaw Brothers Film Company" to produce films in Xiangjiang, with Shao Yifu as the president. In 1961, the Shaw Brothers Cinema in Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, was officially opened on 6 December.

"Shaw Brothers" follows a more purely commercial production route. In Shao Yifu's set of distinctive business philosophy, the theory of "audience first" is its central content. Therefore, "Shaw Brothers" chose the love and interest of the public audience when selecting materials, and chose themes that were popular and entertaining. Whether the directors and stars of "Shaw Brothers" are reused is also based on box office records. In 1957, the Huangmei Opera film "Tianxian Pei" in mainland China caused a sensation when it was released in Xiangjiang, and the audience in Xiangjiang was fascinated by Huangmei tune music. This phenomenon attracted the attention of the highly sensitive Xiangjiang filmmakers, and Shaw Yifu reused director Li Hanxiang to shoot a number of Huangmei films with costume themes, such as Jiangshan Beauty (1959) and Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (1963). The films of Shaw Brothers (Heungjiang) Co., Ltd. are mostly costume martial arts films, kung fu films, and palace films, and some films have a greater influence.

Golden Harvest (Golden Harvest Entertainment Business Co., Ltd.) Golden Harvest Company was founded in 1970 by Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and Liang Feng, and then purchased the old site of Cathay Pacific Studio as the site of the studio and renamed it Golden Harvest Studio.

In fact, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers still have a relationship. As early as the 60s, Zou Wenhuai, who was already under one person and above 10,000 people, and Zhou Duwen, who was the general manager of the company at the time, jointly sent a letter to Shao Yifu in Europe, asking for the implementation of the dividend system, that is, they should also get their due share of Shaw Brothers' profits. However, the letter was sent, but Shao Yifu's "silence is golden" persisted from Europe to Xiangjiang.

Whether Shaw Yifu is a dime a dime will not be mentioned for the time being, but at that time, Shaw Brothers adhered to the large-scale studio system and was not very keen on partnering with others, especially subordinate high-level or contract artists. Now that Zou Wenhuai has proposed dividends, isn't he "doing it" with Shao Yifu, who is a sole proprietor and self-financing?

In the end, Zhou Duwen resigned and left, Ling Sicong took over as general manager, Fang Yihua even interfered in the power of the Shaw Brothers, and Zou Wenhuai's position in the Shaw Brothers became more and more embarrassing, which made him have a sense of resignation. Finally, in 1970, he co-founded a joint venture to form Golden Harvest.

Although Golden Harvest still inevitably copied the Shaw Brothers model at the beginning of its establishment, Zou Wenhuai finally figured out and chose the dividend system, actively delegating power to others, recruiting talents in a wider range, and at the same time vigorously promoting the satellite company system, that is, investing in or even controlling the film company that Golden Harvest is optimistic about, generally based on the fifth five-year plan. Satellite companies operate on the premise that the parent company supervises the script, cost and shooting schedule, and the film can be directly handed over to the parent company for publicity and distribution after the completion of filming, or it can be independently responsible for other film companies. At present, Golden Harvest's main satellite company is the Hui Brothers Film Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Xu Guanwen.

"One-Armed Knife vs. Blind Man" is the first film co-produced by Golden Harvest and Japan, which included trend-setting kung fu films "Dragon Eight Generals" and "The Sword Leaves No One" in its early years.

In 1971, Li Xiaolong signed a contract with Golden Harvest, ushering in a period of vigorous development of Golden Harvest. From 1971 to 1973, Golden Harvest filmed Li Xiaolong to produce "Tangshan Big Brother", "Jingwumen", "Raptors Across the River", "Dragon Fight" and "Game of Death" (the latter two were both directed by Li Xiaolong himself), and entered the world market. On July 20, 1973, Li Xiaolong died suddenly, which dealt a heavy blow to Jiahe.

In 1974, the Xu brothers joined and started filming "Ghost Horse Double Star", creating a new route for comedy, and became the grossing champion of the year with more than 6 million. In the same year, Golden Harvest filmed its first Hollywood film, "The Spy of Hejing" starring Robert Mi Zhan, and founded a pan-Asian film company that mainly distributed Western films.

"Ah Tian, will this drama be good?" Teresa Teng looked at the poster outside the theater and asked with a little doubt.

The movie advertised on the poster is a movie called "The World", starring Huang Zhan and Debora. I don't know the exact content, but looking at the content on the poster, it should be a comedy.

Li Lingtian spread his hands and said, "Well, it's just this film recently, let's go in and take a look!" ”

The three of them entered the theater together, because the film has been screened since July 17, and it is about to end, so there are not too many people in the theater. The three of them chose a place in the middle and back, far away from their nearest spectators.

"Ah Tian, how did you choose such a position?" Teresa Teng asked suspiciously.

"Isn't it just a good place to have a wide view and be relatively clean!" Li Lingtian chuckled. Teresa Teng seemed to accept his answer and waited for the movie to start. Zhao Yazhi's eyes on the side flashed, with an inexplicable smile on his face.

When the audience finishes admitting to the theater, the lights in the theater are all turned off, and the movie officially begins.

"The World" tells the story of a big corrupt official in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, before he became a servant, his group of staff and miscellaneous servants asked for severance pay, and also helped the county to calculate an account, calculated how much money he had embezzled in recent years, and how many layers of money they wanted to know the county embezzled. The magistrate naturally didn't want to give it, and released news that the imperial court had sent eight governors to inspect the county. Immediately, the magistrate sent his fellow villagers and nephews to become governors to blackmail the magistrate and a group of staff, and scare away the gang of staff and the yellow-faced woman of the magistrate. Secretly, the magistrate secretly ran away with more than 100,000 taels of silver. **After Jin Lanhua got the news from the magistrate, she secretly ran to the nephews of the magistrate, saying that the magistrate's wife had cheated away more than 100,000 taels of silver. After some uproar, the silver was accidentally blown up by the explosives that blew up the mountain to the poor people. The real governor of the eight provinces finally exposed the conspiracy of the magistrate and arrested the magistrate.