Chapter 59: Another Surprise Move

Ma Fangxi stood and chatted with Lin Youlun for a few words, and then remembered to ask Lin Youlun to sit down.

Lin Youlun's seat happened to be face-to-face with Wang Guxian, but after sitting down, he deliberately pretended not to know Wang Guxian.

"Who is this?"

Wang Guxian felt angry and funny in his heart, but he had to cooperate with Lin Youlun, pretending to be curious and staring at Lin Youlun with big eyes, but in his mind, he didn't know what he was thinking about 108,000 miles away.

"I forgot to introduce Lin Sheng, this is Miss Wang Guxian, she is Taiwanese, and she is currently our Shaw Brothers signed artist."

Since Lin Youlun sat down, Fang Yihua has been observing Wang Guxian's expression when she looked at him, and she was amazed by Wang Guxian's natural beauty in his screen debut, so she accepted Ma Fangxian's suggestion to sign Wang Guxian and bring him to Hong Kong for development. Many people's first feeling when they saw Wang Guxian was amazing, but Fang Yihua didn't see this kind of expression in Lin Youlun's eyes, which made her suddenly wonder if her previous thoughts were a bit wishful thinking.

This thought was just a flash, Fang Yihua quickly stabilized his mind, and the first thing he asked was another thing.

"Lin Sheng, you promised to write the movie script for Shaw Brothers, I don't know where Lu Dao is now?"

Lin Youlun helped Yongsheng write "God of Gamblers" to sell at the box office, Shao Tycoon finally couldn't sit still, Fang Yihua said bluntly today that he came to ask Lin Youlun for the script.

"The script has been written, but we have to wait a while longer to ensure that it is a box office hit." Lin Youlun replied.

"What's this for? Does Lin Sheng feel that with the strength of Shaw Brothers, he is still worried that he will not be able to make a good movie with a script? If he hadn't had a certain understanding of Lin Youlun, Fang Yihua would really think that Lin Youlun was deliberately entertaining himself.

"The gambling film I prepared for Shaw Brothers is also called "The Saint of Gambling", but it takes the funny route, which is two completely different styles from "God of Gamblers". With all due respect, although the Shaw Brothers is full of talents, only Wang Jing can really make this movie well. There is another layer of meaning in Lin Youlun's words that is not clearly stated, that is, today's Shaw Brothers are old, small, old, outdated, and outdated, and the small ones have not grown up, and there seems to be no shortage of people, but in fact, there are few people who can really get their hands on it.

Fang Yihua is such a smart character, what Lin Youlun wanted to say but didn't say, she felt like a mirror in her heart. If it were someone else, they probably couldn't believe that Shaw Brothers Film and Television Company, which once dominated the Hong Kong film industry, has now reached a situation where no one is available. Fang Yihua is not a self-deceiving person, she knows the current situation of Shaw Brothers very well, so she has always advocated giving up film production and specializing in television. It's just that Run Run Shaw still has the idea of fighting the last, and the only thing Fang Yihua can do is to try his best to help him realize this wish.

Lin Youlun's idea does not stop there, he hopes that Wu Mengda and Zhou Xingchi will play the starring roles in "The Saint of Gambling", and the director and actors will follow the lineup of "Baby Wisdom and Stars". And his reason is very simple, Wang Jingjia Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda are the most guaranteed box office combinations of Hong Kong comedy films at present, and Fang Yihua can't find anything wrong with them, let alone oppose them.

The movie "The Saint of Gambling" in later generations is a masterpiece of Zhou Xingchi's "nonsensical" films, and the director is not Wang Jing, but it is often mistaken for Wang Jing's work. In addition to Wang Jing's subsequent follow-up to make a similar movie that caused people to misunderstand, the style of this film is very similar to Wang Jing's movie is also an important reason. Liu Zhenwei, who filmed this movie, was still working as a full-time screenwriter at this time, and Lin Youlun lacked sufficient reasons to persuade Shaw Brothers or Liu Zhenwei himself, so he chose Wang Jing.

"The Saint of Gambling" is about a young man from the mainland Ah Xing who went to Hong Kong to join his relatives Uncle Da, Ah Xing has a special function and can see through other people's hole cards, and the two uncles and nephews want to make a fortune in the gambling stall, but they accidentally get involved in the black. The gambling hegemony of the society, when escaping, Ah Xing intercepted a sports car, met the heroine Qimeng, and fell in love at first sight. …,

And Qimeng's identity is not simple, she is black on the surface. The female killer under the Taoist boss Hong Ye is actually an undercover agent sent by Chen Song, the leader of the Taiwanese gang. Qimeng and Hong Ye's number one killer Billy have been in love for a long time, in order to compete for the reputation of the gambling king in the world, Hong Ye and Chen Song are vying to represent Ah Xing to fight, and Qimeng's identity is exposed, Hong Ye ordered to hunt down, Billy remembered the old love, hid Qimeng, and lied that he had killed him.

Ah Xing was concerned about Qimeng, became demented, and had no intention of gambling on the game, so everyone found Ah Ping, who was similar to Qimeng, but when it came to the finals, Ah Xing found that Ah Ping was not Qimeng, and her special function was greatly reduced. After the most difficult dream appeared, Ah Xing resorted to desperate gambling methods and finally defeated Hong Ye.

It can be predicted that the box office success of "God of Gamblers" will set off a wave of gambling films in Hong Kong, and as the leader of this trend, Lin Youlun took out "The Saint of Gambling", which is even more sincere.

On the basis of "God of Gamblers", "The Saint of Gambling" further deifies "gambling", and the special function gambling film is another creative play after "God of Gamblers". Gambling to make a fortune, gambling to make a fortune is the dream of the citizen class without financial capital, gambling cards, buying dice, betting on horses, these are the gambling games loved by the bottom citizens of Hong Kong, and the story of "The Saint of Gambling" is the best way to use the special function in the life of small citizens from the perspective of curiosity, although the story is the most ruthless, Ah Xing's way of winning is a boring means of ordinary and boring, but the whole story has won the psychological support of the audience, and the plot does not matter.

"God of Gamblers" focuses on the arrangement of gambling games and the psychology of gamblers, but Lin Youlun in "The Saint of Gambling" gave up the design of the gambling game, and instead mainly described small people, A Xing with special functions, in fact, is a subtle satire of the utilitarian mentality of Hong Kong people, and he added elements of love and love to the story, compared with the superficial emotional relationship in "God of Gamblers", the character portrayal is more profound. This script can meet the needs of Shaw Brothers in every way, and if Lin Youlun is just perfunctory, he doesn't have to put so much thought into these issues at all.

After listening to Lin Youlun's explanation, Fang Yihua was very satisfied, but he was not in a hurry to show it, but Ma Fangji on the side praised him, whether it was from the plot design or the audience's psychological grasp, Lin Youlun's screenwriting skills were impressive.

"If the young people of today are as interested as you, we people will have no face to come out and mix in the future."

Wang Guxian was not interested in what they were talking about, and was in a daze while playing with his long hair. Hearing Ma Fangxi's emotion, she glanced up at Lin Youlun suspiciously, and couldn't help but have some doubts in her heart, this guy is really as powerful as Ma Fangxian said?