Seeing Lin Youlun's thoughtful expression, Mai Dan was ambitious and thought that he should be interested in this subject, so he continued to introduce: "In the past Hong Kong movies, there are often some things related to Taiwanese gangsters, but basically some grievances and hatreds, whether it is character portrayal or plot description, are very superficial, not to mention that there is a movie that specifically reflects Taiwanese gangsters......"

"Is it just about gangsters?" Lin Youlun suddenly interrupted Mai Danxiong.

Mai Danxiong was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Lin Youlun's expression that was different from just now.

"So Mr. Lin has already guessed?"

Mai Danxiong's mood at the moment was not as calm as his tone, and before he really said his thoughts, Lin Youlun had already gained insight into his intentions in advance, and this intuition was really incredible.

"If it's just an ordinary gangster movie, what's the difference between Taiwan and Hong Kong?" Lin Youlun stared at Mai Danxiong with both eyes, "And this is not your style." ”

Although these words answered some of the doubts in Mai Danxiong's heart, what he was more concerned about now was that since Lin Youlun had already guessed his thoughts, would Lin Youlun support his decision?

"If you want to shoot, I won't stop you, and I can even provide you with some convenience, but on the surface, I will never admit that I have anything to do with this movie, do you know what I mean?"

Seeing Lin Youlun say it so solemnly, Mai Danxiong was a little surprised.

"Is Mr. Lin looking too highly of me? Yes, this film will indeed touch on some political issues in Taiwan, but my positioning of this film is still a commercial film. After all, I don't want to get myself in trouble because of this movie. ”

I thought that if things were clear, there would be no trouble. Unexpectedly, Lin Youlun shook his head after hearing this.

"You think you're really misunderstanding me right now. If you just want to make a commercial film, then I can tell you very clearly that I don't have any interest in this film. ”

Mai Danxiong's eyes widened, he didn't expect that he would wait for such an answer, and what made him most depressed was that he didn't even know what he was wrong about.

Seeing Mai Danxiong's confused appearance, Lin Youlun secretly sighed in his heart.

In fact, when Mai Danxiong said his initial thoughts, Lin Youlun had already guessed which movie he wanted to make. And the reason why it is so fast is because the memory of this movie left in Lin Youlun's mind is quite profound.

This film was filmed in 1996 in Lin Youlun's memory, when Taiwan's political scene was plagued by "black gold politics", gangsters through the so-called "political donations", and senior officials obtained the right to participate in politics. The Continental Army conducted military exercises in the Taiwan Strait, so the political atmosphere became tense that year.

Mai Danxiong took this as a starting point. found Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui, two stars, and made a movie called "Black Gold".

As his comeback work after leaving the film industry, Mai Danxiong has put a lot of effort into this movie, checked a lot of information, and can be said to surpass any movie of the same kind in terms of realism, so as to truly and vividly show the audience all kinds of ugliness in Taiwan's political scene at that time: corruption and bribery at the top of the government, the expansion of the power of the gangsters, the collusion of religious figures with corrupt officials, fraud and drug trafficking, the framing of gangsters by each other, each with evil intentions, and the turmoil of the "legislator" election faction, etc., which are full of sinister and complicated.

At that time, Mai Danxiong chose this theme, of course, to attract more eyeballs, and at the same time to let those political events do a "free publicity" for the movie, in fact, this film did cause quite a stir when it was released.

Mai Danxiong declared that he wanted to use this film to wage war against Taiwan's "black gold politics", and at the same time intended to compete with Hollywood films, so he put a lot of effort into the production, investing nearly 60 million Hong Kong dollars, and the scenes in the film are huge, such as wolf dog chasing, taxi trouble, helicopter chase and other scenes The visual impact is extremely strong, plus the box office appeal of the two leading actors, it is indeed extraordinary.

As a film with momentum, structure, and organization, "Black Gold" is obviously successful, and the design of many parts of it is even comparable to similar Western films, but in some plot designs, "Black Gold" is a failure.

The villain Liang Jiahui plays Zhou Chaoxian, a character with a plump personality, while Liu Dehua's cadre detective has no bright spots, and the content related to it can be said to be a big failure of the film.

It's not that Liu Dehua didn't perform well, but his role in this movie itself is redundant, and a gangster movie that could have been a classic like "The Godfather" was finally made into a three-way street.

Of course, Lin Youlun can also understand Mai Danxiong's difficulties, because at that time, the environment for the survival of Hong Kong films had begun to deteriorate, and of course so much money could not be wasted, in order to ensure the box office, and at the same time to reassure investors, it was necessary to have a popular star like Liu Dehua to star.

And Liu Dehua is actually a victim, there has always been a lot of controversy around the level of his acting skills, and in this movie, his performance was completely overshadowed by Liang Jiahui, and he was completely reduced to a foil.

Among the movies that Liu Dehua regretted taking over, "Black Gold" is definitely at the top.

This is also the reason why Lin Youlun suddenly became very dissatisfied when he heard Mai Danxiong position this movie as a commercial film.

Mai Danxiong didn't know this, so he was puzzled.

"Okay, I can't let you run in vain, you leave the script for me to see, and I'll talk about other things when I have time to read the script."

Lin Youlun didn't explain much, and directly put on an attitude of sending off guests.

When he came out of Lin Youlun's office, Mai Danxiong's face was depressed, and Lin Zhiling was very strange to see, but she didn't ask more.

Seeing Mai Danxiong's figure disappear and slowly close the elevator door, Lin Zhiling turned around and entered Lin Youlun's office.

Lin Youlun continued to sit on the sofa, holding an open script in his hand, and when he saw Lin Zhiling walking in, he just raised his eyes, and then his gaze fell on the script in his hand.

Seeing that Lin Youlun looked so serious, Lin Zhiling didn't want to bother, picked up two cups of coffee and was about to leave, but Lin Youlun stopped her from behind.

"You call Manager Mai immediately and ask him not to leave in a hurry, I forgot to give him something just now, and you will help me send it to him later."

Hearing this, Lin Zhiling had no choice but to put down the coffee cup in her hand again, walked quickly to the desk and picked up the microphone, opened the address book to find Mai Danxiong's number and dialed it.

When he received the call, Mai Danxiong happened to get in the car and was about to leave, and he could only ask the driver to wait first, but he was very curious about what Lin Youlun had to give him.

After waiting patiently for about ten minutes, there was finally a click of high heels hitting the ground from the other end of the underground parking lot.

Seeing Lin Zhiling walking over with a box in his hand, Mai Danxiong also pushed the car door and walked down.

"Manager Mai, this is what Mr. Lin asked me to give to you."

Mai Danxiong took the box handed by Lin Zhiling, weighed it a little, felt that it didn't have much weight, and was about to open his mouth to test what Lin Zhiling's box contained, but Lin Zhiling took the initiative to tell him the answer.

"Inside is a movie videotape, which was brought by Mr. Lin from the United States a few years ago, and has been kept in his office by him, and now he is lending it to Manager Mai to watch for two days, saying that you will understand what he means after watching this movie carefully."

Lin Zhiling relayed Lin Youlun's original words, greeted Mai Danxiong and turned to leave.

When Lin Zhiling's figure disappeared from the parking lot, Mai Danxiong opened the box in his hand and took out a videotape from it.

The old man standing in the dark holding the cat in both hands on the cover of the video, Mai Danxiong recognized him at a glance as the famous American actor Marlon Brando, and the content of this tape also surfaced.

The classic American gangster movie - "The Godfather"!

Looking at the videotape in his hand, Mai Danxiong fell into deep thought. (To be continued......)