On the morning of August 11, 1975, Leung Kam-ling took a taxi to St. Paul's Cathedral in Kowloon, Hong Kong, where the taxi radio was playing the theme song "The Girl of Alishan" directed by Cheung Che in Tung Hai City in 1947. The girl of Alishan, a national song that reflects the Gaoshan people in Taiwan, is very popular and has been covered by countless stars, and the version heard for the first time in the mainland is the version sung by Xi Xiulan in the 84 Spring Festival Gala.

Leung Kam Ling, who was wearing a blue suit, played with the Hong Kong resident residence permit (we call it an identity card) in his hand, which wrote the date of Leung Kam Ling's birth, residence address, nationality and ID number in Chinese and English. Leung Jinling, who had just gotten his first funds from Wenzhi Records and Polygram Records, wanted to go to the Hong Kong Economic and Commercial Bureau to register a film company, but who knew that he was told that his ID card star rating was not enough and he was not allowed to open a media company.

Originally, the ID card of Hong Kong residents is divided into grades, and your star rating is registered according to the time you have lived in Hong Kong, taxes, investments, property, and savings, 1-10 stars. Liang Jinlinggang only has one star ID card, and he only lives and works in Hong Kong, let alone runs a film company, and he doesn't even have the right to vote.

When I came to St. Paul's Cathedral in Kowloon, Hong Kong, I got off the bus and found that it was already full of people, cars coming and going, and the back of the church was set up with meals and stools for the party.

Looking at these bare-necked men and women wearing suits and dresses getting together to chat, fortunately, today is a big day, everyone is either wearing white and red skirts or white and black suits, and no one is wearing blue.

These guests are all relatives and colleagues of Zhao Yuzhi and Huang Hanwei, and Liang Jinling is not familiar with them, so he stays aside like a penguin, no one pays attention, and he wanders around with drinks. Suddenly, Liang Jinling's eyes lit up, and he found that there were several people chatting on the side, Liang Jinling put down his drink and walked over.

"Brother Wen, hello." Liang Jinling stretched out his hands and shook hands with the man with glasses in front of him. Xu Guanwen was stunned affectionately, and politely shook hands with the handsome little guy in front of him, and asked, "This pretty boy, who are you?" Do we know each other? ”

"I'm sorry, Director Xu, let me be abrupt. My name is Liang Jinling, I am a writer and screenwriter, and I am also one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, a disciple of Huang Xiaozhan, I wrote a movie script, I want to recommend myself, Brother Wen, I don't know if you are interested in reading the script. Liang Jinling said shyly.

After Liang Jinling finished speaking, he took out a stack of paper from his arms, Xu Guanwen began to hear that he was a stranger, and wanted to talk to him, he was very unhappy, but Liang Jinling introduced himself as a disciple of Huang Xiaozhan, and his face improved.

Xu Guanwen waved his hand, refused the script handed over by Liang Jinling, and shirked and said: "I'm sorry Liang Sheng, today is Zhizhi's wedding, we don't talk about business, if you have time in the future, please come to my Xu's Film Company to talk, okay." ”

Liang Jinling's face changed, and he handed the manuscript in the air, neither did he put it nor did he receive it, he ran to get to know the other party in a panic, and the other party had a reason to refuse. At this time, a short man next to him said in surprise: "Liang Jinling, are you Liang Jinling, the author of Xun Qin Ji?" ”

Liang Jinling noticed the men around Xu Guanwen, and on his left was a short and ugly man, who was Xu Guanwen's third brother, Xu Guanying, one of the four ugly men in Hong Kong. And on the right of Xu Guanwen is a man who looks like he knows him for 7 or 8 points, it is his second brother Xu Guanwu who doesn't like to talk, and Xu Guanwu is standing next to a tall and mighty man, who is the fourth brother Xu Guanjie, the singer of the Hong Kong music scene.

The four heroes of the Xu family have all arrived at Qi Zhao Yuzhi's wedding. At this time, Xu Guanjie, who is also a fan of novels, also asked out loud: "Liang Sheng, are you really the author of Xun Qin Ji?" I heard Uncle Zhan from the company (Polygram Records) say that he accepted a genius disciple, it turned out to be you, and Liang Sheng was very happy to meet you. ”

Xu Guanjie had to give his colleague Huang Xiao a face, stretched out his right hand with a smile, and shook hands with Liang Jinling. Liang Jinling took back the manuscript, stretched out his right hand, and smiled shyly: "It's exactly here, what genius, Brother Jie, you have won the award, call me Lingzai (Lingnan people like to call what boy, what brother, what sister, such as Andy, Wei Zai, Xingzai, Fa Ge, Sister Mei). ”

Xu Guanwen on the side asked curiously: "Is Xun Qin Ji famous?" ”

Xu Guanying, the ugly man next to him, explained: "Big brother, you are outdated, haven't you even read the most popular serialized martial arts novel in Hong Kong?" ”

"Oh" Xu Guanwen's face changed, it seemed that he had made a mistake, he didn't think that the other party was also a celebrity, he thought about it and then said: "In this way, since the bride and groom have not yet arrived, there is still a lot of time, why don't we sit down together over there, Liang Sheng's script I will take a look at it by the way, appreciate it, and give some advice." ”

Liang Jinling was overjoyed and said busily: "Of course that's good, of course that's good." After speaking, he handed the script to Xu Guanwen for viewing.

Yes, Leung Kam-ling's pirated film this time is the box office champion to be staged at the end of next year, this comedy film ranked third in Hong Kong history, and is known as the most satirical Hong Kong film in the 20th century. This film satirizing black-hearted capitalists once entered the Japanese market and was very popular with Japanese workers in Japan, and its theme song was still sung by workers in those black-hearted factories in Lingnan Province in later generations, used to curse black-hearted bosses.

There is still more than a year to go, and Xu Guanwu should not have written this movie yet. Liang Jinling looked at Xu Guanwu next to him embarrassedly.

Sitting on the plastic stool, Xu Guanwen picked up the script and read it. At the beginning, Xu Guanwen just looked at it in a coping style, but as soon as he saw Xu Guanwen, he found that the script was written by a Hollywood professional screenwriter, looking at it, the more Xu Guanwen looked at it, the happier he became, this script was too much in line with his taste.

"Brother Wen, how about this half-catty and eighty-tael, okay?" Liang Jinling asked nervously, in fact, he was afraid of colliding with Xu Guanwu. However, looking at Xu Guanwu's expressionless face, he knew that he hadn't written it yet.

"It's really well written, especially this sub-shot, it's more professional than Hollywood screenwriters, Lingzai's script is too suitable for my style, so I sold my script for 20,000 yuan, which is already the highest price in the industry." Xu Guanwen patted his thigh and replied happily.

After Xu Guanwen finished speaking, he handed the script to his three younger brothers to circulate.

must be happy, the current Hong Kong film screenwriters are not professionals, writing screenwriting is like writing a novel, not to mention that Jin Yong and Gu Long's novels are directly put on the screen, even the Jingwumen written by Ni Frame is a novel, how to shoot completely depends on the director's own imagination, this is one of the reasons why Hong Kong does not pay attention to screenwriters, you must know that writing a movie screenplay is not simpler than writing a novel, tens of thousands of words.

What is a storyboard script, writing a movie storyboard script is an important part of turning a literary image into a screen image. Storyboard scripts mainly include: shot number, scene, scene, stunt, shot content, music, sound, etc. This not only turns the literary image into a screen image, but also gives the film a unique artistic style.

(For example, the Japanese "Rashomon" movie storyboard script.) 1▲Rashomon 1★ Rashomon (Great Vistama) Rashomon in the pouring rain and smoke. 2★. Rashomon (vistama): A huge Rashomon in the shape of a semi-collapsed temple. 3★. Two sheltered figures (distant foreground) under Rashomon can be faintly seen, and in the foreground is a large cylinder that has fallen to the ground. In the middle of the four Rashomon columns, two people sit on a stone pedestal. ）

(These two men, one is a footman, and the other is a firewood seller.) 4★ Sitting on the pedestal of the stone slab and the man selling firewood (near and far view) is a large cylinder in the foreground, which is very large, and behind the column are these two people. Raindrops that slammed down on the stone steps. The two stared blankly at their feet, pondering something. ）

(5★) The firewood seller and the footman (close-up) In front of the picture is half of the face of the firewood seller, and next to him is the footman. "I don't understand,...... I just don't understand! The firewood seller blurted out such a sentence. 6★ Walking Foot Monk (close-up) Walking Foot Monk turned around to look at half of the face of the firewood seller, but still turned his head to stare at the rain foot. 7★ Walking Foot Monk and Firewood Seller (Close-up and Far Shot) Photograph two seated people from the front. Droplets of water dripped from the corners of the monk's sleeves to the pedestal 、、、、、 (tens of thousands of words later). ）

"Okay, Brother Wen has decided like this." Liang Jinling said with a look of surprise. Seeing that Liang Jinling agreed to buy the script, Xu Guanwen was also very happy, and turned his head to his second brother Xu Guanwu and said: "Ah Wu, after reading this script, see if there is anything that needs to be modified, if not, after Zhizhi's wedding is over, we will contact Zou Sheng (Zou Wenhuai, Golden Harvest is the major shareholder of Xu's Pictures), I hurriedly prepared to prepare for the start of the play, we have to release this movie in the Christmas schedule." ”

After Xu Guanwu read the script, he looked at Liang Jinling, who was weak-hearted, and was very curious why the script of this play was the same as the direction he wanted to open a new script before, it was all a labor story that happened in the detective agency, the boss was bitter and mean, the new employees were honest and heroic, and the old employees were stupid, could he have a good understanding with me?

Xu Guanwu shook his head, put aside that childish idea, turned his face to the eldest brother, and nodded: "Big brother, the script of this Ling Gezai is very well written, this play has a head, I don't think there is anything to revise." ”

And the third brother Xu Guanying gave a thumbs up after reading the script, and praised: "Lingzai is worthy of being a genius, the eldest brother writes the script very well, and if the movie is made, I estimate that the box office will be higher than that of geniuses and idiots." ”

After the fourth brother Xu Guanjie read the script, he was surprised, took Liang Jinling's hand and asked: "Lingzai, did you compose this half-catty song?" You're so talented. Liang Jinling scratched his hair weakly and nodded shamelessly.

"Come out, everyone, the floats of the bride and groom are coming"

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