Chapter 221 Collaborates Again
"Chainsaw" is a 2004 production by Lionsgatefilms, distributed by Lionsgate, and directed by Chinese James Win. The film took only five days to prepare for filming, and only 18 days to shoot, and none of the actors had rehearsals. However, the first film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 and was released around the world on October 29 of the same year, but it received a huge box office return.
In North America alone, it brought a super high box office of 55.18 million US dollars. Due to the success of the first film at the box office and word of mouth, the production team filmed 6 sequels in the following 6 years. The film's short shooting time, low cost, and high box office have set records, so it is regarded as the most classic horror film. Such a classic series of horror films, Gu Weiqi naturally can't let it go.
And the plot of this film is not complicated, the general story is mainly about Adam being thrown in a bathtub with water, and he wakes up and immediately struggles out, finding himself in a dilapidated basement, with one foot handcuffed to a rusty iron pipe. Opposite him was another person handcuffed, also a bewildered kidnapper - Lorenz? Dr. Gordon. In the center of the room was a corpse lying in a pool of blood, holding a Point 38 pistol in his hand.
No one knew why they were kidnapped, they didn't know why they were in this strange place, no one knew what they were supposed to do, but the killers had left them with instructions. The corpse held a small tape recorder in its right hand, which recorded the kidnappers' instructions: Gordon must kill Adam within 6 hours, and if the mission fails, not only will both of them die, but Gordon's family will also be killed......
And this movie only needs one room to shoot, but it is not easy to shoot well. At the meeting, Gu Weiqi discussed with everyone and decided to hand over this film to Lan Naicai, who is better at shooting this kind of film, which contains too much violence and blood. There is no opinion.
As for Lan Naicai, he was also very interested when he saw this drama, looking at the films he had filmed such as "King of Force", you can know that this guy has a special hobby of blood and violence. As for the choice of actors, Gu Weiqi decided to let Liang Yonghui, Zhou Yunfa, Huang Yuansheng, Shang Ge Yundun and Zhong Chuhong star, etc., this is also to slowly and really push several people to the level of international movie stars.
Lan Naicai is even more happy, with such a few big names, even if it is a horror film, as long as it is filmed, the box office will definitely not be too bad.
"Truant Dragon" is a classic comedy film released on July 18, 1991, directed by Chen Jiashang, starring Zhou Xingxing, Wu Mengda, Zhang Meng and others, with a box office score of 43.82 million to break the box office record of Xiangjiang film and become the annual box office champion. In the original time and space, it is also the second time that Zhou Xingxing broke the box office record of Xiangjiang movies after "The Saint of Gambling", becoming one of Zhou's most classic masterpieces, and the film also set off a boom in Hong Kong and Taiwan competing to shoot campus films. The jokes and gimmicks in the film are also very creative, classic and not vulgar.
The film mainly tells the story of Zhou Xingxing, the No. 1 killer of the Flying Tigers, who was sent to the campus by the boss as an undercover agent to find the missing gun after the first undercover, and Uncle Da played the role of a co-worker to assist. Xingxin was reluctant and was in a lot of trouble at school, until he met Teacher He, who was in charge of tutoring, and in order to get close to Teacher He, he asked He to tutor him. After a period of tutoring, he worked hard to become a leader among his classmates, and became a long-term relationship with Mr. He.
Hou He found out about Xing's undercover identity and ignored Xing in a fit of rage. There are students in the school who fly with the boss of the Black Society, and Xingyouda learns that Fei is smuggling arms, and takes advantage of the night to transport Fei's arms away, but Da is caught by Fei. The next day, Fei Yao Xing exchanged arms for Da, and Xing went as promised, but took the opportunity to detonate the arms, Fei was furious, chasing stars and reaching the school. It just so happened that the students stayed in school to work in order to prepare for the school celebration, and flew to hijack the students to confront the star, and the boss appeared at the last moment to rescue the star and the students.
Although there are a lot of gimmicks and jokes in this comedy, it is basically not low-level and boring, and it is much stronger than many entertainment films in the later period of the great director Wang Jing, which is also the reason why this film is more interesting and well-received than those films. Especially this movie, despite being a comedy action movie, doesn't have too many action scenes. But despite this, the few action scenes are all designed cleanly, unlike many action movies, where the fight is endless, muddy, and even the final fight scene is very short.
Regarding the selection of this film, after discussion, everyone unanimously proposed to use Liu Dehua, and Gu Weiqi thought about it and agreed. After all, although the actor played by Zhou Xingxing in the original version played a good role, it is difficult to provoke the main beam and take on the important role as the leading actor of this film. And Liu Dehua is different, although his acting skills are not very good, he has rich acting experience. Especially with its high popularity, let him play the starring role, and he will definitely not lose money.
However, it can give Zhou Xingxing a chance to play a supporting role, as for the second male "Hu Licheng" played by Uncle Da, he let the old drama bone Qin Pei play, this person's acting skills are very good, whether he plays a drama or a comedy, a villain or a decent role, he can handle it very well. And the choice of the heroine was originally planned by Gu Weiqi to let Li Yuanfeng play. But when she called her to inform her, she told him that she wanted to leave the entertainment industry for a while and study abroad.
Hearing this, Gu Weiqi is also very supportive, after all, his future career will become bigger and bigger, and he will need more and more management personnel, so let her study abroad to learn more professional knowledge, and help her take care of the industry in the future. Later, he contacted Harvard University in the United States and asked her to study finance and business management like Lin Biqi, who was studying at Harvard. After sending Li Yuanfeng away, Lin Qingxia was asked to play the heroine of "Truant Weilong", and Gao Zhisen was asked to serve as the director.
Finally got the project for the filming of seven new dramas in the New Year, and Gu Weiqi began to think about cooperating with Shao Tycoon again. After all, he has already started to help him in Taiwan's activities and lift the ban on his company. It's impossible not to cooperate with the other party, but what film to choose to make with the other party makes him undecided for a while. In fact, he has written several scripts, and it is precisely because there are too many that he is hesitant about what film to choose.
At this time, when the financial industry in Hong Kong was in turmoil, the Hong Kong government, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and other institutions were negotiating policies to stabilize the financial sector. Jianing Real Estate, which has been suspended, has started to break the news of moths again, which is about a homicide case!
With the suspension of several listed companies of Jianing Group, U-Ming Bank of Malaysia, which has lent billions of Hong Kong dollars to Jianing Group, is naturally very anxious and often goes to Hong Kong to negotiate debt issues with Jianing Group. A number of banks, including U-Ming Bank, have lent more than 8 billion Hong Kong dollars to Jianing Group. When the major banks are collecting debts, whoever can get some money in advance can reduce some bad debts.
On this day, when the general manager of U-Ming Bank of Malaysia, Barasi, went to Heung Kong to negotiate, he was accidentally found murdered in the hotel and abandoned in the New Territories. The police followed the vine, and all kinds of human and material evidence pointed to Jianing Group. So the police entered the headquarters of Jianing Group to investigate, and finally brought Chen Songqing, who is known as the "gold medal trader", into the police station to assist in the investigation.
However, there were many suspects involved in various fraud cases of Jianing Group, and bizarre incidents such as suicide and accidental death occurred one after another. By this time, many people knew that many suspects in the Jianing case were desperate, so they began to go crazy and destroy clues and evidence by constantly killing people and killing people.
As the curtain exploded more and more, the citizens of Xiangjiang, especially those who bought the shares of Jianing Group, condemned Jianing Group for its iniquity. In fact, Chen Qingsong and others were also forced to have no choice. Because when Jianing's suspension collapsed, the group's debt was as high as HK$10 billion. He originally wanted to borrow some more money to turn over the book, but where is anyone willing to lend it to him, after all, now the idiots know that Jianing is finished, this is a bottomless pit, and how much he borrows will be wasted.
In fact, after the financial fraud, there were a bunch of homicide cases. Later, many suspects, such as Chen Songqing and others, were acquitted in the 90s, which has to be breathtaking. In many Xiangjiang movies in the 90s, there were often scenes where criminals with the most heinous crimes were acquitted with the help of unscrupulous lawyers. Most of the inspiration for these episodes came from the Jianing case.
In fact, Chen Songqing's Jianing Group reached more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars at its peak, surpassing many famous enterprises in the same period, such as Li Chaoren's Cheung Kong Industrial. If the bull market will not end, the traders behind Jianing can make profits from the sharp rise in stock prices and fill the hole of false accounts before. From false performance to real performance, then Jianing Real Estate will quickly become a large enterprise in the short term, and the grand cause may really be realized.
But history is cruel, and after the Great Bear Market of '82, Jianing Real Estate Bank loans expired. Real estate and finance-related venture investments cannot even repay the bank's interest. After that, the false performance could not be sustained, and Jianing Real Estate quickly collapsed. At the same time, the two companies of "Vinda Aviation" and "Qichang Life Insurance Water and Fire Insurance" have also been bankrupt and liquidated.
After Gu Weiqi saw the news in the newspaper, he couldn't help but sigh secretly: "If Chen Songqing hadn't paid dividends without being crazy, maybe he wouldn't have come to this point." ”
However, with the outbreak of the case, it once again invisibly caused the Xiangjiang stock market to fall again, continuing to be sluggish, and many enterprises began to be swallowed up by some old and stable large enterprises under long-term losses. Stable enterprises are generally prepared for danger in times of peace, and do not blindly expand, but reserve a large amount of funds to calmly deal with the crisis when it comes.
For example, Li Chaoren's Changjiang Industry, the "ship king" Bao Yugang, began to raise funds for large-scale acquisitions at this time. Of course, Gu Weiqi's "Tang Dynasty Fund" and the gradually integrated "Yanlong International Banking Group" are no exception, if you don't take advantage of this good opportunity to annex more potential enterprises, it will be a real idiot. Especially with the continuous flow of profits from various companies to the banks, liquidity is now very abundant.
There are also some companies that are blindly optimistic when the market is booming and continue to expand their operations. In the end, it will lose a lot when the market suddenly enters the cold winter. For example, when the original time and space of Xiangjiang Real Estate and the financial market entered a period of depression, the myth of Jianing was shattered, and Hongkong Land broke the news of a loss of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars. However, now with the injection of a large amount of capital by Gu Weiqi, the debt-ridden land can be revitalized. When the stock market recovers, the market value will inevitably enter a period of rapid growth.
However, Gu Weiqi didn't worry about these things, and after some consideration, he found Shao Tycoon with the script of "Barefoot Boy", also known as "Legend of Jianghu". The film is an action movie directed by Du Qifeng in 1993 and starring Guo Vice-Cheng, Zhang Manyu, Dillon, Zengjiang, Qin Pei and Wu Qianlian. tells the story of a barefoot boy who goes to the provincial capital alone.
It is rumored that the film was only released for one day, but it only got a box office of 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, so it was hurriedly drawn and made a mess. However, Gu Weiqi thinks that this film is a good film, director Du Qifeng uses the little people as the theme of the movie, and shoots the conflicts of the little people at the social level, as well as the psychology and struggle of the little people, which is as exquisite and profound as Du's famous movies "Dark War" and "Gunfire", which is definitely worth cherishing for fans, which is why he decided to start shooting this film in advance.