"Water Margin", which gathered Shaw Brothers' super lineup, really lived up to expectations, and won a box office of 400,000 in three days after its premiere, using popular students such as Jiang David, Dillon, and Li Xiuxian as gimmicks to attract a large number of fans to watch in theaters, and even absorbed Wang Xiaohu's method of opening a restaurant, and built a Shaw Brothers "Five Tigers" teahouse near the Shaw Brothers studio. Watch the process of idol filming.

"Ha, Uncle Shao is really a business genius, I haven't even thought of using the lottery method to mobilize the positive surnames of fans, it seems that this time Shaw Brothers has really worked hard!" Wang Xiaohu drank tea while looking at the newspaper he bought with relish. After the release of "Water Margin", major mainstream media newspapers in Hong Kong rushed to publish various achievements of "Water Margin" in the headlines, such as the box office, the extension of the release period, etc., using data to declare that their status as the leading boss cannot be shocked.

Of course, not all newspapers are singing praises, for example, Zhang Meijuan, a female reporter from "Hong Kong Women's Daily" who had been "molested" by Wang Xiaohu, raised an objection this time: "Water Margin" feels extremely novel at first glance, but after walking out of the theater, I feel a lot of confusion, denouncing blood and violence throughout, especially when the well-known Water Margin heroes broke through Zengtou City and were going to kill all the way, I couldn't help but think of the previous incident on Temple Street, I kept asking myself, ", What does "Water Margin" want to tell the audience, does it advocate that everyone want to take revenge and kill wantonly like the heroes in the film, or do they want to subvert the image of the heroes in our minds?

"Tsk, this female reporter is very sharp-toothed, and she thinks far ahead, not bad!" When Wang Xiaohu saw this, he gave Zhang Meijuan a thumbs up in his heart, and he was really a woman who didn't let her eyebrows go.

This insight is unique, although it does not directly tell everyone that this film does not have any nutrition, but it also somewhat vaguely says the meaning analyzed in Wang Xiaohu's heart: Applying the usual methods to the villain is often counterproductive, don't you see that reporter Zhang just feels that the villain died very heroically, and feels that the people in the protagonist's camp are cold-blooded and ruthless and too violent?

Wang Xiaohu is now a little aggrieved for Jiang David, after all, as actors signed by Shaw Brothers, they have no right to choose films, and often have to succumb to the silver power of the director and boss, not to mention that they are all young now, and they are all scrambling to make films, and they don't know how much influence a good script has on an actor's career.

Hey, why did he think of Chow Yun-fat again, Wang Xiaohu scratched his head in distress, in fact, he could vaguely understand why Chow Yun-fat did that, if it wasn't for a salary increase, the remaining one might be to get his attention, and then achieve another purpose, such as entering the film and television industry or something.

However, Wang Xiaohu doesn't like the mentality he is currently showing, although he knows that Fa Ge will be very dragged in the future, and his salary ranks among the top three Asian actors, but now he is just a waiter, and he still needs to be tempered by life to grow, and some things can't be rushed.

At the beginning of April, the weather in Hong Kong has begun to show signs of early summer, and Hong Kong citizens have also changed into cooler clothes, or walked in groups, or organized some activities.

Wang Xiaohu's daily life is very fulfilling, during the day, he makes the final editing of the film at the editor, integrates the actors' dialogue recordings, the background music of the whole film, the interlude, and the ending song, and goes to the abandoned factory to teach Stephen Chow Wing Chun at night, and at the same time will give lessons to Yuan Heping, Yuan Biao and others, arrange some normal rehearsal routines, and will not let them be idle anyway.

Zhang Yuan has also been discharged from the hospital, but he has been injured for a hundred days, and his right arm can only be hung with a plaster, unable to do some normal activities, and usually follows Wang Jiaxin to study, like an apprentice who is humble and willing to learn. Don't look at Wang Jiaxin, who is more than ten years older, but he is surprisingly good-tempered, and he is naturally willing to teach diligent apprentices.

"Brother Xin, Ah Yuan, this is a sketch of a photographic elevator designed by me, do you see what is the difficulty?" The drawings that Wang Xiaohu showed them in his hand were the sketches of the remote-controlled camera lifts mentioned to Yuan Heping before, but the current technology has not yet reached that point, so he has to make a part of it first.

Wang Jiaxin took the drawings and pondered for a moment and said: "Director Wang, I haven't touched the remote control device, and I need to study it before I can give you the results, but it doesn't matter, this thing can be replaced by gears or other equipment, you give me a week, and I will come up with a model for you at that time." ”

"That's great." Wang Xiaohu smiled and said, "Brother Xin, hard work." ”

"Hey, Director Wang, you're so polite, since my old Wang has been with you, I feel full of vitality, and there is a momentum to show off my skills, many things that I didn't want to do before, but now I want to do it, but I'm afraid of wasting money." Wang Jiaxin said excitedly.

Wang Xiaohu touched his chin, looked at Wang Jiaxin and asked, "Oh? What do you want to do? ”

Wang Jiaxin pointed his fingers and said: "Well, for example, that kind of explosion scene is mainly used in directional blasting scenes, but the current bombs are not very stable, and sometimes it is inevitable that the actors will be injured, many directors are taboo in this aspect, they won't let me try it after I did it once, I forgot to tell you, I used to be a professional blaster, and then I came to the set to do fireworks and lighting for a few years."

Wang Jiaxin's words made Wang Xiaohu's mind flash a brightness, he remembered the blasting stunts in the "Super Police", "Thunderbolt", "Bloody Heroes" and so on that he watched in his previous life, as we all know, Hong Kong movies immediately played adventurous action scenes after entering the Jackie Chan era, in order to pursue reality, the action is often very evil and dangerous, and it is also very desperate, and the most used is probably the explosion scene, sometimes it is a real explosion, and the distance between people and bombs is very close, Therefore, there are often several white cars parked outside the set of the family class on standby (the white car is an ambulance, and people who shoot action movies like to call it. ）。

There were not many explosion scenes in Hong Kong movies in the 70s, and Wang Jiaxin in front of him turned out to be such a rare talent, and he had to be trained and trained by Wang Xiaohu more, Wang Xiaohu suppressed his excitement and asked in a tentative tone: "Does Brother Xin play flying cars?" ”

"I've played, but I can't take it out these two times, a few young friends I know are very good at these, and I'll introduce them to Director Wang another day?" Wang Jiaxin replied honestly. (The one who, the friend who played stunts on the top post is going to appear, and he left a message in the book review area after seeing it.) "Okay, don't worry, you and Ah Yuan study this drawing first, and you can get it directly from me for how much money you need." Wang Xiaohu did not hesitate to say that if he could improve and improve the shooting effect, he didn't care about spending some money, because he had too many classic kung fu movies to shoot in his brain, but the current equipment could not meet his requirements, so he had to do it himself to promote the development of this process. If possible, he would like to start a wave of computer stunts, but the current computer is so cumbersome that it is probably not as good as a typewriter.

What is lacking in these years is a talent like Wang Jiaxin, and the Shaw Brothers are now starting to hold training courses to reserve talents for the future, who would have thought that TVB, a star training base that was originally produced and used by itself, would actually support Hong Kong, or half of the entire Chinese entertainment industry...... Although the talents of the first and second sessions are not very outstanding, they have already made a good start.

Wang Xiaohu felt that he couldn't keep repeating this process of suddenly discovering talents, after all, it was too long and too far away, and he had to speed up the development of certain things in order to realize the dream in his heart. "Well, Uncle Shao Liu can drum up a wireless artist training class, and Lao Tzu will make a dragon and tiger martial artist training class, he will send actors to the Hong Kong film industry, let's send martial arts instructors, stuntmen or something, and work against Uncle Shao Liu!"

I don't know if he is tired of being kneaded by the two giants of Golden Harvest or Shaw Brothers, or Wang Xiaohu feels moved when he sees Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow, these good seedlings in the future, in short, this afternoon he made this decision that affects Hong Kong and even affects the development of world films, he wants to stand up, he wants to be strong not only for money, but also to achieve the goal in his heart.

Wang Xiaohu knows very well that the time to promote this process is long, and it requires a lot of contacts and money to maintain, so he is not in a hurry now, he is still young, he is still a reborn person, his name is moving in that general direction in the future, what he has to do now is to gain a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film industry and accumulate funds for him to squander and experiment.

With the surging in his heart, Wang Xiaohu took a taxi back to Golden Harvest's editing room to continue to bury his head in the crazy work, it is this kind of imminent ambition that makes him enter the best state of creation, he moves skillfully to edit the work, and from his hands flow out of the classics: the gangster appears in a suit full of coolness, the gangster boss wears sunglasses, the editing is fast and slow motion when he appears, and the close-up and large panorama are interspersed, all of which are enough to surprise the colleagues in the Hong Kong film and television industry.

"Hey, Boss Zou, I want to talk to you about the release of the new film, well, you're on the set, that's good, I'll talk to you later." After Wang Xiaohu hung up the phone, the corners of his mouth curled

(To be continued)