448 Curating "Film Fortnightly"
did not complete the task assigned by his wife, Wang Xiaohu was not in a hurry at all, and said to his wife calmly after returning home: "Zha Laodou said, the child's name is not a simple bad, nor is it a good sound, but it can only be determined according to the child's birthdate, yin and yang five elements, etc., and it will have a significant impact on the child's surname, intelligence, marriage and love, health, and career throughout his life, so this matter must wait for our son to be born." [Full text reading]"
At the moment, Wang Xiaohu is now learning and selling to state the naming theory that Jin Yong said, not to mention the analogy, Zhao Yazhi really believes it. So the question of the name was put on hold for the time being. (Give a neat answer in the book review area as soon as possible.,I said that when I named Xiaomi, I took it Baidu.,It's not so hard.,It shows how seriously I take it.,Give a result.。 When New Year's Day arrived in 1976, Yi Xiujia, a professional film critic of Ming Pao Weekly, wrote: "The past year was the year of Wang Xiaohu, and Concord showed everyone the super vitality of its four companies last year, and they provided countless joy, touching, and wonderful action comedies for Hong Kong people. From a certain side, you can clearly see that Wang Xiaohu has been making efforts to prosper Hong Kong's local films, "Lin Shirong" and "Half a Pound Eight Taels" firmly occupied the top ten grossing last year, and "Seven Little Blessings" has also become the highest-grossing literary film since the opening of Hong Kong, not to mention that his investment in "Jaws" swept the entire North American box office. Through observation, it can be found that the annual output of Wang Xiaohu's works has been shrinking in recent years, but every film is a boutique production, and in the vacuum era of sluggishness in the Hong Kong film market, Wang Xiaohu is the backbone of Hong Kong films!
Since Jin Yong and Wang Xiaohu had close contact two years ago, "Ming Pao" and "Ming Pao Weekly" have opened a film review column, which is entrusted to Yi Xiujia to be in charge of, mainly commenting on the current Hong Kong and even Hollywood films.
When he was free, Wang Xiaohu went to the Deru Teahouse to find Jin Yong to "learn" Zhou Yi's metaphysics (the teahouse that Jin Yong often goes to is nonsense. ), to contribute to his road to becoming a "god stick", not to mention, after a few times, he can also export a chapter, quite a bit of the potential of a god stick, of course, he has real materials for this magic stick, and focuses on the prediction of major events.
"Lao Dou, let's cooperate and set up a special film review journal." Wang Xiaohu suggested: "At present, there is no professional authority in the Hong Kong newspaper industry for film reviews, and it just so happens that Yi Xiujia on your side has also accumulated some popularity, so it is better to be transferred to be the editor-in-chief of the journal." ”
"Huh? Journals on film do have uneven phenomena, and your suggestion is still good. Jin Yong groaned: "It doesn't matter if Yi Xiujia is transferred, but the staff of "Ming Pao" are still a little nervous now, I'm afraid he will be alone." ”
"Hehe, then you can bring in a character who can shake the field." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "I heard that Lao Dou, there was a person named Yu Yongjian in your early years, who was very researched in film criticism journals, so it is better to transfer it together, and I will dig up a few idlers from the sixth uncle to set up a "Film Biweekly". ”
Jin Yong's brows furrowed when he heard this, and after looking at Wang Xiaohu for a long time, he smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid you have been planning this for a long time, right?" Even the news of the famous film critic Yu Yongjian in the early years has been dug up? ”
"Hey, hey." Wang Xiaohu touched his nose embarrassedly, indeed, he had the idea of establishing "Film Fortnightly" for a long time, after all, this is the only authentic film magazine in Hong Kong that spans 20 years and has witnessed the historical development of the rise and fall of the local film industry. And the Hong Kong Film Awards, which was later known as the Oriental Oscar, was also founded by "Film Fortnightly".
Wang Xiaohu proposed the establishment of "Film Fortnightly" today, which can be said to have put a lot of effort into paving the way for the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Awards organization step by step.
As early as the mid-60s, he was a famous film critic active in the Hong Kong film industry, this person can be described as a living dictionary of movies at that time, claiming that he had watched every movie in the 60s more than three times, and his memory is superhuman, and he can retell every movie and every actor in a few treasures, and the comments are unique. The far-reaching midnight premiere was proposed by this person, which shows his influence in the film industry.
In the early 70s, Yu Yongjian gradually withdrew from the film critic world and switched to Jin Yong's "Ming Pao", and has been an unknown planning director of the entertainment version in the past few years.
These things about Chen Sesame and Rotten Grain were only known when Wang Xiaohu and Yi Xiujia had nothing to do, otherwise he would not have asked Jin Yong for someone so confidently today.
"Give me a plan, let me review it, discuss it with the company's shareholders and give you a clear answer." Jin Yong is very cautious about this matter, after all, "Ming Pao" is no longer just his own business.
"Okay." Wang Xiaohu nodded, he knew that "Ming Pao" now has a broad influence in Southeast Asia, and he also knew that if "Ming Pao" rashly withdrew from a publication, if the quality of the publication was not good, it would also have a bad impact on "Ming Pao" itself.
"Have you been on the phone with Chuanxia lately?" Wang Xiaohu asked cautiously.
Jin Yong smiled and said, "Yes." I had a deep conversation with him, and although our father and son could not agree on some aspects, they also talked very happily, and I plan to talk to him about some topics during the Chinese New Year, hoping that he will forgive me for the hurt I did to him in the first place. ”
"Well, although some things are very tricky, or everyone is reluctant to face them directly, in fact, it is nothing in hindsight, if you can solve the root cause of the problem and let go of each other's so-called face, it can be regarded as a great joy."
Wang Xiaohu said with deep feelings, which surprised Jin Yong, "Xiaohu, how old are you this year?" ”
"I was born on October 31, 1954, and I am not yet 22 years old." Wang Xiaohu said: "Lao Dou, what are you asking for?" My life has long passed, do you want to give me a red envelope? ”
What day Wang Xiaohu was born, he himself didn't know, in his previous life, he was born on April 7, but in this life he was an orphan, no one told him that he was born in the Year of the Monkey, so subconsciously, he took the day of his rebirth as his own birth, and in the years of rebirth, he never had a birth. Occasionally mentioned by Zhao Yazhi, he smiled wryly and said What is life, he is not a child anymore.
"Do you want a red envelope?" Jin Yong didn't expect Wang Xiaohu to be so direct, and at the moment, he was a little embarrassed and took out a few hundred Hong Kong dollars from his jacket pocket and said: "I never bring big bills when I go out, you can accept these hundreds of yuan, but I can't find a red envelope for you to seal." ”
"Old Bean, I'm joking." Wang Xiaohu smiled and said, "It's just strange why you asked me about my age." ”
"Hehe, I always feel that you don't want to be 20 years old at all, whether it's what you say or do, it gives me the illusion that you have been through the sky." Jin Yong was moved, counting Wang Xiaohu's achievements in the past few years, every movie is a high-quality production, and it can maintain n times the profit, and he became one of the top ten richest people in Hong Kong at a young age, and even made a splash in Hollywood, such courage does not want to do what 20-year-old young people do.
"This" Wang Xiaohu was speechless for a while, scratched his head and quickly said: "Maybe it's my luck, maybe you may not believe it, Lao Dou, almost all of my inspiration for each script comes from dreams, of course, it's a vague concept, I created it through artistic processing and the integration of commercial elements." ”
"Really?" Jin Yong asked suspiciously.
Wang Xiaohu nodded heavily, and there was not the slightest sign of lying on his face, "This is a secret of mine, I hope Lao Dou can keep it secret for me." ”
"You can rest assured that Lao Dou is not the kind of third aunt and fourth wife." Jin Yong put a guarantee in his mouth, but his heart was extremely shocked, it turned out that the success of this son actually relied on communicating with Zhou Gong every day, it can not be said that it is a miracle, it seems that I am not thorough enough to study Zhou Yi's metaphysics, and I turned around and flipped through the Buddhist scriptures, as if there was a kind of mudra meditation scriptures that specifically recorded this thing.
The two talked for a while, and when they left, Wang Xiaohu said: "In the next few days, I will arrange for the release of "The Story of Ah Lang", which tells the story of father and son. ”
Jin Yong snorted, "I'll go and see it, and I'll talk to Yu Yongjian about "Film Fortnightly", if he's interested in this, I'll let you know as soon as possible." ”
"Hey, I heard that Lao Yu has a weird temper, and I can't say that I have to ask Lao Dou to come out in person." Wang Xiaohu smiled, and then left the Deru Teahouse.
Immediately, Concord immediately arranged the publicity work of "The Story of Ah Lang", according to Wang Xiaohu's special instructions, Xu Junlong increased the publicity of the Taiwan market, after all, Taiwan is the main battlefield of literary films, how can a film with a strong literary atmosphere like "The Story of Ah Lang" fall into Taiwan, a place to make money, before the Academy Awards were not established, he had to win a Golden Horse Award to play.
(To be continued)