No matter how much Wang Xiaohu defy the sky, he can't adapt the fate of Hong Kong films and literary films in the mid-seventies, under the real kung fu led by Wang Xiaohu and Liu Jialiang, the urban comedy starring the Xu Guanwen brothers, and the kung fu comedy represented by Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuan Biao, the fate of literary films seems so faltering and pale. [No pop-up novel network]

When "Seven Little Blessings" was painted in early October, the local box office in Hong Kong reached 1.8 million, and the box office in Taiwan totaled 750,000, almost the same as the 850,000 harvested in Southeast Asia and other places.

After Wang Xiaohu finished "The Story of Ah Lang", he specifically found Sammo Hung, who was squatting in the editing room of Concord and smoking. This is the first time Wang Xiaohu has seen Sammo Hung smoking, and he walked over with a wry smile and reached out to hold the cigarette butt in Sammo Hung's hand. "Didn't I tell you a long time ago not to deny your ability because of the gains and losses of literary films?"

Sammo Hung raised a pair of panda eyes, it was obvious that he had not rested well during this time, and when he opened his mouth, his mouth was full of foul odor and the smell of cigarette oil, which made Wang Xiaohu frown.

"But, the gap is too big! "The Loser" and "The Miscellaneous Boy" are at least more than 6 million, and I just can't bear the blow of this gap. ”

Sammo Hung 's voice was a little hoarse, his tone was a little angry, and he was a little anxious, Wang Xiaohu sat down opposite him, sighed and said: "Sanmao, you haven't been in the circle for a day or two, everyone's real life is relatively tense and boring, and walking into the cinema is looking for joy and visual excitement, so urban comedies and kung fu films can be welcomed." ”

"There are some things that you have to think differently, do you know what 3.4 million means?"

Sammo Hung raised his head, opened his eyes a little dazed, and asked, "What does it mean?" ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled, picked up this morning's "Ming Pao Weekly" and handed it to him and said: "3.4 million means that "Seven Little Blessings" is the box office myth of literary films since the opening of Hong Kong films! ”

"Huh?" Sammo Hung looked shocked and hurriedly grabbed the newspaper and flipped through it.

Wang Xiaohu added: "Literary films are not very popular in Hong Kong, you see that there are 750,000 records in Taiwan, where literary films are popular, which shows that it is a paradise for literary films, Qiong Yao's "A Curtain of Dreams" only has a score of 940,000 in Hong Kong, but it is a grand slam in Taiwan, and literary films such as "Rapunzel", "Dangerous Seventeen", "Living Together" and other Hong Kong local box office films are selling well in Taiwan. ”

Sammo Hung listened and looked at the newspaper one day, the newspaper said that the data listed was exactly the same as what Wang Xiaohu had just said, and when he saw the comprehensive evaluation of "Ming Pao Weekly", the decadence on his face suddenly disappeared.

"The story of "Seven Little Blessings" itself has a strong plastic surname, and the box office results can reach an astonishing 1.8 million, which is already commendable, which is a major breakthrough in Hong Kong literary films, and also allows Hong Kong people to see the positive contributions made by Concord Company in the field of literary films.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Sammo Hung read and read the newspaper again and again, suddenly grinned and smirked, touched the beard with his chin and pierced his hand, and said with joy in his eyes: "Grandma's, so we have invisibly broken a box office record?" ”

"That's right, so you shouldn't feel depressed now, on the contrary, you should feel proud, you may not know, Master and his old man have taken his friends to the theater every day to watch it for a month, and it is not enjoyable to watch it more than 30 times." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

Indeed, Yu Zhanyuan likes "Seven Little Blessings" to the point of perversion, the film was broadcast in Hong Kong for a month, and Yu Zhanyuan held Fan Chrysanthemum, Yuan Xiaotian, Han Yingjie and several other colleagues in the theater every day.

And you must have tea before watching the movie, and go to Bruce Lee's restaurant for dinner after the movie, which is called increasing the connection between old friends, and the joy on his face makes several other old guys envious and jealous, especially Pink Chrysanthemum, a few times gritted his teeth and said: Zhan Yuan, your apprentices and grandchildren are really good, my apprentice Lin Zhengying is still eating with your apprentices, it is better to let them go to my door another day.

Yu Zhanyuan's eyes would definitely widen at this time: I want my apprentice to take it by himself, Xiaohu They are my baby's pimple, no one wants to rob me. The cute look of being anxious with others made everyone laugh.

With the retreat of the Peking Opera boom, several old friends either went to the United States to develop the market like Yu Zhanyuan, or joined the film industry as martial arts instructors or dragon and tiger martial artists like Yuan Xiaotian and Han Yingjie, but no one enjoyed Yu Zhanyuan like this, in fact, Yu Zhanyuan was not very successful in starting a business in the United States back then, and was even deceived for a time, or the Hong Kong Welfare Institute paid for Yuan Biao and Wang Xiaohu to embark on the ship back to Hong Kong, otherwise, they estimated that they would have been begging for dishes in a restaurant or a supermarket security guard in the United States.

"Didn't Master say that my role was unreal? How could you like it? Sammo Hung scratched his head and didn't know what to do.

Wang Xiaohu smiled silently, the reason why Yu Zhanyuan likes this film is largely because several of his apprentices have added glory to his face, and Yu Zhanyuan played by Sammo Hung is very romantic after artistic processing, at least more romantic than Yu Zhanyuan off the screen, throughout Yu Zhanyuan's 70-year career, he still fulfilled his romantic and beautiful dream in the movie, it's no wonder he doesn't like it.

"Clean up your mood and complete the post-production of "Lin Shirong" as soon as possible, this film is the subject you are good at, try to discuss with Yuan Heping when editing, he is much stronger than your psychological quality in this regard!"

Wang Xiaohu patted Sammo Hung's shoulder and cheered him on.

Among the four major satellite companies, Yuan Heping's development is the most stable, in fact, according to Yuan Heping's original intention, he is more inclined to work with martial arts instructors, and he is not very keen on directing. This idea is somewhat similar to Yuan Biao, who has also mentioned to Wang Xiaohu more than once the trend of turning to behind-the-scenes work. Regarding the application of the two generals, Wang Xiaohu just smiled and said that it was not yet time.

When exactly when is what Wang Xiaohu said, Yuan Heping and Yuan Biao don't know, since Ah Hu said so, they can only continue to stick to their original posts.

After entering October, Wang Xiaohu finally had a little free, he waited for the approval of the procedures of the "China Film Academy", and edited "The Story of Ah Lang" slowly, as for how the Xu Group and a few guys in Xinyicheng arranged the release of the movie, it is no longer within the scope of his concern, after all, they have already read hard, and the company also has a professional department to cooperate with them.

When he was free for a long time, he accompanied Zhao Yazhi to take a walk in the park near the community, cooking a big meal for his wife, the menu was all from Longfeng Restaurant, who asked Long Zichen to order the table of banquets when he was invited to meet Zhao Yazhi's taste, and it was delicious and made up for it, as a new good man, Wang Xiaohu inevitably had to cook the dishes by himself, and raised his wife for nothing.

Occasionally, he will go to St. Francis College to participate in Li Guohao's parent-teacher meeting, no way, who let Li Guohao fight more and more times in school recently, with the improvement of this kid's kung fu, more and more people in the school challenge him, today is either breaking the face of any child, or kicking whose child can't go to class for several days, and every time there is a fight, there will be Stephen Chow and Shen Moyan present to help, these three boys, has almost become a big problem for the teachers of St. Francisis College.

For these, Wang Xiaohu will never scold Li Guohao, who made him the son of Brother Xiaolong, whoever let him go there will encounter such a fate, as long as it is not Li Guohao who suffers, he will generally not care, this is somewhat similar to Bruce Lee's education phalanx: Kung Fu is accumulated by fighting. It is conceivable that when Li Guohao grows up, his skills are far richer than that of his old son Bruce Lee, provided that Wang Xiaohu must create corresponding conditions for Li Guohao.

Of course, not everything was as perfect as Wang Xiaohu had planned, and the Industrial Light & Magic team in Thailand encountered a lot of complications when it came to setting up the set for the special effects of "Shocking".

Lucas and Spielberg spent two months erecting the main building according to the drawings provided by Wang Xiaohu, during which the weather in Thailand was unpredictable, and there were several rainstorms from time to time, and the overall progress made Lucas and others extremely annoyed.

Wang Xiaohu comforted them on the phone many times: "George, be patient, if you feel that things are not going as expected, you can lead all the people to travel in Thailand for a few days to relax, I believe it will greatly relieve your work pressure." ”

So, led by Lucas, more than 60 people from Industrial Light and Magic began a week-long trip to Thailand, spending more than 10,000 yuan a day.

But even so, Wang Xiaohu at the end of October, he still set off to Thailand to suppress the formation, after all, no matter how high Lucas and Spielberg's special effects skills are, they still can't achieve the overall idea in Wang Xiaohu's mind, some things, some places, he has to do it himself.

(To be continued)