"Mr. Xiao, the police are planning to set up a club recently...... "The police commissioner approached Xiao Ran with a smile: "You have to come to support it then!" ”

"Club ......" Xiao Ran nodded, this is to raise funds, he smiled and said: "No problem, it will definitely pass when the time comes!" The police have done a great job lately, and I want to give you a plaque! ”

Before he could say a few words, the police commissioner saw that Rong Zhijian from CITIC was coming over, and he took the initiative to leave. Xiao Ran is very interested in this red capitalist, it is not the first time he and Rong Zhijian have met, but they don't have a deep friendship.

"Brother Xiao, it's great that you're here!" Rong Zhijian has been looking for Xiao Ran for a long time, and he just vaguely learned from above that this Xiao Ran is pro-mainland, which immediately made him feel a lot of favor. However, he didn't understand that it was difficult for a person of Xiao Ran's age to have a sense of belonging to the mainland, and judging from Xiao Ran's consistent performance, he couldn't put forward any political stance at all.

"Brother Rong, how much can you earn from a business just now?" Xiao Ran saw that Rong Zhijian was talking about business with another rich man, thinking that this guy could make a lot of money, so he couldn't help but laugh and said, "What's the benefit, you might as well give me some points!" ”

"It's a good thing not to lose money!" Rong Zhijian laughed heartily, he is very outgoing and optimistic, and he is also very enthusiastic, and his popularity is very good: "It's you who make movies, this is a big money business!" ”

Just kidding, even fools know that movies are definitely not as profitable as real estate! Xiao Ran couldn't help but smile secretly. Of course, if you don't just make movies, then the profits are quite considerable. After chatting casually about their own inside information, they each left.

Rong Zhijian's personal assets are not much now, but few people in the circle dare to underestimate him because of this. After all, CITIC is the mainland's window to the outside world. It was only after the acquisition of Taifu that Rong Yi began to make a real fortune.

When he got into the car and wanted to leave, Xiao Ran glanced at other people's cars and immediately became depressed. The others are either Rolls-Royce, Lincoln, or Cadillac. Only he, a rich man, still drives a BMW, and in addition to Lin Qingxia's car, he only has that car. Fortunately, he is not very particular about these, otherwise he would not be ridiculed to death.

Late at night, Lin Qingxia brought in a bowl of soup distressedly, looking at Xiao Ran's back in front of the desk, she couldn't help but feel pity. Now she knows that it doesn't seem to be such an easy job to be a boss.

However, Lin Qingxia still thought wrongly, in fact, Xiao Ran can be a relaxed boss. It's just that he is unwilling to lose what he has mastered, so he tries to write down the general story of all the films that he can remember for a while as soon as possible in the short term, so as to be sure that he will not be snatched away by others in the future.

"I'm still writing, let's drink a bowl of soup and rest early!" Lin Qingxia put the bowl on the table and quietly sat down beside Xiao Ran. Xiao Ran turned his eyes and smiled: "Don't get in the way, you go and rest first, I will finish this soon!" ”

"What else do you say soon......" Lin Qingxia glared at Xiao Ran with disgust, as long as he was free these days, Xiao Ran lay down in front of the desk and wrote violently. She had read those stories, and they all thought they were pretty good, and she couldn't imagine that one person could come up with so many ideas.

Xiao Ran's heart warmed, the feeling of someone caring was really great, and he now felt that he couldn't leave Lin Qingxia's gentleness and delicacy. Putting down the pen and gently half-hugging her, sniffing the faint and gentle fragrance, kissed her face, and then smiled: "It's really fast, it's done a lot some time ago, and now it's just roughly increasing!" ”

Xiao Ran doesn't write all Hong Kong films, but mainly foreign language films. Only wrote a few ideas, or only wrote a brief introduction to the story, these are all left to the screenwriting team of the Phantom Planning Department. First, it can take away the creativity in foreign language films, and secondly, it is also to let Hong Kong screenwriters gradually embark on the road of regularization.

"Actually, if you want to have a career now, you don't need to be so tired at all, why torture yourself like this!" Lin Qingxia stretched out her hand to smooth Xiao Ran's messy hair, and then continued: "Even if you want to realize the establishment of Phantom into a film company across the world, you don't need to do everything yourself!" ”

Something else is easy to explain, but this one is a bit tricky. Fortunately, Xiao Ran had already cultivated a very superb ability to change topics, and said with a chuckle: "Do you know that Zheng Jiachun introduced me to a beautiful woman today?" ”

"Hmph, that Zheng Jiachun ......" Lin Qingxia has been depressed for a long time since she came back from the banquet, and now she has to mention it so much, and immediately said angrily: "Of course I saw it, if I hadn't been there, maybe you would have really agreed." ”

Xiao Ran couldn't help laughing, kissed her again, and then looked into her eyes and said, "Of course not, are you so unconfident in me?" You know, you're the only one in my life, and no one can change it! ”

July 10, the test screening of "Spy Change". This time, Xiao Ran still went in person, but this seems to be a rule, the director doesn't go, if the audience can't find someone to vent, what to do!

Some film critics have already noticed a small habit of Xiao Ran, Xiao Ran is used to putting a title first, and then the title of the film. Before the release, after about two minutes of advertising, there is a minute-long trailer.

That trailer is Xiao Ran's metaphor for the incident in the first year, the film has been filmed, and Xiao Ran has also watched the film, which is quite good. Because it involves politics, it is difficult for this theme to get the support of local political axes in other countries and regions, so it is OK to choose to use the mainland as the background, and then put the words completely fictional words of this film on the beginning of the film.

Although Xiao Ran only knows a little about the events of the first year, as long as the theme and intention of the message are correct. The most important thing is that the plot in the film is similar to the events of ** year, so that people can see the subtleties correctly and clearly.

I didn't dare to think that I could prevent the whole incident from happening with this, but Xiao Ran thought that this would have a certain impact on the Hong Kong people within his ability. It would be enough to be able to do so, and he didn't want the whole of Hong Kong to withdraw countless funds to foreign countries, as it was in history.

At the beginning of the film, Xiao Ran put a lot of effort into trying to create the first ** in the opening scene. The opening scene is a scene in which the protagonist cares about carrying out a mission, and in this scene, Xiao Ran wants to give the audience the impression that the agent is very ruthless, which can pave the way for concise action scenes in the future.

The agent played by Fa Ge stole what he wanted as easily as a tanuki, and suddenly, the alarm sounded. Fa Ge is extremely agile and running, and when he encounters an enemy, he kills the enemy with one move, which makes the audience below amazed.

From the moment Fa Ge fled, the soundtrack sounded, mobilizing the audience's emotions with a strong and powerful rhythm. Finally, Fa Ge ran to the edge of the building, picked up a stool and smashed it on the glass, the glass shattered, and Fa Ge jumped down.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran smiled, in fact, in this scene, he originally wanted to play the opening scene here and leave suspense. But on second thought, this made the film so smooth that the action scenes were smooth, and I dispelled this stupid idea.

After the film's release, Li Zhuotao, a famous film critic, commented on the film with a brilliant and incisive film review: it will be a new school action movie that leads the trend of the times, and there are seven action scenes in the film, but each one is exceptionally exciting. Especially the scene at the end where the protagonist and American agents fight from Kowloon to Sai Wan is ten minutes long.

In the ten minutes of intense action scenes that are difficult to control, Xiao Ran successfully controlled the rhythm and atmosphere of the film, making these ten minutes extraordinarily smooth and intense. And the explosion scene at the end broke the record of "Police Story Sequel" and became the largest explosion scene in Asia.

But the essence of the whole film is not in the action scenes, but in the concept of family and country that Xiao Ran is trying to convey. Even if these action scenes as embellishments are lost, the whole film is very exciting and very sad, but this sadness is deeply concealed in the more eye-catching action scenes.

This is Li Zhuotao's comment, and it is also the best review of "Spy Change" in Hong Kong, and he sees the theme of the film with a very keen sense. When Xiao Ran saw this comment, he couldn't help but praise: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being the editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly", amazing!" ”

However, this does not mean that this film has been promoted to that classic height. Not everyone pays attention to the literary drama in this film, although everyone can experience that desolate feeling, but except for Li Zhuotao, almost every film critic believes that Xiao Ran's film can indeed be called a trend-setting new school action movie, but it is only an action movie.

In a sense, Xiao Ran was defeated. He tried to make the film a coexistence of commerce and art, but now there are only commercial elements, and the artistic component is suppressed by too powerful action scenes. I can't help but admit that Xiao Ran's work created entirely on his own this time has both succeeded and failed.

The failure was in the creative concept, and Xiao Ran failed to grasp the very delicate balance between business and art. The only fortunate thing is that, despite the imbalance, it has no effect on the film. The success is commercial, and no one doubts the film's innovation in action movies.

Considering that the current Hong Kong people and Westerners may not be able to accept the mainland political axe, Xiao Ran finally re-edited it and deleted the only few mainland scenes in the film. makes the already very obscure political stance in the whole film completely disappear, so that it can be easily accepted by the market.

After the official premiere of "Spy Change" was confirmed, Golden Harvest finally launched the long-planned "Home Alone", and is filming a sequel with great confidence. The summer vacation blockbuster jointly created by Haile's New Art City and the two major studios is also Fang Ruohai's ambition to replace Phantom at the box office in the market, and it has also been confirmed to be released.

That film is also an action movie, the title of the film is "Pride and Love", this film has gathered a considerable number of stars, ATV's artists and Wan Ziliang (at that time, it was not yet wireless), such as Mo Shaochun and Lin Junxian, some actresses of Golden Harvest, etc., who were all first-line stars at that time, all starred in the film. There are at least a dozen or more names that can be counted, which can be described as a super luxury lineup.

Because I couldn't invite Wu Yusen, one of the pillars of the Phantom, the director of the film is a newcomer, the producers are Xu Ke and Mai Dangxiong and Huang Baiming, the producer is Xiao Ruoyuan, and the planner is Mecca. In terms of this behind-the-scenes lineup alone, it is definitely extremely rare in Hong Kong film history.

"It's a big trouble this time!" Wei Dongling came to Xiao Ran's office in his spare time, and raised the newspaper in his hand, which had a comment on "Pride and Love": "According to the comments, the quality of this film is really not bad, plus the three major companies have joined forces, I'm afraid there will be trouble this time!" ”

At this time, "Spy Change" has not yet premiered. As early as ten days ago, "Home Alone" was released, and Debao's "Courtship Expendables" was also released. Xiao Ran had long expected such a situation, and Golden Harvest now looks at the peak of his dissatisfaction with Haile, otherwise he would not give up the schedule of facing "Spy Change".

You must know that films of different genres are released in the same time period, and the impact on the box office is not particularly large. Moreover, with Golden Harvest's confidence in "Home Alone" and the idea of sniping the Phantom, there is absolutely no reason to give up this opportunity. There is only one reason, that is, Zou Wenhuai is already very dissatisfied.

Of course, this does not mean that the alliance of the four major companies is broken like this, although Xiao Ran has won over Pan Disheng, but the three major alliances are still trying to give Xiao Ran a fatal blow in this summer vacation. If you can win here, you will definitely be able to win the theater agency rights in Yuben and South Korea.

"Don't worry!" Xiao Ran smiled confidently: "Jiahe is impatient now, as long as they can't hit us this time, then their alliance will definitely break up!" ”

This time it has indeed become a pincer attack, and there is Jiahe sniping in front of it, attracting the attention of the audience. The two major action movies of Phantom and Haile are facing each other, which is what the blind can see, and the two major companies are in flames.

"Are you really that confident?" Wei Dongling scratched his head, he didn't have much confidence, history has proved that the more luxurious the lineup, the higher the box office value.

"If I say yes, I will do it!" Xiao Ran stood up straight, his fingers tapping on the table: "In this battle, I not only want to get back the distribution rights, but also launch an offensive to disperse their alliance and force Fang Ruohai away." ”

Wei Dongling nodded, seeing Xiao Ran's expression, he believed it. It's just that he is still very confused: "Why didn't Tianluo Company make a film this time?" It's weird! ”

Before the words fell, the phone call from the secretary An Yuxuan came: "Mr. Xiao, there is a girl named Yang Wei who wants to see you!" ”

Yang Wei? Is that Yang Wei? Xiao Ran and Wei Dongling couldn't hide the surprise in their eyes, they glanced at each other, and Xiao Ran ordered the girl named Yang Wei to come in!

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