After saying goodbye to Duke Liao's house, Wang Xiaohu returned to the hotel where he was staying under the escort of Zhao Gang, it was already more than 10 o'clock in the evening, but he did not feel the slightest sleepiness, but lay on the bed tossing and turning. 【Reading.com】

Since Wang Xiaohu had the idea of entering the mainland, he has been thinking for half a year, if according to the development of the original history, he can also enter the mainland market, and he can also shoot "Shaolin Temple", then there is only one end: only 20% of the box office income can be obtained from the mainland, if according to the 130 million box office spread outside, then at least the three leftist film companies can get 26 million yuan, you must know that the RMB at that time was not very depreciated, but Wang Xiaohu always felt too aggrieved.

So in 1976, he ignored anyone's advice, ventured into the mainland, staged a good act to save the people of Tangshan from fire and water, of course, he sincerely wanted to avoid this disaster, but muttered about the complex political environment in China at that time, the originally well-planned action had to be temporarily adjusted, but fortunately, he basically completed the main task he set at the beginning.

"Earthbreaking" has been stranded so far, but in exchange for maximizing the benefits of "Myth", and the current relationship with China is relatively harmonious, Wang Xiaohu is still quite satisfied.

He still recalls the conversation with Liao Gong just now.

After all, Wang Xiaohu still did not tell Liao Gong the complete plot of "Shaolin Temple", and the reason why such a thing happened stemmed from his harsh requirements.

As we all know, "Shaolin Temple" was originally the first Hong Kong film to be released in the mainland, although it used mainland actors, although the mainland also invested a lot, but that was all in the past life.

Wang Xiaohu was not very satisfied with the plot of "Shaolin Temple", but after thinking about it for a long time, he found that there was nothing that could be modified for this script.

It is undeniable that the plot of "Shaolin Temple" is a bit old-fashioned, and it can even be said that the plot is simple to death, but it is this simple plot that is the main reason for the success of "Shaolin Temple".

Some people may ask, after Wang Xiaohu's rebirth, almost every movie has been revised, why not revise "Shaolin Temple"?

The answer is very simple, "Shaolin Temple" is a classic, a simple plot means that it is acceptable to the public, and a simple plot means that the shooting is very smooth, and there is no need to waste too many brain cells on modifying or adding or deleting plots.

There is another main reason, in Wang Xiaohu's current mind, I feel that there is really no place to modify "Shaolin Temple", a little more pure painting snake to add enough behavior, and if you delete it, you will lose the spiritual surname, and the surname Suo will maintain the original ecology of "Shaolin Temple".

At most, it is a new package in terms of martial arts action and shooting, after all, Jet Li has been abducted to Hong Kong for four years, and in addition to filming a "Hong Xiguan" in the past four years, he has been training hard all the time, let this kid toss and toss!

At the same time, Wang Xiaohu also plans to hang a false position as a director in "Shaolin Temple", and let Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung and others take the helm of reading power, it's time for the two big brothers to increase their experience in co-productions, after all, they performed well in "Myth", and if they can win the valuable experience of co-productions, they will have more development routes in the future.

In fact, if you observe carefully, you will find that Wang Xiaohu has been cultivating his Seven Little Blessing brothers in this way, first taking them to shoot a few movies, and then throwing them off to let them be alone, in recent years, Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, Yuan Kui, Yuan De, Jackie Chan and others have gradually become normal, and there is no mistake in the middle, although each film cannot be said to be a big hit, can not be said to refresh the box office or anything, but it can recover the box office several times the investment cost, enough for them to maintain the development of their company.

This alone is a very magical phenomenon in Hong Kong and even any film company in the world, so now many people are wondering when Wang Xiaohu will be able to fall big!

"It's September, and there are less than three months to go until the end of the year, so we have to shift the company's focus to Hollywood next year."

Wang Xiaohu sighed on the bed, and gradually fell asleep after a while

"You're going to shoot a TV series in an old neighborhood of Shanghai?"

In the office of the Ministry of Culture, Minister Huang Zhen looked at Wang Xiaohu, who was smiling in front of him, and scratched his head a little about this topic.

"Yes." Wang Xiaohu said: "Our company has a TV series in preparation, in order to reproduce the style of old Shanghai, I plan to shoot exterior scenes in the old neighborhood of Shanghai, and I hope that Minister Huang will help coordinate it." ”

"Okay, I'll give Shangying a call." After thinking about it, Huang Zhen grabbed the phone and contacted the Shanghai Film Studio.

Huang Zhen knew that the master in front of him was not easy to offend, and he received a written document from Liao Gong early this morning, saying that Wang Xiaohu had promised to shoot a big production of Shaolin Temple for China, and asked the Ministry of Culture to cooperate well.

I was going to ask this master to come out and talk about it, but I didn't know that as soon as I received the notice, this master was uninvited, and the first sentence he said was to shoot a TV series in Shanghai.

"Okay, I've got the news over there, I'll give you a contact information, and you can talk about the specific things in detail on the phone."

Huang Zhen was also happy, he knew that he didn't know the details of filming, so he simply handed over the contact information to Wang Xiaohu and let them talk directly, so as not to become a microphone, if some names were not known or conveyed wrongly, he couldn't afford the mistakes here.

"Thank you."

Wang Xiaohu carefully put away the contact information, and listened to Huang Zhen say: "Xiao Wang, today Liao Gong said that you want to shoot the theme of Shaolin Temple, and you need a large number of martial arts athletes, right?" ”

Wang Xiaohu nodded and said, "Yes." These athletes need to be selected from the national provincial wushu teams. ”

The last time Wang Xiaohu watched "Shaolin Temple" was 15 years ago, that is, in 2003 before his rebirth, although the plot is very clear, but the actors in it except for Yu Hai, Ji Chunhua, Sun Jiankui, Ding Lan, others have forgotten, and filming this movie requires the use of twenty or thirty actors, Wang Xiaohu can't remember their detailed names, so he must re-check the athletes.

Even if he wants to be lazy, he has to be serious at the beginning, select the actors, and shoot a few sets of shots, right?

"Oh, okay, I'll arrange it as soon as I can." Huang Zhen hurriedly recorded this matter in a notebook, he is not as good as the memory of a young man like Wang Xiaohu, it is better to remember the surname than a bad pen, this is the biggest harvest of Huang Zhen in many years of work, as long as the matter is recorded, and then according to the primary and secondary screening to determine who comes first and who is second, then the efficiency will be high, and it will also let the master in front of him see that the Ministry of Culture is fully cooperating.

"Anything else?" Huang Zhen asked.

"The dividing thing." Wang Xiaohu said unceremoniously.

"Let's talk about it again, we're communicating with the above again." Huang Zhen said busily. Although the box office dividend standard has been negotiated last time, the ratio that time is 4:6, and this master opens his mouth this time is 5:5, if you don't discuss it well, Minister Huang doesn't dare to draw his own conclusions.

After Minister Huang Zhen quickly wrote in the notebook, Wang Xiaohu stood up and patted his ass and said: "For the time being, "Shaolin Temple" can slow down a little, after all, the freshness of "Myth" by domestic audiences has just begun, and it is not too late to launch "Shaolin Temple" after the first round of nationwide screenings are over." ”

Huang Zhen knew that what Wang Xiaohu said was not false at all, and he recorded this article at the moment, how to say that he is also an international director, and he has a lot of say in box office data, Huang Zhen still needs to humbly ask Wang Xiaohu for advice on these things.

"I'll arrange it." Minister Huang Zhen felt like a subordinate of Wang Xiaohu, completely lacking the majesty of a country's Minister of Culture, although this feeling was strange, but he could not find the root cause.

When Wang Xiaohu was about to walk to the door, Huang Zhen suddenly patted his head and said in surprise: "Xiao Wang, you wait first." Show you this thing. As he spoke, he took out a copy from the drawer, walked over and handed it to Wang Xiaohu.

Wang Xiaohu was slightly stunned after reading the copy, and then said with a smile: "Hehe, then I want to thank Minister Huang for his kindness!" ”

The core content of this copy is to arrange the detailed planning of Mr. Wang Xiaohu, president of the Hong Kong Concord Film Company, to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, including helping to repair the Wang family ancestral hall, including the whole video, comprehensive news reports, etc., and even the matter of arranging a three-day banquet in Pingling Commune.

Because Wang Xiaohu's genealogy can not be found, and the political axe is not good at organizing this kind of genealogy search, so he has to take this way to make up for it, of course, these things will not be completed by the Ministry of Culture, but secretly hand over the funds to the local government, so that the local "spontaneous" to promote this matter, which shows that the Ministry of Culture has made great efforts in this regard.

"Xiao Wang, you have made so many sacrifices for our country, we should do these things, we should be."

Minister Huang Zhen also said with a smile, saying that if it wasn't for Zhao Gang reporting to the top in time and holding a meeting overnight to study and issue orders, Huang Zhen really wouldn't dare to be so extravagant and wasteful. Now there is only one sentence in the order above: try to satisfy Wang Xiaohu.

Thanks to Zhao Gang's words to remind Minister Huang Zhen, Zhao Gang said at the time: "Lao Wang, this person, a little nostalgic, a little superstitious, a little anyway, just consult the local customs and habits." ”

Well, the whole Ministry of Culture tossed for two whole days, made a lot of phone calls, and asked the Ministry of Culture of Jinan to conduct a field trip to Longsan Village, Pingling Commune, and the investigation was done all morning, and then it was immediately reported, which is why there is this copywriting in Wang Xiaohu's hand.

"Thank you for your hard work. Really, thank you for your hard work for this little thing for me, and I invite you to the Yanjing Hotel at noon. ”

I don't know why, Minister Huang Zhen felt a little impulse to tears when he heard this, it's not easy, the hard work of the past few days has not been in vain!

In the past few days, Wang Zhenrong's family in Pingling Commune has been very happy, because since the relative from Hong Kong came to the house, now there are people from the village who come to their own dilapidated courtyard every day

In short, Wang Zhenrong's house was very dilapidated in the past, and few people came to visit, but now even the threshold is about to be broken by the villagers. Just when Wang Zhenrong was about to take the time to repair and repair, the commune president came, and when he saw Wang Zhenrong tossing this thing, he was unhappy at the moment and pulled Wang Zhenrong aside.

"Zhenrong, what are you doing with this? Turning around to build a red brick and tile house, it is the kind that is one meter five in the front of the building, is six rooms enough? ”

Wang Zhenrong grinned and said, "President, my family has no money." ”

The president said: "Who asked you to pay, our father-in-law will help you build it, don't want money!" ”

"Really?" Wang Zhenrong blinked and didn't believe it.

"What's wrong with lying to you, not only to build you a new house, but the ancestral hall of the Wang family doesn't seem to have it yet, right? After a meeting, it was decided that I planned to build an ancestral hall for you at the south end of the village, that is, by the road. ”

The president pinched his waist and said heroically, as if planning their own ancestral hall, and said what materials and what colors to use when the time comes, holding the branches on the ground for a long time, in short, Wang Zhenrong was not pleasantly surprised.

"President, what's that, isn't that Hong Kong relative official very big?"

Wang Zhenrong copied his hands, he felt that since Wang Xiaohu came, their family as a whole has changed, as if it was suddenly transitioning from a feudal society to the [***] society advocated by the state a few years ago, a little bit untouchable, dream-like feeling.

"I don't know about this, it's not a small story anyway." The president couldn't figure it out, so he patted Wang Zhenrong's arm and said, "In this way, don't cook for your daughter-in-law tonight, come to my house for a gathering, Liu Na boy apologizes to you, and you can continue to be a projectionist when you go back." ”

"Don't mind, I don't understand that thing, let's let Liu do it, isn't he doing a good job."

"Hey, I said why can't you help me."

Wang Zhenrong refused to give face, and the anxious president scratched his ears and cheeks, "Okay, okay, come with me, I'll let the family call your daughter-in-law when I turn around." ”

The president said that he would not give Wang Zhenrong a chance to react, and dragged Wang Zhenrong to his home.

At this time, Wang Xiaohu was still giving lectures to Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, telling about how to create the main theme movie script and how to control the knowledge of large-scale wars and battle scenes.

There are less than two years left before the fifth generation goes to society, Wang Xiaohu believes that after graduation, they will definitely be assigned to work in major film studios, don't look at Zhang Yimou is now an auditor, after completing the filming of "Myth", he has made an exception and turned positive, the first hurdle they will face in major film studios in the future will definitely be the main theme film shooting work of the old three, Wang Xiaohu is giving them a make-up lesson.

(To be continued)