New Year's Eve and New Year are busy and cheerful, but Wang Xiaohu always feels as if he has forgotten something, and has been having a headache about this matter for the past few days, but no matter how hard he thinks about it, he can't remember it after all, and he has a headache, not to mention, and he makes a mess of his mood. [Full text reading]

"Grandma's, it's obviously a very important thing, but why can't I remember it?" Wang Xiaohu stared at a pile of newspapers in the study, neither "Ming Pao" nor "The Post" had any major movements, but this feeling just lingered.

In desperation, Wang Xiaohu ran downstairs and said to Li Guohao, who was watching TV: "Guohao, has TVB broadcast major international news recently?" ”

"Nope!" Li Guohao said in a very affirmative tone, and then continued to focus on the TV series, at this time of year, TVB will broadcast "Jingwumen" to remember Bruce Lee. 11-year-old Li Guohao knew in his heart that his father had not died, but he still watched it with relish.

Wang Xiaohu sighed, shook his head and went to the bedroom to look at Zhao Yazhi, and found that his wife had fallen asleep in the music of prenatal education, covered his wife with a tight quilt, and kissed her lightly on the forehead, Wang Xiaohu returned to the study.

Pushing aside the useless newspapers, Wang Xiaohu looked at the photocopied materials he had brought back from Thailand, which detailed Spielberg and Lucas's plans for each day's work, the problems they encountered in their work, and the ways to solve them. This matter was specially instructed by Wang Xiaohu to be handled by Wang Jiaxin, not to supervise Lucas and Spielberg, but mainly to sum up experience.

In fact, every time a movie is filmed, Wang Xiaohu will take a few days after the release to make a comprehensive summary, from the script, actors, props, and set will do a detailed directing Zhizhi, which is to summarize a series of experiences and provide effective help to others in the company.

For a large-scale production like "Earthbreaking", which invests tens of millions of dollars, the matching of personnel, the loss of props, various shooting angles, etc., need to be summarized every day, after all, this is also a course of great significance in the film industry, and summarizing experience in a timely manner every day can avoid making the same mistake next time, on the other hand, it will play a key role in guiding and helping other groups, and the subsequent shooting progress will be improved a lot.

It is Wang Xiaohu's way of summarizing while shooting, which has played a very key role in the whole group, in the more than one month that Wang Xiaohu has left Thailand, "Earthbreaking" has completed five sets of special effects shooting, plus three sets of special effects completed in the early stage, a total of "20 seconds" special effects shots have been filmed (20 seconds After editing, the actual playback time will exceed 20 seconds. Wang Xiaohu is still relatively satisfied with this shooting progress, after all, the special effects are only a small part of "Shocking", and he will combine the special effects and the real footage again in the next step, and strive to achieve the effect of being fake.

Wang Jiaxin, Xie Dongshen, and Li Qingsheng have returned to Hong Kong for the New Year, and these summed up experiences were brought back by Wang Jiaxin himself. Wang Xiaohu reorganized it according to the classification, and he planned to compile these valuable experiences into a book and send them to the heads of its four major satellite companies, so that they could learn the shooting techniques from the West, combine Chinese and Western, and lay the foundation for the future impact on Hollywood.

It can be said that Wang Xiaohu's current vision is extremely broad, and what he wants to do is to improve the overall quality of Hong Kong filmmakers, expand their shooting concepts, and infiltrate these experiences into actual shooting little by little, and gradually form a film that is acceptable to both Chinese and Western audiences.

"I don't believe that Lao Tzu instilled Western ideas in Hong Kong filmmakers in the 70s, and they would lose to the Hollywood losers who only use visual effects to make money." Wang Xiaohu thought of this in his heart, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl, he took a sip of hot tea, and concentrated on sorting out these summaries.

I don't know how long it took for the phone in the study to ring.

"Isn't it going to be another guy who learns the trend of my phone call to greet the New Year?" Wang Xiaohu grabbed the phone with a wry smile, and after he listened to what the other party said, his face suddenly became serious, and he hung up the phone, he sat in the chair for a long time, and suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself in the face, and said with annoyance: "Fuck, I just said that I seem to have forgotten something, my pig brain, how can I even forget such a big thing as the death of his old man!" ”

The call came from the director of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency, Liang, who told Wang Xiaohu that Premier Zhou was seriously ill and died, and that the senior personnel of the three leftist film companies in Hong Kong were holding a small memorial service.

Wang Xiaohu forgot this thing, Grandpa Zhou, who had made great contributions to New China, died on January 8, 1976 at the age of 78. He actually forgot this big thing, and he always felt a little guilty in his heart.

Yes, for people who died unexpectedly, Wang Xiaohu had no way to stop him, and even if he was a bull who was against the sky, he couldn't reverse it, he just felt guilty and completely forgot about it.

Almost without the slightest consideration, Wang Xiaohu grabbed his clothes and walked out of the study, said a few words to Li Guohao, who was still watching TV, in the living room, and drove to the memorial service.

The club was held in President Liang's private villa, and when Wang Xiaohu arrived, the villa was already full of people, all of whom were senior leaders of the three leftist companies of Great Wall, Xinlian, and Phoenix, and they were also party members who valued it.

Wang Xiaohu was the only non-partisan person in the audience, and as soon as he walked into the memorial service, he was invited to another room by President Liang.

"It's been almost a month since the incident, why is it only getting to Hong Kong now?" After Wang Xiaohu met, he asked directly, this is something he pondered repeatedly on the way here.

President Liang did not answer, but stretched out four fingers and shook them, and then made a downward motion, Wang Xiaohu immediately understood that some forces on the mainland were deliberately pressing, as for who can have such great energy, there is only one answer - a gang of four.

Wang Xiaohu sighed and shook his head helplessly. In his last life, he was born in the 80s and received nine years of compulsory education, and many historical truths were beautified by textbooks, so there was only one word in his mind to describe the mainland in the 70s: chaos!

1976 was the most chaotic year in China, with President Liang's words to tell, Wang Xiaohu's thoughts began to gradually become clear, in the memory of this year, the three leaders of New China died of illness one after another, and the Tangshan earthquake occurred, the entire Chinese mainland was immersed in unprecedented grief, and the Gang of Four also went to extinction after a few months of madness. Before their demise, they did what all Chinese hated the most in the 70s: concealing information about Premier Zhou's death from the local government, and repeatedly simplifying the memorial service, which should have been five days, was simply reduced to two days, and even the masses were not allowed to attend the memorial service

Even so, tens of thousands of people saw off the prime minister on the ten-mile long street, and the long ten-mile long street was full of crying.

At this moment, Wang Xiaohu remembered the "Ten Mile Long Street to Send the Prime Minister" in the primary school textbook, his heart was filled with grief, and tears flowed down at some point, and after a long time, he bowed deeply to the east, and said in his heart: Grandpa Zhou, go all the way.

The small memorial service ceremony was quite simple, and after Wang Xiaohu arrived, President Liang began to give a eulogy, and the room was full of weeping, deeply remembering this outstanding leader.

"The Great Wall, Xinlian, and Phoenix were established in Hong Kong with the special approval of Premier Zhou after the founding of New China, and our mission is extremely arduous and we have a long way to go, we must not live up to the expectations of the premier, and we should work hard and use the camera in our hands."

Representatives of the Great Wall Company spoke exhilarating words at the front desk, and then two other companies also photographed representatives making similar oath-taking remarks.

Wang Xiaohu has been listening quietly during this process, and he can feel that President Liang's invitation to come to the memorial service this time is definitely not as simple as it seems. Sure enough, after the memorial service was completed, President Liang left Wang Xiaohu alone.

"Comrade Xiaohu, have you ever thought about joining the party?"

Wang Xiaohu was stunned for a moment, looked at President Liang fixedly, and saw that he didn't seem to be joking, so he frowned and said, "I have never had such an idea." ”

"Why?" President Liang asked.

"I'm a businessman and don't want to get involved in complicated politics." Wang Xiaohu said without thinking: "I clearly know what I am good at and what I love, if complex political ideas are added to this, I will be excluded from this circle, I don't want to lose everything now." ”

"Hey, I can't imagine that you have been poisoned so deeply by capitalist ideas at a young age." President Liang shook his head and regretted it, which made Wang Xiaohu cry and laugh, this is probably the main purpose of President Liang's invitation today, but everyone has their own aspirations, although he admires, is very grateful, and admires Premier Zhou, but he has not yet had the slightest idea of joining the party.

One yard is one yard, this is Wang Xiaohu. President Liang can say that he is full of copper stench, and it can be said that his ideological consciousness is low, but he cannot be shaken to seek freedom, and he is finally reborn, he does not want to become the development goal of the mainland, let alone become a controlled chess piece. Even if he is filming "Earth-shattering" now, it is to achieve the next goal in his heart.

"I believe that President Liang has received the news that two-thirds of the special effects shooting of "Earth-shattering" has been completed, so I hope that President Liang can respond to the higher-level leaders as soon as possible, and our crew will go to the mainland to shoot in the next step.

Wang Xiaohu didn't feel the slightest embarrassment, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

(To be continued)