After Wang Xiaohu returned to Hong Kong, the first thing he did was to invite Xiahou Mo to the office and arrange for her to compose background music based on the first cut of "A Tiger". 【】

Xia Houmo watched the film while recording the inspiration, after watching it for the third time, she was already teary-eyed, moved by a mess, and a lot of things were densely written on the paper that recorded the inspiration.

"Brother Tiger." Xiahou Mo's eyes were red, "Do you have any detailed requirements for music?" ”

"It's roughly divided into several parts, the changes before and after the ring, the story of Ah Hu, the silent anger, because of my father's name, I still remember that night, Ploy's blues, smile" Wang Xiaohu, who wrote, directed and acted by himself, frowned and said roughly, you must know that he also has a deep understanding of background music creation now, but he is now busy with post-production things, and these music surnames are handed over to professional Xiahou Mo to do. "You can supplement and improve the other parts, mainly in line with the theme of the film."

"Oh, and 'When I Met You,' right?" Xiahou Mo finished recording these and asked playfully.

"yes, of course. I'm going to do a MV when I go back, and I've been working hard for you these days. Wang Xiaohu smiled and said: "By the way, let's vacate the recording studio in the next few days, and I'll let those people concentrate on post-recording." ”

"Then you have to wait until Brother Tiger finishes recording the theme song." Xiahou Mo hugged those materials with the surname on his chest and said, "This is a procedural issue. ”

Wang Xiaohu sighed a little helplessly when he heard this, this Xiahou Mo sometimes behaves very dedicatedly, so dedicated that he feels a headache.

However, you can't deny that Xiaomo's professional surname in this area, she is now also the head of the sound department of Concord Company, in charge of the background music and post-recording of all the company's films, and Wang Xiaohu can still put forward some opinions on the background music, but when it comes to recording, he has no way at all.

Don't think that recording is that simple, it's also a very technical technology. This thing not only emphasizes the technical quality of sound clarity and sound quality, but also the artistic quality of distance, space, environment, and dynamics. To put it simply, every aspect of filmmaking is an artistic creation, which will have a great impact on the quality of the film. And Xiahou Mo's sister Xiahou Jue is a very good recording engineer, and she is also working in Concord Company at this time, and the two sisters are in charge of all the company's big and small sound effects.

After a short break of a few days, Wang Xiaohu began to work on the post-production and publicity work of "A Tiger", at this time Xu Junlong has smoothly transitioned from the star scout head to Concord Company, and Yang Shenghua took up the company's propaganda business, this is the first publicity task Xu Junlong received after arriving at the company, and he seemed a little impatient to hand over his publicity plan to Wang Xiaohu. "Brother Tiger, do you see anything you need to add?"

Wang Xiaohu looked at the publicity plan, but saw from above that opinions that were different from his original concept, frowned at the moment, stared at Xu Junlong for a long time and asked puzzledly: "Old Xu, what is the matter with you saying that our company does not need to increase the publicity cost now?" ”

Wang Xiaohu has been attaching great importance to publicity work in recent years, and when the film market was the most unstable last year, he relied on a large investment in publicity to bring the audience back to the theater, and this newly appointed Xu Junlong actually contradicted himself at such a time, what is An's intention!

Xu Junlong seemed to have expected Wang Xiaohu to ask like this, and he was not in a hurry at the moment, and explained with a smile: "Brother Tiger, you see that the only people who can show their skills in the Hong Kong film industry are our company and Shaw Brothers, and the sufficient Golden Harvest Company has not released new films for more than half a year, from the perspective of the market, the situation of audience diversion has decreased by 15% compared with last year, that is to say, we don't need to toss like that, and the main thing is to save some costs for the company." ”

"Cost?" Wang Xiaohu smiled: "How much cost can propaganda occupy, I'm not afraid to tell you, I also want to take down the propaganda work in Taiwan and Thailand together." This amount of publicity is far from what I wanted. ”

"But now movies are a necessary entertainment pastime for everyone, even if we spend a lot of money on publicity, we won't pull down a few audiences." Xu Junlong said very depressedly: "What's more, the publicity work in Southeast Asia is all in charge of the film companies, and we are not obliged to provide them with this fee." ”

Wang Xiaohu looked at Xu Junlong with a smile, nodded very approvingly, and said: "Your analysis is not wrong at all, but you don't know a lot of things when you first took office, for example, Taiwan's Jiaxing Cinema Line is our branch of Concord, for example, we also successfully acquired a cinema chain in Thailand this time, so the publicity work of these two places belongs to our business." ”

Xu Junlong opened his mouth in surprise when he heard this, and looked at the young boss with unbelievable eyes, it is already commendable to have a theater in Taiwan, but it has also acquired one in Thailand, you must know that the Thai political axe is very resistant to foreign movies, and the two leading companies of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest both wanted to buy theaters in Thailand, but unfortunately they were ruthlessly refused, and the young boss now understated that the old fritters were completely shocked. "Brother Tiger, you're not bragging, are you?"

"Huh." Wang Xiaohu touched his nose and said: "What's there to brag about, the facts are the facts, so let's leave the publicity work in Southeast Asia to you, there are new markets, and you resubmit a detailed publicity plan when you go back, remember, don't worry about the publicity fee for me." ”

Sending away Xu Junlong, who was full of surprise, Wang Xiaohu laughed: "This old Xu, if I know that I will increase the publicity cost to the same amount as the shooting cost in the future, I don't know how surprised I will be." ”

Although Xu Junlong's vision is a little short-sighted, Wang Xiaohu still feels that Lao Xu is an honest person, at least he can consider many problems for the company that he is not aware of, just think that Lao Xu inadvertently mentioned just now Golden Harvest Company did not submit any movies within half a year.

After picking up the recent major newspapers in Hong Kong and scanning it, Wang Xiaohu finally believed this fact, all the newspapers entertainment pages did not have any news from Golden Harvest or Jackie Chan, at the beginning they swore that the slogan of "Double Dragon Cooperation, Casting High-quality Products" seemed to have become a cloud of the past, Golden Harvest Company released this smoke bomb, and there was no response, which made Wang Xiaohu, who had always wanted to see jokes, was disappointed, in fact, he wanted to see what the appearance of Jackie Chan and Jackie Chan's martial arts films were like.

"Sixth uncle, in the four months since I left Hong Kong, why hasn't Golden Harvest made any trouble?" Wang Xiaohu couldn't find any news in the media, so he had to ask Run Run Shaw, after all, Lao Shao and Jiahe are still at odds, and it is more appropriate to ask him about Jiahe's news.

"I don't know the specific things, but I heard Chu Yuan tell me that Gu Long complained to him a month ago that Jackie Chan was very dissatisfied with his script, and the two sides had a big quarrel about it, and the trouble was not very pleasant." Run Run Shaw added uncertainly: "Recently, Gu Long has been writing a new book for Chu Yuan, it seems that we have no good show to watch, boy, are you very disappointed!" ”

"It's not just a disappointment, it's a disappointment!" Wang Xiaohu said depressedly: "Originally, I thought that Jackie Chan would make a film in these four months, so that our summer file would not be too lonely, who knows"

Sometimes invincible is also a kind of loneliness, just like Wang Xiaohu's feeling now, he has high hopes for Jackie Chan, but this hope was shattered with Jackie Chan jumping to Golden Harvest for 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and Golden Harvest Company, which received a large amount of capital investment from the Long family, not only did not immediately make a name for itself, but even disappeared within half a year, so that the carefully prepared "A Tiger" punched the air, not to mention the unpleasant taste.

"There's no way to be lonely, why don't we fight in the ring and have a friendly match or something?" Shaw half-jokingly said on the phone.

"Let's be free of the old and the young, if it is passed out, others will scold me for disrespecting the elderly!"

"Stinky boy!" After scolding a few words, Run Run Shaw said on the phone: "Boy, have you thought about the real root cause of the discord between Ssangyong? ”

"Script!" Wang Xiaohu said without thinking: "Although Gu Long's novels are very popular, no director can shoot the essence of the novel, and the ugly thing is that Gu Long's novels are not suitable for making movies." ”

"Yes, all Hong Kong people know that your script is a box office guarantee, just like you monopolized the Dragon and Tiger Martial Arts Union, and the script is also monopolized by your four-person assembly line group, Xiaohu, have you thought about it, if you continue like this, you will be in a state of loneliness forever!"

Run Run Shaw's words made Wang Xiaohu fall into contemplation, in the earliest days, he was worried that Concord Company would have a development gap after the death of Xiaolongge, so he spared no effort to bring the three giants of the new art city under his hands, and the consequences of this finally showed clearly a year later, that is, there were no good screenwriters in the 70s, and four screenwriters were trained under his hands to indirectly monopolize the business of Hong Kong film screenwriters.

"Grandma, can you blame me for this?" Wang Xiaohu rolled his eyes depressedly again, as if the number of times he was depressed today was the most in two lifetimes, "If invincibility is a mistake, I would rather be wrong again and again, who let Lao Tzu be a reborn person, I don't go to hell, who goes to hell!" ”

Wang Xiaohu pretended to think like this, in fact, there was a faint bitterness in his bones, bitter Hong Kong films were too slow to develop, bitter The directors of the new wave have not yet appeared on the stage, bitter-

I caught a cold in the rain today, and I felt uncomfortable. I also have to admit that I encountered a problem that all authors have: bottlenecks. Give me a little time to break through, or give me some passion!

(To be continued)