Chapter 714: The Establishment of Hong Kong Island Film and Television University (Part II)

Run Run Shaw and Zou Wenhuai are old men in the film and television industry on Hong Kong Island, Huang Baiming has also been in the film and television industry for a long time, as for To Qifeng, it has only developed in the past few years, in 1972, 17-year-old To Qifeng began to work on Hong Kong TVB, and messenger was his first job. In 1974, he entered the Hong Kong TVB artist training class, and was the fourth student of the artist training class, during which he became friends with Chow Yun-fat, Lin Lingdong and others in the third session, although he was not at the same level and in the same class, but in terms of friendship, it can be said that he was a classmate, starting from the most basic assistant director, learn filming.

In 1980, when the new wave of Hong Kong films was booming, Johnny To was invited by his friend Liu Songren to enter the big screen and shoot his first film "Blue Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold" for the Hong Kong leftist film Gong Phoenix (later known as Yindu Organization). Although the film received little response after its release, and many film companies invited him to make films at the time, Johnny To felt that he was not experienced enough and chose to return to TVB to continue filming TV dramas.

In the following 5 years, Johnny To's TV drama career grew by leaps and bounds, and he was soon promoted from production assistant to choreographer and producer. has produced classic dramas including "Jinghua Spring Dream", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of the Deer and Ding". During this period, he met Wei Jiahui of the screenwriting team of TVB.

In 1986, Johnny To was invited by Huang Baiming, the owner of New Arts City, to direct the third part of the "Happy Ghost" series. This drama was performed by Tsui Hark as a stunt, Lin Lingdong directed the flying car scene, and Cheng Xiaodong served as the action director, and the box office received 16 million. Then Johnny To took advantage of the victory to pursue, and successively filmed "The Seven Year Itch", "Eight Star Annunciation", "Lucky Star Gongzhao" and other civic comedy works, these comedies generally revolve around the urban middle class to talk about marriage, through various well-designed bridges such as coincidents and misunderstandings between characters to delight the audience and achieve good box office results. New Arts City was disbanded in 1990. During this period, in 1988, Johnny To and Jin Yanghua co-directed "City Special Police" produced by Tsui Hark Studio, although it failed miserably at the box office, it was his first contact with the theme of police and bandits; In 1989, Johnny To directed the first literary film "The Story of Ah Lang", which not only won more than 30 million box office, but also won him his first nomination for Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

It was only at this time that Johnny To was able to get ahead in the Chinese film and television industry.

"Okay, let's sit down, sit down, we're not in a meeting today, we're going to solve problems, if you have anything to say, just say it, don't be afraid." After Lin Yu finished speaking, he sat on the boss's chair, and the others naturally followed.

"Just now Lao Huang said what he wanted to run Hong Kong Island Film and Television Academy, and I was very interested in this." Lin Yu took the secretary's Longjing tea, blew it, took a deep breath, and said: "Now I know that there is a Hong Kong Island Performing Academy, as well as the Invasion University Well, it turns out that there is a wireless artist training class, so many old training bases are really necessary for us to reshuffle the cards?" ”

"Yes, this is the need for development, and we have to do it!" Lao Huang didn't take the lead in speaking this time, because he had already said it in the car just now. It was surprising that the person who said this was not Johnny To, nor was he an old Gu who was in charge of artist training, but Run Run Shaw!

"Hehe, Sixth Uncle, why do you think so too?" Lin Yu looked at him incomprehensibly.

"No way, it's all a formality!" As soon as he talked about this, the sixth uncle immediately became angry and said: "You are known as the largest film company on Hong Kong Island, but you see, you can't find a screenwriter, you can't find a sound recorder・・・・・・ you can't find anything, but you moved my people who are ready to shoot TV series, you say, if I don't cultivate more talents, I won't have to pull away all the people in the future, and I'm still running a fart?" ”

Everyone was confused by Lao Shao's fire, and in the end, Lao Huang laughed and pulled him to sit down, pointed at Lin Yu and said, "Don't worry, I believe he will make the right decision!" ”

Lin Yu nodded silently and said with a smile: "To be honest, I didn't believe that our company would be short of people, but now after listening to everyone's speeches and expressions, I know that Hong Kong Island movies are so short of people." ”

Lin Yu crossed his fingers as he spoke: "It is indeed necessary to establish a film school, because some shooting methods, shooting techniques, film technology, post-special effects production, etc., are indeed very different from Hollywood compared to our Hong Kong Island films, and this film school is a holy place for cultivating reserve talents and studying various film technologies." Well, okay, I agreed. ”

"Good!" Huang Baiming stood up instantly and said loudly, "Boss Lin, you promised to spend money to build our own Hong Kong Island film academy, which is a great good thing!" ”

Lao Huang said very excitedly: "In the future, I see who else said that Hong Kong Island filmmakers are halfway monks!" ”

"Yes, boss, your move will definitely be recorded in history in the future." Du Qifeng applauded and laughed and said: "In the future, when we encounter any technical problems that we don't understand, we can also find a professional organization that can explain it clearly for us, which is really fortunate!" ”

"Yes, movies have become an academic + technical discipline since the emergence of sound films in the 30s of the last century, and our Hong Kong Island films have been explored little by little, there is no place to use for research, every time it is stealing, every time it is buying patent rights from others, so it will be a palliative thing for a long time, but now it's okay, maybe we can see the international patents applied for by our Hong Kong Island filmmakers themselves in the future." Lao Gu has always been not good at words, but looking at his face now, you can see that he is so excited.

Lin Yu smiled with satisfaction, nodded and said, "I won't impose some topics on them, because scientific research deploys things for a day or two." He looked at Run Run Run Shaw with a smile and said, "The academy is going to be run, but how to get this specifically, I don't know anything."

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