In late November, the publicity work of the first Hong Kong Film Awards entered the final stage, and both Hong Kong filmmakers and the public expressed high concern about the first Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony. [Full text reading]

After the completion of the documentary on the history of the development and change of Hong Kong films, it was also broadcast on TVB and Phoenix TV movie channels in turn, from the short film "Zhuangzi Tries a Wife" in the embryonic era, to the first sound film "Platinum Dragon" in the Zhengrong era, to several major film classifications in the mature period, and then to the familiar "One-armed Knife", "Jingwumen", "Ip Man", "Police Story" in the golden age of the 60s and 70s, almost every film with special significance is shown in the documentary.

As if in the corridor of history, citizens can witness the changes of Hong Kong films while sitting in front of the TV.

"Turn on the TV and watch movies" has also become a mantra on the lips of citizens recently.

Every time an old movie finishes, a trailer will appear on the TV screen, so you can choose whether or not to watch the movie according to your preferences.

Wang Xiaohu also divided the TV program into several major sections according to the type of Hong Kong movies, for example, the silent film era mainly showed old movies from the 40s and 50s, which were arranged after 10 p.m. considering that the audience may not like them.

For example, Huangmei tunes and Cantonese films are arranged in the morning for the elderly or old fans to enjoy, and in the afternoon, Hong Kong movies from the 60s are played.

Of course, Wang Xiaohu also spent a lot of money to buy film copyrights, such as Shaw Brothers, Great Wall, Phoenix, Xinlian and other old film companies have quite rich film stocks, and some movies cannot even be released for various reasons after shooting.

At present, there are no bad movies in any company except Concord, and Wang Xiaohu's move can be regarded as a great help to them.

Novelty, money-saving, and convenient, as long as you have a TV at home, you can find your favorite movies from movie channels for free.

This way of watching movies is too new for the citizens of Xiangjiang, you don't have to work hard to queue up, and you don't have to regret spending money to see a bad movie, as long as you turn on the TV, you can watch the movie for free, if you don't like it, change the channel directly.

The talk show "Art Life", which once received good ratings on TVB, was also transplanted to the movie channel, and it can be seen that Run Run Shaw has also begun to pay attention to the prospects of the movie channel.

Everything is for the first Hong Kong Film Awards.

Under the propaganda of various media, the award ceremony of the Academy Awards has gradually attracted the attention of the public, after all, the film has been established for so many years, and the citizens have been haunted by the film awards ceremony without their own.

Wang Xiaohu saw that the publicity was heating up, and after the citizens were interested in the Academy Awards, he called Yu Yongjian and said: "Launch a ticket sales plan." ”

"What is the range of ticket prices?" Yu Yongjian has no experience.

"The first one is cheaper, lower than Teresa Teng's concert tickets, anyway, people can't just buy tickets casually."

This standard made Yu Yongjian scratch his head a little, he really didn't understand why he didn't let him get a ticket casually since it was lower.

When he spoke out his doubts, Wang Xiaohu burst out laughing on the phone.

"A documentary is obviously not enough, if you want the Academy Awards to become a public to pay attention to and look forward to in the future, you have to use other means of publicity." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "For example, the Organizing Committee of the Academy Awards will officially organize an activity to answer questions to win tickets, mobilize the enthusiasm of the citizens, and even use the content of the documentary to hold a large-scale knowledge competition, and the top 50 citizens can go to the Academy Awards for free."

Wang Xiaohu said several propaganda methods in one breath, Yu Yongjian's brain on the other end of the phone had already shut down, and after a long time, he took a long breath, and only one word flashed in his mind: strong!

Yes, if you were someone else, you might not have thought of such a variety of publicity methods, holding a knowledge competition, creating a movie talent, and just listening to the publicity planning plan is enough for Yu Yongjian to feel the effect, not to mention the real implementation.

So Yu Yongjian immediately took action according to Wang Xiaohu's suggestion, and all the lottery activities were sponsored by Concord International, Phoenix TV Movie Channel, and TVB, which was very lively.

After the Academy Awards became official, Wang Xiaohu finally had the time to revise the script of "Ip Man 2".

Looking at the script in front of him, Wang Xiaohu has a special feeling, when "Ip Man 1", he can also make simple changes through some gossip narrated by Ip Man himself, at least those rumors are still well-founded, making the movie seem to have more real surnames.

But "Ip Man 2" is basically nonsense, Ip Man also smiled bitterly after seeing the script, and even thought about it for a long time until the premiere of "Ip Man 1" before reluctantly agreeing, what does it mean, it shows that there are too many exaggerated and apocryphal ingredients, and Ip Man himself is embarrassed to admit that it is himself!

Wang Xiaohu can also be regarded as thoroughly understanding the suffering words of the original editor Huang Ziheng.

In the first half of the first part, Ip Man is actually an alternative character who is alone outside the martial arts, different from the masters on Wuguan Street, he is a rich man who landed with a golden key, low-key boxing, fighting, and not being forced to make a living to open a museum to teach apprentices, in the second half he was forced by the situation to become a hero, but he still can't be said to be a real martial arts person, on the contrary, Master Liao, Jin Shan Xun, etc. are martial arts people with typical surnames.

In the second part, Ip Man's identity has changed a lot, he went to the unfamiliar Hong Kong, as a complete ordinary person, he still suffered from the hardships of life, and sought the minimum conditions for the sake of food and clothing for his family, and naturally stepped into the Hong Kong martial arts full of disputes.

Wang Xiaohu always felt that Hong Zhennan, the grandmaster of Hong Boxing played by Sammo Hung in the second part, was a bit of a scene stealer, and it was Hong Zhennan who was beaten to death by the boxing king, which inspired Ip Man's blood surname, and continued to take the initiative to challenge the boxing king.

This kind of scene-stealing is different from Master Liao being beaten to death by himself in the first part, and Ip Man "beating ten at a time", at least Master Liao was too abrupt when he died, and everyone didn't react, and there was not much sadness.

But Hong Zhennan was beaten to death in the ring by the boxing king, especially the sentence he said, "I can endure it for life, but I can't bear to insult Chinese martial arts", which instantly enlarged Hong Zhennan's image and won Wang Xiaohu a lot of tears and angry flames. It also gave Ip Man a necessary reason to challenge the boxing champion.

It's just that this reason is a bit far-fetched, and Wang Xiaohu still feels that this bridge is a bit familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, I found that "Rocky 3", which is currently in the preparatory stage of Stallone, is such a bridge. (If you are interested, you can check it out.) ）

"Ya's Huang Ziheng turned out to be a direct reference to "Rocky 3"!" Wang Xiaohu rolled his eyes depressedly, and he really didn't know what to say for a while.

Originally, he felt that the second half of the script of "Ip Man 2" was a little too far-fetched, but now he found that the original screenwriter actually "borrowed" from "Rocky 3", and he, as the boss, was always embarrassed to compete with his younger brother Stallone for ideas, right?

This strengthened Wang Xiaohu's determination to revise the script of "Ip Man 2" in the second half.

Wang Xiaohu looked at the script repeatedly, and at this time, Zhao Yazhi pushed open the door of the study and walked in, and called softly: "Ah Hu, Uncle Huang, they are here." ”

"Oh." Wang Xiaohu closed the script, "Doesn't it mean that the genius is coming?" ”

Zhao Yazhi smiled: "Yes, I also complained about Uncle Huang just now, he said that he was afraid of delaying your work." After speaking, he glanced at the script on the desk, "Still worried about the script?" ”

Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and spread his hands and said, "Yes." ”

"Don't worry, it's a big deal that we won't shoot this year." Zhao Yazhi said.

"This year marks the 10th anniversary of the death of my ancestor." Wang Xiaohu said with emotion: "If you miss this opportunity, you will have to wait for the 20th anniversary, and I will not be able to do it at that time." ”

Zhao Yazhi sighed faintly and said, "I'm afraid you're tired, I've never seen you worry about the script like this." ”

"It's fine." Wang Xiaohu patted his wife's face and walked out of the study with a somewhat sore cervical spine.

Maybe it was his wife's words that penetrated Wang Xiaohu, and it also made him know that everything he created was plagiarized from the future, he used to write scripts easily, even if some scripts were carefully revised by him, after all, they were still slightly modified on the basis of others.

And "Ip Man 2" is very different, if Wang Xiaohu is not Ip Man's apprentice, if the current Hong Kong has returned, he may not be worried. He has to write with his heart, and he has to write wonderfully, and the writing is reasonable, and the difficulty is no less than creating a new "Ip Man 2".

In the living room, Huang Chunliang was drinking tea with Liang Xiang, Ye Buqing, Zhao Yun, Luo Yao, Xu Shangtian, and He Jinming.

After Ip Man's death, with the help of Wang Xiaohu's abundant funds, the seven opened Wing Chun Guoshu Halls all over the world, absorbing students from all colors to carry forward Wing Chun.

Wang Xiaohu strode into the living room, hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Seven uncles, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

Although the seven of them were Wang Xiaohu's uncles, they didn't have the same shelf as their uncles, they all got up with a smile and hugged their fists in return, Huang Chunliang smiled and said, "Aren't you surprised to see us?" ”

Wang Xiaohu nodded: "Yes, I said that I was going to pick you up at the airport, but I didn't expect you to come in advance, how rude it would be for me." ”

"There are no stinky rules between us, how can there be rudeness or rudeness." Huang Chunliang walked over and raised his hand to pat Wang Xiaohu, and at the same time said, "Let me try if you have wasted your martial arts over the years." ”

(To be continued)