300 Lawsuits
Although the outside world has condemned Wang Xiaohu one after another, the inside of Concord Company is quiet and peaceful, after all, there are only about 20 employees in the entire company, and most of them are members of Seven Little Blessings. [No pop-up novel network]
Now they are all busy, Yuan Heping, Jackie Chan, Yuan Xiaotian and other original members of "Serpentine Trickster" went to the Shaw Brothers studio to shoot with the script of "Drunken Fist" written by Wang Xiaohu. Before leaving, Wang Xiaohu patted Jackie Chan on the shoulder and said: "Don't deny your style because of temporary gains and losses, it's enough to believe that you are right, if you persevere, sooner or later you will become popular." ”
Although Jackie Chan can't understand the meaning of Wang Xiaohu's words now, he still believes in Wang Xiaohu's vision and decision, nodded vigorously and followed Yuan Heping.
The same appeasement work also appeared in Sammo Hung , Yuan Biao and others, among the Seven Little Blessings, Yuan Biao was unconditionally on Wang Xiaohu's side, the post-production work of "The Loser" was nearing the end, Wang Xiaohu raised a few details after watching the sample film for Sammo Hung to revise. Yuan Biao asked in a low voice: "Ah Hu, when will this film be released?" ”
Wang Xiaohu smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry, wait." ”
"Wait" Wang Xiaohu said the sentence dozens of times, every time someone asked, he replied like this, there was no way to make Yuan Biao and others anxious, no one knew when he said "wait" in his mouth.
After returning home, Wang Xiaohu went to the small study on the second floor, Zhao Yazhi had already cleaned up the place, and sent tea to wait, and said with a smile when he came in: "Ah Hu, I'm ready, when will we start work?" ”
"Now." After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he lowered his head and kissed her, and said in surprise: "It's so fragrant!" ”
Zhao Yazhi chuckled, picked up the pen and said, "Don't make trouble, hurry up and do serious things, now there is too much nonsense outside, and even my brother called me to scold you." ”
"They like to say what their freedom is, and we just need to do our own thing." Wang Xiaohu sighed, shook his head and began to get down to business.
The so-called serious thing is actually very simple, that is, Wang Xiaohu dictated, Zhao Yazhi made a record, who made her handwriting better than Wang Xiaohu.
Wang Xiaohu dictated the script of the TV series "Jingwumen", it is said that this film is a classic masterpiece of ATV, shot by Donnie Yen, Wan Qiwen, Kaohsiung and other Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, but now Wang Xiaohu chose to shoot in 73, and the object of cooperation is Li's (ATV's predecessor) old rival TVB, which is really a bit interesting.
"Jingwumen" is ATV's annual masterpiece, and it is also Donnie Yen's classic masterpiece that mainland audiences know for the first time, Donnie Yen strongly demanded in the prologue at the beginning of the film: pay tribute to the grandmaster Mr. Bruce Lee, and tell the audience clearly the essence of Jeet Kune Do. But Donnie Yen is the world's biggest dragon fan, and he is also the most successful and influential dragon fan, and he is more direct and crisp than Stephen Chow in promoting Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do.
At least Donnie Yen's own martial arts cultivation is the highest among all dragon fan movie stars, and his interpretation of Jeet Kune Do is also the sharpest one in Wang Xiaohu's memory. And his background is also very similar to his idol Li Xianglong: American educational background, Chinese martial arts roots, Western rebellious spirit, and even before Wang Xiaohu's rebirth, Donnie Yen's performance and fighting style in movies are also in the same vein as Bruce Lee.
This is also one of the reasons why after Wang Xiaohu was reborn, he copied and plagiarized Donnie Yen's works after careful consideration. From the current point of view, Wang Xiaohu has done everything right, Donnie Yen's style has evolved from Bruce Lee, but it is more open and closed in terms of martial arts action, which makes people always want to stop.
The TV series version of "Jingwumen" has a lot of advantages over the movie version, first of all, it is long, and the content of 30 episodes successfully portrays Chen Zhen, Huo Yuanjia, Cai Liujin, Takeda Youyou, Liang Shrimp, Qiqiao and other characters vividly, and even the villains Cai Xuefu and Takeda Shinxuan are also very plump, the starring camps are all righteous and awe-inspiring, and the villain camp has a hateful toothache.
Wang Xiaohu likes this TV series very much, in the past he prevented Bruce Lee from entering the TV industry because he was afraid that Bruce Lee would delay the filming of other films because of TV, but now, Bruce Lee is gone, and the audience is not very interested in kung fu comedy, plus Run Run Shaw sent to the door to play the acquisition, he also took this opportunity to find a reason to enter the TV circle.
In the past, he must not have said anything about taking money to buy Li's TV station, and buy it directly to Run Run Shaw's TVB to fight in the ring, but now he is not like this, on the one hand, he has a very good relationship with Run Run Shaw, and the cooperation between the two is also very harmonious, and although Li's started earlier in the TV industry, it is far less than TVB's pace in terms of scale, at least TVB has now realized the importance of training local movie stars, and the wireless training course has also entered the fourth phase of recruitment.
Chen Zhen brought his sister Xiaoyan to Shanghai, where he worked many jobs and clashed with Cai Xuefu, the son of Cai Liujin, the boss of the largest local gang, the Qing Gang, and thus formed an indissoluble grudge. In Shanghai, Chen Zhen noticed that the local martial arts world was fragmented, with its own sects set up, as if it were a plate of scattered sand. At the same time, his sister befriended a nurse named Yumi Takeda, the only daughter of Yukio Takeda, the head of the Takemoto Concession."
This is the beginning of "Jingwumen", Wang Xiaohu said, Zhao Yazhi recorded quickly, looking at Zhao Yazhi who was writing quickly, Wang Xiaohu smiled silently, thinking that his wife would also shoot classic works such as "Shanghai Tang", "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", "Guanyin", "The Legend of the New White Lady" sooner or later, and now it can be regarded as laying a good foundation for her.
"Ah Hu, who are you going to let play Chen Zhen?" Half an hour later, Zhao Yazhi put down her pen and looked up and asked, Wang Xiaohu went up to give her a shoulder massage, and said with a smile: "Naturally, your husband and I are here to act." ”
Zhao Yazhi didn't have the slightest opinion on this answer, she just looked at her husband's white hair with some worry and said, "But your hair"
"It's okay, just bring a wig when the time comes, Chen really has long hair." Wang Xiaohu smiled self-deprecatingly: "If I change my hairstyle rashly, someone will jump out and accuse me again." ”
"Huh." Zhao Yazhi saw that her husband was not sad, and said with a sweet smile: "Who will play the beautiful one?" ”
"Of course it's the lady, you're here, our little couple is a film critic husband and wife, and we've collaborated on two films! This TV series is naturally up to us. ”
"I'm afraid that Uncle Shao will not agree when the time comes."
"Ignore him, I have already discussed it with him, if he doesn't agree, how can I make him happy."
"You have a lot of ideas!" Zhao Yazhi smiled and continued to write
"According to the Hong Kong Supreme Court, they recently received a complaint, the plaintiff is Zou Wenhuai, the head of Hong Kong Golden Harvest Film and Television Company, he stated in the indictment: "Jingwumen" was produced by Golden Harvest Company in 1972, filmed, and distributed by Golden Harvest Company, no matter who can adapt and remake it in any way, Concord Film Company and Shaw Brothers TVB TV This move has constituted infringement, Golden Harvest expressed great anger at this, Zou Wenhuai said that they will use legal means to stop the occurrence of such despicable acts."
"Jingwumen" is suspected of infringement, and Zou Wenhuai wants to sue Wang Xiaohu."
"Concord Company is not alone, it has just been acquired by Shaw Brothers, and it has been sued for infringement."
The latest news said that the Supreme Court has issued a lawyer's letter to Wang Xiaohu, and Golden Harvest Zou Wenhuai also hired a well-known Hong Kong barrister to denounce Wang Xiaohu's infringement, the lawyer's letter said: "Jingwumen" not only opened a new wave of enduring Chinese martial arts films, but also Hong Kong's first box office hit the top five million, Bruce Lee is a Hollywood superstar invited by Golden Harvest, Wang Xiaohu cooperated with TVB to prepare for the filming of the TV series version of "Jingwumen" without the consent of Golden Harvest, which has infringed on Golden Harvest's interests, You are hereby ordered to immediately cease cooperating with Shaw Brothers and compensate Golden Harvest for economic losses of HK$3,000,000. ”
In late May, the major newspapers in Hong Kong comprehensively reported such a news, the Hong Kong citizens who had some complaints about Wang Xiaohu were once again ignited their anger, everyone in the unit, in the hotel, in the teahouse, and all kinds of leisure places are discussing the matter of Golden Harvest suing Wang Xiaohu, most of the Hong Kong citizens expressed sympathy and support Golden Harvest, only a small number of people think that the more fierce they are, the more interesting it is, holding the mood of watching the play, in their eyes, the "Wang Xiaohu infringement" incident is far more wonderful than the "Watergate Incident" in the United States, Come nervous, come enjoyable!
When Wang Xiaohu received the lawyer's letter, the expression on his face was stunned, and then he couldn't cry or laugh, he called Run Run Shaw while looking at the lawyer's letter: "Uncle Six, Jiahe has attacked the door, and the lawyer's letter has been delivered to my desk." ”
"You kid is not afraid of heaven and earth, and you can't deal with a lawyer's letter?"
Wang Xiaohu said aggrievedly: "That's not the case, although I have prepared here, but I always need a sharp machine gun, don't I, borrow your barrister friend Benaki to use, and I will also have a good time with Golden Harvest." ”
"Okay, you kid have to do a good job, don't be like I sued back then." Shaw encouraged, saying that the scene was somewhat similar to that time, when Zou Wen had the idea of starting anew, and had already secretly planned for the new company to not only obtain support from Thailand and Taiwan, but also to distribute the film overseas through Shaw Brothers' old rival Cathay Pacific.
In addition, Zou Wenhuai also secretly reached an agreement with the filmmaker, planning to jointly shoot "One-armed Knife vs. Blind Man", hoping to start the first shot of Golden Harvest's conquest of the film industry. -- In order to make this very commercial gimmick "Zhongyu War", Zou Wenhuai pried away Wang Yu, the top actor of Shaw Brothers who starred in "One-Armed Knife", and circumvented the prohibition order and arranged "One-armed Knife vs. Blind Man" to be filmed in Taiwan.
Rao is Zou Wenhuai thought he was doing secretly, but he was learned by Run Run Shaw soon after, which immediately caused a sensational dispute in the film industry that year. In 1969, Wang Yu performed "The One-Armed Knife King" again, which was also at the peak of the box office and was widely popular. Later, Zou Wenhuai instigated Wang Yu to rebel against the Shaw Brothers, and blatantly used the story of "One-armed Knife" to make a transnational film, how could it not make the sixth uncle angry and angry? So, when "The Blind Man vs. the One-Armed Knife" was released, Run Run Shaw personally stepped in and pointed out that Golden Harvest infringed copyright; Zou Wenhuai responded calmly, saying that he and Wang Yu had also participated in the creation and production of "One-armed Knife". This copyright dispute even went to court in the end, and the two even went to court in person, turned their faces on the spot, and spent millions of attorney fees for this, until the end of the film's screening date, the lawsuit is still not over!
This is the infringement incident back then, I can't imagine that 3 years later, Wang Xiaohu will also be sued by Golden Harvest, how can you make Run Run Shaw feel interesting?
"Retribution, retribution!" Run Run Shaw hung up the phone and laughed in the office, "Wang Xiaohu, this kid really suits my appetite, last year he instigated Bruce Lee to jump out of Golden Harvest, and now he vomits blood from Zou Wenhuai, obediently, this kid is really my lucky general, interesting, so interesting!" ”
After Run Run Shaw finished laughing, he immediately called Benaki on an emergency call, Benaki suddenly came to his senses when he heard it, you must know that he handled the matter of suing Jiahe for infringement back then, and now he heard that Jiahe was going to bully Wang Xiaohu, the barrister patted his chest without saying a word and said: "Shao, you can rest assured, you tell Wang Xiaohu, even if you don't want a penny of lawyer's fees, I will also fight with Jiahe, and if I don't beat Jiahe in court, it is not enough to get out of the evil anger of the year!" ”
"Good!" Run Run Shaw nodded and shouted, Xiaobei gave Lao Shao a lot of face, Lao Shao felt that he also had a lot of face, so he quickly called Wang Xiaohu and told him about it.
Wang Xiaohu was very satisfied after hearing this, patted Run Run Shaw's ass and said: "It's still the sixth uncle who has a wide network, and I, the little tiger who has just come down the mountain, is really helpless against Jiahe." Sixth uncle, the loss fee of 3 million that people asked for this time is much more than the 30,000 yuan you asked for back then! ”
"Hmph, that anti-bone boy!" Run Run Shaw got angry when he thought about it, "You prepare all kinds of information, I'll go and go to the old relationship, we will definitely not lose this lawsuit!" ”
"Okay, with the sixth uncle out of the horse, I'll be relieved." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "I look at this, let's put it first, let's finish the audition of the actors of "Jingwumen" before it's too late, take advantage of this lawsuit to do free publicity, how much publicity money is left." ”
"You kid, you have a lot of ideas!" Run Run Shaw laughed and scolded-
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(To be continued)