Chapter 45: Forbidden Screenings

"Zhu Dajiao, a small worker in the paper shop, has been brought ......up by the second uncle of the Taoist priest with a group of brothers since he was a child."

"Zhu's large intestine? What the hell is this name? Wang Jinqi said.

Li Xuan, who was sitting on the sofa, glared at Wang Fatzi. This guy, don't you know that this name is the essence! I've watched so many movies, and I still remember the name clearly.

That's right, Li Xuan is now telling Wang Jin about the general plot of the classic psychedelic kung fu movie "Scary".

"That's the name, you see, don't you remember it now."

"Uh......" Wang Jin suddenly said: "Really, then what's next?" ”

"What's next?" Li Xuan scratched his hair, he remembered that it seemed that the actor went to catch and destroy, and then met a real ghost. So Li Xuan said directly: "Next, Zhu Dajiao went to a new widow's house to catch him, and he didn't think about ......it."

"Capture?" Wang Jin's eyes lit up all of a sudden!

This salty wet guy! Li Xuan rubbed his forehead: "Don't interrupt me!" ”

"Okay, okay, I'll shut up." Wang Fatzi quickly closed his mouth.

"I didn't expect Zhu Dagut to meet a real ghost all of a sudden! Then, then the prologue began, and Zhu's large intestine woke up from his yard. ”

"Ahem!" Wang Fatzi coughed for a while: "It's gone in the middle?" How did he meet the ghost? ”

"No ......, as for the story of encountering ghosts, that's your screenwriter's business, how to write it funny." Li Xuan said depressedly, he was also confused by the beginning when he watched that movie, so he remembered it so clearly.

It's good that Li Xuan can remember so much, but after seeing someone say that this movie is a classic of psychedelic kung fu movies, he only remembered it after reviewing it again, otherwise who would remember such an old film. As for what will happen to Wang Jin when he writes it, Li Xuan is still confident, can't such a famous comedy screenwriter write a funny movie? Besides, I watched so many movies in my later life, and when the laughter was not enough, I just picked up a few jokes from later generations and added them.

After Li Xuan finished telling the general plot in fragments, Wang Jin looked at his record book and said with a worried face: "Why are there so many messy Taoist techniques, I haven't entered the temple much, how can I write it?" ”

"Saying that's your problem, now you're the screenwriter. Isn't there a Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong? You can run two more times a few days. Li Xuan said casually on the side. He remembered that the plot was probably good, and there were many places where Taoism was used, and he directly explained that so-and-so made a spell, and he couldn't remember the words that the gods were chattering.

Now Wang Jin's face darkened: "Okay, it seems that I can't soak in the girl for the past two days." What about you? Would you like to make a few trips with me? ”

"Me?" Li Xuan looked at Wang Fatzi: "I'm not going, my song is almost finished." ”

"Almost ready? So fast? ”

"Hmmm! It's a quarter of what I wrote. ”

"Go!" Wang Fatzi glanced at Li Xuan with fierce contempt: "Then it's still far away." ”

However, before Li Xuan could finish writing the song, the Hong Kong box office account of "The Grudge" arrived.

But......

"Boss Zou, what did you say?" As soon as the joy of 1.2 million yuan in his hand had not subsided, Li Xuan was caught off guard by a bad news.

"Ahem......" Zou Wenhuai coughed awkwardly: "Mr. Li, that, the film was banned if it was banned." It's okay, isn't it just a Taiwan Bay market, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars will be killed. ”

Zou Wenhuai is not embarrassed, after all, "The Grudge" was given to them for distribution, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen.

Depend on! Li Xuan was depressed for a while, why are other protagonists filming a big hit in Asia, why is he still banned?

"Can you tell me why I'm banned?" Li Xuan asked without giving up.

Well? Zou Wenhuai looked at Li Xuan, straightened out his words and said: "The approval document on the Taiwan side of the Bay says that it is unorthodox ideology and seriously promotes feudal superstition. ”

Unorthodox? Serious propaganda of feudal superstitions? Could it be the General Administration of the Temple of Light? Li Xuan was stunned, what kind of reason is this? No wonder Taiwan has some literary films that make people hurt!

In fact, Li Xuan still didn't know that at this time, Taiwan Bay, like the mainland later, had an extremely strict censorship system. There are a lot of sensitive content, such as "promoting superstition", "unorthodox thoughts", "describing the process of evil in too much detail", etc., which may be banned. Of course, the good thing is that you can make some ghost movies with orthodox ideas.

And you must know that at this time, although Southeast Asia is the backyard of the Hong Kong movie box office. But these countries and regions are not friendly to Hong Kong films.

Since the mid-70s, the quota system has been implemented, and the quota for imported films has been sharply reduced since 1976, and by l978 there was only a quota of 100 films, which made Hong Kong films basically lose this market.

In Malaysia, cinemas are required to alternately show local and foreign films, and the import, transportation, distribution and number of copies of foreign films are strictly restricted.

Since 1976, Thailand's tax on imported films has soared to 30 baht per meter of film, and 35% of the box office of imported films has to be taxed.

Xinjiapo began to raise the import tax on films in 1976. If a Hong Kong film sells 600,000 yuan in Singapore, it has to pay a tax of 200,000 yuan. If it is issued in a split account, after the box office exceeds a certain amount, 40% of the net profit must be handed over.

As for Yuelan, because of the fight with the mainland just now, Chinese films have now begun to be banned. In the next ten years, Chinese films basically disappeared in Yuelan.

It was in this difficult situation that Hong Kong films fought their way out and forged their later glory.

"Then Mr. Zou, there is no problem with the release of the film in the book, right?" Li Xuan shook his head and asked. Since you have lost such a large ticket warehouse, it is better to ask the most important place.

"Haha!" Zou Wenhuai laughed: "That's no problem, they like this kind of film over there." Besides, we have a good relationship with Toei and Toho, you can ......" Zou Wenhuai, who was talking about it, suddenly stopped and looked out the window in a daze.

What's wrong? Li Xuan also turned his head to look, but suddenly opened his mouth wide.

Puffs of black smoke are wafting out of the window, is there a fire downstairs?

"Bang!"

Before he had time to think about it, Zou Wenhuai's office door was pushed open, and He Yichang walked in with a serious face.

"Wenhuai, there's a fire on the first floor!"

"What! Fire? Or the first floor? Zou Wenhuai asked in surprise.

The first floor is on fire? Doesn't that cut off the way of life? This startled Li Xuan, and he didn't care if these two people were big guys, so he directly interjected and asked, "Is the fire burning?" Is there any place to escape? ”

"Run?" He Yichang glanced at Li Xuan lightly: "No need to escape." ”

No need to escape? Li Xuan was stunned for a moment, what do you mean?

The next moment, Li Xuan heard the sound of "wow woo wow" from far and near.

That is, the fire engine came.

(Note: If you are not in the state today, you will be changed.) In the afternoon, I stood in line at the bank for more than three hours and was exhausted. )

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