In fact, Li Xuan now wants to say a word to Shao Yifu - your uncle!

On February 5, 1981, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Xuan, who had just finished Chinese New Year's Eve at Zhong's house, was shocked to find that newspapers all over Hong Kong reported a news that caused a sensation in the Hong Kong film and television industry.

Golden Harvest's "Modern Bodyguard" has been screened in 24 cinemas in Hong Kong for 5 days, and 3 more cinemas have been added today. The scale of the 27 cinemas far exceeds that of any other film in Hong Kong's history. With such a big deal on Golden Harvest, it has almost ensured that no movie in the New Year's file can beat the box office of "Modern Bodyguard".

But on the side of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", although the Hong Kong box office will be defeated, Shaw Brothers did not come up with any countermeasures, and still ate alone there and casually screened the movie. They did not contact the retail theaters outside for co-screening, nor did they mention the number of screenings of Gaduo movies, and even released many old-fashioned martial arts movies from previous years in the theaters, which completely disrupted the screening rhythm of "Smiling Proud Jianghu".

Could it be that this is a teammate who is not afraid of a god-like opponent and is afraid of a pig-like teammate?

"How could Shaw not react at all? Did they just give up? Zhong Chuhong, who was cutting oranges in the kitchen, asked with a surprised face.

"Humph!"

Li Xuan, who was sitting on the sofa, snorted coldly, picked up a half-written sheet of music on the coffee table, and chuckled while lightly sketching with a pencil: "They don't call this giving up, at most, they can only be regarded as giving up on me." ”

"Giving up on you?" Zhong Chuhong was stunned and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Hearing the question, Li Xuan asked casually: "Where is the largest box office of Shaw Brothers movies?" ”

"Haven't you been in Southeast Asia?" Zhong Chuhong replied with some doubts.

"Bingo, you got it right." Li Xuan gently erased a wrong tune with the help of an eraser, brushed the score with his hand and continued: "The total global box office of Shaw Brothers last year was 160 million Hong Kong dollars, of which nearly 80 million was contributed by Southeast Asia, while Hong Kong's movie box office is less than half of Southeast Asia. ”

Zhong Chuhong nodded as if he didn't understand, and asked casually: "So, anyway, now that the box office in Hong Kong is lost, they don't care much about it." ”

"What can they care about in Hong Kong?" Li Xuan said with a smile: "They have invested 700,000 plus a little labor in this movie, what are these to the Shaw Brothers?" It's just a movie with a lot of production costs. ”

"Your investment ......"

"There's no need to worry." Li Xuan waved the pencil in his hand and replied slowly: "Judging from the current box office trend, even if we can't recover our investment in Hong Kong, the box office share in Southeast Asia and Taiwan will definitely allow us to protect our capital, and maybe we can make a lot of money." And what worries me the most now is another thing. ”

Zhong Chuhong silently walked to Li Xuan's side and sat down with a plate full of orange petals, then leaned on his shoulder, looked at the music score while eating oranges, and asked in a low voice, "What else is the problem?" ”

"Do you remember how many directors came the last time we watched a test film at Shaw Brothers?" Li Xuan asked casually.

"How many directors are here?" Zhong Chuhong frowned slightly, and after thinking for a long time, he replied helplessly: "I forgot, but it's a lot." ”

"There are twelve in total, and this is only the famous director of Shaw Brothers, and there are many more other unknown directors. So such a large group of people ......" Li Xuan stopped as he spoke, but he couldn't help but remember what Shao Renmei had said to him when he was in Singapore.

"What happened to a large group of people?" Zhong Chuhong saw that Li Xuan was stunned, so he took the initiative to ask.

Li Xuan smiled softly, then put down the pencil and picked up a petal of orange to eat, and replied while eating: "What's wrong with a large group of people?" Look at Jiahe, Guanghong Jingbao, Chenglong and Xu Xiwen's movie schedules are almost unscheduled. And what about Shaw? Now a large group of people are watching other children's food at home, so they are also crying and shouting to ask their parents for food, what do you say this parent will do when the time comes? ”

"Shhhh

Zhong Chuhong gasped, immediately sat up straight, and asked, "No, you mean that Shaw Brothers may let "Smiling Proud Jianghu" be painted in advance?" ”

"Judging from the performance of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" not only has not added a canvas, but also the Shaw Brothers have begun to screen old martial arts movies......" Li Xuan thought for a moment and nodded in response: "This matter is very likely, maybe those children have begun to make trouble now." Shaw Brothers makes more than 30 movies a year, and almost three are released every month, and I want to occupy the whole month by myself now, and they can't make trouble. ”

“……”

"Haha." Looking at Zhong Chuhong, who had a speechless expression on his face, Li Xuanchang laughed and continued: "You should be happy, fortunately, those Shaw Brothers cinemas in other cities don't need to listen to Shao Yifu's words, otherwise I will die this time." After that, I don't dare to co-produce Shaw Brothers anymore for big-budget movies. ”

The Shaw Brothers of this pit teammate, it makes no sense to be undefeated!

…………………………

"Click! Click! ”

On the set of Golden Harvest Axe Mountain Road, although it is still the time for the Chinese New Year, there is still a crew called "Mouse Street" who is rushing to work inside. And "Mouse Street" is a kung fu movie in the early Republic of China, which also tells the grievances and hatreds of those who fought and killed in the early Republic of China.

As soon as Chenglong shouted "click" twice, he stood up from behind the monitor and said, "Ke'an, you just hit that straight punch high!" ”

"I'm sorry, Aaron, I didn't get the punch right now." Chen Ke'an, one of the brothers in the family class, hurriedly bowed his head and apologized.

"It's okay, it's okay." Cheng Long waved his hand and continued: "Then you and Wei Cheng will practice their moves now, and we will shoot again when we are familiar with it." ”

"Okay!"

Chen Ke'an nodded in response, and quickly compared with Tang Weicheng on the side.

At this time, the kung fu films of the early Republic of China did not have the dripping and fast-changing aesthetic shots of later generations, and they often shot a fight scene from beginning to end with a long shot.

This is a great test of the ability of Wu Zhi and the actors, and Wu Zhi has to put out a wonderful fight scene in this short time of two or three minutes or seven or eight minutes, and the difficulty can be imagined. And the actors are even more tired, in addition to acting, they also have to memorize moves, once they remember the scene wrong, it will basically be wasted, and they have to start again. What's more strict is that after these moves are choreographed, you can't make mistakes in your movements, even if you raise your palms an inch during the performance, it can be considered a bad performance.

So at this time, to be a kung fu actor, you must not only be good at kung fu, but also remember your surname.

Of course, there are exceptions among kung fu actors, such as Liang Jiaren, who is now famous. When this guy entered the industry, he didn't know how to do any kung fu, but he couldn't remember his surname, dozens of martial arts moves were memorized without a few glances, and his moves looked quite beautiful, and he became one of the famous martial arts stars in Hong Kong at this time.

And "Mouse Street" is a movie used by Chenglong and Zou Wenhuai to explore the way after discussion. Chenglong himself did not participate in this movie, and even the title of director will be given to Feng Ke'an at that time, and Chenglong will only have the title of a film producer. And Golden Harvest did this because he was afraid that if the movie hit the street, it would ruin the dual names of Chenglong's actor and director.

As for Feng Ke'an, who has never been a director, what will happen when the movie hits the streets, but it is not in Golden Harvest's consideration.

"Ah Long, the box office of Hong Kong's kung fu films in the early Republic of China in the past six months has not been very good." Taking advantage of the crew's leisure, Li Haisheng, one of the leading actors, walked up to Chenglong and said.

"yes." Chenglong sat in the director's chair and looked at the script in his hand distressedly, and continued: "Who knew that I went to the United States for more than half a year, and Hong Kong became like this. ”

"Hey......"

Li Haisheng sighed and squatted down next to Chenglong, he is also one of the martial arts actors in Hong Kong with real kung fu, this kung fu film in the early Republic of China that relied on real kung fu declined, but Li Haisheng was not comfortable.

"Aaron, haven't you ever thought about making a fashion kung fu movie? It's the same as your junior brother Yuan Dart. After being stunned for a while, Li Haisheng continued to ask.

"Fashion kung fu films?" Chenglong smiled bitterly, and then replied: "Isn't 'Killer Trench'? ”

"Uh......" Li Haisheng muttered slightly, thought about it and said: "Recently, your senior brother Hong Jingbao's fantasy kung fu movies are quite popular, you can also try to transform in which way." ”

"Psychedelic kung fu movies?" Chenglong paused for a moment, and only after half a sound did he mutter, "Wait a little longer, I always feel that I am not the one who eats that bowl of rice." ”

Li Haisheng shook his head and said softly: "No matter which way you go, you have to take a step." Now it's like this, but it's only half-dead. ”

After saying this, Li Haisheng stood up and walked straight away, leaving Chenglong, who was still a little stunned, to sit there alone.

(Note: Cry, it's Brother Datang's five-vote 1w2 update ticket, I definitely don't have this ability.) I used to write that street apocalyptic text once wrote 1w2, and then my brain was completely confused, and I couldn't afford to hurt my handicapped hand. ）