Chapter 165: Shao Yifu's words
"Off-the-sword pose!"
On the screen, as soon as Ling Hu Chong's words fell, the long sword in his hand flew out and shot directly at the opponent in the air.
"Ah, sword qi!"
"Ping-Pong-"
The opponent exclaimed, and then danced the horizontal knife in his hand, and the sound of iron weapons clashing came, only to see the long sword swirl away again and fell back into Ling Hu Chong's hand. However, Ling Hu Chong did not hold the sword body steady, but instead gently pushed the hilt of the sword, causing the long sword to rotate around his body like flowing water.
The opponent takes the opportunity to swing his sword and pounce on him!
As if he didn't notice, Ling Hu Chong continued to dance his body, pushing the long sword to fly around his body. But at this time, the long sword that had been circling around Ling Hu Chong's body was like a spirit surname, and it blocked the horizontal knife swung by the opponent every time.
"Ping-Pong-"
After another clash of iron weapons, the opponent's sword was knocked out by the long sword......
Li Xuan turned his head to look at Shao Yifu who was sitting on his left, this old man was completely amazed by the most exciting fight scene on the screen at this time, and he was looking at the big screen without blinking his eyelids. Not only Shao Yifu, but dozens of people in the test room at this time, except for Li Xuan, were all amazed or frightened by this movie.
Shao Yifu is considered a movie maniac both now and in later generations. He watches movies every day, whether they are mainland films, Taiwanese films, Chinese films, European and American films, or Korean films, as long as there are copies, he will watch them, so that he can grasp the trends of the film market in various places. At the same time, he will watch the movie whether it is good or bad, so that he can analyze what is good about the movie? What's bad? In this way, you can point your film company in the right direction.
When he was young, Shao Yifu watched a maximum of 9 movies a day. And now, at the age of 73, he still insists on watching at least 3 movies a day.
Therefore, on the Shaw Brothers studio, there are two test rooms, one large and one small. The small test room is naturally a place for him to watch movies alone, and ordinary people rarely can enter it. The big test room is like a movie theater, a place for staff to study and steal teachers. Of course, sometimes Shao Yifu will accompany the staff to test the film together, and after watching it, he will discuss the gains and losses of the film with the staff by the way, and test the talents under his hands.
In fact, Li Xuan really wanted to go to Shao Yifu's small test room to test the film, after all, it was a place where he only heard his name and didn't see anything, which was quite legendary. But he didn't expect that dozens of people would come to watch his movie, and now he went to the small test room, which had to break the house.
As a result, the test screening of "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" had to be placed in the large test room.
There are really a lot of people who came to see the test film this time, in addition to Shao Yifu and Shaw Brothers' production manager Huang Jiaxi, even the famous Fang Yihua came. This woman is now also one of the major shareholders of Shaw Brothers, she not only holds power in TVB, but she can also intervene in the production of Shaw Brothers, and she can really play a role above 10,000 people under one person.
In addition to these bigwigs, the directors of Shaw Brothers may also be pouring out. Just like the two rows of people sitting in the back, casually pointing to the great directors of the Shaw Brothers, such as Tao Qin, Yue Feng, Cheng Gang, Zhang Ce, Chu Yuan, Liu Jialiang, Qin Jian, Gui Zhihong, Hua Shan, Sun Zhong, Qiu Gangjian and Li Peiquan. Anyway, most of the directors who can be named by Li Xuan in Shaw Brothers are here. Although the faces of these directors are different, Li Xuan directly ignored them, a few of these people are diehards who don't want to see the new school of martial arts movies, and it is better to provoke less.
Of course, Shaw Brothers director Li Hanxiang is definitely not here. Some time ago, Shao Yifu secretly went north, and Li Hanxiang was also one of the entourage, but he did not return to Hong Kong with Shao Yifu in the end. It is estimated that at this time, Li Hanxiang was making a movie in a film studio in the mainland.
In addition to these directors, there are also some actors and staff of the crew of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", such as the male and female protagonists Xu Xijie, Lin Qingxia, Li Jiading and others, such as Wu Zhi Cheng Xiaodong, this guy didn't sit with his director's father.
Among the people present, the two people who excited and amazed Li Xuan the most were Huang Zhuohan and Shao Weiming.
Huang Zhuohan, in his 60s, is the big boss of Hong Kong's No. 1 film company, serving as a producer, screenwriter, director, photographer, and editor, and is known as the "Ten Top All-rounders" in the film industry.
Don't underestimate this No. 1 film company in Hong Kong, but this is a film company registered in Hong Kong to make films in Taiwan. After more than ten years of development in Taiwan, First Pictures has become extremely large, not only with its own film team and movie stars, but also with the whole Taiwan screening pipeline led by Taipei Ximen Cinema Line and the national film theater chain in the United States and Canada.
Therefore, First Pictures has also become a large-scale studio-level company in Hong Kong and Taiwan on an equal footing with Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, and China Film at this time.
However, the recent first pictures do not seem to be too good. In the late 70s, Taiwanese films gradually declined, and First Pictures was also affected, plus invested in films such as "Legend in the Mountains" and "Eight Hundred Heroes".
So the current First Pictures and Shaw Brothers are quite similar, like a pair of difficult brothers. However, the dead camel is bigger than the horse, but the distribution agency of First Pictures in Taiwan cannot be faked, and with Huang Zhuohan, the Taiwan distribution of Li Xuan's film is not a problem at all.
Shao Weiming, on the other hand, is a middle-aged man in his forties, and he knows by looking at his name that he is a member of the Shaw family. Shao Weiming is not only the person in charge of Shaw Brothers in Southeast Asia, he is in charge of hundreds of Shaw Brothers theaters and a large amount of land in Nanyang, but also Shao Yifu's own son!
So at this time, it was not Fang Yihua who was sitting on Shao Yifu's left hand, but Shao Weiming!
As for why Shao Yifu is thriving in Hong Kong, but his son is running business in Singapore? Of course, this is not Fang Yihua's reason, but Shao Yifu has always pursued the Yizi teaching, in order to prevent parents from spoiling their children. Therefore, his eldest son Shao Weiming has been following his third uncle Shao Renmei to fight the world in Singapore, and Shao Renmei's eldest son Shao Weijin has followed Shao Yifu's Shaw Brothers Enterprise in Hong Kong to develop business.
Although Shao Weiming has long been famous, his style has always been very low-key, and Li Xuan has never even seen his photos before this.
This guy can't be low-key!
Shao Weiming was kidnapped during the Spring Festival in 1964, and he was tied up for 12 days, and finally his family paid a ransom of 500,000 Hong Kong dollars before he was released. His younger brother Shao Weizhong was kidnapped in front of his house in 1971, and later Shao Weizhong seized the opportunity to escape from the carriage by taking advantage of the unpreparedness. So since then, the two brothers have paid special attention to safety precautions and deliberately kept a low profile, and their real faces are rarely seen in the newspapers.
Later, there was a funny anecdote that when Shao Weiming was kidnapped in Singapore, Shao Yifu was watching a movie in the testing room in Hong Kong. When the assistant ran in to report the incident to Shao Yifu, Shao Yifu just lightly asked the robber if he had paid the ransom? The assistant said that it was mentioned. In the end, Shao Yifu said, 'Give it as requested', and sent the assistant out and continued to watch the movie by himself.
This Shao Yifu is a father who can't laugh or cry!
However, Shao Yifu actually called Huang Hanzhuo and Shao Weiming over to test the film this time, Li Xuan's heart was in vain, did he want to co-screen "Smiling Proud Jianghu" in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia at the same time?
It is estimated that only Shaw Brothers can do this kind of feat in Hong Kong.
"Ah Xuan." Shao Yifu, who had been watching the movie quietly, suddenly called Li Xuan, but his head did not turn around, and he still kept staring at the big screen.
Li Xuan glanced at Shao Yifu suspiciously, and replied softly: "Sixth uncle, what's the matter?" ”
"I think you must be curious now, why did I call Han Zhuo and Wei Ming over to watch the test film." Shao Yifu asked softly.
"Well, don't lie, I'm really curious." Li Xuan replied unabashedly.
"Haha, all this ......" Shao Yifu shook his head slightly and smiled: "All this is thanks to your "Mr. Zombie" last year." ”
As soon as these words came out, Li Xuan was confused for a while, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with "Mr. Zombie"?" ”
Shao Yifu finally turned his head, patted Li Xuan's shoulder and said, "When was your "Mr. Zombie" released in Taiwan last year? ”
Now Li Xuan finally realized that "Mr. Zombie" was released in Taiwan during the Spring Festival last year. As a result, this movie also got a box office of more than 13 million Taiwan dollars when Taiwan's economy was in a depression, which really stunned the jaws of many Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers. At this time, the Shaw Brothers is estimated to be about to learn from the same.
"Sixth uncle, this ginger is really old and spicy!" Li Xuan sighed.
"Old spicy?" Shao Yifu smiled slightly, and looked at the big screen again: "Do you really understand why I invited Han Zhuo and Wei Ming?" ”
That's not right, how do you feel that there is something in the words? (To be continued.) )