Chapter 328: Undercurrents are surging
"You want to start your own company?"
Hong Jingbao first felt stunned for a while, and then suddenly felt that this was a matter of course. The Hong family's class is gradually getting bigger, but there are always so many resources, and the brothers don't spread out to find food where they can eat enough. Even the family class behind the Hong family's class, after following Chenglong for a few years, began to lose heart.
is also the little junior brother Yuan Dart in front of him, although he is not as famous as him, he can also take charge of himself.
"Then you ......" Hong Jingbao paused, hesitantly continued: "Then have you figured out how to open a company?" ”
Yuan Dart glanced at Yuan Kui, and then replied cautiously in a low voice: "We plan to talk to Uncle Chang tomorrow, I don't think he will refuse." ”
He Yichang? This is the same satellite company as Baohe as Jiahe, Hong Jingbao nodded secretly and said: "Let's talk about it if you think about it, you senior brothers can make a difference, and I, the senior brother, am also happy." By the way, do you have enough people to open a company? ”
"Uh-" Yuan Kui was stunned for a moment, smacked his lips and said, "It's just the two of us now, we plan to hire ...... after the company is done."
"No, no, no, if you don't have enough manpower...... Hong Jingbao pondered for a moment and continued: "Let's use Baohe's manpower, anyway, I don't need so much now, you are all familiar with it, it is just right to build a shelf for you." ”
"Thank you, brother!" Yuan Dart and the two said gratefully.
Because of the full support of Golden Harvest, coupled with the reduction of Golden Harvest's own production, its scale has expanded to more than twice that of the new opening. Larger territory, more labor, and these people who rely on Hong Jingbao for food are all reasons why Hong Jingbao agrees with the separation of the two Yuan Dart brothers this time.
And almost all of these workers are Jiahe's personnel when Baohe first opened, and since the two of them opened a satellite company for Jiahe, these manpower are not a change of boss.
It's just that......
"Ahh
Hong Jingbao sighed silently, the world has changed in the past few years, and the people in the Yuan family class are scattered and scattered. Chenglong opened his fist and bravely entered Hollywood, and he himself opened Baohe. Yuan Hua went to Xuanyuan and got into the mix, and now Yuan Dart Yuan Kui is going to open a company again.
Now, it is not easy for several brothers to get together again.
A week after the celebration banquet of "God of Gamblers", Tahoe Film Company, founded by Yuan Dart and Yuan Kui, quietly enclosed a piece of land on the territory of Baohe on Axe Mountain Road. Because it was just one more brand, it didn't alarm anyone in the outside world, and the two brothers Yuan Dart and Yuan Kui Shi also invested in the intense preparation of the new drama.
On March 8, 1984, the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards was successfully held.
Sing Tao Daily, which has deep pockets, invested a lot of money this time and moved the venue of the Academy Awards to the auditorium of the five-star Regent Hotel. Celebratory banquets and award ceremonies are held in one place. It saves a lot of trouble for the Academy Awards Organizing Committee. The Regent Hotel is also located next to Victoria Bay. The scenery is magnificent. It's a great place for big events.
Li Xuan had a small impression of this hotel in his later life, of course, it was not that he had been to Hong Kong, but that there was such a plot in Stephen Chow's movie "Domestic Lingling Paint" in the later generations, and the actor mistakenly thought that the hotel he would stay in Hong Kong was the Regent Hotel. Later, I found out that it was the Regent Hotel.
The nonsensical funny mode has long been deeply embedded in movies and life at that time.
In this year's Academy Awards, the biggest call for winning the award is not Wu Yusen's "Bloody Heroes", nor Wang Jin's "Happy Ghost", let alone Chenglong's "Police Story 2", but "Half of the People" produced by Yindu Organization and Li Hanxiang's "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" filmed in the Forbidden City on the mainland.
Among them, it is obvious that "Half the Man" has a bigger chance of winning, with nine nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Newcomer, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Film Score.
However, Li Hanxiang is also worthy of being a famous director in Hong Kong, and the movie "Listening to Politics with a Curtain" was made majestic by him. And it makes people's blood boil, and they can't wait to travel back to that humiliating history to organize all this happening.
Therefore, "Listening to Politics" finally won eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Newcomer, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.
Of course, Li Xuan is more interested in the hero and heroine of this movie.
Needless to say, Liang Jiahui, the actor of "Listening to Politics", basically knows a little gossip in the Hong Kong entertainment industry and knows that this guy is just because he starred in this movie. In the end, he was banned by the Taiwan authorities and had to open a shop to sell groceries to earn a living. At that time, Liang Jiahui's life was very difficult, and his classmate Liu Dehua in the wireless artist class was very different.
Well, no, when Liang Jiahui was banned in later generations, Liu Dehua was also being hidden by wireless because of contract problems, and his life was also not easy. So at this time in the afterlife, these two guys are really a pair of standard brothers.
However, Li Xuan's wings fanned Liu Dehua directly away from the original track. So this time Liang Jiahui was banned by Taiwan, and Liu Dehua did not accompany him to endure hardships.
As for whether Li Xuan rescued Liang Jiahui......
Come on! Liang Jiahui is a well-known good man in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and his future wife met him when he was banned and declined. With such a good marriage in Hong Kong, Li Xuan is too lazy to break up, and he doesn't have the ability to fight against Taiwan now.
As for the heroine of "Listening to Politics with a Curtain", it is naturally our eternally eighteen-year-old Grandma Liu-Liu Biqing.
However, although she was nominated for Best Actress this time, she excused herself and did not come to Hong Kong, which made Li Xuan, who wanted to see Grandma Liu, slightly disappointed.
As for excuses or something, one is that she has to pay all the expenses herself, which is a bit too high for the salary in the mainland at this time; The second is that I heard that she had a conflict with the crew, and I don't know how to solve it at this time.
Hong Kong crews go to the mainland to film, and there are often conflicts because of the treatment of personnel from the two places. For example, when Liu Jialiang went to the mainland to shoot "North and South Shaolin", he had a deep conflict with Li Lianjie because of the treatment issue. So the contradiction between Liu Biqing and the crew this time is nothing more than this.
In the end, "Half the Man" won a big victory, and the best director and best film were won by him, and the best actor was won by Liang Jiahui, who starred in the film for the first time, thus starting his next 'miserable' life.
And Li Xuan's company only won a best cinematography because of Wu Yusen's "Bloody Heroes". This is the same as Shaw Brothers' "Seven Days of Wrong Love" won the Best Actress, Golden Harvest's "Police Story 2" won the Best Action Design, and Xinyicheng's "The Wrong Car" won the best movie song.
As March draws into passing, the situation of negotiations between China and the UK is becoming clearer.
In April 1984, British Foreign Secretary John Horvey arrived in Hong Kong after a visit to Yenching, where he issued a statement announcing that Britain would renounce its sovereignty over Hong Kong after 97 years. "It is unrealistic to reach an agreement that would enable Hong Kong to remain under British rule beyond 1997," the statement said. ”
As soon as this statement came out, Hong Kong was in an uproar, and many right-leaning industrialists changed their stance or emigrated overseas. It's just that although Hong Kong has seen another small wave of immigration, the Hong Kong stock market has rarely begun to rise slowly, which has made the company bigwigs who have survived the stock market crash secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
Among them, the happiest is Lei Juekun, the boss of the Golden Princess, who breathed a sigh of relief and did not carry out any drastic reforms in Hong Kong, but invested a lot of money to start his own cinema chain in Taiwan.
It's just that he didn't know that an inexplicable hidden danger began to brew in the Golden Princess's lifeblood, Xinyi City.
And in April, Li Xuan's "Gambling Saint" has also been launched......
Li Xuan chose to star in "The Saint of Gambling" for Zhou Xingchi first, and he was in a hurry to launch the project so soon, not for nothing. Among all the comedy movies of Zhou Xingchi, "The Saint of Gambling" is the one with the least nonsensical laughs, and even "The Gambler" is much more nonsensical than "The Saint of Gambling".
It can be said that "The Saint of Gambling" is the beginning of Stephen Chow's real exploration of nonsensical laughter, and later deepened this nonsensical laughter step by step. In "The Saint of Gambling", Zhou Xingchi's performance also tends to be serious. The whole movie does not have that extremely exaggerated acting style, nor does it have that kind of extremely dramatic dialogue, and it seems closer to the cold humor effect of the Xu brothers.
So in this era where there is no nonsense at all, it is particularly important to find a movie that intersects between the two comedy genres.
And "The Saint of Gambling" obviously met Li Xuan's requirements.