In 1958, two brothers, Shao Renmei and Shao Yifu, came to Hong Kong and founded the famous Shaw Brothers Pictures.

Now that a full 25 years have passed, Shao Yifu is still alive, and even another 25 years later, Shao Yifu is still alive. But on this stormy autumn day in 83, one of the Shaw brothers, Shao Renmei, died.

Li Xuan knew that this blow was fatal to the Shaw Brothers!

Although Shao Renmei has been away from Hong Kong for more than ten years, although he basically does not manage the production business of Shaw Brothers, he is Shao Yifu's best brother and most tacit partner, and he is still ......

He is also the most stable keeper behind Shaw Brothers.

No matter how sluggish the box office of Shaw Brothers has been in the past two years, no matter how dilapidated the films made by Shaw Brothers in recent years, the more than 100 cinemas of Shaw Brothers in Nanyang have continuously fed the declining old dragon of the Shaw Brothers and worked hard to delay its death.

But now, the helmsman of Shaw in the South Seas has died.

Li Xuan looked around Shao Yifu, but he couldn't find a successor for him. Shao Weiying, a nephew who was regarded as his successor earlier, has fallen out with him. Shao Yifu's two sons in Singapore are not interested in the film and television industry at all, but have always been ambitious in finance and real estate.

After Shao Renmei's death, the Shaw family's foundation in Nanyang will be transferred to Shao Yifu's two sons. These two guys have mastered so much land at once, and even Li Xuan, who doesn't play finance and real estate, knows what those two brothers will do.

Shaw Brothers' foundation in Nanyang is afraid that it is going to be transformed.

Now Shaw Brothers Pictures has lost the big rear of Nanyang, and Hong Kong is basically in a state of loss, which has lasted for 25 years. I'm afraid I'm going to really die.

"Whew-"

Li Xuan silently looked at the empty teacup in his hand and let out a sigh. Shao Yifu was already missing in front of him. Even the broken teacup had already been taken away by the waiter.

"There is no successor!"

The news of Shao Renmei's death did not cause much of a sensation in Hong Kong, except for some rumors quietly spread by people in the film and television industry, the outside world had little impact. After all, Shao Renmei has been out of the public eye of Hong Kong for more than ten years, and man is a forgetful animal.

Even those young people in their twenties no longer know that there was a person named Shao Renmei in Hong Kong. Many young people took the newspaper and flipped to the obituary, and let out a few questions and exclaims.

"Who is Shao Renmei?"

"Ah, Shao Yifu's brother."

"He's a rich man, too."

"Ah, it's not dead in the end."

“……”

After a few detailed discussions. Calm returned among the young people, who flipped to the next page of the newspaper and began to talk about the pictures of female celebrities. Then within a few days, there was no news of Shao Renmei in Hong Kong, but Li Xuan knew that the undercurrent of Shaw Brothers Pictures was getting more and more urgent.

Not only Li Xuan knew, but Zou Wenhuai also knew, even Lei Juekun and even Shao Yifu himself knew.

At this turbulent moment, Li Xuan's "God of Gamblers" was quietly launched. Although there was no fanfare, the lineup of Li Xuan, Zhou Yanfa and Liu Dehua still attracted a large number of reporters.

However, a few people just talked about it casually and dealt with it. Then the whole crew was put into the intense shooting.

In a medium-sized office in the Sihai Building, a group of people in formal dresses are standing. Almost everyone was dressed up to attend. And in this renovated Japanese-style room, there are several women in kimonos when you look closely.

On the tatami mat in the middle of the house, there are several people kneeling around the coffee table, including Zhou Yanfa, Huang Qiusheng, Zhong Chuhong, Yugari Oshima, and her master Kurata Hoaki and so on......

is now filming a scene where the gambling god Gao Jin gambles money in Tokyo, Japan, of course, the crew definitely doesn't need to spend a lot of money to go to Tokyo to shoot. There is no Tokyo location in this scene, so it would be good to set up the set directly in Hong Kong. For example, the scene in San Francisco that just finished filming was filmed here.

Here Zhong Chuhong plays the wife of the gambling god Gao Jin, but she is just a soy sauce role, and she can finish filming her role in one day, which makes her identity as a heroine a bit unworthy of the name.

Huang Qiusheng naturally played the villain Gao Yi, and Ah Zhen, the girlfriend of the veritable heroine Daozai in the movie, found Chen Jialing. This little girl who is a bit of a man's wife originally had short hair, but in order to make her look more mature, Li Xuan also deliberately found a wig for her to bring.

Girls who look more quiet have at least long hair.

As for the most brilliant dragon five in the "God of Gamblers" series......

"Brother Qiang, thank you for your help, it's your turn to play later." Taking advantage of the emptiness of the crew's rest, Li Xuan smiled at Xiang Huaqiang, who had just rushed over.

"Thank you, didn't my brother help me some time ago, besides, ......" Xiang Huaqiang glanced at Zhou Yanfa and a few people who were playing, and continued to smile: "Besides, I haven't filmed for a long time, but I want to have another drama addiction, and I have to thank you brother for giving me this opportunity." ”

"Haha, I'll make sure that Brother Qiang will play enough." Li Xuan said with a smile.

"Well...... man." Xiang Huaqiang suddenly lowered his head and asked in a low voice, "Do you plan to make this gambling film into a series of movies?" ”

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked in a low voice, "Yes, Brother Qiang, how do you know?" ”

"Hehe, didn't I see that my brother was going to shoot "God of Gamblers", so I went to the electrical inspection office to look at the project application." Xiang Huaqiang said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Good guy, my brother is generous, what is there in "God of Gamblers", "Gambling Saint" and "Gambler", you are neat and tidy." ”

The establishment of a Hong Kong film project in the Electrical Inspection Department does not need to be as detailed as the project approval form of an internal company, as long as a brief synopsis of the film and the production company's information sheet are submitted. Only when the project of the movie is approved, your movie title can be considered unique. Otherwise, you didn't set up a project here and ran to make a movie, and when you finished filming, you were stunned to find that your name was robbed by your opponent, isn't that dumbfounded.

In order to prevent a bunch of follow-up films from appearing after "God of Gamblers", Li Xuan took up these names, and simply set up projects with these movies. Anyway, the project application can be managed there for four or five years, enough to finish filming these three movies, and it's a big deal to pay more money every year.

However, Xiang Huaqiang said that he had time to go to see the project application, which Li Xuan would definitely not believe.

"Ha, there's no way, a lot of thoughts flashed through my mind, and I was afraid of those followers, so I simply applied for them all." Li Xuan shrugged his shoulders and replied.

Xiang Huaqiang touched his chin and asked suspiciously: "Brother didn't think about applying for any 'gambling king' or something?" ”

"The gambling king?" Li Xuan's face was extremely strange.

Xiang Huaqiang suddenly smiled and said, "Isn't my brother afraid of the one in Macau?" ”

"I'm afraid, besides, Mr. He doesn't like others to call him the gambling king." Li Xuan explained half a sentence and asked with a smile: "But Brother Qiang, didn't you read the story synopsis when you checked the project application?" ”

"Yes, but your profile is really a synopsis." Xiang Huaqiang smiled bitterly and said, "To be honest, I really can't see much useful things coming out of it. ”

Li Xuan smiled and said: "I don't set up a project for the gambling king, not because of Mr. He, but because in this movie, there is a supporting role that plays tricks, and his nickname is the gambling king." ”

“……”

After a rather funny conversation between the two, Li Xuan handed over the pages of the script belonging to Long Wu to Xiang Huaqiang, and then turned around to shoot this Sino-Japanese gambling war. As for the 'gambling king' and the like, Li Xuan is sure that there is already this project in the project approval table of the Electric Inspection Department, don't forget that Yongsheng is a famous follow-up film company.

As for the fact that "God of Gamblers" has not come out yet, how can "The King of Gamblers" follow the trend and so on. I have long said that the introduction on the project approval form is very simple, and it will not be with the screenwriter when the time comes. The actual role of this kind of project is only to occupy a name.

"Shao Renmei, Shao Renmei, if you leave, how many things will happen in Hong Kong." Standing by the floor-to-ceiling window of the office, Zou Wenhuai looked at the sky in the distance and muttered to himself.

Zou Wenhuai and Li Xuan are obviously different, Li Xuan has only met Shao Renmei once, no matter how surprised he is by the news of Shao Renmei's death, it is impossible to be sad, and he leaves this matter in the corner almost every few days.

However, Zou Wenhuai is different.

Shao Renmei and Shao Yifu are very different from each other, Shao Yifu is notoriously stingy and a little bit of grudge, but Shao Renmei is famous for his generosity and benevolence. When Shao Renmei was still involved in the affairs of Shaw Brothers Pictures in Hong Kong, he spent a lot of money to make movies, and when Li Hanxiang defected from Shaw Brothers and came back unsatisfactory, it was Shao Renmei who accepted him with a smile.

Zou Wenhuai, a former important minister of the Shao family, has also worked with Shao Renmei for several years.

Now that I think about it, almost after Shao Renmei returned to Singapore regardless of the port, the contradictions between Zou Wenhuai and Shao Yifu became more and more serious, and finally led Zou Wenhuai to defect from Shaw Brothers and found Golden Harvest.

Between the two of them, they can be regarded as a pair of old friends, but now Shao Renmei is gone......

"Knock knock—"

The door of the office suddenly rang, Zou Wenhuai frowned, and said loudly, "Come in." ”

"Mr. Zou, Mr. Cen is here, and he is outside now." The assistant secretary's voice rang out.

Zou Wenhuai took a deep breath, turned around and said, "Got it, please let him in." (To be continued......)