In Hong Kong in early April 1982, the entire entertainment industry was silent. Except for Chenglong, who has fully recovered, he finally restarted filming his "Weilong Detective", and there is no news that can attract people's attention.

Li Xuan also quietly started "Heavenly Love" in this quiet atmosphere.

Tsim Sha Tsui, an old-fashioned commercial street, the crew of "Heavenly Love" closed half of the street and was filming a movie scene.

"The moonlight in the sky shines on my chest;

Losing the light is all because of the big fool;

Lose Qingguang, so eat bento;

Actually, I'm not bad either

……”

Wu Mengda, who was dressed in a tattered outfit, hummed a song in his mouth while pushing a small cart forward. His careless appearance was loose and saggy, but it was no longer the decadence when Li Xuan first saw him.

It's just that......

"Click! Stop"

Li Xuan called a pause, and then lay on the director's chair and touched his chin in confusion, although Wu Mengda had a good performance just now, Li Xuan felt a little unspeakably wrong.

"Director, didn't I play well?" Wu Mengda trotted to Li Xuan's side and said a little cowardly: "I can play it again, it's definitely better than the one just now." ”

Li Xuan waved his hand and said, "It's not your problem, you acted very well, but I feel a little wrong." ”

"Something is wrong?" Wu Mengda was stunned.

"Hmm!" Li Xuan nodded and said, "The Uncle Da you play is a little person at the bottom of society, and he is submissive to anyone. But you just came out and gave me ...... feeling."

Li Xuan suddenly paused, looked at Wu Mengda and said, "Do you have a cigarette?" ”

"Forehead......" Wu Mengda was suddenly stunned, then shook his head and said: "No, I haven't bought it for a long time, director, you want to smoke?" I'm going to buy a pack right now. ”

"Uh, no, no, Ada!" Li Xuan hurriedly stopped Wu Mengda, who was going to buy cigarettes, and said: "I don't smoke either, I just feel that your character will be better when he comes out with a cigarette, and it's ......."

"Makeup Artist, Makeup Artist!" Li Xuan called the makeup artist again, pointed to Wu Mengda's face and said, "Let me make his face dirty, just like I haven't washed my face for three or four days." ”

Watching the makeup artist put on Wu Mengda's makeup, Li Xuan said again: "By the way, Ada, it's best to be a little more breathless in your performance later." ”

"Flowing air?" Wu Mengda asked suspiciously.

Li Xuan pursed his lips and said, "It's just like a gangster." ”

“ok！ ok！ Director, don't worry, I will definitely do it. Wu Mengda hurriedly raised his right hand and swore.

"Then it's up to you to perform." Li Xuan replied.

Li Xuan didn't ask Wu Mengda to show any nonsensical form of madness, and there was no need for nonsense in this movie. Now Hong Kong is still the era when Xu Xiwen's cold humor is prevalent, and it is far from the time when it is nonsensical, so Wu Mengda is still acting with peace of mind.

The next shooting went well, Wu Mengda's acting skills were already good, he used to be the deputy squad leader in the wireless artist class, and now he has been in retreat for a year, and his acting skills have increased a lot. is now the popular Zhou Runfa, and his acting skills were also tender in the training class at that time, but it was a crane tail achievement.

The completely different experiences of these two people are quite embarrassing.

Over the next few weeks, filming continued as usual. And Li Xuan's inadvertently invested in a "Pretty Girl", but it gave Li Xuan another surprise.

This film that Li Xuan invested indiscriminately in order to make friends with 14k, because it didn't cost much money, Li Xuan had already forgotten about it. And McDonald Bear took "Pretty Girl" to Golden Harvest Cinemas, but the senior management of the cinema chain was not optimistic, and only arranged for it to be released in a few theaters, and did not even do much publicity for this movie.

Golden Harvest is ready to wait for the dismal painting of "Pretty Girl", and then take Darong Company's "Thief Surname" on top.

As a result, when the box office statistics came out, Cai Yongchang, who managed the theater chain, was directly dumbfounded, the ultra-low-budget movie with a production cost of only one million yuan was neither a comedy nor a horror film, and there was no big star, all of them were girls randomly found by the director from the street, but the movie sold a super high box office of 780,000 on the first day of its release, and the average attendance rate insisted on more than eighty percent.

This is April, the absolute off-season for movies, according to this trend, it is not a problem for this movie to break 10 million box office. Think about "Caiyun Song", which was released on the same day as "Pretty Girl", the famous producer Teddy? Luo Bin's first film to join the production of Xinyicheng was only 410,000 at the box office.

The first performance of "Pretty Girl" is twice that of "Caiyun Song"!

As a result, due to the extremely high attendance rate of the movie, Golden Harvest Cinemas urgently increased the number of theaters and screenings for "Pretty Girl", which made its first-week box office rush to 4.83 million Hong Kong dollars, becoming the weekly box office champion in Hong Kong. However, Xinyicheng's "Caiyun Song" was painted a week after its release, and it received a box office of 2.67 million Hong Kong dollars. As soon as Robin entered the new art city, he ushered in a small fiasco.

The box office performance of "Pretty Girl" in the second week gradually began to decline, but the cumulative box office in the two weeks still reached 8.47 million.

Because reality-themed movies generally have more stamina, in the end, "Pretty Girl" relied on its good reputation and box office to be screened in Golden Harvest Cinemas for 21 days, beating all the movies released at the same time, and harvested a box office of 10.91 million.

McDonald Bear won the first battle, and Li Xuan also gained a lot, and the original investment of 500,000 yuan earned more than three times the return.

However, Li Xuan has some regrets, now that McDonald Bear has money in his hands, I am afraid that the two of them will not be able to cooperate for the time being, and Li Xuan also likes the director who can help him make money.

And when the results of "Pretty Girl" came out, McDonald Bear also became a rising star in the film industry, making headlines in the entertainment pages of various newspapers. However, Li Xuan's main concern is not McDonald Bear, but the supporting actress in the movie, Wen Bixuan, one of Hong Kong's future movie stars.

Wen Bixuan, who was still a little young at this time, was already signed by McDonald Bear when she became popular, and she studied while filming, but she stepped into the star journey smoothly

On this day, the whole crew was resting after filming a noon scene, and Li Xuan was also lying on the director's chair and was sleeping in a daze, when he suddenly felt someone tap him on the shoulder. When he opened his eyes, it was Ye Zhiming.

"Why are you here?" Li Xuan sat up straight and asked.

Ye Zhiming didn't answer, but sat next to Li Xuan and asked, "You sang a new song at Xu Xijie's concert?" ”

"Hah, how do you know?" Li Xuan asked with a big yawn.

"Wireless Pearl Channel, last night broadcast Xu Yijie's concert video." Ye Zhiming explained, and then asked, "The song you wrote is very good, are there any other songs?" ”

Li Xuan's face was straight, and he said with some unhappiness: "No, don't look for me, I'm not a songwriting tool, besides, did you sign Zhang Guorong?" ”

"Forehead......" Ye Zhiming was speechless for a while, and thought for a long time before saying: "Don't think I don't know, your new film is going to be accompanied by a song." ”

"So what!" Li Xuan replied with some stiffness.

Ye Zhiming bared his teeth and said with good intentions: "If you don't want to write songs for others, then write them for yourself." ”

"......" (To be continued.) )