Chapter 212: Behind the Scenes
Hong Kong Tsim Sha Tsui, Gateway Cinema.
In early July 1981, the premiere of "Police Story" was held here, which was different from the last premiere of "Smiling Proud Jianghu". This time, Li Xuan only sent invitations to more than 20 important Hong Kong media and more than 30 industry insiders, unlike last time, as long as a reporter could get an invitation card with a press card and an official letter.
With the influence of Chenglong and Lin Qingxia in Asia, Li Xuan is not afraid that no one will rush to see the premiere this time.
As the clock ticked to 7 p.m., the Gateway Cinema began to become lively, with film critics, journalists, celebrity directors, ordinary audiences, and even overseas filmmakers all entering. Although Li Xuan did not send out invitations in Hong Kong this time, there were at least 100 reporters present at tonight's premiere, and most of the reporters came in with their own money.
Xu Ke and his girlfriend Shi Nansheng did not sit with a group of colleagues of the New Wave this time, but sat in the team of the New Art City. Of course, a few of them were just sitting in the back row, and Lei Juekun, the boss of Princess Jin, had already sat in the front row and talked to Zou Wenhuai in a loud voice.
As for Shaw Brothers, Li Xuan didn't send an invitation at all.
Looking at the bustling crowd in the theater, Huang Baiming hesitated and turned his head sideways to Mai Jia and asked in a low voice: "Hey, bald guy, Boss Lei said last week that he supported us to make a big movie, did you talk about the budget?" ”
Huang Baiming is the weakest of the three bigwigs in Xinyicheng at the moment, and he is also the one with the least shares. He is a screenwriter, but the Hong Kong film industry doesn't pay much attention to screenwriters at all.
In the past, he could also manage the internal affairs of Xinyi City while working as a screenwriter, although his administrative ability was not very good, but it was better than Mai Jia and Shi Tian, two internal affairs idiots. But since Shi Nansheng, an administrative master, took over the internal affairs of Xinyicheng, he has become a bit dispensable, and he is only in charge of a small screenwriting department.
Therefore, after learning that Lei Juekun intended to increase investment in Xinyicheng, Huang Baiming was particularly concerned about this matter. In the film industry, big screenwriters and small screenwriters are fundamentally two concepts, for example, Huang Ying, the screenwriter of "Mr. Zombie", became famous because of this movie, and now this 'tens of millions of screenwriters' and Hong Jiaban co-produced a series of zombie films.
The two of them were one family five hundred years ago, he Huang Ying can do it, why can't he himself!
Mai Jia looked around, stretched out her right index finger and whispered, "Boss Lei said, the budget is about this number." ”
"Shhhh
Huang Baiming took a deep breath and asked unconfidently, "Really?" ”
"Hmm." Mai Jia nodded and said softly: "However, we have to come up with a script that can impress Mr. Lei first, and this matter depends on Bai Ming." ”
"A script with a budget of 10 million? It's very difficult. Huang Baiming frowned deeply, the script he used to write was at most a million investments, but now it has risen tenfold in vain, making him feel a little cloudy and ignorant.
"What's so difficult about that?" Shi Tian suddenly interjected, pointed to the stage in front of him and continued: "Isn't today's movie an investment of 10 million. ”
“……”
"Bang Bang Bang-"
Just when the three bigwigs of Xinyi City were about how to spend this 10 million, there was a sudden burst of warm applause at the scene. Everyone saw a long-haired beauty in a white off-the-shoulder evening dress slowly walking onto the stage, and at some point, seven or eight wooden chairs were placed on the stage.
After the long-haired beauty came on stage, she bowed down and said, then took the microphone and said: "Hello everyone, I am Deng Huishi, the host of this premiere, here I would like to thank all the friends on the scene on behalf of the entire crew of "Police Story", I can come to the premiere of "Mr. Police" in my busy schedule, thank you!" ”
"Bang Bang Bang-"
"I'm not going to talk nonsense, I guess everyone can't wait to see our kung fu master Chenglong play." Deng Huishi teased, and then said loudly: "Then now, let's invite all the creators of "Police Story" to play with warm applause!" ”
"Bang Bang Bang-"
In a lively applause, Li Xuan led Chenglong, who was wearing a black police uniform, to the stage, and later followed Lin Qingxia, Zhong Chuhong, Cao Dahua and Yuan Hua.
"Wow!"
Deng Huishi let out an exclamation, and then walked over to Li Xuan and the group with open arms. Li Xuan and Chenglong just thought that this was a fan who had met Chenglong and wanted to hug him, but Chenglong opened his arms, but Deng Huishi directly crossed him and hugged Lin Qingxia.
"Haha-"
"I'm laughing to death."
"Ha, the host is so cute!"
“……”
The premiere burst into laughter, and Chenglong shrugged his shoulders awkwardly and wiped his big nose with his surname.
Deng Huishi hugged Lin Qingxia for a while before letting go, and then opened her arms and smiled at Chenglong: "Brother Chenglong, I'm sorry, Sister Qingxia is my dream lover, but you are my first idol, come, idol hug!" ”
Chenglong smiled helplessly, and then hugged Deng Huishi gently.
After the two let go, Deng Huishi pointed to a few chairs on the stage and said, "Everyone, please take a seat, I don't think you need to introduce a few people on the stage in detail." Now, let's jump right into the most exciting interviews. ”
"Bang Bang Bang-"
"It stands to reason that I should have interviewed the director first, but ......" Deng Huishi paused, and continued with a curious expression: "But I saw that Brother Jackie Chan's police uniform is really beautiful, so let's interview Brother Chenglong first." ”
"Miss Deng, please ask, I must know everything." Chenglong said with the microphone.
"Well, then I'll ask." Deng Huishi thought for a while and asked: "This seems to be the first time that Brother Chenglong has starred in a modern drama in Hong Kong, compared with those early Republic dramas and costume dramas, does Big Brother feel any difference?" ”
Deng Huishi deliberately added a Hong Kong in this sentence, otherwise when she said the bad movie "Killer Trench" at this time, wouldn't she slap Jiahe in the face in front of thousands of viewers.
"Is it different?" Chenglong groaned, touched his hair and said: "The biggest difference is that it is much more real and dangerous than those movies made before. ”
"Dangerous?" Deng Huishi asked in surprise with wide eyes.
"Ahem, Aaron is really fighting for his life in this movie." Li Xuan suddenly snorted lightly twice, and interjected: "He personally went into battle for many dangerous scenes, and even I, the director, watched it with fear when I overturned, jumped off a building, crashed a car, and the like." ”
Deng Huishi was surprised and said: "Wow! Hearing Director Li say this, I want to end the interview and watch the movie now. ”
"You don't have to worry about this." Li Xuan chuckled, and then said: "We have edited out a lot of dangerous scenes in the movie, and now we can give you a sneak peek and let you see how much effort we have put into this play." ”
"Oh! Really. Deng Huishi said excitedly: "Then let us show it." ”
"Wait a minute."
Li Xuan raised his right hand slightly, and then the entire theater darkened, and the audience instantly quieted down, and several people on the stage also turned to look at the big screen behind.
A large white Arabic numeral '5' appeared on the dark screen, and then 5 became 4, then 3, but before the number could count down to 1, the sound of a car engine came from the theater.
Then the audience only felt that their eyes lit up, and they saw a tattered car rushing straight out of the hillside, and then slammed into the middle of the mountain, and finally completely overturned on its side.
"Wow-"
As soon as the audience let out an exclamation, but before they could be surprised, they noticed that the movie screen was shaking, and the camera was getting closer and closer to the car, and they knew that it was the cameraman running towards the car.
More and more people gathered around the car, and the shouts of many people were heard in the camera.
"How's Aaron? Aaron! ”
"Pull Brother Long out."
"Brother Long, are you okay?"
“……”
Aaron? The audience was stunned for a while, could it be that the people in the car were still Chenglong? So in the extreme doubts of the audience, the camera finally squeezed into the crowd.
And in the picture, the figure of Chenglong hanging upside down in the driver's seat finally appeared.
"Hiss, real people in battle"
"Holy!"
"Hit the street, it's really Chenglong!"
"No, it won't."
“……”
Looking at the reaction of the audience under the stage, Li Xuan smiled slightly, I just want you to be surprised, the more surprised you are, the more you admire, the better the box office will be.
The audience was still amazed that Chenglong actually starred in the overturning scene, and saw that the picture on the screen had changed again......
Chenglong, who was hanging outside the double-decker bus with an umbrella, was thrown out when the bus made a sharp turn, fell to the ground and rolled several times, and did not get up for a long time.
Chenglong, who was fighting against people, was accidentally kicked in the head and fainted directly, and a bunch of martial artists gathered around Chenglong to massage him to wake up.
A dragon and tiger warrior dressed in white jumped from the top of a villa nearly twenty meters high into the pool, although the water in the pool unloaded some force, but the martial artist's leg was still injured.
After making some preparations, a martial artist pretended to struggle and fell down from the second floor without any protective measures, and smashed directly next to the elevator on the first floor.
……
The exciting behind-the-scenes footage of these movies made the audience in the theater who had never seen these first amazed, and then silent.
At the moment, the whole movie theater is extremely quiet.