After driving and taking Zhou Huimin and the two daughters to have a supper, Xiao Jian took the two girls to the test screening location of "Crazy Boy: The Raptors Crossing the River" after 10:30... Lee Stage.

Lee Theatre was originally a famous cinema in Hong Kong, completed in 1925, located at 99 Percival Street, Causeway Bay, at the junction of Percival Street and Sackel Street, facing Leighton Road.

It is mainly used for Cantonese opera, opera and concert performances, as well as film screening, and is a noble entertainment venue in Hong Kong. In the 1990s, Lee Theatre would also be demolished in the alternate world and converted into Lee Theatre Plaza.

However, the future of this world may not be, after all, the owner of Lee Hyan is the Lee Hysan family, because of the relationship with Run Run Shaw, this theater is basically rented by it, in another world with the reduction of Shaw Brothers' production, Lee Theatre was dismantled, and now Shaw Brothers has not stopped, naturally, its partnership with Run Run Shaw has not ended.

And now in 1985, Lee Stage is one of the top cinemas in Hong Kong, and it is also the hidden leading cinema of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line, the reason why it is said to be invisible, because its owner is not Run Run Shaw after all, but his friend Lee family.

By the time Xiao Jian and the three of them came to the Li stage, there were not many people in the theater, and all of them were arranged in advance by the crew, of course, Liu Dehao and other protagonists had already arrived, and Zhao Yazhi and other Xiao Jian's friends in the circle, as long as there was nothing to do, they had basically already come over to help the platform and support the scene.

After 11 o'clock, the popularity began to increase, and fans, reporters, stars, and many film critics began to gather, and by the time the test screening began, the finishing stage was already full.

Of course, because this film is a sequel, and in Hong Kong, sequels are always easy to fall behind and have no new ideas... and other derogatory terms, so this time the test screening Run Run Shaw did not come, but just asked Fang Yihua to hold up the scene for a while and left, it is estimated that if it was not the first film to break the box office record in Hong Kong, even Fang Yihua would not come.

"Bump-" The lights went out, the movie screen slowly lit up, and the famous 'SB' title of Shaw Brothers began to appear, and although Xiao Jian was one of the investors of the film, and the copyright of the film was also in his own place, but because he did not establish his own company, he did not add the title to the movie.

Of course, without adding the title, it is not without Xiao Jian deliberately reducing the precautionary psychology of Run Run Shaw and Fang Yihua, after all, with the fact that Shaw Brothers is now inseparable from him, he is forcing Shaw Brothers, who has always adhered to the blockbuster studio system, to agree to his investment in the film and share most of the benefits, it would be strange if Shaw had no ideas in his heart.

What is the big studio system?

This is a system that has not appeared in the history of mainland films, but has appeared in European and American films, and disappeared in 1948.

In Hong Kong, it is this system of large film lengths that Shaw Brothers implements.

Shaw Brothers has strong capital strength and a vast cinema line, which is the most special aspect of Shaw Brothers.

Shaw moved to Hong Kong from Singapore at the age of 50, which was a major capital reshuffle for Shaw Brothers, changing the company's development direction from cinema expansion to film production.

He is interested in Hong Kong's independent and free environment, aiming to build the Shaw Brothers Company into a Chinese-language film center comparable to Japan and the United States.

For too long, the U.S. film industry has ignored the existence of Chinese films, while Japan considers itself to represent the highest level of Asian cinema. Masaichi Nagata, chairman of Japan's Daiei Company, publicly declared at the 1954 Asian Film Festival that Chinese films were at least 20 years behind Japanese films.

In this environment, Run Run Shaw established Shaw Brothers Cinemas and shot a large number of Chinese-language films, reflecting the unique significance of the times.

The Shaw Brothers Film Company, which is framed by the large studio system, has a sense of responsibility and pioneering spirit to represent Chinese-language films.

Since 1966, among the other two largest film companies in Hong Kong, the leftist Great Wall Film Company has been affected by the special period in China, and the company has been in chaos due to the air crash of its boss Lu Yuntao, and Shaw Brothers has begun to conquer all overseas Chinese film markets with a monopolistic attitude.

In the Hong Kong film market, the annual output of 40 films has begun to monopolize more than half of the domestic box office, and in 1969, Shaw Brothers films accounted for 5 of the top 10 grossing films in Hong Kong; Among the top ten grossing films in Taipei, Taiwan, every year, Shaw Brothers films never fall into two, sometimes as many as seven.

One of the biggest features of the big studio system is its monopoly and stability, and Shaw Brothers has established Hong Kong's status as the 'Hollywood of the East' with this characteristic.

Of course, as the so-called success is also Xiao, and defeat is also Xiao He, the large-scale film length system established the glory of the Shaw Brothers in the 60s and 70s, and also led to its fall in the 80s.

Because in the 80s, because it was a large studio system, if it was to produce in large quantities, a large number of contract directors and contract actors had to be signed with Shaw Brothers; He couldn't go outside to film, but in that climate at that time, there was no way to tie up a person, and the money given by Shaw Brothers was equivalent to 'wrapping up', and the money for wrapping up was generally less.

For example, other companies say, you come to me to film, I will give you two or three times the price, so the loss of personnel is quite large, at that time, a large number of contract directors and contract actors of Shaw Brothers are gone, Shaw Brothers has to add money to them, otherwise they will not have the heart to film for you.

And everyone has to increase their salary, which is a big burden, and the cost of making a system has become very high, and later the cost of making a lot of money exceeds the income.

If Hollywood is the five major companies that monopolize the American film market, Hong Kong is the Shaw Brothers' exclusive monopoly of Hong Kong films and the overseas Chinese market.

Fundamentally, the big studios imitated the scientific management of the Fordist-like enterprise assembly line system that was popular in the United States in the 20s; The difference is that every product produced by other industries is the same, while every product produced by a film company has to be different.

The Shaw Brothers production model is part of the large studio system, which formulates a fixed production plan every year, determines the number and type of productions for the next season, and supplies them to Shaw Brothers cinemas in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. This systematic production method ensures the output and quality of the film, but it limits the artist's creative space.

This system is bound to be withdrawn as it develops.

And the Shaw Brothers for various reasons, still maintains a large length system, but because of the particularity and necessity of Xiao Jian, Shaw has to make changes for him, and this change is doubtful, if Xiao Jian no longer knows how to be a man, Run Run Shaw has a 90% chance of banning him.