73か【Shaw Brothers Studio】
Shaw's dream is to make Shaw Brothers the "Hollywood of the East". Shaw Brothers Cinemas had the world's most advanced film equipment at the time, and Shaw, who was committed to the development of sound films, spent a lot of money on the hardware facilities of Shaw Brothers Studios. He invested heavily in advanced film equipment from the United States to comprehensively improve the picture sound of Shaw Brothers films, and used the color widescreen technology that was popular in the United States at that time, called "Shaw Brothers Variety Curved Wide Screen", which was the first of its kind in Hong Kong. Hong Kong's popularization from black-and-white films to Eastman's colorful films, from ordinary screens to "Shaw Brothers variety show curved wide screen", was completed with the introduction of Shaw Brothers.
40,000 to 48,000 feet; The equipment needed for shooting stunts such as the top has separate people and workshop arrangements; The costumes and swords needed for filming costume films are fully equipped in all dynasties. All steps of a film, from script planning to final distribution, can be completed in Shaw Brothers Studios, without the need for external forces.
In terms of the production process, Shaw Brothers Productions has a set of effective ways to ensure the output and quality of the film. The first is the introduction of a dubbing team, and the actors only pronounce "ABCD...... during the filming of the film 1234", to speed up the filming, and after the filming, the dubbing team will unify the sound effects and dialogue, which also helps the actors in the north and south to not be hindered by dialects. In order to meet the standards of different markets, Shaw Brothers cut the film into three versions, the most aggressive version for the European, American and Japanese markets, the mildest version for the Singapore-Malaysian market, and the moderate version for the Hong Kong market. With the production department as the core department, it has a series of departments such as screenwriting team, director team, actor distribution, drama department, factory affairs department, art team, set, publicity and so on, which are responsible for each step, and the division of labor is orderly to ensure that each step can be closely connected.
When it comes to personnel management, Shaw Brothers has a unique approach. Due to the distance between Clear Water Bay and the city, there are 4 staff dormitories in Shaw Studios to ensure the mobility of the production staff. The personnel in the cinema are mainly divided into two categories: technicians and actors: technicians usually sign contracts and live in staff dormitories, and there are more than 500 resident technicians (including carpenters, electricians, set designers, artists, sound engineers, photographers, etc.); The situation of the actor is a little more complicated. In the early days, Shaw Brothers poached big stars from major companies with high salaries, including Li Lihua, Lin Dai and others, and signed a contract for each movie.
Wang Mingquan said to Ying Zhiji: "Starting from Shaw Brothers, the standard time for film shooting is 40 days, and the shooting period of costume martial arts films may be 80 days because of problems such as action and costume scenes, and the shooting process of martial arts films in the most golden period can be as long as 120 to 200 days. ”
Win the sick self nodded. It was through the establishment of a large number of studios that enabled Shaw Brothers to ensure the ability to shoot multiple films at the same time, and developed an independent operating structure of film investment, production, distribution, and release in the form of assembly operations, and the management of each business link was unified by Run Run Shaw, whose management system was modeled after the "big studio system" of the eight major Hollywood companies. The establishment of Shaw Studios successfully established the Hong Kong film production standard.
Wang Mingquan said: "I went to the set to film for us, and after a month or two, I saw the boss for the first time, and he had a habit of patrolling the scene once a day. I don't know what time it is, it's usually afternoon. We girls wiped their sweat on the side, chatted and drank soda, and their male actors had nothing to do when they were gone, so they smoked at the door, and as soon as they came from afar, everyone put the soda away, stepped on the cigarette, and pretended to do something. ”
Having said so much, Ying Sick is very interested in really participating in this big group, learning the operation of Shaw Brothers, and preparing for his future!
Wang Mingquan's arms were casually hugged, her eyes were paying attention to the beautiful scenery up and down the highway, and her mouth was non-stop, but the more she talked, the more addicted she became, it seemed that she really didn't have many friends, obviously she wanted to talk to someone, she was close to the seat, her hands quickly rotated the steering wheel, while driving, the scenery in her sight was spinning, like a merry-go-round in an amusement park, with excitement and fun!
While listening quietly, it's like listening to the radio.
Seeing that Ying Sick had listened carefully, Wang Mingquan also said that he was happy, and told some interesting anecdotes from all over the world, and he was more impressed by listening to her talk about the staff dormitory of Shaw Brothers, and Win Sick also knew that this was the place where the most big-name stars in Hong Kong gathered, but the details are not clear. At that time, Shaw Brothers had their own star training class, and there were also Xiaosheng Hua Dan from Taiwan, all of whom lived in the Shaw Brothers dormitory. The actors and directors work at sunrise and rest at sunset, and they all act in accordance with the notice, and they can "stay at home", which is very standardized. Wang Mingquan recalled: Every time I went to the production department of Shaw Brothers, I would see leaders such as Fang Yihua, Huang Jiaxi, and Wen Bonan. But what impressed me the most was that I always saw a tall figure hiding in the room practicing big characters. After going a lot, I realized that this middle-aged man with a smile and gray hair who often smiled was Cai Lan. We've tried to go on the set of Shaw Brothers in the early morning, and when we go to the back hills, we'll see Dillon or Jiang David, wandering around on horseback, and they're not filming, they're just a routine morning class every day. ”
However, for the Shaw Brothers staff dormitory, Wang Mingquan is not all good memories. Seven years ago, that is, on the eve of the completion of the Shaw Brothers movie on August 28, 66, in the toilet of the suite of room 102 of the Shaw Brothers actress's dormitory, the movie star Li Ting hanging in the air was found. Her suicide was mainly caused by a low career line, a hopeless future, and a bad love path, and not long after her death, her father also hanged himself. The strange thing is that four years ago, director Qin Jian also hanged himself in the same place. Then the Shaw Brothers dormitory began to frequently spread the rumors of haunting, and people were panicked for a while. To this day, the Shaw Brothers Residence is one of the most famous haunted black spots in Hong Kong, based on the many ghost stories that have been told at the Shaw Brothers Residence.
Therefore, Wang Mingquan and other celebrities are so impressed by Win Sick, there is no way, they have all lived here and Win Sick has talked about ghosts blowing out the lamp, and some terrifying passages can even wake people up from their sleep. Many people like to win the sick self, and more people are also cursing the winning sick self is too bad, why come up with such a terrible story!
Wang Mingquan obviously has palpitations about this, and has buried a few words about winning the illness more than once, and winning the illness has laughed every time, no matter what, it is a recognition of the ghost blowing the lamp, and this bad relationship also thinks it is quite interesting.
"Hiss!" The cacophony of friction echoed around the corner, and the rhythm under his feet was ignited in an instant, and the sound of the coordination between the accelerator pedal and the brakes could only be felt with the heart.
The thoughts in his eyes were synchronized with Wang Mingquan's words.
"Produced by Shaw Brothers, it must be a good film", this is the most famous slogan of Shaw Brothers films. Although as a large commercial studio, Shaw Brothers films cannot be "necessarily good", but for a long time, Shaw Brothers films have indeed produced a large number of masterpieces in a variety of different themes, genres and styles. It is said that in order to ensure the quality of the films produced, Run Run Shaw even burned inferior films many times so as not to affect the reputation of Shaw Brothers.
Interestingly, Mao on the mainland also borrowed a movie from Shaw Brothers. In the mid-1970s, Mao developed cataracts and gradually reduced his reading of books and newspapers. Hua knew that Mao liked to watch movies, so he called Wen. Change. Liu, who is part of the film manager, tried to get some Hong Kong films back. At that time, there was no cultural exchange between the mainland and Hong Kong. State. Army. District. Politics. Committee, Guang. East. Province. Send. The first book. Remembering Wei. Through his connections, Wei found a friend of a Hong Kong lawyer who was close to Run Run Shaw and offered to borrow the film from Shaw Brothers. Shaw was taken aback when he learned of the situation, thinking that the mainland was going to criticize his film. A lawyer friend comforted him and said, "What are you afraid of, now Nixon has gone north. Kyo, why can't you take the movie as a link, and the north. What about good relations in Beijing? Shaw accepted the lawyer's friend's offer and agreed to lend the film to the mainland. is also because of the relationship between the movie, the relationship between Run Run Shaw and the mainland is slowly heating up. After that Shaw went up. Secretly visited the sea and other places, when Liu Yiwen. Change. In the name of the ministry, he personally reported to the higher authorities to ask for Shaw's return, and the ministry quickly approved it. This is already two years later. Change. Leather. Open. After the release, Run Run Shaw returned to the mainland to run schools, almost all over every province, and this qiē was not unrelated to Mao's previous watching of the films made by their Shaw Brothers Film Company.
At this point, Shaw Brothers began to conquer all overseas Chinese film markets with a monopolistic attitude. Building on the solid foundation of Shaw Brothers Studios, the annual production of the film continued to increase, and at its peak, Shaw Brothers Studios had 16 sound stages. Since 1966, the Shaw Brothers has always maintained an annual output of 30-40 films, and has begun to monopolize more than half of the local box office in the Hong Kong film market, accounting for 5 of the top ten grossing films in Hong Kong in 1969; And the stage of the table. Among the top 10 grossing films in the North City every year, Shaw Brothers films never fell short of 2, sometimes as many as 7, until the Shaw Brothers graduated, leaving more than 1,000 works for Chinese films. This is directly related to the establishment of Shaw Brothers Studios.
However, what we already know is that since the beginning of the 70s, television and other entertainment media have begun to have an impact in the entertainment industry, and after the launch of radio in 1967, the number of moviegoers in Hong Kong has fallen from a peak of 90 million in the 60s of the last century to 50 million in 1975. The audience's appreciation psychology is also changing: the assembly-line film products of large factories are gradually unable to satisfy the audience, and the audience is more willing to see new and creative works. In May 1987, Shaw Brothers announced that it would stop producing films.
However, this is also the time of his own rise!
Win the sick has drifted the car into the Shaw Brothers parking lot with a domineering momentum-
The most beautiful and moving scene of drifting is that the trajectory of the body movement drags the arc driving position, and then the body moves horizontally, relying on the wheel to lose grip for a moment, and the operation and operation beauty of centrifugal and instant pulling from the corner.
Men who can drag racing are handsome, and men who can drift are even more sultry with their hot blood. What he didn't notice was the strangeness in the eyes of Wang Mingquan, who was also a confident strong woman in the passenger seat beside him, she could see a scorching light flashing in the other party's eyes, staring eyebrows, deep and calm eyes, his eyes were full of confidence and fiery, and he formed a sharp contrast with him.