The Oriental Princess cruise ship was once the most luxurious gambling ship in Southeast Asia, known as the "Las Vegas of the Sea".

Bao Hanlin, who plays the gambling demon Chen Jincheng, is over seventy years old, and participated in the drama club during the Anti-Japanese War, performing "Thunderstorm", "Sunrise", "Lady of the Camellias", "Wu Zetian" and other dramas. He joined the film industry in the 60s, and joined TVB as an artist in 75 years, co-starring with Huang Xingxiu in "One House, Two Gangs of Threesome". Later, for some reason, he never participated in TV series on TVB again, and has been filming on Jiayi TV, Li's TV and later ATV.

Wang Jing was originally mentioned yì, and the role of gambling demon Chen Jincheng was played by Qin Pei. In fact, Qin Pei is not bad, there is no need to find Bao Hanlin like in later generations, Long Fang, who played Gao Yi, was replaced by Chen Ping'an with Li Zixiong.

However, Chen Ping'an still chose Bao Hanlin because he is an actor on ATV.

On both sides of the table, Zhou Yunfa and Bao Hanlin sat opposite each other. Zhou Yan's hair was combed with a big back, waxed with hair, his hair was shiny and shiny, and Bao Hanlin was wearing gold-rimmed glasses. Liu Dehua had an OK bandage on the bridge of his nose, standing at the door and looking at Zhou Yanfa worriedly.

Zhou turned over the fifth card, which was a 7 of hearts, and his hand was a flush, while Bao Hanlin's hand was only a pair of seven.

"Give Fa Ge a close-up of his cards!"

"ok！"

"Okay, Fa Ge continues."

Zhou Yanfa's face was relaxed, leaning back in the chair and smiling: "Good color. What if you don't know what to do. The fourth card has already been called two million, so there's no reason why the fifth card is less than five million, right?"

"Cards!"

"Uncle Bao, you're not just confident. You can see his hole cards. In addition to the feeling of being a bamboo in his chest, he also has to puncture his pride in stealing chickens and the pride buried in his heart...... Yes, that's ......."

"Attention departments, Exon!"

"Cards! Very good. After this time, everyone will take a ten-minute break! "

The scene between the God of Gamblers and the Gambling Demon, because Chen Jincheng was able to see through the hole cards, finally the God of Gamblers failed to steal the chicken and lost the game.

After filming, Chen Ping'an asked the staff to rest. Mainly to take care of Bao Hanlin. Bao Hanlin is over 70 years old, and he has to consider his body's ability to bear it.

Everyone stepped onto the deck and wandered around the Oriental Princess. This gambling ship is famous, and ordinary staff like them are not qualified to board the ship on weekdays.

"Director Chen, there's no need to take special care of me. I can still afford it." Bao Hanlin understood Chen Ping'an's kindness and walked over to sit beside him.

Chen Ping'an asked someone to bring him a cup of tea: "Uncle Bao, of course I know that you are getting stronger and stronger. Isn't this here to give everyone a chance to walk around the ship?"

"You." Bao Hanlin smiled and shook her head, "If it weren't for cooperating with you this time, I would have thought you were an annoying offspring."

"Why? Oh, I see, don't you ATV people see me like that?"

Last year ATV was crushed by wireless very badly. Half of the scripts handed over to Fang Yihua by Chen Ping'an have been made into TV series, except for one that lost to ATV. The ratings of the rest of the films all overwhelmed ATV.

The most hated is the live broadcast of the awards ceremony at the end of the year, and the ratings of ATV's TV series that night hit a new low in the year. Originally, the two fought against each other, and they won and lost each other. ATV wins less.

Since the cooperation between Dark Horse International and Wireless, ATV's winning margin has become narrower and narrower. News came out from the top during the year. It is said that last year's profit was greatly reduced, and it is very likely that it will lose money. Although it's just rumors. But it doesn't have to be without cause. After Qiu Degen accepted ATV, he has never lost money!

In this case, it is strange that ATV people can like Chen Ping'an - except for the movies shot by Dark Horse International.

Chen Ping'an insisted on choosing Bao Hanlin, the purpose is to learn more about the current situation of ATV from the other party. Although he has been asking Ye Zhiming to arrange someone to inquire about ATV news, some things are still the most direct feeling of ATV actors, especially old actors like Bao Hanlin.

The two chatted for five or six minutes, Chen Ping'an learned a lot about the current situation of ATV from Bao Hanlin, and seeing that the break time was approaching, he asked: "It's so miserable, the actors won't want to jump to wireless, right?"

Bao Hanlin shook her head: "How can it be so easy."

ATV's artists also have contracts and want to change jobs...... Okay, pay the liquidated damages first!

Ordinary actors are paid low salaries, and the liquidated damages are not high, but wireless is not interested. Who can guarantee that after joining TVB, it will be better than ATV's development?

The first-line actors are paid high, and the liquidated damages are also high, and Wireless is interested, but the problem is the same, Wireless has its own master, Hua Dan, after they switch to wireless, can they still be treated as first-line actors? In addition, wireless is not a big wrong, except for particularly popular actors, who are unwilling to pay liquidated damages for other actors.

So although ATV is currently being pressed by wireless very badly, there are not many actors who have jumped ship. However, there are many people who work part-time, or go to film companies to mix roles and earn some extra money.

"Things must be opposed, and perseverance will always pay off. Uncle Bao, ATV won't be pressed by wireless forever."

What does that mean? Bao Hanlin still wanted to ask, but Wang Jing came over and reminded: "Director Chen, it's time."

"The actors are in place!"

"The dragon is in place!"

"The staff was on point!"

"Personnel buried inspection!"

"Lights ready!"

"Camera ready!"

"God of Gamblers" Sixty-eighth Scene Thirteen Mirrors, Exon!".

[,！ ]……

"I announce that the God of Gamblers is finished!"

At five o'clock in the afternoon, with Chen Ping'an's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "God of Gamblers" was finally completed, and there were still seven days before the premiere on the 21st.

"That's fast!" Wang Jing muttered to himself. "God of Gamblers" from the start to the finish, the entire filming process took less than a month, and the shooting speed was extremely fast. Even though he knows that many Hong Kong films are shot at a fast pace, Wang Jing clearly feels the difference between the two.

Those movies are made quickly because of the shoddy production of the actors' performances, pictures, layouts, plots, etc., almost just take the next picture. Chen Ping'an is very strict in this regard. It is mainly reflected in three aspects.

The first is to mobilize the actors to enter the play quickly, what kind of expressions the actors should have, how to interpret the hearts of the characters, and even Chen Ping'an's facial expressions when saying every sentence can be quickly corrected; The second is the familiarity with the entire crew and the picture layout. Shooting angles, close-ups of lenses, and places that are prone to problems can be pointed out at the first time; The third is film saving, which means that there are fewer shots to shoot, so it can save a lot of time.

Wang Jing estimated. If he came to shoot "God of Gamblers", he would consume at least twice as much film as Chen Ping'an. In his opinion, Chen Ping'an took a lot of pictures less, although it was not in the script, but according to the development of the plot. There are co-surfaces that may be used in future editing in post-editing. There are also some scenes that need to be shot several times from different angles, also for post-editing.

But here in Chen Ping'an, more than half of it was saved. He judged that according to Chen Ping'an's shooting, the post-editing would only take two days to complete, because there was not much to edit.

"Boss, I'll follow Lao Mai to edit tomorrow, right?"

"Worried?"

"Curious."

"Okay."

The staff packed up the equipment and cleaned the cabin, and Zhou Yunfa came over and sighed, "I'm tired to death."

"Dragon and Tiger" was filmed faster than "God of Gamblers". It was finished three days ago, and now I'm busy editing the soundtrack, and I'm very busy. Chen Ping'an, the soundtrack of "God of Gamblers", found someone to prepare it early in the morning. Just add it when you edit it.

Wang Jing asked, "It's so fast to shoot over there, how is the effect?"

Zhou Yunfa thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I think they are too fast in pursuit of speed."

Wang Jing became interested: "What do you say?"

"It's not good for me to say about others, I only say about myself. Sometimes when filming, I feel that my performance is a little not in place, and if it is the boss director, I will definitely have to reshoot. But that's how it passed. It is said that it is two more shots, and it will be made up for it in the later production."

"So to speak. Is that drama in Xinyicheng shoddy?" Wang Jing's eyes rolled, "Then aren't they going to cry again this time?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head: "Don't take it lightly. Lin Lingdong is a director with ideas. "Dragon and Tiger" is a good script, if you participate in the script competition, I don't even know who to give the grand prize. And Fa Ge and Li Xiuxian's acting skills are not said, Fa Ge thinks that the performance is not in place, it is because of his high requirements for himself, but it doesn't matter in the eyes of the audience."

"Boss, how can you grow the morale of others!"

"You don't understand." Chen Ping'an sighed, walked onto the deck, and looked at the sea in the distance, "This year's film industry will be wonderful."

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Approaching the New Year, the smell of the New Year on the street is getting stronger and stronger, every household begins to be busy, cleaning the house, removing the old cloth and the new, purchasing New Year's goods, shopping malls and stores are prosperous, they have launched new products dazzling, various promotional activities to attract customers, the upcoming four movie posters, advertisements, in the subway, shopping malls and other crowded places are also everywhere.

Chen Baisen published an article in the "Film Fortnightly" to summarize the films released in the Hong Kong film industry last year.

A total of 132 films were released in Hong Kong last year, and with the box office of "Detective Chocolate" launched by Golden Harvest in the Christmas file exceeded 20 million, a total of 10 films with a box office of more than 20 million last year were 10, nearly double that of last year, proving the golden age of Hong Kong films' increasing prosperity.

Half of these ten movies are from Dark Horse International, which has established a very good reputation for Dark Horse International in the hearts of Hong Kong citizens, and its strong momentum is stronger than that of the new art city back then.

There are two movies with a box office of more than 30 million in 85, Golden Harvest's "Lucky Stars" and Dark Horse International's "The True Color of Heroes", as for "People and Ghosts", which are against the sky, they are classified as Western films. And last year, there was only one, that is, "A Chinese Ghost Story", which was also produced by Dark Horse International.

In the article, Chan Paksen affirmed the prosperity of Hong Kong films, but also reminded other film companies to learn to absorb the strengths of others and learn from each other's strengths to make up for their own shortcomings. We can no longer rest on our laurels, stick to the same set of films, continue the inherent film mode, and shoot the same type of movies in the same way.

If it continues like this, it will only be thrown farther and farther away by Dark Horse International, which will make Dark Horse International unbeatable, making the prosperity of Hong Kong films the background of a film company of Dark Horse International.

Innovation and learning from the West to the East are the main centers of his article, and he gives two examples. One is the multiplex cinema model of Dark Horse International, and the other is the special effects of the movie.

The multiplex cinema model pioneered by Dark Horse International has changed the pattern of Hong Kong films, allowing more movies to be released and audiences to have more choices at the same time. For itself, it also generates high profits, which is worthy of reference by other theaters.

Film special effects technology has always been valued by Western films, and Hong Kong filmmakers, Xu Ke was the first to introduce film special effects to Hong Kong, but it was also because of him that the director's "Shushan" had mixed reputations, and the investor Golden Harvest suffered heavy losses, which made Hong Kong filmmakers stay away from film special effects

[,！ However, the success of "A Chinese Ghost Story", in addition to the script, plot, actors and other factors, the film special effects technology accounted for at least half of the factors, which made a good start for Hong Kong filmmakers, and they can re-face the help of film special effects to the film itself and the box office.

Chen Baisen believes that one of the roots of the success of Dark Horse International is that Chen Ping'an is from the United States. He accepted the thinking concept of Hollywood films, combined the advantages and characteristics of Hollywood movies and Hong Kong films, took the essence and discarded the dross, and created a new film road.

And this may be the new development direction of Hong Kong films, and it is also the development direction of Hong Kong films going international and entering the West.

For other film companies, whether it is to pursue film art to prosper the Hong Kong film industry, or to achieve high box office and earn more interest rates, they should learn from the elements of success from the successful.

His article caused quite a stir in the Hong Kong film industry. The Golden Princess Cinema Line took the lead in announcing that after the Chinese New Year, its cinema line was gradually transformed into a multiplex theater. Within two days, Debao and Golden Harvest successively decided to renovate their theaters in batches after the Chinese New Year.

Golden Harvest originally planned to hold another meeting to discuss for two more days, but the box office comparison of "Detective Chocolate" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" made Golden Harvest people no longer hesitate.

"Detective Chocolate" was painted on the 8th of this month and achieved a box office of 22 million, with excellent results, but it was dwarfed by the 30 million box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the most important thing is that "A Chinese Ghost Story" is still being released!

If "Detective Chocolate" continues to be released, the box office will definitely increase, but the problem is that the attendance rate has fallen too much, and when the income and expenditure are measured, it is better to change the film. "A Chinese Ghost Story" does not have this concern, with the decrease in the number of audiences entering the theater, the number of screening halls is gradually reduced, and the current five screening halls can still maintain more than eighty percent of the attendance rate, which can fully support the release of "God of Gamblers".

Therefore, Golden Harvest, Debao, and Xinyicheng have come to a conclusion - the flexibility of the multiplex cinema model is one of the reasons for the high box office of Dark Horse International Films.

The transformation of these three cinema lines into multiplex cinemas shows that the impact of the dark horse international created by Chen Ping'an on the Hong Kong film industry has begun to appear one by one. (To be continued) R752