Hu Jinquan made a movie, the requirements were very strict, Zhang Aijia could not stay in Hong Kong for a long time, and he had to fly back to South Korea the next afternoon.

Shen Chong accompanied her for a morning, and then sent her to the airport, Zhang Aijia was helpless against his laziness, so he could only let it go, and when the two separated at the ticket gate, the relationship finally recovered from embarrassment to the level of laughter and laughter.

Good women are also afraid of rotten people, and being cheeky is the first artifact of bubble girls.

Of course, not everyone dares to be so brazen, Shen Chong can let go of his face, mainly because of the two hearts necessary for a traverser - bursting self-confidence and a fun-seeking game heart.

After Zhang Aijia left, Shen Chong found a newsstand at Kai Tak Airport, and after flipping through a few newspapers, he quickly found the content he needed.

"The movie "Crazy Robbery", which has attracted much public attention, was screened at the Jade Pearl Cinema under Shaw Brothers last night, and after the film screening, this newspaper cooperated with the film company to conduct a questionnaire survey on the audience, and the results showed that more than 7 percent of the audience said that this was the most scary movie they had ever seen......

"Here's a copy of this." Shen Chong folded the "Hong Kong Commercial Daily" in his hand, took out a dollar, handed it over, and pretended to ask unintentionally: "Boss, do you know "Crazy Robbery"?" ”

"Yes, no one in Hong Kong now doesn't know." The boss said while making change, "Based on the 7o Longhu Mountain double corpse murder case, several newspapers have been talking about this case recently, some say that the murderer is someone else, some say that after the man's death, his footsteps can often be heard in the dormitory where he lived before his death, and some say that after the woman's death for a long time, someone has seen her in the tea restaurant she used to go to, in short, it is very mysterious." ”

Shen Chong took the change and asked with interest, "Are you going to watch this movie?" ”

"I'll check it out when I have time." The boss is a man of about forty, he opened a copy of "Daily Daily", pointed to the headline, and said with a disdainful smile: "Look, it says that someone was scared in the theater last night, and he was finally carried out, and his courage was too small!" ”

Shen Chong was stunned, this is a bit similar to the joke that scared people to death in the theater after the release of "Midnight Bell", could it be a joke specially arranged by Zhu Jiading without a teacher?

took the newspaper and looked at it, Shen Chong smiled - the scene described in the newspaper, he saw it at a glance last night, not so much that he was scared and couldn't walk, but that the pair of men and women took the opportunity to watch horror movies and achieved positive results, the woman was about shy, in order to cover up in front of her friends, she lied that her frightened legs were weak and needed to be hugged.

But this is a good thing, Shen Chong didn't expose it, and said with added fuel and vinegar: "This is too exaggerated, I'll go to the theater at night to see if it's really that scary." ”

"I thought so too."

Gotcha, another set of ......

In the filming process of "Crazy Robbery", Shen Chong provided a large number of later classic psychological horror films and ideas for Xu Anhua's reference, Xu Anhua with an extremely sensitive film sense, well grasped the core of it - the balance between the environment full of unknown dangers and the exuberant curiosity of human beings, the resulting shots are very psychologically stressful, and few people in Hong Kong have made horror and suspense movies before, the audience lacks immunity to this, and at first sight, they are naturally frightened.

"Crazy Robbery" mainly has a lot of innovations in shooting techniques and lens language, as for the plot, there is not much depth at all, it is a relatively pure commercial film, so when it comes to market positioning, Shen Chong used a very vulgar "most scary" as a gimmick to attract ordinary audiences.

After Shen Chong left the newsstand, he found a public phone booth and made a call back to the film company.

"Xiaoyu, is there anything going on in the company in the morning?"

"Manager Jiang said that he had something to report, and Miss Lily from Los Angeles made several phone calls."

"Is it still the same number as before?"

"No, it's a new number."

"Give me the number." Shen Chong held the telephone microphone between his neck, took out his notebook and pen, and after writing down the number, he ordered: "Let Manager Jiang wait for me in the office, I will be back in about half an hour." ”

"Okay."

Hang up the phone and dial Lily's number again.

"Hello!" As soon as the phone was connected, Lily's enthusiastic voice came, and she shouted excitedly: "Alan, who do you guess I'm with?" ”

Shen Chong smiled and pretended to be surprised and asked, "Is your dad in Los Angeles?" ”

"That's not right." Lily burst out laughing and said, "Well, you know who I'm with, so guess where I went some time ago?" ”

"Vancouver?"

"Wow." Lily let out an exaggerated exclamation and said, "How do you know?" ”

"Do you think I live in the wilderness? There are also newspapers in Hong Kong. Shen Chong said with a smile: "No wonder I can't find you every time I call, you went to Vancouver, why didn't you call me?" ”

"I lost the note that took your call." Lily apologized and said, "I'll find it when I get back." ”

"It's fine if you're okay." Shen Chong asked, "How about the car I send you?" ”

"Great, that's a limited edition Ford King Cobra!" Lily chattered about how the big car was, and after a while, said, "Alan, wait a minute, I'll let Teresa talk to you." ”

After waiting for a while, a soft voice came from the other side of the phone: "Mr. Shen, hello." ”

"Hello Miss Deng." A generation of singers is worthy of their reputation, with soft and beautiful voices, and they can be intoxicating across the ocean.

It was a little cold, and both sides didn't know what to say, and after a while, a voice came from the phone, "Mr. Shen, thank you very much for your guidance, it has helped me very, very much." ”

"Miss Deng is polite, I'm your fan, it's my honor to do something for you."

"The next time Mr. Shen comes to the United States, please be sure to inform me so that I can thank you in person." After a pause, he said, "So, I gave the phone to Miss Lily?" ”

"Okay."

"Ellen, ucLa is so big, guess how I found Teresa?"

"Do you think I'm God?"

"I'll sue you." There was a burst of laughter and slapstick on the other end of the phone, and then Lily said intermittently; "One evening, I went to look for Helena... She said there was an Oriental... Woman, driving a Rolls-Royce... Go to math class... Haha, don't tickle... Okay, okay, I'll surrender ......" (Note 1)

When the fighting stopped, Shen Chong and Lily chatted for a few more minutes, agreeing to come to Hong Kong to play during the summer vacation, and then hung up the phone.

On February 24, 1979, Teresa Teng was deported from Japan because of the "fake passport" incident, and Taiwan was in an uproar, and the media criticized her, making it difficult for her to return home, so she had to go to the United States to study at ucLa.

After reading the report of the "fake passport" incident, Shen Chong decided to take a charcoal action in the snow, firstly, he liked Teresa Teng's singing very much, and secondly, Teresa Teng, as the most internationally influential artist in the current Chinese pop culture circle, is very helpful for future plans.

said that it was a charcoal in the snow, but in fact, it was a flower offering to the Buddha - Shen Chong just told Teresa Teng in advance about the future he knew.

When China and the United States formally established diplomatic relations and the Taiwanese were panicked, Teresa Teng used a fake Indonesian passport to enter and exit for convenience, which made the Taiwan authorities extremely annoyed and had the intention to ban her, but not long after, Teresa Teng's singing voice swept the mainland and became famous all over the country, which made the Taiwan authorities very frightened.

Teresa Teng suddenly changed and lived alone in Los Angeles, naturally she was extremely panicked, at this time, Shen Chong's very godlike analysis report, like a lighthouse in the night, gave her a lot of comfort.

It's just a good fate, and how to develop it in the future depends on how to operate.

……

"Mr. Shen, this is the survey and statistics of last night's screening." As soon as Shen Chong returned to the office, Jiang Zhiqiang handed over a report and briefly introduced: "

Last night there were a total of 924 viewers, of which 786 took part in the survey, with an overall rating of 8. 1 point, of which more than 70% of the audience felt that they had never seen such a scary movie after watching it. ”

Shen Chong took the report, read it carefully, and asked, "Did you send this report to the magazine?" ”

"Sent it."

"What about box office statistics?"

"I've got in touch with the theater chamber of commerce, and after the last show tonight, the statistics will start immediately, and it will be in the newspaper early tomorrow morning."

"When counting, separate the balcony, the back seat, and the front seat."

"In that case." Jiang Zhiqiang's face was embarrassed, and he said, "It may take a lot of time." ”

"It doesn't matter, you can hire a few more people." Shen Chong smiled and said, "You can ask if anyone in the company is willing to work overtime and give triple wages." ”

"Mr. Shen, what's the use of such detailed statistics?"

"It's very useful." Shen Chong explained: "The building seat is the most expensive, most of the people who buy this kind of ticket are middle-class, the front seat is the cheapest, and the basic people who buy this kind of ticket are the working class. ”

"Okay, I got it." Jiang Zhiqiang had a look of sudden realization, and then said goodbye and left.

Hong Kong's current cinemas, most of them are large cinemas built in the sixties and seventies, can accommodate thousands of people to watch movies at the same time, generally divided into two floors, the upper floor is called the balcony, the ticket price is the most expensive, the current average price is about 9 yuan, the lower floor is divided into two parts, one part is the back seat, the ticket price is medium, the average price is about 7 yuan, the cheapest is the front seat, only 5 yuan. (Note 2)

The current film market in Hong Kong is not mature in all aspects, not only does it not have the so-called concept of "schedule", but also the box office statistics are extremely imperfect.

Until the early 60s, Jiang Zhiqiang's father borrowed a room for the Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce only had two people, a secretary and a handyman, and these two staff worked together to count the box office of each theater every day, and then mimeographed it.

The movie box office statistics of the Cinema Chamber of Commerce are not only slow, but also lack details, such as the daily box office, weekend box office, weekly box office, and other highly valuable reference numbers, no one counts them, and no one pays special attention to them.

He took the opportunity of the release of "Crazy Robbery" to cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce to dig deep into the box office statistics, and then used these hard numbers to strengthen the professional and authoritative image of "Film Times" magazine and expand its influence.

With the increase in the number of sales of "Film Times", there is an urgent need for unique columns to establish a different image from other film magazines, and the weekly movie box office review is the column selected by Shen Chong.

In addition to this, Shen Chong also prepared another one, which is a summary of the midnight screening scores.

After the screening of "Crazy Robbery", Shen Chong asked the audience to fill out a questionnaire after the screening of "Crazy Robbery", and the content was very simple, there were two options, one was to score the movie with a ten-point system, and the other was to look at the movie.

Hong Kong has a tradition of hosting midnight screenings, where film companies use audience reactions to predict box office prospects, and Shen Chong plans to use "Crazy Robbery" as a stepping stone to promote this rating system to all Hong Kong film screenings, quantify the audience's reactions, and then publish them in "Film Times" — just think about ImdB, think about Douban, and you can see how good this is.

If this project can be completed, "Film Times" will firmly occupy the top spot of Hong Kong film magazines.

But this plan is a bit difficult, after all, whether a movie is good or not, before it is released, no one has the bottom, and it will definitely meet with boycotts...... And if you blindly publish movies with high ratings, the significance of this column will be much weaker.

Shen Chong thought for a while and felt a little irritable, so he picked up the Rubik's Cube on the table and fiddled with it.

This Rubik's Cube is specially designed, with stills of the four leading actors of "Crazy Robbery" printed on all sides, and the artistic words "Crazy Robbery" and "Oriental Charm" are printed on the top and bottom.

On the one hand, he made this Rubik's Cube for publicity, and on the other hand, he wanted to test the waters of movie merchandise and see how the market reacted.

By the way, the production line of Matrix Technology is too thin, and it seems necessary to get a new toy out and wait for the production in the mainland in July......

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Note 1: See interview with Teresa Teng.

Note 2: See "Changes in Hong Kong Film Viewership and Box Office Ticket Prices since the 7o".

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