"Hello, do you have a reservation?"

"I'm looking for Mr. Shao."

"You are Mr. Li, Boss Shao is now in the No. 6 private room, please come with me."

The waiter led Li Xuechu to the box room of the hotel.

A few months ago, Wang Fatzi mentioned that Shao Yifu wanted to talk to him, but he didn't expect that things would drag on until now.

Li Xuechu really wants to meet this big man who has left a lot of marks in the history of discourse films. The time of Shao Yifu's death happened to be a few months before Li Xuechu crossed over, and Li Xuechu's understanding of him was the Shaw Building and his legendary deeds in colleges and universities across the country in later generations.

He started his business at the age of 50, retired at the age of 104, and died at the age of 107. I don't know if this resume is unprecedented? In the 'history' of Shaw Brothers Film Company and Heung Kong Wireless, he has cultivated star artists and directors who have supported almost half of Heung Kong Film and Television, and has a supreme position in the Heung Kong entertainment circle and even the entire Chinese circle.

Now Shaw Brothers is forced to be embarrassed by Princess Golden Harvest in the film industry, but in terms of status, Shao Yifu is still the natural leader in the Xiangjiang film and television industry, and Boss Zou has to salute respectfully when he sees him. Perhaps because of this, Boss Zou tried not to come to the occasions that Shao Yifu clearly wanted to attend. The conflict between him and his old boss is not a secret in Xiangjiang.

The waiter knocked lightly on the door, and after getting a response, he opened the door and made a gesture to Li Xuechu to invite him in.

After entering the room, Li Xuechu saw a thin-faced old man who was turning his head to look at him. The old man's spirit looks very good, and there is no cloudiness in his eyes like that of ordinary old people, and he is dressed somewhat similar to the style of the Republic of China period in film and television works, which is rare now.

"Sixth Uncle." Shao Yifu is the sixth in the family, and when he was young, he was called Shao Laoliu, but now he is in his seventies, so he changed his mouth to the honorific title of 'Sixth Uncle'. He himself is quite fond of the number 'six', and the license plate of the car he drives is a unit number six, and this private room is also a room number six......

Uncle Shao Liu laughed: "I've always wanted to talk to you about it, but I didn't expect it to drag on to today." Come on, Chuzai, sit here. "Uncle Shao Liu speaks Mandarin, and Uncle Shao Liu, who lived in Shanghai and Nanyang in the early years, didn't even speak Xiangjiang when he came to Xiangjiang, but now he can speak it after living here for more than 20 years, but people from the mainland or Nanyang in Taiwan still like to speak Chinese.

Li Xuechu said embarrassedly: "Actually, the kid should have visited the sixth uncle a long time ago, but he has been embarrassed to come to the door and dragged it out until today." ”

I took advantage of Shaw Brothers earlier, and many of the actors and actresses hired by Wang Fatzi and Shaw Brothers directly bypassed Shaw Brothers Company, quite like state-owned enterprise workers after the reform and opening up who used the company's resources to do private work. Unfortunately, these things were later discovered by Shaw Brothers. Wang Fatzi didn't suffer any punishment, and now he is basically the most valued director of Shaw Brothers, but he is a little embarrassed to come to the door.

I wouldn't have taken advantage of this if I had known.

"What's so embarrassing, I, an old man, would like to have more people come to the door to play, and I won't be lonely in normal times. Come, sit down. ”

Li Xuechu sat opposite Uncle Shao as he said.

"The kid really wants to ask the sixth uncle for help during this time, but things haven't been planned for a while, and now it's convenient to meet the sixth uncle." After a few words of greeting, Li Xuechu said straight to the point.

Uncle Shao Liu's invitation to himself is mostly a matter of the movie, so he simply asked someone to help first, and the rest of the matter will be logical, or it will be twists and turns. Li Xuechu, whose otaku personality has not been completely reversed, is still not used to the way he speaks.

"Oh?" Uncle Shao Liu smiled. "Chuzai, what other difficulties will you encounter?"

It's good to come to the door if you have something, but Shao Yifu doesn't think that others really want to 'beg' themselves. As the nominal boss of the Xiangjiang film industry, his film company has been pressed by his old subordinate Golden Harvest and the newly incoming Golden Princess to lose money year after year. In the television industry, although the social influence is not as small as that of the film industry, the profitability may not even be as great as that of one or two blockbuster movies. Li Xuechu's company's profitability in the film industry is first-class.

"Uncle Six, do you know the Transformers of our company?"

"Haha, how could you not know? This cartoon of yours kid has become popular all over the world, and it has given us a lot of face for Xiangjiang and even the Chinese. Uncle Shao said with a smile. Chu Zai, do you want to change him into a movie? ”

"No, no, no." Li Xuechu hurriedly waved his hand. Think about the scum special effects in the film industry now, isn't it a pit to make a big movie of Transformers, Hollywood is not at this level.

"I want to make cartoons so that I can further increase sales of toys and manga, even if the cartoons themselves are not very profitable." Li Xuechu said with a smile. "But if you want to make an anime, you have to cooperate with the TV station. Uncle Six, your wireless is the best partner to work with. ”

In fact, Li Xuechu is also quite optimistic about the market situation of the cartoon itself, but don't say it's big, so as not to worry about others.

"Oh, that's right." Shao Yifu sighed. The purpose of his visit this time is to collaborate with Li Xuechu in a movie. His own film company is now so down-and-out, and Shao Yifu's face is not good-looking. Although the focus of his business has slowly shifted to wireless, the Shaw Brothers, who originally dominated the Xiangjiang River, have ended up in this situation, how can Uncle Shao, as the founder, be willing?

In terms of financial resources, Shao Yifu is several times higher than his former subordinate Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Daheng is not inferior to himself in terms of financial resources, but his main business is the banking industry, and it is impossible to shift his focus to movies. Although the film industry is also a profiteering industry, it is still far from the financial industry, and it is impossible for Tycoon Lei to give up his bank no matter how much he has a movie plot.

In terms of courage, Shao Yifu actually does not lose to Boss Zou. Some time ago, more than 20 million US knives were invested in the filming of Blade Runner, and the director was Ridley Scott, who became famous in Hollywood for filming Alien, and it will be screened in North America in a month.

Li Xuechu also read about this from the newspaper some time ago. However, I know a lot of things in later generations, and I know that this movie is a mess, and I can't even recover half of the cost.

In fact, Blade Runner is not a bad movie, although the box office hit the streets, but a few years later, it was regarded as the pinnacle of cult movies by many CU1T movie lovers, (classics with non-mainstream themes such as horror, fantasy, and science fiction are called cults, but now this concept is blurred) More than 30 years later, there are still many movie lovers who worship it. The famous Hollywood director who directed movies such as Black Hawk Fall and Crazy Flowers at the End has not lost his level, but it does not match the aesthetics of the current audience. Classics may not be a hit, that's the reason.

"Unexpectedly, Chu Zai's idea of your comics driving toy sales has opened the eyes of Xiangjiang people. Entering the animation industry can be regarded as a precedent for Xiangjiang. Thinking about what others can't think, young people are not simple. ”

"It's also for toy sales, and I guess it can be a little more exciting after the animation comes out. As for the cartoon itself, even if you lose some, it's worth it. Li Xuechu was really afraid that he would be worried about it, but Xiangjiang TV was used to producing and selling itself. With the support of so many blockbuster animations in later generations, I am not afraid of fair competition, but the TV industry is now monopolized by wireless beauty, and this competition is destined to be unfair.

"Or maybe you can try your hand at getting into the TV industry?" Thinking like this, Li Xuechu secretly smiled bitterly, as if the circle he wanted to involve was getting bigger and bigger. In the past, I just wanted to live a happy life with a big profit from the golden finger, but now I take care of several industries, but I am afraid that I will not have an easy life in the future. "Or don't be the owner.,It's much more convenient to be a shareholder in animation.,There's no need to be the boss.。

According to the 'history' a few months later, the tycoon Jude Gen will move into Li's renamed ATV, and he doesn't have to grab this piece of meat from others, Jude Tycoon is quite determined to join the TV station, and the two of them will only let Li's take the opportunity to raise the price, and the Australian foreigner will be cheaper in vain.

"Hehe, that's easy to say. Multiple cartoon sources are also good for wireless.,Chu Zai, you say, how are we going to cooperate?,Is it a joint investment or? ”

"I'll invest in it myself, after all, it's just to boost sales, and the cartoon itself may not make money." Li Xuechu said: "Leave a schedule for our company's cartoons during the time period from six to seven o'clock, and the length of the cartoon will not exceed half an hour, I think this is still easy to do." Of course, we have to keep the copyright ourselves, but the price of the animation screening is negotiable. ”

This time period happens to be when the children are at home and haven't slept yet.,Cartoons are mainly to attract children and teenagers.,Adult-oriented animation is not the mainstream.。

"Hehe, then I can guarantee that it's okay now, you just have to make the animation." Shao Yifu smiled and asked again: "Chu Zai, your company has invested in very few movies now, right, I heard that there are only two films this year?" ”

"It's that there are only two parts, it's not that I don't want to invest more, it's just that my energy is being distracted by other things at the moment. Sixth uncle, you also know that my company's scripts are basically created by myself, and I have too much to do some time ago and I don't have the energy to do it. I want to do more in the second half of the year. ”

"Oh, that's right." Shao Yifu asked, "Chu Zai, are you interested in cooperating with Shaw Brothers?" ”

Here comes the main dish! Li Xuechu smiled: "Of course there is, in fact, I have long wanted to cooperate with Shaw Brothers, and the subject matter has been thought of." ”

"What subject?" Shao Yifu asked hurriedly.

"Martial arts."

Shao Yifu stopped talking, and his company did martial arts the most, but this theme is not easy to sell now.

But it's not good to back down as soon as you take the initiative to cooperate, and besides, this kid has a lot of ideas, maybe someone else will do something bad and replace him?

"Chu Zai, have you written your script? What a story. ”

"It's Mr. Jin Yong's work, smiling proudly. Speaking of which, the copyright is still in your hands now, Uncle Six. Li Xuechu said with a smile.

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