Nothing can be done!

Shen Chong flipped through the business report of the Taiwan branch of Oriental Charm and smiled bitterly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Last year, in order to pick up girls, he opened an Oriental Charm branch in Taiwan with 5 million Hong Kong dollars, Zhang Aijia built the company in half a year, and then invested in Hou Xiaoxian and Chen Kunhou to shoot two dramas, and the word-of-mouth box office performed well, Hou Xiaoxian also won the Academy Award for Best New Director with "Good Morning Taipei", which is a small achievement.

However, since the beginning of this year, not a single movie has been made by the Taiwan branch of Oriental Charm, because the scripts submitted for review have all been shot, and the reasons are strange, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's "It's She Who Slips Around", a very traditional Qiong Yao-style pure love movie, but it was blocked by the Information Bureau on the grounds of "exaggerating the contradictions between urban and rural areas and not conducive to social stability" -- for the sake of dramatic conflicts, there is a short paragraph in the script describing the plot of demolishing the ancestral house in order to build a road, which is not uncommon in Taiwan's ten major constructions, and it is not news at all.

With Shen Chong's financial resources and fame and his good interpersonal relationship with Song Chuyu, the Information Bureau turned a blind eye and passed, but now it has become an excuse for shooting, and no one believes it if there is no one behind it......

In addition to the film company, the Taiwan editorial department of "Film Times" has also been often harassed by various censors and interviews, and the already well-known "Weekend Fan Salon" and the "Taiwan Film Critics Association" have been forced to suspend their activities, many insightful film reviews have not been published, and the sales of the magazine have fallen again and again, from 50,000 copies per issue at the beginning of the year to less than 30,000 at present.

The reason for the deliberate suppression of people is that first, political force majeure, under the impact of the "Formosa Island Incident", Taiwan has tightened its control and censorship of the media and film industry; In order to prevent Hong Kong filmmakers from "defecting", the Taiwan authorities have taken both soft and hard measures, on the one hand, reducing the import quota for American films and increasing the number of Hong Kong films, and on the other hand, they have issued a document strictly prohibiting "the release of national films produced by Liberty Pictures in theaters in 'bandit areas'". Shen Chong, a thorn in the eyebrows with the mainland, naturally bore the brunt and became the object of the flag, the oriental charm is not only unable to film in Taiwan, but even the "Rules" and "Murder List" filmed in Hong Kong at the beginning of the year could not be released in Taiwan, if he hadn't released a big satellite of $1 billion in 5 years in June, "Die Hard" would not have been able to enter Taiwan.

At the same time as film companies and magazines have been suppressed, Galaxy Images' business has also suffered setbacks in Taiwan.

After the Spring Festival, stimulated and inspired by the hot Hong Kong video tape market, there are many "underground video halls" in the streets and alleys of Taiwan, the source of these video halls, most of them come from Hong Kong's Galaxy Image, and as we all know, Shen Chong has a fanatical hobby of collecting film copyrights, Galaxy Image provides a variety of video tapes, both Hong Kong, the United States, and some are mainland, in May, the owner of a video hall in Taipei does not know whether it is brain water or bold, He actually secretly took the mainland's film and video tapes to Taiwan and released them, and then was "reported by the masses," stabbed Lou Zi, and was imprisoned on charges of "communist and bandit spies" and "collaborators......

Although Galaxy Image posted notices in every store at the beginning of its opening, reminding Taiwanese tourists not to rent or buy mainland film and video tapes, let alone bring them back to Taiwan, but it was still affected by this incident, Zhang Yonglin went to Taiwan at least three times a month after the Academy Awards, and went to Taiwan for three months, all kinds of benefits were stuffed everywhere, but he never got a business license and could not open a chain store.

In addition to sensitive political factors, Taiwan's film projection industry insisted that the popularity of videotapes would reduce the audience's interest in going to the cinema and was detrimental to the box office......

But then again, there are people who oppose everything related to interests, and there must be people who support it, and the film projection industry boycotts videotapes, but the film production industry welcomes videotapes, and Shen Chong buys film rights to make videotapes, which is a major benefit to the production industry - those old movies and old movies are also wasted in the warehouse, and they are sold for a sum of money, so why not? And those new movies are released after they are released, they will be converted into videotapes and released again, and they can share a sum of money, and this money is not less than the box office, windfall, don't be in vain!

The Taiwan government's attitude towards the distribution of video tapes is very vague, neither supporting nor prohibiting, allowing underground video halls to grow like weeds, and also allowing China Television and Taiwan Television to make TV sets into videotapes and sell them everywhere, but they have never issued business licenses to Galaxy Images.

Shen Chong took out the operation briefing of Galaxy Image, flipped through it casually, and saw more than a dozen member information that was highlighted, these members came to patronize every ten days and half a month, and rented hundreds of videotapes each time, many of which were the same movie or the same TV series, which was obviously abnormal.

Taiwanese people are really good at taking advantage of loopholes, and they actually started the business of moving and subletting......

Also, it is very convenient to travel from Taiwan to Hong Kong, and the round-trip air ticket is only a few hundred Hong Kong dollars, and it costs dozens of dollars to buy a videotape, which is much more cost-effective to rent than to buy......

However, these people are very talented, everything related to propaganda, Taiwan is very strictly monitored, occasionally privately bring one or two videotapes across the border, maybe you can get away with it, but it is not so easy to bring hundreds of copies in at a time......

Could it be that these people are related to Taiwan's underworld? Taiwan's triad and government collude with each other, have huge influence, and are ruthless, and should not be underestimated......

Xiang Huaqiang has been in Taiwan before, so I will find a time to ask......

He was thinking about it when Zhang Aijia knocked on the office door and walked in.

"Didn't bother?"

"Nope." Shen Chong closed the financial report, looked at his watch, and found that it was almost 12 o'clock, so he asked, "Is your party over?" ”

"Almost." Zhang Aijia crossed her waist with her left hand, supported her forehead with her right hand, and sighed: "After a while, I answered seven or eight phone calls, and I couldn't continue at all." ”

"It's all from Taiwan?"

Zhang Aijia made a very helpless grimace and acquiesced.

"Your secrecy work in Taiwan is so poor that it's leaking everywhere." Shen Chong leaned back in his chair and asked, "Who has called you?" ”

"It's not that the secrecy is bad, it's that your $1 billion is too tempting." Zhang Aijia held the table and said: "Basically, they are all here to explore the wind, only Huang Renzhong said that he followed Li Guoding to Hong Kong, and asked if he could let him have a good time at dinner at night?" ”

Huang Renzhong is the only son of Huang Shaogu, Huang Shaogu is one of Chiang Ching-kuo's confidants, he used to be Taiwan's "Secretary General of the National Security Council", and now he is Taiwan's "Minister of Justice", known as one of the "eight elders" in the Kuomintang Party, with high power and well-informed is what it should be.

"I haven't decided to have dinner with Li Guoding in the evening." Shen Chong smiled, he pressed the call button, and said, "Xiaoyu, you come in." ”

After Qiu Siyu came in, he knocked on a pile of documents on the desk and ordered: "Organize these tossed materials, make it simpler, just three or four pieces of paper." ”

"Taiwan's media has concocted a lot of unwarranted negative news about the charm of the East, should you also include it?"

Shen Chong nodded, gave a thumbs up, praised her acumen and intelligence, and then asked, "Did Mr. Li from Taiwan call?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Li called ten minutes ago and wanted to make an appointment to have dinner with Mr. Shen at Mandarin Oriental at seven o'clock tonight."

"You call again and ask for the specific room number where Mr. Li is staying."

"Okay."

After Qiu Siyu left, Zhang Aijia asked with a slightly curious expression, "What do you want to do?" ”

"In the past, Xiang Yu saw Liu Bang and set up a Hongmen banquet, but today I saw Li Guoding and wanted to kill the mighty stick." Shen Chong stood up while talking nonsense, and said with a smile: "Go to dinner, joyce treats, don't slaughter nothing." ”

"Hey, don't mess around, although Li Guoding is now doing idle work, he is also one of the eight elders in Taiwan's political arena, and he has a great influence in the economy, and even President Chiang is very jealous of him."

"I know, it's not going to mess around."

Zhang Aijia saw that his expression was relaxed but his face was tired, so he didn't say more, but said relaxed gossip: "Joyce was crying poor just now, saying that she was going to vomit blood for the building, please ask me to help me ask for a favor, so that you can raise your noble hand and let her go." ”

"A sharp-toothed guy, you can't clean it up." Shen Chong laughed, he walked out of the office, and saw Chen Yunwen standing in the corridor with several women of the same age, so he teased: "Joyce, let's fly to Paris today to have a French dinner, okay?" ”

"Paris is where we little women go." Chen Yunwen did not show weakness, and also joked: "The God of Wealth is hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, how can you have the time to go to France for a big meal, it is better to find a teahouse nearby and eat a bowl of fish ball noodles." ”

"I knew you were stingy!" Shen Chong shook his head with contempt, then waved his hand haughtily, and said, "I'm going to eat sushi today, I'll please, I've already set a place." ”

"Amitabha, thank God for the God of Wealth."

The rest of the women all laughed, and Zhang Aijia introduced them to Shen Chong one by one, only to know that some of them were university teachers, and some were talented girls who wrote film reviews, and they all came to see "Spring in a Small Town" today - this movie has been playing non-stop since yesterday, and it has caused a sensation in a small area.

"How do you guys feel about this movie?"

"I think this is the best work in the history of Chinese cinema." Chen Yunwen was the most active, and sighed in the elevator: "Borrowing things to metaphor people, lyrical scenes, scene blending, poetic and picturesque, it's hard to imagine that 30 years ago in that era of war and chaos made a movie, after watching it, I think everything I wrote before was all children's graffiti." ”

"The depressed and sentimental atmosphere, the psychology of wanting to refuse and welcome, the concise and beautiful shots, and the gurgling rhythm of the flowing water, are indeed a poetic movie, and then linked to the era in which it was filmed, it reminds people of Du Zimei's "Spring Hope", the country is broken by mountains and rivers, the city is deep in spring, the flowers splash tears, and the hatred of farewell birds is terrifying...... Moreover, Director Fei Mu's use of film language such as lens scheduling, deep focus photography, depth of field, and long lens is not inferior to the current Western directors. ”

The person who said this is named Huang Ailing, a very rare professional female film critic, who has published many articles in "First Film Review", has been studying in France before, and just returned to Hong Kong a few days ago, Shen Chong met her for the first time.

"Hey, Shen Caishen, I heard Editor-in-Chief Lin say that there are hundreds of thousands of films in the China Film Archive in Beijing, how did you find "Spring in a Small Town"?"

"It was said that the night was long, and I had no intention of sleeping, so I sat up in my clothes, watched the sky at night, and saw a white light rushing straight into the sky, wandering between the bullfights, knowing that a treasure was born, and immediately performed the art of flying with the sword......"

"Shen Caishen, you are extremely thick-skinned, and you will talk nonsense, it's a pity not to tell the story!" Chen Yunwen laughed and suggested: "It's better to host next year's Academy Awards, you and Sylvia will host it together, it will definitely be much more fun than He Shouxin." ”