Shen Cong opened his eyes, turned over and sat up, and saw that in the void opposite the head of the bed, there was a blue translucent light curtain panel full of futuristic high-tech colors floating, scattering a soft shimmer in the darkness.

"Time: January 1, 1979, o'clock o1 o'clock."

"Location: Yue Man Place, Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong."

"Mission: Trial - Participate in the production of a film before June 1, 1979."

"Rewards: Depending on the quality of the participating programs and films, different medals are awarded and different system permissions are activated. (Medals can be exchanged for huàn items in the Time Mall)"

"Punishment: If you do not participate in any film before June 1, the actual time will be reduced by one year."

……

"I'm rubbing, these two aliens are still lovers of systematic streaming web novels."

Shen Cong came to a mantra, and then noticed the source of the light curtain—a watch on his left wrist.

The silver-gray shell made of unknown materials, the porcelain white dial, the red and blue scales, and the two small buttons on the right side are red and blue, and the overall shape is extremely simple, with an indescribable sense of technology and fashion.

Pick up the watch and press the red button, and the light curtain will instantly turn red, showing new content.

"You haven't completed the trial yet, the Space-Time Mall hasn't opened yet, you can get one of the following items for free."

"Fundamentals of Film Script Writing"

"Memorandum of Contact Information of Key Employees of Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited"

"A History of Hong Kong Film (197o-1978)"

Gone......

"Aliens are so stingy, and they are reluctant to prepare a few more free things."

After scolding, Shen Cong took the watch thoughtfully.

This thing should be a tool used by aliens to spur him to be engaged in the film industry, it is a task and a shopping mall, there are interests and punishments, carrots and big sticks are used together, and Shen Cong is not worried about not going all out.

"Fundamentals of Film Script Writing" – Plagiarism of scripts.

"Memorandum of Contact Information of Key Employees of Shaw Brothers" - Miscellaneous work on the set.

"Hong Kong Film History in Parts" - What's the use of this thing?

Shen Chong was thinking nonsense while playing with the watch, and after a while, he didn't think of any clues, and there were no other new functions on the watch, so he pressed the red button again and turned off the light curtain.

The moment the light curtain closed, the watch flickered lightly a few times before disappearing.

Shen Chong was surprised, his heart moved, and the watch appeared silently.

It's really high-tech, with its own stealth effect......

Turning on the light and getting out of bed, Shen Cong** walked around the room naked, adapting to his new body.

It took ten minutes to get used to the body, another two minutes to observe the physiognomy, and then began to rummage through the cabinets, and when the sun rose in the east and the sky was bright, Shen Cong roughly figured out some basic information.

His new identity is Shen Chong, male, just turned 2o, a student in the Department of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong, a sophomore.

His father is an editor of a newspaper, his mother is a primary school teacher, he died in a car accident a few months ago, his father's relatives are all in his sixth year, and he has not been in touch for many years.

Introverted, poor communication skills, only two close friends, one is a middle school classmate, a rich boy, studied abroad in the UK, and the other is a childhood sweetheart's sister next door, who has already worked and hasn't seen much recently.

This is the main information that Shen Cong, no, it's time to call Shen Chong now, from the diary left by the original owner.

The interpersonal relationship is so simple that it is miserable, but it saves a lot of trouble in socializing.

After confirming the identity information, the next step is the economic problem, after all, whether you want to complete the mission set by the aliens, or you want to spend all day drinking and living a small life, it is absolutely impossible to have no money.

Shen Chong found a total of more than 2ooo Hong Kong dollars in cash, as well as three passbooks, with a total deposit of a little more than 80,000 yuan.

The money is a bit small, but considering the status of a student at the University of Hong Kong, it is not difficult to understand that the tuition fees and daily expenses of the University of Hong Kong are not cheap, in his previous life, the son of a friend of Shen Chong studied at the University of Hong Kong, with an annual tuition fee of more than 100,000 yuan, and accommodation and living expenses of 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, which ordinary families really can't afford.

There are also several pieces of antique porcelain, a number of calligraphy and paintings, a number of furniture and electrical appliances, a pile of books, and finally, a house of about 8o square meters.

Porcelain Shen Chong doesn't understand, but looking at the posture placed at random, it should be a modern imitation and worthless.

Calligraphy and painting are a little surprise, there are a few paragraphs that look familiar, it should be a celebrity work, one of which is a calligraphy banner, which is actually Jin Yong's work.

Jin Yong is a mountain in the heart of every post-8o generation, and Shen Chong is no exception.

After the surprise, Shen Chong's first reaction was not to collect it, but to sell it......

It's not that Shen Chong is a philistine, it's really a bit stressful, he participated in the filming of a movie within six months, and now he only has seventy or eighty thousand yuan, what can he do to make a movie?

If you don't complete the task, you will have to deduct one year's health! If it's before the crossing, it doesn't matter if you live for a year less, anyway, the days are not shocking and boring, but after the crossing, there are opportunities everywhere, and there is excitement every day, how can it be wasted!

However, Jin Yong is not famous for his calligraphy, and his works don't seem to be very valuable......

The furniture is antique and has a good shape, but the material is ordinary, and it should not be worth much...... Electrical appliances are all ordinary goods...... There are a lot of books, piled up in the study, many of them are martial arts novels, this kind of thing can only be sold as waste paper......

Sitting on the half-new sand, facing a messy room, Shen Chong touched his chin, looked at it for a long time, and didn't find anything valuable, so he sighed, touched his hungry belly, and then stood up and prepared to go out for breakfast - the world has the biggest belly, and he is full of food and drink, so let's think about the next step.

Moreover, Hong Kong at the end of the 7O of the 2O century must have a unique style, and you have to take a good look and experience it.

……

Six days later, Saturday, January 6, Laba Festival.

"Whew...... It's finally done. ”

Shen Chong dropped the pen and looked up to the sky and sighed.

It took nearly two days to write the manuscript of the words, tired and tired of back and leg cramps, no way, the handwriting efficiency is too low, and it is not convenient to alter, at this time he misses the future of the "what you type is what you get" office environment.

After pinching his sore cervical spine hard, standing up and doing a few broadcast gymnastics movements, Shen Chong sat down at the desk again, picked up the written manuscript, and checked it from beginning to end, with no omissions and mistakes, and nodded with satisfaction.

The writing ability of this body is very good, and the keyboard has been used for a long time in the previous life, and the writing is the same as that of a chicken's paws, and now, the dragon flies and the phoenix dances, which is pleasing to the eye.

Open the drawer, take out a large envelope, take a magazine, copy the address and the name of the recipient provided on it, copy it on the envelope one by one, then fold the manuscript, stuff it into the envelope, and finally seal it with glue.

After doing this, Shen Chong opened the drawer again, took out two equally bulging envelopes, and rubbed them with his hands, as if reading a love letter from a lover in his dreams, with a look of anticipation.

This is the ...... for "Southland Movie"

This is the ...... for "Golden Harvest Movie"

This is a ...... for Cinema Fortnightly

There are a total of three manuscripts, which are the result of Shen Chong's hard work in the past few days.

It has been six days since the crossing, and Shen Chong has no plans to complete the trial task.

In his previous life, he had read a few entertainment texts that traveled through Hong Kong, and the protagonists almost all broke into the film industry by plagiarizing movie scripts and digging the first pot of gold, Shen Chong originally planned to do this, although he didn't know how to write scripts, but there was a free screenwriting tutorial in the system.

But after reading the diary he found in his study, he gave up on this plan.

The diary was left by the father of this body, and both father and son love to write diaries, which made Shen Chong pick up the cheap and save a lot of trouble.

He is a newspaper editor and knows many friends who make a living by writing articles, several of whom have been screenwriters, and he has recorded several short stories about screenwriters in his diary.

There is a screenwriter surnamed Zhou, who wrote a martial arts script, a boss paid a small amount of money as a deposit, bought the script, after the movie was filmed, screenwriter Zhou went to ask for remuneration, the boss turned his face and said that the script was written by himself, and bit screenwriter Zhou blackmailed, and he talked about it for more than a year, and the lawsuit cost a lot, and he didn't ask for a dime, and the angry screenwriter Zhou was seriously ill.

Another screenwriter wrote a book, which was bought by the film company, and the money was paid very simply, but the box office was not good after the release, and the company boss came to the door with a few dragon and tiger martial artists and beat the screenwriter.

There are also some scattered contents in the diary, showing that in the current Hong Kong film industry, unless it is a level of success like Ni Kuang, the general screenwriter has very little remuneration, low status, and no job security, after the script is written, the boss changes, the director changes, the actor changes, and cats and dogs can also change, and when it is released, it is unrecognizable, and the screenwriter himself can't recognize it.

Screenwriter Zhou lost here, and the skeleton of the script was his, but the details were all changed, and the court couldn't decide, so it was finally over.

As a movie lover, he doesn't want to work hard to plagiarize a classic movie script and be ruined by someone changing it back and forth, it's too tyrannical.

The trial only requires participation in the production of a movie, and there are no detailed requirements, which is very boring.

If you don't have any pursuits, it's very simple to accomplish this kind of task, Hong Kong produces hundreds of movies every year, and it's not difficult to find a movie and be a passerby's soy sauce...... If the festival is lower, going to the crew to sell lunch boxes can be regarded as participating in filming, right?

The reward may be a little lower, but at least it can be considered a complete task, and you don't have to worry about the penalty of minus one year of life.

However, Shen Chong is a perfectionist, since the system clearly says that the participation process is different and the rewards are different, so why not do the best?

In 6 months, with the degree of the Hong Kong film industry, it is more than enough to make two or three films, and there is no need to rush at all.

Moreover, he is reborn through the crossing, and there is a system golden finger by his side, which can be described as "the left green dragon, the right white tiger", all of which are controlled by himself, and move as he wishes, "God blocks and kills God, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha", so it is not in vain...... How can you casually get into the film industry and be at the mercy of others in a low voice.

It was based on this psychology that Shen Chong was not in a hurry to complete the trial required by the system.

If you want to control a qiē, you must grasp the fundamental...... What is the most important thing in making a movie?

It's money!

As long as you have money, the script, the director, and the actors are all right, and you can toss as much as you want.

In the past few days, he has read a lot of newspapers and magazines on films, and Shen Chong has a general understanding of the current situation in the Hong Kong film market: make a movie, be rough, 6 or 700,000 yuan, and be sophisticated, more than 1 million.

After crossing, Shen Chong put the house on the intermediary market for the first time, now is the peak period for the baby boomers born after World War II to start a family, strong demand pushes housing prices to rise, the property market is extremely hot, Shen Chong inherited this 78 square meters of house, close to the center of Kwun Tong, the location is good, the market price of second-hand houses per square meter is about 6ooo, he is in a hurry to make a move, in the intermediary hanging a low price of 450,000 yuan, only a few days, there are four or five buyers to see the house. (Note 1)

After the house was sold, there was more than 5o yuan in funds, which could barely make a low-budget movie.

But Shen Chong is not ready to do this, he knows too little about Hong Kong pop culture in this era, he has no connections in the film industry, it is too risky to make movies, and if he is not careful, he will lose all his money, and as a crossing party, the whole world will be in his mind in the next 3o years, and there is a way to make money quickly and steadily - but he has not found the most suitable one for the time being.

Using more than 5o yuan as a shovel, digging the first pot of gold, and then investing in making movies is the king.

Although he has not yet found a way to dig the first pot of gold, Shen Chong has not been idle in the past few days, breaking into the film and television industry, there may not be only one way to write a screenwriter, and writing film reviews is also a good way.

For example, the famous "million-dollar director" Zhang Che entered the film industry because of the good and wonderful writing of film reviews, and was added by Run Run Shaw's blue eyes.

Even if you can't enter the industry, it's good to write a movie review to brush up on prestige.

Fame is money, and Shen Chong, who has experienced the baptism of Weibo, believes in this theory.

Writing a movie review doesn't need to look at people's faces, no professional knowledge is required, it's much easier than writing a script, as a movie lover, Shen Chong didn't write movie reviews on the Internet in his previous life, and he is familiar with this.

In 1979, the Hong Kong film industry did not have the concept of "schedule", New Year's Day, the prime time of later generations, at this time there were only a few movies to watch, Golden Harvest released Sammo Hung's "Mr. Zan and Find Qian Hua" on December 28, Shaw Brothers-for-tat, on December 3o released "Chinese Husband" directed by Liu Jialiang.

Both movies are more traditional old-style martial arts kung fu films, and there is no innovation in art, but at this time, Hong Fatzi has just emerged, Master Liu is in the prime of spring and autumn, the two major martial arts instructors show their strengths, and the martial arts action design is very exciting, which is a more classic kung fu film in the history of Hong Kong films.

Shen Chong had been an advertising copywriter for a period of time in his previous life, and he was well versed in the essentials of advertorial writing, he went to the cinema to rewatch the two movies, and then based on his own perception, supplemented by the remaining online film reviews in his memory, he pieced together two flowery articles, which were submitted to Shaw Brothers' "Southern Movie" and Golden Harvest's "Golden Harvest Movie", I believe that the chance of being adopted is very high - unless he writes the address backwards.

In addition to these two movies, Shen Chong also unexpectedly saw a movie that he was very interested in in his previous life, but he couldn't find resources - "Solamine". (Note 2)

"Solabeine" is a comedy film by Binbin Films, and Shen Chong is interested in it for two reasons.

One is because this movie has a very interesting gossip.

In the 21st century, Yang Shoucheng, the boss of Emperor Yang Shoucheng, who dominates the Hong Kong entertainment industry, has a lot of money and a successful career in the 7o years. It is said that one day, he met a female artist at a party, and the two went to Kowloon Tong to open a house, but someone notified him halfway, saying that his wife and sister-in-law heard the wind and came to catch the adulterer, Yang Shoucheng was hesitant, and happened to meet a friend who also came to open the room, he asked his friend to carry the black pot on the top of the tank, and he fled home and pretended to be drunk.

This incident probably made Yang Shoucheng very proud, he told Chen Xinjian about this story as a joke, but he didn't expect Chen Xinjian to write it into a script and make it into a movie "Solange", and invited Yang Shoucheng to attend the screening, and the tragedy is that Yang Shoucheng didn't know that this was his own story, so he invited his wife to watch the screening together...... The result can be imagined, and the two finally divorced.

It is said that Yang Shoucheng later bought out all the copyrights of this movie, and I don't know if it was destroyed, anyway, since then, no one has seen this movie.

The second is that this film has a very important place in the history of Hong Kong cinema - some people believe that this film is the first wave of the New Wave of Hong Kong cinema and the starting point of the New Wave movement.

Shen Chong has always disagreed with this statement, but after reading the movie advertisements in the magazine, he feels that this statement is indeed very reasonable, and the main creative lineup is too strong.

Director Yan Hao, one of the main generals of the New Wave, directed "The Year of Flowing Water" won six awards including Best Director and Best Film at the Academy Awards, and "Rolling Red Dust" is a classic in Chinese films, winning eight awards at the Golden Horse Awards, and achieving the Golden Horse dream of the peerless beauty Lin Qingxia.

Producer He Jiaju, screenwriter Chen Xinjian, Yu Rentai, consultant Yu Yunkang, photographer Gu Guohua, starring Zeng Jiang, Chen Yulian are all well-known names in the Hong Kong film industry, and even the scene will be a famous actor - Kwan Jinpeng.

Now that he has the opportunity to get a glimpse of this dramatic movie, Shen Chong will naturally not let it go.

After watching the movie, Shen Chong no longer hesitated, and directly exchanged the "Hong Kong Film History Volume" from the system, and then used "Solangein" as the introduction, "Hong Kong Film History" as the axis, and the future film exhibition as a reference.

Shen Chong is going to submit this heavyweight manuscript to the "Film Fortnightly", which is preparing for the first issue, which can be regarded as a birthday gift to this magazine destined to be recorded in the history of Hong Kong film.

Since you can't be a film doer for the time being, let's be a film theorist first - the title of "Father of Hong Kong Film New Wave" is too embarrassing, it is better to be a "standard-bearer of Hong Kong Film New Wave" first.

Shen Chong thought so, he stood up, put the letter in his backpack, and prepared to go out to mail it.

At this moment, there was a strong knock on the door, and a female voice shouted: "Ah Chong, Ah Chong, are you there?" ”

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Note 1: The figures are based on speculation in "A Century of Hong Kong Real Estate" and may not be in line with the reality at the time......

Note 2: Soraleine is a slang term in the Hong Kong film industry, meaning dead run, before the release of this film, solanol was only a spoken language, and then it became a written language.

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