Chapter 16: Set 1

"Mr. Shen, this is the box office statistics report of the first week of "Industry Rules". Jiang Zhiqiang handed Shen Chong a gray cardboard cover and introduced: "70,000, there will be no new movie released by Shaw Brothers next week, so it is basically locked in the box office champion in January." ”

"It's a pretty good result, and the cost has basically been recovered." Shen Chong took the text folder, and after carefully browsing it, he said, "What about Weng Weiquan? Does he have any plans to make a new movie? ”

"Not yet." Jiang Zhiqiang said: "I heard that a British company asked him to go to Indonesia to make a documentary, and he is still thinking about it. ”

Shen Chong sighed and didn't say anything again, this cooperation, both parties are very happy, Weng Weiquan has plans to make films in the future, I believe he will take the initiative to come to the door.

During the filming of "The Rules", he was attending a conference in the mainland, so he didn't interfere at all, but this film was very exciting, not only of high quality, but also quite innovative and groundbreaking.

"Rules" is a film about the police and drug dealers fighting the law and fighting drugs. The protagonist is a police agent, loyal to his duties, jealous and hateful, he uses an informant to track down the leader of the drug dealer, but unexpectedly there is a mole within the police, and in the end the protagonist and the informant are plotted and both die.

The whole movie is entangled, chased, and bitter between the police, informants and drug dealers, and between each other, the causal cycle exposes all kinds of problems in the Hong Kong police bureaucracy, some tear each other down, some step on people to invite credit, some are corrupt, and some are in the same stream with drug dealers, the plot is spicy and bold, the style is tough and realistic, and almost all police and gangster movies in Hong Kong in later generations can find shadows from them.

The quality of the film is not bad, but Shen Chong is more interested in Weng Weiquan's attitude towards filming, in order to shoot this movie, he collected a lot of information in advance, not only went to the police station to investigate, but also took the risk, personally lived in the drug addict gathering place for more than half a month, observing the real situation of drug abuse and drug trafficking, when the film was filmed, he knew everything about drug testing, drug trafficking routes, informant prices, police paparazzi tracking and other information, so the details in the film are very real and shocking.

There has never been a shortage of talented people in the Chinese film industry, but those who are talented and sincere at the same time are rare, so Weng Weiquan is worth cultivating.

Because of this, Shen Chong is not stingy with marketing expenses, the production cost of "The Rules of the Trade" is only o million, Shen Chong gave Zhu Jiading Ru Wan a budget to promote this drama, not only on newspapers and magazines, but also deliberately cut a trailer, and played an unprecedented TV advertisement on H for two nights.

"Mr. Shen, Director Yu has asked several times, when will his "Murder List" be released?"

"Let's wait until the Spring Festival is over." Shen Chong put down the text and said, "The Spring Festival is a festive day, and no one likes to watch horror movies. ”

Jiang Zhiqiang nodded and said, "Mr. Shen, I'll go out first if there's nothing to do." ”

"Wait a minute." Shen Chong asked: "I heard that Brother Jiang Zhiwen is editing a documentary about World War II, is it about to be released?" ”

"Not yet." Jiang Zhiqiang thought for a while and said: "It's still being cut now, and it may be released at the end of February."

"I'm interested in documentaries." Shen Chong wrote a note on the memo and said, "Can you show me in advance after you cut it?" ”

"No problem, when my brother gets it done, I'll send it to Mr. Shen as soon as possible."

"Thank you."

After Jiang Zhiqiang left, Shen Chong leaned back on the office chair, thoughtful.

In the process of film trading, there is often a situation where film dealers add a bunch of garbage film to a good movie, pack it together, and sell it to independent exhibitors at a high price, the Jiang family has been running an independent film dealer for decades, and bought back a large number of waste films from all over Europe and the United States. The box office exceeded 9uu million Hong Kong dollars, creating a miracle in the history of Hong Kong films, and as a documentary, it became the runner-up at the box office in 19Ru.

After the screening of this film, it also caused a **, and the Taiwan authorities were very dissatisfied with some of the contents, and they also found a lot of films about World War II, cut them into documentaries, and came to Hong Kong to screen them to fight back against "The Bitter War".

Shen Chong is very interested in this legendary film, he plans to take a look, if possible, he also plans to make a few documentaries, although the documentary is the unpopular in the movie, it is difficult to win the high box office, but it has a very special advantage - in the process of filming, you can contact all kinds of people, it is easy to establish a wide range of interpersonal networks, and if you shoot well, you can get a greater and higher aura of honor than commercial films.

"Stop here, stop here, go back and put it again." In the test screening room of the Golden Harvest studio, Shen Chong looked at the sample film for a while and said, "Stop here." ”

"Mr. Shen." Sammo Hung, who was sitting next to him, asked, "Is there any problem?" ”

"It's not a good action." Shen Chong said bluntly: "The routine is too obvious, a bit contrived, and not refreshing enough. ”

Feeling unclear, he stood up, walked to the screen, and gestured to the screen: "This opponent, you look at his muscles, obviously not one or two punches can be knocked down, but in this episode, you need to quickly put him down, and then escape, so that there is a sense of tension, so you should not use the routine of fighting each other in a good posture, but should wait for him to enter the door, immediately sneak attack, hit his vital points, such as the throat, or hit the joint, and make him incapacitated in a few seconds." ”

"Senior brother, come and try my hand for me."

Sammo Hung stood up, greeted Han Yingjie, walked to the screen, the two have worked together for many years, and after communicating a few words, they began to try to recruit, Han Yingjie played a terrorist, pretending to walk into a door, Sammo Hung used a kick and sweep action to put him down, then turned over and pressed it, pretended to punch him in the face, and then looked up and asked, "Mr. Shen, what about this?" ”

"It's too easy, it's not refreshing." Shen Chong frowned, shook his head and said, "Faster, more ferocious." ”

After the two stood up, Shen Chong thought about it, picked up a bottle of drink placed next to the seat, and said, "Brother Sanmao, you use this as a pistol and play this terrorist, I'll try it." ”

Sammo Hung took the bottle, held it in his hand, and pretended to take a few steps.

Shen Chong is not a practitioner, and he has no experience in martial arts instruction, but he has never eaten pork, and he has never seen a pig run, he has watched a lot of action movies, and he can naturally think of some classic action scenes.

"Now, the two of them suddenly met at the door, you first grab the bandit's wrist with your right hand, and at the same time raise your leg to kick him in the stomach, and immediately raise your left elbow and smash his nose." Shen Chong's movements were very slow, and he explained as he did it: "Then use your right hand hard, twist his wrist, tripped him with your legs, pull his shoulders back, control him, and finally kick him in the head." ”

He babbled a lot before he explained a set of actions memorized in his mind, which was plagiarized from the set of actions in "Hurricane Rescue", Liam Neeson subdued the knife-wielding bandit when he protected the singer in the opening scene, this set of actions is simple and smooth, and if it is paired with appropriate editing and foley effects, the visual impact is very strong.

Sammo Hung has a lot of experience, and he remembered it once, he and Han Yingjie cooperated with each other for a few strokes, and then began to set moves, and soon performed the moves designed by Shen Chong just now.

Shen Chong's movements were soft and motionless, while Sammo Hung performed with full strength and speed, which made him breathtaking.

"Yes, yes, that's how it feels." Shen Chong nodded again and again, and said: "You have to be like this, you can hit with one blow, so that you can show the agility and decisive character of the protagonist." ”

"Mr. Shen's set is not like kung fu moves." Han Yingjie stood up and said, "It's a bit like the boxing technique trained by the police force. ”

"Brother Han is smart." Shen Chong smiled and said nonsense: "There are only two main points in the action scene, one is that the fight is good-looking, and the other is that the fight is cool." I once watched the training of the police force, they don't talk about courtesy, they only talk about lethality, so every action is very indirect, the pursuit of subduing the opponent in the shortest time, if you can quickly come out, the audience will watch it very cool, so this style is worth learning from. ”

Han Yingjie nodded again and again and said, "What Mr. Shen said is right, this set of actions is somewhat similar to Bruce Lee's thoughts back then, simple and direct, and the fight is very cool." ”

After he finished speaking, he patted Sammo Hung on the shoulder and said, "Fortunately, Mr. Shen specially invited a nutritionist to come and let Sanmao lose seven or eight pounds, otherwise, his beer belly, even if this set of actions is made, it is not majestic enough." ”

Sammo Hung touched his nose and smiled awkwardly.

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