Chapter 21: Gossip continued

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"Xiaoyu and Vivien both know I'm here, and if something happens, she'll come to me. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Shen Chong leaned back in his chair lazily and said, "Let me rest for a while." ”

The sound of chickens is in the month of Maodian, and the track of Banqiao frost.

Although in 19ru, the convenience of transportation and the comfort of accommodation conditions are far beyond ancient times, but the change of environment and time and space will always make people feel lonely and tired, Shen Chong rushed to the company after getting off the plane, originally wanted to deal with official business, but as soon as he sat down in Zhang Aijia's office, he didn't want to move.

"Then you can sleep here for a while."

"I'm not sleepy, I just don't want to work." Shen Chong looked out the window aimlessly, chatted with Zhang Aijia, and asked, "Who invited you to dinner?" ”

"Say you don't want to work, and ask these things, you really can't be idle." Zhang Aijia threw over a beautiful small notebook and said, "I have written down all the names of the people, you can read them yourself." ”

"You're very thoughtful." Shen Chong picked it up, flipped through it casually, and put it down, people who really have a background will go to Wei Jingmeng, and will not come to Hong Kong to harass Zhang Aijia, he asked again: "What do you say to them?" ”

"I don't care about the big master." Zhang Aijia looked down at the copy he wrote and said, "I'm really curious, is your head different from others?" I thought about bad sentences for a long time, and you can come up with them at a glance. ”

"Don't forget, I wrote the script." Shen Chong was ashamed, he returned to the topic just now, and said, "Doesn't you seem to be very faceless when you talk like that?" ”

"They didn't treat me for the sake of my face." Zhang Aijia didn't care, and said: "I can't make $1 billion in my life, how dare I talk nonsense, if I say the wrong thing and you lose money, maybe one day you will sell me to pay off my debts." ”

"I'm willing to give up, you're much more expensive than $1 billion."

Zhang Aijia raised her head and gave a smile and said, "When will your investment be decided."

"What's wrong?"

"Someone is always harassing me." Zhang Aijia was distressed and said: "I have been hiding in Tibet recently, and I dare not stay in the same hotel for two nights, otherwise I will be blocked the door the next morning." ”

"And where do you live?"

"A few days ago, I made do with it in the 11u room, and I lived with Qingxia in the past two days, she used to buy a house in Hong Kong, and she can live in it after cleaning it up."

"She's already in Hong Kong?"

"Hmm. Your last speech in Los Angeles moved her, and she was ready to come to Hong Kong for development. ”

"A wise decision." Shen Chong picked up the pencil again, drew slowly on Zhang Aijia's small notebook, and said, "You help me make an appointment, and I'll sign a few movie contracts with her first." ”

"Look at you, then you're sure she's signed with you? Now many film companies are robbing her. ”

"Little fish and shrimp dare to fight with me?" Shen Chong smiled and said: "She is the most valuable female star in Hong Kong and Taiwan, small companies can't afford it, and they can't make good movies if they are invited, and Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are both stars in the world, if she doesn't sign a contract with me, who will she sign with?" ”

"You're the old calendar." Zhang Aijia was proud and said: "Now I am the most valuable female star in Hong Kong and Taiwan, a few days ago, the general manager of China Film called me and asked me to make a movie with a salary of NT$4 million." ”

Shen Chong silently calculated the exchange rate in his heart and said: "4 million New Taiwan dollars, 500,000 Hong Kong dollars are less, it's not too much." ”

"Of course it's not much for you, you can earn it in one day or two, it's a lot for a small actor like me, Zheng Shaoqiu is so popular, it's only UU million Hong Kong dollars."

"How much did Lin Qingxia get paid before?"

"Look at the favor, those you know are more than NT$000, and those you don't know are 3 million, but so many things happened to her last year, and she didn't film much, and now Lin Fengjiao's salary is more than 100,000 yuan higher than her." Zhang Aijia sat behind the desk, chatting with him while writing her own things, and said: "Don't compare the prices in Hong Kong with Taiwan, you can buy a big shop on Zhongxiao East Road with NT$00,000." ”

Shen Chong hummed absentmindedly, he was not a person who liked to involve other people's feelings, so he didn't inquire about the emotional gossip between Lin Qingxia and Qin Han, but asked, "What movie did Mingji invite you to act?" It won't be another Anti-Japanese War film, right? ”

"No, it's a Huangmei tune song and dance film, called "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves"." Zhang Aijia glanced up at him and said: "I played a rival play with Ling Bo, telling the story of Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty, adapted from "Drunk and Beating the Golden Branch", you know this scene, right?" Many local operas in China have this repertoire, Manager Ming asked me to play Guo Ziyi's daughter-in-law Princess Shengping, and Ling Bo played Guo Ziyi's son Guo Hua. ”

"How could China Film suddenly fry cold rice to make a drama song and dance film?" Shen Chong was surprised and said, "How can anyone go to watch this kind of movie now." ”

"Why not, doesn't "Jiupin Sesame Official" have a box office of more than 1 million in Hong Kong?"

"That's what the Academy Awards brought up, if there were no Academy Awards, it would be nice to have a box office of 100,000." Shen Chong scribbled while analyzing: "Most of the audience of "Jiupin Sesame Official" are middle-aged and elderly people who went to Hong Kong during the civil war, they don't watch movies, but the taste of their hometown. ”

"You mean I don't want to take this play?"

"That's not it, if you're interested, you can try it, traditional Chinese opera is in decline very much, and opera song and dance films are an endangered film genre, I'm afraid that in a few years, it will disappear without a trace, if you don't act now, you won't have a chance to act in the future."

"I think the same way, and I would love to act with Ling Bo, you know, when I was little, she was very popular in Taiwan."

"Well, Crazy City, 100,000 people are welcome." Shen Chong didn't raise his head and asked, "Who is the director of this movie?" ”

"Jin Han, do you know?"

Shen Chong thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm not impressed." ”

"Even he doesn't know, you still want to be the king of movies" Zhang Aijia laughed at him, and then introduced: "Jin Han is Ling Bo's husband, and he used to be an actor of Shaw Brothers, and he went to Taiwan after the contract expired , to invest in co-production. ”

When Shen Chong heard this, he raised his head and asked with interest: "It turns out that he is the director of "Dream of New Red Mansions", so speaking of which, who won the battle of Red Mansions in the end?" ”

In 1977, Shaw Brothers took out the 19-year-old Yue Opera movie "Lou Meng" for re-screening, but he didn't expect it to be very popular, and the box office was red, plus TVH and Jiayi TV were filming the TV series "Lou Meng" at that time, which triggered a boom in many film companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan competing for the "Red Mansion", from the end of 1977 to the beginning of 1978, in just a few months, a total of five "Red Mansion" movies were released, including Leslie Cheung's erotic film Lou Chun Shang Chun......

Among the swarms of "Red Mansions" movies, "Dream of Red Mansions" starring Lin Qingxia and Zhang Aijia and "Dream of New Red Mansions" starring Ling Bo and Li Jing are of the highest quality and the most famous.

The director of "Dream of Red Mansions" is Li Hanxiang, the soundtrack is Wang Fuling, Baochai is Mi Xue, Zijuan is Deborah, Wang Xifeng is Hu Jin, Jia Mu is Wang Lai, Jia Zheng is Yue Hua, it can be described as an all-star lineup, and "Dream of New Red Mansions" is also not weak, the screenwriter is Cheng Dieyi, the soundtrack is Wu Dajiang, Jia's mother is Li Lihua, and Jia Zheng is Zhao Lei - only director Jin Han is the least famous, so Shen Chong can't remember.

Most of the staff of these two crews are Shaw Brothers or former Shaw Brothers, so the competition between the two sides is very fierce.

"In Hong Kong, we won, "Dream of Red Mansions" has a box office of more than 00,000, and "Dream of Red Mansions" only has more than 10,000 UU." Zhang Aijia was deeply impressed by the dispute and said: "In Taiwan, "Dream of New Red Mansions" won, because Jin Han complained to the Information Bureau, saying that the film we made was illegal, and then it was banned and could not be released, but later won an art design award at the Golden Horse Awards. ”

Shen Chong was about to ask carefully, when there was a knock on the door, Gu Liwei walked in and said, "Sister Zhang, I'm sorry." Mr. Shen, there is your phone number, it is Manager Zhang of China Resources. ”

"Oh, got it." Shen Chong stood up, and before he went out, he spread out the notebook, handed it to Zhang Aijia, and said, "What do you think of these two posters I painted?" ”

Zhang Aijia took it and took a look, only to see that on the page on the left, there were two car windows, a man and a woman, sitting back to back, and on the page on the right, a railroad track was drawn, and at the two ends of the rails, a man and a woman, each facing different directions.

The level of the painting is very poor, the railroad tracks are slanted and crooked, and the portraits are like children scribbling, but the meaning is very clear, one is the beginning of the encounter, and the other is the end of parting.

It's abstract, but it's beautiful.

Zhang Aijia raised her head, her eyes were shining, and said, "I like it very much." ”

"Then you can find an artist to draw it."

In later generations, the cost of poster design for a Hollywood blockbuster may exceed 100,000 US dollars, because the poster can give the audience the most intuitive impression, and it is the lowest cost and the best film publicity means.

It's just that in 19ru, there was no large-screen color display, no high-performance graphics card, no image processing software, and the limitations of poster design were very large, either to piece together stills, or to paint with watercolors, although it was very classical, but Shen Chong didn't like it, because the poster in this way could not express the beauty and artistic conception of the movie, so he wanted to simplify the complex, with the most concise lines, to express the beauty and romance of the movie, so that it can be more memorable.

Make a few more posters, there are only benefits, no harm.