Monday, January 15, morning.

It's another quiet day, without any valuable news, it's boring.

Putting down the newspaper, Feliton rotated his chair and saw the bright sunlight shining between the buildings through the glass curtain wall, thinking to himself, I should be on the grassy golf course in Scotland and enjoy the sun and the smell of nature instead of wasting my life in the cold reinforced concrete.

By the way, there seems to be an advertisement in the newspaper today about golf.

I picked up the South China Morning Post on the table, flipped a few pages, and saw the advertisement.

The ad is a stitching together of two unrelated images.

The picture on the left is a blue sky, white clouds and green grass, a man is swinging gracefully, and the advertising slogan is written next to it: "When you are physically and mentally exhausted, you can play golf ......"

The picture on the right is only black and white, with white on a black background, and the top of the picture is strikingly written: "What can you do when your brain is tired?" ”

In the middle of the picture is a silver cube, and underneath it, there are four slightly smaller bizarre variants, which have a mysterious sense of mechanical technology.

At the bottom, there is a line of small print that reads: "Rubik's Cube, the best choice to relax the brain." ”

According to Feliton's aesthetic point of view, he did not like this advertisement, the color contrast was out of balance, there was no overall beauty, the advertising words were simple and crude, not elegant enough, and did not enter the stream of garbage advertising.

However......

I haven't been in good spirits lately, maybe my brain is too tired, right?

Thinking so, Feliton pressed the call button on the table and ordered, "Ellie, come in." ”

After a while, a middle-aged woman wearing a dress dress came in.

"What do you command, sir?"

"Let's take a look around and see if there's anything for sale?"

"Okay."

……

"Mom, look."

He Yuehua followed the direction of her daughter's finger and saw a moving bus full of cartoons, each with a line of words next to it.

A man holding a dumbbell, "You can exercise with it......"

A woman doing calisthenics, "You can use it to keep your figure ......"

A toddler drinking milk, "You can use it to enhance nutrition ......"

"But what about your brain?"

Finally, there is a colorful cube, "Rubik's Cube, exercise the brain, stimulate imagination, enhance intellectual ......"

"Mom, what's the Rubik's Cube?"

"Mom doesn't know."

Turning the corner, He Yuehua walked over to the door of the grocery store downstairs of He Yuehua's house, which was the colorful cube on the bus.

"Boss Wang, how do you sell that thing?"

"You said the Rubik's Cube?" The boss shook his head and said, "It's sold out." ”

"Sold out so quickly?"

"That thing was not bought by me, it was sent by a young man yesterday for sale, the quantity was small, and it was sold out in the morning."

"Is there anything else that sells them?"

"Then I don't know, it doesn't seem to be sold nearby."

"Mom, look." The daughter pointed to the chair behind the cashier of the store, and said crisply: "Uncle Wang is lying, there is another one here." ”

"Yo, that's not for sale." Boss Wang picked up the Rubik's Cube and said embarrassedly: "This is what I kept for myself, you see, the packaging has been removed." ”

"Boss Wang, you are a thirty or forty-year-old man, and you still play with children's things?" He Yuehua laughed, looked at her pouting daughter, and said, "It doesn't matter if you unpack it, it's okay if it's not broken, sell it to me." ”

"This thing can be played by adults, and it is written in people's advertisements that it can exercise the brain." Boss Wang defended a few words, but still handed the Rubik's Cube to He Yuehua and said, "Take it, Xiaoying is going to cry." ”

"Thank you, Boss Wang." He Yuehua took the Rubik's Cube, handed it to her daughter, and then took out her wallet, "How much?" ”

"39 pieces."

"So expensive!" He Yuehua was taken aback, "Isn't it just a piece of plastic?" ”

"Someone else consigned it, that's the price." Boss Wang took out a contract, showed it to He Yuehua, and said: "It's a little expensive, if it really has an advertising effect, it's worth it." ”

"That's right."

After He Yuehua left, Boss Wang looked at the consignment contract with a tangled expression.

The young man who came to the door yesterday to ask for consignment sales, he was full of charlatans, and the things were sold expensively, and he thought it was a trick of the underworld to buy and sell, and he barely received 2o, so he should pay the protection fee, I didn't expect this thing to sell so hot, did I guess wrong, they are serious business?

The price is high, the sales are fast, if you buy a batch of goods, you will definitely be able to make a profit, make a phone call and ask, even if it is the underworld, it will not block your own wealth.

Thinking of this, Boss Wang no longer hesitated, grabbed the phone, and dialed the number on the contract.

……

Kwun Tong, in the office of Wanfu Building, it was quiet, Ah Worm was playing poker alone at the door, and Huang Xin was settling the account books in the corner.

Li Kaiyuan sat on the chair with his chin resting on the back of the chair, staring at Shen Chong who was writing opposite.

Pretending!

Li Kaiyuan thought hatefully, and really wanted to go up and bite him.

This guy, knowing that the funds are insufficient, still has to rent such a large office, plus the worm who just joined today, there are only four people, what do you want to do in an office of more than 2ooo feet!

This guy, knowing that the cost of the Rubik's Cube is less than ten yuan, but he has to sell it so expensive, who would spend 39 yuan to buy a small plastic block? In the morning, the convenience store on Furen Street stayed all morning, and only one person was seen buying, and several people who asked the price were scared away!

This guy is obviously as anxious, but he pretends to be light-hearted, what kind of essay to write, write ghost drawings!

……

Li Kaiyuan was thinking blindly when the phone on the table suddenly rang, startling her.

Does anyone order?

With a joy in his heart, he hurriedly picked up the phone, asked, and handed it to Shen Chong angrily, "Looking for you." ”

"Hey, I'm Shen Chong."

"Ah Chong, I'm Shu Qi." The other end of the phone said: "I have sorted out the content of your speech at the symposium the day before yesterday, and I am going to publish it in the next issue of the biweekly, do you think it will work?" ”

"No problem, it's an honor to be on the bi-weekly magazine."

Ah Chong was polite. Are you free at night? Let's go out for a meal and show you what needs to be changed. ”

"Okay." Shen Chong ignored Li Kaiyuan's gaze that he wanted to kill, and agreed: "You name a place, I'll go over to find you." ”

After writing down the address of the hotel, Shen Chong put down the phone, touched his forehead, and said helplessly: "Sister Yuan Yuan, it's useless for you to stay here and be anxious, so let's ask Ah Worm to drive you along yesterday's route, and count how many Rubik's cubes were sold today, so that you don't have a bottom in your heart, so as not to be unable to eat at night." ”

"Okay." Li Kaiyuan accepted Shen Chong's suggestion, and before leaving, he told again: "Drink less at night." ”

"Got it, got it." Shen Chong handed her the key and said, "I may go back late, if you can't hide something in your heart, just wait for me at home." ”

"You have the city!" Li Kaiyuan confessed to him, took the key and left.

Huang Xin also followed, and Shen Chong wrote a draft for a while, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he put away his things and prepared to leave.

At this time, the phone rang, and I answered the question, it was a convenience store that sold out of the Rubik's Cube, and the boss asked for the purchase, Shen Chong directly told him that someone would go to his store to talk in detail in a while.

"That's a good sign."

Putting down the phone, Shen Chong clenched his fist hard, made a boxing motion, and vented his feelings - of course he was also very nervous, although according to history, the Rubik's Cube was destined to be a big seller, but caring was chaotic, as long as everything involved his own interests, there would always be gains and losses, and the gods would still have a whim, not to mention mortals.

……

The editorial office of "Film Fortnightly" is in Wan Chai, across the sea from Kwun Tong, and in 1979, the Eastern Harbour Tunnel had not yet been built, which was not very convenient in the past.

took a taxi, and ten minutes later, Shen Chong arrived at his destination.

Shu Qi also brought a friend named Chen Baisheng, who is also the editor of "Film Fortnightly", and after some greetings, the two sides sat down. (Note 1)

"Yan Hao said to come over, let's wait for him for a while." Shu Qi handed over a stack of manuscript paper and said, "This is the manuscript I organized, Ah Chong, you can see where you need to revise." ”

Shen Chong took it, reviewed it carefully, then took out a pen, crossed out some of the content related to art films, added some new text in the blank space next to it, and then handed it back to Shu Qi.

"Ah Chong, why did you delete this paragraph?" After reading the revisions, Shu Qi pointed to one of them and said, "I think it's very good." ”

"yes." Chen Baisheng was anxious, so he leaned next to Shu Qi, almost put his head on his head, and read the manuscript together, he also echoed: "This paragraph about the meaning of the new wave is very good, but it's a pity to delete it." ”

Film is a dualistic thing, both a commodity and a work of art, and Shu Qi and Chen Baisheng are both literary and artistic youths, who have invested too much attention in the artistry of film, and they think that the new wave mentioned by Shen Chong refers to the real yàn film, the avant-garde film, this type of independent film, purely pursuing artistry or personal style, not paying attention to commerciality.

Therefore, Shen Chong deleted that paragraph, added new content, and clearly proposed that the New Wave refers to all the new films that can break through the old backward film system, and those that have breakthroughs in art and new ideas in business are all New Wave films.

Art films and commercial films are like the relationship between sports cars and family cars, art movies are brain-consuming, cool enough, connotative, not suitable for entertainment and leisure, sports cars are good-looking, dazzling enough, tasteful, and not suitable for daily use, so art movies have poor box office and low sales of sports cars.

However, like a sports car, art films are indispensable, a car company that can't research a sports car will always be second-rate, and a film company that doesn't have a top-level art film in the library is also second-rate.

Successful car companies make profits with family cars and eyeballs with sports cars, and the same is true for successful film companies, which use commercial films to earn box office and art films to earn word-of-mouth.

Art films can provide nutrients for commercial films, improve the quality of films, and commercial films can provide funds for art films, and the two love and complement each other, and are indispensable in a mature film market.

Historically, after the New Wave, the Hong Kong film industry completely abandoned art films, compromised with commerce without discipline, and in order to make money, they fell into clichés and conformism, followed the trend in subject matter, and did not want to innovate, and as a result, Hong Kong films collapsed in a short period of time.

The reason why Shen Chong wants to vigorously promote the New Wave and want it to last longer is not to resist commercialization, but to cultivate an environment that accommodates the existence of art films, and to retain the innovative consciousness embodied in the New Wave.

If a large number of talented filmmakers emerge like in 1979 every few years, how could Hong Kong cinema collapse?

Shen Chong organized his words according to the train of thought in his mind, and explained his thoughts to the two of them, which made Shu Qi and Chen Baisheng ponder for a long time, each with their own ideas.

"Why don't you speak?" Yan Hao walked into the box at this time, saw this scene, and was surprised: "With Ah Chong here, will it be cold?" ”

Yan Hao's words reminded Shu Qi of the plate of radish, and he couldn't help laughing, and the scene swept away the coldness just now.

After serving the food, Yan Hao took the wine glass, toasted Shen Chong first, and said, "Ah Chong, I really have to thank you this time." ”

"Thank me for what?"

"Thank you for that review." Shu Qi said: "After Boss Zou read your article, he asked Yan Hao to help Jiahe make a film. (Note 2)

"Won't it?" Shen Chong didn't believe it, this butterfly wing fan was also fast!

"Really, I went to Golden Harvest today to meet Boss Zou, who is personally the producer of the new film." Yan Hao was full of spring breeze and said, "Ah Chong, are you interested in making movies?" ”

"Me?" Shen Chong was taken aback, "I don't know anything." ”

"Can't you learn, you can see so thoroughly, people are smart, and you can succeed quickly." Yan Hao invited: "Boss Zou said that I will be in charge of the new play, he only has a name, Shu Qi has already promised to help me write the script, or Ah Chong will be an assistant director." ”

Shen Chong knew that Yan Hao was repaying the favor, he was a newcomer who didn't understand anything, why should he be an assistant director?

Shen Chong's heart was moved, and following Yan Hao, he would definitely be able to learn a lot of things, which would be very helpful for future exhibitions.

"Okay, if you don't think I'm annoying, I'll go to the crew to help."

As soon as Shen Chong's words fell, he heard a soft sound of "Di", and a light blue light curtain appeared in his mind.

"You're part of a crew, do you use this experience as a test grade?"

This system has been silent, worn on the wrist, and no one else can see it, Shen Chong has ignored its existence a little, he couldn't imagine that it is so sensitive, and as soon as he promised Yan Hao, it jumped out.

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Note 1: Chen Baisheng was the later editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly", and the establishment of the Academy Awards was originally mentioned by him.

Note 2: Yan Hao helped Golden Harvest film "Night Train" in 1979, produced by Zou Wenhuai and written by Shu Qi.

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