Film, television, and print media are the troika in Shen Chong's media map, so after Zhou Liang Shuyi and others, the editors-in-chief of several magazines, Qiu Liben, editor-in-chief of "Shengshi Oriental Weekly", Philip Pauling of "Far Eastern Economic Review", Lin Xingzhi, editor-in-chief of "Hong Kong Economic News", Luo Weiming, editor-in-chief of "Film Times", and Lin Niantong, editor-in-chief of "First Film Review". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The rapid economic development of Hong Kong and Taiwan has given birth to a large number of local middle classes, who know etiquette and etiquette, food and clothing and honor and disgrace, and after meeting material needs, these people will naturally pursue spiritual satisfaction, gossip and entertainment magazines are too vulgar and boring, and English magazines have a sense of cultural isolation, so Shen Chong used the method of "doves occupy magpies' nests and borrow nests to give birth to children", based on "Asian Weekly", and then took the hot scoop news as the selling point, and founded the "Shengshi Oriental Weekly" immediately attracted great attention, in just a few months, Firmly sitting in the position of the No. 1 political and economic magazine in Chinese, it is not only popular in Hong Kong, but also in the Chinese community in Southeast Asia, and every plane taking off from Kai Tak Airport has this magazine.

...... sales volume of "Shengshi Oriental Weekly" is about 300,000 per issue, including 180,000 in Hong Kong, 80,000 in Southeast Asia, and 10,000 in North America and Australia. Taiwan has not yet allowed our magazines to be distributed in Taiwan, but according to statistics, about 50 UU copies of each issue of the magazine have been packaged and bought by a Taiwan-funded trading company, and I think it should be the official to buy them for internal distribution. After Qiu Liben introduced Taiwan, he also introduced the situation in the mainland: "The situation in the mainland is relatively optimistic, although the Ministry of Culture and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office have not yet approved our application to enter Guangdong for distribution, but allow the magazine to be sold on the train of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, in this way, each issue can sell more than 12,000 copies, I think after the opening of distribution, the sales will soar." ”

"Asia Weekly" has been founded for many years, there is no shortage of channels and word of mouth, there are more than 100,000 sales, the "Shengshi Oriental Weekly" born on its corpse, in just a few months can have 300,000 sales, it is not surprising, but Shen Chong does not value sales, he fancy the influence, so his face is not happy, but warned: "Editor-in-chief Qiu, you can't take it lightly, walk steadily, don't be in a hurry to open up the market, especially not in order to rush sales, to engage in some eye-catching controversial topics, Taiwan and the mainland are now in a period of transition, It's like a little girl who is just starting to fall in love, her heart is unpredictable, she can't be teased, and if she is not careful, she will be treated as a stinky hooligan, and she will be put in prison for the rest of her life and will not be able to turn over. ”

After Qiu Liben's trip to Beijing, his heart sank a lot, he nodded when he heard this, and said, "Mr. Shen, don't worry, I know how to be measured." ”

"Far Eastern Economic Review" and "Xinbao Financial News" are both high-quality media, with good reputation, stable revenue, and shrewd management, so Shen Chong has not interfered in the daily operations of these two media, and this time the two editors-in-chief were summoned to the meeting, not to report business, but for other things.

"Editor-in-Chief Qiu is doing political news, Mr. Philip and Mr. Lin are doing financial news, Editor-in-Chief Luo and Editor-in-Chief Lin are doing film news.

Shen Chong motioned to Gu Liwei to send a document to everyone, and then said: "At the beginning of April, I held a gold medal awards, Mr. Zhao Dan said some fierce words at the award ceremony, and for more than a month, the media in the mainland have launched a national discussion around his words. ”

"This point of view is the film classification system, the United States, the United Kingdom have a classification system, and Hong Kong is known as the Oriental Hollywood, the world's second largest film production area, only the Film Censorship Department, but there is no classification system, this situation makes me very curious, so I deliberately went to check, I don't know if I don't check, I was shocked when I checked it, it turned out that Hong Kong's film censorship system is an illegal governance behavior without legal basis, and it has lasted for almost 30 years, as a place of rule of law, this kind of thing happened, and no one found out, I was shocked."

Although in 19ru, the line "We are the best law in Hong Kong" was not yet rotten, but the British government in Hong Kong often hyped that Hong Kong had complete laws and good law and order to create a sense of colonial superiority, so several people were surprised by this and picked up the documents in front of them and looked at them.

In 1987, after the front page of the Far Eastern Economic Review broke this loophole, the Hong Kong government spent more than a year reformulating the law on electric chair censorship and introducing a grading system, and since then, the term "tertiary film" has been added to the Chinese vocabulary.

Shen Chong is not a lawyer, he knows the origin, but he doesn't know what the legal loophole is, so when he got rich, he found a law firm and entrusted them to study the film censorship system, and quickly figured out what was illegal.

The legal basis for the current film censorship system in Hong Kong is derived from the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance 1953, according to which the Governor and the Executive Council enacted the Film Censorship Regulations in 1953 and established the Film and Entertainment Authority.

In the years that followed, film censorship was carried out without clear standards, and in 1973, the Film and Entertainment Administration promulgated film censorship standards, known as the Film Censorship Guidelines, which listed eight standards for censorship, but this was not a law, but an administrative code, which was equivalent to the departmental regulations of the mainland.

Under Article 7(1) of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance 1953, the Government should conduct film censorship in accordance with the methods and principles set out in the Film Censorship Regulations, but the Principles and Standards of Inspection are not specified in the Film Censorship Regulations.

The absence of principles and standards in the Film Censorship Regulations to limit the Government's power to censorship of films is contrary to the principles of common law and inconsistent with the provisions of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance 1953 and is therefore ultra vires, which is an offence.

The film censorship regulations established under the Film and Entertainment Regulatory Office and the Film Censorship Guidelines formulated and published by the Act are therefore illegal, and all film censorship activities carried out by the Government in accordance with the Regulations and Guidelines are therefore illegal.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, this kind of illegal behavior is very boring and insignificant, and can even be called a bone in the egg, but the law is reasonable and rigorous, so this information has a very big impact on Hong Kong's legal system and the film industry, and it is a big bomb.

However, when the bomb will be detonated is a very particular thing, after Shen Chong got the report, he has not triggered it, just to find an appropriate opportunity, and now, he feels that the time is ripe - the mainland is now discussing film legislation in full swing, but just shouting for legislation, but not knowing how to legislate, just use Hong Kong as a reference, so that mainland filmmakers know how to legislate.

According to Shen Chong's memory, in 1987, the Far Eastern Economic Review kicked out the legal loopholes in Hong Kong's film censorship system, and the Hong Kong government immediately abolished the 1953 "Film Censorship Regulation" and formulated the transitional "1987 Film Censorship Regulation", and then began to legislate, and after more than a year of discussion, the "Film Censorship Ordinance" with legal effect was promulgated in 19rr ll, and at the same time a new film censorship agency was established and a film classification system was introduced.

At the same time, after years of discussion and deliberation, the mainland also formulated a film classification system with reference to Hong Kong's film legislative process, which was promulgated on March 1, 1989, and implemented nationwide on May 1, 1989, but unfortunately, a month later, a storm made the 10-year efforts of mainland filmmakers come to naught.

The official authoritative magazine "Lookout" has reported on the mainland's classification system, its name is "Notice on the Implementation of the Censorship and Screening Classification System for Some Films", nominally "some films", but in fact covers almost all types of films except military and main theme themes, which clearly stipulate four standards that are "not suitable for children": films with plots such as rape, theft, drug abuse, drug trafficking, and prostitution; Films with violence, murder, and fighting plots that can easily arouse the sense of terror among children and teenagers; Films depicting ** and sexual acts; There are films that show social deformities.

These four articles, at first glance, there is no problem, any country's film classification system has similar regulations, but in this, there is a very important message implied - this is the standard of "children should not watch", that is, the mainland can produce and screen the films mentioned in these four articles, as long as minors are prohibited from entering when tickets are sold.

It is conceivable how important this rating system is to the mainland film industry, and if there is no June trend, Chinese films in the 90s will definitely live very well......

10,000 years is too long, seize the day, 1989 is too long, and whether he can stop that turmoil, Shen Chong has no bottom, so he plans to take advantage of the reform in the mainland and the people's hearts are fluctuating, to start in advance and set off a wave of film classification - he is ready to use the "Far Eastern Economic Review" and "Shengshi Oriental Weekly" as arrows to poke open the loopholes in Hong Kong's film censorship system with great fanfare, and then use "Film Times" and "First Film Review" as wings to guide mainland filmmakers to pay attention to and learn from it, and so on. Like dominoes, it pushes the mainland to formulate a film classification system.

"Cases that can change the rules of an industry's development are not happening every day, and I want you to do a good job of this news." Shen Chong habitually knocked on the table and reminded: "Philip, you and Editor-in-Chief Qiu, after the report comes out, you should contact the members of the Legislative Council more, and when enacting legislation in the future, I will know the specific content of every discussion they have." Lao Luo, and Editor-in-Chief Lin, this case is related to the future of the Hong Kong film industry, you go and interview the bigwigs in the industry, especially Run Run Shaw, Shaw Brothers has produced so many erotic films, if the film is classified, it will have the greatest impact on his company. ”

"Okay, no problem." Luo Weiming nodded again and again and said: "I have been engaged in film news for more than ten years, and this is the first time I know that the electrical inspection office is illegal. ”