Chapter 2 Reflections

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"Okay, okay, Mr. Shen walks slowly."

After Shen Chong left, Shaw felt a little upset, and he slowly paced around the large living room of the villa, thinking about it while eating and eating.

Most of the elderly people like to be quiet and don't like to move, and the most annoying thing is change and tossing.

A year ago, when Shen Chong was still penniless, he came to interview him, and he made it clear that he hated those independent producers, broke the rules, disrupted the market, and made it difficult to do business.

A year later, looking back, those independent producers are just ringworm scabies, they have limited funds, they can't make the climate, like summer cicadas, annoying, but they can't move the foundation of the big tree of Shaw Brothers, but Shen Chong's oriental charm is like a strong typhoon, in a short period of time, it has shaken the large-scale studio system that Shaw Brothers has carefully built and maintained for more than 20 years.

Shaw Brothers' business ideas, pay attention to small profits but quick turnover, as far as possible to reduce manufacturing costs, to win by quantity, this business model, about the mainstream of China's traditional business, not only Shaw Brothers, in the following decades, most of China's enterprises, have pursued this line of thinking, thus creating the reputation of "the world's factory".

To reduce manufacturing costs, the first thing is of course to reduce salary, the low salary of Shaw Brothers' actors and behind-the-scenes personnel is famous in Hong Kong, Zheng Peipei once said that she was in Shaw Brothers and went out as little as possible every day, because the company stipulated that she must wear good clothes when she goes out, and she is not allowed to take the bus, with her salary of hundreds of yuan at the time, she couldn't afford the expenses at all, so she had to hide in the dormitory every day, the martial arts queen who was popular all over the Xiangjiang River, so embarrassed, it can be seen that the salary of Shaw Brothers is low.

After the Hong Kong stock market crash in 1973, Fang Yihua took full power, and he gave full play to the stinginess, some people said that the style of Shaw Brothers is that after any budget is reported, it is customary to cut half of it, there was a joke that Li Hanxiang filmed a drama and asked ten children to blow soap bubbles, so he reported to buy ten bamboo pipes, but only five were approved, and he was so angry that he even gave up the whole play, saying that Shaw Brothers saves money, he saves time...

Those independent producers poached a few Shaw Brothers talents at a high price, but they had a weak foundation and didn't last long, as long as there was a drama that didn't do well at the box office, it would be over, and then the talents who ran away would come back obediently.

But the charm of the East is different, because its boss Shen Chong is rich, although Run Run Shaw is confident that he has accumulated wealth for fifty or sixty years, which is definitely more than Shen Chong, who has only been in the business for a year and a half, but movies are just movies after all, and the funds have reached a certain level, and the more money and less money are the same - Zou Wenhuai is an example, if the Shaw Brothers add up all the properties in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, it will be ten times that of Golden Harvest, but in the current film market, it is Golden Harvest that is pressing Shaw Brothers.

Shen Chong is known for his extravagance and generosity, and those who work for him have no disadvantage, such as last year's "Crazy Robbery" broke the box office record, all the staff who have left their names in the crew's signature book, and even the cleaners who helped clean up the garbage at the filming site, have received hundreds of red envelopes.

"Crazy Robbery" can still be said to be a deliberate move by him to spend money to buy a good reputation when he just debuted, but all the subsequent actions show that he doesn't care about the current industry rules of the Hong Kong film industry, Wang Jing's "Chasing Girls" was a box office hit, in addition to the salary on the initial contract, he took a dividend of 100,000 yuan, you must know that even Chu Yuan can't get box office dividends, what qualifications does Wang Jing have for a fledgling hairy young man?

There is also Huang Yuetai, who is just an ordinary employee who has been in the industry for three or four years in Shaw Brothers, with a salary of several thousand yuan per month, was borrowed by Shen Chong to make an experimental film that has not been released so far, less than 20 days, and received a salary of 50,000 yuan, not only that, Shen Chong also stuffed him into the jury of the Academy Awards, becoming the youngest judge in the jury, and became famous in one fell swoop.

The same is true of "Die Hard", which is now crazy at the box office, although it is co-produced with Golden Harvest, Shen Chong also borrowed some behind-the-scenes employees from Shaw Brothers, and each employee received three times the salary of Shaw Brothers, which made Shaw's heart tremble.

Every time Shen Chong came to borrow someone, he was a group of harmony, and he sent it back after borrowing, and never said that he wanted to dig people, but every time, he gained a good reputation, and in this way, he was obviously raising hope, in case the time was ripe one day, he raised his arms and shouted, Shao Brothers wanted people to go to the empty building......

"Young people are young people, they don't know how to cherish at all, how to get it with their left hand in and right hand out.

Thinking of this, Run Run Shaw shook his head again and again, slandering in his heart, but slander is slander, Shen Chong is a bastard who treats money like dung, he really can't figure out how to deal with it for a while.

In addition to movies, television also gave Shaw a big headache.

Shen Chong's Jiayi TV Station, just showing movies, less than a month, in the prime time of the evening, has sat on the second look, overwhelming Li, occupying the second place in the ratings, although the highest is only about 14%, but according to public information, after the movie station, there are more TV channels to come out, and the bulls are going hand in hand, full of stamina.

Moreover, Shen Chong didn't slip his hands tonight, but just talked about the legislation on the Hong Kong film classification system, as well as the impact of the mainland's film distribution and screening reform on Hong Kong films, and there was no word saying that he was interested in H, nor did he say that he was not interested in H.

In the 60s, the cost of each film was only a few hundred thousand, and the annual profit was more than 10 million US dollars, but in recent years, the production cost has become more and more expensive, and the profit has been declining, while TV is just the opposite, the profit is climbing every year, and the progress is bright.

It's just that he and Li Xiaohe are old friends for decades, at the beginning Li Xiaohe not only gave him shares, let him enter the board of directors, but also entrusted the daily operation carte blanche, so as long as he is still alive, Run Run Shaw no matter what, it is not easy to fight HR ideas, so for so many years, he has been controlling his shares no more than the Li family, Li Jia is the largest private shareholder of H, holding a total of 380,000 shares, so Run Run Shaw holds 10,000 shares, in order to avoid suspicion.

But the move to avoid suspicion back then has now become a hidden danger, H is not a listed company, the transfer of shares by shareholders is not public, and Run Run Shaw is not able to buy shares from HSBC or Hutchison Whampoa.

While he was thinking about it, the butler came over with a plate and reminded, "Master, it's time to drink health soup."

Run Run Shaw snorted, he took the teacup, but he didn't rush to drink it, but asked, "Mr. Shen came over today, it seems that he brought a gift?" ”

"Yes." The housekeeper replied, "I put it in the study, it seems to be a book." ”

"Show me it."

The gift was quickly brought in, and when I opened it, it was not a book, but a roster - "19ru Hong Kong Film Culture Center Spring Training丨 Class Student Directory".

Shaw picked it up, flipped through it, and then thoughtfully.