A gentleman can be bullied, Fang Yuping promised to be a consultant to Shen Chong, but Shen Chong used him as a director.

Fang Yuping is an extremely serious person, very artistic, he doesn't like the script of "Buried Alive", after being pulled over by Shen Chong, he is doing the main shooting work, but he resolutely disagrees to be a director, and sternly states that he will not sign the movie.

In this way, it made Shen Chongyue respect him.

This kind of persistence and seriousness, as well as the attitude of cherishing feathers, are incompatible with the atmosphere of mainstream Hong Kong films, no wonder he won the Academy Award for Best Director Xiao Jinren three times, but he only made a total of five movies - too serious, the film will definitely be carefully crafted, and once it is carved, it will be time-consuming and costly, and it will not please the film company.

The film department of the University of Southern California is one of the world's top film talent training places, Fang Yuping can get a master's degree from there, and there is no doubt about his professional level, many things that Shen Chong and Jin Shijie can't figure out for a long time, he made it clear in one sentence.

Under the training and command of Fang Yuping, the filming of "Buried Alive" swept away the previous bumps and bumps, and became smooth, Jin Shijie and Huang Yuetai are both extremely talented people, with strong self-learning ability, and now they are guided by famous teachers, and their level has improved by leaps and bounds, and even Shen Chong, a pseudo-filmmaker, has benefited a lot from being caught in it.

The filming went smoothly, the morale was high, everyone was full of energy, except for eating, drinking and Lazar, the rest of the time was almost soaked in the set, and in the end it only took two weeks, before Shen Chong went to the mainland, all the filming work was completed, as for the post-production, Shen Chong was ready to make plans after returning from the mainland.

"Lao Fang, it's really thanks to you." At the finale banquet, Shen Chong first toasted Fang Yuping with a glass of wine, and said sincerely: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to shoot this drama until next year, and it would be impossible to shoot it so well." ”

"Teacher Fang, I also toast you." Jin Shijie stood up, held the wine glass, and said very respectfully: "Thank you for your guidance, I will benefit for life." ”

Huang Yuetai also toasted and said, "Director Fang, I have been with you for two weeks, and I have learned more than two years of filming at Shaw Brothers, thank you." ”

"You're so polite, you're so polite." Fang Yuping stood up and responded at a loss.

On the set, Fang Yuping commanded Ruoding, speaking of professional knowledge, he was clear and eloquent, but he was not very sociable, and at several parties, Shen Chong saw him staying in the corner, silent, as if he was invisible.

Halfway through the banquet, Shen Chong put down his chopsticks and said, "Old Fang, you have done me a great favor this time, how do you say I should return this favor?" ”

"What kind of unkindness." Fang Yuping waved his hand straight and said, "Friends, it's just a favor." ”

"That's not going to work." Shen Chong smiled: "I pulled you over and delayed your work on the side of the Great Wall, this favor must be repaid." ”

Fang Yuping was silent for a while, and asked tentatively with a somewhat hesitant tone: "Ah Chong, I want to make a movie, you... Can you invest? ”

"Haha......" Shen Chong patted him on the shoulder, laughed and said, "Old Fang, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”

As he spoke, he stood up, picked up his backpack from the coat rack, took out a bag from it, handed it to Fang Yuping, and said: "Old Fang, do you know that at the preview screening of "Crazy Robbery", I said that I would invest in five movies this year, one of which was kept for you, but unfortunately you never came to me. ”

Fang Yuping was stunned, he was stunned for a while, and with a slightly trembling hand, he opened the Wen Jiàn bag, took out the Wen Jiàn inside, and quickly flipped through it.

"Lao Fang, this is a film investment agreement." Shen Chong took the wine glass and said with a smile: "I come to the set every day, and I bring this text with me, just to see when you speak." ”

Fang Yuping put Wen Jiàn on the empty chair on the side, then picked up the wine glass, touched Shen Chong hard, raised his neck, drank the wine in the glass, and said with red eyes: "Ah Chong, thank you!" ”

"Old Fang, don't blame me for deliberately playing tricks on you." Shen Chong also drank all the wine in one sip, and then said in his heart: "You are a capable person, talent, talent, and education, but your temperament is too boring, you are studying at USC, you should know how difficult it is to find an investment in Hollywood, Hong Kong is the same, the opportunity is fleeting, you must hurry up and grasp it, you know that I want to invest in making movies, why do you keep delaying it?" ”

"The movie I want to make is more literary." Fang Yuping smiled awkwardly and said: "Maybe you can't make money, I don't think you can invest, so I want to find companies like Great Wall and Phoenix to invest, anyway, they don't care much about the box office." ”

"Who sues you and I care about the box office." Shen Chong smiled and said: "I have long said that as long as there is something new, I will invest, but I didn't say that as long as I can make money, I will invest." ”

"Congratulations to Director Fang for getting what he wanted." Huang Yuetai smiled and raised his glass to congratulate, "Boss Shen's vision, who doesn't admire it, how can he lose money, I wish Director Fang a great ambition and gain fame and fortune." ”

Shen Chong saw that Fang Yuping was already red-faced, and dissuaded: "Drink less wine, feel free." ”

Waiting for Fang Yuping to put down the wine glass, Shen Chong asked him: "Old Fang, what kind of movie do you want to make?" ”

"I'm going to make a movie about the relationship between father and son." Fang Yuping glanced at everyone, and then said: "I'll write out the synopsis of the script for you to see, let me say it now, I can't say it." ”

"It's fine." Shen Chong didn't think about it, and said: "I'm going to the mainland in a few days, you can fill in the text and give it to Sister Zhen." ”

Fang Yuping nodded in agreement.

Shen Chong turned his head again and asked Jin Shijie: "Jinbao, when are you going to go back to Taipei?" ”

"I'll leave tomorrow." Jin Shijie wiped the oil stains on his hands with a handkerchief and said: ""Buried Alive" is still too thin, I think it may be better to adapt "Lotus Beads" into a stage play, the time is a little tight, I have to go back quickly." ”

"In that case, I won't keep you." Shen Chong nodded and said, "I'll ask someone to book a ticket for you, I have something to do tomorrow, so I won't send it, next time I go to Taipei, let's get together again." ”

"Good ......"

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and then a waiter walked in, and she said, "Mr. Shen, there is your phone." ”

In the era of no mobile phone, Shen Chong has developed the habit of registering in the company's office every time he goes out, he thought it was an urgent business, but after picking up the phone, it was Zhang Aijia.

"Sister Zhang, are you in Hong Kong?"

"I'm in Taipei." Zhang Aijia seemed to have something, she asked straight to the point: "You are not in a hurry to go to the mainland these days, right?" ”

"I'll be in Hong Kong tomorrow two days later, and I'll go to Guangzhou on the 29th." Shen Chong glanced up at the clock hanging in the lobby and asked, "It's almost nine o'clock, call me at this time, is there something urgent?" ”

"The last time we watched "Legend in the Mountains" together, you said that Director Hu would be in trouble, and you can help him solve it." Zhang Aijia softened his tone and said, "Now he is really in trouble." ”

Shen Chong was stunned when he heard this.

The last time he said that Hu Jinquan was in trouble, he actually teased casually. Because in his impression, Hu Jinquan in the seventies, imposing, box office reputation double harvest, is a veritable generation of martial arts movie masters, but in 1979, he filmed in South Korea "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" and "Legend in the Mountains", word-of-mouth box office both failed, since then, no more works have come out, in 199o when filming "Smiling Proud Jianghu", he was also seized power by his junior Tsui Hark, and lost face.

The trouble Shen Chong said refers to the fact that Hu Jinquan lost the box office and lost his reputation, and he will never find anyone to invest in making movies for him in the future.

And the trouble that Zhang Aijia said on the phone is really troublesome.

Hu Jinquan in 1972, self-formed Jinquan Film Company, and cooperated with Golden Harvest to start filming "The Storm of Yingchun Pavilion" and "Loyal Martyrs", the two dramas started filming almost at the same time, the former drama was filmed for more than a year, released in 1973, and the latter drama was delayed until 1975.

As early as 1972, Hu Jinquan wanted to shoot "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain", but because of lack of investment, he finally died, and in 1977, he successfully said that the boss of "Luohu Joint Production Co., Ltd." invested 15o Hong Kong dollars to start filming this movie.

Luo is Luo Kaimu, Hu is Hu Shuru, one is the owner of the chain restaurant Café de Cral, the other is a master in the advertising and animation industry, all of them are Hong Kong celebrities, and this company also has a shareholder named Huang Zhan.

Huang Zhan is a soy sauce maker, and his shares were given to him by Hu Shurubai.

Hu Jinquan filmed "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain", he didn't pay a dime, but wanted to share half of the box office profits, Huang Zhan slipped his head, and when he heard this condition, he immediately quit and ran away, while Luo Kaimu and Hu Shuru admired Hu Jinquan more, although they knew that he would inevitably support his filming, they still agreed to invest.

These two people are both veterans of shopping malls, and it is okay to share profits, but it is not okay to be wronged, so they have laid a foreshadowing in the contract, if the box office is a big hit, it is easy to say, if the box office is unfavorable and the movie loses money, Hu Jinquan needs to use Hong Kong's real estate to compensate for the losses of the two.

Since Hu Jinquan's debut, the box office of "The Drunken Man" is on par with Zhang Che's "One-armed Knife", "Dragon Gate Inn" is Taiwan's annual box office champion, although "Chivalrous Girl" was initially unfavorable at the box office, but after winning the Grand Prize at Cannes, when the re-edit was re-released, the box office was a big hit, and "The Storm of the Spring Pavilion" and "The Loyal Martyr" both entered the top 2O of the annual box office in Hong Kong.

With such a brilliant resume as a foundation, Hu Jinquan was naturally full of confidence and signed the contract quickly.

As a result, "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" was strictly zhòng, with a cost of more than 2oo yuan, and it was released in Hong Kong in July, with a box office of only 129. 30,000, a big loss.

Luo Hu and Hu then came to the door with the contract to ask for compensation, Hu Jinquan dragged on for more than two months, trying every possible way to protect the property, and now the creditor is impatient and is ready to sue him for a lawsuit. (Note 1)

Zhang Aijia has a very good relationship with Hu Jinquan, and regards him as a master, after hearing about this, he remembered what Shen Chong had said, and wanted to ask him to help solve this trouble...... (Note 2)

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Note 1: According to Tian Feng's memoirs, Tian Feng is one of the leading actors in "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" and "Legend in the Mountain".

Note 2: See Zhang Aijia's interview, saying that Hu Jinquan is her only master.

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