Chapter 33: Test Screening
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"Lin Yanni said that Leslie's voice is like a cup of excellent espresso, smooth and mellow, hot and intimate, worthy of being a talented girl, the description is too accurate, listening to him sing, I feel that the whole person is warm, from the ears to the heart, everywhere is comfortable."
"Sing well and write well, Shen Caishen is worthy of being the first talent in Xiangjiang, and it is said that all the songs in Leslie's album are arranged by him."
Shen Chong sat in the last row of the Golden Harvest Theater, listening to the occasional chatter, and secretly embarrassed while enjoying Leslie Cheung's live singing.
This "Love Is Hard to Control", in fact, is a cover of the classic English song "I-Don't-Want-to-Talk-About-It" in 1970, but he didn't know it when he plagiarized, and wrote it casually.
If you wait until the album is released to find out, he, the "No. 1 talent in Hong Kong", will be tragic......
Fortunately, the other 9 songs are all "original", and this oolong incident was covered up with the excuse of "I was too busy at the time, I forgot to note, and I made an unintentional mistake", but no one doubted it......
"It's Hard to Control Your Love" is a song released in 1995, I thought it was foolproof, but I didn't expect that something went wrong, and if I plagiarized it in the future, I must be careful and careful......
Speaking of which, this time the oolong incident of Li Ghost meeting Li Kui did not cause trouble, thanks to Shen Chong's great joy.
He plagiarized 10 songs in Los Angeles and gave them to Leslie Cheung, ostensibly "inspiration" from the plot of the movie "Love at Dawn", but in fact, it was a hodgepodge of classic albums "Love" released by Leslie Cheung himself in 1995 in his previous life, plus several other golden songs.
In the Hong Kong entertainment industry, whether it is making movies or releasing albums, it has always been known for its high efficiency, Shen Chong made these 10 songs, each of which is a good song that has been circulated for many years, with good lyrics and songs, and Polygram is a very experienced old record company, if you go all out, you can make the record in ten days, but it was plagiarized from the beginning of May and was not released until the end of August, which dragged on for more than three months, mainly for two reasons.
The first reason is that Shen Chong plagiarized the 10 songs, some are Cantonese songs, some are Chinese songs, very messy, and he clearly asked Leslie Cheung's album to be released in both Chinese and Cantonese versions, the big boss personally wrote the song, Polygram naturally attached great importance to it, so he invited the lyricists in Hong Kong and Taiwan to write Cantonese words for Chinese and Chinese for Cantonese, which greatly increased the difficulty and time of production - the oolong of "Difficult to Control Love" was discovered by Zheng Donghan when he asked Taiwanese lyricist Shen Zhi to write Chinese lyrics.
Cantonese is a dialect, whether it is market capacity or circulation range, it is far less than Chinese songs, in the 80s of the previous life, Hong Kong's major record companies only paid attention to Cantonese and did not pay attention to the practice of Chinese, is an absolute rat eye, Leslie Cheung was dragged down by this business strategy, did not achieve higher achievements in the music world, his singing skills and music taste in the Chinese music scene second to none, but most of the good songs sung are Cantonese songs, widely circulated Chinese songs are relatively few, after entering the 90s, It is a pity that the influence and popularity in the Chinese music scene are not as good as the four heavenly kings.
Shen Chong is not a short-sighted person, so after acquiring Polygram, he gave a death order, all its singers must learn Chinese, can sing Chinese songs, who wants not to learn, go by themselves, because Cantonese songs are now, Chinese songs are the future.
The second reason is that Shen Chong wants to organically combine movies and music and play a comprehensive marketing, so after the album was produced, it was pressed for more than half a month, and waited for "Love at Dawn" to be released a week before the release, because in this album, "Unruly Wind" is a movie promotional song, "Eyebrows Come and Eyes" is the Cantonese version of the theme song, "Affectionate Embrace" is the Chinese version of the theme song, "Love is Hard to Control" and "Red Face and White Hair" are movie episodes, the movie and the album are closely related, the artistic conception is similar, and the same schedule is released, It will have the effect that one plus one is greater than the sum of its parts.
“leslie!”
“leslie!!”
“leslie! I love you!!! ”
"Look at those little girls, they look like they're crazy."
"Bruce Lee wasn't so popular back then."
"Times are different, when we were fifteen or sixteen years old, even if we saw a big star, we would be very disciplined and saluted, but today's young people don't care about etiquette and rules at all, they shout when they see a star, chase desperately, and are more fanatical than the Red Guards."
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the star-chasing 80s!
This is the era when fans fight for their idols, this is the era when fans commit suicide for their idols, and this is the era when idols hide their marriages in order to maintain their popularity......
Shen Chong muttered to himself, then turned sideways to Zhang Aijia's side, and said with a smile: "Look at this scene, I said that Leslie can bring 2 million box office and underestimate his charm." ”
Zhang Aijia squinted at him, with a sense of cartoon character-like comedy, and asked, "Aren't you not confident in the box office?" ”
Shen Chong liked this look of disgust very much, held her hand, and said with a smile: "It's okay to brag at home, but to brag outside, if it blows, wouldn't it be a shame for me, the God of Wealth?" It's better to be humble. ”
"If the cowhide is blown up, you will wait to be disposed of by me!"
"Who disposes of whom does not know yet......"
Lin Qingxia on the other side turned her head to look this way, Shen Chong made an exaggerated grimace, raised her hand and made an apologetic gesture, Lin Qingxia smiled slightly, nodded in return, and her posture was like a lotus flower in a summer night, soft and moving.
Leslie Cheung said some words to thank the fans for their support to appease the excited and enthusiastic audience, and then bowed and left the stage, and then the lights dimmed in the theater to prepare for the official screening of "Love at Dawn".
Shen Chong looked at the personable Leslie Cheung, touched his chin, and said: "If your movie can turn Leslie into an idol star, even if the box office is not ideal, it will be worth it." ”
Zhang Aijia was slightly stunned when she heard this, and asked, "He's so popular, isn't he a star?" ”
"It doesn't count." Shen Chong shook his head and said, "At most, it's a star of tomorrow." ”
Zhang Aijia was laughed at by him, and asked rhetorically: "Then what is a star?" ”
"As long as a name is printed on the poster, the audience will willingly buy tickets to enter the theater, so they are called stars, leslie has potential, but it lacks the support of high-quality and influential masterpieces, and it is not a star...... The same goes for you and Brigitte. Shen Chong lightly beat his chest and said: "A thousand envy of men, ten thousand admiration of women, every word and deed, dumping the whole city, at present, I am the only star in Hong Kong." ”
"Don't be cheeky!"
Shen Chong laughed.
Since the birth of television, the entertainment function of movies has been constantly eroded, and in the 80s, going to the theater to watch movies has been reduced to a leisure choice with a strong social purpose, either watching together as a couple, or watching it with friends, few lonely men and widows go to the movies alone, in this environment, stars with box office appeal have become an indispensable element in the film industry, men generally enter the theater for fierce fights or spectacular scenes, and what about women? They only go to the theater for attractive stars, and as we all know, when couples go to the movies together, it is usually the woman who makes the idea......
If you capture the hearts of female moviegoers, you have captured the golden key to the future film market......
However, in 1980, there were only three actors in Hong Kong who really had box office appeal: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Hui Guanwen, the first two were kung fu stars, and the latter were comedy stars.
Therefore, Shen Chong has vigorously praised Leslie Cheung since the Academy Awards at the beginning of the year, and intends to make him a glamorous superstar in Asia ten years in advance, injecting new vitality into Hong Kong films - Hong Kong in the early 80s, except for Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat, there is no candidate who can attract more female movie audiences, although Chow Yun-fat has good acting skills, but his five tones are incomplete, he has no musical talent, and he needs a suitable movie to become popular, while Leslie Cheung can be a two-pronged musical film and can grow more rapidly.
Although in a sense, this practice of using historical celebrities as NPCs is a bit unkind, but it is a good thing to let superstars have more room to play, produce more classic works and achieve higher artistic achievements.
When Shen Chong was distracted, the big screen lit up, and the logo of the Oriental Charm Film Company appeared with red letters on a white background, followed by the logo of the "Jiajia" film studio.
"Every time I see the word Jiajia, I feel weird and a little embarrassed."
"Why don't you change it to Chongjia?"
"Why don't you Jiajia...... Besides, I'm not Yue Lingshan. ”
Before attending the premiere, Shen Chong had not watched the sample film after the editing of "Love at Dawn", so when the actor played by Leslie Cheung appeared on the big screen, he no longer chatted about it, but focused on watching it.
The plot of the movie is very simple, Leslie Cheung plays a young Chinese American who grew up in the United States, and met Lin Qingxia who came to travel on a flight to Los Angeles......
"Love at Dawn" is a movie released in 1995, in that era when satellite TV, the Internet and globalization have appeared, so that the whole chatting talk movie is also quite niche and avant-garde, not every audience can understand and like, not to mention in 1980, when the thinking and vision were relatively narrow, so when the movie was only a third of the way, there was a subtle discussion in the theater.
"What the hell does this movie mean?"
"As far as the two of them are concerned, they don't know what they're doing."
"It's boring, it's a little boring."
Hearing these discussions, not only Zhang Aijia was a little nervous, but even Lin Qingxia, who was quiet and calm next to her for a night, sat up straight, pursed her lips, and showed a solemn look, after all, this is the first work she has come back after more than half a year of retirement, and there is no room for error.