Chapter Twenty-Five: The First Movie "Happy Ghost"

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In Hong Kong in the 80s, although there is no mobile phone, that is, the big brother, but there are a lot of fixed telephones, the Li family because they want to do business, so they were installed early, which also brought great convenience to Li Mingbao, he gave New Year's greetings to others, so he didn't have to run around, at least like these brothers, he didn't have to run once.

As for Zhao Yazi, Li Mingbao wanted to visit, but unfortunately Zhao Yazi's husband would definitely not agree, so he just made a phone call to express his heart.

As for the sixth uncle and Jin Yong, although they have dealings, they are not qualified to visit in person, so during this year's Spring Festival, Li Mingbao is quite relaxed.

As soon as the annual leave ended, Li Mingbao began to get busy. Since he said that he wanted to make a movie, he had to take practical action, and the first movie he wanted to make actually had a draft for a long time, and he had already written it out during the Chinese New Year, and the name was "Happy Ghost".

As a low-budget movie, "Happy Ghost" in the early 80s, it was definitely a model of survival, and the film's starring Huang Baiming was actually the producer of the film.

The director of "Happy Ghost" is Gao Zhisen, and generally speaking, the director of the later generation of big 6 is equivalent to the most important role in a film. In Hong Kong these days, the director may not be the most important time in a film, because there is also a producer above the director. If it is a well-known director and a not-so-well-known producer, then this film can be regarded as the director's achievement.

But if it is a director who is not famous, or a famous director, or a famous producer, then as long as you are an insider, you will know that the first person in this movie is definitely the producer. And "Happy Ghost" is such a famous movie for the producer.

When this movie was made a few years later, although director Gao Zhisen also won a lot of honors, compared to the starring and producer Huang Baiming, his harvest was nothing at all. When many people talk about "Happy Ghost", they all talk about how Huang Baiming is, not how he is Gao Zhisen, just from the comments, you can see the strangeness of Hong Kong producers and directors.

And a very representative figure in the Hong Kong film industry, Xu Ke. He is a director who often hangs the producer, and many of his masterpieces, which can basically represent his film style, often can't see his name in the director's column, but hangs behind the producer, so the Hong Kong Film Awards that year, I hate him very much, because his film won the award, the judges don't know who to give the award, the director award is given to Xu Ke, but Xu Ke is the producer, but if the director award is given to the director of the movie, the judges feel panicked, because the director who was caught by Xu Ke to make a movie, Obviously can't afford that kind of award.

Of course, to get back to the point, there is no such trouble for "Happy Ghost", which Li Mingbao is going to start filming now. Because the movie that Li Mingbao is going to shoot now, he has nothing to do with Huang Baiming and Gao Zhisen, he thought about it before, he himself is the producer of this movie, and his second brother Li Minghui is the director.

The filming of "Happy Ghost" four years earlier has a lot of trouble for Li Mingbao now, he is not worried about anything behind the scenes, and he is not worried about money, after all, 900,000 Hong Kong dollars is definitely enough for a small-budget movie, but what he is most worried about is the starring role of this movie.

The actor of the movie, Zhu Xiucai, was played by Huang Baiming in the original film, and to maintain coherence, he should be looking for Huang Baiming to star, but the problem is that now Li Mingbao can't find Huang Baiming to play "Happy Ghost", because Huang Baiming at this time has just established a struggle studio with Shi Tian and Mecca, and is in contact with Boss Lei, and he has to shoot his own movie, where will he have time to be the actor of Li Mingbao's anonymous movie?

Even if Huang Baiming agreed, Li Mingbao couldn't afford Huang Baiming's salary, so the actor of "Happy Ghost" couldn't let Huang Baiming play, fortunately, the actor in this movie is not a very important role, Li Mingbao looked left and right, and felt that his second brother was very suitable, Huang Baiming looked very honest, and he looked so innocent when he was teased, and although his second brother looked very similar to Li Mingbao, due to personality reasons, the gap between him and Huang Baiming in expression was not too big, and he could see it as a male lead. And his second brother is more handsome than Huang Baiming, and he can attract the attention of the audience even more.

The role of the male protagonist is easy to handle, but the role of several heroines is not so easy to play, not to mention how beautiful and famous it needs to be, the key is to show the concept of youth and sunshine in the movie.

Zhao Yazi is beautiful enough, right? But she is definitely not suitable for acting in this movie, because she no longer has the style of a girl, and if she is asked to act, no matter how good her acting skills are, it is useless. The girls in the original film are pretty good, but the problem is that the original film was shot four years later.

And now in the 80s, Luo Mingzhu, who plays Lin Jingjing, is only twelve years old now, and Li Mingbao wants to play Luo Mingzhu who is a middle school student, not Luo Mingzhu, that is, a primary school student.

And Li Lizhen is now fourteen years old, and she can play this role well with her education, but the problem is that no one else has debuted at all, where can Li Mingbao find her? As for the last character, his appearance is not likable, and he has no achievements in his career in the future, which is even more neglected.

So after all the calculations, Li Mingbao's search for the heroine has become a big problem. Fortunately, the sixth uncle promised Li Mingbao that he could find an actor in the wireless, which can be regarded as a solution to this problem, otherwise, Li Mingbao would only have to find passer-by A to act.

In the selection of actors in wireless, in fact, there is also a point in paying attention, although Uncle Shao Liushu looks generous, but if Li Mingbao dares to dig up those red stars in the wireless now, not to mention that the sixth uncle and six aunts will not agree, even if he agrees, he can't afford to pay the salary. In this way, if Li Mingbao wants to choose a role, he can only find those who will be popular in the future, but who are not famous now.

Fortunately, this is a wireless training class, and most of the stars in Hong Kong will come out of this place in the future, and there are no popular actresses yet, not a few. With the signboard of the sixth uncle, Li Mingbao wants others to act, so that he will not be chased away without even being able to speak.

After patting Aunt Liu's ass, Li Mingbao's casting operation officially began. After selecting for several days, Li Mingbao finally selected the role, but only one was selected, and he was not a wireless actor, that was Zhong Chuhong.

As a 79-year, that is, last year's Sister Hong Kong contestant, Zhong Chuhong did not win the crown, only the fourth, although it caused a great sensation at the time, and it was named "the most beautiful Hong Kong sister", but in fact, the star journey was not smooth, and after the news of Sister Hong Kong, Zhong Chuhong did not have the photogenic rate, Li Mingbao let Zhong Chuhong star in the movie at this time, which was also a big surprise for Zhong Chuhong.

Because at this time, Zhong Chuhong was staying at home because he failed the wireless audition, and Liu Songren, the big guy, had not yet had time to introduce him to Du Qifeng's movie as the protagonist, so he was really surprised by Li Mingbao's invitation.

Because he is not a wireless actor, Zhong Chuhong wants to make a movie without the consent of wireless, plus the 10,000 Hong Kong dollars paid by Li Mingbao, Zhong Chuhong agreed quite happily. Although Li Mingbao's crew is a three-no product, no fame, no stars, and no company, Li Mingbao got his phone from the wireless side, and the shooting also uses wireless equipment, so Zhong Chuhong doesn't have to be afraid of other problems. When Liu Songren recommended Zhong Chuhong to Du Qifeng, Liu Songren knew that Zhong Chuhong was borrowed by Li Mingbao, an unknown person.

At first, Liu Songren wanted to talk to Li Mingbao, but Du Qifeng, as a disciple of Wang Tianlin, knew some of Li Mingbao's situation, so he persuaded Liu Songren to come down and find a new actress, even if he let this matter go.

Li Mingbao didn't know that he had robbed someone in Du Qifeng's hands at this time, and when he knew it later, he would take it as a joke, after all, Du Qifeng's movie box office was not very good, compared to "Happy Ghost" that made Zhong Chuhong popular, how could his movie be difficult to say.

It was a surprise to find Zhong Chuhong, but the remaining two actors were not so good, and after thinking about it for a long time, Li Mingbao suddenly thought of his brother's Lianmei, so he called his brother.

Hearing that Li Mingbao asked Chen Yulian to play "Happy Ghost", my brother was very happy, don't look at him and don't want to act in this movie, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't want his Lianmei to act, my brother is famous, and there are a lot of film appointments, but his Lianmei is different, it's good to have a film, it's not so much exquisite, even if the shooting is smashed, then you can be familiar with it, and you can also have a good relationship with Li Mingbao, which is a good idea.

At this time, my brother and his first Lian Mei are like glue, of course, we have to think more about Lian Mei, if Li Mingbao makes this call two years later, my brother will definitely think that Li Mingbao is here to pull hatred.

Three heroines, now two have been selected, and the last one, when Li Mingbao thought about it and didn't think of a good person, his second brother actually gave himself a surprise, he recommended Li Saifeng, a little girl who was only fifteen years old, this is really a middle school student. Although Li Mingbao didn't know how his second brother found Li Saifeng, this role Li Saifeng was really suitable, so he immediately made a decision. This means that the crew was set up at the beginning.

As for the other supporting actors, you can do it by pulling two of them in the wireless, just before Li Mingbao and Qiu Guan still had some relationship, and there was a character in it Li Mingbao who was ready to ask Sister Fat to help.