Chapter 238: Golf
With the urging of the sixth uncle, and Li Mingbao himself wants to finish the work at hand quickly, and then celebrate the New Year with peace of mind, so the three movies started filming at the same time, and Li Mingbao's degree is not slow.
Because the two Shaw Brothers movies have a fixed routine, and the two directors are also familiar with the road, so these two movies only took more than half a month and less than a month to complete, and the rest is that the movies need to be edited.
The movie "God of Gamblers" is a little more troublesome, because the sponsor of the casino is Lisboa, so when filming the casino scene, Li Mingbao's crew had to go to Macau. Although it is convenient to travel between Hong Kong and Macau, it is also somewhat troublesome.
What's more, during the filming, Lisboa also made strict restrictions, although it was advertising its own casino, but the gambling king He Hongshen was very cautious about the crew. After all, as a casino, all kinds of facilities inside need to be kept secret, Lisboa Casino has been renovated every day since it opened, although there is a good fortune to ask for "Zhuang Income", but it is not a variety of changes to make the casino more secure.
In addition, the interior of the casino has never allowed others to shoot, Li Mingbao's movie is the first time to shoot the inside of the casino head-on, so he can't help but pay attention to it, plus the casino is open 24 hours a day, there are a large number of guests every day, and the camera is placed here, for those guests, it may not be happy.
After all kinds of conditions, although there are not many scenes in the casino, the filming time is the longest among all the scenes, and it is only a certain private room filmed as a duel.
Of course, filming in the Lisboa Casino is also a great benefit to the improvement of the details of this movie. The location of the duel in the original version doesn't look so tall, it's not bad to say that it's just a room, it doesn't set off the identity of the two huge rich gamblers at all, the place where tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars are betted, but the decoration is dilapidated, such a scene may be able to eat in East Asia, after all, they won't be too particular.
But for those more serious audiences in Europe and the United States, such a scene is a big failure, and it doesn't look like that, so they definitely won't buy it. As the main profit point of this movie, Europe and the United States, Li Mingbao naturally attaches great importance to it, plus there is no shortage of funds for this play, and the casino still provides the venue for free, Li Mingbao is naturally as tall as he can, and he can do as much as he can, anyway, it is not his own money that is spent, but what he has to earn in the end is his own money, and if he can keep improving, he must keep improving.
Not only is it picked by the dealer, but even those girls who send cards, Li Mingbao also makes them dress very coolly, which not only reflects the level of the casino, but also lets people know that all kinds of beauties are not bad. Anyway, casinos also do this kind of business, and publicity, naturally, it is necessary to publicize it in place.
Even if it is the money used as props, Li Mingbao uses most of the genuine goods, to make the effect of the original, the real goods must not be only tens of millions, all with a face value of 1,000, so a big bunch, it will take two or three hundred million Hong Kong dollars.
The Xiang brothers naturally couldn't afford this money, and in the end, it was Li Mingbao who used his own money to make this drama effective. Don't say it, with real money, the effect is definitely not comparable to fake money. Fake money is piled up there, giving people the feeling of bricks, and the money is not bent and smooth when you pick it up, almost like cardboard.
But real money is different, especially the close-up shots that Li Mingbao specially added, which shot the luster of real money quite well. Of course, there are also disadvantages to using real money, that is, when the stud was in the end, Zhou Yan and Bao Hanlin, who played the gambling king, also used a lot of effort to push the money, which was completely in stark contrast to the effortless effort on the original version.
As long as the mind is a little clear, you know that the weight of paper money is very large, like in the movie, you can throw out a large stack of banknotes with a raised hand, unless this guy has unusual strength, otherwise it will definitely not have such a big effect, even if it is a brick of the same volume, it may not be heavier than a banknote.
If he changes to another place, the two or three hundred million Hong Kong dollars of security work will definitely bring a lot of trouble to Li Mingbao. But fortunately, this is Lisboa, and their daily liquidity is billions of Hong Kong dollars, and Li Mingbao's two or three hundred million yuan is not a big deal. Of course, Li Mingbao's side is all about using paper money, which is also somewhat troublesome, after all, those who come to gamble money, the real big heads, they use the most money, is to write bank checks or cashier's checks, and the volume is not too large.
Under Li Mingbao's hurry, the movie "God of Gamblers" finally came out at the end of January 83. The main reason why he can get the film done so quickly is that Li Mingbao did a good job in advance, had enough preparation time, and laid a good foundation, and another reason is that there are not many roles that need to be replaced in this movie. Among the main actors, except for Zhong Chuhong, who replaced Zhang Min, the other actors are almost the original, of course, because Daozai's girlfriend Wang Zuxian has not debuted yet, so he has also changed to an old actor from Shaw Brothers, the problem is not a big deal, and he has not appeared a few times anyway.
Li Mingbao was worried that Gao Yi, who played the villain, could not find the original version of Long Fang, and if this green leaf traitor was missing, "God of Gamblers" would lose a few points. After all, among the famous traitors in Hong Kong, except for Long Fang, the others who are suitable for this role don't seem to be suitable, but fortunately, when looking for someone, he actually found Long Fang.
And when he really got to know Long Fang, Li Mingbao knew that Long Fang didn't start filming until the late eighties, and he debuted even earlier than Zhou Run, and the earliest movie he shot was actually in 71 years, although it was just a trick, but this qualification can definitely scare a bunch of people to death.
With complete personnel and sufficient funds, in Hong Kong in this year, filming will naturally be smooth, that is, Li Mingbao, if Wang Jing is replaced to shoot this drama, the total time he spends, plus behind the scenes, will not take more than half a month.
The three supervised films have been filmed, and Li Mingbao is also relaxed. was originally going to start the New Year, but the sixth uncle actually called him at this time, which had to make Li Mingbao more vigilant, for a guy with a ghost in his heart, at this time, he didn't want to see the person he planned appear in front of him, you must know that when Li Mingbao finished filming the two Shaw Brothers movies, he didn't greet the sixth uncle positively, just gave him a phone call.
But now that Uncle Six took the initiative to invite, Li Mingbao was not so comfortable, especially this time Uncle Six was actually rare and generous, and Li Mingbao was not in his office, but at a famous golf course in Hong Kong.
God is pitiful, Li Mingbao has never played such an elegant activity in his life, although he is very fierce in making money, but it is not time to start enjoying it. Not to mention golf, he doesn't even know how to play tennis.
When I didn't have money before, I was thinking about how to make some money on the street every day, and I even went to Sauna to pick and tremble, and after I got the opportunity, I was busy working every day, and I didn't even go to Sauna, and I didn't play elegant sports at all.
Fortunately, the big guy in Li Mingbao's memory has also played a lot of these enjoyable activities, although he can't say how high the skill is, but after all, he has some foundation, so the place invited by the sixth uncle will not make Li Mingbao ugly.
But such a thing as Uncle Sixth inviting Li Mingbao to play golf is not scientific. At least Li Mingbao had never received such an invitation before. Especially for the guy who picked the door of the sixth uncle, if he didn't have much interest, he wouldn't have invited Li Mingbao to such a place at all, didn't he see that when he went to see the sixth uncle before, he didn't even invite the sixth uncle for afternoon tea? Directly in his office.
Now the sixth uncle actually has the leisure to invite Li Mingbao to play golf, if there is nothing here, he won't believe it if he kills Li Mingbao. Originally, Li Mingbao's first reaction when he received such a call was to shirk. But thinking that if the sixth uncle shirked the first invitation, with the shrewdness of the sixth uncle, how could he not see what was the inside story here?
After all, a big guy like Uncle Sixth invited you Li Mingbao to play golf, which was originally a matter of bringing the relationship between the two sides closer, as long as Li Mingbao was not stupid, he would not refuse such a good thing, but Li Mingbao shirked it, and it was hard to guarantee that Uncle Sixth would not think of something else.
So even if Li Mingbao didn't like to meet with Uncle Sixth so much at this time, he had to cheer up and happily go to the appointment.
Generally speaking, the flowers and plants in the golf course do not grow well in winter, and there is no feeling of green grass at all. Even if the grass on the golf course is specially cultivated to grow even in winter, the scenery is not as beautiful as it is in normal times. But fortunately, the winter in Hong Kong is not too cold, and compared to places like Yanjing in the north, the scenery here is not bad in winter.
The private meeting is quite casual, the sixth uncle and the sixth aunt are the two people, Li Mingbao is just one person to go to the appointment, it is not so good-looking, so Li Mingbao pulled Zhong Chuhong over. Originally, judging from the distance of the relationship, Zhao Yazi, who was eaten by Li Mingbao, is definitely more suitable than Zhong Chuhong, but who called Zhao Yazi has been busy filming recently, and she has no time at all, and Zhong Chuhong is resting after filming two dramas, and she didn't have any work before the year, plus the relationship between Li Mingbao and Zhong Chuhong has improved by leaps and bounds recently, and she almost hit a home run, so it can be said that bringing Zhong Chuhong here.
And Zhong Chuhong is also very excited about Li Mingbao bringing herself into such a small circle, after all, although she is a very popular star in wireless, there is also a big gap with big people like six uncles and six aunts, it is difficult to see these two on weekdays, and now Li Mingbao brought her over, which is also an affirmation of her, at least she is now really into Li Mingbao's life, otherwise it would be impossible to bring her to such a private party.
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