Chapter 146: Gathering Talents

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After agreeing to his father to help his uncle repay the loan shark, he had a lot of dreams at night, and Lin Jing did not waste time.

In the matter of usury, there was naturally no need to show up to the leader of the gang, so Lin Jing notified Li Yutian to come over. Li Yutian is a military advisor and financial advisor in New Ngee An, and his status and power are not low, so it is more appropriate for him to solve the problem of usury.

Of course, when Lin Jing notified Li Yutian to come over, she didn't directly talk about usury, but asked him to come over and get the script. Last time at the celebration banquet of "If the Wine Sells Nothing", she promised to sell the two scripts of "Bad Size" and "Aura Forced" to Yongsheng Company, and Yongsheng had already paid a deposit, so she naturally didn't want to delay it any longer.

After handing over the two scripts to Li Yutian, she mentioned the usury of the fire in Da Berlin by the way. Maybe it was to please Lin Jing, Li Yutian immediately called back to inquire after hearing about it, and after learning that there was such a thing, he waited on the spot and asked his subordinates to send an IOU.

After checking and confirming that the IOU was correct, Lin Jing paid Li Yutian a check for 500,000 yuan, and the matter was completely resolved.

After solving the problem of Da Uncle's loan shark, within a few days, Lin Jing received a few good news from Time and Space Records and Time and Space Movies, and her mood finally turned from gloomy to sunny.

The first news is that Zhang Xueyou reported it to Time and Space Records after thinking about it for a few days, and Zhang Yanqin called to confirm.

The second news is that Time and Space Records successfully merged with UFO Enterprise Co., Ltd., and Wu Chuchu, Peng Guohua and Chen Dali, three professional music producers, agreed to stay after Lin Jing promised to give them the right to take care of Time and Space Records.

With professional music producers like Wu Chuchu, Peng Guohua and Chen Dali, Time and Space Records is finally no longer a kitten, and finally no longer needs to be led by a layman, Mo Ziqi. Lin Jing believes that with Zhang Xueyou, Chen Coxian, Huang Jiaju's beyond, Su Rui and other "singers", plus she holds the "future", Time and Space Records will be invincible, and it may not be impossible to dominate the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene.

Time and Space Records are doing a great job, and Time and Space Film Studio is also starting to make efforts.

Time and Space Film Studio, in terms of directors, has Xu Anhua and Wang Jing, two directors in this article, and in the case that Lin Jing has not yet mastered the cinema line, there is no shortage of directors for the time being. But to make a movie, in addition to the key director, you also need a large number of behind-the-scenes staff, such as screenwriters, lighting engineers, art directors, action directors, and so on.

But the current situation of Time and Space Film Studio is that in addition to the two directors, there is only one photographer, Christopher Doyle.

But it just so happened that in 1983, the Shaw Brothers films, struggling in the swamp, fell deeper than last year. The problem with Shaw Brothers movies now is not that they can't make movies, but that they can make movies too well, and what's worse is that the more movies they make, the more they lose. In order not to lose so much, at the beginning of the year, Shao Yifu finally learned from the pain and made the decision to gradually reduce production.

The reduction of Shaw Brothers' film production meant that many filmmakers working at Shaw Brothers had to find another way out for themselves.

Time and Space Film Studio set up a job fair, and a large number of former Shaw Brothers behind-the-scenes staff came to apply.

Therefore, Lin Jing is not worried that the film company can't recruit people, the only thing to worry about is how many talents are recruited.

After "If the Wine Sells Nothing" came to an end and the talent pool of the film company was enriched a lot, Lin Jing could plan the company's next two films, directed by Xu Anhua and Wang Jing, one for each person.

Now that the film studio is strong and well-funded, it is natural that they can make films freely.

Xu Anhua is a director who focuses on literary films, of course, she is not unable to make purely commercial films. As early as 198O, she made a thriller comedy action film "Hit the Right" about a ghost girl and a ghost, and the box office was not bad.

In terms of making movies, pure literary films are not good, for the sake of the company's treasury, Lin Jing will not make Wang Jiawei-style literary films. So in consideration of Xu Anhua's preferences and abilities, Lin Jing decided to give her "Sword and Horse".

"Dao Ma Dan" was released in September 1986, directed by Xu Ke and starring Lin Qingxia, Zhong Chuhong and Ye Qianwen.

It is said that three women in one play, this movie with three women as the protagonists is indeed a veritable women's play, through the vision of three female surnames with completely different identities, classes, and cultural backgrounds, reflecting the center of gravity of the concept of Great China, and writing scenes of pathetic historical tragedy with literary and artistic feelings.

Not only does it have a wonderful action interpretation, but it also shows an old sense of family and country, and it is a movie that combines art and entertainment very well.

As for Wang Jing, Lin Jing gave him "Happy Ghost".

"Happy Ghost" was later adapted from Huang Baiming into a comedy film by Zuò, and his creation was inspired by a one-act play on a stage in a drama competition for middle school students.

The one-act play, called "Zhu Xiucai," tells the story of a hanged ghost and three schoolgirls in a ruined temple, and won the championship of the middle school drama competition at that time. After Huang Baiming watched it, he thought it was very creative and interesting, and later bought the copyright of this one-act play and adapted it into a screenplay.

Of course, the screenwriter of this one-act play is not unknown, he is a famous director and actor for making commercial romantic comedies in later generations, and his representative works include "Jade Girl Tianding", "100% Feeling", "Xinzha Senior Sister", "Subway" and other films, known as "Little Brother Ma" Ma Weihao.

It's just that Ma Weihao is still studying Secondary 6, and he hasn't written "Zhu Xiucai" yet, so there is naturally no problem with copyright.

Why take out "Happy Ghost" now?

First, Wang Jing in 1983 is not the Wang Jing who has made countless good movies and bad movies and honed his directorial talent after the 90s. In a word, Wang Jing is not capable of directing blockbusters now, even if they are blockbusters in Hong Kong movies.

And "Happy Ghost" is a low-cost and simple comedy movie, with no big special effects and difficult stunts, which is very suitable for Wang Jing's directing ability at this time.

Second, "Happy Ghost" is a typical success among the low-cost and high-box office movies. In later generations, its cost was only a mere 2 million, but it only had a box office of more than 17 million in Hong Kong, ranking 10th in the annual box office.

At the Hong Kong box office alone, the net profit exceeded 10 million, which was the most profitable movie in New Arts City at that time. And "Happy Ghost" is not only a big hit in Hong Kong, but also in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and other places, the box office of "Happy Ghost" is also a big hit, with more than NT$30 million in Taipei City alone, which can be said to be a small-budget comedy movie that makes peers envious and jealous.

In addition, filming "Happy Ghost" has another advantage, that is, it can make a low-budget series of comedy movies for Time and Space Film Studio. (To be continued.) )