Volume 1 Chapter 8 "I'm Crazy for the Emperor"
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Shibei should be impressed for three days, there is an old saying, isn't that true?
A group of people in the Lin family may not understand this sentence, but they have really felt the change of their own young master Zhi recently.
He had been at home for four days, and except for a brief time on the third day of his home and a few books, he had shut himself up in his room, and could hardly see anyone except during meal time. There was a subordinate who went to help him clean the room and brought out a news that made the Lin family whisper for several days, that unlearned and unskilled gentleman was actually reading, is there anything more joyful than this?
The truth is gone!
"Hmmm......"
Lin Xiaozhi stretched his waist, is it finally finished?
Tiredness hit him for a while, Lin Xiaozhi got up and made himself a cup of black coffee to refresh himself, took a few sips, and then walked to the window and opened the curtains.
"Whoa!"
Lin Xiaozhi's eyes narrowed, and the dazzling sunlight shone in, and he suddenly felt in his heart, it turned out that unconsciously, the night had passed like this.
Walking to the desk that had been moved from another room, Lin Xiaozhi turned off the lamp on the table. may have something to do with the finance that he has worked part-time in the crew for many years, although he doesn't care about the electricity bill, he still subconsciously reminds himself that a penny is money!
There was a mess on the table, there were books that had been opened and covered, large simplified and traditional Chinese dictionaries printed by Hong Kong's veteran publishing giant Huaxia Publishing House, ashtrays full of cigarette butts, teacups half-filled with water, 2B pencils, inkwells, and fountain pens without caps......
The only thing that is different is that there is still a stack of very neat manuscripts on the table, among which the words "I am crazy for the king" are written on the manuscript paper on the first page, which is the result of his busy overtime day and night in the past few days.
When he returned to this home a few days ago, Lin Xiaozhi made a plan for himself after some thought, and stayed at home honestly for a few days first, so that others could 'see' his changes. So in the past few days, Lin Xiaozhi has been honestly staying at home, just to let his family in this life know that he has the heart to reform and is indeed interested in the film industry.
However, he was used to being busy in his previous life. In addition, in the late 80s, there were not many entertainment activities in Hong Kong, although Lam Xiaozhi had a valuable private projector in his room, and he also rented a few videotapes from outside, he only watched it with relish on the first day, and began to feel bored on the second day.
In boredom, thinking of 'Ye Yuqing', who had not yet become famous at this time but was eager to become famous, Lin Xiaozhi's heart began to be restless again. With such a cash cow by his side, if he didn't grasp it, he would really be blind to his identity as a traverser.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a day, he still tried to draw a scoop with a gourd, and got out the script of the best-selling tertiary film created by Jiang Xiangsheng, one of the three well-known female screenwriters in Hong Kong a few years later, which is also Ye Yuqing's famous work - "I'm Crazy for Qing".
Thanks to Lin Xiaozhi, who has watched this movie several times, basically the plot of the entire movie is in his mind. For him, who has participated in the creation of scripts for many film and television dramas, it is easy to know the plot and turn it into a script.
No, after a few days of retreat and hard work, "I'm Crazy for Qing" was born ahead of schedule.
In his previous life, he ate a bowl of rice in film and television, and Lin Xiaozhi remembered few major financial events. But with thousands of movies and many excellent film and television masterpieces in his head, if he gave up the bowl of movies, Lin Xiaozhi himself felt that he was blind to this opportunity to cross.
Hong Kong films, the full name of Hong Kong films, originally referred to the general term of movies or TV series made in Hong Kong. However, since the early 80s, Hong Kong began to export films strongly, once brilliant and close to American blockbusters, and won the reputation of 'Oriental Hollywood' in Asia against American films, so Hong Kong films have become the spokesperson of Hong Kong films.
This is an introduction to Hong Kong films in textbooks.
As a filmmaker who has been in the circle for more than ten years, it is impossible for Lin Xiaozhi not to understand what the word Hong Kong film means, and now it is the middle and late stages of the most prosperous golden age of Hong Kong films, and Hong Kong films are still soaring. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, billions of dollars of capital are coveting the Hong Kong film market, and hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars of foreign capital flow into them every year, which are filmed into one movie after another and sent to various places for release.
This is the best era for Hong Kong films, and it is also the most profitable era. As long as there is a good script and funds are linked, there is no need to worry about the crew, director and actors.
The year 1987 that has just passed can definitely be said to be a glorious year for Hong Kong films. In this year, the Hong Kong local box office created 9 with unrivalled momentum. With a record of HK$200 million, it has been growing at a growth rate of more than 10% per year for seven consecutive years. According to the data released by the Hong Kong Film and Television Administration in March this year, Hong Kong had a population of 5.59 million in 1987, but there were as many as 190,000 film and television employees, and one out of every 33 people ate the bowl of film and television, a total of 3. 39% of the population is engaged in occupations related to the film and television industry.
Hong Kong, a small place, has more than 2,300 film industry companies second only to the United States, but its density far exceeds that of the United States, which is recognized as a film kingdom in the world, creating the largest in the world.
In Hong Kong, hundreds of TV crews and film crews are busy every day, and they can create more than 3,200 TV dramas and nearly 400 movies every year, although only about one-third of these TV series and movies can have the opportunity to meet the audience, but Lin Xiaozhi vaguely remembers that these two sets of data were not broken by the mainland until 2004 and 2009, respectively, when Hong Kong's film and television industry is far more developed than everyone imagined.
And for filmmakers, this is also the most beautiful era, especially for a reborn person like Lin Xiaozhi!
Reborn, it doesn't matter if you can't remember what happened in the financial world, finance or something does rob money, but movies are also another major profiteering industry that is not inferior to financial investment, and it is not uncommon for a million investment to recover several times or even ten times the income after a few months, and the most famous in China is "Crazy Stone", "Crazy Racing", "People in Embarrassment", "Thai Embarrassment" and several other movies.
Lin Xiaozhi is not talented, before he was reborn, he belonged to the kind of wild routine of becoming a monk halfway in the circle, and he was not from a formal professional background. The Republic film industry attaches the most importance to his background, so he has worked hard in the circle for more than ten years with his background, and finally got a chance to hold the camera.
Before he was reborn, although the domestic film industry was still dying, anyone with a discerning eye could see that if it weren't for the fact that the Bureau of Radio, Film and Television was still wielding a big knife to strictly review imported films, and from time to time to give domestic films a drip, otherwise the Republic films would have died under the impact of American blockbusters.
Politics and restrictions on shooting themes have led to a heavy blow to the imagination of domestic filmmakers, and people like Lin Xiaozhi who are staring at the copycats of well-known foreign movies and Chinese scripts are popular talents.
After a cup of hot coffee, when the bitter taste in his mouth gradually faded, Lin Xiaozhi already felt a lot more energetic.
If he decided to invest in movies when he first woke up, it was only because of Ye Yuqing's future. So now, after a few days of careful observation, after realizing his embarrassing identity in the Lin family, and thinking about his rebirth, the old man's movie is the only way he can think of to reverse the unfavorable scene in front of him, and there is no second way.
The previous gentleman only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, and he also knew that his grandfather and father were very dissatisfied with him, so he simply didn't fight for any family property, as long as the family had money for him to squander. There are many rights and wrongs in the wealthy family since ancient times, and his brother has a grandfather's favorite, and it is not surprising that the Kowloon Bank will be inherited by him in the future, but the old man is now in his twilight years, and no one can say clearly once a hundred years later. And the other half-brother is not only favored by his father, but also the stepmother of this gentleman is behind the scenes to advise him.
In Lin Xiaozhi's memory, the impression of that woman was not very good. After all, she is a stepmother, and her concern for Lin Xiaoyi and Lin Xiaozhi's brothers is in front of people and on the surface, and only Lin Xiaogong is the real love for her own flesh and blood. Moreover, from the memory of that gentleman, he also found that this scheming woman, in the past ten years, may have moved his father, who has a soft ear, to transfer more than 10 million family properties to her name.
The wealthy are the most ruthless people, combining all kinds of them. Lin Xiaozhi has no doubt that once his grandfather is a hundred years later, for the future position of the third generation heir, the Lin family will inevitably fall into chaos.
Silently reciting the words 'Kowloon Bank' in his heart, he put the coffee cup on the messy table, and looked at the script on the table, Lin Xiaozhi breathed a sigh of relief. He doesn't care about the future of the Lin family, anyway, with his cheap big brother, even if he divides the family property in the future, his notoriety won't be much. Rather than this, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the big tree of the Lin family has not yet fallen and he can still use some resources, and then create his own piece of the sky as soon as possible.
The first draft was completed, and in the past few days, he worked overtime to complete the first draft of the script "I'm Crazy for You". In my memory, there is no so-called definition of 'tertiary film' in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong's third-level film law will not be revised until the end of this year, and it will be officially implemented at the beginning of next year. In other words, if you make a tertiary film now, you will be able to get more moviegoers than in a few years, which is a godsend.
It's not that Lin Xiaozhi doesn't want to invest in popular films, compared with small-budget movies like "I'm Crazy for You", the mainstream hero films, heroic films, and martial arts action films in the Hong Kong box office market not only have high investment costs, but also have a large number of follow-up movies that stink the audience's expectations.
If an outsider wants to squeeze into the Hong Kong film industry, he can't do it without a good stepping stone. With Ye Yuqing's cash cow, after some thought, Lin Xiaozhi finally picked her famous work "I'm Crazy for Qing", which was invested and filmed by Golden Harvest a few years later, and became the 'box office miracle' of the year, and became a classic tertiary film of star Ye Yuqing.
The first draft was completed, and Lin Xiaozhi finally breathed a sigh of relief. In the next few days, he plans to find a few professional local Hong Kong screenwriters to make corrections, after all, although he has studied this movie several times before his rebirth, there are certain differences between Hong Kong culture and the mainland.
Hong Kong's film and television industry is very developed, in the 80s, screenwriters in Hong Kong have always been not taken seriously, but after all, movies are inseparable from scripts, and in recent years, with the inflow of a large number of Taiwanese and community funds, the blind pursuit of 'creation' model of follow-up films, to a certain extent, has also stimulated the development of the screenwriting industry, and now there are many studios in Hong Kong that specialize in eating screenwriters. Therefore, Lin Xiaozhi wants to find a few screenwriters who know Hong Kong movies to polish it, but it is not troublesome.
Now that the draft is out, Jiang Taigong's fishing gear is ready, and now he is waiting for the fish to take the bait and let him fish!
With a big yawn, the coffee had a limited refreshing effect after a night of fermentation. Lin Xiaozhi obviously noticed this, put away the draft on the table, got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower, then went back to his bedroom and lay down on the bed, and soon fell asleep.