Chapter 408: Pirated Ancient Dragon
For a long time in the 70s, domestic films were not allowed to involve love and love, and men and women were not allowed to involve any feelings or ambiguous elements except for pure revolutionary friendship, as if people who engaged in revolution did not have seven emotions and six desires. Moreover, movies are all required to be ideological and educational, and to convey positive energy.
Petty-bourgeois ideas such as hedonism and egoism are all subject to criticism. In addition to the leftist film companies, the films of Hong Kong films are more or less worthy of criticism. Not to mention that every movie produced by Shaw Brothers basically involves a bit of emotional factors, and Golden Harvest's movies are also many points that exaggerate violent plots.
Xu's is said to be an unconventional, and movies have never used violent plots as a selling point, but there will be some involvement in the movie, which is actually unavoidable. But if these movies are to be released in their own theaters in Guangdong City while the mainland atmosphere is still relatively conservative, I am afraid that they will definitely be criticized by the mainland media, and maybe there will be sacks of readers to criticize them.
Xu Guanwu still remembers the "Lushan Love" back then, because of a kiss between the hero and heroine, which immediately caused an uproar across the country. The critical letter received several sacks, and the whole country was condemned, which put the hero and heroine under tremendous pressure. Although with the reform and opening up of the mainland, the conservative cultural atmosphere has gradually turned to enlightenment, but those who dare to eat the first crab are bound to be caught by the crab.
Xu Guanwu wants to find a way for Hong Kong filmmakers, not that he is idle and wants to find abuse. So naturally I don't want to be the first person to eat crabs. And in the history of China, whoever was the first to dare to eat crabs usually did not end well.
Shang Ying's change of law, the most reckless end ended up with a car crack; Sima Qian wrote "Historical Records", and finally ended up in the palace punishment; Wang Anshi changed the law, and he also ended up losing his official position; Zhang Juzheng changed the law, and he also ended up raiding his house......
The first person to eat the crab is challenging the existing rules, and its counterattack is also extremely strong, which is likely to break people's bones. Of course, Xu Guanwu will not be to the point of being killed. But the crowd is golden. Accumulate and destroy the bones, and the reputation is not good in a short period of time. Xu Guanwu didn't have a penchant for scolding, so he was grateful for the "preferential treatment" of eating the first crab.
So he plans to cinema even after it is built. In the early days, Hui's films were not screened. Only films made by leftist film companies are screened. At most, it will be invested by Xu's. Wait until the reform has begun to bear fruit, when people pursue disco, toad mirrors. Jeans, bell bottoms, and then try to promote Hui's movies in the past, presumably the pressure will be much less.
XU GUANWU REMEMBERED THAT IT SEEMED THAT THE MAINLAND ALSO MADE SOME MORE CULT MOVIES IN THE 80S, SUCH AS "THE HEAD OF THE FIERCE HOUSE BEAUTY", "POISONOUS KISS", "HUMAN MILK DEVIL'S NEST", "LONELY SOUL IN THE BLACK MANSION"...... Not to mention "Black Sun 731" directed by Mu Dunfu, then Niu X's films can be released in mainland theaters. Compared with Hong Kong's kung fu movies, how normal they are.
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Xu Guanwen stayed in Wanwan for a week, dealt with the matter, watched the theater pass the review, and only returned to Hong Kong after the theater was released. However, when he returned, he brought back a not-so-good news. In Wanwan, there was an impostor fake ancient dragon movie.
Hearing this news also made Xu Guanwu stunned, but he remembered that the white wolf took back the adaptation rights of all Gu Long novels, so wouldn't those fake Gu Long movies be illegal and criminal? !
Gu Long's martial arts movies are now one of Xu's family dramas, director Chu Yuan shoots fast and well, three films a year, each of which has a box office of several million, and it is even more popular in Wanwan Nanyang and other places, each of which has more than 10 million New Taiwan dollars, so director Chu Yuan is also known as Chu Million.
Now that he heard that there were counterfeits in Taiwan, Xu Guanwu's first reaction was to crack down on counterfeits. But then after listening to the eldest brother's explanation, he realized that things were far more complicated than he thought. If you want to start from the beginning, you have to talk about Gu Long first.
Gu Long, known as Gu Daxia, is generous and righteous, loves to make friends, loves to drink and play with women. Spend money like dirt, fight righteousness and squander money. But because of this, the money is often not enough to spend. Gu Long is a must for writing martial arts novels, everyone admits this, but he is not as diligent as Ni Zhang.
Ni Jing writes hard every day, sometimes writing 20,000 words, when he is less, there are 8,000 words, at most he writes 12 serial novels and 8 essays at a time, which can be said to be a codeword machine that is equal to the body of the work. Ni Jing is so diligent, and naturally he has also gained a huge amount of wealth.
But although Gu Long is as talented as Ni Zhang, his personality is extremely lazy, plus he has many friends, a lot of entertainment, and a good drinker. Once this kind of thing happens, it is natural that readers are looking forward to it, waiting to be fed, and the publisher complains bitterly and secretly resolves that he will resolutely not buy Gu Long's manuscript next time.
But although they were so ruthless and swore so viciously, the next time Gu Long sent the manuscript over, they still accepted it. Because Gu Long's novels are well-written, they don't worry about sales. However, it is often interrupted and delayed three times and twice, which also hurts the profit of the publisher, and it is not in line with Gu Long's idea of making money.
Gu Long is good at drinking, good at drinking famous wine, good at pomp, and good at making friends, he writes books and money is easy, and he uses his hands and brains, and the money comes a lot. So naturally I don't feel distressed when the flowers go out. There is quite Li Taibai's heroism of "five-flowered horses, daughter-in-law, Hu'er will exchange for fine wine".
But no amount of money can stop him from spending like this, and he often procrastinates, and the speed of making money is far from keeping up with his attitude of spending money. So Gu Long has a crooked trick when he has a big head, he first writes a wonderful novel beginning, and then uses this novel opening to go to various publishers.
At that time, there were also many publishers in Taiwan, especially magazines. Because the Kuomintang ruled Wanwan and imposed a ban on newspapers, only magazines were no longer banned. So there are only a few newspapers, but there are so many magazines. In order to increase sales, magazines are also willing to publish serials of famous novelists, such as the famous "Crown" magazine, which is based on Ms. Qiong Shao's novel.
And Gu Long, who is a famous martial arts novelist, naturally writes novels that are not sold. In particular, what he wrote at the beginning is quite wonderful, even if the publisher is dissatisfied, he is willing to pay for it. However, Gu Long's novel is not sold by a single family, he is stunned to marry more than one daughter in order to make money. When the publisher found out, he came to the door, and Gu Long spread his hands. The money is gone. I won't give it to the publisher, and there's nothing the publisher can do about it.
But even if a daughter marries three times and earns three manuscript fees in a row, Gu Long still can't update it well. After taking the money, he continued to talk nonsense. Then arrange for his disciple Ding Qing to write an essay for him. The publisher later saw the situation. also messed around, found some gunmen by himself, and published a book under the name of Gu Long. Anyway, with the title of Gu Long, even if the quality of the book is poor, it is not ugly to sell. Or directly delete and modify the martial arts novels in the mainland a long time ago, during the Republic of China, and replace them with Gu Long's name and publish them.
In the era of the Republic of China, there were many fine martial arts novels in the mainland, the more famous ones were South to North Zhao, North Zhao was for Zhao Huanting, and his famous works include "The Legend of Wonder Heroes" and so on.
Xiang Kairan in the south, pen name Pingjiang Buxiao Sheng, works include "The Legend of Jianghu Heroes", "The Legend of Modern Chivalrous Heroes" and so on. The famous "Burning Red Lotus Temple" series of movies is adapted from "The Legend of Jianghu Heroes" written by Pingjiang Buxiaosheng. The popularity of series of films such as "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" also set a precedent for Hong Kong's monster martial arts films in the fifties and sixties.
And then there were five big families of the Northern Sect, such as the Lord of Huanzhu Building, Bai Yu, Zheng Zhengyin, Zhu Zhenmu and Wang Dulu. Among them, the most famous is naturally the owner of Huanzhu Mansion, who wrote "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan", which can be called a classic masterpiece of Xianxia novels.
In it, the lord of the Pearl House exerted his infinite imagination to outline a world of immortals that is very different from the world. In it, those who practice can go to heaven and earth, turn rivers and seas, do everything, and have all kinds of magic weapons, all kinds of demons, all kinds of monsters, and so on, which are completely beyond the imagination of the world. "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" has also been put on the screen many times, and the more famous one is Xu Laowei's "Shushan" series, but it is a pity that Xu Laowei one-sided pursuit of special effects, but instead ignores the most basic plot, making these two "Shushan" movies have nothing in appearance but lack of connotation, and the harmful investor Jiahe also lost money twice.
Another more famous character is Wang Dulu, who wrote "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Iron Riding Silver Bottle", etc., for the first time created a martial arts novel model in which young boys and girls travel the rivers and lakes together, and later this model was inherited and developed by Jin Yong.
The other three authors also have great backgrounds, among which Bai Yu is a disciple of Mr. Lu Xun, and he is a journalist, so the martial arts novels he writes have a strong satirical flavor, especially "Twelve Money Darts" and "Stealing Fists" are the most famous. And Zheng Zhengyin himself was born in martial arts, and the martial arts novels he wrote were extremely detailed in every move. In addition, he knows a lot about the history of the rivers and lakes, so his martial arts novels are like an encyclopedic dictionary of the rivers and lakes. It is also worth mentioning that the word "martial arts" came from Zheng Zhengyin. The previous martial arts were just the old name of Hangzhou City in ancient times. Zhu Zhenmu is the founder of Qiqing martial arts, and created a new school of martial arts novels in which many women chase one man, which has set a precedent for many martial arts novels in later generations.
These famous writers of the Republic of China novels can enjoy a good reputation, and the quality of natural works is very guaranteed. But it's a pity that it's too far away from now, and it's been forty or fifty years, so it's just not famous. Now these publishers have turned out these old inventories and sold them under the name of Gu Long, so that they don't have to worry about the poor quality of the books being scolded by readers, and they don't have to worry about the original authors crawling out of the grave to settle accounts with them, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
And when Gu Long found out that his name was being used like this, he couldn't imagine it. Because he was not kind to things before. So the publisher who knew about it gave him a red envelope with tens of thousands of NT$, and the matter passed. There is that unreasonable publisher, who is not even a bird, and Gu Longgan has no way to get angry.
This is the so-called cycle of heavenly principles, and retribution is unpleasant. Gu Long only cared about his own pleasure and made money, and went to pit the publisher, but he didn't expect that he would also be cheated one day.
However, the ancient dragon who had been taught a lesson did not change his past mistakes, but intensified his efforts. Since publishers have a market for impersonating books, it is better for me to do the same. As a result, there are more and more novels written by Gu Long on the market, which are mixed, and Gu Long's reputation has been greatly damaged. But he doesn't know how to converge, or continue to consume his readers and his fame. It can be said that the road has gone dark.
This time, the movie launched by Wanwan Film Company, although it is under the banner of Gu Long, is not a movie adapted from Gu Long's novel, but in the name of Gu Long's screenwriter, to be precise, it is a new script, a new story, but because it is written by Gu Long, it is also in the name of Gu Long, and I don't know how to think it was produced by Director Chu Yuan. (To be continued......)