In addition to the huge profits made by the US investment, the investment in Hong Kong last year also created huge profits for Xu Guanwu.

Henderson Land, in which he invested and became a shareholder, acquired Yongtai Construction Company last year and successfully bought a backdoor listing. Yongtai Jianye's shares rose sharply, and Henderson also took the opportunity to absorb a large amount of stock market funds. Xu Guanwu, Li Zhaoji and others all took the opportunity to make a fortune.

Cheung Kong Industrial, which was forcibly acquired by Xu Guanwu, also had a smooth development last year. Li Ka-shing, together with the MTR Company, defeated the most popular Hongkong Land Company and grabbed the right to build the property above the Standard Chartered Station. All of a sudden, Cheung Kong became famous and became one of the most famous Chinese real estate companies.

Hongkong Land was originally a real estate company under Jardine Matheson, which was the largest real estate company in the world at that time, with fixed assets of more than 8 billion Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong alone. At that time, Cheung Kong Industrial's market value was only more than 500 million Hong Kong dollars, and it was really like a dwarf in front of the big giant of Hongkong Land.

But the dwarfs, with their agility and wisdom, can also defeat the giants. It was as if King David had defeated Goliath. Cheung Kong used its flexible management methods to defeat Hongkong Land and seize the right to build the property at the subway station.

The property on the subway station is undoubtedly the prime location of the prime location, the geographical location is absolutely superior, and the property built here is definitely not worried about the market, so it is a very profitable project.

The Chinese company Cheung Kong defeated the British-funded Hongkong Land Company, which immediately caused an uproar among the people of Hong Kong, and all regarded Lee Ka-shing as a national hero. And he grabbed the right to build the property on the subway station, and steadily harvested this golden egg. It also makes shareholders full of confidence in this company. Stock prices rose in response. Li Jiacheng's net worth also skyrocketed. It can really be said that I won face and got the lining.

Xu Guanwu, who is also a major shareholder of Cheung Kong Industrial, also benefited, and it is estimated that this alone has increased his net worth by more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Although the profit from investment is still less than that of the United States, for Xu Guanwu, Hong Kong is actually the fundamental, so the 100 million Hong Kong dollars earned is more happy than the 100 million US dollars earned.

Another Hopewell Real Estate, invested by Xu Guanwu, also made a large profit last year. As the economy grows, the property market has also begun to recover. Hopewell Property's residential buildings began to be sold in large quantities. It brought huge profits to Hopewell Real Estate and brought it back to life.

As a partner of the company, Xu Guanwu naturally made huge profits. Including Henderson Land, Cheung Kong and Hopewell Properties, Hui Guanwu occupies buildings all over Hong Kong, which can be called the veritable king of Hong Kong.

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In addition to real estate investment, his original main business, film and television entertainment, has also achieved great results. Although last year, because of his sister-in-law's pregnancy, his eldest brother Xu Guanwen did not make a film for a year, and Zeng Zhiwei ran away, but Xu's Film Company also made great works.

Cheng Long's "Young Master Dragon" launched last year, Hong Jingbao's "Eye-catching Boy Tricks", "Involuntarily", "Tooth Throwing Tiger" and so on are also popular. However, although "Involuntarily" and "Tooth Tiger" made money, the box office was less than two million. made Hong Jingbao realize that kung fu comedy may have come to an end, and he is thinking about changing it recently.

Poverty is change, change is general, and general is long, this is an unbreakable truth that has been handed down for thousands of years.

The kung fu comedy was filmed from seventy-four years to seventy-seven years, and it has been four years. In the past four years, Hui's alone has released more than 60 kung fu comedies, not to mention Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers and other large and small film companies.

It is estimated that in the past four years, nearly 300 kung fu comedies have been released, an average of 75 in a year, and an average of two kung fu comedies are released in a week. The same type of movie, such a high frequency of release, naturally consumes the audience's interest.

Before Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and others were still guaranteed to be blockbusters, and there were always two or three million box office after the film was released. But this year, in addition to Cheng Long's "Young Master Dragon", which received 7 million box office, he still guaranteed his status as the chief kung fu star. The kung fu comedies of Hong Jingbao, Yuan Biao and others are not blockbusters.

In fact, it's not just Xu's comedy kung fu films that are no longer blockbusters, but also the comedies of the Golden Harvest Yuan brothers and the kung fu comedies of Shaw Brothers' Liu Jiaban have also encountered the same problem. It seems that no matter how good a kung fu comedy is, it is easy to get bored with the audience if you watch too much of it.

Compared with kung fu comedies, movies with urban themes are well received. Zhang Jian's new film "Bad Life" directed last year continued the theme of the previous "Male Thief and Female Singing", and also aimed the camera at South Vietnamese refugees. However, this time the protagonist was replaced by a defeated South Vietnamese soldier with agility and nimble marksmanship.

In order to treat his sick wife, the defeated soldiers of South Vietnam played by Lu Liangwei had no choice but to agree to the co-optation of the Black X Society boss and become a mercenary killer to help him cut off the enemy from life to death. But when the big guy razed all the opponents, the cunning rabbit was exhausted, and the lackeys cooked; The birds are all gone, and the good bow is hidden. Lu Liangwei, who knows the secrets of the big guy, is naturally going to be cleaned up.

So a classic scene in Hong Kong films was released, in the cramped and cramped refugee camp houseboat, Lu Liangwei fought to the death with hundreds of black X club thugs. In this 25-minute final showdown, director Zhang Jian flexibly uses the language of the camera to turn the refugee camp houseboat into a labyrinth full of murder. And Lu Liangwei relied on the convenience of the terrain, the agility of his skills, and the sharpness of his swords and guns, and tortured and killed the enemies who would attack them one by one.

In the space of twenty-five minutes, I wish that someone would be killed every ten seconds, and the frequency was truly appalling. But it was really ruthless and exciting enough, which made the audience enthusiastic and eager to scream together.

However, although there are so many violent murder scenes, because director Zhang Jian's lens is used well, there are basically not so many bloody scenes such as blood splattering and internal organs flowing all over the ground. Therefore, there were not too many difficulties in the electrical inspection office, and it can be regarded as a good demonstration for Hong Kong films to deal with violent and bloody scenes in the future.

After the film was released, it made a box office of more than 6 million at the box office and caused a very big response. Although Lu Liangwei in the play is a mercenary killer, he cares for his wife. Cold-blooded and tender. And when his wife was killed by the underworld gangster woman. Footage of him holding the corpse in tears. also made the female audience full of good feelings for him.

Of course, the 25-minute chase scene at the end of the game is also the largest action scene in Hong Kong with the most martial artists used in a single game. It really set a very difficult benchmark for Hong Kong's future action movies.

In addition to Zhang Jian's "Bad Life", which received a lot of praise, Gui Zhihong's "Hong Kong Strange Case" series once again stimulated the nerves of Hong Kong audiences with bloody, violent, terrifying, and suspenseful stories. Gui Zhihong's movies may not be suitable for all Hong Kong people, so the box office has never reached the level of millions like comedy kung fu films.

But the audience of Gui Zhihong's movies is very fixed. And the box office has always been solid. It's usually between one or two million. Although the data is not very good, if you take into account the low cost, in fact, Xu's is still profitable.

Last year, in addition to filming "The Strange Case of Hong Kong", Gui Zhihong also released a movie called "Saucer Immortal". It is said that a person inadvertently invited the Saucer Immortal, and after making three vows, he made a windfall with the help of the Saucer Immortal. It's just that he broke his vows one after another, and after the most anger, he angered the Saucer Immortal, and he should make an oath that he would not die well.

Although the story of this film sounds quite alarming, under the direction of Gui Zhihong, it has become a movie full of violence, horror, and cesium. Three vows. Quit sex, gambling, and killing, but unfortunately people are greedy after getting rich. broke cesium rings, gambling rings, and murders one after another, and the process of breaking the ring is naturally a big book. And the scene where the last one should make an oath and be killed by the Disc Immortal is also more than five minutes long, revealing the violent side, which can be called the best work of CULT films.

Although the electronic inspection was rated as unsuitable for children under 18 years old, the box office still reached nearly 3 million Hong Kong dollars, which is the highest-grossing film of Gui Zhihong in recent years.

Director Chu Yuan's film adaptation of Gu Long's novel has always been very popular. Director Chu has a kind of literary temperament that other directors in Hong Kong do not have, and can delicately show the ideal realm of love and hatred in Gu Long's novels.

The chivalrous men in Gu Long's novels are almost incapable of eating the fireworks of the world, they are not deeply involved in the world, even if they live in the world, but they are incompatible with the world. For example, in "The Sword of the Third Young Master", the sword god Xie Xiaofeng pretended to be a useless Aji, but no matter how hard he pretended to be an ordinary person, he still couldn't hide his anger. When the road is uneven, he is still the sword god Xie Xiaofeng.

The characters in Gu Long's novels usually have no complicated backgrounds, and they are not even clear about how they can understand such advanced martial arts. It's as if these knights suddenly appeared in the world, like the Nine Heavens Immortals, or the Hellish Demons. After the fact, he brushed off his clothes, hid his merits and fame, and was a master who freely pursued his birth.

Even if it is a monk of Shaolin Temple, a disciple of the Carefree School, a Taoist of Chongyang Palace, and a lama of Fanbang, these monks who should have jumped out of the red dust will also be contaminated with the six desires of the red dust, and they seem to be more willing to chase fame and fortune than ordinary people.

And the chivalrous people who have the concept of birth will inevitably re-enter the world after the most reluctance, such as Xie Yanke who lives alone in the Sky Cliff, Tong Grandma on the ethereal peak of Vulture Mountain, Feng Qingyang who lives in seclusion in Huashan, etc., etc., they seem to be born and live in seclusion, but in fact, they are constantly involved with the world, which also causes a lot of love and hatred.

Almost all the chivalrous characters in Jin Yong's novels have their own resume cards, whether they are protagonists or supporting characters, they all have their own origins, and no one comes out of nowhere. For example, Tan Gong, Tan Po, Zhao Qiansun in "Tianlong Babu", Taishan's hot hand judge Shan Zheng's family, and so on...... Even such a small supporting role has to write down the origin of their identities in detail, so that they are undoubtedly contaminated with some red dust, and it seems that there is really such a family.

Therefore, Jin Yong's novel is suitable for adaptation into a TV series, because it is actually written about the world, which can allow the audience to have room for YY and fantasize that it would be good if I were so-and-so. That's why there are so many fan fictions that have crossed Jin Yong's famous works at a certain point, and they have been prosperous for a long time since the day the online text was born.

And Gu Long's novel is relatively better to make a movie, because his story is written about gods and demons in human skin, and people will not pursue its storytelling too much when watching the movie, as long as the scenes are grand, the characters are handsome, and the stunts are amazing. Not too many people care if the story is reasonable.

On the contrary, if it is adapted into a TV series, if you want the audience to integrate into it, the relationship between the characters must not be confused, and the origin must be explained, and the audience cannot watch it for a long time, and still wonder "Who is this person?!" ”。 These elements are missing in Gu Long's novels, so if they are to be adapted into a TV series, they need to be supplemented by the screenwriter to fill in the background information of the characters in the play. Of course, if you meet a reliable screenwriter, you can still make it decent, but if you meet an unreliable screenwriter, then this character is almost terrible. (To be continued......)