Xu Guanwu took the two films and went home, and Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia immediately stepped forward, "Ah Wu, how is it, are the negatives coming back?" ”

"Your husband, can I come back in person?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "Isn't this right here?" ”

"Hey, how did you get back?" Zhao Yazhi asked curiously.

Xu Guanwu immediately laughed and told him about making up a set of books and holy qigong, which made Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia laugh.

"This is outrageous, isn't it, how could they believe it?" Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but laugh.

Xu Guanwu smiled, "Do you think they are really professional reporters who get to the bottom of things, pursue the truth, and solve mysteries for the public?" The two of them just make up news to eat, just write news for them, what do they care if it's true or fake? ”

"Again, these journalists are hateful." Lin Qingxia also nodded and said, "By the way, what did Mr. Wu Siyuan ask the two of them to do?" ”

"I wanted to ask these two to help promote "No Gate to Hell"." Xu Guanwu smiled, "This movie is really good, but it's a pity that the subject matter is too biased and the content is too dark, which really doesn't conform to the traditional aesthetics of the Chinese people." Alas, Wu Siyuan is quite good at making films by himself, and there has never been anything wrong, but he didn't expect to meet Xu Ke but let him work hard for several years. ”

"Hey, didn't you say that Xu Ke was a good director before, why do you say that about him now?" Lin Qingxia couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"No matter how sharp the sword is, it depends on who uses it. To a person who practices martial arts, he can be like a tiger with wings. If you give it to a child, I'm afraid you'll cut yourself. Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

He didn't think that Wu Siyuan could use Xu Ke. The main reason is that he is too indulgent to Xu Ke. Let his director have too much power. made him unrestrained when filming.

Xu Ke is talented, and he is also a genius, but his movies are easy to play and difficult to collect, and many times he does not know moderation. Therefore, many times the movie is made into his personal show.

For example, he insisted on investing and directing "The Sunset Song of the True Colors of Heroes", although the quality of the shooting is very high, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, knowing that the shootout film has been lonely, he still does not change. As a result, it suffered a box office waterloo. A very good signature of the "True Colors of Heroes" series was also ruined because of this.

Another example is the "Shushan" series directed by Xu Ke, which is also because of the dominance of one person and the lack of necessary moderation, as a result, a large amount of investment has been wasted, which indirectly led to the early decline of Golden Harvest Pictures, leaving Hong Kong without an old film company.

And the reason why Xu Ke can achieve good results in the new art city and film studio is actually inseparable from the moderation of the seven monsters in the new art city, as well as the assistance of Shi Nansheng, the virtuous helper.

In the film era of New Art City, the script was created by the Seven Monsters of New Art City. No one can change it after the creation is completed, not even if Xu Ke is one of the Seven Monsters. And the script was written by seven people. This greatly limited Xu Ke's play, which greatly increased the commercial elements of the script, and greatly reduced Xu Ke's own personal style.

In addition, there is a producer in charge of supervising the filming, Xu Ke is equivalent to becoming a filming machine in Xinyi City, and has produced many popular masterpieces at this stage, such as "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Many Stars", "The Best Partner: The Queen's Secret Order" and so on. But these comedies were not what Xu Ke wanted to make, so he later left Xinyi City and went to Jiahe to shoot "The Legend of the Swordsman of Xinshu Mountain". The investment in that movie was as much as 20 million Hong Kong dollars, but the box office was only 1.5 million, ranking more than 100 in the annual box office list.

and self-formed film studio, although it can make long-desired movies, but because it has to support the company's votes, and at the same time be responsible for the parent company Golden Princess, so Xu Kekai's first film "The Working Emperor" invited Xu Guanjie, who was the most popular at the time, to serve as the male lead, and invited the young and beautiful Wang Qixian to play opposite him, the theme is a comedy that he likes to see, and there are also some ghost horse elements of the little people in the Xu Brothers' movies, so after the release, the box office was a big hit, and he collected nearly 17 million. It's a good start for the film studio.

It is reported that Xu Guanjie, who also participated in the investment at that time, was overjoyed and gave a golden Porsche sports car to Wang Zhengxian, and as a result, there was a scandal about the relationship between the two, and it was also the first time that Xu Guanjie had a scandal with someone in 20 years, of course, all of this was due to Wang Zhixian, a scandal machine, and there were scandals in almost every film.

After the filming of "The Working Emperor", Xu Ke filmed "Dao Ma Dan" the next year. Because it was a script that had been honed for half a year, I invited Zhong Chuhong, who was popular at the time, and the most well-known Lin Qingxia, with Ye Qianwen, who had just debuted and became a blockbuster, and the three beauties starred in the limelight, and even the two male protagonists Zheng Haonan and Zhang Guoqiang stole the limelight.

Because of the novel story and the actors in place, the film also achieved a very good box office, and also entered the top ten of the annual box office, and is considered to be the perfect combination of commercial films and art films, and is also regarded by Xu Ke as his most classic work in the 80s.

Produced by the film studio in 86 years, "The True Color of Heroes" directed by Wu Yusen collected more than 30 million, which not only made Wu Yusen, Zhou Yanfa, Zhang Guorong, Di Long, Zhu Baoyi and other salted fish turn over, but also made Xu Ke earn a lot of money, and from now on he can rest assured that he can boldly make the movies he wants to make.

So the next year, a cold sci-fi masterpiece "Iron Armor Invincible Maria" came out, in this film, Xu Laowei played apocalyptic science fiction, terrorist organizations were rampant, the police were cowardly and incompetent, and they looked anarchic. It's a pity that this movie is too avant-garde, and sci-fi is not popular in Hong Kong, so the box office of "Iron Armor Maria" is only 5 million. At that time, the hallmark of the blockbuster movie was that the box office was at least 20 million, so this "Iron Armor Maria" did hit the streets.

Looking at the films monopolized by Xu Ke, from the very beginning of "Butterfly Change", "No Gate to Hell", "The First Kind of Danger", to "Iron Armor Invincible Maria", "A Chinese Ghost Story" series, "The True Colors of Heroes 3: Sunset Song", ...... In fact, there is a sense of doomsday, anarchism.

There is no shadow of the government in "Butterfly Change" from beginning to end, and the martial arts sect can act recklessly. In the first two battles, tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded. It's really hard to imagine.

In "No Gate to Hell", although 999 represents the government. The security team is even more protective of the safety of one side, but in fact, these two types of people are all cold-blooded and ruthless, and 999 will cut the skin of Rolex and go back to receive the reward after his death. The security team even slaughtered passers-by, and then led the villagers to eat human flesh together. Moreover, this kind of bad customs have been practiced for many years, but no one cares about it, it is like a Shura world of its own.

Although there are policemen in "Danger of the First Type", the image of the policemen is also disgraceful, coercive and seductive. Standing by and treating them with indifference, it eventually led several protagonists who were still children to the path of destruction.

In "A Chinese Ghost Story", Lanruo Temple is rampant, but the government only knows how to accept bribes, and those who seem to catch quickly but are actually more fierce than robbers are responsible for detecting wanted criminals, and often arrest many innocent people in prison.

As for the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story", it is even more outrageous, robbers kill people and eat human flesh, but innocent people have to be imprisoned as substitutes for dead ghosts. Even the ministers above the temple were robbed of their spirits by the goblins. Only one shell was left, and it could really be called a corpse vegetarian meal.

And in "True Colors of Heroes 3: Sunset Song". It is really the end of the world, the war has turned people into beasts, and there is no one to uphold justice and no one to defend the people...... Even the army has become a tool for corruption and perversion of the law, killing people and making money.

Xu Guanwu feels that the reason why Xu Ke's movies have such a style is probably inseparable from the South Vietnamese War when he was a teenager. The South Vietnamese War began in 1955 when Xu Ke was only five years old. The South Vietnamese War lasted from 1955 to 1975, exactly 20 years.

Although Xu Ke immigrated to Hong Kong in 66 years, he still experienced 12 years of brutal war, and it was throughout his adolescence, when a person's mind was gradually maturing and his values began to be gradually established. Especially during the war years, it is estimated that every child will be forced to be precocious, so Xu Ke, who has experienced the cruelty of war, only in his later works did he intentionally or unintentionally substitute his experience into the movie.

But his style is actually a bit out of place in Hong Kong. After all, except for the Japanese garrison in the 40s, Hong Kong has not suffered any war for the rest of the century. Moreover, Hong Kong has a developed economy and people live in abundance, so they do not have a deep understanding of the cruelty of war, and few people can appreciate Xu Ke's apocalyptic anarchist style except for the residents of the Kowloon Walled City. Therefore, all Xu Ke's works with serious personal stylization are generally not very high at the box office.

Xu Guanwu knew that Xu Ke had this problem, so he knew that Wu Siyuan would not use Xu Ke well. Because Wu Siyuan is too soft-hearted, he is not ruthless enough to Xu Ke. This "ruthless" is not to beat Xu Ke, but to limit his power. However, Wu Siyuan belongs to the style of old-school filmmakers, and does not implement the "producer" system of Xinyicheng, and the binding force on Xu Ke is not enough.

It's like when filming "Butterfly Change", Wu Siyuan really wanted to let the protagonist Fang Hongye fight at the end, because he didn't fight for more than an hour in the first hour, and the audience was looking forward to seeing him shoot. So if he fights in the end, the box office will definitely be high.

But Xu Ke was desperate at the time, and refused to let Fang Hongye fight, and sure enough, the box office failed miserably after the release, which made Wu Siyuan still haunted when he thinks about it now.

If it is Xinyicheng to invest in this movie, if Xu Ke refuses to shoot like that, he will simply kick people and replace them, and let the next director continue to shoot. I think that when he was filming "British Pipa", director Liang Puzhi tampered with the script privately, but the producer Teddy Robin directly told him to roll up the burden and get out, and then picked up the guide tube and shouted "open the mark", which is completely unaccustomed to Liang Puzhi's problems. Liang Puzhi was also a well-known New Wave director back then, but he really said that he would be fired if he fired squid.

Xu Guanwu knew that if he wanted to use Xu Ke, he must match Mai Jia and Huang Baiming. Mai Jia is dictatorial enough, likes to take ideas the most, and has more aura than Xu Ke, and being a producer is enough to suppress this Xu old monster. And Huang Baiming is kind and kind, just to be the lubricant between Mai Jia and Xu Ke, plus he has a lot of stories in his head, and it is very in line with the three views of the Chinese people, which just helps Xu Ke correct the bad thoughts in his head. These three partners are definitely a match made in heaven, and they are not afraid of what Xu Ke will do.

Of course, if you don't consider the box office and let Xu Ke play freely, as long as he is not allowed to shoot any magic, fairytales, and sci-fi masterpieces, basically Xu Ke can still make a lot of works with a good reputation, but the style will inevitably be a little gloomy.

But the premise is, of course, that Xu Ke will join the Xu family, and Xu Guanwu is willing to invest in him, otherwise he won't bother to help others toss. And looking at the current half-dead state of Siyuan Film Company, Xu Ke is very likely to not be able to shoot "The First Type of Danger", and he will be kicked out of the company by Wu Siyuan. After all, the two movies lost nearly two million, and they are also a rare disaster star in the Hong Kong film industry. (To be continued......)