can't beat, can't scold, Zou Wenhuai almost wants to supply Wu Yusen.

"Ah Zhuang, you've been resting for more than half a year, how about it, come out and help do something." Zou Wenhuai said earnestly, "You also know the current situation of the company, there is more out and less in, and you don't want to see the company go bankrupt, right?" ”

Wu Yusen is not afraid of anything else, but he is afraid that Zou Wenhuai will play the favor card. In all fairness, if Zou Wenhuai hadn't been promoted, Wu Yusen knew that if he wanted to be a director, he would have to stay up for at least another four or five years.

So he missed Boss Zou's favor very much, and he couldn't help but soften his heart at the moment, "Zou Sheng, if you have any orders, just say it." ”

"Yes." Zou Wenhuai saw Wu Yusen's tone soften, and he was immediately very happy in his heart, "Have you watched the "Three Smiles Marriage" co-starred by Long Mei?" ”

Wu Yusen shook his head, he has been bored at home recently, tinkering with a script called "Heroes Without Tears". This script is based on the famous Japanese manga film "Tape Wolf".

The tragic encounter, Xiao Suo's life, father-son affection, murder and revenge, all smelted together, which is very much in line with Wu Yusen's taste. When he was an assistant director at Shaw Brothers, he studied under Tomato director Zhang Che. is most enthusiastic about this kind of story of men's blood, murder and revenge.

He has always wanted to make this type of film, but it is a pity that his first martial arts film "Passerby" did not sell well, and then he assisted the Xu brothers in making the comedy "Ghost Horse Double Star" turned out to be the box office champion of the year.

So Wu Yusen was labeled as a comedy director, and the next few plays were all comedy movies, but it was rare that they were all blockbuster movies. This further entrenched Wu Yusen's title as a comedy director.

But what Wu Yusen really wants to make is not a comedy. It is a kung fu movie about the righteousness of men and the revenge of blood. That's why he prefers to stay at home for half a year. I don't want to come out to make comedies to live.

Now listening to Mr. Zou Wenhuai's question, Wu Yusen felt a sense of unhappiness in his heart.

"That scene is very good, different from the previous 'Seven Days Fresh' movie. What's even more commendable is that this drama is still very popular. It's just an investment of hundreds of thousands, and the box office is over one million. This shows that high-quality Cantonese opera films are actually very appealing at the box office. Zou Wenhuai explained with a smile.

"What does Mr. Zou mean...... Let me make a Cantonese opera film? Wu Yusen asked in surprise.

"Yes, Ah Zhuang. You and I really want to go somewhere. Zou Wenhuai clapped his hands happily and said.

"But Mr. Zou, I have never made a Cantonese opera film before, and I don't listen to Cantonese opera at all. It's not appropriate for me to shoot it. Wu Yusen said thoughtfully.

"Ah Zhuang, you also know that there are only a few directors in the company, and now everyone has a job, only you are idle." Zou Wenhuai said solemnly, "If I don't give you this task, who else can I hand it over?" ”

"But ......," Wu Yusen argued.

"Ah Zhuang, don't be. I'm optimistic about your directing skills. Know you won't disappoint me. Zou Wenhuai waved his hand and blocked everything Wu Yusen wanted to say. You go down and think about it slowly, and try to get the script up next week. ”

Seeing this, Wu Yusen knew that there was no room for refusal, so he had to sigh and stand up and walk out slowly.

……

Not to mention the frustrated Wu Yusen, Xu Guanwen held a celebration banquet at Haiwang Restaurant at night because of the big sale of "Tiger Field Chicken". celebrated that "Tiger Field Chicken" took the lead in the summer file, beating the two movies of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, which greatly increased the face of Xu's Brothers Film Company.

Mai Jia, the screenwriter, starring and director, is naturally the first hero who deserves it, and Xu Guanwen specially sealed a 10,000 yuan lai see to him in recognition of his contributions, which made Mai Jia very happy.

""Tiger Field Chicken" won the box office championship in the first week, which is really gratifying! Here's a toast to all of you! Xu Guanwen said happily.

The investment in this drama is only 700,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the cost was not only recovered in the first week of release, but also made the company make a small profit. The box office from the continued screening next week will be in vain. And looking at the current theater attendance, "Tiger Field Chicken" can earn at least 3 million at the box office, and the company will earn at least 400,000 Hong Kong dollars excluding taxes.

That's right, a movie with a box office of up to 3 million Hong Kong dollars has a net income of only 400,000 yuan. The reason is that Hong Kong has imposed a tax on entertainment such as movies too harshly, as high as 17.5% - almost 20% of profits are grabbed. At the same time, Hollywood's film tax in the United States enjoyed a 7% tax rebate rate to encourage capital investment in American films.

Before a movie is released, it is already destined to have 20% of the profits taken by the government, and even if the rest of the box office is distributed in half, the producer can only get 40% of the box office.

Now Hong Kong movies have a box office of more than one million, even if they are blockbusters, most of them only have a box office of a few hundred thousand. forced the producer to compress the cost below 400,000 Hong Kong dollars, limiting the investment in Hong Kong films.

Of the hundreds of films produced in Hong Kong every year, no more than 20 of them can be recouped in Hong Kong, and most of the rest rely on foreign markets.

Once the overseas market shrinks, Hong Kong films will inevitably face extinction.

Therefore, when Taiwan canceled the treatment of Hong Kong films as national films and opened the market to Hollywood films, Hong Kong films lost their biggest box office powerhouse and plummeted, and they have not recovered until now.

Today's filmmakers naturally didn't expect that they would be so miserable more than ten years later, still drinking, singing, dancing, and dancing.

Xu Guanwu still drank his juice as usual, and several martial artists came to toast, but they were all blocked by Hong Jingbao. Last time, he toasted Xu Guanwu with two glasses of wine and caused him to vomit once, proving that Xu Guanwu really can't drink.

"Thank you, Sanmao." Xu Guanwu smiled at Hong Jingbao and said, "Last time, I heard you say that you want to think about a new drama and praise your junior brother Yuan Biao." How's that, do you have a point? ”

"Not yet, I'm looking for a screenwriter to help me write it." Hong Jingbao said with a smile while holding a wine glass.

Xu Guanwu nodded, knowing that the screenwriter Hong Jingbao was looking for was not a "drama master". It is the "Bridge King Military Division" specially designed to direct the bridge.

Speaking of screenwriters. The Hsu Brothers company does not have many screenwriters now. It is far less than Shaw Brothers, and even slightly less than Golden Harvest.

The reason is that there are too few screenwriters of Haode movies in Hong Kong, and there are only two or three people who are qualified to be "drama masters", and they were monopolized by Shaw Brothers early.

For example, Ni Kuang, one of the four great talents in Xiangjiang, wrote scripts specifically for the Shaw Brothers, and I heard that this person wrote more than 400 scripts in his life.

There is also a Situ An, who has been writing scripts since the days of Cantonese films. has been writing tirelessly, and although the scripts he writes rarely cause a sensation, they have always maintained a blockbuster level. For example, last year's "Cheng Ji Teahouse" by Xu's Brothers Company, and this year's Shaw Brothers' "A Cow Enters the City" are all his works.

What is even more rare is that this person has written more than 800 scripts in his life, and more than 300 have been made into movies, which is almost unprecedented in the Hong Kong film industry.

Although Golden Harvest did not have a master of the opera, before Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang defected from the Shaw Brothers, they swept away the hundreds of scripts that the Shaw Brothers had sealed in the warehouse. Therefore, Golden Harvest is not short of movie scripts.

The only few masters were all attracted by the Shaw Brothers, but fortunately, most of the director talents recruited by the Xu Brothers Company were multi-tasking, and the writers and directors were all-round. Like Mai Jia, Hong Jingbao, and Zeng Zhiwei can be regarded as talents.

They have stories in their heads. It only takes a few bridge kings to cross the bridge.

However, Xu Guanwu does not intend to exhaust these directors to death because they are capable, he also wants to introduce screenwriters to reduce their burden.

But at this moment, those well-known screenwriters of later generations. Such as Huang Baiming, Huang Bingyao, Xiao Ruoyuan, etc., don't know where they are.

Xu Guanwu only knew that Huang Baiming had been a manager of a foreign bank before he became a screenwriter, and his monthly income was more than 10,000, but there were more than 10,000 foreign banks in Hong Kong, and he was afraid that he might not be able to find them in 90 years.

Xiao Ruoyuan used to be a screenwriter on Li's TV station, and it was indeed easy to find a specific address, but Xu Guanwu had sent someone to check it before. Although Xiao Ruoyuan does have Xiao Ruoyuan on Li's TV station, this person is now a news broadcaster and has never worked as a screenwriter before.

As for Huang Bingyao, this "fatal scissor foot" is even more difficult to find. This old man died in the 90s, and the information left on the Internet is incomplete, Xu Guanwu can't remember what he did before he became a screenwriter, even if he wants to, he can't find it.

Fortunately, if he really didn't find these bridge kings, Xu Guanwu could still use the movies in his mind to deal with it temporarily. However, Xu Guanwu was reborn through crossing, not to take away the work of the screenwriters and cultivate a batch of rice worms for the company.

In the past two years, he has provided his eldest brother with several scripts, which has made him feel dependent on himself. In his previous life, these scripts were written by Xu Guanwen with hard work, and in order to understand the bitterness and hardships of the people at the bottom, he often dressed up and went to the slums to collect style.

In "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", the dentures he brought were the makeup props when he went to collect style, which can also show Xu Guanwen's seriousness about script creation.

Xu Guanwu didn't want to make his eldest brother lazy because of his crossing, and he lost the spirit of diligently pursuing film art.

"Try not to shoot unless necessary." Xu Guanwu thought to himself.

Originally, he heard Hong Jingbao say that he hadn't thought of the haode story recently, but Xu Guanwu had already thought of the movies he had watched, such as "The Loser" and "The Miscellaneous Boy".

These movies were all tailor-made by Hong Jingbao for Yuan Biao, showing his fast, agile and flexible skills, which caused a sensation immediately after their release, becoming a kung fu star second only to Hong Jingbao and Cheng Long.

But after thinking about it, Xu Guanwu still decided to let go and let Hong Jingbao toss first.

The celebration feast was drunk until late at night, and everyone was a little drunk and staggered when they walked.

Hong Jingbao is worthy of being the eldest brother, even after drinking so much wine, he still stood up and helped the brothers arrange a car so that they could go home safely. made Xu Guanwu admire, and he really deserved the name of "Big Brother".

When most of the people left, Xu Guanwu and the others were about to get into the car, when suddenly the waiter at the restaurant ran over, "Mr. Xu, your phone!" ”

Xu Guanwu was slightly stunned, who would call the restaurant. Coming to the bar with the waiter, Xu Guanwu picked up the phone, "Mr. Xu, the Kyoto theater is on fire!" (To be continued......)