In the face of the upcoming Christmas schedule, in addition to Xu's "Geese in the Woods" and "Chasing Girls", two love films, Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers are also waiting for each other, and they have come up with their carefully prepared masterpieces, ready to have a big collision with Xu Guanwu.

Shaw Brothers is preparing the costume comedy "Su Xiaomei's Three Difficulties and the Groom Official", as well as the kung fu film "Chinese Husband" directed by Liu Jialiang and starring Liu Jiahui. The Shaw Brothers' level of costume films is first-class in East Asia, and the two Qing court films "Alluring the Country and the City" and "Yingtai Blood" filmed in Shaw Brothers Cinemas that year have amazed mainland historians.

"Su Xiaomei's Three Difficulties and the Groom Official" is based on a folk tale and is directed and filmed by He Menghua. Although Director He's reputation is not as high as that of great directors such as Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, and Hu Jinquan, his qualifications are quite profound, and he has joined the Shaw Brothers in the late 50s, and he can be regarded as an old courtier of the Shaw Brothers. And what he is good at shooting is costume movies, the more famous ones are "Seven Fairies", "Yang Naiwu and Little Cabbage", "Journey to the West" series and so on.

As for Liu Jialiang, the Liu Jiahui brothers are the backbone of Liu Jiaban, and they are also the directors that Shaw Brothers rely on the most now. The previous best-selling director Zhang Che has gradually lost his creativity. More and more films are made every year, but the box office is getting lower and lower.

And the two martial arts instructors under him before, Tang Jia had left before he went to Taiwan to develop, and Liu Jialiang has now grown bigger and become the main director of the current Shaw Brothers. Zhang Che, who has lost his right-hand man, is a little powerless in filming, especially in playing, although there are many disciples. But the fight is not as exciting as before.

Director Zhang Che's sinking was exchanged for the rise of Liu Jialiang's brothers, a chicken died and a chicken crowed, and the newcomers followed the song and sounded good. Shaw Brothers transferred resources to the now more profitable Liu Jiaban, while Zhangjiaban is still filming, but the momentum is much less than before.

Before director Zhang Cheda filmed, he could dominate several studios by himself. He likes to shoot the "Water Margin" series, and others can't even shoot a chapter. Director Zhang Che didn't start filming in the morning before, and only asked the assistant director to help debug the lighting, and then after resting enough in the morning, director Zhang Che Shi Shiran sat on the director's chair in the afternoon. Then yell and open the mark!

But now the Liu Jialiang brothers are rising. Director Zhang Cheda's preferential treatment was gradually canceled. Although Sir Shao still filmed Zhang Che, he didn't respect him as much as before. Although it is a little cold-blooded to treat the old courtier like this, in the words of Sir Shao, "There are thousands of employees up and down the Shaw Clan." If I only talk about human feelings. Then the company will not be able to operate for a long time. ”

In fact. Sir Shao treated Director Zhang Che very well, after the Shaw Brothers closed down and Zhang Che had nothing to rely on. Free staff dormitories were also provided for him to live in.

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The movies prepared by Golden Harvest for the Christmas schedule are in addition to the love comedy "Girl Amorous" directed and filmed by Zeng Zhiwei, as well as the kung fu film "Drunken Eight Immortals Fighting Drunken Arhats" filmed by Yuan Jiaban.

Tsang Chi-wai's "Girl's Love" borrowed from last year's "Child's Love" directed by Mai Jia and starring Chow Yunfa, but the protagonist was replaced by a country girl from Hong Kong and Kowloon in the New Territories. is also not good-looking at the beginning, but after being carefully dressed up, it is shocking.

However, in "Girl Amorous", Zeng Zhiwei added a lot of ingenuity, and a love comedy made him shoot lively, but it seemed very festive.

And Yuan Jiaban's "Drunken Eight Immortals Fighting Drunken Arhats" tells the story of Shaolin monks who are wise and deeply unscrupulous, and after practicing drunken Arhat boxing, they do not think about eliminating violence and peace, and act chivalrous and righteous, but do evil. Then Han Chong, the descendant of the drunken Eight Immortals, planned to eliminate harm for the people, but unexpectedly due to old age and frailty, he was unable to defeat the enemy, and finally died tragically under Zhishen's drunken Arhat fist. Han Chong's eight disciples learned of the tragic death of their master and were determined to take revenge, but their own thinking skills were shallow and difficult for Zhishen to contend with, so the eight of them practiced one immortal and merged into the drunken eight immortals.

This film is also somewhat similar to Cheng Long's "Drunken Fist", but Yuan Jiaban found another way and filmed a very different scene. And in this play, Yuan Heping invited his father Yuan Xiaotian out of the mountain, playing the role of Han Lin, the younger brother of Han Chong, the descendant of the Drunken Eight Immortals, who is responsible for teaching the method of the Drunken Eight Immortals in the film.

And whether it is the drunken Arhat Zhishen or Han Chong's eight disciples, they are all served by the Yuan family brothers. Because Yuan Jiaban has been practicing martial arts since childhood, he has been a martial arts instructor for many years, so this "Drunken Eight Immortals Fighting Drunken Arhats" is very exciting, whether it is Han Chong and Zhishen's solo fight, or the last eight disciples practicing the Drunken Eight Immortals Array to beat Zhishen, they have all made a lot of novelty, and it is a very powerful movie in this year's Christmas file.

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The Christmas schedule is basically to watch these three film companies, and even if other small film companies want to participate, they don't have the qualifications and capabilities.

However, the leftist film company made a film "Old House with Happiness", which reflects the story of the ordinary people in the old building to fight against the illegal demolition of illegal profiteers. This movie is based on the love affair between men and women who grew up together in this old building, and the demolition of the rebel against illegal profiteers as the secondary line, which not only reflects the life of ordinary Hong Kong citizens now, but also reflects the background of economic growth and soaring housing prices.

It has just entered December, and the propaganda war of the three film companies has begun. Among them, because Shaw Brothers has just had its own television station, the propaganda offensive has been extremely fierce from the beginning.

In order to promote Shaw Brothers' films, Jiayi TV also imitated Xu's and launched its own film column. also introduced the new trends of its films, and also invited the actors of Shaw Brothers to do programs on TV stations. Because Xu's example is in front, Shaw's trick is also imitated.

In addition to the promotion of the TV station, several newspapers such as those that have a good relationship with the Shaw Brothers have also reported on the two upcoming films of the Shaw Brothers, "Chinese Husband" and "Su Xiaomei's Three Difficulties and the Groom Official". praised "Chinese Husband" as a masterpiece of kung fu with a hard bridge and a hard horse, Liu Jialiang is the authentic kung fu in today's Hong Kong film industry, and Liu Jiahui is now a first-class kung fu superstar; He also praised "Su Xiaomei's Three Difficulties and the Groom Official" as a classic of costume comedy. The classic reappearance of folk tales on the screen, and it is said that both the set and the costumes follow the ancient system, and the ancient rhyme is full of fun, etc.

Golden Harvest does not have its own television station, and its relationship with several major newspapers is not as close as that of Shaw Brothers, and unlike Hui's own newspaper, his film promotion mainly relies on the way of lion dances paraded by floats. Driving a double-decker bus and beating gongs and drums all over the streets, I can't wait to shake the whole Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories to know that Golden Harvest is making a movie.

In addition to the parade of floats, posters like movies are also posted all over the streets, quite like the small advertisements for infertility treatment on the streets in later generations. and Golden Harvest's film magazine "Golden Harvest Movie" is also a series of hype, and the stirring Christmas schedule has not yet arrived. The Hong Kong film industry has been fried into a pot of porridge.

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Christmas is not yet here. The first TV series "Crocodile Tears" co-produced by Wireless and Li, and the first half of "The World is in Trouble" has been completed.

It took only one month from the beginning of preparation to the completion of filming, which can really be called a god speed. It is said that during the filming of this TV series, the leading actor Pan Zhiwen did not sleep for several days in order to catch up with the show. It's really acting with his life.

After Xu Guanwu knew the truth, he called the TV series producer over and criticized him bitterly. Rushing to the scene like this, regardless of the health of the actors. It's simply not necessary. The actor is the valuable asset of the TV station, and if he is exhausted, the loss of the TV station is very heavy. And actors are also people. If you are human, you need to rest. If you don't care about the health of the actors in order to catch up with the drama, then this drama is not filmed.

The producer of this drama is Li's Mai Dangxiong, although Xu Guanwu is not his top boss, and he is not qualified to teach him a lesson. But because it is now a cooperative relationship, and Xu is still the main investor of this drama, it is also appropriate to find a producer in case of an accident. So Mai Dangxiong took this training hard.

After the training, Mai Dangxiong felt a little aggrieved, in Hong Kong, not only he was filming like this, but also Jiayi TV, Li's TV, and even TVB, they were all so desperate when they were in a hurry.

At that time, Hong Kong TV dramas were all filmed and broadcast, and two episodes were broadcast a day, and if you didn't catch up with the show, there would be no broadcast at all. Besides, time is money, everyone is working hard to film, and I hate to use one person for two people, but you are here to say that you want to be considerate of health, isn't that just waiting for other TV stations to surpass it?

Moreover, Mak Dangxiong is also used to acting nonsense on Li's TV station, and when filming "Ten Strange Cases", the scene of throwing the child into the pool almost didn't drown the child; During the filming of "Big Husband", a group of people took pictures of blood rampage on the street without application, and even ran to the police station for half an hour. At that time, the police didn't know if they had applied for it, and watched them finish filming.

Later, he entered the film industry and filmed "Destruction Ground Car", a group of people filmed and stopped in the downtown area, causing a traffic jam in Hong Kong; When filming "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", the actor Shen Wei was locked in the car and poured gasoline on it, almost scaring people to death. Later, after filming this scene, Shen Wei, who escaped death, chased and slashed Mai Dangxiong all over the set with a knife. However, because of his real expression when he was burned, he won the affirmation of the Academy Awards that year and won the Best Supporting Actor award. Of course it's true, but it's really trapped in the car and burned, and it almost didn't burn people.

When filming "Black Gold", in Shilin Night Market, he also shot in front of the public without applying in advance, and killed people in blood, causing Taipei citizens who did not know the truth to flee in panic. And he also has a bad deed is that he bribed a Filipino maid with a little money, just saying that he wanted to shoot a shot. As a result, the entire crew moved in, and then filmed an explosion scene in the villa, almost blowing up the entire house.

So relatively speaking, letting the actors not rest for days and nights just to catch up with the show is just a pediatric for Mak Dangxiong. Therefore, he inevitably disagreed with Xu Guanwu's reprimand, thinking that he was completely overreacting, rare and strange.

However, those who are familiar with Xu Guanwu know that he really puts the health of the actor first. When filming action scenes in the Hong family class and the family class, he also told him not to go overboard and not to get injured so badly. And because of his insistence, when Xu made a martial arts action movie, the ambulance would be parked outside the set at any time, ready for trouble.

Before wireless, there was also the phenomenon of catching up with the show, and later with Xu Guanwu becoming the owner, the phenomenon of catching up with the show has decreased a lot. In fact, in addition to the institutional needs of on-the-spot filming and broadcasting, another point is that the actors' salaries are too low, and if they don't work hard, they won't have any money.

In TV stations, actors rely on the number of performances to calculate money, and if the number of performances is not enough, it is difficult to guarantee income. Especially TV actors are not like those movie actors, even big-name stars have low salaries, so in order to make money, they can only put their health out of the way. So it becomes a vicious circle of exchanging life for money now, and then exchanging money for life in the future. (To be continued......)