On the second Sunday of March, at the seven-person group meeting, Mai Jia and Hong Jingbao successively came up with two scripts, one is "Crazy Boss" written by Huang Baiming, and the other is "Miscellaneous Boy" written by Huang Bingyao.

The drama "Miscellaneous Boy" is still a typical kung fu film in the early Republic of China, the protagonist is also a naughty and naughty teenager, the process of practicing martial arts is equally difficult and interesting, and there must be a villain who does a lot of evil, and Zuihou is bound to defeat the villain and have a happy ending.

This kind of kung fu movie in the early Republic of China, the Xu brothers company has made many films, and they have accumulated quite a lot of experience.

Take a look at the script, although the literary drama is old-fashioned, it is finally decent, but it is not lost. The rest depends on whether the martial arts can be played wonderfully and win beautifully.

"Our brother has already designed several sets of jobs, and he must be ingenious and beautiful, Mr. Xu, you believe me." Hong Jingbao patted his chest and reassured.

Everyone present also trusted his martial arts instructor level, so naturally they had no other opinions, and they raised their hands together to pass the approval of "Miscellaneous Boy".

Immediately afterwards, Mai Jia's "Crazy Boss" was put on the table, and this play was co-written by Mai Jia and Huang Baiming.

Although Huang Baiming has worked as a film screenwriter before, his experience in writing movie scripts is still immature, and there are many structural flaws in the script. Although Mai Jia's screenwriting talent is not too high, (of course, it is much better than someone who can only plagiarize), but she is more experienced, especially super organizational skills, and helps Huang Baiming check and fill in the gaps along the way. So after the script was written, it also had Mai Jia's name on it.

"I think this "Crazy Boss" is pretty good, what do you all think?" Xu Guanwu said with a smile. His eyes swept over the faces of the people. Found in addition to Mai Jia. The rest of the people didn't seem to be too excited.

"This drama is funny, but why is there so little play? Will the audience buy it? Zeng Zhiwei was the first to express his opinion.

"This should be fine, the eldest brother has also few comedy scenes, isn't it still the annual box office champion?" Xu Guanwu retorted with a smile.

"Mr. Xu's ghost horse comedy is already a golden signboard, and everyone is well-known for being good-looking and funny. But this Mr. Huang Baiming is not famous, and there are no blockbuster films before, how can you trust the audience? Hong Jingbao pointed to the script and said, "If you add more scenes." If you invite one or two more popular stars, it is estimated that there will be a selling point. ”

"I just don't want to play so much, you call me and I will fight me. Hong Kong is now full of this kind of film, and I really want to vomit when I watch it. Mai Jia shouted at the top of her voice, "My play is just to be funny, and playing too many scenes will dilute the plot, so I can't add more scenes." ”

Hearing Mai Jia shout like this, Zeng Zhiwei and Hong Jingbao both looked a little ugly. The two of them started with filming scenes, but you made a lot of nonsense here, saying that you would vomit after watching too much. Isn't it smashing other people's jobs?!

"Don't get excited, don't get excited! If you have something to say, it's good to say. Xu Guanwen hurriedly waved his hand. motioned to Mai Jia to control her emotions first, "I think the plot of this movie is not bad, some places are quite funny, and it is really not suitable to add too many scenes." However, because this drama is not too mainstream, the investment discretion is reduced, Mai Jia, do you think it's okay? ”

"It's okay to invest a little less, but it can't be too little." Mai Jia hurriedly said, "After all, I still have to invite actors from outside." ”

"Invite actors from outside?! Are you mistaken, can't the people in the company? Hong Jingbao couldn't help but say.

"In addition to the number of people in the company, how many people can really act in literary dramas?" Mai Jia glanced at Hong Jingbao, "The protagonist of my play must be ugly and funny enough to look good, and he must have a certain amount of acting skills." ”

"Okay, anyway, there are so many investments, who do you want to ask to make their own decisions." Xu Guanwen nodded and said, "Regarding the plot, in addition to adding plays, do you have any other opinions?" ”

"Nope." Hong Jingbao and the others shook their heads and said. Hearing them say this, Mai Jia, who is a screenwriter, immediately became proud.

"Then it's decided, go back to Mai Jia, you calculate the cost, and then go to Ah Wu for approval." Xu Guanwen nodded.

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In March, Xu's Brothers Company launched three new films, one is "Big Brother Cheng" directed by Gui Zhihong and Mai Jia, one is the martial arts movie "Meteor Butterfly Sword" directed by Chu Yuan, and the other is "Ah Ming" directed by Zhang Guoming for nearly a year. Among them, the movie "Ah Ming" was released in Yimei Theaters, while "Big Brother Cheng" and "Meteor Butterfly Sword" were both released in Brilliant Theaters.

The main actors of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" were all hired from Shaw Brothers, of course, they borrowed the trick of hiding from the world and invited them over with a leather bag company. But now as soon as the film is released in Brilliant Theaters, it immediately can't contain the fire, and all of it is leaked.

Shaw Brothers' popular stars such as Yue Hua, Gu Feng, Zong Hua, Jing Li, etc. all appeared in the cinemas run by the competitor Hui's, which couldn't help but make the whole Hong Kong citizens a little curious, and then all flocked to the brilliant cinemas to see what was going on.

At the midnight test screening, this strange martial arts movie caused a sensation. Not only because the actors acted well and the story was well written, but what was more difficult was that the director directed well.

Director Chu Yuan was worthy of being a director who was born to direct literary films, and vividly displayed the romantic mood hidden in Gu Long's novels on the screen.

Gu Long started by writing literary novels before, but literary novels have always been popular, coinciding with the rise of martial arts novels in Taiwan, so he had to change his court and start writing martial arts novels. In the early days, because he helped Wo Longsheng, Sima Ling and others to catch knives and ghostwrite, most of Gu Long's early works also imitated the routines of famous writers such as Wo Longsheng and Sima Ling.

It wasn't until he wrote more than a dozen novels and gradually became famous that he got rid of the routines of his predecessors and found another way to create his own school, no longer taking martial arts and revenge and other routines as the main line, but adopting the elements of Hollywood spy movies and the essence of Japanese mystery novels, and reopening a suspenseful detective-style martial arts genre.

Gu Long is known for his big head, and a big head means smart. Gu Long is indeed a smart man. And I like to fight wits with readers the most. His novels begin with ups and downs. And then in the subsequent chapters, layers of undertones are buried. Tempting the reader to read chapter by chapter, the mystery is solved step by step, and it is difficult to give up if you want to stop, and it is difficult to understand the truth without seeing the chapter of zuihou.

Therefore, Gu Long's new-school martial arts novels quickly caused a sensation in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and other places, overshadowing predecessors such as Wo Longsheng and Sima Ling, and becoming characters comparable to Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng and other martial arts predecessors.

It's just that Jin Yong's novel was adapted into a movie early on, and it has achieved quite good box office results. However, although Gu Long's novel became popular in the Chinese-speaking region, it has not been adapted into a movie for a long time.

The reason is that Jin Yong was originally a screenwriter. He had written scripts for the leftist film company Great Wall before, so when he wrote martial arts novels, he absorbed many of the strengths of script writing. Watching Jin Yong's martial arts novels, writing about love, scenes, and characters, it is as vivid as watching a movie, and those pictures will immediately appear in my mind.

Gu Long's novels pay attention to artistic conception, although the temperament of the characters is obvious, but the appearance is blurred. Readers are easily attracted by the character's qualities, but it creates difficulties for film and television adaptation. It's like copying a famous painting of a famous artist, although it can be painted in a similar way. But that verve has always been missing.

And if Gu Long's novel loses a little bit of charm after being adapted, can this adaptation still be called a success? If Chu Liuxiang doesn't have a dashing temperament. If Lu Xiaofeng didn't have the agility of a finger, and if Li Xunhuan didn't have the sadness that everyone was drunk and I woke up, it would not be a successful adaptation, and it would not be recognized by the majority of fans.

Fortunately, Chu Yuan was also a literary and artistic youth before, and he had a kind of sympathy with Gu Long, and he had a tacit understanding of knowing heroes and valuing heroes. When Gu Long's novel came to his hands, it was really adapted, which made people feel that it really captured the fantasy and suspense flavor of Gu Long's novel, and it was also recognized by the majority of readers.

So, after the midnight premiere, "Meteor Butterfly Sword" was officially put on the big screen.

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Once "Meteor Butterfly Sword" was completed and the midnight show was held, the Shaw Brothers, who realized it later, finally discovered that all the actors who were invited away by a certain company were invited by their rival Xu, and they also made a Gulong martial arts film that is said to have a good reputation.

This made Shaw feel embarrassed, and at the same time sneered at Xu's unkindness. If you want to borrow someone, you can just tell me, although I will definitely not lend it to you. But you are cultivating the plank road like this, and it seems that I am brainless, and you are completely insulting my IQ.

Xu didn't have time to pay attention to the childish temper of the Shaw Brothers, and after the release of "Meteor Butterfly Sword", it caused a sensation, and the banknotes flew like snowflakes. The big guy is too busy to sleep with some money, who has the kung fu to fight with you?!

"Meteor Butterfly Sword" became an instant hit, in addition to Chu Yuan filming the essence of Gu Long's novel, another reason is that the subject matter is novel, and it is finally not a kung fu comedy in the early Republic of China. And the fights in the play are more exciting, flying around like flying immortals out of the sky, which looks more exciting than fighting with fists.

So this movie has received rave reviews since its release, and the box office has remained high, creating a box office miracle at the beginning of the year.

And after the release of another movie "Big Brother Cheng", the response was also good. After Gui Zhihong's "Cheng Ji Teahouse" was released last year, it first suffered a period of coldness, and it was obviously not popular. Later, Xu Guan overrode public opinion by force and extended its release date, and sure enough, with the good word-of-mouth word-of-mouth, the box office of "Big Brother Cheng" recovered and became the blockbuster of the year, and set off a wave of making real-life movies in Hong Kong.

The drama "Big Brother Cheng" is the sequel to "Cheng Ji Teahouse", which was originally supposed to be released last year, but Gui Zhihong's filming caused an accident, and the starring Chen Guantai was seriously injured and lay in the hospital for a month, and Gui Zhihong was also hidden. Later, because he went to Golden Harvest to make a film without permission, he was directly demoted to teaching at Xinghui Art School.

"Big Brother Cheng", which has been halfway filmed, has changed hands several times, and Zuihou was still closed by Mai Jia. However, Mai Jia is good at making comedies, which is very different from Gui Zhihong's cult style full of anger. Therefore, when Mai Jia was filming "Big Brother Cheng", she inevitably mixed in a lot of comedy elements, and greatly deleted the black violence elements, and as a result, she made a comedy similar to "Happy Fairy Nest".

After the eldest brother Cheng was released from prison, he encountered a big scam, which attracted the pursuit of Black X and the attention of the police. Big brother Cheng fought wits and courage with them to the end, zuihou black X was all arrested by the police, and big brother Cheng also successfully regained his freedom and ended happily.

It's a mistake to make such a change, this kind of family-friendly police comedy has been welcomed by fans, and they all say that it is much better than the first one. I wonder if Gui Zhihong will spurt blood after listening to this comment?!

After the release of another "Ah Ming" directed by Zhang Guoming, it was still met with a cold reception, which really exceeded Xu Guanwu's expectations. (To be continued......) (To be continued......)

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