Huang Baiming, one of the living treasures of the Hong Kong film industry, is the Taishan Beidou Central Plains Five Uniques in the screenwriting industry. Xu Guanwu felt that in that generation, only a limited number of people such as Huang Bingyao, Liu Zhenwei, Wang Jing, and Tsui Hark could be compared with him.

Other screenwriters such as Nan Yan , Xiao Ruoyuan , Zhang Jianting , Gu Dezhao , Ma Weihao , Gao Zhisen , etc. also have many excellent works, but compared with several others, whether it is fame or the value created, they are always slightly lost.

"This man is hiding so deep that even I am not sure to dig him out." Xu Guanwu looked at Mai Jia with blazing eyes, and looked at this kid a little embarrassed, "Carl, how did you meet this Mr. Huang?" ”

Mai Jia couldn't help but slander for a while when she heard this, thinking that it would be appropriate for you to read this script, so you first ask the person who wrote the script what to do? It's like if you go to a restaurant to eat, and you haven't eaten yet, so you call the cook over to have a look. Does eating depend on the appearance of the cook?

After complaining in her stomach, Mai Jia grinned, "He was met by the Youth Drama Club. ”

Xu Guanwu smiled, and said in his heart that it was strange, sure enough, filmmakers have a small circle of filmmakers, and it is still difficult for a layman to integrate into it.

Mai Jia and Huang Baiming are all people who like drama, so they left their lucrative jobs and devoted themselves to the film and television industry.

For example, Mai Jia was an engineer at the New York Telephone Company, while Huang Baiming was a manager of a foreign bank, with a high position and a high income. But just because he likes acting and filming, he would rather give up his job and devote himself to the film and television industry.

Fortunately, because Mai Jia was born in the film department of New York University, staring at this bright and bright aura, she was hired by Golden Harvest as soon as she returned to Hong Kong. Later, he was recruited by the Xu Brothers. Be one of the decision-making members of the seven-person team. The rise is as fast as riding a rocket.

Huang Baiming is much more miserable in comparison, first worked as an artist at TVB, and then wrote scripts for small film companies when he was free, but it was okay to make money after the movie was filmed, and he could have a little income. If the film company directly declares bankruptcy at a loss, Huang Baiming will not even receive a sum of the final payment. It makes the house noisy day and night, and it can't be clean.

Huang Baiming also works part-time as an actor and screenwriter of the Youth Drama Club, and one day when he was sitting on the ground and lying on a chair to catch up on the script, he was noticed by Mai Jia. Stood in the back and watched for a long time. I feel that this unattractive four-eyed boy is simply a genius.

The text does not add points, the thoughts are like springs, and after a while, two pieces of dialogue are written, and there are plots, dialogues, stories and climaxes, and a script of very high quality is completed. couldn't help but happily walked over to talk, and after a few words, Huang Baiming bowed his head and became Mai Jia's dog-headed military advisor.

This "Crazy Boss" is Huang Baiming's masterpiece, and it is also written about the humorous kung fu theme of the Republic of China. It seems that the last two years have been in this tone, and other film companies have also made this tone, I don't know if the audience is tired of watching it. Xu Guanwu thought about it and turned around and asked Stanley Investigation Company to investigate.

"Mr. Xu. What do you think of the script? Mai Jia asked with a smile.

"Very good, this gentleman named Huang Baiming is indeed a talent." Xu Guanwu closed the script. Tapping lightly on it with his hand, he said, "What is this Mr. Huang doing now?" ”

"He is still an entertainer at TVB and occasionally helps write scripts." Mai Jia blinked.

"Don't stay up on TVB anymore, with low wages and poor benefits, and no development prospects." Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "Just recruit him into the company, and write a script for the company in the future." ”

"Well, I'll go back and talk to him." Mai Jia nodded, "Then you don't have any other opinions on this script, Mr. Xu?" ”

"No, I can trust this Huang Baiming's talent, and I can trust your vision." Xu Guanwu nodded, "I will support you at the meeting of the group of seven." ”

Mai Jia laughed when she heard this, and took the script to ask others for support.

Xu Guanwu stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the office, looked at the buildings under his feet, and couldn't help but hahadaxiao.

Among the five uniques of the Central Plains, Huang Bingyao and Huang Baiming have already started, and in the future, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, and Xu Ke will be in their hands, and most of the future Hong Kong film market will be their own. Xu Guanwu couldn't help but want to laugh when he thought about it.

After laughing, Xu Guanwu remembered that he had just planned to find Stanley to investigate the company, and hurriedly called Manager Fang over and asked him to investigate how many kung fu films in the early Republic of China were being made in the film market, what the box office was in the past two years, and what the audience's evaluation was.

After receiving Xu Guanwu's instructions, Manager Fang immediately sent capable people to start the investigation, and it is expected that the investigation will be completed in half a month.

After Xu Guanwu gave the order, he couldn't help but be a little worried, in his impression, humorous kung fu films emerged in the late 70s and ended in the early 80s.

First, Xu Guanwen filmed "Ghost Horse Double Star" and "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", which introduced kung fu into comedy, and then Zhang Che directed Fu Sheng to star in the kung fu kid series, and introduced a small number of comedy elements into kung fu.

Luo Wei directed "Little Heroes Havoc in Chinatown" starring Xu Guanjie and Shangguan Lingfeng, which also incorporated some comedy elements. "Serpentine Trickster" directed by Zuihou Wu Siyuan starring Cheng Long and the follow-up "Drunken Fist" perfectly integrate comedy and kung fu to form a new theme of the movie - humorous kung fu film.

However, the prosperity of humorous kung fu films has only been in the past three years, starting from the first "Serpentine Trickster" to the end of "Young Master Dragon" starring Cheng Long, and the humorous kung fu films in the early Republic of China have come to an end.

Later, Hong Jingbao's urban action films, New Art City's modern comedies and Cheng Long's life-fighting action films, as well as Debao's family comedy and Shaw Brothers' aiqing comedy.

"It's been more than two years since the beginning of the Republic of China funny kung fu movies have been filmed, what if the audience is really bored?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help frowning.

It was he who gave birth to the people's livelihood kung fu film in advance, so that Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long and others avoided the twists and turns of several years, and entered a glorious period ahead of schedule. also caused the box office of director Zhang Cheda's bloody kung fu film to plummet, and the market was greatly impacted.

But this kind of early maturation is not without trouble, because a film genre was born in advance. The follow-up theme may not be able to keep up immediately.

The humorous kung fu movies in the early Republic of China are also in the same vein as the previous bloody kung fu films. At most, a little comedy element is added, and there are less violent scenes. Therefore, it can be immediately recognized by the audience.

But if the humorous kung fu films of the early Republic of China are no longer very popular, should the urban action comedy be taken out in advance?

Will audiences in the late 70s like "Five Lucky Stars", "Best Partner", and "I Love Night Prime" movies with modern themes?

It is estimated that it will be difficult for audiences in the 80s to accept Zhou Xingchi's nonsensical movies, and it is estimated that audiences in the late 70s will also have a hard time accepting films such as "I Love Night Fragrance" or "Difficult Brothers" and "Hardcover Chasing Girls".

Because in addition to sci-fi movies, audiences who watch other movies still want to be close to life, so that they can easily substitute for the role.

The audience at the end of the 70s was not yet at that level of economy, and was still busy day and night for three meals a day. You ask him to watch "Hardcover Chasing Girls" to learn to pick up girls, or watch "Police Story". It is too difficult for the audience to believe that there is really such a fighting Royal Hong Kong police officer in the world.

And there is a big difference in ideology, in the eighties, everyone watched "The True Color of Heroes", "The Protégé of the Son of Heaven", and "The Supreme", admiring Brother Xiaoma's unparalleled righteousness, a good man and a real man.

In the 90s, young people admired Chen Haonan, and the sentence "I am the leader of Causeway Bay", I don't know how many ignorant teenagers envy to death. Different times have different tastes for the audience.

The people who made the movie were still the original people, the same as Wang Jing's producer, but before he filmed the righteous "Supreme" by men. Later, I can only shoot "Crazy Boy", the colorful crows and Lei Yaoyang. On the contrary, it looks even more brilliant than Chen Haonan.

The reason is that the audience has changed, the times are different, and in the 80s, everyone made black X movies and still talked about righteousness, because everyone had just shifted from an agrarian society to an industrial society, and everyone still had some beliefs in their hearts.

In the 90s, you don't need to look at anything else, just watch "The True Colors of New Heroes", which is also directed by Wang Jing. Zheng Yijian was betrayed by the boss.

And in the new century, Du Qifeng filmed "Dragon City Years", and the Black X meeting began with a clear statement about interests. Jimmy, played by Gu Tianluo, in order to sell pirated disks to the mainland, only made a lot of money from staying out of the matter, and also took the initiative to join the ranks of grabbing the dragon head stick. What is the fate of Zhang Jiahui, who is the most righteous in Zuihou?!

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"Sister, isn't there a solution?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help frowning.

In the early Republic of China, the humorous kung fu film has been filmed for two years because of his early arrival. And there are still six years to go until the 80s, how should these six years go? Is it really necessary to shoot kung fu films in the early Republic of China until they are shot to death, so that the audience will not stop until they see that Zuihou has vomited?

Xu Guanwu couldn't find a solution for a while, "It seems that at the end of the 70s, the directors of the new 1st wave returned." Sister, come out quickly, give Hong Kong movies a way to live"

Xu Guanwu remembers that among the new 1 wave of movies, many classics have emerged, such as "Mountain Dog", such as "Butterfly Change", such as "Hit the Right", such as "Murder List", such as "Deus Ex Xiyingpun......

Many of the directors of the New 1st Wave films returned from studying abroad, first honed their training in TV stations for a period of time, and then entered the film industry. Because they have been influenced by the advanced film knowledge of the West, they are more pioneering and energetic than Hong Kong local directors.

It's just that it seems that the new 1 wave is still two years away, and only a small number of the new 1 wave directors have survived. For example, directors Xu Ke and Xu Anhua, and the rest such as director Yu Yunkang, director Tang Jiming, director Zhang Guoming, etc., because they could not get commercial recognition, Zuihou could only reluctantly quit the film industry.

"With audiences cultivated by art and art theaters for many years, there should be a market for these directors' films, and maybe the new 1 wave of movies will last for a while longer." Xu Guanwu couldn't help but think.

The advantage of the New 1 Wave movies is their pioneering thinking, and they have shot many themes that have not been covered by Hong Kong films before, such as the sci-fi film "Interstellar Blunt Tire", the horror film "Bumping into the Right", "The Murder List", the police film "Jumping Ashes", "Pointing the Soldiers" and so on. It has provided new ideas for other filmmakers in Hong Kong and broadened their horizons.

The disadvantage is that there is no systematic organization, and it is purely self-employed, although there are occasional masterpieces, but there will also be many shortcomings.

Like director Xu Anhua's first film "Crazy Robbery", the story was originally extremely haode, full of detective suspense. But I don't know if it's because of the editing, or if the director's skills are not at home, there is obviously a problem with the story structure, and some plots are confused and not explained clearly. There is also the fact that the soundtrack, photography, etc. cannot keep up with the mainstream.

Films made in the 70s look like Cantonese fragments from the 50s and 60s, with blurry picture quality and dark color scheme, how can they be recognized by the younger generation of audiences?

And like the martial arts kung fu film "Butterfly Change" directed by Xu Ke at the beginning, it can be seen that Xu Laowei at that time was really ambitious, and he wanted to create a martial arts classic and completely subvert the existing martial arts films. All the previous martial arts film routines are useless at all. (To be continued......)