Whether it is facing the loess with its back to the sky, or fighting in the sorghum field, or even facing a tendon blindly, and the depression in the door of the mansion...... The characters there are almost all perverted under the director's lens.

This kind of film was exhibited internationally, satisfying the West's voyeurism for the closed and mysterious Orient at that time. It is no wonder that they have been able to win awards one after another, and the directors who have won the awards have intensified their efforts, and they will not give up on filming China as a society full of yellow sand, poverty and backwardness, perverted characters, and social deformation.

"Xiao Wu", "Blue Kite", "East Palace and West Palace", "Alive" ...... One after another, works like this have gone out of the country and walked in front of the world.

"Oh?! That's how their lives were. In this way, the first batch of films to go abroad represented the one billion domestic audiences at that time with the perverted characters, those backward villages, and those repressed human nature that they showed.

No wonder that after so many years, many people abroad still think that the Chinese are poor and backward, and even wear robes and horse coats with rat tail pigtails. These Chinese films that have won international awards are made and told to people like this.

When European movies were filmed in the Middle Ages, they would tell you that their cities had no drainage system, and "gold" was everywhere, and that high heels were invented to avoid accidentally stepping on "gold"? Will American movies film them massacring local Indians on a large scale during the Great Migration to the West, and taking their land for themselves? Hong Kong movies only tell you that there are high-rise buildings, everyone wears fashion and watches, and nightclubs kill chickens, will they shoot those cage dwellers who live in ant nests?

For what Chinese film directors have to shoot those perverted characters. Backward countryside. Could it be that China has been up and down for 5,000 years. It's all about that kind of character to continue history? There is not a single heroic figure?

When filming thieves abroad, you can shoot as cool as "Ocean's Eleven", but Chinese directors can only shoot "Xiao Wu" when filming thieves. There is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures that what you think in your heart, so you see something. Therefore, Su Dongpo saw that the Buddha seal was a lump of cow dung, and the Buddha seal saw that Su Dongpo was a Buddha.

Similarly, Lao Mouzi thinks about field warfare, reproduction, and respect for the strong. So people made a gourd baby after the most ruthlessness. Dreams are reflected in reality, theory is linked to practice, and he has made a perfect continuation of the movies he has made with his life.

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After chatting with President Wang, he sent him away satisfied, and Xu Guanwu casually picked up the film group and threw it into the trash can next to him.

"Huh?! Husband, why did you throw away your movie tickets? You're not going to the movies, are you? Seeing this, Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"There's nothing to see, and I want to read more books when I have that time." Xu Guanwu waved his hand. In addition to spy war films, domestic movies are war films. In addition to historical films and cartoons that are worth watching, other movies are either on the platform at every turn, starting with politics, or the narrative is empty and the theme comes first, and there are very few that can be watched.

President Wang's work recommended this time, since it is said that there are commercial elements, most of them should be love films. It's just a domestic love film, and it's also a political start, don't expect to have a scene of hugging and kissing, or even a scene of holding hands, the maximum scale of the two people is estimated to be one meter apart, sitting on both sides of the bench and saying something to each other about working for the revolution, making it look like a work symposium.

"No, President Wang recommends it so hard, it seems like he doesn't give face if he doesn't go." Zhao Yazhi bent down and picked up the crumpled movie ticket, ""Bus Adventure Meets Good Relationship"?!" It's a movie produced by the Great Wall Film Studio in Hong Kong. ”

"Oh?! The works released in Shuangnan Cinemas? Xu Guanwu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, "They started filming new films again?" ”

From the late 60s to the late 70s, because of the impact of the Cultural Revolution in the mainland, Hong Kong's leftist film companies were struggling, and all the actors, directors, and staff at that time were forced to go back to the mainland to be censored, which scared away a lot of talents, such as Xia Di, who was known as the princess of the Great Wall, and urgently avoided the disaster in Canada at that time, and did not come back until after the reform and opening up.

Moreover, because of the unprecedented rise of ultra-leftism in the mainland, the films made by the Hong Kong leftist film companies had to go through very strict political censorship, and the film "Qu Yuan" directed by the famous director Bao Fang was banned the day before it was released; The film "House", which celebrates the working class, cannot escape the fate of being criticized and struggled because of the scenes of workers drinking and smoking.

This kind of censorship on the upper limit also shackles the hands and feet of leftist filmmakers, making them almost unable to do anything. Throughout the '70s, leftist film companies hardly made new films, but only showed some revolutionary model plays designated by the mainland authorities. It's kind of the whole thing at a standstill.

Now I can't imagine that the Great Wall Film Company has made a "Bus Adventure and Good Relationship", just listen to the name and know that Lu Dao is a love comedy, and it can even be released in the mainland, it seems that it is really peaceful after the rain.

"But why does President Wang try his best to recommend us to watch this movie? Could it be that he meant something? Xu Guanwu couldn't help but wonder.

"Probably he wants us to pull the Great Wall Film Company, after all, our company has many theaters, many talents, and abundant funds." Zhao Yazhi thought for a while and said, "The Great Wall Film Company is a leftist company, and it has just recovered from the pause, and it must be facing a lot of difficulties. If we can help with this time, we should be able to get them back on their feet quickly. After all, before the '70s, leftist cinema was very strong. ”

"You also said it was before the 70s, but that was 10 years ago. Now the leftist film company has no money, no talent, and the theater chain is in tatters, and the only favorable resource is to be backed by the mainland and be able to go to the mainland to shoot in the great rivers and mountains. It's just that political censorship is also very powerful, and people will inevitably hold back. Xu Guanwu shook his head and said, "Besides, Hong Kong is now dominated by commercial films, kung fu films in the early Republic of China, ghost horse comedies, and urban action movies." The social-themed films of the leftist film companies have long been outdated, to be honest. Let our company pull him, how to pull?! ”

"That's right. If we help the leftist film companies. Then Taiwan will definitely not let us go. The Hong Kong Freedom Federation will not let us go. In this way, we will lose Taiwan, the most important foreign market, and our company will lose a lot. Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but say worriedly when she heard it.

"I don't pay attention to the Taiwan market, but it's just a multi-million dollar market. However, some follow-up things will be more troublesome, and if we are too close to the mainland, the British government in Hong Kong will also be very dissatisfied, and it will inevitably add some trouble to us at that time. Xu Guanwu waved his hand and said, "Of course, these are not too important, the key is what compensation the mainland can give us." You know, our losses are very heavy. ”

"What kind of compensation can it give you, it's impossible to give you money if it's so poor here." Zhao Yazhi pouted.

"If we can let our films be filmed in the mainland and released in cinemas in the mainland, we can compensate for some of the losses. And if we can allow us to buy our own land, it will be even better to build our own theater. Xu Guanwu grinned and said with a smile.

"What's the use of opening a movie theater in the mainland, the ticket price here is only a few cents. When will I get my movie theater money back? It's better to have some other compensation. Zhao Yazhi shook her head and said, "By the way, don't we have a convenience store to buy from the mainland." Make them cheaper. ”

"So you women have long hair and short knowledge, ouch. Don't twist my ears," Xu Guanwu rubbed his ears and continued to explain, "Now the ticket price is a few cents, but what about another ten years, another twenty years, another thirty years?" You have to look at the problem from the perspective of development. Now to build a theater, even the land and materials are only more than 100,000 yuan, but after one or two decades, not to mention how much money should this land have? When the time comes, whether it is a renovation or a matter of whatever, isn't the money going to be a sea of money? ”

"It's going to take ten or twenty years, you really don't beat the clock and go to smelt copper." Zhao Yazhi waved her hand and said, "Even if you buy land to build a theater in Taiwan now, you can still make money if the land price appreciates in 20 years." ”

"How many people can Taiwan have, the land is small and the people are few, and the resources are underdeveloped, once the mainland rises, what advantages does he have, and how many more years can he develop?" Xu Guanwu waved his hand and said, "Besides, mainland films are monopolized, if we can break through the monopoly and release our own movies here, how cool do you think it would be?" The most profitable industry in the world is the monopoly industry. As long as our films can enter the mainland, are you still afraid that there will be no money to be made? ”

"People are not stupid, they will let our movies be released in the mainland so aggressively? Those pornography, gambling and drugs, a political censorship and you will be finished. Zhao Yazhi poked Xu Guanwu's forehead and said, "When the time comes, you will lose the Taiwan market, and you will not be able to enter the mainland market, and you will cry when the time comes." ”

Xu Guanwu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, it seems that the situation that his wife said is also very likely. Since the formal reform and opening up in 79, although the country has been much more enlightened and the censorship was once very relaxed, it seems that it has also experienced a lot of twists and turns. In particular, the dispute at the end of the 80s may have burned his ten years of hard work.

In fact, the film market in the mainland is not as big as imagined, and the cinema system is also very informal. If you don't have your own theater and just sell movie copies, I'm afraid that it won't be long before pirated copies will fly all over the sky.

The cinema built by the factory, the cinema in the school, the cinema in the institution, the open-air cinema in the countryside, and the cinema in the small county town...... There must be a lot of moviegoers in these theaters, but the key is that the box office basically has nothing to do with the filmmakers. And it is really difficult to say how much box office can be recovered by relying only on the limited number of theaters in big cities and the cheap ticket prices that are only a few cents.

Moreover, if the film is to enter the mainland smoothly, at least political censorship is inevitable, even if it is not too strict, but it is unlikely to imagine that it was so unscrupulous when it was filmed before. And if you specialize in filming movies suitable for mainland release, the cost will undoubtedly increase greatly.

So whether it is a profitable business or not, Xu Guanwu can't say it now. But it is not a business that should be done, Xu Guanwu's answer has always been yes.

The huge film market in the mainland is clearly there, and if you want to make achievements in the film industry in the future, the mainland film market is bound to not let go. And this is also related to the future of Hong Kong films, if there is no protection of the mainland market, relying on the local market of Hong Kong, Hong Kong films basically have no possibility of survival.

How can those celebrities with tens of millions of salaries at every turn rely on the Hong Kong market to survive?! In particular, Hong Kong films are no longer able to sell at a high price in Southeast Asia, and they are being pressed by American blockbusters in the whole world, and there is still a little light of co-production in the mainland.

Therefore, the future of Hong Kong films, even if it is a money-losing business now, Xu Guanwu must continue to do it, just think of it as a future Hong Kong film, break the fortune and avoid disasters. (To be continued......)