Chapter 615: Cleaning Up the Cancer
After Xu Guanwu met with Sir Shao and Zou Daheng and decided on many matters related to the establishment of the Hong Kong Film Club and the Academy Awards ceremony, the three giants published a hero post and convened the CEOs of hundreds of film companies in Hong Kong to discuss major matters together.
Zou Wenhuai originally did not want to invite the leftist film company, for fear of offending Taiwan by involving political relations, but Xu Guanwu insisted on inviting them to the meeting. When the two were at a stalemate, Shao Yifu expressed his support for the leftist film company to join. Two to one, Zou Wenhuai had no choice but to give in.
Xu Guanwu saw that Sir Shao expressed his support, and he was a little puzzled at first, but later thought that he had donated to the mainland many times after that, and he couldn't help but be relieved.
Hundreds of film companies gathered together to listen to the Big Three talk about the benefits of the Xiangjiang Film Club and the Academy Awards, and more than half of them said on the spot that they wanted to participate, and although the others said that they wanted to go back and consider it, they were basically settled. After all, the Xiangjiang Film Club was founded by the three giants, and unless the company is no longer mixed in Hong Kong in the future, it must pay membership fees in a proper manner.
Xu Guanwu couldn't help but laugh happily when he saw that so many companies had joined the club at once, and suddenly had the pride of "all the heroes in the world are in my place".
The Xiangjiang Film Club immediately announced its establishment, and the first president turned out to be Ye Zhiming, the boss of Colorful Pictures. Colorful Pictures has also been established for many years, and has produced the masterpiece of New Wave film "Jumping Ashes", which is one of the representative works of Hong Kong police films. Later, he produced films such as "Curry Coffee" and "Thief and Wife", and is a well-known independent production company in Hong Kong.
The boss Ye Zhiming is a well-known figure, he used to open a garment factory to sell jeans, and later invested in this colorful film company. invited Xiao Fangfang, Liang Puzhi, Yu Rentai, He Jiaju, Chen Xinjian and other talents. The movies produced are all acclaimed and acclaimed.
It is worth mentioning that Ye Zhiming also has an old sister. is the sexy star Ye Yuqing. It's just that after Ye Yuqing debuted, he didn't get the support of his eldest brother's resources, and he was always working hard by himself, until the filming of "I'm Crazy for Qing" became popular, and finally tasted the taste of popularity.
The election of the eight directors below the chairman, the three major companies no longer stay out of the matter, and they only said before that they would not compete for the chairman, but the directors really handle affairs. Naturally, it's going to be stuffed with its own people. The results were followed by Mai Jia and Huang Baiming of Hui's Clan, Wu Siyuan and Luo Wei of Golden Harvest, Sun Wei and Rome of Shaw Brothers, Teddy Robin of Zhucheng and Huang Zhuohan of the First Business Establishment.
In addition to the eight directors, the rest are the presidents of the directors' association, the actors' association, the photography association, the screenwriters' association, the samurai association and other branches, and basically the three major film companies have the advantage. There is no way to do it, who makes the three major film companies have the most talents.
In the future, the main affairs of the Hong Kong Film Association. There are presidents and eight directors, as well as the presidents of each branch. Of course, because the Hong Kong Film Club is just a loose institution. The staff is only working part-time, and there must be a lot of things to be busy with, so there will definitely be absences during the meeting, so the agreement to reach two-thirds of the people at the meeting is considered valid.
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After processing the admission of the Xiangjiang Film Club, more than half a month has passed. After all, there are more than 10,000 employees in the film industry in Hong Kong, and they have to compile and report records, review qualifications, apply for membership, and open elections...... After tossing for so long, Xu Guanwu was tired of tossing.
After all, Xu's has the most employees, almost one or two thousand, not counting those people in TVB. After everyone joined the meeting, the Hong Kong film industry suddenly became lively.
The Hong Kong Film Club is the first trade union organization for film practitioners in Hong Kong, and since then, these filmmakers have their own families, and they are no longer a lonely bird that has no place to stay if they are injured.
In the past, Hong Kong filmmakers did not have their own trade unions, which made some filmmakers very sad when they got old. After all, whether it is a director, an actor, a photographer, or a prop, they are all in the business of eating and drinking, and they usually don't make a lot of money, and there is no pension insurance in Hong Kong, once you are old and can't move, the end will be very miserable.
Wu Siyuan raised in his memoirs that an old man watching the gate of Shaw Brothers Cinemas was once the first photographer in China. Because he was too old to be a photographer, he had to help watch the gate at Shaw Brothers Cinemas, and his life was so degraded.
Now that there is the Xiangjiang Film Club, at least he has something to complain about, and relying on the Xiangjiang Film Club, he may be able to seek justice for himself. For example, a certain film company once asked me to write a script, but there is still a final payment that has not been settled; A certain film company hired someone to film, but the salary has been delayed and not paid......
As soon as the Xiangjiang Film Club was established, a large number of complaint letters soon flew over like snowflakes, startling Ye Zhiming, who had just taken office as president and had not yet sat on his buttocks.
If you don't care about it, then the so-called purpose of protecting the rights and interests of filmmakers of the Xiangjiang Film Club will become bullshit; If you have a heart, he still has self-knowledge, and although he is the president, he is just a puppet to put it bluntly. After all, six of the eight directors are from the Big Three, and eighty percent of the presidents below are from the Big Three, and these people have the same voting rights as the president, in short, it is equivalent to putting the president in the air.
Ye Zhiming thought about it, or reported this matter to the meeting for discussion, if everyone said to take care of it, then take care of it, if everyone said that it didn't matter, then it could only be put aside.
Zou Daheng and Sir Shao couldn't help but feel very surprised when they saw that the Xiangjiang Film Club had just been established, and there was such a basket of broken things. What is surprising is that the Hong Kong film industry seems to be thriving on the surface, who would have thought that it would be so dirty below, even their bosses don't know very well. The good news is that this is a great way to establish authority, and the opportunity cannot be lost.
Xu Guanwu was not much surprised by this, he knew that there are many dark sides of Hong Kong films, including wage arrears, coercion and deception of actors, etc. These are all cancers of Hong Kong films, if you let them go and let them grow, I don't know how many artists will be victimized in the future.
Xu Guanwu knew that Huang Baiming wrote scripts for others in his previous life, and often failed to receive the final payment, which caused a lot of noise in the family for three days. A small quarrel for two days. Miserable. And Zhang Guorong was forced by Wu Siyuan. filmed a "Spring on the Spring of Red Mansions". This film is the nightmare of Zhang Guorong's life, and it is also the biggest black spot in Wu Siyuan's life. I don't know how many fans of my brother want to drag this person to shoot him for five minutes.
The three giants unanimously stated that they would investigate, seek justice for the filmmakers, and realize the founding purpose of the Heung Kong Film Club. As a result, some film companies that have a bad reputation in the industry have taken a knife. They either have the vice of arrears of employees' wages, or have the energy to coerce actors to film, or coax actors to sign unreasonable contracts, etc.
These film companies joined the club to get the light, how could they think that they had just joined the club, and the light was not stained at all. The guillotine slashed at itself, which was beyond their expectations. Immediately, I felt that the deceived people wanted to quit the Hong Kong Film Club, but at this time, I found that the Hong Kong Film Club had become a big trend, and nine out of ten film companies in Hong Kong had joined the club. If you want to withdraw from the club now, it will definitely be a dead end, and you won't want to mix in the Hong Kong film industry in the future.
So in desperation, I had to obediently obey the fate, the salary that should be given, the apology that should be made, and the contract that should be changed. Of course, during all kinds of ruffles and seesaws. Lawsuits, but the result is always on the good side.
Seeing that the Hong Kong Club was really effective, the enthusiasm of the members increased greatly for a while. Sir Shao and Zou Daheng are also majestic, and they have re-established their authority with the help of the Hong Kong Society. Hui Guanwu is also happy to see a group of black sheep punished, seeking justice for the weak Hong Kong filmmakers.
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While the Heung Kong Film Club was busy dealing with the complaints of its members, Xu Guanwu was busy making trophies for the Academy Awards. In order to make this trophy, Xu Guanwu specially invited the assistance of a famous local sculptor in Hong Kong, and then paid a special visit to the former Miss Hong Kong, Cheng Wenya.
At that time, Zheng Wenya was still filming exterior scenes in a community, so Xu Guanwu took a car to the location to find her. Because Xu Guanwu remembered that the Academy Award trophy was made according to a photo in Zheng Wenya's photo album, to be honest, the photo album was a sexy photo album, although Zheng Wenya was not fully exposed in it, but she had already revealed two points.
This was quite a bold thing at the time, after all, the previous Miss Hong Kong were dignified and generous, gentle and elegant, and full of the traditional charm of oriental women. But now the former champion of Miss Hong Kong has taken such a sexy photo album, which really subverts the impression of Sister Hong Kong. This cannot but say that Zheng Wenya is bold, and she is really a maverick woman.
But now Zheng Wenya is just a girl who has not been deeply involved in the world, and she has just taken off the crown of Miss Hong Kong, and she may not agree to be a female model for sculpture. After all, there may be scenes to be revealed, which will be embarrassing for young girls.
came to the location of the filming of "Community Angel", Xu Guanwu saw Zheng Wenya directing a group of elderly people to sing. Because these lonely old people live lonely and lonely lives in the play, Zheng Wenya came up with a way to teach them to sing, so that they can sit together and have something to do, so they have a twilight love. And now it's time to shoot her teaching singing.
Xu Guanwu has watched Zheng Wenya's "Why Have Me", "Rich Train", "Little Fear", "Family Portrait" and other movies, and knows that she is a very beautiful and moving actress, to be honest, she has a mature woman's taste.
However, seeing Zheng Wenya at this moment, Xu Guanwu was a little disappointed. Maybe it's too young to have a relationship, Zheng Wenya is still a little baby fat, and her face is a little fleshy, so she doesn't look as good as losing weight in a few years. And because she is making movies and working in the community, she looks a little simple in terms of dress, which naturally makes her beauty even worse.
Seeing Xu Guanwu come to visit the class, director Wang Tianlin was very happy. "Mr. Xu, you're so free."
"yes, come and have a look, how's it going?" Xu Guanwu asked with a smile.
"Fortunately, the progress is quite fast, and it will be completed in half a month." Director Wang smiled and said.
"So how is Miss Zheng acting, and does she have any potential in movies?" Xu Guanwu asked again.
"It's not bad, the key is that she is willing to study hard, as a newcomer, it is rare to have such a work attitude as hers." Director Wang Tianlin smiled and said.
Xu Guanwu nodded, it doesn't matter if you have acting skills or qualifications, the key point is to be willing to work hard. It is with his own hard work that the king of model workers Lau Tehsen broke out of the world in the Hong Kong film industry.
"That's good, newcomer, you still have to train well." Xu Guanwu smiled, "By the way, please help me find her to come over, there are some things I want to talk to her about." ”
Wang Tianlin nodded, and called Zheng Wenya, who was resting on the side, to Xu Guanwu.
Although Zheng Wenya had not seen Xu Guanwu himself before, she had seen a lot of photos, and naturally knew that Xu Guanwu was her boss. However, she has served as the president of Huiyan Yaji for a year, and she has also seen countless wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials, so she is not very nervous, "Mr. Xu, hello! Zheng Wenya said generously.
Xu Guanwu smiled, "Miss Zheng, hello, can you please come to the side and talk?" ”
Zheng Wenya couldn't help but be stunned when she heard this. (To be continued......)