"Don't," although leaning on Eric's arms, Linda subconsciously raised her hands in front of her, like a little girl who was about to be robbed of her doll, or a little fan who had fallen into madness, "It can still go up."

A newly renovated luxury office building in Tsim Sha Tsui, staff with sharp noses can still smell the smell of specialized materials.

In the commercial building that will be put into use, except for the ground floor for the construction of supermarkets, shopping malls, restaurants and multiplex cinemas, all the upper floors are used for rent.

One of these buildings naturally became Xiaomi's new headquarters.

It can be said that Xiaomi is going to a higher level from today, from the original dilapidated five-story old building, it has been replaced by a 25-story high-end office building, and the office environment can be said to have been greatly improved.

Not to mention a boss like Lei Weidong, even Zhang Aijia has a luxury office with an area of dozens of square meters, which is larger than ordinary family housing, and you can not only dance or even play ball in it.

"Sister Aijia, look at how this office is, and what else needs to be rectified." Lei Weidong stood in front of the office window, looked at Victoria Harbor in the distance and asked proudly.

"Where does such a large area and such a well-decorated office still need to be rectified!" Zhang Aijia looked at Lei Weidong, who was lyrical, and said.

"It's a pity that the office has just been renovated, and it will take three months to move in!"

"I can't help it! No matter how good the decoration materials are, there is still pollution, for everyone's health, or be patient in the original place! Lei Weidong said apologetically.

People in the seventies may not know about renovation pollution, so they don't care.

But in the 21st century, Lei Weidong has heard too much news about excessive formaldehyde and decoration pollution, resulting in untimely death!

Especially since joining these long-term rental apartment companies, in order to save operating costs, not only do they use cheap decoration materials, but they also rent out in just a few days without even a three-month safety period after decoration.

I didn't care about the health of the tenant at all, and I didn't consider the impact on it, anyway, the state didn't stipulate this part, and there was no place to sue if you wanted to!

For the sake of his own life, Lei Weidong felt that it was safer to wait for three months!

Even if the new office Lei Weidong doesn't use it often!

"Lei Shao! Now the Oriental Cinema Line is about to be established, but the source of the film is a big problem! ”

You must know that there are more than 40 theaters in our cinema chain, and the number of seats and screens is the first in Hong Kong.

The output of a single film company in DreamWorks alone is absolutely not sufficient. Liang Shuyi said with some concern.

"How's the connection with those independent film companies?"

Regarding Liang Shuyi's question about the source of the film, Lei Weidong also had a headache.

It is not yet the golden age of Hong Kong films, there are only about 100 theaters in Hong Kong, and Lei Weidong occupies nearly four floors, and they are all big theaters, so the source of the film has naturally become a big problem.

"It's a bit eyebrow-raising, but the strength of those film companies is not very good, and the films they make are also uneven, if we only rely on them, it will definitely not work, we must increase our production!"

Liang Shuyi shook her head and said.

The Hong Kong film industry can be said to be two strong side by side, Shaw Brothers and Jiahe occupy more than half of the Hong Kong films, and other film companies are better than the original Gao Film Company, and the others are not.

As for the newly established DreamWorks Film Company, the production volume will not be able to increase for a while and a half, because the personnel gap is too great.

Making movies is not a show!

Many people in later generations think that making movies is simple, and many micro-movies can be done by a few NetEase!

That's because you're only thinking about making the movie, not about the quality!

You get what you pay for, the clarity of the film, the special effects, and the color are all smashed by money!

There has always been a saying on the Internet that you spend 10% of your money for the first 90% of the special effects, and you spend 90% of the money for the last 10% of the special effects!

Low-budget micro-movies are also played on the Internet!

That kind of quality can't get into theaters at all!

Occasionally, a few movies enter the theater line, and they are all lucky!

The box office is basically a fiasco!

It was still the 21st century with the development of computer technology! A lot of post-production can be done on the computer!

Now, the quality of a movie depends entirely on the people behind the scenes.

For example, art direction!

The quality of art direction is directly related to the quality of a movie.

Because in a performance of the movie, the lighting, photography, special effects, costumes, props, sets and other links are matched with each other, as well as the style design of the overall performance, are all from the art director.

Before the start of filming, the United States should discuss with the producer and director, and try to transform the director's ideas into real objects according to the existing shooting conditions, and even play an important role in the post-production of the film.

Before the start of filming, Meizhi had to design the costumes, props, character modeling and film art style according to the script; When filming, the American finger has to follow up and guide at any time on the set; After the shooting is completed and the post-production is done, the United States still has to assist the director and editor to complete the work.

This position can be said to run through every aspect of film shooting.

It's good at the time of the company than the high! Because it is backed by the big tree of Jiahe!

Many places that need art direction are too busy to be busy, so they are seconded from Jiahe!

But Oriental DreamWorks can't do it, you and Jiahe are on the opposite stage, how can you borrow someone from the other party!

As for ordinary artists, DreamWorks has hired quite a few!

But this line of work is about experience, and newcomers are useless for a while!

As for the powerful people, they are hiding in large companies, and it is not easy to borrow them.

Moreover, well-known big-name directors have their own royal art directors, because the temporarily borrowed American fingers can't fully grasp the director's ideas.

"Now it seems that it is completely too late for the behind-the-scenes personnel to train themselves!" Lei Weidong sat on the boss's chair, looked at the scenery outside the window and said with a smile:

"Then it's good to dig people, even if the Shaw Brothers and Jiahe families together can't compare to me in terms of financial resources, there is no need to be afraid of anything at all."

Lei Weidong has long coveted the rich talent resources of Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, but when the theater chain was not established, it was too far away from Gao Company and Jiahe and Shaw Brothers, and it was not comparable at all, and it was not attractive to those filmmakers.

Because everyone knows that a Hong Kong film company cannot be regarded as a film giant if it does not have a theater chain, at best it is only a second-rate film company, and no matter how good its development is, it will be controlled by others.

But now it's different, as soon as the Oriental Cinema Line was established, the Hong Kong film industry immediately changed from a two-way competition to a Romance of the Three Kingdoms of Shaw Brothers, Jiahe and DreamWorks.

"Digging people? Where to dig from! Zhang Aijia interjected:

"Boss Jiahe Zou is very fair, and the relationship with us has always been very good, and he has a good reputation in the circle, and now many small and medium-sized film companies in Hong Kong rely on Jiahe to eat.

If you want to dig people, it's best to go to Shaw Brothers to dig! ”

"You can't just dig in Shaw! Jiahe's side can't give up! Lei Weidong shook his head and said:

"Because of Shao Tycoon's business philosophy! Shaw Brothers has always paid very low wages to its employees, so they can barely make ends meet! For this reason, there are great complaints from the employees.

It's just because Shao Tycoon used to control too strictly, and it was too difficult to get out of the inside, and ordinary employees were fine, but many of those talented people were wiped out.

Now those well-known directors in the sixties and seventies have become filmmaking machines, there is no passion at all, and most of them are mixed up, otherwise how could Shaw Brothers' movies be made one by one.

In comparison, Jiahe is a talent base, anyway, the cinema has been established, and he will offend Jiahe, and dig his corner to death! ”

"No matter how you say it, Shaw Brothers is now the largest film company in Hong Kong, so it won't be without any talent!" Honggu asked with some disbelieving.

"Of course, no, the younger generation of the Shaw Brothers is full of talents, but most of them can't get ahead! It's up to you, fat man! Lei Weidong looked at the fat man Wang and smiled.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were staring at him, Wang Fatzi took out a list from his document bag and said with a smile, "I have made a list, let's see who can be poached, you must know that I even betrayed my father for this list." ”

Looking at the list of all the staff members of the Shaw Brothers densely written on the note, Lei Weidong nodded.

"Excuse me, fat man, in order to show your credit, I have a script here that needs to be filmed in Hollywood, you go with me, and give me the assistant director of the film to guide together!"

"Really! Lei Shao! Wang Fatzi stood up excitedly.

Although the status of the assistant director is not very high, it depends on the crew.

It is the dream of many Hong Kong filmmakers to go to Hollywood to shoot movies, not to mention serving as an assistant director, or as a drama manager, I believe many people are also willing.

Because if the film is successful, it will be of great help to my future career as a director.

Another point is that Lei Weidong is a layman at all, although he is an assistant director, he basically does the work of a director, and it is the time to show his ability, I believe that as long as he goes to Hollywood, his fame will go out, and there are not too many people who ask him to make movies at that time.

"It's okay! What is the relationship between us, the company's films will trouble a big director like you in the future! Lei Weidong said with a smile.

The list provided by Wang Fatzi is from the top of the management to the tricky Curry Fei, from the popular movie stars who are prominent in front of people to the staff behind the scenes, all those who can be named are among them.

Zhang Che and Li Hanxiang, the two great directors of the Shaw Brothers, ranked first.

It's just that it's not very easy for these two people to dig up, firstly, the relationship between the two and the Shaw Brothers is too close, and secondly, the two of them have now shown the twilight scene.

Movies like Zhang Che are no longer very profitable, and in a few years, they will be filmed dead on the beach by Hong Fatzi, Cheng Long, and Master Xu.

As for director Li Hanxiang, he can't keep up with the times, what other films can he show in the past two years besides Fengyue films!

Otherwise, he would not have gone to the mainland to shoot "Listening to Politics", which he wanted to shoot the most, but although the movie had a good reputation, the box office was not very good.

If it weren't for the support of the mainland, the pants would have been lost!

and the director Hu Jinquan above, which is not very good.

It is said that director Hu Da made several movies in the 80s, but they were all box office fiascos, resulting in no one daring to ask him to film later.

It wasn't until the 90s that he co-directed Master Jin's martial arts masterpiece "Smiling Proud Jianghu" with Master Xu that he made a comeback!

But it's a pity that the cooperation between the two is not thorough, halfway through the filming, Master Xu and Hu Jinquan had friction, and finally quit filming in a rage, causing Master Xu to start over and make the cost surge.

Lei Weidong can't afford such a character here, and besides, Hu Jinquan's peak period of directing has passed.

It's a waste of money to invite over, so let Director Hu Da toss it himself.

Liu Jialiang, the name caught the attention of Lei Weidong, who is Hong Kong's premier martial arts instructor and the current head of the Liu family class.

Master Liu later became the first Chinese martial arts instructor to go to Hollywood, and the first Hong Kong martial arts instructor to become a director.

Although it is said that Master Liu's reputation as a director is not as good as Hu Jinquan, Zhang Che and others, if it is dug up, the effect on DreamWorks is far greater than that of Zhang Che and others.

After all, in the area of action guidance, Master Liu is definitely a first-class talent, although Master Liu is not good at new martial arts movies like Xu Ke, but his authentic national martial arts real martial arts route is also very popular.

Because since 75 years, Master Liu has only officially become a director at Shaw Brothers, so now is his peak!

Last year's filming, "The Thirty-Six Rooms of Shaolin", which depicts the process of Shaolin monks practicing martial arts, has had a profound impact on the film and martial arts worlds.

and "Elders", which will be filmed and performed next year, made the actress Hui Yinghong win the Best Actress Award at the first Hong Kong Film Awards with this film.

As for the films directed in the future, such as "North and South Shaolin" and "Drunken Fist 2", they were applauded and acclaimed.

It can be said that if Master Liu is poached now, not only will there be martial arts guidance, but also the popular movies such as "Shaolin Temple" can come out in advance.

In particular, "Shaolin Temple" is a masterpiece that has achieved hundreds of millions of box office in the mainland.

Although the martial arts movies of the martial arts route are somewhat unpopular now, martial arts movies and action movies will never go out of style.

Of course, Lei Weidong is most interested in the story of Master Liu and his second wife Weng Jingjing.

This is a model of Uncle Lori's love, it seems that last year, by chance, Master Liu met Weng Jingjing outside a hotel, and the two fell in love at first sight.

At that time, Weng Jingjing was still a typical little Lori of a 14-year-old girl, and Master Liu was already an uncle in his forties, and he was not handsome and did not have much money.

It can only be said that love makes people get carried away, and then after 6 years of long-distance love, the two officially got married when Weng Jingjing was 20 years old, and their daughter was born a few years later.

Thinking of this, Lei Weidong drew a circle on Liu Jialiang's name.

Then I looked down and saw Du Qifeng's name at once.

"Hey, hey?!" Lei Weidong couldn't help laughing.

"What, Lei Shao, is there anything wrong with the list?" Honggu asked curiously.

Wang Fatzi, Zhang Aijia and others also looked over together.

"It's nothing, it's just that Du Qifeng's name is so high, Wang Fatzi, are you going through the back door for him!" Lei Weidong pointed to Du Qifeng's name and said with a smile.

"This!" Wang Fatzi touched his chubby head and said embarrassedly: "Senior brother is not very good now, he has been working as an assistant to my father, of course I will help him find a good place to go, doesn't the fat water flow into the fields of outsiders!" ”

"Being able to become a disciple of Director Wang means that his talent is still outstanding! Nothing outstanding right now may be inexperienced! ”

Lei Weidong drew a circle on Du Qifeng's name as he spoke, since it is your senior brother, then I will accept it, and after coming over, I will serve as an assistant director in the crew first, and then let him shoot the movie independently when he is experienced.

The name Lei Weidong is very familiar with To Qifeng, this is the future Hong Kong director.

Johnny To is particularly good at shooting police and gangster films, although he is not famous now, but in the eighties and nineties, Johnny To was one of the best film directors in the late stage of Hong Kong films.

"The Story of Ah Lang", "The Judge of the Dead" and a series of blockbuster movies were shot by him, and he can not only make movies but also shoot TV series, the famous martial arts drama 83 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", To Qifeng served as the executive director.

After selecting these two people, Lei Weidong continued to look down, trying to find one or two more directors who were not yet famous, but looking at the names, Lei Weidong couldn't help but shake his head.

In his previous life, Lei Weidong was not a person in the entertainment industry, and he was familiar with the stars in the Hong Kong entertainment industry in the seventies and eighties.

As for those directors Lei Weidong, they are not familiar with it, and I believe that few audiences will remember the director when they watch the movie.

Unless those directors are particularly famous, such as Wang Fatzi, Master Xu and others.

However, you can't choose a director, you can still choose an actor, you must know that there are many Shaw Brothers stars, as many as stars in the sky, this sentence is not nonsense, among the movie stars in Hong Kong in the seventies and eighties, especially the female stars, most of them have a relationship with the Shaw Brothers.

Lei Weidong's eyes just swept in the list of actors, and he found a lot of old actors who were active in movies and TV in the future.

For example, Qin Huang who plays the old urchin Zhou Botong, Wang Qing of "Big Mouth Qing", Xu Shaoxiong of "Benz Xiong", Hu Feng of "Brother Xiu" and so on.

As for female stars, not to mention, although because of Lei Weidong's influence and time, the most outstanding female stars of the golden age of Hong Kong films, such as Honggu, Xiaoqian, Doudou, Manyu and Aunt Thirteen, have not yet appeared on the list.

But names such as the beating girl Hui Yinghong, Yang Panpan, and the ageless demon Grandma Pan add a lot to the list.

The future development of these people may not be as eye-catching as the later Fa Ge and Honggu, but they are an indispensable condiment in the film and television feast, and they are even more pillars in TV dramas.

So Lei Weidong circled all the lists of these people.

"I'm not familiar with the behind-the-scenes, screenwriters, soundtracks, martial arts instructors and other staff, in this regard, Sister Zhang, Sister Liang, and Wang Fatzi, the three of you can discuss it, and write it down if you think anyone has strong ability! Then send people out and dig people according to the list, as many as they can. ”

Lei Weidong pointed to the list and said, "The behind-the-scenes personnel are the foundation of the movie, as long as they are capable, the salary can be twice as high as that of the Shaw Brothers, actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, and management." ”