In mid-May 1983, there was a shocking news in the Hong Kong film industry. When the lease period of the two ordinary cinemas under the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line expired, Shaw Yifu did not sign a renewal contract, and the scale of the Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Cinema Line was reduced to 14 cinemas.

At the same time, Shaw Brothers has also shrunk its production this year, from an average of 2.5 films per month last year to 1.5 new films per month.

At the same time as Shaw Brothers Pictures reduced production, Shaw Brothers Cinemas gradually began to open up to independent film companies and directors, and several non-Shaw Brothers films were released one after another.

There is gossip that Shao Tycoon has the idea of discontinuing Shaw's.

On the contrary, the two companies of New Art City and DreamWorks achieved good box office in the first half of the year, and even Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Pictures performed well.

Some people even say that the pattern of the Hong Kong film industry has completely changed, and it will only be a year or two for Shaw Brothers to stop production.

Just when Oriental DreamWorks was preparing the promotional plan for "God of Gamblers", a person took the initiative to come to the door and joined the director team of DreamWorks' film production department.

This person's name is Li Xiuxian, the first student of the Shaw Brothers Artist Training Class, who was once a Five Tiger General under Zhang Che, and changed from an actor to a director two years ago.

In parallel time and space, after Li Xiuxian made a movie at Shaw Brothers, he pulled out the investment to make one, and then joined Chen Xunqi's Yongjia Pictures at the end of last year, and wrote and directed "Modern Yamen" this year. Chen Xunqi and Li Xiuxian used to be in the same Shaw Brothers, and they were good friends in private, which is equivalent to the relationship between Hong Jinbao and Mecca.

However, due to the butterfly effect brought by Kang Jianfei, Chen Xunqi founded Yongjia Pictures more than half a year late, and he had just made a movie to gain a firm foothold, and the second movie had not yet been released, and the funds had not had time to be returned, where was the kung fu to invest in Li Xiuxian's film?

Chen Xunqi's financier is Lei Juekun. Now that the funds are insufficient, and there is no way to open a film for an old friend, he suggested that Li Xiuxian take the movie script and go directly to Kang Jianfei.

Since Kang Jianfei promoted newcomer Gao Zhisen to be the director three years ago and helped him become an instant hit, many conceited and talented directors in Hong Kong have come to Kang Jianfei with scripts, but most of them were stopped by Zeng Zhiwei and Pan Yingzi, and a few stayed behind the scenes in DreamWorks.

Li Xiuxian is no exception, he came to the door with the script of "Modern Yamen", and he didn't even see Kang Jianfei in front of him. And the script was also withheld. Because DreamWorks' filming schedule for the first half of the year is full, Tang Shuxuan plans to transfer Li Xiuxian to the director team and first make McDonald Bear an assistant director.

Li Xiuxian felt that he was being despised and got Kang Jianfei's phone number from Chen Xunqi in frustration, and finally got a chance to meet.

"Modern Yamen"? It's a police movie again. Kang Jianfei flipped through the script in his hand. More often than not, he was observing Li Xiuxian.

Lee Xiuxian grew up in the Kowloon Walled City, and he has seen all kinds of violent and ugly phenomena. Since childhood, he has aspired to be a police officer. Its first two films were both cop films. At this time, as soon as Kang Jianfei asked, he immediately smiled and said: "Police and gangster movies are a very good type, I like to watch Mr. Kang's "Royal Sister" and "Sister Tuogun". ”

Kang Jianfei asked: "How much box office do you think this "Modern Yamen" can be filmed?" ”

Li Xiuxian thought for a while and said: "It should be more than 5 million, and my last year's "Friend Beat Band" had a box office of nearly 4 million. ”

In another time and space, "Friend Fights Band" is a work that started the trend of Hong Kong police and gangster films, with a box office of nearly 6 million. At that time, it was a small fire, and it led to a series of police and gangster films. It's a pity that because Kang Jianfei got "Royal Sister" out in advance, and then there was a TV series "Sister Tuogun", the freshness of police and gangster films for the audience was greatly reduced. The most immediate impact. is to reduce the box office of "Friend Beat Band" by 2 million, and Li Xiuxian is not as recognized by the industry as in the original time and space.

Incidentally, when Lee wrote the script for "Friend Playing Band", he was actually still working at Shaw Brothers. Unfortunately, Shaw Brothers was dismissive of his script, and Lee Siu-hsien struggled to find Yunying Productions to bring in investment from Khoo's son, Yau Dacheng, and Lee quit Shaw Brothers.

Kang Jianfei closed the script, knocked on the table and said: "This year, Oriental DreamWorks' film shooting plan is planned, and only one police film will be made, and "Royal Sister 3" is already in preparation. ”

Li Xiuxian thought that Kang Jianfei was rejecting him, although he was a very good-tempered person, but his personality was extremely conceited, and he frowned and said: "Since Mr. Kang is inconvenient to invest, then I have to find someone else and say goodbye!" ”

"Please wait a minute." Kang Jianfei hurriedly retained.

Li Xiuxian turned around and asked, "What else is there to do with Mr. Kang?" ”

Kang Jianfei asked, "Have you seen the news about Lin Guoyun last month?" ”

"Lin Guoyun, the butcher who was sentenced to death on that rainy night?" Li Xiuxian looked at Kang Jianfei curiously, not knowing what he was doing when he mentioned Lin Guoyun.

"It's him," Kang Jianfei said with a smile, "I'm going to adapt Lin Guoyun's case into a movie, the name is "Doctor Lamb", and I'm worried that there is no suitable director candidate, I think Mr. Li, you are just right." ”

"Let me shoot a crime?" Li Xiuxian is really speechless, he used to play a hero, and later as a director, he has been making police movies, and occasionally makes cameos as a policeman, I really don't understand why Kang Jianfei thinks he is suitable for making crime movies.

Kang Jianfei nodded and said: "I mean, the camera is a little more bloody and violent, Mr. Li, you have studied police and gangster movies so well, it will definitely not be difficult for you to shoot crimes." ”

Li Xiuxian's mind is still a little messy now, pointing to his script and asking: "What about this "Modern Yamen"......"

Kang Jianfei interrupted him and said: "After filming "Doctor Lamb", I will invest in you to shoot "Modern Yamen". As for the script for "Doctor Lamb", I will write down the general framework, and you will do the rest with the writing crew, and the crime file company will try to get it from the police. ”

Since the last filming of "Sister Tuogun", Phoenix TV has cooperated with the Hong Kong police, and it should not be difficult to obtain a criminal file that has been sentenced.

Nowadays, Hong Kong films have not implemented a classification system, and bloody third-level films are facing big problems when reviewing and releasing them. However, the censorship of Hong Kong films has been much more relaxed in the past two years, and two years later, the Sino-British negotiations ended, and the Hong Kong electrical inspection department was even more laissez-faire with Hong Kong films.

After the filming of this "Doctor Lamb". I believe that with the "friendship" between Kang Jianfei and the person in charge of the electrical inspection team, most of them will not suffer any difficulties. Of course, when promoting and screening, it must be emphasized that it is forbidden to watch under the age of 18, which can arouse the curiosity of the audience and avoid being condemned by social moral public opinion.

Li Xiuxian hesitated for a moment, then agreed. He was affected by the butterfly effect, and did not become famous last year (as a director) like the original time and space, and it is very rare to have the opportunity to direct a movie, not to mention that Kang Jianfei also promised to help him invest in the filming of "Modern Yamen".

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Just when Kang Jianfei narrated the general plot of "Doctor Lamb" to Li Xiuxian. The "Phoenix Training Class", which has been renamed "Future Star Training Class", is undergoing a retest.

The long line of trainees lined up outside the training room of the Oriental Entertainment Company, and a man with glasses, a comb and a very obscene expression was looking around him.

Suddenly, the lewd man suddenly looked straight ahead, and saw a super big girl walking towards him.

Because the lewd man was at the back of the line. The big wave girl ran over quickly and lined up behind the lewd man.

After waiting for more than a minute, Da Bo Mei felt a little strange. Ask the lewd man, "Hello." Is this a re-examination in the training class? ”

The lewd man's eyes shook on Da Bo Mei's chest, and he swallowed his saliva and said, "Yes, hello Miss, my name is Li Lizhi." ”

"My name is Ye Zimei," Da Bo Mei asked with a kind smile. "Then why is there only five people lined up here, and there are more than thirty people lined up on the other side?"

Li Lizhi explained: "There are actor students queuing up over there, and there are behind-the-scenes students queuing here, of course, there are fewer people." ”

"It's all behind the scenes?" Ye Zimei found herself in the wrong line. immediately ran away, which made Li Lizhi feel so bored.

Just when Ye Zimei was lining up in the right line, the door of the examination room was pushed open, and Wu Tingye walked out of it happily. In fact, he had studied in a wireless training class before, and was a classmate of Liang Chaowei, Wu Zhenyu and others, because he was not reused by TVB, so he came to Oriental Entertainment Company again to apply for the "Future Star Training Class".

After Wu Tingye came out, another big-breasted beauty pushed the door in, bowed to several teachers in charge of the exam, and said in broken Cantonese: "Hello teacher, my name is Li Zhi." ”

A female producer of Phoenix Terrace frowned and asked, "From the mainland?" Do you have an ID card? ”

"Have an ID card." When Li Zhi heard this obviously discriminatory question, she was very aggrieved, she had been in Hong Kong for a few years and had enough of the white eyes of Hong Kong people.

The female eunuch smiled coldly: "I don't know who did the preliminary examination of Lu Dao, and you can still come to participate in the re-examination with such a Cantonese level." ”

There are a total of five examiners for the re-examination, one of them is from Phoenix Channel, one is from DreamWorks, and the remaining three are from Oriental Entertainment Company.

Zhang Guozhong is now the vice president of Oriental Entertainment Company, but because Kang Jianfei attaches great importance to the training class, he personally came to be the chief examiner of the re-examination.

Zhang Guozhong took a closer look at Lizhi's appearance and said: "You can practice Cantonese if you can't speak well, I think her image still has great potential." So, Miss Liji, you're now trying to play a pregnant woman who is pregnant with Rokka. ”

Li Zhixu hugged her belly, pretending to be a big-bellied woman, carefully walked to her seat, and then showed a motherly and loving expression, gently stroking her "big belly......

Because the examiner didn't shout to stop, Li Zhi had to continue the performance, and after two minutes of performance, Zhang Guozhong sighed and shook his head.

Another examiner asked Lizhi to play the lovelorn woman, and after a few minutes, he shouted to stop again, at which time Zhang Guozhong said: "Okay, your re-examination is over, go back and wait for news first." If you pass the exam, we will call you within three days. ”

Li Zhi walked out of the training room disappointed, and from the expression of the examiner, she guessed that she was most likely eliminated.

In the parallel space, Li Zhi only started learning English after being eliminated from the audition at New Arts City this year, and then went to the United States to study. It wasn't until her third year of college that she returned to Hong Kong to participate in the Asian sister beauty pageant and won the Miss Asia beauty pageant in one fell swoop.

Li Zhi left the performance room gloomily, and Yin Tianzhao, who was waiting behind, immediately pushed the door and entered, confidently introducing himself.

Wait until all the students have finished the exam, and the examiners will sort out the list of qualified students, and then pack them together with the unqualified students' materials, and immediately send them to DreamWorks for Kang Jianfei to see.

This is Kang Jianfei's special request, the purpose is to avoid the potential big stars from being missed.

When Li Xiuxian left with the synopsis of the script of "Doctor Lamb", Kang Jianfei's desk had already placed Lu's student information. He just glanced at the qualified students who had sorted out the Lu, Yin Tianzhao and Wu Tingye didn't make him care in the slightest, but when he saw Li Lizhi's name, Kang Jianfei suddenly laughed.

Who is Lee Lee Ji?

The queen director of the future star and the pioneer of Hong Kong's nonsensical films.

After hastily reading the list of qualified students, Kang Jianfei began to look through the information of those eliminated students, and kept reading for half an hour, and finally he picked out two pieces of information from them.

Kang Jianfei dialed Zhang Guozhong's phone and instructed: "Ah Zhong, admit that unqualified student named Ye Zimei, and ask Lizhi to come to DreamWorks to see me tomorrow morning." (To be continued......)