Chapter 168: Contradictions

"How did you do that?"

Zhou Xingchi couldn't believe what he had just seen.

There are still people who can do it with three volleys, such as Li Lianjie.

But it is a bit exaggerated to kick three kicks in the air, and each kick can hit the tail of the falling red tassel gun, and shoot the red tassel gun like an arrow.

"It's not that difficult, just practice your reactions more."

Mu Rong explained casually.

This kind of operation is also a kind of showmanship for him, it is just good-looking, but it is not actually lethal.

"I thought that only special effects could do such an action, but I didn't expect that someone could really do it in reality."

Zhou Xingchi's eyes were a little burning when he looked at Mu Rong.

He has been a kung fu fan since he was a child and a die-hard Bruce Lee fan.

In his previous movies, he paid tribute to Bruce Lee more than once.

Moreover, he also worshipped Bruce Lee's senior brother as a teacher and learned Wing Chun.

It's just that even his idol Bruce Lee may not be able to do the series of actions of Mu Rong just now!

Especially the shot that Mu Rong pierced the background board, it was definitely not a show, it was a serious kung fu!

No wonder even Yuan Bin admired Mu Rong so much, Zhou Xingchi realized that he had really met a master this time!

Seeing Zhou Xingchi's happy expression, Dong Zhihua smiled and said, "How can people enter the World Fighting Championship if they don't have two hits?" ”

"Mr. Murong."

Zhou Xingchi excitedly grabbed Mu Rong's hand and said solemnly: "Can you come and help me design the action scenes of this play?" Your ideas are most compatible with me, as long as you are willing to help, and the conditions are whatever you want, I am OK. ”

Mu Rong smiled, and did not agree, but changed the topic and asked, "I heard that your film is going to be distributed by the Huayi brothers?" ”

"It's not decided yet."

Zhou Xingchi explained: "This drama is going to be on the mainland, of course, it has to be released by a mainland company, I heard that Huayi is the largest film and television company in the mainland, so I considered cooperating with Huayi, but something happened to Huayi this year, and the situation doesn't seem to be very good, I am looking for other companies, and I haven't found a suitable distribution company yet." ”

"Do you know who happened to Hua Yi?" Mu Rong looked at him and asked with a smile.

"It seems that because the vice president wants to break with the company, he found an artist to come out as a gun, and it made a big fuss..."

Zhou Xingchi suddenly thought of something, and said in surprise: "That artist seems to be also called Mu Rong, could it be you?" ”

"It's me."

Mu Rong nodded, and then explained the conflict between himself and Hua Yi to Zhou Xingchi.

"I see."

Zhou Xingchi suddenly realized, then frowned, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes: "When we met before, I felt that Mr. Wang was not bad, but I didn't expect to use such a disgusting trick as deducting employees' income, then I definitely won't cooperate with them." ”

"Then it's better for us to work together."

Mu Rong smiled and proposed: "I also opened a film and television company, called Huarong Film and Television, although it is a newly established company, but the distribution strength is definitely not bad." ”

"Huarong Film and Television?"

Zhou Xingchi repeated the name, frowning and thinking.

He seems to have heard the name somewhere.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and asked with a somewhat ugly face: "Is this company opened by you and Xiang Huaqiang?" ”

"That's right!"

Mu Rong said with a smile: "Xiang Huaqiang is one of the shareholders. ”

Zhou Xingchi tugged at the corners of his mouth and asked with a wry smile: "Do you know why I hate the boss who deducts employees' income so much?" ”

"Because Xiang Hua is strong?"

Looking at his expression, Mu Rong realized.

It seems that the rumors should be true.

The contradiction between Zhou Xingchi and Xiang Huaqiang is not a secret, it is quite a big trouble in the Xiangjiang entertainment circle, and many people know it.

Back then, Zhou Xingchi was discovered by Li Xiuxian and signed a ten-film contract with him.

But I didn't expect that Chow Xingchi had just filmed his first drama "Thunderbolt Pioneer", and he became an instant hit, and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Horse Awards and Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards that year.

After that, he made several movies such as "He Comes from the Rivers and Lakes" and "A Comic Book Goes to the World", all of which were successful.

In 90, he relied on "The Saint of Gambling" to become popular in Xiangjiang and got a box office of 41.32 million, directly breaking the box office record of Xiangjiang.

And he also relied on a joking title in the movie to transform himself into a "star master" by the media.

Immediately afterwards, in the same year, he and Liu Dehua's "Gambler" was also popular, getting a box office of 40.34 million.

He relied on these two movies to win the first and second places at the annual box office.

It was also from that year that the Xiangjiang film and television industry put forward the statement of "double Monday" for the first time, listing him with Zhou Yunfa and Fang Long, who have the most box office appeal.

Affected by this, Zhou Xingchi's value has also risen, and various film appointments have come one after another.

However, because the contract has not ended, Zhou Xingchi's salary is still the basic salary agreed in the contract.

And Li Xiuxian thinks that he single-handedly excavated Zhou Xingchi and is Zhou Xingchi's benefactor.

So no matter how Zhou Xingchi's worth skyrocketed, he still settled Zhou Xingchi's salary according to the lowest salary.

Zhou Xingchi did not complain, and still helped Li Xiuxian make two movies "Descendants of the Dragon" and "Love Saint" at the original price.

But Li Xiuxian didn't appreciate it, and scolded Zhou Xingchi on the set, saying that Zhou Xingchi worked hard like a dog.

Therefore, at the end of "Journey to the West", Zhou Xingchi used the sentence "He is like a dog" to laugh at himself.

Later, in 92, Li Xiuxian sold Zhou Xingchi's unexecuted contract to Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng.

According to the contract, Yongsheng only needs to pay Zhou Xingchi a salary of 700,000 Hong Kong dollars for each play.

But at that time, Zhou Xingchi's worth had skyrocketed to 8 million Hong Kong dollars, and the salary gap of 700,000 Hong Kong dollars was really a bit big.

But with no choice but to make a contract, Zhou Xingchi could only shoot several popular and blockbuster movies such as "Truant Weilong", "The Story of Deer and Ding", and "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance" for Xiang Huaqiang.

That year, 7 of the top 15 works in the box office of Xiangjiang movies were all works by Zhou Xingchi.

And the first five are all Zhou Xingchi's plays, and that year is also known as the year of Zhou Xingchi.

Among the top five dramas, four of them were filmed by Zhou Xingchi for Xiang Huaqiang's Yongsheng, and each of them only had a salary of 700,000 yuan.

This year, Zhou Xingchi had unlimited scenery, but in fact, he didn't make much money, but he made a lot of money to Yongsheng of Huaqiang.

But there is no way, the contract has been signed, it must be fulfilled, and Zhou Xingchi has nothing to say.

It's just that contradictions have accumulated.

In 94, the contract between Yongsheng and Zhou Xingchi expired and ended.

Xiang Huaqiang and his wife repeatedly retained him and promised to reprice, but Zhou Xingchi still resolutely chose to leave and set up his own color star company.

But unfortunately, because of the failure of investing in "Journey to the West", he lost all his money and the company went bankrupt.

Because of this past, the contradiction between Zhou Xingchi and Xiang Huaqiang can be said to have been a long-standing grudge, and it is basically difficult to resolve.

Therefore, after learning that Huarong Film and Television had Xiang Huaqiang's participation, Zhou Xingchi had already dispelled the idea of cooperating with Huarong Film and Television.

However, this is also expected by Mu Rong.

Mu Rong deliberately brought up this stubble.

He has only an 8% stake in Huarong Film and Television.

While this 8% stake is crucial, it is only 8% after all.

Whether it is for the sake of enhancing the right to speak, or out of the intention of borrowing chickens and laying eggs and starting anew, Zhou Xingchi is an opportunity that he cannot miss.