Chapter 100: Getting Down to Business (4/4)

Of course, Shen Xudong came to Hong Kong after receiving an invitation...

Otherwise, he ran to Hong Kong alone?

Neurotic, huh?

Is it fragrant to stay in the mainland?

The phenomenal influence of "Golden Branch Desire", the version has also created a sales miracle, with sales exceeding 600,000 in just half a month!

Qin Wen participated in several signing sessions, and if Shen Xudong also attended, the effect would definitely be better...

The more "Golden Bough Desire" sells, the more money he can share...

What to promote "Keep Talking" in Hong Kong...

Not a dime to make!

He also had to put money in it - he paid for the meal and taxi just now!

This kind of person who does obviously Shen Xudong's character does not match...

No way, it's a movie after all...

Moreover, the Hong Kong partners of "Tailor" and "Witness to the Whole People" are all Emperor, including the Asia-wide distribution of "Glory of the Tang Dynasty"...

It makes sense that the Emperor invited him to come over and participate in the publicity work of "Keep Talking", and he should come over!

……

I didn't have a good time!

If it had been a few years earlier, Shen Xudong would have been grandly received, not to mention the three treasures of accompanying the wine: peanuts, potato chips and shrimp crackers...

After the intervention of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Emperor relented a lot.

Just entertained in a clubhouse.

It's also a serious conversation.

Yang Shoucheng looked old and unserious, but what he said was quite reasonable: "In 94, after the Taiwanese company collectively did not buy Hong Kong films, the largest market for Hong Kong films was gone, but it can still hold on, because the Southeast Asian market is still there, and the symbol of the decline of Hong Kong films is that the United States made "Jurassic Park", before that, movies around the world were almost the same, a theme was on fire, plagiarism and reference were over, "Best Partner" borrowed from 007, and Zhou Xingchi's comedy borrowed from David Zucker... Not capable of that. ”

Makes sense!

Hollywood's global popularity proves that movies are no longer what a few actors, a few cameras, plus a screenwriter, and a director can do, compared to industrial strength.

Of course, Shen Xudong couldn't respond to him, but said: "It's okay, what about "Infernal Affairs"... I think Hong Kong's police movies are the most distinctive genre in the world! ”

Well, "Infernal Affairs", since "Infernal Affairs", 80% of Hong Kong films are undercover + gangsters + anti-undercover + black police + corrupt undercover black police and so on.

When it comes to "Tomorrow's War" to fight an alien...

I also want to catch the undercover agent!

Gradually...

"No, the current project is actually the leader pulling a supporting role + tender model to start work, and everyone is just eating... It's not as good as you, you treat movies as art! ”

"No, now it's all about marketization and box office... Treat movies as an industry... Since you want to be an industry, you must look at the data, from top to bottom you are very important to the box office, Hong Kong films have enough business experience, know how to make money at the box office, the mainland has just started, many places are immature, you have to learn..."

"Hehe, the mainland market is very large, so let's talk a lot... Winnie, toast! ”

Winnie is Leung Man-yee, a female artist under the Emperor's banner...

How can there be no female artists to follow when talking about things!

Shen Xudong didn't look at her, picked up the cup and took a sip...

Obviously, he doesn't have any thoughts about Liang Minyi...

What a decent gentleman!

A righteous gentleman, Yang Shoucheng doesn't want to accompany him...

……

In fact, according to the provisions of the CEPA agreement, there is no restriction on the proportion of Hong Kong main creative personnel in China-Hong Kong co-productions, but the proportion of mainland actors shall not be less than one-third of the total number of main actors;

There is no restriction on where the story takes place, but the storyline or main characters should be related to the mainland...

The rules are very clear!

However, at the beginning of the opening of co-productions, although Hong Kong filmmakers went north one after another, they still had a high posture of underbeating.

In their eyes, the mainland film market is a wilderness, waiting for them to expand it wantonly.

Therefore, the initial actor is often the Hong Kong actor and the mainland heroine, or the Hong Kong double protagonist mainland supporting role.

What's even more fucking is that an actor from the mainland will play soy sauce and show his face, even if it is a co-production, the typical one is "New Police Story" or "The Great Sage of Love"...

Later, he began to arrange mainland actors to play villains;

Later, with the rise of stars in the mainland, it gradually became the model of mainland protagonist + Hong Kong supporting role.

Of course, Shen Xudong doesn't care about these, "National Witness" Chen Daoming + Liang Jiahui + Gong Li;

"Tailor", Chen Daoming + Cai Zhuoyan + Xie Tingfeng + Edison Chen...

The male number one clearly says Chen Daoming!

If you are willing to cooperate, you will cooperate, if you are unwilling, we will find someone else - Jiang Zhiqiang and Lin Jianyue of Media Asia are waiting in line to cooperate!

Including "Keep Talking", the female number one and the anti-number one are all mainland actors, Chen Hao and Hu Jun...

Shen Xudong had no intentions for the emperor at all, and Yang Shoucheng probably felt it...

After chatting for a while, he left with Liang Minyi, leaving Chen Musheng and Zheng Jianfeng, the producer of "Keep Talking".

The three of them quickly talked about the type of movie, and the conversation was naturally a police movie!

It's normal, at this stage, Hong Kong movies are only left in the genre of police and gangster films...

"I think the most important thing in a cop film is the story... Don't be afraid of the old story, it's the way it's told..."

“… Here's an example! ”

"..."Infernal Affairs" can dig deeper, the gangsters in it are too low-end and too idealistic!"

Chen Musheng didn't speak, Zheng Jianfeng became interested: "Can you talk about it specifically..."

"Infernal Affairs + Bloody Heroes"...

The protagonist Li Zicheng, in eight years, Li Zicheng has become the fifth in the gang from a small minion, with a house and a car, a wife and a younger brother, and a son who is about to be born, and his income is N times that of ordinary policemen, just like a successful person!

His biggest pain is that his boss will often use the secret of an undercover agent to threaten him to serve the police...

Li Zicheng's wish is to leave, to escape, to completely get rid of the identity of "police" that has tormented him for eight years! ”

"Just like in "Bloody Heroes", the good policeman Li Ying was squeezed out by his boss, and he felt that the world was hot and cold, and the police were never a pool of clear water, but also a quagmire..."

Of course, the reason why the boss did this was because there was a precedent of undercover defection and betrayal of colleagues, so the boss was always vigilant against Li Zicheng, and he took precautions everywhere, and placed many eyeliners around Li, even Li's wife was sent by him to monitor.

I think the relationship of kindness and trust between Chen Yongren and Huang Zhicheng in "Infernal Affairs" is too idealistic... I think the real situation is all kinds of coercion and temptation, both soft and hard.

In order to achieve the "just" goal of eliminating gangsters, the police can do whatever it takes to disregard the safety of undercover agents. ”

"That's... How does it unfold? ”

Shen Xudong said a little about the beginning of "New World"...

It is impossible for him to tell it all, or is it the same sentence: just the first time we met, I told the script again?

Do you think the other person has a bad memory? Or do you think they don't dare to use your ideas?

(End of chapter)