At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 106 Not So...Proud (28)

Arriving at the hotel prepared by the crew of "No. [-] in the World"...

A little disappointed, Shen Xudong didn't live in the big suite that Chen Hao said, or an ordinary suite...

Of course, the environment is good, and it is quite big, with a living room, bedroom, washroom, shower room, toilet...

A few have 60 square meters and are equipped with large balconies, opposite to Taihu Lake...

It may be because Shen Xudong needs a quiet environment, so his room is in the corner.

Clean up first.

He just brought a big suitcase and a backpack. Inside the suitcase were underwear, two sets of clothes, a pair of shoes, a laptop and a Doraemon doll.

Inside the backpack are some snacks, earphones, MP3 and a few books...

When I came up, I asked about it. The hotel opened broadband, and a network cable port will be set up in the guest room, and a network cable will be provided for passengers to use.

Of course, in order to prevent the loss of the network cable, there is no network cable in the guest room, and it is usually collected at the front desk or the floor attendant, and returned when checking out.

Shen Xudong connected to the Internet cable and tested the speed of the Internet...

It can only be said that talking is better than nothing.

Fortunately, he is not going to use the computer to download things, just send and receive emails!
About half an hour later, the packing was finished,
Just as I was about to go to bed and lie down for a while, I suddenly heard a "dong dong dong" knock on the door.

"Xudong, are you ready?"

"…immediately!"

"We'll wait for you downstairs, let's meet the director."

"Okay, 5 minutes!"

It was Zhuang Liqi calling him...

Shen Xudong hurriedly changed into clean clothes, tidied his hair a bit, and went directly downstairs...

……

Since the 80s, "Kung Fu in Ancient Costume" has become synonymous with Hong Kong dramas in the minds of mainland audiences.

"Fearless" is the first Hong Kong drama to be introduced to the mainland. This drama has established the trend of importing Hong Kong dramas - it is biased towards martial arts dramas!

After 95, works such as "The Eight Parts of the Heavenly Dragon", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and "The Legend of Heaven and Slaying the Dragon" continued to be popular in the mainland.

After 99, Hong Kong TV drama directors went north to develop their careers. Costumes and martial arts dramas are the first choice!
Mainland investors’ initial impressions of these Hong Kong TV drama directors: He is filming Hong Kong dramas—he must be very good at filming costume dramas and martial arts dramas.

Indeed, ancient costume films are about Jianghu, a world of martial arts.Directors must have a strong belief in the existence of this world before you dare to use your imagination to realize it.Most TV drama directors in Hong Kong start filming this aspect from the beginning of their careers, and it is relatively smooth.

The chief director Feng Baiyuan invited by "No. 89 in the World" is from Hong Kong TVB. He directed "Eternal Dragon Sword" (Tony Leung's version) in his early years, and was later employed as a director by the Chinese drama group of Singapore National Television Station. He returned to Hong Kong in [-] and ushered in his masterpieces "The Great Era" and "Intolerance"...

Judging from his resume, he is better at producing fashion films, but...the current mainland TV drama market does not have many fashion films, so there is no room for him to develop...

The reason why he agreed to the invitation of "No. [-] in the World" was mainly because Tang Ren had nothing to do with him for the time being. Li Guoli was filming "Dandelion", an urban youth romance drama.

Feng Baiyuan was very free, so he led Huang Weiming and the make-up, lighting, and photography teams to pick up "No. [-] in the World"...

Cheng Xiaodong, no need to introduce, martial arts instructor...

He has a very good relationship with A Mou. When Gong Li went south to develop, A Mou went to Hong Kong to accompany her for a period of time. By the way, he filmed "The Love of Terracotta Warriors in Ancient and Modern Wars". The director is Cheng Xiaodong...

Feng Baiyuan and Cheng Xiaodong are old acquaintances.

The two met and chatted for a while. After waiting for half an hour, Zhuang Liqi, Chen Hao, Shen Xudong and... Tang Yan came in!

Well, Tang Yan has basically confirmed that she will join Orange Sky, and Zhuang Liqi also gave her the role of Princess Lixiu...

Zhuang Liqi brought three people, basically telling the director team that these three are the investors!
……

"Producer Zhuang!"

"Ms. Xiaodong, Mr. Feng, Mr. Huang..."

Zhuang Liqi said hello first, then pulled Tang Yan and Shen Xudong to introduce: "This is Director Feng... This is Director Cheng, this is Director Huang..."

"Hello…"

Shen Xudong smiled and stretched out his hand...

Tang Yan also exchanged pleasantries.

"This is our screenwriter Shen Xudong!"

Cheng Xiaodong looked Shen Xudong up and down: "...You are Shen Xudong?"

"right…"

"I've seen your "Phoenix Screening Room", and there is a clip introducing Director Cheng Gang..."

Cheng Gang is Cheng Xiaodong's father...

He was also one of Shaw Brothers' famous directors back then...

Known as a tyrannical director, about his evaluation, "Screen Room" excerpted a section of "Chang Che's Memoirs: Film Criticism Collection" "Among directors of my generation, Cheng Gang is undoubtedly a good and successful director. He is less famous than Li Hanxiang and For me, it's just because of the small number of works.To be honest, there are "licensed products" in Li Hanxiang's and my works, but he absolutely does not.He has extremely high demands on people and himself, and he must do a good job.

Xiaodong (Cheng Xiaodong) was often beaten by him when he was young, and he was punished to kneel in public when he was his martial arts instructor. Teaching children has reached an unreasonable level.He often made reshoots when he was not satisfied with the filming. After the whole film was finished, the editing was changed again and again.
Run Run Shaw so-called "find an hour among tens of thousands of feet of negatives", and he was not allowed to enter the editing room before he could finally "deliver". '

Including Li Hanxiang, the head of the gossip school, also wrote in his memoir "30 Years of Elaboration from the Beginning" that ""Fourteen Heroes" was filmed for almost two years, and everyone became more discouraged and listless. If he refuses to come, it is either because of something or because he is sick.

One day, Cheng Gang couldn't bear it any longer. He scolded his son Xiaodong severely in front of everyone. Xiaodong knelt down and begged for mercy. The red-tasseled spear flicked the flower, and stabbed with the spear.Everyone rushed forward, lifted Xiaodong up from the ground, and pleaded for the child with every word...'

Hu Jinquan also commented that "Cheng Xiaodong's relationship with his father Cheng Gang is not good (laughs)"...

"...I pieced it together from news reports and the memoirs of many filmmakers...In case of offense..."

Shen Xudong's "Screening Room" rarely contains private goods, especially when it involves things from the 70s and [-]s, and basically does not talk about personal opinions...

Cheng Xiaodong waved his hand: "No, no, I think you did a great job in that issue!"

"…thanks!"

Shen Xudong thanked him, and then Chen Xiaodong chatted with Zhuang Liqi...

Feng Baiyuan and Huang Weiming also joined in...

I feel that these Hong Kong filmmakers and TV people...are not as proud and conceited as I imagined!
They talked about the behind-the-scenes stories of some film and television works.

Zhuang Liqi knew these people in 93...

By chance, in 93, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television issued a notice of "Several Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Film Industry Mechanism", announcing 10 important decisions that would have a far-reaching impact on the Chinese film industry, including, in principle, opening up movie ticket prices, reducing Staffing, actively participating in cable TV film supply, strengthening the production of video tapes and VCDs, gradually canceling the unified purchase and marketing policy, and so on.

Among them, the most far-reaching impact is the abolition of unified purchase and marketing-domestic feature films are no longer uniformly distributed by China Film Corporation, but are instead released and screened directly by the film studios themselves for the film market.

Under the reform and opening-up policy of the film industry, the biggest and most direct impact on the mainland film industry is that it has set off a wave of in-depth cooperation between mainland film studios and Hong Kong film companies.

"Burning the Red Lotus Temple" produced by Shanghai Film Studio and Golden Harvest, including "Xin Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Child Elder", "Six-fingered Qin Demon" and so on are all jointly produced by Shanghai Film Studio...

It was at that time that Zhuang Liqi had a preliminary impression of these Hong Kong filmmakers...

Chen Hao interrupted suddenly: "This cooperation model should be very good, why didn't it continue?"

Zhuang Liqi was about to answer when he saw Shen Xudong who was speechless, so he said, "...Xudong, tell me!"

(End of this chapter)