Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings.

Chapter 632 0620 [Talents emerge in large numbers]

"Is this really Mr. Du's business card?"

The next day, Jiahe Film Company.

Movie tycoon Zou Wenhuai took the business card in his hand, looked through it carefully, and then handed it to his good partner He Guanchang.

He Guanchang also looked at the business card and said: "It seems that Mr. Du values ​​​​this Bruce Lee very much and even gave him his personal business card."

Others didn't know it, but Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang knew that Du Yongxiao never gave his business card to others easily.

In this era, personal business cards represent status and help others.Especially since Du Yongxiao has a special status, he rarely gives business cards to people.

There is even a saying in Hong Kong that if you can have Du Yongxiao's personal gold-gilded business card, you can get a loan of [-] from HSBC.

This shows the preciousness of Du Yongxiao’s business card.

"Then let him come in now?" He Guanchang asked.

"Well, let's see what kind of person he is." Zou Wenhuai asked curiously.

The two of them had heard some rumors about Bruce Lee before. After all, Hong Kong is such a big place, and everyone is begging for food in the film industry.

It is said that when Shao Daheng met this Bruce Lee, his four-character evaluation was "arrogant."

Zou Wenhuai and the others worked under Shao Daheng before and knew Shao Daheng's character very well.

After all, Shao Daheng was a humble gentleman and had a good temper. For him to give such an evaluation, it shows that Bruce Lee has a very special character.

For a moment—
Boom boom boom!
There was a knock on the office door.

"Please come in!"

Crunch!

Bruce Lee pushed open the door and entered.

"Hello, Mr. Zou, I'm Bruce Lee!" Bruce Lee didn't expect there were two people in the room. He glanced at them, and finally his eyes fell on Zou Wenhuai.

Zou Wenhuai smiled and stood up to greet him, "Hello, nice to meet you! This is my good partner He Guanchang!"

Bruce Lee shook hands with the two cordially.

Both sides sat down.

Bruce Lee said: "You two must already know what I am here for. I very much hope to cooperate with Jiahe Company."

"Haha, we know this. But we are curious, how do you know Mr. Du?" Zou Wenhuai poured Bruce Lee a glass of water himself, walked over and handed it to him.

Bruce Lee leaned over and took the glass of water and said, "Mr. Du came to see me yesterday. We had a great chat in the teahouse."

The four words "We had a great time chatting" made Wrinkle Huai startled for a moment, and he glanced at He Guanchang.

He Guanchang smiled. It seemed that the relationship between Bruce Lee and Mr. Du was really unusual and they should be treated well.

"Mr. Du is the founder of Jiahe and the big boss behind the scenes." Zou Wenhuai got straight to the point. "It can be said that he basically invested in this company. He Guanchang and I are responsible for the operation. Of course, we also have shares, so we are considered small bosses."

He Guanchang said: "So, of course we will reuse the talents selected by Mr. Du, but you must also pass our test."

Bruce Lee smiled slightly when he heard this: "I know. So I brought the script for filming and another filming plan."

Seeing that Bruce Lee was already prepared, Zou Wenhuai and Zou Wenhuai looked at each other and smiled again: "That's great! Can we take a look first?"

"Of course!" Bruce Lee readily took out a script and a plan and handed them to Zou Wenhuai and Zou Wenhuai respectively.

Zou Wenhuai read the script.

He Guanchang read the plan.

The name of the script is "Tangshan Brother", and the plot is relatively simple. It is a story about a man traveling in Southeast Asia, punishing evil and eradicating rape.

Zou Wenhuai was in the movie business and had read more than a thousand scripts. He could tell at a glance that the play didn't have much to offer, so he frowned and said nothing.

At this time, He Guanchang had almost finished reading the plan in hand.

Bruce Lee's plan was also very simple. He planned to shoot a national kung fu film called "Fist of Fury" after filming "Brother Tangshan".

There are not many of this type in Hong Kong, and even if they do exist, they are in period costumes, such as "Twelve Gold Medals", "One Man in Charge" and so on.

Bruce Lee chose the Republic of China this time, and his opponent was the Japanese.

Many Hong Kong plays of this era were exported to Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and Japan.For this reason, many film makers do not dare to offend the Japanese. Even when filming, they will take the initiative to eliminate this aspect to avoid being unable to sell the film.

Now Bruce Lee has gone against the grain and actually made this kind of Kung Fu movie, which can't help but surprise He Guanchang.

While the two were reading the script and plan, Bruce Lee was holding a tea cup and drinking tea, but his eyes kept passing over the two of them. When he saw Zou Wenhuai frowning and He Guanchang in a daze, he knew something was wrong.

"You two, if you have any questions, feel free to ask!" Bruce Lee said directly.

"Since Mr. Li asked this, I'm curious. Your book "Tangshan Brother" is not exciting. How confident are you to earn box office?" Zou Wenhuai said, "You know, there are many kung fu movies of this type on the market. , we here in Jiahe also have two or three of the same type, starring Wang Yu - do you think you can be more popular than Wang Yu?"

Wang Yu is recognized as a "kung fu superstar" in Hong Kong in this era. In particular, his film "The One-Armed Sword" was the first to break one million at the box office in Hong Kong.

When Du Yongxiao founded Jiahe, it took a lot of effort to get Zou Wenhuai to lure Wang Yu from Shaw Brothers.

Shaw Brothers originally refused to let him go, but Wang Yu was a loyal man, and Zou Wenhuai was kind to him. In addition, Shao Daheng was stingy, so the salary he offered could no longer satisfy Wang Yu's appetite, and Jiahe The plan here was not only to give Wang Yu a high salary, but also to give him a share of the box office, which completely impressed Wang Yu.So much so that Wang Yu directly staged a "Night Robbery Contract" and caused chaos in Shaw Brothers.

In order to avoid being discovered, Wang Yu went to great lengths to steal other people's contracts.

As a result, Shao Daheng had to use the excuse of increasing the actors' salaries to get them to re-sign the contract.

For Jiahe, Wang Yu is their treasure. Although Bruce Lee comes from Hollywood, he can't compare.

Bruce Lee was a smart man, and of course he understood what Zou Wenhuai meant by mentioning Wang Yu, so he said: "It is true that the story of "Brother Tangshan" is very simple and has nothing outstanding, but I am still confident that it will become popular."

"Haha, as I said just now, you are not Wang Yu!" Zou Wenhuai said, "He can turn decay into magic, because he is a big star and Hong Kong people like him very much! What about you, Mr. Li, what do you rely on?"

As he spoke, Zou Wenhuai took out the cigarette case from his desk, popped out a cigarette and bit it in his mouth. Then he picked up a match as usual, struck and lit a cigarette.

"Rely on Kung Fu!"

As soon as Bruce Lee blurted out these three words, he immediately stood up and kicked him with a spin!
Zou Wenhuai was caught off guard and saw that the match he struck was instantly extinguished. Looking again, he saw that the head of the match was kicked off by Bruce Lee!
"Good work!"

Zou Wenhuai was horrified.

He Guanchang was also stunned.

Bruce Lee snapped and kicked three times in the air as fast as lightning.

When Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang closed their mouths, Bruce Lee had already withdrawn his fists and feet, looking at the two men with unruly eyes: "When I make movies, I only shoot real kung fu! This is my selling point!"

……

"Brother Xiao, you rarely come to the set!" When Bruce Lee met with Zou Wenhuai and others, Du Yongxiao took a car to the Jiahe set.

During this time, the Hong Kong Governor and Bailiqu had not given him any eye drops, but Du Yongxiao knew clearly that it was only a matter of time.

It's rare that I have free time these days, so I come to the Jiahe studio.

In fact, Jiahe's studio was inherited from Lu Yuntao's D&M Company.

At the time, there was a war between the TVB and Shaw Brothers, the two heroes were vying for hegemony. The TVB was booming and there were many talents. Unfortunately, God was jealous of talents. Luk Yuntao and his wife were involved in a plane accident while flying to Baodao to participate in the film festival, and they were both killed in the end.

Without Lu Yuntao, the proud film star, D&M was quickly defeated by Shaw Brothers, and its cinema lines and studios were almost swallowed up by Shaw Brothers.

Fortunately, the heirs of D&M were unwilling to sell the studio and theater chain to Shaw Brothers, thinking that this was something Lu Yuntao did not want to see in heaven.

This has made Du Yongxiao easier.

After Du Yongxiao founded Golden Harvest, he asked Zou Wenhuai to negotiate with the heirs of D&M for studios and theaters.

For this reason, Zou Wenhuai flew from Hong Kong to Nanyang, which took a full ten days. During this period, he kept calling Du Yongxiao. In the end, Du Yongxiao purchased it directly at a high price of 660 million.

The Shaw Brothers studio is located in Clear Water Bay, and the Golden Harvest studio is located in Sham Shui Po.

When To Yongxiao came to the Sham Shui Po studio, Golden Harvest was filming the new movie "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang".

In this era, there were two martial arts masters in Hong Kong and Baodao, one was Jin Yong and the other was Gu Long.

Gu Long's novel is the easiest to adapt into a movie, and it is a super hit.

To this end, Shaw Brothers has also specially set up a "Cologne Team" to shoot Cologne-themed movies. Among them, Shaw Brothers' popular youngster Ti Lung has shot the most, not only starring in "Chu Liuxiang", but also in "Fu Hongxue".

Now that Jiahe is also making quick money, it will just follow the trend and shoot colognes.

The director Zou Wenhuai recruited from Shaw Brothers is called Chu Yuan. He is also an expert in making Gulong movies. He is very innovative in terms of scripts and lines.

The reason why Chu Yuan wanted to film "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" this time was to compete with Shaw Brothers.

Shaw Brothers is currently filming "The New Story of Chu Liuxiang", starring Ti Lung.

Chu Yuan chose Wang Yu to play the role of Chu Liuxiang and Ti Long in the ring.

Unfortunately, Chu Yuan felt that Wang Yu's Chu Liuxiang's appearance was not stunning enough. If he thought about it carefully, he might be too familiar with Wang Yu's "One-Armed Sword".

The only person who satisfied Chu Yuan was the new actress Zhao Yazhi who joined Shaw Brothers.

She played the role of Su Rongrong, Chu Liuxiang's girlfriend, in the play, and her costume was stunning.

At this moment, Zhao Yazhi is acting opposite Wang Yu.

Du Yongxiao walked over, but no one noticed him.

After all, he, the big boss, rarely comes here.

Zhuang Dingxian followed him, watching Chu Yuan filming with curiosity.

Chu Yuan faced the camera and kept shaking his head, "Although Wang Yu is famous, this outfit is really not enough for Chu Liuxiang."

Du Yongxiao came over to take a look, "Indeed, Chu Liuxiang is described as charming and charming, but Wang Yu is described as strong-willed. A handsome young man and a tough guy are incompatible."

"You're right! No wonder I always look weird." Chu Yuan muttered, turned around and saw Du Yongxiao, "Uh, who are you?"

Chu Yuan is a movie fanatic. He usually doesn't listen to anything except filming. When he saw Du Yongxiao, he didn't even recognize him.

When Zhuang Dingxian saw this, he was surprised that there was someone in Hong Kong who didn't know Brother Xiao. Just when he was about to remind him, Du Yongxiao said lightly: "Oh, my surname is Du, I'm here to take a look around."

"This is a studio, you can't move around casually!" After Chu Yuan finished speaking, he suddenly stood up and looked at Du Yongxiao carefully.

Du Yongxiao was puzzled by him and thought to himself: Did he recognize me?
Snapped!
Chu Yuan suddenly clapped his hands and exclaimed: "That's right, you look so handsome!" Looking at Du Yongxiao, it was like seeing some strange treasure.

Du Yongxiao had a bad feeling.

really--
"Young boy, do you want to be a star? I can help you!" Chu Yuan held his chin and looked at Du Yongxiao with a sly look, like a goldfish man tricking a little girl into eating a lollipop.

Du Yongxiao smiled: "I don't know how to film."

Chu Yuan thought that Du Yongxiao was attracted, so he hurriedly said: "It doesn't matter! No one is born knowing how to film. Now, I am Chu Yuan, a famous director. As long as I guide you, you will make progress quickly. How about, Do you want to give it a try?”

"Really?" Du Yongxiao touched his nose, "Then what role am I suitable for?"

"Of course it's a big role!" Chu Yuan became excited again and looked at Du Yongxiao, "Especially when you touched your nose just now, you looked like Chu Liuxiang!"

"Uh, you want me to play Chu Liuxiang?"

"Yeah, do you want to try changing your clothes?"

"It's not okay, Wang Yu is acting, how can I--"

"It doesn't matter! I'm the director and I have the final say! Besides, he still has a lot of films to shoot, so it doesn't matter if one is missing!"

"But---"

"No but, come here, help him change his clothes! See if I have good taste, hahaha!" Chu Yuan was very happy, feeling that he had an eye for talent and had brought out another talent in the Hong Kong film industry.

Du Yongxiao found it funny and was about to refuse when a young man came over and said angrily: "Hello, I'll take you to change your clothes!"

"Huh?" Du Yongxiao looked at the other person and was slightly startled. He felt familiar and couldn't help but said: "What's your name?"

The young man led him towards the locker room not far away, and said in a cold tone: "You ask me? My name is Zheng Shaoqiu, and I am a new recruit from Jiahe!"

"Zheng Shaoqiu?" Du Yongxiao smiled, "Have you ever worked in Shaw Brothers before?"

"How do you know?" Zheng Shaoqiu turned around suddenly, "I was a bit player in Shaw Brothers, but unfortunately -"

Zheng Shaoqiu did not say the following words.

However, Du Yongxiao knew that Zheng Shaoqiu in his previous life did not become famous immediately. He worked as a minor player in Shaw Brothers for a long time before he had the opportunity to star in the leading role. Later, he became famous with "Chu Liuxiang".

After Jiahe was established in this generation, Zheng Shaoqiu, who was frustrated, left Shaw Brothers and joined Jiahe, thinking that Jiahe loved talents so much that he could give him a chance.

Especially this time when Chu Yuan was filming "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", Zheng Shaoqiu had been jealous for a long time and had always wanted to get the leading role. However, his identity, status and reputation could not compare with Wang Yu.

When Chu Yuan was filming just now, he felt something was wrong with Wang Yu, and Zheng Shaoqiu secretly laughed at the scene.

In private, he had thought about the role of Chu Liuxiang.

Just when Zheng Shaoqiu was about to recommend himself to Chu Yuan, Chu Yuan accidentally discovered Du Yongxiao. He was fascinated by Du Yongxiao's handsome appearance and asked him to change his clothes to play the role.

Zheng Shaoqiu was so angry that he didn't expect Cheng Yaojin to show up halfway, so his attitude towards Du Yongxiao was not good.

(End of this chapter)