Movie tycoon

Chapter 185 Director "Old Freak Xu" (Part [-])

If you want to shoot a movie in Hong Kong, you must have company investment, but with company investment, you may not be able to start filming, because the funds must be in place.

The investor of "New Shushan Swordsman" is Golden Harvest Film Company. As one of the three leading Hong Kong films in the early 80s, they invested in the filming of the special effects drama directed by Xu Ke this time, and they are determined to come up with a big lineup.

However, when director Xu Ke explained that he had to introduce Hollywood computer special effects for post-production, Jiahe was stumped. Why, because it would cost more to introduce special effects, and those Hollywood bastards were the last I like lions with big mouths, what should I do? !This drama has already started, can't it be difficult to get through this hurdle?

As the president of Golden Harvest, film tycoon Zou Wenhuai thought of a way --- to attract foreign aid!

Choose, share the benefits, and share the risks!It is impossible for one person to earn all the money in the world. Instead of doing this, let's do "partnership business".

As we all know, Hong Kong is known as the Hollywood of the East, but who knows that in fact, it is the businessmen from Taiwan who invest in making the most Hong Kong movies. In the 80s, Baodao businessmen, everyone is very rich, but they don’t know where to spend a lot of money, and the local movies are too bad. Buying a house or land is not as good as buying a big movie, so everyone focuses on Xiang~ Hong Kong Movies.

It can be said that more than 500 of the 300 films in Hong Kong every year are invested and shot by people from Taiwan.Therefore, Zou Wenhuai is planning to hold an exhibition of the film and cast of "Shushan", filming some exciting parts of this film first, and then summoning Hong Jinbao, Zheng Shaoqiu, Lin Qingxia and other big names to come to cheer, not afraid that those TW guys will not buy it ? !
At around [-] o'clock that night, Chen Xiaotang arrived at the agreed place on time according to the agreement with Zheng Shaoqiu - the most famous Palace Theater in Hong Kong.

When you come here, you can see that the whole theater is decorated with lights and festoons, and the huge and dazzling crystal glass reflects colorful light.

At the entrance of the theater, there was a play card with shining lights on it, which read: "The Merry and Fragrant Zheng Shaoqiu, and the Peerless Lady Lin Qingxia, jointly present a great production of fairy tales—"New Shushan Swordsman"!"

Under the play card, the story content of "Shushan" and the amazing lineup are written.

"The master of Huan Zhu's stunning masterpiece is now in the world. This film will take you into the magical world of fairy tales, and enjoy the joy of the confrontation between gods and demons; the blood demon is born, and Ziqing wins the championship. The two swords combine to show their glory! This film has a strong lineup, Hong Jinbao, Zheng Shaoqiu, Lin Qingxia, Liu Songren, Yuan Biao, Li Saifeng...the elites come forth in large numbers!"

It looks real.Unexpectedly, Chen Xiaotang, I am so lucky to be able to witness a feat in the martial arts era of Hong Kong movies.Chen Xiaotang felt a little excited when he thought that he could also join this film.

In her previous life, Chen Xiaotang liked this fantasy martial arts movie very much.He knew that this film adapted from Huanzhu Louzhu was the first fantasy martial arts film in Hong Kong to employ the American "Star Wars" special effects team to support special effects shots.It has epoch-making significance.The cast is in full swing.Including: Zheng Shaoqiu, Lin Qingxia, Hung Jinbao, Yuan Biao, Xu Shaoqiang, Weng Qianyu, Liu Songren, Li Saifeng, Meng Hai and so on.

However, Chen Xiaotang watched it several times, and felt that the plot of this movie was a bit messy due to too many characters and clues, and many places were unclear.But the visual effects of the whole film are excellent, and the art design and actors' modeling are also extraordinary.The splendor of some of the action scenes is breathtaking.At the same time, Xu Ke said through the mouths of the characters in the play: "The views of the family are enough to bring disaster to the country and the people", which is also moving.

Of course, looking at the history of martial arts movies in Hong Kong~Hong Kong, Chen Xiaotang feels that it is very good to be able to shoot such a movie with an extremely strong effect of gods and demons in one go, even when the equipment and technology of the 80s were backward.In contrast, after the rise of mainland movies in the previous life, there were rich and powerful people, but they just couldn’t shoot things of this level. After finally working out a "Shushan 2" but the reputation was not good, I really don’t know that Xu Kelianbo is old. , or he is exhausted.Or, the atmosphere of the entire Chinese film has undergone a qualitative change.

This moment.The whole hall is very lively.Most of them are businessmen who speak the Hokkien TW dialect, and most of them are investment film producers. This time, they were invited to watch the film of Golden Harvest in order to invest.

Chen Xiaotang looked around, but he didn't see Zheng Shaoqiu, and he didn't know anyone. He couldn't understand the language, so he couldn't just stand around and be taken for a fool, so he had no choice but to stand near the dining table and watch the bartender pour champagne.

As seen in the previous movie, stack the wine glasses into a tower.Pour wine from the tallest glass to form a waterfall is the so-called champagne tower.

Although Chen Xiaotang had participated in many large banquets, he had never paid attention to this scene.Inevitably attracted.

The bartender poured it carefully.He didn't realize that Chen Xiaotang was looking at him at all.until all the cups are full.He just raised his head.Noticing that Chen Xiaotang was looking at him, he smiled slightly and said, "Sir, just take a drink!"

Chen Xiaotang smiled.Because he suddenly remembered the terrible scene in Zhou Xingchi's movie "The Year of the Dragon" where the police officer played by Liang Jiaren fetched a champagne glass.Honestly, this thing is a bit of a work of art.I really can't bear to destroy it, not to mention that there are technical requirements for taking champagne glasses.So young master Rong waved his hand and said, "Thank you, I can drink."

"Heh!" A strange laugh suddenly came from behind.Chen Xiaotang turned around angrily, only to see a man with a strange appearance, a bit like a "monkey", looking at him with a smile.Suddenly felt a little familiar.A closer look turned out to be the leader of future martial arts movies --- Xu Ke!

"I'm very sorry. I couldn't help laughing just now." Xu Ke said embarrassedly. "Because I just can't figure out how a man can't drink, especially such wonderful champagne?"

Chen Xiaotang: "What's so strange about this?"

Xu Ke: "From a psychological point of view, you are lying to cover up your timidity; from a behavioral point of view, you are deliberately telling people that you are afraid of taking this champagne tower—"

Chen Xiaotang was speechless, this Xu Ke has great potential.

"But you said so much, I don't seem to have grasped the point. I don't care if I take the champagne tower or not?"

"Well said, in fact, it's nothing to me! However, I'm very curious, so many people are gathering together to chat, and you are the only one watching the pouring of wine, how weird?!"

"It's nothing to be curious about, I'm here to find Zheng Shaoqiu..."

"Looking for him, why are you looking for him?" Xu Keqi asked.

"Ask him to introduce me to the crew of "Shushan"..."

"Hahaha, do you know who I am?"

"Of course I know, you are the great director Xu Ke!"

"Heh, knowing you are still so calm?"

"I'm just here to play a small role, and I'm not the male lead. What are you afraid of?"

"Heh, you don't seem to care much about this 'little role' role!"

"Wrong, no matter what I do, I will do my best."

"Well said, but I don't know how you will do it?"

"Try it and you'll know?"

"You are very proud---do you know that everyone in this show is a big name?"

"I know." Chen Xiaotang felt that Xu Ke was not only casual, but also very wordy.

"You know you are so confident?" Xu Ke was surprised by Chen Xiaotang's arrogance. At this moment, some reporters gathered around him. Xu Ke coughed, pulled his clothes, and said, "See, these people are here to interview me... ...Look at it——" After finishing speaking, he said: "Hi everyone, I am..."

But before he could finish speaking, the reporters made a clatter, and all of them bypassed him and surrounded Chen Xiaotang.

Xu Ke immediately turned into a puppet.

what happened? !

"Mr. Chen, give me an interview!"

"Yeah, stop hiding!"

"Say a few words at least!"

.........

These reporters spoke to Chen Xiaotang almost in a begging tone.Xu Ke, who had come to his senses, was struck by thunder again. What kind of plane did he use, and there was such an interview? !It's not that Xu didn't know that Chen Xiaotang sang a popular song, but the problem was that he didn't expect this young man to be so popular!

At some point Zheng Shaoqiu came to Xu Ke's side and said, "How about that Chen Xiaotang?"

"Hehe, Laughing, can I call you that?"

"Of course!" Chen Xiaotang showed super affinity.

"Laughing, we also want to know, is it true that you shattered the glass with your voice?"

"Yeah, we're all curious, is it true? I heard that such shocking power can only be achieved by those very powerful tenors!" The reporters were all excited, and it seemed that everyone knew about this. very curious.

Not far away, those TW businessmen who were originally invited to watch the film were surprised to see such a scene.One of them asked the people next to him, "What's wrong with these people, aren't they here to interview us for investing in movies? Why are they chattering around that young man?"

"Yeah, is that young man famous?" Another TW guy said.

The person next to him was a "Knowledgeable", and he said: "Bosses, you don't know about this—that young man named Chen Xiaotang was originally a TVB artist, but after a song last night, he is now extremely popular!"

"How red is it?"

"How red? Like this—" Beston picked up a glass of red wine, "No, it's redder than this red wine. Anyway, this time even the great director Xu Ke put down his airs and begged him to join "Shushan". You didn't see him begging for help just now." What does the house look like? Who is Xu Ke, don't I need to explain more?"

"Oh, so that's the case! With such a popular star joining us, we will feel more at ease when investing!"

"As long as he joins, we will definitely support this drama!"

The businessmen were excited.

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I uploaded this chapter outside due to a power outage at home. It's a bit late, sorry everyone.

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