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Chapter 407 Movie Wars, Imminent (Part [-])

1984 2 Month 18 Day.

Calculated according to the traditional lunar calendar, there will be another ten days before the annual Spring Festival.Therefore, many film companies have launched their own blockbuster films in a timely manner to besiege the Lunar New Year file and make the last pot of gold.

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Golden Harvest is about to stage the Lunar New Year film "The Best Lucky Star".

Cast: Alan Tam, Andy Lau, Zheng Zeshi, Chen You, Lou Nanguang, etc...

This film is a comedy movie. After the two "Fu Xing" movies "Fu Xing Gao Zhao" and "Xia Fu Xing" sold a lot of votes last year, Golden Harvest immediately invested in the shooting of a new sequel. The new episode of "Best Partner" was launched when it was painted, instead of singing against Taiwan again.

Compared with the previous year's work, the lineup of this film has changed a lot. The joining of Alan Tam has added a new color of comedy.

Golden Harvest is ambitious this time, and strives to win the Lunar New Year box office champion.

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New Arts City will premiere the Lunar New Year movie "The Best Partner Queen's Secret Order".

Cast: Tsui Hark, Xu Guanjie, Mai Jia, Zhang Sylvia, Luo Lisa, etc...
Not long after New Arts City Film Company was established in 1982, it became the biggest threat to Golden Harvest Film Company, which had just won most of the country from Shaw Brothers Films.Headed by Shi Tian, ​​Mai Jia, Huang Baiming, Tsui Hark and others, the "Seven Monsters of New Art City", regardless of manpower and financial resources, gathered the wisdom of everyone to shoot "Best Partner" when it was released with unprecedented grandeur, setting the highest record since the opening of Hong Kong. The box office results, and the sequel "The Best Partner Shows Its Magical Powers", which started filming later, also had an excellent reputation at the box office.

In order to challenge the "Best Partner" series of New Arts City, Golden Harvest Film Company produced the "Five Lucky Stars" series. Therefore, throughout the early 80s, the annual box office championship and runner-up competition for Hong Kong films almost all occurred in these two films. and its sequels.

The reason why the sequels of "Best Partner" and "Five Lucky Stars" can be successful is that in addition to the well-known star effect and wonderful funny plots, there are also the endless stunt elements of "Best Partner" and the "Five Lucky Stars" every day. The wonderful action scene at the end of the episode is the icing on the cake, and the repeated story routines of two partners and five people working together to deal with different villains make it even better.

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Now that the battle between Golden Harvest and New Art City has ignited again, they don't know who will win the box office champion this time.But just when the Lunar New Year war, which is attracting the attention of the whole of Hong Kong, is about to break out, Shaw Brothers Film Company, which has lost its glory, announced in a high-profile manner that the annual Lunar New Year drama "Young and Dangerous" produced by the company has been perfectly completed and will premiere soon!
At this moment, the entire film market went crazy.

The original fight between dragons and tigers has turned into a struggle for hegemony among the Three Kingdoms.

The original "Best Lucky Star" challenged "Best Partner", but "Young and Dangerous" came out halfway to grab the beach.

However, Hong Kong people are still very discerning. Judging from the cast, Golden Harvest's "Best Lucky Star" has the super big star Alan Tam, the sneerer Chen You, the fat star Zheng Zeshi, the wretched man Lou Nanguang, and the handsome Liu Dehua ; and New Art City "The Queen's Order" brought together the great director Tsui Hark, the song god Xu Guanjie, the bald guy Mai Jia, and the character actress Zhang Aijia.

What about "Young and Dangerous", what is the lineup of this drama?Apart from Chen Xiaotang, who is the king of gossips and who is constantly talked about, who deserves everyone's attention, who else deserves everyone's attention?Lin Baoyi, who played the pheasant, or Liu Dehua, who played a cameo?

The lineup is no match for others!

If the Golden Harvest lineup can score 85 points and New Art City can score [-] points, then "Young and Dangerous" can only score [-] points at most, and the [-] points are given for Chen Xiaotang's face.

Let's talk about the influence of the three plays.

Golden Harvest's "The Best Lucky Star" is under the tutelage of the "Five Lucky Stars" series. This series of films has a very good reputation, whether it is the first or the second film, the box office is even more popular.The plot design and the characters of the actors are basically remarkable.Although there are no big names such as Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long this time, but the singer Alan Tam has been invited to join, which can be said to be quite interesting.

Not to mention New Art City's "The Best Partner: The Queen's Order". This drama continues the style of the previous films and still follows the thrilling comedy route.Xu Guanjie and the bald Mai Jia, the pair of live treasures, have become a signature, and even surpass Golden Harvest's "Best Lucky Star" in terms of viewing points.

Let's take a look at Shaw Brothers' "Young and Dangerous". It's not better than that. It's like an orphan who has neither father nor mother.There is neither a huge lineup, nor a huge investment, nor a well-known influence.A whole "newborn".

Shaw Brothers used this film to compete with Golden Harvest New Art City. From the perspective of the majority of movie fans and friends, and the majority of entertainment media, there are only two words to describe it-cannon fodder! ! !

That's right, the movie "Young and Dangerous" premiered on the last bus near the Spring Festival, joining Golden Harvest and New Art City in the battle between the two tigers, regardless of the film's lineup, its influence is at a disadvantage, so it can only be "cannon fodder" ” to predict its outcome.

However, amidst these surprises and everyone's sighs, Shaw Brothers still held a small-scale premiere ceremony "reckless", "swollen face to pretend to be fat", and "in a hurry to find death".

To participate in the premiere conference of "Young and Dangerous".Chen Xiaotang once again asked for leave from the great directors Zhao Zhenqiang and Li Guoli.Although the post-shooting of the two plays "Goodbye Huangpu Beach" and "Huangpu Love".Most of them require the participation of the "head of the family".But "Young and Dangerous" is the debut work produced by Chen Xiaotang after all.So the two great directors also generously gave Chen Xiaotang half a day off.

The press conference site.

The premiere of "Young and Dangerous", known as a "suicide action", has already gathered a lot of entertainment media. It is not so much that they come to support this premiere ceremony, it is better to say that they are preparing to watch the excitement and witness this event. "Vigorous" cannon fodder action.

"This is basically the birthday boy hanged himself—seeking death!"

"That's right, Golden Harvest and New Art City are eyeing each other, isn't Shaw Brothers' drama a naked lamb?"

"Even if that Chen Xiaotang can turn the world upside down, it is estimated that this time he will be crushed and sacrificed heroically!"

"Who says it's not, Hong Kong's New Year's Eve has always been the most violent time, and one person can't turn things around!"

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The reporters muttered in low voices, many of them shook their heads and sighed; some were waiting to watch the excitement and jokes; some expressed strong contempt and disdain for the play... In short, there are people with all kinds of mentalities.

Just when these media reporters were discussing, the main creative team of the drama "Young and Dangerous" came out one after another.

As the producer and lead actor, Chen Xiaotang sat in the middle of the speech seat in a stately manner. On his left is the director Fatty Wang Jing, then the cameraman, editor... and on the right are the leading actors, including Liu Dehua, Lin Baoyi, Weng Meiling, etc...

After the main creative team sat down, the media reporters quickly began to take pictures. For a while, the original atmosphere of discussion was replaced by professional ethics. Everyone was busy taking photos of the stars, but they became more or less quiet.

Sitting down at the premiere ceremony held by the crew of "Young and Dangerous", Chen Xiaotang patted the microphone with his hands. After the audition, he half-jokingly said to the densely packed reporters and media sitting below: "To be honest. Actually I don’t have much time to attend this kind of press conference and media meeting. If I had a choice, I would rather spend this half-day vacation to catch up on sleep—to save you from seeing me like a national treasure panda.”

"In addition, I have been thinking about how to make a wonderful opening speech at this press conference, so that you all remember me, but after thinking about it, it seems that all words are not enough to represent my excitement at the moment. Why? Because I produced This drama is finally going to meet everyone, it feels like a big girl getting married, uneasy, and looking forward to it..."

"Actually, every time I face you, respectable entertainment media like you, my first feeling is like a guy who is dating is meeting his mother-in-law—full of speculations in my heart, and I have already prepared 36 Plan, I am ready to answer your questions——Unfortunately, I have not been a good student since I was a child, there is no way, I was busy going to the water to catch fish, climb trees and dig out bird nests when I was in school, leaving all the serious knowledge behind Now, even if hard work can make up for one's weakness, I can't cope with such a large lineup of yours, so I also implore you to hold your hands up later and try to ask some nutritious topics. As for those who are too gossip, forgive me, I have no choice but to play Tai Chi !"

Regarding Chen Xiaotang's opening remarks after he came in.It made Fatty Wang Jing and others who were already sitting next to him laugh endlessly.Even the reporter group burst into laughter.But everyone knows that Chen Xiaotang treats the media as "friendly" and "answers every question" on the surface, but in fact he is cunning and cunning, which is very difficult to handle.

"Mr. Chen Xiaotang, the movie "Young and Dangerous" is about to premiere. Can you tell us about your performance in the movie? After all, this is the first time you acted as a producer and starred in a movie. In your heart, How is the filming of this movie? Can it pass?!" The reporters did not waste their time.After Chen Xiaotang signaled that he could ask.Soon, a reporter threw two questions of his own to Chen Xiaotang.

"Hmm. Do you want to evaluate my performance? This is really awkward. Well, although I also want to be humble, I can't lie-my performance is perfect! This is Director Wang Jing's evaluation of me. As for My own feeling is quite good!" Chen Xiaotang said with a smile.

After a pause, Chen Xiaotang began to answer the reporter's second question.

"As you said. This is the first time I have been the producer of a film. I didn't know the cost of daily necessities when I was not in charge of the family. Now I know that filming is really not fun, but it is also very fun! Why do you say that? It is not fun because You have to coordinate the eating and drinking of the entire crew, and you must also keep an eye on the progress of the filming, because for us filmmakers, time is money, and if you delay for one more day, you will have to pay for an extra day! How much is the cost for this day? ? Not 100 or [-], but tens of thousands!"
"As for what I said was fun, it's because I met a lot of friends here and learned a lot from them. For example, I learned how to shoot in reverse from the photographer, how to coordinate actors' schedules with the scene recorder, and how to follow the lighting. The teacher learned how to create different lighting atmospheres, etc... As the saying goes, there must be my teacher when three people go together. I really understand this sentence. In a crew, everyone is my teacher, Chen Xiaotang. I don’t get tired of learning, and I don’t overwhelm myself with many arts. This is what I have gained! Besides, filming is a job. But there is no doubt that it is an interesting job. Try to be the producer and actor of a movie It’s very enjoyable to be filming. To be honest, this feeling is really cool!, Of course I’m happy with you, everyone is happy, this is really cool!!! Okay, I’m done, thank you everyone!”

All the media reporters were temporarily shocked by Chen Xiaotang's eloquent answers, especially the series of "cool" words, and it took them a long time to wake up. This guy is already "cool".

"Mr. Chen, it can be seen that you seem to be very interested in making movies. So, does this mean that your development will focus on movies in the future?" Another reporter quickly asked.

"This problem is like fish and bear's paw, hehe, I want to make movies, and I also love making TV!"

The reporter refused to let go, and said, "Excuse me, is this arranged by TVB company. Or is it your own wish as an artist?"

"Your question gives me the feeling. Are you a reporter? I have never said that I want to give up TV dramas. Although making movies is very interesting, TV dramas are even more difficult for me to give up. This is a love." , a sense of righteousness, so no matter who asks me, I will say that I am a brick of the wireless company, and I can move wherever I need!"

Pick, this flattery is good enough! !

Implicit but not leaky, frank but not wretched.

It's like a prostitute~client said to the brothel lady innocently, I~LOVE~YOU forever!
But the reporter was very annoying, he still refused to let Chen Xiaotang go, and said: "Is this considered to be practicing Tai Chi? Chen Sheng, can you explain it more clearly?"

Chen Xiaotang was not forgiving, but he replied seriously: "I am an actor. There is no doubt about it. Since I am an actor, then there is no difference between filming and TV series, right? So you ask so many questions, no Doesn't it look boring?!"

The reporter was choked up by Chen Xiaotang, which made him lose face.Others watched the fun and laughed.

The reporter of "Fashion Weekly" looked at Chen Xiaotang's way of teasing.Obviously a little displeased, wanting to save face for his colleagues.

"Chen Sheng, you are the protagonist in the movie "Young and Dangerous". What do you think of Miss Zhou Huimin who plays the heroine? What do you think of her?"
One of the three tricks of the gossip reporter - messing with the relationship between men and women.

In the entertainment industry, the relationship between men and women is the tightest and most popular, and if there is no scandal, there will be some scandal!This is the true meaning of gossip! ! !
This trick can refer to the previous "Xie Xian's old cow eats young grass and seduces Deborah", the recent "Liu Jialing stepped in Liang Zenglian, the best friend in the boudoir turned against each other", and the future "Shuang Qi wins the face, Ekin Cheng betrays Shao Meiqi, loves Gigi Leung" and so on.

"Miss Zhou Huimin is a very beautiful woman. Filming is very hard. In fact, she should be recommended by me to join the crew. After all, she only worked in Hong Kong Radio Station before and has never been exposed to acting. To me, she is still a newcomer. But She was absolutely serious when filming. She also endured a lot of hardships. In the crew, everyone took care of each other like a family..." Chen Xiaotang naturally saw the expression on the reporter's face.But he shrugged his shoulders and didn't make any positive answer.

The reporter sneered secretly, do you want to use the trick of "escape the shell of the golden cicada"?Then I will tell you a trick of "creating something out of nothing"!
One of the three great skills of gossip reporters-creating something out of nothing!

In the entertainment industry, almost everyone knows the fact that many things are basically based on speculation, and after all these gossip media, who are full of food and gossip, perform the "creating something out of nothing" move that is even more powerful than the Great Teleportation of the Universe. Things become living facts.For this trick, you can refer to the recent "Qiu Guan and Zhao Yazhi's Evil Love Since Ancient Times, Passionate, Empty and Hateful", and the future "Liu Dehua and Lin Jiadong's Men Must Love Men with Love on Broken Back Mountain", and "For Gillian, Chong Guan Yi was angry because of the confidante Chen Guanxi's friendship with Shawn Yue" and so on.

So the reporter asked with ulterior motives: "Mr. Chen Xiaotang, it is rumored that you and Ms. Zhou Huimin had a fake show in the play, and you went shopping together, ate steaks together, and you were caught going in and out of her boudoir at night. Excuse me, are you guys dating?"

Unjust ah, your uncle!

There are shopping places!

No place to eat steak!

It is even more impossible to go in and out of the boudoir! ! !
But Chen Xiaotang knew that the other party was definitely looking for trouble, so he couldn't be too impulsive.

So Chen Xiaotang curled his lips in disdain, and said, "Excuse me, did you make up the so-called rumors, or did you find someone to make them up? As an actor, I am very good at acting, and as a director, my skills are not bad, but what I am best at is Or write a script——The ability to write stories is by no means weaker than yours! Of course, if you are just the kind of insane being confused by rumors, then, as a person, I can answer you very gently: We are not dating!"

Chen Xiaotang's words were already very hot.Everyone at the scene already knew that this "Brother Wireless" has limited endurance. You can ask for facts, but you can't make up "facts".Otherwise, the other party may "run away". The previous generation of "dog king" who dominated the gossip world was beaten by Chen Xiaotang in front of many media because of touching the bottom line of the gossip world, and then became the leader of the entire entertainment industry. The laughing stock of him has also become an unforgettable shadow in the hearts of many media reporters.

The reporter was probably a young child, he didn't care about those entertainment allusions in the past, and he didn't care about the winks from the people around him. Seeing that Chen Xiaotang was in trouble, he couldn't get anything out of him, so the reporter turned his gun. mouth, pointing the finger at Zhou Huimin——
One of the three great skills of gossip reporters --- picking persimmons and pinching them softly!
This trick is self-explanatory, if you are not strong enough yourself, then find a weak partner to make yourself strong.

For example, right now.

The reporter shamelessly pointed the finger at the young lady Zhou Huimin, and asked, "Miss Zhou Huimin. Are you dating Mr. Chen Xiaotang?" Without waiting for any explanation from the other party, he directly added, "It really is a man of talent..."

At the beginning, seeing the reporter throwing this question to herself, Zhou Huimin was stunned.She then realized that the actual relationship between herself and Chen Xiaotang was not as ambiguous as the reporter said, and she was about to explain it clearly, but the reporter directly came to a conclusion and blocked her mouth.

Is there any reason for this?

Don't let people talk at all.

Zhou Huimin saw that the reporter was so filthy, her delicate cheeks turned cold, and she said, "There are a lot of actors who are talented and beautiful. Are they destined to date? I'm borrowing a sentence from Mr. Chen just now, are you a reporter? You just now The problem. Let me think you are just a gossip newspaper!"

for a while.The atmosphere of the entire press conference became awkward.Some reporters even looked at that mindless reporter angrily.After all, this is a press conference before the release of "Young and Dangerous", not a reception that creates scandals and attracts attention.

The reporter was taken aback by a newcomer like Zhou Huimin, and wanted to continue to get angry, but Chen Xiaotang didn't give him a chance at all, and got up directly in front of everyone, and left the press conference without any response.

The emergence of this situation made the staff present unable to react, and made the reporters speculate whether Chen Xiaotang left the meeting angrily because his relationship with Zhou Huimin was exposed, or because...

Only Fatty Wang Jing was still sitting there indifferently, but he was already secretly delighted——Chen Xiaotang's actions will undoubtedly push this news to the forefront of public opinion. big press.

The fat man even had some doubts. According to Chen Xiaotang's treachery, did he deliberately go his own way? !
You know, Chen Xiaotang is well-known as a "little fox" in the entertainment industry, and he can often use the media to get the most benefits.He can turn bad things into good things, turn dead things into living things, and the most important thing is that he seems to be lucky all the time and never misses.If those media reporters are likened to the police who catch thieves, then Chen Xiaotang is a gangster who will always be at large.Often those reporters who thought they had the truth were sold by him, and even counted the money for him.

Therefore, the fat man has the right to believe that Chen Xiaotang is playing tricks again.

(End of this chapter)