1979 Golden Age

October 10 is the National Day of the Kuomintang, also known as the Double Ten Festival.

Established to commemorate the Revolution of 1911.

On Double Ten Day in 1956, under the conspiratorial organization of Taiwan, Hong Kong rightists gathered thousands of people to launch the "Kowloon Riots" and attacked leftist societies, schools, shops and factories, killing 60 people and injuring more than 400 people.

Left-wing film studios were not spared and suffered huge losses. At that time, the British Hong Kong government enacted legislation requiring factories to withdraw from urban areas, so they found new locations.

With limited funds, the leftists chose a remote and cheap piece of land near Clear Water Bay to build a new studio. At the same time, Run Run Shaw also bought a piece of land in Clear Water Bay and built a Shaw Brothers studio.

So these two studios are next to each other and are neighbors.

Not to mention the radical left, no matter how armed the struggle is, the left is facing the triple oppression of the British Hong Kong government, capitalists, and rightists. It is isolated outside the country and has limited support from the mainland. If you don't fight in that environment, you will die.

Clear Water Bay is a peninsula in the southeast corner of Hong Kong and was developed relatively late.

Run Run Shaw first built his studio here, and later also set up TVB's headquarters here, which for a time became the base camp of Hong Kong TV dramas.

"Didi!"

Early the next morning, a Gundam car drove into Clear Water Bay from the city and passed the Shaw Brothers Studio first. Chen Qi looked outside and saw a series of gray and white buildings hidden among the green trees. One of the tall buildings was very eye-catching. It should be an administrative building.

“How many sound stages do they have?”

"16!"

"What about us?"

"8!"

"It's not bad. We have a dubbing room, an editing room, a test room, and a printing room. Even though we are small, we have everything."

"Of course, we have never been afraid. We have been fighting against all kinds of enemies." Fu Qi said with a smile.

The car drove for a while and entered a smaller studio. This was his own territory. The layout is similar, and there is also a main administrative building, where the offices of Great Wall, Phoenix, and Xinlian are located.

The 8 studios were divided into two rows, and only 3 studios were working. Zhang Xinyan came out first.

"Hey! Director Zhang, when I see you, I feel like meeting an old friend in a foreign land!"

"Come on, you kid made such a big fuss and overshadowed my "Shaolin Temple"."

"'Shaolin Temple' hasn't been released yet. Maybe it's better than 'Tai Chi'?"

Zhang Xinyan was working on the latter stage of "Shaolin Temple" here. He came out to say hello, chatted for a few words and then went back.

Immediately afterwards, Fu Qi took him to another shed. When he entered, he smelled a strong smell of artificial plasma. It was decorated like a torture chamber, with various killing instruments, severed limbs and remains on the floor, and bowls with It contains a few eyes that will never rest in peace.

A bald and bearded director was filming. Liu Xuehua, covered in blood, screamed in horror at the camera.

"That is director Mou Dunfu. We are still looking for him for "Fatal Turn 2" and "Dark Invasion 2". His contract will expire next year and he is very willing to join us." Fu Qi said in a low voice.

"He's a director from Shaw Brothers, right? Will Shaw Brothers let him go?"

"The issue in Hong Kong is tense at the moment. China and Britain are willing to negotiate. That old cunning man Run Run Shaw will not offend us for a small director."

Chen Qi stopped and looked at it for a while.

Liu Xuehua acted in too many love scenes in her previous life, and the audience only remembers her big eyes and crying scenes. And with her looks, she is a natural fit for filming horror thrillers. She may have to change her course in this life.

Chen Qi paid a little attention to her, but didn't pay much attention to her. There were so many talents in this era, and there were so many S-level characters that he didn't even bother to look at the ones who were minor.

In a circle.

The two entered the main administrative building. Fu Qi had some matters to deal with. Chen Qi went to his office to wait, then picked up today's newspaper and read through it.

"Yesterday, five gangsters robbed the Hengchang Watch Store in Tsim Sha Tsui and took away millions of luxury watches. A gun battle broke out on the street. The police and the gangsters fired a total of 40 shots. A Pakistani auxiliary police officer died in the line of duty... The gangsters actually escaped. The capabilities of the police force are in doubt!”

This was the shootout that happened to him.

It has caused a sensation in Hong Kong, with front-page headlines and various analyzes of various details.

Chen Qi knew that the bandit leader was named Wu Jiandong. He was from the mainland and could be called the first generation of Hong Kong's toughest gangsters. He escaped unscathed this time and then committed another crime in 1984. They robbed a cash transport truck and made away with 140 million yen.

With no place to digest, these people just threw the money away.

As a result, they were discovered during the retreat. After a fierce battle, Wu Jiandong was captured. In the same year, "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" based on him was released, directed by McDonald...

"uncle!"

Chen Qi waited for a while and saw Fu Qi coming in and handed over the newspaper.

Fu Qi glanced at it and said: "If the Hong Kong police are in trouble, they will be scolded to death. These people look like they have been trained and have some military qualities... Let's not talk about this, let's talk about business!"

He sat down and said seriously: "We have studied the script you gave me and launched a casting activity, inviting little girls aged 10 to 13 to audition. It will officially start tomorrow, so you can also participate.

An assistant of Ms. Chen Xiangmei contacted us and will come to Hong Kong in a while. "

"She came in person?"

"How is that possible? The assistant is here.

If you are satisfied with our project, you will naturally recommend several American actors. If you are not satisfied, you will also recommend them for Mr. Liao's sake, but it may be difficult to contact them in the future. "

"It should be about the same. I wrote it according to the American G-spot. Chen Xiangmei is very good at dealing with people. She must like the metaphors in this film."

"Metaphors? You should have said it clearly!"

Fu Qi shook his head.

When Chen Qi made a special film for North America, the determining factor was cost, followed by genre. Both companies were very poor, so they had to spend money wisely.

He simply divided the movies into three levels:

The level of famous film history, which can be recorded in the history of world cinema, and its influence will be passed down to future generations and become a cultural symbol.

The level of annual masterpieces, which is a hit at a certain stage, is very popular and talked about with relish.

Ordinary commercial films, assembly line products, are forgotten after watching, but can make some money.

He has no conditions to shoot big dramas now, so he can only look for it within the scope of the latter two. Horror thrillers are the most suitable, but Americans don't like to watch Eastern horror movies. They like Western horror movies, and then add a little Eastern metaphysics, which will make them feel novel.

Considering the opinions of the mainland, Chen Qi did not make ghosts and gods for the time being, and first made a thriller without ghosts and gods.

This story is called "Orphan's Complaint"!

It tells the story of a couple who already had two children. Unfortunately, the third child died in the womb, leaving a psychological shadow on the heroine. In order to solve this problem, the couple decided to adopt a child.

So they went to the orphanage and took away a 9-year-old girl who was very cute and sensible.

But the heroine soon found that the girl was not right. She had one face in front of her and another face in front of her husband. She also had a tendency to violence. However, her husband refused to believe it. Instead, he became more and more disgusted with the heroine under the instigation of the girl.

The heroine began to investigate and found the nun in the orphanage. As a result, the nun died, and then her children began to be hurt frequently...

Finally, the secret of the little girl was discovered: she was not a 9-year-old girl at all, but a 33-year-old adult with hormone disorders, and had killed 7 people-she had been adopted before, and she courted her former adoptive father, but she was furious when her courtship failed, and she killed the whole family directly.

In the end, the husband and son were killed, the heroine and the little daughter survived, and killed the "little girl" with a human face and a beastly heart.