1979 Golden Age

The audition lasted for two days.

Chen Qi picked several candidates, including Fennie Yuen and Zhu Yin. Fennie Yuen was like a tomboy, and Zhu Yin was too sweet. In fact, neither of them was suitable for the role.

This role should be pure and reveal a strange charm, because her real age is 33 years old. She likes mature men and longs to have sex with mature men, so she seduced her former adoptive father, but she couldn't get what she wanted, so she could only suppress her restless desire deep in her heart.

By the way, when I watched the original version of "Orphan", I wanted to complain. With the high incidence of pedophilia in the United States, she actually had to suppress her sexual desire, which was amazing.

In short, the audition is still going on. If it still doesn't work, he can only use the metaphysical method!

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There is a wealthy man named Lei in Hong Kong, who owns Kowloon Motor Bus, Kowloon Construction and other industries.

He also wanted to enter the film industry, so he formed a Golden Princess Cinema Line with more than a dozen theaters, second only to Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. With the cinema chain, we need to find sources of films, so Boss Lei took a fancy to a small company.

The small company was jointly established by Mai Jia, Shi Tian, ​​and Huang Baiming.

Mai Jia was an engineer who switched to filming and had a big bald head. Shi Tian was a senior actor who had acted in "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" and "Drunken Master". Huang Baiming was a drama actor and was good at writing scripts.

The three of them hit it off and made a name for themselves. Later, they were acquired by Boss Lei and reorganized into a company called "Cinema City".

Later, they found Tsui Hark, Nansun Shi, Zeng Zhiwei, and Teddy Robin. These were the famous Seven Monsters of Cinema City!

Their creative method was as follows:

The seven-member group held meetings every night until the early morning, brainstorming and coming up with different ideas. Huang Baiming would put a tape recorder to record the conversation and sort it out into text when he returned.

Once the script was finalized, no one was allowed to change it.

Although Chen Qi criticized Cinema City, he was sure of their contributions. For example, a 90-minute movie would be divided into 9 parts in terms of structure:

The beginning must be eye-catching, followed by foreshadowing and transition. In the fourth part, a relatively large climax should be set, in the seventh part, another climax should be arranged, and in the ninth part, a maximum climax should be the ending...

This is already a standard practice in Hollywood.

Cinema City's movies are also the closest to the Hollywood model in Hong Kong, and they are willing to spend money and make big productions. If they persist, they may not achieve greater glory.

It's a pity that they died in civil strife.

In Cinema City, Huang Baiming holds 9% of the shares, Shek Tin holds 19%, and Maijia and Golden Princess Cinemas hold 72% together. Tsui Hark and the other four are called the core team in a nice way, but in fact they are just senior workers.

When starting a business, you can be passionate and don't care, but once you have more wealth, you will divide the spoils unevenly. The glory of Xinyicheng only lasted for six years, and then it fell apart, leaving behind a number of classics such as the "Best Partner" series, the "Happy Ghost" series, "The Wrong Car" and "A Better Tomorrow"...

At this moment, Xinyicheng's office.

The Seven Monsters are studying the filming of "Best Partner". The film has an investment of 8 million, of which 2 million is for Xu Guanjie's salary. The investment scale is one of the best in Hong Kong and cannot be lost.

"..."

Tsui Hark listened to others talking, and his attention was not very focused. To be honest, he didn't like this kind of pure commercial film without nutrition, but he had to make a living.

"..."

Zeng Zhiwei was also a little distracted. It was nothing more than what the mainland guy named Chen said in the newspaper a few days ago: "There is a problem with the internal distribution of interests in Xinyicheng, and it will fail in three to five years!"

He is the director of "Best Partner". At most, he gets a director's fee and a red envelope. The big profit dividend has nothing to do with him! No one thought about this before, and it was suddenly pointed out by someone, so it was hard not to think divergently.

"Ah Wei? Ah Wei?"

"Did you write down what we just said?"

"I wrote it down. I'm very smart and I won't make a single mistake!"

Zeng Zhiwei reacted and let out his signature laugh.

"Well, "Best Partner" has staked all our assets on this. You have to work hard. If it makes money, we'll prosper together. If it doesn't, we'll fail together!"

As the boss, Mai Jia encouraged morale, but he knew it in his heart and secretly cursed the mainlander. He got the biggest share, so he naturally wouldn't take the initiative to mention it. He could only pretend to be confused. It can be said that Xinyicheng, which originally had a few years of glory, was buried with a mine in advance.

After studying the matter, just as the meeting was about to end, an employee suddenly came in.

"Boss, someone sent a visiting card."

"Visiting card?"

Everyone was stunned. Mai Jia frowned at the red letter: "What era is there still a visiting card? Which old antique has crawled out of the ground? Should I write him a reply and give him a book boy..."

His voice stopped abruptly because he had already opened it, and a business card and a concise letter fell out first.

The gist of it is: I was in a hurry last time when I came to Hong Kong, so I didn't see you. This time I come to Hong Kong again, I have heard that your company is full of talents and famous in Hong Kong. I will visit you tomorrow morning to discuss important matters.

The business card says: Chen Qi, Oriental Culture and Art Co., Ltd.!

This is nothing, the key is that there is another name on it: it starts with the country, then the ministry, and then the Bureau of External Cultural Relations!

The font is traditional Chinese, obviously a business card specially used in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is still leased by the United Kingdom. Coming here is equivalent to leaving the country, so naturally you have to add the full name to show your identity.

"..."

Mai Jia's heart twitched, and he pushed the letter and business card to Shi Tian. Shi Tian read it expressionlessly and pushed it to Huang Baiming.

After the letter was passed around, the atmosphere was very strange. Huang Baiming spoke first: "What's going on? What does it mean that he threw a letter over here? Is he coming to inspect? Should we roll out the red carpet to entertain him?"

"Does he want to hold an event with us?" Shi Tian said.

"No, no, I want to find out first, is he an official or a civilian?" Zeng Zhiwei said.

Mai Jia is from Taishan, Guangdong. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 14. He knows a little better than them. He scratched his big bald head and said, "He should be a company under the official, a state-owned enterprise, and has a level."

"???"

Everyone is still very subtle.

The system is too unfamiliar to them!

Huang Baiming waved his hand and said, "Forget it, these are not important. The key is what should we do? If he, a mainlander, comes to us, it will be very bad if the Freedom Association knows about it."

"Then we avoid him?"

"It's OK if we don't let him in. Block him at the door!"

"Then should we be more domineering and let him know how powerful we are?"

Hmm? ? ?

Mai Jia looked at Huang Baiming who made the suggestion, shook his big bald head, and said: "Come on, he represents the mainland official, you are bullying him? Even Britain dare not bully the mainland!"

He knocked on the table and said: "Let's avoid each other, we can avoid each other!"

The group dispersed immediately.

Tsui Hark walked out, and Shi Nansheng caught up with him and asked: "Don't you think that the visit is a bit strange?"

"What's strange?"

"He first said bad things about us in the newspaper, and then suddenly ran over, as if he was targeting Xinyicheng."

"It's okay if he doesn't target me, I just want to make a movie!"

Tsui Hark quickened his pace and entered the elevator. Shi Nansheng rolled his eyes and followed him in. The two had been dating for 3 years and were already talking about marriage.

Tsui Hark has always had no patience for these mundane affairs, so Shi Nansheng has to bear more.