Reborn I want to surf

Chapter 918 Dragon Tiger Martial Artist
The world's most expensive office building is in Central Hong Kong.

Central is a land where every inch of land is expensive, and most of its customers are financial institutions and law firms. Yes, law firms and lawyers have a lot of energy on Hong Kong Island.

In "Cold War 2", Chow Yun-fat plays a barrister, commonly known as "big shape", and the word "big shape" has a sense of history, so this broken place is really the style of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, neither Britain nor New China.

When Hugelive started, Yu Jiajia naively wanted to open a business in Central, but later found that the rent was too expensive, so she moved to Kowloon East in desperation.

At first it was rented, but later with financing, we simply bought a 20-story office building with an area of ​​nearly 4 square meters as the Hong Kong headquarters.

4 square meters!
One square foot in Hong Kong is equal to 0.09 square meters, and it is often said that a 90-square-foot luxury house is only [-] square meters.

So it is conceivable that in such a place dominated by the financial industry and the service industry, an Internet outsider's strong entry will have an impact on the local area.

A day in April.

As usual, there is a lot of traffic, and the wage earners are working hard, walking through this city with mixed styles and eccentricities.

Chen Baisheng, the editor-in-chief of "Movie Biweekly", just finished watching "Dear", came out of the subway, carried a bag into Hugelive's building, and found an office with a biweekly sign on the 16th floor.

After the magazine resumed publication, there were more than a dozen people, and the sales volume was bleak, but Yu Jiajia didn't ask for performance, as long as you did it.There is no market pressure, and the salary is paid as usual, which actually improves the professionalism of the magazine and attracts a small group of movie enthusiasts to subscribe.

Chen Bosheng often collects materials and writes articles himself, so he is naturally biased towards 99 Entertainment.

"Mr. Chen!"

"Mr. Chen!"

He nodded, entered his office, and began to write a review of "Dear".

This film is directed by Chen Kexin, starring Huang Bo, Hao Lei, Zhang Yi, and Yan Bingyan. It is of high quality, with good viewability and art department.

However, there is no market for such movies in Hong Kong, and the box office is about zero.

From a professional perspective, Chen Baisheng liked this film very much and made a relatively objective review, especially appreciating the acting skills of the four leading actors.

Crackling in one go, a review is freshly baked.

After finishing writing, he also wanted to add some content, summarize the movies released this year, and see which ones are capable of competing for the Academy Award.Such a summary is incredible!

The peak output of Hong Kong films is more than 200 a year. After the decline, there are only 40-50 films per year. The films with a slightly larger investment are all co-productions, and Golden Harvest produces the most.

But this year so far, the number is 12!
"..."

Chen Bosheng's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly collected other information, and found that including the films that will be released within the year, there are only 20 films!
And these 20 films are mostly commercial films with little acting content.

His eyes returned to "Dear". The film has been screened in Hong Kong for 10 days, and one-third of the positions are Hong Kong personnel... All the conditions are perfectly matched, as if it was specially customized for next year's Academy Awards.

Hiss!
Chen Bosheng has been immersed in the industry for 30 years, so he naturally guessed something.

He was dazed in the office for a while, and suddenly smiled to himself: "Forget it, I'm so old, why are you participating in that? Make your own money!"

He convinced himself as quickly as possible and continued to work hard.

Since the beginning of this year, the Hong Kong film market has been quietly changing. In addition to the artificial control of the boss, the rise of Hugelive is also a major reason.

Last year, she voted for 30 online universities, which have been launched one after another.

These films are large in scale, straightforward, novel in theme, have newcomers, and some of them are free, diverting some viewers virtually.

Chen Baisheng wanted to do an in-depth report on "Hong Kong Film and Streaming Media", and he made an appointment for an interview today. He looked at the time and saw that it was almost here.

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Dragon and Tiger Warrior is a major feature of Hong Kong films.

Originally from four people:

Yu Zhanyuan, from BJ, learned Peking Opera. After arriving in Hong Kong, he opened a Peking Opera school. His apprentice was the famous Seven Little Fortunes, and he trained two great figures, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.

By the way, when Yu Zhanyuan speaks BJ dialect, he also asks his apprentices to speak it. If anyone speaks Cantonese, he will slap him with a big mouth. That's why Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan speak Mandarin like this.

Next is Fen Juhua, a female Peking Opera actor who also opened an opera school in Hong Kong. Her apprentices include Xiao Fangfang, Lin Zhengying, Dong Wei, Zun Long, Hui Tianci (Hui Yinghong’s brother) and so on.

Then there is Yuan Xiaotian, who practices Northern martial arts and has several famous sons: Yuan Heping and Yuan Xiangren.

The last one is Liu Zhan, who practiced southern martial arts, and learned from Lin Shirong—Lin Shirong from Huang Feihong, who has a son named Liu Jialiang.

They first learned opera or practiced martial arts.

Later, when there was no market for opera and martial arts, and the rise of movies, they switched careers and became martial arts teachers.And the apprentices and descendants of these four people are opening the era of the four classes of martial arts in Hong Kong movies:

The Hong family class, the married family class, the Yuan family class, and the Liu family class!

Therefore, the mythical brilliance of Hong Kong films is due to the shadow of those mainland filmmakers, including Zhang Cheh, Li Hanxiang, Chu Yuan, and Hu Jinquan, all of whom are famous directors in film history.

When the glory of Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan is over, internally they do not seek to make progress, the small studio model, externally Hollywood conquers the city, and finally the industry lags behind, talents are scarce, and Hong Kong films decline.

Back to Dragon and Tiger Warrior.

Back then, it was really a desperate job, and it was too much to die for.

For example, when the Hong family class releases a new film, the family members will watch it, and after seeing it, jumping down from the fourth floor, this scene is exciting!No, we have to be more exciting, we jumped from the fifth floor, and we were all on fire...

Don't you dare to jump?If you don't dare to jump, just get out. If he dares to jump, he can make this money.

This is a high paying career!

Most of the dragon and tiger martial artists are uneducated, paid a lot of money, don't know how to manage money, spend a lot of money when they are young, and have a miserable life when they are old.Especially when the industry is depressed, there are no jobs for them.

The bottom practitioners in Hong Kong are very poor!

But it’s different now, because Boss Yu is here, and when Boss Yu is here, there is blue sky!

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"Boss, try this crab, a high-end product from Japan!"

"Crazy line, what Japanese products are you doing? Today I eat crabs, but in a few years the crabs will eat me!"

In the evening, in a restaurant.

Huo Huo is taking his brothers to eat Hesse. They are all 60-year-old men, vulgar and savage, all of them have injuries, and one guy is in a wheelchair.

A table of raw seafood, Huo Huo greeted everyone to eat and drink, he didn't move much, just sighed: Oh, how many years have you been so chic?
He is from Shanghai, and he also studied Peking Opera. He and Cheng Xiaodong are brothers. Later, he entered the family class. He is Jackie Chan's right-hand man and participated in almost all of Jackie Chan's works.

Those dangerous shots in the movie usually let Mars try it first.For example, the classic clock tower falling scene in "Project A", the first shot was made by Mars, and the second shot was made by Jackie Chan himself.

He is 60 years old this year. He didn't save much money when he was young. He lived in a difficult life and had few job opportunities.The last movie that asked him to act as an action director was in 2010.

But today is a good day, boss Yu paid his salary!

(and also……)
(End of this chapter)