Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Lin Daoqiu, who left Hu Jinquan's house and got into the car, actually felt uncomfortable.

Hu Jinquan is indeed a treasure, but the premise is that you cannot care about time and money, otherwise it will be very painful to cooperate with him.

Lin Daoqiu originally wanted to find a movie for Hu Jinquan to make, but it seemed that Hu Jinquan did not intend to cooperate with him in the short term. Although this made Lin Daoqiu speechless, it could only be like this. After all, Lin Daoqiu could not force the other party. Cooperate with yourself, and he really doesn’t have a suitable script in his hand.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is a good choice. If Hu Jinquan is allowed to film it, it will definitely have a different flavor. However, Lin Daoqiu does not intend to take away Ang Lee's famous film, because without "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" "Dragon" It will probably be much more difficult for Ang Lee to make a fortune.

While it's possible that Ang Lee would still be famous without "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the odds are [-]-[-].

Moreover, even if "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is successfully filmed, Hu Jinquan's situation will not change in any way, and the number of people willing to invest in his filming will not increase. In this case, why bother.

Turning my thoughts back to the drama "The Swordsman", Tsui Hark and King Hu were excluded. It was obviously inappropriate to let others change the script.

Wong Kar-wai and Lau Chun-wai are the assistant directors of this drama, but if Wong Kar-wai is asked to change the script, it will definitely be nonsense. Then he will definitely let himself go again. What he writes and what he shoots are completely different. The script has and does not matter to him. There is no difference at all.

As for Liu Zhenwei, if you want to make a comedy, you can go to him, but the drama "The Swordsman" already has a fixed style. It is okay for him to be an assistant director and learn from his experience, but let him change the script and then direct the drama. , Lin Daoqiu couldn’t even imagine what the film would look like.

"Ah Sheng, who do you think you should find to change this script?"

"Mr. Lin, are you asking me?"

"Well, if you don't look for Tsui Hark and King Hu for martial arts movies, who else can you look for?"

Fang Jinsheng was obviously not ready for Lin Daoqiu's question, but he still answered subconsciously.

"King Hu is a great director of Shaw Brothers, but there were also many gold medal directors who made martial arts movies in Shaw Brothers, such as director Chu Yuan, one of them."

"Director Chu Yuan? Why didn't I think of that?"

Lin Daoqiu didn't expect that he could name a candidate just by asking him. Why didn't he think of Chuyuan, the Ten Thousand Gold Oil, before?

So Lin Daoqiu immediately gave instructions to Fang Jinsheng.

"Contact Director Chu Yuan for me. I want to treat him to dinner now."

Fang Jinsheng nodded quickly, then called to check out the movies directed by Chu Yuan, and then contacted the other party immediately.

"Director Chu Yuan, I am Mr. Lin Daoqiu's assistant Fang Jinsheng. Are you free tonight? Mr. Lin would like to treat you to dinner."

Chu Yuan was a little surprised when he received Fang Jinsheng's call. He was even more surprised that Lin Daoqiu wanted to invite him to dinner. Although he didn't know what Lin Daoqiu was doing, Chu Yuan immediately agreed. After all, Lin Daoqiu's treat was not casual. It's something that can be easily refused, and many people are even proud to have dinner with Lin Daoqiu.

Chu Yuan had been a gold-medal director for a period of time when he was in Shaw Brothers, with a box office of over one million, but gradually the martial arts movies declined, and the box office gradually became worse than the previous one. Later, Fang Yihua tore up the notice and refused to allow him to film. This shows how miserable his situation was at Shaw Brothers.

Fortunately, after Xinyi City came up, Chu Yuan was asked to help, and now he has some filming opportunities.Moreover, Chu Yuan no longer cares about fame and fortune at this time. He is now filming partly for his own interests and partly to make some money.

After receiving Lin Daoqiu's invitation, Chu Yuan immediately changed his clothes and went to the appointment.

Lin Daoqiu's treat this time was at a high-end restaurant. The meal was Chinese food, and he was the only guest.

After entering the restaurant, the waiter immediately took Chu Yuan to Lin Daoqiu's box. As soon as he entered the box, Chu Yuan found that there were only two people inside, Lin Daoqiu and Fang Jinsheng, and there were no other guests. Could it be that Lin Daoqiu was just entertaining tonight? alone?

"Director Chu, please sit down. I don't know if I have disturbed you. If so, please forgive me."

Lin Daoqiu stood up and walked over, shook hands with Chu Yuan, and then expressed his apology. After all, he wanted to invite Chu Yuan to dinner on the spur of the moment. Who knows if Chu Yuan had something to do, or he might even turn down other things because of Lin Daoqiu's invitation. possible.

Chu Yuan quickly shook his head at Lin Daoqiu's apology. He did not dare to show off in front of Lin Daoqiu.

If Run Run Shaw was the godfather of Xiangjiang movies before, then the current godfather is obviously Lin Daoqiu, and Lin Daoqiu's achievements are far higher than others. His series of achievements may be difficult for future generations to achieve, so Chu Yuan is sincere. Li admires Lin Daoqiu.

"Mr. Lin is so polite. It's an honor for you to invite me. Besides, I'm not too young now, and there aren't so many people looking for me, so I'm very free."

Although he didn't know if Lin Daoqiu wanted to film with him, Chu Yuan immediately expressed that he was very free now, so if Lin Daoqiu wanted to film with him, he would be available at any time.

Lin Daoqiu laughed as soon as he heard what Chu Yuan said. He could see that Chu Yuan wanted to continue making movies, and in large-scale productions.

"Stop standing, let's sit down and chat slowly. In fact, I just came from Director Hu Jinquan's side."

"Director Hu? Did Mr. Lin go to Director Hu to film?"

Chu Yuan was a little curious. If there is anyone in Xiangjiang who is willing to go to Hu Jinquan to film, Lin Daoqiu is definitely one of them, and one of the few.

Lin Daoqiu shook his head when asked by Chu Yuan.

"That's not true. Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui sent the script of "The Swordsman" to Director Hu for revision. After I found out about it, I went to get the script back."

Chu Yuan did not expect that Lin Daoqiu would do this. He didn't know what to say for a moment. He and Hu Jinquan were both former ministers of the Shaw Brothers, and they were considered close friends before. However, Hu Jinquan was withdrawn from the script by Lin Daoqiu. Chu Yuan also felt desolate after hearing it.

"Director Hu is a good director, but if "The Swordsman" is made by him, it will take at least two years to start filming. I can't wait that long, and "The Swordsman" has already been released twice, and the third one does not need to be too big. Big change.”

Chu Yuan hadn't realized that Lin Daoqiu's purpose for finding him this time was to let him direct "Swordsman", so he nodded quickly.

"Director Hu is very meticulous in filming. He will directly ask about everything no matter how big or small he is on the set. I admire him for this."

Lin Daoqiu nodded while listening. Chu Yuan did not notice that Lin Daoqiu was smiling at him.