Reborn Hong Kong Wild Age

Chapter 41 Galactic Battleship
"Mr. Gu, hello. I'm Xu Lisha from Ming Pao Weekly, and this is my assistant Zhao Hantian."

In the office, an intellectual female reporter wearing black-rimmed glasses shook hands with Gu Xiayang enthusiastically.

"Hello, we are also colleagues, just order casually."

Xu Lisha smiled slightly when she heard the words, and said, "Just now I have arranged for the staff to take some photos in your company, and I will take one for you after the interview is over."

"no problem."

After a while of pleasantries, the interview officially began.

"The outside world says that you are from a wealthy family, Mr. Gu, that your grandfather is Mr. Shen from Mandu Clothing, and that you are also the mysterious songwriting genius Daydream, isn't that true?"

"That's right. But strictly speaking, I don't come from a wealthy family. After all, my surname is Gu. My father is from an ordinary family, and I rely on love to be with my mother."

It is true that Gu Xiayang has never answered these questions directly, but it is not a secret in itself.

"Hahahaha, Mr. Gu, you are really interesting. So there are rumors that "A Rumor of Love" is based on your parents' love story, is that true?"

Lisa Xu giggled. She is not very old. The editor-in-chief of "Ming Pao Weekly" is a smart ghost. He deliberately sent this editor-in-chief Xu to facilitate dealing with those rich kids.

"There are factors in this aspect, but it is a movie after all, there are truths and falsehoods, it's just artistic processing. Screenwriters, screenwriters, the most prominent is the editor."

"Investing in a movie is not a small sum, aren't you afraid of losing money?"

"Even if I lose money, I still want to shoot this work, so let's keep it as a souvenir."

"Mr. Gu, you graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. How did you come up with the idea of ​​starting a magazine and film company?"

"I think I didn't have good magazines when I was in middle school, so I don't want other children to have regrets in their lives. As for the film company, because I like writing, if I didn't start my own company, I would ask my grandpa to sue my grandma if I wanted to make something I wrote. People might not be willing to do that, right?"

Xu Lisha, who was holding the recording pen, only felt that Young Master Gu in front of her was pretty and her speech was interesting, which was really attractive.

"It is said that you and Ms. Zhou Huimin are childhood sweethearts. Ms. Zhou said that you were neighbors since childhood. Later, a reporter photographed you both living in Taikoo Shing. Are you dating?"

"It's really a coincidence that we have always been neighbors. But if we really date, we can live in the same flat and save a lot of money!"

Xu Lisha raised her eyebrows subconsciously, without entanglement: "Now you are recognized as a talented person in Hong Kong, but many lace newspapers say that you are a Hong Kong prodigal son, and you have dated several girlfriends at the same time in college..."

Gu Xiayang looked at the other party with sincere eyes: "Miss Xu, look at me, do you think I look like this kind of person?"

"cough……"

Xu Lisha almost blurted out the word 'like', and she slightly avoided Gu Xiayang's deep glasses: "Mr. Gu is young and rich, so it's normal for many girls to like him."

I don't know if she had several girlfriends at the same time before, but Xu Lisha is sure that Gu Xiayang will have Yingying and Yanyan by her side in the future.

This is a talented man who has created tens of millions of fortunes by his own ability, and has been in the entertainment industry, even Xu Lisha doesn't mind dating him.

……

The entire interview lasted about two hours, and most of the topics revolved around Gu Xiayang himself. As an entertainment weekly, "Ming Pao Weekly" certainly knows what the readers are concerned about.

A high-achieving student from a wealthy family has many talents, and there are a lot of gossip in the market. He suddenly presented a "Jade Girl Head". If you say it's nothing, who will believe it?

The news about Gu Xiayang's prodigal son at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is not groundless, because Gu Xiayang could not be interviewed. Many reporters contacted his teachers and classmates, and they all confirmed that this guy had many girlfriends in college.

After graduating from university, it was like opening a magazine, running a magazine, becoming the first weekly magazine on campus, earning a million a month, writing a few songs, being praised by Huang Zhan and others, and becoming a "Jade Girl Head", opening a film company, The box office of the first play was as high as 2000 million.

A son of a rich family who is worth a lot of money and whose appearance is not inferior to that of a star, this year's dazzling degree is even more radiant than many stars.

After the interview, Xu Lisha left a business card for Gu Xiayang before leaving, implying that she would make an appointment for tea in the future, and Gu Xiayang put the business card in the drawer casually.

As soon as Xu Lisha and the others left, Ju Jueliang walked in: "Boss, Brother Feng has been sitting with Brother Xiaobao in the conference room for a long time."

In the middle of Gu Xiayang's interview, the person Du Qifeng invited had already arrived at the company for nearly an hour.

Gu Xiayang rubbed his temples: "Please invite them in!"

Soon a man with glasses, long literary hair and a beard followed Du Qifeng into the office.

Du Qifeng introduced: "Young Master Gu, he is Xiaobao, Wei Jiahui."

"Hello, Mr. Gu."

"Hi, you're welcome, please sit down."

In fact, Wei Jiahui came here with Du Qifeng today, and Gu Xiayang knew that in a few years later, this person with the titles of 'Gold Medal Producer', 'Wei Zu', and 'Wei Xiaobao' in TVB would soon join Tianxiayi's banner.

When Wei Jiahui was young, he lived in a family that was not wealthy, and embarked on a journey to make a living prematurely.

After graduating from middle school, Wei Jiahui worked as a watchman in the parking lot for a year.He heard that TVB is a big organization with better treatment.So he followed the job advertisement in the newspaper to apply for TVB's screenwriting training class. Fortunately, he was admitted immediately after taking the test.

How amazing is the later Wei Jiahui?
His screenwriting ability and supervisory level were later recognized as masters in Hong Kong.

In 1981, Wei Jiahui was admitted to the Xiangjiang Radio TV screenwriting training class. In the screenwriting training class, he was valued by Mr. Liang Jianzhang and Mr. Gu Zhaofeng. Nicknamed "Wei Xiaobao".

Du Qifeng has cooperated with him many times, and now Wei Jiahui is the editor and reviewer of TVB TVB.

However, it will take at least 7 or 8 years for him to become the creative director, and even supervise the production of "Intolerance", which is a sensation in Hong Kong and breaks the ratings record.

Wireless TVB's ranking of seniority is too serious, he wants to go further, and he still has to suffer.

The current Wei Jiahui sees his friend jumping out of the TV station and doing a lot, so naturally he is very excited.

Not to mention Gu Xiayang, he is determined to build Tianxiayi into a first-class production company and needs more talents.

It's like Mecca found Shi Yan and Huang Boming back then, and then they supported their small "struggle room", and then Teddy Robin, Zeng Zhiwei, Xu Xu and Shi Nansheng joined and gradually formed the "Seven Monsters of Xinyi City". Created the glory of the golden princess.

"I'll call you Xiaobao, too. Sir Du should have talked to you about the general situation. He has praised you a lot. I believe in his vision and in the talents cultivated by Wireless TVB. The company will start filming two more this year. There will be more dramas in the future, are you willing to pass the time?"

Gu Xiayang went straight to the point and said, "I also plan to set up an investment department and a brokerage department. Tianxiayi has a bright future, and the treatment is easy to talk about."

"Mr. Gu did exactly what Ah Feng said, so bold."

In fact, Gu Xiayang's decision to invest all the proceeds from "If there is love in the sky" into the company also gave Du Qifeng and the others a lot of confidence.

The purpose of this young boss is not just an independent production company.

To put it simply, the pre-production alone is very important for a movie. If there is a standardized production department, once the script is approved, the overall planning of casting, behind-the-scenes personnel arrangement, etc. will be established immediately. .

For example, those who are responsible for attracting investment and advertising, or preparing various scenes or even props as small as a needle, etc., all departments will turn like gears.

After a movie is shot, it needs to be handed over to the dubbing department, special effects department and other post-production.

When the editing is complete, the copy is handed over to the theater department responsible for arranging the release...

"Mr. Gu, I have to call you the boss from now on!"

Almost without much eloquence, Wei Jiahui agreed to pass the next day.We are all young, like-minded and the opportunity is in front of him, he can't miss it.

Before coming to the company, Du Qifeng had chatted with him for at least a week, drawing various big cakes, and Gu Xiayang naturally saved a lot of effort.

Wireless tvb has too many qualifications and talents. The most important thing is that the salary is too low. Young people have a lot of expenses and can't afford it. There are better opportunities, so they are naturally full of enthusiasm.

From the moment Shaw Brothers closed, Gu Xiayang asked Ju Jueliang and Du Qifeng to start poaching people, but it really gave Gu Xiayang the biggest surprise.

In addition to Wei Jiahui, Wei Jiahui brought his apprentice You Naihai and Du Qifeng's favorite student You Dazhi together.

Speaking of You Naihai, many people have no impression of him.But in the future, he will be well-known in the ranks of screenwriters, such as "Dark Flower", "Dark War", "Gunfire", "Goodbye A Lang", "Lonely Man and Widow", "Slimming Men and Women", "PTU" and other classic movie scripts , are all from the hand of this ace screenwriter.

Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay, also known as Best Screenplay, he won three times in a row.The Golden Statue Award has also been won twice in a row, a total of three times.

And You Dazhi, who studied under Du Qifeng, has successively served as an assistant in the news department, assistant director, director, etc., and has been waiting to transfer to the TV department.

You Dazhi's black trilogy "Two Can Only Live One", "Dark Flower" and "Suddenly" are all very wonderful.

Especially the latter two films made Yinhe famous as "dark, ruthless, cold and cool".

His films have obvious tragic colors, the fate is never in the hands of the protagonist himself, You Dazhi coldly follows the tragic stories from the perspective of an indifferent bystander.

In terms of story selection, three completely different themes of love, survival, and career were chosen.

The protagonists all have a strong hope for survival, but they are struggling in the arrangement of fate.

Especially worth mentioning are the latter two. "Dark Flowers" tells the story of how a policeman who took black money was designed and arranged by others in one day, and was forced to complete the murder plan step by step, and finally went to the point of no return.Its cruel fate arrangement and black tragic life are brought into full play in the ingenious conception.

And "Suddenly" has a rare unexpected ending in Hong Kong movies, and the black theme is less than the last few minutes.

You Dazhi's black theme clues from shallow to deep, in the three films, have a wonderful inheritance relationship, both individually and as a whole, with obvious style and personal color.

Excellent screenwriters with potential are paid by film companies.

Just like Wang Jiawei who was expelled by Huang Boming, even though he was so hardworking, Xinyi City raised him for a long time, and then Huang Boming was so angry that he vomited blood, so he kicked him out.

On the one hand, their salaries are low enough. On the other hand, many filmmakers start out as screenwriters. If you train a group of screenwriters, you may be able to produce talents or produce good works someday.

"I have almost collected the 'Galaxy Image', the future galaxy battleship!"

If it is said that Hong Kong films were gradually weakening after the reunification in 97, but in the middle of that period, a film company stood up and carried the banner, and it was-Galaxy Image.

At that time, "Galaxy" was the most united team in Hong Kong, with the largest number of filmmakers and elites, just like the "New Art City" that was in full swing.

If this team is a body, and To Qifeng is the brain that directs and mobilizes the body, then the heart is Wei Jiahui, and the left and right hands are You Naihai and You Dazhi.

As for the left and right legs, of course it is Liu Dehua and Liu Qingyun.Now apart from Liu Qingyun, Gu Xiayang has almost completely spelled out the Galaxy Battleship.

This team is one of the few that can do a job well between business and art.

In the downturn of the film market, bowing to business is a compromise and an improvement.

If every director stubbornly shoots films without commercial profits, he will only end his career as a director prematurely.

The works of Yinhe Image are divided into two categories: one is for making money, and the other is for ideas.These two types of works have a reasonable division of labor, each performing its own duties, occasionally converging, but often separated.

The art films of Galaxy Image are more representative of their company's style. When people mention Galaxy Image, they will immediately think of the excellent works that show off the personal style of Galaxy Image.

The iron triangle structure of Yinhe just reflects the three trends of Yinhe movies: You Dazhi's dark, cold, and ruthless; Wei Jiahui's wild and cool; Du Qifeng's strong commercial film tendency.

In the Xiangjiang film industry that was flooded with commercial films later, the works of the first two are unique. They stand out with their distinctive personalities and have won more attention and praise. "Darkness, ruthlessness, and ruthlessness" have become recognized Galaxy's personality.

You Naihai may not have received as much attention as the above three major directors, but Yinhe's style and early high-quality works, if there is no talented screenwriter You Naihai to tell the story, I am afraid that it is only a certain characteristic of the Hong Kong film industry It is impossible for a film company to become such a highly rated individual pioneer later on.

You Naihai's wisdom in the screenwriting process is absolutely unparalleled. The plot design of "Dark Flower" and "Dark War" has reached a new height in the history of Hong Kong movies in the eyes of most filmmakers.

In particular, while "Dark War" gained huge commercial benefits, it even opened up a unique film genre such as "Double Heroes Fighting Wits" separated from police and gangster films.

In his works, you can see the weird personality, cruel indifference, desperate struggle, implication of stunning, unexpected turning point, and feel the gushing talent.

Yinhe's works "express the theme with creativity and style, and convey ideas with images and structures", first of all based on his wonderful stories and expressions.

In addition, Tianxiayi Film Company took advantage of this opportunity to recruit a group of excellent photographers, editors, film soundtracks and other system talents from Shaw Brothers. The company has a bright future.

The rest of Tianxiayi's work this year is to rush out one movie before Christmas and one during the Spring Festival.

(End of this chapter)