Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 333 Special Video
  "Congratulations, Mr. Li, I heard that the recent movie box office is very good!"

"If you have nothing to say, you can shut up!"

In the office of the director of the production department in the Phoenix TV building, Li Wanshan was very troubled by the flattery of the new director of the production department, Xu Zhengkang.

Because this year, my own Xinyi City company is really having a hard time.

In the past few years, Xinyicheng Company had great success, defeating Jiahe and Shaw Brothers. Even these two companies, which were sworn enemies, actually joined forces to fight against the enemy, but the results were only minimal.

But this year, I originally thought that Shaw Brothers Film Company would cease production and New Art City would be more prosperous. Unexpectedly, it was suppressed by Golden Harvest for more than half a year.

During the Lunar New Year holiday in February this year, New Art City launched the annual masterpiece "Gong Xi Fa Cai", which earned a box office of HK$2 million, while Golden Harvest's "Lucky Star" directly reached a record-breaking HK$1800 million.

In the summer season, New Art City released "The Working Emperor" starring Xu Guanji, but it encountered "Summer Lucky Star" with a star-studded Golden Harvest cast. The result was more than 1000 million less than others at the box office, and New Art City failed again.

At this time, the movie box office Xu Zhengkang said was correct, referring to "Li Tianyi's Youth Chronicle", but that was also Li Wannian's work and had nothing to do with New Art City itself.

Li Wanshan really can't afford to lose that person!

Hearing Li Wanshan's angrily answer, Xu Zhengkang suddenly lost his intention to speak again.

This feeling of being flattered and slapped on the horse's hooves is really uncomfortable.

Just like that, Xu Zhengkang was sitting in Li Wanshan's office, looking at his boss awkwardly.

Li Wanshan was troubled when he saw Xu Zhengkang in front of him, but he couldn't drive him away!

"Boom boom boom!"

Fortunately, at this moment, there was a knock on the door, and then Li Wannian walked in, thus avoiding Li Wanshan's mental internal friction.

"Ten thousand years, you are finally here!"

"Second brother, I have to record a program over there. Why did you bring me here?"

When Li Wannian walked into the office, Li Wanshan immediately got up from behind his desk and walked over, putting his arm around Li Wannian's shoulders.

"Can't you just think about it?"

"Come on, you have something to say!" Li Wannian said angrily.

It has been a long time since I came to the TV station. The last time I came was the last time!
  If he hadn't been invited to participate in a program this time, he wouldn't have come over. After all, he was so busy all day long, how could he have time to come to the TV station every day?

However, after he came to the TV station, before he could go to the program crew, Li Wanshan sent someone to call him here.

This made Li Wannian, who was unprepared, so angry that he wanted to curse.

If he couldn't beat his second brother, he would really want to do it.

"I'm not looking for you, it's him!"

Li Wanshan took it out directly and pointed at Xu Zhengkang, who was standing aside like a follower.

Seeing that Li Wannian's eyes were finally on him, Xu Zhengkang quickly introduced himself: "Hello, Mr. Li, I am Xu Zhengkang, the director of the production department of the TV station." "Well, hello! What do you want?"

Seeing that the other party's posture was so low, it was difficult for him to have an attack, so he said patiently.

"That's right, I want to launch a new program for the Little Dragon Club, and I'm here to ask you for advice!"

With that said, Xu Zhengkang handed a report in his hand to Li Wannian with both hands.

Li Wannian took it over and took a look and found that the title on it was actually: "Report on the Production of Special Films by Television Stations."

"Huh? Special photo shoot?"

For a moment, Li Wannian suddenly became interested and couldn't help but glance at Xu Zhengkang.

I didn't expect that this guy had such a lively mind.

In fact, Li Wannian obviously underestimated Xu Zhengkang. Although this person was young and had just been promoted to the director of the production department this year, in his original time and space, he was a gold medal producer of TVB, and he was mainly responsible for the supplementary defense of situational dramas.

It can be said that he is a very talented person!
  As the saying goes, the three things a new official should do when he takes office. As the director of the production department, he naturally wanted to be a big one, so he set his sights on the Little Dragon Club.

As one of the flagship programs of Phoenix TV, this program has been running for seven years. In these seven years, few new programs have been added. Most of them continue the ideas established by Li Wannian. No matter how good they are, after such a long time, Many viewers are also tired of it.

But after all, this is a column created by Li Wannian. Who dares to change it?
  And once the changes are made, the results are still not as good as before. How can you still keep your bad hat?
  Even if your grades are better than before after making changes, there is still a problem. After all, you are more capable than your boss. Who can guarantee what your boss will think?
  So this is a thankless task, and everyone chose not to touch it until this "brainless" person appeared in front of them.

Unknown to Li Wannian, he focused all his attention on this report. Li Wannian had always been very concerned about special photography.

The so-called special effects films originally referred to films made using special techniques.

It can be traced back to Georges Méliès and the British production crew, who used special photography to show things that didn't exist in the 1903 film "The Robbers."

However, in 1954, Neon Toho released Neon's first monster special photo film "Godzilla". After that, Neon's classic special photo movies appeared one after another and even affected the world.

Ever since, the definition of tokusatsu films has gradually changed to specifically refer to neon film and television dramas shot with tokusatsu technology, such as "Ultraman", "Masked Superman" and so on.

Even though the special feature film looks like it is for children, the benefits and influence it brings are huge.

Just think about it, decades later, how many children or even young people will not know about Ultraman, even if they have never seen it?

Unfortunately, the first part of "Ultraman" was aired as early as 1966, which has a history of nearly 20 years. No matter how coveted this IP is, Li Wannian can't snatch it away.

Therefore, in the field of special effects films, even with Li Wannian, there is no way to catch up with Neon, or even surpass it. After all, Neon's three major special effects films are "Ultraman Series" and "Kamen Rider Series". , "Super Sentai Series" have all been produced, and the opponent has already established its momentum, making it difficult to surpass it.

Sure enough, Xu Zhengkang's idea was very good, but he didn't have much intention in this report. After reading it, his thoughts on special photography films were only based on neon special photography films, imitating the production of a Hong Kong Island-like "Super Sentai" or "Kamen Rider".

"This report is quite thoughtful, but there are still some problems with its implementation!"

Although Li Wannian pointed out the problem, Xu Zhengkang was not angry at all. Instead, he was very happy that Li Wannian did not completely deny the plan.

After all, how can writing a report to a leader be successful in one go?
  If the leader doesn't ask a few questions, how can he show his leadership ability?

(End of this chapter)