The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 131

Cheng Long's "Laughing Fist Strange Trick" is also edited in the same way, and also edited the most exciting fighting scenes, which gives people the illusion that the fighting in the whole movie is so exciting, but in fact there are only one or two places .

This cheating editing technique was also brought by Xu Guanwu from later generations.

This is the case with the promotional videos of some bad movies in later generations. Just watching the promotional video is definitely eye-catching, and makes people feel excited and want to go to the theater to buy tickets immediately.

But in fact, the essence of the whole film is all in the promotional video. There are not so many special effects at all, and there are not so many explosion scenes. Even the story is not as smooth as in the promotional video.Let the audience who paid to buy tickets scold the father of cheating after watching it.

After getting the clip, Xu Guanwu immediately transcribed it into a video tape, and then showed it in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows facing the street.

Speaking of video tapes, the video technology at that time had just developed, and the price of a Philips video recorder was 600 pounds. Such a high price made it very difficult for the popularization of video recorders.At the same time, a box of video tapes only has a capacity of 60 minutes, and there is no possibility of storing the entire movie at all, so it has not attracted enough attention from the film industry until now.

Xu Guanwu knew how much market power a small video tape contained, but he didn't remember exactly when the video recorder would be commercially available.Therefore, there is no idea of ​​building a video rental and sales chain store for the time being.

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The clips of the two films "Genius and Idiot" and "Laughing Boxing Strange Move" were screened in theaters under the New Brilliant Cinema Line in turn. Such a novel publicity method immediately attracted people's attention.

Every day, many people stand in front of the window and watch those two clips over and over again.

People in the 70s really lacked ways of recreation and entertainment. At that time, there were no personal computers, no video game consoles, no karaoke, and the poor did not even have TVs.

So squatting at the entrance of the theater and watching those two clips has become one of the entertainment methods for many ordinary people.

Although many people have watched it many times, but because the theater is built in a bustling place, there are countless people coming and going every day, so there are crowds of people watching it every day.

Xu Guanwu saw that this kind of publicity method was so popular, he quickly asked Mai Jia to shoot a few MVs for Xu Xiaofeng, and broadcast them together with two movie clips, which actually caused Xu Xiaofeng's album sales to rise against the trend, which almost shattered everyone's glasses.

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As the new year approaches, good news comes one after another.

The first new Brilliant Cinemas was officially established, inheriting the name of the previous Brilliant Cinemas, also known as Brilliant Cinemas.The former Brilliant Cinemas was renamed "Yimei Cinemas", which specializes in showing movies with niche themes.

The second one, the films starring Xu Guanwen and Cheng Long have been completed one after another, and the post-production has also been completed. The copies have been developed and produced, and they will be officially released on December 27.

The third piece of good news is that Winners, a subsidiary of Yesung Records, is about to release their first album, "Listen to the Winners".It follows the British rock style similar to the Beatles. The songs on the album are both cover and composed by the members themselves.This is also commonplace in the Hong Kong music industry.

The fourth good news is that the School of Performing Arts has finally taken shape. Xu Guanwu invited Mr. Zhong Jinghui, a veteran stage actor and drama educator, as the principal, and at the same time invited Liu Zhaoming to be the head of the dance department. Together with nearly forty other teachers, they jointly built a Foundations of the School of Performing Arts.

Mr. Chung King Fai is a senior Hong Kong actor and drama educator. He once studied drama at Yale University in the United States and is quite a professional entertainer.

He used to work as a producer in TVB, but when he heard Xu Guanwu invited him to the performing arts school, Zhong Jinghui, who loves acting, immediately put down his monthly salary of tens of thousands of production jobs and came to serve as the principal of the performing arts school.

He highly appreciates Xu Guanwu's willingness to spend money to cultivate Hong Kong performing arts talents, and believes that this is a very beneficial cause, and it also plays a very good role in promoting the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

The performing arts school in the future will have five major classes, namely acting class, music class, directing class, production class, dance class, etc.Create and export talents for the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

The Performing Arts School is scheduled to officially open in March next year, and it is currently enrolling students from the public, and the applicants are very enthusiastic.Because there is a special statement in the admissions advertisement that Xu Brothers will arrange a job after graduation.

Just because of this one, thousands of people signed up for the exam.Because of the bad economic environment at that time, many people could not find jobs.

In addition to these four good news, there is another piece of good news that the plan to fund the new director's filming has finally found a suitable candidate.

There are two new directors in the first batch of funding, one is Zhang Guoming and the other is Zhang Jian.

Zhang Guoming, who started filming at the age of 17, has won three independent film awards. He is a leader among Hong Kong's hottest directors, and his films have won Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards.I have filmed such well-received and well-received films as "The Pointing Soldier" and "The Marginal Man", and I have also filmed such super cheating masterpieces as "Interstellar Blur".

Zhang Jian, a pioneer of Hong Kong independent films, co-founded the Guardian Film Society with like-minded friends in 71, vigorously promoting the development of Hong Kong independent films.In addition to promoting independent films, Zhang Jian was also an associate director of Shaw Brothers, and was later recruited by Xu Guanwu to serve as an assistant director in "Genius and Idiot", showing a certain director talent.

Xu Guanwen cherishes talents, so he decided to sponsor him to make a movie, making him the first batch of recipients.

Xu Guanwu also gave this activity a name, which is also a plagiarized name for later generations, called "Asia's New Star Guidance Project".

When Zhang Guoming and Zhang Jian learned that the Xu Brothers Company planned to sponsor them to make a movie, they all thought they had heard it wrong, and only later did they realize that the sky had really fallen.

Although there are a group of people with lofty ideals in Hong Kong who continue to promote the production and promotion of independent films, the development of independent films in Hong Kong is not good because no one is willing to spend money to invest.And after the film is made, apart from participating in independent film exhibitions, it is difficult to get it to be released in theaters.

Therefore, although Hong Kong movies are developing very prosperously and are known as Eastern Hollywood, they are actually far behind Hollywood.Hundreds of independent films are produced in Hollywood every year, and there are countless independent film festivals that allow independent filmmakers to promote their works.

Among the eight major film companies in the United States, there are also branches that specialize in the complex distribution of independent films, which can ensure that excellent independent films can also be released.

At the same time, the United States also has a dedicated art theater chain, which screens independent films with high artistic quality, so that people who love art films can watch the latest works.

Hollywood has built a complete channel for independent films, from production to publicity, from distribution to release, all the way smoothly.This provides a high-quality living soil for American independent filmmakers, and at the same time cultivates a large number of talents for Hollywood.

The reason why Xu Guanwu built a performing arts school, set up a theater chain, and funded new directors to make films is to imitate the Hollywood model and inject new vitality into Hong Kong films.

Of course, this requires a lot of effort in the early stage, and it takes a long time to see the results, but Xu Guanwu still doesn't want to give up.

The last piece of good news is that Huang Jinkai, whose pseudonym is Golden Dragon, is the spokesperson of Yiqun Jordan District. After hiding for a long time, his whereabouts were finally discovered.

(End of this chapter)