The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 167 Emmanuel's Frenzy (For Collection)
"Emmanuel", a classic of French erotic films, has a global box office of more than 50 million US dollars. Compared with the cost of [-] US dollars, it can be said that the producer will wake up from their dreams.

There are a lot of nude scenes in the movie, but compared with the "real guns and live ammunition" adult movies, it seems very reserved.

The film focuses on the beautiful body shape and artistic photography, and does not have the direct sensory stimulation of hard lenses.In layman's terms, this film made by others pays attention to atmosphere and provocation, rather than real swords and guns, hard work.

After the film was introduced by Liang Shuyi, it was screened online in the Academy of Fine Arts, attracting a lot of audiences to watch it.Although it was stated on the poster that it was not suitable for children and banned in the [-]th century, the box office continued to rise.

At the same time, the word-of-mouth of this movie is also very good. Although it is an erotic movie that misses all three points, it expresses very rich connotations, and the evaluation given by film critics is also very high.

For a film like "Emmantle" that wins both box office and word-of-mouth, those Hong Kong production companies will naturally not let it go.

For a while, many production companies followed suit and snapped up movies with the same theme, such as "Emmanuel: The Old Mud Girl", "Emmanuel: The Thirteen Phoenixes on Temple Street", "Emmanuel: My Sexuality", etc. Wait.

Even Shaw Brothers also recruited "Emmania" star Sylvia Kristol, together with erotic film director He Fan to film "Goodbye Emmanuelle".

Seeing the movie "Emmania", the "Emmania craze" has stirred up in Hong Kong, and Xu Guanwu also has to lament that Hong Kong filmmakers are quick-witted, quick-witted, dare to shoot anything, and can use anything.

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The success of "Emmanuel" relieved the pressure of the art and beauty theaters to some extent, but this movie did not relieve the pressure of public opinion faced by Xu Brothers.

When Xu Guanwu returned to Hong Kong before, there were people protesting downstairs in the Xu Brothers company, and the disturbing staff couldn't concentrate on their work.

After "Emmanuelle" was released, Xu Guanwu was charged with another crime, showing pornographic movies, and the hat of being harmful to social morality was suddenly placed on his head.

Xu Guanwu felt very aggrieved by this, he only screened one film, and Shaw Brothers releases several romantic films every year, but no one went to Shaw Brothers Studios to protest.

"Sister, you are clearly bullying people." Xu Guanwu looked at the dozens of people gathered downstairs and said.

I don't know if these people are hired or not. They go downstairs to shout at [-] o'clock every day, and there are always just a few people.As soon as the police came, these people fled like sparrows, and as soon as the police left, they immediately gathered.Xu Guanwu wondered whether they had watched our party's war teaching film "Sparrow War".

Xu Guanwu couldn't stand this kind of protest like a dog's skin plaster before, so he moved to "Daily Daily" to work by himself.

Later, "Tiantian Daily" was blocked by peddlers, and the noise was also unbearable, so Xu Guanwu had to move back.Fortunately, after such a toss, his resistance has increased a lot, and he has learned to turn a blind eye to those who protest.

In fact, Xu Guanwu also knew that the reason why so many people protested was not because of any fault of the Xu Brothers Company, but because of the poor overall economic environment.

If the economy is booming, everyone has jobs and money to earn, ghosts are willing to stand downstairs every day, shouting upwards with their necks raised.

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In addition to the box office success of "Emmanuel", there is also good news that Cheng Long's "The Serpentine Hand" was released in the United States.

When Xu Guanwu participated in the Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards, he brought many copies of Hong Kong films, among which Cheng Long's "Snake-shaped Hands" was included.

Later, Xu Guanwu became a shareholder of National Entertainment Company and helped Lei Shidong resolve many problems. Lei Shidong reciprocated, accepted the copy of the movie brought by Xu Guanwu, and agreed to help him distribute it in its theaters.

"The Serpentine Hand" was first screened in Chinatown theaters in Los Angeles, and the audience's response was very good, which made Lei Shidong more confident.

Afterwards, it was screened in communities of South American and African descent. Although it was not as sensational as "Enter the Dragon", the audience's response was also good.

The well-designed fighting scenes in "The Serpentine Hand" shocked these audiences a lot.

In the 70s, the United States was still full of racial discrimination. African Americans, South Americans, and Chinese Americans were all discriminated against, so people were full of anger in their hearts.

In previous films such as "Enter the Dragon" and "Way of the Dragon", Bruce Lee played the image of a kung fu master who dared to resist. The reason why people are so popular is that people are full of anger, and they are eager for a channel to vent their anger.

Although the characters played by Cheng Long are not as heroic as Bruce Lee, his diligence, kindness, and his behavior of drawing swords to help when encountering injustice still make him a hero in people's minds.

Seeing that "The Serpentine Hand" has gained a good reputation and box office one after another, Lei Shidong immediately decided to expand the scale of the film's release.

In the white community, although "Serpentine" is not as popular as "Enter the Dragon", it still earns very well at the box office.

On the phone, Xu Guanwu was very happy to learn that "Serpentine Hands" is very popular in the United States.

Seeing that the movie was a hit, Darryl Zanjuk planned to invite Cheng Long to develop in Hollywood and make several action movies for 20th Century Fox.

But for his proposal, Xu Guanwu thought about it and refused.

Hollywood in the United States is not as easy to mess with as imagined. Actors will be greatly restricted there. They are just dolls in the hands of producers and directors.

In Hong Kong, Cheng Long can act as the leading actor, director and producer at the same time, with one person in charge, but in Hollywood, this is almost impossible.

Those Hollywood producers invest hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars at a time to let you bring back tens of millions of box office returns, not to let you be a tyrant alone.

If your movie fails, no matter how popular, popular, or talented you were before, you will be thrown into limbo immediately, and it will be difficult to have a chance to turn around.

Therefore, Xu Guanwu considered Cheng Long's acting career, and he would not take the risk of pushing Cheng Long to Hollywood until he had mastered the eight major Hollywood film companies.

"Let's use these Hong Kong-produced kung fu movies to lay the foundation for him first. In this way, after a few years, when I buy 20th Century Fox and then enter the Hollywood market, the road will be much smoother." Xu Guanwu rejected Darryl. After Zanyuk's proposal, he pondered in his heart.

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Just when "Emmanuel" hit theaters and Xu Guanwu was happy for Cheng Long's popularity in the United States, the distribution channel of "Daily Daily" was initially established.

After a week of trial promotion, the free distribution of "Daily Daily" has indeed created a lot of customer flow for the store where it is located.

Many people will take a cup of soy milk, mineral water and other small commodities when receiving free newspapers, and people who come to shop will also take a newspaper with them.

Therefore, "Daily Daily" and those stores and supermarkets have achieved a win-win situation.

Due to boycotts from peddlers, the circulation of "Tian Tian Daily" fell below 45 copies at one point, but after four days, it immediately returned to a record of [-] copies, setting a new sales record.

With two newspapers with a combined circulation of more than 70 copies, Xu Guanwu's right to speak in Hong Kong has increased a lot.

The combined sales volume of all other newspapers before was only 100 million copies. In addition to the impact of "Daily Daily. Financial Edition", it has now dropped sharply to 10,000+ copies, and the sales volume is still declining.

This is the huge impact of free distribution.

In a bad economy, people naturally save as many cents as they can.Since there are free distributions and the quality of the content is good, why bother to spend money to buy them?
Hong Kong people have always been good at calculating, and this account has long been considered transparent.

Get a free newspaper every day, save [-] cents a day, and nine yuan a month.

The vegetables bought for nine yuan can last for a week.

Moreover, if you have accumulated a lot of newspapers, you can still make money by selling scraps later.

In short, there are many benefits of free newspapers.

Under the impact of Xu Guanwu's two free newspapers, the sales volume of other daily newspapers among the lower class has been greatly reduced, but the sales volume among the middle class and the wealthy business class has not changed.

In the eyes of those rich, newspapers worth a few cents are not expensive, and there are far fewer advertisements, and they look comfortable.

(End of this chapter)