The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 185 The Frustrated Wu Yusen
He couldn't beat him, he couldn't scold him, Zou Wenhuai was about to confess to Wu Yusen.

"Ah Zhuang, you have been resting for more than half a year. How about it? Come out and help with something." Zou Wenhuai said earnestly, "You also know the current situation of the company. There is more output and less input. You don't want to see the company close down?"

Wu Yusen was not afraid of anything else, but Zou Wenhuai was afraid of playing the favor card.In all fairness, if Zou Wenhuai hadn't been promoted at the beginning, Wu Yusen knew that if he wanted to become a director, he would have to wait at least another four or five years.

So he missed Boss Zou's kindness very much, and he couldn't help but soften his heart immediately, "Zou Sheng, if you have any orders, just say it."

"En." Seeing Wu Yusen's tone softened, Zou Wenhuai was very happy, "Have you watched the "Marriage of Three Smiles" co-starred by Long Mei?"

Wu Yusen shook his head. Recently he has been bored at home, working on a script called "Heroes Have No Tears".This script is based on the adaptation of the famous Japanese manga film "Taiko Male Wolf".

The tragic experience, Xiao Suo's life, the family relationship between father and son, murder and vengeance all come together, which suits Wu Yusen's taste very well.When he was an assistant director at Shaw Brothers, he studied under Tomato director Chang Cheh.I am most enthusiastic about this kind of story about men's blood, murder and revenge.

He has always wanted to make this type of film, but it is a pity that his first martial arts film "The Passenger" did not sell well, and then the comedy "Ghost and Horse Double Stars" that he assisted the Xu brothers became the annual box office champion.

So Wu Yusen was labeled as a comedy director, and the next few plays were all comedy movies. What is rare is that they were all blockbuster movies, which made Wu Yusen's title of comedy director even more deeply rooted.

But what Wu Yusen really wants to make is not a comedy, but a kung fu movie about a man's loyalty and bloody revenge.That's why he would rather stay at home for half a year than go out and make comedy movies.

Hearing Mr. Zou Wenhuai's question now, Wu Yusen felt a bad feeling in his heart.

"That movie was very good, different from the previous 'Seven Days' movie. What's more commendable is that this movie is still very popular. It only cost hundreds of thousands of investment, and the box office has exceeded one million. This shows that the quality is high. The Cantonese opera and opera films are actually very popular at the box office." Zou Wenhuai explained with a smile.

"Mr. Zou, does it mean that... let me make a Cantonese opera film?" Wu Yusen asked in surprise.

"That's right, Ah Zhuang, you and I really want to go somewhere." Zou Wenhuai clapped his hands happily and said.

"But Mr. Zou, I've never made a Cantonese opera film before, and I don't listen to Cantonese opera at all. It's not appropriate for me to do the filming." Wu Yusen said thoughtfully.

"Ah Zhuang, you also know that there are only a few directors in the company, and now everyone has jobs, and only you are idle." Zou Wenhuai said solemnly, "I won't entrust this task to you, but I can entrust it to you again." who?"

"But..." Wu Yusen argued.

"Ah Zhuang, don't be so good. I am optimistic about your directing skills and know that you will not disappoint me." Zou Wenhuai waved his hand and blocked everything Wu Yusen wanted to say, "Go down and think about it slowly, and fight for it." Get the script up next week."

Seeing this, Wu Yusen knew that there was no room for rejection, so he sighed, stood up, and walked out slowly.

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Not to mention the frustrated Wu Yusen, Xu Guanwen held a big celebration banquet at Neptune Restaurant in the evening because of the huge sales of "Salted Fish Reborn".Congratulations to "Salted Fish Reborn" taking the lead in the summer film, overwhelming the two films of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, which greatly improved the face of Xu Brothers Film Company.

Mai Jia, the screenwriter, starring and director, is of course a well-deserved number one hero. In order to commend his contribution, Xu Guanwen specially awarded him a 1 yuan lai see, which made Mai Jia very happy.

"It's really gratifying to congratulate "Salted Fish Reborn" for winning the box office championship in the first week! Here I would like to offer a toast to everyone!" Xu Guanwen said happily.

The investment in this film was only 70 Hong Kong dollars. It not only recovered the cost within a week of its release, but also made the company a small profit.The box office earned by continuing to screen next week will be for nothing.And looking at the current attendance rate of theaters, "Salted Fish Resurrection" can earn at least 300 million box office, and the company earns at least 40 Hong Kong dollars after tax.

That's right, a movie with a box office of up to 300 million Hong Kong dollars has a net income of only 40.The reason is that Hong Kong's taxes on movies and other entertainment are too harsh, as high as 17.5%-nearly 7% of the profits are robbed.At the same time, the Hollywood film tax in the United States enjoys a [-]% tax rebate rate, which encourages capital investment in American films.

Before a movie is released, [-]% of the profits are destined to be taken by the government. Even if the remaining box office is distributed in half, the producer can only get [-]% of the box office.

Nowadays, Hong Kong movies are considered blockbusters if they have a box office of more than one million, and most movies only have a box office of several hundred thousand.It forced the producers to keep the cost below 40 Hong Kong dollars, which limited the investment in Hong Kong films.

Hong Kong produces hundreds of films every year, and no more than [-] films can recover their investment in Hong Kong, and most of the rest need to rely on foreign markets.

Once the overseas market shrinks, Hong Kong films will inevitably face disaster.

Therefore, in the 90s, after Taiwan canceled the domestic film treatment of Hong Kong films and opened the market to Hollywood films, Hong Kong films lost the biggest box office powerhouse, and they plummeted and have not recovered until now.

Today's filmmakers naturally don't expect that they will be so miserable more than ten years later, they still drink and sing, sing and dance, and listen to the big boss Xu Guanwen's suggestion to toast, and Yunji immediately responds with a sigh of relief.

Xu Guanwu still drank his juice as usual, and several martial artists came to toast, but Hong Jingbao blocked them back.The last time he offered Xu Guanwu two glasses of wine, he vomited once, which proved that Xu Guanwu really couldn't drink.

"Thank you, Sanmao." Xu Guanwu smiled at Hong Jingbao, "Last time I heard you said that you wanted to think about a new play, and I would like to praise your junior brother Yuan Biao. How is it? Do you have any ideas?"

"Not yet, I'm looking for a screenwriter to help me write it." Hong Jingbao said with a smile while holding his glass.

Xu Guanwu nodded, knowing that the screenwriter Hong Jingbao was looking for was not a "play master", but a "Qiao Wang military adviser" who was specially trained for the director.

When it comes to screenwriters, the number of screenwriters in Xu Brothers Company is not large, far behind Shaw Brothers, and even slightly insufficient compared to Golden Harvest.

The reason is that there are too few good film screenwriters in Hong Kong, and there are only two or three who are qualified to be "play masters", and they were monopolized by Shaw Brothers early on.

For example, Ni Kuang, one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, wrote scripts for Shaw Brothers. I heard that he wrote more than 400 scripts in his life. His works are truly admirable.

There is another Szeto On, who has been writing scripts since the Cantonese film era and has been working hard. Although the scripts he writes rarely cause sensational effects, they have always maintained a high-selling level.For example, "Chengji Tea House" cast by Xu Brothers Company last year, and Shaw Brothers' "A Niu Entering the City" this year are all his works.

What is even more rare is that this person has written more than 800 scripts in his life, and more than 300 of them have been made into movies. This number is almost unprecedented in the Hong Kong film industry.

Although Golden Harvest did not have a master scriptwriter, before Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang defected from Shaw Brothers, they wiped out the hundreds of scripts that Shaw Brothers had sealed up in the warehouse.Therefore, Golden Harvest does not lack movie scripts.

The few masters who started the show were all recruited by Shaw Brothers. Fortunately, most of the director talents recruited by Xu Brothers Company are multi-tasking, and they are all capable of writing and directing.People like Mai Jia, Hong Jingbao, and Zeng Zhiwei can all be regarded as witty scholars.

They have stories in their own minds, and they only need a few bridge king military divisions to cross the bridge.

However, Xu Guanwu didn't intend to exhaust these directors to death just because they were capable. He also wanted to introduce screenwriters to reduce their burden.

But at the moment, those well-known screenwriters in later generations, such as Huang Baiming, Huang Bingyao, Xiao Ruoyuan, etc., don't know where they are yet.

Xu Guanwu only knows that Huang Baiming worked as a manager of a foreign company before becoming a screenwriter, and his monthly income exceeded 1990, but there are more than [-] foreign companies in Hong Kong.

Xiao Ruoyuan used to be a screenwriter at Li's TV station, so it was easy to find a specific address, but Xu Guanwu had sent someone to check it before.Although Li's TV station did have Xiao Ruoyuan, but this person is now a newscaster and had never worked as a screenwriter before.

As for Huang Bingyao, this "death-killing scissor-kick" is even more difficult to find.This old man passed away in the 90s, and the information left on the Internet is incomplete. Xu Guanwu couldn't remember what he did before he became a screenwriter, even if he wanted to find it, he couldn't find it.

Fortunately, if he really doesn't find these bridge king military advisers, Xu Guanwu can still use the movie stored in his mind to deal with it temporarily.However, Xu Guanwu did not come here through time travel to take away the jobs of the screenwriters and train a batch of rice bugs for the company.

In the past two years, he has provided several scripts to his elder brother, which made him feel dependent on himself.In the previous life, these scripts were all written by Xu Guanwen. In order to understand the bitterness and bitterness of the people at the bottom, he often dressed up and went to the slums to gather.

In "Half a Catty", the dentures he wore were makeup props when he went to collect songs, which also shows that Xu Guanwen is serious about script creation.

Xu Guanwu didn't want his eldest brother to become lazy because of his time travel, and lose the spirit of diligent pursuit of film art.

"Try not to make a move unless necessary." Xu Guanwu thought to himself.

Originally, when he heard Hong Jingbao say that he hadn't thought of a good story recently, Xu Guanwu had already thought of the movies he had seen such as "The Prodigal Son" and "The Miscellaneous Boy".

These few films were tailor-made by Hong Jingbao for Yuan Biao, showing his fast, agile, flexible and changeable skills. After the release, he immediately caused a sensation and became a kung fu star second only to Hong Jingbao and Cheng Long.

But after thinking about it, Xu Guanwu still decided to let go and let Hong Jingbao go to make a fuss first.

The celebration banquet lasted until late at night, everyone was a little drunk, and they staggered when they walked.

Hong Jingbao deserved to be the big brother, even after drinking so much, he still stood up and helped the brothers arrange a car so that they could go home safely.Let Xu Guanwu admire him, and he really deserves the title of "Big Brother".

After most of the people had left, Xu Guanwu and the others were about to get in the car, when suddenly the waiter from the restaurant ran over, "Mr. Xu, your phone number!"

Xu Guanwu was slightly taken aback, who would call the restaurant.Following the waiter to the bar, Xu Guanwu picked up the phone, "Mr. Xu, the Kyoto Theater is on fire!"

(End of this chapter)