The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 242

Hong Jingbao couldn't help but be moved when he heard it. He sat there alone for a long time, and then suddenly realized that he didn't come here today to talk about the album, but to intercede for Zeng Zhiwei. On to the matter of releasing records.

Hong Jingbao secretly patted himself on the face, calmed down and chose his words, showing a simple and honest smile, "Mr. Xu, in fact, I came here today because I have something to talk to you about."

"I know that you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, don't call me right, are you here to intercede with Zeng Zhiwei?" Xu Guanwu smiled.

"I can't hide anything from you, Mr. Xu. You are indeed here for this matter." Hong Jingbao smiled, "I know that this incident makes you very unhappy, Mr. Xu, and I also know that Zhiwei is responsible for everything. But still I hope Mr. Xu will let him go."

"Okay, for your sake, I won't punish him. But you have to remind him, keep this in mind, and don't drink and make trouble with me. Otherwise, I won't give face to Immortal Da Luo." Xu Guanwu waved waved his hands.

"Thank you Mr. Xu, I remember." Hong Jingbao said happily, "I'll ask him to come in now, and apologize to you personally, Mr. Xu."

"No, you can take him back. It's useless to engage in these formalisms. The most important thing is to do things well in the future." Xu Guanwu waved his hand.

"Oh, I've made a note." Hong Jingbao nodded and retreated.

"How?! What did Mr. Xu say, did he forgive me?" Zeng Zhiwei jumped up from the sofa as soon as he saw Hong Jingbao coming out, and asked with his mouth like a machine gun.

"It's okay, Mr. Xu forgives you. Let me tell you that Mr. Xu is generous and doesn't want to be as knowledgeable as you. If it were Boss Shao, you would be hidden by the snow now." Hong Jingbao said with a long breath.

"I remember, Brother Sanmao." Zeng Zhiwei nodded, "Should I go in and apologize to him now?"

"No, Mr. Xu said that there is no need to engage in formalism. In the future, you should drink less alcohol and cause less trouble. The most important thing is to behave properly." Hong Jingbao waved his hands.

"Well, Brother Sanmao, did Mr. Xu forgive me for doing this? I always feel uneasy if I don't apologize to him face to face. Otherwise, please go in and ask for instructions. I really want to face him I apologize." Zeng Zhiwei frowned.

"Why is it so troublesome, you, Mr. Xu has already made it very clear just now, don't engage in these formalisms, it is important to do things well in the future." Hong Jingbao frowned and said, "Now I want to go in and ask again, not to make it clear Did you offend Mr. Xu?"

Seeing this, Zeng Zhiwei had no choice but to give up the idea, but he was still a little uneasy in his heart, feeling a little uneasy.

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In order to thank all colleagues in the company, the Xu Brothers held a Chinese New Year banquet for seven consecutive days, entertaining thousands of employees from all over the company and spending more than 150 million Hong Kong dollars, which is really a big deal.

Xu Guanwu only participated in the banquet on the first day, and did not participate in the next few days.Many people in the company speculated that it was because of Zeng Zhiwei's drunkenness that day, which affected Mr. Xu's mood a little.So everyone can't help but have some opinions on Zeng Zhiwei.

Xu Guanwu didn't know that because of this incident, Zeng Zhiwei became the company's public enemy. He actually has activities these days.

HSBC Bank also held a Chinese New Year party, Henderson Land also had a banquet, Hopewell Properties also invited, and the Governor’s Mansion also invited celebrities to celebrate the Chinese New Year... So many parties sent invitations to Xu Guanwu, which made him a little nervous. I have no skills at all, so I didn't attend the company's banquet.But this reason is not known to everyone.

On the second week of the new year, Xu Guanwu finally got rid of the tiresome parties. Although he has pushed down many banquets these days, there are still a few banquets that he has to attend.For example, the party of HSBC Bank, the party of the Governor's Mansion, the party of Henderson Land... So he has been very busy these few days.

Now that the banquet was almost over, Xu Guanwu was finally free to deal with matters.

Within a week of the release of YESUNG Celebrities' Lunar New Year album, [-] copies were sold in Hong Kong, which is really eye-popping.

In Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and other places, this album has also achieved excellent sales results. In summary, it has exceeded 50 copies, making it a rare best-selling album in recent years.

With this album, YESUNG Records not only made a lot of money, but also had a more stable position in the record market in Southeast Asia, which made the name of YESUNG stars spread throughout Southeast Asia.

As for movies, Xu Guanwen's new masterpiece "The Deed of Sale" is about to be released during the Spring Festival, and Hong Jingbao's "The Prodigal Boy", which favored Yuan Biao as the protagonist, is also about to wrap up.

In addition, Zhang Guoming's "A Ming", which has been filming for nearly a year, has finally come to an end, which made Xu Guanwu heave a sigh of relief, thankfully it did not delay for a year.

The mess "Big Brother Cheng" left by Gui Zhihong was finally handed over to Mai Jia to finish it, and I hated this fake foreign devil to scold him.But there was no other way, no one who let Zhang Guoming beat him to death would be willing to pick up other people's second-hand goods, and Mai Jia happened to be free.

Among the four films, "The Deed of Sale" and "The Prodigal Boy" are confirmed to be released during the Spring Festival. As for "Big Brother Cheng" and "A Ming", they will be released after the Chinese New Year. After all, those two films are fighting and killing. Yes, watching that kind of movie during Chinese New Year is not good, and there is no market for it.

In addition to these few things, there is another thing that Zeng Zhiwei's "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate", even if it is reduced to five theaters, the attendance rate is still only [-]-[-]%, and the theater can't even make money back.In desperation, Xu Guanwu had no choice but to let it go down, and it became the first film to go down because of poor box office results since the establishment of Brilliant Cinemas.

However, many people didn't know it, and thought it was Xu Guanwu's revenge, and they wanted to teach Zeng Zhiwei's faux pas that day.In short, there were many rumors, and they were all serious, but they were all privately, and did not reach Xu Guanwu's ears.

"Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" failed at the box office, which was the first time for Xu Brothers, except for the niche film "Queen of Temple Street" that had been invested in before, which had been foreseen to lose money before investing.

However, the "Li" film company still has high hopes. Zeng Zhiwei also wants to use this film to compete with Cheng Long's "Drunken Master".But now it seems that the so-called competition is just a joke.

Xu Guanwu also did some research and thinking about the box office failure of this movie. There are basically two reasons. One is that the concept of this movie is too advanced. Well-behaved movies, such as Master Liu Jialiang's "Shaolin Room 70", "Lu Acai and Huang Feihong", such as Hong Jingbao's "Monk Sande and Pounding Rice Six", "Tiger Frog", such as Cheng Long's "Snake-shaped Hand" , "Laughing Fist Strange Move"...

The characters of the protagonists are all positive and uplifting. Even if they are occasionally rebellious and mischievous, they still have a pure heart, which is in line with the current morality and values ​​​​of Hong Kong audiences.

In the 70s, Hong Kong was making great strides from an agrarian society to an urban society. The New Territories used to be full of large tracts of farmland, but now they are also built into processing factories. The farmers in the past are now gradually becoming workers.

As the living environment changes, people's traditional values ​​are naturally also affected.On the screen, the heroes and knights who go from high to high to rob the rich and help the poor have gradually become little people who rely on their cleverness and good skills to seek personal gain for themselves.

The former is like Huang Feihong, which has filmed more than 200 episodes, and the latter is like "Best Partner" in New Art City and Golden Harvest's Five Lucky Stars series.

In the 60s, the big screens were full of martial arts movies such as "The Drunk Man", "The One-Armed Swordsman", and "The Palm of the Tathagata". Invincible.

In the 80s, it was replaced by urban-themed movies such as "Best Partner", "Cracking the Corner", "Five Lucky Stars", and "Hardcover Chasing Girls".The protagonist is no longer a good person in the traditional sense, but mostly selfish, occasionally breaks the law, and occasionally plays tricks...

For example, King Kong in "Best Partner", such as the five lucky stars in "Five Lucky Stars Series", such as the three scumbags in "Hardcover Chasing Girls"...

Of course, the villain also has more space to play than in the 60s. It is also flesh and blood, and it also has multiple faces. It is no longer just a little monster beaten by the protagonist.Such as the eldest brother Cheng in "The True Colors of a Hero", such as the godfather in "Across the World", such as Ahu in "Dragon and Tiger"...

However, due to the impact of urbanization, martial arts movies have fallen into silence. It was not until the 90s that Xu Ke could repackage martial arts movies with modern consciousness and technical means, and released movies such as "Swordsman", "New Dragon Inn", "Huang Feihong" and so on. .

However, compared with the characters in traditional martial arts movies, the characters in Xu Ke's martial arts movies are inevitably contaminated with some worldly troubles.For example, the gold inlaid jade in "New Dragon Inn" opened a black shop to sell human flesh, and could kill people for money; Falling in love; for example, Linghu Chong in "Swordsman" is actually tempted by the devil Dongfang Bubai...

Moreover, most of the new martial arts movies use special effects to please the audience with exaggerated martial arts scenes, while the chivalrous spirit, character creation and storyline are moved to the secondary position by the director.Therefore, the new martial arts movies rose quickly and fell even faster. In just three years, there was no succession. It started with "Swordsman" and ended with "Swordsman".

The 70s happened to be sandwiched between the 60s and 80s, and it happened to be the period when traditional martial arts movies gradually declined and urban-themed movies gradually became popular, which played a link between the past and the future.

In the early 70s, Chang Cheh led the trend of sword martial arts movies, such as "The New One-armed Sword" and "The Stabbing Horse"; Bruce Lee led the trend of boxing kung fu, such as "Enter the Dragon", "Fist of Fury" and so on.Although most of the characters played by Bruce Lee are modern people, the way the characters behave is still very traditional. For example, in "Enter the Dragon", he eradicates traitors and cleans up the family for the master. Isn't it just a plot in traditional martial arts novels? Chen Zhen in "Fist of Fury" is also avenging his master, and it is also a well-known plot of martial arts novels... Bruce Lee's characters are all chivalrous, and they do not seek fame or profit. They are completely modern versions. Huang Feihong.

At the end of the 70s, martial arts movies gradually declined, and director Zhang Cheh was unable to continue. In the 80s, he went to the mainland to develop.Movies with urban themes gradually emerged, such as Gui Zhihong's "Big Brother Cheng", Wu Siyuan's "Integrity Storm", "500 Million Robbery", Zhang Guoming's "Pointing to the Soldiers" and so on.

The protagonist is no longer a hero, a knight-errant, but a character who is closer to life, such as black X elements, such as policemen, criminals... The interpretation is also a story familiar to the audience.

And now in the mid-70s, martial arts movies are still lingering, and there is still a market, and urban movies are just in the ascendant and have not yet become mainstream.

Compared with the spoof movies that only emerged in the 90s and even the Internet age, they are naturally too far ahead, and it is completely normal for them to fail badly at the box office.

Xu Guanwu was summing up to this point when the phone rang suddenly. He answered it and froze for a moment, "Prime Minister Zhou has passed away!!"

(End of this chapter)