The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 257

Huang Baiming, one of the living treasures of the Hong Kong film industry, is the five masters of the screenwriter industry.Xu Guanwu felt that in that generation, only a limited number of people such as Huang Bingyao, Liu Zhenwei, Wang Jing, and Tsui Hark could be compared with him.

Other screenwriters such as Nan Yan, Xiao Ruoyuan, Zhang Jianting, Gu Dezhao, Ma Weihao, Gao Zhisen, etc. have many excellent works, but compared with the others, they are still slightly inferior in terms of fame and creation value.

"This man hides so deep, even I am not sure to dig him out." Xu Guanwu looked at Mai Jia with piercing eyes, and felt a little embarrassed to look at this kid, "Carl, how did you know this Mr. Huang?" of?"

After hearing this, Mai Jia couldn't help slandering for a while, thinking that I want you to see if the script is suitable, so why don't you ask the person who wrote the script first?It's like when you go to a restaurant to eat, and you call the cook over to take a look before you eat the meal.Does eating also depend on the cook's appearance?
After complaining in her stomach, Mai Jia grinned, "I met him at the Youth Drama Club."

Xu Guanwu smiled, and thought it was no wonder, as expected, there is a small circle of filmmakers, and it is difficult for me as a layman to integrate into it.

Both Mai Jia and Huang Baiming are people who love drama, and that's why they left their lucrative jobs and devoted themselves to the film and television industry.

For example, Mai Jia used to be an engineer of the New York Telephone Company, while Huang Baiming was the manager of a foreign company, with a high position and rich income.But just because I love acting and filming, I would rather give up such a good job and devote myself to the film and television industry.

Fortunately, because Mai Jia was born in the film department of New York University, staring at this bright halo, she was hired by Golden Harvest as soon as she returned to Hong Kong, and was later recruited by Xu Brothers Company, becoming one of the decision-making members of the seven-member group. As fast as a rocket.

Huang Baiming was much more miserable in comparison. He first worked as an artiste for TVB, and then wrote scripts for small film companies when he was free. As a result, the film was finished and he made money, and he still had some income.If the film company directly declared bankruptcy due to the loss, Huang Baiming would not even receive the final payment.It made the house noisy day and night and it was not clean.

Huang Baiming also worked part-time as an actor and screenwriter for the Youth Drama Club. One day, when he was sitting on the floor and catching up on the script, he was noticed by Mai Jia.Standing behind and looking at it for a long time, I feel that this unattractive four-eyed boy is simply a genius.

The text is not added, and the writing is like a spring. In a short time, two pages of dialogue are filled, and there are plots, dialogues, stories, and climaxes. A very high-quality script is completed.He couldn't help walking to chat happily, and after a few words, Huang Baiming bowed down and became Mai Jia's dog-headed military advisor.

This "Crazy Big Brother" is Huang Baiming's masterpiece, and it also writes about the humorous kung fu theme of the Republic of China.It seems that the tune has been the same for the past two years, and other film companies have also made this tune. I don’t know if the audience is bored with watching it.Xu Guanwu thought about it and called Stanley Investigation Company to investigate.

"Mr. Xu, what do you think of the script?" Mai Jia asked with a smile.

"Very good, this Mr. Huang Baiming is indeed a talent." Xu Guanwu closed the script and tapped it lightly with his hands, "What does this Mr. Huang do for a living now?"

"He's still working as an artist on TVB, occasionally helping to write scripts." Mai Jia blinked and said.

"Don't wait for TVB. The salary is low, the benefits are poor, and there is no future for development." Xu Guanwu waved his hand, "Just recruit him to the company and write scripts for the company in the future."

"That's it, then I'll talk to him later." Mai Jia nodded, "Then Mr. Xu, do you have any other comments on the script?"

"No, I trust Huang Baiming's talent, and I trust your vision even more." Xu Guanwu nodded, "I will support you at the meeting of the group of seven."

Mai Jia laughed when she heard this, and took the script to find other people for support.

Xu Guanwu stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, looked at the buildings under his feet, and couldn't help laughing.

Among the Five Wonders of the Central Plains, Huang Bingyao and Huang Baiming have already started. In the future, Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei, and Xu Ke will get the three of them. In the future, most of the Hong Kong film market will belong to themselves.Xu Guanwu couldn't help but laugh when he thought about it.

After laughing, Xu Guanwu remembered that he planned to ask Stanley to investigate the company just now, so he quickly called Manager Fang over and asked him to investigate how many Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China are currently being produced in the movie market. What about the box office, and what are the audience's evaluations?

After receiving Xu Guanwu's instructions, Manager Fang immediately dispatched competent personnel to start the investigation, and it is expected that the investigation will be completed in half a month.

After Xu Guanwu gave his orders, he couldn't help feeling a little worried. In his impression, humorous kung fu movies started in the late 70s and ended in the early 80s.

First, Xu Guanwen filmed "Ghost Horse Twin Stars" and "Half Catty Two", which introduced Kung Fu into comedy. When Zhang Che directed Fu Sheng to star in the Kung Fu Boy series, he introduced a small amount of comedy elements into Kung Fu.

"Little Heroes Havoc in Chinatown", directed by Luo Wei and starring Xu Guanjie and Shangguan Lingfeng, also incorporates some comedy elements.In the end, "The Snake" starring Cheng Long directed by Wu Siyuan and the follow-up "Drunken Master" perfectly integrated comedy and kung fu to form a new kind of movie-a humorous kung fu movie.

However, the prosperity of humorous kung fu films only lasted for [-]. Counting from the first "Snake-shaped Diao Hand" to the end of "Master Dragon" starring Cheng Long, the humorous kung fu films of the early Republic of China came to an end.

What followed were Hong Jingbao's urban action films, New Art City's modern comedies and Cheng Long's desperate action films, as well as Debao's family comedies and Shaw Brothers' love comedies.

"It's been more than two years since the filming of humorous kung fu movies in the early days of the Republic of China. What if the audience is really bored?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help frowning.

It was he who gave birth to the people's livelihood kung fu movies in advance, which saved Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long and others from a few years of twists and turns, and entered the glory period ahead of schedule.It also caused the box office of director Zhang Cheh's bloody Kung Fu movie to plummet, and the market was greatly impacted.

But this kind of premature ripening is not without troubles, because a type of movie theme is born ahead of time, but subsequent themes may not be able to catch up immediately.

The humorous kung fu movies of the early Republic of China are at least in the same line as the bloody kung fu movies before, at most adding a little comedy elements and less violent scenes, so they can be recognized by the audience immediately.

But if the humorous kung fu movies in the early Republic of China are no longer popular, should urban action comedies be released in advance?
Would audiences in the late 70s like movies with modern themes like "Five Lucky Stars", "Best Partner", and "I Love Evening Lily"?

It is estimated that just as audiences in the 80s had difficulty accepting Zhou Xingchi's nonsensical movies, audiences in the late 70s may also find it difficult to accept films such as "I Love Evening Lily" or "Brothers and Brothers" and "Chasing Girls in Hardcover".

Because apart from sci-fi movies, audiences who watch other movies still hope to be close to life, so that they can easily enter the role.

The audience in the late 70s had not yet reached that economic level, and was still busy day and night with three meals a day.You let him watch "Chasing Girls in Hardcover" to learn how to pick up girls, or watch "Police Story" to make the audience believe that there is such a desperate Hong Kong Royal Police in the world, which is too difficult for the audience.

And there is a big difference in ideology. In the 80s, everyone watched "The True Colors of a Hero", "The Son of Heaven", and "Supreme", and admired Xiao Ma for his unparalleled loyalty, a good man and a real man.

Young people in the 90s worshiped Chen Haonan, saying "I am the leader of Causeway Bay", how many ignorant teenagers died of envy.Times are different and audiences have different tastes.

The original group of people who made the movie were also the same as Wang Jing's producer, but in the front he made the manly "Supreme", and later he could only shoot "Young and Dangerous", the colorful crow and Lei Yaoyang. It looks even better than Chen Haonan.

The reason is that the audience has changed, and the times have changed. In the 80s, everyone made black X movies with loyalty, because everyone had just changed from an agricultural society to an industrial society, and everyone still had some beliefs in their hearts.

In the 90s, you don't need to watch anything else, just watch "The True Colors of a New Hero" also directed by Wang Jing.Zheng Yijian was betrayed by the boss.

But in the new century, when Du Qifeng filmed "Dragon City Years", the Black X Club started to talk about interests.In order to sell pirated discs to the mainland, Jimmy, played by Gu Tianlei, only made a lot of money by staying out of the way, and he also took the initiative to join the ranks of grabbing the leader.What will happen to Zhang Jiahui, who is the most loyal in the end? !

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"Sister, is there no solution?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help frowning.

The humorous kung fu film in the early Republic of China has been filmed for two years because of my early arrival.And there are still six years before the 80s, how should we go in these six years?Is it really necessary to shoot Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China until they are bad and die, so that the audience will vomit at the end?

Xu Guanwu couldn't find a solution for a while, "It seems that at the end of the 70s, the directors of the new wave returned. Girl, hurry up and give Hong Kong movies a way out."

Xu Guanwu remembers that among the new wave movies, many classics have emerged, such as "Mountain Dog", such as "Butterfly Transformation", such as "Crash into the Right", such as "Bad List", such as "Death of Xiyingpan"...

Many of the directors of the New Wave movies have returned from studying abroad. After honed in TV stations for a period of time, they took advantage of the trend to enter the film industry.Because they accept the influence of advanced Western film knowledge, they are more pioneering and aggressive than Hong Kong local directors.

It just seems that the New Wave 1 still has two years to go, and among the directors of the New 1 Wave, only a few have survived.Directors such as Xu Ke and Xu Anhua, and other directors such as Yu Yunkang, Tang Jiming, Zhang Guoming, etc., because they could not get commercial approval, they had no choice but to withdraw from the film circle in the end.

"With the audiences cultivated by the art and beauty theaters for many years, there should be a market for the films of these directors. Maybe the new wave of films will last for a while." Xu Guanwu couldn't help thinking.

The advantage of New Wave films is their pioneering thinking, and they have shot many themes that have not been covered in Hong Kong films before, such as the science fiction film "Interstellar Blunt", the horror film "Crash into the Right", "The Bad List", the police film "Jumping Ashes", " Pointing to Bingbing" and so on.It provided new ideas for other Hong Kong filmmakers and broadened their horizons.

The disadvantage is that there is no systematic organization, and it is purely self-employed. Although there are occasional masterpieces, there are also many shortcomings.

Like Xu Anhua's first film "Crazy Robbery", the story was originally excellent, full of detective suspense.But I don't know if it's because of the editing, or the lack of skill of the director. There are obviously problems with the structure of the story, and some plots are muddled and not explained clearly at all.In addition, the soundtrack, photography, etc. cannot keep up with the mainstream.

Films made in the 70s look like fragments of Cantonese films from the 60s and [-]s, with fuzzy picture quality and dark colors. How can they be recognized by the younger generation of audiences?

As for the martial arts Kung Fu film "Butterfly Change" directed by Xu Ke at the beginning, it can be seen that Mr. Xu really had great ambitions at that time. He wanted to create a classic martial arts theme and completely subvert the existing martial arts films.All the routines of martial arts films in the past are useless at all.

(End of this chapter)