The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 276 Four New Plays
When Xu Guanwu returned to work at the company for the first time, in addition to handling the affairs of the Brilliant Cinemas, he also had to hold a meeting of the Brilliant Group of Seven.

Because of Xu Guanwu's absence in the last round, the approval of some films could not be arranged, so we had to wait for Xu Guanwu to come back and vote to decide.

Among them, Zeng Zhiwei, Chu Yuan, Zhang Jian, and Zhang Guoming all proposed new movies, and a total of four scripts were all placed in front of Xu Guanwu's desk.

"Wow, what a great collection of scripts! Don't you guys, I just returned to work, and you gave me so much work?" Xu Guanwu looked at the four thick scripts and shouted in surprise.

"You went to the United States to receive awards, shop and travel, and we stayed in Hong Kong to work hard. What grievances can you complain about?" Liang Shuyi said with a smile, "Hurry up and finish the four scripts. We will have a meeting tomorrow. discuss together."

"It's so thick, I might not be able to read it in a day, let alone give my opinion, unless I don't sleep tonight and work the night shift." Xu Guanwu said with a wry smile.

"That's fine, you can do whatever you want. Anyway, everyone will have a meeting tomorrow, so you don't have to know everything." Liang Shuyi waved her hands indifferently.

"Wow! Aren't you so cruel?!" Xu Guanwu yelled, "Well, anyway, you've seen it before, so please help me sort out the plot first?"

Liang Shuyi glanced at Xu Guanwu, seeing that he was looking at her as if asking for help, she couldn't help feeling soft, "Okay then, I'll help you sort it out."

"Great." Xu Guanwu patted the table and took out the first script, which was Zeng Zhiwei's new work "Kicking the Hall"!
"The name of this movie is not bad. "Kicking the Pavilion" sounds very imposing." Xu Guanwu couldn't help laughing and said, "Is this movie Zeng Zhiwei's new work?"

"Well, although the name is good, the story is a bit crude compared to Mai Jia's "Crazy Old Thousand" and Hong Jingbao's "Miscellaneous Boys." Liang Shuyi nodded and said.

"It's no wonder that the two films have Du Qiao's military adviser behind the scenes, and Zeng Zhiwei is fighting alone." Xu Guanwu smiled, "Do you think this film can be cast?"

"I'm just helping you sort out the plot of the story. You can make up your own mind on what to do." Liang Shuyi laughed, "As a big boss, you can't be lazy."

"Okay, then I'll take a look for myself later." Xu Guanwu nodded, and then picked up another script. At first glance, this script was much thicker than Zeng Zhiwei's, but when he opened it, it was directed by Chu Yuan. The sent "End of the World Moon Knife".

"After all, he is a professional screenwriter and director, and the script he wrote is much thicker than others." Xu Guanwu couldn't help but said with a smile.

"This play is also an adaptation of Gu Long's novel. I think it's better written than "Meteor Butterfly Sword"." Liang Shuyi said with a smile, "Director Chu Yuan really took so much trouble to set up a huge chessboard on the ground. Then the chess pieces played by the killer form a killing formation, and the rushing and killing follow the rules of chess."

"Oh?! This kind of competition is full of new ideas." Xu Guanwu couldn't help nodding his head repeatedly. It seems that this kind of chess-killing routine has also been shown in later martial arts TV dramas.For example, "The Little Monk", such as "Magic Sword, Life and Death", and even the Hollywood movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", there are also chess competitions.

If this kind of chess pattern is put on the screen now, and it will be discovered by movie fans decades later, will it be called a tribute to Hong Kong movies? !

The more Xu Guanwu thought about it, the more interesting it became, and he couldn't help laughing.

"Stanley, are you okay, why are you smiling so happily all of a sudden?" Liang Shuyi asked suspiciously.

"Oh, it's okay! I just think Director Chu Yuan's idea is really great, so I decided to support him." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

"However, Hong Jingbao and Zeng Zhiwei are worried that few audiences know how to play chess, and the filming is too complicated, so they don't plan to support Director Chu's doing this." Liang Shuyi said with a frown.

"Hey, don't underestimate the IQ of the audience." Xu Guanwu couldn't help waving his hand, "Mr. Jin Yong also wrote Zhenlong chess game in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", and who among the readers knows how to play this game? It’s not the same as watching it with relish.”

"This kind of argument is also reasonable, but Mr. Jin Yong is a character of the Taishan Beidou level in martial arts novels. No matter what kind of boring trifles can be written by him, such as Huang Rong's cooking, Linghu Chong's drinking, etc. I just don't know that director Chu Yuan has I don't have this skill anymore." Liang Shuyi said worriedly.

"Don't worry, "Meteor Butterfly Sword" has a box office of more than 300 million. Doesn't it prove the strength of director Chu Yuan? I have great confidence in him." Xu Guanwu nodded and said, "Let him try it himself. "

"Alright then, but we borrowed actors from Shaw Brothers for the filming last time, I'm afraid they may not be willing to borrow them again this time." Liang Shuyi said, "Then should we find those actors to film?"

"This is a difficult problem, but I remember that "The End of the World and the Moon Knife" is a novel about men's play. The company doesn't have many other things, but there are many male actors." Xu Guanwu smiled, "In addition, I remember that there is a man named Ming Yuexin If you can’t find a character in the company, you can go to TVB to look for it. Anyway, we are already a family, and we are not afraid that if we become popular, we will make it easier for outsiders.”

"In this case, it is also a solution to the problem." Liang Shuyi nodded.

Then Xu Guanwu took out director Zhang Jian's new work "The Man Thieves and the Woman Sings", "Hey, it's this theme again. Last time he used fake gimmicks to deceive people, and he was scolded by the audience. Now he plans to play again Is this set?"

"This time it seems to be playing for real." Liang Shuyi smiled and said, "It seems that Director Zhang has experience in watching European and American films in the Academy of Fine Arts in recent years, so he added a lot of such scenes in this film. "

"Is that so, is the story good?" Xu Guanwu asked, "I'm not afraid to have that kind of scene, as long as it's really needed by the movie, and it's not just used as a gimmick as a selling point, then it will appear low-brow. "

"I read it, and the story is pretty well written." Leung Shu-yee said, "It's also a story about Temple Street. This time, the male thief and the female singer are both from the mainland. The story is told by Ah Qiang and Ah Qing was originally a couple of lovers. Because they were engaged in sports in the Mainland and their backgrounds were not good, they had to smuggle to Hong Kong. In the end, their relatives cheated them out of their money and tricked Ah Qing into a prostitution apartment. Redeeming Ah Qing's money, he did not hesitate to take the risk to rob, and was finally beaten to death by the police downstairs in the apartment. Ah Qing watched Ah Qiang die tragically, and finally jumped from the upstairs to commit suicide..."

Xu Guanwu's head got dizzy after hearing this, and he was planning to go to the Mainland to participate in the Canton Fair. If you made a film similar to "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", didn't you just slap your face in the face?
Although he admired Zhang Jian for noticing the existence of Daquanzi so early, a few years earlier than the movie madman McDonald, but admiration is one thing and investing in this film is a big deal.Leaving aside such a sensitive incident involving the movement in the Mainland, exaggerating the fact that Mainlanders came to Hong Kong to burn, kill, loot, etc. will also make Hong Kong people hate and fear the Mainland.

"Can the protagonist of this movie change his identity, and don't write that he is from the mainland." Xu Guanwu frowned and said, "It's better to change it to a South Vietnamese. Anyway, in the recent civil war in South Vietnam, many refugees rushed to Hong Kong."

"Then how can the South Vietnamese speak Mandarin?" Liang Shuyi pointed out the problem.

"Then say that I learned from the local Chinese in Vietnam. Anyway, try not to uglify the image of our people on the screen. We are all a family, so why bother to embarrass the family." Xu Guanwu waved his hands.

Liang Shuyi didn't think as much as Xu Guanwu thought. She was born in Hong Kong and received colonial education since she was a child. She didn't have much affection for the mainland or the overseas Chinese in South Vietnam, so she didn't quite understand Xu Guanwu's thoughts.

"Let's do it like this." Seeing that Liang Shuyi was planning to persuade her again, Xu Guanwu couldn't help waving his hands.

Seeing this, Liang Shuyi had no choice but to keep silent.

The last script was "Yin Ling" written by director Zhang Guoming. When Xu Guanwu saw the name, he couldn't help being taken aback, "Is it a horror movie?"

"Yes." Liang Shuyi smiled, "It's fun to listen to this story. It said that the couple moved to a villa in the suburbs after they got married, but the wife often saw some weird things, and even found out that the family living next door Behaving weirdly. But husband said she was hallucinating from nervousness until someone called her and asked for an eye..."

"Wow, it sounds scary." Xu Guanwu said with a smile, "This horror movie sounds pretty good."

"But the key point is that after hearing the ending, you feel that it's a bit outrageous." Liang Shuyi shook her head and said.

"Oh?! What kind of ending is that, which makes you feel outrageous?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help asking curiously after hearing this.

"It turned out that the couple were the ghosts. It turned out that they were going on their honeymoon after they were newly married, but the car overturned halfway. The husband and the two accompanying friends died, leaving only the wife who was seriously ill. And the husband wanted to go to the underworld. To live with her is to be with the ghost couple you met in the underworld, and set up a situation to make your wife lose the will to survive, and live with them in the underworld." Liang Shuyi explained.

Xu Guanwu couldn't help scratching his head when he heard this, "Why are you so weird?! I thought I was a human and others were ghosts, but it turned out that other people were ghosts and I was also a ghost? This plot is quite reversed."

"You said, if this is made into a movie, wouldn't the audience be dumbfounded?" Leung Shu-yi said, "That's why everyone disagrees with casting this movie."

"I think Zhang Guoming is quite innovative," Xu Guanwu put forward his own different views, "If it's just that the heroine finds something weird and then finds Taoist priests to collect and exorcise demons, then the story is a bit simpler. It's such a reversal , it shows a new idea. It is quite interesting to see people as ghosts, but you are actually a ghost.”

"You are the only one who messes around like this. After this movie is released, the box office will definitely not be very good." Liang Shuyi said with a frown.

"Whether the box office is good or not is not a problem, as long as the film is made with new ideas." Xu Guanwu smiled, "The most fearful thing is the sameness, which is not good for the development of Hong Kong films."

"Since you said that, then I have nothing to say. You can make up your own mind about the four scripts." Liang Shuyi stood up and said, "I'll arrange for the release of "Café de Coral" and "Laojiaxie" went."

"Okay." Xu Guanwu nodded, got up and sent Liang Shuyi out, and turned back to read the four scripts.

After reading the two scripts of "Kicking the Pavilion" and "The End of the World Moon Sword", Xu Guanwu feels that he is not afraid of ignorance but afraid of comparing goods.In terms of screenwriting, Zeng Zhiwei is actually quite quick-witted, and you can see a lot of ingenuity in it, but it is a pity that although there are many good lines, the overall storyline is not enough, and there is always a feeling of scratching through a cotton jacket.

The "Tianya Mingyue Knife" directed by Chu Yuan is quite beautiful. Even if you haven't read the book "Tianya Mingyue Knife" by Gu Long before, you can feel the kind of "letting go of everything, it is better to go back" after watching this movie. artistic conception.Moreover, Chu Yuan's script is like deconstructing Gu Long's novel again, and it can be published directly. He is indeed a person who is used to writing scripts.

(End of this chapter)