The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 293 The Tsundere Huang Laoxie
Mr. Huang Zhan is now the big boss of a film company. Making money from filming is his main job. Writing songs, writing commercials, and hosting shows are just hobbies. He only earns two pocket money.

So when Zheng Donghan came to his door and asked him to write a few more songs, Huang Laoxie couldn't help being very dissatisfied.I only charge you more than 1 Hong Kong dollars for the manuscript fee, and you still have a lot of demands. I really think that I am idle and have nothing to do. How about being greedy for your little money?
Zheng Donghan naturally knew Huang Zhan's temper, so he didn't waste much time, and directly threw the two songs "This Love Can Be Treated" and "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" to Huang Laoxie.That means if you look at these two songs, and then look at the few songs you gave me, you will know where the gap is, and you will know why I want you to write a few more songs.

Huang Zhan didn't pay much attention at first. Talented people are more conceited, just like that guy Ni Yan, who writes more than 5000 codewords per hour, and he doesn't use a typewriter/computer, but all of them are written by hand.What kind of concept is this? This scumbag uses a computer to code words, and the fastest is [-] words an hour.So the hand speed of [-] words per hour is really insane!
When Ni Yan writes scripts for others, it usually takes a week to deliver them. In fact, he has already written them within three days, and he deliberately puts them in a drawer for a few days, and then takes them out when someone comes to pick them up.Moreover, once the scripts and novels written are sold, they will not be returned or even a single word will be changed.

Ni Yu wrote hundreds of scripts for Shaw Brothers throughout his life, and the filming was not finished until Shaw Brothers went out of business.Moreover, this person's status in Shaw Brothers is very high, he is one of the few masters in Hong Kong, and a leading figure in the screenwriting world.And it is estimated that he is also the first literati to get rich purely from writing, much richer than Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng.

Therefore, this person has the hardest waist and the most confidence, and the manuscripts sold will not be returned or exchanged.Huang Zhan originally wanted to imitate Ni Yan, but his father often had financial problems and almost went bankrupt in the 90s, so he lacked confidence, so he obediently took it back and revised it.

Ni Yan writes articles very quickly, and his articles are very profitable. In his previous life, Huang Yulang ran a newspaper and bought Ni Yan's articles for five hundred thousand words.With his old man's hand speed of more than 5000, one hour is 30 Hong Kong dollars.A maximum of 300 characters can be written every day, and a minimum of [-] characters can be written, which is [-] million Hong Kong dollars a month.At the same time, the highest paid stars in Hong Kong, such as Xu Guanjie, Cheng Long, Zhou Runfa, etc., only paid two to three million yuan.

Ni Yu can earn several million a year just by writing, so he naturally dismisses other jobs.Once the great director Luo Wei wanted to teach him how to film, and took him to stay on the set for several days, teaching him how to hold the camera, how to coordinate, how to operate, etc. He thought he was ready to take over, but Ni Yu He said, "What evil did I do in my previous life to make movies?" Luo Wei was so angry that he almost wanted to beat him.

As one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, Ni Orbit is already so rebellious, and Huang Zhan, who is also one of the four great talents, naturally does not give up.

It's just that this talented man has dabbled a lot in his life, running an advertising company, writing songs and commercials, acting, filming and investing in movies, and investing in real estate and stocks... As a result, there are too many chores to take care of. Fate is rough.Once reduced to homelessness, forced to file for bankruptcy.In comparison, the other three talents Jin Yong, Ni Yan and Cai Lan are much happier than him.

At this time, Huang Zhan is the boss of the film company, the boss of the advertising company, and the producer of TVB TV station... and he has just made a blockbuster movie "Café de Café de Carre". If the movie is not a big hit, but the album is also a big hit, he is complacent. So I didn't like the two songs that Zheng Donghan handed over.

Carelessly took it over and glanced at it, Huang Zhan was stunned for a moment, hummed in his heart several times, and couldn't help but patted the table, "You take out these two songs, it's not that I can't live Are you done? This kind of good song is hard to come by, how can it be mass-produced like you think? Take it, I can’t write it!”

"Brother Zhan, don't be so discouraged, I know your talent." Zheng Donghan praised with a smile, "I don't have to have a good song like these two songs, as long as there is not too much difference. gone."

"No, I can't write it. You can find someone else to write it. By the way, where did you find these two songs? Go to him again or it will be over. I can't write it." Huang Zhan shook his head. Cheng rattle said.

A good song, a good song is something you can get by accident, where does it say that you can have it immediately if you want it?Some musicians can have one or two good songs in their lifetime, and they can already be famous through the ages. How can they wholesale and retail like Chinese cabbage?If we are all talented like Li Bai, Du Fu, and Su Dongpo?That is a talented person who only emerges once in a thousand years.

"These two songs were written by Mr. Xu Guanwu, and he only gave these two songs." Zheng Donghan smiled and said, "He is a big boss, and he is not a professional musician. I can't find it every time I release an album. He helps."

"This kid is not a professional musician, but he is better than us professional musicians. Good songs are as cheap as Chinese cabbage to him. He can shock a lot of people with just a few songs. I don't understand how in the world There are such powerful people." Huang Zhan couldn't help curling his lips when he heard it, "Take the songs of the last charity performance as an example, there are more than 20 new songs, and the first one is classic. The first one is good. Pfft his mother, is he pretending to be Where are the aliens?"

"Then I don't know, but the problem now is that these two songs of his are really good. If you use ordinary good songs to match them, it will always seem a bit substandard. So Brother Zhan, I can only trouble you again. Zheng Donghan smiled, "I'll give you a little more time at the most, and give you a little more money to refill the pen, right?"

"Give more money, that's what you said, don't play tricks." Hearing more money, Huang Laoxie regained his energy, "How much more can you give?"

"If you can't find much more than these two songs, how about [-] Hong Kong dollars each?" Zheng Donghan gritted his teeth and stretched out a finger.

A song of 1 yuan was already a sky-high price at the time.In fact, despite the well-developed recording industry in Hong Kong, the income of songwriters and composers is not high, and the key point is that copyright protection is not in place.

In Japan, South Korea, Europe, the United States and other places, the reason why the record industry is so developed and classic songs follow one after another is because musicians earn a lot.The initial royalties may not be too outrageous, but in the future, the revenue of the songs will be shared. Whether it is album sales, online downloads, radio, TV broadcasts, karaoke, restaurants, and dance halls, they can all be protected by copyright law. , Record companies can get benefits from it, and songwriters can also get benefits.

These benefits are accumulated over the years, and hit songs can bring hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars to songwriters, so there are so many rich benefits that more and more people will devote themselves to it.Create one classic song after another.

In Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places, the copyright fees for lyrics and music are all bought out at one time, and the price is quite low.The standard price of a song by Huang Zhan in the 90s was [-] Hong Kong dollars, and the goods sold were non-refundable.The best is [-] Hong Kong dollars, and the average is [-] Hong Kong dollars. With Huang Zhan's integrity, of course he would not deliberately write it badly, but when it comes to the degree of care, he naturally has to discount it.

The reason why it is so cheap is actually related to the small market for Chinese songs.In the 90s and [-]s, Hong Kong singers sold at most several million copies of an album, which is already skyrocketing.At the same time, Europe and the United States, such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, Leon Rich, etc., had sales of tens of millions.At the same time, there are too few original music in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and too many covers of European, American and Japanese pop music.

Miyuki Nakajima, a Japanese national treasure singer, has more than 300 original songs that have been covered by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers for more than [-] times. She is known as the figure who supports half the sky of the Chinese pop music scene.Of course, this statement is exaggerated, but it also reflects the embarrassment of original music in the Chinese music scene.

In the 60s, the Beatles visited Hong Kong, setting off a wave of group formation. In the 70s, Cantonese songs flourished, and record sales frequently created sales miracles.But apart from Xu Guanjie, a singer-songwriter who can compose and sing by himself, there are still many singers who only know how to sing, but don't know how to compose lyrics and music.So when they release an album, they have to ask other people to write songs quickly.

But in the golden age of records, Hong Kong releases hundreds of albums every year, but there are only a few well-known musicians. How can they have such great creativity to write songs?So cover singing has become a tried and tested magic weapon.

In addition, in the 70s and [-]s, most of the popular singers started their careers by singing classic English songs, so there is no psychological pressure for them to sing covers.Even Xu Guanjie's singers who are excellent in singing and writing have to cover songs by Elvis Presley and The Beatles, not to mention other singers.

Cover songs became popular in the Hong Kong music scene for a while, and each album has so many cover songs.Most of the cover songs are the hottest pop music in Europe and America. Such music has been tested by the European and American markets, so naturally there is no need to worry about sales.Moreover, Hong Kong was part of the United Kingdom at the time, and it was the meeting place of Chinese and Western cultures, so European and American music suited the tastes of Hong Kong people, and Japanese pop music also suited the tastes of Hong Kong people. Covering songs from Europe, America and Japan made people feel no cultural barriers at all, so the sales volume was also high. Very stable.

So all record companies naturally focus on cover songs, and other original songs can be exempted, because they are not sure whether they will be popular, and buying an original song is more expensive than the copyright of a cover song. So naturally, original songs can't be sold at a high price.

They can’t be sold at high prices and are not valued, so there are very few musicians in Hong Kong who are professionally engaged in song creation. Most of them are part-time composers. They also manage to score TV and movies, commercial songs, and write songs for singers. , Try to get involved in many aspects and make more money.

But in fact, there is a big difference between soundtracks for TV and movies, commercial songs and record songs. It is naturally not as hard as other musicians in Europe, America and Japan to concentrate on one area. The quality of the songs they create Naturally, it is quite inferior.But there is no way, people always have to live, and it is impossible to starve oneself to death for art.

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After Huang Zhan got the promise of [-] Hong Kong dollars a song promised by Zheng Donghan, he immediately began to rack his brains to create.

Although Zheng Donghan gritted his teeth and gave a high price of [-] songs, he also knew that there is a reason to get something if you give up, and he believes that the songs made by Huang Zhan will definitely be worth the money.

Sure enough, ten days later, Zheng Donghan got the seven songs written by Huang Zhan with all his painstaking efforts. After some investigation, the first capitals were really good. Although there may not be the classics of the two songs such as "This Love Can Wait", they are not as good in comparison. It wasn't too inferior, and he couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction. After paying the manuscript fee happily, he took the song back to the company and prepared to let Xu Guanying record it.

But in September, Xu Guanying has finished recording all the songs, the albums have been produced, and the promotional preheating work has to start. As a result, a news came from the north, and the world changed in an instant.

Xu Guanwu temporarily ordered to suspend the release plan of the new album, and at the same time ordered the "Daily Daily" to print in black and white within seven days, and to use eight pages to report the matter at the same time.

With the spread of this news, Hong Kong fell into panic and turmoil.

(End of this chapter)