The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 298 "Rocky 2"

"There's a new script?! Since I've brought it over, I must take a look." Xu Guanwen said in great surprise.

"Stanley, your scripts are always very good. What good scripts have you written this time? Let us have a look." Liu Tianci and Deng Weixiong also asked curiously.

Xu Guanwu's "Genius and Idiot", "The Contract", "Drunken Master" and so on all achieved very good box office revenue, so when they heard that he had a new script created, the three of them wanted to have a look.

But Xu Guanwu couldn't stand their enthusiasm, so he had no choice but to take out "Half Weight", "I wrote this indiscriminately, and it still feels inferior to your "Crazy Detective"."

"Stop rambling, take it over and have a look." Deng Weixiong snatched it over, ""Half a Catty"?! The name is so strange!"

Liu Tianci and Xu Guanwen leaned over together, and the three of them put their heads in the shape of a character, and looked at the "Half a Catty Two" brought by Xu Guanwu together.

1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes...

The three of them laughed while watching, without closing their mouths.Half an hour later, after reading the whole script, Deng Weixiong closed the script and closed his eyes, as if he was still savoring it.

"Wonderful, it's too short!" He suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Stanley, your script is really great. My "Crazy Detective" is still inferior to your "Half Weight" !"

"Awu, your script is really well written," Xu Guanwen nodded and said, "The first time I saw it, I felt that it was destined for me, as if I had seen it in a dream."

"Stanley, I didn't expect you to be so good at writing comedies, even better than us professional screenwriters." Liu Tianci also bowed down.

"Okay, okay, stop praising me, or I'll really jump off the stairs." No matter how thick-skinned Xu Guanwu was, he couldn't accept the worship of the original authors so loudly, so he hurriedly raised his hands and surrendered. road.

"Brother, there are still four months before the Chinese New Year. I think you should hurry up and shoot this "Half Catty" quickly, or you won't be able to catch up with the Spring Festival schedule." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter if you can't catch up with the Spring Festival schedule. The key is to make the audience happy. Otherwise, if it's purely for making money, then with the current box office appeal, you can get a high box office just by filming anything. But the audience's confidence in you But the points have been deducted. If you often make bad movies to fool the audience, who will watch your movies in the future?" Xu Guanwen couldn't help but teach a lesson after hearing what his second brother said.

Although Xu Guanwu was taught by his elder brother, he was not annoyed by it at all, instead he was proud of his elder brother's thinking.In fact, the reason for the loss of Hong Kong films is certainly due to changes in the global environment, but in fact, the main reason is that Hong Kong filmmakers themselves are not up to date.

In the 90s, the Soviet Union disintegrated, defected to freedom, and accepted Communist reform, representing the victory of the capitalist countries headed by the United States.

After that, the United States also saw the benefits of cultural propaganda, and a large number of movies and TV shows showing American values ​​began to be dumped around the world.

Without the biggest threat of the Soviet Union, under the dominance of the United States, other countries can only bow their heads.Many markets that were originally closed were forced to open to the United States, including the Nanyang market, the Taiwan market, and the Eastern European market.

With the establishment of American world hegemony, the American film market is gradually expanding, while Hong Kong films are completely helpless in the face of well-produced Hollywood blockbusters with grand scenes and exquisite special effects.

"Jurassic Park" and "Titanic" broke Hong Kong's local box office records one after another, but the box office of Hong Kong's local films at that time encountered Waterloo.It can be seen that in the 90s, Hong Kong people did not lose interest in watching movies. If the box office quality is indeed high enough, they are still willing to pay to watch in theaters.

It’s just that they were misled by Hong Kong filmmakers before. Although the advertisements were all boasting about the joining of big stars, gorgeous martial arts scenes, hilarious plot design, etc., but when they walked into the theater, they were either reckless, or the product was not right. The storyline I don't know what to say, the acting skills of the characters are exaggerated and exaggerated, and the special effects of the picture are crude...

Taking the 70s as an example, it took an average of half a year to shoot a movie; and in the late 80s and early 90s, it only took three months on average to shoot a movie.The time required is shorter than that in the 70s, but you must know that in the 70s, many movies were shot in studios, products made by assembly lines on large studios.

It takes half a year to shoot this kind of assembly line works in the 70s. Almost all of them were shot on location in the golden age. If you only took three months to shoot, how could the quality be improved? !

In the golden age of Hong Kong movies, the stars with box office appeal were always on the move, rushing to catch many different crews at the same time. After shooting a set of scenes here, they immediately made a car to catch the next one.During Zheng Yuling's peak period, she had to catch up with nine crews in one day, so she got the nickname Zheng Nine Crew.

Going to nine production crews in one day and playing different roles, if the actors can show good acting skills, then it is really a hell.But there is no way, who gave her box office appeal?Taiwanese film companies, Nanyang film companies, and Korean film companies called her to star in the starring role. If they didn't invite her, the film would not be sold after the filming was completed.So the producer was forced to beg his grandpa to sue his grandma, and he also had to invite someone over.

And celebrities have so many film companies to invite them, so they naturally raise their own value, 100 million, 200 million, 300 million... step by step and shout up.

It also happened to catch up with the golden age of Hong Kong movies, and a lot of hot money poured in.Therefore, as long as a star with box office appeal can command a high price, anyway, Hong Kong movies are very popular overseas at this time, so commercial investment in overseas films is affordable.

But making too many bad movies is detrimental to human character, especially when so many bad movies are made, even many stars have lost their integrity, so how can the audience have confidence?

As a result, overseas audiences became more and more disrespectful. Coupled with the impact of high-quality blockbusters from the United States, Hong Kong films quickly lost their overseas box office.When Hong Kong filmmakers are still popular with local methods, pursuing the realm of four or two thousand catties, and winning high box office with small investment films, American filmmakers believe that you get what you pay for, and use extremely high film investment to shoot high-quality films. One force down ten times, abruptly overwhelmed the Hong Kong filmmakers.

At this time, Taiwanese film companies also started to act like moths. Since their investment occupied a large part of the Hong Kong film market, they directly formed a price alliance, forcefully forcing Hong Kong filmmakers to cut prices.Anyway, the Nanyang market has fallen, and most of the movies are invested by us. If you don’t reduce the price, we won’t buy them.

Now Hong Kong movies are completely miserable. The films made are sold at low prices, and the losers are definitely local filmmakers in Hong Kong.Is anyone willing to make a movie that can't make money?
Not to mention that there are really people with brains, shouldn't they lower the price to buy movies, then they will be completely rotten.Anyway, if a good film cannot be sold at a high price, then just invite a few celebrities, and then shoot it randomly and hand it over.Anyway, if you don't let me make money, I won't let you have an easy life.Everyone, you fool me, I fool you, the elder brother is better than the second brother.

The final result can only be worse and worse, and the character of Hong Kong filmmakers has not changed.For example, the three who are still active are still used to pile up a large number of stars, and then make some bad movies to fool the mainland audience.I can't disclose their names openly, but I can provide some information for your reference.

One is a big brother in the music industry who has crossed over into film and television and has won the best actor. One of the giants of the film company and one of the most famous screenwriters in Hong Kong. He has created countless classic scripts, but now he can only be a passing talent.

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After Xu Guanwen got the script of "Half a Catty", he didn't start shooting right away. Instead, he worked with Liu Tianci and Deng Weixiong several times, and after revising a few scenes, he finally handed in Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanying. People, and then pull up the crew and start working.

Xu Guanwu hopes that "Half a Catty" can be released in time for the Spring Festival, because watching Xu's comedies during the Chinese New Year has become one of the traditions of Hong Kong citizens.It's like the annual Spring Festival Gala in the Mainland. Although the year is still the same without it, it always feels like something is missing.

In addition to Xu Guanwen pulling a team to start filming "Half Weight", Stallone, who is far away across the ocean, finally used his six months of reformation to return to the filming of "Rocky 2".

Xu Guanwu received a report from the CAA agency, they supervised Stallone for half a year, and found that he had indeed made a huge change, and he could return to filming.

Xu Guanwu was very happy after receiving the news. It was also a great joy for Stallone to recover his former demeanor from a rotten alcoholic.

Seeing that Stallone has changed his mind, Xu Guanwu didn't bother anymore, and directly asked CAA agency to cooperate with 20th Century Fox to film "Rocky 2" together.However, the sequel adaptation rights still have to be charged.

The script of "Rocky 2" is still written by Stallone himself. Although this kid has fallen a lot after becoming famous, his talent is still not lost.Don't look at his expressionless face, which is as stiff as granite. In fact, his IQ is as high as 190, which is a typical real person who doesn't show his face.

Originally, Stallone also wanted to work as a director himself, because he felt that he wrote the script of the movie, and only he knew how to shoot the movie best.However, for safety reasons, 20th Century Fox still waved Stallone to play.

Both "Rocky 2" and "Jaws 2" are magic weapons that 20th Century Fox is trying to revitalize. How could it be possible to hand them over to a scumbag who has never directed a movie before?

Stallone was very angry, feeling that 20th Century Fox clearly did not believe in his own strength.So he called Xu Guanwu and asked Xu Guanwu to speak for him.

Xu Guanwu knew that Stallone not only wrote the script well, but also directed it really well, and if he hadn't messed with it, he would have even won the Academy Award for Best Actor.But Daryl might not believe what he said so empty-handedly.And 20th Century Fox is really afraid now, and is unwilling to take any more risks.So Xu Guanwu didn't make a suggestion, lest he come to make trouble for himself.

Stallone did not become a director in the end, but he still had to shoot the scenes that should be filmed. Fortunately, the salary offered by 20th Century Fox was not bad, so the poor Stallone was forced to give in in the end.

However, the old Darryl Zanjuk also had another calculation. He persuaded Stallone to donate all his film salary and invest in the filming of the movie.In this way, after the movie is released in the future, Stallone can get a steady stream of box office revenue.

Stallone didn't plan to do this at first. After all, the money is safe in his own hands, but he couldn't hold back Darryl Zaniuk's eloquence, and after thinking about the release of "Rocky", so much money was divided by Xu Guanwu alone. After leaving, and now enjoying the dividends of copyright continuously, Stallone couldn't help being a little jealous.

In the end, Stallone donated his $50 film salary in exchange for 2% of the box office share of "Rocky 5.00".

(End of this chapter)