The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 301
The format dispute is protracted, and it may take several years. In fact, the format dispute between VHS and BETAMAX lasted for almost ten years.

Xu Guanwu didn't have that much energy to pay attention to this matter, so Darryl Zanyuk was responsible for everything. Anyway, he and 20th Century Fox would stand side by side and share any benefits.

In November, except for the filming of "Jumping Ashes", which is the pioneering work of the New Wave movie, and provoking 20th Century Fox to participate in the format dispute, Xu Guanwu basically did not have any special major events, and everything moved forward in an orderly and calm manner. walking.

In December, during the Christmas period, Hong Jingbao's "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua" was completed again, and three films were shot in a row within a year. This efficiency can be called the first in Xu's company.

However, they are still not as good as the directors of Shaw Brothers. Chang Cheh once made five films a year, and Li Hanxiang also made four films a year. They are both very prolific film directors.

Calculated based on the box office of 250 million per film, Hong Jingbao is both the director and the starring role, and the share that can be shared is as high as more than 40 Hong Kong dollars.At that time, this huge sum of money could buy a luxury villa in Mid-Levels.

Xu Guanwu has never been sloppy in his work, and he has never regretted the share he set before.Every time a movie is released in Hong Kong, after the box office total is summed up the next day, colorful banknotes will be distributed on the same day.

As the saying goes, mellow wine is popular with people, and money touches people's hearts.The truth is that one thousand and ten thousand are not as effective as the colorful banknotes in front of you.

Hong Jingbao can get hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars every time, holding a lot of banknotes, but it really makes other people greedy.Not only the employees of Xu's subsidiary looked greedy, but also the employees of other companies listened to it.After all, Hong Kong is just a city, and the circle of filmmakers is so small that nothing can be hidden from people.

When the employees of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest heard that Hong Jingbao could receive a bonus of 20 million yuan every time, they naturally salivated with envy.Compared with the employees of Xu's, the employees of the other two companies will naturally have their own ideas.

Before that, Hong Jingbao was just the leader of dragon and tiger martial arts masters. He had more than a dozen dragon and tiger martial arts masters under his command, which was not as many disciples as masters like Tang Jia and Liu Jiahui.Why do people make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a film, but they have to fight for a little wages?
Moreover, Hong Jingbao was very willing to spend money for the brothers in Hong's class, such as eating, drinking, dancing, singing and killing chickens, these activities were often paid by one person.If you are willing to spend so much money for your brothers, you will naturally be loved by them.

Now the Hong family class has become the most desirable existence of Hong Kong dragon and tiger martial artists. The salary is high, the benefits are good, and the scenery is good.

To be a dragon and tiger martial artist is to eat youth. The so-called Wen Wu first Wu Wu second, young people are full of confidence in themselves, and have a strong desire to be superior.So when people go to high places and water flows to low places, naturally many people plan to join the Hong family class.

With this idea, people's hearts began to float. I was willing to stay in the company and suffer because there was no other place to go.This is no longer the case now, if you don't take me in here, I can go to another company.

"The salary of the Hong family class is high, the benefits are good, and the position is fast. As long as you have the ability, you can enter. It's not that I don't have the ability. Why should I stay here and listen to your scolding for earning your dead salary?!"

With the same heart and the same reason, Hong's family suddenly became like a pool of water and mountains, "Brother Hong Jingbao, we all relied on my brother's righteousness, and we came to the mountain to join you. From now on, our brothers will only be brothers and sisters." My order is to obey, and in the future I will lead the horse and ride for my brother, as long as my brother gives an order, we will go through water and fire, and we will never let my brother down!"

"Brother, since you have joined my Hong family class, we will be a family from now on. From now on, we will drink in big bowls, eat meat in big mouthfuls, and share gold and silver in big bowls!"

After playing this kind of scene a few times, the kung fu teams of Shaw Brothers and Jiahe were suddenly surprised to find that their dragon and tiger martial arts masters had disappeared. It didn't matter after such a search, they all went to Hong's class.

Dragon and Tiger martial artist itself is a relatively low-level job. Although it is indispensable in Kung Fu martial arts movies, in fact, most of them do the work of acting as a stand-in and stand-in.Although the salary sounds high, the status is the lowest.

Moreover, the job of Dragon and Tiger Warriors is not fixed. For example, if a certain director needs several Dragon and Tiger Warriors for a film today, then the "snake head" who is the leader of Dragon and Tiger Warriors needs to pick the people.The dragon and tiger martial artist who was selected received a notice, and at what time tomorrow will he come to report to the certain crew and start work with the certain director.And what about the dragon and tiger warriors who were not selected? They can only wait for the next opportunity.

But it’s different if you join a fixed team, such as the often said Liujiaban, Chengjiaban, Hongjiaban, Yuanjiaban, etc. Their teams are basically fixed, and all members train together intensively. The tacit understanding between them is also very deep, which is very beneficial for action scenes.

And after joining these martial arts classes, the job is basically guaranteed.Because anyone who can make a class has a movie to shoot every year, and if there is a movie to shoot, it proves that there is money to be made, and there are many job opportunities, so the class leader can support so many brothers.

But it is not easy to join the Kung Fu class. The martial artists under Hong Jingbao are all talented, such as Feng Kean, Yuan Hua, Lin Zhengying, Meng Hai, Qian Jiale, etc., are all capable of fighting and acting; The martial arts masters of Long’s family class are not afraid of death, and often do all kinds of dangerous and deadly moves, so you have to dare to fight with your life; Yuan’s family class and Liu’s family class are almost brother classes, and a family forms a team or later The relationship between master and apprentice is connected, but also the capable person is in the top position.

Due to the large number of practitioners, dragon and tiger martial artists can basically do it as long as they know a little kung fu and are not afraid of death.Hong Kong happens to have so many boxing gyms, so there has never been a shortage of such people, and film companies have not paid enough attention to this.Basically, there is no need to sign a contract. Anyway, if there are no people, go to the boxing gym to recruit a group. If you give money, is it afraid that no one will come?
However, the martial arts master Longhu, who is willing to work hard and has a flexible mind, is not like selling green onions in the vegetable market.What's more, how can a new dragon and tiger martial artist compare with a skilled dragon and tiger martial artist? !Experienced actors know how to move, how to seize the opportunity, how to pretend to be dead, and how to act when they are filming. For beginners who have no experience, they have to pretend to be a dead body for a month or two. How can the film company wait? !

So because many experienced dragon and tiger warriors went to Hong's class, there was a shortage of dragon and tiger warriors in Shaw Brothers and Jiahe.Both Yuan's class and Liu's class are brother classes, so they are basically not affected.But other scattered small classes are out of luck.Once the key members are gone, what to do with the remaining two or three big cats and kittens?

Let them bite the bullet, they have no fighting experience at all, maybe how many times it takes NG to get a good shot; don’t let them go, and there are not enough martial artists to go into battle, if the fighting scenes are too small, then just watch kung fu movies Incredible.

That's why several film companies got bloody, scolded Hong Jingbao for being unkind, and dug the wall openly and secretly, poaching all the dragon and tiger warriors to your side, leaving other colleagues with no food to eat.

Hong Jingbao said that I am also very innocent. It wasn't me digging the wall openly and secretly, it was people who came to join me on their own initiative. Could it be that I have to be shameless and shut them out? !In that case, who am I, Hong Jingbao, and what will others say about me?Don't recognize the old brother when you have money?If you have money, you won't give your brother a hand? !
Xu Guanwu heard a little bit of news, and his evaluation of it was that it hurts to be idle.If you have the time to talk about it, why not think of a way to improve the treatment of your employees.It's useless for you to quarrel over there. If the conditions don't improve, you will still run when you should.

There were more dragon and tiger warriors in the Hong family class, so they were naturally divided into factions. The old people who followed Hong Jingbao before, and the newcomers who joined him, naturally divided into two distinct groups.

The old people look down on the newcomers a little bit. You didn’t come when you were working hard together. Now that everyone’s life is better, you come here for the popular food and spicy food.

The newcomers also look down on the so-called old people, thinking that you are just out of luck, two years earlier than us, in fact, you may not be as good as us in terms of real ability, otherwise, let's take a look.

Fortunately, Hong Jingbao's heavy tonnage allowed him to hold his ground. Although there were hundreds of dragon and tiger warriors under his command, they could all order them to move, and none of them dared to shoot stabs in front of him.And he also knew the ability of each dragon and tiger martial artist like the back of his hand, and kept all the ones that were suitable for him, and gave the rest to Cheng Long, Zeng Zhiwei, and Mai Jia.

In this way, everyone has a fixed team of martial artists, so they don't have to borrow and borrow from now on, and sending out the redundant dragon and tiger martial artists not only finds a way out for them, but also prevents them from staying in Hong's class to grab the original There are not many video resources.

Xu Guanwu appreciated Hong Jingbao's handling very much. This has strengthened Xu's strength a lot, and he will not worry about being used for Kung Fu movies in the future.Moreover, Xu Guanwu also found a few martial artists who would often appear in Hong Kong movies in the future, the kind of people who looked very familiar but couldn't name them.

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Hong Jingbao did not go out of business after filming "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua" in December. Instead, he wrote another "Single Sword and Gun", which was mentioned in the seven-person group meeting for review.

The film is also written by Huang Bingyao, starring Hong Jingbao and others. It is actually quite interesting to read the script. There are both grudges and martial arts scenes. However, when everyone raised their hands to express their agreement, Liang Shuyi directly rejected it. up.

"I don't agree to start filming this "Desperate Single Sword and Killing Gun" now." Liang Shuyi waved her hand and said.

"Why is this? Is it because Sanmao's script is not good? Or is there something wrong?" Xu Guanwen couldn't help asking curiously.

Ms. Liang Shuyi never expressed her opinions much when she participated in the meeting. This time she directly expressed her opposition, which was really the first time in history.

"It's like this. You may not be very clear. There are too many kung fu movies of this kind released in our theaters recently, so the box office has shown a downward trend." Liang Shuyi said, and then took out a report, "This is our recent The box office records of the films co-produced by the company and other film companies in Hong Kong after their release show that the box office of kung fu movies has gradually declined. Some of the films are of good quality, and our film schedule is also very good, but the box office is also low. It’s only about 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Compared with previous movies of the same quality, the box office has dropped by more than [-]%, while other Kung Fu movies of average quality have dropped even more.”

"Is this a problem with our own theater chain, or is it the same problem with Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest?" Hearing what Liang Shuyi said, everyone present could not help but frown.

"Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest also have the same phenomenon. I think the reason for this is probably because too many kung fu movies have been released recently." The comedy "Mother's" has a box office of 580 million Hong Kong dollars, and Shaw Brothers' "The Adventures of Emperor Qianlong" has a box office of more than 200 million, both of which are comedies."

(End of this chapter)