The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 364 Shaw and Jiahe
The "Snake Fighting" filmed by director Mou Dunfu in the past tells the story of a human being and a snake who stole immigrants wantonly bullied by the snake head, raped and killed by a bird girl, etc. (seriously warned that it is absolutely not recommended to watch).

Because there are a lot of nude scenes in the movie, not many actors are willing to play.Therefore, Director Mou Dunfu found a real human snake to participate in the performance, there is nothing wrong with it!It is the smugglers who have endured these hardships to play.Because they don't have jobs and need to make money, they agreed to Mou Dunfu's request to play the role.

And these real female snakes, participating in the filming of this movie, is like reliving a nightmare, which is actually a very inhumane behavior.Some female snakes still thought they were coming to catch them when they heard the sirens, and screamed in fright, suffering very serious mental damage.

After the film was released, director Mou Dunfei was also stigmatized as a beast director because of this, thinking that he only knows how to exaggerate violence and bloody emotions, lawlessness and inhumanity at all.As for "Snake Fighting", which is full of scenes of nudity, violence, and abuse, although it achieved some success at the box office, it aroused unanimous condemnation from all Hong Kong citizens, and finally it was released after two days of haste.

Two days after the video was released, it was announced that it would be recalled amid the unanimous denunciation of the citizens, and the unsold ones were also announced to be sealed.And this animal director, Mou Dunfu, was also notorious because of the unanimous criticism. Even Shaw Brothers couldn't protect him, so he had to hide him temporarily.

Director Mou Dunfu is a very individual person. Seeing that Shaw Brothers could not satisfy his pursuit of art, he simply left by himself, and then went to the mainland with Ms. Xia Meng's Blue Bird company.Then I shot a CULT to the extreme, almost everyone in China has heard of this famous "Black Sun 731".

The movie "Black Sun 731" takes the 731 Japanese pirates who committed a lot of crimes in the Northeast as the protagonists, and filmed all the inhumane crimes they committed in the form of a documentary.After the movie was released, it caused extreme discomfort among movie audiences because of the scenes of killing, abuse, blood, and violence.Director Mou Dunfu was also criticized for creating gimmicks and selling violence. As a result, the second film "Black Sun Nanjing Massacre" was banned in the mainland.

Mou Dunfu is a very controversial director. Some people say that he only shows the cruel side of history to the audience; others say that he deliberately exaggerates violence and uses violence and blood as a selling point.And this method of highlighting bloody violence also relatively weakens the theme of the movie, and does not achieve the effect of reflecting on history.

After filming the "Black Sun" series, Mou Dunfu gradually disappeared in the Chinese film industry.Like the cult director Gui Zhihong, he takes a slanted sword, is full of evil spirits, and does not play cards according to common sense.Although this can allow them to gain attention in the shortest possible time, they still cannot become the mainstream and cannot be recognized by the mainstream society, so it is inevitable that they will disappear in the end.

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Compared with Shaw Brothers' old-fashioned and faltering steps, Jiahe's performance last year was also not good, and they can be said to be a pair of difficult brothers and sisters.

Although Golden Harvest poached Zeng Zhiwei, a high-ranking member of the Xu family last year, he also filmed "Buddhas Are Fired" under Golden Harvest, which tells the story of Shaolin disciples fighting crazy Arhat boxing.But the box office is very average.This kind of story of a young knight who studies martial arts diligently, and finally fights against injustice, has been filmed so badly in recent years.

Cheng Long's "Serpentine Hand" and "Drunken Fist", Hong Jingbao's "San De Monk and Pounding Rice Six", "Lin Shirong", Yuan Biao's "Prodigal Boy", "Mr. Zan and Changqianhua", etc. It's a movie of this kind.The Xu Corporation produces more than a dozen films of this kind every year, not to mention Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers and even other film companies.

So since last year, the box office of this kind of kung fu kid learning kung fu and fighting against evil tigers has begun to show a downward trend.Hong Jingbao starred in "I Can't Help Myself" and "Teeth Shaking Tiger" all encountered Waterloo, not to mention Hong Jingbao's younger brother Zeng Zhiwei.

Zeng Zhiwei's ability to make kung fu movies in the early Republic of China was all learned from Hong Jingbao, but he did not reach the state where the blue came out of the blue and was better than the blue.So when Hong Jingbao failed to make Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China, Zeng Zhiwei did not learn from his experience and lessons, and made Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China, but he also encountered setbacks.

"Buddha is on Fire" invested more than 80 Hong Kong dollars, but the box office was only more than 150 million.With the local box office of more than 150 million, plus the box office of more than 100 million sold in ports, there will always be less than 300 million.Golden Harvest and Zeng Zhiwei divided the accounts again and again. In the end, Zeng Zhiwei only made 20 yuan, and Golden Harvest only made 40 Hong Kong dollars after excluding costs and odd expenses.Both parties were not very satisfied with this result.

After Zeng Zhiwei joined Golden Harvest, with the support of Zou Wenhuai, he opened his own film company and named it "Weihe Company". "Weihe" is named after the word "He" in Jiahe's name and the word "Wei" in Zeng Zhiwei's name.

The movie "Buddhas Have Fire" is the pioneering work of Weihe Film Company, and Zeng Zhiwei naturally attaches great importance to it.I specifically asked Hong Kong's gold medal screenwriter Ni Yan to help write a script, and the finishing fee was only [-] Hong Kong dollars, which is quite an expensive script.

As the actor, Liu Yong, who is now the most famous in Golden Harvest, was selected as the leading actor, and Zeng Zhiwei not only acted as the director, but also played a very important supporting role in this movie.In order to save costs, he didn't even pay himself a dime.

I originally thought that after the movie was released, the box office would be a big hit, and I would get a little more box office dividends, which would be able to offset my losses, but it is a pity that the final distribution was only 20 Hong Kong dollars.And Zou Wenhuai didn't give him any red envelopes at the end of the year.It is equivalent to more than half a year in Golden Harvest, Zeng Zhiwei only earned 20 Hong Kong dollars.

20 Hong Kong dollars, although it sounds like a lot, but compared with Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, Zhang Jian, Yuan Biao, etc., there are more than a dozen or 20 Chinese New Year red envelopes, you know that this money is really not much.

When Zeng Zhiwei was still in Xu's two years ago, he was both the director and the starring role in making movies. He could account for 200% of the box office of the movie, and 12 yuan for a movie with a box office of 30 million. Ten thousand.This is not counting the share and bonus of the seven-member team.

Moreover, you don’t have to worry about anything when making a movie at Xu’s, as long as you talk to the production department, they will automatically arrange the manpower, how many actors to use, how many dragon and tiger warriors, how many cameras, how many lights, how many props... how many You can prepare everything within a day, so why worry about it? !

It's all right now. On the surface, he is a boss and earns money for himself. It seems to be very beautiful.But in fact, all the burdens are carried on their own shoulders.Looking for scripts, actors, martial artists, cinematography, lighting, art, editing... I have to do everything by myself. I am as tired as a dog, but the box office results are not ideal. The half-year income is only 20. Ten thousand Hong Kong dollars, which is not as much as Xu's year-end red envelopes. How can this satisfy Zeng Zhiwei? !

Jiahe was also dissatisfied. It took a lot of effort for Jiahe to recruit Zeng Zhiwei.Then he helped him set up his own company, which also made the employees of his company a little dissatisfied.Why do outsiders start a company for him as soon as they come, but the old man in his own family doesn't get this kind of treatment? !Could it be that only foreign monks can chant scriptures, and all the monks in the house are free eaters? !
If Zeng Zhiwei showed his performance immediately, the first film would achieve a very high box office and show his own strength, then others would have nothing to say.It's like after Cheng Long voted for Golden Harvest, the first movie "Junior and Brother" set a box office record of tens of millions for the first time, which surprised everyone, so naturally there was nothing to say.

But "Buddhas Are On Fire", a movie with high expectations, only had a poor box office of 150 million Hong Kong dollars.In fact, this box office can be achieved by other directors within Golden Harvest, and they don't need to share [-]% of the profits.In comparison, Zeng Zhiwei got a bit more, and it didn't reflect the value it should have.

Jiahe also felt that he spent so much manpower and material resources to poach Zeng Zhiwei from the Xu family, but he was very dissatisfied with only achieving this result.Compared with Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, etc. who have always been relatively stable, Zeng Zhiwei looks like a parallel importer.

And the views of the outside world are also consistent with the top management of Golden Harvest. When Zeng Zhiwei left the Xu family, he attracted a lot of attention.At that time, many media began to look down on Xu's, thinking that Zeng Zhiwei's departure was the beginning of its turn from prosperity to decline.

As a result, more than half a year later, Xu's family is still alive and well, and the box office has repeatedly achieved good results.Whether it's Zhang Jian's "A Deadly Life", Cheng Long's "Master Dragon", Gui Zhihong's "Yin Ling", "White Jade Tiger" directed by Chu Yuan, "The Sword of the Three Young Masters", "The Bright Moon Sword and Snow Night" Wait, they all achieved very good box office.

In comparison, Zeng Zhiwei's performance was undoubtedly much worse, and he did not show the ability that Xu's top management should have at all.The first film only had a pitiful 150 million Hong Kong dollars, and it only ranked No. 20 in the annual box office list, which is really not a good result.

This also made everyone suspect that Zeng Zhiwei was actually a parallel importer, secretly laughing that Jiahe used glass as a diamond, and was obviously deceived by Zeng Zhiwei.

With the unanimous ridicule from the outside world and the pressure of unanimous backlash from the inside, both parties were dissatisfied with their gains, which also caused an invisible rift between Zeng Zhiwei and Jiahe.The honeymoon period between Weihe and Jiahe is over, and the married life of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea begins.

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In addition to Zeng Zhiwei's performance is not as good as the surprise, the performance of the Yuan brothers this year is also not good.The two Kung Fu films of the early Republic of China, "Supreme Boxing King" and "Yi Litou and Iron Bridge Three" made by the Yuan brothers last year, after their release, the highest box office was only 200 million, and the lowest was only a little over 100 million. Waterloo.

And different from Zeng Zhiwei, the Yuan brothers are the direct descendants of Golden Harvest, and apart from the remuneration for filming, there is almost no other additional income.Zou Wenhuai, He Guanchang and others are not as generous as the Xu brothers, they will send red envelopes to everyone as long as the box office sells well, so the Yuan brothers have had a hard year haha.

Therefore, they also have the biggest opinion on Zeng Zhiwei, thinking that their brother is also a leading actor, a director, a martial artist, and a martial artist. As a result, he does not make as much money as Zeng Zhiwei alone.How could this convince the Yuan family brothers? !
But even though there were complaints in their hearts, they could only stay in Jiahe and had no other place to go.The Shaw Brothers is actually overcrowded now, and their own actors can't afford it, so naturally they don't have the heart to win over the Yuan brothers.What's more, Master Liu Jialiang is now the mainstay of Shaw's reliance. The so-called peers are enemies, so naturally they will not deliberately introduce the Yuan brothers to make Master Liu Jialiang's bad luck.

The Xu family also has the Hong family class now, as well as the married family class that has been slowly forming in recent years, and there are countless dragon and tiger martial arts masters, so naturally there is no need to introduce the Yuan family class.So although the Yuan family brothers are superb in martial arts and their martial arts instruction is top-notch, no company is willing to use them, so they have to stay in Golden Harvest and suffer.

And Jiahe treated them so harshly, which also made the Yuan brothers faintly dissatisfied, so naturally they felt very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)