The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 372 "Pointing the Soldier"

Because Chen Xinjian himself is a high-level police officer and has cracked many cases.Therefore, he has a very clear understanding of the details of the case, the psychology of the criminals, and the police's handling methods.Because of this, the scripts he arranged are very real, which is very in line with the current audience's psychology of seeking novelty, and the box office has always been very good.

The script he created for director Zhang Guoming this time is called "Pointing Fingers". It tells the story of a young man who aspires to enter the police force. He was eliminated during the medical examination because of his cross-eyed eyes. stories of police killings.

In the previous life, this film was called the pioneering work of the new wave film, but the real pioneering work is "Jumping Ashes".But because "Pointing to the Soldier" has a better reputation and successfully developed urban police and gangster-themed movies, it has received higher praise.

After "Pointing to the Soldiers", there are "Public Servant" directed and acted by Li Xiuxian, Cheng Long's "Police Story" series, and "Royal Senior Sister", "Overlord Flower" and other derivative urban police action movies Wait.The "Marginal Man" filmed by Zhang Guoming later also opened up another derivative genre of the police and gangster theme, the undercover police detective film.As a result, it set a precedent for undercover detective films such as "Dragon and Tiger", "Fight Back to School" and "Infernal Affairs" series.

Xu Guanwu had indeed heard of the name "Point Finger Bingbing" before, and he also knew that this movie had gained a great reputation at that time. It not only made Zhang Guoming, a new wave director, but also made another Hong Kong film industry famous. The prodigy, since then set foot in the film industry.He is the music giant in the Hong Kong film industry - Teddy Robin.

Teddy Robin is the executive producer of the movie "Pointing Fingers", and he also made investment from his old friends, and he also made the soundtrack for this movie.The theme song of the same name "Pointing to the Soldier" composed by him, "One walks and one chases, the soldiers seem to be assigned early..." It fits the theme of the film very well, and it became a classic song that was sung for a while.

Teddy Robin then supervised the production of "The Story of Hu Yue" and "Mountain Dog", all of which are regarded as masterpieces of Hong Kong's new wave movies, and Teddy Robin has thus become a top figure in the Hong Kong film industry. And was subsequently recruited into the newly established New Art City, becoming one of the Seven Monsters of New Art City who later shocked Hong Kong.

It's just a pity that we can share adversity but not happiness. After the rise of New Art City, there were uneven profit distribution, different development concepts, and increasing quarrels. The seven monsters of New Art City quickly scattered.Zeng Zhiwei took refuge in Golden Harvest and joined Hong Jingbao's sect; Teddy Robin was surrounded by friends who didn't want to offend, and finally followed Zeng Zhiwei who ran away from Golden Harvest again, and pulled the comic king Huang Yulang to open a good friend film company.

Xu Keshi Nansheng later co-founded a film studio. Although he made many popular and popular films, according to Xu Keyu's style of not surprising and endlessly dying, he still earned less and lost more.In particular, he also invested in the new visual effects company, which is a money-burning machine.So after debuting for so many years, despite their high status in the film industry, their net worth is not as good as Mai Jia, Ishida and others who left halfway.

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And Chen Xinjian is the talent that Xu Guanwu has always wanted to recruit, not only because he is a good screenwriter, but also because he has very good achievements in hosting, directing, producing, and performing. an all-rounder.

It's just that because Chen Xinjian helped solve the Ma Brothers drug case, it's the time when the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, so although he has the same love for movies, he still has no plans to resign from his position as a senior police superintendent and devote himself to the movie industry.Xu Guanwu can only express regret for this.

Zhang Guoming's "Pointing to the Soldiers" and Xu Guanwu have made a final decision, and the rest is to find actors.Xu Guanwu generally does not interfere with who the director chooses as an actor.One is that he doesn't know how to make a movie.Filmmaking is a very professional job, not just anyone can do it well.

For example, for movies with the same theme, such as the "Best Partner" series, both Xu Ke and Lin Lingdong did very well at the beginning, but the fifth part was handed over to Liu Jialiang to shoot, and the high-tech route was not continued. What kind of real kung fu is going to be played.Abandoning the most attractive advantages of "Best Partner", it is no wonder that the box office failed after its release, ruining the golden sign of "Best Partner".

The second Xu Guanwu is also to respect the power of the director.Since you have chosen him as the director, you have to trust him 100%.The so-called employing people without suspicion, doubting people without using them, is the truth.The director has thoroughly read the script, so he naturally knows how to choose the right role.If the investors get in the way, pointing east and west, and laymen lead experts, it will be no surprise that the movies produced are good-looking.

A lot of bad domestic films are because the investors play chess behind their backs. This actor must be used. This actor is recommended by the investors. It is necessary to add more fighting plots. The fighting plots are the most eye-catching; the latest new A certain movie released has that plot, and we have to add a little bit to it...

The director is supposed to be in charge of the overall situation, but now it's all replaced by some layman pretending to know.As a result, as soon as the movie came out, the director was full of scolding, and the director who only earned a small salary was wronged, right? !
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Regarding kung fu movies, Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, Yuan Biao and others have no idea yet.Last year, many Kung Fu comedy films in the early Republic of China suffered from Waterloo at the box office, which made them less courageous, so everyone is thinking about changing from this year, and Hong Jingbao is the most active among them.

He is the leader of the Hong family class. The box office decline of kung fu comedy in the early Republic of China directly affected the income of his brothers.Don't think that being someone else's big brother looks very beautiful, in fact, being someone else's big brother is equivalent to putting a cart on your body, and you have to be responsible for the younger brother's life, otherwise you can't make money by just working, and who else will recognize you as a man? brother? !
Hong Jingbao now has a lot of brothers under his command, usually each elder brother grows up, and the elder brother shouts very affectionately.So Hong Jingbao naturally wanted to seek their well-being and enable them to make money.When kung fu movies were popular before, this requirement was naturally easy to meet.No matter whether you follow yourself to make a film or follow an outsider to make a film, you will always make money.

But now Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China are not so popular, and they are about to reach a dead end.Although the younger brother can't see it, but the elder brother who is the leader naturally has to see this clearly.Therefore, it is necessary to find another way out as soon as possible before hitting the wall completely.

So recently Hong Jingbao has been discussing with his think tanks Huang Bingyao, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui and others, just to find another way out.

In Huang Bingyao's words, he wanted to switch to making urban action movies, because the urban genre is now on the upswing.Hong Jingbao has a flexible mind and agrees with Huang Bingyao's idea.However, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui and others have other opinions.In their view, Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China have come to an end before they appear. Judging from the fact that Cheng Long's "Master Dragon" still achieved high box office, the market does not reject Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China.It's because some kung fu movies in the early Republic of China were so bad, that's why no one watched their own kung fu movies.

If we can make a high-investment, big-scene, and high-quality Kung Fu movie in the early Republic of China, it will definitely win back the hearts of many Hong Kong audiences.Besides, making Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China is much easier than making urban action movies.

Hearing what the juniors said, Hong Jingbao also felt that it might not be unreasonable.He also has no idea how to make an urban action movie.Martial arts and revenge are definitely not suitable, gunfights between police and gangsters are too childish, and gangster-themed ones are an option, but whether it will work or not has yet to be tested.So Hong Jingbao is also worrying recently, how to do it.

The only thing Xu Guanwu is worried about is Hong Jingbao and his faction. Knowing that the box office of kung fu movies in the early Republic of China last year was not ideal, which made them, dragon and tiger martial artists, very hurt, Xu Guanwu thought of a way out for them in advance.

So before leaving for the mainland, he brought Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, and Yuan Biao together.

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"Mr. Xu!"

"Mr. Xu!"

"Mr. Xu!"

The three of them walked into Xu Guanwu's office together, found their own seats and sat down.

"How about it, the three big stars, have you thought about what movies to make this year? Everyone else has submitted their scripts, and they have all been reviewed and approved." Xu Guanwu said while patting a thick stack of scripts on the table .

"Mr. Xu, I think my script will be a few days late." Hong Jingbao smiled awkwardly.

"My script also needs to be carefully considered." Cheng Long also waved his hand.He has always been strict with scripts. Although the box office decline of Kung Fu movies in the early Republic of China last year did not affect him, it still made Cheng Long vigilant.So this year's movie script he wants to be more different, preferably completely different from the movies he played in before.

Yuan Biao had always followed Hong Jingbao, so Xu Guanwu didn't ask him again.

"I know you are in a difficult situation right now, because you are afraid that if the movie doesn't sell well, you won't be able to give me an explanation. So now you would rather suspend work temporarily and not start shooting new movies?" Xu Guanwu asked with a smile.The three of them laughed after saying a word.

"I'm very happy that you think so, and it's not in vain that I value you so much." Xu Guanwu smiled, "Okay, I won't gossip, this is the script I created for the three of you, take it and read it first one look."

As Xu Guanwu said, he took out three scripts from the drawer and handed them to the three brothers Hong Jingbao one by one.

When the three heard that Xu Guanwu had written a script for them, they all laughed happily.Although Xu Guanwu's scripts are not produced many, each of them is well-received and well-received.Not to mention the spooky comedy script written for the Xu Brothers, but "Junior and Brother" written for Cheng Long is very popular.

After receiving the script, the three of them were taken aback when they saw the name on the cover, "Project A"? !Then the three of them opened the script suspiciously and read it carefully.Then everyone was amused by this interesting story.

"Mr. Xu, this script seems to be specially written for our brothers." Hong Jingbao couldn't help but said in surprise.

This script can be said to include all the characteristics of the three of them. Cheng Long's passion, Hong Jingbao's humor, and Yuan Biao's seriousness are all reflected in this movie.And there are a lot of martial arts scenes, whether it is catching people in the guild hall, swimming across the middle of the night to grab guns, alley bicycle chases, and the final battle against bandits on Sanpao Island, etc., there is a lot of room for play.At the same time, the plot of the story is also very good. It is not just fighting for the sake of fighting, but has a goal and a plot, which is very rare in kung fu movies.

For the kung fu movies produced by the major film companies in Hong Kong, except for those like Hong Jiaban, Yuan Jiaban, and Liu Jiaban, who have special think tanks to help write scripts, other small film companies generally do not pay attention to script creation.Usually the story is to spend a little money to ask the screenwriter to write a script, first pay the first installment, pay the second installment when shooting, and pay the final payment after the final release.Sometimes even the final payment is simply given to A, causing heavy losses to the screenwriter.

Since they treat screenwriters like this, it is naturally impossible for screenwriters to write a good script with their heart.Therefore, they usually copy the old routines, such as exterminating the whole family to practice martial arts for revenge, seeing injustice in the road and causing trouble to the upper body, and so on.The martial arts scenes are also deliberately arranged, fighting for the sake of fighting, and fighting every now and then.The story is not enough, let's add martial arts.

(End of this chapter)