The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 405 Christmas schedule

In the face of the upcoming Christmas schedule, apart from Hsu's two romance films "The Geese in the Trees" and "Chasing Girls", Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers are equally prepared to show their well-prepared masterpieces. Prepare to have a big collision with Xu Guanwu.

Shaw Brothers is preparing the costume comedy "Su Xiaomei San Difficulty Bridegroom Official", and the kung fu film "Chinese Husband" directed by Liu Jialiang and starring Liu Jiahui.The level of Shaw Brothers's ancient costume films is first-class in East Asia. The two Qing court films "The Overwhelming Country" and "Blood at Yingtai" were filmed in Shaw Brothers Studios, which amazed the historians in the mainland.

"Su Xiaomei's Three Dilemmas and the Bridegroom Official" is based on folk stories and is directed and filmed by director He Menghua.Although Director He is not as famous as Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, and Hu Jinquan, his qualifications are quite deep. He has joined Shaw Brothers in the late [-]s, and he can be regarded as an old servant of Shaw Brothers.And he is good at shooting costume-themed movies, the more famous ones are "Seven Fairies", "Yang Naiwu and Xiaobaicai", "Journey to the West" series and so on.

As for Liu Jialiang, the Liu Jiahui brothers are the backbone of Liu Jiaban, and they are also the directors Shaw Brothers rely on most now.Zhang Che, the former best-selling director, has gradually lost his creative power.Every year more and more films are made, but the box office is getting lower and lower.

Moreover, the two martial arts directors under him before, Tang Jia had left before he went to Taiwan to develop, and Liu Jialiang has now grown up and become the main director of Shaw Brothers.Zhang Che, who has lost his left and right arm, seems a little powerless in filming, especially in fighting scenes, although there are many disciples, but the fighting is not as exciting as before.

The fall of Director Zhang Cheh brought the rise of Liu Jialiang Brothers. One chicken died and one crowed.Shaw Brothers transferred resources to Liu's Class, which is more profitable now, and although Zhang's Class still has filming, its popularity is not as good as before.

Before director Zhang Cheh was filming, he could monopolize several studios by himself.He likes to shoot the "Water Margin" series, and others can't even shoot a chapter.Director Zhang Cheh didn't start filming in the morning before, and only asked the assistant director to help adjust the lighting. After resting in the morning, Zhang Cheh's big director Shi Shiran sat in the director's chair in the afternoon, and then yelled to open the label!

But now that the Liu Jialiang brothers have risen, the preferential treatment of director Zhang Cheh has gradually been cancelled.Although Sir Shao still filmed Zhang Che's movies, he didn't respect him as much as before.Although it is a bit cold-blooded to treat the old courtiers like this, in Sir Shao's words, "Shaw's employs thousands of people. If I only talk about human relations, then this company will not be able to continue to operate."

In fact, Sir Shao treated Director Zhang Che well. After Shaw Brothers closed down and Zhang Che was old and homeless, he even provided free staff dormitory for him to live in.

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As for the films prepared by Golden Harvest for the Christmas schedule, in addition to the romantic comedy "Girls Passionate" directed by Zeng Zhiwei, there is also the kung fu film "Drunk Eight Immortals Fighting Drunk Arhat" by Yuan Jiaban.

Zeng Zhiwei's "Girls Are Passionate" borrowed from last year's "Son of Love" directed by Mai Jia and starring Zhou Runfa, but the protagonist was replaced by a country girl from Hong Kong and Kowloon in the New Territories instead of a bumpkin from Lamma Island.It's also the beginning of the ugly, but after careful dressing up, it is shocking.

However, Zeng Zhiwei added a lot of ingenuity to "Girls Passionate". A romantic comedy made him shoot lively, which seemed very festive.

And Yuan Jiaban's "Drunken Eight Immortals Fighting Drunken Arhat" tells the story of Shaolin monks who are deeply wise and have a wrong heart.Then Han Chong, the descendant of the Drunken Eight Immortals, planned to eliminate harm for the people, but unexpectedly, because of his old age and infirmity, he was incapable of fighting, and finally died tragically under the fist of Zhishen's Drunken Arhat.Han Chong's eight disciples learned of the tragic death of their master and were determined to take revenge, but their self-thinking skills were too shallow to be able to compete with Zhishen, so eight of them practiced one immortal and became the drunken eight immortals. Also have to avenge.

This film is also somewhat similar to Cheng Long's "Drunken Master", but Yuan Jiaban took a different approach and produced a very different scene.And in this play, Yuan Heping invited his father Yuan Xiaotian out of the mountain to play the role of Han Lin, the younger brother of Han Chong, the descendant of the Drunken Eight Immortals, who is responsible for teaching the Drunken Eight Immortals in the film.

Regardless of Drunken Arhat Zhishen or Han Chong's eight disciples, the Yuan Jiaban brothers were in charge.Because Yuan Jiaban has been practicing martial arts since childhood, and has been a martial arts instructor for a long time, this "Drunken Eight Immortals Fighting Drunken Arhat" is very exciting, whether it is the solo fight between Han Chong and Zhishen, or the final battle. The eight disciples practiced the Drunken Eight Immortals Siege and Zhishen together, and all of them produced full of new ideas. It can be regarded as a very competitive movie for Christmas this year.

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The Christmas schedule is basically to watch these three film companies. Even if other small film companies want to participate, they don't have the qualifications and capabilities.

On the contrary, the leftist film company made a film "Old Houses Are Happy", which reflects the story of ordinary people in the old buildings fighting against the illegal demolition by illegal profiteers.This movie takes the romance between a man and a woman who grew up together as childhood sweethearts in this old building as the main line, and uses the resistance against the demolition of illegal profiteers as the secondary line. The big background of the rise.

It has just entered December, and the promotional battle of the three film companies has already started.Among them, because Shaw Brothers has just established its own TV station, the propaganda offensive has been extremely fierce from the very beginning.

In order to promote the films under Shaw Brothers, Jiayi TV also imitated Xu's and opened its own movie column.It also introduces the new developments of its films, and invites actors under Shaw Brothers to appear on TV programs.Because Xu's role model is ahead, Shao's move can be imitated well.

In addition to the TV station's promotion, several newspapers that have a good relationship with Shaw Brothers also reported on the two upcoming movies of Shaw Brothers, "Chinese Husband" and "Su Xiaomei's Three Difficulties for the Groom".He praised "Chinese Husband" as a masterpiece of Kung Fu with hard bridge and hard horse, Liu Jialiang is the authentic Kung Fu master in today's Hong Kong film industry, and Liu Jiahui is now a first-class Kung Fu superstar; he also praised "Su Xiaomei San Difficulty Groom Official" as a classic of costume comedy , the classic reappearance of folk stories on the screen, and it is said that both the set and the costumes follow the ancient system, the ancient rhyme is full of fun, and so on.

Golden Harvest does not have its own TV station, and the relationship with several major newspapers is not as close as that of Shaw Brothers, let alone Xu's own newspaper, so his film promotion mainly relies on parades of floats and lion dances.Drove around the streets in a double-decker bus beating gongs and drums, wishing to make everyone in Hong Kong and the New Territories know that Golden Harvest was making a movie.

In addition to the parade of floats, movie posters are also posted all over the streets, quite like those small advertisements for infertility treatment that are all over the streets in later generations.Also, Golden Harvest's film magazine "Golden Harvest Movies" is also a series of hype. The Hong Kong film industry has already become a pot of porridge before the Christmas schedule.

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The Christmas schedule has not yet arrived, but the first half of the first TV series "Crocodile Tears" co-produced by TVB and Li's "The World Is in Waste" has already finished filming.

It only took one month from the start of preparations to the completion of filming, which can really be called lightning speed.It is said that when filming this TV series, the leading actor Pan Zhiwen didn't sleep for several days in order to catch up with the show. He really used his life to act.

After Xu Guanwu knew about it, he called the producer of the TV series over and gave him a severe reprimand. It is absolutely unacceptable to rush to the show without regard to the health of the actors.An actor is a valuable asset of the TV station. If he is exhausted, the TV station will suffer a heavy loss.Moreover, actors are human beings, and as human beings, they need to rest.If you don't care about the health of the actors in order to catch up with the show, then it doesn't matter if you don't shoot the show.

The producer of this drama is Lidi's Mai Dangxiong. Although Xu Guanwu is not his immediate boss, he is not qualified to teach him a lesson.But because it is a cooperative relationship now, and Xu is still the main investor of this drama, so it is appropriate to find the producer if something goes wrong.So Mai Dangxiong bit the bullet and endured this training.

After the training, Mai Dangxiong felt a little wronged. In Hong Kong, he was not the only one who was filming like this. Whether it was Jiayi TV, Li's TV, or even TVB, they all worked so hard when they were catching up with the show.

At that time, Hong Kong TV dramas were filmed and broadcast on the spot, and two episodes would be broadcast a day. If they didn't catch up with the drama, there would be no chance to broadcast it at that time.Besides, time is money, everyone is working hard on filming, wishing that one person can be used as two people, but you say here that you need to be considerate of health, isn't that just waiting for other TV stations to surpass it?

In addition, Mai Dangxiong is also used to misbehavior in Li's TV station. When filming "Ten Strange Cases", the scene of throwing the child into the pool almost didn't really drown the child; , A group of people took shots of bloody rampage on the street without application, and even went to the police station to make trouble for half an hour.The police didn't know whether they had applied for it at the time, and watched them finish filming.

Later, he entered the film industry and filmed "The Destruction Car". A group of people stopped and stopped filming in the downtown area, causing a traffic jam in Hong Kong; , almost scared people to death.Later, after shooting this scene, Shen Wei, who escaped from the dead, took a knife and chased McDonald all over the set.But also because of his realistic expression when he was burned, he was affirmed by the Academy Awards that year and won the Best Supporting Actor award.Of course it's true, but it was really trapped in the car and burned, almost cooked the person.

When "Black Gold" was filmed, at the Shilin Night Market, there was also no application in advance, and the guns were fired in front of the public, and the blood was killed again, causing Taipei citizens who didn't know the truth to flee in panic.And he also has a bad deed that he bribed a Filipino maid with a little money, saying that he wanted to take a shot.As a result, the entire crew moved in, and then they shot an explosion scene in the villa, which almost destroyed the whole house.

So relatively speaking, asking the actors to stay without rest for several days and nights just to catch up with the show is just a child's play for McDonald.So he couldn't help but disagree with Xu Guanwu's reprimand, thinking that he just overreacted, which is rare and strange.

But those who are familiar with Xu Guanwu know that he really puts the actor's health first.In the Hong family class, when filming the action scenes in the family class, he also reminded him, don't go too far, and don't get injured so badly.And because of his insistence, when Xu is shooting martial arts action movies, the ambulance will be parked outside the set at any time, so as to be prepared.

Before TVB, there was also the phenomenon of rushing to dramas. After Xu Guanwu took over, the phenomenon of rushing to dramas has decreased a lot.In fact, in addition to the need for the system of filming and broadcasting on the spot, there is another point in the phenomenon of catching up with actors. The salary of the actors is too low. If they don't work hard, they will have no money.

Actors on TV stations are paid by the amount of performances. If the amount of performances is not enough, it is difficult to guarantee income.In particular, TV actors are not like those movie actors. Even big-name stars are paid very low, so in order to make money, they can only sacrifice their health first.So it became a vicious circle of exchanging life for money now and exchanging money for life in the future.

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