The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 486 Zhong Chuhong

After returning to the company from the airport, Xu Guanwu was still sad, sitting at his desk in a daze.

"Boss, Jiayi Television's Miss Oriental beauty pageant has entered the semi-finals." The assistant walked in and said, "This is the list of twenty beauties selected."

Xu Guanwu was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered that he had ordered his assistant to report to him as long as there was any progress in the Miss Dongfang's beauty pageant.The reason why he told him so was naturally because Zhong Chuhong was among them.

For a woman with potential and qualifications like Honggu, Xu Guanwu naturally wanted to take it under his command.No more hair than Zhou Runfa, no more red than Zhong Chuhong.For such an all-powerful actress in the 80s, Xu Guanwu's purpose is that the more the better, that's why he pays close attention to the dynamics of this Miss Dongfang beauty pageant. If there is any opportunity to take advantage of, he will wield a silver hoe to go dig the wall.

Looking through the files of the top ten Miss Oriental beauties, Xu Guanwu compared them with his own eyes, and felt that Zhong Chuhong's appearance was more dominant.Among the ten beauties selected for the semi-finals, almost none could match her appearance, not to mention her temperament, so it should be a sure thing for her to win the championship.

However, according to the unspoken rules of Miss Hong Kong beauty pageants, it is generally impossible for the most beautiful beauties to win the championship.The early Miss Hong Kong beauty pageants were bombarded by social defenders, saying that they only used beauty to attract ratings, and the swimsuit segment was added to make men eat tofu, so it is suggested to cancel this beauty pageant.

Therefore, most of the Hong Kong girls selected by TVB beauty pageants in the early stage were not the most beautiful ones, for fear of being scolded as "Woeser is useful".For example, Miss Sun Yongen won the first round of Miss Hong Kong election, but in fact the most beautiful contestant was the runner-up Zhao Yazhi.The champion of Miss Hong Kong in [-] was Lin Lianghui, but in fact the most beautiful lady was the third runner-up Liao Jianren.And in the year when Chung Chuhong participated in Miss Hong Kong election, she just won the fourth place.The champion was won by Zheng Wenya.

Of course, Zheng Wenya can also be regarded as a very powerful woman, not only has first-class appearance and figure, but also is proficient in various talents, and at the same time, her thinking is also very avant-garde.

Zheng Wenya once helped the Hong Kong version of "Playboy" shoot a series of sex photo albums. It was a sensation in the 80s when the social atmosphere was relatively conservative. Of course, the sales volume was also very high.

The trophy of the Hong Kong Film Awards is also designed based on Zheng Wenya's classic look in the "Playboy" photo album.Zheng Wenya, who is proficient in sculpture, couldn't help acting as a model, and also personally participated in the design of the trophy. It can be said that she is a very talented woman.

At the same time, she is also proficient in painting, golf, polo, swimming, etc., and once won the championship of the Hong Kong Amateur Golf Invitational Tournament, which shows that her strength is very outstanding.

With such a beautiful and talented beauty competing, Zhong Chuhong, who was only Xiaojiabiyu back then, was not wronged when she lost.And Zheng Wenya also successfully entered the showbiz afterwards, and also shot a lot of movies in the 80s. The more famous ones are "Why Me" co-starred by her, Zhou Runfa and Zheng Zeshi, and the star movie " Fortune Train" and so on.

Although there is no big crocodile like Zheng Wenya to disrupt the Miss Dongfang beauty pageant this time, the probability of Zhong Chuhong winning the championship is not very high, because she is not very knowledgeable among the many beauties, and there is a mistake in the quiz, so if According to the unspoken rules of the Miss Hong Kong election, I am afraid it will be difficult for Zhong Chuhong to win the crown this time.However, with her beauty and temperament, she should still be able to win the honor of the most photogenic young lady.

"Hey, if you make another mistake and you end up losing your ranking, maybe Jiayi TV won't sign a contract with you." Xu Guanwu rubbed his chin and thought.

In the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, there are examples of beauties who performed abnormally and their scores plummeted as a result.For example, in the first Miss Hong Kong election, Zhao Yazhi was not used to wearing a swimsuit in public, so she was a little nervous, and she made a mistake when answering the questions, so she only won the fourth place in the end.

"But how can I make her make a mistake? Should I send someone to contact her secretly?" Xu Guanwu couldn't help thinking.

Shaw Brothers has gradually begun to decline, and it may close its business within a few years.Moreover, given the current internal environment of Shaw Brothers, even if Zhong Chuhong can sign a contract as an artist, it is impossible for her to be valued in the short term.After all, Shaw Brothers still has so many old employees, and in an old company like this that has been in operation for decades, its employees have already started forming cliques, vying for opportunities and resources to tear each other down, just like TVB's artists. Pai, Liang Pai, and Le Pai are the same. They praise the employees in their own camp and belittle the artists in the opposing camp, forcing their artists to stand in line automatically, and making some artists who have no acting skills and skills but only know how to flatter others became popular, while some talented artists who stick to their principles were suppressed, and finally had to choose to leave TVB.

It can be said that this kind of vicious competition in the company will eventually damage the company itself. TVB has been scolded for many years in a row, plagiarism and imitation of old routines and old lines are full of evil, and newcomers who are ugly, ugly, and ugly can't rely on old dramas to support the scene.In conclusion, the reason is actually related to the company's internal fighting. The company's internal fighting consumes unnecessary resources, making serious business less resource support.

Internal strife caused employees to be alienated, and they only swore allegiance to the leaders in the camp, so they naturally lost their sense of belonging to the company. Once encountering big storms and setbacks, they naturally refused to share the difficulties with the company.

Furthermore, the internal strife caused by cliques makes people no longer focus on promoting newcomers, training newcomers, and cultivating capable people, but to use whichever one is obedient, and whichever one is loyal to them. As a result, a large number of People without strength surfaced, but those with strength were suppressed by force.

In this way, capable people will naturally leave TVB, and those who are incapable and can only flatter their horses will not be able to play much role in TVB, so TVB's dramas are getting uglier and ugly, and it is an old stalk to be scolded After decades of eating, being scolded has not improved from the past to the present, but has regressed a lot.

The example of TVB is actually the example of Shaw Brothers. Shaw Brothers is now divided into multiple factions.Although Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang, the leaders of the two old courtiers, have left, there are other old courtiers of the Shao family who have not left. They are also the backbone of the Shaw family.

The other side is the royalist faction, and the leader is naturally Fang Yihua who holds the Shang Fang sword.She has little experience in joining Shaw Brothers and is a layman in film, so even though she holds Shang Fang's sword, it is still difficult to command the old courtiers.Therefore, she can only give priority to the promotion of newcomers, and invite a group of assistant directors, returnees who have studied abroad, and new directors from Taiwan, Nanyang, South Korea, Japan and other places to film.

Fang Yihua vigorously supported the new director, which naturally impacted the interests of the old courtiers.The Shaw Brothers had only a small amount of funds. Since the new director wanted to make a film, he would naturally occupy a certain amount of funds.Then the old courtier naturally has no money if he wants to film, and if he has no money to film, he has no money to eat. This is quite a terrible thing.

In addition, there are only a few Shaw Brothers actors who have the strength and box office appeal. The new director wants to use the old courtiers as well.If you agree to the new director, you will offend the old courtiers, if you agree to the old courtiers, you will offend the new director, if neither agrees, then both sides will be offended.

Funds and actors are the objects that the old courtiers and royalists are vying for. As for other costumes, props, photography, screenwriters, venues, etc., they are trivial things in comparison.

However, under such a scramble, the internal friction against Shaw is actually quite serious.For example, director Li Hanxiang wanted to film ten children blowing bubbles with bamboo tubes, and he applied for ten bamboo tubes.After Fang Yihua, who was in charge of the review, saw it, he crossed out half of it without asking any questions, and only approved five bamboo tubes for Li Hanxiang.

Ten children, five bamboo tubes, how can this scene be filmed, the director Li Hanxiang was so angry that he simply deleted the scene, but the money for hiring child actors is much more expensive than the bamboo tubes, and the actors were hired for nothing But it didn't make a movie, so naturally the loss is very big.I don’t know how many times a similar situation has happened at Shaw Brothers. Often, the director was so angry that he dropped the script, “Mother sells X, if you don’t approve it, you won’t make it. Stop there and see who loses the most!”

Xu Guanwu is worried that if Zhong Chuhong joins Shaw Brothers to film now, he will have to learn how to stand in line first.If a camp is not selected well, it may not be reused until the contract expires.With Shaw Brothers' current low salary, if there is no film to shoot, the actor is basically worse than the street vendor.

For example, TVB has been bombarded by its artists for many years because of salary issues, and some artists are willing to commit themselves to be street hawkers, and they are unwilling to continue to work for TVB.However, TVB has been criticized because of the serious loss of its employees, and its TV series have been criticized repeatedly. For this reason, it has to pay a lot of money to invite big names to come back to film. I heard that Zhou Runfa, Liu Dehua, etc. have been approached. With their current fame and status, the price must be quite high.

If you are willing to spend so much money to invite outsiders, why not take care of your own people first?Could it be that only foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures, but your own employees don't need to take care of them?

Staying at Shaw Brothers for five years with a meager salary, if not serious filming is just playing tricks, then Zhong Chuhong has spent these five years in vain, not only wasting the most important five years of youth in vain, but basically there is nothing to save .There is no need to mention money, like fame, status, acting skills, these will not give you much.

"Hey, if Aunt Hong is suppressed after entering Shaw Brothers, then I really have to go and save her." Xu Guanwu couldn't help thinking.

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Just when Jiayi TV's Miss Oriental pageant entered the semi-finals, TVB's Miss Hong Kong pageant was also announced, and the registration for this year's pageant began.

Because the wireless TV station is really bleeding, the winning champion can get a salary of 50 Hong Kong dollars, and can also be given priority to work in TVB TV station and even Xu's, so the generous rewards immediately attracted many girls to join.The number of applicants hit a new high again, two or three times higher than the number of Jiayi TV.

As soon as the results were announced, Jiayi TV station was disgraced immediately, and the Miss Oriental beauty pageant final that was in full swing, which was being promoted, suddenly became much darker.

TVB also attaches great importance to this Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, not only invited celebrities from all walks of life in Hong Kong as judges, but also specially invited Huang Zhanhuang Laoxie, He Shouxin, Shen Dianxia and Wang Mingquan to be the emcees of the awards.At the same time, brothers Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie are also among them, and they can be regarded as the biggest judges of Miss Hong Kong this year.

In the first beauty pageant of Miss Hong Kong, the Xu brothers served as the judges of the competition. At that time, they were still TVB artists and one of the most popular comedians.And after a lapse of six years, they sat on the judging panel again. Their identities have jumped directly from artists to bosses, and they are also the richest group of people in Hong Kong.

Xu's "Daily Daily" and "Oriental Phantom" also strongly supported this beauty pageant, and they could not help but be responsible for reporting the whole process of the beauty pageant, and also published the beauties who might win in the newspaper one by one, so that their exposure rate also increased. greatly increased.

(End of this chapter)