The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 548 Zhang Ailing

Whether the employee is in the old photos collected, or in the gossip news, or in the works of Ms. Zhang Ailing, she should be graceful, elegant, refined, independent and independent.

But when she really saw her getting old, she felt that she was actually an ordinary old man.Those so-called temperament, appearance, and conversation were all gone, and there was only a somewhat nervous and vicissitudes old man, who babbled to him about something. It sounded like he was chanting scriptures, but the content was clearly not the same.

And the house that Ms. Zhang Ailing lived in was also dilapidated, not as prosperous as the small western-style buildings or villas described in the novel, but rather like an old building in the alley of Laoshanghai, in which lived a perhaps famous person.

The employee quickly explained his reason for coming. To his surprise, Ms. Zhang Ailing did not hold back, but quickly agreed to his request and happily sold the film and television adaptation rights of the work to over him.This made the employee very surprised, because Ms. Zhang Ailing's performance seemed to be eager to get rid of her work as soon as possible.

Xu Guanwu couldn't help being surprised when he heard the employee's feedback. Later, he realized that besides the difficult life of Ms. Zhang Ailing at this time, the bigger reason was the long-term displacement, difficult life, and ill-fated fate. She no longer valued things outside her body.

In fact, when Ms. Zhang Ailing passed away, there were still more than 30 US dollars in bank deposits, which was more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars at the exchange rate at the time, which could be considered a large sum of money at the time.In particular, the copyright of her works is even more valuable.But she was only living in a small house at that time, and there was not even a comfortable bed in the house.

Xu Guanwu didn't have any special feelings for Zhang Ailing and Enlai, but he couldn't help but feel a kind of sadness and impermanence when he heard that a magnificent woman was so lonely.He can't help Ms. Zhang solve the spiritual dilemma, and he can only compensate her more materially.

Xu Guanwu asked the employee to purchase the copyrights of all the adaptations of Ms. Zhang’s novels at a cost of US$300 per book. In this way, it is conservatively estimated that Ms. Zhang can also get a huge sum of more than [-] million US dollars, which was already a huge sum at the time. One signed.

However, according to the information reported by the employees, it seems that Ms. Zhang Ailing no longer has much feeling about the amount of money.He neither expressed his gratitude to the generous Xu Group, nor expressed any surprise or excitement, but just accepted the check indifferently.

After hearing this, Xu Guanwu couldn't help but sighed. This was indeed inconsistent with Ms. Zhang Ailing's usual style.

In fact, during the fall of Shanghai in the [-]s, Ms. Zhang Ailing continued to publish novels in Japanese and counterfeit publications.At that time, most of the Chinese intellectuals were in the southwest, and the northwest insisted on academic research or carried out anti-Japanese propaganda.Even Zhang Henshui, a master of popular novels, also lived in Zhongqing and began to publish anti-Japanese works.

She also once said that she likes money because she has suffered from having no money.He also said, "For me, money is money, and I can buy all kinds of things I want." This kind of view is a bit bold even now, let alone decades ago.

But now she suddenly doesn't like money, and she doesn't pay much attention to life anymore. It's really amazing that she is willing to live in that kind of small house and live quietly by herself.Perhaps these years of suffering have made her realize that the so-called peace of mind is the principle of peace of mind, and she is no longer entangled in external things like money.It's just that she moved more than 180 times because she wanted to find a place of peace of mind, and she seemed to prove that the so-called place of peace of mind is not so easy to find. She always said that there would be fleas in the house to bite her.Just like what she said when she was 17 years old, "Life is a gorgeous robe covered with fleas."

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After acquiring the film and television adaptation rights of "Love in a Fallen City", Xu Guanwu immediately started making plans to start filming the film.The director of this film chose his father Wang Tianlin recommended by Wang Jing.

Wang Tianlin is a great director who has written a lot of books. He made a lot of movies in Cathay Pacific. Later, due to the plane crash of his boss, MP & GI closed down. Director Wang had no choice but to devote himself to the TV field again, shooting many wonderful and beautiful TV series on TVB.Such as "Book and Sword Enmity Record", "Frenzy", "The King of Thousand Kings", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and so on.

In addition to filming TV series, Director Wang has also carefully taught excellent disciples. His son Wang Jing was educated by him since he was a child, so it goes without saying.There are also big directors like Du Qifeng and Lin Lingdong who are also his disciples.

After receiving the invitation from Xu Guanwu, director Wang Tianlin has been making preparations for these days. In addition to desperately recalling Lao Shanghe and the customs of old Hong Kong, he also wrote a footnote of 10,000+ words for "Love in a Fallen City", which greatly enriched the details of the work.Although Wang Jing's script has been written very well, but after all, he does not have the life experience of his father Wang Tianlin, so many places are not clear. Now with the help of his father to make supplements, it will undoubtedly make the script more delicate and real credible.

The reason why Director Wang did this was not only because he wanted to make this movie well, but also because he didn't want to embarrass his son.After all, it was my son who recommended me to shoot this movie. If I don't make a good film, it will cause my son to lose his head in front of the boss in the future.

In "Love in a Fallen City", in addition to Lin Qingxia being selected as the leading actress, Fan Liuyuan, another important character, encountered difficulties in choosing a candidate.Fan Liuyuan is a prodigal son in love. He has studied abroad and received higher education. He has lived in a poor life without money and suffered emotional injuries. Therefore, he distrusts people very much. He thinks that people come for his money. It also never pays, basically just touch it and leave.Thousands of flowers pass by, not a single leaf sticks to the body.

Bai Liusu, like Zhang Ailing, is a down-and-out rich lady. She also lived a life of luxury when she was a child, but the gradually desolate family made her unbearable, and she didn't want to live this kind of poor life.So she desperately wanted to marry the rich son Fan Liuyuan, even though she already knew that he was a prodigal son, and basically he would never really have feelings for her.But at that time, Bai Liusu felt that she had nowhere to go, and she didn't want to go back to the Bai family's old house to live a hard life, so she resolutely went to Hong Kong to find Fan Liuyuan with the only money she had, and the two of them stayed in the Repulse Bay Hotel Fighting skills, in the end, Fan Liuyuan, who is strong without desires, won the victory.But just when he wanted to leave, the Japanese army suddenly bombed the Repulse Bay area. Fan Liuyuan had no choice but to stay in the hotel and experience this suffering with Bai Liusu.Bai Liusu was very happy, knowing that "such adversity is enough to be a husband and wife for ten years." Although Fan Liuyuan married Bai Liusu later, he still did not change his previous flirtatious attitude, and still liked to flirt outside. It is the true meaning of marriage, because once you get married, you are your own person, so you don't need to say those sweet words anymore.

This story is not a complete and sweet love story between a prince and a princess in the traditional sense, but it is one of Zhang Ailing's most famous works, and has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

This time Lin Qingxia will play the role of Bai Liusu. Lin Qingxia is well known for her beauty and extravagance, so it is perfect to play the role of this lady from a down-and-out family.

However, there were some problems in the selection of the male lead. Among the popular movie stars under Xu's banner, there were almost no male stars with the style of Fan Liuyuan.Needless to say, Hong Jingbao, Cheng Long, and Yuan Biao are all star performers. It is more difficult for them to make a romance film than to ask them to jump off a building.And like Mai Jia, Lu Liangwei, Chen Guantai, etc. are also clearly inappropriate.

As for TVB, Zheng Shaoqiu has always been a hero image, although he is romantic and chic, but playing Fan Liuyuan is hindered by his age mismatch.However, Liu Songren's Jin Zhenxi in "A Dream of Beijing" is an image of a vagabond, which is quite in line with Wang Tianlin's consideration of Fan Liuyuan, but Liu Songren is still rushing to shoot the "Lu Xiaofeng" series recently, and may not be able to spare time to shoot "Love in a Fallen City".As for another popular young boy, Zhou Runfa, who is handsome, young enough, and full of extravagance, he is more suitable for this role than Liu Songren.It's just that Zhou Runfa himself is not very interested in this role. In his opinion, he has not read enough books, so he can't play such a gentle, romantic and unrestrained son.

There was really no suitable one in Hong Kong. Director Wang Tianlin quickly set his sights on the other side of the strait, and found Qin Xianglin at a glance.Qin Xianglin is handsome, and he also has the nickname Charlie Charlene. He has cooperated with Lin Qingxia many times, and they have established a deep understanding with each other, so it would be perfect for him to play Fan Liuyuan.

As soon as Wang Tianlin's nomination of the male lead was reported, Xu Guanwu was so angry that he almost spurted blood.It's not good to choose anyone to play opposite Lin Qingxia, she has to choose her former rumored boyfriend.It's because you're worried that the two of you won't get along, right? !
Xu Guanwu immediately rejected Wang Tianlin's proposal and asked him to nominate a new candidate.After careful consideration, Wang Tianlin recommended Liu Songren.

Xu Guanwu doesn't have a deep impression of Liu Songren. The deepest impression is probably Chen Jinnan in Zhou Xingchi's version of "The Deer and Ding Tale". "The Qing Dynasty has always oppressed us Han people and robbed us of our silver and women, so we have to fight against the Qing Dynasty." "Xiaobao, you are a smart person. I can talk to you in a smart way, but outsiders can't."

Liu Songren is also one of the veterans of TVB. Although Li came from TVB and joined TVB, he was highly praised in TVB. He was invited to play important roles when he first came. In the second year, he was even cast in "Lu Xiaofeng", becoming a household name and a hit. Celebrity.Liu Songren's stardom has always been very open, and there have been few low tides since his debut, but he mostly reigned supreme on the small screen, but his development on the big screen was not satisfactory.

Xu Guanwu was noncommittal about Liu Songren playing Fan Liuyuan. In fact, the role of Fan Liuyuan in his mind was actually hair boy Zhou Runfa.Because Zhou Run has been developing in the TV field for many years since his debut, although recently he has become the most popular fried chicken in Hong Kong because of his appearance in the popular drama "Shanghai Beach".However, there is still a limit to the development of the TV field, which was not as broad as the film field back then, so Xu Guanwu wanted to hand over this opportunity to Zhou Runfa.

Zhou Runfa didn't want to take part in this movie at first, because according to his own statement, he really couldn't play that kind of gentle man, but in fact, the setting of Xu Wenqiang in "Shanghai Bund" is a college student, and it seems to be played by Zhou Runfa. No one was picky, so Xu Guanwu immediately ignored Zhou Runfa's objection, and directly gave him the role that others dreamed of.

After the two leading actors are gathered together, other roles will naturally be easy to do. Soon the crew has been prepared, and then the preparations for costumes, props, sets, etc. have also begun.

Because this movie is Lin Qingxia's comeback after two years of retirement, and it is related to whether she can gain a smooth foothold in Hong Kong in the future, so Xu Guanwu naturally does not hesitate to invest in this movie.All costumes, sets, props, etc. have to be bought new, and of the best kind.Even for the filming, a street of Laoshanghai was specially built, which really makes people feel like they are actually there.

After all the preparations were in order, the filming of "Love in a Fallen City" officially started.

On the same day, the finale of "Shanghai Bund" aired, and Xu Wenqiang was beaten to death at the door by the Japanese.

The whole of Hong Kong was a sensation.

(End of this chapter)