The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 609 Xu Ke's Weakness

Xu Guanwu returned home with two film rolls, and Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia came forward immediately, "Ah Wu, what's the matter, are the negatives coming back?"

"Your husband, can I come back if I go out in person?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "Isn't this here?"

"Hey, how did you come back?" Zhao Yazhi asked curiously.

Xu Guanwu then smiled and told about his nonsense about making up a set of Shusheng Qigong, which made both Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia laugh.

"This is too outrageous, how could they believe it?" Zhao Yazhi couldn't help laughing.

Xu Guanwu smiled, "Do you think they are really professional journalists who pursue the bottom line, pursue the truth, and solve mysteries for the public? The two of them just make a living by fabricating news. If there is news, just write it for them. How do they care if it's true or not?"

"It's true, these reporters are hateful." Lin Qingxia also nodded and said, "By the way, what did Mr. Wu Siyuan invite the two of them to do?"

"I want to ask these two to help promote "Hell Without Doors." Xu Guanwu smiled, "This movie is indeed good, but unfortunately, the subject matter is too biased and the content is too dark, which really does not conform to the traditional Chinese aesthetics. Sigh, Wu Siyuan is pretty good at making films by himself, and he has never had any troubles, but meeting Xu Ke made his years of hard work go to waste.”

"Hey, didn't you say that Xu Ke was a good director before, why do you say that now?" Lin Qingxia couldn't help asking in doubt.

"No matter how sharp the sword is, it depends on who is using it. Give it to a martial arts practitioner, it can make him even more powerful. Give it to a child, and I'm afraid it will cut himself." Xu Guanwu said with a smile.

He didn't think that Wu Siyuan could use Xu Ke, the main reason was that he was too indulgent with Xu Ke, giving his director too much power, so that he had no control when filming.

Xu Ke is talented, and he is also a genius-level figure, but his movies are easy to release but hard to close, and he often doesn't know how to restrain himself.Therefore, many times the film is made into his personal show.

For example, "The True Colors of Heroes: Song of the Sunset", which he insisted on investing and directing, although the quality of the shooting was very high, it was a pity that it was born at an untimely time. Knowing that the gunfight film was doomed, he still persisted in his will, and suffered a Waterloo at the box office. A very good sign of the "True Heroes" series was destroyed because of this.

Another example is the "Shushan" series directed by Xu Ke. It was also because of the dominance of one person and the lack of necessary restraint.

The reason why Xu Ke can achieve good results in New Art City and the film studio is actually inseparable from the restraint of the Seven Monsters in New Art City and the assistance of the virtuous wife Shi Nansheng.

In the movie era of New Art City, the script was created by the seven monsters of New Art City. After the creation is completed, no one can change it, even if Xu is one of the seven monsters.Moreover, the script was completed by seven people, which greatly restricted Xu Ke's performance, greatly increased the commercial elements of the script, and greatly reduced Xu Ke's own personal style.

Coupled with the fact that there is a producer in charge of supervision when filming, Xu Ke is equivalent to becoming a filming machine in Xinyi City, and at this stage has produced many well-known masterpieces, such as "Ghost Horse Zhi Duo Xing", "The Queen of Best Partner" "Secret Order" and so on.But these comedies were not the ones Xu Ke wanted to make, so he left New Art City and went to Golden Harvest to shoot "New Shushan Swordsman".The investment in that movie was as much as 2000 million Hong Kong dollars, but the box office was only 150 million, ranking more than 100 in the annual box office rankings. It really hit home.

As for the self-organized film studio, although it can make a movie that has been a favorite for a long time, but because it has to support the entire company and is also responsible for the parent company, Princess Golden, Xu Ke's first film "The Working Emperor" was Invited Xu Guanjie, who was the most popular at the time, to be the male lead, and also invited the young and beautiful Wang Yuxian to act opposite him. The subject matter is even a favorite comedy, and there are some ghostly elements of the little characters in the Xu Brothers movies, so after the release, the box office is big. It was sold and received nearly 700 million yuan, which was a good start for the film studio.

It is said that Xu Guanjie, who also participated in the investment at the time, was overjoyed and sent a golden Porsche sports car to Wang Haoxian, and because of this, there was a scandal about the relationship between the two. All of this is thanks to the gossip machine Wang Tuoxian, almost every film has a gossip.

After the filming of "The Migrant Emperor", Xu Ke filmed "Dao Ma Dan" the next year.Because it was a script that took half a year to hone, Zhong Chuhong, who was popular at the time, and Lin Qingxia, the most well-known, were invited to match Ye Qianwen, who was a blockbuster just after her debut. Zheng Haonan and Zhang Guoqiang stole the limelight.

Because the story is novel and the actors are in place, this movie also achieved a very good box office. It also entered the top ten box office of the year. It is considered to be a perfect combination of commercial movies and art movies. It is also regarded by Xu Ke as the most classic of the 80s. s work.

In 3000, "The True Colors of Heroes", which was produced by the film studio and directed by Wu Yusen, received more than [-] million yuan. With a full bowl, you can feel confident and bold to make the movies you want to make.

So the following year, a cold sci-fi masterpiece "Invincible Maria" came out. In this film, Mr. Xu plays a doomsday science fiction, terrorist organizations are rampant, the police are cowardly and incompetent, and they are in a state of anarchism.It's a pity that this movie is too avant-garde, and science fiction is not popular in Hong Kong, so the box office of "Invincible Maria" is only 500 million.At that time, the sign of a blockbuster movie was a box office of at least 2000 million, so this "Invincible Maria" did hit home.

Throughout the films under Xu Ke's monopoly, from the very beginning "Butterfly Change", "No Door to Hell", "The First Kind of Danger", to "Iron Armored Maria", "A Chinese Ghost Story" series, "The True Colors of Heroes" 3: Song of the Setting Sun"...in fact, there is a feeling of doomsday coming and anarchism.

From the beginning to the end of "Butterfly Change", there is no shadow of the government, and the martial arts sects can act recklessly. It is quite unimaginable that tens of thousands of people were killed and injured in the first two battles.

Although Jiujiujiu represents the government in "Hell Without Doors", and the security team is more protective of one side's safety, but in fact these two types of people are both cold-blooded and ruthless. Jiujiujiu still cuts off Rolex's skin to go back to receive the reward after his death.The security team even slaughtered passers-by, and then led the villagers to eat human flesh together.Moreover, this bad custom has been practiced for many years, but no one cares about it. It's like a Shura world of its own.

Although there are policemen in "The First Type of Danger", the image of the policeman is also disgraceful, intimidating, intimidating, idly by, and indifferent, which eventually leads several protagonists who are still children on the path of destruction.

In "A Chinese Ghost Story", Lan Ruo Temple is rampant with evil spirits, but the government only knows how to accept bribes, and those who seem to be fast arresters are actually more ferocious than robbers are responsible for the detection of wanted criminals, and often arrest many innocent people in prison.

As for the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story", it is even more outrageous. Robbers kill people and eat human flesh, but innocent people will be imprisoned as dead ghosts.Even the ministers above the temple were taken away by the goblins, leaving only a shell, which can really be called a vegetarian meal for corpses.

In "The True Colors of a Hero 3: Song of the Sunset", it is really the end of the world, war turns people into beasts, no one will uphold justice, no one will defend the people... Even the army has become corrupt and perverted. A tool for murder.

Xu Guanwu feels that the reason why Xu Ke's films have such a style is probably inseparable from the fact that he encountered the South Vietnam War when he was young.The South Vietnam War started in 1955, when Xu Ke was only five years old.The South Vietnam War lasted from 20 to [-], exactly [-] years.

Although Xu Ke immigrated to Hong Kong in 12, he still experienced [-] years of brutal war, and it continued throughout his youth, which is the time when a person's thinking is gradually maturing and his values ​​are gradually established.Especially in the war years, it is estimated that every child will be forced to mature precociously, so Xu Ke, who has experienced the cruelty of war, substituting his experience into the movie intentionally or unintentionally in his later works.

But his style is actually somewhat incompatible with Hong Kong.After all, apart from being garrisoned by the Japanese army in the [-]s, Hong Kong has not suffered any war for a hundred years.Moreover, Hong Kong's economy is developed and people's lives are rich, so they don't have a deep understanding of the cruelty of war. Except for the residents in the Kowloon Walled City, few people can appreciate Xu Ke's style of doomsday anarchism.Therefore, for Xu Ke's works with serious personal style, the box office is generally not too high.

Xu Guanwu knew that Xu Ke had this problem, so he knew that Wu Siyuan would not make good use of Xu Ke.Because Wu Siyuan was too soft-hearted and not cruel enough to Xu Ke.This "ruthlessness" is not to beat Xu Ke up, but to limit his power.However, Wu Siyuan belongs to the style of an old-school filmmaker, and he does not implement the "supervisory" system of New Art City, and his restraint on Xu Ke is not enough.

It's like when filming "Butterfly Change", Wu Siyuan really wanted to let the protagonist Fang Hongye fight at the end, because he didn't fight for more than an hour before, and the audience also looked forward to seeing him fight.So if he fights a battle in the end, the box office will definitely be high.

But Xu Ke was stubborn at the time, and he refused to let Fang Hongye end the game. Sure enough, after the release, the box office failed miserably, which makes Wu Siyuan still brooding when he thinks about it now.

If New Art City invested in this movie instead, if Xu Ke refused to make it like that, he would simply kick someone out and replace him, and let the next director continue to shoot.I think when filming "The English Pipa", the director Liang Puzhi tampered with the script privately, but the producer Teddy Robin told him to roll up the bag and get out, and then picked up the guide tube and shouted "Open the mark", which is completely unaccustomed Liang Puzhi's problem.Liang Puzhi was also a well-known New Wave director back then, but he was fired when he really said he was fired.

Xu Guanwu knew that if he wanted to use Xu Ke, he had to pair with Mai Jia and Huang Baiming.Mai Jia is authoritarian enough, likes to make up her mind the most, and has more aura than Xu Ke, and being a producer is enough to restrain this old monster Xu.And Huang Baiming is kind, he just acts as a lubricant between Mai Jia and Xu Ke, plus he has a lot of stories in his mind, and he is also very in line with the three views of Chinese people, just to help Xu Ke correct the bad thoughts in his mind .These three partners are definitely a match made in heaven, and they are not afraid of Xu Ke's troubles.

Of course, if the box office is not considered and Xu Ke is allowed to play freely, as long as he is not allowed to make any magic, fairy tales, and sci-fi giants, basically Xu Ke can still shoot a lot of works with good reputation, but the style is still inevitable. some gray ones.

But of course the premise is that Xu Ke will join the Xu family, and Xu Guanwu is willing to invest in him, otherwise he won't be bothered to help others.Moreover, considering the half-dead state of Siyuan Film Company, Xu Ke may not be able to make "The First Dangerous Type" and will be kicked out of the company by Wu Siyuan.After all, the two films lost nearly 200 million yuan, which is a rare disaster in the Hong Kong film industry.

(End of this chapter)