new kung fu king
Chapter 524 Four Versions of "Shen Zhang"
Chapter 524 Four Versions of "Myth"
Wang Xiaohu still remembers that since he was sensible, his father carried him on his neck and watched that kind of open-air movie with the whole village.
At that time, domestic entertainment methods were far poorer than those in Hong Kong, so watching movies became the greatest enjoyment at that time. The village head raised funds from door to door, and spent money to hire a projection team to play movies in the village, which was almost the most sensational event in the village. matter.
Every time the projection team reaches a production team and finishes showing the movie, the captain of that team will stand on the top of the team and shout to the captain of the next production team. Several machines used for filming were pulled to the village, and the filming crew would naturally come with the tractors.
Every time the projection team went to a place, they would receive warm hospitality from the team leader, so when the white screen was pulled up by a few capable villagers and the projector was moved to the designated table, Wang Xiaohu could always see the projectionist with a little Slightly drunk, even the air exhaled from the nostrils exudes a trace of alcohol.
When the projection team showed films in the production team, they were mostly on the threshing floor of the team, and the screens were mostly drawn on two trees next to the threshing floor.At that time, there was no electricity in the village, and a small generator was used to show movies. The children in Wang Xiaohu’s place called it “Motor”, and the generator was usually placed in a secluded place near the threshing field, so as not to affect the The effect of dialogue between characters on the screen when watching a movie.
Generally speaking, a village spends money to invite a screening team, and other villages will follow after they know about it. That kind of scene is not depressing. The major scenic spots in the Golden Week are crowded, crowded, and people push people. Wang Xiaohu also has it. When he couldn't occupy favorable terrain, Tongtong climbed up the tree. Although he couldn't see clearly, no one blocked him.
By the early 90s, rural projection teams had gradually been contracted by individuals as "private cinemas", and movies at this time could only be seen with money.Although I and a few children in middle school have also used the method of "climbing the wall to enter" to watch some free movies, but the number of times we watched is very limited after all.As for the local villagers, watching movies has become a "past history"!Later, because there was no money to make, even the village private movie theaters that sold tickets did not exist!
Thinking of these memories of movies in his childhood, the corners of Wang Xiaohu's mouth would curl up unconsciously, what a beautiful childhood memory, maybe it was at that time that he began to like movies.
During the filming of "The Myth", Wang Xiaohu asked the Ministry of Culture about the situation. Although such rural projection teams existed in China, they were not very large in scale. This was mainly due to the fact that there were not many projection equipment in China at that time.
For this reason, Wang Xiaohu decided to cooperate with the mainland to set up a huge rural screening team, so that more than one billion people across the country can watch "Mythology".Of course, some villages may want to broadcast it for free, but it is of great significance to allow ordinary people to watch movies co-produced by Hong Kong and mainland China in the late 70s.
This kind of benefit is not only to increase the popularity of Hong Kong films in the mainland, but also to let them know that Chinese people can make their own blockbuster films!In this way, they will not slander and criticize Chinese films for no reason in the future.
In his previous life, Wang Xiaohu discovered a very strange phenomenon, especially after the year 2000, every big-budget film released in China would attract a lot of criticism, but the big-budget films released in the United States were all praised.
This kind of phenomenon has greatly affected the enthusiasm of filmmakers. If you say "worship foreign countries and favor foreigners", you will be refuted by a group of people, and even you will be scolded together, but Wang Xiaohu can't find a specific solution.
It was only a few years after his rebirth that Wang Xiaohu figured this out.In fact, to put it bluntly, the commercial elements of American blockbusters determine that the plot is very weak. Such a movie can attract Chinese audiences mainly to watch the actors and special effects. If the special effects are done well, the actors are handsome and beautiful. OK, no matter how bad your plot is. , your movie will sweep thousands of troops in China and climb to the top of the box office chart in one fell swoop.
Therefore, Wang Xiaohu believes that it is very important for the common people to change this kind of thinking of worshiping foreigners and fawning on foreign countries at this time. We Chinese can make our own blockbuster films. Our film shooting technology does not need your foreign businessmen. We must develop the good habit of ordinary people supporting our own films. !
Undoubtedly, this is a huge project, and Wang Xiaohu is very proud to be able to make this happen at a time when Chinese movies are waiting for a while.
So before waiting for the international screening of "Mythology" to be produced, Wang Xiaohu has been busy with this matter for the past few days.
Of course, these devices cannot be purchased in the United States. After all, the projectors produced there are all standard versions, and the mobile projectors used in the mainland are all eliminated from the big brother of the Soviet Union. One, so I found Run Run Shaw with this out-of-date product.
"What do you want me to do with this thing?" Run Run Shaw asked with a frown.
Wang Xiaohu knocked on the projector and said, "Of course I need your help."
"help?"
After Wang Xiaohu uttered his thoughts, Run Run Shaw said loudly in surprise: "What are you talking about, you want to produce a thousand sets of this old-fashioned thing, aren't you crazy?"
Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "I'm not crazy. The 16mm projector is the most suitable projection equipment for rural areas in mainland China. It is also relatively easy to set up such a popular rural projection team. A projectionist with some knowledge of projection is needed." If you are a member, it’s OK, and if you’re exhausted, bring two more students.”
"Boy, what do you want me to say about you!" Run Run Shaw shook his head and sighed: "If you feel that you have too much money, you can definitely invest in the US market. A thousand such old-fashioned devices are not given to the mainland for free. Is it? Hey!"
"And you are showing it for free, how do you recover the cost?" Run Run Shaw glared: "So you really have a problem with your brain, do you want me to find you some better psychiatrists?"
He didn't care about Run Run Shaw's cynicism at all, Wang Xiaohu still kept smiling and said: "Old Dou, Chief Deng has taken over the whole mainland. Maybe you don't know that at the beginning of this year, his old man divided Fujian and Guangdong provinces into two provinces. Special Economic Zones, implementing reforms in the urban economic system.”
"So what? What does it have to do with movies?" Run Run Shaw rolled his eyes in disapproval.
Wang Xiaohu said with a wry smile: "Old Dou, take a long-term view. This is a precursor to China's reform and opening up. I believe that within a few years, the mainland's economic development will continue at a high speed, and the mainland's film market will also continue to grow. This process is gradually maturing, if we don’t enter the mainland market during this period of time and add fuel to the maturity of mainland films, we won’t be able to gain any advantage when they develop in the future.”
"Boy, I found that your vision has improved a lot when you come back from the mainland this time." Run Run Shaw said in surprise: "Are you so sure that the reform and opening up in the mainland will be successful?"
"I believe it!" Wang Xiaohu nodded and said with certainty. He believed it too much. As a reborn person, he knew too well the significance of reform and opening up to China's economic take-off.
"Reason!" Run Run Shaw said.
Wang Xiaohu didn't speak, but raised his right hand and made a gesture of "pinching and counting" with five fingers. Seeing this, Run Run Shaw almost fainted, and he sighed heavily and said, "Hey, young people, you know how to fool around. , How can this thing make such a hasty decision? It's too unsafe!"
"Then you don't need to spend 20 Hong Kong dollars every year to hire those two Fengshui masters, it's too unsafe!" Wang Xiaohu said.
"One size fits all!" Run Run Shaw shook his head.
"It's all the same thing in my eyes." Wang Xiaohu said with a chuckle: "Dou, this is not asking you to spend money to invest in the mainland film market. What are you so worried about? I just ask you to help find and produce this old-fashioned movie. The manufacturer of the projector!"
"I'm worried that you will lose all your money!" Run Run Shaw said bitterly.
Wang Xiaohu said indifferently: "It's okay, I'm still young, at worst, I fall down and get back up again!"
Yes, youth is the greatest capital!It would be impossible for Run Run Shaw not to admit it. Wang Xiaohu has a lot of capital. Not only is his age an advantage, but he also has a clever mind in the film industry.
Unable to stand Wang Xiaohu's repeated begging, Run Run Shaw still took the secretary to contact the manufacturer. After all, 16mm projectors have been eliminated in Hong Kong. The equipment in more than 200 movie theaters in Hong Kong has been updated by Concorde and Shaw Brothers a few years ago. It is the standard projection equipment in the United States, and even some small theaters are forced to replace their equipment in order to survive.
It is obvious that the production of such a large number of equipment is not overnight. Even with Wang Xiaohu's sufficient capital injection, there are still two major equipment manufacturers in Hong Kong and Taiwan working together to produce more than 400 units after the Spring Festival, which is [-] yuan away from Wang Xiaohu's request. There is still a long way to go.
While waiting, the Mandarin and Cantonese versions of "Mythology" have finally completed the post-production. The international version is more than half completed, especially the last half of the post-production. Hong Kong's equipment can no longer meet Lucas' needs. After researching, Lucas took a dozen boxes of film to the United States—the headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic for production.
The Mandarin A version is mainly made for the mainland market, and it is the worst kind in terms of film quality. The quality is also very careful.
Needless to say, the Cantonese version is mainly released in Hong Kong. Of course, it is also the part with the fewest copies. Most of them still need the Mandarin B version to support the screening in Southeast Asia. The B version has the largest number of copies.
(End of this chapter)
Wang Xiaohu still remembers that since he was sensible, his father carried him on his neck and watched that kind of open-air movie with the whole village.
At that time, domestic entertainment methods were far poorer than those in Hong Kong, so watching movies became the greatest enjoyment at that time. The village head raised funds from door to door, and spent money to hire a projection team to play movies in the village, which was almost the most sensational event in the village. matter.
Every time the projection team reaches a production team and finishes showing the movie, the captain of that team will stand on the top of the team and shout to the captain of the next production team. Several machines used for filming were pulled to the village, and the filming crew would naturally come with the tractors.
Every time the projection team went to a place, they would receive warm hospitality from the team leader, so when the white screen was pulled up by a few capable villagers and the projector was moved to the designated table, Wang Xiaohu could always see the projectionist with a little Slightly drunk, even the air exhaled from the nostrils exudes a trace of alcohol.
When the projection team showed films in the production team, they were mostly on the threshing floor of the team, and the screens were mostly drawn on two trees next to the threshing floor.At that time, there was no electricity in the village, and a small generator was used to show movies. The children in Wang Xiaohu’s place called it “Motor”, and the generator was usually placed in a secluded place near the threshing field, so as not to affect the The effect of dialogue between characters on the screen when watching a movie.
Generally speaking, a village spends money to invite a screening team, and other villages will follow after they know about it. That kind of scene is not depressing. The major scenic spots in the Golden Week are crowded, crowded, and people push people. Wang Xiaohu also has it. When he couldn't occupy favorable terrain, Tongtong climbed up the tree. Although he couldn't see clearly, no one blocked him.
By the early 90s, rural projection teams had gradually been contracted by individuals as "private cinemas", and movies at this time could only be seen with money.Although I and a few children in middle school have also used the method of "climbing the wall to enter" to watch some free movies, but the number of times we watched is very limited after all.As for the local villagers, watching movies has become a "past history"!Later, because there was no money to make, even the village private movie theaters that sold tickets did not exist!
Thinking of these memories of movies in his childhood, the corners of Wang Xiaohu's mouth would curl up unconsciously, what a beautiful childhood memory, maybe it was at that time that he began to like movies.
During the filming of "The Myth", Wang Xiaohu asked the Ministry of Culture about the situation. Although such rural projection teams existed in China, they were not very large in scale. This was mainly due to the fact that there were not many projection equipment in China at that time.
For this reason, Wang Xiaohu decided to cooperate with the mainland to set up a huge rural screening team, so that more than one billion people across the country can watch "Mythology".Of course, some villages may want to broadcast it for free, but it is of great significance to allow ordinary people to watch movies co-produced by Hong Kong and mainland China in the late 70s.
This kind of benefit is not only to increase the popularity of Hong Kong films in the mainland, but also to let them know that Chinese people can make their own blockbuster films!In this way, they will not slander and criticize Chinese films for no reason in the future.
In his previous life, Wang Xiaohu discovered a very strange phenomenon, especially after the year 2000, every big-budget film released in China would attract a lot of criticism, but the big-budget films released in the United States were all praised.
This kind of phenomenon has greatly affected the enthusiasm of filmmakers. If you say "worship foreign countries and favor foreigners", you will be refuted by a group of people, and even you will be scolded together, but Wang Xiaohu can't find a specific solution.
It was only a few years after his rebirth that Wang Xiaohu figured this out.In fact, to put it bluntly, the commercial elements of American blockbusters determine that the plot is very weak. Such a movie can attract Chinese audiences mainly to watch the actors and special effects. If the special effects are done well, the actors are handsome and beautiful. OK, no matter how bad your plot is. , your movie will sweep thousands of troops in China and climb to the top of the box office chart in one fell swoop.
Therefore, Wang Xiaohu believes that it is very important for the common people to change this kind of thinking of worshiping foreigners and fawning on foreign countries at this time. We Chinese can make our own blockbuster films. Our film shooting technology does not need your foreign businessmen. We must develop the good habit of ordinary people supporting our own films. !
Undoubtedly, this is a huge project, and Wang Xiaohu is very proud to be able to make this happen at a time when Chinese movies are waiting for a while.
So before waiting for the international screening of "Mythology" to be produced, Wang Xiaohu has been busy with this matter for the past few days.
Of course, these devices cannot be purchased in the United States. After all, the projectors produced there are all standard versions, and the mobile projectors used in the mainland are all eliminated from the big brother of the Soviet Union. One, so I found Run Run Shaw with this out-of-date product.
"What do you want me to do with this thing?" Run Run Shaw asked with a frown.
Wang Xiaohu knocked on the projector and said, "Of course I need your help."
"help?"
After Wang Xiaohu uttered his thoughts, Run Run Shaw said loudly in surprise: "What are you talking about, you want to produce a thousand sets of this old-fashioned thing, aren't you crazy?"
Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "I'm not crazy. The 16mm projector is the most suitable projection equipment for rural areas in mainland China. It is also relatively easy to set up such a popular rural projection team. A projectionist with some knowledge of projection is needed." If you are a member, it’s OK, and if you’re exhausted, bring two more students.”
"Boy, what do you want me to say about you!" Run Run Shaw shook his head and sighed: "If you feel that you have too much money, you can definitely invest in the US market. A thousand such old-fashioned devices are not given to the mainland for free. Is it? Hey!"
"And you are showing it for free, how do you recover the cost?" Run Run Shaw glared: "So you really have a problem with your brain, do you want me to find you some better psychiatrists?"
He didn't care about Run Run Shaw's cynicism at all, Wang Xiaohu still kept smiling and said: "Old Dou, Chief Deng has taken over the whole mainland. Maybe you don't know that at the beginning of this year, his old man divided Fujian and Guangdong provinces into two provinces. Special Economic Zones, implementing reforms in the urban economic system.”
"So what? What does it have to do with movies?" Run Run Shaw rolled his eyes in disapproval.
Wang Xiaohu said with a wry smile: "Old Dou, take a long-term view. This is a precursor to China's reform and opening up. I believe that within a few years, the mainland's economic development will continue at a high speed, and the mainland's film market will also continue to grow. This process is gradually maturing, if we don’t enter the mainland market during this period of time and add fuel to the maturity of mainland films, we won’t be able to gain any advantage when they develop in the future.”
"Boy, I found that your vision has improved a lot when you come back from the mainland this time." Run Run Shaw said in surprise: "Are you so sure that the reform and opening up in the mainland will be successful?"
"I believe it!" Wang Xiaohu nodded and said with certainty. He believed it too much. As a reborn person, he knew too well the significance of reform and opening up to China's economic take-off.
"Reason!" Run Run Shaw said.
Wang Xiaohu didn't speak, but raised his right hand and made a gesture of "pinching and counting" with five fingers. Seeing this, Run Run Shaw almost fainted, and he sighed heavily and said, "Hey, young people, you know how to fool around. , How can this thing make such a hasty decision? It's too unsafe!"
"Then you don't need to spend 20 Hong Kong dollars every year to hire those two Fengshui masters, it's too unsafe!" Wang Xiaohu said.
"One size fits all!" Run Run Shaw shook his head.
"It's all the same thing in my eyes." Wang Xiaohu said with a chuckle: "Dou, this is not asking you to spend money to invest in the mainland film market. What are you so worried about? I just ask you to help find and produce this old-fashioned movie. The manufacturer of the projector!"
"I'm worried that you will lose all your money!" Run Run Shaw said bitterly.
Wang Xiaohu said indifferently: "It's okay, I'm still young, at worst, I fall down and get back up again!"
Yes, youth is the greatest capital!It would be impossible for Run Run Shaw not to admit it. Wang Xiaohu has a lot of capital. Not only is his age an advantage, but he also has a clever mind in the film industry.
Unable to stand Wang Xiaohu's repeated begging, Run Run Shaw still took the secretary to contact the manufacturer. After all, 16mm projectors have been eliminated in Hong Kong. The equipment in more than 200 movie theaters in Hong Kong has been updated by Concorde and Shaw Brothers a few years ago. It is the standard projection equipment in the United States, and even some small theaters are forced to replace their equipment in order to survive.
It is obvious that the production of such a large number of equipment is not overnight. Even with Wang Xiaohu's sufficient capital injection, there are still two major equipment manufacturers in Hong Kong and Taiwan working together to produce more than 400 units after the Spring Festival, which is [-] yuan away from Wang Xiaohu's request. There is still a long way to go.
While waiting, the Mandarin and Cantonese versions of "Mythology" have finally completed the post-production. The international version is more than half completed, especially the last half of the post-production. Hong Kong's equipment can no longer meet Lucas' needs. After researching, Lucas took a dozen boxes of film to the United States—the headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic for production.
The Mandarin A version is mainly made for the mainland market, and it is the worst kind in terms of film quality. The quality is also very careful.
Needless to say, the Cantonese version is mainly released in Hong Kong. Of course, it is also the part with the fewest copies. Most of them still need the Mandarin B version to support the screening in Southeast Asia. The B version has the largest number of copies.
(End of this chapter)
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