1979 Golden Age

Cinema City.

Mai Jia sat back in his office for a rare time, smoking like crazy and looking through the company's existing personnel information. He wanted to recruit new people and find scripts, but he couldn't find any in a short time, so he looked at the internal talents first.

"What kind of flops are these!"

"There's not even a decent one!"

"Huh?"

Mai Jia touched his big bald head, his eyes stopped on a name called "Wang Jiawei", but he had no impression of it. He looked at the position and saw that it was screenwriter. He had been in the company for several months. In the first half of the year, a play "Colorful Clouds" was written by him.

"Has this person been to the company? Why haven't I seen him?"

"It must be signed by Huang Baiming. He left Le Se and only took Gao Zhisen away!"

Mai Jia checked the salary again. Hey, although he had never seen it, this Wang Jiawei still received his salary every month. He was immediately angry and ordered the human resources department to let Wang Jiawei come to the company immediately! Right now! Roll over!

Then I continued to work. After about half a day, the employee reported: "Boss, Wang Jiawei is here!"

"Let him in!"

A tall, thin guy wearing glasses, who was three parts handsome and seven parts weird, walked in.

"Sit down!"

Mai Jia stared at the young man in front of him, not understanding him at all, and asked: "What did you do before?"

"I studied screenwriting in the TVB director training class."

"Have you ever been to school?"

"Graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic!"

Wow!

Mai Jia was a little surprised. He was a college student. He was a rare high-educated person in Hong Kong. He also liked people who had studied. He asked, "How long have you been in the company?"

"Almost half a year."

"I see your position is a screenwriter. You haven't produced any works in half a year?"

"Well, I think writing scripts is like this... Life is sometimes very short... There is a very subtle feeling between men and women... Some people miss it, but they don't know it's a miss..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Mai Jia's just-started good impression disappeared, and he frowned and said, "What are you talking about? I asked you why you don't have any works. Are you lecturing me? Have you written a script?"

"Yes, but I haven't finished it yet!"

"How long will it take?"

"Three months..."

Wang Jiawei was very conservative.

"Flop! You spend 9 months writing a script. I pay you to let you work, not to let you take money for nothing... Listen carefully, I only give you three weeks. If you can't produce works after three weeks, get out immediately!"

Wang Jiawei got out in disgrace.

Mai Jia was still furious. Damn Wong Pak Ming. All the people he signed were lechers!

Historically, Wang Jiawei ran away after working for TVB for a while and joined Cinema City.

Once, when Shi Nansheng wanted to pay the employees, he found that this guy had not come to the company for several months, so he found Wong Pak Ming. Wong Pak Ming immediately called Wang Jiawei and ordered him to hand in the work within three weeks.

Three weeks later, Wang Jiawei did hand in a script, which was evaluated as "a pile of waste paper"!

So he was fired.

Coincidentally, Chen Xunqi opened a company - Chen Xunqi with a mustache, and Wang Jiawei joined his company. Maybe he was afraid of being unemployed again, so he became much more obedient and wrote several commercial films.

Chen Xunqi and Ni Shujun played in a movie "Little Fox Fairy", and the screenwriter was Wang Jiawei.

So, it’s not that he doesn’t have speed or commercial skills, just don’t indulge him…

At this moment, Mai Jia drove Wang Jiawei away and continued to think about what goals he had. He was worried while touching his big bald head. His ashtray was filled up unconsciously. Suddenly, he slapped the table and said, “Ha! John Woo!”

“How could I forget him? His contract with Golden Harvest is about to expire!”

John Woo was the first to make a comedy film. He was signed by Golden Harvest because of his good box office performance. There was a movie called “Comedy Times” made by John Woo under a pseudonym in Xinyicheng. He also introduced Tsui Hark to Xinyicheng, so they have a good relationship.

The performance of the films he made in recent years was average, but as a director, it is normal for his performance to fluctuate. As long as there is a good script, he can make a comeback in a minute. Moreover, he is experienced and can be used. He is a very good supplement to the current Xinyicheng and can also restore the confidence of shareholders.

“Golden Harvest poached my people, and I poached his people too!”

The more Mai Jia thought about it, the more he felt that this was a brilliant move, and he immediately called John Woo.

…………

Airport

The American actors of "Life is Beautiful" have completed a total of four weeks of filming and are about to return, but the Chinese crew will continue, and the filming is expected to be completed in September.

Ed and Amy's salary is 50,000 US dollars, Marino 4,000, and the others 2,000 each. With the extra work, Chen Qi paid a huge sum of 108,185 US dollars in total, and he began to feel the pain again.

If it is filmed in the United States, it is not so expensive, but if you want people to come from afar, you have to pay more.

"It's a pleasure to work with you. I hope there will be another chance next time!"

"Chen, it's a pity that I can't eat such delicious tangerine peel chicken. Can't you tell me how to make it?"

"I'm not a chef, how should I know?"

Chen Qi and Gong Xue personally saw them off, hugged them, and reminded them: "Don't forget to help me contact other small film companies besides New Line. The more the better."

Then Marino came over. This Italian-American has a bit of a masochistic attribute. After being taught a lesson, he became very well-behaved: "Boss, I hope I can still work for you! I think I am very suitable here. If you let me appear on TV more times, maybe I can stay in Hong Kong to shoot TV series!"

"Then you have to learn Chinese, get out of here!"

Chen Qi shook hands with everyone and said goodbye. He recorded their information. It would be easy to find actors in the United States in the future.

After watching them go through security check, the two of them came out and got in the car and left.

Xiao Mo drove the car to the northwest and arrived at a place called Lai Chi Kok. There is a "Liyuan Amusement Park" here, and Songcheng is right next to the amusement park.

Entering from the not-so-tall city gate tower, the main body is a small river running through the north and south, with pavilions standing on both sides and willows hanging low. There are incense shops, teahouses, Erlang Shen Temple, wine shops, residences, etc.

Various NPCs wearing Song Dynasty costumes are running shops, and there are also dances, acrobatics, ancient weddings and other performances, all of which are carried out in accordance with the arrival time of the tour group.

It seems to be quite large, with a total area of ​​more than 8 acres...

After Qiu Degen took over, Songcheng became a TV station's costume studio. In the late 1990s, it closed down together with the amusement park next door due to poor business.

Chen Qi was disgusted by the domestic assembly line antique town in the future, and had no interest in it, but Gong Xue liked it very much. She was used to it now and would take his hand and chirp like a happy bird.

There were many tourists today, and their attention was all on the river.

Because there were many strange-shaped equipment in the river, wrapped in colorful protective layers, the main body was a runway, which just happened to be built along the river. There were more static equipment and fewer moving equipment, and the moving equipment was troublesome to build and expensive.

At the end, you need to grab the rope and swing over, jump up and take a picture of the timer, and the challenge will be successful.

"Director Li!"

"Mr. Chen!"

In a two-story restaurant by the river, they met Li Zhuanglie. Li Zhuanglie saw Gong Xue and his eyes lit up: "Is this Miss Gong?"

"Hello, do you know me?"

Gong Xue shook his hand and asked curiously.

"I've seen Tai Chi, too. The real person is even more beautiful than in the movie!"

Li Zhuanglie came up to solicit business, and urged: "Miss Gong, are you interested in participating in our program? You see, these equipments are almost ready. Come on, I guarantee you will be fully exposed and beautiful in Hong Kong!"

"What beauty do you mean beautiful? Let her play this kind of drowning game. You can give it a try if you have a talk show!"

Chen Qi protected Gong Xue behind him. Li Zhuanglie felt sorry. It was still a gimmick for mainland filmmakers to participate.