1979 Golden Age

My uncle is back, and my mother-in-law is very enthusiastic. She has four dishes and one soup every day.

This night I made sweet and sour short ribs, braised meatballs and two stir-fried vegetables. The soup was baby cabbage soup. Gong Xue's mother ate little. After a while, she put down her chopsticks, stood up and said, "You guys eat, I'll go out for a walk."

"Yes, please slow down!"

Chen Qi saw her going out and asked curiously: "Why is our mother going?"

"When you come back, she won't have to take a walk with me. She has a company of her own, and I met a teacher in the building next door to the Beijing Film Studio. It's a lot of fun.'

"Oh, yes, your mother is also engaged in art--is she a boy or a girl?"

"There are several people here, both men and women."

"Then your dad himself has no one to watch him in Shanghai."

"You deserve a beating, right?"

Gong Xue slapped the table and he shut up to eat.

The mother-in-law considered his taste, both sweet and salty, and tasted good. He likes to eat home-cooked meals, so he finished two bowls of it and saw that there was still a little soup left. It was a pity that he poured it out, so he filled another half bowl of rice and soaked it in the soup, and continued to slurp.

"Oh, if this news reaches Hong Kong, people will laugh to death!" Gong Xue said with a smile,

"Yes, everyone eats French food and drinks Lafite. Even if it's not easy, you can go to the Peninsula Hotel to have English afternoon tea."

He finished all the rice in one go, patted his bulging belly, and said with satisfaction: "But what the heck, you can eat whatever you like. Do you still have rice?"

"I can't eat any more."

"Then I'll take care of it."

For such a big cadre to wipe tables and wash dishes, they wipe and wipe with a rag. There is even a maid who does her own combing at home.

The weather is getting warmer in May, the balcony windows are open, and it’s time for every household to eat. The sound of frying and frying is accompanied by the aroma of vegetables. This is the smoke and smoke of living in a building.

Gong Xue wanted him to accompany her downstairs for a walk, but he picked up a bag, took out several video cassettes, and asked, "What are these?

"The military exercise documentary I borrowed from Bayi Factory."

There was a video recorder at home, and Chen Qi tinkered with it and played it on TV.

Everyone knows about the North China military exercise in 1981, in which 110,000 people were dispatched. This is a large-scale military exercise. In fact, various military units also hold small-scale exercises from time to time. The Bayi Factory has filmed many documentaries.

Gong Xue was bored, so she had to accompany him to watch the artillery fire and the roar of the plane.

Chen Qi looked at it very seriously, changed several boxes of tapes in succession, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "We can definitely make it!"

For the big scenes that "Dark Man" is going to be commercialized, he just took a look at at least 5 places that can be directly transformed into movie scenes. For example, there is a scene where the plane accelerates on the runway, with explosive points buried on both sides, and fireworks are everywhere. The plane flies through the explosion and takes off, which is very beautiful.

There are also shots of paratroopers parachuting. When they jump from the plane, they look like clouds blooming, with close-up and long-range shots. The most exaggerated scene is of facing the paratroopers in mid-air. I don’t know where the photographer took the shot.

In short, it basically meets the feeling that Chen Qi wants, and it can be transformed into a movie scene during actual shooting.

"Black Man" was filmed in the Mainland, and HK$20 million was definitely enough.

Some people always say that the cost of the "Armageddon" trilogy is 100 million. In fact, it didn’t arrive. The central government approved a budget of 70 million yuan, but it actually cost 6,000 yuan.

Ten million, of which ten million is money for purchasing equipment.

Gong Xue saw that he had stopped moving, and even though he had a big belly, she had to kick him: "What are you thinking about?"

"I think 1987 is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, and 1989 is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. When we celebrate the 10th anniversary, a batch of gift films will appear."

"You want to make a tribute film?"

"It's not whether I think about it or not, but according to this momentum, Dongfang Company can't avoid it and will definitely take over the task. Just take it. It just so happens that I also want to shoot it. We will study it when the time comes."

Chen Qi took out the videotape, looked at the time, and said with a smile, "Do you still want to move? Go downstairs for a walk?"

"OK!"

It's quiet at night.

Gong Xue slept in the master bedroom, her mother slept in the second bedroom, and Chen Qi sat on the sofa in the living room with a cup of strong tea, preparing to write a manuscript.

He came back this time and stayed for nearly two months, writing a script while arranging "Dark Man". "Fifty First Dates" will be released in the summer. The film only cost a few million US dollars. If the box office exceeds 30 million, it will be considered a success. If it exceeds 50 million, your net worth will rise.

Over 100 million?

He thought it was unlikely.

Anyway, he is just making money from milk powder, and this money must be known to the organization, so that everyone can understand one thing: he can sell a single script in Hollywood for hundreds of thousands or even more dollars.

The U.S. dollar is the best evidence of value.

This has nothing to do with collectivism, it is his value as a person that no one can replace.

Chen Qi doesn't want to write any profound stories now, just straightforward commercial films that follow two elements: first, what he can't shoot himself; second, what Hollywood can currently shoot.

He wrote down his name: "Speed ​​of Life and Death"!

A villain planned for a long time to plant a bomb in the elevator and threatened 13 hostages and demanded a million ransom.

The protagonist cleverly and bravely defuses the bomb and rescues the hostages. The villain took revenge with a grudge. He first blew up a bus.

And informs the protagonist that there is also a time bomb in another bus.

This bomb is very strange. As long as the bus speed exceeds 50 miles per hour, it cannot slow down, otherwise it will explode.

The protagonist got on the bus, and in order not to detonate the bomb, the bus had to travel at high speed. He had to deal with various situations and protect the safety of the passengers. After a series of thrilling and exciting events, he finally killed the villain.

"Speed" is not as good as "Die Hard" and other classics in film history, but it is also quite prestigious.

Because the setting of "explosion below a certain speed" is very novel, the dramatic conflict is locked on "speed". A bus full of passengers that can't slow down and can only speed is very eye-catching.

The 1994 film cost 30 million US dollars and won 350 million US dollars at the box office.

The original version starred Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.

Why can't Chen Qi shoot it? In addition to the production cost, there is no way to get a highway. If the bus is to run all the time, it needs a very long and undisturbed highway, which is not available in the mainland and Hong Kong.

This kind of film is not painful to give out, and there is money to be made.

He was full of inspiration and kept writing. He wrote a quarter of it in one night.

It was already early in the morning when he yawned and tiptoed into the bedroom to catch up on his sleep. Gong Xue woke up and touched his face: "You can write during the day, we won't disturb you."

"It's okay, I'll have inspiration at night and it will be done in a few days."

"Go to sleep!"

Chen Qi also pinched her round face.

In this way, he was busy and accompanied his wife, and it was June in the blink of an eye.

The news of the replacement of leaders in various departments appeared in the newspapers almost every day: Minister Wu of Radio and Television was transferred, and a leader named Ai took over. This person worked for a long time, until 1994.

Then, it was Shanghai that Chen Qi had always wanted.

The leader of the Ministry of Electronics Industry was finally transferred there!