Back to 80: My Literary Life

But after thinking about it carefully, he understood the reason.

Historically, Stephen Chow and Xi'an Film Studio cooperated around 1994, and now it is 1992, two years earlier.

Now, although Xi'an Film Studio has gone downhill, a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

In the past two years, Zhang Yimou's film "Ju Dou" won the first Louis Bruinier Special Award at the 43rd Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar. Feng Xiaoning's film "War Meridian" won the 11th Golden Rooster Award for Director Special Award and the Gold Award at the Tokyo International Children's Film Festival in Japan. Chen Kaige's film "Walking and Singing" won the competition film at the Cannes International Film Festival in France.

There are also Huang Jianxin's film "Stand Up, Don't Lie Down" and Teng Wenji's film "Yellow River Ballad" which have achieved good results.

In other words, the current Xi'an Film Studio is still powerful, and naturally looks down on this bad script, even though it is starring Stephen Chow.

However, the next year (1993), the country began to introduce the "10 blockbusters" plan, giving mainland audiences the opportunity to enjoy the latest foreign blockbusters. Then, with the rise of private investment and the emergence of numerous pirated discs, major domestic film studios, including the Xi'an Film Studio, faced an unprecedented crisis and had to start looking for a way out, cooperating with Hong Kong film and television companies.

"A Chinese Odyssey" is one example.

Now that Stephen Chow and Liu Zhenwei have come to her home, Fang Minghua thought about it and said, "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu, I can try this, but I can't guarantee that it will be done."

"Thank you so much."

The few people chatted for a while, and Stephen Chow and others said goodbye and left.

In the evening, Song Tangtang first sent the two children to her parents' home - they had to go to kindergarten tomorrow, and then drove home.

When the couple sat on the sofa in the living room and chatted, Fang Minghua told him in detail about Stephen Chow's visit to him today.

Song Tangtang fell into deep thought after listening to this, and after a while he said: "Minghua, I am a little tempted."

"Hmm?"

"I want to cooperate with Stephen Chow to prepare for this movie. Anyway, "The Textile Girl" directed by Wang Quanan has already started filming, and the company has nothing important to do now."

At the beginning of this year, Wang Quanan obtained the film and television adaptation rights of the novel "The Textile Girl" from Fang Minghua, adapted it into a movie script by himself, and invested by Shengshi Film and Television, and has started filming in Textile City.

It is a low-cost movie with a budget of only 600,000. It is a toss for Wang Quanan to do it by himself.

Of course, Fang Minghua is not considering this matter.

"Filming "A Chinese Odyssey", aren't you worried about losing money at the box office? I talked about this when I came back from Hong Kong last year, and your analysis at the time made sense." He reminded.

"I am worried, but I can't bear it. If it is well made, it will definitely be an epoch-making movie. Now that Xiying doesn't accept it, it is equivalent to giving Shengshi Film and Television a chance." Song Tangtang explained.

"Confused?"

"Yeah!"

Song Tangtang nodded, watching Fang Minghua suddenly speak in a coquettish tone.

"Husband. Husband"

"What?" Fang Minghua subconsciously moved away from Song Tangtang.

He knew that his wife suddenly did this because she must have something difficult to ask of him.

Sure enough, Song Tangtang's body wrapped around Fang Minghua and said coquettishly: "Husband, think of a way, I really want to make this movie together, don't let the box office be too bad, at least don't lose money."

Fang Minghua didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I'm not a god, what can I do?"

"You have it, you must have it!"

Song Tangtang said coquettishly.

Fang Minghua hugged his wife's soft waist: "Do you really want to shoot?"

"Yes!"

"Then shoot it, and we'll talk about it after it's finished. As for whether it's a loss or not, don't worry too much."

"Why?"

"Isn't the Red Army doing real estate? He's making a lot of money. Even if you lose money, he can fill this hole." Fang Minghua said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"What if the Red Army also loses money in land speculation?" Song Tangtang asked back.

"How can he lose money?" Fang Minghua laughed: "If he really loses money, Shengshi Group will be completely finished. Why would he care about your investment?"

"Okay, tomorrow you contact Stephen Chow, and we will cooperate with him. Of course, we will pay a small amount of money, and they will pay the big part!"

"Continue to find Xiying to buy the dragon logo?"

"No, this time I'm going to find China Film Cooperative Production Company. Isn't it because of buying their dragon logo that we can make "Raise the Red Lantern"? I think the cooperation is quite pleasant."

"Okay, do it according to your ideas." Fang Minghua agreed.

"Okay, I'll take a bath and read a book." Song Tangtang stood up after saying that.

My wife likes to take a bath very much, and she takes a bath almost every day.

Song Tangtang went upstairs, and Fang Minghua sat on the sofa and continued to think about this matter.

He certainly didn't want the box office of this movie to be dismal.

In fact, the box office of the movie "A Chinese Odyssey" in Hong Kong was not too bad at that time. 45 million barely broke even. The main reason was that the box office was dismal in the mainland.

But it was still good when it was first released. It is said that it earned 2 million in Shanghai, but it was born at the wrong time.

There were too many blockbusters in this year (1995), Zhang Yimou's "Raise the Rock", Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days", Li Shaohong's "Red Powder", not to mention the foreign blockbusters "True Lies", "The Lion King", "Forrest Gump", "The Bridges of Madison County", "Jumanji" and "Rumble in the Bronx".

"A Chinese Odyssey" was released at almost the same time as these movies, but it was miserably criticized.

It's only 1992 now!

The movie will be released in 1993 at the latest. At that time, although the policy of importing foreign blockbusters was announced, it had not been officially imported, so the competitiveness was naturally much smaller.

In addition, "The Legend of Wukong" has been released in advance, so will the audience's acceptance of "A Chinese Odyssey" be higher?

Of course, it will be promoted vigorously before the official release.

In the mainland, it seems that there are no movies doing roadshows yet?

Oh, by the way, when the time is right, "The Bridges of Madison County", "Ghost" and "Twilight", the three movies adapted from his own novels, will also be introduced to the country.

It's the 1990s, and the acceptance of the mainland audience is no longer comparable to that of the 1980s.

Fang Minghua closed his eyes slightly and thought about it.

Early the next morning, Fang Minghua called Stephen Chow.

At this time, Stephen Chow had already booked a flight back to Shenzhen. Although Fang Minghua agreed to help, she did not specify the specific time. He also knew that this would not be a matter of one or two days, and he could not afford to delay.

He had just finished filming the second part of "Fight Back to School" and was busy filming "Justice, My Foot".

Unexpectedly, Fang Minghua called his mobile phone and said that there was a clue about the co-production of the movie "A Chinese Odyssey" and asked him to come to his home for a detailed face-to-face discussion.

Stephen Chow was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately rushed to Fang Minghua's home with Liu Zhenwei.

This time, Fang Minghua was not alone at home, but also his wife, Song Tangtang.

After the two sides were introduced, Fang Minghua got straight to the point.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Liu, Xiying Studio does not want you to cooperate, but another film and television company is willing."

"Which one?" Stephen Chow was shocked.

"My wife Song Tangtang's company - Shengshi Film and Television" Fang Minghua replied with a smile.