Dreams of the Fragrant River

"Yesterday, the 42nd Venice Film Festival came to an end at the Lido Island Film Palace. The French film "The End of the World" won the Golden Lion, the highest honor, and the Hong Kong film "Shushan" followed closely and won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Award, which attracted the attention of the world film circle. (First release)

It is reported that "Shushan" was adapted from the famous swordsman novel "Shushan Swordsman Biography", which cost 80 million Hong Kong dollars (data for publicity), and was jointly planned and written by Kang Jianfei and Xu Ke. It took 21 months before and after. The large-scale special effects movie produced by Oriental DreamWorks for many years.

The film premiered at the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival. Mr. Lorenzo, the artistic director of this Venice Film Festival, said that "Shushan" is a very unique and good film, it can bring people a refreshing feeling, and it can be called "Star Wars" in the Eastern style..."

The day after the Venice Awards Ceremony ended, several newspapers in Hong Kong got news and put them on the front pages. Others also reacted and reprinted the news one after another. It continued until October, and the news that "Shushan" won the Silver Lion Award was still hotly concerned in Hong Kong.

Although the propaganda department of DreamWorks has a role to play here, it can cause media speculation in Hong Kong, and more is the news itself.

In the past, Hong Kong films also won awards at international film festivals and film festivals, but basically they won awards at Asian Film Festivals, or some film festivals like the Panama Film Festival that few people know about.

As for Tang Shuxuan's "Mrs. Dong" and Hu Jinquan's "Chivalrous Girl" at the Cannes Film Festival, not to mention that they did not win a significant award, even if they did win the award, these two films represent Taiwanese films in the competition, not much like Hong Kong films. relation.

It can be said that "Shushan" is the first Hong Kong-made film to be shortlisted for a large-scale international film festival and to win the award in one fell swoop.

All the entertainment newspapers and magazines are going crazy, just like Chinese New Year, and Phoenix TV even broadcasts the good news on a rolling basis. Even beggars begging on the street knew that "Shushan" won the award.

"Movie Biweekly" made a special trip to Venice, and when Shu Qi and Chen Bosen came back, they created a "Venice Special" and immediately issued a supplement. This issue of the magazine contains not only film reviews, but also the grand occasion of the Venice Film Festival. And the scenery of "Shushan" in the film festival is infinite.

With such a picture and truth, the news of "Shushan" winning the award has become even more sensational. Not a little star looked at Li Saifeng, He Jiajin, Zhao Yazhi, Wu Zhixiong and others on the red carpet. They were envious, jealous, and hateful. When did Hong Kong stars become so beautiful at European film festivals?

Not only that, Xu Ke was also pushed to the position of the first Chinese director at once. As for the well-known student Kang Jianfei, he was collectively ignored by everyone. Who told him that his film did not win the grand prize in international competitions?

Before Xu Ke came back from Venice, many local tyrants from Taiwan and Nanyang had already begun to inquire about Xu Ke's whereabouts, and were ready to wave a check to invite Xu Ke to direct the film.

With Xu Ke's reputation and appeal for winning the Silver Lion Award. Even if the director's remuneration is increased tenfold, these local tyrants will still make a steady profit. The film does not need to be made, and the investment can be recovered by selling the film.

It's a pity that Xu Ke recovered the cost before "Shushan". At least one year will not help companies or individuals outside of DreamWorks to make movies. The reason for such a choice is that firstly, he did not want to be ungrateful and infamous, and secondly, he angered Kang Jianfei, and he could not get any compensation for the director of "Shushan", because Xu Ke made a promise at the beginning.

Before "Shushan" won the Silver Lion Award, the news that "Shushan" was invited to participate in the Tokyo International Film Festival immediately came out. The Tokyo International Film Festival has just been launched this year, and its reputation in Hong Kong is not as loud as the Golden Horse Awards. But this is the time when Japan's economy is at its most prosperous. Japan wants to build the Tokyo International Film Festival, and the first name is enough to make Hong Kong people pay attention.

The propaganda department of DreamWorks began to spend money bombarding it again. By the end of October, just over two months before the release of "Shushan", its propaganda expenses in Hong Kong had spent nearly 2 million. It is already equivalent to the budget of some small-budget movies.

Various newspapers are also predicting that the topic of discussion is how many prizes "Shushan" can win in Tokyo. For a time, everything about "Shushan" is very beautiful. At the same time, DreamWorks also began to make products around "Shushan", related stickers, toys, calendars, clothes and so on. It will be released before and after the official release of "Shushan".

Today, we can't sell online copyrights, and we don't even have DVDs. We can only sell video tapes and other related products. The peripheral income is far less than 20 years later.

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Some people say that Xu Ke is the best director in Hong Kong, while Kang Jianfei can only make money by shooting commercial films.

Although the vast majority of directors in Hong Kong are looking at money, the more this is the case, the more a director who can win awards abroad will be praised.

Kang Jianfei didn't have time to argue so much. Anyway, "Shushan" was made by himself. The more popular Xu Ke and "Shushan" were, the better the box office, and the more Kang Jianfei earned.

Kang Jianfei put a small part of his energy on various women, and most of his energy was in the preparation and shooting of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

The special effects of "Shushan" were produced by the Industrial Light and Magic team. DreamWorks dispatched some talented photographers, scene designers, makeup artists, artists, etc. to follow the whole process, and also invited some professionals who understand mechanics, electronics, and computers. Stealing from ILM from start to finish.

After the special effects production of "Shushan" was completed, these people who learned some special effects techniques from Industrial Light and Magic were all incorporated into the "Qimeng Film and Television Special Effects Company".

The so-called Qimeng film and television special effects company, a new company specially established by Kang Jianfei, is also affiliated to the Oriental Entertainment Group.

The company is divided into three parts, one is the Kang family class headed by Huang Shrimp, who is responsible for the action and martial arts effects; the second is the Raptors stunt team headed by Luo Lixian, responsible for the shooting of cars, explosions, fires and other stunts; the third is the film special effects team .

All the special effects and action designs in "A Chinese Ghost Story" were handed over to Qimeng Film and Television Special Effects and Special Effects Company, and at the same time, special effects engineers from Winston Studio were also invited to assist and guide.

Winston Studio is the company responsible for the special effects of "Terminator". It has been acquired by Kang Jianfei for several years, basically throwing money away. However, with the popularity of "Terminator", Winston Studios quickly prospered, making more money than ILM, which has always been committed to high-end special effects.

Of course, the metaphor is that the tramp is better than the beggar, whether it's Winston Studios or ILM. In fact, they are all money-losing goods. Kang Jianfei has invested more than 1 million US dollars in it, and he has not seen any profit.

"Afeng, is your tree spirit model ready?" Kang Jianfei asked as he approached a man in his 30s.

This person's name is Zhang Yunfeng. He majored in machinery abroad, and after he returned to Hong Kong, he had no stage to play, so he could only work in a sales company in humiliation. When Xu Ke was filming "Shushan", he posted a job advertisement in the newspaper for a mechanical special effect engineer. Zhang Yunfeng came to sign up when his brain was hot, and now he is in charge of the technical work of the entire special effects team.

"Okay, compared to the special effects of "Shushan", this is really too simple." Zhang Yunfeng walked to a "big locust tree" and asked his assistant to plug in the power. After he pressed the button in the tree hole. The branches and leaves of the locust tree immediately moved nimbly.

"That's right," Kang Jianfei nodded approvingly, "Let your subordinates choose more materials for the tree spirit's tongue, so that people don't know it's fake at first glance."

Zhang Yunfeng ordered: "Okay, I will let them find more materials to test. Try to find the most suitable one."

Although the special effects in the original "A Chinese Ghost Story" were not bad at the time, Kang Jianfei still wanted to keep improving. Because in his plan, "Shushan" will be screened in the Christmas and New Year stalls, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" will be screened in the Spring Festival stall, and the difference is only a month. If the special effects of "A Chinese Ghost Story" are too bad, it is estimated that Let the audience who just watched "Shushan" be disappointed.

A few more orders. When Kang Jianfei saw a car stop outside, he immediately dropped the special effects team and walked out.

"Why are you here so early?" Kang Jianfei opened the car door and said to Zhong Chuhong with a smile.

Zhong Chuhong rolled his eyes at him and joked, "Do you think I got in the way early?"

Kang Jianfei laughed and coaxed Zhong Chuhong and said, "Why, I can't wait to be with you, Ah Hong, every day."

More than a dozen women, as long as Kang Jianfei is free. Basically, they have dinner dates with them for ten days and a half months, and occasionally those who can't be taken care of will call and talk about love.

Kang Jianfei asked the staff to open a table, sat down with Zhong Chuhong and said, "It's a little messy here, so I'll take it for a while."

"I just attended a ribbon cutting, and it's near here. So stop by and have a look," Zhong Chuhong said, looking at the busy people in the room, "It's interesting to do special effects."

Zhong Chuhong is the signature actress of DreamWorks, plus she doesn't take private jobs easily, so the value of commercial activities is terrifyingly high. She said that she just attended the ribbon-cutting, and it is very likely that a friend started a company, and she went to join in when she couldn't push it away.

When Kang Jianfei saw that Zhong Chuhong was very interested in special effects work, he could only sigh: "In three to five years, I don't expect these people to make money for me. How many Hong Kong producers are willing to do special effects? Comedy is making money."

Zhong Chuhong smiled and said, "That's not necessarily true. This time, "Shushan" has taken the limelight, and Jiahe and Xinyicheng will definitely not be able to stand their loneliness."

Kang Jianfei looked at his watch and said, "Let's go, find a place to eat."

Zhong Chuhong asked, "You don't work anymore?"

"What else do you have to do with you?" Kang Jianfei smiled and took Zhong Chuhong's hand and walked out.

After the two went out and got into the car, before the door was closed, they couldn't help hugging and kissing. The two hadn't seen each other for more than half a month, and Zhong Chuhong had been thinking about her for a long time, so she couldn't even care about finding a place to eat. After some intimacy, Kang Jianfei took her directly to a nearby villa.

All kinds of scandals about Kang Jianfei have already spread. The more women he has affairs with, the less credibility he has, or everyone is numb to it. So much so that the gossip tabloids nowadays don't bother to make news about Kang Jianfei if they don't take pictures of Kang Jianfei making out with the actress.

On the soft big bed~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After lingering to death, Zhong Chuhong leaned on Kang Jianfei while panting, and said with jealousy, "Why did you choose Wang Zuixian as the heroine this time, are you doing something bad again? idea?"

"How is that possible? With you, I can't even despise other women." Kang Jianfei was shameless and lied without changing his face.

How could Zhong Chuhong believe Kang Jianfei's nonsense, but she really had nothing to do about it, especially since the news of Pan Yingzi's pregnancy had already spread within the company, Zhong Chuhong was even more unhappy.

"No, I also want to be the heroine," Zhong Chuhong said in a rare coquettish manner, and added, "You must direct it yourself!"

"Alright, alright, I'll shoot your movie after "A Chinese Ghost Story"." Kang Jianfei was afraid that she would say something more outrageous, so he turned over and pressed Zhong Chuhong below, and the two naked bodies were entangled again.

Kang Jianfei decided to make a few foreign films next, but he was really unsure of what to make for a while. After all, there are cultural and aesthetic barriers between the East and the West, so whether the audience will welcome it after the filming is still open.