Hong Kong Entertainment’s Life Simulator

On a new day, Zhao Donghuai was still sleeping when he heard a phone ringing. When he answered the call, A Guang's voice came asking for instructions, "Boss, Mr. He knocked on the door, but I stopped him."

The temporary dormitory of Guang, A Yong and others lives next door to his Taoist Broadcasting House. Under normal circumstances, if Du Qifeng, Ah Fa or even Kwan Jiahui knock on the door, Guang and the others have seen it many times on the set, so they will not stop them.

This is what Director Zhao meant.

Mr. He, stranger?

After thinking about it, Zhao Donghuai smiled and said, "I'll get up now."

A moment later, he met an old man in his fifties in the living room. When he briefly introduced himself and handed over his business card, Zhao Donghuai smiled brightly and said, "It turns out to be He Sheng, sorry."

This was He Guanchang, one of Jiahe Zou Wenhuai's right-hand men. After learning his identity, he had a rough guess about He Guanchang's purpose.

Under the words, He Sheng, who was in his fifties, had a strange expression. He couldn't help but look back outside the room and said with a smile, "Director Zhao, you are really young and promising. You are so young that it is unbelievable. This is An unpublished newspaper manuscript, I wonder if Director Zhao is interested in reading it?"

Wait for him to pull out a piece of printing paper from his arm and hand it over.

Zhao Donghuai took it and soon discovered that it was his resume. He used to study in the New Territories, graduated from high school and came to Kowloon to work as a parking boy. Then he suddenly resigned in May and started to enter the film and television industry.

Have you achieved a good start to this day? ?

The newspapers did not publish any conflicts or grievances between him and Yee Seng Little Bully, Fook Hing Fat Snake or even Hutchison Kwun Tong talker Snake Tsai Ming and others.

But behind this string of resumes is a string of question marks, and there are always question marks.

Perhaps the person who printed this paper did not believe how a 20-year-old boy who had never been exposed to movies could achieve great success as a director when he first entered the industry.

Today is the 8th, and yesterday, October 7th, Friday, New World made more than 900,000 box office, with a cumulative box office of 15.62 million in 16 days of release.

Zhao Donghuai laughed, "The investigation of my resume is quite clear, so why hasn't it been published?"

With the popularity of New World and the conduct of media people in Hong Kong, it is long past time to track down all the news about all the main creators of the crew. These days, there are a lot of news reported by Zhou Yunfa, Wan Ziliang, Lu Liangwei and even Johnnie To.

But there is really very little about Zhao Donghuai.

He Guanchang shook his head helplessly, "I don't know. Maybe the relevant newspapers think the news is too false? Will readers question them if the report is published? They suppressed it for the sake of the reputation of the newspaper."

He first got Zhao Donghuai's information from a familiar media, took a look at it, and didn't believe it at all. Who would believe that a parking boy who graduated from middle school and had never been exposed to the film and television industry would suddenly achieve great success in the industry.

Or should we allocate 5 million funds at once to start the show? ? Do you think 5 million is Chinese cabbage?

In the Hong Kong film and television industry in 1983, except for a few people such as Cheng Long and Xu Guanjie, whose salary was astonishingly small, no one, including no film and television company, could easily spend five million to film a movie.

These surveys are so fake!

Then when He Guanchang came to visit, no one answered the door. As a result, two bodyguards came out from next door...asking him about the reason for his visit and the smell of scrutiny? It feels like a professional level.

Bodyguards, Mr. Zhao really hired them just to find someone to stop the gun.

He Sheng was even more scornful of the base information revealed by the media investigation.

Even Cheng Long and Hong Yinbao, how many bodyguards do they take with them when they go out? It's almost enough with a few dragon and tiger martial arts brothers.

Xu Guanwen is not so grand.

Even Hutchison Kwun Tong reporter She Zai Ming knows that when investigating a person, if you can't find out any information after searching many times, it is not simple. It is synonymous with mystery. But when you investigate a person, you can easily find out all the information about you. …

However, the ability, strength, connections, etc. of the person you investigated are completely different from those shown now.

Then this is not easy!

When it comes to falsifying resumes, the more perfect the fake you create, the less likely it is that the outside world will be able to find any flaws. This can only mean that there is something big behind the scenes that is covering up your work.

He Guanchang understands this truth better than She Zaiming.

Zhao Donghuai smiled again, put down the paper and said, "Why did He come to my place so early?"

He Guanchang sat up slightly and said with a smile, "I wonder what Director Zhao thinks of Hong Kong movies?"

Director Zhao, "???"

After a few seconds of silence, he responded, "I usually sit and watch??"

It was He Guanchang's turn to be speechless and confused. He just sat there and watched! There's nothing wrong with that. Whether it's in a large company's screening room or a movie theater, don't everyone just sit and watch? After all, there are only a few people who stand and watch the whole process.

It is also rare for two people to watch together lying down, lying on their stomachs, or superimposed.

After being silent for tens of seconds, he took out two cigarettes and said with a smile, "Director Zhao is so funny. I came here just to ask, does Director Zhao want to become an internationally famous director?"

"Hong Kong Island is too small. It is very difficult for a small movie with a relatively large investment to recover the cost in this city. I heard that New World invested 5 million? So even if it sells 15 million in this city, it will not make enough money. .”

"With 5 million, you can just speculate in stocks or buy real estate to increase the value...well, neither of these seems to be very good this year."

"But if you add in overseas box office revenue, etc., the profit will be huge."

"For example, Aaron and Young Master Long's box office in Hong Kong Island was only HK$18 million, which is far less than the best partner's HK$26 million, but they got SGD 64 million in Wanwan, SGD 770,000 in Xingjiapo, and nearly 300,000 viewers in South Korea. The number of moviegoers was 1.1 billion yen in the island country and 190,000 in Spain.”

"The total revenue of "Master Dragon" is about 13 million U.S. dollars. Converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is far from being comparable to the best. The best is mostly in Hong Kong Island, Wanwan comparison, in the island country, even by the audience Calling it a copycat of inferior Western films, it will be difficult to release it on a large scale.”

This is an expected topic.

Zhao Donghuai smiled and said, "I still admire Jiahe, but everyone knows that my first drama was only possible thanks to Shaosheng's support."

This is not just a courtesy. Looking at the development history of Hong Kong films, the biggest reason for the glory of the 1980s and 1990s is to reap the dividends of the great era.

Most of the infinite talents are immigrants from the mainland, and there are also cross-strait reasons. The mainland and Wanwan Film and Television have their own difficulties, which has created the golden reputation of Hong Kong films.

In other words, in the words of future generations, if you stand on the cusp of the storm, the second senior brother can also become the messenger of the Purification Altar, and the real talents will be even more...

Putting aside these things, among the trend-setters of the big era, those who have always had and wanted to promote and implement an international vision and ambition, and who wanted to promote Hong Kong films to the world, Jiahe Chow Sheng has always been one of the forefront representatives.

Just this kind of international vision, efforts and struggles for it are worthy of Chinese filmmakers saying that they are awesome and amazing.

Success or failure is not a matter of one or two people.

After all, Hollywood movies involve colleagues in the global film and television industry, not just Zou Wenhuai and Jiahe.

He Guanchang laughed, "I understand, I understand. I just want to get to know Director Zhao this time. The Shaw family has a great business, but it is precisely because the family business is so big that it is difficult for the ship to turn around."

"If Director Zhao wants to come to our Jiahe one day, Zou Sheng and I will welcome him with both hands."

"Shao Brothers is too old, and Shaw Brothers' heart has also moved to the TV station. Princess Jin and Xinyi City are watching the fire cooking, but in fact they are in internal and external troubles."

"Although Zou Sheng and I are not young, our hearts are not old yet."

Zhao Donghuai kept smiling, but he felt a little emotional in his heart. From this aspect, in fact, from the early to mid-1980s, Golden Harvest was indeed nothing more than the Shaw Brothers movies and Princess Golden.

As for the later rise of Disheng Entertainment and its subsidiary Debao Cinemas, it was even more so that "Pan Dasheng started it in order to gain fame as a watch and jewelry brand and pick up girls." He stopped playing after the goal was accomplished.

From the perspective of a movie tycoon, Zou Wenhuai is much more successful than Lei Juekun and Pan Disheng.

Shao Daheng... really soon stopped playing.