Chapter 176 Some Changed Trajectories (Third!)

In the film industry, there are two kinds of successful people.

One is that there are not many movies performed, but all of them are classics.

The other is movies with a lot of performances, some are excellent and some are bad, but we have been working hard from beginning to end.

Li Xiaolong is the first type, and Cheng Long undoubtedly belongs to the second type.

In the year when Cheng Long won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, he was 62 years old. He has been in the film industry for 45 years, with 150 works and a box office of more than 20 billion. It can be said that this is a monument to Asian actors, and it is also something that all actors should respect. people.

Countless movie stars in Xiangjiang have made hundreds of movies, but Cheng Long dares to say that since he became famous, there have been no more than ten bad movies, while many other movie stars can't even make up ten good movies.

After he became famous, he deeply felt that being controlled by others to act in movies was uncomfortable. Basically all of Cheng Long’s movies were planned and produced by himself, and the few movies in Hollywood were the same, and he would only accept them if he agreed. Movies, instead of seeing the three words "Hollywood", my head was stunned, and I jumped on it.

In this way, to a large extent, the consequences of bad movies brought about by making movies for money are avoided.

So you can also say that Cheng Long is a person who cherishes feathers very much.

It is because of so many years of hard work in filming that the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement will fall on his head, not others.

Now in 1978, Cheng Long has made four films, but he is not satisfied, nor does he feel tired in the slightest.

After passing through Golden Harvest, Cheng Long actively started filming his new film - "The Master of Boxing".

In the previous life, the movie "Fisting Essence" was actually Cheng Long's first film after returning to Luo Wei's film company after finishing two films by Wu Siyuan, but "Fisting Essence" was written by Luo Wei. Although the director has learned from the successful experience of "The Snake" and "The Drunken Master", many parts are still not innovative, so the box office score is about 2.4 million, which is neither high nor low.

But this life is different. Although "Fighting Essence" is still Luo Wei's idea, Cheng Long himself has made some adaptations to the storyline, adding more of his own style, and the director is also himself.

However, "Fighting Master" is a film jointly invested and produced by Golden Harvest and Luo Wei Film Company.

This is also Cheng Long's decision to make up for Luo Wei's loss.

Although he was given a liquidated damages of 2 million yuan, Cheng Long felt that he still couldn't get rid of his human feelings, so after discussing with Golden Harvest, he decided that his first two films in Golden Harvest would be co-produced by Luo Wei Film Company and Golden Harvest. It's also half and half. Apart from his basic salary, Cheng Long doesn't take any extra money.

It was also for this reason that Luo Wei let Cheng Long revise the idea of ​​"Fighting Essence".

Cai Yongchang even brought over the script of "Fighting Essence" and showed it to Yin Jun.

Compared with the "Fisting Essence" in his memory, Yin Jun found that the five imps, dragon, tiger, leopard, crane, and snake transformed from "Five Elements Fist", interacted more with Cheng Long, and the plot The design is a bit more coincidental and witty.

Although in Yin Jun's opinion, this arrangement is much worse than that of Cheng Long's peak period, but for now, it is already very good.

Therefore, the young man has a glimmer of expectation for the box office performance of "Fighting Essence".

Maybe it can break the box office of 3 million, right?

Of course, Cai Yongchang had no intention of asking Yin Jun to write the script other than letting Yin Jun read Cheng Long's script.

This made Yin Jun notice some changes in Jiahe's attitude.

Before Jiahe begged Yin Jun to write a script, but when Cheng Long really came, Jiahe kept silent about it.

In Yin Jun's mind, Jiahe must be waiting to see Cheng Long's own creative ability.

If Cheng Long's works can be sold as well as the previous "Serpentine Hand" and "Drunken Master", just like Xu Guanwen, then they can fully support Cheng Long and let him play by himself instead of relying on Yin Jun's script.

A superstar who can create all the film processes by himself is definitely rare.

They had only met two before.

One is Li Xiaolong, the world's number one martial arts superstar.

One is Xu Guanwen, a super sneer, and Xiangjiang's box office champion for four years.

Now if Cheng Long is like this, of course they look forward to this young man with unlimited potential to go further and step onto a higher stage.

This is the best case scenario.

If Cheng Long can't hold up the sky by himself, then it won't be too late for Jiahe to ask Yin Jun for a script at that time.

It's understandable for them to think so, after all, Yin Jun's script is not cheap.

But Cheng Long, who is enjoying himself in the spring breeze, doesn't care about Yin Jun's script, but there is one person who is looking forward to it very much.

He is Hong Jinbao.

Hong Jinbao and Yin Jun were not very familiar, but they had dinner together. Since the "Ghosts Fighting Ghosts" celebration banquet, he also took Lin Zhengying and Wei Xiaofan to have two meals with Yin Jun.

Originally, it was impossible for Hong Jinbao to talk directly with Yin Jun about such a matter of asking for a script. The friendship has not reached that level yet.

But who told his right-hand man Lin Zhengying to be Yin Jun's good friend Wei Xiaofan's elder brother?

So through Wei Xiaofan, he brought the words to Yin Jun.

1 million a script, as long as it is not worse than "Ghost Fighting Ghost".

"Ghost Fighting Ghost" broke through 5 million at the Hong Kong box office, reaching a gratifying figure of 5.07 million, and also reached a total box office of 22 million in other cities, making Jiahe a lot of money.

But Hong Jinbao didn't get much. He added the dividends of the director and the leading actor, and he got 700,000 yuan.

Although compared to his previous income, "Ghosts Fighting Ghosts" is his highest income, but seeing that Cheng Long can even have a signing bonus of 5 million, and the basic salary of each movie is 1 million, this Cheng Long Long's elder brother was a little restless.

Hong Jinbao is the most flexible fat man, and his mind is also very flexible.

He knew that if he wanted to reach Cheng Long's level, or even surpass Cheng Long, he could only talk about his grades, and everything else was false.

How to speak on grades?

a good script.

a good director.

A good lead.

a good team.

A good film distribution company.

The script is the foundation of a movie. No matter how you think you can do it, if you don't have a good script to support it, you will certainly not be able to.

Hong Jinbao saw Yin Jun's strong ability in film and TV scripts, of course he was willing to pay a high price for Yin Jun to write a script for himself.

What interested Yin Jun the most was that what Hong Jinbao revealed was that this movie was not produced by Golden Harvest, but by his own company. If it sells well, he will give Yin Jun a considerable share.

What kind of company can Hong Jinbao have?

During the prosperous period of Xiangjiang film, Hong Jinbao established three companies in total.

One is Garbo Films, which was established together with Mecca, but after several films were made in this company, with Mecca being poached by Lei Juekun, New Art City was established, and Garbo Company was closed.

Then, with the support of Golden Harvest, Hong Jinbao established Baohe Company, and filmed the most famous "Five Lucky Stars" series in Golden Harvest, which was also the most beautiful day for Hong Jinbao.

In the end, it was Hong Jinbao who was dissatisfied with Golden Harvest's long-term exploitation and the whole line's inclination towards Cheng Long's resources. Instead, he turned out of Golden Harvest and established Debao Company with Pan Disheng. As a result, Pan Disheng lost his interest in the film industry after winning the "Beauty Return" What interest, Hong Jinbao naturally had to leave Debao and return to Golden Harvest until Golden Harvest stopped making movies.

From this point of view, if Hong Jinbao has a company at this stage, it should happen to be the company he and Mecca founded together - Jiabao Company.

Speaking of which, in July, a movie called "Tiger and Frog" by Hong Jinbao was released. Yin Jun watched it, and it was produced by Jiabao Film Company.

But "Ghosts Fighting Ghosts" was produced by Golden Harvest because it was contributed by Golden Harvest, and it has nothing to do with the Garbo movie.

The film circle in Xiangjiang is really chaotic. It seems that no matter the boss or the star, they are all in various film companies. As long as there are movies to shoot and money to make, then they don't care about anything and just go straight ahead.

In Jiabao Company, there are actually not many talents, and that Mecca has high eyesight and low abilities. After finishing the day he knows, he will not know anything.

Including in New Art City, Mecca is just repeating the same old routine, and Shi Tian is only famous for acting in movies and TV.

Apart from the two of them, the remaining five members of the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" can be said to be talents.

Xu Ke, Huang Boming, Zeng Zhiwei, Teddy Robin and Shi Lansheng, except Teddy Robin who is indifferent to fame and fortune, the other four have been active since 2012.

Now the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" don't know if they can get together.

The rest of the people, Yin Jun, have already dealt with each other, or they are just waiting for the opportunity. There is only one person, and Yin Jun hopes to pull him under the flag this year.

This person is Huang Boming.

In the Xiangjiang film industry, there are two people who are most sensitive to commercial films, and they are even more powerful in writing scripts.

One is Wang Fatty Wang Jing, the famous king of commercial films.

The other is Huang Boming.

Don't look at Huang Boming who has been silent for a long time after entering 2000, but in fact, during the 20 years from the 1980s to the 1990s, his ability and achievements are definitely not inferior to Wang Jing.

That is to say, after Huang Boming got older, he didn't think about making progress, he only knew how to live on his laurels, so the last "Fu Xing He Xi" series made mainland movie fans want to cry, but this will not affect his status in the Hong Kong film industry at all.

Yin Jun valued Huang Boming not because of his ability to produce comedy, but because of his ability to write scripts.

A well-known plot is that Huang Boming spent 3 days writing the classic script "Hit the Wrong Car". While winning the highest box office record in Taiwan, he also won 11 nominations for the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. It can be described as miraculous. Its skills.

But many people don't know that Huang Boming actually returned to Xiangjiang to write this story after hearing a general idea from a Baodao director.

This director is Yu Kanping, the director of "Hitching the Wrong Car".

Therefore, Huang Boming is not as magical as everyone thinks.

But Yin Jun saw Huang Boming's ability to build and perfect a story based on other people's ideas.

This is too important to Yin Jun.

To be honest, many movies and TV shows in his mind are very blurred now. Even though he has written a lot of general content summaries, he wants to think of the details carefully and fill them in to become an excellent TV series and movie. , that is simply impossible.

Under such circumstances, Yin Jun needs an excellent screenwriting team to help him perfect the structure of these movie and TV drama scripts, and then as long as the book comes out and Yin Jun reads it with the book, a lot of those memories will come out.

Even if their writing is not very well co-produced, as long as Yin Jun feels that it is not much different from the original film, it is completely fine, and it is not necessary to present the original film 100%.

Yin Jun is still going to make up for many flaws in the original film.

Especially some Xiangjiang movies, sometimes they don’t know the so-called at all, the plot logic is completely unreasonable, and there is a sense of "it doesn't matter if you don't understand, I just want to show you like this".

Of course, with this kind of logical problem, Huang Boming will be worse, which is why Yin Jun wants a screenwriting team.

This is a bit like the studios of those super big manga artists in Japan in the future. They all have two or three or more assistants to help them conceive and perfect the plot, and after summarizing and processing, another group will draw The assistant drew it, and finally published it in the comic weekly magazine.

For Yin Jun, the first core of the screenwriting team is Huang Boming. With a few capable assistants, he can use it for at least five years.

At that time, even if Huang Boming wants to film by himself and leaves the screenwriting team, this set of procedures can continue and continue to be Yin Jun's right-hand man.

Huang Boming is currently working as a choreographer in TVB, but he has a very good relationship with Shi Tian, ​​and also knows Mecca.

Next year, the three of them will establish a struggle film company together, and in another year, this struggle film company will be renamed to a name that we are more familiar with, and it is also a name that is well known in the history of Xiangjiang film industry.

New Art City.

If Yin Jun wanted to dig Huang Boming, he had to hurry before he was persuaded by Shi Tian and Mecca to come out from Wireless.

Otherwise, it will be too late to pull him after they have the idea of ​​starting their own company and making money for themselves.

In the past, Yin Jun didn't go to Huang Boming, the most important thing was that he didn't have a suitable middleman. It would be an idiot to go to him rashly, like a magic stick, and let him follow him.

Also, Yin Jun was not well-known before, but now after half a year of hard work, he has already gained a great reputation in the TV and film industries, so it will be much easier to recruit Huang Boming.

Thinking of this, Yin Jun called Hong Jinbao and asked him to come out for a meal and chat about movies.

Yin Jun also told him that he can put forward any movie he needs and any requirements for the movie, so that it can be tailored.

Hong Jinbao said yes all the time, and quickly and eagerly arranged the time for dinner tonight.

It can be seen from this that Cheng Long, who has already made his mark, puts a lot of pressure on him!

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