Chapter 223 High-Profile Publicity

Orphan is a 2009 film with a very high reputation and a box office of more than 70 million US dollars. Later, a second part was made, which was shit.

Chen Qi chose this film because he thought the character structure was very interesting and suitable for magic modification.

The little girl in the original version was set as a Russian, which is a consistent routine in Hollywood. The villains are either Nazi remnants or old Russians.

It is the early 1980s, Hollywood is not so rigid, and the environment in the United States is also very complicated.

In the 1970s, the United States fell into the oil crisis and economic stagflation. Reagan came to power and was assassinated at the beginning of the year. He implemented a series of new policies. These new policies achieved economic recovery in the end, but at the beginning, it was a recession and rising unemployment.

Japan was rising rapidly, and its industrial products were occupying the US market, which made local workers extremely anti-Japanese and smashed Japanese cars in the street. Well...

During this period, teasing, mocking, and insulting Japanese and Japanese products in movies was the political correctness of Hollywood.

So in Chen Qi's writing, the story of "Orphan" became like this:

The male and female protagonists are Americans doing clothing trade in Hong Kong. They have a pair of lovely children and live a good life. The children go to an international school. In order to get rid of the grief of the death of their third child, they go to a children's welfare home of a church to adopt.

Chen Qi added another character, a volunteer of the welfare home, who is Chinese, and she helps the female protagonist uncover the secret.

Who is that little girl?

Hey!

She is a 33-year-old Japanese with hormone disorders and severe violent tendencies! !

To put it bluntly, this is a movie in which the Japanese pretend to be weak and kill Americans, and are killed by Americans in return, with the Chinese helping them - this is called political correctness, special for North America!

At this moment, the two were studying the movie, and Chen Qi asked: "Uncle, do you have a suitable director?"

"No, I considered Mou Dunfu, but he is more suitable for the bloody and brutal style. "Orphan's Grudge" requires suspense, thriller and atmosphere rendering. I am worried that he can't shoot it well."

"What about other directors?"

"I dare not ask for unknown ones, and I dare not ask for famous ones, for fear of being associated with us." Fu Qi sighed.

"..."

Chen Qi thought for a while and said: "Then put it aside for now, let's study it first, I don't know much about Hong Kong directors."

The two discussed and decided to officially start the audition of young actors tomorrow. Fu Qi is a capable person who understands the importance of publicity. He has already spread the news in advance, and today he also specially found several reporters.

This coincides with Chen Qi's idea.

His visit to Hong Kong this time is not to be sneaky and low-key, but to make a fuss everywhere and do his own thing!

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Golden Harvest

In the office, Cheng Long said with a depressed look: "Mr. Zou, please don't send me to Hollywood anymore. I really can't get along with them at all. I don't understand what they are doing, and they don't respect my ideas. I'd better go back to Hong Kong to make movies!"

"Aaron, you were so ambitious at the beginning, wanting to enter the United States to be the second Bruce Lee. Why did you give up so quickly?"

54-year-old Zou Wenhuai leaned on a wide chair, holding a cigar, and said: "Don't worry, as long as you want to make a movie, we will definitely support you!"

"Forget it, I think Hong Kong is my territory."

"Okay, okay, Aaron, since you want to come back, then come back, you can be a director and make a movie, and you can shoot whatever you want!" Ho Kuanchang said.

The two coaxed Cheng Long away, looked at each other, and laughed at the same time.

Cheng Long became the most popular in Hong Kong overnight with "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" and "Drunken Master". It is inevitable that he is a little arrogant. Zou Wenhuai sent him to Hollywood, one is to test the water, and the other is to knock it.

He filmed two movies, "The Killer" and "The Cannonball Run".

"The Killer" at least had him as the main character, while "The Cannonball Run" had two Hong Kong ace actors, Jackie Chan and Michael Hui, play supporting roles. The box office of these two movies was good, but the reputation was not good.

Especially Jackie Chan realized that he could not play in Hollywood at all, so he came back to develop steadily.

"What are the trends of Shaw Brothers and Cinema City?" Zou Wenhuai asked.

"Wong Jing came out of Shaw Brothers, a versatile writer and director, and several of his movies had good box office results, but Shaw Brothers is on the decline, and the big studio system will be eliminated sooner or later. It can't be saved by one person alone.

I heard that Xinyicheng invited Xu Guanjie to shoot a big movie."

"Xu Guanjie...The seven-member creative team of Xinyicheng is extraordinary and should not be underestimated!"

Chow Wen-huai attached great importance to it, and Ho Kuan-chang hesitated to speak, handed over a newspaper, and said: "The left is also moving, someone from the mainland came, the one who made "Tai Chi", and he was very rude."

"Oh?"

Chow Wen-huai took the "Wen Wei Po" and saw an exclusive interview on it. The protagonist was Chen Qi, who was quite famous in Hong Kong with "Tai Chi".

"With the open environment in the mainland, it is natural to strengthen film cooperation between the two places.

I came here to cooperate with Great Wall Company on a movie... No, it's not a kung fu movie, it's a thriller, not aimed at the Hong Kong market, but to be shipped to the United States."

"Oh, I'm a straightforward person, please forgive me if I offend you.

I don't know much about the Hong Kong industry. As far as I can see now, I think Hong Kong colleagues have almost no enterprising spirit. They are only focused on fighting for their lives in this small market, lacking pattern and vision.

Yes, Hong Kong movies are prosperous, but this industry, in the final analysis, depends on its own size.

Hong Kong has a population of 5.18 million, and the basic plate is here.

Even if everyone goes to the cinema, there are only 5.18 million viewers. What is the maximum market capacity? Moreover, the easier it is to make money in this industry, the more people will share the cake. In the end, it is nothing more than shoddy products. If you only want to make quick money and do not carefully build an industrial chain, you are doomed to go downhill.

My opinion?

My opinion is to go abroad. Hong Kong has talents, creativity, and technology. It can definitely go abroad to try its luck.

Unfortunately, few people do this, and it is not reliable. I heard that Shaw Brothers invested 30 million US dollars in "Blade Runner"? Wow, I can only say that it is courageous, but it will definitely lose all its money.

Golden Harvest is ambitious and sent Cheng Long to go abroad.

Unfortunately, it did not put itself in the right position. The United States is a world of white people. Bruce Lee is fine, but how can it allow a second Oriental to be the protagonist? I paid attention to "Cannonball Runner". It let the most popular star in Hong Kong play a supporting role for Hollywood, just to make an ugly face. I don’t understand what they are thinking.

Xinyicheng is even less progressive. They copied Hollywood and took other people's genre films and changed them as their own. Moreover, Xinyicheng has a lot of internal contradictions, unstable foundation, and uneven distribution of benefits. It will fail in three to five years.

If you want to go overseas, you can either make pure Western films or a combination of Chinese and Western films. There is no third way. The natural cultural barriers cannot be broken unless you dominate the discourse.

In other words, this film I cooperated with Great Wall Company is a combination of Chinese and Western films..."

"You are so arrogant!"

Zou Wenhuai has seen many storms and waves, and he didn't get angry. He just felt puzzled: "Who does he think he is? He dares to speak nonsense here just because he got a movie by chance?"

"I heard that he is only 21 years old. It is inevitable that young people will be proud of their fame. We just ignore it. What the leftists shoot has nothing to do with us. "He Guanchang said.

...

At the same time.

The entire Hong Kong film industry also saw this interview. A few months ago, Chen Qi came to Hong Kong and pointed fingers at a group of seniors. Now it has been upgraded to point fingers at a group of bigwigs.

Let's not talk about the thoughts of all parties for now. I just feel that this person has broken the inherent impression of the mainland:

Foul-mouthed, ostentatious, no respect, very annoying!