Chapter 174: Some Changed Trajectories (Part 3!)

In the film industry, there are two kinds of successful people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

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

The other is to perform a lot of movies, some are good and some are bad, but they are working hard from beginning to end.

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

In the year Cheng Long won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award, he was 62 years old, 45 years in the film, with 150 works and a box office of more than 20 billion.

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, and many other movie stars can't even get together ten good movies.

After becoming famous, he felt that it was uncomfortable to be controlled to act in movies, Cheng Long basically planned and produced all the movies by himself, and several movies on the Hollywood side were the same, he would only take the film if he agreed, instead of seeing the three words Hollywood, his head was stunned, and he pounced directly.

In this way, to a large extent, the consequences of making a bad movie 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 conscientious and hard work in filming that the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award will fall on his head, not on others.

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

After passing the Golden Harvest, Cheng Long actively started the filming of his new film - "Boxing Essence".

The movie "Fist Spirit" in the previous life was actually Cheng Long's first work after he finished filming Wu Siyuan's two movies and returned to Luo Wei Film Company, but "Fist Spirit" was the director of the script written by Luo Wei, although he learned from the successful experience of "Serpentine Trickster" and "Drunken Fist", but many parts still did not innovate, so the box office score was almost 2.4 million, neither high nor low.

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

It's just that "Boxing Essence" is a movie jointly invested and produced by Golden Harvest and Luo Wei Film Company.

This is also a decision made by Cheng Long in order to make up for Luo Wei's losses.

Although he was given 2 million liquidated damages, Cheng Long felt that he was still a little indelible in terms of human affection, so after discussing with Golden Harvest, it was decided that the first two movies he entered Golden Harvest were both produced by Luo Wei Film Company and Golden Harvest, and the profits were also split in half.

It is also for this reason that Luo Wei allowed Cheng Long to modify the idea of "Boxing Essence".

The script of "Boxing Essence" was also taken by Cai Yongchang and shown to Yin Jun.

Compared with the "Boxing Essence" in his memory, Yin Jun found that the five little ghosts of dragon, tiger, leopard, crane, and snake that were conjured from the "Five Elements Fist" interacted more with Cheng Long, and the design of the plot was more coincidental and witty.

Although in Yin Jun's opinion, such an arrangement is much worse than Cheng Long's peak, but now, it is already very good.

So the boy had a trace of expectation for the box office results of "Boxing Spirit".

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

Of course, Cai Yongchang did not mean to ask Yin Jun to write the script except for asking Yin Jun to 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 as popular as the previous "Serpentine Trickster" and "Drunken Fist", 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 hard to come by.

They've only met two before.

One is named Li Xiaolong, the world's No. 1 martial arts superstar.

One is named Xu Guanwen, a super cold-faced smiler, and the box office champion of Xiangjiang for four years.

Now if Cheng Long is like this, of course, they are even more looking forward to this young man with unlimited potential who can 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 will not 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 proud of the spring breeze, doesn't care about Yin Jun's script, but there is someone who is looking forward to it very much.

He is Hung Jinbao.

Hong Jinbao and Yin Jun are not very familiar, but they have also eaten together, since the celebration banquet of "Ghost Fights Ghost", he also pulled 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 this kind of thing, and the friendship had not yet reached that point.

But who called his right-hand man Lin Zhengying, the eldest brother of Yin Jun's good friend Wei Xiaofan?

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

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

"Ghost Fighting" exceeded 5 million at the box office in Xiangjiang, reaching a gratifying figure of 5.07 million, and also reached an overall box office of 22 million in other cities, making Golden Harvest make a lot of money.

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

Although compared to his previous income, "Ghost Fighting" is his most earning one, but seeing that Cheng Long can even have a signing fee of 5 million, and the basic salary of each movie is 1 million, this Cheng Long's eldest brother is a little uneasy.

Hung Jinbao is the most flexible fat man, and his brain is also very flexible.

He knew that if he wanted to reach the point of Cheng Long, or even surpass Cheng Long, he could only speak in terms of results, and everything else was fake.

How do you talk about grades?

A good script.

A good director.

A good lead actor.

A good team.

A good film distribution company.

The script is the foundation of a movie, and no matter how you think you can do it, but if there is no good script to support it, it will definitely not work.

Seeing Yin Jun's strong ability in movies and TV scripts, Hung Jinbao was of course willing to pay a high price to ask Yin Jun to write a script for himself.

What interests Yin Jun the most is that what Hung Jinbao revealed is that this movie is not produced by Golden Harvest, but by his own company, and if it sells well, he will give Yin Jun a large share.

What company can Hung Jinbao have?

During the prosperous period of Xiangjiang films, Hung Jinbao established a total of three companies.

One is the Garbo Film Company established with Mai Jia, but after this company filmed a few films, as Mai Jia was poached by Lei Juekun, Xinyi City was established, and Jiabo Company was closed.

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

In the end, Hong Jinbao was dissatisfied with Jiahe's long-term exploitation, as well as the tilt of Cheng Long's resources across the board, and turned out of Jiahe, and established Debao Company with Pan Disheng, as a result, Pan Disheng had no interest in the film industry after winning the beauty, and Hong Jinbao naturally had to leave Debao and return to Jiahe, until Jiahe stopped making movies.

In this respect, if Hong Jinbao has a company at this stage, it should be the company he and Mecca established together - Garbo Company.

Speaking of which, in July, a movie by Hung Jinbao was released, called "Tiger and Chicken", Yin Jun took a look, and this is produced by Garbo Film Company.

But "Ghost Fighting" has become a Golden Harvest production because it is Golden Harvest's contribution, and it has nothing to do with Garbo Movies at all.

In the film industry in Xiangjiang, the relationship is really chaotic, it feels like both bosses and celebrities are moving around in various film companies, as long as there is filming and money to make, then nothing will matter, just rush forward.

In Garbo's company, there are actually not many talents, and that Mecca is a master with a low eye, and after finishing the set that he knows, he will not know anything.

Including in the new art city, Mecca is just repeating the same old routine, and Shi Tian is famous for acting in movies and television.

In addition to the two of them, the remaining five people of the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" can be said to be talents.

Xu Ke, Huang Baiming, Zeng Zhiwei, Taidi Robin and Shi Lansheng, except for Taidi Robin, who is indifferent to fame and fortune, the other four are active until 2012.

Now I don't know if the "Seven Monsters of New Art City" can be put together.

The rest of the people, Yin Jun, have either already dealt with him, or they just have to wait for the opportunity, but there is only one person, Yin Jun hopes to pull him under his banner this year.

This person is Huang Baiming.

In the Xiangjiang film industry, there are two people who have the most sensitive grasp of commercial films, and they are even more first-class strong in writing scripts.

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

The other is Huang Baiming.

Don't look at the 2000s, Huang Baiming was silent for a while, but in fact, between the 80s and 90s, his ability and achievements are definitely not inferior to Wang Jing.

That is, after Huang Baiming is older, he doesn't want to make progress, and only knows how to eat his old book, so the final "Lucky Star Congratulations" series made mainland fans want to cry, but this will not affect his status in the Xiangjiang film industry at all.

What Yin Jun values about Huang Baiming is not his comedy production ability, but his ability to write scripts.

A well-known episode is that Huang Baiming spent 3 days writing the classic script "The Wrong Car", which won the highest box office record on Treasure Island and 11 nominations for the Golden Horse Award on Treasure Island, which can be described as a miraculous skill.

But many people don't know that in fact, Huang Baiming listened to a treasure island director tell a general idea, and then returned to Xiangjiang to write this story.

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

Therefore, Huang Baiming is not as godly as everyone thinks.

But Yin Jun saw Huang Baiming's ability to build and improve a story according to other people's ideas.

This is too important for Yin Jun.

To be honest, many of the movies and TV series in his mind are now very vague, even if he has written a lot of general outlines, but it is simply impossible to carefully remember the details and fill them in to become an excellent TV series and movie.

In such a situation, Yin Jun needs an excellent screenwriting team to help him improve the structure of these movie and TV series scripts, and then as long as the book comes out and Yin Jun takes the book to read, those memories will come out a lot.

Even if they don't write very well, as long as Yin Jun feels that it is not much different from the original film, it is completely fine, and it does not have to be 100% present of the original film.

Many flaws in the original film, Yin Jun is also ready to make up for them.

Especially some Xiangjiang movies, sometimes they don't know what to say at all, the plot logic is completely incomprehensible, and there is a sense of "it doesn't matter if you can't understand it, I just want to play it for you".

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

It's a bit like the studios of the big manga artists in Japan, who all have two or three or more assistants to help them conceive the plot, refine the plot, and then summarize and process it, and then draw it up by another group of drawing assistants, and finally publish it in the manga weekly.

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

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

Huang Baiming is now working as a choreographer at TVB, but he has a good relationship with Shi Tian and knows Mecca.

Wait until next year, the three of them will set up a struggle film company together, and after another year, this struggle film company will be renamed a name that we are all more familiar with, and it is also a thunderous name in the history of the Xiangjiang film industry.

New Arts City.

If Yin Jun wants to dig up Huang Baiming, he has to rush before he is persuaded by Shi Tian and Mai Jia to come out of the wireless.

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

In the past, Yin Jun didn't go to Huang Baiming, the most important thing is that there was no suitable middleman, so rashly and like a god stick went to him and let him do it with him, it was simply idiotic behavior.

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

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

Yin Jun also told him that he could put forward what movies he needed and what requirements he had for the movies, so that he could tailor them.

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

It can be seen that the pressure on Cheng Long, who has already emerged, is really great!

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