Chapter 1185 The Shame of Filmmakers

When Yin Jun returned to Xiangjiang, "Dragon Tiger Boys 2" was being released.

Although Wu Siyuan managed the lighting in the United States, a series of people from Siyuan Film Company were also experienced and knew their way around. In addition, the actors were also in the regular team, so the filming went very smoothly.

In terms of release, since Wu Siyuan is one of their own, Kirin Film Company has given them the greatest help. Not only did they acquire 15 cinemas from Jiahe, Kirin Film also secured 30 other cinemas for them. It was screened in 45 cinemas.

The box office of "The Young Boys 2" is also very good. It made more than 8 million in the first week. It is also very promising to have a box office of 30 million in the future.

Because the ticket price has increased by about 10%-20%, in the past, 20 million yuan was considered a good box office result, but now it has to reach 25 million yuan to be considered a popular film.

If it grosses 30 million yuan at the box office, it must be a very good movie.

For 40 million, now we can only look at Qilin Film Company and Cheng Long. So far, only they have been able to do it.

Since the large-scale screening of "Speed", Hong Kong's film measurement standards now also include the number of theaters.

Whether it is a blockbuster or not, you will know if it is jointly screened in more than 40 cinemas.

Movies like Shaw Brothers that are shown in more than ten or twenty theaters are indeed much lower in quality.

Entering 1982, even though it still had the copyright of a blockbuster movie like "Police Academy 2" in hand, the overall Shaw Brothers Film Company was inevitably in a state of continuous decline.

Even though there are still overseas markets, in the first quarter of this year, Shaw Brothers Films suffered a historic loss.

Although the loss amount is only a few hundred thousand, this has never happened before.

It is very surprising to think that the super overlord who has dominated the Hong Kong film industry for decades has fallen to the current situation.

And everyone can see that Shaw Brothers' decline is inevitable.

This is not only due to the increasing external competition, it seems that Shao Liuye himself also wants to give up.

Because Chuck, two of Shaw Brothers' generals, has already established his own company. With the movie series "Jinyiwei", he has become very prosperous. Qian'er's profit of 8 million in a year is very nourishing.

Chu Yuan went to Jiahe and recently made two movies. Although the box office is not too high, the local box office is 8 million and 12 million, plus there are many people from other places who buy him, he can always make money. .

Du Qifeng, the new great director who was carefully cultivated by Shao Liuye, made three consecutive films after the success of "The Blind Man", all of which were blockbusters. Now he has returned to TVB to supervise TV series to fight against the increasing number of films. ATV and Kylin TV are aggressively attacking.

There is also a new and cutting-edge director, Wang Tianlin's son Wang Jing, who is not a Shaw Brothers director at all. He has opened a small production company by himself, but he only cooperates with TVB on weekdays.

So you see, so many great directors and good directors have stopped working for Shaw Brothers. How can Shaw Brothers get better?

They still have a lot of actors, but without a good script and a good director, what use are these actors?

I'm afraid I can only leave it to others to poach, right?

Yin Jun saw such reports.

Then he immediately remembered a big event, a shame for Shaw Brothers and a shame for the Hong Kong film industry.

Thinking of this, the young man immediately called Mr. Shao Liu and invited him to tea in the afternoon.

Mr. Shao Liu is in pretty good health now. It is not appropriate to say that a dragon is strong and a tiger is fierce, but it is still appropriate to say that he is getting stronger as he gets older.

So in the afternoon, he wandered into the cafe of the Peninsula Hotel alone.

Many people came to greet him along the way, and Shao Liuye sat opposite Yin Jun with a smile on his face.

"Ajun, you did a good job on your trip to France this time!" Mr. Shao Liu took a sip of coffee and said slowly, "Cannes has been captured. The next step should be Oscar, right? I never thought that in this life, I would... I can actually see the day when our Xiangjiang filmmakers win Oscars!”

"Oscar and Cannes are not on the same level, so this may be a bit difficult." Yin Jun said with a smile.

In fact, the most difficult thing for Oscar to overcome is the gap between culture and social outlook.

An original Eastern filmmaker must have been educated by Confucianism or deeply influenced by Buddhism, so what he shows must be related to his own cultural influence, and it will also be very suitable for his own social outlook.

But this is different from Western cultural expression and completely incompatible with it.

Foreigners can appreciate "Once Upon a Time" and "Heroes", but they can only appreciate it, just take a look. You want them to understand the Confucian spirit of forbearance, righteousness, self-improvement, suppression, etc. , they can’t understand it at all.

In their opinion, if you don't accept it, just do it, no matter who you are!

On the other hand, Chinese people only appreciate foreign movies. In fact, they still don’t have that much recognition in their hearts for the concepts expressed by foreign countries, especially when they see Europeans being tortured to death by sex all day long. The sky is trembling, but everyone still feels that our country of China is much more stable and happy.

Why was Li An able to win two Oscars for Best Director in his previous life?

That's because Li An has become completely Americanized.

His direction of thinking, his values ​​in life, and his handling of movies are all made by an American, so he won the Oscar for Best Director.

It can also be said that Li An's victory is not a victory for us Chinese, but a victory for Americans - they successfully assimilated a Chinese into an American, a true American!

"Don't be so humble. Uncle Six is ​​optimistic about you!" Shao Yifu waved his hand, "I'm just waiting here, waiting for us Xiangjiang people to win the first Oscar!"

"I will get this award for the Chinese people." Yin Jun said with a smile.

The two people had the same meaning, but there was a slight difference in their words, but Shao Yifu heard it. He shook his head and smiled, "Ajun, MacLehose has left. If you persist here so much, I'm afraid you will suffer a loss."

"Not afraid."

The young man also shook his hand, "How can you give up your own ideas because of some bastard ideas in life? I am from Xiangjiang, but I must also be a Chinese. There is no way to change this."

Shao Yifu shrugged and did not mention the matter again.

He is also a person who came from Shanghai. He is the same as Yin Jun in this aspect. However, this old man is much more tactful. Before China gained an overwhelming advantage, he remained neutral and would not offend on both sides. .

It was only after the complete victory in 1984 that Shao Yifu began to donate more and more generously to the mainland, and things like Shaw House began to slowly appear.

However, Liu Ye is still much better than Li Chaoren. At least he won't say such stupid things as "I am a businessman, and the mainland and I are mutually beneficial, and no one owes anyone anything."

"Uncle Six, I invited you here today. I have something to discuss with you." Yin Jun started to talk about the topic.

"Well, you tell me." Shao Yifu said.

"I heard that you are planning to temporarily close Shaw Brothers?"

"Who said that? No?"

"Not only did I hear this, but I also heard that you are planning to let the male and female stars who have contracts to make romantic sex films before Shaw Brothers closes down? In order to make such a final sum?"

Upon hearing this, Shao Yifu's eyes suddenly froze, and he almost lost his grip on the coffee cup he was holding.

"Nonsense! Who did you listen to? Who wants to taint my innocence like this?! I want to settle the score with him!!" After a long time, Shao Yifu put down his cup and shouted sternly.

However, in Yin Jun's eyes, he seemed a bit harsh and stern.

The young man didn't just hear it from others, but actually saw it.

In his previous life, that is, around 1984, two years later, Shao Yifu did exactly this before selling the Shaw Brothers theater chain to Pan Gongzi's Debao Company.

He spent more than a dozen months over several months calling his actors and actresses to shoot dozens of sex movies, and made a lot of money.

Fengyue x-movies are not the three-x movies we will talk about in the future, but there is definitely some exposure.

In those years when Hong Kong's pornographic films were not so open-minded, actors in such films were very hated and found them too embarrassing.

Therefore, most of the people who want to make sex movies are desperate starlets.

It has never happened before that Shao Yifu forced all the stars of his own film company to make one or two sex movies.

But if you don't film, then Shao Yifu will not let these stars go. The contract is held by Shaw Brothers. If they don't act for two or three years, they will only be forgotten or starve to death.

In the end, there was no other way. Under the pressure of Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua, these stars, especially female stars, had no choice but to film romantic sex films with tears in their eyes, "contributing" their last contribution to Shaw Brothers, which was about to cease production. strength.

In Yin Jun's opinion, this is simply an insult to Hong Kong filmmakers!

Regardless of whether they are celebrities or not, even if Xiangjiang can make triplex movies, or even movies with real guns and live ammunition, then you have to make the actors willing, so that one of you is willing to be beaten and the other is willing to suffer, so that it can be justified.

How can you, Mr. Shao Liu, take advantage of the last opportunity to make a fortune, but still ruin people like this?

In fact, after Shao Yifu did this, most of the female stars from Shaw Brothers retired in shame and never appeared on the screen again.

There has also been a gap in the female stars of Hong Kong movies. It will take three to five years until a new batch of female TV stars grow up to fill the movie screen again.

Yin Jun recalled this incident and saw that Shaw Brothers was now showing signs of closing down early, so he hurried over to find Shao Yifu, hoping to stop him from such a shameful idea.

This can be said to have saved the Hong Kong film industry from such an embarrassing and embarrassing shame!