Chapter 1451: A Mountain to Look Up To

After sending Manager Sha and his wife to a reception room to wait temporarily, Zhang Shihui did not stay for long.

After a few polite words to ask them to sit patiently for a while, and saying that he would inform them, Zhang Shihui walked out of the reception room again and went straight to the garden inside.

After entering the second gate, along a long corridor, there is a long row of houses.

Now only half of these houses are used as warehouses. Because there are too many visitors, the other half have been converted into reception rooms, just like the place where Manager Sha and his wife were placed just now.

Therefore, when passing by here, Zhang Shihui can clearly hear the noise of chatting and talking from these rooms, as well as the sound of making tea and pouring water.

It must be said that his stay in the Tan Palace Restaurant for several years was not in vain.

With his current level of cognition, he can tell which person is arranged in which of these reception rooms just by the noise.

The two quietest rooms, one room is occupied by people from the government gate, and the other room is occupied by teachers and students from the Agricultural University and the Academy of Fine Arts.

These people are either people of status or intellectuals. Their common feature is that even when they are talking and chatting, their voices are not loud.

The most noisy room is full of media reporters.

This group of people has some literary temperament but not the restrained cultivation of literati. They are all passionate young people who are concerned about the country and the people and love to chat.

There is also the happiest room, where there are often bursts of unbridled laughter, mixed with a few women's coquettish voices.

This is not surprising, because models and people from the literary and artistic circles gather here.

As far as Zhang Shihui knows, Chen Peisi, Liang Tian, ​​Chen Baoguo, Zhang Qiang, Jiang Wen, Liu Xiaoqin and several well-known models are all in there now, just like a small Spring Festival Gala tea party.

Needless to say, their private exchanges are definitely more exciting than the real Spring Festival Gala.

Just at this time, the door curtain of this room opened, and a waiter came out carrying two empty thermos bottles.

Zhang Shihui looked at him for a few times.

This guy was obviously very satisfied with his job of serving the stars. He smiled and nodded at Zhang Shihui, and even winked at him in a very experienced way.

This mischievous spirit made Zhang Shihui laugh, and suddenly remembered the time when he was working at the front desk of Chongwenmen Hotel and was disrespectful to his boss and teasing him.

However, because of this, he immediately felt an indescribable confusion and confusion that once made him lose his mind.

You know, at that time, he and Ning Weimin were obviously similar.

How come the gap between them has become so big after a few years without noticing?

Especially the time when Ning Weimin sacrificed himself and left Chongwenmen Hotel.

He had felt sorry for this brother countless times and couldn't help worrying about Ning Weimin's future.

As a result, he never expected that from that time on, Ning Weimin began to rise step by step and became a big man that he couldn't catch up with even on horseback.

Not to mention that the wealth this guy has now is no longer a number he can imagine.

Even the power he holds and the network of relationships in all aspects are beyond his imagination.

How old is he? He can have so many people of status come to him to wish him a happy new year.

The people in these few rooms almost include celebrities from all walks of life.

Among them are not only intellectuals and big stars, but also many powerful people in the government.

Look at how capable this guy is. It seems that there is no one in the whole capital that he cannot contact and no thing that he cannot do.

To be honest, if he hadn't seen with his own eyes how Ning Weimin got to this point step by step.

He certainly couldn't believe that there are really geniuses in this world who can start from scratch and leap over the dragon gate.

Now he is so successful. If another ten or twenty years pass, how far this guy can go is really a bit unimaginable...

Walking through the row of houses and bypassing the courtyard wall that was once covered with morning glories and cypress pines, Zhang Shihui finally came to Kang Shude's courtyard.

This courtyard is now very different from Xia Jingtian.

In addition to the ceiling being removed, all the windows are covered with red window grilles, and lanterns are hung under the eaves of the courtyard to embellish the New Year.

The patterns of window grilles are simple and complex. The simple ones are nothing more than kittens, puppies, and roosters.

The complex ones are "Lotus Gives Birth to a Noble Son", "Two Immortals of Harmony and Unity", "Old Man Guo Riding a Donkey", "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls", "Phoenix Playing with Peony", "Lion Rolling Embroidered Balls" and so on.

The shapes of lanterns are also different, with flowers, birds, fish and insects competing for beauty.

The colors are red, orange, yellow and green, and gorgeous.

The themes include "Three Yangs Open the Gate of Good Fortune", "Four Seasons of Peace", "Five Sons Win the Championship", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Abundant Wealth", and "Deer and Cranes in Spring".

Even in the daytime, the window grilles and lanterns reflect each other, and the colors are bright and festive, which is already very beautiful.

If it is at night, when these lanterns are lit, the light in the house behind the window grilles will shine through the house, which will be even more beautiful.

It's easy to imagine that people in it are like wandering in a fairyland.

For this, the envious Zhang Shihui can only comment on two words - fun!

In his eyes, the most popular lantern riddle corridor at the Tiantan Park Garden Party is just like this.

Ning Weimin can actually enjoy this kind of fun in the place where he lives for a long time, and it is a daily fun. Who can compare?

This is not an ordinary blessing, it is enough to make all the self-proclaimed rich people in the capital ashamed, including himself.

To be honest, envy is useless.

He has a net worth of a few million, but he can only dream of living such a life every day.

Besides, it is not enough to just have money.

Let alone whether you can buy such a house or not, and whether you can afford it for daily consumption.

Let’s talk about leisure and elegance. This kind of wealth and leisure is not something that everyone can have.

You need to be cultured and knowledgeable to know how to enjoy life.

Otherwise, it is said that if you compare goods, you will throw them away, and if you compare people, you will die.

There are many people who can brag in Beijing now.

They all have a big background. They are either the president of a group company or the manager of an investment and development company. It seems that everyone has a big background.

But he believes that no matter who it is, as long as they are brought here to discuss things, they will definitely shut up and dare not brag...

This is absolutely true, because before Zhang Shihui pushed the door and entered, he had already heard Ning Weimin’s voice coming from inside.

Although he couldn't hear clearly, the voice was sometimes high and sometimes low, intermittent, but he was surprised by what was said.

"...Mr. Lin, don't be so polite. You are a senior in the film industry and the head of the left-wing film company Silver Capital in Hong Kong. It is my honor to meet you here today under the recommendation of the leaders of the Film Bureau. I don't deserve your "beg". If you need anything, just ask me..."

"...In fact, even if you don't ask, I can probably guess your purpose. You should want to take into account the Japanese film market. You hope that I can help sell Silver Capital's films to Japan, right? I think it should be no problem. I personally am willing to support the film industry of domestic films, whether they are shot in mainland China or in Hong Kong. Anyway, after 1997, we are all one family... ”

“…Don’t say that. You are so rich. The reason why Mist Studios spent 30 million Hong Kong dollars to buy “A Chinese Ghost Story” and its sequel is mainly because Japanese people like ghost culture and the box office in Hong Kong is high, so they made such an attempt. We are not impulsive. ”

“To be honest, the theaters in Japan that we can offer now are only Shochiku Theaters and several independent theaters in Tokyo. If it is a really good movie, we can only get more than 300 screen resources. If it is an art film, I am afraid it will be halved. So I don’t know which movie you want to cooperate with me? What kind of cooperation do you hope for…”

30 million Hong Kong dollars!

Silver City Organization!

These nerve-jumping keywords ran into Zhang Shihui’s ears, which scared him.

Even though he claimed to know Ning Weimin, he knew that Mist Studios spent tens of millions of US dollars on the shooting and production of the two movies “Li Xianglan” and “Crazy Rich Asians”.

But like today, with the presence of the film bureau leaders, it was the first time that Ning Weimin and a well-known Hong Kong film company could discuss such a big deal.

Therefore, he hardly dared to breathe when he entered the room, and dared not make any sound after entering, for fear that some guests would be distracted by him and interrupt such an important conversation.

So when Ning Weimin looked at him, he just nodded, and consciously found a seat in the corner like Luo Guangliang who was responsible for serving tea and water.

Patiently waited for the conversation to end, or asked Ning Weimin about it during the break.

At this time, Lin Bingkun, the general manager of Silver Capital, also stated his purpose directly, wanting to sell a big-budget movie directed and acted by Jet Li to Ning Weimin.

It turned out that in 1986, Jet Li and Liu Jialiang collaborated on "North and South Shaolin", which was a big hit at the box office as soon as it was released, and was listed among the top ten best-selling films in Hong Kong that year.

However, during the filming of the movie, there were many unpleasant things because of the huge difference in treatment between the mainland and Hong Kong crew members. This made Jet Li disgusted with filming and even thought about giving up his film career.

Needless to say, the Silver Metropolis Agency would definitely oppose it.

After all, Jet Li is the most famous action actor launched by the Leftist Film Company in Hong Kong. His Shaolin Trilogy was a hit. How could the company's top management let him go?

So in order to keep Jet Li, Lin Bingkun directly proposed to invest in him as a director and shoot movies according to his own ideas.

This condition worked, so there was this "Chinese Hero" directed and acted by Jet Li.

The story tells that after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, a group of wounded soldiers of the National Army, led by Xiaojie, were sent to Qingdao for "retirement resettlement". However, although they were all people who came down from the battlefield, the National Army soldiers and American soldiers received different treatment.

In the end, in order to resist the rampant American soldiers stationed in China, avenge his relatives and safeguard national dignity, Xiaojie fought with his fists and sacrificed his life.

In order to make this movie a big hit, Silver Capital even specially designed a long war scene for Jet Li at the beginning of the movie. Not only did they mobilize a large number of actors to shoot the group battle, but they also borrowed tanks and cannons from the mainland troops to help.

This is something that is simply unimaginable in Hong Kong. No one, whether it is Golden Harvest or Cinema City, can make such a scene.

Jet Li also incorporated his experience of being treated unfairly in the crew into the story of the movie.

The conflict between the national army soldiers and the American soldiers was used to express this dissatisfaction, so the martial arts scenes in this film are also extremely explosive and full of angry power.

In addition to Xu Xiaoming's martial arts design, the effect is extremely shocking. It is completely different from the trilogy of "Shaolin", but it just presents the aesthetics of martial arts moves and routines.

Therefore, whether it is the silver capital institution or Li Lianjie, it has great hope for the film.

In 1988, this film finally landed. The major theaters of Hong Kong City's left movies should fight with Jiahe, Xinyi City, Debao, and the New Year films of the three major film companies.

But letting the Yindu institution, Li Lianjie did not think of, because the film lacks comedy elements and is too tragic, the film is completely defeated under Jackie Chan, Zhou Runfa, and Hong Jinbao.

The box office is not enough at all. It has been released for a week. It is only 6 million Hong Kong dollars in front of it. It is expected that it will be only 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

This result is even as good as Li Lianjie's "Shaolin Temple" just six years ago.

It can be said that Li Lianjie was the first director for the first time, and ended with a bad defeat.

And because the theme of this film involves multiple sensitive issues, the mainland has never been tried, and the reply to the silver capital institution is that it cannot be released in the Mainland for the time being.

So the silver capital institutions who invested tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars were miserable, and it is expected to lose at least 6 million Hong Kong dollars.

And this was the help of the leaders of the Film Bureau to help the bridge from it to introduce Lin Bingkun to Ning Weimin to talk about the issuance of Japan.

Needless to say, for Lin Bingkun, Ning Weimin is probably his only hope. Now he is not allowed to be Ning Weimin as his connection man and can get some costs.

However, no one is a fool. Even Zhang Shihui and Luo Guangliang understand that Ning Weimin can not understand.

The protagonist of this film is the anti -Japanese soldier, and it has to conflict with the U.S. military and get the ring.

Considering the feelings of the Japanese, probably like this, it must be a difficult thing to be screened in Japan. Even if it is released, there will not be too many audiences to watch.

For this reason, Lin Bingkun naturally did not dare to have too much request, and took the initiative to lower his body.

He did not expect too much about the box office of Japan, so he hoped to sell it to Ning Weimin by buying the copyright.

The price is just 6 million Hong Kong dollars. The approximate picture is to keep the capital.

However, after understanding all the situation, Ning Weimin not only did not have the price, but also added a lot to it.

"How about 10 million Hong Kong dollars? Mr. Lin, you have to make some money."

"What? I didn't hear it right, Mr. Ning, are you ... are you kidding?"

"I'm not kidding, but my conditions have increased. I don't just need Japanese rights, but the copyright of the entire Asia I want, and the mainland in the mainland. Even the copyright in Europe and the United States, can it?"

"Mainland in the Mainland? Mainland in the Mainland, this movie has not been tried, you forgot ..."

"That's just now, I can wait, maybe ten years, maybe it can be released in five years? I don't believe that such a good movie can never be released."

"This ... I can only say that you are gambling."

Lin Bingkun shook his head in surprise, "What about Europe and the United States? Mr. Ning, will not mean that you also have distribution channels in Europe and the United States. As far as I know, the entire Hong Kong city can only do this ..."

"Frankly, I can only talk about cooperation with French film companies, but I can wait. Still, I believe that our movies, especially excellent movies, will not be trapped forever. Enter the international market ... "

Lin Bingkun has never seen people who do this business. I do n’t know if Ning Weimin does n’t understand it, it is too ideal.

It was speechless for a while, and I didn't know how to answer.

On the contrary, Ning Weimin smiled and raised his hand at will. "Mr. Lin, I know you are worried about me. However, no one likes to lose money, and I will also take the price for you seriously and seriously. A elder has always told me that few people can make money by it. This is a big business. I believe the shooting ability of Yindu. In my opinion, this movie is not a problem with the quality. For too long, it is difficult for them to find emotional resonance from such movies. And from my personal perspective, I also hope that Yin can support Li Lianjie to continue shooting movies, not only because he is my little fellow in Beijing. ... "

Lin Bingkun froze, and finally showed a happy look.

"Mr. Ning, it's better to meet. I really thank you very much and help me."

"Where is it," Li Xianglan "can be released in Hong Kong City for help. Thank you, we should all thank the film bureau's leaders."

"Yes, it's ah. That's 10 million, all the copyrights you want will be given to you. We will say this matter."

"Say it."

Lin Bingkun nodded vigorously, almost grateful to tears.

He didn't expect that he could do such a big deal without any effort.

It goes without saying that for him, there is no way to recover 10 million Hong Kong dollars through market operations.

Whether it is, as Ning Weimin said, that he is really optimistic about this movie, or it is purely for the country to support the creation of the film, anyway, he will remember this favor.

In this way, Ning Weimin accompanied Lin Bingkun and several cadres from the Film Bureau to the door and repeatedly asked them to rest assured.

He said that when the contract is signed, the check will be paid, and Luo Guangliang will be appointed to continue to send these guests to the car for him.

As for Zhang Shihui, although he had the opportunity to report to Ning Weimin about Manager Sha at this time, he completely put this matter behind his mind because of the mental shock.

After watching the conversation just now, he couldn't help but feel awe for Ning Weimin.

You know, whether it is the leader of the Film Bureau or the general manager of the Silver Capital Organization, they are all unattainable big men in Zhang Shihui's eyes.

Such people actually came to Ning Weimin's door so politely today and asked him to buy Jet Li's movie.

Ning Weimin bought it when he said he would, without worrying about losing money or losing capital.

Spending 10 million Hong Kong dollars was as easy and natural as when they traded 1,000 foreign exchange certificates.

What kind of psychological quality is this?

What does this show?

Just thinking about it makes people sweat...

Anyway, he will never be able to do it. This scene made him more convinced than the exaggerated pomp when he saw Ning Weimin getting married.

His buddy has grown up so much now, and always brings him amazing discoveries.

It is impossible to look straight at him, and he is so awesome.

Even Zhang Shihui himself did not realize that his mentality towards Ning Weimin had changed fundamentally, from simple admiration to worship and respect.