Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

"He really said that?"

Not long after Liu Zhenwei left, Li Maowen called Lin Daoqiu and briefly reported the matter to him.

After receiving Li Maowen's affirmative answer, Lin Daoqiu was a little surprised. Logically speaking, Liu Zhenwei should not be so reckless, and he is not so courageous to risk his career on this bet. You must know that this is a bet proposed by him. If I lose, I won’t be able to stay in Xiangjiang anymore.

After thinking about it carefully, Lin Daoqiu could only think of one reason why Liu Zhenwei suddenly acted so uncharacteristically, and that was that he had called him before to ask him about Stephen Chow and Ng Man-tat.

I'm afraid that Liu Zhenwei has already guessed that he plans to re-use Stephen Chow and Ng Man-tat, but he is still worried about whether "The Bad Man" can win 500 million at the box office after it is released. It's no wonder that he would come up with this kind of movie. The method is not surprising.

But Lin Daoqiu naturally would not agree to his remake of "The Gambler", because to successfully film "The Gambler" requires not only Liu Zhenwei, but also Stephen Chow and Ng Meng-tat.

"Director Liu has been under a lot of pressure recently. The reviews after the preview of "The Ghost Story" were not very good. Most people privately did not think that the film would eventually get more than 1000 million at the box office. So I’m afraid Director Liu has decided that he won’t be able to achieve the results he agreed with you this time.”

"What's wrong? Are you going to intercede for him?"

Lin Daoqiu heard the meaning behind Li Maowen's words. He was trying to put in a good word for Liu Zhenwei.

However, judging from Li Maowen's character, he is such a person, and Liu Zhenwei did not do anything wrong, he just smashed "The Gambler". This matter can be big or small. The big reason is that this is Lin Daoqiu. The script he wrote had never been missed before, so Li Maowen was worried that Lin Daoqiu would be very angry and completely send Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai to the treasure island.

Although Liu Zhenwei is still a little worse than Tsui Hark and other great directors, in Li Maowen's opinion, as long as he is given more opportunities, he may not be able to reach the level of Tsui Hark and others in the future. But now Liu Zhenwei's future is directly determined. That's a little too hasty.

"Director Liu is actually a very motivated director, and he has achieved some results before. It is really disappointing that he failed to make "The Gambler" this time, but it would be a pity to just give up on him. , so I hope Mr. Lin can give him another chance."

Li Maowen thought for a while and decided to intercede for Liu Zhenwei. After all, Liu Zhenwei really couldn't find any faults. He was conscientious and very obedient and easy to use. It's just that compared with Tsui Hark and others, his box office results were not so impressive, but this is not the case. His fault is just that his luck has not arrived yet.

"It's rare that our manager Li expressed his love for him. Even if I don't give Liu Zhenwei's face, don't I even give you Mao Wen's face? Well, in that case, I will agree to you, but in "The Ghost Job" "Don't tell him before the results come out, I don't want him to relax too early."

"Understood Mr. Lin, I know what to do."

Li Maowen was relieved when he heard this, but he did not think that Lin Daoqiu really decided to let Liu Zhenwei reshoot "The Gambler" because of giving him face. Liu Zhenwei believed that Lin Daoqiu's reason for doing this was very simple. That was his original plan, and he just deliberately placed the credit on himself. I believe Liu Zhenwei will be very grateful to him when he finds out.

"It's good to know, then let's do this for now."

After Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Liu Zhenwei wants to remake "The Gambler". Lin Daoqiu has thought about it. He thinks that at least he has to wait for a while, instead of rushing to remake "The Gambler" before "The Gambler" is released. Myself, this is really a bit too hard.

Maybe if he didn't call him to ask about Stephen Chow and the others, Liu Zhenwei would definitely not think so.

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Tsui Hark, who was busy filming on the set, suddenly received a call from Shi Nansheng, so he temporarily stopped filming and asked the actors to rest aside.

"what happened?"

Normally, Shi Nansheng would not call him if there was nothing special. After all, Shi Nansheng still had a lot of things to do, and she should also know that she was filming at this time, so she would not bother her if nothing happened. "Ms. Lin came to see you and said she wanted to have afternoon tea with you. I wonder when you will be free."

"Miss Lin?"

"Qingxia."

Although Brigitte Lin has not yet married Lin Daoqiu, almost everyone now regards her as Lin Daoqiu's future wife. Of course, her status is the same as Zhong Chuhong, so Shi Nansheng always calls her Miss Lin.

"Please ask Miss Lin if you can make an appointment for dinner in the evening. I have to film in the afternoon, so I really don't have time?"

Tsui Hark is not staged, but because he still has a lot of shooting work today. If he doesn't finish it, he will waste a lot of shooting funds until tomorrow. He is completely different from Wong Kar-wai later. After having Shi Nansheng , Tsui Hark is now making movies at least not wasting filming funds casually.

But if Lin Daoqiu was looking for him, Tsui Hark would definitely not say that he would postpone it until night, but would be available anytime and anywhere.

"Okay, then I will make an appointment with her at eight o'clock tonight. You must not be late then."

"Don't worry, I know what to do."

After Tsui Hark finished speaking, he hung up the phone and returned to filming.

At seven o'clock in the evening, today's shooting work was finally completed. I rushed home and took a shower. Then Tsui Hark immediately changed his clothes and went to meet Shi Nansheng.

"I'm not too late."

As soon as Tsui Hark, who arrived on time, entered the restaurant, he saw Shi Nansheng and Brigitte Lin already sitting inside with a smile and chatting.

"Director Xu, I'm really sorry to take up your time during your busy schedule."

Brigitte Lin and Tsui Hark are already old acquaintances. The two have already filmed "The Swordsman" and the box office results are quite impressive. However, after filming two films, Tsui Hark is already a little tired of this film, so I have never thought about making a third part. Although many fans have been rumoring that there will be a third part, and Tsui Hark is already planning it, in fact Tsui Hark is still thinking about a special effects blockbuster. The third part If there are no special circumstances, he will not consider it in the short term.

"Ms. Lin is so polite. We have worked together on several movies before. Why have we become so unfamiliar all of a sudden? Don't be polite to me. We have known each other for such a long time."

Tsui Hark and Brigitte Lin have not seen each other for a while, and they have not worked together before, but if their relationship becomes unfamiliar because of this, then Tsui Hark must be anxious.

Brigitte Lin is famous in Hong Kong in this life because of Lin Daoqiu's movies, not because of her cooperation with Tsui Hark in her previous life, which broke the public's impression of her as a heroine in literary films, so naturally she will not treat Tsui Hark like she did in the previous life. With such gratitude in one life, the friendship between two people will definitely not be as deep as in the previous life.

Lin Daoqiu called Tsui Hark before and asked him if he had any suitable scripts in the near future. The meaning was actually very clear, that is, he wanted him to write a film for Brigitte Lin. Naturally, a large-scale special effects blockbuster was impossible, but apart from large-scale productions, it was also impossible. You can make other movies.

But Tsui Hark no longer likes those medium-sized movies. He feels that if he wants to cooperate with Brigitte Lin, the shooting cost will start at least [-] million Hong Kong dollars, and additional fees will have to be added later, so he understood Lin Daoqiu's hint but deliberately decline.

But today Brigitte Lin invited him to dinner. Tsui Hark suddenly realized that the relationship between himself and Brigitte Lin seemed to be a little rusty. This was a reminder to him that if he continued like this, he would need to contact Brigitte Lin for anything in the future. If she wants to help, I'm afraid she won't really try her best to help him.

Tsui Hark became anxious when he thought of this. His brain was already working rapidly. He planned to find a script from the existing scripts to cooperate with Brigitte Lin, so as to complete Lin Daoqiu's hint and re-engage Brigitte Lin with Brigitte Lin. The relationship between. (End of chapter)