Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 566
As a big star produced under Shaw's assembly line operation, Guo Youhua is actually a beneficiary of this system.

Although the reason why she became popular before was because of the filming of "Master Qian".

But Guo Youhua has been growing up under this big studio system since he was a child star.

It is precisely because Guo Youhua understands better than others that, under Shaw Brothers' large-scale studio system, although outsiders look at it, the stars in it seem to be all glamorous.

But if you compare it with the stars outside, the money they get is actually very little.

And because of the continuous shooting, it is difficult to improve the quality of the movie.

As a result, Shaw Brothers' films have always had a strong and distinctive feature of individual directors.

Chu Yuan, Li Hanxiang, Hu Jinquan, and Zhang Che, these four people almost run through Shaw Brothers from the most glorious time to the darkest time.

They used to be dazzling directors with a million-dollar box office, but even now the movies they make can still get over a million box office.

But compared with Xiangjiang's box office at that time, it is now [-] times worse. It can be seen that the movies produced under this system are actually outdated.

"Since Brother Qiu chooses to do this, there must be a reason for you to do so, and I will definitely support you."

Guo Youhua quickly figured it out, since Lin Daoqiu wanted to restart the production process of Shaw Brothers, he must have his reasons.

Although Guo Youhua didn't know, because of the split of Xiangjiang Cinemas and the establishment of Baojia Cinemas, there was a problem with New Oriental's film source supply.

But she felt that since Lin Daoqiu was in such a difficult situation, there should be his difficulties.

And what I have to do is to support him unconditionally instead of questioning him all the time.

Seeing the faint smile on Guo Youhua's face, Lin Daoqiu's originally agitated mood was slightly relieved.

"Since the establishment of Baojia Cinemas, New Oriental's film sources have problems, so Li Maowen suggested that I restart the previous system of Shaw Brothers, so that New Oriental does not need to worry about film sources, and the staff recruited before will not worry about it. won't work."

Lin Daoqiu thought about it, and still felt that Guo Youhua should know why he did this.

Sure enough, after Lin Daoqiu finished speaking, Guo Youhua suddenly realized, and she nodded quickly.

She even felt that Li Maowen's proposal was the right choice.

"Actually, brother Qiu doesn't need to be so entangled. Manager Li's proposal is very good. The most important thing now is to let everyone have a filming. After all, those staff also have to eat."

The unhappiness in Guo Youhua's heart before had disappeared without a trace at this moment.

"Thank you, Ah Hua, but you can rest assured that I will find a way to come up with some good scripts, and I won't let you keep making those martial arts dramas of Jin Yong and Gu Long."

As the most popular female star of Shaw Brothers before, Guo Youhua had already replaced Jing Li as the number one heroine of these ancient costume martial arts dramas.

You should know that in the previous life, Guo Youhua only made one "Legend of the Condor Heroes".

But in this life, from 79 to the present, she has made seven films.

If it wasn't for Uncle Six who sold Shaw Cinemas to Bao Shaogang, I'm afraid she would continue to act like this.

"Actually, the novels written by Mr. Jin Yong and Mr. Gu Long are very good, but unfortunately, now that martial arts movies are on the decline, everyone only likes to watch your action movies."

Speaking of this matter, Guo Youhua can be said to have a deep understanding.

Previously, Lin Daoqiu's "Mission Impossible" won more global box office results than all the martial arts movies Shaw Brothers made over the years combined.

Some people even discussed in private that Lin Daoqiu was one of the culprits that accelerated the decline of Shaw Brothers.

But if this is the case, no one dares to talk about it on the stage, and can only enjoy it in private.

"In fact, the connotation of martial arts movies is much higher than those of the action movies I made, but unfortunately this trend is irreversible."

Speaking of this, Lin Daoqiu couldn't help but shook his head. As a man in two lives, he can be said to have a lot of feelings about this.

In his time, martial arts movies were rarely seen in cinemas every year, and only the shadow of martial arts dramas could be seen from TV dramas.

But it is a pity that even though it has been remade many times, the martial arts dramas produced by later generations have significantly improved in terms of production technology and funds.

However, in terms of the plot and character creation, as well as the acting skills of the actors, everyone complained a lot.

Even Lin Daoqiu said this, and Guo Youhua realized that the road to martial arts movies in the future may become more and more difficult.

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"The proposal you mentioned before can be done now."

Back at the company, Lin Daoqiu called Li Maowen to his office, and told him that he agreed to his previous proposal.

"Thank you, Mr. Lin, I'll prepare right now."

After Li Maowen heard that his suggestion was adopted by Lin Daoqiu, he felt very happy.

Just as he turned to leave, Lin Daoqiu suddenly stopped him.

"When you leave, tell Fang Jinsheng to tell all the screenwriters at New Oriental to come to the company for a meeting tomorrow."

In New Oriental, apart from Lin Daoqiu, there are quite a few people who can write scripts.

Before, Lin Daoqiu had no time to integrate his screenwriting power.

This time, in order to prevent Guo Youhua and the others from remaking the novels of Gu Long and Jin Yong, Lin Daoqiu had to help them find some good scripts.

If he is willing to write it himself, that is of course the best.

After all, Lin Daoqiu still has many excellent scripts in his mind.

But most of the good movies in his mind cannot be achieved with the current film technology.

Even "The Mummy", which was filmed before, is far from the later ones in terms of special effects technology, which can be said to be a world apart.

And when Lin Daoqiu had the lesson of "The Mummy", he no longer wanted to spoil those movies like this.

So he planned to integrate the screenwriters in New Oriental, set up a screenwriting department, absorb excellent screenwriting talents, and let them write scripts for him.

In this way, he can save a lot of effort, and maybe he can find good things from it.

The next day, there were more than ten people in the meeting room of New Oriental Cinemas.

Except for some familiar faces, Lin Daoqiu has never seen most of the people inside, and he has never even heard their names.

Everyone in the meeting room was chatting, and no one knew why Lin Daoqiu had informed them to come to the meeting today.

And when the door of the meeting room was pushed open from the outside, the lively scene before suddenly became quiet.

　Thank you, the last shooter, everyone's big monthly pass!mwah! ╰(*°▽°*)╯

　　
　
(End of this chapter)