At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 459
give a face...

Huang Baiming said on the surface that he would meet, but it was actually a money transaction...

It means pimping.

Everything in the Hong Kong entertainment industry can be calculated with money!

If it is an accompanying guest, it was arranged yesterday, there is no need to emphasize it again...

Shen Xudong's principle: never involve money transactions!
What about Hong Kong actresses (local chickens)?
This is the bottom line.

Therefore, I flatly rejected Huang Baiming's proposal, and then... still suggested that Huang Ziheng write the script.

As for the role arrangement, let's talk about it at the end of the year. "Ip Man" is just a concept, and it's still too early to be developed!
Donnie Yen still has "Fuse" to shoot.

Afterwards, Huang Baiming talked about Xu Ke's "Looking for a Man in the Deep Sea" - this film was terrible, with a messy box office and word of mouth. Huang Baiming also stopped investing in Xu Ke after "Looking for a Man in the Deep Sea"!

Of course, now Huang Baiming still trusts Xu Ke very much.

The reason why Xu Ke filmed "Looking for People in the Deep Sea" was actually to experiment with underwater shooting, so he made up a ghost story, and the narration was copied from "Mulholland Drive"...

Of course the box office and word of mouth failed!

Known as Xu Ke's Waterloo...

Therefore, "Looking for a Man in the Deep Sea" is a big pit. Knowing it is a pit, how could Shen Xudong jump into it?
Resolutely rejected Huang Baiming's proposal of joint investment, by the way: "Unless director Xu makes martial arts, I will not invest in other genres at all!"

"Martial arts..." Huang Baiming waved his hand: "Hong Kong people have long stopped watching martial arts!"

"There is still a market for martial arts overseas... There are also many fans of martial arts movies in the mainland..."

Huang Baiming thought for a while: "Let me talk to him."

Hearing this, Shen Xudong said: "If Director Xu wants to shoot martial arts, I have a few scripts in my hand for him to try."

"Oh, a ready-made script?"

"right…"

"Embroidered Spring Knife" and "Sword Rain Jianghu"...

If Xu Ke is willing to shoot, he should have something to do.

……

After the dinner, Shen Xudong and Huang Bin were about to walk back to the hotel. On the way, they bought two gossip magazines. Shen Xudong saw the 'resist young model culture'...

Can't help but sigh with emotion: "Tsk tsk, these entertainers in Hong Kong are so boring, they actually criticize the young model culture!"

"...Can't you criticize?"

"Look at who resisted it...Zeng Zhiwei, Huang Qiusheng...all made tertiary films, and now they are pretending to be like a pig's nose with garlic? Think you are a senior, and you can educate others with high morals?"

Hearing this, Huang Bin nodded: "... yes, it's too double standard!"

"Many film and television companies in Hong Kong specialize in tertiary films, to be precise, they specialize in cyan films... It's very messy, they don't talk about it, but criticize young models, it's really frustrating!"

"... "

Huang Bin did not speak, he felt that Shen Xudong was dissatisfied with Hong Kong Entertainment...

Fortunately, Shen Xudong didn't continue, and changed the subject: "I'll see director Chen Musheng later, so you don't have to go!"

"I'm not going?"

"It's just chatting with old friends... You are also tired these days, go back and rest."

Shen Xudong has already said that, and Huang Bin can't say anything - he has to go to TVB tomorrow to talk about the sale of broadcasting rights of "The Best Family" and "Wulin Biography"...

Huang Bin really came to work.

……

"Baby Project" is scheduled for this year's National Day, and the filming has already been completed...

Chen Musheng's next plan is to help Media Asia make a pure action movie.

After all, he signed two movie contracts before, and "Sanchakou" caused Media Asia to lose a lot. I hope the next action movie can recover a little bit.

Yuan Shikong, what he took out was "The True Colors of a Man"...

In terms of plot, "The True Colors of a Man" is very clichéd.

In various TVB dramas, you can just grab a few plots and put them together. The action scenes are like martial arts movies, completely ignoring gravity and the strength of human bones.

The story... I can't help but analyze it in detail: Since only a certain superintendent knew the escort route back then, why didn't other people doubt him?

When Xie Tingfeng and Yu Wenle killed the traitor superintendent, they had no psychological burden, just like crushing an ant, but later remembered that they were policemen and couldn't kill Wu Jing?
What about logic?
But... the fighting in "The True Colors of a Man" is so exciting, especially Wu Jing's Tian Yang health, windbreaker, sunglasses, sharp movements, fast, ruthless and accurate...

This film is quite a pity, the original time and space set the wrong schedule, and "Iron Triangle" took advantage of it - it should be on the eleventh stage, let alone 5000 million box office!
Together with "Fuse" in the summer file, I encountered "Harry Potter 5" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

However, Chen Musheng made an appointment to meet Shen Xudongdong mainly because he hadn't seen each other for a long time, reminiscing about the past and... wanting to ease the conflict between him and Du Qifeng.

"...Director Chen, we all make movies, and wherever the movie is shown, we should abide by the rules of that place. You don't object to that, do you?"

"There is no room for relaxation?"

"It's unlikely... Back then, the Hong Kong film industry forced Liang Jiahui, who had just won the best actor, to set up a stall for the sake of the Taiwan market. I heard that some big-name movie stars were held at gunpoint to make movies. But at that time, Hong Kong had Creative freedom. Why is there no creative freedom now? You rely on the mainland market to make a living, so you should make some films that are acceptable to mainland audiences... If you can’t adapt to the environment, don’t talk nonsense! I look down on him!"

The objective reality is that the movies made by Johnnie To have no audience at all!
"The Underworld" is so good, and "The Big Tree Draws the Wind" is so good. In fact, these movies have a mediocre box office in Hong Kong, and almost zero box office in other places.

"Movies have never been a field of personal expression. Without money, no one will participate in your "artistic pursuit"! The New Wave is also picking up leftovers from Europe, and Hong Kong movies conquered Asia through action movies, and it has little to do with Johnnie To."

Chen Musheng nodded: "There are also gangster movies!"

Hong Kong has natural advantages in making police and gangster movies, the special geographical environment, plus...the mainland cannot shoot these themes: there can be no black police, no magic police, and no gangsters running into the high-level police force to do undercover work...

Naturally has the advantage of shooting gangster films.

Moreover, the dramatic conflicts of police and gangster films are simple, and the characters are black and white.The exciting action scenes can easily make the audience feel happy.Many elements can be mixed in.

Shen Xudong: "Yes, gangster movies, gangster movies...I plan to continue to cooperate with Zheng Baorui in two gangster movies, "The Chaser" and "Blind Witness"...after he finishes filming "Dog Bites Dog"..."

"Are you still working with Zheng Baorui?"

"...He is willing to cooperate, and has strong execution and scheduling skills...By the way, there is also a director named Lin Chaoxian, can you introduce me?"

Chen Musheng nodded: "No problem, he is currently looking for a job!"

Lam Chiu-hsien...didn't catch up with the good times. The first movie was made in 1997. At that time, the golden age of Hong Kong movies had come to an end...

And he has been shooting themes of police and robbers.

Why look for a job?

Even his master Chen Jiashang is out of work...

"...a bit like Streets of Rage..."

Shen Xudong flipped through the script outline of "The True Colors of a Man" and made a comment.

Chen Musheng nodded: "The police and gangster movies are all like this..."

(End of this chapter)