1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 402: Days of Being Wild, revenge~
Bai Ze Venture Capital is still in its infancy. Although it already has a lot of conveniences, it is definitely not easy to establish a large company.

Fortunately, it won’t be needed until summer.

As I said before, once the Japanese economy starts rolling down the slope like a snowball, all that remains is to wait and reap the rewards.

As the leader, initiator and helmsman of the general direction, Xia Tian does not have to take care of specific affairs. Naturally, he has the support of dozens of people who follow him to eat meat and drink soup.

He is the nominal chairman, but he is actually a hands-off manager.

Xia Tian is mainly responsible for the overall strategy and the selection of individual directions, Lou Xiao'e is in charge of logistics and finance, and Huo Lili is responsible for personnel.

Specific matters are handled by several professional managers, who have dozens of traders under them.

The company hired four people to work at the front desk alone, and they work in shifts of two.

Xia Tian told Lou Xiao'e that, taking advantage of the sluggish housing prices in Hong Kong during this period, Bai Ze Venture Capital could buy a building for its own use, or at least buy a floor.

In addition to Bai Ze Venture Capital, Xia Tian and Lou Xiao'e also privately founded a small company - Lijiang Trading, which is a subsidiary of Lijiang Industrial and is responsible for foreign trade.

The trolley cases that were patented in the United States before the summer are now selling extremely well.

In this case, we cannot let the Americans take all the advantages.

In the summer, we plan to open a factory in the Mainland, sell our products in Hong Kong and export them abroad.

In addition to the suitcase, he also thought hard and made an "air fryer".

There are also some fitness equipment - I thought of this when I was working out in the gym in the summer and felt it was inconvenient and found that many of the equipment was missing.

These things don't require much technical content, they just highlight the imagination.

Now we have applied for patents for all of them, and then produced inland and exported to Hong Kong!

Even some local products can be tried for export, such as Mayinglong, Fengyoujing, and chili sauce - it's a pity that Lao Gan Ma has not been established yet.

But it doesn’t matter. There will always be brave men who dare to take action when there is a big reward. There are many similar sauces in China.

We spend our own money to collect formulas inland, then have the market verify them before exporting them!
There are also jellyfish lights, creative lighters, small toys and the like...

These days, the only things that can be exported are these low-tech items.

Okay, as long as I can earn foreign exchange.

In order to make the luggage brand look more fashionable and sell better, Xia Tian made a decision that went against his ancestors - he named the luggage brand "ORA"!
It would be best to fool the foreigners and make them think it is foreign goods.

Facts have proven that reading more novels can greatly increase your survival rate and happiness after traveling through time and space and rebirth~
Everyone should watch more!
Xia Tian gave Aying the title of manager in Lijiang Trading, and she could earn 20,000 yuan a month.

He actually wanted Aying to be in charge of this aspect. It didn't require much professional knowledge, just managing people and money.

Specific matters will be handled by a dedicated manager.

But Aying finally refused. She didn't want to become like those actresses who dated rich men, so she decided to do her own job.

She felt that the relationship between them should be purer, just like the boat in her dream that carried her through the wind and waves.

Although the relationship now is very complicated, it is no longer pure~
……

In early March, Wang Fei’s album “Wang Fei in 1990” was put on sale.

When the first day’s data was summarized and handed over to Cinematheque’s general manager, it was already the second day, and he was beaming with joy when he received it!

"I found a treasure!"

The first day sales of this mixed album of Cantonese and Mandarin songs were extremely impressive, even astonishing.

This data is already very good for some second-tier singers who have been famous for several years.

But Wang Fei is a newcomer who just debuted last year, and this is her second album!
The heat is too high!
Based on past experience, if the subsequent word of mouth is good, it won’t be difficult to sell this album double platinum!

No, I have to hurry up and consolidate the popularity and let her release another dish!
Xia Tian and Wang Fei are now running around and driving to various music stores to check the album sales, one of them dressed in disguise and the other wearing a baseball cap to cover up.

After visiting three or four companies, I felt that it was stable!
It sold very well, and many people were discussing it on the spot with great interest.

There are even two store owners who play this album directly in their stores.

Many people also came to buy records and asked directly after hearing the songs.

Xia Tian watched some young girls in the music store excitedly discussing Wang Fei's new song, and thought to herself, it's a sure thing!
Faye Wong was thinking about something else... I will be a famous singer in the future! Then I have to try new tricks~
She asked Xia Tian: "Brother Tian'er, what are you thinking about~"

Xia Tian: “Same as you.”

Wang Fei blushed: "Rogue!"

Wang Fei: He actually saw through my thoughts!
Xia Tian: ??? Huh?
In the following days, Xia Tian was very low-key, and the three of them were very low-key. They lived and worked according to the routine, and dressed up when they went out.

Although some paparazzi took pictures of her in disguise, it was just like what was predicted in the previous summer - people became desensitized, got used to it, and got tired of it, so it's not that popular anymore.

It wasn’t until mid-March that Ah Rong called Xia Tian and said, “Oh my God, director Wong Kar-wai is finally planning to start filming! I’ve been waiting until the flowers have wilted!”

This is what we say when we play mahjong in the summer, when we are dissatisfied that they are thinking too much and playing too slowly, so we urge them to play more quickly.

As a result, Arong learned it.

The film that King of Sunglasses is finally planning to start shooting is "Days of Being Wild", which is based on Xia Tian's novel "Bird Without Feet".

Although the content of the movie and the novel is basically irrelevant, the core is very similar. However, one is a bird and the other is a human.

The King of Sunglasses is quite particular and even spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy the adaptation rights.

Of course, it could also be that it’s too hot here in the summer and he wants to get some free time.

If it weren't for the movie that he had promised to film a long time ago, according to Arong, he would have planned to live in Canada for a while after returning to Yanjing in the summer.

Not many people know me there, so I should just relax and unwind.

Ever since the lion's roar and the wake-up call in the summer of February, he has become more open-minded in this regard.

This is a good thing.

Xia Tian smiled and gave A Rong a shot of warning: "I heard that the King of Sunglasses is particularly tiring when filming. You have to be mentally prepared. He will definitely torture you~"

"No way?" A Rong said with a smile, not realizing the seriousness of the matter at all.

It's okay, you'll find out soon enough.

The King of Sunglasses was not very famous before, until last year's "As Tears Go By".

Wuyingge's emoticons are still circulating thirty years later~
But the male and female protagonists of that movie are actually Andy Lau and Zhang Manyu~
Because the cast of "Days of Being Wild" is so strong, many directors in the same field kept asking people what the movie was about.
Later, when Wong Jing was filming his movie, he specifically asked Andy what the King of Sunglasses filmed, and the answer he got was: "I don't know what to film!"

Andy really doesn’t know!

He himself was so confused during the filming that he was completely unable to piece together the plot in his mind from the shots and clips he had acted in.

Even when we were filming at the Monkey King’s place, a helicopter showed up!

Andy Lau said that King of Sunglasses worked very quickly when filming "As Tears Go By", but was soon led astray by director of photography Andrew Lau - at that time Andrew Lau "took two days just to set up the lights".

The previous film "As Tears Go By" was also invested by one person, but it made money.

Days of Being Wild kept delaying the progress and then increasing the investment. The final box office was simply touching~
Even when Sunglasses King won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director, Xu Ke specially imitated a paragraph during the award ceremony: "Thank you, Mr. Alan Tang, for giving me this opportunity to film Days of Being Wild."

The implication is: You screwed your boss like this, don't forget to thank him~

So when it came to the Hong Kong Film Awards, the Sunglasses King emphasized: "Thanks to producer Mr. Alan Tang for his unswerving support for Days of Being Wild!"

But you got the award, and the money you lost is the investors’ money!

This old guy is famous for cheating investors.

But just like Marvin, there are people who invest even if it loses money.

Before filming Days of Being Wild, Wong Kar-wai only had an idea, and then he wrote the script while filming, and ultimately used 60 feet of film, which is equivalent to the total capacity of three ordinary movies.

A few years later, "Sunny Days" only used 25 feet of film!

Moreover, he only invited popular actors to act in the films - he invited six superstars: A Rong, Zhang Manyu, Hua Zai, Liu Jialing, Zhang Xueyou and Liang Caowei, and the expenses were also extremely high.

The result: Andy Lau, who is famously afraid of mice, filmed in a rat's nest for several days without using a single shot.

Eight helicopters were dispatched to film Arong committing suicide by jumping off a bridge in the Philippines, but in the end it was edited to show him being shot to death on a train.

Liang Caowei spent three weeks in Kowloon Walled City, but only three minutes were cut into the ending.
Although "Days of Being Wild" won three major awards at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, the investment of 4000 million Hong Kong dollars and the box office of 975 million Hong Kong dollars are really laughable.

The investor Alan Tang's HK$4000 million was originally intended for The King of Sunglasses to make two movies, but he spent HK$3900 million on just one movie, Days of Being Wild.

Everyone knows the story of film investor Deng Guangrong being hospitalized for an IV drip after learning about the box office success of Days of Being Wild.

The company he founded, Shadow Productions Ltd., went bankrupt soon after.
Xia Tian felt amused when he thought about A Rong being tricked by the King of Sunglasses.

But when I think of the investor of this film...I have to find a way to cheat him!
There is also a shorty named Zeng!

(End of this chapter)