1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 225 Unparalleled
1024 Ngau Tau Kok Theatre, VIP theatre.

Zhai Yuan and the main creators of "Wushuang" booked the entire theater.

The actors had met the audience in a theater outside a few days ago. This time the movie was more like a party. Wan Ziliang, Zhong Chuhong, Liang Jiahui, Qin Pei and others were all present.

Zhang Guorong, who had just finished his concerts overseas, also rushed back to Hong Kong and sat in the front row of the theater, puffing on a cigarette.

"You should smoke less since you are a singer."

Huang Zhan still had a cigarette butt in his mouth, but it did not affect his ability to teach Zhang Guorong a lesson in the tone of a senior.

Zhang Guorong looked at his handsome appearance on the screen and said with a smile: "Maybe I can become a movie king in the future, so I don't need to recruit singers anymore."

James Wong laughed out loud: "The best actor and actress has been unlucky for three years, handsome boy!"

Zhang Guorong looked back at Zhai Yuan in the back row, exhaled a puff of smoke and said with a smile: "I have a big plumber boss, Uncle Zhan!"

Others say that the best actor and actress will have three years of decline because their pay skyrocketed after winning the awards, resulting in no one inviting them to do any movies.

Zhang Guorong is now the number one young actor in 91 Entertainment. With the support of Zhai Yuan, a big name in the entertainment industry, he naturally has no concerns in this regard.

The two spoke in loud voices, and the people around them laughed when they heard it.

Zhai Yuan was sitting in the last row. When he heard the conversation between Huang Zhan and Zhang Guorong, he felt very regretful.

At that time, we should have signed Zhang Guorong to a few more film contracts for a price of 200,000 yuan.

Look at Wan Ziliang. Now people outside are willing to pay him one million yuan for a film. It is as exaggerated as three Lin Qingxia, half of Xu Guanjie, and one-fifth of Chen Shilong. But he is still paid 80,000 yuan per film at 91 Entertainment. Including two episodes of "A Better Tomorrow" and one "God of Gamblers", he still owes the company seven film contracts.

In fact, strictly speaking, the protagonist of "A Better Tomorrow" is Leung Ka Fai, and Wan Ziliang is only the second male lead. He doesn't even need to be paid the full 80,000 yuan, but Boss Zhai is kind.

"In the future, I will sign actors with long-term contracts, make them famous and let them shoot movies for other companies. It's not bad to sit at home and get a commission."

Zhai Yuan was thinking in his mind.

Choosing actors is a matter of luck. After all, there are only a few companies like Jiuyi that have signed newcomers like Wan Ziliang for ten dramas. Who knows if they will sign them today and the actor will make big news tomorrow and be banned and boycotted.

Among the directors who know people best in the Hong Kong circle, Li Xiuxian is one of them. When Stephen Chow was not famous yet, he dared to sign him for ten movies for 70 yuan, which was quite courageous.

As for negative examples, there are too many to count. There was the young actor who was banned for chasing the dragon, and the female actress who was banned for being a big shot and offending a big shot. When the companies that had just signed contracts with them the day before heard the news, they probably felt like the sky was falling.

On the big screen.

The plot of "Wushuang" continues.

Because it needs to be linked to the previous "A Better Tomorrow", the character relationships in the script have changed from the original film.

Di Long's guest appearance didn't have much of a role.

Wan Ziliang and Zhang Guorong still have a lot of roles.

Although Liang Jiahui was still young, his acting skills were not inferior to those of the later King Guo.

The painter Li Wen he played in the movie reminded Zhai Yuan of another movie he starred in, "The Chess King", in terms of temperament when he acted cowardly, and a bit of Zhou Chaoxian in his arrogant manner.

The relationships between the three male protagonists are complicated.

Liang Jiahui fabricated the character of Wu Fusheng played by Wan Ziliang, and Song Zijie took the initiative to investigate. His girlfriend Nishixie Michiko in the previous film applied to be a police officer, replacing the tomboyish policewoman He Weilan in the original film, and had a love-hate relationship with Song Zijie.

The staff of the VIP theater had already watched the movie once in advance, and now they gathered together to enjoy it from a more professional perspective than ordinary audiences.

As a director, Wu Yusen's professional skills in lens are naturally deep and solid. The post-production color adjustment reduced the saturation. The overall texture of the picture is calm, restrained and delicate, which is very different from the bright color schemes of most fashion films on the market.

Compared to the reversal of the plot rhythm of the movie, another highlight of "Wushuang" is the process of making counterfeit money.

In order to shoot this scene, the creators consulted many professionals, but the one who benefited the most was still Zhai Yuan.

With the help of the color-changing ink in the movie, he accidentally figured out the CD laminating technology, and the research and development costs he saved were enough to make another movie.

In the original script copied by Zhai Yuan, the play lasts about 130 minutes and the characters are fully portrayed.

However, for commercial considerations, the length of films produced by Jiuyi Entertainment remains at around 90 minutes.

Several love lines were deleted to make the story in the second half of the original film more compact.

Drama is a battle of binaries.

Most of the exciting scenes in "Wushuang" are driven by the confrontation between the characters played by Leung Ka Fai and Wan Ziliang respectively.

But in the second half of the original film, after telling the audience that Wan Ziliang is a fictional character, the climax ended, but the plot continued to move forward, continuing to deal with the emotional entanglements of several supporting characters, and making some repairs, making the originally compact story immediately become loose and unbalanced.

Zhai Yuan remembered that when he saw this, he pulled the progress bar and his first reaction was: Damn? It's still this long!

In this regard, the narrative processing of "Wushuang" is obviously not as neat and clear as that of "The Usual Suspects" with the same structure.

Why did some viewers in later generations exaggerate the explanation and say that Ruan Wencai was the painter?

One of the reasons is that the narrative structure of the second half of the original film is cumbersome, the emotional line and the line between good and evil are unbalanced, and it misleads the audience.

Another reason is that the audience was dissatisfied with the ending where Li Wen was arrested.

The protagonist was caught just like that?

No, we have to come up with a bigger conspiracy theory!
In the world of drama, the standard for judging good and evil is mainly based on the protagonist. From Chen Haonan to Michael Corleone, there are many endings where the bad guys go unpunished. The climax of "Wushuang" is also after the secret is revealed, when the male and female thieves Li Wen and the fake Ruan Wen live together and fly away, leaving enough space for the audience.

Since it was not in the original film, Zhai Yuan made some changes in his own version.

However, in the Malaysian version, a scene was abruptly added in which Li Wen was betrayed by the fake Nguyen Van Xiuqing and was surrounded by policemen on the sea.

Xiuqing: I’m sorry, I’m a policewoman.

After watching the special edition for Malaysia, Wu Yusen cursed: "How stupid!"

Zhai Yuan thought to himself, this is nothing, you haven’t seen the story of Liu Jianming being arrested and Jimmy being an undercover agent.

Throughout the entire movie.

What impressed the female audience most was the scene where Zhang Guorong was shot and killed.

The character that left the deepest impression on the male audience was Zhong Chuhong.

Zhong Chuhong’s Ruan Wen is great!

Even though Wu Yusen was sensible enough not to film her passionate scenes with the male lead, there was still a scene in the movie where she was smoking in sexy pajamas.

The tall and slender figure is surprisingly well-endowed.

When the movie played this part, the men in the VIP theater stopped discussing and sat upright, looking straight ahead. Zhai Yuan looked at the big screen, then sideways at Zhong Chuhong, then at the big screen, then at Zhong Chuhong's chest.

Not that big?
Zhong Chuhong seemed very calm about her performance in front of the camera. When she noticed Zhai Yuan's gaze, she rolled her eyes at him unhappily.

"It's padded."

"oh oh."

As the movie ended, the film's lively and rhythmic theme song sounded.

The plagiarist Zhai Yuan did not make a move, but asked Wong James and Koo Ka Fai to tailor-make a new song of the same name "Wushuang" for Cheung Kwok-lung. At the same time, their team took charge of the post-production soundtrack of the entire film.

Zhou Huimin sat alone in the corner.

She was still brooding over the last time Zhai Yuan ambushed her in the theater, so she kept her distance from him as soon as she entered the theater.

When she saw the three words "Zhou Huimin" appearing in the music director column on the scrolling end credits, Zhou Huimin's face turned red, but she couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

Even though she felt a little ashamed inside, the right to authorship still had great appeal to a young person who had just started working, even though she herself was aware of her own limitations and had contributed very little to the post-production music.

For big names like James Wong and Joseph Koo, there is no need to sign their names to prove themselves.

Giving the copyright to Zhou Huimin can also avoid taxes, which is a win-win situation.

Zhou Huimin was very excited to share this story. She subconsciously turned around to look at Zhai Yuan who signed her name, but saw that he was chatting and laughing with Zhong Chuhong, and he didn't pay any attention to the subtitles scrolling on the screen. She couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

She made up her mind: "Tomorrow I will bring all my relatives and friends to the theater and point out my name to them... But we have to go to a theater outside, the tickets here are too expensive."

When the screen went off, a group of people walked out the door in twos and threes, discussing what they were doing.

Zhou Huimin also stood up and prepared to leave.

Zhai Yuan was chatting happily with Zhong Chuhong. After waving goodbye to her, he slipped over the seat and shamelessly approached Zhou Huimin.

He asked with a smile: "How did you feel when you saw your name appear on the big screen for the first time?"

Zhou Huimin was startled by Zhai Yuan who appeared beside her. Her first reaction was to cover her mouth.

Zhai Yuan rolled his eyelids and said, "You are judging others by your own standards!"

Zhou Huimin covered her mouth with a smile in her eyes: "I just ate a lot of garlic, you should be careful."

Zhai Yuan scratched his ear: "What did you say?"

Zhou Huimin took her hand off her mouth: "I said..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhai Yuan quickly leaned over and pecked her on the mouth, then smacked his lips as if savoring the taste in front of Zhou Huimin's horrified eyes.

"fraud!"

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Walking out of the cinema, Zhou Huimin followed closely behind Zhai Yuan, shyly lowering her head.

"I am a very curious person. You insisted on lying to me that you ate garlic. If I don't confirm it clearly, I won't be able to sleep well tonight."

Zhai Yuan kept mumbling to himself, and then he looked back at Zhou Huimin, took her hand, and admonished her, "Don't lie to me in the future. The doctor said I have mild depression, and you can easily hurt me like this."

Zhou Huimin had never seen such a shameless person. Her little hand was held by Zhai Yuan. She struggled several times but failed to get rid of it. There were many spectators passing by, so she didn't dare to move too much. She had to accept her fate and let Zhai Yuan drag her away.

Once we got out of the corridor, the noise outside became noisy.

From time to time, one could hear the audience in the theater applauding and cheering, excited that Li Wen had escaped.

Zhai Yuan criticized in his heart: a bunch of guys with distorted values!

The fans of 1024 are very enthusiastic, but such jubilant scenes were rarely seen in movies before .

In Zhai Yuan's impression of his movie-watching career, this kind of enthusiastic audience mostly appears in European and American blockbusters.

For example, when I watched "Avengers" that year, as soon as Spider-Man appeared, the entire theater, led by the female audience, cheered so loudly that it almost lifted the roof off.

"Wushuang" has obviously achieved success by achieving this level.

Pulling Zhou Huimin to the hall.

Many of the audience members preparing to enter the venue recognized Zhai Yuan. When they saw that he was holding hands with a pretty girl of similar age, they immediately showed curiosity in their eyes.

1024 The boss’s girlfriend?

Several familiar members came up to him and said, "Mr. Zhai, long time no see. Did you bring your girlfriend here?"

Zhai Yuan glanced at Zhou Huimin who looked nervous beside him, squeezed her palm, and said with a normal smile: "My apprentice, also a singer under 91, is the music director of the later soundtrack of the movie "Wushuang". Her name is Zhou Huimin. I hope everyone will support her in the future."

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On December 12, "The Owl and Dumbo" directed by Hong Xinbao was released. The production company was his own Xinbao, but it went through Jiahe's cinema chain.

When the news came out, people in the film industry praised Zou Wenhuai for his vision and magnanimity.

This was supposed to be the first movie in which Yang Ziqiong was cast as the heroine after winning the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant. However, due to the butterfly effect, the heroine became Taiwanese actress Hu Huizhong.

Without Yang Ziqiong, it is unknown how long the era of "fighting girls" in Hong Kong will be delayed.

Zhai Yuan did not have a deep impression of this movie. One of the few memorable moments at that time was a long dialogue in which Ma Sichen cursed Yang Ziqiong.

"My name is Bonnie Leung, I'm 19 years old, and I want to find a job. It would be best if I don't have to do anything and can earn over 10,000 yuan a month just by sleeping. Is that possible? Miss, just save your energy! What are you doing? Pretending to be great? If you think you can save a young girl's soul by pretending to be sincere and speaking to us with a few words, Jesus wouldn't have to be crucified..."

This monologue in the play is very realistic, at least for young people in Hong Kong today.

Zhai Yuan bought a new ticket just to watch this monologue.

Watching Ma Sichen spitting all over the play, he couldn't help but feel fortunate in his heart: Fortunately, I am hardworking and talented, otherwise I would be stuck in the quagmire like this gossip, blaming everyone and everything, and maybe even have to be with that idiot Liang Zhichao and be heartless, or join a society and worship a big boss. The best ending is to get a job and get promoted, but if I take a wrong step, I will become one of those friends who pick up syringes everywhere at the back wall of the housing estate.

On December 12, "Merry Christmas" starring Mecca, the major shareholder of New One City, was released, as well as the famous translation of "I Love Bald Heads" by Baodao.

In the original film, Zhang Guorong played a car driver.

Now that he has starred in "A Better Tomorrow" produced by 91 Entertainment, his value has skyrocketed. Naturally, the stingy people at Xinyi City are reluctant to hire him again, and replaced him with another pretty boy who Zhai Yuan has little impression of.

It also happened to avoid the awkward situation in which he and Pak-keung appeared on camera together in this movie in the original time and space.

its not right……

Damn it, Zhang Guorong, why can't you get along with anyone? !
(End of this chapter)