Hong Kong Entertainment 1979: A Beating Up the Manager at the Start

Sunday.

Li Jiangbo was fast asleep in bed! Zhao Yazhi and Pan Yingzi were lying next to him.

A series of urgent phone rings woke Li Jiangbo up, and he answered the phone impatiently.

Then Chen Xunqi's voice came from the other end. It turned out that Chen Xunqi and Gao Zhisen had finished the post-production of the movie "Wrong Car" and wanted Li Jiangbo to take a look and give it his approval.

Li Jiangbo cursed under his breath, "Damn it! Don't you know you don't work on Sundays?"

However, she agreed anyway, got dressed and prepared to go out, but unexpectedly Zhao Yazhi and Pan Yingzi also got up.

Li Jiangbo didn't wait for the two of them. Just getting them to do their makeup would take half an hour, and choosing clothes would take forever.

Two hours later.

In the small screening room of Time Pictures, the title card for "Wrong Car" appeared, and the end credits song was playing.

Li Jiangbo rubbed his temples.

Pan Yingzi and Zhao Yazhi, who were standing to the side, already had tears in their eyes.

Chen Xunqi and Gao Zhisen watched Li Jiangbo cautiously.

They were terrified of botching the film, as it would jeopardize their position within Time Pictures.

After all, Time Pictures has recently brought in a lot of talent from RTV, and they don't want to fall behind others.

Overall, Chen Xunqi's version of "Wrong Carriage" is not much different from later versions.

Both stories tell the touching tale of a mute veteran who adopts an abandoned baby girl named Amei and raises her with great care and hardship.

There was only a slight change in the casting; Li Jiangbo squeezed in as many people as he could.

The male lead remains the same, still played by Sun Yue from Taiwan, but both the female and male leads have been replaced by people from Time Pictures.

In the film, Ah Mei is played by Zhu Lin, and the male lead whom Zhu Lin loves is played by Wu Qihua.

Chen Xunqi originally wanted to invite Leslie Cheung to act, but unfortunately Leslie Cheung had to release an album and didn't have time to participate.

In the end, it was Li Jiangbo who made the final decision to cast Wu Qihua in the role. After all, they couldn't let Wu Qihua play a villain, otherwise his future acting career might go astray, which would be a loss.

As for the song "If There's No Wine to Sell", Li Jiangbo did not give it to Anita Mui.

It's not that Anita Mui is unsuitable, but rather that Anita Mui, Kwan, Chu, and Chung are a group, and if they're going to sing, they all have to sing. What would it look like if only one person sang?

Finally, Chen Xunqi, in some obscure corner, found Su Rui, the original singer of this song in later generations.

At this time, Su Rui was still unknown, so it was natural for her to join Time Records.

Li Jiangbo coughed twice, patted Chen Xunqi on the shoulder, and said, "Well done, it'll be shown in Taiwan first! I'll take care of the arrangements."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Zhao Yazhi and Pan Yingzi walked up to Chen Xunqi and Gao Zhisen and glared at them fiercely.

Chen Xunqi and Gao Zhisen were somewhat bewildered. Was the movie a success or a failure?

Upon returning to his office, Li Jiangbo immediately contacted Hu Jinquan to discuss the release date of "Wrong Car" in Taiwan.

After discussing the matter with Hu Jinquan, he led his men to the mainland the next day.

What he didn't know was that after watching the film, Hu Jinquan immediately agreed to personally submit it for testing.

Unfortunately, at this time, although film and television production in Taiwan had been opened up, the film industry was facing difficulties.

The silver screen is filled with either martial arts films with sword fights or melodramatic romance films by Qiong Yao.

Even if Hu Jinquan personally submitted the samples for testing, the people at the Film Censorship Office dared not approve them.

Because the people in charge of the electricity inspection department are afraid of making mistakes and afraid of going back to the old system, which would ruin their future.

This made Hu Jinquan, who had readily agreed, lose face, and the old man was so angry that he directly used his connections. He contacted Mr. Mei, the former head of the Central Motion Picture Corporation, and showed him the film.

After General Mei reviewed the film, he took it to the Film Censorship Office, which finally got "Wrong Car" approved.

These are all things to be discussed later.

At this moment, Li Jiangbo is flying in the sky!

This wasn't his first time visiting mainland China, but it was definitely Lin Qingxia's first time.

She remembered the phone call she made to her parents before leaving.

On the other end of the phone, the parents were sobbing uncontrollably. In the end, Lin's father suppressed his emotions and said, "Go. If you find it, take a look for us. If you don't find it... don't be too sad."

Lin Qingxia's trip was somewhat aimless; she had no information about her sister.

I learned that when her parents left the mainland, they left her eldest sister at her grandfather's house, which was in Laisi, SD province.

She didn't know whether the place had been renamed or not. She also didn't know whether her grandparents were still alive.

For over thirty years, all she could do was pray that the name of the small village wouldn't be changed and that her grandparents would still be alive.

Lin Qingxia sighed softly, turned her head, and found Li Jiangbo looking at her.

Li Jiangbo asked, "Nervous?"

Lin Qingxia shook her head, then nodded, "A little."

Li Jiangbo smiled, then turned around and discussed with Zhang Xinyan how to film "Shaolin Temple".

Zhang Xinyan asked, "Director Li, how do you think we should film this?"

Li Jiangbo said, "Shoot however you want. I'm there as a consultant, not to direct the film."

"My idea is this: since we don't have a martial arts instructor, let's just use the entire martial arts team!"

Li Jiangbo nodded without saying anything.

"We still need to select people. Director Chen Wen has already taken his team back, so we need to select new people."

Li Jiangbo looked at Zhang Xinyan with suspicion, "Wasn't the project already approved? Why do we need to select people again?"

Zhang Xinyan said embarrassedly, "Well! The main thing is to choose the main characters. The male lead, female lead, and everything else need to be chosen again."

Li Jiangbo remained silent, somewhat annoyed. Were they asking him to reshoot? What was the difference between having a project approved and not having one?

Seeing that Li Jiangbo remained silent, Zhang Xinyan continued, "How about we adopt the 'whoever hits, makes up' approach?"

"The location also needs to be chosen again; filming at Shaolin Temple is no longer possible..."

Seeing that Li Jiangbo remained silent for a long time, Zhang Xinyan turned around and realized that Li Jiangbo had fallen asleep.

He shook his head helplessly and looked down at the documents in his hand.

Two hours later, the plane landed at Yanjing Airport.

Zhang Xinyan led everyone out of the cabin and out of the gate.

Just as he was calling everyone to get on the bus, he noticed that Li Jiangbo was having a lively conversation with someone.

When I went over to take a look, I realized that he was the deputy director of Beijing Film Studio.

The deputy factory director, surnamed Zhou, was specially sent by Li Hanxiang to pick up Li Jiangbo.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Li Jiangbo said to Zhang Xinyan, "Director Zhang, you can go back now. The movie will proceed as you wish. I'll go visit the set of 'The Burning of the Yuanmingyuan'."

Zhang Xinyan wanted to say something more, but found that Li Jiangbo had already left with Lin Qingxia.

After the two got into the car, Lin Qingxia asked in confusion, "Director Li, where are we going?"

Li Jiangbo said with a smile, "Go see director Li Hanxiang. This guy has been making a movie since last year and he still hasn't finished filming."

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingxia's eyes widened in disbelief as she asked, "Is Director Li Hanxiang filming in mainland China?"

Li Jiangbo nodded. "Yeah! Filming should be wrapping up soon. Let's go check out the set."

Lin Qingxia nodded happily, the initial sense of unfamiliarity completely swept away by her excitement.