Chapter 38
"Third brother, I was really sorry just now. I almost made a fuss for you!" Yuan Kui said embarrassedly as he looked at the night view outside the car window.
After typing the steering wheel casually, Hong Jingbao replied: "You, you don't know the rules of the midnight event, and you're also giving people face on the spot."
"Didn't I want to vent my anger for Brother Darong? I haven't heard of the director's name before. I didn't expect that I was still Ajin's friend." Yuan Kui said with a fist.
"Hey!" Hong Jingbao sighed: "Darong lost this time, you didn't watch it just now, this movie is very good."
The Darong mentioned by Hong Jingbao is Deng Guangrong. He often plays the big brother of the Jianghu films in the 1980s, and has worked with Liu Dehua, Zhou Runfa, and Lin Qingxia. In the early 1970s, Deng Guangrong went to Taiwan to develop and established a reputation. He made more than 60 movies in Taiwan, and together with Qin Khan and Qin Xianglin, he was called the "student prince" of "Taiwan's three major art films". He returned to Hong Kong two years ago to open a Darong Film Company and invested in filming. Later, Wang Jiawei's "Mong Kok Carmen" and "The Legend of Ah Fei" were invested in filming.
Now, Deng Guangrong has just finished filming a movie called "Family Law", which feels very good. But when he was sent to Jiahe, he found that he was taken first by an unknown small company. The good schedule is gone. How can he not be depressed? In addition, this "Family Law" is also the first movie starring Ren Dahua. It ranked 14th in the Hong Kong movie box office list in 1979, with a box office of 2.4 million.
"It's good. I scared me several times when I watched it. It turns out that ghost movies can still be shot like this." Yuan Kui said, touching his chin.
Ignoring this sentence, Hong Jingbao glanced at the signs outside the car with bright lights and wine and said, "Anyway, you don't do these things offend your colleagues in the future, especially the director. Now, we brothers, Yuan Dao (Chenglong) and I have made a big splash. What about Yuan Hua? I have no big ambitions and have been eating and drinking with Shaw Brothers. I'm waiting for next month's movie. If I can bring out Yuan Pao, my burden will be lighter. Yuan Wu and Yuantai have no plans to go to the film and television industry. Everyone has their own ambitions, and I won't force it. So, what I worry most now is you. You won't want to be a martial arts leader for the rest of your life."
"Third brother, I..." Yuan Kui was so cowardly that he couldn't speak.
Hong Jingbao didn't want to say it too ruthlessly. After all, he was a brother who was together, so he changed his words and said, "I just talked to that Li Xuan in the cinema for a long time. I really want to make a ghost movie."
"Ah?" Yuan Kui was stunned. You should know that in the past two years, Hong Jingbao's action movies are the box office guarantee, which is more reliable than Chenglong. After all, Hong Jingbao has been popular for many years, and Chenglong just became popular last year.
"What!" Hong Jingbao replied: "Come comedy kung fu movies have been rampant in recent years, and the kung fu movies in Yuan Dao reached its peak last year. They were in full swing and declined. I guess this type of movie will not last a few years. If we don't find a way out, we will not starve to death."
"But how do you shoot Kung Fu and ghosts together?" Yuan Kui knew that Kung Fu was their foundation, so even if you shoot a new type of movie, Hong Jingbao would definitely not fall into this root.
"I don't know, I have to think about it." Hong Jingbao stepped on the brake and stopped the car: "You're here, get off the car, don't be late to get started tomorrow."
"I understand, third brother. I'll tell you, please help me ask my sister-in-law." Yuan Kui opened the car door and jumped down.
Looking at Yuan Kui who was so terrifying that he looked like a horse outside the car, Hong Jingbao shook his head and started the car and drove towards the house.
"Damn, fat man, what the hell script you wrote!" Li Xuan threw a script on the coffee table, and the big words "Ghost is so satisfying" were revealed.
"What the hell script! I learned it from you, it's so fierce!" Fatty Wang in the kitchen replied loudly.
The evil spirit? Li Xuan is embarrassed. "Ghosts are so satisfying" says that in a school, some problematic students smoke, drink, fight, and have sex with girls in the toilet in the school. Anyway, all bad things are carried out in the toilet. Then one day, the ghosts in the toilet could no longer bear it and began to retaliate against the bad students who had done bad things in the toilet and violated school rules.
This ghost is much nobler than Sister Jiayazi. I advise people to be kind, what a good educational film!
"Uh, it's very exciting." Li Xuan praised against his will. He knew that Wang Jing's ghost movies were not very good, but the gambling movies and salty and wet movies were first-class.
"By the way, what are you here today? You are here specifically for dinner?" Wang Jin asked again.
"Oh! By the way." Li Xuan hurriedly took out three movie tickets from his pocket and said, "My movie will be released tomorrow. I'll send you tickets. I bought this in person."
Li Xuan has bought nearly twenty movie tickets now, including Wang Jing's family, Fen Sister and others, Zhong Xiaoniu's family, and some messy friends I know, and all the tickets were given for a day. The movie midnight show responded well, which made Li Xuan very confident now. It was the slogan that prohibited heart patients from watching and was laughed at by some tabloids for several days, which made Li Xuan a little depressed.
"Shh!" Wang Jin suddenly rushed out of the kitchen with a spatula, and whispered with his fingers: "Don't mention the movie, it's troublesome when you mention it!"
"What's wrong?" Li Xuan asked curiously.
"My dad..." Wang Jin pointed to Wang Tianlin's room and said halfway, then his nose suddenly sniffed.
Li Xuan also touched his nose: "Are you fried eggs?"
"Damn, I forgot about this. Let me tell you later." Li Xuan's reminder scared Wang Jing and ran into the kitchen with a spatula.
Li Xuan looked at Wang Tianlin's room strangely. At first, he didn't see Wang Tianlin, but he thought he was not at home, but unexpectedly he was hiding in the room. Since Li Xuan started filming his own movies, he has not followed Wang Tianlin everywhere. When he has time, he will watch some movies and draw some storyboard scripts to ask for advice. He doesn't know what happened to Wang Tianlin, so it's probably not a small matter.
"Dad, it's time to eat!" Wang Jin brought the last big bowl of soup, then shouted to Wang Tianlin's room while untiing his apron.
"I won't eat anymore, you can eat!" Wang Tianlin's lonely voice came from the room.
"Forget it. Ajin, let's eat first. My father-in-law is in a bad mood these two days, don't bother him." Wang Jin's wife said beside her with her big belly.
"Okay." Wang Jin thought for a while and said, "Let's eat that Xuanzi first."
Now Li Xuan could no longer hold it back and asked Wang Jin in a low voice before he could take a bite, "What's wrong with Uncle Wang?"
"What else can happen? My dad is losing."
"Stop?" Li Xuan was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Fatty Wang carefully looked at Wang Tianlin's door, and then said in a low voice: "My father wrote and directed a movie, and then he lost."
"Movie?" Li Xuan replied in surprise: "Why don't I know?"
He checked Shaw Brothers' film schedule in February and March, and there was no Wang Tianlin's film at all.
"It was just a few days before you filmed "The Curse", my dad wrote a script." Wang Jin whispered: "Then Shaw didn't like it, so my dad found a small company, and the result was... "
"How is the result?"
"As a result, the big theater was not favored, so I took it to the small theater, and it was released the day before yesterday. I heard..." Wang Jin looked at Wang Tianlin's door again: "I heard that the attendance rate of movies in the past two days is less than 20%.
The attendance rate is less than 20%? It’s still a small theater! Li Xuan was surprised. This time Wang Tianlin lost his home.
"What kind of movie was you shooting?" Li Xuan is now curious about this weird movie made by the great director.
After eating a bite of the meal, Fatty Wang replied: "I don't know, I only know that the name is "Da Dou Da".
"You haven't seen it?"
"I originally wanted to go today, but my dad said who would go to see who broke his leg."
Li Xuan sweated for a while, and this old man probably couldn't afford to lose this person. These big directors from the 1950s and 1960s are almost all frustrated now.
"I won't say it anymore, I won't say it anymore, I'll have a meal!" Wang Jin said a little annoyed.
"Uh..., by the way!" Li Xuan put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, took out the three movie tickets and said, "I haven't given the tickets to you yet, take them!"
Wang Jin didn't take it and kept cooking rice.
"Why don't you want it?" Li Xuan was a little angry. This album was not ashamed of face.
Wang Jin gave Li Xuan a blank look: "I have watched it more than five times, but I really can't stand it anymore. Then you look for it again. Who else can go to see it except me?"
"Uh!" Li Xuan looked at Wang Jin's wife who was eating with an innocent expression on her face.
She can't do it! The big belly woman is scared to death, but she will be killed by a corpse and she can't afford to offend her.
What about old man Wang Tianlin? Even more impossible. You guy ran to a flop to show off, aren’t you looking for death?
Li Xuan suddenly found that these three tickets could not be given away.
(Note: The second-to-last movie directed by Wang Tianlin in "The Great Battle" has an untestable plot. It is a floppy guy, and it is 63rd in the box office list in 1979. After losing several times, Wang Tianlin withdrew from the film director industry and specializes in TV series. He only works as a film producer for the time being.)
Chapter completed!