"You won't go back to work?"

"Xiaoyu and Vivian both know that I'm here. If there is something wrong, she will come to me." Chen Chong leaned lazily on the chair and said, "Let me rest for a while."

The sound of chickens is the moon in the hut, and the frost of people is on the hut.

Although in 19RU, the convenience of transportation and the comfort of accommodation conditions were far beyond that of ancient times, changes in the environment and time and space always made people feel lonely and tired. After rushing off the plane, I rushed to the company and wanted to handle official business, but as soon as I sat down in Zhang Aijia's office, I didn't want to move.

"Then you can sleep here for a while."

"I'm not sleepy, I just don't want to work." Chen Chong looked out the window aimlessly, chatted with Zhang Aijia, and asked, "Who are they treating you to dinner?"

"You can't stay idle when you say you don't want to work and ask these things again." Zhang Aijia threw a beautiful little notebook over and said, "I have recorded all the names of people, you can read them yourself."

"You are quite thoughtful." Chen Chong picked it up, flipped it around, and then put it down. People with real backgrounds would go to Wei Jingmeng and would not come to Hong Kong to harass Zhang Aijia. He asked again: "What do you say to them?"

"I'm talking about the master's affairs, I can't control it." Zhang Aijia looked down at the copywriting he wrote and said, "I'm really curious. Is your head different from others? I have been thinking about it for a long time and you can think of it after a glance."

"Don't forget, I wrote the script." Chen Chong was arrogant. He returned to the topic just now and said, "Doesn't it seem too shameful to say that?"

"They don't treat me for my face." Zhang Aijia said indifferently: "I've never made $1 billion in my life, so how dare I talk nonsense? If you say the wrong thing and make you lose money, maybe one day I will sell me to pay off my debt."

"I can't bear to bear it. You are much more expensive than $1 billion."

Zhang Aijia looked up and gave a smile and said, "When will you settle your investment matters?

"What's wrong?"

"Someone always comes to harass me." Zhang Aijia said distressed, "I have been hiding in Tibet recently and I don't dare to stay in the same hotel for two nights, otherwise I will be blocked by someone the next morning."

"Then where do you live?"

"I made some money in 11u Pi a few days ago. I lived with Qingxia these two days. She bought a house in Hong Kong before, so I can live there after cleaning up."

"She has come to Hong Kong?"

"Well. The last time you talked in Los Angeles, she was going to come to Hong Kong to develop."

"A wise decision." Chen Chong picked up the pencil again, slowly drew pictures on Zhang Aijia's small notebook, and said, "You can make an appointment for me. I will sign a contract with her for a few movies first."

"Look at you, you're sure she signed a contract with you? Now many film companies are grabbing her."

"Little Fish and Xiaoxiao dare to compete with me?" Chen Chong smiled and said, "She is the most valuable female star in Hong Kong and Taiwan. She can't afford to hire a small company, and she can't make a good movie even if she can. Shaw Brothers and Jiahe are both the world of star-playing stars. If she doesn't sign a contract with me, who will she sign with?"

"You're an old calendar." Zhang Aijia said proudly, "I am the most valuable female star in Hong Kong and Taiwan. A few days ago, General Manager Ming of China Film and Television called me and offered a NT$4 million in pay and asked me to make a movie."

Chen Chong calculated the exchange rate silently in his heart and said, "It's not too much for NT$4 million, NT$500,000."

"Of course not much for you. You make money in one or two days. It's a lot for a young actor like me. Aaron Cheng is so popular, and it's only UU ten thousand Hong Kong dollars."

"How much did Brigitte Lin pay in the past?"

"It depends on the relationship. Those who know each other only have NT$00,000, and those who don't know each other only have NT$3 million. However, she had so many things last year and didn't film much. Now Lin Fengjiao's salary is more than 100,000 yuan higher than her." Zhang Aijia sat behind her desk, writing her own things while chatting with him, saying, "Don't compare prices in Hong Kong with Taiwan. You can buy a big shop on Zhongxiao East Road with NT$0,000."

Chen Chong nodded absent-mindedly. He was not a person who liked to involve other people's feelings. He did not ask about the emotional gossip between Brigitte Lin and Qin Han, but asked: "What movie should Mingji ask you to act in? It's not another anti-Japanese war movie, right?"

"No, it's a Huangmei tune song and dance film called "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves". Zhang Aijia looked up at him and said, "Lingbo and I were in a opposite scene, telling the story of Guo Ziyi of the Tang Dynasty. It is adapted from "Drunk and Beat Golden Branches". Do you know this scene? Many local dramas in China have this song. Manager Ming asked me to play Guo Ziyi's daughter-in-law Princess Shengping, and Lingbo plays Guo Ziyi's son Guo Yan."

"How could Zhongying suddenly make a fuss and go to film dramas and musical films?" Chen Chong was surprised and said, "Where is anyone watching such a movie now."

"Why didn't "Nine-rank Sesame Official" has a box office of more than 1 million in Hong Kong?"

"That was brought up by the Academy Awards. If there were no Academy Awards, it would be good to have a box office of 100,000." Chen Chong analyzed while doodling: "Most of the audiences of "Nine-rank Sesame Officials" were middle-aged and elderly people who fell into Hong Kong during the Civil War. They watched not movies, but the taste of their hometown. When young people went to watch it, they just wanted to be fresh, and the yellow plum tunes were different. Shaw Brothers had already shot it badly. It had neither the taste of their hometown nor the sense of freshness, so it was difficult to have a good box office."

"You mean to tell me not to take on this show?"

"That's not. If you are interested, you can try it. Traditional Chinese opera has declined very well, and opera songs and dance films are even more extinct movie types. I'm afraid that in a few years, it will disappear without a trace. If you don't act now, you will never have the chance to act in the future."

"I think so too, and I really want to act with Ling Bo. You know, when I was a kid, she was very popular in Taiwan."

"Well, in Madman City, 100,000 people welcomed each other." Chen Chong didn't raise his head and asked, "Who is the director of this movie?"

"Kinghan, do you know?"

Chen Chong thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I don't remember."

"I don't even know, but you still want to be the king of movies." Zhang Aijia joked about him and then introduced: "King Han is Lingbo's husband. He used to be a actor of Shaw Brothers. After the contract expired, he went to Taiwan. A few years ago, he set up a film company, directed by himself, and starred by Lingbo. He also invited Li Lihua back from the United States to play Jia Mu. He filmed a movie "New Dream of Red Mansions", and played the stage with "Golden and Jade Dream of Red Mansions" starring Qingxia. This year he wanted to make another movie, but he didn't know what happened. Zhongchao fell in love with their "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" and wanted to invest in a co-production."

When Chen Chong heard this, he looked up and asked with interest: "It turns out that he is the director of "New Dream of Red Mansions". Speaking of which, who won the battle between Red Mansions in the end?"

In 1977, Shaw Brothers took out the Yue Opera Movie Dream of the Building, which he filmed in 2019 and re-released. Unexpectedly, it became very popular and the box office was popular. In addition, TVH and Jiayi TV were both filming TV series "Dream of the Building" at that time, which triggered a wave of film companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan competing for the filming of "Red Buildings". From the end of 1977 to the beginning of 1978, in just a few months, a total of five "Red Buildings" movies were released, including Leslie Cheung's erotic film "Lu Chun Shang Chun"...

In the rush of "Red Houses" movies, "The Golden Marriage of Red Mansions" starring Brigitte Lin and Aijia Zhang, "The New Dream of Red Mansions" starring Ling Bo, and Li Jing, the highest quality and most famous.

The director of "The Dream of Red Mansions" is Li Hanxiang, the soundtrack is Wang Fuling, Baochai is Mi Xue, Zijuan is Deborah, Wang Xifeng is Hu Jin, Jia Mu is Wang Lai, Jia Zheng is Yue Hua, and it can be said to be an all-star lineup. "New Dream of Red Mansions" is also not weak, the screenwriter is Cheng Dieyi, the soundtrack is Wu Dajiang, Jia Mu is Li Lihua, and Jia Zheng is Zhao Lei - only director Jin Han is the lowest-famous, so Chen Chong can't remember it.

Most of the staff of these two crews are Shaw Brothers or former Shaw Brothers, so the competition between the two sides is very fierce. Before the filming starts, they complain to each other in the newspaper, fighting and having fun. It is a famous vicious competition in Hong Kong film history.

"We won in Hong Kong. The box office of "The Dream of Red Mansions" was more than 00,000, while the New Dream of Red Mansions" was only more than 0,000,000." Zhang Aijia was impressed by the dispute and said: "I won in Taiwan's "The Dream of Red Mansions" because Kim Han complained to the News Bureau that the movie we made was illegal and then banned and could not be released. It was just that he won an art design award at the Golden Horse Awards later."

Chen Chong was about to ask in detail, but at this time the knock on the door sounded. Gu Liwei walked in and said, "Sister Zhang, I'm disturbing. Mr. Chen, you have your phone number and it's Manager Zhang of China Resources."

"Oh, I got it." Chen Chong stood up. Before going out, he spread his notebook open and handed it to Zhang Aijia, and said, "How about these two posters I drew?"

Zhang Aijia took it and saw two car windows on the page on the left, one man and one woman sitting back to back, and one rail was drawn on the page on the right, with two rails at the ends of the rails, one man and one woman, each facing different directions.

The level of the painting is very poor, the rails are slanted and crooked, and the portraits are like children's graffiti, but the meaning is clearly expressed. One is the beginning of an encounter, and the other is the end of separation.

Very abstract, but uniquely beautiful.

Zhang Aijia looked up, her eyes were shiny, and she said, "I like it very much."

"Then you can find an artist to draw it."

In later generations, the cost of a poster design for a Hollywood blockbuster may exceed 100,000 US dollars, because the poster can give the audience the most intuitive impression, and is the lowest cost and best-effect movie promotion method. There is a saying in the industry that "a good poster equals a UU thousand box office", so Chen Chong has always attached great importance to the design of posters. He personally reviewed "Crazy Job" and "Die Hard".

However, in 19RU, there was no large-screen color display, no high-performance graphics card, and no image processing software. The design of posters was very limited. Either they pieced together the stills or painted in watercolors. Although it had a classical atmosphere, Chen Chong didn't like it because this way of posters could not express the beauty and artistic conception of the movie, so he wanted to simplify the complex and express the beauty and romance of the movie with the most concise lines, which would make people remember it more.
Chapter completed!