Chapter 225 New Art City
The auditions took place over two days.
Chen Qi chose several alternatives, including Yuan Jieying and Zhu Yin. Yuan Jieying was like a tomboy, and Zhu Yin was too sweet, so neither of them actually fit the role.
This character needs to be pure and show a subtle charm, because her real age is 33 years old. She likes mature men and longs for **** with mature men, so she seduced her former adoptive father, but she couldn''t get what she wanted. Restless desires are suppressed deep in my heart.
By the way, when I watched the original version of "Orphan", I really wanted to complain. With the high incidence of pedophilia in the United States, it''s amazing that she still suppresses her sexual desire.
In short, the audition is still going on. If it doesn''t work, he can only resort to metaphysics!
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There is a rich man in Hong Kong named Lei, who owns Kowloon Bus, Kowloon Construction and other industries.
He also wanted to enter the film industry, so he formed a Golden Princess Cinema chain with more than a dozen theaters, second only to Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. Once you have a theater chain, you have to find film sources, so Boss Lei fell in love with a small company.
The small company is a partnership between Mai Jia, Shi Tian and Huang Baiming.
Mai Jia is an engineer who switched careers to filmmaking and has a bald head. Shi Tian is a senior actor who has filmed "Snake" and "Drunken Master". Huang Baiming is a dramatist and is good at writing scripts.
The three hit it off and became famous. Later, they were acquired by Boss Lei and reorganized a company called "New Art City".
After that, I found Tsui Hark, Shi Nansheng, Eric Tsang, and Teddy Robin. These are the famous Seven Eccentrics of New Art City!
This is how they create:
The seven-member team meets late at night every day until early morning, brainstorming ideas and coming up with new ideas. Huang Baiming will put on a tape recorder to record the conversation and compile it into words.
Once the script is finalized, no one is allowed to change it.
Even though Chen Qi is talking about New Art City, he is convinced of some of their contributions. For example, a 90-minute movie will be divided into 9 parts:
The beginning must be eye-catching, and then it should be foreshadowed and transitioned. A relatively large climax should be set in the fourth part, another climax should be arranged in the seventh part, and the biggest climax should be arranged as the ending in the ninth part...
This has become standard practice in Hollywood.
New Arts City''s movies are also the closest to the Hollywood model in Hong Kong. They are willing to spend money and make large-scale productions. If they persist, they may not be able to achieve greater glory.
It''s a pity that he died in civil strife.
Huang Baiming holds 9% of Xinyi City''s equity, Shi Tian holds 19%, and Maijia and Golden Princess Cinemas jointly hold 72%. Tsui Hark and the other four people are called the core team in a nice way, but they are actually high-level wage earners.
It doesn''t matter if you have passion when starting a business, but once you have too much wealth, the spoils will be unevenly distributed. The success of New Art City was full of calculations, but it only lasted for six years and then disbanded, leaving behind the "Best Partner" series, "Happy Ghost" series, "The Wrong Ride", "A Better Tomorrow" and many other classics...
At this moment, Xinyi City Office.
Seven Monsters is studying the filming of "The Best Partner". This film has an investment of 8 million, of which 2 million is for Hui Guanjie''s salary. The scale of investment is one of the best in Hong Kong and there is no room for error.
“…”
Tsui Hark was not very focused when listening to others talking. To be honest, he didn''t like this kind of purely commercial film without nutrition, but he had no choice but to eat.
“…”
Zeng Zhiwei was also a little distracted. It was nothing more than what the mainland guy named Chen said in the newspaper a few days ago: "There is a problem with the distribution of interests within Xinyi City. It will fail in three to five years!"
He is the director of "The Best Partner". At most he gets a director''s fee and a red envelope. He has nothing to do with the bulk of the profit sharing! No one had thought about this before, but when it was suddenly pointed out, it was difficult not to think about it.
"Awei? Awei?"
"Did you remember what we just said?"
"Remember it, I''m very smart and I won''t make a mistake in a word!"
Zeng Zhiwei reacted and let out his trademark hehehe laughter.
"Well, "Best Partner" has staked our family fortunes. You have to be careful. If you make money, we will prosper together. If you don''t, we will go out together!"
As the boss, Mai Jia boosted morale, but in fact he knew better and secretly scolded the mainland boy. Naturally, he would not take the initiative to mention it if he took the big lead, and could only pretend to be confused. It can be said that Xinyi City, which originally had a few years of glory, was buried in advance. After studying the matter, the meeting was about to end when an employee suddenly came in.
"Boss, someone sent a greeting note."
"Better greetings?"
Everyone was stunned. Mai Jia looked at a red letter and frowned: "In what age are there still greetings? Some old antique crawled out of the ground. Should I send him a reply and have a book boy..."
His voice stopped suddenly because he had already opened it and dropped out a business card and a concise letter.
The general idea is: The last time I came to Xiangjiang, I was in a hurry and couldn''t see him. This time I come to Hong Kong again. I have heard for a long time that your company is full of talents and famous in Hong Kong. I will visit you tomorrow morning to discuss important matters.
The business card said: Oriental Culture and Arts Co., Ltd. Chen Qi!
This is nothing, the key is that there is a title on it: directly starting with the country, then the ministry, and then the Bureau of International Cultural Liaison!
The font is in traditional Chinese, which is obviously a business card specially used in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is rented from the UK. Coming here is equivalent to leaving the country, so naturally you need to add your full name to show your identity.
“…”
Mai Jia''s heart twitched and he pushed the letter and business card to Shi Tian. Shi Tian read it expressionlessly and then pushed it to Huang Baiming.
After the round of communication was completed, the atmosphere was very strange for a while. Huang Baiming spoke first: "What are you doing? What does he mean by throwing a letter over? Are mainland personnel coming to inspect? Should we roll out a red carpet to entertain him?"
"Do you want to engage in activities and exchanges with us?" Shi Tian asked.
"No, no, I want to find out first, is he an official or a private person?" Zeng Zhiwei said.
Mai Jia is from Taishan, Guangdong. He came to Hong Kong when he was 14 years old. He understands a little better than them. He scratched his bald head and said: "He should be in an official company, a national enterprise, and there is a hierarchy."
"???"
Everyone is still very subtle.
The system is too alien to them!
Huang Baiming waved his hand and said: "Forget it, these are not important. The important thing is what should we do? He is a mainlander who wants to come to our place. If the Free Federation finds out, it will be very bad."
"Then we avoid it?"
"It''s OK if you don''t let him in. Block him at the door!"
"Then why don''t we be more forceful and let him know how powerful we are?"
Um? ? ?
Mai Jia looked at Huang Baiming who had put forward his opinion, shook his bald head and said, "Please, he represents the mainland official. Are you being tyrannical to him? The UK doesn''t even dare to be tyrannical to the mainland!"
He knocked on the table and said: "It''s better to avoid it. We can always avoid it!"
The meeting ended immediately.
As Tsui Hark walked away, Shi Nansheng caught up with him and asked, "Don''t you think it''s a bit weird for that person to come to visit?"
"Why is it weird?"
"He first said something bad about us in the newspaper, and then suddenly came over, as if he was targeting Xinyi City."
"As long as it''s not directed at me, I just want to film!"
Tsui Hark quickened his pace and entered the elevator. Shi Nansheng rolled his eyes and followed him in. The two had been dating for three years and were already talking about marriage.
Tsui Hark had never been patient with these mundane matters, so Shi Nansheng had to be more tolerant.
(End of chapter)