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Eight hundred and thirtieth chapters [Kaishou's lessons learned]

Levels, all geniuses must be divided.

From tribes in ancient times to later dynasties, countries, and even to modern society, the term hierarchy has never withdrawn from the long river of history.

For a "director", his level is of course largely determined by the box office of the movie he shoots.

"Be particular?"

In terms of box office, those present, Wang Jing, Wu Yusen, Johnnie Feng, Liu Guanwei, and even Xu Ke, who joined Zongheng Film with his personal studio, could not find a reason to "dispute".

Materialism is prevalent in Xiangjiang.

If some people don’t understand materialism, then changing the vocabulary and "focus on reality" is also OK.

For these directors, it is a very realistic and natural idea to hope that their movies will sell at a high box office.

Think about it, now, the Hong Kong film industry in the 1980s is so prosperous. Every day, I don’t know how many large and small film companies are starting to work in the entire Hong Kong.

Although most movies are filmed, there is no chance to be released.

So, why is this???

There is nothing else, but the interests, to put it bluntly, it is money.

If a movie can be sold well, it will definitely be a "legal" huge profit. Take Zongheng Pictures' movie "The True Color of Heroes" for example. The shooting funds are only 20 million, less than 30 million Hong Kong dollars.

But what about the economic benefits it generates?

Its local box office in Hong Kong broke the box office record of Hong Kong movies, and was also extremely popular in Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and the entire Southeast Asia, and even entered the European and American markets.

In the end, what Zongheng Pictures gained was at least hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

Not to mention, it also has included copyrights, souvenirs, peripherals, videotapes, etc., which is also a continuous source of wealth. The economic benefits generated by a movie are so far.

This is enough to be called huge profits.

Others, no matter what business you do, can you achieve profits several times the cost in such a short time, and there is no risk at all?

It seems, no.

Therefore, under this situation, the inflow of hot money in Southeast Asia seems to be "taken for granted".

Of course, they can't take care of whether the movies they shoot can be released and whether there are theaters. At least whether the box office will be sold well is even more out of their consideration.

Everyone who wants to make a fortune believes in their own luck and "strength".

So, in this case, the directors of Xiangjiang naturally also watched the box office of the movie very heavily. Otherwise, the box office will not be good at that time and the investors will lose money, who will ask you to make a movie?

"Ahem."

"Boss, don't know what you mean by what you mean? What aspect?"

If the people present had to find out the one who was most satisfied with the "director hierarchy" introduced above, and the happiest one would probably belong to Wang Jing.

After several times, Wang Jing has never been afraid of anyone when it comes to box office.

For a long time, Wang Jing's purpose in filming movies is to judge everything by box office, and investors cannot lose money. As for other types of movies, is it not as good as the price, or is it shitty, peeing, or even vulgar...

This is not within Wang Jing's consideration.

He only understands one thing: "A film director who can't make money and even lets investors lose money is definitely not a good director."

Wang Jing, who adheres to this "concept", has also practiced this very well. Whether it was at Shaw Brothers Pictures or now Zongheng Pictures, Wang Jing's movies basically have no "connotation" at all.

Therefore, it is simply amazing to be based on box office. He raised his hands and agreed with both feet.

If this comes, with his movie box office, wouldn’t this “No. 1 director” of Zongheng Pictures be worthy of its name, and it has also been “officially certified”?

The attraction of this glory is something that Wang Jing cannot resist.

Therefore, after his "big boss" said the words "specialized", as the "representative", Wang Jing was the first to ask "can't wait" for him.

"Whether this movie is sold or not is the key."

"But as a top-notch film company in Hong Kong, our Zongheng Pictures cannot be completely judged by box office, and even only box office, which is no different from nouveau riche."

"What we Zongheng Pictures need to do is the wealthy family among the film companies."

Nouveau riche, also known as a newbie in French, refers to a person who has obtained considerable wealth in a short period of time. Most of the time, it is used to describe cultural level and moral quality but fail to keep up. It is different from aristocrats and wealthy families and is a derogatory term.

Chapter 53 of "The Scholars": "It is also those nouveau riche families. If it were my family, how dare he be bold!"

The first chapter of "Official Appearance": "The great official in the city, Hanlin, Shangshu, have we served so many times, and have never seen him, a prisoner nouveau riche, be a master in our face!"

Cao Yu's "Kyoto Man" Act 1: "The Du family next door forced us to debts every day."

From the above allusions, it is not difficult to see that people's general contempt for "novas". Whether in ancient times or modern times, it is a derogatory term that makes people look down upon.

For a film company, if it only takes into account the box office of the movie, then other people's impression of it will definitely not be good.

For example, Kuaishou.

As a magical software, Kuaishou has grown from 100 million users to 500 million users in just two years, becoming a "mass application software".

However, it is not so beautiful to people's reputation.

It is vulgar and has become the impression of many people on this software, and those big, well-founded brands and advertisers also keep a distance from Kuaishou.

Although it has a large number of users, that's all.

Why?

This is because of Kuaishou’s “nova” temperament, its platform is full of “vulgar” content. It would be fine if it was just a part, but most of it would be later.

Everyone’s impression of “Kuaishou” is frozen in “vulgar” and “nova”.

Once this impression is confirmed, it is really difficult to change it, and there is basically no big possibility. This is no different from those entertainment stars who cheat on him or her for the rest of their lives.

From Mo Xuan's perspective, of course he didn't want Zongheng Film, which he founded, to be regarded as a "nova" and a "gathering place for shit, piss and farts", that was not what he wanted.

Of course, you have to make money.
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