Hu Jinquan, Li Hanxiang and Zhang Che are also master directors of Hong Kong movies in the 1970s. Li Hanxiang is good at court drama and drama. Zhang Che is a very hard-core action film director with a bloody and cold style. Several directors in Hong Kong are influenced by
Its influence has promoted countless stars. Just like in history, several big stars and directors such as Li Xiuxian and Wu Yusen gathered together to make a film to congratulate Master Zhang Che on his birthday.
On the other hand, Hu Jinquan is a master, a master of martial arts. He single-handedly made Zheng Peipei, who is praised as the queen of martial arts, popular. Master Hu also has many classic works, which give martial arts a very dazzling brilliance.
Among them, "The Heroine" is even more of a classic. The battle scene in the bamboo forest has been imitated by countless later generations.
With Hu Jinquan as the producer and Xu Ke as the director, Xiao Ran is very confident about "The Swordsman". What I want to mention here is that at Phantom Company, the director is the center, and the producer is only responsible for guiding some directions and strategies.
The problem is that the producer is responsible for the chores. On the set, the director is the biggest, and this is to give the director more passion and inspiration when directing.
Xiao Ran knew very well that if things were done according to the Hollywood Producer Center, then the director would actually be just a wage earner, basically letting the producer direct him like a puppet. While he could not have his own opinion, he would not even have the final editing rights.
It completely strangled the directors’ creative desires.
This is the reason why some very talented filmmakers have achieved nothing after arriving in Hollywood. Hollywood uses money and technology to lure film talents from all over the world to join. Xiao Ran currently falls short in both aspects. He can only open up creative space and give
Really talented people are attractive.
At Phantom, the situation is very strange. Under normal circumstances, as long as this type of director does not have a professional background, most of them have to experience the position of production. Let future directors taste the hard work and fatigue of production first, and then follow up
The crew learned and experienced the filming of the film.
Don't underestimate the position of producer. As mentioned in "The Killer", pre-preparation is definitely one of the most important aspects. Although a producer may not know anything about movies, Xiao Ran requires producers to at least know about shooting and conception of movies.
It takes a certain amount of self-awareness.
Because the producer itself needs to outline the general shooting process of the entire film with the director during the early preparations. The producer needs to have a certain understanding of the film to be able to accurately complete all the preparations the director needs.
In Phantom, production can be said to be a ladder for those who are not graduates of film schools but are aspiring to become directors. Even though Xiao Ran has been promoted a lot in the past two or three years because he needs a lot of talents, he has made an exception.
There are few new directors, but most of them still need to go through such a training period. Therefore, in three years now, the first batch of producers have successfully been promoted to directors.
In Phantom, the director is the center, but not the absolute one. The producer is the person selected by the art director to supervise the filming of the film. However, the producer is responsible for money and schedule, etc., while the producer is responsible for the style of the film and other aspects.
The director’s guidance and reference.
Those who can be producers are most likely to be big directors, such as Xiao Ran himself, or Xu Ke and Wu Yusen. For example, "Peace Hotel" was produced by Wu Yusen. Most of those who can be assigned to these big directors have potential.
New directors, or some important films.
Of course, Xiao Ran doesn't care if the directors he trains film for other companies. Anyway, his goal is not to monopolize Phantom, but to monopolize Hong Kong films. This requires letting go of talents to a certain extent, but the directors signed by Phantom are still quite good.
There are quite a few, such as Xu Ke and Wu Yusen. The truly top talents are still controlled by Phantom. This is the control that Xiao Ran has always longed for.
Seeing Xiao Ran in a daze, Lin Qingxia couldn't help but walked to him, sat down, and patted him gently: "What's wrong? You haven't finished that script yet?"
"Difficult! It's really difficult!" Xiao Ran smiled bitterly. "New Dragon Inn" was almost a complete failure in Europe. If it weren't for the Chinese and some locals who came to support it, it might not even have a box office of 40 million.
"Forget it, you have so many creative ideas and you haven't used them yet!" Lin Qingxia sometimes didn't quite understand her husband. He clearly had some creative ideas but was unwilling to use them to shoot or write them out.
At this point, she gently leaned on Xiao Ran's shoulder and said softly: "Don't tire yourself out!"
"It's okay, how can such a trivial thing bother me!" Xiao Ran stared into Lin Qingxia's eyes. In this look, he saw concern. He couldn't help but smile and said his problem: "You may not know my purpose.
I want to use this film to make Westerners accept martial arts!"
"Actually, I have asked the planning team to investigate various habits of Westerners before..." The investigation report came to Xiao Ran's mind. In fact, he was very aware of some habits of Westerners, but this report was just to give other people in the company a
Just a reminder to remind them to follow these habits to enter the Western market: "Westerners advocate rational thinking, their ideas are always very logical, that is, everything must be scientific!"
Lin Qingxia looked at Xiao Ran's talk quietly. She liked Xiao Ran's appearance. Xiao Ran couldn't help but sigh again. Chivalry is easy to explain, but the problem is that martial arts is difficult to explain scientifically.
Suddenly, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and couldn't help shouting: "Yes, we can add a Western character. Explaining it through this Western character will be more convincing."
When Lin Qingxia saw Xiao Ran so happy, she immediately showed joy. Xiao Ran looked at her excitedly and explained: "They want science, so we will give them science! Take internal strength as an example, we can make it more substantial.
, just say that people’s genes have been changed because of practicing martial arts. In addition, we can also express this kind of thing in other ways!”
Lin Qingxia was stunned. She understood what Xiao Ran said, but she didn't quite understand it. Xiao Ran was so excited that he didn't notice his wife's look, he was just so proud. In fact, of course he knew that martial arts had nothing to do with genes.
But since Westerners want a reasonable explanation, then give them a reasonable explanation.
Martial arts changes the human body's genes, and because this change requires very precise cooperation from all aspects, there are cases where the failure of the change leads to paralysis (obsession) of the practitioner. Moreover, the practitioner's physique must be qualified, as well as all aspects of
, in this way, it should be accepted by Westerners who pay attention to the scientific spirit in everything.
After solving this most difficult problem, Xiao Ran finally explained what he wanted to say, and Lin Qingxia suddenly realized it. However, she quickly put her hands on the desk in confusion and asked: "Is there really martial arts?
"
Xiao Ran chuckled. It didn't matter whether he had it or not. Because what he wanted to express was a relatively exaggerated martial arts story with a fantasy color. In addition, he even imagined his next personal movie.
The look of the work.
He wanted to film Taoism in his next film. Now that he got this inspiration, it suddenly enlightened him. He thought that he could use the superpowers understood in the West to explain Taoism. For example, a spell can be understood as a Taoism general.
Imbue your own abilities on this piece of paper, and then use those words to suppress or enhance the energy on it.
Now Xiao Ran is almost crazy with excitement. As long as he can write these two scripts, he can be regarded as a real screenwriter, instead of the screenwriter who only relied on plagiarism before. This is why Xiao Ran has several classic films in his hands, but he himself
There’s no reason why he didn’t write it, and he didn’t even want to direct it. What he wanted was a reputation that was completely his own, not one earned by plagiarism.
Seeing Xiao Ran dancing around the room crazily for a long time, Lin Qingxia opened her mouth wide and couldn't close it, with a look of surprise on her face. Of course, she was not surprised because of Xiao Ran's screenwriting talent, but because she was surprised that Xiao Ran could figure out such a thing.
I feel so happy about a question.
Seeing Xiao Ran's expression, Lin Qingxia couldn't help but grabbed him in a funny way. Xiao Ran chuckled, hugged her and fell on the bed. He was about to kiss that charming face, but was blocked by a hand.
, Lin Qingxia said seriously: "Dad, have you solved the matter?"
"Not yet!" Xiao Ran smiled softly. He was not worried about this matter at all. If even Mo Huaien couldn't deal with it, then he might as well just quit the game. Anyway, Hollywood will definitely have more vicious tricks later: "
It was Mo Huaien who did it, I don’t want to touch him yet!”
"Mo Huaien?" Lin Qingxia thought for a moment in confusion before remembering that it was the guy who had been pursuing her for a long time. She thought it was for herself, and her face changed slightly: "What on earth does he want to do? He is too practical.
, not easy to deal with!”
Xiao Ran smiled faintly. In his concept, there is no easy opponent. If he is easy to deal with, he is not an opponent. Because Mo Huaien is too practical, he is definitely very interested in doing business. This means that there are shortcomings and disadvantages.
The shortcomings are fatal wounds. Xiao Ran's own fatal wounds are Lin Qingxia and the film career. Whoever can seize these two points will have a chance to defeat him.
However, he still doesn't quite understand what drives a realist like Mo Huaien to take action against him indirectly. The answer is naturally only one, benefit, a big benefit. But what exactly is the benefit and who gives him the benefit? This is still there
Xiao Ran was suspicious.
What confused him was that Mingxuan only had a few hundred million in debt. As long as Phantom took over, he could pay off this debt at any time. Why would Mo Huaien take that piece of land at that time? He gently let go
His fingers danced on his legs while he thought quietly. Unless, unless Mo Huaienzhi was not on that piece of land? Otherwise it would be impossible to win it from Phantom.
Jiahe, Shaw Brothers, Japan's Shochiku, Toho, Niwa, and Toei, as well as South Korea's two major distribution companies, CJ and Corson, all need Xiao Ran to deal with. At least, if he wants to
To dominate the Asian market, these film companies will inevitably become obstacles.
In fact, in South Korea, Xiao Ran already feels very lucky. Because in 1991, large companies such as Samsung, Hyundai and Daewoo in South Korea will all enter the film industry due to certain policy changes, and control the vast majority of cinemas in South Korea with financial resources. If
By then it will be too late to say anything if you try your best.
It's just that it's not easy to deal with so many opponents. Xiao Ran is really worried about this, but there is definitely no way around it, right? His eyes lit up and he smiled strangely!
"Love" was released around Christmas, and the box office reached 40 million. "Bleeding Heroes" was temporarily put in the film library by Xiao Ran because he suddenly realized that it might be necessary to keep his hands on it at all times.
The film has two trump cards in its hands to deal with the attacks of its peers. However, "Bleeding Heroes" is not very suitable to be released during the Spring Festival, and it can definitely be released in May.
As for this year's summer vacation, Xiao Ran has already moved the slot to "Terminator 2" and another campus youth film "Truant School". He can guarantee that Phantom will fill the cinema with various blockbusters every year, making everyone willing to
fanny pack.
As for the current Spring Festival, Xiao Ran plans to focus on two New Year films. One of them is "The Gambler" starring Liu Hua and Wang Zuxian, but this "The Gambler" is completely different from the original version.
It just borrowed this sign, and the other one is "Die Hard" directed by Chen Jiashang, who just took over the job, and starring Li Lianjie.
Of course, don’t think that only these two films will be released during the Spring Festival, but they are mainly based on these two films. There are also two or three other films released at the same time, but there are not so many screening halls.
Art theaters are also showing two literary films. This is the advantage of controlling the theaters, and you can adjust them as you like.
No other company has the ability to launch two major films during the Lunar New Year, firstly because there are fewer theaters, and secondly because they do not have as strong a production capability as Phantom. This time Golden Harvest's film is "Miracle", while Debao's is a Xiao Ran
It's a completely unimpressive comedy-romance film. The director also just debuted. The title of the film is "Heavenly Love", and Tianluo Company is mainly focusing on a realistic action film produced by Mai Dangxiong.
Seeing that the Spring Festival was not far away, at Xiao Ran's request, the Film Association held a meeting. It was still dominated by the four major companies. In fact, it was pointless for other companies to come because they couldn't talk at all. However, this time,
In addition to the four major companies, there are also several other small distribution companies participating.
Wu Siyuan still stayed in the chairman's position, and the others sat down in order according to their respective strengths. Wu Siyuan cleared his throat and said to everyone present: "Actually, this time it will be the meeting requested by Mr. Xiao.
Well, why don't we listen to what he has to say!"
Xiao Ran stood up, walked slowly around the conference room with a smile, and allowed other people to glance at him with doubtful eyes. It was not that Xiao Ran was pretending, but he was considering expressing his meaning in such a tone. If it were more severe, it would be better
It's not impossible, but it would be a bit too showy.
Thinking of this, Xiao Ran smiled softly, glanced at the bosses who were staring at him and said calmly: "Last year, all the bosses must have made a lot of money."
"Mr. Xiao, what do you mean?" Zou Wenhuai stared at Xiao Ran dissatisfied. He was not as free as Xiao Ran. He Guanchang was enough for such a meeting, why bother to invite him too: "Everyone is very busy.