Chapter 106 Not that Arrogant (28)

Chapter 106 Not that...arrogant (28)

Arriving at the hotel prepared by the crew of "The Best in the World"...

I'm a little disappointed. Shen Xudong lives in either a large suite as Chen Hao said, or an ordinary suite...

Of course, the environment is good and quite large, with a living room, bedroom, washroom, shower room, toilet...

A few of them are 60 square meters and equipped with large balconies, opposite Taihu Lake...

Maybe it was because Shen Xudong needed a quiet environment, so his room was in the corner.

Clean up first.

He brought a big box and a backpack. In the box were underwear, two sets of clothes, a pair of shoes, a laptop computer and a Doraemon figurine.

Inside the backpack are some snacks, headphones, MP3s and a few books...

When I came up, I asked, the hotel has broadband access, and there will be a network port in the guest room, and a network cable is available for passengers to use.

Of course, in order to prevent the loss of the network cable, there is no network cable in the guest room. You usually get it from the front desk or floor attendant and hand it back when you check out.

Shen Xudong connected to the Internet cable and tested the Internet speed...

It can only be said that it is better than nothing.

Fortunately, he wasn't going to use the computer to download anything, just send and receive emails!

After about half an hour, the cleaning was completed.

Just as I was about to go to bed and lie down for a while, I suddenly heard a "dong dong dong" knock on the door outside.

"Xudong, are you okay?"

"…immediately!"

"We'll wait for you downstairs, let's go meet the director."

"Okay, five minutes!"

It was Zhuang Liqi who called him...

Shen Xudong quickly changed into clean clothes, tidied his hair a little, and went straight downstairs...

…

Since the 1980s, "costume martial arts" has become synonymous with Hong Kong dramas in the minds of mainland audiences.

"Fearless" was the first Hong Kong drama to be introduced to the mainland. This drama set the trend of introducing Hong Kong dramas - preferring martial arts dramas!

After 1995, works such as "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Sword" continue to be popular in the mainland.

After 1999, Hong Kong TV drama directors went north to develop their careers, with costume and martial arts dramas being their top choices!

Mainland investors’ initial impression of these TV drama directors from Hong Kong is that they film Hong Kong dramas – they must be very good at filming costume dramas and martial arts dramas.

Indeed, period films are about Jianghu, a world of martial arts. The director must have a strong belief and believe in the existence of this world, and only then can you dare to use your imagination to realize it. Most TV drama directors in Hong Kong have been filming this aspect since they entered the industry, so they are relatively comfortable with it.

The chief director invited by "The Best in the World", Feng Baiyuan, was born in Hong Kong TVB. In his early years, he directed "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Sword" (Tony Leung's version). Later, he was hired as the director of the Chinese drama group of Singapore National Television and participated in dozens of Singaporean costume and light films. He has produced TV dramas with various themes including comedy, country and suspense. He returned to Hong Kong in 1989 and then ushered in his masterpieces "Big Time" and "Intolerance"...

Judging from his resume, he is better at fashion film production, but... there are no fashion films in the mainland TV drama market at this stage, and there is no room for him to develop...

The reason why he agreed to the invitation of "No. 1 in the World" was mainly because Tang Ren had nothing to do with him for the time being. Li Guoli was filming "Dandelion", an urban youth romance drama.

Feng Baiyuan was very free, so he simply took Huang Weiming and the makeup, lighting, and photography teams to take on "The Best in the World"...

Cheng Xiaodong, no introduction needed, martial arts instructor...

He has a very good relationship with Ah Mou. When Gong Li went south to develop her career, Ah Mou went to Hong Kong to accompany her for a while, and by the way, she filmed "Ancient and Modern War between Qin Terracotta Warriors". The director was Cheng Xiaodong...

Feng Baiyuan and Cheng Xiaodong are old acquaintances.

The two met and chatted for a while. After waiting for half an hour, Zhuang Liqi, Chen Hao, Shen Xudong and... Tang Yan came in!

Well, Tang Yan has basically confirmed that she will join Chengtian, and Zhuang Liqi also gave her the role of Princess Lixiu...

Zhuang Liqi brought three people with him and basically told the director team that these three were the investors!

…

"Producer Zhuang!"

"Teacher Xiaodong, Teacher Feng, Teacher Huang..."

Zhuang Liqi said hello first, then pulled Tang Yan and Shen Xudong to introduce: "This is Director Feng...this is Director Cheng, this is Director Huang..."

"Hello…"

Shen Xudong smiled and stretched out his hand...

Tang Yan also exchanged pleasantries.

"This is our screenwriter Shen Xudong!"

Cheng Xiaodong looked Shen Xudong up and down: "...are you Shen Xudong?"

"right…"

"I have watched your "Phoenix Screening Room", and there is a clip introducing director Cheng Gang..."

Cheng Gang is Cheng Xiaodong’s father…

He was also one of the famous directors of Shaw Brothers at that time...

Known as a tyrannical director, regarding his evaluation, "Screening Room" excerpted an excerpt from "Chang Cheh's Memoirs: Film Criticisms": "Among the directors of my generation, Cheng Gang is undoubtedly a successful and good director. His reputation is not as good as that of Li Hanxianghe." Me, it’s just because of the small amount of works. To be honest, both Li Hanxiang's and my works are "legendary", but he definitely does not. He has extremely high demands on others and himself, and must do a good job.

Xiaodong (Cheng Xiaodong) was often beaten by him when he was young. When he was his martial arts instructor, he was also punished to kneel in public. His parenting has reached an unreasonable level. When making a film, he often had to retake it if he was not satisfied with it. After the entire film was shot, the editing was also changed repeatedly.

Run Run Shaw said he was "looking for an hour among tens of thousands of feet of film" and even had to be denied access to the editing room before he could finally "deliver the goods". ’

Including Li Hanxiang, the leader of the Bagua sect, he also wrote in his memoir "Thirty Years from the Beginning" that "The filming of "Fourteen Heroes" took almost two years. The more we filmed, the more discouraged and listless we were. Finally, we got the call." They all refused to come, either because they had something to do or they were sick.

One day, Cheng Gang couldn't bear it anymore and scolded his son Xiaodong severely in front of everyone. Xiaodong knelt down and begged for mercy, but he still refused. In the end, he kicked Xiaodong down and picked up Yang Zongbao. The red tassel of the gun flicked, and the gun was stabbed. Everyone swarmed up and helped Xiaodong up from the ground. You and I pled for the child with every word...'

Hu Jinquan also commented that ‘The relationship between Cheng Xiaodong and his father Cheng Gang is not good (laughing)’…

"...I pieced it together based on news reports and the memoirs left by many filmmakers...If I am offended..."

Shen Xudong's "Screening Room" rarely contains private goods, especially when it comes to things from the 1960s and 1970s, and basically does not include personal opinions...

Cheng Xiaodong waved his hand: "No, no, I just thought you did a great job that time!"

"…Thanks!"

Shen Xudong thanked him, and then Chen Xiaodong and Zhuang Liqi started chatting...

Feng Baiyuan and Huang Weiming also joined in...

I feel like these Hong Kong filmmakers and TV people are not as arrogant as I imagined!

They talked about the behind-the-scenes stories of film and television works.

Zhuang Liqi met these people in 1993...

By chance, in 1993, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television issued a notice titled "Several Opinions on Deepening the Current Mechanism Reform of the Film Industry", announcing 10 important decisions that would have a far-reaching impact on the Chinese film industry, including opening up movie ticket prices in principle, reducing personnel establishment, actively participate in the supply of cable TV films, strengthen the production of video tapes and VCDs, gradually cancel the unified purchase and sales policy, etc.

The most far-reaching one is the abolition of unified purchasing and marketing - domestic feature films will no longer be uniformly distributed by China Film Company, but will be distributed and screened directly by the film studios themselves to the film market.

Under this film industry reform and opening up policy, the biggest and most direct impact on the mainland film industry is that it has set off a wave of in-depth cooperation between mainland film studios and Hong Kong film companies.

"The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" produced by Shanghai Film Studio and Jiahe, including "New Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Tonglao" and "The Six-Fingered Piano Demon" are all jointly produced by Shanghai Film Studio...

It was at that time that Zhuang Liqi had her initial impression of these Hong Kong filmmakers...

Chen Hao suddenly interjected: "This cooperation model should be very good. Why hasn't it been continued?"

Zhuang Liqi was about to answer when he saw Shen Xudong who was speechless, so he said: "... Xudong, you tell me!"