Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 374

Due to Tang Huanmou's habit of making decisions before acting, the film "Fang Shiyu" he personally supervised took a little longer to prepare, but after the project was officially launched, various advantages of large-scale industrial manufacturing were reflected, such as the first and second films. The department was filmed directly with Arrival.

The reason for this is that apart from being greedy to save trouble and cost, it is also because the Xiangjiang film industry has always followed the trend of commercial films. Tang Huan didn't want to be followed by others, so he simply completed it in batches, and the first film was finished. , the second part will follow Hei Tian Di Hui, and it is quite suitable.

Compared with the original time and space, the changes in the casting are not very big. Li Lianjie is the unshakable male number one who plays Fang Shiyu, and Fang Shiyu's mother Miao Cuihua is also played by Xiao Fangfang.

Xiao Fangfang, one of the members of the "Seven Princesses of Xiangjiang", joined the TV industry in the early 1970s and joined TVB. In 1977, she created the well-known comedy character Lin Yazhen in an ugly appearance, and became a smash hit.

This year, Xiao Fangfang also put this artistic image on the big screen and filmed the movie "Eight Colored Lin Yazhen", which shows her wide range of acting, and Miao Cuihua, who is an important and outstanding role, she also happily took over.

It is impossible for Tang Huan to leave DreamWorks with a large number of artists, and the entire crew is composed of these subordinates.

Lei Tingting, the heroine of the vase, who had roles in both the first and second films, naturally couldn't find Li Jiaxin to act, but gave it to Zhong Chuhong, who currently only had three film acting resumes.There is almost no martial arts in this role, so it's not too difficult for her.

Another vase heroine, Sun Aner, who only appeared in the second part, could not be Guo Aiming, who also came from Miss Hong Kong, but Yu Anan, the star of DreamWorks.

Although Yu An'an is only 23 years old, but he has extraordinary qualifications, and his popularity is not so fast. As early as 16 years old, after graduating from middle school, he was invited by the famous "Bole" Zong Weigeng to shoot a San Miguel beer advertisement, and later even Zhou Liang Shuyi appreciated it and invited her to join TVB.

It was in the same year that Yu Anan and the Winner Band participated in the first film "Café des Joys", entered the film industry, and successively participated in many martial arts films adapted from the original works of Gu Long and directed by Chu Yuan, which were very popular.

In the 1976 TVB version of "Sword of Enmity and Enmity", Yu An'an played the role of Princess Xiangxiang and became popular quickly. She was praised by a series of TV series such as "Deep in Colorful Clouds" in 1980.

After starring in the roles of Princess Zhaoren and Chen Yuanyuan in the dreamworks boutique TV series "Martial Arts" last year, Xu Xiaoming's TV series "Chen Zhen" this year also has Yu An'an as the heroine, and the schedule is actually a bit tight.

It can be said that casting Yu An'an as Sun An'er is far more worry-free than letting Zhong Chuhong play Lei Tingting.

Another impressive character—Lei Huan, who must be called "convincing people with virtue" when he opens his mouth and shut up, Tang Huan quite likes the original version of Chen Songyong.But this person's qualifications are complicated, and he might be locked up somewhere. Tang Huan didn't bother to go to Baodao to look for him, so he asked Zeng Zhiwei to take over.

For Thunder Tiger's concubine Li Xiaohuan, Tang Huan also wanted to cast Hu Huizhong in the original version. After all, it was his goal to bring together art practitioners from the Mainland, Taiwan, Taiwan and Taiwan, and he could go to Baodao more confidently to attract box office.

However, the other party, who had just finished university studies, still couldn't let go of the "Jade Girl" image similar to Lin Qingxia, and he had a schedule in Baodao, so he hesitated and didn't make a decision.

Tang Huan didn't wait for anyone. At the same time, considering that Hu Huizhong hadn't transformed into a hit girl in the original time and space, and Li Xiaohuan's martial arts was quite heavy, Tang Huan used Wen Xueer, another female star of DreamWorks.

Like her sister Yuan Qiu, one of the members of "Seven Little Fortunes", Wen Xueer started practicing martial arts when she was young, and joined the film and television industry in the mid-1970s, becoming an artist under Shaw Brothers Film Company. She was less than 16 years old at the time. Huadan is the first choice for Shaw Brothers martial arts films.

In 1975, Wen Xueer joined Jiayi TV and became the leading actress together with Michelle. In the Jiashi version of "The Deer and Ding Tale", she played the leading role Wei Xiaobao in reverse.

After Jiayi TV declared bankruptcy in 1978, Wen Xueer and several other artists followed Xiao Sheng to join Li TV and continued to be reused.

Wen Xueer's image of a beautiful woman in ancient costume is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In the TV series "Huanhua Xijianlu" filmed by Li's TV in 1979, she and Leslie Cheung played the leading role of male and female respectively, becoming a sensational screen couple combination.

Similar to Yu Anan, Wen Xueer's role as Li Xiaohuan is also reassuring.

And through Wen Xueer's relationship, Tang Huan pulled Li Lianjie's queen action director in the original time and space, Yuan Kui, one of the members of "Seven Little Fortunes", and asked him to play the role of Thunder Tiger corresponding to the first "Convincing People with Virtue", In the second part, "Safety First" Li Guobang, who is also brilliant, is Miao Cuihua's senior brother.

Regarding the iconic lines emphasized by Tang Huan, such as "convince people with virtue", "safety first", "look at my mouth shape", "the most important word in the world" and other iconic lines, the entire screenwriting team did not dare to treat them sloppily. There are quite a few jokes, but the more they are used, the more interesting they become. Not only did they cause frequent jokes during the filming process, but they also spread among the crew and became a catchphrase.

Xiangjiang's martial arts profession has always been divided into gangs, such as the southern faction represented by Liu Jialiang and the northern faction represented by Yu Zhanyuan's son-in-law Han Yingjie.

The talents that Tang Huan recruited were even more complicated. In addition to Cheng Xiaodong and Yuan Kui, one of the "Seven Little Fortunes" members who had defected recently, there were also the cast of the movie "Shaolin Temple" represented by Li Lianjie from the mainland.

People who practice martial arts are inevitably angry and prone to trouble. These jokes passed on from word to mouth have alleviated a lot of conflicts invisibly.

The big villain in the first film, Admiral Erdo of the Nine Gates, Tang Huan asked Yu Chenghui, who played Wang Renze in the movie "Shaolin Temple", to replace Zhao Wenzhuo in the original version; in the second film, the actor of the villain Tiandihui Second Hall Master Yu Zhenhai was not used. Instead, Ji Chunhua, who played the vulture in the movie "Shaolin Temple", is already in place.

In order to show that he attaches great importance to this project, Tang Huan repeated his old tricks and once again supervised with personal participation. He did not have many roles in the scene, and he basically belonged to Chen Jialuo, the chief helm of the Tiandihui who was playing handsome, but he saved Zheng Shaoqiu. Big-name celebrity fees.

The difficulty in shooting these two films lies in the ingenious and unconstrained martial arts scenes, but it has been discussed many times in the preparation, so it is not a big problem.

This is also mainly due to Tang Huan's ability to express. Although he doesn't know much about film production, he can use stick figures he is good at to illustrate the effect he wants in a visual way.

There are so many people in DreamWorks, after all, they don't eat dry food, so they immediately use their brains to solve it.

All in all, the shooting is very difficult, but it is not so that people can't do anything, but they are exhausted by the big boss and busy.

Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Cheng Xiaodong, Zeng Zhiwei, Yuan Kui and others are the joint directors, and they are filming in parallel. Because the two commercial films are well-prepared, they just need to shoot according to the plan, and they don't need to pay special attention to the director's personal characteristics.

Even Xu Ke, who has the most personality, would not dare to complain about this kind of work without artistic creativity. He also counted on the full support of DreamWorks for the "New Shushan Swordsman" he planned to shoot.

For Tang Huan, the filming process was undoubtedly fresh and interesting, which greatly relieved the pressure brought about by the capital war with Jardine.

Among the crew, Tang Huan was naturally the one with the tightest schedule, so his scenes were arranged at the front and the filming was completed first.

So in the following time, whenever Tang Huan had free time, he went to the shooting scene to watch the excitement.

On this day, the film crew happened to film a scene where Lei Huo staged a martial arts competition for his daughter Lei Tingting to recruit relatives, Fang Shiyu and Li Xiaohuan stomped on people's heads.

Jet Li was the most tiring in the whole crew, he was featured in almost every fight scene.

Fortunately, Li Lianjie is very sensible and understands that he is at a critical stage in his life struggle, and he gets equal pay for equal work with Xiangjiang actors. It is not like the one yuan a day when he was filming "Shaolin Temple", but he is also very motivated.

It can be said that Li Lianjie's thoughts represent the general psychology of these martial artists in mainland China, and their hard work can be seen from their hard work.

The fact is also the same, as long as they survive the hard work of these months and successfully complete the shooting task, their life circumstances must be completely different.

Because people like Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Cheng Xiaodong, and Zeng Zhiwei have talked a lot about it. After the two martial arts films designed by the big boss Tang Huan are released, they will definitely create a new genre and force certain forms of movies to gradually die out. At the same time, improve the overall production level of Xiangjiang Films.

As a participant, of course you will benefit more or less.

Tang Huan was watching with great interest Xu Ke reprimanding the mistakes on the shooting scene. When hundreds of people, including extras, listened attentively, Zhou Mi hurried to find him, but he didn't start reporting until he was dragged into the car.

"I just received two news, one is about the latest developments of Jardine, and the other is about the latest major transaction of Xiangjiang Real Estate. Which one do you want to hear first?" Zhou Mi asked with gestures.

"Let's talk about Yihe first." Tang Huan lazily picked one at random.

"With the help of HSBC, Jardine is looking for a home for the newly acquired Heung Kong Telephone and Heung Kong Electric, and it is said that it has plans to sell other assets."

Zhou Mi looked resentful, "It seems that Jardine is really in a hurry, otherwise it would not be so busy cashing out. However, these industries should have been taken by us together. If Jardine succeeds, it is tantamount to eating less money." Two pieces of meat."

"There must be someone who is willing and able to take over the order. HSBC is so proactive. Could it be that it intends to provide loans to support these buyers?" Tang Huan analyzed to himself.

"HSBC should be planning this." Zhou Mi nodded, "I heard that the buyers contacted by Jardine include Swire Pacific and Li Jiacheng."

"As far as the current situation is concerned, if anyone becomes Jardine's successor, it means helping the other party and opposing us. Could it be that these people are not afraid at all?" Tang Huan's eyes flickered cold light.

"It's really hard to say." Zhou Mi spread his hands helplessly, "For the sake of profit, maybe there are people who really don't care about our feelings."

"Go on to another piece of news." Tang Huan waved his hand and temporarily put this topic aside.

"The Murray Building site in Central that you asked me to pay attention to has been sold to the Bank of China by the British Hong Kong government." Zhou Mi said in a strange tone, "6700 square meters, but only 11 billion Hong Kong dollars."

Murray Building, located on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, was built in 1844 and is part of the Murray Barracks. It was mainly used as a barracks for the British troops stationed in Hong Kong.

After the Japanese occupation of Xiangjiang, Murray Building was used as the headquarters of the Japanese Gendarmerie, and there were many prison rooms and execution grounds. More than 4000 people were killed in it.

After the end of World War II, Murray House was used as offices by various departments of the British Hong Kong government. Since 1975, it has become the headquarters of the Rating and Valuation Department.

Obviously, in a place like Central, where land is very expensive, the use of the land of Murray Building is really too wasteful. Only by moving this building and changing the land to commercial use can we maximize the benefits.

"The piece of land that we competed with Hongkong Land in Central was sold for close to 50 billion yuan, with an area of ​​14.4 square feet, or about 14000 square meters. Compared with the land of Murray Building, the area is more than double, and the price It's four times more."

After careful calculation, he smiled gloatingly, "Perhaps, this is a way for the Hong Kong British government to show favor to the mainland, but the super real estate friends Landmark and Jardine are so embarrassing."

The land of Murray Building is very famous. In the original time and space, it was built as the famous Bank of China Tower with a total of 70 floors. With a height of 367.4 meters, it has maintained the record of Xiangjiang and the tallest building in Asia for more than two years.

This uniquely designed Bank of China Tower has a prismatic shape, like a "rising" bamboo shoot, and has become one of the most eye-catching landmarks in Xiangjiang. The only famous building in Xiangjiang that appeared in the movie, and has appeared in Hollywood blockbusters many times.

It is precisely because of being so famous that Tang Huan has a deep memory of the Bank of China Building, and he deeply understands that the transaction of this land has extraordinary significance, and there is a lot to do in it.

"You're not right. This piece of land is worth this price. This is the real market in the real estate industry." Tang Huan made a strong gesture to emphasize his judgment, "Hurry up and make this news into a special topic." The financial analysis report was released, and at the same time, the inside information about the false real estate transaction of Carrian Group that we had collected was revealed.”

After being stunned for a moment, Zhou Mi slowly confirmed: "According to your approach, the Xiangjiang real estate industry, which is already at a high risk, will not be looked down upon and eventually lead to a collapse."

"Early death and early rebirth, anyway, the Xiangjiang real estate industry with this style of play is inevitable, so it might as well give it a hard kick on the road to collapse."

Tang Huan smiled mischievously: "Since real estate is worthless, my technology stocks are even more attractive. No matter how Landmark and Jardine take measures to save themselves, it will not help."

At this time, the car had already arrived at the office building. Tang Huan looked up at the blue sky and let out a long breath, "It's come to this point. Let me see who else will jump out to help Yihe!"

(End of this chapter)