Chapter 3 News Clippings
Zhang Aijia’s skills in making noodles are really good. After a few people tasted it, they praised it all.
"You have to praise people and praise the right place. You guys didn't say the point." Chen Chong ran around in his previous life and ate many local delicacies. He used chopsticks to stir the noodles in the bowl and said, "Many places have fried noodles, including Shandong, Hebei, and Guangdong, among which Beijing is the most famous. However, Shanxi is known as the number one food in the world. Fried noodles are naturally unique. It emphasizes sauce, noodles, and meat, with minced meat wrapped in sauce, sauce wrapped in noodles, and the noodles are evenly cooked, and tastes delicious."
"You're just a greedy ghost." Zhang Aijia smiled and said, "But you are really right. When I was studying, my grandparents said that."
"So that's the case. I said why is it different from what I ate in Beijing last time?" Lily suddenly realized and said, "The sauce in Beijing is very thick, and the diced meat is a little bigger and has skin on it. Sister Zhang's one is thinner. The diced meat is small and does not have skin, but it is also very fragrant and delicious."
"Mr. Chen is worthy of being a talented man." Chen Kunhou said with a smile: "He has a lot of knowledge, is knowledgeable, and has a lot of knowledge now."
"I don't know anything else, I know how to eat and drink." Chen Chong said as he ate the noodles in a slight way, "It's just a bucket of rice."
Zhang Aijia was dissatisfied with his etiquette and said, "Please pay attention to your image."
"It's all friends, what kind of image do you want?" Chen Chong looked up at everyone and said, "It's only delicious to eat noodles, so don't be gentle and eat quickly. If you are worried about image issues, after we eat it, we will sign a confidential contract. Whoever tells it will be fined."
Everyone in the room laughed, and the originally restrained atmosphere became much more relaxed.
After Shen Chong traveled through time, he was used to giving orders and had a sense of demeanor. Coupled with legendary experiences, massive wealth, and various bizarre rumors, he brought an unfathomable halo. Not to mention his peers, even a veteran in his forties and fifties dared not make big in front of him. Therefore, wherever he went, he had to make some harmless jokes to eliminate this sense of alienation, otherwise he would never want to make friends in his life.
", have you found a song you like?"
"I searched for a day, but I couldn't find a suitable one." Leslie Cheung looked at Chen Chong and said, "Mr. Chen said he planned to write one."
Zhang Aijia was surprised and immediately asked: "Really? Didn't you say you've closed the pen?"
"I also said that I exercise every day and run ten miles every day." Chen Chong smiled and said, "Actually, I have already finished my life. Maybe you won't even look down on what I write."
"Eat quickly and eat quickly." Zhang Aijia urged repeatedly, saying, "Go to write after you finish eating."
"You are not as anxious as you? At least I'll take a look at the sample you took first." Chen Chong delayed and said, "Besides, you should write songs and report, you can write them just by saying that."
"Didn't you make poetry three steps into songs and seven steps into songs?"
"Writing songs requires emotions, and you need to feel it." Chen Chong said nonsense, "Cao Zhi has also put his knife on his neck, and he has only become a poem in seven steps. Now I am facing a bowl of delicious noodles. Even if I walk a hundred steps, I will only drool."
Lily jokingly and almost squirted out the noodles, which caused laughter for everyone, and the atmosphere was completely better.
Chen Chong was really not particular. He finished eating the noodles in one breath, and then sat there satisfied, eating fruit salad with a spoon while starting to chat one by one.
"." He asked Leslie Cheung first and said, "Have Li Di TV answered your contract question?"
"I gave it to you, they agreed to sign the contract according to the department in the future." Leslie Cheung put down his chopsticks very gentlemanly and said with a smile: "I signed three TV series with them as per Mr. Chen's suggestion."
"That's good." Chen Chong nodded and said, "It's good for you to be relaxed and you don't have to deal with those messy activities."
Leslie Cheung signed a three-year contract with Li's TV in May 1977, and it expired in May 19RU. If Shen Chong did not, he would renew his contract for two years. When Shen Chong appeared, things naturally changed - Shen Chong suggested that he sign a joint contract with Li's TV.
Signing a major contract is quite flexible. You can act in TV series and play in movies when you don’t have a TV series. It can be said that you can kill two birds with one stone.
Leslie Cheung was only young in 19RU. His acting skills cannot be said to be immature, but they cannot be said to be very good. He needs opportunities to train. Although Oriental Charm plans to produce movies around the department this year, there may not be a suitable role for him to play. Besides, the film market is very risky. If the box office fails, he will bear the sign of "box office poison", which is not good for his future development. Therefore, it is better to act in a few more TV series and steadily hone his acting skills.
Because the role fits his own image, Leslie Cheung performed well in Li's TV's drama "Six Tribulations of Life" at the beginning of the year. His acting skills were recognized by the media. He also made a big splash at the Academy Awards ceremony, showing a strong upward momentum. For Li's TV, although there is no precedent and the binding nature is not strong enough, it is better than letting Leslie Cheung go to H or Jiayi TV.
After Chen Chong asked Leslie Cheung, he changed his partner and said, "Sister Qingxia, after the filming of this movie, will you be willing to sign a long-term contract with my company?"
"Ah? Me?" Brigitte Lin was a little panicked and said hesitantly: "My contract was signed by my mother for me."
"Oh, that's it." Chen Chong said with a smile: "For example, if you give me your aunt's phone number, will I talk to her?"
"No, no, I'll find some time to call her and then tell you."
Chen Chong wanted to continue asking, but Zhang Aijia patted him and complained: "Where is a master like you? You can negotiate business at the dinner table and let people eat. After you finish eating, you will walk away quickly and sit here, so that others will lose their appetite."
"Okay, okay, I'll go." Chen Chong stood up and said, "Everyone, I'll go upstairs to check the package first."
The packages sent from Hong Kong were filled with newspaper clippings made by Qiu Siyu. They were excerpts of reports on films from major media outlets on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the Three Regions in recent times. She carefully divided these contents into three categories and indexed them.
One type is gossip. For example, after the award ceremony, "Popular Movie" released an "Academic Awards Supplement" with sales exceeding 5 million copies. Because Chen Chong was wearing a white dress and holding a trophy as the cover, it turned out that before May, the white skirts and white cloth in supply and marketing cooperatives in many cities in mainland China were out of stock...
For example, the commentator who received the invitation got the nickname "Strong" because of the word "Strong" in his name. For example, the hot pot restaurants where Parker and Hepburn were eating are full, and for example, some media are already speculating about who will be invited to present awards in the next session.
One type is industry news, such as the Chinese film distribution and screening company is going to run the "Movie Pictorial"; Beijing Film Studio is preparing to build the "Beijing Pictorial"; Li Hanxiang has to spend a huge amount of money to set up a set at Shaw Brothers Cinema to shoot Emperor Qianlong; Jin Yong sold the adaptation rights of "Flying Fox Legend" to Zhang Che at a friendly price of one Hong Kong dollars; Tsui Hark's new film "Hell No Way" failed again; Wang Jing was named "King of Kuaishou". After filming her first film in August last year, she filmed five movies in 9 months, with a cumulative box office of more than 20 million...
The last category is all about Zhao Dan, which is also the news that Chen Chong pays most attention to.
The media in the three places responded to Zhao Dan's remarks in a different way. The Hong Kong media watched the fire from the other side of the river. Although they were talking, they were talking nonsense, but they were not very deep. They were just tickling through their boots, just looking for a lively look.
Taiwanese media are abnormal, neither taking advantage of the situation to attack the mainland nor criticizing themselves. They are very low-key. I don’t know if it is because they are scared by the “Beautiful Island” incident and are afraid of the mouse, or because the cross-strait relations have been subtle recently and the top leaders have put pressure on them.
In contrast to Taiwanese media, mainland media are very active, with the number of media involved and the wide range of media that makes Chen Chong suddenly laugh.
Several editors of "Popular Movie" came to Hong Kong to attend the award ceremony and also participated in the seminar of filmmakers from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the Three Lands. They were shocked, and Chen Chong was also ulterior motives and provided a lot of free information on film legislation and film classification in countries around the world. Therefore, in "Popular Movie" in April, not only did the full text of Zhao Dan's speech be published, but also attached a long editor's note with the title of "Making the film system standardized and legalized" to clearly support the legislation of films.
"Popular Movie" sold as many as six or seven million copies per issue, with an influence all over the country. During the turmoil, most intellectuals were impacted, and the pain was still there. Therefore, Zhao Dan's remarks immediately caused a great discussion among the people. In addition to professional film publications such as "Popular Movie" and "Film Art", by the end of April, even national newspapers with mouthpiece nature such as Guangming Daily, Economic Daily, and Xinmin Evening News were included.
Among all these reports, Chen Chong is most concerned about two articles. One is a signed article published by Wang Yang in "The Art of Movie" sponsored by the Chinese Film Association. He took the metaphor of "movie and fish raising" mentioned by Chen Chong at the celebration dinner and wrote a discussion of several thousand words. The main point is that there must be a dam in raising fish, so the government should legislate the film. Fish have sharks and goldfish, and they need to be separated by fishing nets, so the movie should be classified...
The article is not many words, but it is extremely heavy. Wang Yang has operated Beijing Film Studio for more than 20 years and is a person who can directly talk to the Minister of the Ministry of Culture or the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee. His status in the mainland film industry is like Han Sanping in later generations, and he and Xia Yan are friends of life and death, so his article is of great significance.
Another article was a letter from a reader published by Guangming Daily. This letter was not written by an individual, but a crew of the Emei Film Studio.
The crew is filming a movie called "Inside and Outside the Court". According to the introduction in the letter, the plot of the movie is as follows: Xu Dahuai, the driver of Director Xia of the Wenquan Municipal Revolutionary Committee, drove after drinking and hit and killed a female gymnast Jiang Yanyan. During the investigation, the female director of the court found that this was a rape and murder case covered up under the illusion of a "traffic accident". The real murderer was Director Xia's son Xia Huan. After Xia Huan insulted the young woman Tang Xiaosu and forced her to commit suicide, Xia Huan tried to rape Jiang Yanyan. Due to the attempted rape, she drove and killed her. Afterwards, Xia Huan's mother, Liu Rulian, deputy director of the Municipal Materials Bureau, relied on her husband's power to create a "scapegoat" and punish her son. In the end, the female dean withstood the resistance and pressure from all sides and sentenced the murderer Xia Huan to death in the solemn court.
However, shortly after the filming of this drama started, he was suddenly ordered to "suspend production activities" because the relevant leaders believed that "lawlessness is the minority" and "officials and officials are not typical", "the story time should be pushed to 197U years ago", "the father of the criminal should be written as "Gang of Four, online people"...
At the end of the letter, a rhetorical question was given: "If there is no legislation, is the film studio a state-owned unit that makes movies for the masses of the people, or a private tool for making movies for relevant leaders?"
Chapter completed!