Chapter 33 Test Screening
Every time I love you, I don't want to relax
Every time I love you, I feel suddenly in my heart
Fire-hot bear
“It was really good.”
"The voice of Lin Yanni is like a cup of excellent espresso, smooth and mellow, and considerate. She is worthy of being a talented woman. She describes it so accurately. Listening to him singing, she feels warm and comfortable everywhere, from her ears to her heart."
"He sang well and wrote well. Shen Caishen is worthy of being the number one talent in Xiangjiang. It is said that he handled all the songs in this album."
Chen Chong sat in the last row of Jiahe Theater, listening to the occasional discussion, while admiring Leslie Cheung's live singing, he was ashamed.
This song "Difficult to Control Love" is actually covered by the classic English song "'utTTaIAbIt" in 1970. However, he didn't know when he plagiarized it, so he wrote it out casually. Fortunately, when he was making the album, he was discovered by Zheng Donghan, general manager of Polykin, and contacted the original American creators in time, which avoided a copyright dispute and plagiarism scandal.
If I waited for the album to be released, I realized that he, the "No. 1 Talent in Xiangjiang", would be tragic...
Fortunately, the other 9 songs were all "original". This misunderstanding was covered up by "I was too busy at the time and forgot to indicate it, and I was unintentional mistakes" as an excuse, and no one doubted it...
"Fune Love to Control" is a song released in 1995. I thought it was foolproof, but unexpectedly there was a problem. If you plagiarize again in the future, you must be careful and careful...
Speaking of which, this time when Li Gui met Li Kui, there was no trouble, thanks to Chen Chong's thought of loving great achievements.
He plagiarized 10 songs in Los Angeles for Leslie Cheung. On the surface, what he said was the "inspiration" obtained from the plot of "Love at Dawn", but in fact it was a hodgepodge made by Leslie Cheung himself in 1995, which was released in his previous life, and combined with several other golden songs.
In the Hong Kong entertainment industry, whether it is making movies or releasing albums, it has always been known for its high efficiency. Each of the 10 songs produced by Chen Chong is a good song that has been circulated for many years, with excellent lyrics and music. Polykin is also a very experienced old record company. If he goes all out, he can make the record in more than ten days, but it was plagiarized in early May and was not released until the end of August, which delayed for more than three months. There are two main reasons.
The first reason is that the 10 songs plagiarized by Chen Chong, some of which are Cantonese songs and some are Mandarin songs, which are very messy. He also clearly requires Leslie Cheung's album to be released in both Mandarin and Cantonese versions at the same time. The songs written by the boss himself were naturally very important, so he invited lyricists from Hong Kong and Taiwan to write Cantonese lyrics for Mandarin and Mandarin for Cantonese. This greatly increased the difficulty and time of production. The misunderstanding of "Difficult to Control Love" was discovered by Zheng Donghan when he found the famous Taiwanese lyricist Shen Zhi to write Mandarin lyrics.
Cantonese is a dialect, and whether it is in terms of market capacity or circulation, it is far from comparable to Mandarin songs. In the RU era, major record companies in Hong Kong only value Cantonese but not Mandarin, which is absolutely short-sighted. Leslie Cheung was dragged down by this business strategy and did not achieve higher achievements in the music industry. His singing skills and music taste were the best in the Chinese music industry, but most of the good songs he sang are Cantonese, and few Mandarin songs were widely circulated. After entering the 1990s, his influence and popularity in the Chinese music industry were not as good as the four heavenly kings, which is a pity.
Chen Chong is not a short-sighted person, so after acquiring Polykin, he issued a deadly order. All singers under his jurisdiction must learn Mandarin and sing Mandarin songs. Whoever doesn’t learn will leave by themselves, because Cantonese songs are the present and Mandarin songs are the future.
The second reason is that Chen Chong wanted to organically combine movies and music and play a comprehensive marketing game, so after the album was completed, it was over half a month before "Love at Dawn" was released a week before it was released. Because in this album, "Unrestrained Wind" is the movie promotional song, "Eyes and Eyes" is the Cantonese version theme song, "Love Embrace" is the Mandarin version theme song, and "Love Difficult to Control" and "Beauty and White Hair" is the movie interlude. The movie and the album are closely related, and the artistic conception is similar. If the release in the same period will produce the effect of one plus one greater than two.
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"I love you"
"Look at those little girls, they're crazy."
"Bruce Lee wasn't so popular back then."
"The times are different. When we were fifteen or sixteen years old, even when we met big stars, we would respectfully greet him. Nowadays, young people don't care about any etiquette or rules. When they see celebrities, they shout and chase them desperately. They are even more fanatical than the Red Guards."
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the RU era of crazy star-chasing
This is an era when fans fight for their idols, this is an era when movie fans commit suicide for their idols, this is an era when idols hide their marriages in order to maintain popularity...
Chen Chong muttered to himself, then turned to Zhang Aijia and said with a smile: "Looking at this scene, I said it can bring 00,000 yuan in box office and underestimate his charm."
Zhang Aijia glanced at him with a slanted eyes, feeling a cartoon-like comedy, and asked, "Don't you have no confidence in the box office?"
Chen Chong liked this look of anger but not anger very much. He held her hand and said with a smile: "It's okay to brag at home, but brag outside. If you blow it, wouldn't I be ashamed of my God of Wealth? It's better to be humble."
"If the cowhide is blown, you can wait for me to deal with it."
"Who doesn't know who deals with it..."
Brigitte Lin on the other side turned her head and looked here. Chen Chong made an exaggerated face and raised his hand to make a sorry gesture. Brigitte Lin smiled slightly, nodded and bowed back, his posture and expression were like a lotus in a summer night, soft and charming.
Leslie Cheung said some scenes that thanked the fans for their support, soothed the excited and enthusiastic audience, then bowed and left the stage, and then the lights in the theater dimmed, preparing to officially screen "Love at Dawn".
Chen Chong looked at the elegant Leslie Cheung, touched his chin, and said, "If your movie can turn into an idol star, even if the box office is not ideal, it will be worth it."
Zhang Aijia was slightly stunned when she heard this and asked, "He is so popular, isn't he still a star?"
"Not count." Chen Chong shook his head and said, "At most, the stars of tomorrow are counted."
Zhang Aijia was jokingly told and asked back: "What is a star?"
"As long as you print a name on the poster, the audience will willingly buy tickets to enter the theater. Only stars are called stars. They have potential, but lack high-quality and influential representative support, so they are not considered stars... You are the same as HrIt." Chen Chong gently pounded his chest and showed off: "Men's envy, women's thousands of love, every word and action, will fall in love with the whole city. At present, I am the only star in Hong Kong."
"Shameless"
Chen Chong laughed and laughed.
Since the birth of TV, the entertainment function of movies has been constantly eroded. By the RU era, going to the theater to watch movies has become a leisure choice with strong social purpose. Either couples watch together or friends watch together. Few lonely men and widows go to the movies alone. In this environment, stars with box office appeal have become an indispensable element in the film industry. Men usually go to the theater for fierce fighting or spectacular scenes, while women? They only go to the theater for charming stars. As we all know, when couples go to the movies together, women usually make the decisions...
If you capture the hearts of female movie audiences, you will seize the golden key to the future film market...
However, in 19RU, there were only three actors in Hong Kong who really had box office appeal: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Xu Guanwen. The first two were kung fu stars and the second one was comedy stars. They were not idol stars who were outstanding by their appearance and charm. They were not attractive enough to female movie audiences, especially women between the ages of 16 and 25, who were one of the most important groups in the film market.
Therefore, since the Academy Awards at the beginning of the year, Chen Chong has made Leslie Cheung famous, intending to make him a charming superstar that is famous in Asia ten years in advance and inject new vitality into Hong Kong films. In the early RU era, there was no candidate who could attract female movie audiences except Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat. Although Chow Yun-fat's acting skills are good, he has incomplete tone and has no musical talent. He needs to have a suitable movie to make him famous. Leslie Cheung can work in two-pronged music and movies and grow faster.
Although in a sense, this practice of using historical celebrities as NPCl is a bit unkind, giving superstars more room to play, producing more classic works and achieving higher artistic achievements is ultimately a good thing.
When Shen Chong was distracted, the big screen lit up, and the Oriental Charming Film Company GO with red letters on white background appeared, followed by the GO of "Jiajia" Film Studio. The two words Jiajia in this GO were taken from Zhang Daqian's title for Taipei Jiajia Performing Arts Center. It is ancient, majestic, vigorous and generous, and very beautiful.
"Every time I see the word Jia Jia, I feel strange and a little embarrassed."
"Why don't you change it to Chongjia?"
"It's not as good as Jia Jia... Besides, I'm not Yue Lingshan."
Before attending the premiere, Chen Chong did not watch the edited sample "Love at Dawn", so when the male lead played by Leslie Cheung appeared on the big screen, he stopped chatting and watched it intently.
The plot of the movie is very simple. Leslie Cheung plays a Chinese young man who grew up in the United States. He met Brigitte Lin who came to travel on a flight to Los Angeles. The two of them started talking in general, but later they became more and more speculative. They decided to travel together for a day, so they walked through the streets and alleys in Los Angeles, chatting while sightseeing, chatting, and chatting for 100 minutes...
"Love at Dawn" is a movie released in 1995. In that era when satellite TV, the Internet and globalization appeared, the entire chattering movie also seemed quite niche and avant-garde. Not every audience could understand and like it, not to mention that it was in the 19RU year when the thinking and vision were relatively narrow. So when the movie was only played one-third, subtle discussions sounded in the theater.
"What does this movie mean?"
"After talking about the two of you, I have no idea what you are doing."
"It feels so boring, a little boring."
Chapter completed!