079 【First time in Taipei】
The crew members of the "Mr. Zombie" had been applying for visas to enter Taiwan for more than a week. It was not until early April that Kang Jianfei flew to Taiwan with everyone.
Li Saifeng is the heroine of this film, but because she wants to record the original soundtrack of "Happy Ghost", it will take some time to come. However, the male lead Lin Zhengying also set off early. He is not only the male lead, but also the action director of this film.
Filming action scenes is a technical job, and it doesn’t mean that anyone who has good kung fu can be an action director. Bruce Lee is very skilled, right? But when Bruce Lee was filming a movie, he would never turn on the film as long as Lin Zhengying was not there, because only the actions designed by Lin Zhengying could satisfy him.
Kang Jianfei used to do filming work. He chose specific shooting locations, rented shooting equipment, prepared props and costumes, contacted local extras, and other things. They must be done in advance. The actual shooting will be at least one week later.
When Kang Jianfei came to Taipei, the first batch of follow-up works of "Happy Ghost" also began to be released.
The old director of Shaw Brothers, Gui Zhihong, made a movie "Salty Wet Ghost" and told a series of funny stories caused by a bank employee being a pervert. Before the release of this movie, it intentionally or unintentionally used the signature of "Happy Ghost" to promote it, and it won a box office of 3.06 million in 18 days after its release.
You should know that the number of viewers at this time is far less than that during the Chinese New Year. "The Ghost on the Salted World" can achieve a box office of more than 3 million, which is an outstanding achievement.
After receiving this news in Taipei, Kang Jianfei could only laugh and cry, because there was absolutely no movie "The Salted Ghost on the Body" in the original time and space.
In the last few years of Shaw Brothers, Gui Zhihong was considered a rare box office hero. If it were not influenced by Kang Jianfei, Gui Zhihong should have filmed a "Evil" this year. After the response was good, he immediately made a sequel "Evil Fighting Evil", and then filmed "Evil Curse" and "Evil End and Evil" next year. He stopped until the audience was disgusted when they heard the word "Evil".
Among the two theaters, Jiahe and Princess Jin, there are also several follow-up films of "Happy Ghost", such as "Campus Joy Ghost", "No Gay Ghost on the Street", and the box office has reached one million.
The reason why several follow-up films were released in succession is that "Happy Ghost" has been extremely high in the box office and stimulated other directors. Second, this type of funny ghost film is low in cost and has low requirements for directors and actors, and is not as difficult to imitate as Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Takes the Job".
After several follow-up films were sold for money, it immediately stimulated more small and medium-sized film companies. According to later statistics, until the end of 1980, there were as many follow-up films of "Happy Ghost", but more of them were shot and kept in the warehouse to eat dust.
Seeing this situation, Lei Juekun personally called Kang Jianfei and asked Kang Jianfei to quickly create a sequel to "Happy Ghost" and hit the iron while it was hot and then get a high box office.
Kang Jianfei originally wanted to film the second part of "Happy Ghost" in the second half of the year, but seeing this situation, he planned to postpone the shooting plan and wait until this trend has passed.
The experience of being robbed and going to the police station that day made Kang Jianfei suddenly have an idea, that is, filming a police and gangster film. Kang Jianfei came to Taipei early this time, one of the important reasons was to contact the actor for his next police and gangster film.
Because this actor is very big and difficult to hire, Kang Jianfei must take action personally and try his best to convince the other party to go to Hong Kong to shoot a movie.
At the same time, Mecca's Struggle Film Company also delivered its first answer for Princess Jin. "The Crazy Crazy" directed and acted by Mecca was a great success, and won 3.12 million yuan in box office in 20 days of its release.
In the south of the ocean, "Happy Ghost" has been released in Southeast Asian countries for more than half a month. Due to the operation of Cathay Pacific Cinema, the cumulative box office of "Happy Ghost" in Southeast Asia is more than 2.7 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars. Among them, the audience in Singapore and Malaysia reacted the strongest, and its popularity can even be comparable to "The Junior Brother". However, in Thailand, the Philippines is much colder, and the box office is quite shabby.
As for Taiwan, since it was about to re-satisfied with Mandarin dialogue, "Happy Ghost" was not screened in Taipei a week after Kang Jian flew to Taiwan.
The filming plan for South Korea has been done, but Japan is a little troublesome. The main reason is that Princess Kim’s current overseas distribution ability is too weak, and "Happy Ghost" is not famous from the director to the actor. All the Japanese film companies have very harsh conditions and are still in a stalemate negotiation.
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As soon as Hu Juncai got off the plane, he became nervous, his eyes turned around and looked like a bad guy with bad intentions.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "What are you doing? You're like a thief."
Hu Juncai sweated and said, "I heard that there are white terror everywhere in Taiwan. Anyone who is a spy may be a spy. If you arrest him, you will be tortured."
Kang Jianfei said speechlessly: "Hong Kong is still a corrupt capitalist society. Do you see if the Hong Kong people live in dire straits and are waiting for you to rescue them?"
After receiving the luggage, Pan Yingzi said to everyone: "I have contacted Manager Ma on the phone. In addition, I am also an old customer of Jinyue Hotel near the Cultural City. You can get a 15% discount on staying there."
"Please trouble you, Miss Pan." Kang Jianfei nodded at her and said with a smile. If someone who is not familiar with Taipei does these things, how can they be so convenient? They can handle them in just a few phone calls.
Everyone drove to Jinyue Hotel and took a break and then took action separately.
Zhong Zhiwen, Zhong Yuan, Wu Chenggang, Qi Bo, Hu Juncai, Chen Bingkun and others took the address and unit given by Pan Yingzi, and were responsible for renting shooting equipment, contacting crew food, recruiting crew members and temporary actors, etc.
There is no way. Now the company has too few staff, and even technicians have to do field work. Even makeup artists have to be temporarily recruited in Taipei.
Of course, Kang Jianfei couldn't let everyone do it in vain. Before coming to Taipei, he had promised to give 5% of the local box office and give dividends to the crew's employees. If the box office is so popular, even ordinary employees like Li Shan and Zhang Xu who are squatting in the company will have a red envelope.
Kang Jianfei likes to cheat people, but they all have nothing to do with him. The reason why rabbits don’t eat grass beside their nests was known when he was a pickpocket.
To deceive oneself is to cheat oneself, and every employee in the company is a fortune. How to keep these wealth? Kang Jianfei judges others by himself and believes that interests are the most practical things.
Kang Jianfei didn't give all the dividends for filming "Happy Ghost" to Zhong Zhiwen and the others, because they were not their own people at the beginning, but they could not be stingy in the future.
After allocating their affairs properly, Kang Jianfei, Pan Yingzi, Chen Xunqi and Lin Zhengying went to China Film Culture City together to choose a specific shooting location, and to meet Manager Ma of the Cultural City.
China Film Culture City is located on Zhishan Road, Shilin District, Taipei. It was originally a studio of China Film Company, but later converted into an antique cinema with an antique building, covering an area of nearly 50,000 square meters.
At this time, many ancient costumes and early Republic of China films in Hong Kong and Taiwan were filmed in China Film Culture City, and were also open to tourists, so the cultural city was very lively. It was not until after Taiwan lifted the strictness, that crews from Hong Kong and Taiwan went to mainland China to shoot live scenes, and China Film Culture City gradually declined.
It is precisely because China Film Culture City is so popular that the Manager Ma of the Culture City lives a very comfortable life. After seeing Kang Jianfei, he also looked arrogant.
Manager Ma's name is Ma Yunsheng. He has a chubby and short figure. He also has a pair of squinting eyes. He held Pan Yingzi's hand enthusiastically, stared at her in a daze and said, "Oh, Xike, Miss Pan, you haven't come to Taiwan for more than a year. I, Lao Ma, miss you so much!"
"Manager Ma is polite, let me introduce it," Pan Yingzi tried hard to pull back her hand and said, "This is Mr. Kang Jianfeikang, and my current boss. This is Mr. Lin Zhengying, who used to be the right-hand man of the big star Bruce Lee. This is Mr. Chen Xunqi, and he is a famous Hong Kong musician."
"Happy Ghost" has not been released in Taiwan yet. Ma Yunsheng didn't care much about Kang Jianfei, but just shook hands with Kang Jianfei and said, "Hello, hello!"
For Pan Yingzi's sake, Ma Yunsheng personally took the four of them to visit the Cultural City and introduced them. Kang Jianfei finally selected five main filming locations.
In the evening, Ma Yunsheng offered to invite four people to dinner, saying that he wanted to welcome them, but the guy's eyes kept spinning on Pan Yingzi.
While going to the hotel, Kang Jianfei whispered to Pan Yingzi: "Miss Pan, this Manager Ma seems to be very interesting to you."
Pan Yingzi said with a funny look: "That fat man is a pervert. I heard that I have divorced and I still told me on the phone that I wanted to be my lover. I didn't count whether his money was enough!"
Kang Jianfei joked, "I want to give you sister A Zi, too. I don't know how much it costs enough?"
Pan Yingzi is a woman who can make jokes. She gave Kang Jianfei a charming look and smiled, "If it were you, you can get a 50% discount."
Zhao Yazhi's beauty is a kind of dignity and elegance, but Pan Yingzi is different. This woman is born with a baby face, and she is as delicate as a girl in her 30s. But with her innocent face, she is a pair of charming and enchanting peach blossom eyes.
Such a strong contrast made Pan Yingzi's peach blossom eyes full of electricity. Kang Jianfei was electrocuted by her and felt a sudden heartbeat.
This woman is not a good person!
Kang Jianfei shouted: The demon, where can you escape!
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Well, Lao Wang was so crazy in the previous few chapters, he deviated from the outline as he wrote. Now he quickly took it back.
Also, guess what is Kang Jianfei's next movie? The police and gangster movie.
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