When Li Hanxiang asked Chu Huan about things on the set, Li Hanxiang's heart was actually already loosened, and he even began to tilt towards Chu Huan's black and white image.
As mentioned before, Li Hanxiang chose to return to Hong Kong to restart his film career because he had no living space in Taiwan and had to come back.
When he returned to Hong Kong, he chose to rejoin Shaw Brothers because he had no other choice in Hong Kong and had to make a decision.
In addition to Zhang Che's reasons, there are also Shaw Brothers' institutional problems.
Shaw Brothers' system is destined to be unable to retain talents. At the same time, Shaw Brothers' system also indicates that this company is extremely lacking in innovation awareness.
In other words, it is because Shao Yifu extremely lacks the sense of innovation.
When he first started his business, Yifu Shao might be able to make drastic changes that were not seen in the industry.
But when Shao Yifu's business grows, his stingy character will take over and will not allow his business to make any progress.
This is the case with Shaw Brothers movies. The dominant Shaw Brothers look down on Li Xiaolong. Even after learning from Li Xiaolong's lessons, Shaw Brothers still look down on Xu Guanwen.
Maybe Shao Yifu is right. After all, no one can be sure that they will succeed before they succeed.
But this kind of thing is always based on results.
Jiahe was desperate and chose Li Xiaolong because Jiahe was a new company and needed a pillar to support its appearance.
Xu Guanwen was chosen because Li Xiaolong passed away and Jiahe needed another pillar.
Shaw Brothers did not have such a dilemma, so Shaw Brothers did not need to take this risk. However, the collapse of Shaw Brothers movies was because Shaw Brothers could not keep up with the pace of Hong Kong movies. After TVB became the dominant company in Hong Kong, it also lacked innovation. Various As long as one TV series of this type becomes a hit, it will inevitably shoot sequels countless times until the value of this IP is fully mined.
This is actually a common problem among large companies. Lack of competitiveness leads to laziness!
Let's talk about Li Hanxiang again. A film company with its own theater chain extended an olive branch to Li Hanxiang, and he had no reason not to be tempted.
After all, returning to Shaw Brothers in disgrace was a very embarrassing thing for the proud and arrogant Li Hanxiang.
So in the subsequent exchange between Chu Huan and Li Hanxiang, the balance in Li Hanxiang's heart began to tilt toward the black and white image little by little.
When Chu Huan pulled out his trump card and ensured that Black and White could use Shaw Brothers' studio before building his own studio, Li Hanxiang finally made the decision.
"If this is the case, if I still don't agree to Mr. Chu, wouldn't it seem that I am too disrespectful!"
After hearing what Li Hanxiang said, Chu Huan knew that he had succeeded.
"On behalf of Black and White Image, I welcome Director Li."
Li Hanxiang laughed and said: "In that case, Boss Chu, let's talk about my new movie. I have prepared the script. I originally planned to send it to Boss Shao to read tomorrow, but now it seems that it is no longer necessary! "
At this time, Li Hanxiang also changed his name to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan smiled and said, "I'm all ears."
Later, Li Hanxiang began to tell Chu Huan about his new movie. Although Chu Huan had not seen the movie "The Great Warlord", he also knew a general plot. After listening to Li Hanxiang's story, Chu Huan was sure The next thing Li Hanxiang will shoot is the movie "The Great Warlord".
"There is no problem with the content of the movie, and I also believe in Director Li's ability. You come up with a budget, and then I will ask the company to set up special funds."
As promised before, Chu Huan gave Li Hanxiang full support for this Dinghai Shenzhen who would be seen in black and white for at least the next five years.
Li Hanxiang laughed: "It's fun. It's fun to work with Boss Chu. It's not like Shao Laoliu who keeps asking for money for fear of spending an extra penny!"
Chu Huan did not blindly paint the cake for Li Hanxiang. Chu Huan understood very well that the honeymoon period of cooperation is time-limited. I believe that Shao Yifu was also very happy when he first cooperated with Li Hanxiang.
But as time goes by, the two sides will gradually widen the gap between them through various things.
What the old man said about ugly things still makes sense to a certain extent.
"Director Li, there is something I hope you can know." Chu Huan said seriously.
Li Hanxiang was happy with Chu Huan's happiness at this time, and said with a smile: "Boss Chu, please speak."
Chu Huan said: "The company has a corporate system. As an investor, what I value most is income. Movies are the seventh art, but art also requires food. Whether it is a director or an actor, they should bring benefits to the company.
The company will give them the greatest respect only if they earn profits.
Therefore, within the company, both directors and actors have their own levels. The higher the level of directors and actors, the greater the respect the company will give them. For example, for someone like Director Li who has proven himself in the market, you
The company can directly approve the film and will not ask Director Li what to film or how to film it. As long as it can make money for the company, this treatment will never change.
But if the movie fails, sorry, your privilege will be taken back. Of course, for Director Li, the company has greater tolerance and can relax this standard to two or three movies.
In addition, if Director Li wants to shoot a literary film, then the company's investment will be studied based on market conditions, but it is certain that the investment in literary films must be lower than the investment in commercial films."
Chu Huan opened a film company to make money, not so-called art. If possible, Chu Huan would not even touch those literary and artistic films that are liked by a very small number of young people.
As for someone like Wang Sunjing, if he dares to apply for a job at Black and White Image, Chu Huan promises to kick him out without a mop.
Even if his movies actually make money.
Many people's understanding of Wang Sunglasses is actually biased. It is true that the box office of his movies in Hong Kong has never been high, but in fact, the profits of Wang Sunglasses' movies have never depended on the box office.
His film income relies on European copyright and video tape markets.
But this kind of income is really too slow. There is no need to torture yourself with such a money-burning person who is slow to make money.
But if I try to trick people in the future, I don’t mind using Wang sunglasses.
After listening to Chu Huan's words, Li Hanxiang was slightly stunned, and then sighed: "Boss Chu, I now 100% believe that you can make black and white images bigger and stronger!"
Chu Huanxiao asked: "I thought you would be a little unhappy!"
Li Hanxiang said with some sigh: "I have been in the film industry for many years and have met many bosses, but you are the first person who can talk about making money so straightforwardly. The most important thing is that the film industry
This is how the industry should be, there is nothing wrong with the survival of the fittest and the elimination of the fittest!”
Chu Huan smiled and said, "It's great if Director Li can understand!"
Li Hanxiang changed the topic and returned to the movie he was preparing. He said: "Since Boss Chu has given his full support in terms of funding, the remaining thing needs your help, Boss Chu!"
Chu Huan said: "Since I have become the boss, I naturally have to solve various problems for the company. If Director Li has any questions, just tell me."
Li Hanxiang said: "Actually, it's a matter of starring. The male lead and the female lead are the most important, especially the female lead. You also know that this movie needs a very bold performance in terms of the female lead, but if you want to get this actor
, is not an easy task.”
"Are these two actors from Shaw Brothers?" Chu Huan guessed what difficulty Li Hanxiang was talking about.
Since Li Hanxiang had planned to return to Shaw Brothers before, the actor he found was naturally from Shaw Brothers. Chu Huan himself also knew that the male lead in the film was Xu Guanwen, but Chu Huan did not know about the female lead.
Li Hanxiang nodded and said: "Yes, the male lead shouldn't be a big problem. He is actually not a contracted actor of Shaw Brothers, but TVB host Xu Guanwen. Although this person is a bit cold-faced, the contrast formed will definitely
What impressed the audience deeply, as for the female lead, my favorite is Shaw Brothers' Dina..."
Chu Huan didn't wait for Li Hanxiang to finish speaking, then immediately shook his head and said: "This person is not good!"
Li Hanxiang was stunned. He didn't expect that Chu Huan, who had expressed strong support for him just now, would express his disagreement so decisively when he learned that he was going to use Dina as the heroine.
But what Li Hanxiang didn't know was that Chu Huan was remembering a piece of gossip that his former celebrity girlfriend told him.
The heroine of Gossip was Dina, but Chu Huan didn't pay much attention to it at the time, so she never thought of it after her rebirth.
Now that I heard this name, I remembered it.
It turns out that when Dina was filming "The Great Warlord", she didn't know that she would be completely naked. At that time, Li Hanxiang said that the camera would be placed very far away during the filming, and there would be gauze on the bedside.
Dina agreed to shoot this scene, but she didn't want Li Hanxiang to secretly put the camera in a dark place and capture the entire scene.
This was a classic scene in the movie, but it also left a very bad impression on Dina, which caused her to reduce the number of films she made, and even later she slowly withdrew from the film industry.
Of course, Chu Huan definitely did not refuse to let Dina star in this movie because of this incident.
If it weren't for the following reasons, Chu Huan wouldn't care about these things at all.
The most important thing is that many people think that Dina is just an actor, but in fact she has provided many advanced technologies in the aerospace field to China in the later period.
Based on this alone, Chu Huan knew that he could not agree to Li Hanxiang's request.
"Director Li, everything else is easy to talk about, but this actress is not good!" Chu Huan said seriously: "Even if you ask Ling Bo to act, I can throw money at you!"
After hearing what Chu Huan said, Li Hanxiang didn't insist, let alone asked Chu Huan why he couldn't do it.
He just thought that there might be something between Chu Huan and Dina that he didn't know, and smiled: "It doesn't matter, you are the boss, so you have the right to speak as an actor, not to mention that Boss Chu is so sincere, so I can speak easily."
Got it!"
Chu Huan said with a smile: "As for the actor, we will wait until Director Li has confirmed it. You confirm the person, and I will be responsible for getting this person!"