Deciding to work overtime and try to shoot (Juno) as quickly as possible, since there was a complete script for each scene, Zhang Yimou and Huang Jianxin quickly recruited all the main creatives in front of the camera.

Looking at Hua Zi and Nicole Kidman, as well as the supporting cast recruited from Hollywood, Director Zhang just expressed his thoughts, mainly to try to prepare for the Cannes International Film Festival next month in May...

All the creative team raised their hands in approval.

Especially Nicole Kidman, as a pure white girl, she understands better that in Western society, an 18-year-old student gets pregnant out of wedlock, gives birth to a child for adoption, and goes through various emotional tangles. What is it like to find love?

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If you perform well, you can really win awards!

Especially now that feminism is at its peak, her role in this movie is overweight, much heavier than that of Hua Zai. The key is to perform a girly look. She is only 19 years old this year. Although she is a bit taller, her girlish look itself is

Super full.

One day of shooting, from morning to evening in one go, the crew seamlessly transitioned to the night scene.

Nicole Kidman does it to win prizes, but others? They do it to perform as well as possible and get a chance to get on the bus and make a fortune.

What does overtime count? Who is asking for overtime pay at this time? It is inhumane. It is blocking the financial path of more than 90% of the crew!

When a night scene was successfully filmed again, Zhang Yimou was just about to take a break and catch his breath when he saw a white stage manager running over and said, "Director, someone came to visit the class and said he is your old classmate."

Director Zhang was a little surprised, but he still went out to greet them. Soon he saw the poetry master and Ms. Hong. Director Zhang was shocked, "Old Chen? You are a bit elusive."

In the mid-1980s, it was quite difficult for mainlanders to go abroad.

Of course, for powerful people, it is much easier to go abroad than for ordinary people.

The poetry-reciting master strode over, hugged Zhang Yimou, and smiled brightly, "Okay, the last movie you directed (Shark Beach) was sold like crazy all over the world, but it only cost 110 million U.S. dollars at the box office in Europe and the United States. It was simply...

…”

The little poetry master was jealous with envy.

Yellow Earth, which he filmed in 1984, was his debut film and made a lot of money. It also won many awards at some second-rate international film festivals. The TV series he directed in 1984 also won awards.

But compared with Zhang Yimou and Huang Jianxin who made a movie and each received a red envelope of 1 million Hong Kong dollars? They earned too little!

This is 1 million Hong Kong dollars in 1986!

What’s even more incredible now is that Lao Zhang and Lao Huang actually came to Montana to film. Most of the movies are starring white people, and the only Chinese male protagonist is Andy Lau?!

During the Spring Festival of 1984, Ah Hua appeared on the Spring Festival Gala with Zhang Guorong to sing (Chinese), which became popular all over China! Andy Lau's status in the European and American music and film circles is also one of the role models for Chinese people around the world.

Standing at the highest level.

The little poet-reciting master was so envious that he almost vomited blood. As for how he could fly all the way to Madana to visit the class? Of course it was with the help of Ms. Hong, who was his girlfriend.

After a brief exchange of polite greetings, I got to know Director Huang by the way. The poetry-reciting master didn't dare to take up too much time, but just expressed that he wanted to watch them filming the movie.

After watching a few scenes, he also came to read the script for (Juno), which he read with Ms. Hong.

After reading it, the poetry-reciting master was a little confused. This kind of book was a little hard to understand. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand it. He just felt that this book was a bit too ordinary.

I feel like there's nothing outstanding about it. Isn't it just an 18-year-old girl who got pregnant out of wedlock, went through various confusing stages, and gave birth to a child to a middle-class couple who wanted to adopt a child?

Then she continued to be passionately in love with the male protagonist, but it was over?? This was too ordinary, it didn’t have the depth and connotation of his Yellow Earth.

When I found out that the entire script had split-shot paintings... the little poetry-reciting master was even more speechless. Does this still require joint guidance?

For serious directing graduates, if you don’t graduate through the back door, then you can shoot with your hands??

But watching the whole crew, who were full of morale and fighting spirit and cooperated throughout the filming process, the young master became even more curious, does this drama really have such charm? Is it worthy of everyone fighting so seriously?

It wasn't until 11 o'clock in the evening that the big team finished the work.

The poetry master just asked out of curiosity what the prospects of this movie were, and Huang Jianxin said excitedly, "When the project was launched, Zhao Shengli of Hong Kong said it was aimed at the European and American markets, and that it was expected to win international film festival awards."

"As long as the quality of the film is up to standard, I hope to win nominations for Best Director and Best Actress."

The young master was so shocked that he almost vomited blood. With this main line, how could there be any depth or profound connotation? Isn’t it just...? Are you kidding?

But he didn’t know that this was indeed the original version that could win Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.

It won a lot of second-tier international awards, and, with a cost of US$6.5 million, it grossed US$230 million at the global box office!

He wanted to refute, but he was unable to do so. Hong Kong's Zhao Donghuai was at the top of the list of Chinese directors not only in terms of box office revenue.

Zhao Sheng's circle of friends in the Mainland is too scary. Last year, he earned two to three billion U.S. dollars in foreign exchange just by helping the eastern Guangdong province. Before the Spring Festival Gala, the level of people Zhao Sheng visited or met in the Mainland...

Zhao Sheng from Hong Kong Island is no longer just a person in the entertainment industry!

The richest man in Hong Kong may also be the richest Chinese person in the world, but many of his properties are not listed on the market and there is no detailed statistics on his wealth.

For example, in 1985, the Island Economic News Agency compiled statistics on the top ten richest people in Asia. The Chen family of Bangkok Bank in Thailand and Island Commercial Bank in Hong Kong had an estimated assets of US$2.2 billion, making them the top ten richest people in Asia.

This does not refer to the total market value of Bangkok Bank and others, but to the Chen family’s wealth of US$2.2 billion.

Much of Zhao Donghuai’s wealth has not been listed on the market.

However, the market value of HK Electric and Chinese Land is more than HK$20 billion, which is one of the top ten consortiums in Hong Kong. If it is really going to be listed, a Wanjia integrated supermarket chain may have a market value greater than that of Hong Kong Electric and Chinese Land.

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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Ultimately, what the stock market buys is the confidence and future of investors in it. With Wanjia’s reputation, are you afraid that the citizens of Hong Kong Island will not have confidence in it??

If the other party said that, there would be silence for a while. The poetry-reciting master felt that he had not understood the script yet. Well, try reading it a few more times. This is because his depth of thinking has not caught up with the channel!

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When Madana fell into the middle of the night, the sun was still shining brightly on Hong Kong Island.

The weather in April has already started to feel comfortable at over 20 degrees Celsius, and there are more and more people walking on the streets wearing big pants, short skirts and black stockings.

In Zhao's Financial Building, the air-conditioning blew through every corner of the big office. Director Zhao closed the script in his hand and said with a slightly weird expression, "The True Colors of a Hero? A remake of the 1967 version..."

"Who do you want to star in?"

Opposite is Wu Baige, the great king of pigeons. Later generations of Lao Wu like to make bad money, and he especially likes to support Hong Kong stars and suppress mainland stars. However, at this stage, Lao Wu is far from that kind of reputation.

He is just an ordinary street director who has a very good relationship with Xu Ke.

Now we are planning to film A Better Tomorrow, which is under the name of Xu Ke Film Company, which is also a subsidiary of Zhao Film Company.

However, there is still a big difference between the script of "A Better Tomorrow" produced by Wu Baige and the one released in the original trajectory in 1986.

For example, Brother Xiao Ma is an ordinary supporting character, and the main plot is about Song Zihao and Song Zijie, two brothers who have a battle with the eldest brother. Secondly, Lao Wu's iconic violent aesthetics of gun battles, the kind of bang bang bang, click click click bullets, and the fight lasted for a long time without killing a few people.

The style is gone.

The storyboard scripts were all replaced with action and combat routines from Lone Tiger, Hurricane Rescue, and John Wick, including gunfight routines.

Xiao Ma is still dead here, but without a lot of exit scenes of the original hero, he is just a slightly supporting character who awakens Song Zijie's brotherhood and is shot to death.

There is no drama about the shootout at Maplewood Pavilion, and there are no lines like "I have been lame for three years, I have been waiting for three years".

Director Wu was immediately excited when he heard this. This was a trial. "As for Song Zihao, I would like to ask Wan Ziliang to play Song Zijie. Song Zijie can be Lu Liangwei, Zhou Runfa, Zhou Xingxing, Zhang Xueyou, Wu Zhenyu, etc., but if he can

Invite Ah Rong or Brother Hua, that would be perfect."

After listening to Director Wu's description, Zhao Donghuai wanted to laugh.

Both Xing Zai and A You were selected by Director Wu. It can only be said that Xu Ke’s various training and guidance for their acting skills during the filming of A Chinese Girl 3 conveyed a lot of information to the outside world.

Why would Xu Ke rather waste more scenes than go through the trouble of mentioning Xingzai's acting skills? Of course it was Zhao Sheng who wanted to promote Xingzai.

But he still didn't expect that if Xing Zai was asked to play Song Zijie... well, it wasn't that Xing Zai was asked to play Brother Pony. Xing Zai had known Director Zhao for almost three years.

What about the 24-year-old handsome young man Xing Zai, playing Song Zijie? It’s not too exciting, at most he’s a step or two less handsome than the original version of Zhang Guorong.

Xing Zai's original role in "The Brave Heroes" did not make the audience laugh out loud.

"Okay, you can coordinate Lao Xu's company's movies yourself."

If the original version of the hero's character is filmed, the box office will still be a hit. At most, the audience will complain that this hero's character is not as cool as the Hurricane, Flying Tiger, and John Wick series.

But it’s not difficult to cut a box office of 20 to 30 million in Hong Kong.

But with Zhao Donghuai's current status, if he were to modify a script just to break 30 million in Hong Kong? That would be too much.

(Shark Tank), (Home Alone), (Juno), (Cat and Mouse) and other movies that can generate hundreds of millions of dollars, he is too lazy to direct it himself, and that's all for a hero.

Let Wu Baige be free to express himself in this movie.

Perhaps Lao Wu could have pieced together the original story trajectory without his guidance?

After watching Lao Wu leave, Zhao Donghuai had just started to work again for about ten minutes when he saw Azhen opening the door and walking over, curiously saying, "Boss, a North American director named Sidney is here to visit you. He said...

This year’s Cannes International Film Festival, the chairman of the jury..."

Director Zhao suddenly realized, "Adjani introduced him, please come in."

Who is the first and the boss of this year's jury in Cannes? There's nothing wrong with that. The selection for the 1986 Cannes International Film Festival will be held next month in May. Who is currently the first and who are the various members of the jury have already been determined.

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Various films competing for Cannes have already been confirmed and submitted.

But as long as you have a charismatic personality and can impress the jury, you can still be included in a new movie that has just started shooting and has not yet shot much film.

Zhao Donghuai is this charming person!

A moment later, he met Sidney, who was in his 50s. He was a standard North American director. Before this year, he had been nominated for the North American Oscar for Best Director twice and Best Picture once.
To be continued...