Chapter 1186 1188【Big publicity】
For a long time to come, the story of Xiang Nan winning glory for the country and violently beating a tornado has been circulating in Xiangjiang.
However, Xiang Nan did not indulge in the glory of the past. In the following period of time, he has been busy developing the real estate industry. By the way, cooperate with a film company to bring the story of Wing Chun to the screen.
The influence of film and television media is enormous.
Diamonds, this kind of stone with huge reserves on the earth and not scarce at all, have become synonymous with love through the promotion of film and television media.
Huang Feihong, in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, was just a doctor in the rivers and lakes in Fushan. Not to mention that he is famous in the national martial arts circle, even in the Fushan martial arts circle, he is not well-known.
But because one of his disciples likes to write novels, he serialized "Huang Feihong's Biography" in newspapers for more than ten years, with 1,500 episodes and nearly 3 million words, which made Huang Feihong famous in Hong Kong.
Later, the film company adapted the story of Huang Feihong into a movie, which made Huang Feihong's name more and more famous, and he became a martial arts master more famous than the tiger head Shaobao Sun Lutang, the sharp gun Li Shuwen, and the magic fist Li Luoneng.
In view of this, Xiang Nan also hopes to use the film and television media to spread the name of Wing Chun and attract more and more people to know Wing Chun and learn Wing Chun.
For this reason, he compiled the script of "Wing Chun" himself, telling the story of Mr. Zan, the master of Wing Chun, who performed chivalry and righteousness, punished evil and promoted good, so as to make Wing Chun famous.
After the script was written, Xiang Nan found a film company to cooperate with.
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Xiangjiang film industry developed quite early.
At the end of the 19th century, there were theaters in Xiangjiang that showed movies.
In 1909, Hujiang Asia Film Company filmed "Stealing Roasted Duck" in Xiangjiang, which was the first film shot in Xiangjiang.
In 1913, filmmaker Lai Min-wai founded his first film company, Huamei Pictures, and shot the first short film "Zhuangzi Tests His Wife" led by Hong Kong people.
It is worth mentioning that Li Minwei is the grandfather of superstar Gigi Lai.
In the next few years, the Hong Kong film industry developed rapidly. At its peak, nearly 90 films could be shot a year, and the output was astonishing. Moreover, the number of people watching movies is also increasing year by year.
In 1941, after Dongyang captured Xiangjiang, the Hong Kong film industry encountered Waterloo. For a few years, almost completely stagnated.
However, since 1946, the Hong Kong film industry has gradually recovered. Especially because of the outbreak of the civil war, a large number of mainland film industry talents fled to Xiangjiang to avoid the flames of war, which made the Xiangjiang film industry flourish.
Now, Xiang Nan has money and scripts, and the film company has talents.
Xiang Nan just wanted to make a movie with them and make money together.
After comparison, Xiang Nan found out that the company was founded by Shao Zuiweng and Shao Villagers, a Shaw Brothers and Sons Company.
Shao Zuiweng and Shaocun natives are the eldest brother and second brother of Run Run Shaw, who is known as the Sixth Uncle. Both of them are experienced filmmakers. In the 1920s, they founded Tianyi Films in Hujiang, and later Nanyang Films in Xiangjiang, and then developed their film production business in Nanyang.
Up to now, Shaw Brothers is already a well-known film company in Nanyang, with more than one hundred movie theaters, and has an extremely advantage in distribution.
Xiang Nan cooperated with them because of their film production and distribution capabilities.
They have their own studios and their own distribution theaters, and only by cooperating with them can they make money.
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For one thing, although Shaw and his sons have a long history, and there are theaters in Nanyang, they seem to be rich and powerful. But in fact, among the many film companies in Xiangjiang, this company is not the largest.
The strength of film companies such as Great Wall Films, Cathay Pacific Organization, Phoenix Films, etc. is also extraordinary.
Among them, Great Wall and Phoenix are film companies supported by the mainland. The movies they shoot can be released in the mainland. With the huge film market in the Mainland, the development of the two companies is naturally smooth.
Cathay Pacific is also a film company in Nanyang, and it also has its own theater chain in Nanyang, and its strength is not inferior to Shaw Brothers.
Therefore, the development of Shaw and his sons was not smooth at the beginning, and they struggled to survive in the cracks of several major companies. It was precisely because of this that Xiang Nan was willing to contribute money and a script to cooperate with them in filming, and they naturally agreed.
So, very soon, the first Wing Chun-themed film "Mr. Fashanzan" officially started shooting in November 1950. The starring role was Luo Jianlang, a well-known Cantonese opera student, and Lin Yu, Deng Jichen and others co-starred in the show, all of which were extremely popular at the time.
The entire film cost 50,000 yuan to produce. It seems small, but at that time, 25,000 yuan was enough to buy a house on Prince Edward Road.
So 50,000 yuan is definitely not cheap, and it can be called a medium-cost movie.
It took a total of one month from the production to the release of the movie.
Xiang Nan felt that in the blink of an eye, the movie had already started showing.
When it was released, Xiang Nan took Zhang Yongcheng and Ye Zheng to the theater to enjoy it.
To be honest, the shooting is really average.
The actors acted so-so, the fighting scenes were so-so, and even the sets and props were very perfunctory, which is completely incomparable with kung fu movies decades later.
But for the audience at that time, this kind of film was already very good.
The Cantonese films at that time did not even take seven days from preparation to completion. The scripts are all freshly edited, and the lines are all freshly written. The roughness can be imagined.
In comparison, "Mr. Fashanzan" at least has a complete script. Moreover, Xiang Nan is a latecomer after all, and he has seen so many excellent kung fu movies, so writing a movie script is really not a difficult task for him.
Under his compilation, the story of "Mr. Fushanzan" has ups and downs, and the characters are vivid. Therefore, although the production is a bit rough, it is still wonderful and beautiful.
Coupled with the fact that Xiang Nan's deeds of defeating the tornado have not yet cooled down, taking advantage of this shareholder wind, "Mr. Shanzan" was sold out as soon as it was released. For Xiangjiang alone, the box office sold 250,000 Hong Kong dollars, and won the box office champion of the year.
The huge box office success of "Mr. Zan Shan" has also made Xiangjiang filmmakers jealous, and they have invested in the production of Wing Chun Kung Fu films, such as "Mr. Zan's Wisdom Fights the Tiger with Wings", "Mr. Zan Mr. Three Dou Nanbatian" and so on, too numerous to enumerate.
This posture is exactly the same as when Tsui Hark's "Di Renjie" series was released, a series of counterfeit "Di Renjie" series emerged one after another.
There is nothing new under the sun. Unexpectedly, in the 1950s, there was already a matter of grabbing IP.
But Xiang Nan didn't stop it.
He wished that someone would make more films of this kind, and the more popular Wing Chun was, the better.
For this reason, he even invited a group of literati to help him compile "Legend of Mr. Zan".
During the civil war, a large number of mainland intellectuals came to Xiangjiang to escape the war. However, due to the limited economic development of Xiangjiang, many people cannot find a job and have no livelihood.
So it is very easy for Xiang Nan to hire people. Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man, and soon he invited a large number of them.
The most outstanding of them are Hu Jinquan, Li Hanxiang, Cha Liangyong and Chen Wentong (Liang Yusheng).
(end of this chapter)