Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 478 The Underlying Contradictions Under the Pressure of Survival
For the unexpected harvest of this trip, Zhong Huagong was overjoyed.

But he was also dissatisfied, so he asked tentatively: "Mr. Tang, can the price of the computer human resources system be more favorable?"

"You don't understand," Tang Huan glanced at the other party, and replied lightly, "I understand your real needs, so in the system for you, the encryption technology is based on chip-level DES implementation. This is the US federal government's _ The standard is used in the old and the United States, and there are strict export restrictions. If I didn’t borrow the help of Bank of China and their new banking system, even if I want to give it to you, it may not be so easy.”

"I understand. I will explain it in detail when I get back." The sweat on Zhong Huagong's forehead immediately came down, and he got up to leave quickly.

"Don't forget, this type of product only accepts US dollars for settlement." Tang Huan nodded slightly and reminded the other party.

Zhong Huagong, who repeatedly agreed, did not completely relax until he walked out of the office. He subconsciously took out a cigarette, and just about to light it, an Indian next to him immediately stopped him: "Sir, this is a non-smoking area."

"I'm sorry." Zhong Huagong agreed, but in his heart he scolded, "You're so lenient, you're so lenient." But when he got into the car, he smiled and shook his head, "As expected of the world's number one A rich man, unspeakably expensive, like the United Nations, has all kinds of servants."

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"Tang Sheng, I caused you trouble this time." Seeing Zhong Hua bow away, Wang Jing came over.

"Not really. At my level, some contact is inevitable." Tang Huan waved his hand nonchalantly, "Just like you, a director, in reality, when filming, people from all walks of life will often come to you on their own initiative. "

"It's really an honor to be with such a caring boss like you." Wang Jing complimented him sincerely.

"Stop flattering." After Tang Huan laughed and cursed, he raised his hand and nodded to Wang Jing, "Don't blame me for not reminding you to keep your distance. Don't wait until you have the idea of ​​​​immigrating and suddenly find out that you have entered the blacklist and are banned. No wiggle room for rejection.”

Wang Jing scratched her head, and replied slightly stammeringly: "Thank you Tang Sheng for your concern, I will take care of it."

Tang Huan was too lazy to talk about some things, and turned to the movie "God of Gamblers", "I know, you are a little worried about the Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingchi I gave you, it depends on you, the director." With the training ability, the two of them still have great potential, and bringing out an actor of equal status and a newcomer can also show your ability, right?"

"I will do my best to live up to Tang Sheng's respect." Seeing Tang Huan explaining this matter to himself, Wang Jing made a rare solemn assurance, and introduced the progress of the project in detail.

Tang Huan nodded approvingly, "DreamWorks will have several major productions this year, and "God of Gamblers" will play a very important role in it. For a long time, Xiangjiang has not formed a pure film industry union. It’s time to make a change, otherwise it will be detrimental to the long-term development of the industry, and in the end, everyone will have no meat in their bowls. Next year, DreamWorks will promote this matter, and now it needs to further increase its influence in the industry.”

Wang Jing looked stunned, and thought that it was no wonder Mr. Tang paid so much attention to film production. He had other plans, and he must have revealed this tone to himself, which also had other meanings.

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"Love to Protect Flowers" is not in the project sequence of DreamWorks. Its major productions planned for this year include Wang Jing's "God of Gamblers", Lin Qingxia's "Senior Sister Heroic: Money Empire", Xu Ke's "Huang Feihong", etc. .

Perhaps stimulated by the good box office performance, the team of "Sister Heroic" can be said to be in a hot working state, and they started work early. Seeing how the progress is going, the movie may be released in August.

In sharp contrast to this, the "Once Upon a Time" project was delayed again and again, which made Xu Ke, who was planning to do a big job, feel restless and completely angry.

This can't be blamed on Xu Ke, some factors are beyond his control.

First of all, Li Lianjie, the leading actor, has to film "Shaolin Boy" for Zhongyuan Film Production Company according to the previous agreement.

This film is the same as the previous "Shaolin Temple", it must have the elements of beautiful mountains and clear waters and great rivers and mountains, but after many choices, the crew finally went to the bank of the Li River to shoot the scene, which caused a delay in the schedule.

If this is just a small trouble, then the resistance encountered in the specific production process is the most difficult.

There are already too many movies with Huang Feihong as the theme. Guan Dexing alone has appeared in more than 80 movies.Xu Ke, who has deep feelings in his chest, cannot simply repeat the past.

You must know that compared with the same stage in the original time and space, Xu Ke is not the usual smug. In 1981, he won the Best Director of the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award for "Ghost Horse Zhi Duo Xing". It has proved his commercial value at the box office, and he seems to be a leader among Xiangjiang directors.

Of course, Xu Ke's fame and fortune came from his own hard work.

For the filming of "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", Xu Ke was beaten back several times by DreamWorks for the script alone. Even Shi Nansheng stood on the opposite side of him, and almost fell into Jiahe's arms.

In the end, Xu Ke adapted the content of the huge original work into two volumes, and after repeated adjustments, he was finally recognized by DreamWorks and obtained the long-awaited right to use DreamWorks Art Special Effects Company.

Thus, Xu Ke ushered in an era of new special effects in martial arts films.

Although in Tang Huan's view, the martial arts masters on the big screen made gestures blindly, and then the screen was full of wind, thunder and lightning, which was really incongruous, but the audience at this stage bought it, and quickly attracted many follow-up works.

Shaw received technical support from DreamWorks Art Special Effects Company, and filmed "Wulin Sacred Fire Order" with a brand-new style starring Mo Shaocong, Weng Jingjing, Liu Xuehua and others. The box office obviously exceeded other films produced by the same department.

On the basis of these brilliant achievements, Xu Ke naturally wants to make a new style of "Once Upon a Time" with a certain level of thought, such as continuing to express the reflection on the people's hardships similar to "The Legend of the Swordsman in Shushan", and DreamWorks provides The elementary script touched him immediately.

In this brand-new "Once Upon a Time", the story puts Huang Feihong in the background of that era's new and conservative, traditional and modern, as well as the political and cultural conflicts between China and the West.

Xu Ke had a feeling that this script simply expressed what was in his heart, and suddenly made the blurred outline in his mind clear.

After the script is fully finalized, Xu Ke needs to consider the martial arts art form of the film next. He does not hesitate to lean towards the style of "Fang Shiyu" that makes the audience pleasing to the eye.

But when choosing a martial arts instructor, Xu Ke planned to invite someone from outside DreamWorks.Gain until 1981's "Huang Feihong: The Brave Without Fear", almost all the shadows of the historical real person Huang Feihong's personal disciples participated.

Due to the possible positive impact of the "justifiable" gimmick on the box office, Xu Ke planned to let Liu Jiaban, the fourth generation successor of Wong Fei Hung, be the martial arts instructor.

At the beginning, both parties were very positive in their intention to cooperate. However, after in-depth exchanges, Liu Jiaban objected to the martial arts style Xu Ke wanted. In particular, he believed that the flashy "Foshan Shadowless Kick" was substandard. It then rose to the height of the dispute between the North and the South.

Now, the biggest reason why the movie "Once Upon a Time" project was put on hold is here.

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Tang Huan, who was inspecting the DreamWorks Art Special Effects Company, waved his hands disapprovingly after listening to Xu Ke's explanation of these trivial matters, "If we can't reach an agreement, then we can use our own people. It's no big deal."

"Although I haven't formally notified Liu Jiaban to terminate the cooperation, I have already started to arrange the handover." Xu Ke quickly replied.

Tang Huan nodded, and then turned his attention to the special effects in front of him.

It has to be said that when Xu Ke was filming "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", the special effects requirements that Xu Ke put forward forced the work level of DreamWorks Art Special Effects Company to improve a lot, and many of the results can be used repeatedly for other films.

Tang Huan smiled at Xu Ke with satisfaction and said: "You are like James Cameron who is filming "Terminator" in the United States. You are obsessed with special effects technology in the movie field and have your own ideas."

"Really?" Tsui Hark's eyes lit up when he heard this, "I hope to have a chance to communicate with him."

"Simple, I will arrange for you to meet. But you two are full of personality. I hope you won't get into a fight because of your stubbornness." After Tang Huan made a joke, he fiddled with the model on the table. The staff next to him hurriedly Let me introduce you.

"By the way, I heard that for the filming of "Once Upon a Time", you built a very magnificent location, almost as big as two or three streets, which was specially used to reflect the customs of the city in the late Qing Dynasty. Even many reporters went to watch the excitement. .” Thinking of the news, Tang Huan asked casually.

"I just rented a ready-made place on the Shaw Brothers studio. It hasn't been completely built yet." Seeing Tang Huan's interest, Xu Ke's heart moved, "If Tang Huan has time, why not go and have a look. I will follow the instructions as much as possible. The historical facts and the original style can be regarded as a landscape.”

"Then go and have a look." Tang Huan agreed happily.He is still looking forward to Xuke's version of "Once Upon a Time", otherwise it would not have been released in advance.

In Tang Huan's view, compared to the early 1990s in the original time and space, this "Huang Feihong" is more reflective of China's internal and external troubles a hundred years ago.

Xu Ke wished to have more time to communicate with Tang Huan, because he heard that the original idea of ​​the script of "Once Upon a Time" came from this big boss, and he also has a lot of feelings about this script, so he must take this opportunity to ask for advice. After all, maybe you can get the investment for the sequel without waiting for the box office performance, and then shoot a brand new "Once Upon a Time" series.

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Shaw Studios, located on the Clear Water Bay Peninsula in Kowloon, has been in operation for more than 20 years and can be regarded as a great witness to the development history of Hong Kong's film industry.

However, as the Shaw Brothers entered the rapidly developing Hong Kong television industry, especially after Run Run Shaw became the largest shareholder of TVB in 1980 and became the chairman of the board of directors, the business of Shaw Brothers Film Company continued to shrink obviously, and the Clear Water Bay studio was also rented to TVB operates as a video studio.

After Shaw Brothers Cinemas merged into DreamWorks Cinemas in the name of franchise, the shift of Run Run Shaw's career center became more and more obvious. This inevitably made the artists of Shaw Brothers Film Company feel a sense of crisis. Capabilities and opportunities immediately adapt to the changes of the times.

After the Shaw Cinemas merged into the DreamWorks Cinemas, it did not appear that some naive people would take it for granted that Shaw Brothers movies would get more screens. Instead, those Shaw Brothers movies that were unpopular and worthless were still included It was brushed down faster, which made some people at the bottom seem to have found the reason for their difficult life.

However, Xu Ke's attempt to facilitate the construction of an outdoor location at the Clear Water Bay studio coincided with the meeting place becoming the place where conflicts accumulated and broke out.

On this day, after the martial arts masters of DreamWorks prepared the fighting scenes for the movie "Once Upon a Time" according to the drawings, the logistics department sent a batch of watermelons, and everyone immediately ate them happily to relieve the heat.

Shao's martial artists looked envious, and encouraged a few people to come and hug the watermelon.

Although the top didn't let go of the words, the bottom layer could still feel the turmoil that was about to break up, and there were a lot of bumps and bumps on weekdays, so the martial artists of DreamWorks couldn't understand the other party's behavior of taking advantage of the other party's innocence, and immediately punished them. Prevent.

The Shaw Brothers martial master who couldn't save face immediately counterattacked in a sly manner, "If you don't give it, you won't give it. What's the big deal. If you leave us, you still want to make "Huang Feihong" well?"

The martial artists from DreamWorks were not in a good temper either, so they retorted, "You can only say some sour sarcastic remarks. Anyway, the audience likes our martial arts style, and your movie can't even be ranked in the theater."

When the martial arts master of the Shao family was mentioned about his shortcomings, his blood immediately surged up. He raised his foot and kicked a watermelon to pieces. He pointed at the opponent's nose and cursed: "The world has been ruined by opportunistic guys like you."

Martial artists in this profession are full of happy and enmity temperaments. The dreamworks martial arts master who was degraded by watermelon flesh and watermelon juice did not hesitate to throw his fist at each other and curse back, "I have no ability to make money, so I blame us for robbing you." If you have a business, let’s see who has the real skills.”

The next full martial arts scene can be imagined. The props originally prepared for the movie "Once Upon a Time in Huang" have all become weapons for chaos.

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Accompanied by Xu Ke, Tang Huan walked all the way with great interest.As a result, as soon as they turned around the alley, a bench flew towards them.

If Tang Huan hadn't been quick with his eyesight and pulled Xu Ke aside, the two of them would have been smashed in the face.

Seeing the live martial arts movie released in advance, Xu Ke immediately changed his expression, showing off the power of old weirdo Xu and scolding everyone to stop.

But the grievances between the two groups were already deep, Xu Ke couldn't control the situation at all, and accidentally stepped on a piece of watermelon rind and fell.

From the yelling and cursing of both sides in the fight, Tang Huan, who had a delicate mind, immediately guessed the reason for their enmity, and couldn't help but feel angry.

As soon as he got up, Xu Ke was stunned by the scene in front of him. He saw his big boss, Tang Huan, breaking into the crowd viciously, flying with both fists and feet, specially calling out to those who refused to stop.

Xu Ke was horrified when he saw this. This was a super rich man with a net worth of tens of billions of dollars. Any scratch would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"Hurry up and stop, that's Mr. Tang, even the boss dares to beat you, do you still want to mess around?" Xu Ke jumped up and scolded anxiously.

Fortunately, Tang Huan's security assistants rushed over at this time. These people were all professional bodyguards, and they specially greeted the most vulnerable parts such as the ribs and legs, and quickly stopped them. There was a big fight, but the scene was messy.

Tang Huan tugged at the sleeves of the expensive custom-made buttons that he didn't know where they fell, and said sadly: "You are all doing the lowest jobs in the film industry, mutual understanding is the key, why bother to be suspicious of each other and kill each other? .”

The martial artists from DreamWorks all lowered their heads, while the martial artists from Shaw Brothers looked away one after another, as if they dared not speak out after being beaten, and their eyes were even more disdainful that "a full man doesn't know a hungry man is hungry".

Tang Huan, who had seen everyone's reactions in his eyes, sighed depressingly. People's hearts cannot be forced. He didn't bother to say more. He took a stack of cash from his assistant and handed it to Xu Ke, "Give it to them to look at." Injury, if it delays the filming of "Once Upon a Time", you are the only one asking."

Xu Ke, who was so shocked by Tang Huan's aura that he couldn't turn his head, subconsciously agreed.

When he heard Tang Huan hurriedly leave and muttered in a low voice, "It's just like the sad picture of all living beings in "Once Upon a Time", Xu Ke, who thought of the content of the movie, realized that the big boss, who always had different ideas, had no intention of changing his mind. Where did it come from?

(End of this chapter)