Li Guilong moved very quickly, and he and Cao Jinling quickly compiled a review article - "The Development History of Martial Arts Movies".

The article is divided into three parts, discussing the development of new and old martial arts respectively.

The first part discusses the sprouting of martial arts movies from "Car Robbers", marked by "Son and Daughter Heroes", to "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple", "Husband of the Huangjiang", "Red Hero" and "Kwantung Heroes" to reach great success.

It can be regarded as the beginning of martial arts movies, which are unknown to most Hong Kong people because they all took place during the Republic of China period in the 1920s and 1930s.

The second part discusses the prosperity of martial arts films in Hong Kong in the 1940s, mainly represented by the legendary figure Huang Feihong of the Republic of China. In the next twenty years, hundreds of films were filmed, so that "Once Upon a Time" was played in Hong Kong.

A real disaster, this is also an old martial arts movie that Hong Kong people are familiar with.

The third part is naturally the Shaw Brothers movies represented by "The One-Armed Sword" and "The Drunken Man", which are called the beginning of new martial arts movies. The reason why we focus on Shaw Brothers is that it has a big goal and can provide the next

Chapter has set up a huge target. In addition, Shaw Brothers also tried to transform the city like Golden Harvest, but unfortunately it failed and could only produce martial arts movies that had lost the market over and over again until they stopped production.

The fourth part is to criticize Shaw Brothers for the fact that the fight scenes have been the same for 20 years and have no new ideas. They no longer have the enterprising spirit when filming "The One-Armed Knife" 20 years ago. It calls on Hong Kong filmmakers to brainstorm and remake kung fu movies.

After all, the most popular Hong Kong films around the world are martial arts films. By the way, I recall "The Best Punch", which opened in 1,000 theaters in North America and earned nearly 30 million US dollars.

The article did not directly mention "The Six-Fingered Piano Demon", as if it was just objectively discussing the development of martial arts movies. However, as the debate expands, "The Six-Fingered Piano Demon" will naturally receive more attention. After all, it has been very popular since Shaw Brothers stopped production.

It is rare to see martial arts movies in cinemas. Excellent productions naturally have to be released after repeated requests, so as to win the audience's attention.

The article was not published in Mingxiu Daily, but in Oriental Daily. On the one hand, it is because Oriental Daily has greater influence, with daily sales of 300,000 copies, and has been ranked "No. 1 in sales" for more than ten consecutive years.

It is the goal that Mingxiu Daily follows.

On the other hand, martial arts novels and martial arts movies are usually inseparable. Only with best-selling martial arts novels and a large fan base can martial arts movies be successful. Putting aside martial arts novels, there are few martial arts movies that are completely self-made.

It was a big hit at the box office. And with the closure of Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng, and the death of Gu Long, the best-selling martial arts writer in Hong Kong is Wen Ruian.

Gu Long once said: "As long as Wen Ruian is more focused on writing martial arts novels, the future of martial arts novels will depend on him."

Jin Yong once said: "In recent years, I only read Ruian's martial arts novels."

This shows Wen Rui'i's influence in the field of martial arts novels, and the Hong Kong base for serializing his novels is Oriental Daily. Readers of Oriental Daily will naturally become fans of new martial arts movies.

Furthermore, publishing it first on Mingxiu Daily would not be conducive to unity and cooperation with Shaw Brothers. After all, it still relies on the latter's distribution network in Nanyang.

If someone criticizes something, someone must support it, so that there can be a debate. Only when there is controversy can there be widespread attention, and writing wars has been a fine tradition of newspapers since the Republic of China.

Mingxiu Daily finally sided with Shaw Brothers and took the lead in attacking Oriental Daily. It focused on remembering the glorious era of martial arts movies in the late 1960s and early 1970s. There is a kind of marketing called sentiment. No matter when, the main consumer of movies will always be

Mainly young people, and nine out of ten of the first movies these young people watch when they enter the cinema are Shaw Brothers' martial arts movies.

This controversy accompanied the Academy Awards and reached its climax at the end of the month. The 2,500 copies of Longteng Magazine about "The Six-Fingered Piano Demon" published by Li Guilong were sold out and demand exceeded supply, which was in sharp contrast to the depression of the first issue.

This year's Academy Awards have nothing to do with Cai Chi-liang. The first film produced by Cai's Pictures, "An Autumn Fairy Tale," is this year's work and can only participate in next year's Academy Awards selection.

In his spare time, Cai Zhiliang discussed the company's film production plan with Zhang Wanting and Zhao Shuo.

"Alang is a racing driver who is bohemian. There is a rich girl Bobo who is deeply in love with him and marries Alang regardless of her family's objections. Life after marriage is naturally unfortunate. There are frequent quarrels. The relationship between the couple is almost broken. Alang even beats him.

Pregnant wife. When Bobo was about to compete, Alang was arrested and imprisoned for participating in illegal racing and killing a policeman during the race. Bobo's mother lied that the baby had died, took Bobo to the United States, and sent the baby to

Entered the orphanage.

After Alang was released from prison, his wife and children were separated, and he regretted it very much. He picked up his son Bo Zai from the orphanage, made a living as a truck driver, and raised his son with difficulty.

Ten years later, Alang accompanied Bozi to participate in a bicycle race. It happened that the competition was organized by Bobo to promote children's clothing for an American fashion company. When the couple met, they were speechless. Later, Bobo learned that Bozai was his.

After having a son, I wanted to take Bo Zai away.

For the sake of his son's future, Alang is prepared to fulfill Bobo's wishes on the one hand, and on the other hand he hopes to save his marriage with Bobo.

Therefore, in order to win back Bo Zai and express his determination to remarry, Alang insisted on participating in the upcoming car race in the city to ensure that Bo Bo could be the support of mother and son."

The script that Cai Zhiliang mentioned is the movie that will earn countless people's tears in the future - "A Lang's Story", which is also the pinnacle of Zhou Yunfa's work.

"It's an inspirational story of the prodigal son, where the family is reunited and everyone is happy. Although it's a bit cliche, it's very effective. Previous Shaw Brothers movies, including many martial arts novels, used this routine." Zhao Shuo, who was originally at Shaw Brothers, said

This routine is very familiar.

"Not a happy ending."

Cai Zhiliang said: "Alang is no longer young. Although he has rich experience, his body is not as flexible as when he was young. In addition, the old injury recurred and he hit the fence."

Zhang Wanting has roughly read the outline of the story, but understated most of the parts and needs to be supplemented. This is also Cai Zhiliang's consistent style.

"Using life to end with passion, just like Brother Ma, this kind of tragic hero's death path will definitely make people cry."

Cai Zhiliang said: "The company plans to shoot two movies in the second half of the year, one is the sequel to "The Best Bad Friend", and the other is "A Lang's Story", which will be directed by you."

Zhang Wanting naturally would not refuse and said: "No problem."

Zhao Shuo asked: "Will Zhou Runfa play A Lang? He doesn't have many schedules, and his salary is very high. The asking price is more than 2 million yuan."

Cai Zhiliang said: "I made an agreement with Chow Yun-fat last year. There is no big problem with the schedule. The production can be completed early next year at the latest. Furthermore, this is an artistic film, which cannot be compared with commercial films. It is used to compete for the Academy Awards.

For those who won the Golden Horse Award, the salary is naturally not that high."

"Don't worry Zhou Runfa, I can convince him."

Zhang Wanting turned to ask: "Where is the heroine, Lin Qingxia or Wang Zuxian?"

Choi's Pictures has a limited selection of heroines. In addition to Lin Qingxia, whom they have worked with, there is Wang Zuxian, a contracted artist of the company.

Cai Zhiliang said: "It's Lin Qingxia."

Zhang Wanting asked again: "How much budget do you have prepared?"

Cai Zhiliang said: "You should check it out first, make a budget, and improve the script by the way, and we will discuss it. Regarding the script, if Zhou Runfa agrees to star, we can also discuss it with him."

Cai Zhiliang remembers that the "Alang's Story" was created by Zhou Runfa and Du Qifeng.
Chapter completed!