Chapter 43 Xiang Huaqiang's Frustrated Abacus
Chapter 43 Xiang Huaqiang's failure
Just when Anita Mui had a unique meaning and was speaking, she sat on the other side of the table, but there were two people talking, and the words were also related to Zong Wushang. One was Xiang Huaqiang, the boss of Yongsheng Film Company, and the other was Sammo Hung of Debao Film Company.
There is no need to mention who Xiang Huaqiang is. Sammo Hung is also famous. The "big brother"-level figure in the Hong Kong film industry. His mobile phone is called "big brother" because of Sammo Hung. It can be seen that Sammo Hung's name is worthy of his name in Hong Kong.
It has always been said that colleagues are enemies, but at this time, Xiang Huaqiang talked with Sammo Hung, without any sense of a competitor. Instead, he was more like a pair of old friends who had not seen each other for many years and had been reunited with long separations, smiling and smiling, all the time!
Xiang Huaqiang smoked a cigar and said first: "Brother Sanmao, we haven't seen this sit down and chat with each other, right?"
"Brother Sanmao" is a nickname of Sammo Hung. Before Sammo Hung became famous, it would be okay for others to call him like this. However, as his influence in the film industry became increasingly greater, few people dared to call him "Brother Sanmao" in person like this. Even the remaining junior brothers of "Seven Xiaofu", Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao and others, were very restrained in front of Sammo Hung.
However, Xiang Huaqiang is different. He is not only the boss of a film company, but also one of the most powerful brothers in the entire underground society of Hong Kong. He dares to call him "Sanmao". The name "Sanmao" and the word "Brother" with the word "Brother" is also considered a disguised admiration for Sammo Hung's influence in the film industry.
Otherwise, who can afford to say "Brother" to Xiang Huaqiang!
In front of Xiang Huaqiang, celebrities of this period, no matter whether you are a big name or a newcomer, they dare not be entrusted. Although Sammo Hung was not afraid of Xiang Huaqiang, he did not dare to be entrusted, let alone the other party was very proud of his face. "Brother" called out, so he smiled and said, "That's right, I have never talked seriously with Boss Xiang in such a scene."
Speaking of which, Sammo Hung is actually the same as Xiang Huaqiang. In addition to the superficial identity of the film company boss, there is actually a hint of black behind his back...the nature of society. Because Sammo Hung is a martial artist from a dragon and tiger, he started to join a troupe and fight everywhere at the age of ten. What was the situation in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s? That was black... Social forces are rampant, fighting and even killing people is common, so Sammo Hung is naturally a veteran.
The reason why Sammo Hung was disfigured was actually caused by fighting. In a nightclub, Sammo Hung beat his boyfriend to the point of being a beautiful girl and lost all his feelings. The friend who came with him was beaten to vomit blood and fell to the ground. During the fight, the beautiful girl's boyfriend used a broken glass bottle to cut Sammo Hung's appearance, leaving a scar on his mouth, which can still be seen when he is old in the future.
He was a martial artist from Longhu. Later, when he was filming independently, he established a Hong family class. One was to film the film, and the other was to fight against the rampant blacks... social gangs, because of those blacks... social gangs often come to step on the plate and charge protection fees. In this way, the Hong family class is also a formal gang force, just not committing crimes.
Xiang Huaqiang admires Sammo Hung's influence in the film industry, mainly because of this situation.
Xiang Huaqiang spitted a cigar, shook his head, and then suddenly asked: "I wonder what Brother Sanmao thinks about the current Hong Kong film industry?"
"Opinion?" Sammo Hung glanced at him sideways and said, "What do I think? The boss of Xiang in the Hong Kong film market is the one who is the dealer. Even Jiahe is willing to give up the disadvantage. I, Debao, can only see if Xiang has any good care!"
"Ha, Brother Sanmao is joking!" Xiang Huaqiang laughed a few times, not knowing whether he was proud or modest, and continued: "If you want to be a banker, you are boasting. If you don't talk about anything else, it depends on the younger generation now who can squeeze us old bones down, so what else can you talk about to take care of!"
Sammo Hung seemed to understand what Xiang Huaqiang meant, but he just smiled casually: "This is nothing. Since ancient times, the Yangtze River has pushed the old waves forward, and the waves are higher than the other. And isn't Stephen Chow, under the boss Xiang, a superstar in the Hong Kong film industry today? Where are the old bones? We are those old bones."
Seeing that Sammo Hung was always salty and light, Xiang Huaqiang couldn't help but squint and asked directly: "I wonder how Brother Sanmao thinks Mingzhu looks like?"
"Pearl image?" Sammo Hung was slightly stunned.
He didn't know what trick Xiang Huaqiang was playing, why did he just come up with the image of Mingzhu? You can't think about it a little more and you can guess most of it because of the competitive relationship!
Yongsheng Film, founded by Xiang Huaqiang, naturally wanted to get a share of the film industry, and it inevitably had the ambition to dominate the entire Hong Kong film industry. And at this time, I believe this ambition has become even stronger, because its subsidiary Stephen Chow is rapidly rising to become a superstar in Hong Kong, and is so popular.
Any movie starring Stephen Chow is a guarantee of box office sales, and there are also vague praises from "Boy-week 10%" and "Star Chow". In particular, the title of "Boy-week 10%" is evenly awesome, because this means that the three of them are evenly divided in the box office of the entire Hong Kong movie!
Getting one of them means that it accounts for one-third of the box office of Hong Kong movies.
When Yongsheng had a Stephen Chow, he naturally wanted to pull the other two people over. However, Jackie Chan was from Jiahe and he had a huge influence. In addition, Jiahe boss Zou Wenhuai was a cunning old fox. Xiang Huaqiang was naturally unable to move easily in the overlord figure in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. As for Chow Yun-fat, he was from Run Run Shaw, and he was even more unmovable.
Who is Run Run Shaw? He is Sir Taiping, the originator of the movie, and a person who wants to shake the whole of Hong Kong in a word! Compared to Xiang Huaqiang, a shameless black man... the status of the big boss in society is many times higher. If Xiang Huaqiang strokes the tiger's beard, it is undoubtedly a funny head.
If neither of them can move, Xiang Huaqiang can only hold his own one-point three-point land and manage his share in the Hong Kong film market. However, if he cannot move forward, Xiang Huaqiang naturally cannot tolerate regression. Now that Zong Wushang wants to get a share of the Hong Kong film market, it is something that Xiang Huaqiang will definitely be unbearable.
Others can tolerate setting up film companies, after all, the influence is nothing. But Zong Wushang is different. He is a star with full box office appeal. He has triggered a craze as soon as he was released. The box office in Hong Kong on the first day exceeded HK$3 million?
If Zong Wushang was asked to shoot a few more such high-box movies, the power of the Hong Kong film market would undoubtedly be re-divided.
Xinyi City went bankrupt, and Xiang Huaqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now he is coming to Xinyi City, how can he bear it?
Thinking of this, Sammo Hung figured it out. Xiang Huaqiang is here to win him over to deal with Mingzhu's image.
"Boss Xiang may not know yet that Debao is facing disbandment." After pondering, Sammo Hung did not answer Xiang Huaqiang's words positively, but suddenly said this.
Chapter completed!