Chapter 40 Zeng Zhi’s Privacy

At night, Zeng Zhi's villa.

"Azhi, what did you say to Miss Wu today?" Li Siming asked.

"You should know your personal words too? Do you want to tell me the sweet words you said to Yang Yue?" Zeng Zhi smoked, leaned his neck against the backrest of the sofa, and asked lazily.

"Tsk, please listen to your love words, I don't want to know either. What I want to know is that you won't say what I came from so clearly, right? Everything about us mainlanders is a different world for Hong Kong people, full of mystery, especially in the past few years. After all, I have entered the movie circle now. I don't want to talk to my past in the newspaper all day long!" Li Siming said.

"In this circle, you must have this awareness. If you want to eat meat and call the butcher cruel, you are really hard to serve!" Zeng Zhi said.

"I deserve it after hearing what you said? It seems that I really have something 'ugly' that I am threatened by you!" Li Siming said.

"You really don't have the 'scandal', but the incident of you in the Great Northern Wilderness back then was very interesting. Otherwise, how about we make such a movie?"

"You won't tell Miss Wu all, right?" Li Siming asked, "The affairs of educated youth are a mysterious thing for these reporters, and they may write something."

"No, I know you don't have any good feelings for the reporter. I didn't explain the incident in detail back then, don't worry!"

"People in love are very blind and will lose their minds. I'm not at ease with you."

"Don't forget that I just named "wisdom", what I lack is not wisdom." Zeng Zhi said.

"'Mole'? Yes, I almost forgot that there is a mole on your butt. Our educated youth in Daxing, no matter whether it is male, female, old or young, who doesn't know? God is really good at joking!" Li Siming suddenly remembered a relatively secret thing about Zeng Zhi. When he first arrived in the Great Northern Wilderness, Zeng Zhi was reluctant to take a bath with everyone. After several months, everyone realized that it was like this. This matter became a joke among educated youth.

"Haha!" Xiaodao couldn't help laughing. Seeing Zeng Zhi's angry expression, he forced himself back.

Li Siming said to himself: "If you say one more thing, I will promote this matter. I believe the reporters are very welcome. Especially Miss Wu, maybe she will marry you in advance for this, just to test it out, and you will take a big advantage by then."

"Okay, okay, you're good enough!" Zeng Zhi gritted his teeth in hatred.

The next day, major media praised Li Siming, such as Wu mm's "The Mainland Director's Writing Magical, Prince Zeng's Eyes to Know People", which is indeed a woman in love who will lose her mind. Zeng Zhi also deliberately saw this article five times in front of Li Siming, and read it aloud seriously and loudly, looking sarcastic.

What surprised Li Siming was that mainstream newspapers also reported on this and made a fuss about Li Siming's identity as a professor at Peking University. It is obvious that Li Siming's age has to make people doubt this. They are very interested in Li Siming's background. In fact, mainstream media are very interested in everything in the mainland, especially when the political future is unclear, especially when Li Siming's crew is still a passerby in the Great Hall of the People. Li Siming is very helpless about this. As long as he appears in front of the public, he must have the awareness of being deeply immersed in the news material. This is also the reason why Li Siming has never had a good impression of reporters, and this is also the reason why he has not appeared in public for more than ten years. If a scientist often appears in public and often appears in the media, he is not a competent scientist. This is the motto that Li Siming believes in. But Li Siming's current identity is only a director, so he has to accept these scrutiny.

The box office is rising steadily, and there are reports of adding copies every day. Zeng Zhi will suddenly smirk involuntarily every day, making Li Siming laugh and scold. Almost every day, new cinemas join the ranks of screenings, and movie fans are still very popular.

"Did you watch "The Ten-Side Ambush" today?" This is a greeting when the two met.

"Today I got a ticket to "The Ambush on Ten" movies. Is that amazing? I'll invite you to watch it?" This is the capital that the young man showed off in front of his girlfriend. In fact, he worked hard for a few days in advance to get it.

The local sales of Hong Kong movies usually determine the sales of foreign places. At present, the entertainment tax rate is 10% of the ticket price, which is not too high for Hong Kong movies. Later, this tax item was even cancelled, which caused false reporting of box office. Anyway, bragging about not being taxed, bragging at a higher price. Fortunately, selling more money overseas, but that was also the beginning of the decline of Hong Kong movies.

The Asian market is the sphere of influence of Hong Kong movies. Taiwanese movies are dead, Japanese movies are deformed, and Korean movies are distorted. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia are the main markets of Hong Kong movies, while Hollywood movies in the same period are not in the top ten in Hong Kong box offices. For Hong Kong filmmakers, this is really a prosperous scene. Hong Kong can recover costs, and all the income from other places is profitable. Making a popular movie is equivalent to having a money printing machine, and everyone is desperately making movies. Working fifteen or sixteen hours a day is not news.

"In Japan, my videos are selling well, similar to "Best Partner". It is estimated that it can recover about 8 million, South Korea is about 6 million, and Southeast Asia is expected to have an income of 10 million in total." Zeng Zhi said looking at the report.

"Is there not in Taiwan?" Li Siming said strangely.

"There is nothing strange. Your director is from the mainland, and my boss's uncle is also a high-ranking official in the mainland. The films are also filmed in the mainland, and Yin's relationship with us is well known." Zeng Zhi explained. Li Siming quietly realized that he knew that Leung Ka-hui won the third Hong Kong Film Awards for "The Curtain of the Political Science Award", at the age of 26. Since "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "The Curtain of the Political Science" were filmed in the mainland, Leung Ka-hui was immediately banned by the Taiwanese authorities. No one asked him to film for a movie at one time. Hong Kong filmmakers were unwilling to get angry, so he was forced to make a living in a street stall.

"If it's gone, it's gone. What's the big deal!" Zeng Zhi disagreed.

"Look, after making some money, it started blowing up." Li Siming said, "There are still people in this world who think there is too much money?"

"Well, you really want to go to the United States? Have you considered it clearly?"

"I never fight unprepared battles!" Li Siming said, "You are ready to collect money!"

"I'm afraid that you will get hot now. In the United States, it's not as good as in Hong Kong. There are no ones we know there. Jiahe Film Company has tried this, but they are rich and we are just a little money." Zeng Zhi said.

After more than 10 years of development, Jiahe, whose career foundation has become stable, is not satisfied with just being a "Hong Kong film company". It wants to grow into an "international film company". In addition to continuously strengthening the production scale and entertainment level of traditional Mandarin films, since 1980, it has invested in shooting international entertainment films with English pronunciation, and pushed Jackie Chan and Xu Guanwen to the international stage in a planned manner. The first kung fu action film "Killer Trench" starring Jackie Chan was not successful, but the big head racing action film "Sky" filmed the following year responded enthusiastically in the international market, earning more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars in net profit for Jiahe. Therefore, although Jackie Chan personally failed to become a big star who could enter the European and American markets as he wished, Jiahe continued to invest in the dual-line development plan of shooting Chinese and foreign films at the same time, and finally shocked the American film industry with the "Ninja Turtle" series of movies in the 1990s.

"So what? You are good at everything, just look down on yourself. As for the reporter's meeting that day, you don't look worse than the governor of Hong Kong. We have a lot of money now. We only earn money that others can't make in their lives in half a year. What is the most important thing in the 20th century? People are the most important, and more important is the brain." Li Siming pointed to his own head, "My head is only calmer than others and will not do things that they cannot do."

"Okay, okay, you are the boss, you have the final say. I'm no longer surprised anyway!" Zeng Zhi said.

Originally, "Best Ball" was the most popular film ever in Hong Kong. In 1982, the box office champion of Hong Kong movies was 26.04 million, breaking the Hong Kong box office record. The Hong Kong film industry transitioned from the Jiahe era to the New Art City era. Xu Guanjie, the most popular movie star in the Hong Kong film industry, officially became another top film industry leader. New Art City is here! The seven giants of New Art City Mai were originally unsuccessful film figures. Unexpectedly, they would burst out with such great energy. Without them, there would be no heyday of Hong Kong movies! The "Best Ball" series was the box office champion for three consecutive years, until the birth of Fuxing. By the mid-1980s, Shaw Brothers completely stopped the film business, Jiahe, New Art City, and Debao became a three-legged situation.

Unfortunately, Li Siming's movie did not change history, but later the box office in Hong Kong reached 25 million, and the income in other places, especially in Japan was better. More importantly, Li Siming created a wave of new martial arts films, and his followers appeared in a vast and powerful way.

"Li Siming's "Ten Faces" has created a new era of martial arts films. It is a truly big-produced martial arts film in history. It has formed the trend of new martial arts films. The most attractive ones are the wonderful and beautiful martial arts designs, which have changed the mainstream of hard horse and hard bridge style kung fu films since the 1970s, and feasted the audience. Among them, the martial arts director of this film has carried forward the martial arts in this film, so we can find the shadow of this film in the "Huang Feihong" series and the "Swordsman" series, and even Hong Kong can be seen in Hollywood action films.

The shadow of martial arts directors. The story content of this movie itself is not special, but the costumes, music, outdoor scenes, and martial arts design are all excellent works. It is particularly worth mentioning that this movie has created the future star path for the three protagonists. The only regret is that this is also the first and last movie Li Siming filmed in Hong Kong. However, this film brought about a consequence, that is, the audience began to increase their requirements and increase the requirements for all aspects of a movie by a level, which also increased the cost of a movie." A movie commented later.

Li Siming didn't expect this at the time. What he thought about was how to raise another sum of money.

"Although we made a lot of money the first time, we felt that we needed more money." Zeng Zhi later commented on the scene at that time.
Chapter completed!