Chapter 1186 1188【Hype publicity】


    For a long time, the story of Xiang Nan winning glory for the country and beating up the tornado has been circulating in Xiangjiang.


    ?However, Xiang Nan did not indulge in the glory of the past. In the following period, he has been busy developing the real estate industry. By the way, we are cooperating with a film company to put the Wing Chun story on the screen.


    The influence of film and television media is huge.


    Diamonds, a 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, during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, was just a martial artist in Fashan. Not to mention that he is famous in the national martial arts community, even in the Fashan martial arts community he is not ranked.


    But it was because one of his disciples liked to write novels that he serialized "The Farewell of Huang Feihong" in a newspaper for more than ten years, with a length of 1,500 episodes and nearly 3 million words, which made Huang Feihong famous in Hong Kong.


    After that, the film company adapted the story of Huang Feihong into a movie, which made Huang Feihong''s name more and more famous, becoming a more famous martial arts master than Hutou Shaobao Sun Lutang, Sharp Spear Li Shuwen, and Divine Fist Li Luoneng.


    ?In view of this, Xiang Nan also hopes to use film and television media to spread the name of Wing Chun and attract more and more people to know and learn Wing Chun.


    To this end, he wrote the script of "Wing Chun" by himself, telling the story of the Wing Chun master Mr. Pian, who acted chivalrously, punished evil and promoted good, in order to make Wing Chun famous.


    After writing the script, Xiang Nan approached a film company for cooperation.


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    ?Hong Kong’s film industry developed quite early.


    At the end of the 19th century, there were cinemas showing movies in Hong Kong.


    In 1909, Hujiang Asia Film Company shot "Roast Duck" in Hong Kong. This was the first film shot in Hong Kong.


    In 1913, filmmaker Lai Man-wai founded the 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 the famous star Gigi Lai.


    Hong Kong''s film industry developed rapidly in the following years. At its peak, nearly 90 films could be shot a year, an astonishing output. Moreover, the number of people watching movies is also increasing year by year.


    In 1941, after Dongyang captured Xiangjiang, the Xiangjiang film industry suffered a setback. Within a few years, it came to almost complete stagnation.


    ?However, since 1946, Hong Kong’s film industry has gradually recovered. Especially because of the outbreak of the civil war, a large number of mainland film industry talents fled to Hong Kong to escape the war, making the Hong Kong film industry more prosperous.


    Nowadays, 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 that the company was Shaw and Sons, founded by Shao Zuiweng and a native of Shao Village.


    ?Shao Zuiweng, a native of Shao Village, is the eldest and second brother of Run Run Shao, who is known as Liu Shu. Both of them are senior filmmakers. They founded Tianyi Pictures in Hujiang in the 1920s, and later founded Nanyang Pictures in Xiangjiang, and then developed production business in Nanyang.


    ?Today, Shaw Brothers has become a well-known film company in Nanyang, with more than 100 cinemas, and has great advantages in distribution.


    Xiang Nan cooperated with them because of their film production and distribution capabilities.


    They have their own studios and distribution theaters. Only by cooperating with them can you make money.


    …


    Xiang Nan then had a few meals with the Shao villagers, and after several talks, they quickly reached an agreement to co-produce.


    ?For one thing, although Shaw Brothers has a long history and has theaters in Nanyang, it seems to be rich and powerful. But in fact, among the many film companies in Hong Kong, this company is not the largest. Film companies such as Great Wall Pictures, Cathay Pacific, and Phoenix Pictures are also very powerful.


    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 mainland''s huge film market, the development of the two companies will naturally go smoothly.


    ? Cathay Pacific is also a film company in Nanyang. It also has its own theater chain in Nanyang, and its strength is not inferior to that of Shaw Brothers.


    ?Hence, the development of Shaw Brothers and Sons was not very smooth at the beginning, and they struggled to survive in the cracks of several major companies. Because of this, Xiang Nan was willing to provide money, scripts, and make a film with them, and they naturally agreed.


    ?So, soon, the first Wing Chun-themed movie "Mr. Fashan Chan" officially started filming in November 1950. The starring role is the well-known Cantonese opera actor Luo Jianlang, and the co-stars include Lin Jiao, Deng Jichen and others, all of whom were very popular stars at the time.


    The entire film cost 50,000 yuan to produce. It may seem like a small amount, 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.


    From production to release, the movie only took a month.


    Xiang Nan feels that in the blink of an eye, the movie has already started to be released.


    When it was released, Xiang Nan also took Zhang Yongcheng and Ye Zheng to the theater to watch it.


    Honestly speaking, the shooting was really average.


    ?The actors performed mediocrely, the fighting scenes were mediocre, and even the scenery and props were perfunctory, completely incomparable to kung fu movies made decades later.


    But for the audience at the time, this kind of film was already outstanding.


    Cantonese films at that time did not even take seven days from preparation to completion. The scripts are all freshly written, and the lines are all freshly written. You can imagine how rough it is.


    Comparatively, "Mr. Fashan Zan" at least has a complete script. And after all, Xiang Nan is a latecomer and has seen so many excellent kung fu movies, so writing movie scripts is really not a difficult task for him.


    ?Under his editing, "Mr. Fashan Zan" has an ups and downs story and vivid characters. Therefore, although the production is a bit rough, it is still wonderful and beautiful.


    ??In addition, Xiang Nan''s deeds of defeating the tornado have not yet cooled down. Taking advantage of this trend, "Mr. Fashan Zan" sold out to a full house as soon as it was released. In Xiangjiang alone, the box office sold was 250,000 Hong Kong dollars, and it won the box office championship that year.


    The huge box office success of "Mr. Fashan Zan" has also made Hong Kong filmmakers jealous, and they have invested in the filming of Wing Chun Kung Fu movies, such as "Mr. Zan''s Wisdom and Winged Tiger", "Mr. Zan''s Fury in the Black Wind Hall", " "Mr. Zan''s three battles with Nan Ba ??Tian" and so on, there are too many to mention.


    ?This attitude is exactly the same as that after Tsui Hark''s "Detective Dee" series was released, a large number of copycat "Detective Dee" series appeared one after another.


    There is a saying that there is nothing new under the sun. Unexpectedly, in the 1950s, IP grabbing was already happening.


    ?However, Xiang Nan did not stop it.


    ??He wished that more people would make more videos like this to promote Wing Chun as popular as possible.


    To this end, he even hired a group of literati to help him compile "The Legend of Mr. Zan".


    ?During the civil war, a large number of intellectuals from the mainland came to Hong Kong to escape the war. However, due to the limited economic development in Hong Kong, many people cannot find jobs and live in poverty.


    Hence, it is very easy for Xiang Nan to invite people. A large reward must be rewarded by brave men, and soon he invited a large number of people.


    The most outstanding among them are Hu Jinquan, Li Hanxiang, Zha Liangyong and Chen Wentong (Liang Yusheng).


    (End of this chapter)