Chapter 560: Sprint Stage
The popularity of Zhang Xueyou and Zhou Huimin has had a profound impact on the Xiangjiang music scene.
In particular, Gu Ao first invested in spending money to shoot MVs, and went to TV stations for free, and planned to use videotape collections in the future, which also allowed more celebrities in the entertainment industry who were good-looking but had a slightly worse singing voice to see new hope.
Before this, those who were popular in Xiangjiang sing really wanted to sing well. Only those with handsome faces or stylish characteristics and slightly poor singing skills had no chance.
So if you have some understanding of some popular singers in the middle of the Xiangjiang entertainment industry, you will find that many of the singers who came from the singing competition before Li Keqin were not very handsome - Zhang Xueyou is considered an exception, so he later became the "Four Heavenly Kings".
But once the face-showing is an important promotional selling point, the voice is no longer the only decisive.
With Zhang Xueyou's popularity, Liu Dehua and others, signed by Gu Ao's agency as an actor, also began to be ready to apply for their boss in private, swearing, hoping to give them more cross-circle opportunities for development in three ways.
Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui, the two brothers, started in the fourth quarter of last year, were mainly busy filming "Black Gold" by Wu Yusen, who signed with Tiankun. The film has been filmed in the second quarter of this year, including post-production. At the beginning of the summer season, the film was officially released, and the market response was pretty good, much better than the box office of "Black Gold" in another time and space.
This is not surprising, because the aesthetic and freshness of each era are different. Just like the "Super Death Squad" series filmed by Stallone, the production and plot are actually awesome than "The First Blood", but the reason why there is no hit is that it is a bit behind the aesthetic of the times and is out of touch with the cold-blooded rice.
The action movie that was heavy gunshot was only popular in the 1980s. Later, the audience saw more and more aesthetics were tired, so they did not feel that explosive aesthetics were scarce.
The same is true for HeiBang themes and block films. In the 1980s and even in the early 1990s, whether you are "Young and Dangerous" or "Dragonist", such themes will not be lost as long as they are well produced. If you can mention that they are released earlier than "Hujiangtan" or even "The Godfather", then history may be created by you.
Wu Yusen's version of "Black Gold" mentioned that it was released in 1985, which naturally satisfies this principle and crazily absorbed the appetite that was originally intended to be satisfied by "Young and Dangerous" and other films in history.
This is also the first time that Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui, the two brothers, have achieved significant success and popularity in commercial films that are aiming for box office. (Previously, "Burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Reigning the State from the Curtain" are both art films/historical biopics that are aiming for winning awards)
Gu Ao never treats the maid who has completely defected to him. So after Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui applied, he quickly gave him a chance to try.
Unfortunately, Liang Jiahui is not a sing material. After being trained and assessed for a while, he gave up and thought it would be better to concentrate on making movies.
Liu Dehua is quite talented in singing, but he got the chance. After some evaluation, Yang Shoucheng came forward and promised him to release a record for him before Christmas. However, first of all, he still needs to train well.
In this way, Gu Ao's Tiankun Music has gained another general. In the future, he will naturally get the second of the four kings of Xiangjiang. When these two people and Zhou Huimin and others become completely popular, Tiankun Records' position as the leader in the Chinese music industry will be completely stabilized.
Liu Dehua thanked him for giving tea to the boss, saying that he would work hard to train. In the next six months, he would be very busy. While he had to prepare for filming with Director Wu, he also had to practice singing with the trainer himself.
To put it bluntly, since Wu Yusen switched to Gu Ao before "Black Gold", the butterfly effect jumped to Gu Ao and filmed this "propositional essay", he seemed to have finally found his way to transition to pure commercialization and officially developed the gene for violent aesthetics. So he has made several books now, nothing more than ways like "The True Color of Heroes" and "The World".
However, since it was Gu Ao's mainland capital background production company, those producers and actors who had strong interests in the Wanwan market would definitely not be able to use it. Therefore, Wu Yusen's "The True Color of Heroes" must not be able to see faces like Di Long and Leslie Cheung.
As for Zhou Runfa, his interests in Wanwan are not very big now. He had already distanced himself from Shaw around 85 and 86 years in history, and has focused on turning to the big screen since then. (In the first few years after the filming of "Hujiangtan", Zhou Runfa took on TV series, but has gradually stopped taking on it recently)
Therefore, now, seeing Liu Dehua, who recommended her to do it for the time being because she gave up the opportunity to go to the mainland, and Liang Jiahui, who was later introduced to the mainland by Liu Dehua, was actually inclined to surpass her popularity. Zhou Runfa finally chose to turn around quickly and asked Gu Ao to ask for a wine to clarify the misunderstanding, saying that he did not look down on the mainland market in the past few years, but it was really not enough to be able to line up.
Considering that Zhou Runfa was the guide who helped introduce Liu Dehua, he did not explicitly not give Gu Ao face. (Every time he did arrange the schedule of other films to block the gun, and when he didn't come, he would introduce me to him)
Therefore, Gu Ao is also willing to create an opportunity to "a prodigal son turns back" and recruit surrender and rebel. This is nothing more than the resource tilt in the future, and the hardcore players like Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui will surrender.
Gu Ao could not be too arrogant and arrogant. After all, a few years ago, Xiangjiang artist Weiwanwan was the leader, and the majority of people were afraid of Wanwan. If Gu Ao even didn't give a chance to those who always maintain their face on the surface, he would block the path of most people's resignation.
Gu Ao can only make a few negative examples, openly disrespectful to Tang Zhenye and others, and is a guy who "relying on Gu Ao's opportunity to become popular, and immediately joins the Wanwan market when it comes to the hottest" to scare the monkey.
As for Zhou Runfa, they all belong to "monkey" and not "chicken".
Therefore, it is estimated that the Tiankun-based agency can launch the frustration films in the Hong Kong film market in the next stage, so it can only replace old-fashioned resources such as Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung with Liu Dehua and Liang Jiahui, or the newcomers who will join us in the future to set up a team. Even if the effect may be quite different from the original historical works, there is no way.
All of this is a necessary helplessness brought by the "mainland capital background".
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Gu Ao spent the rest of July in the entertainment industry, but his life and wealth did not have any negative impact on his career.
All the businesses that should be done, and the performance is very good.
Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye" sold more than 500,000 copies in the first month, and it became more and more popular. It was completely different from the later routine of "no outbreak in the first two weeks and no show in the follow-up" - it may be because piracy in this era is not so developed, and it is the golden age of the record industry. Although Zhou Huimin did not have 100,000 copies in the first week, only tens of thousands, it can be regarded as supporting the new female singer category of "pure jade girl".
"Black Gold", which usurped other rare periods of black-border films, easily won more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars in more than a month, and soon recovered the cost. In the end, it was expected that the producers could make more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars by splitting the accounts - but this little money was purely a small amount of money for Gu Ao at the moment, and he would not take it to heart.
In history, when Wu Yusen was in New Art City, he used the money from Boss Lei, Kowloon Jianye, and he lost money when he first entered the industry. With the perspective of Boss Lei, he could easily say "It's okay, I think this movie is good." Then Wu Yusen worked hard to change his acting career and filmed "The World of the Seas" to make the boss pay for his money.
What's more, Gu Ao.
A director who pursues some arts, making a big profit film that endures humiliation and caters to the newbie, and then alternately mixing a floppy film that caters to his inner aesthetics. It is normal in the industry. From Cameron to Spielberg, or Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang, they are all so hard and hard.
Gu Ao is used to seeing the world, and has also seen those Hollywood directors making tens of millions of dollars in profits for him. How could he care about tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars?
After hanging out until early August, Gu Ao felt that he had finished all the busy work in Xiangjiang, and if he stayed there, as the construction of Xiangji Power plant was gradually completed, he might be pestered by Zhang Zhongmou to look for Japanese lithography machines and other equipment.
In addition, the Hong Kong River is so hot in August that even if you want to show off your life and drink every day, you can only arrange indoor activities, which is not conducive to protecting and nourishing the kidneys.
Therefore, Gu Ao decided to live back to the mainland for a month or two to avoid the limelight.
First, we are going to take care of the mainland business, and second, we are going to escape the last sensitive period before the appreciation of the "Platform Agreement" yen. When it is reviewed by the enemy's intelligence departments in the future, it will appear more harmless and far away from the financial center.
Finally, you can also avoid the summer heat.
Qiantang in later generations is undoubtedly a fire city, but that is all after the urban heat island effect in the 21st century. Qiantang in 1985 was still well green, and Gu Ao lived in a scenic spot surrounded by lakes and mountains, so it was even cooler. Everyone in Qiantang knows that the plots around Kongliao are all comfortable and refreshing environments that don’t turn on the air conditioner in summer.
So, the week after Zhou Huimin's first CD was released, Han Ting picked up a time and secretly took Gu Ao to the airport and took him to the last plane back to the mainland.
In the past few months, Han Ting has been very satisfied with Gu Ao's standards. She basically only stayed in front of others to take advantage of the beautiful female stars who were just playing in front of others, and did not deceive the dark room privately.
"I've returned to the mainland, at least I'll be more restrained on the surface. Don't let the foreigners fool you, and you'll be treated as a gadfly." Before getting on the plane, Han Ting explained with concern.
"Don't worry, I'm a good deal, and the mainland has not been investigated strictly this year as before two years." Gu Ao explained with a smile, then left with a drift.
Back in Qiantang, Gu Ao did not wait for the welcome of his real girlfriend Xiao Sui. Xiao Sui had officially graduated from graduate school last month.
After a class of delays (that is, the class that is higher than Xiao Sui), she finally successfully renamed Lu Xun Academy of Literature, obtained the qualification to issue a master's degree in literature, and then issued a master's degree certificate to the two-level graduates who were backlogged together at the same time.
However, Xiao Sui did not leave the capital and head south immediately after graduation to accompany Gu Ao. Because she was still making her final pre-evaluation sprint for the second Mao Dun Literature Award to be selected this year.
Chapter completed!