For Fang Yihua's question, Shao Yifu answered very simply, "why don't you make money?"
"What about the sharing proportion?" Fang Yihua carefully observed Shao Yifu's face.
She has learned that the schedule of 72 tenants in Shao's cinema and the proportion of accounts are all the kindness Shao Yifu gave to others.
The reason why he promised so generously at the beginning must be that he underestimated 72 tenants.
This time, Shao Yifu replied very vaguely, "you see what you do."
Fang Yihua immediately understood that the other party's face was not small. Shao Yifu wanted to make money and didn't want to offend the other party. He had to pretend he didn't know and let the people below carry the pot.
Therefore, Fang Yihua, who was clever in mind, stopped asking more questions and stood up and said, "I'll let someone arrange it now."
"By the way..." Shao Yifu ordered, "you arrange it again. I'll see the 72 tenants myself."
Fang Yihua is not surprised. Although Shao Yifu is the supreme ruler of Shao brothers film company, he still works diligently, such as watching the film in person, reviewing the script, supervising the studio and so on.
She nodded and promised, "I'll have a copy sent to the screening room at once."
On the way to the screening room, Shao Yifu specially told Fang Yihua, "you must be polite when negotiating with Gao Xian. This young man is not simple, but I have great use. In addition, there is also the face of my hometown friend Chen Tinghua."
"I see." Fang Yihua kept this important information in mind.
When 72 tenants began to show, Shao Yifu carefully looked at the cast list at the beginning of the film.
Producer: Gao Xian.
Actors (in order of appearance): Shen Dianxia
Screenwriter: not a woman.
Director: Chu Yuan.
……
Shao Yifu asked in surprise, "why haven't you heard the name of this screenwriter?"
Fang Yihua, who was favored by Shao Yifu, of course knows that Shao Yifu has always attached great importance to the script. He not only saw it in person, but also reviewed it in person. As early as the time when the Shao brothers and Dianmao fought for hegemony, he paid a lot of money for the script.
Because of this, Fang Yihua had inquired about it for a long time, but got nothing. She guessed: "could it be our people who secretly wrote this script for Gao Xian with an alias?"
Looking at the funny scene that Shen Dianxia took the lead on the screen and went to fetch water from the faucet, Shao Yifu was noncommittal. It seemed that the whole mind had been immersed in the film world.
At the age of 18, Shao Yifu became a photographer and helped his eldest brother Shao Renjie run Tianyi film company.
It is no exaggeration to say that Shao Yifu has been dealing with movies for most of his life.
In nearly half a century of his career, his peers around Shao Yifu, whether on the left or on the right, have regarded the film as a stage to publicize their own views.
Film is "life textbook", film is "social mirror", and film should play a positive role in "correcting audio-visual" and "awakening the people".
Shao Yifu is not interested in Zhengzhi. He is only interested in how to please the audience and make a good box office.
For the creation of films, Shao Yifu mainly summarizes the gains and losses from other people's works and obtains inspiration like watching 72 tenants now.
Finally, Shao Yifu formed his own film style, which can be summarized into one sentence - "men and women".
In order for his editors and directors to copy the inspiration they found, Shao Yifu often annotated "add bed play here" and "make love" when reviewing scripts; When supervising filming on the set, they often give instructions to "make your clothes thinner" and "change into a transparent silk shirt".
At this time, Shao Yifu is trying to find what he wants from 72 tenants with his best way of digging inspiration.
Finally, Shao Yifu reluctantly found that he couldn't learn at all.
Seventy two tenants is a comedy criticizing the shortcomings of the times, and just caters to the people's dissatisfaction with the prevalence of corruption. Shao Yifu is not interested in Zhengzhi and naturally does not have this perspective.
When the film was over, Shao Yifu asked, "the screenwriter of 72 tenants has seen the first but not the last. What about the director?"
Fang Yihua opened his mouth and replied, "Chu Yuan was originally a director in Cathay Pacific, but Cathay Pacific ended its production business, so he took over the film appointment of Shanghua culture."
"I estimate that Gao Xian will officially sign Chu Yuan under Shanghua culture with the prestige of the record box office of 72 tenants."
When Shao Yifu should give clear instructions, he was not vague, "go and sign Chu Yuan."
"This..." Fang Yihua hesitated.
Shao Yifu glanced at Fang Yihua. "Is there any difficulty?"
"There's no difficulty." Fang Yihua quickly explained: "when the newly established Shanghua culture was shooting 72 tenants, all the things needed were rented. How can we compare with our Shao family under such poor conditions?"
"What's more, Chu Yuan leads his family, and his wife Nan Hong is also an actor. Can Shang Hua arrange all of them? But we, Shao, just add a pair of chopsticks."
"I am confident to sign Chu Yuan. However, it can be regarded as a fair robbery. Will Gao Xian be angry about it?"
"As you have said, this is fair and aboveboard." Shao Yifu smiled, "water flows to the low, and people go to the high. Business is business, and everyone competes according to their own abilities. Chu Yuan makes the choice that is most beneficial to himself, and Gao Xian can only be regarded as a harmless joke."
"If Gao Xian doesn't even have this mind and vision, I'll take back the idea of paying attention to him."
……
In just one week, "72 tenants" grossed nearly 1.5 million at the box office, and is creating a new box office record in Xiangjiang all the time. It is estimated that it is expected to reach 3 million in the end.
Although the original box office record of 72 tenants was more than 5 million, it can't be put into your own pocket and has no meaning. Therefore, Gao Xian is very satisfied.
As Fang Yihua expected, Gao Xian wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of advocating Chinese culture to sign Chu Yuan.
Unexpectedly, on the day Chu Yuan promised to give the consideration result, the person did not appear, and instead was a sincere letter.
The main idea is: Chu Yuan is very grateful to Gao Xian for his help, so that he has the honor to become a director who has refreshed the box office record of Xiangjiang. However, he brings his family and family. For livelihood consideration, he can only live up to Gao Xian's kindness and chooses to go to Shao's family with his wife to make a living.
Don't read the letter completely, Gao Xian will guess the twists and turns inside.
"Uncle Liu, since you're not polite, I'm not polite," Gao Xian couldn't help smiling.
After reading the letter, Ma Yongda asked, "brother Xian, your favorite director was robbed by Shao unscrupulously. Why are you still in the mood to laugh?"
Gao Xian said with a smile: "originally, because of the schedule of Shao's cinema, I felt that I couldn't open face with Shao Yifu. Now, I'm good and polite. I can contact someone openly."