More than 20 days flew by.

On November 17, Zhao Donghuai had just called the end of work at the Tung Chung Jurassic Theme Park when he saw Qiu Shuzhen running over to report, "Boss, the last episode of (The Legend of Wang Wenxia) has been completed. If you work overtime, it can be edited in three or four days."

The film will be produced.”

"A few directors just asked me to report the good news to you."

Director Zhao, "..."

There is no shortage of fast shooters in the Hong Kong film industry, but the blockbuster movie is scheduled to be released on the 26th. Counting from the 27th, it has really been completed in just 22 days?

It can only be said that if you have money, you can expose yourself to it. You can shoot in multiple groups, just like this. For example, in the first part of "The Biography of Wang Wenxia", there is a filming of Wang Wenxia's experience as a boy when he graduated from elementary school and worked as an apprentice in a paper factory and a flour mill.

Be patient, study hard, and improve yourself step by step.

And his father taught him by words and deeds. Wang Sheng's father was a small businessman in Ning City in the 1910s. Although he was not rich, he also taught him many principles of life and how to walk in life.

The story line of Little Wang Wenxia stars 12-year-old Fan Shaohuang, and the character who plays Wang Wenxia’s father is Xu Guanwen. On October 28, the group went to Ning City in the Mainland for filming under the leadership of director Xu Guanwen’s team.

This group of photos took only half a month to shoot.

Liang Jiahui officially appeared on the scene. Wang Wenxia was already the manager of a flour mill. He was highly valued and trusted by his boss. He led a flour mill to expand rapidly. When encountering disasters such as floods and droughts during the Republic of China, their flour mill often donated money to the victims.

Distribute food.

Then, under the pressure of unscrupulous businessmen, local tyrants and evil gentry, and the pressure of gang members, Wang Sheng still relied on his shrewdness and ability to prosper.

Not only did the flour mill expand significantly, but it also got involved in various trading industries. In 1937, it entered the Shanghai business community.

The clock factory founded by another business tycoon even dared to compete with the domestic products of that era.

Everything was going smoothly, until Qiqi broke out and the Songhu War broke out, he had to escape.

The next period of time is the mountain city, and Hong Kong Island develops. The peak of the plot is when he was in the period when Hong Kong Island fell, and the Hong Kong dollar became waste paper. He was optimistic about the prospects of the Anti-Japanese War, and while aiding the country, he collected Hong Kong dollars.

I didn't dare to collect it too blatantly, so I just opened a waste paper factory as a cover.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Britain was in ruins and Hong Kong Island was in ruins. Hong Kong did not have enough raw materials and machines to print currency. There was not enough money, so Hong Kong had to declare that the old banknotes were still valid and could circulate.

Wang Sheng, who is in his 30s, jumped into HSBC and became one of the major shareholders with hundreds of millions in cash flow.

This is where the first half ends.

War scenes were shot in Shanghai, Shancheng, Nandu and other places. Mainland directors and Hong Kong directors respectively directed war scenes together to show the style of the Republic of China. There were five or six directors and five or six groups.

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That was the director team of the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" who went to film the war scenes and received a lot of support.

Zhao Donghuai started spending money to hire Ma Yang to film "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in December 1984. It has been almost two years and it has not been completed yet... However, the crew over there took a break to film some big war scenes to capture the brutality and humanity of the Japanese.

When it comes to scenes, such as filming the heroes of the Anti-Japanese War fighting for the country, risking life and death, etc., those great directors can still do a good job.

Those crews don't need Liang Jiahui, who plays Wang Wenxia, ​​who is often on the crew, but the directors film theirs. Ah Fai followed Mak Yuen-hsiung to film his own main line growth story. He occasionally ventured into the war background to film small storylines.

Just fine.

The entire movie not only shows Wang Wenxia's personal growth, his chivalrous growth in rescuing disaster victims, aiding in government construction, etc., but also the peak of his life when he bought a stake in HSBC.

In the war drama, the ferocity of the island ghosts has some human moments, and there are also many epic backgrounds of the Anti-Japanese War.

The protagonist Liang Jiahui was opposed to the local tyrants, evil gentry, and gangs in the early stage. In the later stage, they were the ghosts of the island country, from Shanghai to the two sides of the Yangtze River, and then to Hong Kong Island.

Ah Fai's role as the protagonist accounts for two-thirds of a 90-minute movie, and the main storyline is his story of starting from a poor family and growing up to become a tycoon.

During the peak filming period, for the first part of "The Legend of Wang Wenxia", eight filming teams could be filmed at the same time. The directors and actors were all gathered in Greater China.

It’s not surprising that everything will be finished on November 17th today.

Do you think that with so many different directors, the final style of the finished film will be fragmented? That’s not a big problem. Five of the directors who shot the background scenes of the historical epic Anti-Japanese War all came from the TV series version (Romance of the Three Kingdoms).

There were a total of six directors in the original Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In that version of the TV series, were the styles fragmented and confused? No! This depends on the current ability and strength of the mainland to produce epic war scenes.

Their positioning is to assist Mak Yun-hsiung in filming. If their positioning is clear, there will be no confusion.

In this movie, Mak Hung-hsiung and Li Dawei are the masters and apprentices. More than 90% of Leung Ka-fai's scenes were produced by their masters and apprentices.

The scenes of many other members of different groups can be seen as a grand and tragic turmoil, supplemented by the historical background of the Anti-Japanese War.

Seeing the Jurassic Park crew packing up their things in an orderly manner and preparing to take a rest, Zhao Donghuai nodded and said, "The second half, the second half of Wang Sheng's life, can be filmed anytime."

"After the first half is finished as soon as possible, I still hope he can watch it."

"The cast of this movie is much stronger than Sanmao (Wealth Train)!"

Not only is the lineup in front of and behind the scenes stronger than that of "Wealth Train"? There are countless Hong Kong stars playing small roles in it, and there are also many people with humble backgrounds, and the mainland also grabs a lot of them.

Although the shooting time was short, the various major war scenes and large shots are definitely worthy of being recorded in the history of photography.

Who makes Zhao Donghuai so well-connected? Under his leadership, not only in Hong Kong, but also in the mainland, there are many friends of Zhao Sheng. Whether it is Han Shanping, China Opera, Zhang Yimou, Huang Jianxin, etc., who is not a friend?

CCTV has launched so many major TV series one after another, Shangmei Film Studio has invested so much money, and when it comes to connections in the film and television industry, Zhao Donghuai is now a little invincible.

The cost of the movie is quite high. Even if many people come in for free, the real cost is over HK$50 million. The main reason is that the big war scenes cost money.

He is also not sure whether the movie can be released in Wanwan or the island country.

Zhao Donghuai doesn't expect this movie to make money, he just keeps it in mind.

It is said that he traveled to the present and copied a lot of classics, and also ruined some classics, (The Biography of Wang Wenxia), which was all launched with his support. It is the first non-plagiarized major movie.

It really doesn't matter what the box office is.

Speaking of which, he found that many foreign biopics are very popular, such as "Cat and Mouse", "Good Will Hunting", "Rain Man", etc., which have achieved both good reputation and box office success.

But within China, it’s not like there aren’t prototypes that can fight or even suppress those biographical films...

Thousands of years of Chinese history, there are too many legendary biographies worthy of being remembered and written down, but there are always some reasons of one kind or another that make it difficult to create classic films and TV shows.

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Two hours later.

When Zhao Donghuai, Zhou Huimin, and Azhen returned to Zhao's Financial Building in Tsim Sha Tsui, they saw Zhang Min running over with excitement on her face, "Boss, Sister Min, the 200-seat Wanjia Supermarket over there has been fully renovated."

"When will the last 20 stores that have been renovated open for business?"

At the beginning of February, someone there wanted to get into the Japanese yen trading car and agreed to join Wanjia, buy a building and land. The purchased building would be renovated for two to three months, and would be opened one after another in April and May.

As for the land, there are more than 150 pieces of land. The construction and decoration were completed by mid-November? It’s very basic. Most Wanjia supermarkets only have two floors underground and five floors above ground. The construction progress is three to four to five months.

All very common.

The speed of progress mainly depends on the number of people and whether the team is mature!

Chinese Land’s team? That’s China Land’s original construction team, which has been expanded to expand and tap the mature core teams of Hong Kong real estate leaders such as Cheung Kong, Chinachem, and Sun Hung Kai to work together.

And he also recruited so many people...

Zhao Donghuai smiled and nodded, "That's right, the retail system is finally full for the time being."

Zhou Huimin asked curiously, "The next step, how will Huazhi develop?"

With so many big teams and a big project finished, they can’t all be idle, right? That’s tens of thousands of people.

Director Zhao laughed, "Wanwan's construction team will stay there for now to see if there are any suitable projects. If they are found, we will talk about development. Haven't you already bought a large number of old buildings in Yau Tsim Mong, Central, Western District, North Point and other places?"

reconstruction?"

"The reconstruction plan of the old building can be put on the agenda."

"By the way, there is also Dakeng Village... Although I have never lived there in the past few years, using Dakeng Village as a pilot project, we can try to rebuild the whole village into a community."

Amin was stunned, "Renovation of the whole village into a community? How to build it?"

Zhao Donghuai explained, "This involves the rights of the New Territories aboriginal people in small houses. I plan to talk to the village about concentrating the old houses and the people and people with rights in the whole village to build a modern residential community. Although the village is far away,

Dabu New Town is still three kilometers away.”

“But if the new community is built, the three-kilometer distance will be able to connect Dakeng Village and Taibu New Town more efficiently, whether a minibus stop is opened, or villagers drive themselves or take taxis.

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His hometown in this plane, Dakeng Village, is not far from Dabu New Town, three kilometers away... For example, it is similar to the natural village in the 2020s, three kilometers straight from the county seat.

Dakeng Village has more than 200 households and more than 1,000 people. The appearance? The appearance is similar to the village gambling stall opened by Brother Dakou Jiujiu who surrendered and lost half of the money in the movie Zhou Xingxing and Hua Zai (The Gambler).

The housing ranges from rural two-story small buildings and courtyards built by wealthy families, to the model of Chen Xiaodao's old house in the movie "The Gambler".

The Gambler was released in 1990, and the village building model in it is still ahead of many rural natural villages in the New Territories.

However, if all villagers’ existing properties and small houses are pooled together to collectively build modern residential communities, the edges of large communities will also be added with hundreds of surnames, or the number of households will be reduced to ten thousand. For example, the PARKnSHOP supermarket formerly owned by Watsons will build a

Large supermarkets open during the day provide comprehensive small supermarkets for fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs.

Build the road!

Take the bus route and taxi route. Then Tai Hang Village is still in Tai Hang Village, but it can also be regarded as an extension of the city. It is only three kilometers. How far is it? Not to mention that it is very fast to take a taxi.

It's not slow when you ride a bicycle.

If an example of old villages like Tai Hang Village being renovated into modern new communities is set, many old natural villages in the New Territories will have similar development directions.

Of course, we won’t talk about building together. This will last ten years or more. We will select a group of outstanding ones to build first, and the rest will be developed slowly as the times develop.
To be continued...