Chapter 264 The Decline of Hong Kong Movies (7K chapter, please subscribe~)
It's not that the other party deliberately manipulated it. The key is that the other party is currently attending a medical conference in Italy.
Call up?
Can fight!
But that side won't necessarily come back!
So the doctor simply said no!
Again, in Hong Kong in 1973, the Independent Commission Against Corruption was not established, and the society in Hong Kong was like this, and it was like this in all walks of life.
As for the benevolent people in Hong Kong films, we have to wait!
After receiving the doctor's answer, Zhao's mother panicked immediately, and hurriedly continued to beg the other party, but the other party obviously saw this kind of thing too much.
Your husband's condition is fine, and he's recuperating for a while. Although the risk of surgery will be higher then, it should be fine, so it's useless for you to beg me here now!
Faced with such an answer, Zhao Yazhi's mother and daughter naturally couldn't just let it go, so they continued to beg.
After seeing such a situation, Lin Qingxia, who was an outsider, gritted her teeth, turned around and left the corridor, came to the hospital lobby, and used the public phone here to call a number!
When Lin Qingxia returned to the corridor after making the phone call, she saw that Zhao Yazhi's mother and daughter were no longer in the corridor, but Zhao's mother's voice came from the doctor's office next door.
Obviously, the two mothers and daughters had come to the doctor's office to beg Qi.
What's the matter with you two? Didn't I already tell you? Dr. Lu won't come back in a few days? When he comes back, he will naturally perform surgery on you!
The doctor who was called Dr. Qi by Zhao's mother was already showing some impatience at this time.
Mother Zhao continued to beg: Doctor Qi, please call Dr. Lu, maybe the other party really has an idea to return to Xiangjiang early?
Regardless of whether it is the hometown or Xiangjiang, the performance of the patient's family members is the same under the condition.
At this time, they can only beg the doctor.
Of course, after the establishment of the ICAC, no matter what the original intention of the Hong Kong government to establish them is, this department has indeed severely cracked down on the common practice of TW in all walks of life in Xiangjiang, which has also indirectly improved the medical treatment environment of Xiangjiang Hospital.
But that's all for the future, and now the hospital in Xiangjiang also has this virtue.
Dr. Qi really couldn't resist Zhao's mother's request for help, so he pretended to make a phone call, and then said with the phone: You heard it too, there is no one answering there!
Mother Zhao and Zhao Yazhi came out helplessly.
Doctor Qi closed the door of his office in dissatisfaction.
The little secretary next to him asked curiously: Dr. Qi, did you really call Dr. Lu?
What are you thinking about! Dr. Qi said triumphantly, Calling Dr. Lu at this time, isn't it just looking for scolding? I called the logistics office. The guys in the logistics must be here at this point. Fishing!
You're still smart, Doctor Qi! the little nurse praised.
Then he said curiously: But I just saw that the two girls who came behind seem to be movie stars Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia!
Dr. Qi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, Really? I never watch Xiangjiang movies.
The little nurse laughed and said, It's still Dr. Qi who appreciates you!
The two chatted happily, but Zhao's mother and Zhao Yazhi turned around in a hurry outside.
Seeing this, Lin Qingxia hurriedly comforted Zhao Yazhi and said, Azhi, don't worry too much, Uncle Zhao is auspicious, there will definitely be no problem!
Zhao Yazhi looked sad, obviously Lin Qingxia's consolation did not have any effect.
By the way, let's go and see how uncle is doing first!
Seeing this, Lin Qingxia could only preach in this way.
When they called just now, they just said that they knew about it, and didn't say much, which made Lin Qingxia a little uncertain for a while, so she didn't tell Zhao Yazhi.
Reminded by Lin Qingxia, Zhao's mother and Zhao Yazhi hurried to the ward where Zhao's father was, because Zhao's father lost all their savings in the stock market before, and now they can only live in a multi-person ward Inside.
Zhao Yazhi's brother and sister are taking care of Zhao's father in the ward at this time.
Seeing Zhao Yazhi and others walking in, she quickly asked how things were going.
Hearing that the doctor who can perform the surgery would have to wait a few days to come, several people suddenly showed worried expressions.
They had never encountered such a thing, and they naturally didn't know what to do for a while.
Someone will say, if it doesn't work, transfer to another hospital!
After a while, someone said, what if there is no way to transfer to another hospital?
Others said that the doctor explained that if he was transferred to another hospital, his condition would likely worsen, and the loss would outweigh the gain.
In this way, the family fell into all kinds of panic and overwhelmed emotions.
Thumb up!
It was under such circumstances that Dr. Qi, who had been arrogant just now, suddenly appeared, and beside him was a doctor in his forties who was wearing a doctor's uniform. Dr. Qi followed behind him, The respectful attitude is like the little eunuch next to the emperor.
Not only that, there are other doctors and nurses by their side.
Seeing such a situation, everyone in the ward showed puzzled expressions.
The middle-aged doctor looked around the ward and asked aloud, Is that Miss Zhao Yazhi?
Zhao Yazhi hurriedly stood up and said, I am!
The middle-aged doctor said with a smile on his face: Hello, I have already inquired about your father's condition just now. The problem is not too big. I will arrange the operating room to perform the operation on your father. You can rest assured and wait outside. Already!
Zhao Yazhi was stunned on the spot, and Zhao Yazhi's family was also stunned, wondering what was going on at the scene?
At this time, Dr. Qi stepped forward and said: This is Dr. Li Jiantai from the Li Jiantai Medical Clinic. He is the authority on your father's disease. He will perform the operation on your father, so don't worry!
In Xiangjiang, it is different from my hometown. The situation in my hometown is that all the well-known and authoritative doctors are mostly concentrated in the top three hospitals in big cities, while in Xiangjiang, the doctors in public hospitals are the lowest level. He is an intern doctor who just entered the hospital from university, and the conditions in private hospitals are better, there are experts, and the hospital where Zhao's father is now is a private hospital.
But the doctors who are really authoritative in Xiangjiang all have their own personal clinics, and they sign a cooperative relationship with the hospital. What's more, most of them are private doctors of rich people in Xiangjiang.
Li Jiantai is an expert on Zhao's father's condition!
Hearing what Dr. Qi said, Zhao Yazhi's family suddenly showed excitement. They didn't expect things to turn around.
But at this time, they didn't have time to think about it, so they could only express their gratitude to Dr. Li Jiantai in a hurry.
Dr. Li Jiantai talked with Zhao Yazhi's family about his illness in a friendly manner, and then went to prepare, saying that a nurse would come and push Dad Zhao to the operating room.
In half an hour!
Zhao Yazhi's family was already waiting outside the operating room.
At this time, Zhao Yazhi saw Lin Qingxia who was sitting not far away, got up and walked over.
Axia, did you help find Dr. Li Jiantai?
They knew the situation of their own family. No one knew this Dr. Li Jiantai, and just now their family was worried about Zhao's father, so no one could make this call at all!
Lin Qingxia smiled and said, I didn't invite you here, but I know who invited me here!
Zhao Yazhi's expression changed, and she immediately understood: Brother Huan?
At this time, apart from Chu Huan, Zhao Yazhi couldn't think of anyone else around her who had this energy.
Lin Qingxia nodded happily and said, That's right, it's Brother Huan. I saw that Dr. Qi was so nasty just now, so I couldn't help calling Brother Huan. After Brother Huan listened to it, he said he knew it. I didn't expect Brother Huan to be so powerful, and he found Dr. Li Jiantai so quickly.
Zhao Yazhi touched Lin Qingxia's hand and said, Axia, thank you so much for this incident!
Lin Qingxia said with a smile: Thank you for what I did, Brother Huan is helping!
Zhao Yazhi's expression flickered, this was the second time Chu Huan had helped her, and she really didn't know how to repay Chu Huan.
Zhao Yazhi was thinking about how to repay Chu Huan. At this time, she was chatting with Shao Yifu, Shangguan Wei, Gu Long and others.
However, it is obviously impossible for Shao Yifu to drink with Chu Huan and others. Although he has lived a long time, he is indeed not young now.
Chu Huan and the others didn't care about Shao Yifu's situation.
And Shao Yifu himself understood his own affairs, and he came this time mainly to thank Shangguan Ting for his help on Taiwan Island.
After expressing his meaning, he got up and said goodbye!
Mr. Shangguan, thank you again for the matter of Taiwan Island. When you leave Xiangjiang, I will definitely send you a generous gift!
Before leaving, Shao Yifu expressed his thanks again to Shangguan.
Mr. Shao is too polite. Since A Huan took the initiative to call me on this matter, I will naturally help! Shangguan still sent this favor to Chu Huan.
Shao Yifu somewhat lamented Chu Huan's way of making friends. Although his relationships were relationships, everyone valued interests. However, Shao Yifu had not seen such a situation for many years.
Maybe when he was young, he also had such friends, but now Shao Yifu can't remember the names of these friends!
Putting away the sigh in his heart, Shao Yifu expressed his thanks to Chu Huan again, then turned and left!
After Shao Yifu left, there was no longer any restraint here, and Gu Long shouted happily.
It's finally gone, we can always let go and drink this time!
After speaking, he immediately got up and opened the foreign wine worth tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars on the table one by one.
Seeing this, Chu Huan and Shangguan Yan looked at each other and smiled wryly.
But Chu Huan still had his own way. He got up and went out to call Ma Jizu, telling him to go and find Huang Zhan and Ni Xiao immediately.
Ma Jizu didn't hesitate to call these two people immediately!
Not long after, the two came to the hotel, not only the two of them, but also a tall and thin man beside them, Chu Huan recognized each other at a glance, a gourmet in Xiangjiang, one of the four great talents, Cai appendix!
Three of the four great talents in Xiangjiang have come!
Chu Huan didn't care about such a shortcoming at all, on the contrary, he was a little happy. He really felt that such an occasion was not suitable for Jin Yong, just like Shao Yifu just now!
We are all old friends. Even though Chu Huan met Cai Lan for the first time, he quickly became acquainted with Cai Lan because of his humor.
At this time, Cai Lan is working as the producer of Shaw Brothers, and Cai Lan's father and Shao Yifu are also friends for many years!
With the addition of the three of them, the pressure on Chu Huan and Shangguan Ting suddenly eased a lot.
Gu Long is crazy about people, the more people there are, the happier he is.
After finishing the two bottles of wine, he immediately asked Chu Huan about Li Xiaolong. The last time Li Xiaolong performed very badly at the wine table, Gu Long said that he would show Li Xiaolong how to drink.
Now it is late July, the Li Xiaolong incident that shocked Xiangjiang has not happened!
In other words, Li Xiaolong's life is already different from another time and space.
At the same time, The Way of the Dragon has been screened in Xiangjiang!
Unfortunately, the sensation caused by this movie in Xiangjiang is far less than that of Li Xiaolong's previous films. Although Li Xiaolong and others have known for a long time that the bigger market for this movie is the European and American markets, the reaction of the Xiangjiang market still makes Li Xiaolong feel Dissatisfied, I called Chu Huan two days ago and said that I would go to South Korea to continue filming Game of Death in the next few days!
Cai Lan smiled and said, Brother Long, he should be exercising crazily at this time, right?
Cai Lan and Li Xiaolong also know each other, and Cai Lan is younger than Li Xiaolong!
In other words, Cai Lang is really charismatic. Although many people in later generations have said that Cai Lang is the most misnomer among the four talents of Xiangjiang, Chu Huan is noncommittal about this evaluation, but it is undeniable that the four Among the great talents, Cai Lan and Huang Zhan are the most transparent.
Laughing and cursing all my life, looking at life with a smile, although I have never been rich and powerful, but I am happier than many rich and powerful people!
Cai Lan is always able to bring the relationship between two people closer with a few words, and it's not the kind of deliberate flattery.
Give people a feeling of reassurance, thinking that if you have such a friend, you don't have to worry about him stumbling behind your back!
How did Cai Lang and Li Xiaolong know each other? Chu Huan didn't know, but judging from Cai Lan's performance today, since the two know each other, they must be very good friends!
What happened? Gu Long asked curiously.
Cai Lan said: Brother Long's new movie, the box office in Xiangjiang is not very good, there is no way to compare with my previous movies, so I have to exercise like crazy!
When Gu Long heard such a thing, he immediately said indifferently: What am I supposed to do? The box office of this movie is not good, so I'll just hit it back in the next movie!
Cai Lang laughed and said: Actually, Brother Long's requirements are too high. Everyone knows that his film is mainly for the European and American markets, and its cultural attributes are different from Xiangjiang's. This is also Brother Long's movie. Other people's movies, in Xiangjiang, they can't even get this box office!
Gu Long asked curiously: How much is the box office?
Cai Lan thought for a while, and said, It just passed 1 million. According to the forecast, the box office of this movie may be around 4 million!
When Gu Long heard this, he was dissatisfied and said: It's already 4 million, and I'm still not satisfied!
Ni Xi smiled from the side: Isn't there Chu Yuan's Seventy-Two Tenants Zhuyu in front of it!
Shaw's movie Seventy-Two Tenants officially broke through the box office record of 8 million and created the history of Hong Kong movies.
Although The Raptors Crossing the River is less influential at the box office than Li Xiaolong's previous films, it still attracts a lot of audiences. Therefore, the box office potential of Seventy-two Tenants in Xiangjiang is basically the same. That's all for now.
Now even the movie theaters of the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line are successively downloading this movie, and only a few theaters are still showing it.
Li Xiaolong's topic didn't last long, as the wine entered his belly, the topic began to completely fly away.
All kinds of taboo topics emerge in endlessly.
After the mess in the private room, Gu Long immediately proposed to change the scene and go to the nightclub to continue having fun!
Chu Huan knew that if he didn't make Gu Long happy today, it would be impossible to end, otherwise he would really be able to carry the wine bottle and squat in front of your house.
So Chu Huan waved his hand and led everyone to the nightclub again.
However, Chu Huan didn't drink with them till the end. It was almost time, and Gu Long and the others had completely drank and didn't know anything, so Chu Huan left early, but Chu Huan still took Ma Jizu, The two of Li Zhenguo stayed behind, one was responsible for paying the bill, and the other was to watch over them so that no accidents would happen to them.
After leaving the nightclub, under the protection of Zhang Lin and others, Chu Huan directly returned to the former apartment!
Standing downstairs, you can see that the lights in the upstairs room are on.
Chu Huan went upstairs with a smile on his face.
When he opened the door, Chu Huan saw and heard a voice, and Gu Chengxi, who was wearing a white shirt that he left here, came out of the study!
Gu Chengxi, who was barefoot, walked up to Chu Huan, wrapped his hands around Chu Huan's neck, kissed him, and then said in distaste, It smells so strong!
Go take a shower!
After speaking, he pushed Chu Huan to the bathroom, but when Gu Chengxi wanted to close the door for Chu Huan, he was suddenly dragged in by Chu Huan!
I just finished washing.
The white shirt was thrown out of the bathroom!
the next day!
After breakfast, Chu Huan first sent the lazy Gu Chengxi to True Pao, and then drove to Mandarin Oriental, where he met Shangguan Wei in the restaurant.
At this time, Shangguan Kai had big bags under his eyes hanging on his face, and he was eating breakfast listlessly. After seeing Chu Huan, he complained directly.
Everyone is a shareholder of the comic company. Why can Gu Long fall asleep with her arms around the girl in the room after drinking, and I have to go to the company with you so early?
Chu Huan said with a smile: If you dare to hand over the company's affairs to Gu Long, believe it or not, if it opens today, he will be able to drink porn for you tomorrow?
Shangguan Yan reluctantly lowered his head and continued eating his breakfast.
After finishing the work, the two came to the upstairs of Fantasy Comics!
Before Shangguan Hao and Gu Long came to Xiangjiang, Chu Huan had already rented this place, in order to use it as the headquarters of Jianghu comics!
At this time, the place is being redecorated, and there is nothing to be seen. The arrival of Shangguan Feng and Gu Long is actually more about signing some documents with Chu Huan.
Take a look at the company by the way.
This place will be decorated in the same layout as the Fantasy Comics downstairs, but because the comic Jianghu is adapted from the martial arts novel in his martial arts magazine of the same name, the main markets are Xiangjiang, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. area!
Chu Huan bypassed a decoration worker and preached to Shangguan Mi.
Shangguan Mi smiled and said: When we first started talking about this project, I thought it would take two or three years to complete it, but I didn't expect it to take shape so quickly now!
Speaking of this, Shangguan Yan looked at Chu Huan and said seriously: In the final analysis, Gu Long and I took all of you, Ah Huan!
Whether it's the martial arts magazine Jianghu or the Jianghu comic magazine that is currently being prepared, although Chu Huan didn't contribute much, he only contributed money.
But their development plan was determined by Chu Huan, and it is precisely because of the resolute implementation of Chu Huan's plan that Jianghu martial arts magazine has its current status.
This had to make Shangguan Wei lament that he had taken advantage of it!
The monthly share of Jiang Hu has made Shangguan Mi feel unrealistic until now.
Chu Huan doesn't care about these things. To be honest, the share of Jianghu may be a lot of income for Shangguan Ting and Gu Long, but for Chu Huan, it is just his daily pocket money. .
What Chu Huan really valued was the relationship with Shangguan. In the future, no matter if it was Shanhai Cinemas or Yunhai Chain, if Brother Audiovisual wanted to enter the Taiwan Island market, it would be inseparable from Shangguan’s help.
There's nothing to be embarrassed about. If you really want to thank me, there's just something I want to discuss with you!
At this time, the relationship between the two parties no longer needs to be polite!
Shangguan asked, What is it?
I'm going to build several movie theaters on Taiwan Island to expand the number of Shanhai Cinemas!
For the three industries of Shanhai Cinema Line, Yunhai Chain, and Brothers Audiovisual, Chu Huan still wants to introduce Shanhai Cinema Line to the Taiwan Island market at the earliest.
After all, in the next 20 years, the Taiwan and Island film market will always be the largest box office for Xiangjiang Films.
Although later generations have a lot of rhetoric about the decline of Xiangjiang film market, it is undeniable that the loss of the Taiwan and Island market is the biggest reason for the decline of Xiangjiang film market.
In the 1990s, when Xiangjiang Film entered its peak period, capital from Taiwan and Island flocked in. At that time, Xiangjiang Film Company used the Taiwan Island market as a cash machine.
At that time, Wang Yingxiang, the owner of Taiwan’s theater chain, bought the exclusive rights to show Zhou Xingchi’s movie Jigong in Taiwan at a price of 30 million Taiwan dollars, but he lost money.
This made the theater bosses in Taiwan realize that they can no longer be so used to Xiangjiang movies, so the theater bosses in Taiwan united and negotiated with the filmmakers in Xiangjiang, hoping to set a ceiling for the purchase of the copyright of Xiangjiang movies. Seventeen and a half million!
However, when the bosses of Xiangjiang Film Company were negotiating with the owners of the theaters in Taiwan, they thought that the owners of the theaters in Taiwan were paper tigers. situation.
So the bosses of Xiangjiang Film Company were very tough at that time.
The result was naturally that the negotiation broke down!
And the theater bosses on Taiwan Island are not the paper tigers that the bosses of Xiangjiang Film Company thought. After the negotiation broke down, they immediately negotiated with the Taiwan Island Information Bureau and demanded that American films be released!
Prior to this, only eight copies of each American film could be imported in Taiwan!
Under the pressure of the theater owners, the Taiwan News Bureau agreed to the other party's request, and directly let go of American movies. The American movies that were lifted from restrictions directly smashed Hong Kong movies!
In addition, there was a movie channel in Taiwan at that time, and the movie channel made more money than the theater chain, so they set up their own movie channels one after another.
One movie made two bucks!
This made Xiangjiang Films completely lose the Taiwan and Island market, and also laid the groundwork for the collapse of Xiangjiang Films!
Chu Huan chooses to set up his own movie theater in Taiwan now, more to prepare for the next 20 years. After 20 years, Chu Huan believes that even if the market in Taiwan is lost, the domestic market at that time It should have been almost run by myself.
Although it is not yet possible to say that it can reach the level after 2005, it can at least make up for the loss of the Taiwan Island market.
In addition, the theater land I bought on Taiwan Island can also be sold directly as a real estate project at that time!
No matter how you look at it, it's a lucrative business.
Shangguan Yu was not surprised that Chu Huan wanted to build a movie theater on Taiwan Island. Nowadays, black and white images have become a giant in Xiangjiang, and only Shaw Brothers can hold a head. After the movie Crossing the River did not achieve the desired effect in Xiangjiang.
Jiahe has already started to fall behind!
Now that Chu Huan has no opponents in Xiangjiang, it is naturally impossible to give up the market on Taiwan Island!
That's no problem. When I go back, I will start this matter. How many movie theaters do you want to build on Taiwan Island?
Chu Huan thought for a while, and said, Let's build two flagship movie theaters in Taiwan now. Let's take a look at the situation of these two movie theaters in the theaters behind!
Chu Huan was still very careful about the Taiwan Island market, and did not choose to enter it all at once!
Shangguan Mi nodded and said, No problem!
Then the two went to Fantasy Comics.
Looking at the situation of Fantasy Comics, Shangguan Wei once again sighed, he really never imagined that a comic company would bring Chu Huan an annual income of over 100 million!
After separating from Shangguan, Chu Huan returned to Jiahu Mansion.
Xu Yi came to Chu Huan's office: Boss, Ms. Zhao Yazhi has been here for a long time, and I have always wanted to see you!
Chu Huan laughed and said, Let her in!
After a while, under the leadership of Xu Yi, Zhao Yazhi came to Chu Huan's office.
How is your daddy's condition? I received a call from Axia yesterday. I should have gone to see it in person, but the company is too busy. Li Jiantai didn't delay your daddy's condition, right?
After seeing Zhao Yazhi, Chu Huan asked with a smile.
Zhao Yazhi said emotionally: Thanks to Brother Huan for your help, otherwise, I really don't know what to do!
Chu Huan said with a smile: Didn't I say it, you are my man, since something happened, I naturally want to help!
Zhao Yazhi whispered: Brother Huan, I want to invite you to dinner at the apartment tonight, I wonder if you have time!
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