Tsui Hark realized how many mistakes he said on this issue, so let's make a good movie. Xu Jinyang did not blame Tsui Hark for this kind of thing, but said to Tsui Hark: "When persuading Zhang Guorong, your husband and wife will take Wang Zuxian with you. I believe it may be successful. Although Zhang Guorong's orientation has been settled now, and he likes Mr. Tang, but the common aesthetics of human beings remains unchanged... Xu Jinyang believed that Wang Zuxian appeared in front of Zhang Guorong in Nie Xiaoqian's attire, and Zhang Guorong would definitely want to play Ning Caichen very much. This is not the way men feel about women, but the common human feeling about beauty. Just like Zhang Guorong has a boyfriend Mr. Tang, he will still praise Zhong Chuhong's beauty very much, thinking that Zhong Chuhong is really beautiful in a leather jacket. But he will not pursue Zhong Chuhong, nor will he harass Zhong Chuhong with jokes like Zhou Guifa. Xu Jinyang appreciates Zhang Guorong's character very much. He thinks that Leslie Cheung is perfect in all other aspects except that which is unacceptable. He can be called the last gentleman in the Hong Kong circle So Xu Jinyang is willing to give Zhang Guorong the opportunity to play those classic roles, even though Zhang Guorong is not an artist under his banner. Xu Jinyang once wanted to recruit Zhang Guorong to his company, but Zhang Guorong was a very loyal person, and he was unwilling to leave the agent Chen Shufen who discovered him and made him popular.
Zhang Guorong has said publicly more than once: "Behind me, there is a woman who is very helpful to my career, and this woman is Chen Shufen." When Zhang Guorong participated in a singing competition in 1977, he won a prize with a song "American Pie" and started his entertainment career, but after making a few movies, he did not attract much attention. In 1982, by chance, Chen Shufen met him, "When I met him, he was almost a young boy from scratch. I found him very straightforward, enthusiastic and lovely. When others sang standing up, he sang repeatedly on the stage. The one with the dance, who sang the English song "Red Shoes", was like this when he participated in the competition, very active. It is also because of this that his image is considered to be an outlier, and many people are not optimistic about him, but I think his voice is very special and has great potential, so I signed him. " Soon, Chen Shufen heard a very nice song called "MONICA" sung by an island singer in the island country. She felt that it was very suitable for Zhang Guorong to sing. Finally won the copyright of this song. In 1984, the album "MONICA" came out. At that time, the average album sold 30,000 to 50,000 copies, which is very powerful. This album sold more than 400,000. Since then, with the help of Chen Shufen, Zhang Guorong has been unstoppable, and albums such as "Mood for a Joyride", "Crazy Love", and "Amour" have been released one after another [Zhang Taorong has become an unmaintained star. Later, Zhang Guorong bid farewell to the music world for a time, and Chen Shufen helped him specialize in movies, so people saw Zhang Guorong's classics: "Days of Being Wild", "Farewell My Concubine", "Rouge Button", etc., and achieved 10 years in the film world glory days. The relationship between Chen Shufen and Zhang Guorong is a relationship between a manager and an artist, and it is also a relationship between friends who work hand in hand through hardships and dangers. Out of trust and dependence, when Chen Shufen left China Star in 1986, Zhang Guorong followed her without asking. Zhang Guorong is a very affectionate person, so he will not abandon Chen Shufen and switch to Xu Jinyang, so Xu Jinyang is not reluctant. After all, the focus of the movie "A Chinese Ghost Story" is to praise Wang Zuxian, and Zhang Guorong's performance in this movie has no special influence on him. At the beginning, many people watched this movie, but they came here because of Zhang Guorong, but after watching it, they were attracted by Wang Zuxian who played Nie Xiaoqian. Zhang Guorong is indeed very sad, not only "A Chinese Ghost Story" gave him this fate, but also "The True Colors of Heroes" he participated in, also had the same fate. At the beginning, the audience rushed to him to watch "The True Colors of Heroes", but after watching it, they were attracted by the little Ma played by Zhou Runfa. The kind-hearted Mr. Zhang Guorong is a proper tool man. He has been used twice by Shuguang Film Company. Zhang Guorong will inevitably have some emotional problems. Of course, Xu Jinyang asked Zhang Guorong to be a tool man twice, and he would also express something. When signing the contract, Xu Jinyang also gave Zhang Guorong a certain box office share. , which makes Leslie Cheung inclined to cooperate with Xu Jinyang in the future, because Xu Ningyang is the most open-minded among all film company bosses. Later, Xu Jinyang also contributed to the cooperation between Zhang Guorong and the mainland team "Farewell My Concubine". Gong Li, the heroine of "Farewell My Concubine", will soon meet Xu Jinyang. In 1986, Gong Li was still a student of Chinese opera at this time, hadn't met Zhang Yimou, and hadn't starred in Red Sorghum yet.
That afternoon, Zhang Guorong saw Wang Zuxian wearing Nie Xiaoqian's clothes, and was stunned at that time. Tsui Hark immediately handed the script to Leslie Cheung, asking him to read the script carefully. After Zhang Guorong read the script, she completely changed her previous thinking, and began to want to play this role a little bit. Tsui Hark said to Zhang Guorong again: "I went to Shuguang Film Company now, the boss is very generous, it is completely different from Boss Shao. He said that if you come to play this role, in addition to the guaranteed salary of 1 million yuan, he can give you 2% of the box office share!" If the total box office can reach 100 million, that is, including all box offices in Xiangjiang, Baodao, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and other places, then Zhang Guorong can get a salary of 3 million. In this era, the film salary is already very high, and now only the best partners Hu Guanjie, Cheng Ban and others can get such a high film salary. Zhang Guorong was also tempted at the time, discussed with her agent, and immediately signed a contract, and the film "A Chinese Ghost Story" started to be approved for shooting. And Xu Jinyang, who is the producer and investor of the film's casting rights, still got involved a little bit. He just changed a role, that is, the supporting role Xiaoqing who dresses Nie Xiaoqian, and the actor who plays this role will be replaced by Li Zhi! The picture of Nie Xiaoqian dressing is also one of the four classic pictures selected by netizens. However, do you still remember Xiaoqing who dressed Xiaoqian? In the film, Xiaoqing is Xiaoqian's younger sister. Although her appearance is not as amazing as Xiaoqian's, she is also an iconic scholar. In the original time and space, the actor who played Xiaoqing was named Xue Zhilun, who was 4 years older than Wang Zuxian and a well-known socialite in Xiangjiang. It's funny to say that the actor Xue Zhilun who played Xiaoqing and Chen Meiqi who played Xiaoqing in "Legend of the New White Snake" also have a lot of connections—their ex-husbands are both Xiangjiang Fu Qingwei. And between the two of them was another beautiful woman from Xiangjiang, Guan Zhilin. Xiaoqing Chen Meiqi and Ma Qingwei divorced. Ma Qingwei was pursuing Guan Zhilin and at the same time got entangled with other women. It was the other woman who called and insulted Xiaoqing Chen Meiqi, which caused Chen Meiqi to miscarry because of Guan Zhilin among the women Ma Qingwei was entangled with at the time. The most famous, so this crime fell on Guan Zhilin's head. But Guan Zhilin has never done such a thing, she has intervened in other people's marriages, but she will not be so vicious to be worthy of people "She is ten times gentler than Li Jiaxin. Xiaoqing's actor, Xue Zhilun, later married another Xiaoqing, Chen Meiqi's ex-husband, Ma Qingwei. The two divorced within a few years, but Xue Zhilun unfortunately got cancer. After her illness was brought under control, Xue Zhilun's appearance changed drastically, and she was deeply involved in rumors of plastic surgery. I have to say that Xue Zhilun's appearance has changed from the iconic beauty in the past to the scene of a car accident, which is really embarrassing! It is precisely because the actress who played Xiaoqing later married into a wealthy family or failed in plastic surgery, her subsequent development has wasted a role in such a classic movie! In addition, Li Zhi once participated in the third part of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in the original time and space, playing the role of a very beautiful banshee Xiaodie. The banshee who cultivated in Lanruo Temple was specially used by her grandmother to confuse strong men for He sucks the soul to help him cultivate, jealous of Xiao Zhuo's beauty, and often competes with her for favor, Xiao Zhuo's mortal enemy Xiao Die attacks and fails to seduce the two, when he is angry, he sees through Xiao Zhuo and Shifang's plan, and his grandmother goes to the master's hiding place. Later, he was killed by his grandma. In order to make this series more stable, Xu Jinyang asked Zhang Guorong to sign three consecutive films when filming this movie, and Zhang Guorong was also prepared to play 0 in the third film. And the supporting roles in these three films, the glamorous banshee are all ready to be played by Lizhi. Although Lizhi won the crown of Miss Asia this year, because the influence of Asian TV station is relatively weak, it is far inferior to TVB TV station. In addition, after Lizhi became Miss Asia, she was rejected by local women in Hong Kong. Many people discriminated against her for being from the mainland. The mainland girl who came here, and her Cantonese is not very good, so the resources are very abused. The few movies she has acted in since this year are all very small roles, in which she plays the kind of vase that shows off her sexiness. Even most of the time, I still stay at home and pick my feet, and I don't have any resources at all.
At this time, I suddenly received a call from Shuguang Film Company, asking her to come and audition. Because Dawn Film Company released an annual box office champion "Chasing Girls in Hardcover" before that, and now "A Hero's True Colors" is also in theaters, and it is very likely to become the box office champion at the beginning of 1987. The dark horse in the ten shop company, plus Xu Jinyang, the owner of Shuguang Film Company, is very generous and generous, and he treats female artists very well. Without saying a word, Lizhi quickly cleaned up and rushed over. When Lizhi came to Shuguang Film Company, besides producer Tsui Hark and director Cheng Xiaodong, producer Shi Nansheng, and producer Xu Jinyang were interviewed. Seeing Xu Jinyang, Lizhi thought of Xu Jinyang's comfort to her at the reception, and felt a warm current in her heart. Xu Jinyang smiled slightly and said: "Li Zhi, don't be nervous, read the script, talk about the role, and act in any episode!" When Li Zhi heard Xu Jinyang's magnetic voice and gentle smile, she calmed down at that moment, and she would not be nervous because of the seriousness of Xu Hark and Cheng Xiaodong. After all, she knew that the most influential and powerful member of the crew of "A Chinese Ghost Story" was of course the producer boss Xu Jinyang. Even if Tsui Hark and Cheng Xiaodong have a bad impression of Li Zhi because she came from the mainland, and there were some gossip in the selection of Miss Asia, but as long as the big boss decides, they can only hold Nose to accept. Of course, Li Zhi didn't want Xu Jinyang to be disappointed, and she didn't want to go to the point where she didn't perform well, and Xu Jinyang insisted on making money for herself, so she devoted herself very seriously to study this role. In fact, this role has very few lines and scenes, and the total sum is nothing. She quickly figured out how to play it, and acted it out when she changed into costumes. Tsui Hark frowned slightly, and said, "Your Cantonese is still not good enough." At this time, Shi Nansheng couldn't help coming over, and reminded Tsui Hark in a low voice: "My lord, don't you see that this woman is beautiful and plump, very charming, this is forbidden by the big boss. Obviously the big boss is interested in this woman, this role will not have much impact on the whole movie, and dubbing will be fine at that time, why bother to anger the big boss on such a matter. Our cooperation is not a day or two, and the contract is signed for 30 years, so don't fight against the boss. Tsui Hark thinks about it too, this kind of thing Love is irrelevant. What's more, Xu Jinyang's vision is sometimes better than his own. If Xu Jinyang hadn't discovered Wang Zuxian, he might not be able to find Nie Xiaoqian who is more suitable than Wang Zuxian. Perhaps this Lizhi is also suitable for this role, so Tsui Hark turned to Xu Jinyang: "Boss, what do you think?" Xu Jinyang smiled lightly and said: "There is no problem with the performance, although Cantonese is not very fluent, but this can be corrected through dubbing, it is not a big problem , I think we should decide on her, and. How about giving her a similar role in all three films?" Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong and Shi Nansheng looked at each other. It seemed that the big boss was particularly interested in this beautiful woman with a beautiful figure. They didn't know that Xu Jinyang was not only interested in himself, but also came to pick Lizhi under the imperial decree of his wife He Chaojing! He Chaoqiong didn't want her father's gambling king to miss Lizhi and affect her life, so she asked Xu Jinyang to act quickly to get Lizhi to prevent the gambling king from getting angry. Producer Shi Nansheng nodded and said: "Since the boss has said so, Miss Lizhi, we have decided to sign contracts with you for three films, all of which are female lead." Just now Li Zhi heard that Tsui Hark disliked that her Cantonese was not up to standard, and she was very disturbed at that time. Before that, she had interviewed several crews, but the director used such words to prevaricate her. Of course, a large part of the reasons for those crew directors rejecting Li Zhi was that Li Zhi was unwilling to accept their hidden rules, so they used substandard Cantonese as an excuse to write Li Zhi eliminated. Although Li Zhi wanted to be famous earlier, Li Zhi was unwilling to sacrifice herself for such a role.
It turned out that in that life, because she didn't want to accept the unspoken rules, she was bullied by the director, and she had to endure "treatment" such as being beaten, soaked in cold water, and bitten by fish when she played the vase. Willing to accept the unspoken rules, so the play is blocked, or because he is unwilling to accept the unspoken rules, so even the gambling king who can have a four-bedroom wife cannot get Lizhi's true love. Now, Lizhi didn't expect that the interview would go so smoothly, and that the contract would be for three films, which made her overjoyed. She repeatedly expressed her gratitude to the three of Tsui Hark: "Thank you producer, thank you director, thank you producer!" She finally came to Xu Jinyang, looking straight at Xu Jinyang with her big charming eyes: "Boss Xu, I know that it is your appreciation that gave me this opportunity. Please rest assured, I will definitely act seriously and will never disappoint your appreciation!" Xu Jinyang nodded and smiled, "Then do you know how to act seriously?" Lizhi was stunned for a moment, she really didn't know which direction to use force, because this character has very few lines and scenes, and there is not much room to play, but three consecutive films, the plasticity is great ! Her big charming eyes moved around, and she looked at Xu Jinyang full of expectation: "I hope Boss Xu can give me some advice..." At this time, Lizhi thought that Xu Jinyang would tell her a room number and ask her to go there to accompany her. In the face of other film company bosses or directors [Li Zhi will reject each other decisively. But now facing Xu Jinyang, Lizhi was shaken. Whether it was from the perspective of utilitarianism or personal feeling, it was difficult for Lizhi to say no to such a perfect man. .