When Hu Jinquan made movies, the requirements were very strict. Zhang Aijia could not stay in Hong Kong for a long time and had to fly back to South Korea the next afternoon.

Chen Chong accompanied her in a daze in the morning and then took her to the airport. Zhang Aijia had no choice but to let him go. When the two parted at the wicket, their relationship finally returned from awkward and awkward to a level of laughter.

Good girls are also afraid of bad things. Shame is the best magic weapon to attract girls.

Of course, not everyone dares to be so shameless. Chen Chong can let go of his face, mainly because the two necessary hearts for time travelers are at work - burst of self-confidence and a game heart that pursues fun.

After Zhang Aijia left, Chen Chong looked for a newsstand in Kai Tak Airport. After flipping through several newspapers, he quickly found what he needed.

"The movie "Crazy Job" that has attracted much attention from citizens was premiered last night at Shaw Brothers' Emerald Pearl Theater. After the film was screened, our newspaper cooperated with the film company to conduct a questionnaire survey on the audience. As a result, more than 70% of the audience said that this is the most scary movie they have ever seen..."

"Give me a copy of this." Chen Chong folded the Hong Kong Commercial Daily in his hand, paid a dollar, handed it over, and asked inadvertently: "Boss, do you know "Crazy Job"?"

"I know, no one in Hong Kong now knows." The boss was looking for change while chanting, "It was adapted from the 70-year-old murder case of the Longhu Mountain Double Corpse. Recently, several newspapers have been talking about this case. Some say that the murderer has someone else, some say that after the man died, he could often hear his footsteps in the dormitory where he lived during his lifetime, and some said that the woman had died for a long time, and some said that someone had seen her in the tea restaurant she used to visit, which was very mysterious."

Chen Chong took the change and asked with interest: "Are you going to watch this movie?"

"Of course I'll go and have a look when I have time." The boss is a man in his forties. He opened a "Tiantian Daily" and pointed to the title. He said with a disdainful smile: "Look, this says that someone was so scared that his legs were weak in the theater last night. In the end, he was carried out by someone. He was too courageous!"

Chen Chong was stunned. This was a bit similar to the scary jokes in the theater after the release of "Midnight Bell". Could it be that the jokes Zhu Jiading made without a teacher and arranged them specially?

After taking the newspaper, he looked at it and laughed. He saw the scene described in the newspaper. He saw it with a glance last night. Rather than being scared, it was better to say that the man and woman took advantage of the opportunity to watch horror movies and achieved the right result. The woman was probably shy and lied that she was so scared that she was so scared that she needed someone to hug her in order to cover up in front of her friends.

But this is a good thing, and Chen Chong didn't reveal it, and said in an invigorating manner: "This is too exaggerated. I'll go to the theater to see if it's really that scary."

"I think so too."

Then, another one...

During the filming of "Crazy Tribulation", Chen Chong provided a large number of scenes and ideas of classic psychological horror films in later generations for Ann Hui to refer to. Ann Hui, with her extremely sensitive film touch, grasped the core of it well - the balance between an environment full of unknown dangers and the vigorous curiosity of human beings. The shots shot from this are extremely psychologically stressful. In addition, few people in Hong Kong have filmed horror and suspense movies before, and the audience lacks immunity to this, and at first sight, they are naturally frightened.

"Crazy Job" mainly has many innovations in shooting skills and camera language. As for the plot, it does not have much depth. It is a relatively pure commercial film. Therefore, when it was released, Shen Chong used the vulgar "the most scary" as a gimmick to attract ordinary audiences in terms of market positioning.

After Chen Chong left the newsstand, he found a public telephone booth and called back to the film company.

"Xiaoyu, is there anything wrong with the company in the morning?"

"Manager Jiang said he had something to report, and Miss Lily from Los Angeles called several times."

"Is it still the same number before?"

"No, it's a new number."

"Tell me the number." Chen Chong clamped his neck with his phone, took out his laptop and pen, and wrote down the number, he ordered: "Let Manager Jiang wait for me in the office, I will go back in about half an hour."

"OK."

Hang up the phone and dial Lily's number.

"Hello!" As soon as the phone was connected, Lily's enthusiastic voice came, and she shouted excitedly: "Allen, guess who am I with?"

Chen Chong smiled and asked in surprise: "Have your dad arrived in Los Angeles?"

"No." Lily laughed and said, "Well, you must know who I am with, then guess where I went some time ago?"

"Vancouver?"

"Wow." Lily exaggeratedly amazes, saying, "How did you know?"

"Do you think I live in a wilderness? There are newspapers in Hong Kong," Chen Chong said with a smile: "No wonder I can't find you every time I call you. Why don't you call me when you go to Vancouver?"

"I lost the note that remembers your phone number." Lily apologized and said, "I didn't find it after I came back."

"It's fine if you're fine." Chen Chong asked, "How about the car I'm sending you?"

"That's great, that's the limited edition Ford King Cobra!" Lily chattered and said, "Allen, wait a moment, I'll let Teresa talk to you."

After waiting for a while, a soft voice came from the other side of the phone: "Hello, Mr. Chen."

"Hello Miss Deng." A generation of singers is well-known, with soft and beautiful voices, and can make people intoxicated by the sea.

It was a bit cold, and neither side knew what to say. After a while, a voice came from the phone, "Mr. Chen, thank you very much for your advice. It has helped me very much."

"Miss Deng, you are polite. I am your fan. It is my honor to be able to do something for you."

"Mr. Chen will come to the United States next time, please make sure to notify me so that I can thank you in person." After pausing, he said, "Then, will I give the phone to Miss Lily?"

"OK."

"Allen, UCLA is so big, guess how did I find Teresa?"

"Do you think I am God?"

"I'll tell you." There was a burst of laughter and whispering from the other end of the phone, and then Lily said intermittently; "One evening, I went to find Helena... She said there was an Oriental... woman driving a Rolls-Royce... to math class... Haha, don't tickle... OK, I surrender..." (Note 1)

After the fight stopped, Chen Chong and Lily chatted for a few more minutes, agreed to come to Hong Kong for a summer vacation, and then hung up the phone.

On February 24, 1979, Deng Lijun was deported by Japan for the "fake passport" incident. Taiwan was in an uproar and the media criticized her, making it difficult for her to return home. She had to go to the United States in disgrace and listened to study and study at UCLA.

After reading the report on the "fake passport" incident, Chen Chong decided to take a timely help. First, he liked Deng Lijun's singing very much, and second, as the most internationally influential artist in the Chinese pop culture circle, Deng Lijun is very helpful for future plans.

It was said that it was a timely help, but it was actually a gift to Buddha by borrowing flowers - Chen Chong just told Deng Lijun about the future he knew in advance.

When China and the United States officially established diplomatic relations and the Taiwanese were in panic, Deng Lijun used a fake Indonesian passport to enter and exit the country for convenience, which made the Taiwanese authorities extremely angry and wanted to ban her. However, not long after, Deng Lijun's singing became popular in the mainland and became famous all over the country, which made the Taiwanese authorities very frightened. In order to prevent Deng Lijun from being swept by the mainland, they hurriedly sent people to the United States and invited her back to Taiwan.

Deng Lijun suddenly changed a lot and lived alone in Los Angeles. Naturally, she was extremely frightened. At this time, Chen Chong's analysis report, which was very charlatan, seemed to be a lighthouse in the dark, giving her great comfort.

It’s just a good relationship. How it develops in the future depends on how it operates.

...

"Mr. Chen, this is the survey and statistics of the premiere last night." As soon as Chen Chong returned to the office, Jiang Zhiqiang handed over a report and briefly introduced it:

There were a total of 924 viewers last night, of which 786 participated in the survey, with an overall score of 8.1 points. More than 70% of the viewers felt that they had never seen such a scary movie.

Chen Chong took the report and looked carefully, and asked, "Has this report been sent to the magazine?"

"Sent here."

“Where is the box office statistics?”

"I've contacted the theater chamber. After the last show tonight, the statistics will be started immediately and the newspaper will be available tomorrow morning."

"When counting, separate the building, the back and the front seats."

"If that happens," Jiang Zhiqiang said with a difficult face, "It may take a lot of time."

"It doesn't matter, you can hire a few more people." Chen Chong smiled and said, "You can ask if anyone in the company is willing to work overtime and pay three times the salary."

"Mr. Chen, what's the point of counting so carefully?"

"It's very useful." Chen Chong explained: "The building is the most expensive, and most of the people who buy such tickets are the middle class, and the front seat is the cheapest. The people who buy such tickets are basically the working class. Through daily statistics, we can estimate who is the main actor of "Crazy Job" to adjust the distribution strategy in time."

"Okay, I understand." Jiang Zhiqiang looked like he suddenly realized and said goodbye and left.

Most of the theaters in Hong Kong are large theaters built in the 1960s and 1970s, which can accommodate thousands of people to watch movies at the same time. They are generally divided into two floors, upper and lower floors, called the building, and the ticket price is the most expensive. The current average price is about 9 yuan, and the lower floor is divided into two parts. One part is the back seat, with a medium ticket price, with an average price of about 7 yuan, and the cheapest one is the front seat, which only costs 5 yuan. (Note 2)

The current film market in Hong Kong is not yet mature in all aspects. Not only does it not have the so-called "schedule" concept, but the box office statistics are also extremely incomplete.

Before the 1960s, there was no accurate box office statistics for local movies in Hong Kong, and the theater chamber did not even have a meeting location. It was not until the early 1960s that Jiang Zhiqiang's father borrowed a room to use it. At that time, there were only two people in the chamber of commerce, one secretary and one choreography. These two staff worked together to count the box office of each theater every day, and then mimeographed it out. Only then did Hong Kong have a relatively systematic box office statistics.

The movie box office statistics of the theater chamber of commerce are not only slow, but also lack details. No one counts the box office on the first day, the box office on the first weekend, the box office on the first week, and the box office on the first week. No one has counted it or paid special attention to it.

As a visitor to the data age, Chen Chong understood the importance of data statistics very well. He took advantage of the release of "Crazy Joe" to cooperate with the theater chamber of commerce to deeply explore box office statistics, and then used these hard data to strengthen the professional and authoritative image of "Movie Time" magazine and expand its influence.

With the increase in sales of "Movie Age", unique columns are urgently needed to establish a different image from other movies and magazines. The weekly movie box office review is a column chosen by Shen Chong. In an era when personal computers are not yet popular, box office statistics is purely handmade, which is a thankless job that other magazines will not do.

In addition to this, Chen Chong also prepared another one, which is the midnight premiere rating review.

After the premiere of "Crazy Job", Chen Chong took advantage of the opportunity to distribute free souvenirs and asked the audience to fill out the questionnaire. The content was very simple, with two options: one was to score the movie in a ten-stage system, and the other was to have a view of the movie.

Hong Kong has a tradition of holding midnight premieres. Film companies use audience reactions to predict the prospects of box office. Chen Chong plans to use "Crazy Joe" as a stepping stone to promote this rating system to all Hong Kong movie premieres, digitize the audience's reactions, and then publish them on "Movie Age" - just think about IMDB and Douban, and you will know how great the benefits of doing this are.

If this plan can be completed, "Movie Age" will firmly sit at the top of Hong Kong movie magazines.

But this plan is a bit difficult. After all, whether a movie is good or not is not sure before it is released, and you will definitely encounter boycotts... And if you blindly publish a movie with high ratings, the meaning of this column will be much weaker.

Chen Chong thought for a while and felt a little annoyed, so he picked up the Rubik's Cube on the table and fiddled with it casually.

This Rubik's Cube is specially designed. Stills from the four leading actors of "Crazy Joe" are printed on four sides of the south, west and north, and artistic words "Crazy Joe" and "Oriental Charm" are printed on the top and bottom. After the premiere last night, the souvenirs received by the audience were this thing.

On the one hand, he made this Rubik's Cube for promotion, and on the other hand, he wanted to use this to test the products around the movie and see the market reaction.

By the way, Matrix Technology's production line is too thin, and it seems that it is necessary to get a new toy and go to the mainland to produce it in July...

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Note 1: See Teresa Teng for an interview.
Chapter completed!