Chapter 344 Reminiscence of the Past

Although the filming rights had been negotiated, the subsequent wrangling over the details was still extremely cumbersome. Fortunately, Su Yun was a person who knew how to "let go" from the beginning to the end. After discussing the issue with Ovitz, who was particularly ambitious about his career, for three days and three nights, they finally reached an agreement on all the handover matters.

After all, in addition to being Ovitz's main partner, she is also the head of the production department of Hong Kong's Zhao's Film Company. If the profits in Hollywood were not much higher than those in the Hong Kong film and television industry after conversion, it might not be convenient for her to work on both sides.

At present, the most profitable is definitely not the film and television industry but the side businesses under each of them. The most profitable for Su Yun is the profit sharing from Nintendo's technology investment, and the industrial profit sharing from Microsoft and Apple. Of course, the estimated net worth is rising day by day, but the actual liquid funds on hand... just one word.

The high-tech industry has always been able to earn more and spend more. When Su Yun, the so-called billionaire, really needs to take out 10 or 20 million in cash for investment or filming a movie, the unit does not even need to be US dollars but Hong Kong dollars, and it takes some time to get the money together.

Moreover, part of the money earned every year has been used to fill the road construction fund. This naturally explains Su Yun's behavior of not liking to buy luxury goods such as brand-name antique jewelry, which is considered "hard and simple" in the eyes of many wealthy people.

If Su Yun had not had the support of Zhao, a powerful family, her film output might have been even lower and the production time might have been even longer.

However, compared to Su Yun's model where all the funds are tied up in the production line and he has more real estate but less liquid funds, the eldest brother Zhao Liming's semi-public quarrel with a group of real estate tycoons in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange is truly a case of almost losing money for the sake of his ideals. Fortunately, with the east wind of reform and opening up, the number of people going south to work and start businesses has increased dramatically, bringing a lot of income to the low-rent housing group he leads. Coupled with the policy support provided by some far-sighted tycoons, he has been able to barely maintain a balance between income and expenditure.

Zhao Qiming also understands the truth that ideals need to be built on a realistic foundation, so when he occasionally encounters an opportunity, he will privately ask Su Yun when she will have the inspiration and time to make another film like "The Rooftop Postman" that criticizes the darkness of society. It's okay to make a small loss as long as it can alert the world.

It's not that Su Yun doesn't want to do this, but her schedule is too full, and all the projects she has on hand are big productions with big investments, which require long preparation and shooting times, and they also require a lot of effort. Even though the position of producer is often a semi-nominal one, she still needs to do many things herself, such as the roles and the general direction of the script.

Even though most of the details of "Batman" were arranged by Ovitz who was happy to accept the challenge, Su Yun still had to prepare and put the "Grave Robbers" series on the shooting schedule. The two previously signed "Back to the Future" and "Terminator" have already been shot and are waiting for Su Yun to work with Industrial Light & Magic to do the post-production work, and are still eagerly waiting for the schedule!

The scariest thing is that the wired earrings that Su Yun had obtained from Zha Lan earlier also provided inspiration for solving the problem of miniaturized circuit processing in personal computers that had troubled the R&D team for a long time. With Su Yun as the guide and navigator standing on the shoulders of predecessors, the first generation of handheld computer prototypes had already begun to be assembled, just waiting for Su Yun to join the R&D team when he was free, and improve them while trying them out...

"No, I have to find an assistant to come and share the work of "Grave Robbers 2" which will be filmed later." Su Yun compared his own schedule and almost slammed the table.

Su Yun put down the documents in her hand, picked up the phone and made a long-distance call to Hong Kong. With the help of Hong Kong Radio, she found Liang Jiawei who was working on radio dramas at the station.

After hearing from the phone that Su Yun asked him for the contact information of his mentor and former father-in-law, Director Li Xuexiang, Liang Jiawei, who knew Li Xuexiang's true nature, hesitantly reminded him: "He may not accept your invitation..."

“But you have to try to know whether it will be accepted or not. If you don’t try, you will never have a chance.” At this time, Su Yun had the indomitable spirit of a R&D personnel who would not turn back until he hits a wall.

Li Xuexiang is very similar to Wang Zheng, whom she had met before. Both of them can pursue their dreams and bend down to accept the hardships of reality. They are both educated intellectuals in essence. The erotic films that Li Xuexiang used to start his career are similar to the "third-rate" comedy romance films that Wang Zheng shot in his early years. The difference is that Li Xuexiang is more inclined to the implicit and hazy style of ancient intellectuals, while Wang Zheng is more inclined to the clear and direct style of modern intellectuals.

But no matter what, temporarily giving up the dream of making art films and shooting commercial films that make money quickly and at low costs, accumulating experience and capital, and lowering the bottom line in order to make a living cannot be considered a shameful choice.

The only problem is that Li Xuexiang is not like Wang Zheng, who gave up pursuing his artistic dream and then rushed into the business world. He used the money he earned to support art film directors who had no money to make films. He could endure people saying that he was rubbish and stayed in his comfort zone very steadily, supporting the work and life of many film practitioners.

Li Xuexiang, on the other hand, was a flip-flopper. After earning money and fame by making erotic films for Zhao, he immediately turned around and jumped to Taiwan to pursue his artistic dream.

As a result, those people in Taiwan who supported him in setting up a film company and funded him to do business in Taiwan, their real purpose was to trick him into going there to revitalize the Taiwanese film market.

After Li Xuexiang and his friends spent all their energy shooting a series of films, countering the impact of Hong Kong films on the Taiwanese film market and driving the prosperous development of the Taiwanese film industry, those people turned around and seized him and his company like a donkey after its work was done...

When Li Xuexiang, a traitor of the Zhao family, tried his best to escape back to Hong Kong from Taiwan, it was exactly one year before Su Yun came into this world.

Although given Zhao Rifu's character, he should have hated a traitor like Li Xuexiang and never hired him, but at that time, Chia Wo and Lu Shaolong were making a name for themselves, and not accepting Li Xuexiang's return would be tantamount to handing over another talent to Chia Wo... So after some negotiations, Li Xuexiang, one of the four original Zhao directors, returned to the Hong Kong Zhao Company and teamed up with Hui Ku-wen to launch the movie "The Grandmaster", which continued the kung fu film craze created by Lu Shaolong.

In fact, Su Yun and Li Xuexiang, the unconventional director of mudslides, have a myriad of connections: Li Xuexiang's first film after returning to Zhao's company, "The Military Valiant", was a collaboration with Hong Kong's first-generation comedy king Xu Guwen, who is the elder brother of Su Yun's grandfather Xu Gujie, and Su Yun's first film, "The Perfect Match", was directed by Xu Guwen...

Zhao Yinyin, who changed her career from a nurse to join the entertainment industry, was taught acting skills by Li Xuexiang after joining Zhao's company. Although Zhao Yinyin is now semi-retired due to marriage, the memories of their hard times together cannot be forgotten in a moment.

Remembering that there was another person she could get information from, Su Yun got Li Xuexiang's contact information and current mainland address from Liang Jiawei, and then she rummaged through the classified notebooks and found Zhao Yinyin's contact information.

After another round of greetings and reminiscing about the phone call, Su Yun got a lot of useful and targeted information. She thanked Zhao Yinyin and then asked about her schedule. She planned to give her a supporting role in "Grave Robbers 2".

It is worth mentioning that after Su Yun was banned in Taiwan in 1987, Zhao Yinyin was also banned in Taiwan because she was called a "Chinese doll" by the Associated Press at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979.

Su Yun, who was studying abroad at the time, called her after receiving the news and asked if it was related to her. Instead, she comforted Su Yun and said that the ban had nothing to do with Su Yun, but was just a problem with the customs on Taiwan Island.

Although Zhao Yinyin has taken the path of a star in erotic films after leaving Su Yun, she is a very down-to-earth person and very supportive of her motherland. She does not think there is anything wrong with appearing in a classical Chinese style, and she simply laughs off Taiwan's ban: she doesn't care much about fame and fortune anyway. After she couldn't make a movie, she simply followed the roundabout way of saving the country that Sister Wang took after being banned by Taiwan, and switched to A-Link to shoot TV series.

If we count strictly, Zhao Yinyin, who switched to Liying, can also be regarded as a "traitor of the Zhao family" - the struggle between TBB and Liying at that time was almost white-hot.

So, when she heard on the phone that Su Yun wanted to give her a chance to star in a movie, Zhao Yinyin couldn't help but laugh: "Are you really relying on this series not to enter the Taiwanese market, so you specifically look for people you don't like in Taiwan?"

"Yes, if there is a chance, I would like to invite Sister Wang to join my film team." Su Yun replied with a smile.

This was really not just a joke: Su Yun's original knowledge competition program encountered a shady deal, and in the end it was Sister Wang, who was still in the "Four Golden Flowers" group that year, who came forward to convince the others to give up their program time to Su Yun for a rematch.

Perhaps there are not so many stories in this world where a drop of kindness should be repaid with a spring, but for Su Yun, he really remembers the words "A favor from someone will be remembered for thousands of years."

Even though many people do good deeds just to gain inner warmth, the little girl who once received warmth from a stranger will, when she grows up and has the ability and opportunity to pass on the warmth one day, she will surely return this warmth that has been there for many years to the hands and heart of the giver.

Only in this way can we live up to every bit of warmth and kindness in the world.