"Dong dong."
He Chaoqiong knocked on the door and brought Fang Yan, Gong Cie and others into a luxurious and luxurious reception room.
He Hongshen walked over, with a warm smile on his face, and took the initiative to chat with Fang Yan, breaking the strangeness of the first meeting.
They gradually became familiar with each other, and the awkward and dull atmosphere became lively.
He Hongshen waved his hand and asked the secretary to leave. At the same time, he told him to send some chips to Fang Yan's room for free later.
"Mr. Fang, Mrs. Fang, please don't be polite. Just think of it as a small greeting gift from me."
"Thank you, Mr. He, for your kindness."
Fang Yan politely refused. , "I'm sorry, my wife and I have never gambled."
He Hongshen was not surprised, but He Chaoqiong took the lead. After Fang Yan repeated what he said when he first came to the hotel, his eyes flashed with surprise, and he clapped his hands and applauded: "Mr. Fang has seen through the essence of gambling."
"Because he has seen through, so I won’t touch it. The more times you play this digital probability game, the longer you play, the more you lose.”
Fang Yan said seriously: "The basic principle of casinos is to keep gamblers gambling and make them come back next time."
"Not bad, not bad, well said!"
He Hongshen He was amazed and said that he had never gambled and had also banned it from his family. They go gambling, and they always advise people to treat gambling as a kind of play and entertainment. Don't gamble too much, because gambling too much may not necessarily win, because the casino you open has a rake, even if you don't lose or win forty times, It's a tie, this person didn't lose but he has lost everything, but some people just don't believe it.
“This is my first time to Haojiang. I don’t understand the customs here, but I have been to Xiangjiang many times.”
Fang Yan said: “I always feel that Xiangjiang Some citizens have a "get rich overnight" mentality of gamblers."
Ho Hong-shen nodded in agreement. Before gambling was banned in Xiangjiang, no matter where it was, there were always more gambling stalls, flower stalls, mahjong parlors, dog gambling, etc. than saunas and nightclubs. Even after gambling was banned, there were still more gambling stalls, Mark Six Lottery, and horse racing. , horse racing, etc. are still prosperous.
Even knowing that nine times out of ten you lose in gambling, there are always people coming to Haojiang to try their luck like a wave.
“No matter how rich I am, I can’t afford to gamble in the casino. I’m not that stupid so I’ll gamble for a share!”
After saying this, he glanced at Di Boola, who looked haggard. , he explained helplessly that he had warned Xie Xian at that time to give up when things were good for him, but he luckily felt that the God of Gamblers was possessed by a man who was very lucky and would not listen to anyone else's words. Later, when he lost the bet, it became even more so. Can't listen either.
Fang Yan heard the implication, which meant that no one set up a trap for Xie Xian.
"Fourth brother has confessed to me that he is obsessed with himself and has nothing to do with anyone else."
Dibola said eagerly: "It's just Mr. He, can I ask you to help me with something? ”
Dialects can be seen with one’s eyes and one’s nose. Looking through the nose and looking at the heart, he listened quietly as she begged He Hongshen to take advantage of their past friendship and forgive Xie Xian of part of the gambling debt. They had tried their best to raise money, but 15 million is too much and cannot be repaid at all.
Gong Xue opened her mouth, but felt a gentle pat on the back of her hand, and immediately realized that she wanted to calm down.
"This..."
He Hongshen frowned.
Di Boola had tears in her eyes, "I know that doing this must break the rules of the gambling stall, but if there is any other way, I will not make such a request to Mr. He." Then she burst into tears, "If it really doesn't work, I'm afraid I have to pay the father's debt and let Fengzi..."
"The more I talk about it, the more chaotic it becomes."
He Hongshen Interrupted: "What do you want your son to do? I run a casino, not a movie maker like Mr. Liu. Even if Ting Feng becomes very popular because of "Baby Zhi Duo Xing", I can't let him Is he coming to film for me? You don’t know, you think I want to exploit child labor?”
“No, no, no, Mr. He.” Di Boola was incoherent and didn’t know what to say.
Gong Cong sighed quietly, and saw Fang Yan suddenly showing a playful smile:
"On the way here, I had a pleasant chat with Miss He. I once remembered that she said , she likes movies as much as you, Mr. He."
"I do like watching movies, but I have never thought about making movies or investing in movies."
He Hongshen said in a serious tone.
"Even if the subject matter of this movie involves gambling, might it bring more business to the casino?"
Fang Yan cast a meaningful look.
“Mr. Fang is talking about gambling movies?”
Hearing He Chaoqiong’s answer, He Hongshen’s eyes were filled with relief and satisfaction.
Fang Yan was noncommittal, saying that the reason why Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua asked him to come out was to save the Shaw Brothers who were in danger. However, although "Baby Wisdom Stars" can solve the temporary crisis of Shaw Brothers, they still want to bring Shaw Brothers to a real new life. , we must find new types of feature films to serve as the backbone.
However, Shaw Brothers does not have the production ability and genes for comedy films, nor does it have the team and talent for action films like Golden Harvest.
On the contrary, when it comes to gambling films, Shaw Brothers Pictures is an out-and-out pioneer of gambling films in Hong Kong.
The first gambling film in the history of Hong Kong films is recognized as "Lucky Gambling" produced by Shaw Brothers in 1972.
This is a gambling film set in the early years of the Republic of China. It continues the warning tradition of Hong Kong films in the 1950s and 1960s. Strictly speaking, it can be regarded as a "gambling abstinence film" among gambling films. The first gambling film in the true sense was actually "The Gambling King" in 1976.
This is the first movie to focus on gambling skills. In it, there are thousands of skills and gambling techniques that dazzled the audience such as listening to dice to know the points, changing cards, super memory, fake identities, etc., and were later widely used. In various gambling-related movies and TV series.
For example, "The King of Thousand Kings" and "The Meeting of Thousand Kings and Heroes" were written by Wang Jing and supervised by his father Wang Tianlin...
However, the "gambling films" of the 1970s were generally documentary films that mainly exposed gambling. Deception, without blindly seeking beauty The image of a gambler did not give people a strong feeling that "you can get rich through gambling". It was the 1989 film directed by Wang Jing that truly created the trend of gambling films and made gambling films one of the representative genres in the history of Hong Kong films. "God of Gamblers".
"Did Mr. Fang want to use this as a condition..."
He Hongshen couldn't help but glance at Di Bora, and then looked at Fang Yan.
“One code equals another. My wife and I came to Haojiang this time because of Mr. He’s invitation, which may be different from La Gu’s purpose.”
Fang Yan raised his hand: "The reason why I made such a proposal is because I feel your warm hospitality, so I want to repay your kindness."
Gong Jie, like He Chaoqiong, looked at a loss. Along the way from Xiangjiang to Haojiang, I never heard this matter mentioned in dialect.
He Hongshen was very interested. He thought it was Fang Yan, Run Run Shaw, and Fang Yihua who came up with a strategy. Shaw Brothers Pictures tailor-made a gambling film for them as a condition for exempting Xie Xian from gambling debts, but Wan Unexpectedly, Fang Yan didn't mention this at all, but seemed to drag himself into the gang.
Not only did he invest money in the gambling film project produced by Shaw Brothers, but he also lent the hotel for free as a filming location.
Since you won’t give me a penny, we still have to put money in, right?
Seeing Fang Yan's calm look, Gong Cun secretly pulled off the corner of his clothes and said in a voice that only two people could hear:
"Can they agree to this if you do this?"< br>
"Why don't they agree? Look, he will have to thank us later!"
An intriguing smile appeared at the corner of Fang Yan's mouth. (End of this chapter)