Li Hanxiang, one of Shaw's four directors, is not only good at romantic films (I).

Dao Chang originally planned to write an American murder series after writing Shaw's porn stars, so that everyone can change their tastes. However, friends such as Hao Zheng, Tamia Liu, a can of beer, and Summer Wind all left messages saying that they wanted to see the stories of Shaw directors such as Li Hanxiang and Zhang Che. Let's start with a series of Shaw's four directors!

Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, Hu Jinquan and Chu Yuan, as the four most famous directors of Shaw, may not finish writing a book in their lives, and it is even more difficult to write one or two articles. Let's start with Li Hanxiang and talk about some interesting things about them in the film industry, which may be more interesting.

Speaking of Li Hanxiang, perhaps the first impression you have is the master of romantic films. In fact, Li Hanxiang has made countless films in his life, including history, opera, romance, romantic love, singing and horror. His style is changeable and he is known as the "chameleon of the studio". However, his best works are Huangmei tune, Qing Palace opera and romantic films, each with its own beauty.

Li Hanxiang was born in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province in 1926. He studied western painting in Beijing. In 1948, he went to Hong Kong to engage in film work. He started as an actor and held various positions, such as artist, screenwriter and assistant director. In 1954, he was promoted to director, and his first independent work was Snow Red, which was filmed in 1956.

Sherry Red was appreciated by Shaw. With the help of Er Guang, Li Hanxiang left Yonghua Company and joined Shaw. He joined Shaw's other directors to film Huangmei tune, and chose Lin Dai as the leading role in The Story Of Diu Sim. The film was released in 1958, which not only won the Best Director Award at the 5th Asian Film Festival, but also broke the box office record of Mandarin films in Hong Kong.

The box office success of "The Story Of Diu Sim" made Shao Yifu, the boss, have great confidence in Li Hanxiang. Later, he supported Li Hanxiang to make "Jiangshan Beauty", which was released in 1959 and achieved an unprecedented box office record. Huangmei School movies in Li Hanxiang gradually became a major branch of Shaw films.

In 1963, Li Hanxiang boldly used Ling Bo, who was unknown at that time, to direct butterfly lovers. After the film was released, it caused a sensation throughout Southeast Asia, and the audience in Taiwan Province who first came into contact with Huangmei tune was even more fascinated. It is said that some people have seen it more than 13 times, and Ling Bo has become popular for decades with this film.

But after filming butterfly lovers, Li Hanxiang turned against Shaw. There are many reasons why he wants to leave Shaw, but in the final analysis, he is dissatisfied with his treatment. In an interview with Li Hanxiang, he said this: Shaw went to poach Feng Yueh and Tao Qin Dou. Feng Yueh has a budget of 16, for The Story of the Red Baby, and his directing fee is 32,. I only have 8, Hong Kong dollars a month! If they shoot one, I shoot three. However, "Jiangshan Beauty" won 12 golden gongs including the best film in Kuala Lumpur. According to the calculation, I earned about 36 million yuan for Shaw, which means I polished the signboard for it.

At that time, the signboard of Shaw Company was really bright. I can say that it brightened the signboard for Shaw Company and polished it. But at that time, I was a third-rate director. To what extent am I wronged? At that time, Shaw Company built four sheds in Qingshui Bay Film Factory. I didn't film in the shed, and I didn't have my share, because they took up two sheds alone.

To be honest, I didn't make any money regardless of my buddy. What I'm saying now is very frank. At that time, I always wanted to shoot A Dream of Red Mansions. At that time, I may have been a master of Gao Zhen. I didn't even listen to Zou Wenhuai and Shao Yifu listened to me. I don't know. When I was on location in Japan, they asked Qiu, whose name I can't remember, to shoot A Dream of Red Mansions, to find Chiu Feng Yuan, and to cooperate with Letty and viki. I am very dissatisfied with this matter, which is one of the reasons why I left Shaw.

The other was an unpleasant incident when I went to Japan to shoot the stunt scene of Butterfly Lovers. Zou Wenhuai led us there. He lived in a five-star hotel with Letty and Ling Bo, and I lived in a third-class hotel with assistant director Jin Quan and viki and Li Kun, which was one of the reasons why I left Shaw. But the main thing is that they find someone else to shoot A Dream of Red Mansions, which is just to show me color-you are not the only one who can shoot Huangmei tune, others will also shoot it.

There is another reason. I didn't finish filming Butterfly Lovers. Zou Wenhuai made a lot of money with Japanese producers. Now I know, he took others, and then he reported that Li Hanxiang was doing become a butterfly, and the budget was increased when flying. This is not right, that is not right. The stunts turned out to be bad. Shao Yifu was very dissatisfied with it, and it is hard to say if he is not satisfied. I suggested that the ending be re-filmed, and then dubbed. One day, Shao Yifu was livid, and he shouted, "Han Xiang, this is money! What he meant was that you spent so much money, which exceeded so much budget. At that time, my tears rolled in my eyes: I made so much money for your Shaw Company, and I made such a big signboard. You told me this, and I was very unbalanced at that time. "

It can be seen that Rome was not built in a day, and Li Hanxiang complained a lot about Shaw after his success. However, Shaw is a boss company rather than a joint-stock company, and its employees are paid for their work. Although Shaw wanted to keep Li Hanxiang, he took a tough approach of threatening with contracts.

"I want to leave Shaw. It's not that Shaw doesn't know it. I told him that I was leaving. Shaw said that there was a contract. I would sue you as soon as you left, and I would deal with me completely in this way." Li Hanxiang said, "I just eat soft and don't eat hard. Even if you go to court, I will never do it. "

The reason why Run Run Run Shaw did this may be out of anger. He thought that it was Run Run Run who gave you the opportunity to win the favor. Now that you are full-fledged, you want to run away. If everyone does this, what else can you get? However, faced with the threat of Run Run Run Shaw, Li Hanxiang made up his mind that even if the contract didn't expire, even if it was broken, even if I went to court, I would go.

Shao Yifu saw that it was impossible to be tough, so he asked Zou Wenhuai to persuade Li Hanxiang. He asked Zou Wenhuai to tell Li Hanxiang that he would not only increase his salary, but also try his best to meet his requirements. However, he didn't expect Zou Wenhuai to hope that the company would grow stronger, but he secretly hoped that Li Hanxiang would leave, so he didn't have much sincerity to persuade Li Hanxiang.

since there is no sincerity, Li Hanxiang is bound to leave. "It's going to rain, mother want to get married, he must go, just let it go! "Run Run Run Run Run privately told Zou Wenhuai that although he took the contract to blackmail Li Hanxiang, Jiang didn't really intend to engage in a lawsuit with Li Hanxiang, and he disdained to do something that would hurt both sides. However, I heard that Li Hanxiang was going to take Ling Bo away, and Run Run Run Run Run was really worried. He ordered Zou Wenhuai to keep Ling Bo anyway.

Before meeting Li Hanxiang, Ling Bo was just an unknown actress who made a film in Fujian. Li Hanxiang made her famous and was grateful to Li Hanxiang and Ling Bo, so Ling Bo agreed to go with him as soon as Li Hanxiang spoke.

Zou Wenhuai is different from Li Hanxiang to Ling Bo, who is in the ascendant. He really doesn't want Ling Bo to leave. He is very resourceful. Instead of persuading Ling Bo to stay, he said to Ling Bo very sweetly, "You are young, so you can work there if there is a future. Director Li is a capable person. You can't go wrong with him. I won't keep you. However, if you ask him for 1, yuan, he will sign the contract if he gives it to you. If you don't give it, you won't sign it. This is not a question of money, but a test of a company's strength. You think, a company can't even get 1, yuan. What future do you have in this company? Besides, you are already a big star, and your worth is far more than this. "

Ling Bo listened to Zou Wenhuai's words and really went to Li Hanxiang to ask for 1, yuan. Li Hanxiang recalled afterwards that Ling Bo was the funniest thing. Run Run Run Shaw was a great man. He asked Ling Bo to ask me: "I want 1, yuan in cash, and I will sign a contract with you if I have it. "Run Run Shaw knows I can't afford it. Ling Bo couldn't come, and I was riding a tiger, so I had to come out, so I organized the League of Nations.

in 1963, with the support of Loke Wan Tho, the boss of another movie mogul, Li Hanxiang left Shaw to form the League of Nations Film Company.

Let's talk about it today, and continue to talk about the story of Li Hanxiang leaving Shaw and returning to Shaw tomorrow, and the interesting story of how he trained the actors.