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Volume 3 Chapter 2 Thoughts

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    "I don't dare to trouble the elders to send you away. Uncle Six, please stay." "Okay, okay, Mr. Shen, walk slowly." After Shen rushed away, Run Run Shao felt a little upset. He slowly paced in the large living room of the villa.  Step by step, digesting food and thinking at the same time.  ??Most elderly people like to be quiet and don't like to move. The most annoying thing is change and frustration.  A year ago, when Shen Chong was still broke, I came to interview him. He made it clear that he hated those independent producers, who broke the rules, disrupted the market, and made it difficult to do business.  A year later, I look back and see that those independent producers are just scabies. They have limited funds and cannot make a difference. They are like cicadas in summer. They are annoying but cannot touch the foundation of the big tree of Shaw Brothers.  , However, Shen Chong's oriental charm was like a strong typhoon, which in a short period of time shook the large studio system that Shaw Brothers had carefully built and maintained for more than 20 years.  Shaw's business philosophy emphasizes small profits but quick turnover, keeping manufacturing costs as low as possible, and winning by quantity. This business model is probably the mainstream of traditional Chinese business. Not only Shaw's, but also the majority of Chinese companies in the following decades.  Most companies pursue this idea, thus creating the reputation of "the world's factory".  To reduce production costs, the first step is to lower wages. Hong Kong is famous for the low wages of actors and behind-the-scenes staff at Shaw Brothers. Cheng Peipei once said that when she was at Shaw Brothers, she would go out as little as possible every day because  The company stipulates that you must wear good clothes when going out, and you are not allowed to take the bus. With her salary of several hundred yuan at the time, she could not afford the expenses, so she had to hide in the dormitory every day. The martial arts queen who became famous in Hong Kong was so embarrassed, it can be seen that Shao  His pay is so low.  After the Hong Kong stock market crash in 1973, Fang Yihua took full power and showed his stinginess to the fullest. Some people have said that Shaw Brothers' style is that after any budget is submitted, it is customary to cut it in half. There was a joke that Li Hanxiang shot  A play required ten children to blow soap bubbles, so he applied to buy ten bamboo tubes, but only five were approved. Yu Jian was so angry that he gave up the whole play, saying that Shaw Brothers saves money and he saves time Those  Independent producers offer high prices to poach a few Shaw Brothers talents, but they have a weak foundation and will not last long. As long as one movie does not do well at the box office, it will be finished. Then the talents who left will come back obediently.  But Oriental Charm is different, because its boss Shen Chong is rich. Although Run Run Shaw is confident that he has accumulated wealth for fifty or sixty years, which is definitely more than Shen Chong, who has only been successful for one and a half years, but after all, the movie is just a movie, and when the funds reach a certain  It doesn't matter how much money you have - Chow Wenhuai is an example. If Shaw Brothers' assets in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia were added together, they would be ten times larger than Golden Harvest. However, in the current film market, it is Golden Harvest that overpowers Shaw Brothers.  .  Shen Chong is famous for his extravagance and generosity. Anyone who works for him is not treated badly. For example, last year's "Heist" broke the box office record. All the staff members who left their names on the crew's signature book even helped clean up the garbage at the filming site.  All the members received hundreds of red envelopes.  It can be said that "Crazy Heist" was a deliberate move for him to spend money to buy a good reputation when he just debuted. However, his subsequent actions all showed that he did not care about the current industry rules in the Hong Kong film industry. Wong Jing's "Chasing Girls"  The box office was a hit, and in addition to the salary in the initial contract, he also received a dividend of 100,000. You must know that even Chu Yuan can't get the box office dividend. What qualifications does a fledgling young man like Wang Jing have to get it?  There is also Huang Yuetai, who was only an ordinary employee in the industry for three or four years at Shaw Brothers. His monthly salary of several thousand yuan was borrowed by Shen Chong to make an experimental film that has not been released yet. In less than twenty days, he got it.  Not only that, Shen Chong also stuffed him into the Academy Awards jury where big names gathered, becoming the most junior and youngest judge on the jury. He became famous in one fell swoop and was dismissed at a young age.  Being regarded as the number one photographer in Hong Kong, he is both profitable and famous. This situation makes all the employees of Shaw Brothers jealous.  The same is true for "Die Hard", which is now so popular at the box office that it makes people crazy. Although it was co-produced with Golden Harvest, Shen Chong also borrowed some behind-the-scenes employees from Shaw Brothers, and each employee received a salary three times that of Shaw Brothers.  , all these things made Run Run Shao frightened.  Every time Shen Chong came to borrow someone, he was always kind. He would bring him back after the loan was completed. He never said he wanted to recruit people, but every time, he gained a good reputation. He was obviously doing this to raise his hopes, in case something happened.  When the time came, he raised his arms and shouted, Shaw Brothers wanted people to go to the building "Young people are young people, they don't know how to cherish at all, left hand goes in, right hand goes out, how can it be done." When Run Run Shaw thought of this, he shook his head repeatedly,  He was scolding in his heart, but he was scolding Shen Chong, a bastard who treated money like dirt. For a while, he really couldn't think of how to deal with it. In addition to movies, TV also gave Run Run Shaw a headache.  Jiayi TV only shows movies for less than a month. During the evening prime time, it has already been watched twice, overwhelming Li's, occupying the second place in the ratings. Although the highest is only about 14%, according to public information  According to information, after the movie channel, there are still more TV channels to come out, and they are going forward with great potential.Moreover, tonight Shen Chong was just talking about the legislation of Hong Kong's film classification system and the impact of mainland film distribution and screening reforms on Hong Kong films. He didn't say a word that he was interested in H, and he didn't say a word that he was interested in H.  He is not interested in H.  In the 1960s, Shaw Brothers cost only a few hundred thousand per film and made annual profits of more than 10 million U.S. dollars. However, in recent years, production costs have become increasingly high and profits have been deteriorating. However, TV is just the opposite, with profits rising every year.  Climbing up and moving forward is bright. In Shaw's heart, the weight of movies and TV has changed from 50/50 to 30/70.  It's just that he and Li Xiaohe have been old friends for decades. At the beginning, Li Xiaohe not only gave him shares and let him join the board of directors, but also entrusted him with full power over daily operations. With such confidence, as long as he is still alive, Run Run Shaw will do whatever it takes.  It is not easy to make HR decisions, so for so many years, he has controlled his shares not to exceed Lijia. Lijia is the largest private shareholder of H, holding a total of 380,000 shares, so Run Run Shaw holds 10,000 shares to show  avoid arousing suspicion.  But what he did to avoid suspicion back then has now become a hidden danger. H is not a listed company, and the transfer of shares by shareholders is not public. There is no way that Run Run Shaw can buy shares from HSBC or Hutchison Whampoa first.  While he was thinking about it, the butler came over with a plate and reminded: "Master, it's time to drink the health soup." Run Run Shao hummed, he took the tea cup, but did not drink it in a hurry, but asked: "Shen Shen today"  Sir, it seems he came here with a gift?  "    "yes.  The housekeeper responded: "I put it in the study. It seems to be a book."  " "Bring it to me and have a look.  " The gift came quickly. When I opened it, I saw it was not a book, but a roster - "Student Directory of Hong Kong Film Cultural Center Spring Training Class 19RU". Run Run Shaw picked it up, flipped through it, and then  Thoughtful.
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