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Text Chapter 348: In an era without piracy, even the air was fresh

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    It can be said that the biggest cancer in the mainland film industry in the next twenty or thirty years will actually be those pirates.  By that time, the pirates had formed a complete network of relationships, and various forces were intertwined. Let alone the film companies, even the major studios had nothing to do with them.  But now, let alone the pirate dealers¡¯ network, even the pirate dealers can¡¯t survive in this day and age.  Such an assertion is not that Li Mingbao is talking nonsense, because this is the reality.  There are many theories on how pirates of movies became a phenomenon, but in Li Mingbao¡¯s view, the origin of pirates of movies and TV programs is nothing more than the emergence of VCDs.  It really made this industry a climate.  Before the emergence of VCD, although there were pirates, they were definitely not in the film and television industry. There may have been an industry chain for things like game software, but in the film industry, absolutely no one entered the industry because it was the easiest  The reason is that without VCD, even if you have pirated discs, no one has the equipment to project them.  You must know that before the emergence of VCD, all the world used video recorders.  This thing is indeed very common in the European and American markets, and Li Mingbao's current income from making movies is not a small amount.  But the problem is that electronic equipment such as video recorders, which are popular in Europe and the United States, are absolutely rare in China today. Even people who have video recorders at home cannot get pirated discs based on their status. Basically, they are  You need to buy genuine copies, and there is no market for pirated copies of video tapes in China, because few people in China can afford video recorders. If they can't afford them and cannot be popularized, there is no market for pirated copies.  It was only after the emergence of VCD that everyone suddenly discovered that pirated discs were popping up on the market like mushrooms after a rain. Whether they were domestic or foreign movies, they could be found in the pirated market.  Before the advent of VCD, there were very few people in China who owned private projection equipment. Therefore, apart from watching movies on TV, the only way for most people to watch movies was in places like movie theaters. There were only two ways.  Not a single one, unless you are rich enough to have a video recorder, and even if you have a video recorder, you still have to buy genuine video tapes, because there are no pirated copies at all.  The emergence of VCD directly made piracy popular in the movie market. In the Internet era, there was no way to combat piracy because the industry chain was too large and there were enough people in it. It was not one or two separate companies at all.  Or an individual can solve all the problems here.  Now in 1983, whenever Li Mingbao thinks about this era, he feels very happy.  Although the domestic market is underdeveloped, but also in this market, the original interest network will not be too large. Since Li Mingbao is not prepared to be a pioneer of reform, he can only be a promoter from the side, as long as both parties can make money.  , in this era of trying to cross the river by feeling for the stones, there really won't be any big problems. Who said Li Mingbao now has the old chief's chicken-feather arrow in his hand?  Some of Li Mingbao's predictions about the future cannot be explained now. Therefore, if we really plan to lay out the mainland film market on the current basis, from the perspective of outsiders, it is obviously not a good choice to start at this time. It is not even a desert.  Pass.  ¡°Especially for Hong Kong people, the movie ticket price of 10 cents a piece really makes them unable to arouse any interest.  Although with such a ticket price, there will be some movies with a box office of over 100 million, such as "Shaolin Temple", the problem is that for them, such movies cannot be made every time.  ¡°It¡¯s true that if a movie is made well, it¡¯s possible to make a lot of money, but if it¡¯s not made well, with mainland ticket prices, it¡¯s really all money lost.  The fare in Hong Kong is now more than ten yuan a ticket. Even if you lose money, you can always make some money back.  But if the movie is released in the mainland, let¡¯s not talk about the mainland¡¯s painful box office revenue problem. If the ticket price is just one cent, it will be really inhumane if it is sold out. The more investment, the more movies will be made.  , the more likely such problems will occur.  If it were a small-scale movie, everyone would be able to support it. But the problem is that there is a market for my small-scale movie even in Hong Kong. Why should I go to the mainland to make money, and the money is still RMB?  , compared with the advantages of the Hong Kong dollar being used globally, isn¡¯t the RMB not lovable at all now?  Even if you make money, it is not easy to turn this money into actual benefits.  Therefore, except for Li Mingbao who is interested in the mainland film market, other people in Hong Kong are not interested in the mainland market, and it is not entirely a short-sighted issue.  There is also cost to consider.  You can exchange Hong Kong dollars for RMB, but you cannot exchange RMB for Hong Kong dollars.  Li Mingyao, who was shocked by the data revealed by Li Mingbao before, came to his senses at this time, so he said again:?As you put it, the mainland market is not without its merits.  If you start planning now, it would be a good choice.  But if you do this, I'm afraid you have to negotiate with the mainland officials about the movie's box office share, right?  Although I don¡¯t know much about the film industry, I do know a few things. Although mainland China still introduces foreign films, their method of introduction is buyout, and the buyout money is not very high.  If you want to really make money while filming here, you have to solve this problem. Even if it doesn't work out, you have to come up with a profit-sharing plan.  Only in this way can you really make money, and even if you make money in the mainland, it will still be in RMB. This thing cannot be used elsewhere, but can only be used in the mainland.  When the industrial capital is low, there is no problem. If your industry becomes bigger, then how to convert this money will be a big problem.  It¡¯s impossible for you to exchange your own money into RMB indefinitely, right?  So how do you spend money outside?  " "It is easy for us to convert the RMB into a common currency. We can exchange the money by opening a factory in the mainland.  In Hollywood, the value of a movie is not only reflected in the box office, but also in the surrounding industries.  And now I also want to build my own movie peripheral industry.  To build such a factory in Hong Kong, the cost is definitely not a small amount. But if I build such a factory in the mainland and then do export business, do you think the cost will be very high?  And in this way, I can also spend the RMB in my hand, which is a multi-purpose transaction.  So these problems are not problems at all.  As long as it is money, something that can be defined as legal tender in a region, if you want to convert it into other funds, there is no way out.  Especially in places like the mainland, other places do not recognize the RMB now, but it does not mean that the RMB is completely worthless. If that were the case, there would not be so many people participating in the reform and opening up in the mainland.  What I need to consider now is how to actually open the project.  Although we have the access permit, we need to carefully study where to start.  Compared with Hong Kong, it is not easy to grasp business opportunities. Although the mainland is a desert now, there are business opportunities everywhere. No matter where we start, it is easy for us to make money.  Based on this situation, we must find a pioneering project, and then dig out the first pot of gold on this project, and then rely on the mainland's original funds to drive the development of our industry.  In the future, it is impossible for our funds to be invested unlimitedly in the development of the mainland.  We must allow the industries on the mainland to have hematopoiesis capabilities.  "Li Mingbao said. "Making movies, that's how you started. You also started making movies in mainland China.  What's the alternative?  "Li Mingyao said. "Brother, you don't understand.  In the entertainment industry, the most stable thing will never be movies. Otherwise, Uncle Liu would not have started a TV station and gave up on Shaw Brothers.  Although it seems that Uncle Liu is not making as much money as me now, the problem is that he is quite stable and will not have any ups and downs.  The main reason why I am so successful now is that none of the movies I have made have been flops. In other words, every movie I make is profitable. This is how I can rise rapidly in Hong Kong and Hollywood.  The most important factor.  But the problem is that the movie market is not that easy to deal with. Maybe I can succeed every time, but as long as there is a problem in one movie, there will be a chain reaction, and it is not impossible that it will become a big trouble in the end.  Especially in the future film market, money will become more and more important, and the amount of money invested in a film will only become larger and larger.  If there is a blockbuster movie in the future where the investment for each movie basically reaches 100 million US dollars, as long as one movie loses money, even giant companies will have a hard time explaining it, let alone a small film company like ours.  On the contrary, the television industry is a fairly stable industry, and it will not experience too many ups and downs. Just like Uncle Liu's wireless business, if this TV is not good-looking, it will be cut off immediately and new ones will be made. It will not be a big blow to the TV station.  Loss, such is their stability.  Although what I hope most is to immediately reform the mainland film market and achieve good results, the problem is that I don¡¯t know that much about the mainland film market. Movies that can be popular in Hong Kong and the United States may not necessarily be successful.  It's as red as on the mainland.  After all, the systems are different and there are differences.  What's more, mainland film control is quite strict. Many movies that can be screened normally in Hong Kong and the United States may not be screened in mainland China.  This is the real big problem. If I make a movie like this from the beginning, it will have a huge impact on the mainland. Whether it can be screened or not, it will have a huge impact on our country.Generally speaking, it's not a good thing.  If it can be screened, it is for our sake, but this will offend many people. If it cannot be screened, the film will be wasted and it will have a failed beginning.  So, making a movie in mainland China is not as easy as imagined.  If I really want to do something in mainland China, I don't think that movies will be a good breakthrough. It's too mysterious. If you don't succeed, you'll be in trouble. The options are too small.  "
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