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Shenzhen Satellite TV "Decryption" Run Run Shaw
Shaw said a few words before his death, and there are more than two thousand more schools in China. Mr. Shaw was unable to take care of himself before his death, but he made it clear to his children that 80% of his wealth should go to the education industry.
Run Run Shaw was a legend who made China's first sound film, witnessing the entire history of Chinese cinema from silent to sound, from black and white to color. At the same time, he set up the "Shaw Fund" with his personal property, donated HK$2.5 billion to China's education cause, and his huge donations in the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore and Hong Kong, etc., can be called the first person in the history of ancient and modern donations to fund education.
He has witnessed the ups and downs of Hong Kong's entertainment industry, and he is also the leader and pillar of this cultural industry, and his life is full of creative colors. Today we come to Run Run Shaw and his women, as well as his upbringing.
Shaw's ancestral home is Ningbo, in 1907, born in Shanghai to a wealthy family, his father Shao Yuxuan has 5 boys and 3 women, Run Run Shaw ranked sixth among his siblings, so he was later respected by the Hong Kong film and television circle as "Six Uncles". Run Run Shaw was gifted from an early age and was particularly obsessed with theatre and film. At that time, his biggest dream was to be able to make a big splash in the film industry. In 1926, Run Run Shaw, who had just graduated from high school, was invited by his third brother to go south to Singapore and began to get involved in the film industry. The brothers worked hard and worked hard to get the world.
Shaw and the third brother
At that time, Singapore's most famous rich man, Yu Dongxuan, admired the Shaw brothers and invited them to their home, including Huang Meizhen, who was 5 years older than himself. Shaw fell in love at first sight, but was deeply disturbed. Because Huang Meizhen is Yu Dongxuan's girlfriend, and Yu Dongxuan is both a senior and a kind to herself. Yu Dongxuan did not care, but instead asked Meizhen to participate in the internal affairs of the Shaw organization together. In 1930, the Shaw Brothers Company was founded.
In 1931, Shaw decided to make a sound film. In 1932, the Shaw brothers finally filmed China's first sound film "Platinum Dragon" in Hong Kong, ushering in a new era of Chinese sound films. The film made Shaw a fortune and rose to fame. Despite the controversy, Run Run Shaw and Huang Meizhen increasingly feel inseparable from each other, although There is no shortage of beautiful women around Shaw, but they are devoted to Huang Meizhen. Finally, one day, Shaw confided to Yu Dongxuan about his love for Huang Meizhen. Yu Dongxuan listened, was silent for a moment, laughed and said, "I have long been aware of your affairs, the beauty of a gentleman's adulthood, since the elder brother and Meizhen really love each other, they don't have to care so much, so why don't you let Meizhen accompany me as an old man for the rest of your life?" Run Run Shaw bowed deeply to Yu Dongxuan!
Twenty years later, one night in 1952, Run Run Shaw listened to the performance of the female singer Fang Yihua on an unexpected occasion, and the two became confidants.
Fang Yihua photo when he was young
Left: Huang Meizhen Center: Run Run Shaw Right: Fang Yihua
In the early autumn of 1957, Run Run Shaw left Nanyang, where he had struggled for 30 years, broke up with his third brother who had worked together for 30 years, and came to Hong Kong from the Lion City. This year, Shaw was exactly 50 years old, the year confucius called "knowing the mandate of heaven". However, Run Run Shaw entered Hong Kong with a mighty hero and then tried to dominate the industry.
After coming to Hong Kong, Shaw did something that meant a lot to him: he extended an invitation to Mr. Fang to work at Shaw Brothers. At that time, Fang Yihua's singing career was in full swing, and many people advised her not to leave.
But she still desperately withdrew from the music scene and followed in Shaw's footsteps. Fong did not disappoint Shaw. Since joining Shaw, she has devoted herself to her work and is the first person to go to work and the last to leave every day. She started as a small clerk in Shaw's corporate procurement department and gradually worked through every department of the company, mediating internally and becoming proficient in diplomacy.
In 1987, Run Run Shaw's wife, Huang Meizhen, died of illness in the United States at the age of 85. Her marriage to Run Run Shaw lasted for 50 years. Although because Run Run Shaw is busy with his career, he "only rests for an hour" every day, and there is not much time with his wife, but Run Run Shaw is a long-term lover, and his wife's status in his mind is irreplaceable. In order to remember his deceased wife, that year, shaw's company was closed for a year.
In the 1980s, TVB was launched and The Star-Making DreamWorks was officially opened, and Shaw's wealth was raised to a new level. TVB's wireless artist training class was proposed by him, cultivating a series of big stars such as Chow Yun Fat, Zhao Yazhi, Chow Sing Chi, Leung Chao-wai, Andy Lau and so on, it can be said that basically 80% of Hong Kong stars are trained by Shaw's company, and even the well-known Hong Kong director Du Qifeng is from the wireless artist training class.
At this time, Shaw films dominated the Hong Kong market for 20 years, from silent films to sound, from black and white to color, from fashion to costumes, from large-scale costumes to Huangmei tones, from Huangmei to martial arts films, every attempt of Shaw films has brought new possibilities to the Chinese film industry. At this time, the annual output of more than 40 films, after decades has been the largest film and television shooting and production base in Hong Kong, known as the "Hollywood of the East".
In Shaw's heyday, office buildings, banks, dormitories, and restaurants were readily available, and contract directors and actors were not counted, and the other employees were as high as more than 1,700 people.
At that time, Run Run Shaw was really full of spirits, and he was surrounded by beautiful women. However, he only fell in love with two people, one was his wife, and the other was Fang Yihua, a confidant with a red face. For Fang Yihua, he has always felt guilty. Although Fang Yihua had never asked him for marriage, he knew that this was her dream for many years, and he was not willing to fail this infatuated woman. So, in 1997, 10 years after the death of his wife Huang Meizhen, Run Run Shaw finally decided to remarry and marry Fang Yihua, who had dedicated more than 40 years of the woman's most precious time to Shaw.
On May 6, 1997, the 90-year-old Shaw and 62-year-old Fong Yihua were officially registered for marriage in Las Vegas, USA. Run Run Shaw and Fong yihua have been together for nearly half a century.
In January 2010, at the age of 102, Shaw decided to rest, stepping down as the executive chairman of TVB in Hong Kong and entrusting the HK$16.4 billion TV empire he had painstakingly created to manage.
With the abdication of Run Run Shaw, TVB and shaw industries have gradually declined, and the most glorious era of Hong Kong's entertainment industry has also come to an end.
<h1>The legendary life of Run Run Shaw</h1>
In 1907, a year before the deaths of the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi, a wealthy family in Jiangnan Water Township welcomed their sixth child, and the family named him Shao Meileng, but friends preferred to call him Lao Liu or Liu Boss. Before that, a Po Lai pin called a diorama flowed into Middle-earth. After he became an adult, the child's eldest brother, the pioneer of Chinese cinema, the owner of Tianyi Company, Shao Zuiweng, gave him the nickname Yifu. Later, Run Run Shaw said to himself: His life is destined to be busy, but he wants to be able to make trouble and live a peaceful life.
A five-figure "super fan" who has read films all his life
Run Run Shaw's hometown of Ningbo, Zhejiang, can be described as a blessed place for early Chinese cinema. Zhang Shichuan, Yuan Muzhi, Ying Yunwei and other pioneers of Chinese cinema were born in this collection of ancient and modern books, where Hong Kong connects the world. And the relationship between the Shao family and the movie has also brought this once-withered rich family back to life. None of the Shaw brothers inherited their father's business, and almost all of them threw themselves into the mercury lamp. Shaw, who had just graduated from middle school, responded to the call of his third brother Shao Renmei and went to Nanyang to open a port market. Run Run Shaw recalled the hardships of starting a business, like a coolie, walking the streets and alleys, carrying equipment.
In the 1930s, when the U.S. economy was in the Great Depression, China was implicated. Films, as a new industry, are no exception. Run Run Shaw, who was still a young teenager at the time, saw a huge business opportunity from it. In 1931, his compatriot Zhang Ishikawa concocted China's first sound film, "Song Girl Red Peony". In the same year, Run Run Shaw went to the United States to buy audio film equipment. On the way, the ship sank, fortunately, and shaw, who fell into the water, held a small wooden sampan, and finally survived after a night of floating in the vast sea, and bought the required "speech machine" from Hollywood in the United States. Soon, Run Run Shaw, who had studied photography, was both a producer and director, shooting the first Cantonese fragment of the precursor "Platinum Dragon". The film invested 10,000 yuan, but obtained a return of 700,000 yuan. This greatly encouraged Run Run Shaw's enthusiasm for the shadow, and also made the Shaw Group, which had just been lifted, quickly stride. By the mid-1930s and before World War II, Shaw had owned 139 cinemas and nine casinos in Southeast Asia, making it one of the most prominent film groups of its time.
With the outbreak of the War of Resistance, artillery fire disrupted the development process of Shaw Pictures. Shaw's business was dismal until it was unsustainable and forced to close its doors. After the war, Run Run Shaw visited Australia and the United States, setting his sights on Hong Kong. In 1957, Run Run Shaw returned to Hong Kong and bought the land in Clearwater Bay of the "Father and Son Company" for 320,000 yuan, built shaw cinemas, established "Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.", and served as president himself, thus beginning a brilliant career of 30 years in Xiangjiang.
Run Run Shaw has a serious fandom complex, he once boasted that he watched at least one movie a day, the highest record was nine a day, more than 700 a year, and throughout his life, his reading volume has reached five figures.
Three major strategies to establish the "Hollywood of the East" prosperity: building a blockbuster theater, cultivating big stars, and entertainment first
Run Run Shaw himself is not only proficient in film work such as choreography and recording, but also has a clear mind and accurate judgment on the distribution, production and promotion of films. More importantly, he is a full-fledged workaholic, he has passed the year of destiny, the first to go to the company is him, the last to go is still him.
Run Run Shaw has read countless films, and there is only one requirement for his own company's films, that is, to let more people watch them. He believes that going to the theater is nothing more than seeing people, seeing the scenery and seeing things, and these three aspects are satisfied, and there is no disadvantage. To see people is to see the stars, from Tianyi to Nanyang to Shaw, from the early Hu Die, Ruan Lingyu to the middle of Li Lihua, Ling Bo, and then to the later Dillon, Jiang David, all of them are beautiful and beautiful, Gu Panshenghui. Even when entering television, the five tiger generals represented by Chow Yun-fat, Zhao Yazhi, Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei, including the four kings who later swept the Chinese world, were all planned by this old gentleman.
Looking at the scenery, mainly the setting of the indoor scene, the pavilions and pavilions should be comfortable and eye-catching. Two of Shaw's most important and hottest directors, Li Hanxiang and Chu Yuan, are both masters of setting the scene. Run Run Shaw, with extraordinary courage and sparing no expense, spent HK$500,000 on a barren mountain in Hong Kong's Clearwater Bay to establish Asia's largest cinema so far , Shaw Studios. Covering an area of 800,000 feet and employing more than 1,300 people, the film shots from here flow to the Shaw Film Distribution Network, with more than 40 films a year, far exceeding the film production of other film companies in Hong Kong. What foreigners call "Hollywood of the East" specifically refers to this place.
When it comes to "watching things", almost all of Shaw's films have no threshold and no barrier to entertainment, such as Li Hanxiang's "Back door" and Xu Anhua's "Love in the City" and other literary and artistic sketches, which are absolutely rare. Shaw's films are the most popular "fists and pillows" for the most popular people. The fist belongs to Zhang Che, the pillow belongs to Li Hanxiang, and later there are the more evil Gui Zhihong and Mou Dunfu.
Shaw has produced more than 1,000 films, the largest producer in a Chinese-language film studio. However, from the perspective of humanities, the slogan of "Shaw's production must be a good film" has to have certain limitations. An interesting fact is that Shaw's pillar Li Hanxiang left Shaw and went to Taiwan Island after "Breaking Dawn", "Winter Warmth", "Ti Hao" and other films to maximize the cultural interest of this big director. And Li Hanxiang's brother, Hu Jinquan, a big director who joined Shaw as a comedian, after directing "Children of the Earth" and "The Drunken Man", also made his humanistic martial arts in Taiwan truly carry forward. It is true that the Shaw brothers' films, at the industrial level, have brought a tried and tested direction to Hong Kong films and even the entire Chinese world. The strong grassroots temperament, the vivid and exaggerated tone, and the unbridled opening of the basic desires of human beings are all available in Shaw's films. It has also objectively disseminated the Chinese nation, and has the valuable value of documentation for the folk customs and sentiments of the old times.
The sign that Shaw began to decline is generally believed to be the self-organized Jiahe Film Company by Shaw's senior executives Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang for multiple reasons. Rivals Shaw, but a more obvious sign. It was the kung fu superstar Bruce Lee and Shaw's contract that ultimately failed in terms of funding. After Bruce Lee joined Jiahe, he brought new life to Hong Kong films. The shrewd Shaw's glance this time probably made him doubt his own judgment to a certain extent.
In 1985, Run Run Shaw sold all of his theaters. In May 1987, Shaw announced that it would stop producing films. A vast cinematic kingdom has thus closed its once magnificent curtain. In 2000, Malaysia's Tianying Entertainment spent HK$400 million to acquire the permanent rights to 760 Shaw films and spent HK$200 million on digital restoration.
Where there are Chinese in the world, there is Shaw's Shaw Films (SB). Now, with the entertainment mogul's quiet insider, he, like his classic film and television cultural image, has become part of that memory.