Who can tell me-a brief introduction of Bernard Shaw?

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Shaw Brothers Co., Ltd. and "King of the Film Industry" Run Run Shaw.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Television (Wireless) Limited.

Shao Yifu is a native of Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang. Born in 1907, in my younger brother.

Four people are little brothers. My father is doing business in Shanghai, first engaged in bleaching and dyeing, then operating.

The cinema also deals in film import and export distribution.

Shao Zuiweng, the eldest, is a lawyer in Shanghai, writing plays in his spare time. 1

In 924, Shao Zuiweng invested in Tianyi Film Company, the earliest electric power company in China.

One of the film production companies. Shao Yifu, his two brothers, Shaotun people and Shaoshan tourists, are both.

Participated in the work of Tianyi Company and started his career of creating his own film empire.

Relying on the management key of "popular film", he makes 40 films every year.

Department, * * * has made more than 1000 movies; He is in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

Malaysia, Taiwan Province Province, Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, the United States, Canada and Europe.

In other places, there are more than 200 cinemas, with a daily audience of 6.5438+0 million.

More than once. His personal property is over HK$ 6,543,800 billion, belonging to China and Hong Kong.

One of the top ten richest people in business.

In June 1990, 1, the director of Xinhua News Agency Hong Kong Branch represented China Branch.

College and International Asteroid Center, a small one discovered by Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory.

The certificate that this planet was named "Run Run Shaw Star" was awarded to Run Run Run Shaw, which is history.

Sexual honor.

The Queen of England awarded him a knighthood, which is the highest honor in Hong Kong and British society.

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Shaw Film Company, founded by Run Run Shaw, has made more than 1,000 films, won dozens of awards, and trained a large number of big stars, directors and famous screenwriters in China. Like Ruan, Li Lihua and He, they all come from Xiao. His "Shaw Studio" is known as "Oriental Hollywood". Now there are Shore Stage and Shore Library in Shanghai. The Purple Mountain Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences once named a newly discovered planet as Shore Star. This paper introduces the general clues of his career development.

Take over the "father and son company"

From 65438 to 0907, he was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, the sixth child of the Shao family (the fourth boy). Therefore, when he became famous, people in Hong Kong entertainment circle used to call him "Sixth Boss" or "Sixth Uncle".

As soon as he graduated from primary school, Shao Yifu went to Shanghai with his father and entered the American-run English school YMCA Middle School, so he was able to speak fluent English later.

1924 In the spring, Tianyi Film Company headed by its boss Shao Zuiweng was established in Yokohama Road, Zhabei, Shanghai. During his study in middle school, Shao Yifu often came to Tianyi Company for help. At that time, there were some newsreels to be shown before the feature film was shown. After school or during holidays, Shao Yifu followed his two brothers and took pictures everywhere with a heavy camera.

The rise of Tianyi has greatly squeezed the market share of other film companies. As a result, six production companies established a strong joint distribution network, and * * * squeezed out Tianyi Company. In the face of encirclement and suppression, in order to survive and develop, they set out to explore the Nanyang market. Later, Shaw Brothers Company was established in Nanyang.

After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Shao Tun, the second child, founded "Shao's father and son company", which refers to the company of Shao Tun and his seven sons. "Shaw Brothers Company" refers to Shaw Brothers Company and Runme Shaw Brothers Company. At that time, the father-son company was in Hong Kong and the brother company was still in Nanyang. "Shaw Brothers" are responsible for investment, and "Shaw Brothers" are responsible for filming. All expenses of "Shaw Brothers" must be accounted by "Shaw Brothers". It is true that the accounts between brothers are very clear and the money is also very clear.

During the period of 1956, Shaw Brothers Singapore owned 130 cinemas and 10 large amusement parks in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. In fact, it built a powerful cinema. However, the business of Shaotun people in Hong Kong is very depressed, and they even plan to quit filming business and run cinemas instead.

In the early summer of 1957, Shao Yifu went to Hong Kong. After negotiation, he took over the production organization of Shaw Brothers, changed the name of the company to "Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd." and personally came to Hong Kong to take charge of the business. This year, Shao Yifu just turned 50.

Run Run Run Shaw decided to build the largest studio in Hong Kong. He bought 800,000 square feet of land at No.220 Clear Water Bay from his second brother Shao Tun. In this huge construction plan, it includes sound insulation film factory, photo studio, administrative building, production building, darkroom, printing house, warehouse, costume prop library, projection room and living area. This movie city, known as "Shaw DreamWorks", started construction at 1957 and took seven years to complete.

Finding talents is Shao Yifu's top priority. The first important person he caught was Zou Wenhuai, who later became his right-hand man. From 1959 to 1970, Zou Wenhuai worked for Xiao 1 1 year. Over the years, he and Xiao were inseparable and participated in major decisions made by Xiao. His office is next to Shao Yifu's office with a small door in the middle.

After everything was ready, "Xiao" began to prepare for his own entrepreneurial work.

Since 1958, Hong Kong Mandarin films have been gradually ignored by the market. However, in 1957, the Huangmei Opera film "Xian Pei" filmed by Shanghai Film Studio was shown at Xinhua Theatre in Kowloon, Hong Kong, which was greatly welcomed by local audiences. After repeated argumentation, Shao Yifu chose the script "The Story of Diexin", with Lin Dai as the story of Diexin. At that time, Lin Dai was Hua Dan who was in charge of the call. In order to get Lin Dai to Shaw, Run Run Shaw impressed her with double the salary, making her a signing star of Shaw.

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Prior to this, Li Hanxiang signed an eight-year contract with Shao Tun's Shaw & Son Company, and later he naturally became a director of Shaw. Through joint efforts, The Story of Diesim became an instant hit and won five awards at the 5th Asian Film Festival that year. Subsequently, the Huangmeidiao costume movie "Jiangshan Beauty", still directed by Li Hanxiang and starring Lin Dai, won the "Best Film Award" at the 6th Asian Film Festival.

Successive awards made Li Hanxiang pay more attention to the artistic value of movies, and he was determined to win another international award. He also directed Xiao's third film Ghost Story. However, although this film became the first film in China's film history to participate in the Cannes Film Festival, it did not win any awards. Not only that, but the market reaction was extremely bad-when it was released, there were very few cinemas. At this rate, it will be terrible, Shao Yifu secretly nervous.

From 1960 to 196 1, Li Hanxiang directed The Back Door in black and white photography, and won 12 awards at the Asian Film Festival. Later, he directed films such as Yang Guifei, Wang Zhaojun, Wu Zetian and America laguna. Although he won many awards, he praised Lin Dai to the skies.

At this time, Shao Yifu couldn't sit still. He jumped up and shouted, "I don't make movies to win prizes, but to make money!" " He used a clever trick, hired someone else, snubbed Li Hanxiang, used Chen Lo, the director of Shaw II, and began to shoot Mandarin film Hotel Yuanyang, which described the beauty pageant in Hong Kong. The film has achieved good box office results.

From 1958 to 1962, "Xiao" won 46 awards at the Asian Film Festival, but Xiao had a sad smile on his face and kept thinking about the grand occasion of the release of "The Story of Diesim" and "The Beauty of Jiangshan". He also often looked at Li Hanxiang with gloomy eyes. Li Hanxiang is also in a hurry. He wants to give up more art and consider the problem from the standpoint of the boss and businessman. But after thinking hard, he still couldn't come up with any new tricks. So he decided to make a fuss about Huangmei Opera. 1963, with the consent of Run Run Run Run Shaw, Li Hanxiang wrote the script of butterfly lovers. The film was a great success, winning a grand prize, earning a lot of money and fame and fortune. This is what Shao Yifu is most happy to see. However, Li Hanxiang, the director of the film, once again lost his balance, because no matter how much money he made in the film, it was the boss's business, and what he got was always limited, so he came up with the idea of leaving Shaw to start his own business.

Shao Yifu repeatedly asked Zou Wenhuai to work in Li Hanxiang and advised him to stay, but Li Hanxiang decided to go and finally went to Taiwan Province to set up the "Guolian Film Company". Before leaving Hong Kong, Li Hanxiang fought a lawsuit with Run Run Run Shaw, and the result was a fiasco. However, since Shao Yifu won the lawsuit against Li Hanxiang, his interest in going to court has doubled. He always goes to court with others, and when he comes to fighting, he is really sure to win, and he has never lost.

On June 20th this year, Shaw's business rival Loke Wan Tho and his wife, the owner of Dianmao, had an accident in Taiwan Province and died unfortunately. From then on, "Shaw" began to dominate the world and the Hong Kong film industry.

Scenery of Shaw's films

1964, Shaw Studios, the most important base camp of Shaw Company, stands on the mountain road of Qingshui Bay with a brand-new look. From the printing of color movies to the printing of posters, it can be done in the cinema. In addition to importing Kodak negatives, you can make movies without leaving the studio door. There is also a stable in the studio, with the famous horse trainer Wang as the riding coach, and dozens of famous horses retired from Happy Valley (Hong Kong Racecourse). They belong to the animal actors of Shaw Company. Xiao's own villa is located on the top floor of the cinema, and there is a replica of the Summer Palace Garden below, which seems to set off his supreme position in the cinema. In the cinema, there is a Shaw company film screening room, which is a place that Shaw must go every day. Since the early 1960s, he has watched at least two or three movies a day, and the highest record is nine movies a day. Therefore, some people say that Run Run Run Shaw is a China person who watches the most movies.

Usually, Shao Yifu gets up at six o'clock every day. The first thing after getting up is to exercise, practice Qigong or play Tai Ji Chuan. After breakfast, I went into the examination room and watched a morning movie.

After watching too many movies, Shao Yifu fumbled out a set of methods to learn from others' success. Sometimes, we even copy the essence of other films intact, or take other people's good films for a makeover, regroup and put our own brand.

In 1965, there were 26 films of Xiao, which increased to 4 1 in 1966, and reached 44 films in 1967, most of which were Huangmei movies. At this time, Run saw a film review written by He Guan in Hong Kong's Xinsheng Evening News. In his article, this person sharply criticized the femininity prevailing in Hong Kong's film industry, especially targeting "Shaw". Although his words were harsh, his opinions were exactly what Shao Yifu wanted, so he urged Zou Wenhuai, Minister of Propaganda Department and Manager of Production Department, to find this concept as soon as possible.

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The mid-1960s was the most glorious period of Xiao. Its director lineup is strong, and 130 actors signed up. During this period, "Shaw" is really important, winning prizes, fame and wealth. Run Run Shaw instructed his staff to cast a bronze statue for himself, ready to put it in front of the gate of Shaw Film City. Chen Tongmin, the new propaganda minister who succeeded Zou Wenhuai, said: "Mr. Liu, usually only the dead people erect bronze statues, but now that you are in good health and better mental state than young people, how did you think of erecting bronze statues?" Later, this bronze statue of Shao Yifu was abandoned in the prop room. Some people who have a problem with Shao Yifu but dare not say it in person came to the prop room and took it out on the bronze statue of Shao Yifu. Some people say that the bronze statue was hit by the fist of the martial artist and the spit of the ladies.

Ginger is more spicy.

In the 1980s, Hong Kong's film craze began to cool down, and Shaw withdrew as soon as possible, faded out of the film industry and diversified into real estate, banks and other properties.

1980, by chance, Shao Yifu succeeded Li Xiaohe, who died suddenly, and became the new chairman of the board of directors of Hong Kong Radio and Television Co., Ltd. (that is, wireless TV) and its subordinate TV enterprises Co., Ltd., and began to take charge of the television industry in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's television industry, like Hong Kong's film industry, is also the land of enter the dragon. When Run Run Shaw entered the TV industry, the main competitor of Wireless was ATV. In order to win the ratings and overwhelm the other side, Run Shaofu made many strange moves.

It is worth mentioning that in 1993, Shao Yifu's "Handpicked" and "Bao Qingtian" were broadcast on the "wireless". At that time, many people thought that there was no market in Hong Kong for such an old product as Bao Qingtian and such a "drama", and Shaw must be a fool. Who knows that after Bao's drama was broadcast, the audience reacted strongly and the ratings soared, which made ATV broadcast another program in prime time. In this tiny place of Hong Kong, there were twins for a while, and there was a big war, which was more lively than ever. Afterwards, everyone in the circle had to admire Shao Yifu's vision, saying that ginger was still old and spicy.

In this fierce competition, Shao Yifu is always full of confidence. He often says to his subordinates, "Only competition can lead to development."

After decades of hard work in shopping malls, his personal assets have exceeded HK$ 20 billion, and he has been among the top ten richest people in Hong Kong for many years. Run Run Run Shaw is the first person in China who made a fortune by movies, and he is a veritable "movie king".

1996, Guo Henian, the "sugar king" who had been his close friend for many years, used the shares of South China Morning Post to buy a TV company and launched a takeover battle against Run Run Run Shaw, which attracted the attention of Hong Kong people. However, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run. A 90-year-old man, and this ambition, this extraordinary move, really amazed the world. To this day, Shao Yifu is still fighting in shopping malls, and he has not completely withdrawn from the rivers and lakes.