My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 136 Top Ten Chinese Movies
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"Chinese-language films at the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival! Hong Kong New Wave film "The Birth of a Prefix" won multiple awards!" - "Ming Pao"

""The Birth of a Prefix" won the Best Director and Golden Balloon Awards! Western filmmakers are amazed!" - "Sing Tao Daily"

"Last night, at 20 o'clock, at the French Nantes Film Festival, the Hong Kong film "The Birth of a Prefix" won three awards!
The French Art Film and Experimental Association called this film a rare film exploration in recent years.

This is another innovation of film language. From the perspective of film structure, narrative and lens, this film is a rare masterpiece in the film industry in 1986..." - "New Evening News"

While filming "Young and Dangerous", Jiang Zhiqiang took home the Golden Balloon Award, the Best Director Award, and the recent three heavy awards for photography and music with the attitude of a local tyrant.

This award itself is indeed not particularly eye-catching, but Jiang Er Shao is rich?
The next day, photos of Jiang Zhiqiang holding three trophies were printed on the supplements of many mainstream newspapers on Hong Kong Island.If you look closely, you will find that the background of the photo is actually Victoria Harbor!

The name of 1024 Locomotive and Antai Films was pulled beside a red banner, which was particularly eye-catching.

Jiang Ershao held three trophies in her small body, standing in Victoria Harbour, holding on to the banners of the two film companies, posing in a concave shape + taking supplementary photos to get this photo.

Before Second Young Master Jiang could resist, this group of photos appeared majestically in the supplements of various newspapers.The printing is not clear, which made many citizens think that someone "won three yuan alone" to receive a bonus!

But no matter what, in this way, a lot of attention has indeed been harvested.It is also in line with Wu Xiaozu and Jiang Zhiqiang's plan for the next release in the Wanwan market.

The Wanwan entertainment circle is particularly fond of pursuing the popularity of Hong Kong Island at this time. "The Birth of a Prefix" not only sold well at the box office in Hong Kong Island, but also won awards one after another. It will naturally and well promote the release of the film in Wanwan.

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Although the Nantes Three Continents Film Festival is only in its seventh year, it was originally held by French filmmakers to facilitate the exchange of films from the three continents, which is commonly known as a black intermediary...

The Jarradou brothers are well-known film promoters in France.

The Nantes Three Continents Film Festival is the host of the Cannes Film Festival. Many third world international directors have been favored by the Nantes agency. After a little training, they were pushed to Cannes for their debut.

The competition for direct descendants of film festivals is no worse than that of sports circles. Both the Berlin Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival also have their own horses and direct descendants.

These small film festivals are like the "youth training camps" of several major film festivals.Continuously cultivate their respective top brands.

The Nantes Three Continents Intermediary Training Base has indeed cultivated many top players with winks and tassels.For example, Hou Xiaochen who was beside Wu Xiaozu, including Chairman Jia and Zhang Jinjin of later generations were also supported and praised by Nantes.

In the Chinese-language film industry, when it comes to winning awards, Wang Sunglasses won't come out. Who can compete with Hou Losing Money?

The fifth generation in the mainland has just begun to "show off" their talents in front of the world. The second generation and leading brother Chen Kai is taking his partner Zhang Yimou, who looks like a dark fried bean, to the international stage with "Yellow Earth".

Tian Shoushou, Huang Jianxin and others also met by chance.

At this time, Director Wu was treated differently by Nantes, and even when he was not present, he would directly give the novice a super-valuable gift package: Golden Balloon Award, Best Director and Best Cinematography Music Award.

Therefore, after Jiang Zhiqiang came back, he raised his eyebrows at Wu Xiaozu and said, "Don't stop me, I have to blow 5 yuan!"

Then, newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan appeared news about the award-winning "The Birth of a Prefix".Although it is not the front page, it has also attracted the attention of many film workers and film lovers.

Taking advantage of this trend, Scholar Film Company here in Wanwan directly released "The Birth of a Prefix"!
It is the second time that Wu Xiaozu's name has entered the eyes of the people in Wanwan, but this is the first time for serious news!
The Nantes Tri-Continents Film Festival is, if not, attracting the attention of the public.

Then, as the New Year approached, Hong Kong Island's most famous and professional film publication "Film Biweekly" released the top ten Chinese films in 1986, which pushed Wu Xiaozu into the sight of ordinary people.

"The Birth of a Prefix" was selected as one of the top ten Chinese films of the year.

The selection of the top ten films was established in 1981 by the "Film Biweekly" magazine, which was voted by countless film critics on Hong Kong Island.

The annual "Top Ten Chinese Films" and "Top Ten Foreign Language Films" were selected.The scope of selection is the films screened on Hong Kong Island this year.

This selection has attracted a lot of attention in the Hong Kong Island entertainment circle, and it has been sought after by many movie fans once it was launched.

Every year, many movie fans argue with each other because their favorite movies were not selected.

The most controversial one was the second session in 1982. The epoch-making feature of "Shaolin Temple" was ignored by film critics. controversy.

It's a pity that the film critics also have good reasons: this film is too commercial.

The problem is that even films like "Best Partner", "Prodigal Boy", "Eighteen Skills of Martial Arts", and "Qi Men Dun Jia" were selected back then. Is there any film with a stronger commercial atmosphere than these films?

Rather than saying that "Shaolin Temple" is too commercial, it is better to say that the Hong Kong Island film circle discriminates against mainland films.

The xenophobic nature of the Hong Kong Island film circle is not obvious to the film workers who really make films in a down-to-earth manner.The most xenophobic ones are those film critics with pens in hand.If they are not xenophobic, how can they reflect their strengths?

To borrow a sentence from the later director Gao Qunshu: When did Chinese-language films have professional film critics?total bullshit...

This time, "The Birth of a Prefix" was selected as one of the top ten Chinese-language films, and there are some disputes among film critics.Not because of the film's controversy.

"The Birth of a Prefix" is here. If you want to be black, you have to weigh your own physique first.What's more, there is Yu Cheng, a big female hanger, who is taking care of her.

The most controversial is Wu Xiaozu's first debut - "Rainy Night Butcher"!
In fact, this movie can be regarded as creating a branch of genre films in Hong Kong Island. Back then, "Mr. Zombie" was able to win a place by virtue of pioneering genre films, and "Rainy Night Butcher" should naturally have a place!
But unfortunately...

There are a total of ten movies, Wu Xiaozu, a newcomer, wants to occupy two seats at once, what about the rest?
Are they shameless?
Therefore, "Rainy Night Butcher" was abruptly squeezed out.This is also understandable.Besides, Wu Xiaozu didn't pay much attention to this point, all his thoughts were on filming...

He doesn't care, but someone cares!

(End of this chapter)