Hong Kong Entertainment: Kung Fu Superstar 1981

Chapter 240 Box office performance far exceeded expectations

In the expectant eyes of the theater audience, the protagonist, played by Zou Zhaolong, stepped into the cage.

In this final showdown, the Muay Thai fighter who plays the villain of the film is naturally not an unknown person, but the Muay Thai master that Zhang Yang invited back to participate in the league not long ago...De Xilian.

Although Dixilian still has a lot of shortcomings in terms of acting skills, as the villain in the film, there are not many places where he needs to show off his acting skills. What Zhang Yang needs more is his tall figure and the natural Feeling of oppression.

Sure enough, when Zou Zhaolong and Di Xilian finally faced each other in the octagonal cage, even though the audience already shared his hatred due to all the previous preparations, looking at the tall Di Xilian, they still couldn't help but feel... Some became nervous.

"Jingle Bell!"

As the game bell rang, the decisive battle began to officially take place.

Full of rage, Zou Zhaolong took the lead in attacking. He started with his best roundhouse kick, kicking Dixilian directly in the chest.

Di Xilian's feet thumped backwards for a few steps, but she quickly regained her footing.

He raised his hand and lightly dusted his chest twice, as if he had not been seriously injured at all. Then with a sneer on his face, he raised his hand and hooked his index finger at Zou Zhaolong again.

With just this one action, Dixilian, as the biggest villain in the film, completely revealed his powerful sense of oppression!
Then, Di Xilian began to launch a fierce attack. Muay Thai's heavy sweeps and iron elbows came up, and Zou Zhaolong was defeated in an instant.

Zou Zhaolong finally caught the gap and fired two heavy punches, but it still didn't hurt Di Xilian. When another heavy blow came and kicked the inside of Zou Zhaolong's knee, Zou Zhaolong's A look of pain immediately appeared on his face, and he half-knelt on the ground.

Obviously, the old leg disease he had in the previous film finally broke out at this moment.

Of course, Di Xilian would not hold back. He took half a step back to gather strength, then rushed forward two steps, and slammed his knee into Zou Zhaolong. Zou Zhaolong suddenly fell backwards and flew out, paralyzed. The edge of the octagonal cage.

Across the barbed wire of the octagonal cage, Zou Zhaolong saw the mop placed beside the barbed wire, used to clean the arena floor, and recalled his humiliating days.

During that time, he was called the King of the Toilet, and the younger brothers who used to work for him became his worst enemies. Naturally, Zou Zhaolong never wanted to experience this feeling of falling into hell again. .

Taking a deep breath, Zou Zhaolong stood up again, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

Zou Zhaolong, who had regained his strength, came forward again. Facing Di Xilian's attack, he began to refuse to dodge. Instead, he attacked back with double the force. He even used the same techniques that Zhang Yang used in the first "The Ultimate Fighter" , and actually began to be absorbed and accommodated by him.

Facing Zou Zhaolong's fierce momentum, Di Xilian's expression finally showed a trace of panic.

He used a heavy sweep again, aiming directly at Zou Zhaolong's knee. He obviously wanted to pinpoint Zou Zhaolong's injury and pursue the victory to completely defeat him. But at this moment, facing Di Xilian's heavy sweep and kick, Zou Zhaolong did not She didn't dodge at all, but instead took the initiative to meet his kick, and suddenly raised her leg to hit her knee.

In my mind, the memory of training with all my strength on this injured leg in the past began to replay on the screen. After enduring the painful training countless times, with the determination to go to the strongest, the legs of the two suddenly collided!
"Oh!"

"what!"

A painful roar sounded, and Di Xilian's leg was completely broken. As Di Xilian fell, Zou Zhaolong finally became the strongest as he wished. In the shock of the audience outside the cage, he slowly raised his head high. his fist.Zou Zhaolong's victory completely failed the warden's wishful thinking.

Feeling ashamed and angry, after the boxing match, he couldn't wait to lead his men and pulled Zou Zhaolong outside the prison.

On the surface, this was to return Zou Zhaolong's freedom, but in fact, as soon as Zou Zhaolong turned around, the warden took out his gun and pointed it at the back of Zou Zhaolong's head.

"boom!"

Gunshots rang out, but it was not Zou Zhaolong who fell.

The black boxer who had been assisted by Zou Zhaolong to escape from prison rushed out with a gun and neatly killed the unsuspecting warden and several of his accompanying prison guards.

Under the leadership of the black boxer, Zou Zhaolong soon saw the receiving car.

The agent in the car was looking at him with a smile.

It turns out that betraying Zou Zhaolong was just a lie. On the day in the solitary room, the manager said this to completely arouse Zou Zhaolong's fighting spirit. From the beginning to the end, he believed in Zou Zhaolong's strength, so he passed this competition , made a lot of money, and even prepared a generous bonus for Zou Zhaolong alone.

At the border of Thailand, Boyka got out of the car, said goodbye to the black boxers and managers, and limped out of the border.

At this moment, the big villain in the previous film, now the real strongest prison fighting king, has regained his freedom and is heading for a new life.

……

As the film came to an end, a wave of warm applause erupted in the theater.

It is precisely because of the foreshadowing of the first film that the journey of this tough prison fighter becomes so moving.

Although purely from the perspective of Zou Zhaolong's character arc, he became the strongest concept, which was shaken by Zhongdu, but he fell from the top to the bottom, and now he is in Nirvana, and his agent pretended to betray him in the first place. , and his sense of trust in Zou Zhaolong from beginning to end, which undoubtedly made the audience thoroughly satisfied.

In addition, there are a lot of crisp and exciting duels from various fighting schools in the world in the film. The fight scenes are undoubtedly a feast for the eyes of the audience. In addition, there is also a fight for world hegemony, which is vaguely tinged with local pride. The setting is undoubtedly what makes the audience more excited.

With all these blessings, "The Ultimate Fighter 2" became completely popular.

Thanks to the word-of-mouth mutual recommendations from the audience and the tireless promotion of DeYoung Cinemas, the first-week box office of "The Ultimate Fighter 2" was finally released, totaling 840 million. Such a result far exceeded Zhang Yang's own expectations.

Based on the sales curve of the first week's box office and the information in the theater's recycling suggestion box, the marketing department inferred that the box office hit of "The Ultimate Fighter 2" in its first week would not be a simple flash in the pan. After various evaluations and reviews, they The final box office expectations were directly adjusted to 2600 million!
Twenty-six million, this is still a movie without Zhang Yang himself participating in it!
If the box office really reaches this figure, Zhang Yang's star-making plan previously formulated will undoubtedly be a great success, and with this movie, Zou Zhaolong will also become the second star within Yingyang Cinemas to have a box office of over 2000 million. Movie star!

For a time, everyone in the company was excited about this harvest.

Only Zhang Yang knows in his heart that for Yingyang Entertainment, which has officially entered an explosive period, it has just begun!
(End of this chapter)