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Chapter 727: The Prospects of Police and Gangster Films
Zhuang Wenqiang finally got to know what a non-stick pan is.

The plan was proposed by Li Yu, and Li Yu does not take any blame at all. All the blame lies with the director, Aaron Kwok and Chow Yun-fat.

If he hadn't received professional training and couldn't hold it in, he would have really cursed.

"Director Zhuang, you are the director of this movie. Do you want to make your movie's box office better?

I helped you convince people and came up with ideas. Everything depends on human effort. Whether to do it or not is entirely up to you.

Chow Yun Fat and Aaron Kwok are both willing to sacrifice themselves for the film, you can decide for yourself."

Li Yu kicked the ball to Zhuang Wenqiang's feet.

I give you the ball, it's up to you whether to shoot or not.

Anyway, it's absolutely impossible for me to take the blame.

"Wushuang" is not a work he wrote and directed.

He is just an investor, and the potential of "Dynasty Warriors" is not so great that he can ignore the consequences of marketing.

If the box office of "Wushuang" can reach 10 billion, then Li Yu can consider bearing the negative impact of excessive marketing in the future.

But at the moment, it is not certain whether "Wushuang" can exceed 2 billion, which has no appeal to Li Yu at all.

Zhuang Wenqiang is a smart man. He knows that playing like this may lead to certain backlash in the future.

But his psychology was accurately grasped by Li Yu, the director and screenwriter of "Wushuang".

He gets box office dividends. The higher the box office, the more he earns.

And the higher the box office of the movie, the greater the benefits he will get as the director + screenwriter.

If the box office really exceeds 2 billion, he will be awesome.

After returning to Hong Kong Island, his status will rise rapidly, and he will definitely not have to worry about investment for his next film.

So he is willing to risk the negative impact of over-marketing in exchange for better box office numbers in the moment.

Therefore, after careful consideration, he finally accepted Li Yu's marketing plan.

done.

Just like what he said just now, if there is nothing in the present, what future can we talk about?
Besides, the backlash will only come if future new works continue to disappoint people.

If he can stay so awesome and keep making movies like "The Warriors", or even better movies than "The Warriors", then there will be no backlash at all, right?

Everyone has a sense of luck, and Zhuang Wenqiang is no exception.

Therefore, in the next few days, such press releases began to appear on short video platforms such as Douyin and various web sites.

Chow Yun Fat brought a lot of fun to our childhood, just like Stephen Chow.

The painter in "The King's Avatar" still has the charm of Mark and God of Gamblers, but in "The King's Avatar", Chow Yun-fat's aging is visible to the naked eye.

Time is fair to everyone, and no one can escape the erosion of time.

Chow Yun-fat is already so old, and Hong Kong films are on the decline. "Wushuang" may very well be the last good-looking Hong Kong film in Chow Yun-fat's acting career.

If you missed "Wushuang", I don't know how long you will have to wait before you can see Chow Yun-fat's wonderful performance on the big screen.

Aaron Kwok's press release was even simpler. It compared his career with that of today's young and handsome actors, and then came to the conclusion that the young and handsome actors of those days are completely different from those of today.

The young and handsome guys back then were just handsome stars, but the young and handsome guys nowadays are just good-looking idiots. Also, whether the young and handsome guys nowadays are good-looking or not is still up for debate.

For example, the bunch of ugly men in ancient costumes in ancient idol dramas are also called fresh meat.

The effect of this marketing campaign is very obvious, especially the marketing for Aaron Kwok, which attracted a group of young idol fans.

As we all know, fans of young and handsome guys are among the most powerful among all stars.

They couldn't stand it anymore and immediately started to curse those media people and bloggers, saying that they had been paid, so how could they slander their pigeons like that?
How come their pigeons don’t have the ability? Last time they were filming, they had their skin scraped off, but they put on a hemostatic patch and continued filming without having to go to the hospital.

Isn't this dedication worthy of admiration? How dare these people step on these dedicated pigeons? Don't they really feel guilty?

If someone is unhappy, someone else will definitely be happy.

The fans of the young and handsome guy are unhappy, and those who hate him are happy.

"So what if I don't like young handsome guys? Your brother put on a hemostatic patch and continued filming without going to the hospital. You call this professionalism? He didn't go to the hospital because he was afraid that the wound would scab over on the way to the hospital, okay?"

“Although I am not a fan of Aaron Kwok, I think it is really insulting to Aaron Kwok to compare these young actors with him. He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings, his professional ability is top-notch, and his acting skills are getting better with age.

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Look at those young actors, they are all rotten fish and shrimp, they are almost 30 years old, and they can only stare when acting, they are really bad. "

"I don't allow you to curse my brother (dog head) like that."

"The one upstairs can't hold back the knife anymore. Give him a proper burial."

"You said Aaron Kwok is not worthy of being compared to your brother, and that The Greatest Show is a piece of crap, but I still support it. I'm going to piss you off to death."

The effect of this marketing campaign is much worse than owing a movie ticket, but it does have an effect.

The single-day box office, which had been declining, immediately stopped falling and began to rebound, increasing from more than 60 million yesterday to more than 90 million.

Another week later, the box office of "Wushuang" officially exceeded 2 billion. This marketing campaign brought at least 200 to 300 million yuan to the film.

After breaking 2 billion, the movie "Wushuang" also entered garbage time. After that, the single-day box office dropped to a very low number, and the number of screenings was also very low.

Two billion is already the limit for a Hong Kong-style police and gangster film like "Wushuang".

It is difficult for this kind of film to bring in 3 or 4 billion at the box office, because the genre of police and gangster films has long been exhausted.

The most glorious period for Hong Kong police and gangster films was in the 1980s, which was also the peak period for Hong Kong films.

The police and gangster films at that time could be divided into two categories. One was the story of two gangs fighting and seizing power, in which the righteous characters were framed and suppressed in various ways, but eventually they put aside their prejudices and the brothers worked together to kill the villain.

In this category, there are not many police scenes, and the representative work is "A Better Tomorrow".

It has to be admitted that Wu Baige, who made police and gangster films back then, was really good.

The second category is the battle of wits and courage between the police protagonist and the gangster villain, and the representative work is Cheng Long's "Police Story".

Later, more and more police and gangster films were made, but there was only so much to film, and soon the audience became aesthetically fatigued and lost interest in such police and gangster films.

After that, police and gangster films began to decline for a long time. Occasionally, one or two good works would be produced, but most of the time, they failed to inspire people.

After the release of "Infernal Affairs" in 02, it took ten years before "Cold War" came out, and then many more years before today's "The Wandering Earth" came out.

What’s even more embarrassing is that after many years, a masterpiece was released, but the box office was not very hot, which made the prospects of the police and gangster film industry even more dim.

(End of this chapter)