The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 653 Christmas schedule battle
After staying in the United States for a week, Xu Guanwu returned to Hong Kong with his wife and children.

At this moment, Hong Kong's Christmas schedule is still booming, and the smoke is full.

Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao, and Yuan Biao co-starred in "Gold and Jade Mantang", as expected, won the first place. It has kung fu, delicious food, and funny laughter, which really satisfies the appetite.Coupled with the sensational effect caused in the United States, people are even more curious about this film. From the first day of its release, the attendance rate has been full for seven consecutive days. The scene can be said to be quite a sensation.

In Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, this film is also quite popular. The name is suitable for the occasion, and the content is fresh. It is the first time a film with food as the theme. It really makes people feel fresh and interesting.The box office can't help soaring, and even word of mouth is quite good.

Many Hong Kong film critics unanimously praised this film for its fresh materials, breaking the barriers of previous action films, adding new elements to action films, and broadening the horizons of Hong Kong films.Newspapers in Taiwan, Japan and other places also published relevant comments, saying that the movie "Golden Jade Mantang" is quite a breakthrough. It combines two completely different themes of food and kung fu, which has a wonderful effect of having both fish and bear's paw. , is really wonderful.

After "Golden Jade Mantang", there was a wave of gourmet comics in Japan, among which "Kung Fu God of Cooking" and "China Ichiba" were well-known.There are also many film companies in Hong Kong following suit and shooting food-related movies. Unfortunately, there are relatively few movies that can perfectly integrate food and kung fu. Most of them are just kung fu movies under the guise of food.

The reason is that Xu has many talented screenwriters. They can tell the story very well, embellishing every detail. It took more than two months to write the script alone, so the whole film looks quite perfect.

Ordinary film companies see that "The House of Gold and Jade" is popular, and they immediately follow suit and shoot similar films. The scripts are all written by someone on the spot. Naturally, it is impossible to achieve Xu's meticulous quality, so most of them will get word of mouth after it is released. It's not good, even if it wins the box office for a while, and a similar movie is released later, the audience will not buy it again.

In addition to the hottest "Golden Jade Mantang", the most surprising is a dark horse, the small fresh literary romance film "Love For You" launched by Shaw Brothers.This film is directed by the famous cult director Mou Dunfu, written by the new screenwriter Zhang Jianting, starred by Shaw Brothers movie star Dai Yuchun, and the handsome boy Wang Yu. Word-of-mouth has been spread to ten, ten to hundreds, and the box office has come from behind, even higher than Shaw's flagship "Magic Palace Slaying the Dragon". It is regarded as the darkest dark horse this year.

Xu Guanwu is not so surprised that the film "Love For You" has achieved good box office results, because he knows that Zhang Jianting is a well-known director in Hong Kong. He wrote and directed films such as "Seven Days of Love", "Two Wives in One House" ", "The Man Who Doesn't Take Off Socks" and other comedies have achieved quite good box office and reputation.

Zhang Jianting's comedies are introverted, and do not require exaggerated language and body movements. As long as the settings and lines are carefully set, a very good comedy effect can be obtained.

For example, in "Two Wives in One House", Ashin and his wife remarried after divorcing. Just when the couple was preparing to live a happy life, the ex-wife was defrauded and lost all her money, so she had no choice but to move back home come and live.The ex-wife and his wife live under the same roof, jealousy, misunderstanding and embarrassment are unavoidable.The well-designed scenes and humorous lines make this drama very popular with the audience, and it is also an important part of Hong Kong comedy movies that cannot be ignored.

As for Xu Guanwu, director Zhang Cheh's sci-fi martial arts masterpiece "Magic Palace Slaying the Dragon", which Xu Guanwu was not optimistic about before, attracted a lot of bad reviews after its release. Comments such as "I don't know the so-called", "It's a mess", "Zhang Lang's talent is exhausted" and so on are all over the film review sections of major newspapers.

People mainly point the finger at director Chang Cheh who has not made any progress in the past two years and has been relying on his laurels, pointing out that he is "at the end of his talent" and should no longer cling to high positions, but should step down as soon as possible to give newcomers a chance.Director Zhang Cheh was so strongly criticized, he couldn't say anything to the outside world, but several disciples felt injustice for Zhang Cheh, saying that he suffered from illnesses during filming, and he finished filming the film by gritting his teeth.

Even if the filming of this film is not very good, it is the director's hard work, and he should not be criticized so fiercely.When it comes to why Zhang Che loves a high position and has not retired at such an old age, his disciples explained that Zhang Che was filming in Taiwan, which caused Shaw Brothers to lose a lot of money. Although investing in business has profit and loss, no one can say It's not.But Zhang Che was so stubborn that he took this debt down, and now filming is all about repaying the debt to Shaw Brothers.I have been filming for twelve months of the year, and my health has been greatly affected.A man who dares to take responsibility like this should not be accused like this again.

In fact, in Xu Guanwu's view, the reason why "Magic Palace Slaying the Dragon" failed miserably at the box office and received rave reviews was not Zhang Che's fault.In fact, he has done his best for this film. In the film, Zhang Wuji and Tie Zhen partnered to eradicate Song Qingshu. In fact, it is quite the demeanor of Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei's sympathy for each other.Moreover, the sci-fi martial arts film is indeed a brand new attempt, even if the box office is unfavorable, the director should not be blamed alone.

After several disciples jumped out to clarify, Director Zhang Cheh received much less criticism, but this way Shaw's criticism suddenly increased.

Some criticize Shaw Brothers for not being considerate of old courtiers. It is quite cold-blooded and heartless to tire Zhang Cheh, a great director, like this and ignore a little bit of old courtier's affection.

Some criticize the Shaw Brothers for being self-confident and not enterprising. After decades of making martial arts films, they are still making martial arts films, but now they are going back to the old way. It seems that it is not Chang Cheh who has exhausted his talents, but Sir Shao Yifu who leads the Shaw Brothers.

Some criticize Shaw Brothers for being eager for quick success, seeing the popularity of sci-fi films, adding sci-fi elements to martial arts films, no matter whether these elements fit or not.This style of blindly following the trend is really not what Shaw Brothers should do.

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Contrary to the unanimous accusation, Golden Harvest Jiannian's new film "Death of Sai Ying Pun" was unanimously praised for its tragic style, neat action, and straightforward plot.Although this black action film is a bit out of date for the Christmas release, resulting in a somewhat bleak box office, but the word of mouth is quite good. If it is released in the next year or during the summer vacation, it will definitely get a very good box office.

The director of the film, Tang Jiming, was directing for the first time, and he was able to win such a high evaluation, which made him instantly famous and became one of the most watched directors of the new wave.

In addition, the Taiwanese star Qin Xianglin who played the leading role in the film, because of his outstanding performance, has also successfully transformed from a former literary student to an action star, and his future development prospects are even broader.

Qin Xianglin's coming to Hong Kong to shoot "Out of Xiyingpan" actually indirectly proves the decline of Taiwanese movies today. Even the previous box office guarantee of "Two Qin Erlin", two people have now gone to Hong Kong to develop.There are even more other first- and second-tier actors who come to Hong Kong to develop.

It's just that there are not many Taiwanese actors who are influential in Hong Kong, and they generally speak Mandarin, and they are not very proficient in Cantonese, so it is a bit troublesome to cooperate.However, Qin Xianglin was originally from Hong Kong, but he went to Taiwan to develop later, so he returned to Hong Kong to develop again. He has much more resources and contacts than ordinary Taiwanese actors. Once he comes back, he has many scenes to shoot, and his journey is relatively smooth. .

Qin Han, who is as famous as him, does not have this treatment. He also filmed "Mask" at Shaw Brothers before. .Afterwards, Qin Han returned to Taiwan to develop his career, and it flourished, becoming a guarantee of blockbuster movies.But now after the decline of Taiwanese movies, his life is not too easy.

A Hong Kong movie has invaded Taiwan massively, and Hong Kong stars have become the objects of pursuit of young men and women in Taiwan. Cheng Long, Lu Liangwei, Zhou Runfa and others are very popular.There are more and more Hong Kong stars going to Taiwan, which has taken up a considerable part of the resources of Taiwanese artists.

The second is that Hong Kong movies are very popular now, and theater bosses are only willing to show Hong Kong movies. After Taiwanese movies are made, no one will watch them, and if they are not released in theaters, investors will naturally be unwilling to invest again, which makes the number of new films produced in Taiwan drop sharply.

At its peak, Taiwan produced more than 100 films a year, but now that it has fallen, the number of films produced each year has been cut in half.Although Qin Han was a guarantee of success before, and the dramas he collaborated with Lin Qingxia achieved quite good results, but because of the impact of the scandal in the middle, the image of a gentle and refined man was damaged, and he came back after a year of training, but found that Taiwan The film market has been so bad that not many companies have invited him to make films.

When Qin Han was the hottest, he could make more than ten movies a year, but now he can only make four or five movies, and both the production scale and the salary are far worse than before.With the decline in income and popularity, Qin Han naturally wanted to find a solution. He also wanted to go west like Qin Xianglin, and go to Hong Kong to find development opportunities.

But he is not as good as Qin Xianglin after all. Qin Xianglin was born in Hong Kong, he can speak fluent Cantonese, and he is very good friends with Xie Xian, Deng Guangrong, Shen Dianxia, ​​etc., and his connections in Hong Kong are quite strong, so after returning As soon as he said he would accept the play, someone would come to his door immediately.

Qin Han didn't stay in Hong Kong for a long time, and he didn't have any contacts or resources at all. In addition, his popularity is declining now, so he can only start as a supporting role in Hong Kong.He used to be the male lead, playing young people in love, but when he went to Hong Kong, he wanted to play the leading brother, brother-in-law, and even a father who had him play the leading role in a movie, which completely raised his age positioning. class.

Qin Han thinks he can still play the leading role, he can play the role of a young man in love, why is he willing to go to Hong Kong to play the role of father?And he also knows that once he plays that kind of role, it will be very difficult to play a young role again in the future.

As an actor, no matter whether he is 40 or 50 years old, he is very taboo to be called old by others.When Xu Ke filmed "The Legend of Shushan", Zhang Bozhi was invited to play the role of Master Guyue. Her appearance completely imitated that of Lin Qingxia in the [-]rd edition of "The Legend of Shushan Heroes".

At that time, Xu Ke wanted to ask Lin Qingxia to play the role again, and Lin Qingxia readily agreed, but when she heard that she was playing Zhang Bozhi's mother, Lin Qingxia left the scene with a bad face regardless of her many years of friendship.It's a pity that Xu Ke is best at filming women's scenes, but he still can't grasp the culprit of women. This age is indeed a big taboo.

Qin Han wanted to develop in Hong Kong but couldn't, so he had to stay in Taiwan to continue to develop, but watching Taiwanese movies getting more and more depressed, he had no choice but to do so.

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Another Golden Harvest play "Tiger, Raptor and Dragon" is starring the Yuan brothers. This time they changed their previous style and moved the stage from the countryside to the city, and from the Republic of China to modern times.However, although urban action movies are a boom now, the Yuan Brothers' "Tiger and Dragon" still received a lot of cynicism, mainly because this movie is too similar to the "Bad Life" that Xu once filmed. The difference is that the protagonist of Bad Life is one person, but this time it was replaced by two brothers.

Xu's other "Community Angel", although the theme is deep, the story is very good, and the partner of a handsome man and a beautiful woman is the starring role, but because the story is a bit heavy, although the word of mouth is good, the box office is not good. .However, Xu Guanwu didn't expect the box office of this movie to be so good, so he was already mentally prepared.

(End of this chapter)