"Legend of God of War" was originally filmed like this, the substitute is too obvious, no wonder Andy Lau's company went bankrupt

In 1993 Andy Lau never thought of it, because of this movie, he directly lost his Tianmu Film Company to bankruptcy, and made him owe a huge sum of more than 40 million

The film has five famous directors and an all-star cast The total investment is more than 60 million, and one of the scenes cost 20 million. Why is such an elaborate production suffering a huge loss? Today let us talk about the story behind this " Legend of God of War "

The 1980s and 1990s were definitely the golden age of Hong Kong movies. In 1988, Andy Lau starred in 13 films, and he was given the nickname "Liu Thirteen"

html. In 1991, when the contract expired, Andy Lau was finally relieved and no longer willing to be an actor. He saw that many filmmakers around him set up their own companies. A film company, so Andy Lau and his friends founded Tianmu Company together, turning over to become the boss and starting his production career. , This gave Andy Lau a lot of confidence. He decided to uphold the viewpoint of "big investment and high return", put out 60 million investment and put all his eggs in one basket, and made a martial arts film that was in the climax to turn the company against the wind, so this "Legend of God of War" It came into being as the times require

Andy Lau fought his back against the wall, so he paid special attention to the shooting of the film. The director alone invited five people, Sammo Hung served as the chief director on the set, Luo Qirui Zhang Wanting was the plot director, and Cheng Xiaodong and Yuan Kui is in charge of the martial arts part. Such a luxurious behind-the-scenes staff seems to be a strong team, but in fact each director has his own ideas and creativity, which often leads to different differences in the plot.

There is a scene in the film,It was Andy Lau and Anita Mui walking in a field of wild flowers. In order to make a romantic and beautiful martial arts film, the plot director asked the crew to plant wild flowers. However, the two action directors thought it was too slow to delay the time, so several big directors were divided into two groups. There was endless debate, but in the end I still insisted on Luo Qirui and Zhang Wanting's idea, and planted these wild flowers one by one, but these are by no means the most serious

"Legend of God of War" can be said to be the movie that Andy Lau made with the most care, except for the behind-the-scenes participation The five directors in the production, the cast can also be called luxurious and top-notch. In the killing scenes, he was deliberately interpreted as a fierce and heroic female knight, but in a blink of an eye, the two plot directors wanted Anita Mui to show the femininity and fear of women, which was in line with the image of a pampered princess. Different directors Different feelings, after the filming of the film, Anita Mui felt that she would have a split personality. My friend "Haiwei", this killer whale is a real whale invited from Ocean Park , in order to better develop relationships with killer whales, Andy Lau also learned related skills from animal trainers in advance

In addition, this The Huangling Mausoleum was also built, and it cost more than 20 million for this one scene, but this is not the most exaggerated Starring, even offered a sky-high salary of 2 million a day, but Maggie Cheung only gave a two-day schedule,There are a lot of scenes, which makes Sammo Hung very difficult.

In order to complete the filming task, Sammo Hung used these two days to shoot all the frontal close-up shots of Maggie Cheung. Yes, this also leads to a lot of goofy scenes in the film, so there are very few scenes where the four of them appear at the same time in the film. Stand-in, this also made Maggie Cheung, who was supposed to be named the female lead, finally become a friendly cameo. I was badly hurt by this film.

In 1993, this film spent all of Andy Lau's net worth. After "Legend of God of War" was released in Hong Kong, both word-of-mouth and box office failed. In the end, it only won 12.4 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. Compared with the investment cost of 60 million, It really cost him enough to vomit blood

This was a heavy blow to Andy Lau, who was in the limelight, and it was also the last fatal straw that crushed Tianmu Company. The Tianmu Company, which he worked so hard to establish, went bankrupt with losses, and he was also burdened with 45 million foreign debts.

So Andy Lau embarked on a crazy road of filming and repaying debts, 4 years without a break, no matter whether the film is good or bad, he took over, and made more than 100 movies , but will never give up the hope of a comeback

In 2002, he paid off all his debts, and Andy Lau founded his own " Yingyi Entertainment " company. Asian Rising Star Director Program , shifting focus to low-cost literary films,At the same time, support new directors to inject new blood into the Hong Kong film market. Among them is the ghost director Ning Hao. He became famous in one fell swoop, so that as long as it is related to Ning Hao, it will be subtitled thanking Andy Lau at the end. Turning around, it made him push into the abyss

but life is like this, there is no so-called smooth sailing, failure is actually not terrible, the terrible thing is that you don't have the courage to start all over again

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