One, ": the demon leader ", 1993
Wang Jing is an excellent filmmaker and an excellent businessman, Wang Jing once said bluntly: " First of all, I am responsible for film investors. The quality of my films is not measured by so-called film critics by their standards, but by whether the audience is willing to pay for my movie tickets."
In Wang Jing's film and television career, he has participated in the production of more than 300 films, and even made one film a month during his peak period. Therefore, the quality of his films is often uneven, but he rarely loses money when making films. Yes, and "The Lord of the Demon Cult" is one of them.
At the Hong Kong box office, the film only made a box office of just over 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and only about 30% of it was the actual revenue. Although there are box offices in other regions such as Taiwan, and other copyright revenues such as video tapes, TV broadcasts, etc., due to the high salaries of Jet Li at that time, the film was at a serious loss.
The script for the sequel of the film was actually prepared, but because of the poor box office of the first one, it had to be aborted. For the audience, it is undoubtedly a rare classic. It is so funny that the six major factions of besieging Guangmingding are so funny in addition to the exciting fighting scenes. Perhaps only Wang Jing is the only one. Movie fans have been looking forward to "See you in the majority" for 20 to 30 years. To this day, Zhang Wuji has become Zhang Sanfeng. Do you still look forward to the new sequel after many years?
2." New Crane Needle", 1993
The film is a collaboration between the new martial arts director Tsui Hark and the "hot director" Chen Musheng who features romance and compassion. The shooting technique is bold and incorporates a lot of wild imagination, especially Bai Yunfei while riding a crane while playing the song flute is more impressive, so the film is regarded by many film critics as a new school of martial arts. Masterpiece.
This film brings together Anita Mui, Guan Zhilin, Tony Leung, Liu Songren, Xu Shaoqiang, Wu Qihua, _span_span4, _span_span, 2span Only got the result of the early eight million Hong Kong dollars. Because of the film’s box office failure, Tsui Hark even switched to filming " ".
Judging from the fighting scenes, there are few traditional fighting scenes in the film, which are mainly displayed in the form of martial arts and the characters and In terms of aesthetics, also has polarities in the evaluation of the film. At the end of the film, Bai Yunfei used his flute to inflate Cao Xiong. In the midst of an explosion, the two disappeared into the firmament. The scene was truly beautiful.
Three, " a knife br0p
6 pstrong", 1993. Smile from the horizontal knife to the sky, and leave two Kunluns.Set in the background of the reform , this film tells the story of the king of swordsman Wu, in order to avenge Tan Sitong , go straight to the tiger cave of Yuantan and vow to kill Shikai . The film is directed by Sammo Hung, starring Yang Fan, Dillon, Guan Zhilin, Yang Lijing, Zhao Changjun and others. The storyline is very attractive, but unfortunately the box office is very attractive. 1.7 million.
Because of Jet Li’s "Once Upon a Time", the martial arts movie craze in Hong Kong movies, especially the sweeping martial arts movie craze in Hong Kong film market in 1993 There have been cases of martial arts films crowding together, so many martial arts films have become cannon fodder. Since this year, the Hong Kong film market has begun to decline, and "One Sword Allure" is the most tragic, with an investment cost of 15 million, and finally The coffin of the film investor Luo Wei was caught.
IV, "Swordsman and Swordsman", 1990
"The world is out of my generation, and when I enter the rivers and lakes, the years are urged. In the chat and laughter of Huangtu's domineering industry, I can't beat my life to be drunk". The film has a very high status in the history of Hong Kong martial arts films. It is known as "the pioneering work of new martial arts movies" . It is also called " new dragon inn " together with " ".
Because of the film, Tsui Hark offended a lot of seniors. Because of the repeated changes to the content and roles of the film, Tsui Hark’s mentor, , Hu Jinquan, left the scene angrily after half the filming. Hu Jinquan’s righteous brother Li Hanxiang publicly stated that Tsui Hark’s film would not be touched even if he starved to death; Yue Hua directly refused to make up for Lin Zhennan’s shots.
The film won 16 million Hong Kong dollars in the final movie box office, but after a series of toss by Tsui Hark, the original production fee of 10 million was obtained. Nearly 15 million. Another aspect of the film that will make the audience remember forever is that Huang Zhan 's eternal masterpiece "A Laugh in the Sea" turned out.
5. " East evil West poison", 1994
is not strictly a martial arts film, but it is not strictly a martial arts film The historical evaluation is very high, and it is called " a martial arts film that subverts traditional martial arts." But many fans also retorted that they were confused after watching it.Let those so-called film critics retain and appreciate it slowly.
The production cost of "Evil West Toxin" is more than 20 million, Wong Kar Wai invited to include Leslie Cheung, Zhang Manyu , , _span_span_span4 _span_span4 Leung Ka Fai , Jacky Cheung , Carina Lau , Wang Zuxian _span2, _span_span4, and others won one more votes.
As early as in 1990, " A Fei's True Story _span4 was almost directly lost to the glory of the heart of the movie when Deng gave birth to a heart disease. He was admitted to the hospital. From then on, Hong Kong filmmakers dared not use Wong Kar-wai anymore. Later, Wong Kar-wai found Taiwanese investor Cai Songlin to shoot the film.
Wong Kar-wai hasn’t finished filming "Evil and West Poison" for almost two years. Cai Songlin feels that Wong Kar-wai’s shooting is getting more and more wrong, so she finds Wong Kar-wai’s partner Liu Zhenwei to complete it in 27 days based on the original crew. I wrote a " east to west ",As a result, the film finally won more than 20 million box office.
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