Some people say that 2021 is the year when Hong Kong film "revives" ,
because this year, includes " Fenglin Volcano ", " Anti-Corruption Storm 5", " Anger, Serious Cases ", "Chasing Tigers" More than 10 heavyweight Hong Kong films such as "Catch the Dragon" and " Dynasty Warriors " will be screened.
And this beautiful vision has also cast a layer of gloom on this year's "May 1st gear".
May 1st file, as the first batch of Hong Kong films to be released this year, "Dynasty Warriors", under the attack of many blockbusters, was not good at the box office, and was finally forced out of the theater and went online.
6 yuan on-demand, originally wanted to rely on the gimmick of "theatrical movie network watching" to harvest a wave of traffic at the box office, but miscalculated: after
went online, the audience continued to complain, and Douban's score dropped directly from 5.1 to 4.1.
The Wang Jing movie " chasing the tiger and capturing the dragon " released in the same schedule, the four major movie stars are on the same stage, and they have not pryed the audience's appetite. Today's box office has only received 200 million, and the number of films has dropped to only "On the Cliff" "A quarter, which is embarrassing.
"It's all over the top, it's all crazy", Hong Kong movies can't return to the glory of the 1990s.
What we now call the glorious 90s of Hong Kong movies, the peak period was in
That year, the domestic box office revenue of Hong Kong films was as high as 1.24 billion Hong Kong dollars; the overseas box office revenue reached 1.86 billion Hong Kong dollars, and the total box office revenue created in the whole year exceeded 3 billion Hong Kong dollars.
and Hollywood blockbuster in Hong Kong domestic box office is only 312 million Hong Kong dollars, of which "Instinct" with the highest box office only ranks 13th in the total box office with 27.79 million Hong Kong dollars.
Big Hollywood productions are unlikely to pose a substantial threat to the Hong Kong market, which shows that Hong Kong audiences loved local movies at that time.
Now look back at 1992, the peak period of Hong Kong cinema. In the year of
, the best films in the Hong Kong film industry emerged. betrayed and Wang Jing, and the two became separated.
In 1992, Stephen Chow was the biggest winner. He launched a total of 7 movies from 5 different companies, and created a total box office of 268 million Hong Kong dollars.
Among them, " Trial Death Officer ", "Family Happenings", " Lu Ding Ji ", " Wu Zhuang Scholar Su Qier " and "Deer Ding Ji 2: Shenlong Sect", these 5 movies are all in one fell swoop. Top five on the annual box office charts.
In the previous year, Stephen Chow filmed " Love Saint " for Li Xiuxian 's Universal Pictures, which was their last cooperation.
The worth of Stephen Chow's filming was already in the millions, and according to the contract signed with Universal Pictures, his remuneration was only HK$700,000. Because of this gap, Stephen Chow eventually fell out with Li Xiuxian, who brought him with him.
In 1992, Li Xiuxian was ruthless and transferred the remaining contract to Yongsheng Pictures, which was to Huaqiang .
Therefore, Stephen Chow concentrated on staying in Yongsheng, and spent a sweet honeymoon period with Wang Jing. In the same year, he cooperated with "The Legend of the Deer" and "The Legend of the Deer 2: The Dragon Sect".
It was Zhou Xingchi's luck to meet Wang Jing in the rising period of his career. The two were enviable "golden partners" at the time. Pigo always felt that Wang Jing was very inspired by the formation of his nonsensical style.
I don't know how many days and nights the two have spent together, and they should have also talked about life and ideals. Gradually, they also talked about Stephen Chow's idol Bruce Lee .
In 2010, Wang Jing opened a column in "Ming Pao Weekly", talking about this past, he said that they had wanted to collaborate on a "Youth Bruce Lee", directed by Wang Jing and starring Stephen Chow.
So Wang Jing took Zhou Xingchi to see Jiahe 's Cai Yongchang to discuss cooperation, and initially decided that Jiahe would invest and give Wang Jing and Zhou Xingchi a total of 8 million Hong Kong dollars in dividends.
After talking about the script a few times, Zhou Xingchi proposed to split the account for 64. Wang Jing agreed, but then he changed his words again and again, from 64 to 73, and then to 82, Wang Jing still thinks Cai Yongchang's face Gritting his teeth, he agreed.
In the end, Zhou Xingchi and Jiahe unilaterally reached an agreement to shoot "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" with a salary of 8 million Hong Kong dollars.
Wang Jing was kicked out in this way, and the "Youth Bruce Lee" was stillborn.
Facing Zhou Xingchi's "betrayal", Wang Jing felt chilled. Although the two have cooperated since then, they have not been as harmonious as before, and these unpleasant emotions have also buried their faces in the end. Foreshadowing.
However, neither of the two top-grossing Stephen Chow movies this year were produced by Yongsheng.
Among them, the box-office champion "The Dead Judge" is produced by Run Run Shaw 's favorite Fang Yihua 's Metropolis movie, and the director is Johnnie To .
and the runner-up at the box office was "Family Happenings" produced by Oriental film . Huang Baiming spent a lot of money to recruit Zhou Xingchi to his command, which made this Chinese New Year masterpiece.
Zhou Xingchi returned to Junsheng Films again and filmed " Comic Veyron " with three old partners, Liu Zhenwei , Yuankui , Zuo Songsheng .
One of the bosses of Junsheng Pictures is Huang Zhanyi, nicknamed "Dove Dee", who is a talker in the 14K circle. Because of this relationship, Zhou Xingchi wanted to immigrate to Canada around 1997, but his application failed. talk.
Second, Xu Guanwen relied on Huang Zihua to reach the peak again, but Huang Zihua's dream of a movie star was shattered The box office results, ranked 7th in the box office chart. But the success of this film is thanks to the "Ancestor of Dongdu Laughter" Huang Zihua.
Huang Zihua made his debut in 1984 and entered TVB as a screenwriter, but after many years of ups and downs, he has never been able to make a name for himself.
He was a little disheartened. On the evening of August 30, 1990, he started his first performance of "The History of the Flesh and Blood of the Entertainment Circle" at the Hong Kong Cultural Center. A sensation.
Since then, Huang Zihua's reputation has spread like wildfire. Later, Xu Guanwen's discernment encouraged him to write movie scripts.
Huang Zihua thought that Xu Guanwen wanted to promote himself as a comedy star, so he worked hard and spent a lot of effort to write the script of " God Calculating ".
The role of Assessor Qiu Haoji was prepared by Huang Zihua himself, so a lot of scenes were added to make the role very full.
After reading the script, Xu Guanwen was also highly praised, and immediately decided to shoot, but he asked Liming to be the male lead, playing the role of the tax assessor Qiu Haoji, while Huang Zihua only got the opportunity to play a funny little lawyer.
Xu Guanwen's choice is also very reasonable. At that time, his fourth brother Xu Guanjie just announced his withdrawal from the music world, and his influence is gradually not as good as the four kings in the sky. He invited the most handsome of the four kings, Dawn, to perform at the box office. ensure. But Huang Zihua's star dream was stifled in the cradle like this.
Huang Zihua's "Dongdu Laughter" career has also been impressive in recent years, but Pigo always believes that his wit and humor are limited to stage performances and are not suitable for filming.
And the image of Huang Zihua himself is not very suitable for being a movie star.
Everyone has their own talents and platforms to display their talents. Only by finding the right way can they play well.
3. Tsui Hark lost Jet Li
The private cooperation between Tsui Hark and Jet Li inadvertently succeeded Brigitte Lin, "The Swordsman 2: Unbeaten in the East" ranked 8th in the box office with 34.46 million Hong Kong dollars, and also Completely brought prosperity to the Hong Kong martial arts film boom in the 1990s.
let Jet Li play Linghu Chong, Jin Yong himself is still very satisfied, after all, Jet Li's image is better than Xu Guanjie, and his swordsmanship is superb.
But let Brigitte Lin reverse the "dead shemale" Dongfang undefeated in the novel, and have a romantic relationship with Linghu Chong, Jin Yong refused.
To use the words of "Liu Ye", it means "Adaptation can't be messed up, jokes are not nonsense". Therefore, he said to Tsui Hark: Let's drink as usual, but don't touch my novel again.
However, the movie was very popular when it came out, and in the subsequent film and television works, the image of Dongfang Invincible has become similar to Lin Qingxia's version, and Jin Yong has no less resentment.
Brigitte Lin ushered in the second spring of her acting career. In the next few years, she starred in more than a dozen martial arts films, all of which had a similar image to Dongfang Invincible.
Let's talk about Tsui Hark and Jet Li, who collaborated with Golden Harvest again in the best-selling "Men Be Self-improvement" in the " Huang Feihong " series, with a box office of 30.4 million Hong Kong dollars.
But the filming process has gone through twists and turns. In the middle of the filming, Jet Li stopped filming. These events are the beginning of Jet Li's departure from Golden Harvest.
At that time, Jet Li signed a contract with Golden Harvest to shoot 4 movies within 2 years under the coordination of his agent David Luo, and the termination period of the contract was May 1991, and the filming of "Men's Self-improvement" expired in the middle.
Jet Li wanted to pay Jiahe the remaining unpaid remuneration, but Jiahe wanted to renew the contract. The two sides were deadlocked, and Jet Li threatened to stop the filming.
Later, Jiahe asked Wu Siyuan to come forward to quell the disturbance. Wu Siyuan negotiated with Cai Ziming, the plenipotentiary representative of Jet Li, and paid 500,000 yuan from his own pocket to pay Jet Li's remuneration.
Li Lianjie also gave Wu Siyuan face, and soon returned to the studio to continue shooting, and then starred in the last film in the contract, "Once Upon a Time: The Lion King Contest".
After Jet Li left Golden Harvest, Tsui Hark also lost the best Huang Feihong in his mind.
Four: Chow Yun-fat squeezed into the top ten at the box office, Jackie Chan meets Tang Jili
Hong Kong people manage Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, and Jackie Chan as "Two Mondays", which shows that these three are on the same level.
Chow Yun-fat made three films in 1992, among which " Detective " and " Rogue Goofy " are both action films, and the top-grossing comedy " I love twisted firewood ", with 3648 Wan box office ranked 6th in the box office chart.
Jackie Chan raised funds for the Hong Kong Film Directors Association to purchase " Shuanglonghui " filmed at the venue, which brought together almost all film directors in Hong Kong.
Jackie Chan himself played two roles. He cooperated with Zhang Manyu and Lizhi to create a masterpiece with a box office of 33.23 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking 9th in the box office list.
The "Flying Eagle Project" filmed by Jackie Chan the year before has gone through many twists and turns, costing Golden Harvest HK$115 million, but only received HK$39.05 million at the domestic box office.
Although the overseas box office revenue is still considerable, Jiahe decided to restrict his directing rights, so he asked Tang Jili to shoot "Police Story 3: Super Police " for him.
The box office of the movie was 32.61 million, which was a little worse than "Shuanglonghui", ranking 10th.
and Tang Jili also won the trust of Jackie Chan for this. The two have cooperated many times since then to create the popular " red area " and "Police Story 4: simple task ". Last year's " pioneer " is also a work of cooperation between the two.
Five: Summary
In 1992, there were 41 films with box office exceeding HK$10 million, of which only 5 were imported films, and the remaining 36 were Hong Kong-made films with a wide range of themes.
But some people are happy, and some people are sad -
"Fortnightly Success", Tsui Hark, Jet Li, Xu Guanwen and other filmmakers are going to glory, but many filmmakers also failed this year.
The success of "Lame Man" in the previous year brought a wave of heroic films, and films such as " Casino Tycoon " series, "Four Detectives", "Blue River Legend: Anti-Flying Team" and other films came into being.
However, these follow-up works just follow the same pattern and fail to reach the height of "The Lame Man".
Sammo Hung participated in the production of 5 films, all of which were not ideal at the box office.
's " God of War " directed by lost its old money; the starring " painted skin: Yin-Yang Dharma King " directly ruined Hu Jinquan 's directing career; scorpion warrior was not ideal at the box office, which made his film career in trouble.
The literary film "Cage People" written and directed by Zhang Zhiliang only received a box office of 1.77 million Hong Kong dollars, but won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Supporting Actor four awards, showing Hong Kong Film background.
One month later, Stephen Chow and Johnnie To collaborated again in "Ji Gong" which was released in Hong Kong. This film later made Taiwanese filmmakers lose their old money, resulting in the restriction of the distribution of Hong Kong films in Taiwan. Since then, Hong Kong films have declined.
Text/Pippi Movie Editorial Department: Blood Danxin
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