Chapter 303: Wait
Top Gun is to the U.S. military what a police story is to the Hong Kong Police Department.
When the police story was released two years ago, the Hong Kong police department also vigorously assisted in publicizing it, and mobilized all police department personnel to watch the movie, and two police stations also chartered the scene to watch it.
The police story is about the bravery of the Hong Kong police, which is full of positive energy, and it is natural for the Hong Kong police department, which has suffered from a negative image, to be vigorously promoted.
Who told the former Hong Kong police that their reputation was too stinky.
Before the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Hong Kong police were more serious than the members of the association, and they were all black, and basically few police officers were good.
With the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the four major Chinese detectives all fell off their horses and ran away, and almost all the Hong Kong police officers went out to make trouble, because they were carrying things on their backs, and they were afraid of being found, and finally because the movement was too big, nearly 2,000 police officers gathered at the door of the Hong Kong Government Independent Commission Against Corruption to demonstrate, protesting against the excessive power of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and asking the Independent Commission Against Corruption to stop the investigation, and had to issue an amnesty order issued by Hong Kong Governor MacLehose, deciding not to blame the police for corruption before January 1, 1977. At the same time, an emergency decree was passed by the Legislative Council authorising the Commissioner of Police to immediately dismiss any police officer who disobeyed an order. So far, the police's troublemaking behavior has been effectively curbed.
However, although the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption has reduced corruption in the Hong Kong police and achieved remarkable results, the bad impression that has accumulated over the years is still deeply ingrained in the hearts of Hong Kong citizens.
Anyway, they all feel that the police are not a good thing, and those who sign up for the police academy will be ridiculed, resulting in being a police officer in Hong Kong for a long time is a very shameless and contradictory thing, and naturally there are fewer people who become police officers.
However, with the popularity of the police story, especially the portrayal of Chan Ka-kui in the movie, it has greatly changed the perception of Hong Kong citizens about the police.
The U.S. military also has a similar idea about Top Gun, creating a glorious image of the army, hoping that American citizens will be interested in joining the army after watching the movie.
The U.S. military also hopes to change the people's perception of the U.S. military and joining the army through a movie about the U.S. Air Force like Top Gun.
The Hong Kong police have ruined their reputation because of corruption, while the U.S. military has ruined its reputation because it has been fighting wars for many years and has taken the initiative to provoke wars.
One of the most influential was the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War lasted from 55 to 75 years, 20 years, and the United States dropped a total of 8 million tons of bombs on Vietnam during 20 years, far more than the total number of bombs dropped on all battlefields during World War II, killing more than 1.6 million people in Vietnam. The United States itself has suffered very heavy losses, with more than 58,000 people killed and more than 300,000 injured at a cost of more than $400 billion.
In the end, the United States had no choice but to withdraw its troops from Vietnam, and the losses and losses of the troops could not be defeated, with nearly 400,000 casualties and more than $400 billion spent.
Who is willing to let their children go to the army, and if they don't do well as a soldier, they will die, and the family will not let them, and not many young people of school age are willing to go.
As a result, in 86, it has been ten years since the end of the Vietnam War, and the United States does not recruit enough soldiers every year, and the gap is quite large.
Because ten years is not enough time for people to forget their pain, and those American soldiers who returned from Vietnam have also made a lot of trouble in the past ten years, some because of disability welfare, and some because of post-war psychological syndrome madness and hurt themselves and others.
And there are often reflections on the war in film and television, like the first drop of blood starring Stallone, Rambo is a veteran who came back from the Vietnam War, and the story told in the first part is also the story of Rambo returning from the Vietnam battlefield because of the contempt and humiliation of the police.
The second drop of blood also tells the story of Rambo who was ordered to return to Vietnam to investigate whether the missing American soldiers became prisoners, and was finally betrayed by his boss to start a revenge plan.
The people are anti-war and war-weary, resist being soldiers, and most of the television and film media are anti-war, resulting in the US military not recruiting enough people every year, and the US military is desperate to have something come out that can make the image of the military a little better.
Top Gun is one such work that has been pinned on by the military.
Released on the scale of 1,100 canvases, it grossed $7.5 million on the first day, more than $9 million on the second day, and more than $11 million on the third day.
The box office slashed $28 million in the first three days of the opening weekend.
Top Gun's first weekend box office was amazed, especially when it was only 7.5 million on the first day, and it soared to more than $11 million in just two days, an increase of more than half.
Many film critics don't understand why this movie has such a box office explosion, and they don't understand why they have already made newspaper columns and TV shows in the first place, mocking this as the most expensive conscription advertising film in the history of the U.S. Navy, there are so many, and even more and more people running to the cinema to watch such a movie.
The popularity of Top Gun has made these professional film critics begin to doubt their lives, and wonder if their influence on the audience's viewing of movies is no longer heard.
There are also many film critics who say that the military is joking with taxpayers' money by vigorously assisting the filming of Top Gun, and there are also calls for the relevant departments to investigate, but these poisons do not affect the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie.
Even if film critics and even the powerful media get accurate information to prove that the F-14 fighter jet in Top Gun has a very high flight cost per hour, with aviation fuel alone reaching $7,000, and millions of dollars spent on fuel after the whole movie was filmed, and all this money is from the military, it is still useless.
When the audience saw such news, they almost exclaimed, wow, what a cost, and then it was gone, and then, perhaps even more interested, to buy tickets to watch a movie, to see what a plane that costs $7,000 an hour looks like and how handsome it is.
Perhaps the decade-long anti-war trend has made American audiences too depressed, after all, no one likes that their army is such a bad image, so when there is a movie in which the military army becomes another image they like, the suppressed emotions are released at once.
After a week of release, Top Gun's box office had already exceeded 55 million US dollars, and then Tom was completely popular, and posters of him wearing an Air Force uniform were plastered all over the streets.
"Mr. Joe, there's a call from Twentieth Century Fox to renegotiate with us about the bodyguard distribution rights." Qiao Feng was shopping with Zhong Chuhong when the eldest brother rang loudly, and when he picked it up, he heard that it was Shi Nansheng calling.
"You tell them, bodyguards, we're going to release it in Hong Kong first, since they had concerns before, let's wait, and when our Hong Kong release is over, they will see the release situation and then talk about it." Qiao Feng ordered casually, and saw that Zhong Chuhong had bought a dress and was about to settle the bill, Qiao Feng hurriedly hung up the phone and ran over to pay the bill.