Chapter 366: The Reason Why Classics Are Classics

The TV is full of excitement, and it is a very old martial arts film, although both the action design and the sense of picture, or the actors' performances are very old, giving people a very rough feeling, but Qiao Feng watched it with relish.

"Why do you suddenly look at the Dragon Gate Inn, I remember this film was when I was a child." Lin Qingxia walked to the sofa with a plate of fruit, fed Qiao Feng a mouthful of apples first, and then sat cross-legged next to Qiao Feng after putting down the fruit.

"It was when I was a kid too." Qiao Feng corrected.

Lin Qingxia chuckled, tilted her head to look at Qiao Feng and said, "That's right, it was also when you were a child, but how old were you at that time, have you watched this movie?"

"Hey, don't take you to be so sarcastic, I was five years old at the time, and I started to remember a long time ago." Qiao Feng retorted unhappily.

"Huh." Lin Qingxia chuckled again, this laughter was a little contemptuous.But that's right, the five-year-old kid didn't say whether the family would bring such a young child into the cinema, even if they did, would they understand it, and what could they remember.

Not to mention the five-year-old Qiao Feng, Lin Qingxia herself watched it at that time, and watched it twice, but now she can't tell her what she is talking about, at most she has an impression of some shots.

Qiao Feng was five years old when the Dragon Gate Inn was released, Lin Qingxia was thirteen years old, and the age gap of eight years has always been a thorn in Lin Qingxia's heart, so she rarely talks about age, and this time too, after saying a few words casually, she stopped asking deeply.

"You haven't said why you watched this movie all of a sudden, it's hard to find a tape from this movie." Lin Qingxia brought the topic back to the question at the beginning.

"It's hard to find, but it's not difficult for me, there are copies in the theater warehouse, but it's been a long time, mainly because the storage is not good, so the picture is not good, but there are good copies on the Shaw Brothers' side, and this belt is what I asked for the Shaw Brothers." Qiao Feng said casually, not to mention that it was just a tape from 20 years ago, it was a very old tape pushed forward, as long as there was still stock, he could also get it, Shaw Brothers can be said to be the largest film company in Southeast Asia, the film library is quite huge, plus the operation of theaters, it can be said that Hong Kong, as well as other regions and countries, most of the movie copies or videotapes are in stock.

"Do you suddenly want to be nostalgic when you watch this film?" Lin Qingxia asked.

"No, I just think this film is very classic, the story is very good, plus you don't always say that the salary is too high, no one is looking for you to film, and I don't arrange roles for you, everyone is about to rust, so I want to adapt this movie for you, it just so happens that Xu Ke has nothing to do after filming A Chinese Ghost Story, this guy is not interested in doing things, or I am afraid that he will only be able to make a movie in a year or two." Qiao Feng grinned and climbed Lin Qingxia's shoulder, looking like he was inviting merit.

The new Dragon Gate Inn supervised by Xu Ke in the original time and space can be said to be a classic of Xu Ke's style martial arts films, whether it is Lin Qingxia, Liang Jiahui, Zhang Manyu, or even the villain Zhen Zidan, they all leave a deep impression.

But it can be seen from the new words in the title of the new Dragon Gate Inn that the story of the Dragon Gate Inn is not the first time it has been filmed.

As early as 1966, when he was still in Shaw Brothers, director Hu Jinquan conceived and wrote "Dragon Gate Inn" (originally known as "Solution"), and later after leaving Shaw Brothers, he switched to the Taiwan Federal Company, and the first film he shot when he joined the new company was the Dragon Gate Inn.

In October 1967, the Dragon Gate Inn was released in Taiwan, and then in Hong Kong, and the distribution company in Hong Kong was Shaw Brothers.

Dragon Gate Inn can be said to be another milestone work of Hu Jinquan after the Drunken Man, he filmed the Drunken Man at the end of the Shaw Brothers, and became famous in one fell swoop, and then went to the Federation to gain a firm foothold with the Dragon Gate Inn.

Dragon Gate Inn became the top ten grossing Chinese films in Taiwan in 1967, with a total box office income of NT$4.42 million in Taiwan.

Then it was disgraceful Taiwan's fire, and the Dragon Gate Inn in Hong Kong set a record for the highest grossing of Chinese and foreign films since the opening of Hong Kong, that is, it became the box office champion in the history of Hong Kong films, with a total income of 2.1 million Hong Kong dollars, about more than 1,400 Taiwan dollars.

In addition to the records in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Dragon Gate Inn was also screened in New York for 3 weeks and San Francisco for 2 weeks. It set a new record for the release of a Taiwanese film in the United States, and was released again in the fall of the same year.

Distributed by Shochiku Company and Fuji Pictures, it premiered in Hokkaido, and was the first Taiwanese film to be officially released in the theater system.

Korea Film Co., Ltd. imported the "Dragon Gate Inn" film with foreign film quotas, released in Chinese Chinese pronunciation, Korean letters, and released at the Piccardri Cinema in South Korea, which was the first Chinese film to be exported to South Korea with foreign film quotas; at that time, the temperature was minus 30 degrees, it was screened for 41 consecutive days, and 320,000 tickets were sold, exceeding the "007" film series, breaking the box office record in Korean film history.

And so on......... It can be said that Longmen Inn has set various records in Southeast Asian countries and regions.

Twenty years later, the Longmen Inn was a little rough, but it was limited to objective factors such as equipment and age, but at that time, the Longmen Inn could be said to be the absolute most conscientious work.

Take props as an example, if it is filmed in Shaw Brothers, Shaw Brothers will definitely be able to shoot in the studio and will never go out on location, because the cost will be much larger, and if the costumes can be improvised, they will definitely make do with it, and they will definitely not make new ones, in short, they can be saved, let alone in the sixties, just two years ago, when the Shaw Brothers were not closed, martial arts films were made like this, so they were always ridiculed and stayed in the sixties and seventies, which is also a big reason for the decline of Shaw Brothers films.

But Hu Jinquan's shooting of the Longmen Inn is completely different from that of the Shaw Brothers, he will never shoot in the studio if he can go out on location, and Taiwan is much larger than Hong Kong, and there are many scenes to choose from, so the scenery of the Longmen Inn is very, very beautiful.

Shi Jun and the other four of Cao Shaoqin A scene was filmed in Taiwan's Trans-Highway area, at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, the shooting is quite hard, but the hard work has the benefit of hard work, not only the box office is outstanding, but also the sea of clouds behind them was filmed when shooting a long shot, which is definitely the most classic shot, Qiao Feng, who is used to seeing the sea of clouds in various film and television dramas in later generations, feels that this shot is very beautiful when he watches it, giving people a kind of ethereal fairy chivalrous atmosphere.

This kind of shot basically doesn't want to be shot in Hong Kong, because there are no such conditions at all.

This is Hu Jinquan, this is the Dragon Gate Inn, a sincere production twenty years ago, a classic.