Chapter 1042: Forging a New Era
During the Chinese New Year, the pace of Hong Kong has not slowed down, and all walks of life are still busy.
The busiest of these are the restaurants, the police and the cinema.
Especially in movie theaters, the Spring Festival stalls are the most popular in a year.
It's been a busy year, and watching a movie during the Chinese New Year is the choice of many people.
Not to mention that there are students on vacation, unlike the summer vacation, students have New Year's money during the New Year's holiday, and if they have money in hand, naturally more people can enter the cinema than during the summer vacation.
In this year's Spring Festival, the most concerned are two movies, one Cheng Long's Flying Eagle Project, one Zhou Xingchi, and Liu Dehua's tricky expert.
The two movies were released five days apart, and the tricky experts starring two superstars took the lead, and the box office was soaring in the early days of their release.
As for the Flying Eagle Project, although it was five days late, Cheng Long went to North Africa to shoot and shoot, an absolute big investment, and his strength was not weak at all, and it was extremely sought after.
Especially with the foundation of the previous Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother, the audience wants to see what danger the Asian Flying Eagle will take this time, and how high Cheng Long will jump from.
Therefore, when Qiao Feng returned to Hong Kong, the Flying Eagle Project had already faintly caught up with or even surpassed the tricky experts.
However, this did not affect the commercial value of Zhou Xingchi and Liu Dehua, nor did it affect the cooperation between other companies and their studios.
It even makes people value them more.
Because everyone in the circle knows how big the investment of the Desert Flying Eagle is, and they also know how big the investment of the trick experts is.
The investment is so far away, but the box office trend is not too much, for companies that do not have much money on hand or take a stable route, please Liu Dehua, Zhou Xingchi is far more cost-effective than Cheng Long.
What's more, both of them also have their own studios, so they can bring money into the group to help share the risk, so why not.
Over there, Zhou Xingchi, Liu Dehua's film appointments continue, and Xu Ke here also has a new plan.
"Huang Feihong?" Qiao Feng raised his eyebrows and looked at Xu Ke a little strangely.
"Yes." Xu Ke nodded, he felt that Qiao Feng looked at him strangely, and thought that Qiao Feng was strange why he chose to shoot Huang Feihong, so he then began to talk about his reason for choosing this theme.
"Huang Feihong, I have actually been thinking about filming for a long time, but there were so many people filming Huang Feihong earlier, and the recent drunken boxing filmed by Cheng Long is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and I want to shoot again, it is easy for the audience to preconceive and then compare with Cheng Long's drunken boxing.
Qiao Feng actually didn't want to know Xu Ke's idea of filming Huang Feihong, but since Xu Ke misunderstood, then just listen to the original intention of this director to shoot such a classic series as Huang Feihong.
Then when I heard it, I found that Xu Ke had thought about it quite a lot.
First of all, the character and story of Huang Feihong have been filmed a lot.
From 1949, when Hong Kong director Hu Peng filmed the first film "Huang Feihong" with the legendary Guangdong folk martial arts character Huang Feihong as the protagonist, more than 80 films have been made in 40 years.
Director Hu Peng alone, Guan Dexing starred in as many as 77 films, setting a record for the longest series of films in the world.
Kwan Tak Hing was very famous, and was already a famous film actor and Cantonese opera master as early as the thirties.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he donated money and materials, and was definitely a well-known patriot, and the Kuomintang also awarded Kwan Tak Hing the rank of major general.
All those who want to be famous, famous, famous, not smiling, upright, tall, good martial arts skills, formal training, fan's feet, not angry and self-righteous between gestures, Guan Dexing, who has the style of a grandmaster, became Huang Feihong himself as soon as he played Huang Feihong.
Not to mention that he has acted in as many as eighty small films.
Moreover, the theme of its exposition is more about neighborhood disputes, rural conflicts, and punishment of bullies, although the pattern is slightly smaller, but it is widely welcomed by the Hong Kong public class.
The heroes they were looking forward to were the heroes of the market who guarded the people's side and were admired by the neighborhood, and it just so happened that Wong Fei Hung, the patriarchal image, met the expectations of Hong Kong people for a savior after the war.
In addition, the setting of Wong Fei Hung's "three uniques of martial arts, medicine and lions" in the Cantonese fragment can be seen in the heavy verticality of the specific audience.
This gives Wong Fei-hung the ability to punish evil and promote good, save lives and help the wounded, and his exquisite lion dance skills give Hong Kong people double pleasure both physically and mentally.
In particular, the incompatibility between good and evil between Huang Feihong and Shi Jian, the intrigue between scheming and calculation, and the multi-level display of Guangdong folk culture have given the black-and-white Cantonese version of "Huang Feihong" a strong degree of viewability.
The ecology of Wong Fei Hung built by Kwan Tak Hing is a testimony of Hong Kong's martial spirit.
Therefore, in the hearts of the audience in the sixties and seventies, when Kwan Dexing's creative experience was the most vigorous, he was Wong Fei Hung.
His role as Huang Feihong impressed the audience too deeply, and it is not too difficult to break this impression.
played Huang Feihong at the box office is not bad, that is, Cheng Long starred in the drunken fist in 78.
Huang Feihong in Drunken Fist is completely different from Guan Dexing's Huang Feihong, Cheng Long's Huang Feihong is lively, clever and brave and full of enthusiasm, completely subverting Huang Feihong's original orthodox film personality.
One is the image of a dignified elder, and the other is the image of a funny teenager.
This is also one of the reasons why Cheng Long's drunken boxing, and his role as Huang Feihong can be accepted by the audience.
The sword goes sideways, and does not collide with the old man Guan's Huang Feihong.
If Cheng Long played a dignified and majestic Huang Feihong, Drunken Boxing would definitely not be so successful.
Because at that time, Mr. Guan Dexing was still filming Huang Feihong.
But now it's different, it's been ten years since the last Huang Feihong of Guan Dexing's old man.
It's been ten years since Cheng Long's drunken fist.
In the past ten years, the form of Hong Kong kung fu movies has made great strides.
Ten years ago, the one-and-one-glance action is no longer in fashion.
Ten years is also enough time to make most of the audience have a vague impression of the image of Guan Dexing and Cheng Long's Huang Feihong.
Wong Fei Hung's image shaping has gained new possibilities.
Xu Ke saw this opportunity, and he wanted to create his own era of Huang Feihong.
In terms of image, Huang Feihong, who is different from Guan Dexing and Cheng Long, can neither blindly hold it nor be blindly funny.
After all, in the hearts of the audience, a grandmaster-level figure like Huang Feihong should be stylish, especially if Cheng Long does not perform it, others play Huang Feihong, just be funny, and it will make people play.
is like Tan Yonglin's Huang Feihong laughing biography, Huang Feihong played in name, but no one will really treat his Huang Feihong as Huang Feihong.
Because that's completely watching Huang Feihong become popular, make money, and make a spoof of money.
Therefore, Xu Ke's setting of Huang Feihong is humble and handsome, humorous in seriousness, and warmth in domineering.
He wants to give Wong Fei Hung a new personality.