Chapter 622: The Essence of Imitation

March's movie is divided into two parts, one before the release of Ah Lang's story and one after the release of Ah Lang's story.

Before the release of Ah Lang's story, the Hong Kong film industry thought that Best Boyfriend and Lucky Star should be the two highest-grossing movies in March.

After Ah Lang's story was released, these people realized that they were very wrong. Almost no one expected that Ah Lang's story would be a big hit in Hong Kong or in a schedule like March.

This is something that Taiwan, which is famous for its tragic films and whose audiences also like to watch such movies, has not done it.

Unlike the wrong car back then, it was a hit in Taiwan, it was released for several months, and it was re-released for several months after the next painting, but the box office in Hong Kong was average.

Ah Lang's story is completely opposite, and it is just like that at the box office in Taiwan, when it comes to Hong Kong, a market that is known for commercial films and the audience prefers comedy and action, it has become a big hit.

On the first day of release, it got a daily box office of more than 4 million, which not only broke the daily box office record of Hong Kong's March schedule, but also broke the daily box office record of the entire off-season.

Not only was the box office a hit, but the word-of-mouth was also so good that it exploded, and almost all media critics gave it high praise.

"The Story of Ah Lang is a touching and tearful movie, and it is the most tearful and classic movie after taking the wrong car. Sing Tao Daily commented.

And the Oriental Daily, which is also one of the three major newspapers, also commented: "This is a movie about men, and it is also a movie about women. A prodigal son looks back, and a revisits old dreams. This film is better than the sincerity of feelings, women don't hate to hurt their old love, but they can no longer love such a man, and children have become the only bond that comes back together.

As for the Ming Bao that has become something in Qiao Feng's bag, he is even more praised.

At the end of "Ah Lang's Story", the fireworks that rose from the motorcycle to the ground, the slow mirror of Bo Bo and Bo Tsai running towards him when Ah Lang fell to the ground, Luo Dayou's rough and deep love song, this combination of punches down, and the touch in his heart immediately gave rise to tears.

A film, even if only one place can touch the heart, is enough to be called a success. And a touch can still move the heart at any time with the passage of time, which is enough to be called a classic.

The editors feel that "The Story of Ah Lang" is like this, and in addition to the touching and unforgettable ending, its core theme - home and love - is enough to touch the viewer's heart many times.

Although "The Story of Ah Lang" seems to tell the story of a rather down-and-out father and child, in fact, the film is a story of family and love, awakening and struggle in its prosaic. We will be moved by such a movie without Hong Kong characteristics of gunfights, police and bandits, martial arts elements, and even vague love, not because of Zhou Yunfa's rather unique role, nor because of Zhang Aijia's charm, but because: in the poor but happy fight between the father and the child, in the old entanglement between the husband and his ex-wife, in the choice of child custody, in the prodigal son's return and struggle, the delicate, plain, and real emotions.

There are very few local Hong Kong films that impress Hong Kong audiences who are accustomed to fights and shootouts in this way, but Ah Lang's story does it.

The director and screenwriter found a way to express the joyful or sad life under the prosperity of Hong Kong, and then touched the hearts of the audience through the use of real lens language, the real expression of life, and the delicate expression of emotions.

To quote a famous sentence of Mr. Lu Xun: Tragedy is the destruction of valuable things in life for others to see. What is valuable is love and righteousness, and the reason why the film has such a deep appeal is because the way it destroys is the infinite foreshadowing and accumulation of love and righteousness, but it stops abruptly and destroys it one second before the reunion that the emotional turmoil is about to burst. It was destroyed a second ago! “

Ming Pao took out a whole page to detail the evaluation and praise of Ah Lang's story, here in addition to Qiao Feng is the current shareholder and the future big boss, but also because Ah Lang's story is indeed rare, and it will look very good and tear-jerking classics after watching it now.

If it weren't for that, just because the box office was so high, even if Qiao Feng was already a big boss, Ming Pao would not take a page to report, after all, Ming Pao could be an elite newspaper with style.

Just like the previous gamblers, the box office was so high, and Ming Pao only used a piece the size of a tofu block to report it.

Ah Lang's story is also worthy of the praise of the media, film critics and audiences, and the box office is also soaring when the word of mouth is booming.

The box office reached 30 million Hong Kong dollars within 20 days of release, and this is not the limit, in the case of the inevitable decline in attendance and the reduction of film schedules, it can still get nearly one million box office every day.

Wait until it is released for a month, even if it doesn't exceed 40 million, it is estimated that it will not be much worse.

"Wouldn't it be nice if my new movie could also make that much at the box office?" That night, when Qiao Feng was reading some reports from the theater, Guan Zhilin, who had just taken a shower, was dressed coolly and clicked on the box office figures with Ah Lang's story and said with envy.

"Your new movie is not a drama, but you can look forward to the release of the summer file." Qiao Feng glanced up at the tender dripping Guan Da beauty and said funny.

"Who said it, how can it be another collaboration between me and Andy, even if the box office is not as good as the one played by Fa Ge, but it won't be bad." Guan Zhilin pouted and was dissatisfied with Qiao Feng's watching his new movie.

"I said it." Qiao Feng smiled and pointed to his nose: "Don't blame me for hitting you, your new film really can't get much box office, but the character image of you and Andy can be famous in film history."

"Tell me why my new movie isn't working?" Guan Zhilin rarely cared about what kind of box office her movie would get, but she didn't expect to be hit mercilessly by her own man, which made Guan Mei's popularity bad.

"The story is a bit ordinary.I think the screenwriter may want to imitate Top Gun.It's just that this imitation is a little off.You have to know that the reason why Top Gun was a big hit at the beginning,In addition to the handsome guys and beauties,The most important thing is that there are those new American fighter planes in it.The audience really watched Tom Cruise and the heroine fall in love.There are few,The audience watched those fighters whizzing across the sky.Your new film imitates the right routine.But the real essence has not been able to imitate.,Do you say the final box office can be good. ?“