Chapter 217: Born at the wrong time

Although Home Alone is still popular in the United States, especially in January and February, which is the early strategy time of the Academy Awards' awards season, most of the films released at this point in time are literary films, or feature films that are more inclined to awards and favored by awards/

Even if there are box office blockbuster films being released, most of them are for the sake of the awards season, special communication, and let a few, more than a dozen theaters screen the films to be raided from time to time.

Just like Back to the Future and Mr. and Mrs. Qiao, these two films were produced by the production company, that is, DreamWorks, a film production company controlled by Qiao Feng, and both films were declared for the Academy Awards by DreamWorks.

And back to the future has also been nominated for several awards of importance can.

James Cameron and Anne Heard finally got together, and Anne Heard's company became famous because of the success of the previous Terminator, and the special Terminator also became popular with director James Cameron.

And although Cameron was happy to cooperate with during the Terminator period, and because Qiao Feng gave him all the rights he wanted, he felt very valued and believed, so he later joined Qiao Feng's company after a simple thought, but he still spared no effort to promote Anne Heard's film distribution company.

Anne Held's business scope includes such a service as public relations for film awards, aimed at such a group of people who are ready to make a difference during the awards season.

And because he has worked together before, and Anne Hurd is already James Cameron's woman, and James Cameron is his most powerful director in Hollywood, so Qiao Feng's face must be given to others.

As a result, the nominations for the two films Back to the Future and Mr. and Mrs. Joe will finally be recognized by many Oscar Academy personnel depends on Anne Heard's public relations ability.

A month after the release of Home Alone, it is awards season for a long time, which naturally means that there are very few films that can compete with Home Alone in this schedule.

Although, in North America and Hollywood, Home Alone is the most frequently mentioned movie name, but in Hong Kong it is not so glorious.

There's no way, Home Alone has only been released in Hong Kong for a month before it was painted, even if it's very bullish, but what, after this thing was sent back to Hong Kong after the North American box office shocked people's eyeballs, Hong Kong insiders were shocked and scared to death.

But it's just a shock, after all, the little ghost has already been painted in Hong Kong, and everyone who should be surprised has been surprised, and the box office in the United States doesn't seem to have anything to do with Hong Kong, you are a box office hit in the United States but you may not be able to take more whistles in Hong Kong.

Just when the little ghost is wreaking havoc in North America and no longer receives more attention in Hong Kong, the annual Spring Festival stall has arrived.

First of all, Golden Harvest Cinema released an urban kung fu action comedy police story starring Cheng Long, Lin Qingxia, and Zhang Manyu.

Then on February 10th, Fuxing Gaozhao, one of the five lucky star series directed by Hong Jinbao, was also released at Golden Harvest.

Because of the release of these two films, Golden Harvest almost didn't have other films scheduled during the same period, and it all gave these two films a canvas.

Fuxing Gaozhao is a series of five lucky stars, but it has nothing to do with the previous work, although several leading actors are basically there, but they are already playing another wave of people.

The story is about the third brother (played by Lin Zhengying), a scum in the police world, who swept jewelry worth nearly 100 million yuan and fled to Japan, and there were two detectives, Dalimaru (played by Cheng Long) and Wei (played by Yuan Biao), who followed and pursued him, but the third brother was still rescued by Matsumoto, the leader of the Japanese underworld, and the two of them were also in crisis.

Due to restrictions on public image, the Hong Kong police are reluctant to use local police forces. Superintendent Cao (played by Cao Da) finds the criminal Partridge (played by Hung Jinbao), who is serving a prison sentence, and hopes to use his power to extradite the third brother back to Hong Kong. Partridge then gathers friends from the orphanage, American Ginseng (played by Qin Shenlin), Rhino Skin (played by Feng Qufan), Da Shengdi (played by Wu Yaohan) and Luo Han Guo (played by Zeng Zhiwei). Under the coercion and temptation of Superintendent Cao, the five jokes continue to make jokes and embark on a journey to Japan with the female police detective Bawanghua.

In this movie, the mileage dragon is not the protagonist, but it is not a supporting role, and there are quite a lot of scenes.

Cheng Long and Yuan Biao's scenes have increased a lot compared with the first part, this time the five lucky stars moved the lively stage to Japan, in order to cater to the heroic nature of several brothers, the heroine this time was replaced by the same beautiful female superintendent Overlord Flower (Hu Huizhong), on the way, the five people were courteous to Overlord Flower, and they wanted to get the favor of beauties and each had their own strange tricks. The film has endless jokes and a lot of tricks.

In the final desperate struggle, Partridge and Dalimaru successfully defeated their opponents, and the muscular beating girl faced by Overlord Flower was very powerful, Overlord Flower's leg was kicked and couldn't stand, and she was knocked on the stomach hard, and in the end, it was Partridge Dish who beat the girl to death, and Wufuxing won a big victory.

The story is as old-fashioned as ever, and there is no novelty, and the logic is full of loopholes, but I have to say that the audience likes to watch some jokes, but they don't like to watch movies with their brains.

Therefore, those literary films that were released at the same time and wanted to gamble big with small fights were applauded by film critics, and they became rotten leaves in the mouths of non-professionals.

In the nonsensical humor and the fight between the Seven Little Blessings, it suddenly inserted into a pure Geisha performance, which feels more wonderful;

After arriving at the horror playground scene, the set soundtrack has won the essence of the beauty of Japanese shadows;

In the end, the fierce fight is very in line with the characteristics of this era, and the ultimate fight at the end is also a mixture of Hong Kong and Japanese, which is refreshing.

The day after the release of the police story, the box office and the word-of-mouth of the general audience who have seen the movie are basically growing in positive proportion.

The box office reached 3.8 million on the first day, and such a result directly threw off the Shaw Brothers film that was released more than 20 days earlier.

But the film on the Shaw Brothers' side is actually not bad, and the storyline tells the story of the kapok robe in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

The rebel ranks waved Shaolin flags one after another. Wang Cheng, the head of Jinyiwei, regarded Shaolin Temple as a thorn in his side, he instructed his minion Qi Tianyuan to cut his hair and become a monk, and falsely passed on the holy decree, and ordered Qi to be the host of Shaolin Temple, and then made waves in the temple, and then was counterattacked by the male protagonist Huineng The story.

The model of "Kapok Robe" is similar to that of "Shaolin Temple", but it is well-made, the scenes span Saibei, the Central Plains and Wudang Mountain, and the cast and crew are also extremely strong.

The actor is played by the national martial arts champion Xu Xiangdong, who is famous in the martial arts world for his "Eagle Claw Boxing". The heroine is Taijiquan champion Lin Qiuping, and the villain starring is the smash hit action star Yu Rongguang, in addition to Qiao Feng's "kamikaze stunt team" to join the assistant, in comparison, even "Shaolin Temple" is slightly inferior.

But this film did not become a box office hit like Shaolin Temple, although the box office was ideal, it was only 15 million.