Chapter 42: A Lively New Year
At the beginning of the 80s, it was the world of Golden Harvest, because the junior brother was released, and the box office broke 10 million.
In the middle of August of the year, it was the world of Shaw Brothers, because the God of Gamblers was released, and it directly broke the box office threshold of 20 million, reaching 25 million.
At the end of the year, the Shaw Brothers died down, and Golden Harvest originally thought that he was the dominant family, but he didn't expect a new spoiler to be added.
A week before New Year's Day, on December 24th, the ghost fight produced by Golden Harvest's general, Hong Jinbao's Baoxiang Pictures, was released in Golden Harvest Cinemas.
On the same day, the first film made by Xinyicheng, which had just been established not long ago, was released in Golden Princess Cinemas.
On this day, the original time and space shocked the Hong Kong film industry, and the limelight was unrivaled for a while, beating Golden Harvest, and the two giants of Shaw Brothers could not resist the new art city stepped on the stage of Hong Kong film history for the first time.
What is ridiculous is that the director of this pioneering work of the new art city, the comical era, was filmed by Wu Yusen, a contracted director of Golden Harvest, under the pseudonym Wu Shangfei.
In September, Mai Jia, Shi Tian, and Huang Baiming established a new art city with the support of Lei Juekun, the owner of the new princess cinema line, but the investment was in hand, but they couldn't find anyone who could be a director, so they had to entrust Wu Yusen to Wu Yusen.
Wu Yusen is both a director and a screenwriter, and Shi Tian, one of the three giants of New Art City, is the starring role.
The film tells the story of a homeless man in the post-war society of economic recession, in the midst of hunger and poverty, encountering the orphan Wang Wei, the poor singer Xiuwen and a drunk, a bad guy who trafficked in human beings kidnapped the singer and the orphan together, and finally the homeless man and the drunk man rose up to ambition to subdue the bad guy and rescue the orphan and the singer.
After the release of this film, and the film of Jiahe Hong Jinbao, which was released at the same time, is a ghost fight, that is you come and I fight back and forth.
Wu Shangfei, where did this director pop up?
Whenever Zou Wenhuai remembered this funny era that he was doing against his family, he couldn't help but grit his teeth and chatter.
Thanks to Zou Wenhuai, he didn't know that it was Wu Yusen under him, otherwise he would have to die of anger, and he would have strangled Wu Yusen to death before he died.
Funny Times and Ghost Fighting, the quality of both movies is very high, and the box office is stalemate all the way, and in the end, as the pioneering work of supernatural kung fu films, Ghost Fighting is still slightly better.
No way, Hong Jinbao's Hong family class action design is absolutely first-class, and at the same time pays attention to the fun of traditional Chinese ghost and god customs. The fight is also wonderful, and the horror and horror are just right.
There is comedy in fights, horror in comedy, and there are various elements, so naturally it is a little more popular than the burlesque era.
Especially in the ghost fight, the plot of the two sides setting up an altar to fight and invite the gods to come on is too funny, Sun Dasheng beats Nezha, the red boy stands in Lu Dongbin, Hong Fatzi's huge body plays monkey fist and then makes the red tassel gun, everyone is laughing when they watch this paragraph.
In the end, even if the painting was painted three days earlier than the comic era, the ghost fight still got a higher box office of 5.67 million.
The funny era was released for three more days and got a box office of 5.18 million.
You must know that the total investment in the funny era is only one million, more than five million, and the new art city can get two and a half million.
Golden Harvest here, is also quite satisfied with the box office of ghosts and ghosts, although it is not as good as Shaw Brothers's two fierce films, but the ghost fighting ghosts have only been released for half a month, and whether it is the God of Gamblers or the best friend, it has been released for a month, of course, these two films have been released for a long time because the attendance rate is guaranteed, unlike the ghost fighting and funny era, the attendance rate fell below the bottom line in just half a month, and I had to draw.
When these two movies were released, it was in time for Christmas, and when the painting was made, 1980 had passed, and the time came to 1981, almost entering the Spring Festival.
Whether it is Christmas or Spring Festival, it is the period when movies are most concentrated, and blockbusters and blockbusters are basically concentrated in such a time period.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, on January 30th, another general of Golden Harvest, directed by Xu Guanwen, a cold-faced smiler, and the fierce film Modern Bodyguard starring the Xu brothers was released in Golden Harvest Cinemas.
Then, throughout the Spring Festival, the movies everyone talked about were basically all modern bodyguards, and most of the actors they talked about were Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie, as for Xu Guanying, who was very ugly and ugly, he was ignored most of the time.
Golden Harvest's movie is being released, and Qiao Feng is torn between Zhong Chuhong and Guan Zhilin, accompanying this today, accompanying that tomorrow, he watched three modern bodyguards alone.
is busy every day, Wang Jing can't help but ridicule him that he has forgotten his career because of love.
"Tell me, how long has it been since you wrote a new script, have you forgotten how to write a script?"
On this day, Wang Jing invited Qiao Feng to his house for dinner, and as soon as Qiao Feng entered his house, Wang Jing couldn't wait to mock him.
"Happy New Year, Uncle Tianlin." Qiao Feng first greeted Wang Jing's chubby Wang Tianlin.
"Happy New Year." Wang Tianlin Maitreya Buddha said with a smile.
After saying hello, Qiao Feng looked at Wang Jing and said, "How do you know that I didn't write a script?
"Who are you fooling, you're so busy every day that you can't go home, and you still write scripts, you wrote it in your dreams." Wang Jing sneered.
"For geniuses, let alone dreams, I'm writing scripts when I'm in a bang." Qiao Feng said with a strange smile.
"Bang bang?" Wang Jing doesn't understand this stalk.
"That's .....," Qiao Feng whispered and laughed and leaned into Wang Jing's ear to explain.
"Get out." Wang Jing scolded with a smile.
After laughing with Qiao Feng, Wang Jing ran back to the kitchen and his wife were busy cooking.
Qiao Feng sat on the sofa and chatted with Wang Tianlin.
"Ah Feng, what new script have you written recently, can you give me a sneak peek of this old man." Wang Tianlin asked with a smile.
"Well, I really let Ah Jing say it right, I didn't bother writing a new script recently." Qiao Feng said embarrassedly.
Seeing that Wang Tianlin was a little disappointed, Qiao Feng said again: "However, I have written a few chapters of the novel, and I plan to serialize it in the newspaper after the New Year."