Chapter 698: Lively August
August, it's the last month of the summer season.
It was cool in July before, and there have been no very good movies released except for a bloody duo, but in August at the end of the summer season, there are several movies with good test reviews to be released.
Preparations for filming began last year, and Xiaoao Jianghu, which has been completed for a long time, will also be released in August.
Fortunately, the schedules of several movies are not conflicting, and two of the good ones will not be released until after the middle of the year, and by that time the popularity of the two movies released in early August will definitely have decreased.
The two movies that were scheduled to be released in the middle of the year are both Golden Harvest movies.No way, who made the best schedule in July basically arranged for Golden Harvest, and in August, it was naturally the turn of other companies' films.
One of the two movies belonging to Golden Harvest is a feature film called Xiang Jianhao, Zhong Chuhong is the heroine, Zhong Zhentao is the male protagonist, the surname Zhong controls the male and female protagonists, and the director is Xian Qiran.
Among Hong Kong film directors, white-collar workers and students are the main market, and Xian Qiran is definitely the best one.
As one of the most important directors of the New Wave, Xian Qiran did not make many films, and his works were not as avant-garde as those of other directors.
In his early years, he directed films such as "The Wrongdoer" (1979), "Love Robbery" (1980) and "Peppermint Coffee" (1982). "Enemies" and "Mint Coffee" are both urban dramas, and Xian Qiran's "middle-class taste" can be seen in these two films.
"The Enemy" is Xian Qiran's feature film debut, and it is a four-part light comedy. Love, Encounter, Waves, and Reunion are the four chapters of the film, which tell the story of urban men and women from love to marriage and then to changes after marriage.
The new wave is a new wave, which is not an amazing work, Xu Ke's "Butterfly Change", Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery", Zhang Guoming's "Pointing Soldiers", etc., which one is not an amazing work?
As for "The Enemy", it is relatively peaceful and not an amazing work.
At that time, the masters of comedy in the Hong Kong film industry were the Hui brothers. "The Enemy" is not an outstanding work, but it does have a sense of urbanity, and its production interest is also different from the market fun of the Xu brothers, which can be regarded as a self-contained work in comedy works.
From the perspective of "New Wave", the subsequent "Peppermint Coffee" is still a film that is not "new" enough. But in the Hong Kong film industry at that time, realistic urban works were extremely rare, and "Peppermint Coffee" could be regarded as a work that filled in the gaps. In this sense, Xian Qiran is well deserved to be a "New Wave" athlete.
And when it comes to this one, Xian Qiran's middle-class interest is finally a big success.The people in charge of watching the film in the theater are full of praise for this film, and I don't know if it's because the heroine is her own big boss, anyway, in the mouths of several people who are responsible for watching the film, this film has become the best feature film this year, there is no one.
One said that it was good to meet each other because of the heavy sword without a blade, the great ingenuity was not worked, and the simple story was filmed, which made the mood of happiness. Not pretentious, not twisted, excellent!
The other is that only Xian Qiran's films can be so authentic, and feminism is subtle and not pretentious.
But, what is the specific, Qiao Feng doesn't know in his heart, he hasn't seen this movie in the original time and space, and he doesn't plan to watch the sample film now.
Anyway, these professionals say yes, then it should be almost good, after all, their job is to watch the film and determine the prospects of the film, if it is to grasp the market, if it is not for those advanced memories in his mind, Qiao Feng is far inferior to these professionals.
Another Golden Harvest film in addition to seeing each other is Golden Harvest's best action movie.
Moreover, the starring role is also one of the three pillars of Golden Harvest's kung fu superstar Yuan Biao.
At the beginning of the year, a peacock prince made Yuan Biao open up his popularity in Yueben, and now in the Yueben market, Yuan Biao's popularity is much greater than that of his two senior brothers, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long.
With the box office volume of Yuben, Yuan Biao's films have earned much more at the box office when they were released in Yuben than in Hong Kong.
Therefore, taking advantage of Yuan Biao's entry into the market, Golden Harvest filmed a sci-fi action movie according to the path of the Peacock Prince, and also dug out the sleeping people when excavating the ruins, and then woke up to do things.
The difference is that the Peacock Prince is a mythical fantasy, and this one called Frozen Wonder is a martial arts, and the accurate positioning should be reborn.
The Ming Dynasty's lewd thief Feng San raped and killed the princess, and the imperial guard Fang Shouzheng was responsible for arresting his senior brother, and in the process of pursuit, Feng San wanted to steal the black jade Buddha from the master's treasure, so as to transcend time and space, but was blocked by Fang, and the two fell off the cliff and buried themselves in the snow.
In modern times, the Chinese geological research team found the bodies of the two men frozen in ice and wanted to transport them to the United States for research. Fang Shouzheng met the bad girl Ayu and became her personal bodyguard, while Feng San joined the Big Circle Gang to do evil. Fang read the newspaper and found that Feng San was also in Hong Kong, so he tried to pursue him.
This film is completely the same as the original time and space Baoqiang, Ren Dahua starring in the frozen: The Gate of Rebirth.
Qiao Feng didn't watch this sample either, but after hearing the secretary tell him the synopsis of this story, he felt as if he had seen it somewhere.
What Qiao Feng didn't know was that Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth was really based on this Frozen Wonder Man.
However, although the game was very exciting, it was complained by many people that it was a bad movie.
In comparison, the reputation of this original frozen wonder man in the eyes of professionals is much better.
The action scene is Yuan Biao and Yuan Hua carrying the banner, playing martial arts and stunts with a solid kung fu foundation, and it is quite interesting on the whole.
As far as the plot is concerned, it is relatively weak, and there are not many loopholes and hard injuries involving time and space travel, but this is a common problem of Hong Kong movies.
Again, although the plot is weak, at this time, Hong Kong movies have the integration of science fiction, action, gunfights, romance, comedy, pornography and other elements, which is both absurd and lively, and also makes up for the weakness of the plot to a certain extent.
Hong Kong cinema, just like Hong Kong culture and Hong Kong itself, is not simply a culture or genre, but a fusion of various elements, with a place for East and West, tradition and modernity. Reflected in the film, it forms a pluralism of genres and a kind of banter and rebellion against tradition.
The film Frozen Wonder Man is the epitome of this fusion culture.
The comedy gimmick is handed over to Zhang Manyu to be responsible, and in addition, a short scene of ridiculing the "mainland cousin" is also the favorite thing for Hong Kong movies to do at this time.
Overall, from the perspective of professionals and measured by the standards of entertainment commercial films, "Frozen Wizard" is a movie worth watching.
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Thanks to the book friend Little Tiger in the Demon World for a reward of 100 coins.