Chapter 182: Box Office, Word of Mouth
The gentleman was stunned and insisted on the theater for fifteen days, even if the attendance rate had fallen below the profit line, but Lei Juekun was stunned and did not arrange the painting.
However, although she lost some money, Princess Jin also has a better reputation in an independent production company, even if Lei Juekun supports Junzi because this film is produced by Yongjia Pictures, which has its own investment and accounts for the majority.
Who made the three mainstream cinemas in Hong Kong, Princess Jin was the first to cancel the bottom of the film package, and it is also the one with the least number of satellite companies, leaving the best film schedule for independent production companies!
The gentleman got a box office of 9.5 million in half a month, thanks to Ye Qianwen's release of the album of the same name at the end of the film's release, which brought the attendance rate that had fallen to the bottom back to the profit line.
And when the fans burst out of the short-term enthusiasm consumption, when the attendance rate fell again, it was already time for the gentleman to draw.
Seeing that he could only get six or seven million box office, but because of the starring reasons, the box office increased by two or three million, which also proved that Yongjia Pictures spent 400,000 yuan to hire Ye Qianwen It was a very wise decision, at least the two or three million box office brought up by his popularity alone has proved that Ye Qianwen's salary of 400,000 yuan is worth it for this movie.
When the box office of the happy ghost exceeded 20 million and was about to come to the end of the screening, Golden Harvest released a film, which is very vivid and realistic, especially appropriate to the real situation that Hong Kong is currently facing.
This film is called the Provincial Hong Kong Flag Soldiers, directed by McDonald Bear.
The film made a new gangster term quickly popular, and that was the Big Circle Gang.
This is a story about a gang of mainland smugglers who came to Hong Kong to rob, when China and Britain negotiated round after round on the Hong Kong issue, and Hong Kong's future was undecided, Hong Kong filmmakers successively produced some films to reflect the anxiety of Hong Kong people in this regard, and this provincial Hong Kong flag soldier is one of the masterpieces.
In the only film he directed himself, he first took the phenomenon of the era of robbery in Hong Kong as the theme, and used all the non-professional actors at the time, including Lin Wei, Huang Jian, Jiang Long, etc., to play important roles, and then secretly went to the mainland to shoot some real scenes, which greatly increased the realism of the film. In terms of drama, the most recent drama emphasizes the military background of the Big Circle Gang, so as to reflect their criminal motives that are out of step with Hong Kong society and take risks. As for the plot of betrayal and betrayal between gangsters, it is also wonderfully written.
It can be said that it is the ancestor of many realistic Hong Kong shootout films in the future, the Kowloon Walled City street battle chase shot with a portable camera, giving full play to the tense and exciting atmosphere of police and bandit action movies, which will be shocked for more than ten or twenty years, let alone for Hong Kong audiences at this time.
The screenwriter of this film is Chen Xingjian, known as Chen Sir, because this person's identity before stepping into the film industry was a policeman, and he was also a senior member of the Hong Kong police, Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force.
Coincidentally, in 1975, Xiao Fangfang invited Chen Xingjian to participate in the script creation of the police film "Jumping Ashes", which was also the first police film in Hong Kong, thus creating the genre of Hong Kong police and gangster films.
Chen Xingjian was a literary backbone when he was in school, and the first Chinese pop band in Hong Kong was also formed by Chen Xingjian, he is still the lead singer, and the band has also released records.
After becoming a police officer, he did not give up his personal hobby, he wrote and promoted the theme song "lltandabc" for the "school traffic safety team", and sang this song on TV and major radio stations and called on students to pay attention to traffic safety, so he was called "singing inspector".
Jumping Ash was a great success, exceeding 1 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office within three days of release, setting many records for Hong Kong films.
Chen Xingjian found that he was not a policeman, and he could develop very well in the entertainment industry, and he especially liked to engage in artistic creation, so he thought about it and had smooth sailing, and he was promoted from a police officer to a chief inspector and then to a superintendent in ten years.
So, in 1976, Chen Xingjian quit his police job and devoted himself to the entertainment industry, serving as an editor and consultant for criminal TV dramas, and also played a police officer or criminal police officer in the play as an actor.
Due to the identity of a former senior police officer, Chen Xingjian has a natural advantage over the theme of police and bandits, so he created the script of the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers, which injected fresh vitality into the portrayal of the characters in the script and made the plot in the film more realistic.
And the director Mai Dangxiong, who was the TV drama producer in the early days, did TV dramas, and when Li's TV station was able to compete with wireless for a while, and even forced wireless to make an off-market move to deal with the deliberate disappearance of the protagonist of the silkworm transformation, it was all the credit of McDonald Bear.
After Leigh's TV station was sold in '81, McDonald opened a film production company to focus on film creation.
His first film in the film industry, "Pretty Girl", which won the Best Actress Award and Best Packaging Award at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards, followed by the production of the action film "The Bald Girl", McDonald Bear traveled around and took the film to Cannes, Milan and Asian Film Festivals, and in the end, the film was purchased by more than 80 places, bringing him more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
This man is an extremely capable film and television producer, but he is better known for the madness of McDonald Bear, whose forte lies in "fake shows".
When filming the beautiful girl, he really found the little sister to be an actor, and the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers really found a big circle to play the robbers, and selected 6 people from more than 300 "big circles" with mainland identities, and then compared the personality, language and behavior of these 6 people, the writing and directing team spent several months adjusting the script, and striving to achieve that everyone plays themselves.
This is not counting, when filming a scene where the police chased the robbers in the downtown area, McDonald Bear started filming directly without applying to the police department, Lin Wei and others were scurrying on the street, being hit by a car, and the random shooting caused a panic among the citizens, all of which were secretly filmed "real scenes", everyone didn't know that it was filming, except for the actors, the expressions of others were all the most real expressions that should be after encountering a gunfight.
Then the real police naturally arrived after receiving the alarm, but before the police arrived, McDonald Bear had already finished filming the required footage and retreated, leaving the police to pounce.
The most thrilling scene Mai Dang Bear told Shen Wei that he needed to tie him up in the car, after Shen Wei agreed, he arranged to pour gasoline and ignite outside, and the whole car burned up at once, and McDonald Bear didn't tell Shen Wei in advance that he was drenched with gasoline and ignited, Shen Wei was scared stupid, when the scene was filmed and the staff let Shen Wei out, Shen Wei, who was almost burned by the fire, immediately chased and cut McDonald's Bear.
The happy ghost won the box office during the summer vacation, even if the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers have just been released, and the happy ghost summer vacation is about to be drawn, but the daily box office is still the happy ghost pressing the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers.
But after the release of the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers, it was a happy ghost on summer vacation in terms of word-of-mouth.
It's just that because it is too realistic and too violent, the audience of this film has naturally been affected, and the content of the film is too dark.
As a result, the box office of the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers with a good reputation can only be regarded as okay.
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