The next day, almost all of the Hong Kong newspapers reported on the press conference of "Hoe Rape" in the entertainment section, and the media coverage of "Hoe Rape" was extremely divided, showing two completely different attitudes.

Not to mention anything else, you can see the difference just by the photos selected by the newspaper, Xu Wangqiu is a handsome guy in the left/faction media, while the ugly photos of Xu Wangqiu are selected by the right/faction media, looking grinning and like Feng Xiaogang's cousin. As for the content of the report, not to mention, the pro-left/faction Xu Wangqiu is all kinds of praise, and the right/faction media mouth Xu Wangqiu is a clown who relies on the shadow of his parents to gain fame and reputation.

"Look at it, you are a gentleman from Beiping City, and you are the grandson of General Xu, saying that you are relying on your grandfather to do evil, and you also said that the movie was not made by you, but you fell in love with someone else's movie and robbed it of someone else's movie. Look at it, this matter is very troublesome, don't be so impulsive in the future!" Zhao Shan put the newspaper in front of Xu Wangqiu and shook his head slightly. Xu Wangqiu is good at everything, but he can't control his temperament, it's nothing when he's young now, but I'm afraid he will suffer when he's older.

"The imagination of these reporters is really rich enough, fortunately I didn't shoot "Shaolin Temple", otherwise there would be more people pulling General Xu. Xu Wangqiu had long been prepared for the attacks on the right/faction and the pro-Taiwan media, but he didn't expect these people to have such a rich imagination that they actually found himself a grandfather who was a general, "But this is a good thing for "Hoe Rape", they scolded like this, but let more people know "Hoe Rape". ”

Zhao Shan shook his head and said, "You can think about it, but there are too many rumors, and it is not good for you after all." ”

Xu Wangqiu said with a smile: "The Buddha said: If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell." If you scold me for "Hoe Rape" and the box office rises by 1,000, then I will hang a sign around my neck and write two words on it to beg for scolding. ”

Zhao Shan also smiled: "You can still joke, I think you seem to be very confident in "Hoe Rape"!"

Xu Wangqiu nodded and said: "Mr. Xu, they have done their best in publicity, subway advertisements, newspaper advertisements, and even TV commercials; ”

There are roughly five Heung Kong cinema lines: Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Lisheng, Anle and Shuangnan. Needless to say, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest are owned by Jiang Zhiqiang's brothers, specializing in Hollywood movies, and Lisheng is the predecessor of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, which belongs to the Lei family.

As a mainland movie, "Hoe Rape" is obviously impossible to be released in other theaters, and can only be released in Shuangnan theaters. With the release of "Hoe Rape" this time, Southern Pictures felt that the scale of Shuangnan Cinemas was still too small, so it attracted those small theaters that were not under the jurisdiction of the cinema line, plus some theaters run by patriotic capitalists, and made up enough of 18 theaters. This scale is certainly not comparable with the films released by Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, but it is already the limit of left/school films.

Although the release scale of "Hoe Rape" is not large, because Southern Pictures has a theater chain in its own hands, and many film companies dare not get the films screened in Shuangnan Cinemas, for fear of offending Taiwan, there are few films released in Shuangnan Cinemas, and the release cycle is relatively generous. Like other cinema movies, they will generally be released within half a month of release, while Shuangnan Cinema gave "Hoe Rape" a one-month release cycle, and if the performance is good enough, it can be postponed.

On November 1, 1979, "Hoe Rape" was officially released in Xiangjiang. Also released on the same day were Xu Anhua's "Crazy Robbery", Zhang Che's "Golden Arm Boy", and some pornographic films that sell meat.

On this day, a large number of leftist/faction audiences walked into the cinema, including students from patriotic schools such as the Heung Kong Vocational School, factory workers, and officials in suits and leaders of the labor movement. In addition, there are many ordinary audiences and war movie lovers who are attracted to the theater by the advertisement.

The audience who walked into the movie to watch "Hoe Rape" is very mixed, there are various groups, and the mentality of watching the movie is also different. But when they walked into the cinema, most of them saw what they wanted. For leftist audiences, they saw the revolution and sacrifices, they would cry when Zhang Ran and others sang "The Internationale" and walked to the execution ground, and they would laugh when they saw the victory of the revolution. For audiences who want to watch war movies or gunfight movies, seeing the most real and tragic battles makes their blood boil. For people like Guo Yuan who deliberately came to pick on the thorns, they saw a bunch of problems. For the vast majority of viewers who have a growing mentality and want to watch an entertainment movie, they are very comfortable watching it.

"Hoe Rape" is very well made, with a lot of detail and a lot to discuss.

When the movie screening was over and the audience walked out of the cinema, many people started discussing it directly on the side of the road. Different groups of people discuss different contents, the left/faction discusses revolution, and the petty bourgeoisie discusses love, but almost everyone will mention one point, that is, the special effects of "Hoe Rape", and they all think that the special effects of the movie are not inferior to Hollywood.

"This director is really not bragging, the special effects of "Hoe Rape" are really more advanced than the Americans, the effect is so amazing, it looks like the real thing. What the hell is a war movie! That machine gun beats people into a sieve is so shocking!"

"It's incredible, the special effects in the mainland are amazing, it's really better than Hollywood! How did they do it? This effect is so good! That grenade explosion scene just scared me. ”

"Compared with the war scenes of "Hoe Rape", Hollywood is not strong enough, and the shootout movies in other countries are like children playing at home. I didn't expect the mainland to be able to make such a movie, this director is really amazing! I'm not yet 20 years old, and I'll be his fan from now on!"

In the men's dormitory of the Hong Kong University of Technology, several boys were laughing and laughing in front of a pornographic magazine. At this moment, a tall, handsome young man with a thin face walked in. When the boys saw the handsome guy coming in, they beckoned to him: "Jiahui! Come here! The latest playboy, there are a few girls in it!"

Liang Jiahui waved his hand and said: "What's so good about the playboy, it's not boring to see you every day." I've found something better, the movie "The Rape", this film is really super bite! This is the best movie I've ever seen, you all go watch it!"

When a few boys heard this, they couldn't help but "cut": "Jiahui, are you mistaken? Do you think we haven't seen mainland movies? Mainland movies talk about big truths all day long, and they are so fake that they want to die, except for those old leftists, who will watch them?"

Liang Jiahui explained: "This one is different. Have you ever seen a bullet blow a person's head out? Have you ever seen a bomb blow people away? Have you ever seen a machine gun sweep people into a sieve? This movie is even hotter than Hollywood!"

Many boys are very fond of gunfight-themed films, after all, guns are a blood-pumping thing. Several boys were the same, they were a little moved when they heard Liang Jiahui's words, but they were still a little skeptical: "Jiahui, don't play with us!"

Liang Jiahui pointed to his head and said, "If I lie, you will blow my head." ”

Like Liang Jiahui, there are many viewers who recommend "Hoe Rape" to their friends for the first time, and the biggest reason why they recommend it is that the movie is good-looking, and the gunfight scenes in it are more real and popular than Hollywood.

The genre of gunfight movies has a particularly large audience and is especially popular among young people. However, now Xiangjiang does not produce gunfight films, and the wave of gunfight films in Xiangjiang will wait until John Woo's "The True Color of Heroes" turns out, and now the audience can only watch Hollywood gunfight films. When the audience heard that there was a more real and popular gunfight movie in the mainland than the American gunfight movie, many people wanted to see if it was true.

The media reported wildly, coupled with the audience's word of mouth, so the box office of "Hoe Rape" exploded in the first week.

On Monday afternoon, Zhang Qingping, a reporter for Ta Kung Pao, received a call from Xu Dunle, the boss of Southern Pictures. After hearing the data reported by Xu Dunle, he was obviously stunned, and wondered if he had heard it wrong: "What did you say about the box office? Say it again!"

Xu Dunle shouted excitedly: "You heard it right, the box office of "Hoe Rape" in the first week was 1.83 million!"

If it can achieve a box office of 1.83 million in the first week, there is no doubt that the box office will exceed 3 million, and the final box office will definitely exceed 4 million, and may even rush to 5 million. If it can rush to 5 million, it will break the box office record of "Liu Sanjie" and become the box office champion of mainland films in Xiangjiang.

Two days ago, Xu Wangqiu told reporters that the box office of "Hoe Rape" could reach 3 million, and he was severely ridiculed by right-wing reporters. Those people are waiting to see Xu Wangqiu make a fool of himself, and this time the ugly one has become themselves!

The first-day numbers of "The Rape" were like wildfire, quickly spreading throughout the left-leaning media camp and related film institutions. Whether it is a media person or a filmmaker, they celebrate each other one by one, as happy as the New Year.

"I knew that "Hoe Rape" would definitely be a box office hit, well done!

""Hoe Rape" is too long-faced! It's too long for domestic movies! "Liu Sanjie" also performed very well last year, but "Liu Sanjie" is a pure song and dance film, and "Hoe Rape" is politically conscious, I didn't expect the box office to be so good!"

"Although I am more optimistic about "Hoe Rape", I really didn't expect Zhou to achieve such results, looking at this performance may surpass "Liu Sanjie", incredible, this is really a miracle!"

Of course, the first-week box office data of "Hoe Rape" has also reached the ears of the right/faction media, and many people feel like they are going crazy when they see this result, especially those reporters who ridicule Xu Wangqiu in the newspaper, and they have an urge to hit the wall.

"How is this possible? Aren't the people of Xiangjiang very much disgusted with the old communists? How can a movie of the old communists have a market in Xiangjiang? How can the box office be so good, it must be the old communists who are cheating, and they must have falsely reported the data!"

"Are the people of Xiangjiang crazy? What is there to see about a movie of the old Communist Party, and what is there to watch?"

"In the first week, I must have watched the supporters of the old Communist Party, and when these supporters finished reading, the data would soon fall, and the box office would definitely not be too good, it must be like this. ”

At the same time, many film company owners in Xiangjiang were also taken aback. In their eyes, mainland movies are all propaganda films with a strong didactic flavor, lacking entertainment, and Hong Kong audiences don't like to watch them at all. Seeing that Southern Pictures vigorously promoted "Hoe Rape", they all just watched it as a joke, but they never expected that the box office of "Hoe Rape" would really explode.

Xiangjiang movies have always liked to follow the trend, and after a movie is a box office hit, it is bound to trigger a frenzy of following the trend. After seeing the results of the first week of "The Rape", the boss of Heung Kong Film Company immediately paid close attention to "The Rape". Since the box office of "Hoe Rape" is so good, it means that there is a market, then we can also make this type of movie!