This "Orangutan King" is roughly about the owner of an entertainment company who accidentally learns that there is an incredibly large gorilla in a forest in India, with a huge body and a very short temper. The big boss saw the business opportunity and moved the idea of catching the gorillas to Hong Kong to perform.

Well...... This idea coincides with "King Kong".

With an idea, the big boss of the entertainment company hired an explorer starring Li Xiuxian and wanted him to go to the great forest of India to capture the orangutan king.

It must have been difficult at first, and it was inevitable to meet some primitive tribesmen on the way, and after all kinds of difficulties, the explorers never found any trace of the gorilla, and then somehow a person got lost in the forest. To make matters worse, he was attacked by various wild animals, and the Orangutan King also appeared at this time.

Just when the explorers thought they were dead, a "Tarzan of the Apes" suddenly appeared with a mouth that made a "whining" sound and could wander among the forest trees on vines.

Oh no, it's not Tarzan of the Apes, it's a blonde and blue-eyed female savage named Avi, who wears only animal skins.

The story is here, I believe many people also understand what the follow-up plot will be, it is nothing more than the ignorant female savage who saved the explorer, she who had never seen a man, fell in love with the handsome explorer, the two had ambiguous feelings for each other, and spent one wonderful night after another in the forest.

After that, the explorer wanted to return to the city, and returned to Hong Kong with the wild woman and her father-like orangutan king, and then an unprecedented scene of the orangutan king vs. the royal police broke out......

If you look at it purely from the audience's point of view, this Shaw Brothers "dedicated" follow-up masterpiece "Orangutan King", whether it is in terms of entertainment effect or for the box office, the whole film feels okay, at least it mixes all the elements of the current movie blockbuster.

There is the handsome and handsome star Li Xiuxian, the exotic Avi from Russia, the big boss of an entertainment company with a conspiracy, and the adventure of the primeval forest, as well as the innocent love shown in the classic "Tarzan" movie.

Drawing on the creativity of many foreign films such as "King Kong" and "Tarzan", the whole film can be said to be a large collection of commercial element films.

In addition to the fact that the shape of the Orangutan King is a bit embarrassing and the story is a bit too simple, in fact, from the perspective of commercial films and audiences, it is still a movie that can be watched with a relaxed mood.

So when Li Hanxiang asked Huo Yaowen how to watch this movie, he gave an ambiguous answer of "okay", on the one hand, he has seen too many commercial blockbusters, and relying on his vision of the previous decades, it is actually not very fair to this movie.

On the other hand, that is, the filming of this movie is indeed okay, at least there are a lot of foreign girls in it, and there is a funny scene of a female savage taking a bath in the bathroom for the first time, which is very in line with the style of Li Hanxiang, the master of Fengyue, and this alone is enough to cope with the ticket price of some groups of audiences.

"Then, according to your experience in the world, can you sell it abroad?"

Li Hanxiang looked at Huo Yaowen with some expectation.

"It should be okay, your film is still in line with the preferences of foreigners. Huo Yaowen thought about it and gave a comment that he thought was very pertinent.

After all, it is borrowed from "Tarzan" and "King Kong", two well-known movies in Europe and the United States, as long as you don't grasp the similarity of the plot and don't let go, it shouldn't be a problem to sell it to Europe and the United States.

"Really!"

Li Hanxiang was so excited, he didn't expect that a script he casually found Ni Frame to write, and the film that took less than two months to make up could really be sold abroad.

"Hmm. ”

Huo Yaowen smiled, nodded and said, "I will help you talk to Toho in Japan and the distribution department of Fox in the United States, but whether you are willing to buy it depends on what they mean." You can talk to another publisher for the rest. ”

Recently, the film festival has developed well, attracting many foreign distributors to come and watch the film. According to Huo Yaowen's personal opinion, this time at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, in addition to the "Jurassic Park" he invested, the most likely to be favored by these filmmakers should be this "Orangutan King".

"Enough, enough, I will be satisfied if I can handle the two big ticket warehouses of Japan and the United States. Li Hanxiang clenched his fists, he didn't have much ambition, and he couldn't be happier to be released in Japan and the United States.

"Okay, I'll talk about it then. I'll leave first. ”

Huo Yaowen is rare to have time today, taking time to watch the film with Li Hanxiang, he has been dealing with the film festival recently, not to mention how busy he is.

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In fact, Huo Yaowen said that the biggest benefit of this film festival is "The Orangutan King", which is not groundless, you must know that the first Hong Kong International Film Festival, although there are more than 50 directors and works brought to the exhibition, but the really high-quality and famous works and directors, in addition to Kurosawa's "Delsu Uzara" two years ago, that is, Spielberg's "Jurassic Park".

Akira Kurosawa was famous all over the world as early as the 50s, and was named the emperor of film in Japan, both in Japan and in the world film industry.

And Spielberg has become a well-known Hollywood director after making hundreds of millions of dollars around the world with "Jaws", coupled with this adaptation of "Jurassic Park" of the same name by Huo Yaowen, it is difficult not to attract attention.

Foreign media, including film companies, pay almost 50% of their attention, and then there is the change of Huo Yaowen, a great writer, who suddenly becomes the chairman of the film festival, and the rest will pay attention to Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, etc., which they think are niche films.

Among them, the movie with the most commercial value and in line with the preferences of Europeans and Americans, there is only one "Orangutan King" produced by Shaw Brothers, as long as no one bothers about the plot of the film, I think there will still be many filmmakers who spend a small amount of money to sell the film and bring it back to China for screening.

Little by little, time passed.

The seven-day film festival is coming to an end, and more than 100,000 Hong Kong audiences have bought tickets to watch the film, which can contribute only a few million at the box office.

It can be said that the first Hong Kong International Film Festival was not held very smoothly, but the members of the Film Association, including Huo Yaowen, are actually quite satisfied with the smooth holding of this international film festival.

Although the number of directors and exhibited works is not large, and the quality is not high, at least it has made the Hong Kong Film Festival famous, which will be of great help to continue to develop the film festival in the future.

During the period, the happiest thing for Hong Kong filmmakers was that the "Orangutan King" produced by Shaw Brothers sold the film rights of 17 countries and obtained a good price of more than 5 million US dollars, which is a lot of money compared to the total investment of less than 1 million Hong Kong dollars, not counting the local box office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan!

So after "The Orangutan King" sold at a good price, Shaw Brothers Cinemas also released the movie for the first time, and even advertised in newspapers and theaters, saying that this film was popular with many countries and how much money it sold before it was released.

Not to mention, the publicity effect is very good, the Hong Kong local box office broke 500,000 on the first day of release, and the Shaw Brothers Cinema Line is also a rare situation for many years, and Taiwan has sold 1 million Taiwan dollars, which can be called a double flowering at home and abroad.

With an investment of less than 1 million Hong Kong dollars, in exchange for a high profit of nearly 30 million, Uncle Shao Liu's mouth has been smiling crookedly these days, and when he met Huo Yaowen at the film festival and association, he was also smiling, and he couldn't see the contradictions between the two of them before due to TV stations and film companies.

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