Chapter 107: Lived in Simplicity
Just when Chen Jialuo was involved in the so-called underworld shootout, the box office of "Prison Storm" was like a rocket launch, which made everyone in the Hong Kong film industry jaw-dropping.
It's just a week and one day away, and a movie like "Prison Storm", which is only starring Zhou Runfa, broke through the box office of 10 million at the same time as the big cast production "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" led by Fang Long.
What is the box office performance in Xiangjiang? Whether it is "Prison Storm" or "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" alone, it can be said that it is a proud laugh, killing any so-called big cast production and any box office appeal movie.
If Fang Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" was fought for his life and relied on the big cast, the audience had already expected it.
Then "Prison Storm" is completely Chen Jialuo with Zhou Runfa to use his mantis arm as a car, a young director who wrote, directed, and even arranged the episode, forcibly pulled out the image of Zhou Runfa from the little brother Ma and gave it a new life.
and Liang Jiahui, who performed amazingly, who would have thought that this cowardly and brave guy in the movie would be reduced to the point where there is no drama to film? Who would have thought that the unbearable big mi was actually Zhou Yanfa's agent?
"Hey, Manager Li, there is a long queue at the entrance of the theater here in Causeway Bay, and I still have to watch "Prison Storm"!"
In the general manager's office of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, Li Kai took the phone and said without hesitation: "Continue to add more scenes! This movie is so popular that the bald guy has nothing to say when he comes. ”
In this case, no one has anything to say.
At the beginning, everyone said that the infighting in Xinyi City was serious, and "Prison Storm" was not the opponent of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" at all, and it couldn't even beat Xu Guanjie's "The Legend of Wesley".
But in fact?
The two movies have been on the same level since the midnight test screening. After the official release, the audience who came to buy tickets all wanted to buy "Prison Storm", which directly led to the legend of "Wesley" becoming a movie that no one cared about.
The only thing that can be done now is to add a game. Add as much as you can!
As for the number of screenings of "The Legend of Wesley", it has been significantly reduced, and it has become a foil, which is a helpless choice for audiences when they can't buy "Prison Storm".
Even so, there are still long queues at the entrances of the Golden Princess's movie theaters.
"I have to buy a ticket today, but I didn't wait for a day yesterday!"
"yes! My girlfriend and I went to see "Brother and Tiger" on Christmas, and when we came back, we couldn't buy tickets for "Prison Storm". My friend said that "Prison Storm" is very good-looking, especially Ah Zheng played by Zhou Yanfa, who completely jumped out of the shadow of Xiao Ma. ”
Although Zhou Runfa's Zhong Tianzheng is not as chic as Brother Xiaoma, it is closer to reality, and it is very relieving to watch, I have already watched it twice, and I decided to watch it again. ”
"I've come to see it for the third time, big man, you're so unkind! Let me be in front of you! I haven't seen it again......" The one who stood behind the man who had just spoken hurriedly curryed favor and hoped to be accommodating.
Everyone lined up and talked about it. In particular, many of the team have come to watch it for the first time, and they are full of praise when it comes to "Prison Storm". The more this is the case, the more anxious the viewers who haven't seen it are.
The media and film critics have begun to contribute to "Prison Storm". The only thing that can compete with Fang Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" during the Christmas schedule is "Prison Storm".
A small prison is actually a small life. In prison, there are all kinds of people you need to face, and there are all kinds of sudden difficulties and setbacks that you need to face. You need to understand the sophistication of human feelings, and you need to learn to swallow your voice.
There are always some bosses in prison, a group of younger brothers who follow them, and some novices who are often bullied, and when you first enter prison, the first impression you leave on others determines how you will spend your time in prison.
There is a kind of person who can meet in all directions, just because he doesn't want to cause trouble, not because he is timid. He has the ability, but he prefers to be able to live in prison in peace. This kind of person, he can endure it, but if his patience exceeds the bottom line, once he feels that he can no longer endure it, then he is the most dangerous. The anger that had accumulated on weekdays exploded in one breath. He will be the strongest king.
In prison, the most common thing is brotherhood. It was a precious friendship. In prison, everyone is equal, even if you have a lot of money, in prison, you still have to bend to it. In prison, there is no intrigue, and the emotions between people are the most sincere.
Chan Ka Lok told a story in prison in the way he was best at telling a prison story, and I thought he was a very promising young director when he was in "Night in Mong Kok".
This "Prison Storm" will not only create a 'prison theme', but also a new way of shooting Jianghu films, which I personally highly recommend - the editor-in-chief of "Movie Magazine", Hu Weixin.
"Prison Storm" is actually a very conventional commercial movie, and the storyline is very simple.
The film continues the most popular theme of today's films, the brotherhood of the rivers and lakes. Just put the story scene in the prison, a place that exudes the smell of blood and rain in the rivers and lakes, and highlights the brotherhood in the extreme environment in a violent and bloody way unique to Xiangjiang movies, and the action scenes of group beatings in the prison are violent and bloody, but have a unique realistic and realistic style.
At this moment of the rise of Wu Yusen's romantic police films, the realism of "Prison Storm" has created a completely different flavor.
If it is the rivers and lakes, there will be rules of the rivers and lakes. In "Prison Storm", the bets between gangs are replaced by cigarettes, his brother is beaten to help him out, officials cannot betray others when they come for questioning, and they cannot take the lead in eating during hunger strikes. Anyone who breaks the rules will be attacked by everyone in the prison.
But there will also be darkness in the rivers and lakes. It was precisely because Da Mi colluded with the killer Xiong to frame Liang Jiahui for betraying his brother that Zhou Yunfa stood up for him, and there was a deep friendship between them.
The rivers and lakes also have the warmth of the rivers and lakes. During the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yanfa put three cigarettes on oranges to mourn his deceased wife, and then danced with everyone in the cell with the singing of "Sweet Honey", Zhou Liang and the others sat on the lawn in the rain and laughed after being punished for cleaning the sewers, and the others rescued the two after Da Mi wanted to put them to death, which made the whole movie full of the meaning of "righteousness in the world lasts forever".
After being released from prison, Liang Jiahui looked at his fellow inmates with a thousand words in his heart, and waved goodbye to Zhou Yanfa's escort car, which sublimated the friendship in this prison to a new height.
In addition to the iron-clad brotherhood, after watching "Prison Storm", what lingered in my mind for a long time was the theme song of the film "Light of Friendship".
The impassioned and passionate melody is like a catalyst, which makes the indescribable feelings between men and children ferment instantly, and the brotherhood vented through music greatly satisfies the emotional demands in the process of watching the movie. - Editor-in-Chief of Film Weekly, Liang Shou.
If many media and many film critics praised "Prison Storm" as the public relations of the new art city and film studios, and the rudder to see the box office momentum, then as the two most authoritative film newspapers in Xiangjiang, the two editors-in-chief of "Movie Magazine" and "Film Weekly" personally endorsed it, which is a great honor.
Fang Long's "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" still overpowered "Prison Storm" at the box office, but it also failed to get the two editors-in-chief to write the film themselves.
"Prison Storm" is undoubtedly an alternative innovation, a kind of emotional sustenance in commercial films, while "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" is a habitual routine action movie, which is not liked by film critics, and this situation is actually normal.
The only pity for the reporters is that Chen Jialuo lives in seclusion every day, and he can't catch any eye-catching news at all. The only case involving gangsters seems to be gone.