On June 1, 1983, Wang Jie's "True Colors of Heroes" was finally released in DreamWorks theaters.

Shu Qi recently broke his leg because of the second Xiangjiang International Film Awards, and he was greatly relieved that he was finally busy with the preliminary preparations.

After completing the preparations for the Academy Awards, Shu Qi returned to "Film Fortnightly".

The Academy Awards will open in ten days, and after receiving an invitation to the premiere of Wang Jie's new film, Shu Qi also took the opportunity to come out to watch the film to breathe.

Wu Yusen sat not far from Shu Qi, and after he made two consecutive movies, no one was willing to ask him to make a film anymore. Mr. Wu's good friend Xu Ke is doing well at DreamWorks, and last week he invited him to join DreamWorks and was preparing to recommend him for a new film.

Wu Yusen, who has suffered continuous setbacks, now lacks self-confidence, and even he doubts whether his next film can make money. Now Wang Jie is the highest-grossing director in Xiangjiang, and Wu Yusen came to see "The True Color of Heroes" to learn from it.

After the program interaction on stage, the film officially began to be screened.

Zhou Runfa, who was wearing a windbreaker and sunglasses, appeared on the screen, began to eat roadside stall snacks, chased the vendor to pay, and then got into Brother Hao's car and entered the company together.

When they saw the company's employees greeting "Brother Hao" and "Brother Xiaoma" one after another, including Wu Yusen, Shu Qi, Yishu and others, all the audience thought that Zhou Yanfa was acting as a company executive.

But soon the audience was stunned, a 100 dollar bill appeared on a computer monitor, and an expert in a white jacket operated the mouse and began to manually change the number of the dollar bill.

Then the whole page of the bills is colored, and then the hula machine starts running, and stacks of dollars are printed.

"Damn, these are counterfeit money!"

"Brother Pony's action of lighting a cigarette with dollars is so handsome. ”

"High-tech, in the past, movies used to print counterfeit banknotes with electric boards, but this is fully automatic by computer. ”

“……”

The lead actor was set up as a counterfeit money dealer, which surprised Wu Yusen, who at first thought it was a gangster film like "The Godfather". It wasn't until Zhang Guorong, who was admitted to the police academy, appeared, that Wu Yusen felt that it was not so simple, and the plot behind it must be more complicated.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Guorong accompanied Lan Jieying to take the violin test made the audience laugh, and the laughter did not stop for long, and Brother Hao played by Zheng Shaoqiu was arrested in Taiwan.

Brother Pony appeared on the overpass in Ximending, reading the newspaper with a toothpick in his mouth, and the headline of the newspaper was the news that Brother Hao had been arrested.

"It is my life to step into the rivers and lakes,

It's not like you're willing to be bad.

It's better to be a brother than to be outdated,

Beat Gang (every day) to wear gold and silver.

Sometimes you're short on money,

Sworn Brother Tease Sa Ting (Help Through)

……”

With the sound of the Taiwanese song "Rising and Sinking Brothers", Zhou Runfa appeared in the aisle of Fenglin Pavilion Restaurant, hugging a restaurant girl and dancing tango.

The dance moves of the two are very beautiful, and there are even close-ups of Zhou Yanfa's flirtatious eyes and big hands touching around. But under the cover of this beautiful dance, Zhou Yunfa took out a pistol and stuffed it into the bonsai in the aisle, indicating what Xiao Ma was going to do next.

Wu Yusen gasped, he never thought that gangster films could be filmed like this, especially the series of shootouts in the back, which simply turned violence into an art.

The rest of the audience held their breath and stared intently at the big screen until the shootout was over. However, at this moment, Xiao Ma was shot in the leg by the opponent who crawled out, and finally dragged a lame leg out after killing the enemy.

Brother Hao returned to Hong Kong after being imprisoned, his brother was homeless, and Brother Hao, who wanted to reform himself, became a taxi driver. When showing the picture of Brother Hao carrying passengers, Wang Jie used the background music of "Goodbye Police" in the original "Infernal Affairs".

This piece of music appears twice in the film, and once when Zhang Guorong pressed his brother to the wall and searched his body, and asked him when he had a deal, Brother Hao said very helplessly: "Ah Sir, I haven't been a big brother for a long time!"

At this moment, the music of "Goodbye Police" sounded again, adding a bit of sourness to the movie.

Brother Xiaoma's downfall and Ah Cheng's betrayal caused a strong reaction from the audience, and until the hearty battle of the last battle, the audience was addicted to watching it.

"Bang!"

At this moment, Xiao Ma was suddenly shot in the head, and then slowly fell.

The theater, which had been very lively just now, suddenly fell silent, and the audience was stunned by this sudden death, followed by a flood of dissatisfaction and curses.

"Is there any mistake, Brother Pony died like this?"

"It's so worthless to die, I didn't die in the gunfight, I actually died under the cold gun. ”

"Is the screenwriter pooping in his head? Where is there such a thing as killing the protagonist!"

"The director is shoveling!"

“……”

Wu Yusen listened to the venting of the audience around him, and had to admit the success of director Wang Jie, a movie can only enjoy such strong abuse from the audience after it has strongly attracted the audience.

The movie continued, and after the audience scolded a few times, they quickly continued to watch the movie obediently.

When they saw Ah Cheng Yaowu go out and turn himself in, the audience was afraid that the director would mess up again, and some people couldn't help shouting: "Kill him!"

"Kill this bone!"

"No bullets, punch him to death!"

“……”

Zhang Guorong walked out from behind the container and stuffed the pistol he picked up into Brother Hao's hand.

After two gunshots, watching Ah Cheng, who was shot, fall, the nervous audience finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then applauded.

The movie has been screened, but the applause of the audience is wonderful, although the death of Brother Xiao Ma has made many viewers linger, but the whole movie still makes everyone enjoy watching it.

Wu Yusen walked out of the movie theater in silence all the way, thinking back and figuring out the details of the movie in his heart, and admired Wang Jie more and more. He found that this "True Colors of Heroes" was very suitable for his taste, and some of the things expressed in the movie also coincided with his thoughts, and he felt like he had met a soulmate.

The next day, in the film reviews in the newspaper, in addition to complaining that Wang Jie killed Brother Xiaoma, almost one-sided praise for "The True Color of Heroes".

Shu Qi wrote in "Film Fortnightly": "After the advent of "The True Color of Heroes", it may set off a trend of gangster films in the future. ”

Yishu's film review column said: "A man like Brother Hao is worth having, but Brother Xiao Ma can only watch from a distance for women." They are all heroes in a sense, with heroic qualities and true colors...... In fact, what I appreciate most about this film is not the fiery shootout, but the interlude sung by children in the church. I called Xu Ke afterwards, and he said that the song was called "Tomorrow Will Be Better". ”

"The True Color of Heroes" has a high reputation among film critics, and just a week ago, the media also praised Cheng Long's "Plan A".

The same excellent films, one is a comedy cop film, and the other is a gangster hero film, but it is destined to set off a movie-watching craze this summer. The media and filmmakers in the industry are eyeing the first-day box office release of "True Colors of Heroes".

More than 20 years later, a Hong Kong film super enthusiast and famous film critic in Huaxia wrote in his book "Thirty Years of Dream Factory":

“…… When we now talk about the Dream Factory in 1983, we can only describe it as a storm. It is true that in the more than two years before this, although William's DreamWorks has frequently won the annual box office, it has never caused such a big impact.

In the summer of that year, whether it was a student, a worker, a hawker, or a mixed club. They all collectively have an extra hobby, which is to hold a toothpick in their mouths. According to incomplete statistics, the sales of toothpicks in Hong Kong in the summer of 1983 increased by 40% compared with the previous year. Along with the increase in toothpick sales, sunglasses also increased, and I think if it wasn't for the hot weather, the people who sold trench coats would have made a lot of money.

A good film work can have an amazing impact on society.

In the 60s, the Shaw Brothers movie "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" was screened on Bay Island, and Ling Bo of Zhu Yingtai visited Bay Island for two days, and at least 200,000 people on Bay Island surrounded Songshan Airport, Chang'an East Road, Zhongshan North Road, and Yuanshan Hotel, waiting to see the true face of Lushan of 'Liang Shanbo', and the media on the island published a total of 7,648 photos of Ling Bo and wrote more than 230,000 words of reports about Ling Bo.

In the 80s, "Shaolin Temple" set off a movie-watching frenzy in China, and the average ticket price of a dime at that time actually accumulated a box office of more than 100 million. There are countless teenagers who ran away from home after watching this movie, just to go to Shaolin Temple to learn art.

These two unprecedented sensations caused by film works were more or less due to the very low level of development of film in Bay Island and mainland China at that time. But "The True Color of Heroes" is different, when this movie came out, Xiangjiang movies were already in the stage of maturity, but it was also proud and swept the box office of Xiangjiang.

Zhou Yunfa was already popular enough, but this time he became an idol of all ages, and his clothes and lines in the film were imitated. Dialogues such as "I hate it when people point a gun at my head" and "I must get back what I have lost" have not only become a necessity for young people to be handsome, but in the following ten years, at least 20 Hong Kong films have used these lines to pay tribute to "The True Color of Heroes".

Today, 27 years later, there is no need to say anything more about the status of "The True Color of Heroes", and it has always topped the list of Hong Kong's movie lists. Needless to say, its historical significance is needless to say, since the beginning of the film, gangster films have become another eternal theme in Hong Kong films in addition to kung fu films, and later "Infernal Affairs", "Underworld", "Jianghu" and so on, all repeat the same Jianghu spirit, grievances and hatred and male dignity from different angles.

Let's talk about the release of "The True Color of Heroes" that year, which was screened from June 1 to August 2, and was released for two months. Such a strong box office momentum completely disrupted the film schedule of DreamWorks Theaters......"

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In Xiangjiang in 1983, it was naturally impossible for anyone to read the monograph of the poetry book in the dream.

Entertainment reporters are staring at the box office of "True Colors" because they have to hype up the film at the box office in order to write eye-catching reports.

Colleagues in the film industry are also staring at the box office of "The True Color of Heroes", because Wang Jie's movie box office is almost a benchmark, and everyone will compare their own movies with Wang Jie's box office.

When the two TV series "Shanghai Beach" and "Step by Step Shocking" were released, they both caused a sensation in the empty alleys of 10,000 people, and even the stores that did business had to be closed when the series was broadcast.

"The True Colors of Heroes" has not yet attracted all the citizens of Xiangjiang into the energy of the cinema, all it can do is to make all the theaters where "The True Colors of Heroes" is shown a long queue of hundreds of meters to buy tickets.

Audiences queued up to buy tickets from time to time, but "True Colors of Heroes" did so for several days, with an average attendance rate of 96% in the first week of release.

The media, which originally wanted to compare "The True Color of Heroes" with other movies of the same period, was already collectively stunned after witnessing the madness of the audience.

It's not just the media that are stupid, but also other film companies, which secretly vow that they will never collide with Wang Jie's movies again.

"The True Color of Heroes" reached 10.2 million at the box office in just one week after its release, and the total box office reached 39.4 million Hong Kong dollars when it was drawn, almost becoming the first film in the history of Xiangjiang to exceed 40 million at the box office. The box office of "The True Colors of Heroes" on Bay Island reached 50 million Taiwan dollars in one fell swoop, and the island country of RIBEN sold a box office of 5.1 billion yen.