Chapter 135: Cinema and Reality
Three days later, "Violent Block" landed in Golden Harvest Cinemas, and the movie-watching boom triggered was like ushering in a grand festival again.
Since Zhang Xiaoye created a precedent, it is not uncommon for him to have a premiere ceremony now, and the number of ceremonies held by him, the founder, is relatively small, but there are really not many times that can be compared to him if it is grand.
After all, everyone else has a camp division, and the people of the Shaw Brothers are generally unlikely to come to support Golden Harvest or Xinyi City, and now he is more than Hong Jingbao can eat left and right, and there is no such problem.
So every time he has any event, whether it is Shaw Brothers TVB or Golden Harvest New Art City, everyone who can be there will be there, so there has always been a legend in the market that he can gather so many people in addition to the award ceremony.
The premiere was as lively as ever, and no one mentioned the robbery of the negative copy except for people who had excellent relationships like Chenlong, as if nothing had happened.
If there is any clue, that is, Xiang Huaqiang and Xiang Huasheng The two brothers also came to cheer in a very low-key manner, which attracted the attention of many people who knew their identities, although they didn't say anything, but there must be speculation in their hearts.
However, in fact, the Xiang brothers came this time, and it really has nothing to do with the previous events, it's just that they also plan to enter the film industry, so they came to talk to Zhang Xiaoye further, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a signal that they will only appear more and more on movie-related occasions in the future.
In addition to having a ○ social background, the Xiang brothers are not strangers to the entertainment industry, and their desire to make a movie is not simply a whim of blushing, and they are also very interested in movies.
Many people don't know that Xiang Huaqiang's identity as an actor has also been around for a long time, as early as 73, he can be said to have made his official debut, starring in the Shaw Brothers movie "Dragon and Tiger Snake" that year, and he and his first wife Ding Pei met in this way.
Xiang Huaqiang also has a lot of experience in making movies, but of course he can't compare with Zhang Xiaoye, otherwise he wouldn't have an attitude of humbly asking for advice, the premiere was still screening, and the expressions on the faces of these two bigwigs were the same as everyone else.
Zhang Xiaoye's movies can refresh the audience's cognition every time, and this time is no exception, the beginning of the movie is the scene where he is chased after destroying the drugs of the ○ gang, and the parkour is shown to the audience for the first time through a few minutes of footage, and everyone is hearty to watch.
Parkour has become the biggest highlight of the movie, even Chen Long admires it very much, but the movie is not only parkour, the story plot is still the same level as Zhang Xiaoye, and the action scenes are equally exciting.
In addition to his own stable output, Yuan Biao's performance is also beyond the previous impression on the audience, very eye-catching, only Yuan Jieying's performance can only be said to be decent, because there is not much room for its own performance, and the sense of existence is really thin when parkour and action scenes are too dazzling, if it does not play a key role in promoting the plot, it will be ignored.
The heroine of the two movies in a row does not have a strong sense of existence, which has also caused many people to complain, if it weren't for the existence of "Dream Essence" before, and "Dao Ma Dan" is also very attention-grabbing, maybe some people will think that he is prejudiced against women.
For this reason, Li Shafeng before and Yuan Jieying now have also complained about him, but this is not a problem, it is impossible to cover everything, and compared with the heroine in Zhang Che's movie, the treatment is also very good.
In Master Zhang Che's movies, all the heroines are either vases or pits, take "Shanghai Thirteen Taibao" released last year, the only female character first killed her brother Liang Jiaren, and then killed her boyfriend, student Liu Dehua.
In "Ace Agent" and "Violent Block", although the heroine does not have many scenes, she has played a positive key role in any way and will not be scolded.
When watching the movie with full attention, the audience didn't think about it so much, and many details were only figured out after the fact, because the plot scenes were too exciting, and they were completely carried away, where could they still think about it so much.
On the same day, the premiere of "Violent Block" was still full, and many audiences seemed to be used to seeing the movie at the first time even if they stayed up late, Zhang Xiaoye never disappointed them, and it was worth waiting for a long time.
After dawn, large and small newspapers were listed at the same time, and the reputation of the movie was completely detonated, and all kinds of beautiful words made readers deeply agree with it and at the same time a little numb, as if it was not too much to add words of praise to him, but these words were not the first time I had seen them.
The media reports are the same, just like Zhang Xiaoye bought an advertorial with a unified layout and asked the gunman to write it, only an article in the "Oriental Daily" is different, and this one is from Li Bihua.
Zhang Xiaoye doesn't know Li Bihua yet, just a talented woman who never shows up in public, she is talented and very characterful, it is not the first time she has spoken for Zhang Xiaoye, and she has never hidden her appreciation for him, as if she can be said to be his first fan.
"Violent Street is not just a pure commercial film, if the audience can only see cool parkour, fights and wonderful plots, it will already live up to Zhang Xiaoye's good intentions. Under the successful commercial packaging, the movie actually has a very serious core. ”
As soon as Li Bihua's article came out, it can be said that one stone stirred up a thousand waves, originally people just focused on the movie, but she shifted people's attention from the movie to reality.
In the movie, the so-called violent neighborhood is a lawless area isolated by the government, known as the 19th District, and in reality, there is a similar violent neighborhood in Xiangjiang, which is the Kowloon Walled City.
The Kowloon Walled City covers an area of about 2.7 hectares, and after the British seized the Xiangjiang River, it became the border within the border, and under the efforts of the Manchu government, the Kowloon Walled City, which was supposed to be a British colony, became an enclave, and was still garrisoned by the Qing army.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Kowloon Walled City has undergone several changes, and now it has completely become a three-regardless zone, regardless of China, Britain, or Xiangjiang, and it has evolved into a hotbed of crime.
Up to now, there are nearly 50,000 people in the Kowloon Walled City, with an average living area of only four square meters per capita, and all kinds of illegal buildings are covered with layers of shade, resulting in 98% of the entire Walled City not seeing sunlight 24 hours a day, and the living conditions are very bad.
Residents in the Walled City also need to light electric lights to see clearly during the day, but the British government in Hong Kong has no power supply to the Walled City at all, and the only source of electricity is to steal the cables from nearby street lights.
The Xiangjiang police never set foot in the Kowloon Walled City, and the result is that even the surrounding area is very vigilant, and robberies occur from time to time in broad daylight.
Because of its particularity, wanted criminals in Macao, Taiwan, and Malaysia will run to hide in desperation, and the Kowloon Walled City has become an increasingly lawless criminal zone, and 90% of the heroin in the Hong Kong market is currently exported from here.
Such a place, isn't it the same as the "violent block" in the movie? It is a paradise of crime and a hell for ordinary people, the movie is so consistent with reality, after being pointed out by Li Bihua, everyone thinks that Zhang Xiaoye is insinuating.
Thanks to Zhang Xiaoye and Li Bihua, this area that has been ignored by the people of Xiangjiang has once again attracted everyone's attention, and in addition to the overseas release of the movie, even the overseas media have widely reported that there is such a place in Xiangjiang.
In the movie, the father of the male protagonist played by Zhang Xiaoye has been working hard to break the blockade, and finally died, in reality, all the audience thinks that he is shouting for the ordinary residents of Longlong Walled City, no matter what, they are innocent.
After the Kowloon Walled City attracted national attention, more and more people called for the government to intervene in the management, and some people even took to the streets directly, playing slogans in support of Zhang Xiaoye and the demolition of the Kowloon Walled City.
The momentum was so overwhelming that almost everyone was calling for action, and the British government could not help but respond, and Governor Youde held a press conference to respond.
At the press conference, Youde said that a governance agreement had been reached with the mainland, and that the issue of the Kowloon Walled City had been put on the agenda, and the general public could rest assured that they would be able to deal with the problem.
While making the promise, Youde also expressed his gratitude to Zhang Xiaoye, and at the same time highly praised his sense of social responsibility, the construction of Xiangjiang needs everyone to participate in Yunyun, and even said that he is welcome to supervise.
There are a lot of official words in this statement, but the promise is indeed there, and Youde's words can still be convincing, and the turmoil has subsided, but the attention has not decreased because of this, because of the movie "Violent Block", people have begun to make this issue official, which is also a manifestation of influence.
Movies are often able to do this, and it can also convey the author's appeal like a literary work, so as to arouse the public's attention to certain events, so as to force the matter to be resolved, and there are many such examples in film history, such as the later Korean film "The Melting Pot", which directly promoted the improvement of the Korean judiciary.
Because of the problem of the Kowloon Walled City, "Violent Block" is such a commercial movie to the extreme, because the humanistic care in it has strong practical significance, and if you want to review Xiangjiang movies in the future, this will definitely become a stroke that has to be mentioned.
Its influence is no longer just a movie, as some media reported later, it is enough to use the word "great" to describe it, and all of this is from Zhang Xiaoye's hand, although all this is actually crooked.