Time flies by.

In the blink of an eye, we are at the end of the year.

On December 15, 1999, director Feng Xiaogang's work "Endless" was officially released.

After the family finished eating in the evening, Gu Zhi took his parents to the cinema together.

Although he doesn't like Feng Gangcang, his early movies are very classic, whether it is "Party A and Party B", or "See You or Leave", they are all good movies worth watching.

Even after 17 years, these two films are still not lagging behind, and there are still many supporters.

The same is true of "Endless".

This is the third part of Feng's New Year's film, Feng Xiaogang uses actor Uncle Ge as the leading actor, and bent actor Wu Qianlian plays the heroine.

Feng Xiaogang depicts the lives of ordinary people in an exaggerated way, and the whole film is full of Beijing flavor and authentic BJ characteristics.

To put it in a more networked word, it's down-to-earth.

Before 2000, many classic movies were produced in Huaguo.

"Farewell My Concubine", "Alive", "The Devil is Coming", "Sunny Day", "Party A and Party B", these are all masterpieces that are enough to leave a name in the history of Chinese films.

But no one expected that Chinese movies would get worse and worse, and the more time was pushed back, the more bad movies there were.

The overall quality of the movie is not even comparable to Ah San and Bang Ziguo next door.

Every time I go to the cinema to watch a movie, the first reaction of many Chinese people is to resolutely not watch domestic films, and they don't want to waste their precious lives anymore.

Domestic films have become synonymous with bad movies for a while.

To completely change this impression, I don't know how many generations of filmmakers it will take.

Gu Zhi's family happily sat in the cinema for an hour and a half, and when they came out, they all had a feeling of unfinished.

On their way home, they passed by a newly opened Xinhua bookstore nearby.

At this time, the bookstore has closed, and through the clear glass, you can still see the books neatly arranged at the door.

One of the stacks is "Written by Wukong", which is placed in the most prominent position, and there is an eye-catching vertical poster aside.

The other stack is not badly placed, and it is a new book called "The Road Without Difficulty", which was published just a month ago.

"Wu Difficult Road" and "Written by Wukong" are the top two books in the national book sales list in recent months, and they have been fully promoted by major bookstores, and they have made way for these two books to be the best bookstores.

These two novels are popular not only because of the commendable quality of the works, but also because they are written by the same person.

The topic caused by this has set off a wave of heat throughout China, and everyone's attention is focused on this young author.

Both books were published by Ming Daily Publishing House, and the author was Gu Zhi.

Gu Zhi's second book was originally scheduled for "Those Years", but one day he saw a long-lost classic movie on CCTV's movie channel - the police film "Changing Face" directed by Wu Baige and starring Nicolas Cage.

"Changing Faces" uses "swapping faces" as a clue to tell the story of identity swapping and mutual undercover between police and bandits.

After watching this movie, Gu Zhi immediately thought of a pinnacle of police and bandits on Hong Kong Island, "No Difficult Road".

It is impossible to exchange faces in reality, but two characters can be swapped over without changing faces, only the identity and heart need to be exchanged.

The Road to Hardship is one such story.

In essence, it is the same as "Changing Face", but there is no difficulty, and it has the characteristics of Hong Kong Island, and the sentence "Come out and mix, sooner or later you will have to pay it back!" has become a popular saying in the entire Chinese world.

The success of Wu Ji Dao has set off a wave of police and gang films on Hong Kong Island, but no film on Hong Kong Island has surpassed Wu Ji Dao in the future

Hong Kong Island films, which have been recalled by a generation, have also gradually declined, and it can be said that Wu Arduous Road is the pinnacle of Hong Kong Island films.

Many of the works were auctioned out except for the Hong Kong Island people themselves, and no one watched them at all, and they were always undercover gangs of police and bandits who came and went.

Before Gu Zhi was reborn, he knew a friend in the film industry, and he once complained,

"The film and television glory of Hong Kong Island is gone, and the salaries of Deng Chao, Huang Bo, Zhang Ziyi and others in the mainland have all exploded Hong Kong superstars.

Originally, the local film industry on Hong Kong Island was finished, and they could still rely on the mainland market to continue their lives, and maybe they could have a second spring.

As a result, the Hong Kong Island people held a sense of superiority and bullied the mainland filmmakers together with Wanwan, so that in the end, the mainlanders kicked the Hong Kong Island movie away and played with themselves, and the consequence was that the Hong Kong Island movie was completely dead.

The mainland market is essentially 'I give you is yours, if you don't give it to you, you can't grab it.'" ’

Director Wang Jing is one of the first directors to enter the mainland market, and he once wanted to promote several newcomers on Hong Kong Island, but when he said his name and the investor, the investor rejected him on the spot.

Tell Director Wang directly, if you want to shoot, you can shoot, and if you don't shoot, I will change the director. Director Wang has made movies over the years, in addition to Xiang Huaqiang's son Xiang Zuo, there are several newcomers on Hong Kong Island?

There are also a lot of trusted actors cultivated on Hong Kong Island in recent years, but how many can be seen in the mainland? Filming in Hengdian, the attendance fee for a new actor on Hong Kong Island is 1,000 yuan, and he is not afraid of pulling down.

The showbiz is a cold market law, if you don't abide by it, you will be eliminated from the market, and the producer's first consideration is to make money. ”

Gu Zhi is not a person in the film and television industry, I don't know how much of this remark is true and how much is false, but at least it reflects the current situation and status of the Hong Kong Island film and television industry.

In fact, as far as Hong Kong Island's attitude towards the mainland is concerned, Gu Zhi estimates that what this insider said is true nine times out of ten.

About Hong Kong Island movies, I will slowly talk about it...

After Gu Zhi finished reading "Changing Face", he wrote a novel on a whim.

The length of the novel is similar to that written by Wukong, with a total of only 170,000 words, including all the content of the three movies.

The content of the movie is not filmed in chronological order, the second part is the deeds of the two protagonists when they were young, the first part of the undercover policeman played by Liang Chaowei was killed by Liu Dehua, and the third part of the undercover gangster played by Liu Dehua was found out by the police and committed suicide.

So the correct viewing order is two, one, and three.

When Gu Zhi writes novels, he writes them according to the normal timeline, otherwise the audience will definitely see it in a fog.

After writing it, Gu Zhi directly contacted He Jianping and submitted the first draft to him.

While stunned by Gu Zhi's creative speed, He Jianping decided to publish the novel after reading the first draft.

This is a Hong Kong-style police novel that he has never read, and this is a completely vacant field in the mainland publishing industry.

No novel of this genre has ever been published before, which is a huge business opportunity and a lot of risk.

When the book became popular, it made a lot of money, opened up a new market, and there will inevitably be authors in the future.

If you pounce, you will lose a lot, and no one will write novels of the Hong Kong flavor police and bandit genre in the future.

This is a big gamble for the Ming Daily Publishing House.

He Jianping did not hesitate, he believed in Gu Zhi's ability, and Wukong had already given him enough confidence.

Looking at it again a month after publication, Wu Jian Dao really did not disappoint him.

Under the name of Gu Zhi, Wu Jian Dao sold 20,000 copies in a month, which was a little weaker than the sales of Wukong's book that year, but it also far exceeded any book in the same period, and the sales were still on the rise.

Wukong's sales have also been applauded, with more than 100,000 copies sold in four months, occupying the top spot in major book sales, while the traditional version has been sold in Wanwan and Hong Kong Island.

In just a few months, Gu Zhi has become a famous young representative writer who has moved the whole country.