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Whether it is the previous life or this life, 1992 is the pinnacle of Hong Kong films. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Needless to say, in 1992, there were three Hong Kong films with a box office of more than 40 million (two Hong Kong films had a box office of nearly 50 million), and 12 Hong Kong films had a box office of more than 30 million.

In 1992, Hong Kong films were even more dick - not only "Spider-Man 2", "Blade 2", "Double Dragon Club" and disaster relief movies, the four ruthless films in Xiangjiang box office exceeded 50 million ("Spider-Man 2" and disaster relief movies even had a box office of nearly 60 million), driven by such a general trend, Lian Shao Yifu and Zhou Xingchi's "Judge of the Dead" and Xinyicheng's "Happy Family" has also crossed the 50 million line, so there are six Hong Kong films with a local box office of more than 50 million, and the overseas box office of these six Hong Kong films is all hundreds of millions, and the box office of "Spider-Man 2" and "Blade 2" is hundreds of millions of dollars, making Hong Kong films reach unprecedented glory!

And yet—

Just when everyone was looking forward to what heights Hong Kong films would reach, a scene that made all filmmakers dumbfounded appeared.

Lunar New Year stalls in early 1993.

"Happy Events in the Flower Field", which gathered Zhang Guorong, Xu Guanjie, Guan Zhilin, Wu Mengda, Huang Baiwu and other big names, only got 35 million Hong Kong dollars at the local box office.

Infinity Pictures' "New Love", Cheng Long's "City Hunter", and Li Lianjie's "Fang Shiyu" barely crossed the line of 30 million.

After that, it was bleak, even Li Lianjie's "Huang Feihong 3 Lion King Battle" and Zhou Xingchi's "Truant Weilong 3 Dragons Celebrate the Year of the Rooster" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: East Becomes West" with Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei, Liu Jialing, Zhong Zhentao, Zhang Xueyou, Wang Guxian, Liang Jiahui, Zhang Manyu and other big names have only exceeded 20 million.

The most pitiful thing is that "New Meteor Butterfly Sword", which gathered Liang Chaowei, Yang Ziqiong, Zhen Zaidan, and Wang Guxian at a cost of 30 million, only got more than 9 million local box office, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: East Becomes West", which is the same as the original cast of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: East Becomes West", filmed for more than half a year and cost more than 30 million.

In addition, in 1992, more than 200 Hong Kong films were distributed to Taiwan, a record high, but due to the flood of "Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films" and the "bubble" phenomenon, film companies repeatedly lost their capital, and what made Taiwan businessmen even more angry was that the salaries of celebrities in Xiangjiang rose again and again, and they were all about to rise to the limit, and more than 250 Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films from various film companies in Xiangjiang were not delivered on time.

Based on this, Taiwan can rest assured that if the remuneration of Xiangjiang stars is not suppressed and the unfinished Taiwan-funded Hong Kong films are not delivered as soon as possible, Taiwan will no longer introduce Hong Kong films.

In addition, the British government in Hong Kong has set a policy of "completely outlawing the entertainment tax", and it will soon be implemented - in other words, the British government has cleared the way for Hollywood blockbusters to enter Hong Kong.

In the last life, it was from this time that Hollywood blockbusters began to invade in a big way.

Relying on millions of large-scale advertising campaigns and large-scale special effects, Hollywood movies have successfully reversed the dislike of Hollywood movies in a very short time.

waited until a series of Hollywood blockbusters such as "Jurassic Park" and "Titanic" achieved sensational success in Hong Kong, which completely defeated the last stubborn resistance of local films in Hong Kong, and also made the audience fully realize the gap between Hong Kong films and Hollywood blockbusters.

To paraphrase the famous screenwriter Wen Xiu (Shu Qi's godfather) once said a paragraph to summarize the decline of Xiangjiang films:

“…… In those years, when they returned to China, the immigrants left a group of real materials, leaving behind a lot of short-sighted and what type of movie is hot. Later, the capital chain was suddenly broken again, and he had to face the competition of foreign films and the joint price reduction of Taiwan benders. After tossing himself, he was tossed by others, tossed and tossed, all the foreign markets were tossed and gone, and in the end, even the Taiwan market, which barely kept the capital, was tossed and lost, and the base camp Xiangjiang was also hit by Hollywood movies, and finally even local theaters were unwilling to show Hong Kong films and rushed to play Hollywood movies. It is becoming more and more difficult to make money by making movies, and everyone thinks that it is a fool to continue to lose money, so the rest of them are all going to retire and quit, and the few who enter the mainland are still good. When Hong Kong films are allowed to go north, those who have been dashing for a few years and have no money want to come back and continue to make movies to make money, but at this time, they not only have to face the threshold, but also face the competition from their mainland counterparts and foreign films, and then everyone finds that they can't make movies after a few years of famine, and Xiangjiang movies are over......"

In this life, Xu Cun also used his own way to shoot "Jurassic Park" and the Marvel Universe series of movies, and opened the 3D era one step ahead of Hollywood.

And yet—

These cannot hide some of the serious problems currently facing the Hong Kong Film Market.

At present, the salaries of many celebrities in Xiangjiang are indeed extremely high, and they are still rising - the salaries of top male stars in Xiangjiang such as Zhou Yunfa, Zhou Xingchi, and Cheng Long are all over 10 million, Li Lianjie, Xu Guanwen, Andy Lau and other quasi-top men have a salary of about 8 million, and the salaries of male stars such as Zhang Guorong, Hong Jinbao, and Liang Jiahui are about 5 million......

Hire one or two of these stars, and the production cost of the movie will be frighteningly high.

In order to reduce some production costs, the producers can only choose shoddy production.

In this way, a sub-cycle is formed.

In the long run, those non-DreamWorks Hong Kong films will be driven out of the Taiwan film market by Hollywood movies like the previous life, and then lose the passion for making movies because they don't make money, and then retire and quit, and finally even if Xiangjiang films don't decline like the previous life, it will be difficult to develop - after all, talent is the foundation of film development.

Therefore, if you don't want a large loss of film talents in Hong Kong, someone has to stand up and become the savior of Hong Kong films at this time.

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