On February 18, Shaw Brothers' gold medal director, "Hero Shen Shengyi" directed by Chu Yuan, was released in cinemas. On the first day of release, the box office was very flat - only 70,000 Hong Kong dollars!

And "Happy Ghost", which was released on the same day, had a box office of more than 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, and "Hero Shen Shengyi" looked particularly miserable and miserable!

undoubtedly made many fans sigh - Chu Yuan is old, can he still be popular?

"Chu Yuan, no longer has the box office appeal of the year!" After Gu Long learned the box office data of "The Great Hero Shen Shengyi", he couldn't help but sigh for his old friend, "The Shaw Brothers movie is really a quagmire, and the big directors who stayed in it are basically scrapped!" ”

used to be the four most popular directors of the Shaw Brothers in the 60s - Li Hanxiang, Zhang Che, Hu Jinshuo, Chu Yuan! In the 60s, the fame was unmatched.

But now, in the Hong Kong film box office market, can these people still occupy a place?

Zhang Shaojie said: "The entire Shaw Brothers is a backwater. Even the ability to cultivate talents is not as good as before. Mr. Shao, his main energy is all on TVB, and he basically looks down on the Shaw Brothers Film Company at the beginning of his fortune! ”

"It's a pity Chu Yuan! His ability shouldn't be as good as it is now, but the Shaw Brothers' environment is still too limited for him! "Gu Long has worked with Chu Yuan for more than ten years, so he naturally knows him very well.

In fact, Baolong's "Happy Ghost" competitor has never been Shaw Brothers' "Hero Shen Shengyi", but "Best Partner" of Xinyicheng!

The masterpiece "Best Partner 2" released on February 9 has swept the box office of more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars in the first week of its release, almost earning an average of 900,000 Hong Kong dollars per day.

With such achievements, except for the 81-year-old "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty Double Dragon" and the 80-year-old "Modern Bodyguard", there is almost no opponent in Hong Kong that surpasses "Best Partner".

Considering that the first part of "Best Partner" has finally swept the box office of 27 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong. And the second part of "Best Partner" continues the strong momentum of the first part.

This has made the Hong Kong film industry regard the "Best Partner" series as a textbook of the most typical Hong Kong-style blockbusters.

As for Baolong Film Company's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and other movies, the investment cost is still too terrifying after all. Therefore, most Hong Kong film companies rarely imitate the Baolong model.

The Hong Kong film industry has gradually become accustomed to Baolong as a blockbuster-based film company.

But for Baolong's investment in "Happy Ghost", which cost 3 million, these companies were both stunned and frightened.

Stunned because, isn't Baolong's concept based on blockbusters? Why did you start to be interested in small-budget movies again?

What is frightening is that if Baolong Film Company also invests in small-budget films, it will be able to have the ability to only make twenty or thirty movies a year. The threat to peers is far more terrifying than the release of a handful of blockbusters a year.

When the reporter interviewed Shaw Brothers Film Company, he asked about his views on Baolong's small-budget film, "Happy Ghost".

The great director Chu Yuan said: "Although Wang Jing has rare talents, she is still too young and her performance is very unstable. I won't be following him for another ten years. In fact, I'm more concerned about "Best Partner" in New Arts City! ”

"Mr. Gu Long, one of the bosses of Baolong, had a tacit understanding with you back then. I don't know, do you have any ideas for working with Gulong again? The reporter continued to ask.

Chu Yuan shook his head and said: "Gu Long's directors are full of talents, I'm afraid that a street director like me will no longer be taken into his eyes, right?" ”

Back then, Chu Yuan was a gold medal partner with Gu Long, Gu Long was the screenwriter, and Chu Yuan was the director. Between the 60s ~ 70s, the two were already able to easily win a million box office.

Gu Long's martial arts works have gained such a reputation now. In fact, it has a lot to do with Hong Kong's film and television adaptations, especially Chu Yuan's Gulong drama.

Chu Yuan's impression in the minds of many fans is basically linked to ancient dragon dramas.

In 81, someone filmed "The One-Armed Boxing King vs. the Nine Sons of Chumen", and the protagonists of Chu Yuan's Gulong drama Meng Xingsoul, Muzi Flying Knife, Youhua Monk, and Yan Shisan were all knocked out by the one-armed boxing king. Such a movie, when the audience is tired of the old-school martial arts, has attracted many people's curiosity. Take a look at how the roles that Chu Yuan filmed before were knocked out, so he also relied on gimmicks to get a lot of money.

Director Chu Yuan is basically the pinnacle of the old martial arts movie era. However, the movies made by Chu Yuan in the 80s are no longer as popular as they used to be.

In particular, new wave martial arts films such as "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and "Six Fingers of the Piano Demon" have achieved tens of millions of high box office in Hong Kong. In contrast, the martial arts films made by Chu Yuan in recent years have basically only been between one or two million at the box office, and they are in a dismal operation.

The reporter actually heard a lot of sourness from Chu Yuan's mouth.

The 3 million auctioned by Wang Jing is a small production. So Chu Yuan, the former great director, has been making movies with a cost of hundreds of thousands, what is this? Is garbage made?

After Shaw Brothers director Chu Yuan commented on "Happy Ghost".

In an interview with TVB, Mai Jia of Xinyicheng Film Company said: "Baolong Film Company is a respectable competitor. His masterpiece "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has not only achieved amazing box office results internationally. Through the Oscar nomination, the world has learned about the top level of film production in the Hong Kong film industry. However, I still think that a 3 million low-budget movie like "Happy Ghost" is more suitable for a comedy-style film-based company like our New Art City to shoot, rather than a boutique blockbuster company like Baolong that should be involved."

After the two major companies of Shaw Brothers and New Art City commented on "Happy Ghost".

Many other film companies that envy and hate Baolong Company have also chosen to criticize "Happy Ghost" of Baolong Film Company.

"Bad movie, a good horror ghost movie, actually made into a happy comedy, this is simply a taboo with mixed movie themes!" A certain outdated old director pointed fingers and looked old-fashioned.

A senior half-red director of a film and television company said: "Is Baolong preparing to smash the signboard set up by "Datang"? ”

A famous film critic with the pen name "Idle Reading" also aimed his firepower at "Happy Ghost": ""Happy Ghost" is a bad movie, and many senior old directors have listed too many reasons. My comments are only to follow the trend - the movie is called "Happy Ghost", but in fact, some yellow-haired girls are performing farce in the movie. is nothing more than using vulgar techniques such as those girls pretending to be cute and spring leaking to attract the audience. Is this kind of movie really not a bad movie?"

And more entertainment news writers are also desperately tinkering with articles such as "Zhang Shaojie's Romance", "One Dragon and Three Phoenixes, Absurd Talents", and "Only Praise Actress Zhang Shaojie", thinking that the vase characters with female surnames in "Happy Ghost" are actually Zhang Shaojie's unspoken rules.

In fact, these rumors will appear in a concentrated manner almost every once in a while. The purpose is naturally to use the attack on Zhang Shaojie's character problem to make Zhang Shaojie's reputation bad.

The problem is that these articles are valid in the first place.

Today, Zhang Shaojie's fans have been talking about his romance. Many "jie fans" are proud to be able to understand the information of Zhang Shaojie's harem.

There are a lot of "Zhang Hei" in Hong Kong, but the number of "Zhang Fan" is even more.

It can be said that Zhang Shaojie's enemies are all over the world, and his fans are also all over the world.

On this day, as the newspaper concentrated on the appearance of articles attacking Zhang Shaojie.

"Zhang Hei" excitedly held the newspaper and preached everywhere: "Zhang Shaojie is a hypocrite, look at the newspapers exposing his bad deeds"

"Zhang Fan" naturally scoffed and said: "What is a bad deed? That's an advantage, okay? ”

A certain "Zhang Hei" said: "The media has said that Zhang Shaojie's unspoken rule is that there are many girls. ”

Zhang Shaojie's die-hard fan said: "The unspoken rules are hairy, you love me, that's called romance!" ”

"However, this is also not right, how can a man play with so many female surnames like this?" Zhang Hei was immediately indignant, "The style is so wrong, it must be a bad guy!" ”

Zhang Fan naturally refuted with confidence: "Cut, Su Dongpo's three wives and four concubines, Tang Bohu's three wives and four concubines, most of the super talents in history are three wives and four concubines. In other words, 100 years ago, a talented and statused man, if he didn't have three wives and four concubines, he would be regarded as an abnormal man by others! ”

Many Zhang fans, due to Zhang Shaojie's romance, also began to gradually understand. From ancient times to the present, poets, families, painters, and musicians are rarely unromantic. It was only in modern times, when monogamy was introduced in law, that some changes began.

Many men surnamed Zhang Fan have heated discussions: "Tsk, our Royal Highness Shaojie, the harem may be expanded!" ”

"I dare to say that in the future, Hong Kong's No. 1 talented person will definitely belong to Shaojie."

"A winner in life"

These admirations show that they have become fans of Zhang Shaojie because of their envy of his life.

And some extreme fans of the female surname Zhang Fan even have the nickname of "Palace Entering the Palace", and the biggest ideal of female fans of this faction is to join Zhang Shaojie's harem:

"What kind of women does Shaojie like, how can he enter the harem at this point?"

"Shaojie's harem shortcut - a good singer who sings, a movie star who acts well in movies, and a little Lori!"

"It's a pity that my sister doesn't have Lori, melancholy!"

From the point of view of Zhang Shaojie's mainstream fans, it can be seen that Zhang Shaojie, who is now romantic, has a more mass base.

(To be continued)