March 1981.

Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places on the southern border are already full of flowers and the weather is pleasant. The plan of the year lies in spring, and the box office market in spring is also a little more lively than the dreary winter.

With it, Taiwanese cinema companies are vying to introduce.

"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" began the journey of Taiwan's box office market.

For the Taiwanese film industry in the 80s, with the encouragement and lifting of the ban by Taiwan's cultural department, Taiwan's local films have not improved. In addition to Qiong Yao dramas, which can make steady profits without losing money, most of Taiwan's local movies are in a tragic state of hitting the streets.

In this case, Taiwan's cinema operators have further become dependent on Hong Kong films.

Because, Hong Kong movies are released in Taiwan, and the box office of millions of New Taiwan dollars or tens of millions of New Taiwan dollars is commonplace...... Such a profit is really considerable!

Therefore, for Taiwan's cinema businessmen, it is better to stare at the Hong Kong box office market than to release Taiwanese local movies. In the Hong Kong box office market, films that can generally achieve a box office of more than one million Hong Kong dollars are guaranteed to be released in Taiwan unless they are prohibited by policy.

Before Taiwan's cinema lines rushed to introduce it, Golden Harvest Taiwan Cinema's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" had been released for several days. However, because Golden Harvest has 7 movie theaters after Taiwan, it is a bit hungry for marketing.

At this time, Golden Harvest tried to operate an international cinema chain. There are also layouts in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other places.

However, Golden Harvest has only 7 cinemas in Taiwan, and the total seats of the cinemas can accommodate 5,000 audiences, even if it is 6 screenings a day, it can only supply 30,000 audiences to watch the movie.

It's hard to get a ticket!

Hundreds of thousands of viewers in Taipei queue up for less than 30,000 movie tickets every day.

The greetings between many viewers who did not buy movie tickets have also changed because of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

"Hey, got a movie ticket?"

"Did you watch "Datang" today?"

""Datang" movie tickets, the market is bullish all the way, in the morning, a movie ticket on the black market sells for 80 yuan, and in the evening, it has been sold for 150 yuan"

"Speculating in houses and stocks is not as good as speculating in movie tickets for "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"!"

"It's really lacking in morality, movie tickets were scarce in the first place, and as a result, they have become bad professional queuers, hoarding Juqi's chips!"

"Damn, movie tickets have also been hyped up to several times higher, and the little citizens are not allowed to watch the movie! The black market price has risen to the rich people's patents! ”

"Hey, people are more popular than people. Some rich people came just now, and after more than a dozen people arrived, they didn't ask the price, they swept the goods and bought more than 20 high-priced tickets for "Datang", and the whole family, young and old, Shi Shiran entered the venue! ”

The frenzy caused by hundreds of thousands of people across the city shook the media.

"United Daily News" said: "Since March 25, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has landed in the Taiwan box office market. The distributor, Golden Harvest Cinemas, uses only seven movie theaters it operates in Taiwan for screenings. However, it quickly ignited the enthusiasm of Taiwanese fans, and every day, hundreds of thousands of viewers lined up outside the cinema to buy tickets like a long queue, which was spectacular. It is reported that because the number of movie tickets for "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is limited. With an average of 60 spectators in line, only 1 person has the opportunity to enter the movie. Therefore, if the audience is lucky enough to buy a movie ticket, in the blink of an eye, the movie ticket in their hands can be purchased by the hardcore "Datang" fans who are anxiously waiting for it at several times the price. It is reported that the price of "Datang" movie tickets for Golden Harvest Cinema is only NT$30, but on the black market, the price of "Datang" movie tickets has risen to NT$200 each! ”

"Minsheng Daily" reported: "The appreciation of movie tickets for "Datang" has made some citizens keen to speculate and resell movie tickets to make huge profits. Mr. Liu, who made a profit by reselling movie tickets, revealed that starting from the 25th, he continuously mobilized relatives, friends, and dozens of people to line up in a number of movie theaters, and quickly snapped up as many as 70 "Datang" movie tickets, and then sold more than 50 tickets at a high price of NT$100 and NT$150. Not only in a few days, but also made a profit of more than NT$5,000. Moreover, just the 20 movie tickets he holds in hand have also appreciated to NT$4,000, Mr. Liu said that this kind of irrational price cannot last long, and he should look for opportunities to sell movie tickets and cash out! ”

"Central Daily" denounced this phenomenon and said: "The movie tickets for "Datang" are hard to find, attracting scalpers who are greedy for small profits, mingling among fans, professionally queuing up to buy movie tickets, and then selling them at a high price, so as to make several times the profit of the price difference. Such despicable acts make it more difficult for more real movie fans to buy movie tickets through the usual queues. And forced to buy from those speculators at a price several times higher. According to the audience who walked into the cinema, more than half of the audience bought movie tickets at a high price of NT$100! Most of the viewers who queued for hours but failed to buy movie tickets expressed their indignation and dissatisfaction, claiming that scalpers seriously disrupted the normal market order of "Datang" movie tickets and undermined the fair surname! ”

As Taiwan's media have condemned scalpers and reselling movie tickets.

Major Taiwanese cinema chains that have been authorized by Golden Harvest have already obtained copies and are racing against time to join the screening of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

On March 28, there were 37 theaters showing "Datang" on the whole island of Taiwan; On March 29, the number increased to 56; By March 30, the number of movie theaters showing "Datang" on the island had increased to 95

With so many movie theaters, the scalpers who began to sell tickets to screen "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" began to be unprofitable and died down!

Taiwan's little couples began to form pairs, and small citizens also began to enter the cinema in groups to watch the movie.

Taipei, Keelung, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan

The entire island of Taiwan began to bathe in the spring breeze brought by "The Tang Dynasty".

At the same time, the box office data of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has also risen all the way from dry land, and since March 28, the box office of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" has suddenly risen to NT$3.5 million, and has exceeded the 4 million, 5 million, and 7 million marks in the following days

Taiwan's film industry was shocked: "Zhang Shaojie once again copied the miracle of "Modern Bodyguard", and "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is invincible in the Taiwan box office market! ”

Qiong Yao, who also started as a writer and screenwriter and also invested in the film industry, was compared by the media and criticized: "Taiwan Island does not lack famous writers, nor does it lack famous writers whose works are adapted into movies." However, a famous artist like Qiong Yao, who has successfully made a name for herself, is only willing to invest hundreds of thousands of NT$ in her own adaptation of the movie. Such an investment cost is nothing more than taking advantage of fame to make money in the film industry. As for Zhang Shaojie, he knows how to plan for the long term at a young age, and is willing to invest more than NT$130 million to adapt the work into a classic blockbuster - this is the gap between Taiwan's cultural circles and Hong Kong's cultural circles! ”

—————————— in order to meet the needs of Taiwan's film promotion, on March 30, the main members of the crew of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", under the leadership of Gu Long, took a special plane to Taipei.

This time, the group members who went to Taiwan included Gu Long, Zhang Shaojie, Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Lin Qingxia, Wu Dairong, Donnie Yen and so on.

Taipei. Matsuyama Airport.

As soon as he got off the plane, Zhang Shaojie felt a warm atmosphere.

Three or four thousand die-hard fans of "Datang" make the airport crowded. Everywhere there are die-hard fans waving flags and slogans. Among these fans, there are men and women, and it seems that there are more and more active fans with female surnames.

On the slogan, there are different logos such as "Zhang Shaojie Support Association", "Datang" Knights", "Datang" Girls Group" and so on, showing that the scene is a support team organized by many different Zhang Shaojie supporters.

Among them, the "Zhang Shaojie Support Club" is mainly some ordinary young fans.

"The Knights of the Tang Dynasty" seems to have a strong literary temperament, and it should be dominated by young fans of literature and art.

And the "Datang" Girls Group is a large group of girls, and the number is the largest. There are countless kinds of queens, royal sisters, and little Lori, this is the "beautiful female fans" that Zhang Shaojie advocates

Zhang Shaojie's idol temperament is better than that of Hong Kong's big-name stars.

Because, at this time, Hong Kong stars are mainly powerful, such as Xu Guanwen, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung , most of the powerful stars, although they are full of appeal at the box office, but they seem a bit earthy.

It is not as marketable as inspirational idol literary and artistic youth like Zhang Shaojie.

"It's coming, it's coming! Look, the one next to Gu Long is Zhang Shaojie, "a young female literary and artistic young man, holding a photo, excitedly pointing to the people coming from the plane.

"Look, that's really Zhang Shaojie, so handsome, the most handsome guy in Hong Kong!" Another fan screamed with excitement.

"Oh my God, the temperament of a king!" A little Lori in her early teens almost fainted with excitement, and after Zhang Shaojie and others got off the plane.

Thousands of fans throughout Matsuyama Airport began to look extremely excited.

Because the whole airport is out of control.

The police at the airport were scattered by the crowd.

However, it is the duty of the police to grit their teeth and try to maintain order at the precarious airport.

"Yikes!"

Zhang Shaojie saw that a little girl fell.

Watching her being trampled on, she cried bitterly.

Zhang Shaojie hurriedly said: "Stop!" Don't step on that girl! ”

Saying that, Zhang Shaojie stepped forward excitedly, squatted on the ground, and reported the little girl who was only six or seven years old in time.

"Are there any injuries?" Zhang Shaojie asked softly.

The little girl shook her head and giggled: "No injury, thank you, big brother Zhang Shaojie!" ”

Zhang Shaojie smiled and said, "Yes! I'm Zhang Shaojie, what's your name, little sister? How old are you this year? ”

The little girl's red face was a little proud, and she said: "My name is Lin Chiling, I am 7 years old this year, I am studying in Lidongmen Elementary School, my academic performance is great, and I won the first place in the class!" ”

Zhang Shaojie was stunned, I damn it, this little little bit who was held in his arms was Lin Chiling, who was later known as Taiwan's first beautiful beauty model?

(To be continued)