In the theater with less than 60% attendance, some people are eating melon seeds boringly, and the long war background subtitles at the beginning of the film have made many people scold.

Hong Kong is not Taiwan, and it is normal for the audience to encounter a bad movie, and the director is beaten (if this trend continues to the present, I don't know how many directors will not be beaten).

"Refund! Return a ticket! Some of the spectators stood up and yelled.

Suddenly, the screen lit up, and a huge roar suppressed the roars of these people. The planes and flyers filmed in real action, as well as the huge city below, made those people a little stunned, and they couldn't stand or sit.

"Boom!" The heavy artillery fire was like a slap in the face, slapping those people hard.

All the audience obediently sat down and watched the film intently. Hong Kong can't shoot such a scene, but if you have money, where can you buy explosives?

The film is in Chinese and has not been dubbed in Cantonese. In these years, the mainstream language of Hong Kong movies is still Chinese, and it is not until next year's "72 Tenants" that Cantonese dialogue is gradually accepted and promoted.

"Han Jian! Kill Han Jian! After Wang Zijun's continuous rendering, when he saw Captain Deng abandon his position and run away, the audience's emotions accumulated to the first outbreak, and many people stood up and scolded.

Then it was soothing, depressed, and erupting again and again, seeing [***] killing countless enemies in the city gate battle, and the only half of the audience in the theater shouted in unison: "Okay, good fight!" Kill Xiao Yueben! ”

When Wang Zijun saw the audience's reaction, he kept smiling on his face.

Halfway through the movie, Wang Zijun looked at the time and said to Teresa Teng and Guan Weihua: "You guys watch first, I have to leave in advance." ”

Teresa Teng and the others were looking at it energetically, only nodded, and then paid attention to the screen.

Wang Zijun got out of the cinema and hailed a taxi to another Shaw Brothers theater, where "Fourteen Heroes" was about to be screened.

It's much more popular here than "Bloody Lonely City", and the ticket-buying team has a bit of the feeling that "Bloody Lonely City" was released in Taiwan. Everyone wants to see what this 4 million Hong Kong dollar movie can look like.

"Friend, I'll give me 50 yuan and give me your ticket." Wang Zijun directly found a person who had just finished buying a ticket.

The man glanced at Wang Zijun, who was wearing sunglasses, shook his head and said, "I waited in line for half an hour to buy it." ”

"100 yuan, don't sell it to someone else." Wang Zijun said.

"What a fool, you can't use the money." The man gave the ticket to Wang Zijun and snatched the money away, for fear that he would be in debt.

Wang Zijun looked at the crowded scene in the theater and couldn't help sighing, the away game is weak, and the contrast is too great.

Sitting down and waiting for the movie to be screened, Wang Zijun asked a person next to him: "Hey, sir, have you heard of "Bloody Lonely City"? ”

"Yes, I watched commercials on TV." That's humane.

"What do you think of those ads?" Wang Zijun asked.

"What else? The Kuomintang propaganda film, don't watch it. I heard that the explosions and airplane scenes in the advertisements are all information films from the previous Anti-Japanese War. The man replied.

Wang Zijun was speechless, success [***], defeat [***]. Damn, Lao Tzu's elaborate scene was actually said to be an expansion film, was there a color movie a few decades ago?

The man sat upright, and the film had already begun.

The logo of Shaw Brothers was typed out, and the word "sb" was big, which made Wang Zijun want to laugh.

"Fourteen Female Heroes" is adapted from "Yang Jiajiang", which is about what happened after the death of the last adult man of the Yang family, the traitors thought that the country would no longer have a play, so they were arrogant, and the Western Xia thought that the Song Dynasty could no longer resist them, so the army went south, ready to sweep the Central Plains, just when the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was ready to obediently raise their hands to surrender, a group of women and children of the Yang family stood up and couldn't move to rescue the soldiers, so they had to go to the battlefield alone.

After the film started, Wang Zijun didn't watch it for a few minutes before he saw the egg hurt.

In this era, the quality of this movie is absolutely first-class. But the characters in it are all face-painted, the good ones are like saints, and the bad ones are all black, and they are full of stage sense, and the traces of Huangmei Opera in the actors' costumes can't be washed clearly.

This is completely in conflict with Wang Zijun's real, life-oriented film concept.

Overall, it's just a decent production.

However, Wang Zijun was dazzled by the endless number of famous actors in it, whether it was men or women, and even Yang Zongbao, who died as soon as he appeared on the stage, was a big name. Wang Zijun even saw Mi Xue playing tricks inside.

This movie is Cheng Xiaodong's debut as an action director, but due to the limitations of the concept and environment at this time, there are many highlights, but there are also many places to cheat.

During the screening of the film, basically every female general's performance will attract applause. Needless to say, those who applaud are their fans.

Star effect!

"Ahh Oh my! How did the director come up with it? When the buddy next to him saw that the Yang family inside would use his body to make a suspension bridge, he exclaimed.

When the floodgates were opened to annihilate the enemy troops, there was another sensation in the theater, and the raging flood water flowed down from the mountains, rolling up the soldiers and washing them away...... This scene is very spectacular at the moment, but Wang Zijun can see at a glance that it is fake. However, in the era when there were no special effects, it was also very difficult to do, and the danger was not lower than that of Wang Zijun playing with explosions.

Those mountains are all props and sets, and the water is real, that is, a large water tank is built on a high place, more than a dozen tons of tap water are placed, and then the sluice gate is suddenly released, and then the camera is used to deal with it, forming a monstrous flood.

This is simple, but the production and arrangement of those large-scale props is not less expensive than Wang Zijun's small area set in the ancient county town of Taiwan. And in order to increase the sense of realism, the more than ten tons of water washed down, which is actually dangerous to the actors.

"Generous, Shaw Brothers is Shaw Brothers, this kind of picture can be shot!" The people around applauded again and paid tribute to the director and actors.

Wang Zijun thought to himself: When you watch "Bloody Lonely City", you will know what a big deal is.

He didn't believe that Shaw Brothers' "Fourteen Heroes" could overpower his own movie. Although the investment in "Fourteen Heroines" is twice as much as that of "Bloody Lonely City", the salary of those big-name actors accounts for nearly half, and they have been filming for two years, and time and money are spent on arranging a large number of props for mountains, rivers and cities.

The ending of the movie is the Great Perfection, the female general of the Yang Gate defeated the Western Xia army and kept the Great Song River and Mountain, and the movie theater was full of cheers.

Wang Zijun listened to the talk of the people around him, and found that most of these people's topics were still on the female stars who participated, and occasionally mentioned a few classic scenes in it, but there were very few discussions about the plot.

It's simply the pathos of a movie.

Later, after Zhang Laomou filmed several big productions, Wang Shuo once jokingly called him a decorator, which is also the reason.

"Hey, Yishu, why are you there?" Wang Zijun bumped into Yishu when he appeared.

Yishu said: "I promised the magazine to help "Fourteen Heroines" write a film review. Seeing that Wang Zijun's face was a little unnatural, she smiled, "Don't worry, I rushed over after watching "Bloody Lonely City". ”

Wang Zijun said with a smile: "Then please ask Ni Damei to raise your pen." ”

Yishu said: "My pen never goes against my heart, I don't care who I help or not, I just write it straight." But your film is very good, how can I say it? is to watch "Bloody Lonely City" and then watch "Fourteen Heroines", I feel a little boring. ”

"Haha, Yishu, are you complimenting me?" Wang Zijun said with a smile.

"I rarely boast." Yishu smiled.

…… Just when Wang Zijun was chatting with Yishu, in the Shaw Brothers company, Fang Yihua came straight to Shaw's office after receiving the following report.

"Chairman, our movie works very well, and all theaters are full." Fang Yihua said happily.

Fang Yihua is 42 years old this year, a little plump, she has been brought to Shaw Brothers by Run Run Shaw for more than three years, starting from an ordinary staff and becoming a middle-level manager step by step.

As for the relationship between the two, even Run Run Shaw's wife knows about it, but it is not clear.

"What about 'Bloody Lonely City'?" Shaw asked, the 65-year-old looked only in his early 50s, very tough.

Fang Yihua replied: "The highest occupancy rate is 60%, and the lowest theater attendance rate is less than 40%. The specific box office is difficult to count now, but according to the current situation, it has been suppressed by us. ”

Shaw shook his head and said, "I can't hold it down." Although "Fourteen Heroines" and "Bloody Lonely City" are different types, they actually use national righteousness as the core, and there is a life-and-death situation between the two. The reason why I was so nervous was because I had seen that movie the day before yesterday and I was shocked into a cold sweat. ”

Fang Yihua said: "No, even if "Bloody Lonely City" has increased its attendance rate due to word-of-mouth, it has already been left behind by us." ”

"Hopefully not." Shaw said, "This time I was in a bit of a hurry. ”

Run Run Shaw was not in a hurry, but used Wang Zijun as a battlefield for him to fight with Zou Wenhuai.

Zou Wenhuai used to be his confidant, but he set up his own door to fight with his old club. Now it is even more ill-intentioned, concentrating his financial and material resources to fully support the release of "Bloody Lonely City" in Hong Kong, with the intention of borrowing Wang Zijun's hand to suppress the Shaw Brothers' two-year blockbuster production.

Run Run Shaw is a great benevolent man who donates money in every disaster, and he is also a miser who picks the door to the extreme, sometimes he is generous to people, and sometimes his heart is as small as a needle. In the face of Zou Wenhuai's attack, he directly regarded Wang Zijun as Zou Wenhuai's ally, and just seized the opportunity of "Yanbao" to attack Wang Zijun, secretly exerted his strength, and fell into the ground.

The war between the Shaw Brothers and Jiahe was like the war between Russia at the beginning, but Wang Zijun became the Qing political axe that was used as a battlefield.

After Wang Zijun now figured out what happened, he hated Jiahe and Shaw Brothers in his heart. But the reality made him have to stand on the side of Golden Harvest for the time being, and open up the posture to oppose the Shaw Brothers.

The battle between Wang and Shaw, in the first round, Shaw wins.

But this is just the beginning, Wang Zijun is not someone who sits idly by.

(To be continued)