410 New Records

Entering November, the box office of "God of Gamblers" in Taiwan has exceeded 55 million Taiwan dollars, and the Hong Kong box office has also surged to more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars, falling into unprecedented madness.

It's okay to say that on the Taiwan side, although this box office is bullish, it is not too outrageous after all. But Hong Kong's box office of more than 7 million Hong Kong dollars has shocked a bunch of people's nerves, and it has only been more than a month.

Lose your marbles! In recent years, there are only a handful of movies released in Hong Kong that can reach 5 million Hong Kong dollars, and millions of them can rank in the top ten at the annual box office. Wang Zijun: Is this going against the sky?

Stimulated by this box office, the number of gambling films in Hong Kong has increased a lot.

In fact, this data did not come out of thin air, the unprecedented type of gambling film, coupled with Wang Zijun's directorial appeal, and with the residual heat of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Chow Yun-fat and Michelle have many supporters, plus Wang Zijun's anti-collusion role, in addition to the gimmick of gambling ships on the high seas, the cameo of the ghost king Ye Han, the most important thing is the quality of the film.

If I have to add one more point, it is the penchant of Hong Kong people for gambling.

All these factors have made "God of Gamblers" popular in Hong Kong, and some fanatical fans have watched it dozens of times in a row.

"Ming Pao Weekly" has an article: "The release of "God of Gamblers" once again proves Wang Zijun's directing ability and market vision. Its ability to use and create film genres is impressive, and it also has an ability to turn decay into magic for the use of actors. For example, Wu Mengda, who was originally a tricky little actor on TVB wireless station, could only be regarded as so-so in his previous TV series, and he had no style of his own. But in "God of Gamblers", Wu Mengda's free-flowing madness makes people remember him at a glance. As far as I know, there are now at least four film companies looking for Wu Mengda to make films, and three of them are gambling films. The wireless station also increased his salary because of Wu Mengda's fame, and prepared to let him play the second male lead in the next play......

If the Hong Kong box office of "God of Gamblers" can break the 10 million mark, it will be an unspeakable box office myth, and it will also prove the unlimited potential of the Hong Kong film market. I believe that more funds will flow into this market, and Hong Kong films will usher in a more prosperous period......"

The horror box office of "God of Gamblers" frightened some people, and the box office of nearly 8 million put "Her Father's Mother's" (Don't you really want to complain about the name of this movie?) 's 5.81 million is a big cut, and the most important thing is that "God of Gamblers" is still being released. For them, "God of Gamblers" is more of a thrill and a temptation at the box office.

In November, "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" starring the Xu brothers and Zhao Yazhi was also released, and it quickly became popular, and the box office growth rate caught up with "God of Gamblers".

In fact, if nothing else, the Hong Kong box office of "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" will get 8.53 million, which is not far from 10 million.

Hong Kong citizens have completely shaken off the shadow of the stock market crash, prices are rising, wages are also rising, and the current box office of 10 million is about equivalent to about 5 million to 7 million box office two years ago.

Presumably, the box office in Hong Kong is much less in Macau, which is released later, and now it has not exceeded 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and the box office growth rate has slowed down.

The sum of the three places, that is to say, "God of Gamblers" has been released for more than a month, and the total box office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan has exceeded 100 million Taiwan dollars. When this data was revealed by the Taiwanese media, Wang Zijun was once again regarded as an entrepreneurial idol by countless young people. Nowadays, the monthly salary of ordinary workers in Taiwan is only a little more than 1,000, and the white-collar class is only two or three thousand, and it will take hundreds of years to earn 100 million, and a movie will come.

Ordinary people don't know that the box office of 100 million Taiwan dollars needs to be removed from the cost, and taxes must be paid, and dividends are paid to theaters, theaters, and distributors, and in their eyes, most of the 100 million box office is Wang Zijun's.

At this time, the 1976 list of "Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the Republic of China" organized by the General Association of the Republic of China of Junior Chamber International also came out, and Wang Zijun was successfully selected, and he was asked to receive the award at that time.

Wang Zijun didn't have time to accept the award, he was busy making records.

The promotion of the new record began at the end of October, and as soon as the news came out, many fans of Wang Zijun rejoiced, and they had waited too long this year.

They are very entangled in Wang Zijun's songs, other first-line singers release a few records a year, and there are two or three less, just this Wang Zijun only has one a year, and he often skips tickets, and this year he is even more grinding until the end of the year. But Wang Zijun's song made them unable to ignore it, "Dongfeng Break" has been banned by the authorities in the past six months, and it can't be heard on TV and radio, and the shops on the street don't dare to play this song. Some fans can only listen to the record secretly at home. …,

The most painful are those fans who like to listen to Wang Zijun's songs, but are shy and reluctant to buy records, or do not have a record player at home. They used to listen to "East Wind Breaking" basically on the radio, but now they don't have to listen to it at all, and some people can't find a way to buy a record because the record store has been forcibly removed from the shelves.

Only a small number of people, who have friends or relatives outside the island, begged them to buy "East Wind Break", remove the original packaging and send it to Taiwan in other records.

Wang Zijun's new record is also twelve songs, four Chinese, four Cantonese, and four English songs. Among them, the English songs are all plagiarized songs of later generations, and in Chinese and Cantonese, only "Snail" and "Sea and Sky" are plagiarized Jay Chou and beyond, and the remaining six songs are written by Wang Zijun himself. Although it inevitably borrows some melodies from later songs, it is basically original.

Plagiarism can only be done for a while, and it cannot be played like this for the rest of your life. In fact, with Wang Zijun's vision from later generations and his maturing ability, there is no need to worry about sales at all when he writes songs, and the same is true for movies.

The whole record is mainly inspirational and love, which is also forced by the Information Bureau to have no choice, when I first took it to check the lyrics, two of them were directly returned, and one was ordered to change one of the lyrics.

Zheng Zhenkun has no choice but to follow his thoughts, and he doesn't worry about sales anyway.

In fact, the English songs in Wang Zijun's last record are still quite popular, and there are many foreigners in Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia, and it is because of several of them that they decided to buy the record.

Wang Zijun also took the record of "East Wind Breaking" to the United States and asked Ron to help him do the distribution in the United States. FreeWill (Free Will) Records has been tepid since Wang Zijun left the United States, although it has attracted a lot of music talents and attention by doing rock festivals, but after all, the channel is not as good as those big companies, and Ron is just a decent music producer, and it is good to be able to make money while developing slowly.

In the face of Wang Zijun's request, Ron was originally a little reluctant, after all, most of the songs in this record are Chinese songs, and it is unlikely that there will be a market in the United States. And he thought that the English song "yellow" in the record was very good, and decided to sell it as a single, as for other Chinese songs.

Wang Zijun resolutely disagreed, and he was willing to open his mouth only if he sold them together, and his attention was to bundle them and spread Chinese culture to Americans.

In the end, I can only compromise, after all, the company is jointly established by two people, and it is not good to be stiff. So in the fall of last year, Ron first released the single "Yellow" and played Wang Zijun's signboard, which attracted a group of fans of "Hotel California" to buy it.

This British-style song, which later became popular, was quickly recognized by many fans. When the results were at their best, they entered the top five on the singles chart, and stayed within the top 30 for a long time, although it was not as good as the original "Hotel California", but overall it was not bad.

Seeing that the limelight of the single was about to pass, Ron timely released the entire "East Wind Break", but the initial effect was not too good, after all, most of them were Chinese songs, and they couldn't understand it.

The sales of "East Wind Break" in the United States originally came from Chinatown, in stark contrast to the lack of interest among whites, and the Chinese in Chinatown are like treasures. Whether it's English, Chinese or Cantonese, most of them can understand it, this record is available in three languages, and the first song is so good that it is simply tailor-made for them.

Just in Chinatown, "East Wind Breaking" sold thousands of copies in a very short period of time. This is not a lot of sales, but it also makes Ron breathe a sigh of relief, and he finally doesn't have to worry about losing too much.

Until now, it has been a year, and the total sales of "Dongfeng Breaking" in the US market are 30,000 copies, of which more than half are bought by Chinese. Although the sales are pitiful, Wang Zijun is not discouraged, didn't he still sell 30,000? As long as one more foreigner listens to his Chinese songs, Wang Zijun will continue to send them, and he believes that there will only be more and more people who like Chinese songs.

By early November, the new album "Snail" had been produced, but it was not directly on the market, but continued to be promoted, and he was ready to officially release it on the last day of 1976.

Just when Wang Zijun was traveling back and forth to Hong Kong and Taiwan to promote "Snail", "God of Gamblers" also began to be released in Southeast Asia and Japan at the same time. …,

As in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the audience originally came to watch the God of Gamblers under the name of Wang Zijun, but as soon as they entered the cinema, they were immediately attracted by the plot of "God of Gamblers". Handsome guys, beautiful women, fights, funny, betrayal, revenge...... and other important commercial film elements are superimposed, combined with the type of gambling film like a monster, which immediately captured the attention of most people.

Zhou Yun became red, and many Japanese remembered a Chinese named Zhou Yunfa again after knowing Bruce Lee, Wang Zijun, and Cheng Long.

Saburo Takahashi also laughed happily, and the Asian film distribution company was a great success when it first introduced "Food Truck", and it was a time of fame and fortune. But the source of the film that was taken later did not cause such a big sensation again. Zou Wenhuai and Wang Zijun let people take the past are relatively high-quality films, Xu Guanwen's "Ghost Horse Double Star" is slightly higher at the box office, but some of the jokes in it are incomprehensible to the Japanese, so they don't sell as well as they used to be in Hong Kong.

Most of the Chinese-language films were introduced to Japan by Asian film distribution companies, and they could only make a small profit, and some even lost money.

Now that "God of Gamblers" is powerful, Saburo Takahashi is once again in the limelight in the Japanese film industry.

Some fans in Singapore were dissatisfied, saying that the final villain was actually a Singaporean, and Wang Zijun was too faceless, and strongly asked to be a positive character next time a Singaporean character appeared.

The Malaysian side is the most surprising, after the hit of "God of Gamblers", the Malay royal family actually sent an invitation to Wang Zijun, saying that the organizers of the last attack on Wang Zijun in Kuala Lumpur had been caught, and now they have invited Wang Zijun to perform in a friendly manner again.

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Let's talk briefly about Sun Liren's problem.

Although General Sun Liren was born in 1900, his eldest son is about the same age as Wang Zijun, that is to say, he only had a son when he was in his fifties. In the previous chapter, it was said that Sun Xibi was his eldest grandson, and I did it on purpose.

Regarding Sun Liren's rebellion, the case of him mutiny with the support of the United States to force Chiang to abdicate was later proved to be false. Probably the situation may be like this: the United States is dissatisfied with Chiang, and semi-privately proposes that Chiang step down and order other pro-American figures to lead Taiwan. Sun Liren happened to have a close relationship with the United States, and at that time he was the commander-in-chief of Taiwan's army and the commander-in-chief of the Ministry of Defense, so he happened to have the ability to mutiny. Chiang Kai-shek's father and son were suspicious of Sun Liren, and when the other officials found out, they fell into the well together, and finally put Sun under house arrest.

Sun Liren's ability to fight is outstanding, but his popularity is not good, mainly due to his character, he is resolute and outspoken, open-mouthed, and unwilling to compromise. He almost offended other generals in the army, and such a person committed a mutiny, and the ghost believed it.

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