690 [The Perfect Textbook for Action Blockbusters]
Seoul, South Korea.
Tan Yu, general manager of Wang's Film Company (South Korea), personally attended the premiere of "Three Heroines of the East" in South Korea, although the main creative staff of the crew did not have any weight, but Tan Yu invited more than ten famous artists such as Li Meishu and Li Xiuman to press the scene.
Lee Mi-sook debuted in 1978 and starred in film and television dramas until 2010, and was known as a "legend of the film industry" in South Korea in later generations. And Lee so-man is also a singer who was famous in South Korea in the 70s, a few years ago, because Chun Doo-hwan came to power, the censorship of songs was stricter than in the Park Chung-hee era, and he went to study in the United States in desperation, and just came back a while ago and released a record, which became popular again.
At ten o'clock in the morning, a kind of Korean star artist appeared at the premiere of "Three Heroines of the East", and there were countless murder films in the air. In South Korea, where the entertainment industry is still underdeveloped, everything is on par with Hong Kong, Taiwan and Yuben, and the premiere of Wang Zijun's blockbuster is naturally a big event in the Korean entertainment industry.
General Manager Tan Yu delivered an enthusiastic speech, the content of which was naturally to thank the Korean people for their support to Wang's company and thank Korean fans for their love for Wang's works.
Tan Woo, who used to be the deputy of Lee Kyung-ho's wife, Jang Eun-so, came to Seoul a few years ago to take over the Seoul branch of Wang's Film Company. Today, the main business of Wang's Film Korea Branch is still to distribute films from Wang's Pictures and Xinyicheng, so Tan Yu is a big celebrity in the eyes of Korean theater operators.
In addition to the distribution business, the Korean branch of Wang's Film Company will also invest in two or three Korean local films every year, but the box office results have not been very good, and it is a situation of no profit or loss.
Chun Doo-hwan's rule in South Korea has lasted for five years, and last year's re-election did not even have a contender, and his methods were even more brutal than that of Park Chung-hee back then. However, barbarism is barbarism, and in the past few years in office, South Korea's economic development has been rapid, and the control of the entertainment industry has gradually opened up, so the Korean entertainment market is constantly expanding. Wong Pictures' box office sales in South Korea have been climbing in the past two years, which is a good proof of this.
It is precisely because of this that the headquarters of Wang's Pictures is paying more and more attention to the Korean market, and this time the premiere of "Three Heroines of the East" was particularly grand.
The local celebrity guests who were invited on the stage, after touting Wang's Pictures and Wang Zijun, their red envelopes today were counted.
Next is some singing and dancing performances, fans, guests, and reporters actually want these old-fashioned performances to end early, so that they can enjoy Wang Zijun's new film quickly.
Li Meishu sat in a row behind Tan Yu, intentionally or unintentionally talking to Tan Yu in front of her. Tan Yu is 29 years old this year, as the general director of Wang's Pictures in South Korea, he can be called a young and promising, especially since he is not married, he is the ideal man in the minds of many Korean female artists - if he hooks up, he will have the opportunity to go to Hong Kong and Taiwan for development.
Lee Mi-sook debuted a few years ago, and her acting career reached a peak last year, and she starred in several movies alone, and she is now the most popular female star in South Korea, and she also has titles such as Korea's first beauty, national beauty, and public "qingren".
In the face of Li Meishu's accosting, Tan Yu, who has been sticky to a lot of meat in South Korea, is also a little lustful and spiritual, and turns his head from time to time to talk and laugh with Li Meishu, and he can't even watch the performance on stage.
Over there, Lee so-man said to his brother Lee so-young: "Are all the current Korean female artists so shameless? actually seduced a man in public. β
Lee so Young said with a smile: "Xiuman, you haven't been back to South Korea for a few years, I don't know how influential this Mr. Tan is in South Korea, but he represents Asia's largest film giant Wang Pictures." The entertainment industry in our Republic of Korea is still underdeveloped, and artists dream of developing in Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and following the path of this Mr. Tan is equivalent to half the success. β
"But you don't have to be so careless, right?" Li Xiuman said indignantly, the nationalism and machismo in his heart are still very heavy, and the first beauty in South Korea hooked up with a Chinese in front of his eyes, which really made him feel very embarrassed by the face of Koreans.
Lee so Young smiled: "Is there a better opportunity for Lee Mi-sook than now?" β
Li Xiuman complained in a low voice before asking, "Brother, I heard that you had dinner with Wang Zijun last year, what kind of person is he?" β
Lee so Young said: "He is a very good talker, and it is best for such a person to be friends, if he is qualified." He is very talented, and when I talk to him, he gives us a lot of advice on Korean pop music. The record I helped you make last month contains a lot of his musical ideas. β
Li Xiuman said: "If I have the opportunity, I really want to meet him, but I never had the opportunity to meet him when I was in the United States." β
The lights in the screening hall dimmed, and the movie was finally about to show.
Li Meishu, who hooked up with Tan Yu back and forth, also stopped and shifted her attention to the screen. Today's Korean plastic surgery industry has not yet started, and Lee Mi-sook, a national beauty, is a genuine natural beauty, unlike the later thigh era, pea enough and other groups have used knives.
Similarly, the current artists in South Korea are generally very conservative compared to the situation of sleeping with nine out of ten in later generations, and Li Meishu hooked up with Tan Yu, that is, she really wanted to climb the high branch and marry her.
After the opening of Wong's Film Company on the screen, a Hong Kong villa began to appear. In the darkness of the night, a figure threw out a mass of things, and the vicious dog guarding the door came up and sniffed it, and immediately fell to the ground.
The black shadow moved against the wall like a gecko, and one turned over and ran into the villa.
The patrol guard heard a noise, flashed a flashlight, and before he could speak, a bright light flashed out of the darkness. The guard snorted and fell to the ground, only then did the audience see a scalpel stuck in the guard's neck, and then a large hand reached out, pulled the scalpel off, and quickly headed towards the depths of the villa.
Wang Zijun's directing skills have obviously reached the international top level, and the movie is played here, without dazzling editing, and there is very little soundtrack, only the footsteps in the dark, the sound of squirrel, and the close-up of the killer hand who has never appeared successfully caught the audience's attention.
Just like a good storyteller, he tells the plot slowly in a gentle tone, and will listen to it unconsciously into a wonderful story.
"It's the God of Gamblers, Chow Yun-fat!" There were fans in the screening room who couldn't help but scream.
The picture is already the next day, and people only learn from the lines that it was Chow Yun-fat's father in the film, a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong, who stole a national treasure.
"Mr. Zhou, let's find the Three Heroes of the East, it's not easy for us to investigate this matter."
"The Three Heroes of the East?"
"Yes, they're the best bounty hunters in Asia."
The title appears in the dialogue, and viewers who watched the premiere know that the film is about to get to the point.
The first to appear was Iraqi Ladia, who hid her identity in society as a female yoga instructor, and was wearing a white yoga training suit when she appeared. The trouser vest is tight, the front is convex and backward, the jade legs are slender, and the perfect figure is undoubtedly revealed. The most unbearable thing for the audience with the male surname is Ira's yoga movements at this time, kneeling with her arms on the ground, her hips raised high, no matter what angle you look at, it is easy to evoke, and the nosebleed sprays wildly.
"Didi Di Di ......"
On the wrist that should have been wearing nothing while teaching, a beautiful women's watch made a slight noise.
When Iraqi Laudia heard the sound of her watch, she jumped up and said to the trainees, "That's the end of today's training. β
Then there is Yang Ziqiong's female reporter, Li Zhi's female model image appeared, and they, like Iraqi Laudia, received a signal during normal work, quickly rushed to the headquarters to gather, and went to Hong Kong to investigate under the instructions of "housekeeper" Lin Zhengying.
"Is it just them?" Chow Yun-fat obviously didn't believe that these three delicate beauties had any ability, and asked a few of his bodyguards to try their skills.
I saw that the strong big men had just made a move, and the movements of the three beauties were so fast that they appeared illusory, and they knocked these big man bodyguards to the ground with three punches and two kicks and snorted, while Chow Yun-fat on the side was dumbfounded.
The music suddenly became cheerful, and the three women began to change their hunters' attire, leather coats, cowboy suits, long whips, short clubs, bombs, pistols, bows and crossbows...... The picture switches back and forth between the movements of the three women, and the music is also very metallic, and the three beautiful women who seem to be very weak have become strong agents in the blink of an eye.
Today's action movies are all men's world, and women are generally vase-like existences in them, and their only role is to set off men's strength and grace, the most famous of which is the 007 series.
And an action movie like "The Three Heroines of the East", which is purely based on female surnames, is an unprecedented initiative ("Charlie's Angel" is just a TV series).
In the ten Asian countries and regions where the premiere was held, the eyes of the audience with the male surname were reluctant to take away from the screen after the three beautiful heroines appeared.
And what about the audience with female surnames? They also watched it with relish, and even had a stronger sense of substitution than male audiences. The three heroines in the movie started their careers as coaches, journalists and models, which is a very ordinary profession, just like them female audiences, but in a blink of an eye, they have become so cool that they are enough to satisfy the fantasies of female audiences.
As the plot progresses, when a powerful man is defeated at the feet of the three heroines, the audience with the female surname can't wait to become the three heroines themselves.
It turns out that a woman can be so touched when she fights!
The audience with the male surname did not cry out for the men who were beaten down in the movie, they have completely fallen in love with the three beauties, and some lewd men are even thinking that these three pairs of long legs practicing martial arts must be very cool to clip...... Wang Zijun does not always make close-ups of the heroine's breasts and buttocks like "Breaking Baby", the film is full of oriental subtlety and temptation, but the sense of surname at a glance is obviously more useful to Asian men. If the three heroines take photos after the film is released, I am afraid that it will be sold out in Asia.
It turns out that for a period of time after the release of the film, the promotional posters on the street always disappeared inexplicably, and it is not known which guy's private collection it became.
The selling points of "Three Heroines of the East" are not only these, the fights in the gambling ship hall, the chase and street fighting on the streets of Macau, the melee in the hot spring hall in Taiwan, the battle between the port and the water in Taiwan, and the battle of the art museum and the martial arts club in Tokyo...... The gorgeous fight scenes again and again are addicted to action movie fans.
Even Cheng Long, who is very popular in Asia today, still fights hard and hard, and the fighting action in Wang Zijun's "Three Heroines of the East" can be called fantasy, and there is the shadow of traditional hard kung fu, which is refreshing to watch.
In particular, the big explosion scene in Plum Garden is also a rare big scene in today's Asian movies, just watching the big explosion is enough for a ticket price.
In terms of fists and feet, there are Western boxing, Muay Thai, French kickboxing, Chinese boxing, Karate, and ninjutsu; In terms of instruments, there are Philippine short sticks, Chinese nine-section whips, traditional bows and crossbows, soft swords, folding fans, umbrellas, and scalpels; There were also modern shootouts in between, and even military helicopters launched missiles.
The whole fight scene can be called extremely luxurious, if there were still people who questioned where Wang Zijun spent so much of his investment budget before the release, there would definitely be no such doubts now.
At the premiere scene in Seoul, after watching the movie, South Korea's No. 1 beauty Lee Mi-sook was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
Influenced by Chinese kung fu films, Yue Ben and the Philippines began to shoot kung fu movies in the 70s, while South Korea was a little later, but there are still some in recent years, most of which mainly show taekwondo. But compared with Wang Zijun's "Three Heroines of the East", those Korean action movies are as naΓ―ve and ridiculous as a three-year-old child.
is worthy of being the leader of Asian films, and only Chinese-language films can do this. Li Meishu's inner thoughts are even firmer, she must go to Hong Kong and Taiwan to develop, and the backward Korean film industry is really not worth her nostalgia.
"Mr. Tan, are you free tonight?" Li Meishu suddenly felt that her words were a little ambiguous, and quickly explained, "I mean I want to treat you to a light meal, thank you for the role you gave me last time." β
Tan Yu also had a heart for this Korean beauty, and said with a smile: "Of course there is time, but thank you for not having to, I'll treat you." β
The two dog men and women tacitly smiled ambiguously, which can be regarded as a successful hookup together.
In Taipei, Ming Ji, Huang Hanzhuo and others, who were invited to watch the premiere of the movie, were completely shocked by Wang Zijun's generosity. Their film company followed the trend of "ET" to shoot blockbusters at the beginning of the year, and it really achieved a good box office in both local and foreign cities, and is now making up plans to sell it to Europe and the United States through Wang's bridge.
But Wang Zijun's "Three Heroines of the East", both in terms of creativity and picture, has reached a new level of Chinese-language action movies, and they can't imitate it - who dares to spend money like Wang Zijun?
After the premiere of "Ira, Ira......" in Manila, Filipino fans were chanting Iraqi Laudea's name.
With this movie alone, Iraqi Laudia has become the most dazzling actress in the Philippines, and the Philippine newspaper the next day named Iraqi Laudia the "Goddess of Surname".
Similarly, Yang Ziqiong in Malaysia also enjoys this kind of treatment, with newspapers and magazines full of praise, and countless directors who have asked her to shoot action movies.
The media in Hong Kong that criticized Li Zhi have almost disappeared, and they are all praising Li Zhi's acting skills and skills. And the information deliberately revealed by Wang Zijun during the promotion was also used by those media, saying that the three daughters of Lizhi worked hard in filming, never used stand-ins, and were covered with injuries, etc., which simply became a professional model for artists.
As for Huang Qiusheng, who was filming for the first time, this handsome Chinese-British mixed-race child also made a name for himself in Hong Kong, not only was his skills favored by the action director, but also the director invited him to make a literary film, saying that his eyes were very melancholy and charming.
Wu Han, the Oscar Best Actor, also performed well and officially entered the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles, but he was basically asked to play an important supporting role.
Although Kurata and Chiba Shinichi played villains, fans were still full of praise for their performance, but they were a little unhappy and finally Kurata was killed. It wasn't until Kurata Yasuaki came out to explain that he would still appear in the second part of "Three Heroines of the East", but he was the twin brother of the character in the first part, which made fans feel a lot better.
The most amazing thing for fans of this movie is that Miyuki Nakajima, who has always been quiet, actually plays an art record/ninja in the film, the image of a red kimono, an oil paper umbrella diagonally, and a folding fan in his hand, has become the object of imitation by many women in this movie.
There is also the 14-year-old daughter of Oyama Kikuko, this little Lori does not appear much, but she has also won the love of many fans. Especially after learning that she is the daughter of the founder of Gokukukado Beida, many young martial artists in the karate world have become her fans.
The most laughable thing is that Ke Junxiong and Ke Shouliang are on the Taiwan side, the two of them played the gang boss and the annihilation businessman too successfully, and the consequence was that they couldn't get out of this drama for a year or two, and the scenes they received were all bad guys.
A "Three Heroines of the East" has made a bunch of newcomers popular, and it has also brought the already famous actors to a higher level, and film critics jokingly called this movie a star-making machine.
The second Miss Asia beauty contest that is being held has also attracted special attention because of the hot screening of "Three Heroines of the East".
Especially those beauties who participated in the competition, they were even more fiery and full of longing. You must know that the three actresses who became popular because of "The Three Heroines of the East", two of them were the top three in the finals of the last session, and they may be able to reach that height as the contestants of the second session. Even if it can't be popular, the other beauties who entered the finals in the first session are now mixing very well on TV stations around the world, and the prospects are very promising.
In an article summarizing the surname 20 years later, the authoritative film magazine "Film Xunbao" said: ""The Three Heroines of the East" is a pioneering film for Asian films. It is not only the first action movie with a purely female surname as the main perspective, but also perfectly combines the oriental style of Asia with the blockbuster model of Hollywood, becoming the perfect textbook for Asian action blockbusters in later generations. β
(To be continued)