It has been two weeks since the movie was released, and the cumulative box office of "Fourteen Heroes" is 1.34 million yuan, which still has a huge advantage compared with the box office of other movies at this time. Even if it is painted at this time, it can be ranked in the top ten of the annual box office list. But don't forget, the investment in "Fourteen Heroes" is 4 million yuan!

In contrast, the cumulative box office of "Bloody Lonely City" in two weeks was 1.28 million yuan. Although it is still lower than "Fourteen Heroines", under the good reputation, the attendance rate has been rising, and it has been forced into ninety percent, and there are many repeat customers who watched it for the second and third times. However, the average attendance rate of "Fourteen Heroes" has dropped to 61% now, and it is easy to be surpassed by "Bloody Lonely City".

Run Run Shaw has completely abandoned his blockbuster that has been in the works for three years, and is preparing for the post-promotion of Li Hanxiang's "The Great Warlord", ready to be released in another week.

Run Run Shaw is not in a hurry, but Cheng Gang, the director of "Fourteen Heroes", is in a hurry, and he and his 19-year-old son Cheng Xiaodong pull people to watch movies all day long. Although people who have seen the film say that the film is good, the problem of rapidly declining attendance still exists.

According to Cheng Gang's idea, this work that exhausted his own efforts would have to be screened for at least two months before it was painted, but now he has only lasted for two weeks and is sick.

The father and son sat on the steps on the side of the street, and Cheng Gang hung his head and said, "Dong'er, is our movie really so bad?" ”

Cheng Xiaodong served as the designer of some martial arts actions in this movie, so he still has a deep affection for the film. He shook his head and analyzed: "It's not that our film is not good-looking, but that we were born at the wrong time and met "Bloody Lonely City". Our selling point is that we have made countless large-scale props with great effort and painstaking efforts. But the appeal and novelty of the stars quickly passed, and those expensive rockeries, fake houses and the live-action shooting of "Bloody Lonely City" were like toys. The audience compares the two films together, and when they are one or the other, they are naturally willing to watch "Bloody Lonely City".

And another point, although the plot of our movie is good, it is all an old story in the romance, which is familiar to people, and there is nothing new to it. However, the entry point of "Bloody Lonely City" is very good, with ordinary junior officers as the center, involving the entire battlefield, mixed with love in the middle, which naturally attracts ordinary audiences.

Moreover, the sensational kung fu of the director of this film is also incomparable to us. In our movie, we let the villain abuse and beat the positive character to reflect the greatness of the positive character, and then use the victory of the positive character to arouse the resonance of the audience. But abuse is just abuse, and death is directly used to sensationalize in "Bloody Lonely City", and even the male protagonist died before the movie was over. These are the reasons why we lost. ”

Cheng Gang looked at his son in surprise and asked, "Did you think of these by yourself?" ”

Cheng Xiaodong said: "Since I heard people talk about the two films together, I went to watch "Bloody Lonely City". In addition, I saw some movie reviews, and after my own scrutiny, I thought of these. ”

"You're smarter than me." Cheng Gang patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Hearing you say this, we don't lose unjustly." ”

Cheng Xiaodong said: "In fact, Boss Shao also has a lot of responsibility for this result. I think he temporarily screened our movie half a month earlier, he must have watched "Bloody Lonely City" before, and wanted to use "Fourteen Heroes" to stop it. This is a big mistake, and not only should we not have advanced the screening, but we should have avoided it later! ”

Cheng Gang sighed: "I didn't take it seriously at the beginning, I believed in the appeal of the Shaw Brothers stars too much. ”

Cheng Xiaodong comforted: "It's okay, it's a big deal, let's learn a lesson and make another film." ”

Cheng Gang smiled bitterly: "You, you're still too naïve. Boss Shao's biggest characteristic is that he has a good face, and it is a trivial matter that I smashed him 4 million this time, but I lost his face. Where is the opportunity to redirect the tube? ”

Cheng Xiaodong said: "Why don't we go to Jiahe?" ”

Cheng Gang said with some embarrassment: "Still, wait a little longer." After all, Boss Shao treated me well before, and now I go to Jiahe to join the enemy. "Come and say that it is a song of a thousand thousand que, floating on my road in the distance......" In the radio of the store behind the father and son, the song sounded again, and several passers-by stopped to move closer to the store, and listened quietly until the song was played.

Cheng Gang was dumbfounded and asked, "Whose song is this?" So much of an attraction? ”

"I don't know." Cheng Xiaodong said, "But now there are people singing all over the street, and even the neighbor's idiot who has a bit of an abnormal brain can hum a few words." ”

...... "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" has been broadcast on the radio for several days, and the impact is that people can now hear singing this song all over the street.

Nowadays, there are two TV stations in Hong Kong, one of which is a 25 yuan per month pay station (the predecessor of ATV), which only the middle class can afford to watch. The other is the famous TVB wireless station, but it doesn't have programs all day long.

In addition to movies and newspapers, most citizens listen to radio broadcasts as entertainment, so the speed of radio transmission is very amazing. And Wang Zijun's "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" is the only Cantonese song other than advertising songs, and the singing rate among the general public can be imagined.

The person in charge of the radio station was originally reluctant to broadcast Cantonese songs, but Haishan Records decided to give him a three-day trial broadcast after stuffing a large amount of public relations money. As a result, from the first day of broadcasting, the radio phone was directly blown up, and it was all listeners who called to ask for song information.

Now the lady who answered the phone on the radio has resigned, and she answers at least 500 calls a day, and when she goes home to sleep, the phone rings in her ears.

In addition to ordinary citizens, it is professionals who are the most shaken. Many people, like Huang Zhan, personally ran to the radio station to inquire, but did not get any information about the singer and songwriter.

It is not for nothing that a Cantonese song has caused such a collective sensation from top to bottom.

Let's take a look at the current social environment in Hong Kong.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in the north, the policy of closing the People's Republic of China to the outside world was implemented. However, Hong Kong has rapidly developed into an open society, not only taking off economically, but also gradually becoming an important member of the global economic network. Although the British and Hong Kong political axes practice colonization and righteousness, the importance of the rule of law and human rights is also rare in other Chinese societies. At the same time, the gap between the living standards of the mainland and Hong Kong is getting wider and wider, giving Hong Kong people a sense of superiority.

In the beginning, Hong Kong people, like Taiwanese, collectively missed their hometown on the mainland. However, with the passage of time, the mainland and Hong Kong have been isolated from each other, and the Hong Kong government has intentionally or unintentionally restricted the "Chinese consciousness" of Hong Kong people, and it is simply difficult to establish the "Chinese" identity of Hong Kong people. In its place, there is a kind of local common spirit that comes from the people.

What is the expression of this common spirit? It can not only distinguish it from the United Kingdom, but also from the mainland, and can also represent Hong Kong itself, then there is only Cantonese!

Before Cantonese songs and movies became popular, most Hong Kong people actually called themselves Chinese, but after Cantonese became popular, they gradually called themselves Hong Kongers, and there was a bit of pride in their tone.

Now the accumulation of these local people's emotions has reached its peak, and the social reaction after the rain disaster last month has brought this mood to a breaking point, and Wang Zijun's "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" is like a match, igniting and detonating this emotion!

The three pro-republican and three pro-Taiwan newspapers are still scolding each other, but other newspapers and magazines have shifted their attention to "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que."

Some experts say that singing in Cantonese is rustic and vulgar, while most people applaud, with Wong Chan and Koo Ka-fai being the main representatives.

They said that Hong Kong people should have the culture and spirit of Hong Kong people, and Cantonese is the best carrier.

And from a professional point of view, the quality of the song "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" itself is excellent, whether it is Chinese or Cantonese, it is worth listening.

The controversy lasted only two or three days, and the opposition was silenced by the flood of praise. So everyone speculated about the identity of the singer and author of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que".

It's a pity that the staff of Haishan Records Hong Kong Company went to contact the radio station, and they didn't know the details. The reporters went to Haishan Company for interviews, but the employees there were silent, only saying that the record would be released in a few days, so please keep an eye on the video store at any time.

It wasn't until five days after the radio broadcast that fans who participated in Teresa Teng's singing club said that the song was sung by Wang Zijun.

For a while, public opinion was in an uproar, because everyone's previous speculation said that the singer and songwriter were Hong Kongers.

This, this is simply a disgrace!

Originally, the media also advocated that this was the rise of Hong Kong's local spirit and culture, but in a blink of an eye, the singers became Taiwanese.

As a result, some newspapers began to scold Wang Zijun again, saying that he was impostor, but in fact, he used this song to hype his movie. Wang Zijun became a sinner again overnight.

On the sixteenth day of the release of "Bloody Lonely City" in Hong Kong, and on the sixth day of the radio broadcast of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que", "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" suddenly disappeared from the radio. In its place was another Cantonese song called "The Wind Keeps Blowing".

"The wind continues to blow, I can't bear to stay away from my heart, there are tears, I don't want to shed tears, I look at how happy you are in the past, why not chase with you to chase the melancholy and pain, tenderness and sweetness, I want to remember ......"

I went crazy, and the listeners who stood in front of the radio every day and waited to listen to "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" went crazy.

The wind of Cantonese songs continued to blow, and in the next few days, adults and children in the streets and alleys were singing: "The wind continues to blow, I can't bear to stay away from ......"

For a while, it seems that if you can't sing a few lines of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que" and "The Wind Continues to Blow", you will have no face to live in Hong Kong.

Three days after the broadcast of "The Wind Continues to Blow", the radio host suddenly said: "The record of "Song of a Thousand Thousand Que", which has six classic Cantonese songs, will be sold in major record stores in Hong Kong at 9 a.m. tomorrow ......

This sentence was like a bomb, and it immediately exploded on Hong Kong Island.

That night, some people had already moved benches in front of some video stores to sit down. These people guessed that the record sales would be hot tomorrow, so they planned to queue up all night in order to buy the record as soon as possible.

(To be continued)