Although director Wang Zijun said that his "A Chinese Ghost Story" has nothing to do with Li Hanxiang's "A Chinese Ghost Story" more than 20 years ago, in fact, the main plot, characters and scenes of this film are exactly the same as Li Hanxiang's version.

The difference is that Li Hanxiang's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is more faithful to Pu Songling's original work, focusing on quiet ancient rhyme and poetic painting; and Wang Zijun's version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is more brilliant in martial arts action and special effects. In particular, the uniqueness of the atmosphere created by Wang Zijun's movie makes the whole movie more vivid, real and legendary, and compiles a poignant and romantic love between people and ghosts on the screen. This is reminiscent of director Wang Zijun's film "People and Ghosts Are Not Gone" ten years ago, the same yin and yang are separated, and the same people and ghosts have different paths, and he obviously has a special preference for this type of movie......"

——Hong Kong Film Fortnight

Some people say that Wang Zijun is a romantic saint, only judging from his movies, he is worthy of this title. The heaviest love word in his movie, a "Titanic", has earned the tears of infatuated men and women all over the world, even in a sci-fi action movie like "Changing Face", he also inserted touching and sincere love, family and friendship.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" is sublimated because of love, and it is unique because of love, surpassing all the previous "Nie Xiaoqian" with the same content......"

——Ming Pao Weekly, Hong Kong

"After Wang Guxian, there is no Nie Xiaoqian!

I never thought that a female ghost could be beautiful like this, resentful, sad, the wind blows the green silk, the clothes are fluttering, and the heart-warming eyes release a faint murderous intention. This female ghost is more charming than the fox demon, and more dusty than the fairy, which makes people can't help but have infinite love and fantasy.

Wang Guxian is Nie Xiaoqian, Nie Xiaoqian is Wang Guxian, and the images of Nie Xiaoqian and Wang Guxian have long been integrated in the audience's mind. In the future, no matter which actress plays Nie Xiaoqian, or which director remakes "A Chinese Ghost Story", it is impossible to break through this classic image ......"

- Taiwan's "Impact"

Cheng Long's "Flying Eagle Project" is worthy of being a blockbuster filmed in many countries, with an investment budget nearly three times that of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and the effect is extremely shocking.

The wonderful fights are unstoppable, and the humorous plot makes fans have stomachaches, and in just one week, it won the box office of 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

Perhaps, if there was no "A Chinese Ghost Story", the box office of "Flying Eagle Project" would be better.

This summer, many directors and film companies in Hong Kong are experiencing a catastrophe and tragedy - the screen canvas of several major cinemas has been crowded by "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Flying Eagle Project".

The scheduling rate of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has reached 40%, and the scheduling rate of "Flying Eagle Project" has reached 38%, and the other films sandwiched between the two films can only pick up the remaining canvas for release.

Poor Mai Jia's planning, the movie "Best Lucky Star" starring a large number of stars such as Hong Jinbao, Tan Yonglin, Wu Yaohan, Zheng Zeshi, Zhang Aijia, Zhang Jianting, etc., was only 12 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office when it was squeezed out. In the parallel space, this movie of Mai Jia robbing and opposing the new art city has a box office of more than 23 million, and now it is half of it.

By the way, this "Best Lucky Star" is not produced by Golden Harvest, but a movie from New Art City.

All summer, Hong Kong's film market is "A Chinese Ghost Story" and "Eagle Project", and movies like "Best Lucky Star" can at least sell at the box office, but the poor films of those small directors don't even have a chance to be released.

Taiwan is better, at least "Flying Eagle Project" was not released there immediately, only "A Chinese Ghost Story" is dominant.

Wang Guxian is completely popular, so red that he turns purple, and even compares the three daughters of Lizhi who starred in "The Three Heroines of the East" last year, this summer, people only recognize Nie Xiaoqian.

All kinds of invitations from TV stations, film companies, enterprise factories, advertising companies and other units flew in like snowflakes, and Wang Guxian was stunned all of a sudden. She didn't even dare to go out of the door, as soon as she showed up, a group of fans would immediately surround her.

There are many people who like Wang Guxian, and there are many people who are red at her. Especially those actresses who have been playing second-rate roles for several years, they are envious, jealous and hateful to Wang Guxian, why is she so popular when she makes a film, but I can only play tricks hard?

Quietly, the rumor that Wang Guxian was Wang Zijun's latest "qingren" became popular, and at first he gossiped in private, and it didn't take long for gossip tabloids to make up stories, time, place, process, and even eyewitnesses.

Wang Guxian's fans were unwilling, some scolded those scribbled gossip tabloids, and some began to scold Wang Zijun, shouting: Jun Ye and the paparazzi, please stay away from our goddess!

In the face of this call, Wang Zijun said in an interview by chance: "Yes, if the fans strongly request, then I don't need Zu Xian in the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and another person will play the heroine." ”

As soon as this remark came out, many fans of Wang Guxian immediately changed their words: Jun Ye is the best, Jun Ye and Xiaoxian are the most compatible screen couple!

At the same time that "Flying Eagle Project" entered the Taiwan market, "A Chinese Ghost Story" began to land in Yueben, which immediately set off a big storm.

Wang Guxian was not famous in Yuben before, but as soon as "A Chinese Ghost Story" was released, he immediately became a well-known Chinese star in Yuben, and his influence in Yueben was only ranked behind Wang Zijun, Bruce Lee and Cheng Long.

After that, there were the Nanyang countries, and Wang Guxian set off a wave of "female ghost fever" in Southeast Asia, and then South Korea, and Korean fans were obsessed with it to the extent that they forgot to sleep and eat.

After market research, the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story" has grown wildly faster than when "Three Heroines of the East" was released. In addition to Wang Zijun's self-directed and self-acting, there is also a large part of Wang Guxian's reasons - some audiences with male surnames, like crazy, went into the cinema over and over again, just to take a few more glances at Nie Xiaoqian...... There is no doubt that in the second half of this year, there will be countless female ghost movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Because "A Chinese Ghost Story" and Nie Xiaoqian aroused the audience's desire to watch the movie, the audience was eager to see beautiful female ghosts, and commercial directors naturally had to cater to their appetites to shoot.

"A Chinese Ghost Story" caused a sensation in Asia, even bigger than the previous "ET" and "Three Heroines of the East", and has obviously become a phenomenal movie.

Not only ordinary movie fans are talking, but even various TV stations are talking about ghosts, producing various TV programs with the topics of "ghosts" and "female ghosts". Publishers and printers also benefited from this, and Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" suddenly sold well, and all kinds of ghost stories were also extremely popular, so much so that various literary magazines also published ghost stories.

Since this year is the Year of World Peace, political axes and people in various countries have activities to commemorate world peace, such as Michael Jackson wrote "e_are_the_orld" specifically for this purpose (Luo Dayou's "Tomorrow Will Be Better" was also written at this time, but this song has already been stolen by Wang Zijun).

In May, singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan held large-scale celebrations and commemorative activities, especially in Hong Kong, where a large-scale concert of 60 singers was held, almost killing all the famous singers in Hong Kong.

At that time, Wang Zijun had just finished filming "A Chinese Ghost Story" and was busy doing post-production, and Hong Kong and Taiwan invited him to participate in the celebration, but he was all pushed down.

As soon as the celebrations of the Year of World Peace in the two places ended, many people began to blame Wang Zijun, saying that he only cared about making movies for himself and making money, and did not care about world peace at all.

Well, now that "A Chinese Ghost Story" is out, the voice that originally scolded Wang Zijun for not caring about world peace has finally disappeared. Everyone unanimously said that if a director can bring a good movie to fans, it is the best achievement, like world peace or something, just leave it to Superman to take care of.

The celebrations of the World Year of Peace in Hong Kong and Taiwan were missed, but the celebrations on the mainland were still waiting for Wang Zijun.

The celebration is called the "100 Singers Concert" and was inspired by the concerts of 60 singers in Hong Kong.

Wang Zijun was very interested in this "100 Singers Concert", and immediately agreed to go after receiving the invitation.

This concert can be called the starting point of mainland pop music, before that, the mainland people were generally rejecting pop music, and the relevant departments even stipulated that "three pop singers cannot perform on the same stage", which made pop musicians never have the opportunity to hold concerts in public.

The original intention of the "100 Singers Concert" was not to celebrate the World Peace Year to commemorate Naraushzi, but the musician Guo Feng was not angry that pop music was discriminated against, and wanted to use the gimmick of the World Peace Year to break the rule that "three pop singers cannot perform on the same stage", so that everyone can see that pop music can not only sing small love tunes, but also interpret righteousness and great love.

Looking at the list of singers for this concert, it is almost like looking at the list of popular singers in the mainland music scene in the next ten years, and even several of the accompaniments at that time later became the CEOs of music companies.

It is said that Wang Fei was also present at that time to sing, but because she was underage, her name was not written later.

Similarly, mainland rock also sprouted after this concert, Cui Jian's song "Nothing" was sung all over the country, and countless young men shouted at the girl with the radio - "I will always have nothing"!

"A Chinese Ghost Story" has just started to be released in Hong Kong, Wang Zijun has already gone to Beijing, in addition to attending this unprecedented concert, his main purpose is to see if "A Chinese Ghost Story" can be sold into the mainland market.

The electronic inspection and approval of the mainland film market is really strict, that is, "Titanic" has not been sold for so many years, and the ghost film "A Chinese Ghost Story" is even more suspenseful.

Wang Zijun estimates that even if he can pass the electrical inspection, he may have to cut out a lot of "erotic" scenes.

(To be continued)