Chapter 177: Precursor to Collapse
After Meng Chao wrote a film review of "Law Enforcement Pioneer" on his Shenzhou personal circle, Meng Chao's fans began to comment one after another.
"Brother Chao is simply high-spirited, his company has two movies on the market, and he is willing to promote competitors' movies, it can be seen that Brother Chao really likes this "Law Enforcement Pioneer". - KING Kang.
"I don't think Brother Chao has been afraid of anyone at all, "Dao Ma Dan" and "Hardcover Chasing Girls" are very good-looking, and I am personally absolutely confident in the box office of these two movies." -- Evergreen has no regrets.
"For the purity of Brother Chao, I have watched all three movies this month, and I support good movies with practical actions!" -- Cold summer.
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In fact, when it comes to film reviews, it is not the first time that Meng Chao has expressed his views on the new films of other film companies in public.
As early as after watching Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" under Golden Harvest, Meng Chao once publicly praised this movie for creating a trend of zombie films, and considered himself a fan of Uncle Nine.
At that time, it was also reported by major entertainment media, but this time for "Law Enforcement Pioneer" produced by Debao, it can be seen that Meng Chao is obviously more interested in the theme of the movie.
For this reason, he also wrote a film review of hundreds of words, and after this film review appeared, Yuan Kui and Yuan Biao both publicly thanked Meng Chao on their own Shenzhou personal circles, and they didn't expect Meng Chao to give such a big evaluation after watching the movie.
You must know that after the three movies "Taking the Wrong Car", "The True Colors of Heroes", and "Why Have Me" came out, Meng Chao's position in the entire film circle has been very high, and he publicly gave such a high evaluation and recommendation, not to mention anything else, just the box office can have a certain increase.
And the major entertainment media have also praised Meng Chao's high style, you must know that if you don't have a certain amount of self-confidence, the average filmmaker will not publicly praise their competitors when their own company and movies are released, wouldn't that encourage each other's movies to compete with themselves for the box office?
But Meng Chao's idea is very simple, if it is a good movie. The audience must be willing to contribute to the box office, and others can't grab it, but if your movie is not as good as others, even if you don't say a word. The audience will also walk away on their own!
So Meng Chao felt that "Law Enforcement Pioneer" gave him a lot of touch, so he wrote a film review in his personal circle in China and praised it, that's all!
The last release on November 27, 1986, "Law Enforcement Pioneer" grossed nearly 9 million on the first day, and the box office exceeded 20 million three days later. However, the overall reviews of this movie are not bad, and the final total box office is estimated to exceed 100 million!
This movie is Yuan Kui's rise in the film industry for many years, in the parallel world, the total box office of this movie in Xiangjiang is just over 10 million, which is not too eye-catching, for this reason, director Liu Kui's fame has been suppressed by several of his brothers, compared to Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long.
But in today's world, the box office of this movie is not inferior to many of Hong Jinbao's movies, so the name Yuan Kui has suddenly become more well-known.
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Nowadays, the shape of the entire film industry is called a person who is happy and someone is sad!
In the past, Shaw Brothers was the film overlord of the entire sixties and seventies, after the return of Hong Kong. Shao Daheng was once received by the head of state, and praised Shaw Brothers films for winning glory for the country!
Mr. Shao Yifu also began to gradually shift the focus of his career from Xiangjiang and Nanyang to all parts of the motherland, and set up cinemas in many cities across the country.
What a glorious Shaw Brothers was at that time!
But since the establishment of Golden Harvest, it has begun to inherit some of the remaining resources of Cathay Cinema in China, and Golden Harvest has developed Bruce Lee, Cheng Long, Xu Guanwen, Hong Jinbao and later Lin Zhengying, these people have pushed Golden Harvest to the stage!
On the other hand, the Shaw Brothers can't retain people because of treatment problems. In the end, talents swam out one after another, some went to Golden Harvest, and some opened their own film companies, because the film market was sluggish. Many cinema companies are not doing well, and eventually they can only mortgage to banks or sell to state-owned cinema companies, so that many people start to look for the relationship between the Cultural Affairs Bureau and state-run cinemas when making movies, so as to avoid Shaw Brothers Cinemas!
Therefore, the business of Shaw Brothers Cinemas is also getting worse day by day, and when he first opened a cinema company in China, Shao Tycoon felt that his movies would not be sold. So if you can open your own movie theater, won't you be able to make money on both sides?
When I was in Xiangjiang and Nanyang, Shaw Brothers operated in this way!
But after the 80s, Shaw Brothers began to fail, and the system of big studios, coupled with outdated concepts, mean treatment, and the old film production level, were all Shaw Brothers' fatal wounds!
On the other hand, on the side of Golden Harvest, Boss Zou has been ambitious since the 80s to attack Hollywood and capture the European and American markets, so with Bruce Lee and Cheng Long as the vanguard, he has shot a lot of Western films.
However, Shaw Brothers is not as good as a year, the film production fee is too small, and the effect of shooting is naturally not good, if it doesn't work, the audience will not be too lazy to watch it, then the cycle of movie release will be shorter, and the shorter it will be even more impossible to make money, and if you can't make money, you can't make big investments......
This is like a vicious circle of tongue twisters, which has already dragged down the development of the entire Shaw Brothers, and in the past two years, if it weren't for Li Hanxiang's Qing Palace movies that drove the box office, I'm afraid Shao Tycoon would have already moved the idea of withdrawing from the film market.
And now although the situation of the Shaw Brothers is slightly better, but Li Hanxiang is not a fuel-efficient lamp, the big director himself also has his own ambitions, after seeing that the entire Shaw Brothers have to rely on him, Director Li Hanxiang's requirements are getting higher and higher, in addition to box office dividends, and even want to invest in his own new film!
It can be said that this has also made Shao Tycoon more and more unbearable, in his movie kingdom, he has long been accustomed to being the king and has to control the attitude of a qiē, and now all the people who have the ability to have a showdown with him have to fight him, which also makes Shao Tycoon feel very tired......
Although the Shaw Brothers will not be unable to hold on immediately, they are also in a state of storm...... (To be continued.) )