Chapter 300: A new box office record is born

Originally, everyone was looking forward to how exciting the box office battle for this year's Spring Festival would be, but the previous "Mong Kok Carmen" has now created a box office of 27 million, successfully leading the highest box office of Spring Festival movies. 【Reading.com】

Now as soon as the movie "The Saint of Gambling" comes out, it will suddenly take all the limelight. A series of movies that were favored by the outside world before, such as New Art City and Golden Harvest, were actually released, but the box office was a mess.

Even, these movies are so-called 'bad movies' in everyone's eyes

So, are these movies really that bad? In fact, compared with the previous Hong Kong film model, these movies are just the same as before. Their quality is not much worse than some of the movies of the past.

There is undoubtedly only one reason for this

That's the movies of Dongcheng Imaging, and each one of them is very exciting.

Therefore, this year's Spring Festival stalls seem to have become a phenomenon dominated by Dongcheng Image. Even if it is gradually just a "Mong Kok Carmen" plus "The Saint of Gambling", other film companies are out of breath.

It is only now that everyone has really begun to pay attention to Lu Yan's words and the meaning expressed by "Film Fortnightly".

Even if it is the "Best Partner" series in the summer, Sammo Hung and their co-starring...... all lost in the hands of a "God of Gamblers". But in the summer season, at least they are still competing for the wind. When it comes to the Spring Festival, they don't even seem to have the ability to fight back.

With comments on Lu Yan's remarks and countless reports of "The Saint of Gambling", Hong Kong filmmakers began to fall silent.

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At the premiere of "The Saint of Gambling", Lu Yan shouted: "Film Biweekly", must win"

As soon as "The Saint of Gambling" came out, it immediately detonated a box office refresh. 》

Is it the Hong Kong film market that needs to be reformed, or is Lui's film catching up ahead? 》

"The box office battle is enough to look at the big from the small. 》

"It is undeniable that "The Saint of Gambling" is unstoppable"

"The Saint of Gambling" refreshes the single-week box office data, surpassing "The True Color of Heroes"

"God of Gamblers", "Saint of Gambling", sister chapter? Styles are very different......

"The Propaganda of Dongcheng Image, the Slogan of Lu Yan"

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"The Saint of Gambling" received almost sensational box office results as soon as it was released. Although this movie is different from our real life, the character of Ah Xing allows us to see the alternative "nonsensical" comedy style led by Stephen Chow. His nonsensical and funny style in the film was very popular and created a new genre of comedy for Hong Kong films. After a "Saint of Gambling", Stephen Chow has been praised by some newspapers and magazines as the king of comedy in Hong Kong.

Ah Xing in the play can be said to be a subversive hero, he learned the unique stunt in the gambling world by chance with his innate special functions, and since then he has inevitably been used, and since then he has been pushed to the top of the day, but at the same time, he has been pushed to the cusp of life and death. If the general film is played at this time, there should be a hero, but Stephen Chow has changed the norm and vividly interpreted the psychological changes of a small person. He can widen his eyes blankly, and write the ignorance and naivety of "star-style" on his face clearly, and the star-style "nonsensical" comedy style breaks the convention......

The special function gambling film is a "creative" play after "God of Gamblers". Gambling cards, buying dice, and betting on horses, the film tries to play the best way to play a special function in the lives of ordinary citizens. Making a fortune by gambling and making a fortune by gambling is the dream of the citizen class without financial capital, and the emergence of special functions is indeed more practical than myths such as the God of Wealth from heaven. The final casino showdown, starting from the preliminaries, is the best time for Xingzai. When it came to the real gambling king showdown, although Ah Xing did not wear the "gambling holy suit" of Yushu Linfeng and winning all battles, his demeanor was like that, and he was worthy of the title of gambling saint. After Ah Xing learned that he had lost his special function, he made people feel very happy with the desperate gambling method of SHOWHAND - rich is amazing, everyone has only one fate, I will fight with you. Although Zhang Min's appearance in the end and Ah Xing's victory are ordinary and boring means, it doesn't matter, Ah Xing has won the psychological support of the audience, and the plot doesn't matter what it is. If "God of Gamblers" focuses on the arrangement of gambling games and the psychology of gamblers, then Liu Zhenwei's handling of "The Saint of Gambling" is even more advanced, and he gave up the design of the gambling game. On the contrary, it mainly depicts small people, from the special function person played by Stephen Chow, in order to satirize the utilitarian mentality of Hong Kong people. In addition, he also showed a persistent and unrepentant love from the protagonist for the first time in the film, which is one of the major reasons why the film has such a high box office performance.

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This film is a myth in the Hong Kong film industry, a hairy boy who could barely play the leading role before this, after this film, he actually became the king of Hong Kong comedy films.

Stephen Chow was originally called "Xingzai", and as soon as this film came out, he was called "Star Master" in just a few days. At the same time, Xingpai's acting skills were called "nonsensical" and were widely known for a while. As a famous work that pioneered a generation, it naturally has its appreciation value. In fact, the film is considered by some to be a crude film, and the rumored cost is not high. But it is not surprising that the audience's psychology is well grasped, and Xingzai's "nonsensical" genius can be fully utilized, so it is not surprising that the box office is extremely high. The combination of gambling films and special functions may also be able to blossom in Lu Yanna's head, right?

This Stephen Chow, who was still playing tricks not long ago, became a 'star master' and changed to other actors after he got into Lu Yan's hands, maybe he never thought about such a thing at all.

But Lu Yan tells you that in his hands, it is completely possible

Stephen Chow's unique and alternative performance seems to have become a certain style, and has even been named "nonsensical" by some good deeds. This "nonsensical" pioneering work verifies the market acceptance of the "nonsensical" performance style, and all the highlights are overshadowed by the 'dream combination' of Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda.

It is rumored that the combination of Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda was originally used by Lu Yan himself, and Liu Zhenwei also admitted that this movie had a prototype before he came to Dongcheng Filming.

From this point of view, Lu Yan's "The Saint of Gambling" is completely tailor-made for Stephen Chow.

Lu Yan, who has always had the ability to turn decay into magic, still caused our visual impact this time. According to the box office momentum of "The Saint of Gambling", surpassing "God of Gamblers" is just around the corner

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"Lui's Production, Leading the New Trend"

When Lu Yan opened his mouth to criticize the status quo of Hong Kong films, many people jumped out to accuse Lu Yan of being young and unruly. But the word-of-mouth and box office of one movie after another prove that Lu Yan's words have an inevitable truth

Putting aside the previous Lu's films, let's just start with a few directors who have newly joined Dongcheng Films

Wang Jing was one of the few directors with a good box office in the late Shaw Brothers period, but after joining Dongcheng Images, Wang Jing quickly became the summer box office champion with a "God of Gamblers". This achievement, at least yet, has not been broken. Perhaps this year's box office champion belongs to "God of Gamblers", and the screenwriter and producer of this "God of Gamblers" is Lu Yan.

followed by "Mong Kok Carmen", which gave everyone a taste of alternative gangster movies. Wong Kar-wai, a newcomer who came out of Xinyi City like Lu Yan, was immediately reused by Lu Yan. There is not even a complete script, there is no whole budget for funds...... But that's it, Lu Yan is still very supportive. And this movie did not disappoint Lu Yan

Now this "Saint of Gambling" has ignited the leakage of the Spring Festival stalls. The screenwriter is still Lu Yan, maybe we should sigh about how his head is composed. Every movie is so different in style, but the box office momentum of this "Saint of Gambling" will definitely not simply surpass "God of Gamblers". In my opinion, even surpassing "True Colors of Heroes"......

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The box office of "The Saint of Gambling" is powerful, paired with the previously unrivaled "Mong Kok Carmen". For a moment, they weren't just building momentum for the East Side image. It is also a strong backing for Lu Yan's remarks at the beginning

You see, even if it's not a movie I made, as long as it follows this model, then the box office must not be a problem

Perhaps in everyone's opinion, this sentence should be Lu Yan's potential line.

But "The Saint of Gambling" apparently didn't have more than that, when the premiere was close to a month. All the media and film critics were dumbfounded.

Although this movie is indeed very novel, the selling point is also very good. But at the box office, how could it be possible to reach such a terrifying figure?

According to statistics, "The Saint of Gambling" was released within a month. Hong Kong's domestic box office officially exceeded the 50 million mark

What kind of concept is this?

The hot "True Colors of Heroes", which was hyped at the beginning, failed to exceed 50 million at the box office in the end, but this "Saint of Gambling" actually took only one month to reach it

It is already certain to surpass "God of Gamblers", and now "The Saint of Gamblers" has set a new record at the box office of Hong Kong movies

Many people who have been watching are also dumbfounded.

Could it be that this "Saint of Gambling" is better than movies such as "The True Color of Heroes"? Apparently not. It's just that at this special time, it caused a special surprise. As a commercial film, "The Saint of Gambling" deservedly became the king. It has no rivals, and the numbers are just soaring.

Either way, a new box office record for Hong Kong movies has been born.

It belongs to - "The Saint of Gambling"

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