Chapter 154: Competing for the Academy Awards (1)
1986 was a crucial year for the Academy Awards. After four years of exploration, the Academy Awards have gradually begun to find their own characteristics. From the initial seizure of power, to justify the name of the new (river crab) wave of films, and gradually turned to cultivating a new market. Cultivating better Hong Kong films directly gave birth to the second peak of Hong Kong films.
The birth of "The True Color of Heroes" announced the arrival of the era of Hong Kong hero films. The rookie director Lu Yan, who has always been unfavored, has become a world-class master of "violent aesthetics" with this film, and Chow Yun-fat, the 'box office poison', has become the most charismatic actor in the Chinese region.
But in fact, in this year's Academy Awards, whether it is "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Police Story" or Fang Yuping's "American Heart" that explores immigration issues. is still Guan Jinpeng's first attempt to cry, "Underground Love" by Europeanized Literature and Art, and even "The True Story of the Crazy Guy" by Xiao Baoer Dongsheng who directly faces social problems are all rare films.
It's just that in this era, "The True Color of Heroes" is too eye-catching.
Although "The True Color of Heroes" turned out, movies such as "Police Story" still managed to leave a deep impression on the hearts of the audience.
Jackie Chan, as the successor of Bruce Lee's kung fu films, has already had the experience of blockbuster films such as "Drunken Fist" and "Serpentine Trickster" before this film, but those movies have always continued the classic routines of the Shaw Brothers period, and there has been no significant breakthrough.
All the way to this "Police Story". For the first time, Jackie Chan wrote, directed and acted by himself, focusing on the real Hong Kong society. Facing the broader international community, it has created a new era of action movies that belong to Jackie Chan and Hong Kong films. The magnificent and desperate action scenes in "Police Story" are very international-level in comparison with Hollywood at the time or vertically with Jackie Chan films of any era.
Although the character portrayal and story arrangement are still a little one-sided, there is really no need to pay too much attention to those things in action movies.
While hero films, action films, and fashion dramas are in vogue. But there is such a love-related movie that has set off a trend in Hong Kong, that is, "A Chinese Ghost Story" produced and directed by Lu Yan, Ning Caichen, Nie Xiaoqian, and Lan Ruosi, which will always remain in the hearts of everyone who loves movies.
Since then, the Academy Awards have accompanied the second peak of Hong Kong films, and have also entered a mature stage, with more and more new directors emerging, more and more types of films becoming more and more mature, hero films, action films, comedies, and various types of films are blooming, which has greatly enriched the Hong Kong film industry, and Hong Kong filmmakers' ability to combine commercial surnames, social surnames and artistic surnames has become stronger and stronger.
"Yan Zai, how is it! Are you confident that you will come back with a best director? The Academy Awards ceremony is about to be held, and Cheng Xiaodong is full of confidence in Lu Yan.
Lu Yan said a little indifferently: "As long as the box office is good, I don't care if I win the award!" Having said that, in fact, Lu Yan really wants to go home as a new goldenrod who has won a few Academy Awards. If a director can win an award, it means that his directing ability and the movies he shoots have indeed conquered those discerning judges. For Lu Yan, the desire in his heart is not just the audience's reputation.
If it weren't for the rise of Dongcheng Images, then this year will continue to be the leader of Fuxing films, and it will continue to be Jackie Chan in the world. A series of movies starring Jackie Chan have re-ascended the throne of the film kingdom for Golden Harvest.
This year's New Art City does not have the signature goods 'best partner', but uses a number of sketches to please the audience. Another new film company 'Debao' can't be ignored, with its own brand 'Double Cannon' series, 85 years also created a precedent for kung fu films, with a female surname as the protagonist's 'Royal Senior Sister', in addition to another Michelle Yeoh flat thunder, but also for Debao to lay a strong needle.
But the most talked-about movie is the movie "The True Color of Heroes", which not only revived Dillon's alkali fish, but also made Chow Yun-fat change from a box office poison to a box office elixir, and set off a 'hero film' boom.
Lu Yan led Dongcheng Image, which has undoubtedly become the most eye-catching scenery this year.
In the box office ranking in 1985, the first place was naturally the well-deserved "True Colors of Heroes". The second is the big card "Lucky Star Gaozhao" made by Golden Harvest. However, the most dramatic scene is that "A Chinese Ghost Story" defeated the third-ranked "Xia Yue Fuxing" by a very narrow margin, which is a strong proof!
can't help but make the Hong Kong media shout that the golden age of Hong Kong films has arrived.
………………………………………………………………………………………… I don't know when it began, but whenever there is an influential award ceremony in the world, it has become an important ceremony to prepare a long enough red carpet for the stars to ravage. It seems like if you haven't stepped on the red carpet, you're not a star at all.
It's just that the red carpet that Lu Yan is looking forward to has obviously not yet been implemented at the current Academy Awards.
Even if the Academy Awards are only worthy of a few sessions, they have long become a battle under the publicity of many media. In the end, TVB successfully won the live broadcast right of the 5th Academy Awards!
"Look! Leslie Cheung is here! Snapshots! After a burst of flashing lights, the reporters looked at the back that disappeared at the end of the red carpet, and sighed again and again that their hands were not fast enough and the angle was not good enough.
But the exclamation didn't last long. Soon, after a sound of "Zhong Chuhong is here!" After the scream, the reporters quickly pointed their cameras at the dressed woman who was elegantly getting out of the car. In the dazzling flash, the "jade girl" who always had a seductive smile on her face walked slowly on the red carpet, posing a few generous poses in front of the reporters' cameras from time to time, and naturally murdered the reporters with a large number of films.
Alan Tam...... Alan Tam ...... "Countless Alan Tam fans are shouting the name of their idol, which is a kind of proof of king.
Although the camera's camera began to shift with the arrival of various stars, the fans who supported each other for their idols were not. Among them, the largest number of fans are Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung.
"Brother, what a pretty boy!"
"Brother, we love you so much!" From time to time, such voices echoed in the crowd.
And Alan Tam's fans did not let go of the crowd of Leslie Cheung fans and began to shout frantically, and the fans on both sides were a little overwhelming for a while. From shouting the names of idols to swearing at each other. Fans are the cutest and the craziest of the bunch. They will even make more crazy moves for their idols, and "Tan Zhang Fight" seems to have begun to become more and more obvious.
Although this is a film festival, Hong Kong has never lacked stars in film, television and singing. Especially Leslie Cheung, who is just starting out in the film industry, is still focusing more on the music industry.
Although the fans on both sides cursed each other, the situation had not yet developed out of control. And movie stars from all walks of life will not stop coming with all this happening, and when action stars such as Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung appeared, their fans also cheered for it. These fans who arrived at the scene were from various regions such as Benz and South Korea. They are all far away and have worked hard across the ocean to wave the flag and shout for their idols.
Every star or group that arrived at the scene inevitably accepted the baptism of flash when they walked by with confidence or a modest smile in front of reporters.
Time is slowly flowing, but the reporters are still waiting for something. When the crowd says, "beyond! When the shouts appeared. Only then did people know that the members of this newly rising band had finally arrived.
Beyond is a famous rock band from Hong Kong, China, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most successful and most influential bands in the Chinese music scene! The band was formed in 1983. The band has a large number of supporters not only in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and mainland China, but also in overseas countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and so on.
The arrival of the five, naturally, the baptism of the flash is indispensable.
Slowly, celebrities from all walks of life such as the Daming faction have arrived. But outside the venue, there are still many fans and reporters waiting for them.
Although the stars in front of them have made fans from all walks of life crazy, the real murder of film and the creation of news is undoubtedly the appearance of the 'topic director' Lu Yan.
I don't know if Lu Yan is afraid that his support is not enough, or the degree of attention is not enough.
He actually appeared with Wang Zuxian!
What is this? Is it an oath? Tell everyone that he and Wang Zuxian are indeed procrastinating?
Or is it just a simple female companion?
The entertainment reporters at the scene obviously knew Lu Yan better than the audience. This director is the originator of playing propaganda! Those scandals were all made good use by him in the end...... Lu Yan smiled and wore a very bright white suit. If you really want to talk about the directors present, I'm afraid that Lu Yan is the most beautiful. His appearance, even compared to many artists, is not much better! And Wang Zuxian was also dressed in an evening dress, holding Lu Yan's shoulders affectionately.
The high-profile appearance of this pair of golden boys and girls naturally made the scene completely crazy. Lu Yan's fame in Hong Kong has long been beyond doubt. And Wang Zuxian also conquered the audience in Hong Kong with "A Chinese Ghost Story". Although there have been rumors in the outside world that the two are procrastinating, even the entertainment reporters who created scandals dare not guarantee the truth of the matter.
But today's scene undoubtedly made everyone believe seventy percent of the gossip reports that came to their faces at the beginning.
(To be continued)