Since the 70s, Hong Kong's economy has taken off in an all-round way, but it has been accompanied by the helplessness of migrant workers to "get rid of their lungs", and under the general reality of "struggling to survive and die", Hong Kong people have gradually condensed a sense of collective resentment towards society, and constantly seek venting and self-comfort. At this time, Xu Guanwen's "Ghost Horse Double Star" appeared "at the right time", and the exaggerated and ruthless sarcasm and unbridled laughter and scolding in the film just catered to the anger of the working boys who wanted to "unprecedentedly release" at that time, so the box office was also a great success, and it became the "pioneering work" of the Xu Dynasty!

In 1976's "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", this film made a big complaint about the social status quo of cruel exploitation and oppression of labor, which made the audience laugh out loud and realize the profound social connotation contained in it.

"Half a Pound and Eight Taels" was only broadcast at Chen Yihua's Great World Cinema in Causeway Bay on the day of its premiere, and no other cinema in Hong Kong was broadcast, but this cinema earned nearly 100,000 Hong Kong dollars at the box office on the same day.

The next day, it was officially screened in other cinemas under Golden Harvest, and its hilarious plot was rendered by the media and passed on by word of mouth among moviegoers, attracting more and more people to enter the cinema.

In just one week, "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" won a box office of 4 million Hong Kong dollars with a winning dark horse attitude. Long queues began to form in front of the cinemas under Golden Harvest and Great World, and there was an endless stream of audiences buying tickets to enter the theater.

Now all Hong Kong people know that a very happy and funny film is being shown in the cinema, and many people buy tickets in advance on weekends and then watch it together as a family.

The box office revenue immediately showed a blowout, breaking the annual box office record of 5.28 million Hong Kong dollars for this year's box office champion "Genius and Idiot" within ten days of release, and Jian Feng pointed to the historical box office record of 6.25 million Hong Kong dollars set by "Ghost Horse Double Stars" the year before last.

The films originally planned to be released at the same time were postponed because of the strong box office of "Half a Pound and Eight Two", and the vacated schedule was occupied by "Half a Pound and Eight Two", the film was released from the end of September, and it still firmly occupied part of the schedule of Golden Harvest Cinemas near the end of October, at this time the Hong Kong box office has reached a total of 8.86 million.

may be because of the addition of Chen Yihua's three theaters, this box office performance is a little better than in the previous life,

The film's unexpected box office performance made film companies other than Golden Harvest feel pressured, and Shaw Brothers Films launched two movies one after another, wanting to win back a city during this time, but after all, because of the difference in film quality, it was not as good as the film invested by Golden Harvest, and the longer the time, the more attracted most audiences to "Half a Pound and Eight Taels", and the box office results after its release were not satisfactory.

During this period, the Hong Kong film market has seen a dominant and overwhelming situation, which many people did not expect.

It stands to reason that as the highest box office performance in Hong Kong history, Chen Yihua, as the largest investor in the film, should make money even in Hong Kong, but this is not the case, according to the original agreement, the producer Chen Yihua and Golden Harvest and Xu's Company are divided equally among the three parties. However, the share between the producer and the theater chain is 2.5:7.5, so that 8.86 million Hong Kong dollars, Chen Yihua can only get a profit of about 750,000 Hong Kong dollars, deducting the pre-investment, film production fees, and publicity money, Chen Yihua can only earn about 100,000 yuan.

Of course, the profits of Chen Yihua's three theaters were not counted, and during the screening of this movie, the income of Chen Yihua's three theaters reached more than 700,000.

As the largest investor of the producer, of course, Chen Yihua can't spend so much effort in order to make only a hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars, Chen Yihua has already agreed with Golden Harvest and Xu Guanwen that the screening rights of overseas films and the ownership rights of the films belong to Chen Yihua.

In 76 years, after the double exploitation of overseas distributors and theaters, no Hong Kong film could make any money overseas, so Hong Kong filmmakers generally have little confidence in the overseas market, which is why Golden Harvest and Hui's Films can easily agree to Chen Yihua's condition, although now these Hong Kong people have little confidence in the overseas market.

But Chen Yihua is different after all, he knows that half a catty and eight taels is the most profitable Hong Kong movie overseas after Bruce Lee's movie, and half a catty and eight taels have not yet entered the Southeast Asian market, in his previous life, Chen Yihua remembered that this film was the box office champion in Taiwan, Singapore and other places, Xu Guanjie seems to have made his songs popular in these places with this film, Chen Yihua has handed over the overseas distribution rights of this film to John of the big world, He believes that even after the double exploitation of middlemen, the overseas profits of this drama can still allow him to get no less than 5 million Hong Kong dollars.

And in later generations, when it was still in 83 years, there was a phenomenon of theatrical replays, and at that time, it was even more crazy to roll tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and the ownership of the film belonged to Chen Yihua, which means that Chen Yihua has a large share of these tens of millions of profits.

Hong Kong can only get such a small amount of money, Chen Yihua has long been mentally prepared, he knows that after signing this agreement, in the end the most profitable is always him, Chen Yihua believes that if Golden Harvest knows that this film is so profitable overseas, and knows that this film can be repeatedly released in the next few years, he will definitely regret it.

To get back to the point, this film has become an invincible gold-absorbing giant in the Hong Kong film market from the beginning of the box office dark horse, not only Chen Yihua has earned, but the film has also benefited Golden Harvest and Hui's Film Company.

The film was a big hit, and the Xu brothers were even more popular, Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie became the biggest beneficiaries, "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" is a landmark movie of the Xu brothers, making Xu Guanjie the hottest emperor superstar in the music and film industry, and Xu Guanwen won the title of cold-faced smiler.

Xu Guanwen's drama is a big hit, so the first and second box office results of Hong Kong movies this year are all movies directed and acted by Xu Guanwen, plus the first and second movies in the history of box office results are directed and acted by Xu Guanwen, such a scene, it is difficult for Xu Guanwen to be popular even if he wants to be popular.

The Hong Kong media talks about topics related to this movie almost every day, and the most mentioned are the brothers Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanwen.

'Hui Guanwen's self-directed and self-starred film hit a new high and became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong、、、、

Director Hui Guanwen has made his film a success again with his usual comedy, from the ghost horse double star in 74 years to the current half-catty and eighty-tael, the rise of Hong Kong's chief comedian、、、、、、、

'Xu Guanwen, a cold-faced smiler, Xu Guanjie, a beautiful and bright song, a funny Xu Guanying, a real vase Zhao Yazhi with only 5 lines, and Shi Jian, the absolute and evil bandit、、、、、、、

Director Xu Guanwen has a discerning eye for heroes, leading the beautiful girl Zhao Yazhi into the showbiz and completing her first debut、、、、、

"Hui Guanwen has become the "spokesperson" of Hong Kong's migrant class, Xu Guanwen in the film, like his role in the first two films, will always criticize the social status quo in different identities, and most of the content of the film is a bitter satire of Hong Kong's low-class social phenomena'

The ghost of this movie uses Xu Guanwen's always absurd, humorous, and ghostly comedy image of a small citizen to reflect the philosophy and taste of life in an extremely colorful way, but no matter how exaggerated the audience thinks, it is always based on the reality of the situation,、、、、、、

Hui Guanwen has pioneered a unique way of expressing comedy, and does the success of his three comedies indicate that he has opened up a unique path for Hong Kong films, or that the Hong Kong martial arts film market dominated by Zhang Che and Chu Yuan is gone、、、、

The theme song "Half a Pound and Eight Taels" is simply the best portrayal of ordinary Hong Kong citizens, describing the hard work, earning money, life and mentality of the working people. It also expressed the mood of Hong Kong people at that time who were eager to get rich and eager to get ahead. Almost everyone finds their own shadow in the song, and everyone sees what they crave......

Not only are Xu Guanwen and Xu Guanjie starring filmmakers on the list, but even Chen Yihua, who has never been in the newspaper, is also popular this time.

Originally, Chen Yihua, as a screenwriter of half a catty and eight taels, never showed up, and everyone was not familiar with it, which made the media a little curious, but later someone found the theme song of half a catty and eight taels, and the one who composed the inscription was still a man named Chen Yihua, so it was terrible.

Chen Yihua's name appeared in the newspaper again, and as more and more attention was paid to Chen Yihua, everyone slowly discovered that Xu Guanjie's last best-selling record genius idiot dream seemed to be written by this Chen Yihua.

It hasn't been long since Deng Lijun's two new records were sold, although most of the audience was to listen to Deng Lijun's songs, but many people still remembered the two title songs in Deng Lijun's two albums, and by the way, they also remembered the name of Chen Yihua, the author of the song, after all, the lyrics and songs of those two songs were done perfectly.

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