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"Killer Trench" is a big production in which Golden Harvest spent a huge amount of money in order to let Chen Long break into Hollywood, and also invited Hollywood actors to play Chen Long, which is ambitious to challenge the high box office. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's a pity that after the midnight test screening of "Killer Trench", it was so disappointing, and it was mercilessly criticized by major media in Hong Kong, scolding Golden Harvest for being crazy, and the huge investment movie actually made such a ghost movie, especially the dragon fans simply scolded Golden Harvest out of flowers.
There are several reasons for the failure of Killer Trench.
First, the plot is rotten, the plot is old-fashioned and cheating, you can guess the end when you see the beginning, and you can belong to the ranks of cheating money.
The second is that the director of this "Killer Trench" Golden Harvest invited a Hollywood director, this Hollywood director doesn't know Chen Long at all, "Killer Trench" says that it is tailor-made for Chen Long, but in fact, it is not at all. As we all know, Chen Long's films rely on his witty actions to win, and the action design of "Killer Trench" is designed by Americans, which does not reflect Chen Long's characteristics at all, and the action design in "Killer Trench" can be classified as funny.
The third is that Chen Long's acting skills are really bad to be honest, especially in the 80s, of course, this is the special surname of action actors. And the Hollywood actors who played Chen Long all had superb acting skills, which embarrassed Chen Long, if it weren't for Chen Long's most scenes in "Killer Trench", sometimes you really couldn't see that Chen Long was the protagonist.
Fourth, Chen Long can't adapt to Hollywood's filming mode at all, and when filming in Hong Kong, the story outline is drawn up first, and the rest is played on the spot, which makes Chen Long like a fish in water. But Hollywood filming is not like this, they pay attention to the procedure, at the filming site, everything is implemented according to the design, and will never accept on-site changes, which makes Jackie Chan feel embarrassed and at a loss.
We all know that the more big-name actors have more power on the set, and Hong Kong superstars like Chen Long can even override directors when filming in Hong Kong, which can be referred to Li Xiaolong. And it is precisely because Chen Long has this privilege that when filming, he can often propose modifications to unsatisfactory places, and Chen Long himself is a very good action director, so after modification, he will often be more handsome than the previous actions, and it is difficult for fans to see unsatisfactory films in Chen Long's Chinese films.
But in Hollywood, Chen Long can't be said to be a nobody, but he doesn't have any privileges in Hong Kong, even if Chen Long puts forward any conditions on the set, the rigid Hollywood director won't listen, this guy has the final say on how to shoot, if you are jealous, you can't play soy sauce, so after "Killer Trench" is finally filmed, it is a Chen Long film that has no Chen Long's characteristics at all, and it is strange that it can be classic.
Just like if you don't let Li Xiaolong "ah" twice in the movie, is that still Li Xiaolong's film?
But to be honest, Chen Long is really a Hong Kong superstar at this time, just such a completely featureless "Killer Trench" can make this film achieve a box office of more than 5 million in more than half a month, and this box office can be among the best in the box office list in 80 years.
However, this is too far from Golden Harvest's expectations, Golden Harvest was originally aiming for the box office record of more than 21 million yuan of "Modern Bodyguard", not to mention compared with the box office of "Modern Bodyguard", even Chen Long's own "Senior Brother Goes Out" box office can't be compared, and maybe even the box office of the documentary "Tragic War" can't be surpassed.
Strictly speaking, "Killer Trench" is a failure, a big loss, and the box office of millions is simply miserable compared to its investment.
A few happy and a few sad, "Killer Trench" failed at the box office, some people are sad and some people are happy, who is happy?
Needless to say, it is naturally Golden Harvest's old rival Shaw Brothers and new rival Xinyicheng.
It's a pity that the glory of Shaw Brothers has passed, and Shaw Yifu's focus has shifted to the TV industry, and he is currently fighting with Li, and he has no time to care about the rights and wrongs of the film industry.
Since the fiasco of the ratings of "Rotation" last time, Wireless has learned from the pain, and has continuously invested heavily in the follow-up to "Shanghai Tang" and the gambling film "The King of a Thousand Kings", coupled with Li's chaos, Wireless finally took back the lost ground of the TV drama column, turned over and became the master, and pressed Li's down in one fell swoop, dispelling the rampant arrogance of Li's before, which made Wireless people shout victory.
After Li's failed in the ratings of the TV drama column, she also thought about looking for Chen Shaoyi's help, but unfortunately Chen Shaoyi went to the United States to film at this time, and he was not in Hong Kong at all.
The grievances in the TV circle are not mentioned for the time being, after the box office failure of "Killer Trench", Xinyicheng saw the opportunity, and all the Xinyicheng staff were very excited, and immediately stepped up their horsepower to shoot the pioneering work "Ghost Horse Zhiduoxing", it is said that the crew of "Ghost Horse Zhiduoxing" was quite crazy at that time, with less than four hours of rest a day, and the rest of the time was spent in the tense filming, and when they were sleepy, they squinted in a random place for the crew.
After the completion of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars", all the crew members of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars" have lost a full circle.
The hard work of the crew members of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars" made "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Stars" catch up with the release of "Killer Trench" for ten days, and finally moved it to the big screen of the Golden Princess Cinema, and won the box office of 1.03 million in the first day, which is stronger than "Ghost Fight", becoming the third film in Hong Kong film history to break one million at the box office, which also severely blocked the box office of "Killer Trench" again, making Golden Harvest's "Killer Trench" fall into the abyss again.
"Killer Trench" and "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Many Stars" have not yet been painted, and the box office is still growing, but "Killer Trench" has been watched by Chen Long's loyal fans at the beginning, and its attendance rate is getting worse and worse, and it has been gradually cut off a lot of film volume by Golden Harvest, although Golden Harvest has the intention to save the box office of "Killer Trench", but the attendance rate is too poor, and they dare not fully support it anymore, otherwise not to mention that other film producers waiting for release are not happy, their empty theaters will hit the box office of "Killer Trench" even more, and Golden Harvest's loss will be even greater.
On the other hand, the attendance rate of "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Multi-star" is still heating up, the word of mouth has been affirmed by the public, and with the full support of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, its box office is growing rapidly every day, which makes Xinyicheng excited. Under the psychological effect of this good news, the originally emaciated body gradually recovered, and it was more red and ruddy, and he couldn't keep his mouth shut every day.
This battle not only made the new art city rise, but also gave the Golden Princess Cinema a chance to transform, Lei Juekun is now looking forward to Chen Shaoyi's "Home Alone" more and more, and the "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Multi-star" for the new art city is so powerful, then Chen Shaoyi's own "Home Alone" should be even better, and this "Home Alone" is still filmed in the United States.