Just when Li Xuan was still negotiating a specific film investment contract with McDonald's Bear, the time had slowly come to October 1981. The Golden Horse Awards, which have attracted the attention of filmmakers in Hong Kong and Taiwan, also announced the list of Golden Horse Award nominees at this time.

And when the list of nominees was announced, Hong Kong and Taiwan were in an uproar!

Shaw Brothers, who won nothing at the Golden Horse Awards last year, won ten nominations for Best Film Interlude, Best Original Music, Best Costume Design, Best Art Design, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Feature Film, and Best Director with "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" directed by Li Xuan.

This achievement can be said to have blinded the eyes of many film critics.

But what's even more amazing is that Li Xuan and Golden Harvest's "Police Story" also successfully caught the last train of the Golden Horse Awards, and won three nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Actor, and Best Editing.

Can it not be surprising that two dramas directed by the same person have received so many nominations at the same time, and that one of the films has more than half of all the nominated awards? You must know that there are only 19 awards in total for this year's Golden Horse Awards.

A large number of reporters immediately flocked to the scene, disturbing Li Xuan, who was filming, very annoying. So he simply handed over the exterior scenes to Hong Jingbao to direct, and he was busy setting up the interior scenes in the studio of Golden Harvest Studio.

In fact, Li Xuan was not surprised that he received so many nominations, but he paid more attention to the other two directors - Xu Anhua and Xu Ke.

This time, Xu Anhua's film "The Story of Hu Yue" did not apply for the Golden Horse Awards, because the film has received an invitation to the Cannes Film Festival in France, and will go to Cannes, France in May next year to participate in the big film festival with this surname. As one of the five major film festivals in the world, the Cannes Film Festival is also a very grumpy film festival, and it does not accept any films that have participated in other film awards.

Therefore, Li Xuan and his company had no choice but to give up Golden Horse for Cannes.

As for Xu Ke, it is because the Golden Princess Cinema Line is not far behind in this Golden Horse Awards, and even surpassed Golden Harvest. "Ghost Horse Wisdom and Multi-star" directed by Xu Ke, produced by Xinyicheng, also won five nominations, including Best Director, Best Art Design, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Feature Film.

is worthy of being Xu Laowei, as soon as he changed his film style, not only the movie was popular and popular, but also won five nominations at the Golden Horse Awards in a row.

It's really a blockbuster!

In recent years, due to the gradual decline of the Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest only pays attention to commercial surnames, and it has not been so dazzling at the Golden Horse Awards for a long time. At the Golden Horse Awards, Hong Kong films won more than 20 nominations in one fell swoop (as well as Hong Kong films such as Tam Jiaming's "Love to Kill" and Li Hanxiang's "Xu Laohu and the White Widow" also won some nominations for the Golden Horse Awards), which inspired a large number of filmmakers.

In its early October issue, the Cinema Fortnight wrote: "...... In the 70s, Hong Kong's economy developed rapidly, and the localization of culture tended to be stereotyped. The industrial and aesthetic forms of Hong Kong films have also been further developed, and the film system has been continuously enriched and improved. After the "New Wave" film movement, the aesthetic reserve of Hong Kong films has a solid foundation, and film creation has begun to break out in a new round of ** as in the fifties. In the past two years, Hong Kong films have continued to break box office records, and the art form of films has also been further developed, such as fantasy kung fu films, police and gangster action films, and the 'new' new school martial arts films that have been nominated for ten Golden Horse Awards. The boom in the film genre also represents the boom in the film industry, and Hong Kong, the Hollywood of the East, has finally radiated its dazzling brilliance......"

While the Hong Kong film industry is jubilant here, the Taiwan film industry is full of scolding and reflection, and the sound of reflection is all over the island and beyond.

For example, Taiwan's "Minsheng Bao" wrote: "...... The gradual prosperity of Hong Kong films is not only reflected in the ultra-high box office commercial surname, but also in the extraordinary expression of its artistic surname, the organic combination of the two makes it popular and popular at the same time. However, the current Taiwanese film has completely separated the commercial surname from the artistic surname, one is to pay extreme attention to the commercial surname of the film and follow the trend, which leads to the vulgarity of the film; The other is that the director only pays attention to the artistic surname of the film, and does not consider the box office of the movie at all. In the long run, shoddy films will be directly eliminated by the market, and films that only talk about art will also fall into a predicament because of the breakdown of funds one day. In this summer season of Taiwanese films, almost all of the top box office films are foreign films, which cannot but be said to be a sad ...... of Taiwanese films"

The dilemma of Taiwanese cinema was clearly laid out in front of the public in this wave of reflection caused by Li Xuan, and some Taiwanese people of insight began to look for a way out, and as a result, in 1982, Taiwan began his film New Wave movement.

Of course, that's a story for now.

Just when Hong Kong and Taiwan were talking about the nomination of this Golden Horse Awards, "Police Story" was also drawn in this book and Southeast Asia.

"Police Story" achieved a ration of 1.46 billion yuan at the box office, equivalent to more than HK$45 million, which is a very amazing box office figure. Although it is not as good as Li Xiaolong's pinnacle work "Enter the Dragon", it is a tie with Li Xiaolong's posthumous work "Game of Death". Li Xuan can get more than 16 million Hong Kong dollars just by relying on the box office of "Police Story" in Yueben, which can be regarded as a big profit.

And as soon as this data was transmitted back to Hong Kong and Taiwan, it suddenly raised the movie discussion boom in Hong Kong and Taiwan to a new level!

"The Hong Kong film industry reproduces the prosperity of Li Xiaolong, and Chenglong has finally become a dragon! -- Ming Pao Morning Post"

"Hong Kong movies are unstoppable in Asia! -- Oriental Newspaper"

"A new generation of kung fu superstars has been born, and Chenglong has attacked Asia. -- Sing Tao Morning Post"

"Watching the prosperity of Hong Kong films, when will Taiwanese films go out? -- China Times"

"Where is the road for Taiwanese films? -- Industry and Commerce Newspaper"

"On the viability of Taiwanese cinema to carry out the New Wave movement. -- Minsheng Daily"

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At this moment of national discussion, and under the premise of such a crazy box office, "Police Story" has achieved a box office result of more than 36 million in Southeast Asia, but it is not very attention-grabbing.

Hong Kong people spent a week in this lively situation, Li Xuan thought that he would be filming while slowly waiting for the start of the 18th Golden Horse Awards, a news that shocked half of Asia disrupted all his plans.

Li Xuan and Hong Jingbao, who rushed to the studio early in the morning, did not go to the studio to film, but went straight to the office of Zou Wenhuai of Golden Harvest.

"What! Uncle Huai is not here? Li Xuan looked at Zou Wenhuai's assistant secretary and was stunned for a while, and then reacted and asked directly, "Did you go to the hospital?" ”

"Hmm." The assistant secretary nodded.

"Then Uncle Chang ......, no, it's not right, Uncle Chang must have gone to the hospital too." Li Xuan rubbed his head, looked at Hong Jingbao next to him and asked, "Brother Sanmao, should we also go to the hospital to have a look?" ”

Hong Jingbao thought for a while and said, "Then delay the crew for a morning, and I'll go to the hospital with you to have a look." ”

"Okay! Let's go, then. ”

Li Xuan looked at the newspaper in his hand, turned around and walked out with Hong Jingbao. This time, it was Hong Jingbao's car, and Li Xuan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, also looked at the big red headline in the newspaper and fell into thought.

"Chenglong fell to the third floor yesterday during filming, and his vertebrae were dislocated for fear of paralysis!" (To be continued.) )