After "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East" was released in the remaining five theaters of Shaw Brothers for another week, the film was finally drawn regardless of the attendance, with a total box office of 16.84 million Hong Kong dollars. This data is a complete loss compared to "Modern Bodyguard", which was drawn four days earlier, and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" has nearly 7 million Hong Kong dollars less than "Modern Bodyguard".

The crazy "Modern Bodyguard", this movie got a box office of 23.68 million Hong Kong dollars under the vigorous promotion of Golden Harvest! Li Xuan knew that his butterfly wings had begun to fan a lot, but he remembered that the first Hong Kong movie with a box office of more than 20 million in later generations was obviously the "Best Partner" of Xinyi City.

But now, the new art city has just been established......

However, although "Modern Bodyguard" was a big hit in Hong Kong, the foreign film market made Golden Harvest's senior management feel embarrassed, because Shaw Brothers' "Smiling Proud Jianghu" in other cities is the real big winner of this New Year's file!

Not long after "Modern Bodyguard" began to land in major theaters in Southeast Asia, the Southeast Asian box office of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" almost blinded everyone's eyes, with a total of 36.27 million Hong Kong dollars, which is enough to make "Smiling Proud Jianghu" despise the world at this time. And Li Xuan's company is not counting the box office of Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it can completely return to its original cost with the box office share of Southeast Asia alone.

As for the Taiwan box office of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", it finally broke the box office record of 22.2 million Taiwan dollars of "Cherry Blossom Love" and got a box office of 23.6 million Taiwan dollars, successfully refreshing the highest box office performance of Taiwanese films.

And the reason why "Smiling Proud Jianghu" can achieve such good results in Taiwan is that in addition to the fact that Taiwanese people like to watch martial arts movies and Lin Qingxia's box office appeal, there is a more important reason, that is, the Taiwanese people have money again.

This year is obviously a year of great economic recovery in Taiwan, and the people's spending power has been greatly enhanced. Among the 12 movies released in Taiwan's major theaters this year, 7 movies exceeded the box office of 10 million, and you must know that there were only 9 movies in Taiwan that exceeded 10 million at the box office last year!

However, while these achievements have blinded a number of Taiwanese filmmakers, they have also made the penetration of Taiwanese associations into the film and television industry more serious.

On March 7, 1981, the Dragon Head Festival, the first Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was finally held as scheduled at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.

When Li Xuan took Zhong Chuhong and Lin Qingxia out of the car, he almost thought that he was in the wrong place.

Looking at the cold and quiet art center building in front of him, the corners of Li Xuan's mouth twitched, although Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards did not put a red carpet at the door of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, after all, there were several waiters at the door to guide the way. But now? There is no red carpet or waiter, so I simply put a few road signs in the corridor and it's done.

It's really cold here! If it weren't for the time and address written on the invitation, Li Xuan probably thought he was in the wrong place.

The three of them entered the building and took the elevator upward, and followed the signs all the way to the Shouson Theater, where the award ceremony was held.

After Li Xuan entered, he found out why there was no one in front of the art center building, it turned out that these reporters were hiding in the theater. And there are quite a few of these reporters, about 20 of them. As soon as Li Xuan and the three appeared, they were chased and intercepted by these reporters, and the content of the interview was nothing more than asking Li Xuan and Lin Qingxia what they thought of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", or what new movie shooting plans were in the future.

Now it seems that Zou Wenhuai has not revealed the news that the two companies are going to produce a new drama together.

Li Xuan didn't reply directly to these questions, and then hugged the two girls and went straight inside, and soon found his seat and sat down. And there are more and more people in the theater, including directors, actors, screenwriters, and of course, some film critics and ordinary fans.

But Li Xuan found that among these directors, many of them are representatives of the new wave of Hong Kong films, such as Xu Ke, Xu Anhua, Zhang Guoming and Yan Hao. But when you think that the Hong Kong Film Awards are the work of a bunch of editors at Cinema Fortnightly, and that most of these editors and directors of the New Wave are members of the Hong Kong Film Culture Centre, Li Xuan is relieved.

The name of the Hong Kong Film Culture Center sounds quite high-end and high-end, but it is actually a non-governmental organization organized by a group of filmmakers. Founded in January 1978, this organization mainly conducts some film and television training, and sometimes also does some film culture promotion work, such as film culture lectures, foreign classic film screenings and filmmakers' symposiums and other activities. thinks that Wang Jinwang, who has not made a movie back then, was also pulled by his friend Shu Qi to give those newcomers a screenwriting class.

However, Li Xuan frowned and glanced at the suit on his body, and then felt like he was visiting a vegetable market......

Today, in the theater, except for a few political officials and company bosses dressed in formal clothes, many people came casually with a piece of clothing, and the whole theater was suddenly lively and lively like a vegetable market. For example, Xu Ke, this guy, came wearing a small fur jacket and a pair of denim bell bottoms, which of the clothes on this guy's body looks like attending the award ceremony?

It's just that no matter how noisy the theater is, with the sound of a voice in the theater, the whole theater is silent in an instant.

"The 1st Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony is now open!"

With a rich baritone, the lights in the theater gradually dimmed. A few seconds later, a curtain of light shot out from the back of the hall and onto the big screen in the middle of the stage.

A black-and-white photograph appeared on the screen, and a voiceover followed: "At the beginning of 1896, Lumière's photographer came to Hong Kong to screen many short films. After that, Edison sent a camera team to Hong Kong and entered the Chinese mainland to shoot a documentary, and the glorious history of Hong Kong cinema began......"

Immediately afterwards, the screen was replaced with a black-and-white still from a movie, and only the voiceover was heard to continue the commentary: "In 1909, Liang Shaopo, a Hong Kong native, directed and starred in the short film "Stealing Roast Duck" with the support of the "Asia Film and Theater Company" in Shanghai, which was invested by the Russian-American Brasky. ”

The images on the screen are constantly changing with time, and the voiceover also follows the picture along the way to explain the brief history of the development of Hong Kong films.

In 1913, the "Father of Hong Kong Cinema" Lai Man-wai filmed "Zhuangzi Tries a Wife"; Yan Shanshan, the wife of Li Minwei, who played the handmaid in the film, became the first actress on the Chinese screen. 1913 was the first year of Hong Kong cinema in the true sense, opening a new page in the history of Hong Kong cinema.

In 1922, the Lai brothers released their first feature film, Rouge;

In 1933, Li Beihai directed the first partial sound film "Conscience", and soon launched the first fully sound film "Foolish Cave House";

In 1933, Shao Yuweng's "Tianyi Company" produced the Cantonese film ......"

Li Xuan, who was sitting under the stage, was very interested in these old histories from half a century ago, and he watched them with relish. However, it is clear that the makers of this short film are not very interested in the history of that half century ago, and they have written very little, and soon the short film is set to the Shaw Brothers and Denmao in the 50s and the Shaw Brothers in the 60s. In the end, this film called A Brief History of Hong Kong Cinema only recorded Li Xiaolong's death and there was no follow-up.

"Bang Bang Bang-"

As soon as the film ended, there was a round of warm applause at the scene, after all, not everyone knows so much about the history of Hong Kong films, and popular science has also increased an experience. And in Hong Kong, which attaches great importance to the inheritance of masters and apprentices, you see so many old-timers in the short film who don't applaud, isn't this not respecting teachers!

After a round of applause, everyone saw a man and a woman walking on the stage dressed up, only to see the male emcee raise the microphone in his hand and say: "Welcome distinguished guests and friends, I can take time out of my busy schedule to attend the award ceremony of the first Hong Kong Film Awards, I am the emcee Wu ......"