In mid-October 1980, Chenglong was still continuing his studies in Hollywood, but the movie "Killer Trench" starring him and co-produced by Golden Harvest and Hollywood was released in Hong Kong. Zou Wenhuai is full of confidence in this movie, in addition to the full co-screening of Golden Harvest Cinemas, he also contacted several other Reading Power luxury theaters to release it at the same time.

Although this is not the prime time for any movie, the day "Killer Trench" was just released was extremely popular. First, because of Chenglong's reputation and Golden Harvest's promotion of this movie, and secondly, since Li Xiaolong, no Chinese actor has successfully entered Hollywood, and the audience is naturally full of expectations for Chenglong's movie.

As a result, on the first day of the movie's release, it got a record-breaking 970,000 Hong Kong dollars at the first box office, and it was almost full. At this moment, Zou Wen was so happy that he smiled, and when he was full of joy, he was ready to break the box office record again, and held a big celebration banquet.

It's a pity that the big boss is still laughing in the office, and the audience in the movie theater outside is scolding!

This movie is about the same as Li Xuan's original estimate, and it can indeed be regarded as a bad movie. In addition to Chenglong's own performance and a bit of humorous style, the whole movie plot is very old-fashioned, which makes people not interested in watching the movie at all. And the fights in the movie are also very inferior, without any viewing surname, which makes audiences who are accustomed to Hong Kong's fine martial arts scenes scold their mothers.

When Li Xuan first watched this movie, he thought he had seen the sister chapter of "Master Out of the Horse", both of which were action movies made by a group of people who didn't know martial arts.

The martial arts fingers of the whole movie are simply terrible, and the fight scene is basically a wrestling match between you and me with one punch and one leg, and a little boxing action from time to time. And Chenglong, a first-class martial artist in Hong Kong, is in a foreign country and has a tradition of discriminating against Chinese Hollywood, so he can't put forward the slightest opinion, so he has to follow the martial arts movements designed by the Americans to film. Li Xuan estimates that there are a lot of fighting actions in the movie, which should be funny in Jackie Chan's opinion.

Overall, "Killer Trench" is an extremely disappointing film, and it is far worse than Chenglong's previous films "Drunken Fist", "Serpentine Trickster" and "Junior Brother".

At the first day of the release of "Killer Trench", more than 20 theaters were almost full, but the attendance rate of the theaters fell to 70% on the second day, and below 50% on the third day.

Such a strange movie caused the media to laugh at it. Many film critics directly ridiculed that Zou Wenhuai also followed in the footsteps of his old club Shao Yifu and made a real wrong. This kind of bad movie of children fighting dares to be screened across the board!

Seeing those reports, Zou Wenhuai's face turned green with anger, but unfortunately he couldn't refute it. No matter how ambitious he was at the beginning, no matter how much he justified it, he couldn't get rid of the fact that "Killer Trench" was a bad movie.

And "Killer Trench" finally came down after 14 days of continuous struggle in Golden Harvest Cinemas. As for those luxury theaters with reading power, when the number of moviegoers fell below fifty percent, they directly painted them, but Zou Wenhuai did not sell any face. In the end, the Hong Kong box office of "Killer Trench" only got 5.57 million Hong Kong dollars. This result was still very good last year, but this year, it is already a bit of a bottom.

Now, the box office of "Killer Trench" in Taiwan and Southeast Asia is not to be considered. Hong Kong is a barometer of the box office of these two regions, and movies that do not perform well in Hong Kong basically do not sell well at the box office in these two places.

In order to recover the capital, Zou Wenhuai can only hope that "Killer Trench" will be at the box office in the United States and the market.

Now Zou Wenhuai is still gritting his teeth and letting Chenglong continue to stay in the United States, but Li Xuan estimates that after the global box office of "Killer Trench" comes out soon, Zou Wenhuai will be anxious to recall Chenglong, who is unfavorable. After all, Chenglong has failed to enter the American film market, and if he doesn't come back to show his face in Hong Kong a few more times, it is estimated that even this backyard will have to be lost.

In the silence of the wilderness, a bonfire stands out in the dark night. Li Jiading, who was dressed as a Miao person, and Xu Xijie, who was dressed in a white Huashan suit, both stood quietly in front of the bonfire, looking at the bonfire burning in front of them with a solemn face.

"Ling Hu Chong, if your next generation can't resist the temptation to practice martial arts, and then pick up a sword to break through the rivers and lakes, can you stop them?" Li Jiading asked coldly as he watched the roaring bonfire.

"The next generation?" Xu Xijie's eyes were blank, his eyes looked at the dark night sky through the bonfire, shook his head and muttered, "I didn't think about the next generation." ”

"Click! This one has passed. Ding Ye Sam, don't move, let's hurry up and shoot the last shot. Li Xuan, who was sitting behind the monitor, shouted, this is the penultimate shot of "Smiling Proud Jianghu", he can't be careless.

“ok！” Xu Yijie rolled up his sleeves and raised the prop sword in his hand in response.

The crew hurriedly moved and began to set up, and this time Huang Yuetai also personally went into battle to carry the camera. Seeing that all the personnel were ready, Li Xuan hurriedly started shooting.

"The 57th scene is a shot, action!"

"Smack!"

The clapperboard fell gently, and in the lens of the monitor, the picture slowly moved forward, Li Jiading and Xu Yijie stood with their backs to the camera, and the bonfire looked particularly magnificent in the camera.

"Rivers and lakes, as long as there are people, there are grievances, there are grievances, there are rivers and lakes, and people are rivers and lakes!" Li Jiading suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Yijie and asked, "Why did you quit?" Haha......"

As soon as he finished asking, Li Jiading looked up to the sky and laughed, as if people often said that quitting the rivers and lakes was just a big joke.

Hearing this, Xu Xijie looked at the night sky thoughtfully, but the confusion in his eyes disappeared, he looked down at the sword in his hand, and pulled out the blade fiercely!

"Click! This one has passed. Li Xuan suddenly jumped up from the director's chair, waved his hands and shouted: "Now I announce, "Smiling Proud Jianghu", it is finished!" ”

"Wow! It's finally finished. ”

"Oh oh oh, the director is in for a treat!"

"I don't have to spend all day Lavia."

"Damn! I can finally take a normal break. ”

“……”

The Shaw Clan's group of talent-killing dragon and tiger martial artists are all five big and three thick, and each one is no weaker than the other when they howl at this time. Li Xuan looked at everyone and smiled, and said loudly: "Thank you for your cooperation during this time, wait for everyone to go to Saigon Seafood City for supper." I'm in for a treat, everyone can eat as much as you want! Eat as much as you want! ”

"Wow-"

As soon as Li Xuan's words fell, another howl sounded on the set, and the various workers of the crew unconsciously sped up. How can someone not be active in this seafood feast?

"Hey, I didn't expect it to be finished so soon!" Xu Xijie walked up to Li Xuan and sighed. This guy's makeup removal is also simple, as soon as the clothes are changed, the wig cover can be taken off directly. Unlike Lin Qingxia, she still has to remove the makeup on her face now.

"It's still early?" Li Xuan said helplessly: "I've been filming for more than two months, it's been a long time." Speaking of early days, your eldest brother's "Modern Bodyguard" is almost finished, right? ”

"Modern Bodyguard" is an urban comedy, both the set and costumes are much better than Li Xuan's costume dramas, plus the Xu brothers are all masters of making cold humorous comedies, so it's strange that they can shoot slowly.

"Well, it's almost over." Xu Xijie clasped his hands and looked at the bonfire and smiled: "But compared to the two sides, I still think it's more interesting to follow you to film." ”

This is nonsense!

Li Xuan secretly complained for a while, this guy is an authentic actor in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", but in "Modern Bodyguard", he is his eldest brother's male partner, this is of course more interesting to be a male protagonist than a male partner, otherwise why did he leave his eldest brother and go to Xinyi City to take over the play......

"You're interesting, I'm going to be tired next." Li Xuan shook his head, changed the topic and said: "I have to take care of the cutting, dubbing and soundtrack, and your songs, and now I think about it with caution." ”

"Haha, those who are capable work more, and those who are absolutely capable work hard!" Xu Yijie patted Li Xuan's shoulder and smiled.

"Okay, what can work hard, come and help clean up, and wait until you can hurry up and eat a seafood dinner!" Li Xuan waved his hand, walked to the side and picked up a small fire extinguisher, people went to extinguish the fire, and they had to put out the bonfire first.

"Huh-"

A large puff of white foam erupted from the fire extinguisher, extinguishing the bonfire in a few strokes, and the darkness of the night was even thicker.

The whole world seemed to be quiet.

(Note: The Spring Festival is really the season of eunuchs, and every time I look at a bunch of works of the same people on the right, I always feel sad.) (To be continued.) )