1987 is known as the most glorious year for Hong Kong films. ＝＝＝＝

At the beginning of the year, four good films were released at the same time, all of which exceeded 20 million at the box office, and one of them set a new record for Hong Kong films, setting a new high with a score of more than 41 million, becoming a good story.

It's just that no one has yet thought that this is just the beginning of glory.

The popularity of "God of Gamblers" has made many film companies see the revival of gambling films, so they began to follow suit, and there are many followers. Just when many follow-up films were being filmed intensively, another forgotten film genre reappeared in the eyes of the world today - "Once Upon a Time" was launched.

Although Xu Ke is known as an old monster, no one can deny his serious attitude towards movies. Just when Chen Ping'an was still immersed in the post-editing of "Midnight Bell", the crew of "Huang Feihong" had already been prepared, and the required large-scale set was built perfectly, just waiting for Chen Ping'an to announce the start-up.

Today, "Once Upon a Time", which inherited the revival of Hong Kong martial arts films, has finally started, which naturally attracted countless reporters. Their main purpose is not to Li Lianjie, a Shaolin kid from the mainland, nor to Guan Zhilin, who is a beautiful and generous combination of Chinese and Western, just to see what is different and new in Chen Ping'an's "new martial arts films".

In view of Chen Ping'an's "self-cherishment" of "Midnight Bell", he resolutely did not disclose detailed information to reporters, so at the opening ceremony of "Huang Feihong", although there were many reporters present, there were few questions. Even if director Chen Ping'an appeared with the hero and heroine, Li Lianjie put on a kung fu posture, and Guan Zhilin revealed that there would be a scene in the play where he was almost raped, but it failed to arouse too much interest from reporters.

Get you back!

That's right, revenge. Revenge from the media!

Although the reporters of the Oriental Daily kept asking various questions, trying to liven up the atmosphere. But the other reporters barely said a word, and the occasional question was innocuous and marginal.

See this scenario. Chen Ping'an didn't care, and ended the reporter's interview ahead of schedule, leaving time for the reporter of "Oriental Daily" to interview alone.

The attitude of reporters, with the official start of filming of "Huang Feihong", has fallen to the bottom.

In an open space in the film and television city, a "ship" is placed. This "ship" is not complete, only a small part of it has been built, but the hull is completely built according to the real ship, and it is full of flags to hunt in the wind. The sails were folded, and the towering masts hung down the cables, and if you didn't look at it from a distance, you would think it was really an ancient ship.

Chen Ping'an bowed his head and muttered a few words to Tsui Hark, who immediately found the staff in charge of the extras and asked him to arrange for the extras to change their costumes and board the ship.

Li Lianjie, Cheng Xiaodong, and Liu Jiahui walked over, and Chen Ping'an asked, "Can it work?" ”

"No problem."

The three nodded.

Cheng Xiaodong has now joined Dark Horse International and has become one of the deputy class leaders of the Chen family class, and the other deputy class leader is Liu Jiahui. These days, Li Lianjie has been hanging Weiya on the boat with Chen Jiaban. Familiarize yourself with positional design actions. Here is the opening scene of "Once Upon a Time", an ingenious lion dance scene, which is very important because of the differences between previous martial arts films.

Liu Jialiang and Cheng Xiaodong swapped owners. Chen Jiaban did not fall apart because of this, but became more united.

The Liu family was guilty in his conscience, before leaving Dark Horse International. I invited all the members of the Chen family class to have a meal. During the banquet, he drank and spit out the truth, and he left Dark Horse International. is because Dark Horse International is too strong, for a director like him. It's hard to get ahead. He specially warned his brothers to follow Chen Ping'an to run the Chen family class and not to have different intentions. As a martial artist, Dark Horse International's treatment is the best.

In fact, he was too careful, and the others didn't think about leaving with him at all, but were worried that because he left, Chen Ping'an would anger Chen Jiaban.

However, after Chen Ping'an asked Liu Jiahui to take over the position of Liu Jialiang's deputy class leader, the members of the Chen family class breathed a sigh of relief. Naturally, there will be no rejection of Cheng Xiaodong, the deputy head of the airborne, Liu Jiahui and him cooperate tacitly, and the two sides quickly get together.

"Attention of all departments, the first shot of the first scene of "Huang Feihong" is the first shot, Exon!"

Gongs and drums are noisy, the wind is hunting, flags are waving, and lions are dancing......

On the day of the shooting, Chen Ping'an did not prohibit reporters from following the interview, so the reporters saw the filming process of "Huang Feihong".

It's very ordinary, it's just a little more lively.

It's nothing!

What are the new martial arts films, but I don't see where the new is!

Old wine in new bottles, hum, I think it's old wine in old bottles!

The reporters muttered in a whisper, and left after a while, and in their hearts, they made a final conclusion about "Once Upon a Time" in their hearts just by virtue of the lion dance on the boat at the beginning.

Only two newspaper reporters did not leave, one was Oriental Daily and the other was Sing Tao Daily.

Seeing Chen Ping'an busy filming on the ship, the two reporters had nothing to do, and finally got together to chat.

The reporter of "Oriental Daily" spoke first: "They are all gone, why are you still here?" ”

"You think I don't want to go!" The brother of "Sing Tao Daily" was very aggrieved, "Our editor-in-chief said that we must soak here today and call it a day with the crew." What about you, are you waiting for the scoop? ”

"Who knows if there is."

The reporter of "Sing Tao Daily" nodded at Chen Ping'an on the boat: "It is estimated that there will be no good words in tomorrow's newspaper." I think this is quite average, not much better than the previous martial arts films of Shaw Brothers...... I went, and I danced a new trick, and I can still fly! ”

At this time, Chen Ping'an happened to photograph Huang Feihong, who was the head of the Black Flag Army, saw the lion dancer fall from the air, jumped up, caught the lion's head in mid-air with the help of a cable, and then stepped on the cable to swing in the air.

Before he finished speaking, he had already raised the camera on his chest and clicked to take pictures. The reporter of "Oriental Daily" also quickly turned his head, picked up the camera and sat with the same action: "I'll just say, Boss Chen will definitely not disappoint the audience." ”

"Is this a new school?"

"Today is the first day of shooting, and who knows what will happen next."

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In the early days of the filming of "Huang Feihong", because most of the media were emotional, and subjectively believed that costume martial arts films were difficult to turn over, and the "Huang Feihong" series of movies were filmed countless in the fifties and sixties, so most of the media looked down on them. Only two newspapers, Oriental Daily and Sing Tao Daily, held different views.

"Oriental Daily" is just that, it has always been mentioning dark horse international publicity, but Chen Ping'anhei, who is famous for "Sing Tao Daily", how can he speak for "Huang Feihong"?

In the article of "Sing Tao Daily", the reporter also thought that "Huang Feihong" directed by Chen Ping'an was difficult to jump out of the framework of previous costume martial arts films, but he did not leave early like other reporters, but stayed on the set to watch Chen Ping'an shoot, hoping to find more evidence to prove the failure of the film.

But he didn't expect that in the subsequent shooting, the lion dance scene was filmed by Chen Ping'an, which was wonderful, and it also made people feel the difference between the movie "Once Upon a Time" and previous costume martial arts films for the first time.

In line with the professional ethics of media people, even if you are not used to seeing what Chen Ping'an did, you still have to speak according to the facts and inform readers of the truth, which is why there is a report that supports the movie "Huang Feihong".

I have to say that the effect of the report of "Sing Tao Daily" this time is far greater than that of "Oriental Daily". As the pioneer of black Chen Ping'an, he actually changed his attitude and began to support "Huang Feihong" directed by Chen Ping'an, in addition to letting readers affirm the professional ethics of "Sing Tao Daily" from now on, they also became curious about "Huang Feihong".

Chen Ping'an didn't have time to pay attention to media reports, the filming task of "Huang Feihong" was very heavy, because many extras had to be used at every turn, and the fight scenes were prone to accidents, he had to hurry up and shoot, and the task of dealing with the media was handed over to Shi Nansheng.

Shi Nansheng's focus is no longer on "Huang Feihong", but on "Autumn Fairy Tale", which is scheduled to be released at Easter.

Entering mid-March, the promotion of "Autumn Fairy Tale" was in full swing under the auspices of Shi Nansheng.

This movie is very important to both Dark Horse International and Chen Ping'an.

a literary film with an investment of 15 million; Zhong Chuhong's salary is five million; With these two points alone, people have to pay more attention to this movie. At the same time, the question is raised - how much can this movie do at the box office?

Some film critics have pointed out in the newspaper that the scale of Dark Horse International's investment in "Autumn Fairy Tale" is like a fairy tale, although it shows that the company attaches great importance to literary films, but the box office of this drama is worrying.

The worry here is not about the dismal box office. Chen Ping'an and Zhong Chuhong, a classic on-screen couple co-starring, have a very high box office appeal, and I believe that many Hong Kong citizens will come to the theater to watch the movie.

So tens of millions of box office can be expected, but the problem is, let alone tens of millions, even if the box office exceeds 20 million, for Dark Horse International, this drama is also a failure, at least a box office failure, because the cost of this drama is fifteen million!

30 million is a threshold, and it is also the conclusion made by many media on "Autumn Fairy Tale". Literary films have always been easy to applaud, but it is even more difficult for "Autumn Fairy Tale" to be applauded, only a box office of more than 30 million, compared to the investment of 15 million, can be regarded as a success at the box office.

Unlike "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" starring Cheng Long, the Hong Kong box office is only a part, and it is difficult to recover the huge investment, and it is more dependent on overseas box office, especially the Japanese box office. With Cheng Long's fame in Japan, as well as the production of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" itself, it is certain that the overseas box office will recover its costs and even make a lot of money.

But "Autumn Fairy Tale" is different. Different ethnic cultures are destined to make it difficult for "Autumn Fairy Tale" to win a high box office in Japan, even if the on-screen couple images of Chen Ping'an and Zhong Chuhong have a high influence in Japan.

Hong Kong and Taiwan will be the main box office of the drama "Autumn Fairy Tale", and only when the box office in Hong Kong exceeds 30 million and the investment cost is recovered, the drama is likely to make a small profit.

In this regard, unlike Chen Ping'an's breezy and light-hearted, Shi Nansheng is Alexander. (To be continued......) R752