Chapter 32: Speech
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"Miss Zhang, please smile."
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Shen Chong held the bejeweled Zhang Aijia, stood in the middle of the red carpet, posed a few poses to take pictures of reporters, and murdered a bunch of films before Shi Shiran walked into the Golden Harvest Theater.
"The venue is too small, there is no atmosphere, if only the Chinese theater in Los Angeles could be moved to Hong Kong."
"No wonder the media keeps saying that you are so happy and extravagant, Golden Harvest Cinema is already the best cinema in Hong Kong."
"It's not good enough, the exterior shape is too ordinary, and the interior decoration is not distinctive...... Hello hello hello...... Thank you, thank you for joining us......"
The traditional old-fashioned theater is not a good place to hold a premiere because it does not have facilities such as backstage lounges and dressing rooms, and after walking through the red carpet, you can only enter through the front door, and then walk down the staircase corridor, through the hall full of audiences, and walk up to the makeshift stage under the big screen.
The Hung Hom Stadium was not ready for use until 1983......
It's time to build your own flagship cinema......
Shen Chong and Zhang Aijia took a few minutes under the maintenance of several security personnel before they walked through the hall and onto the stage in a bit of embarrassment.
There are only five main creators who came to participate in "Love at Dawn", producer and screenwriter Shen Chong, director and screenwriter Zhang Aijia, actor Leslie Cheung, heroine Lin Qingxia, and photographer Chen Kunhou, and the rest of the crew members are all temporary recruits in Hollywood, so there is no need to invite them to Hong Kong.
Mr. Shen ...... Sister Zhang. β
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A few people greeted each other for a while, and the premiere began, which was the first time Hong Kong had this kind of activity, and it was relatively simple, just three contents, first interacting with the host, chatting about some shooting tidbits, and then interacting with fans and reporters present, answering some questions, and finally Leslie Cheung sang a few songs from the new album, which is completed.
The host of the premiere is Zhou Liang Shuyi's tomorrow's star Chen Xiuwen, who was dug from Li's TV, she is the hostess of Jiayi TV's talk show "Movie Face to Face", and has done close interviews with many actors or film crews in the past few months, including Zhang Aijia, Lin Qingxia and others, who are more familiar with each other, whether it is to guide topics or make jokes, they are all at ease.
Although Shen Chong is a producer, he basically did not participate in the filming process of "Love at Dawn", so he didn't talk much in the interview session, he was the big boss of the TV station, and Chen Xiuwen didn't dare to ask more, but when it came to the interaction between fans and reporters, the situation changed - fans are okay, most people's attention is on Leslie Cheung and Lin Qingxia, but the reporter's attention is almost all focused on Shen Chong.
"Mr. Shen, did you rush back to Hong Kong from the mainland to attend the premiere of the movie, did you come specifically to support Miss Zhang?"
"Half of it is to support her, and half is to support myself, after all, I am the producer and screenwriter of this play, if the box office is not good, I can't save face."
His remarks that the old gods are there caused a burst of laughter, and a reporter asked: "So is Mr. Shen confident in the box office of this movie?" β
"Nope."
As soon as this remark came out, not only the people in the audience were in an uproar, but the people on the stage were also shocked, especially Zhang Aijia - just when he was eating, he also vowed that the box office could exceed 10 million, but he said in public that he had no confidence in the box office......
The reporter immediately asked, "Why?" β
"Because there is no reference." Shen Chong smiled at Zhang Aijia a little calmly, and then said: "This "Love at Dawn" is a love movie, think about it, in the past ten years, has Hong Kong produced a love movie worth mentioning? β
The reporters and fans in the audience exchanged their heads one after another, and after a while, someone in the back row shouted: ""The Dream of Xiaolou"! β
""The Dream of Xiaolou"?" Shen Chong laughed, tapped the audience with his hand, and asked, "If it weren't for the Academy Awards, how many of you would know about the existence of this play?" β
"The Dream of Xiaolou" is a movie that Chu Yuan made in a few days, and the box office only collected 160,000, which was miserable, if it hadn't won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the Academy Awards, few people really knew about it, so Shen Chong asked rhetorically, and the audience was silent.
"In the film industry, there are three genres that are enduring, one is comedy, one is action, and one is romance, comedy is suitable for men and women, the main audience of action movies is men, and the main audience of romance movies is women."
"Since Zhang Che's "One-Armed Knife" in 1967 pioneered the kung fu movie boom, the Hong Kong film industry only attaches importance to action movies and ignores romance films, this situation has lasted for more than ten years, resulting in two consequences, the first consequence is the loss of a large number of female movie audiences, the second consequence is the decline of Hong Kong films, the lack of attractive female stars, the third consequence is that the emotional drama of Hong Kong films is very weak, and the fourth consequence is ......" Shen Chong talked eloquently, halfway through speaking, he stopped and said: "Everyone is watching the movie tonight, If you are interested, you can watch the next issue of "First Film Review...... All in all, Hong Kong's romance movie market has been stagnant for more than a decade, and there is no data to refer to, so I don't know if the movie is good or bad at the box office. β
"Mr. Shen, although Hong Kong has not produced any love movies worth mentioning in recent years, there have been many in Taiwan, and most of them have been released in Hong Kong, and they can be used as references."
"No, they're not worth any reference." Shen Chong shook his head and explained: "Movies are an art that continues to innovate with the development of the times, more than ten years ago, when we watched "One-Armed Knife", we would be amazed, thinking that Wang Yu was so wonderful and powerful, now after you have watched "Die Hard", and then look back to watch "One-Armed Knife", will you still think it is wonderful?" This is true for action movies, and the same is true for romance films, but action movies innovate fights, and romance movies innovate concepts, and now it's the 80s, and those romance movies in Taiwan, whether it's shooting techniques or storylines, are still stuck in the 60s, old-fashioned, so their box office in Hong Kong has been very bleak...... Let me put it this way, in a sense, Sylvia's "Love at Dawn" is the "Die Hard" in the romance film! β
This is the truth, the main purpose of filming "Die Hard" is to improve the technical level of the Hong Kong film industry, and the filming of "Love at Dawn" is to broaden the scope of Hong Kong films and the viewing group, as he just said, comedy, action and romance films are the most important and most profitable troika in the film industry, and Hong Kong has not had high-quality romance films since the closure of Denmao and the rise of Zhang Che, until 1984 after Xu Anhua filmed "Love in a Fallen City", Romance movies have only been taken seriously, and there are many movies that seem to be romance films, but they are actually comedies with gags.
Throughout the history of Hong Kong films, the most filmed are "hit" and "farce", hit is an action movie, a comedy, and the number of romance films is far less than these two types, but in terms of quality and artistic value, it is no worse than "hit" and "trouble", "Autumn Fairy Tale", "Sweet Honey", "New Love", etc., are all very classic works, Shen Chong feels that if you invest more in movies with this theme, you may gain a lot of good things, and romance films are far easier than action movies and comedies to hone the acting skills of actors and enhance the charm of actors.
In addition to the subject matter, there is also a market, in Shen Chong's previous life, there was a very controversial movie, called "Small Times", if this movie is about quality, it is not worth mentioning, but if it is about impact, it is extraordinary, because it has opened up a film market segment dominated by middle school students, so that the Chinese film industry is aware of the potential and scale of "juvenile idol movies", Shen Chong hopes that this "Love at the Dawn of Dawn" can be like "Little Times", open up a new market segment, of course, it is not open up to boys and girlsIn 1980, Hong Kong's per capita GDP was as high as US$5,700, close to the level of developed countries, and the size of the middle class was very considerable.
"Let me put it this way, female fans in Hong Kong have been dragged by their husbands or boyfriends to watch action movies for more than ten years, and now it's time to drag them to watch romance movies with you."
Shen Chong ended his interview with a smile and a radical sentence, and then ended the premiere with Leslie Cheung's singing.
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In this moment for a second
The first time I felt that atmosphere made me blush
Hug tightly with your arms crooked
Rapid heartbeat
Your body fragrance is light and bright
I don't want to talk about it
It's hard to control yourself
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