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In fact, Wang Qinian is not flattering, Hong Kong films in the golden age are the enlightenment of domestic commercial films. www.biquge.info In the 90s, the commercial films that many audiences were most exposed to were not Hollywood movies, but Hong Kong movies.

Even, at the beginning of the 21st century, there were some viewers who watched Hong Kong film tapes from the 80s and 90s and still enjoyed it. And many of the new movies are not even as good as they were back then. It can be seen how brilliant the Hong Kong films of that year were. And the predecessors of that era really made future generations feel that the mountains were standing up.

Wang Qinian has watched many of Johnny To's movies.

From the early "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Happy Ghosts and Ghosts", "The Seven Year Itch", "Eight Stars Annunciation", "Jigong", "The Story of Ah Lang", "The Judge of the Dead", "Three Heroes of the East", "Thin Men and Women", to the recent "Gunfire" and "Infernal Affairs", Wang Qinian feels respect-To Qifeng is a director who constantly pursues progress.

The exploration and experimentation of various styles and themes, and then the later "Gunfire", "Dark War", and "Infernal Affairs", which took the niche route, formed a unique personal style of To Qifeng.

Although, Du Qifeng's personal style later developed in a niche direction, what he likes is very much what he likes, and he feels uncomfortable at a glance if he doesn't like it.

But Wang Qinian knows that an excellent director should be like Johnny To, who is knowledgeable first - absorbing and learning like a sponge, and daring to challenge new styles and subject lines. Finally, when determining your own style, it is often more restrained and atmospheric, which is difficult for others to imitate!

Because of many of Johnny To's movies, the themes are not suitable for the mainland, for example, the underworld and gunfight themes are obviously not recommended in the mainland.

"Infernal Affairs" can be released in the mainland. After all, this movie is wrapped in a layer of police skin, which can be regarded as an anti-black theme. Police and bandits, anti-black themes. As long as the position is on the side of the police, it can generally be approved.

Furthermore. In the later period, Johnny To mostly adhered to the Hong Kong film market, although he also cooperated with the mainland. But he also tried many themes that could not be released in the mainland. Therefore, Johnny To missed the blockbuster era, focusing on the Hong Kong film market, and films that cannot be released in the mainland naturally have to control the cost budget. You can't invest too much of your capital. Therefore, in the next ten years, many directors have played big, but the budget of Johnny To's films has been standing still and has not played a bigger battle, so he gradually did not keep up with the progress in the trend of the times.

The reason why Johnny To insists on the Hong Kong market is, on the one hand, because of the restrictions on mainland themes. Like what. Later "Underworld" ...... Just by listening to the name, it can't be released in the mainland!

And he doesn't want to give up this kind of favorite theme. In addition, since he tried to enter the mainland market. The timing was not too good, so it did not get much box office in the mainland. Therefore, gradually I did not pay attention to the mainland market. But who would have thought that the box office data of the mainland film market in the golden decade would be amazing......

Missing the mainland market is equivalent to about 2000, and the housing prices in many cities are hundreds of square meters, and they are reluctant to pay tens of thousands of yuan to buy a house. Outcome. After a few years, the same house will rise to hundreds of thousands, millions. Feeling that regret!

Wang Qinian knew that Du Qifeng needed to be saved. Fully committed to the Hong Kong market. Actually, the mentality is wrong. The world of movies does not seek to exercise in the big market, and the level will regress.

Originally, after Hong Kong's return to the motherland, it was tantamount to resting on its laurels that it was a pure Hong Kong movie and ignoring the overall pattern. As for an excellent director like To Qifeng, Wang Qinian is willing to win him over, even if the investment is at a loss, it is worth it, if one or two films are lost, Wang Qinian believes that sooner or later he will be able to earn back with profits.

Because, in the future, the development speed of the mainland film market will exceed most people's imagination!

The larger the scale of the film market, the more beneficial it is for big directors and superstars.

Originally, a director could only create one or two million box office in the market of one billion box office a year. However, assuming that the film market expands to 10 billion, directors who could achieve a box office of 10 million before may easily get a box office of 100 million, 200 million, 300 million, 50 million or more.

What's more, Johnny To has played blockbuster comedies before, and has also played movies like "Three Heroes of the East" that are similar to Hollywood superhero films. Wang Qinian believes that Du Qifeng can completely control a blockbuster with a cost of 100 million yuan!

Both sides are making movies, although many people feel that commercial movies seem to have no connotation and are only suitable for passing the time. But in fact, commercial films are also based on life and reflect various emotions and thoughts. At the same time, commercial films are innovative and exploratory in films, and they are far ahead of literary films.

The directors of many commercial films are the real film directors. If you specialize in making literary films, you may ...... Not enough to talk about movies!

Wang Qinian introduced the future trend of the Chinese film market to To Qifeng: "The Chinese film market has survived the run-in period of several years of the lowest humiliation, and the future Chinese film market will be the fastest growing market in the world, with an annual growth rate of 30% or even 50%. This rapid growth may be maintained for ten years! ”

"Really?" Du Qifeng was stunned, "Is the future really that good?" ”

"Yes! China has no shortage of markets, no shortage of audiences, assuming that Chinese watch a movie once a year, the Chinese film market may surpass Japan and become the world's second largest film box office market! If Chinese audiences watched an average of four movies a year, it would be enough to surpass the United States and become the world's largest film market! Wang Qinian said with a smile, "It can be said that most of the world's film markets are low-growth traditional industries, or even sunset industries that are regressing." But...... In the next ten years, China's film industry will definitely be a sunrise industry that can no longer rise to the sun. However, this industry is not bad for the market, not even bad for people, the only thing that is bad is for veterans who have a deep understanding and experience of commercial films! To put it simply, Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and my "Sea Tiger" have a box office of more than 200 million, and the future is really nothing. In a few years, there will definitely be more movies with two or three hundred million. Even, a movie of 1 billion or 2 billion yuan is a matter of time! ”

Du Qifeng's heart moved when he heard this, and he knew that this might not be bragging.

You must know that in the 60s, the box office of Hong Kong movies was the champion with a box office of hundreds of thousands of yuan. In fact, Bruce Lee of the era refreshed the movie box office to a height of millions of yuan.

Later, the box office of Hong Kong movies reached tens of millions of yuan or tens of millions of yuan. That's what a city of millions of people does.

The mainland market is not fully developed, even if dozens of large cities are developed. Every big city reaches one-tenth of Hong Kong's movie tickets, which is billions of tens of billions of box office. If the mainland film market is fully developed, the prospects are immeasurable.

It's just that, in theory, in fact, few people are as confident as Wang Qinian, and they think categorically that the Chinese film market has a bright future! (To be continued)

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