When Xu Guanwu saw the movie, he couldn't help but be a little stunned, as far as he knew, it seemed that Wang Jing had made such a movie in his previous life, and it was also co-starred by his best friend Chen Baixiang, Cao Chali, and the stunning beauty Zhong Chuhong, Zhang Manyu and Guan Zhilin, etc., It is a lively and interesting love comedy, and it also won the top ten grossing movies of the year.

Unexpectedly, this movie was made by Zeng Zhiwei, but although the storyline is similar, the actors are a little worse. Golden Harvest doesn't have many beauties, so this filming is also a cooperation with Li's TV station, and Ma Min'er, who became famous for the TV series "Chameleon", and Wei Qiuhua, a costume beauty, were selected to co-star.

Wei Qiuhua is Gu Tianle, the actor of Huang Rong in Li Tingtong's version of "The Condor Heroes", and she also played the Japanese female spy Wang Xiuzhi in the TV series "Hero Huo Yuanjia".

And Ma Min'er was a student of Li's artist training class before, because of her outstanding qualifications, she was still in the training period, and she had already been appreciated by the TV producer Mai Dangxiong, and she was promoted to star in the martial arts TV series "Shen Shengyi". Later, because "Silkworm Transformation" also needed her to play a role, her role in "Shen Shengyi" had to disappear halfway. During the filming of "Silkworm Transformation", because people were dissatisfied that she and Pan Zhiwen were not together after the most abusive in "Chameleon", they wrote a letter to the TV station to protest together, so that the TV station hurriedly filmed the sequel to "Chameleon", which made Ma Miner's role in "Silkworm Change" disappear halfway.

On the one hand, it shows that Ma Miner is very popular with the audience, and many TV series rely on her to raise her momentum. On the other hand, it actually reflects the shortage of Li's TV station, there are only so many actresses available, so these actresses are selected in every TV series. makes these actresses also lacking skills. had to let the role he played end without a problem.

After the release of Zeng Zhiwei's "The Frog Prince". took away part of the box office of "Bald Detective", which made the attendance of "Bald Detective" drop slightly. However, given that "Bald Detective" has been released for a week, and now there is still more than eighty percent of the attendance, it is actually full of reasonableness.

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In addition to the release of new works by Golden Harvest and Hui's, Shaw Brothers also launched their own Christmas movie, called "Five Blessings". Telling the daily life of a family of five, a down-to-earth movie like this is relatively rare in Shaw Brothers films. And the plot setting is somewhat similar to Huang Baiming's "Eight Star Annunciation". is also a bit like Gao Zhisen's "Rich and Powerful", in short, it is a comedy describing social life.

Most of the comedy films depicting the lives of ordinary people were shot by leftist film companies, which in the early days reflected the lives of ordinary people in Hong Kong, and had the significance of criticizing reality and celebrating the common people. Later, with the gradual decline of leftist films, Hong Kong films rarely paid attention to the lives of ordinary people, and replaced them with most of the chivalrous heroes, righteous men, heroes, or the love life of beautiful women and amorous sons, etc. It is far from the daily life of the people.

The reason why there is such a shift is, on the one hand, because martial arts kung fu movies are lively. The action scenes are more able to attract the audience. On the other hand, comedy movies are more difficult to make, filming the daily life of ordinary people, and extracting enough jokes from them, which is a very difficult thing for filmmakers.

In the 70s, Xu's comedy movies were so popular, but there was still a gap period of a few years, just because comedy movies were not easy to make. If it's too far from reality, it's not enough to impress the audience, it's too close to reality and it's not hilarious enough, and if it's written too close to reality, the screenwriter must have rich life experience to write a convincing and hilarious movie.

is like the popular "People in Embarrassment" in the mainland, although this small-budget movie sold tens of millions of box office at the end, it was a rare box office dark horse that year. But because the screenwriter is a Hong Kong person who doesn't know much about the mainland, there are frequent mistakes in the movie, which makes people laugh at the time after watching it, but the plot really can't stand scrutiny.

Shaw Brothers' "Five Blessings" is also about the daily life of a family of five, the children are all with different personalities, there are loyal and honest eldest brothers, there are also clandestine and slippery second brothers, and there are also cute third sisters, and the family life is originally plain. But because the eldest brother's girlfriend got married and wanted to buy a house, the originally happy family immediately fell into chaos.

This film has tears in laughter, it is a rare and warm work, and it is also a rare sincere work of Shaw Brothers in recent years, but it is a young female director of Jiayi TV named Xu Anhua who shot this movie.

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When Xu Guanwu saw Xu Anhua's name, he couldn't help but be surprised, he knew that there are not many female directors in Hong Kong, so any female director is quite remarkable, and Xu Anhua can be called great even among all directors in Hong Kong.

Xu Anhua specializes in women's dramas, and has made many high-quality art films from the delicate perspective unique to female directors, such as "Woman Forty", "Sister Peach", "The Story of Hu Yue" and so on.

Director Hui Anhua is also one of the leading directors of the Hong Kong New Wave, having made a suspense film "Crazy Robbery" and a ghost film "Hit the Front", which later inspired Hong Jingbao to make fantasy kung fu films such as "Ghost Fight".

Hui Guanwu has always admired director Hui Anhua, because she is one of the few directors in Hong Kong who can still shoot movies all the time, and she is also a director who is very strict with her works. From the two movies "Hit the Right" and "Crazy Robbery", it can be seen that Director Xu is also first-class in making commercial films, but she does not only care about making money and makes commercial films, but has been committed to shooting literary films. Of course, although she is famous enough, her income is far less than that of her peers.

once tried to shoot the movie "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", begged countless film companies but no one was willing to invest money, but in the end, Wang Jing, who has always been famous for making commercial films, invested one million so that she could complete the filming. This is undoubtedly quite touching for Director Xu, who has been in the industry since the 70s and has a very high reputation.

However, despite the success of films such as "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai", director Hui Anhua has always insisted on making literary films, which can persist under the temptation of money for 30 years. It's really a very admirable thing.

It is worth mentioning that in the first movie "Crazy Robbery" shot by director Xu Anhua in his previous life. Playing the murderer is Zhao Yazhi. At that time, she was very involved in the drama when she was filming this movie. Walking on the road, children will be scared to cry when they see them.

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The Christmas schedule is more happy and romantic, and it is also a holiday for lovers and families, so happy and interesting comedy movies like "Bald Detective" and "The Frog Prince" are more popular, and they have achieved good box office after their release. However, although "Five Blessings" has a festive name and is also a comedy, it is still because the subject matter is too heavy, which makes the box office of this movie unsatisfactory, and the box office is only 800,000 Hong Kong dollars in two weeks after its release. It's just barely keeping the capital.

In comparison, "Bald Detective" has been screened for a month and a half, and the box office is as high as 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, and "The Frog Prince" also has a box office of more than 4 million. "Five Blessings" can only save the capital, which is already a big defeat for Shaw Brothers. This made the already stormy Shaw Brothers even more difficult.

In contrast, Golden Harvest is a bit scrappy, and they have reached a cooperation agreement with New Line Films, which will invest in Golden Harvest's films in the next five years, and the films they shoot will also be distributed by New Line Films in the future.

New Line Films was founded in the sixties. Mainly low-budget horror films distributed to American college students, it has only begun to enter the production industry after gradually gaining traction in recent years. It is mainly based on shooting horror films. This cooperation with Golden Harvest Film Company was also inspired by Xu's "A Plan".

The hit screening of "A Scheme" has made Hollywood film companies see the potential of Hong Kong films, so many small and medium-sized film companies have come to Hong Kong to pan for gold.

However, these American filmmakers arrived in high spirits, but they went back discouraged. Because they found that although Hong Kong movies are prosperous now, compared with the orderly order of Hollywood movies, Hong Kong movies are more like weeds in the field, and there are not enough rules established at all.

These weeds compete with each other for nutrients, grab their own turf, and grow completely disorderly and wild, this level of chaos is almost like that of Hollywood in the twenties and thirties, completely unorganized and undisciplined. To the great surprise of these Hollywood filmmakers.

In their opinion, Hong Kong films lack institutional management and the necessary legal protection, directors can make movies without scripts, stories can be copied from well-known European and American movies, and actors never sign any contracts, even if they are dangerous actions......

Moreover, in addition to a few well-known film companies, Hong Kong film companies are basically equivalent to leather bag companies, and there are often only a few people in the entire company, and the filming actors have to borrow from other companies, and even the funds for making movies are raised from everywhere.

There is no value in investment at all for a leather bag film company like this, and if the investment fails, the United States will simply lose money in vain, and it will not even get back the compensation.

In addition to the famous film companies, most of the works of other companies are shoddy, and even if a film like that is shot at a cost, it is still a question of whether it can be released in the United States. After all, these small and medium-sized film companies do not have theaters, and even if they want to be released, they have to discuss with the theater companies.

But if the film is too bad, the theater company is also reluctant to release it, because if the attendance rate is not high, then the theater company will also lose money. thinks that if Xu Guanwu hadn't grabbed Lei Shidong's pigtails, he wouldn't have been forced to let the movie "Rocky" be released.

It is precisely because of the problems of Hong Kong film companies that a Hollywood film company is very disappointed, and the only company that can reach cooperation with Hollywood film companies is Golden Harvest.

Shaw Brothers wanted to cooperate with a Hollywood film company, but Shao Yifu's offer was too ruthless, and he asked people to invest tens of millions of dollars in one mouth, which immediately scared away the originally interesting film company.

The reason why the Shaw Brothers opened their mouths was actually a bit of a last resort. With the difficulties that Shaw Brothers is facing now, it urgently needs a large amount of money to save the emergency, because the movies it produces now are making less money and losing more money, plus many of its theaters are some years old, not only the seats sit up and sway, but also the rats are crawling everywhere in disrepair, and the audience does not dare to put their feet down when they enter the theater to watch a movie, lest they be bitten by rats to their toes.

Naturally, the people who go to this kind of mouse theater to watch movies are the kind of people at the bottom of society who are reluctant to spend money. And the ticket price for a movie like the mouse theater is really cheap.

Because of the good decoration, comfortable seats, clear screen, strong sound stereo, and service in place, the ticket price is now about five yuan. The student ticket and the senior ticket are only half, of course, there will be a five-yuan ticket for a day in the occasional off-season.

Although the theaters under Golden Harvest are also a little old, they are still hygienic, and the ticket prices are about two or three yuan. Compared with the ticket price of Shaw Brothers' Mouse Cinema Line, which is only five cents, it can be said to be quite cheap. (To be continued......)