208 [Patriotic Film]
Golden Harvest's leading theater, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang walked into the theater together, and the interviews of reporters did not stop on the way, and the topic was based on the union of Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers, as well as the box office battle between "Young Master Long" and "Dao Ma Dan".
The two came to the VIP box, and Zou Wenhuai said with a smile: "This time, "Young Master Long" Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers will be screened together, and the box office will not lose to Kang Jianfei." β
He Guanchang said: "This time Golden Harvest cooperated with Shaw Brothers, and Shaw Brothers suffered a big loss. Both of them have 4 movies, but our movies are obviously better at the box office, but the box office of Shaw Brothers' movies has not increased much, and it is estimated that Shao Tycoon will not cooperate with Golden Harvest again in the future. β
"It's good to work together once." Zou Wenhuai said with a smile. He is in a very good mood these days, because the Hollywood movie "Cannonball Speed", which Golden Harvest invested alone and is also the first Chinese dúlì investment, has grossed nearly $70 million in the United States and is still being screened.
At the premiere of "Young Master Dragon", many more stars were invited than in "Sword and Horse", and many old stars of Shaw Brothers also came to cheer.
Hong Jinbao and Lin Zhengying, Wu Ma, Huang Bingyao and others chose a good position to sit down, Hong Jinbao said with a smile: "Ah Long has made a lot of noise this time, it seems that it is a sure thing to participate in his celebration banquet." β
Wu Ma said: "Our "Bad Officer Hitting the Ghost" is not bad, but the box office war may be very fierce, and the two DreamWorks movies are not to be underestimated." β
"Bad Officials Hit Ghosts" was planned by Wu Ma, Huang Bingyao and Hong Jinbao together, but the protagonists are Hong Jinbao and Lin Zhengying. Lin Zhengying is living a very prosperous life now, because the remuneration rules for the main actors in Golden Harvest are based on the salary plus box office share (which is also the main reason for Cheng Long's amazingly high salary), and even Weihe and Baohe are also well-behaved.
Lin Zhengying got a salary of 200,000 yuan for filming "Bad Officials and Ghosts", plus 3% of the Hong Kong box office share, which is far more cost-effective than following Kang Jianfei to make movies.
Lin Zhengying nodded and said, "Yes, Mr. Kang's directing level is very high. I don't know what kind of movie Lu Dao will make this time. β
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At the entrance of the Golden Princess Theater, Zhang Ling and Yu Hai got out of the car with a group of members of the Chinese martial arts exchange group, and Zhang Ling ordered: "Say it again, there are Hong Kong reporters at this door." If a reporter interviews you, don't talk nonsense......"
Zhang Ling's worries are obviously unnecessary, now that there are crowds outside the theater, and the attention of reporters is focused on the celebrity guests, where can they be taken care of?
As the flow of people walked to the entrance of the theater, the members of the martial arts team saw the poster of "Dao Ma Dan" on the wall. The three beauties on the poster smiled skillfully, and they blushed when they saw it.
Li Lianjie handed the movie ticket to the ticket inspector, but after the ticket inspector tore off the ticket stub, he handed back a cardboard box.
"What is this?" A team member opened the cardboard box and said in surprise. "It's a star desk calendar."
Li Lianjie couldn't help but open it, and it was really a calendar inside, each of the desk calendars was printed with portraits of stars, and the title page was written with the words ""Dao Ma Dan" desk calendar" and "premiere gifts". These portraits are based on Guan Zhilin, Lin Qingxia and Zhong Chuhong, and there are also a few portraits of Dong Wei and Liang Xiaolong, all of which are stills from "Sword and Horse".
Li Lianjie liked it, and turned around and asked Yu Hai, the deputy head of the exchange group: "Teacher Yu." Do I need to turn this in? β
Zhang Ling answered: "You don't need this, take it yourself." β
When he came to the premiere hall, a member of the team next to Li Lianjie exclaimed: "Wow, this movie theater is so big." At least one or two thousand people should be seated. β
Another person asked, "Brother Zhong, did you say that tonight's is a martial arts movie?" β
"It's definitely going to be a martial arts movie, it's not that martial arts are not good-looking."
"I heard that Cheng Long also has a new film released tonight."
"Is that Cheng Long who is drunk?"
"Who else but him."
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Li Lianjie listened to it, and wanted to ask Cheng Long's movie where it was played. I can't wait to see it now.
Since '79, pirated song tapes, film and video tapes and novels have begun to flow into the mainland. Li Lianjie's favorite thing to watch is Cheng Long's "Drunken Boxing". He also once learned to do push-ups alternately with the palms and backs of his hands like the film Mileage Dragon, and as a result, he injured his wrist and couldn't use his strength for several days. Last month, Li Lianjie asked Zhang Xinyan, the director of "Shaolin Temple", only to learn that the martial arts in the Lu Dao movie are fake, and Cheng Long can't really do push-ups like that.
In anticipation, the lights in the screening room suddenly went out, and a beam of light shè on the stage, followed by the sound of gongs and drums.
Soon a Peking Opera "Eight Immortals Across the Sea" was released on the stage, but several Peking Opera actors did not draw faces.
The audience who was close suddenly shouted: "That Han Xiangzi is Lin Qingxia." β
"Zhong Chuhong's Lan Caihe."
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If it is just a pure Peking Opera performance, at least more than eighty percent of the audience in the screening hall will not like to watch it, but if it is replaced by a star to perform, the atmosphere will be completely different.
Lin Qingxia's three women's sword and horse kung fu are obviously inferior to other Peking Opera performers on stage, but it is the somewhat clumsy movements that won the audience's applause.
After the opening performance, the premiere officially began.
Zhang Ling, who came from the mainland, found this premiere quite interesting. Most of the time on stage is chatting, talking about how the three heroines worked hard to learn Peking Opera before filming, and how they overcame difficulties during the filming process.
Most of the audience listened with relish, and a small number of people were quite impatient. For example, Brother Zhong, who likes martial arts movies next to Li Lianjie, only muttered: "It's been half an hour, why don't you show movies?" β
As if hearing his voice, Kang Jianfei on the stage suddenly said: "Okay, let's not delay everyone watching the movie, "Dao Ma Dan" will start soon......"
Kang Jianfei took Guan Zhilin and Lin Qingxia's hands and retreated to the stage, and Zhong Chuhong, Dong Wei and others also followed behind and exited.
In the dark, Lin Qingxia said: "Ah Fei, I'm going to Taipei to shoot "Chinese Female Soldiers" in two days. β
Kang Jianfei asked, "So fast?" β
Lin Qingxia said: "Military education films, I heard that the Ministry of Defense is destroying them." β
Kang Jianfei said: "Then I'll send you on the plane at that time." β
Guan Zhilin suddenly said, "I'll send it too." β
Kang Jianfei couldn't cry or laugh, and Guan Meiren obviously felt that something was wrong.
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(Hah)
Look up and laugh a little bit.
Looking at the world, the drama is general,
This is a three-way door,
In the next game, you and I are in the eight formations,
But all men, women, and children are separated from joys and sorrows,
Singing high and singing low, it's all a play
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The movie officially began, and after the opening of DreamWorks, it was the theme song "Another Play" with a strong Peking Opera position. In the version in parallel space, the theme song was sung by Ye Qian, and now this version is sung by Su Rui.
The film opens with the singer played by Zhong Chuhong, and then leads to a series of ridiculous and absurd plots. The first time there was a lot of laughter in the screening hall was when Zhong Chuhong smashed Dong Wei's head with the piano to grab jewelry, and the movements and expressions were really funny.
When Lin Qingxia appeared, there was an exclamation in the screening hall, Lin Meiren was actually dressed as a man, and her limelight overshadowed the male protagonist in the film.
The pace of Hong Kong society is very fast, which can be seen from the speed of Hong Kong elevators. Hong Kong films are also so fast-paced, and if they play well and act funny, they can get a good box office, and few audiences are willing to enjoy any slow-paced art films slowly.
The most attractive thing about "Sword and Horse" to Hong Kong audiences is the three heroines.
Guan Zhilin's acting skills are very poor, but the role she plays is very good at acting skills, which makes Kang Jianfei very sad during filming. If you change to someone who can act, the filming time can be reduced by at least a week.
However, in the original version of "Dao Ma Dan", Ye Qian, who played this role sè, is also a newcomer, even far worse than Guan Zhilin. Because Ye Qian grew up in the United States, she could only barely speak Chinese, and she couldn't even recognize half a sentence of Cantonese, and she couldn't even recognize Chinese characters.
In this case, Ye Qian was trained by Xu Laowei to have good acting skills, why can't Kang Jianfei train Guan Zhilin well?
The final effect is obvious, Guan Zhilin is innocent and cute on the big screen, and her performance effect is not inferior to Ye Qian's version at all.
Lin Qingxia's heroic posture, Zhong Chuhong's greed for money, Guan Zhilin's innocence and kindness, and the images of three different female xìng jumped on the screen, together with Dong Wei and Liang Xiaolong, the two male protagonists, gradually brought the audience into that era of war and chaos.
The children of the rivers and lakes, the major affairs of the family and the country, are all integrated into that screen. In the sighs and applause of the audience, the five protagonists rode horses and galloped separately.
The movie had been screened, and Li Lianjie stood up and prepared to leave, and the team member surnamed Zhong next to him said: "This "Dao Ma Dan" is better than "Pursuit", but it is worse than "Drunken Fist". β
"I think "Sword and Horse" is better, how well those actors acted." Another member retorted.
"It's good to act well, but there are too few martial arts scenes."
"Like you say, there are no martial arts scenes in "Lushan Love", isn't that a big bad movie?"
""Lushan Love" is not good-looking."
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Zhang Ling, the head of the martial arts exchange troupe, sighed: "I didn't expect Hong Kong directors to make such revolutionary and patriotic films." β
Yu Hai said: "Yes, I thought it was a martial arts movie before I watched it." β
Zhang Ling is a person from the Hong Kong and Macao Office of the State Council/State Council/Yuan, but he is wondering in his mind whether to suggest that this "Dao Ma Dan" be introduced to the mainland.
Since the reform and opening up, the mainland has also introduced a lot of foreign films, among which rì's movies and TV series are the most successful, and a "Manhunt" has caused a national movie-watching craze, and some people even like to watch the movie dozens of times.
Compared with rì films, Hong Kong films are only available in the Great Wall and Phoenix films, which can be released on the mainland, but unfortunately these moviegoers do not like them. In Kang Jianfei's view, this "Dao Ma Dan" is very good in terms of art and entertainment, and it is a rare patriotic revolutionary film, which is very suitable for introduction to the mainland for screening.
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I'll go back to Urumqi tomorrow......