Kang Jianfei did not hold a premiere for "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", let alone go to the midnight screening, but only advertised in some newspapers, magazines and TV stations, and the Golden Princess Cinema also cooperated with the screening promotion.

After a week of publicity bombardment, "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" was released in the Golden Princess Cinema as scheduled. Because other films had to be arranged, Lei Juekun only gave Kang Jianfei 16 theaters this time.

Hong Jinbao wore a hat on his head to cover his face, and walked into the Huasheng Cinema under Princess Jin with Yuan Biao. It wasn't until he sat down in the screening room and found that no one recognized them that Hong Jinbao breathed a sigh of relief.

Sammo Hung's "Beware of Little Hands" was released three days ago, and the cumulative box office reached 2.54 million in three days, and it looks like another blockbuster movie. If he is found secretly watching Kang Jianfei's movie at this time, Hong Jinbao will not be able to wash it away by jumping into the Yellow River, and it will be said that he is afraid of Kang Jianfei.

Yuan Biao brought in two cans of wine, threw one to Hong Jinbao, and waited for the movie to be shown while nibbling on roast goose.

After a while, the audience in the screening hall was increasing, and only a few seats were empty.

Yuan Biao drank beer and said: "The attendance rate is very high, it has exceeded ninety." ”

Hong Jinbao said: "Kang Jianfei's box office appeal is very high, not to mention that this time there is also a mainland actor as the leading actor." ”

Yuan Biao smiled: "I heard that Oriental DreamWorks was blocked by Taiwan, and Kang Jianfei is really unlucky this time." ”

Hong Jinbao didn't know about it, he asked in surprise: "Who did you listen to?" ”

Yuan Biao said: "The news from Taiwan came from above, and I only found out about it yesterday when I drank with Brother Long. ”

Hong Jinbao asked, "Really?" ”

Yuan Biao said: "Really, that Qin Xianglin is also there, he told me." ”

Qin Xianglin is a Hong Kong actor, but he is popular in Taiwan, and Hong Jinbao also has some friendship. Since it is the news from Qin Xianglin, it is most likely true, and there is no need to spread rumors about this kind of thing.

Although they are in competition with each other, Hong Jinbao and Kang Jianfei have no major contradictions, but they admire Kang Jianfei's directing ability. In fact, even Cheng Long, who has fought box office battles with Kang Jianfei many times, the two of them have no personal enmity, at most because Qin Xianglin is caught in the middle and can't be friends.

Hearing that Kang Jianfei's company was blocked by the Taiwan authorities, Hong Jinbao did not feel happy, but felt a little sad and sad, and warned himself in his heart that he must not get involved in this kind of political dispute.

The movie finally started, Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao are serious, they don't come to see the movie for fun, but to see what Kang Jianfei's first costume kung fu drama will look like.

In the past two years, although not many Hong Kong directors have admitted this, they have actually been greatly influenced by Kang Jianfei. "Happy Ghost", "Mr. Zombie" and "Royal Sister", these three films have each created a genre, and Hong Jinbao's last two blockbuster movies are deliberately imitating Kang Jianfei's films.

At the beginning of the film, the camera is a mountain range, and the camera slowly zooms in, only to clearly see an ancient building with red walls and black tiles between the mountains and trees.

In the screening hall, an audience member suddenly shouted: "It's Wudang Mountain!" ”

In fact, there is no need to remind you, everyone has seen the plaque of Wudang, this plaque is very new, and it was built and hung by Kang Jianfei.

"It's really Wudang Mountain, more spectacular than Shaolin Temple."

"Kang Jianfei originally went to the mainland to make a film."

“……”

There is no one in the film, and the audience is excited when they only see the sign of Wudang Mountain.

There's no way, who told Jin Yong to write Shaolin Wudang to everyone knows? Everyone saw Shaolin Temple some time ago, and now they have witnessed the true body of Wudang Mountain, so it's no wonder that they are unhappy.

Among the Wudang Mountain, Li Lianjie, who was holding a Taoist bun and a pinch of beard, put on a Taoist robe and took off his childishness, and finally had a bit of the taste of a generation of grandmasters.

"Confidence/There is no strength or strength in the hands

Self-possessed/A peace in the heart

Resignation / emptiness sees abundance

Furious and leveled

Where there is no road, there is a destiny

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Dynamic vs. static/dividing by multiplication

Entering the WTO with fate was born because of the wind

Ruthless is also affectionate

Sui Yuan Shun xìng is indisputable

Ruthless is affectionate

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Behind Li Lianjie, dozens of people wore Taoist robes to play Tai Chi with him, and at the same time, the theme song of the movie "Suiyuan" also sounded, which instantly made the audience's blood boil.

In fact, this shot was re-shot by Shichahai Sports School, and the audience thought it was on Wudang Mountain through lens editing. Those sports school students who run tricks also know little about Tai Chi, and they take it to shoot after practicing for a long time.

Everything in the camera, the childhood Zhang Sanfeng played by Wu Jing appeared in the camera.

Someone in the screening room suddenly shouted: "Isn't it filming Wudang Mountain?" Why did you run to Shaolin Temple again? ”

"Crazy, haven't you watched "Heaven and Dragon Slayer"?"

"That is, Zhang Sanfeng in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" was also a monk in Shaolin Temple when he was a child."

“……”

On the big screen, the innocence and fun of Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao in childhood amused the audience, and then the two young actors practiced Shaolin stick techniques with brooms while sweeping the floor, and the standard movements and skillful moves attracted praise from the audience.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Sanfeng and Dong Tianbao have grown up, and when the two chatted and practiced iron head skills with brick pats, the audience was made to laugh. followed the plot of the two breaking the stick in the Damo Academy, but firmly attracted everyone's attention to the screen.

Hong Jinbao took a sip of beer and said to Yuan Biao: "This fight scene is very jīng colorful. ”

Yuan Biao commented: "It's a bit of Liu Jiaban's martial arts style, but it's more funny." ”

If this fight scene only makes Hong Jinbao and them think it is good, then the fight between Hui Yinghong and Yang Qingqing in the restaurant in the back makes Hong Jinbao stunned. The agility and elegance of the female xìng warrior, as well as the heroic softness, are vividly displayed in this fight.

I have to admit that no matter how Kang Jianfei slows down the pace of filming, Li Lianjie's acting skills still seem very immature. But Jīng Cai's fights and interesting plots have made the audience automatically ignore the shortcomings of Li Lianjie's acting skills.

And the next few fights in the last few consecutive battles push the atmosphere of the film to the highest cháo. When Zhang Sanfeng, played by Li Lianjie, relied on Tai Chi to make a big move, there were already people in the screening hall applauding. Similarly, Hui Yinghong's most beautiful image of a double-knife heroine is memorable to the audience.

In the midst of applause and cheers, Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao got up and prepared to leave.

Hong Jinbao asked: "Does it feel like this movie is a little different from Aaron's kung fu movie?" ”

Yuan Biao nodded and said, "It's so cool to play, and it's so cool to watch." ”

Hong Jinbao said: "Yes, I also watch it so well, but why does it make people feel good?" ”

Yuan Biao fell silent, not knowing how to answer for a while.

Judging from the box office in the past two years, costume kung fu films have begun to decline, and Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao are famous for making costume kung fu films.

In order to get a good box office, Hong Jinbao had to transform into making psychedelic kung fu movies and urban action movies, which is full of a lot of helplessness and hardship.

It was in this situation that Kang Jianfei knew that filming a costume kung fu film might hit the street, and he risked being banned by Taiwan to shoot "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", which made Hong Jinbao's curiosity come to watch it secretly.

Kang Jianfei is not disappointed by Hong Jinbao, this "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" is obviously different from Shaw Brothers' old-style kung fu films.

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"Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" did not disappoint Kang Jianfei, this movie was filmed and released ten years ahead of schedule, and it also took advantage of the residual heat of "Shaolin Temple", which really detonated the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie.

On the first day of release, several theaters were already full. Lei Juekun, as the owner of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, naturally couldn't make money without making money, and soon increased the number of theaters where this movie was released to 20.

Hong Jinbao's "Beware of Little Hands" is also very popular, this movie should be the entrepreneurial work of Yongjia Film Company founded by Chen Xunqi in another time and space. But now except for Chen Xunqi, the rest of the team has not changed, the screenwriter is still Huang Bingyao, the cinematographer is still the official director of "Mr. Zombie" Liu Guanwei, and it is still Hong Jinbao who directs and acts.

After the release of "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", the limelight of "Beware of Little Hands" was obviously suppressed. And a week later, "The King of Thieves" directed by Wang Jing was also released in Shaw Brothers theaters.

The two thief films "Beware of Little Hands" and "The King of Thieves" began to steal the audience, and "The King of Thieves" was released during the Chūn Festival due to the rush to work, and the production effect was very rough. Although "Beware of Little Hands" has been released for nearly half a month, after some comparison, "The King of Thieves" actually lost.

With the advent of the Lantern Festival, the box office of "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" is close to 20 million, while the box office of Hong Jinbao's "Beware of Little Hands" is only more than 11 million, and Wang Jing's "King of Thieves" is only a pitiful more than 4 million.

However, Wang Jing's "King of Thieves" still made money, because the actors are all members of TVB, the filming time is less than two weeks, and the cost is only more than 1 million.

On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, the box office of "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" finally broke through the 20 million mark, becoming the only 20 million box office movie in this year's New Year's file.

Almost all film critics gave "Wudang Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" a very high evaluation, and "Film Fortnightly" praised this movie very much:

"Director Kang Jianfei has always liked to surprise people, and this time is no different. As this year's Chinese New Year blockbuster, he did not make sequels to "Mr. Zombie" and "Royal Sister", but instead made martial arts films that all filmmakers thought had declined.

If it is replaced by other directors, this is obviously a practice that cannot get along with money, but Kang Jianfei is like this every time, he seems to never repeat, and every movie is trying something new.

The plot of "Wudang's Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" is very simple, but the rhythm is extraordinarily tight. In the 90 minutes of the film, the director did not waste a single shot, and the fight scenes in the film are not fights for the sake of old-fashioned kung fu films, and every action scene contributes to the development of the plot......

"Wudang: Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng" is completely different from the old-style martial arts films, judging from the style of the whole film, the action shots are smooth and elegant, and the realism of kung fu is perfectly integrated with romance. The scenery and props are no longer the same as the old-style martial arts films, Hui Yinghong's image of holding a pipa and holding a double knife is a classic, and even the villain female character Sè Yang Qingqing is also impressive.

It is also worth mentioning that the actor of this film, Li Lianjie, for a newcomer who has only made two movies, Li Lianjie's acting skills are debatable, but his solid kung fu foundation makes up for his lack of acting skills. And Li Lianjie has only made two movies so far, the first "Shaolin Temple" has a Hong Kong box office of more than 16 million, and the second "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" has a box office of more than 20 million.

If it is not bad, Mr. Kang Jianfei is cultivating Li Lianjie as the number one star of Oriental DreamWorks, maybe Li Lianjie can be with Cheng Longyi for a long time in the future......"

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Looking at the film reviews full of praise on "Film Fortnightly", Kang Jianfei really couldn't cry or laugh.

Just a week after Kang Jianfei threw away the invitation to the Hong Kong Film Awards, Chen Bosen was probably afraid that Kang Jianfei would not come to the awards ceremony, so he actually called Tang Shuxuan to help say good things.

Kang Jianfei sold "Royal Senior Sister" in the United States at the beginning, and he relied on Tang Shuxuan to cooperate with Jiang Zhiqiang, which can be regarded as owing her a favor. As soon as Tang Shuxuan's call came, Kang Jianfei could only reluctantly agree to attend the Academy Awards.

A film review on "Ming Pao Weekly" is somewhat interesting, Yishu has always been a fan of Kang Jianfei, and after watching "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", he wrote: "In my opinion, those martial arts films of the Shaw Brothers have dull screen images one by one, as if they are puppets that have lost their souls. And Kang Jianfei's "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" is different, whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, each image is vivid, in stark contrast to the Shaw Brothers martial arts film. If Shaw Brothers' martial arts films are old-style martial arts, then Kang Jianfei's martial arts films are new-school martial arts ......"

Later generations said that Xu Ke was a representative of the new school of martial arts, but that was compared with the old school of martial arts in the sixties and seventies. In fact, the old-school martial arts of the sixties and seventies, Zhang Che and Hu Jinquan also called themselves new-school martial arts when they first filmed them, but they were not comparing them with martial arts films in the thirties and forties.

The former new-school martial arts have become the current old-school martial arts, which is the so-called film development and progress.

After Yishu called "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" a new school of martial arts, those reporters who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic went to interview a generation of martial arts director Zhang Che.

Zhang Che had been making films for Shaw Brothers before, and in the 70s, he took his disciples to Taiwan to develop, and the company collapsed and failed within two years. When Kang Jianfei just fled Hong Kong, Zhang Che once again took his disciples to Taiwan to open a company, this time he was even more miserable, he encountered the recession of the entire Taiwanese film environment, and only played for more than a year and came back.

Now that Zhang Che is old and sick, when asked by a reporter about his views on "Wudang: Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", Zhang Che said: "I'm sorry, some time ago, the doctor told me to rest at home, and I haven't watched this movie yet." ”

The reporter asked again: "Yishu said that the old-school martial arts of Shaw Brothers martial arts films are outdated, and the future is the world of new-school martial arts like "Zhang Sanfeng", what does Director Zhang have to say about this?" ”

The reporter was purely angry, Zhang Che held his breath and said: "Martial arts will never go out of style, I will come out again to make films when I am cured." ”

The reporter asked again: "You mean that you won't lose to Kang Jianfei's new-school martial arts films?" Are you challenging Director Kang? ”

Zhang Che's face darkened, and he said, "I don't need to challenge anyone. ”

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Wang Tianlin read the article in the newspaper and scolded: "These paparazzi will write and report indiscriminately." ”

Wang Tianlin and Zhang Che are old friends, although there have been some contradictions before, but now everyone will not care. What's more, now that Zhang Che is sick, and reporters are still using Zhang Che as a target to report indiscriminately, Wang Tianlin naturally can't see it.

"Journalists are getting mader and crazier these days, whatever they are." Wang Jing put on his suit, ran to the dressing mirror and tidied up for a long time, and then spit a little saliva in the palm of his hand and wiped the hair that fell off his forehead.

Wang Tianlin saw that he was going out, and asked casually: "It's half an afternoon, what are you doing out again?" ”

Wang Jing said: "Ah Fei held a celebration banquet for "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng" tonight, and also invited me over. ”

"It's a DreamWorks celebration party, are you going to be embarrassed?" Wang Tianlin didn't have a good air, in fact, he was not satisfied with the box office of Wang Jing's new film.

The final box office of "The King of Thieves" is more than 5.2 million, although the local box office has made Shaw Brothers earn a lot, but compared with the previous "Jīng Pretending to Chase Girls", which had a box office of more than 10 million, it is still too far behind.

Wang Jing didn't think so, he felt that it was enough for him to make money for the Shaw Brothers, after all, "The King of Thieves" was in a hurry too fast.

With the door and out of the house, Wang Jing went downstairs directly to Kang Jianfei's house, and found him staring at a cloth with calligraphy at home. Wang Jing glanced a few times and said: "It's actually the "Prajna Sutra", Ah Fei, I didn't expect you to still believe in Buddhism." ”

Kang Jianfei said: "A friend gave it to me, and he said that it would be good for me to recite more sutras. I was so busy some time ago that I only have time to watch it now. ”

Wang Jing yawned and said: "What is beautiful about the Buddhist scriptures, it is better to take a look at "Dragon, Tiger and Leopard". By the way, your "Ethereal Journey" is now hundreds of thousands of words, why don't you have a heroine yet? ”

"Hundreds of thousands of words?" Kang Jianfei had already forgotten about that novel. The "Ethereal Journey" that is now serialized is the outline of Kang Jianfeilie, the first draft written by Wu Ruiqing, the kid, and then revised and finalized by his cousin Wu Chenggang after the finalization. Sometimes Wu Chenggang didn't have time for filming, so he directly took the first draft to "Oriental Rì Daily" and asked him to find a pen to help moisten the sè.

Wen Bixuan came out wearing a xìng evening dress, walked around the living room twice and asked, "Brother, how about I wear this skirt tonight?" ”

Kang Jianfei glanced at it and said, wear an extra coat when you go out, the weather is very cold now.

Wang Jing originally walked around casually in the living room, blowing and teasing the goldfish in the bathtub from time to time. Suddenly, he saw a pair of red slippers at the door of Kang Jianfei's room, and after being stunned for a moment, he immediately understood what was going on, and just pretended not to know anything and chatted with Wen Bixuan. (To be continued.) )