April 6, 1986.

Sunday night.

The midnight preview of "The True Colors of Heroes" was held at a cinema in Central at Golden Harvest without much publicity.

In the entire media in Xiangjiang, except for those reporters who got the big red envelopes of borscht, no one will pay attention to the movies made by an inconspicuous rookie director and a group of down-and-out actors.

"The of a pack of reservoir dogs!"

Even Zhuo Youwei, who hated Li Xingchen the most, only wrote a two- or three-hundred-word press release in the corner of the entertainment section of "Star D Daily".

He felt that there was no need to step on this group of garbage again, and he would not be able to win!

In the cinema, the biggest star is Zhang Guorong, one of the protagonists.

After filming the movie, he was busy preparing for the concert.

Today is the first time he has seen the finished film of "The True Color of Heroes".

After interacting enthusiastically with his fans, he found Li Xingchen: "Simon, don't be too nervous, I believe that this movie can be loved by the audience!" ”

Li Xingchen smiled and did not speak.

He sat in the first row of the theater, with Leslie Cheung on the left and Luo Song on the right.

Although the relationship between him and Zou Huimin is a well-known secret in the company, the two still do enough confidentiality work for the outside world, especially those media.

Therefore, Zou Huimin, as the heroine with few scenes, sat at least five seats away from him.

John Woo, Dillon, Lou Dehua and other main creators all sat in the first row.

And Zou Yun-fat took his girlfriend Chen Huilian to sit in the second row.

What surprised Li Xingchen the most was that Liang Jiahui actually took Jiang Jiannian and sat next to Zou Yunfa and his family.

He also frequently interacts with the media reporters around him.

I'm afraid that others won't know about his relationship with Jiang Jiannian!

But it's not surprising that Jiang Jiannian broke up with that Richard last week and is currently single.

The falling flowers are intentional, the flowing water is affectionate, and the public relationship between the two is also normal.

However, after the audience entered the venue, Li Xingchen turned his head to look at it, and couldn't help frowning.

The movie halls in Xiangjiang are not big.

The hall they chose for the midnight screening had only about 700 seats.

But in addition to the main creative staff of the film and the reporters invited, one-third of the more than 700 seats were empty!

The largest number of viewers are Zhang Guorong's fans.

The last row even pulled up a banner: "Leslie, I love you!" ”

Is this a movie test screening, or will the fans be?

Seeing Li Xingchen frowning, Luo Song smiled: "Don't keep staring at those empty seats, at least, there are still two-thirds of the people filled, right?" ”

Generally speaking, if you invest millions of dollars, the test screening will be full.

Even if there is no seat, the film company will pay someone to fill it.

But neither Li Xingchen nor Luo Song had this idea.

Li Xingchen is confident in "The True Colors of Heroes", while Luo Song has completely given up the treatment of "The True Colors of Heroes"!

"The attendance rate at the test screening is not important," Zhang Guorong comforted beside him, "The important thing is word-of-mouth, as long as the audience likes it, this movie can become popular!" ”

The audience at the test screening is an important basis for measuring the quality of the film.

If the film is really good, then the fame will spread quickly.

If the audience scolds a lot, then in the movie, those plots that the audience doesn't like, or even a certain character, will make the filmmaker adjust the finished film.

Either re-edit, reshoot, or simply delete the plot and characters.

"Thank you, Leslie!"

Zhang Guorong is really a very good person!

......

The movie begins.

The title is the LOGO of Yanhuang Film Company.

A golden dragon soared into the air and traveled through the clouds.

Then form two golden characters of "Yan Huang".

The soundtrack is Li Xingchen's copy of "The Lonely Shadow of Heaven and Earth Let Me Go", which excerpts the most classic paragraph.

That is, this part of the jump from the tight drum beat to the heavy percussion music.

Thirty-second long intro.

did not make the audience feel bored, but was shocked by the music of "The Lonely Shadow of Heaven and Earth"!

The extremely desolate and majestic style of music, heroic and tragic, at the moment when the percussion came out, it was like thousands of rays of light bursting out from the dense clouds.

It is enlightening and inspiring!

"This head, sharp!"

Leslie Cheung has never seen the finished film of the movie, nor has he seen the opening of Yanhuang Company, but as a music superstar, he immediately gave a thumbs up to this classic music.

The film opens with a large close-up of Dillon's side face.

The pace is fast.

When the audience saw Little Pony take a dollar and light a cigarette, they all let out a cry of admiration.

"Pretty boy, it's so sharp!"

For the audience's admiration, Li Xingchen smiled slightly.

All of this was expected by him.

"The True Color of Heroes" has created many famous scenes in Xiangjiang movies.

But in future information.

He saw the footage of Little Pony lighting a cigarette, and decades later, he is still active on the Internet of the future.

It has become a meme for countless netizens.

The plot of the movie continues to develop.

The audience in the theater, especially the fans of Leslie Cheung, has also shifted their attention from idols to the movie itself.

The plot of this classic movie, in 1986, is beyond all cinematic existence.

In fact, the core of "The True Color of Heroes" is not new, but very old.

As soon as insiders look at it, they know that this movie is the core of the violent aesthetics of twenty years ago!

At that time, the director who carried the banner was Wu Yusen and Dillon's mentor, Zhang Che.

But into the late seventies.

Zhang Che has already been abandoned by the market.

The aesthetics of violence, the former big brother of Xiangjiang movies, has been completely replaced by the two younger brothers of kung fu and comedy.

Even Wu Yusen, a true disciple, has been making comedy movies for ten years.

At that time, under the general trend of dominating the film market with kung fu movies created by Li Xiaolong and comedy movies created by Xu Guanwen, Li Xingchen's "The True Color of Heroes" once again carried the banner of his master.

This is also the reason why Wu Yusen was desperate to defect to Li Xingchen's banner.

He didn't know that this banner was supposed to be carried by him.

In 1986, Li Xiaolong died, Xu Guanwen was old, and they had no heirs.

Although Cheng Gangsheng is a superstar, he failed to create a genre, and can only be kneaded into a hodgepodge of kung fu comedy.

Zhou Xingxing, who really created the genre, is still practicing his internal skills in children's programs.

The audience began to hate those movies with hard bridges and hard horses, just as they abandoned martial arts films back then.

The brotherhood, revenge, and unwillingness of "The True Color of Heroes", as well as the core male friendship and violent aesthetics, are all old elements.

The only difference is Zou Yun-fat's god-level acting skills.

and the audience's warm welcome to the resurgence of the aesthetics of violence.

"Fa Ge is so handsome!"

When the shootout broke out in Fenglin Pavilion, in the Hokkien singing, Zou Yun-fat's performance completely conquered all the audiences in the movie hall.

From this moment on.

Zhang Guorong, who was sitting next to Li Xingchen, realized that he was not the actor of the movie at all, and neither was Dillon!

The protagonist of this movie, from the beginning of this shootout, has only one, and there can only be one!

That's Zou Yun-fat!

Despite this, he was not angry, but sincerely happy for Zou Yun-fat.

There is this kind of god-level acting skills.

This movie will definitely be a success!

Dillon, who was sitting not far away, also sighed softly: "Fa boy, you are a blockbuster!" ”

Zou Yunfa hurriedly said: "It's all taught by Li Sheng well. ”

He has long known the performances in the movie, but he doesn't know if he can be recognized by the market.

Although he is not a Yanhuang person, Li Xingchen gave him this opportunity, and he owes the other party a lot of favors.

In fact, Dillon's performance is also remarkable.

Especially the sentence "It's already so durable to be a big guy", he directly played the role of Song Zihao.

As the opening masterpiece of the golden decade of Hong Kong films.

"The True Color of Heroes" has a unique position in the film history of Xiangjiang.

From it, hero films, H gang films, and police and gangster films came out.

Moreover, the old-school kung fu film and comedy directors were soon replaced by the new wave directors represented by Xu Hark and Xu Anhua.

Of course, now in this deputy, Li Xingchen's name will inevitably be added!