1979 Golden Age

"Bizarre and interesting, it is unique!"

"Compared with "The Ghost" at the end of last year, "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" interprets folk magic more wildly. The jar man, nail shadow, flying sword, paper bridge, etc. in the movie are dazzling and amazing!"

"If you can combine kung fu with folk magic and make another good movie, you can establish a school and add another major genre to the Hong Kong film industry!"

At the end of last year, Sammo Hung's "The Ghost" was released and won more than 5 million box office, creating a precedent for fantasy kung fu movies. In early January this year, Yuan Jiaban's "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" was released, and it earned 8 million box office in more than 20 days, bringing a good start.

And the word of mouth is very good, the audience praised it, the peers praised it, and the media also praised it a few words.

Now there is no concept of "fantasy kung fu movie", but everyone knows that this path is feasible, and there will inevitably be a large number of follow-up works.

The reason why Hong Kong films are so brilliant is inseparable from the flexible thinking, opportunistic and innovative abilities of these people. For example, Kung Fu films are popular, but what if the audience gets tired of them after a few years? Combine Kung Fu with comedy, and a new genre will emerge.

What if they get tired of this type?

Combine Kung Fu with Maoshan Taoism and folklore, and another sub-genre will emerge.

Subjectively, they are willing to use their brains, and objectively, they are limited by the environment. A group of people are living in this tiny place, struggling to survive. If there is nothing new for the audience, how can they make a living?

Therefore, Hong Kong films in the 1980s and 1990s were really varied and bizarre. Almost all the elements that can be filmed have been filmed, and the ones that come later are actually rehashing old things.

"Cheers!"

In the restaurant, the Yuan family is celebrating.

In the terms used in Hong Kong films, this is called shark fin of Tianjiu Fin, abalone of Shuangtou Abalone, super invincible sea view Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, and a table of fresh seafood.

"Boss, we're rich this time, 8 million, which would have ranked third last year!"

"Not necessarily this year, there are too many movies being made now, the box office is refreshing faster than the girls sitting on the stage, I think it's good to squeeze into the top ten."

"Top ten is also OK, this is our first movie, it's a good start!"

As the boss, Yuan Heping looked at his brothers with a smile, he didn't expect "The Thousand Faces of Dunjia" to perform so well, and he tried to let it run for a while, reaching 9 million, or even breaking 10 million would be even better.

But he knew it was unlikely, because the next is the Spring Festival.

The first generation of comedy king Xu Guanwen has a new work "Modern Bodyguard", and Golden Harvest will definitely reserve all the theaters for this movie.

There are three mainstream theater chains in Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers with 16 theaters, Golden Harvest with 19 theaters, and Golden Princess with 15 theaters. There are also some Western film (foreign film) theater chains, small theaters in the countryside, and 8 theaters of the left.

Let me briefly say here that in the future, a movie is usually released in theaters all over the country, but it is not the case now.

Shaw Brothers is a big studio system, with self-production and self-sales, and only shows its own movies, just like Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is from Golden Harvest. When he was the most popular, the audience had no idea of ​​seeing Bruce Lee in Shaw Brothers cinemas.

Golden Harvest is a satellite company system, which has opened a lot of companies for Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Xu Guanwen, etc., and invested money to share dividends. The cinema mainly shows these people's films, and only if there are remaining schedules will they collect films from outside.

Golden Princess has Xinyicheng under its umbrella, but Xinyicheng's production capacity is limited and cannot support a cinema chain, so it will allow those small companies' films to come in in large quantities, which is the most inclusive.

Occasionally there are exceptions, such as when Xinyicheng was at its peak, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest would show each other's films and join forces to fight, but most of the time they still play behind closed doors.

This situation lasted until the late 1990s, when the entire industry declined, large companies were unable to invest, and production decreased, so they had to open cinemas and release them uniformly, which is a later story.

There was no unified release in mainland China at this time, and the reasons were different.

Most of the local cinemas belong to local film companies. Provincial companies buy the copies and arrange the release time by themselves. The conditions are backward these days, and there are great differences between regions. Of course, it is impossible to release them uniformly.

"..."

Yuan Heping was thinking about things. A good start is good, but the follow-up must be strong. He has no idea what to shoot next.

Yuan Xiangren next to him suddenly poked him and whispered: "Tai Chi is coming to Hong Kong for promotion. Do you want to meet?"

"Do you want to go to support it?"

"Of course not, meet in private."

"Then don't find too many people, just have a meal with Aqi and Jiezai."

Yuan Heping honestly didn't have much impression of others, but he was reluctant to leave these two. Yuan Xiangren nodded and said: "It's okay to have fewer people, but it's not good to be photographed by the newspaper."

If they go to support it publicly, they are leftists and will be banned in minutes. They can only meet in private.

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There are no direct flights from Beijing to Hong Kong.

There are two routes: one is to go to Shanghai first, and then fly directly to Hong Kong from Shanghai; the other is to go to Guangzhou and then go through Shenzhen.

They chose the first way. In addition to the list of ten people, there were several staff members from the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office to lead the team, and the leftists also sent someone to accompany them throughout the journey, a total of more than ten people.

At this moment, everyone is already on the plane to Hong Kong.

Gong Xue was flying for the first time, and she touched this and that curiously. Seeing Chen Qi's calm look, she asked: "Have you been on a plane before?"

"No!"

"Then why are you not surprised at all? Look at Ji Chunhua and others."

"Comparing people to others will kill you, comparing goods to others will make you throw them away. Some differences are innate. I am different from them."

"What's the difference? You are just a fool!"

"Hey, I understand this sentence. Don't curse me."

"I didn't curse me. You are a fool!" Gong Xue smiled.

When men and women get along, the relationship is different with and without physical intercourse - except for the licking dogs who spent millions but never even had sex. That is another species.

After the two kissed and went to his home, Gong Xue became much closer to him, felt more comfortable in front of him, and sometimes joked.

Chen Qi saw that she was teasing him, so who is afraid of this? He approached her and said with a smile: "Try to say it again and see how I deal with you!"

"Are you crazy?"

Gong Xue was so scared that she quickly hid back and hit him with her little hand: "Everyone is here, what are you doing, stay away!"

"Is the Moutai free too?"

"Not only is it free, but everyone gets a bottle!"

"Fuck... No, that, okay, thank you!"

Ji Chunhua was loyal. He was yelling over there, attracting everyone's attention, but it turned out to be a flight attendant pushing a small cart to deliver food, with a bottle of Moutai on the cart.

Going to Hong Kong is an international flight.

These days, international flights give a bottle of Moutai, but later they stopped giving it, and it became free to drink. Later, the free drink was gone, and Moutai became a financial product.

"Give me some! Give me some!"

"You're giving me the Zhonghua cigarettes too?"

"Yes, five for each person."

"Come on, give me five!"

"Anything else? Come up and ask!"

What a shame!

Not only Ji Chunhua, but Xiong Xinxin and the others are not much better. They are all a bunch of rough people who have not been to school much. They are used to hardship and have never seen these things.

Chen Qi spread his hands and signaled Gong Xue with his eyes, you see, we are different, right?