Dreams of the Fragrant River

In the past ten years, the top five films in Taiwan's annual box office list were basically Hollywood films.

However, because of the new film law promulgated by the Taiwan authorities last year, which restricts the release of a single American film in a maximum of eight cinemas in Taiwan, the pattern of Taiwan's film market has undergone great changes this year.

Last year, there were several American movies that grossed nearly 100 million yuan at the Taiwan box office, but this year, only one "The Sixth Sense" (also translated "Instinct") performed the best. Hong Kong films followed closely. Cheng Long's "Police Story 3" sold more than 60 million Taiwan dollars, and Zhou Xingchi's "The Deer and Ding Ding" had a combined box office of over 100 million.

This situation has further stimulated Taiwanese filmmakers and academies, all of whom regard Hong Kong films as a magic weapon to make money, and even Taiwanese timber merchants and builders have joined the ranks of investing in Hong Kong films.

Three days before the Double Tenth Festival, the premiere of "Jurassic Park" was held in Taipei. In order to create momentum, not only celebrities from Taiwan's film and television industry were invited to participate, but also Liu Dehua and Aaron Kwok who were filming in Taiwan were invited to the scene.

Liu Dehua is not the most popular in Hong Kong, neither filming nor singing can reach the top, but he is very famous in Taiwan, and several Mandarin albums have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Therefore, he is the favorite Hong Kong actor of Taiwanese film investors. The remuneration is not as outrageous as Stephen Chow and Cheng Long, but the film starring Andy Lau has a very good box office guarantee in Taiwan.

Aaron Kwok is slightly inferior, but in the past two years, he has also become popular very quickly, and he also won the title of the most popular Hong Kong star in Taiwan the year before.

Liang Jiahui became a household name in Taiwan because of "Fang Fang" a few years ago. Last year's hot sale of "The Truman World" established his status as a popular actor.

The premiere of "Jurassic Park" in Taipei. Due to the presence of Tony Leung, Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok, dozens of Taiwanese media were attracted.

The most local tyrant is that the girl group she, which is popular in half of Asia, was also invited to the premiere as a guest performer. You must know that she's appearance fee has exceeded 1 million Taiwan dollars.

"Andy. Andy!"

"Chengcheng!"

"she!"

There were shouts and screams outside the cinema, and the momentum was not like the premiere of a movie at all. Those who didn't know thought it was a star who was going to hold a concert.

Hou Hsiao-hsien walked into the movie theater silently, bypassing the crowd. He, a well-known director, was ignored. All reporters and movie fans focused on a few stars.

Yang Dechang looked back at the crazy crowd outside, perhaps thinking of the desertedness when his "Guling Street Teenage Murder" was released. He couldn't help sighing and said, "Only Hong Kong films dare to spend so much money on publicity in Taipei. When will our local films be up?"

"I'm tired of returning to the sky," Hou Hsiao-hsien said indifferently.

Both are representative figures of Taiwanese literary directors. When they directed the tube, the Taiwanese film was terminally ill, and then watched it die step by step.

For Hong Kong films that are now very popular in Taiwan. Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Dechang were very displeased. Apart from the reason for seizing the Taiwanese film market, it was also because most Hong Kong films were vulgar and had no connotation at all.

The reason why I agreed to attend the premiere of "Jurassic Park" today was mainly because of Kang Jianfei's name. Last year, "The Truman World" swept the Golden Horse Awards, and even Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang Dechang had to admit that it was really a good film that can be watched over and over again.

Going to the front row and sitting down, Hou Hsiao-hsien found that Yang Dengkui and Zhu Yanping were sitting next to him. Greetings: "Boss Yang is here too."

Yang Dengkui said with a smile: "Mr. Kang's new film is released, why should I come to support it?"

The matter of Yang Dengkui's cooperation with Kang Jianfei to build a movie theater in the southern region has long been spread in the circle. So far, 6 multiplex cinemas have been put into use.

Zhu Yanping interjected: "I heard that "Jurassic Park" invested nearly 2 billion Taiwan dollars and sold more than 300 million at the box office in Hong Kong."

Yang Dengkui praised: "Mr. Kang is really generous!"

Yang Dechang is different from Hou Hsiao-hsien. Hou Hsiao-hsien has a big reputation and is not afraid of meat and vegetables. Yang Dengkui invested in the previous film "Sad City". And Yang Dechang has been producing for the past few years, making some small investments and earning some government subsidies to live. In my heart, I despised: "Kang Jianfei is not here, he can't hear you flattering heaven."

two hours later. Yang Dechang was completely silent, and after watching the movie, he felt that there was something in his heart.

shock. A double shock from the senses and the mind!

"Hong Kong's film technology has reached this level?" Yang Dechang swallowed and asked Hou Hsiao-hsien next to him.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien was also amazed: "It's amazing! You can still see the traces of props in "Star Wars", and the dinosaurs in "Jurassic" are hard to tell the authenticity, just like going back to prehistory."

It's not just the two of them. When the first dinosaur appeared on the screen, all the audience in the movie theater were shocked beyond words, and the applause after the film ended.

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DreamWorks' "Jurassic Park" opened during the Double Tenth Festival, and its only rival was the Hollywood action film "Lethal Weapon 3." The latter was released half a month earlier than "Jurassic Park", but due to the legal restriction that it can only be shown in eight cinemas, "Jurassic Park" with more screenings took "Lethal Weapon 3" in only 9 days. "The box office surpassed.

"Have you seen dinosaurs?"

This is the most frequent sentence in Taiwan after the release of "Jurassic Park".

People talking about Velociraptors, Brontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex can be seen everywhere on the street, in schools, in companies, and they are considered outdated if they haven't seen "Jurassic Park".

In the newly emerging southern market, due to the insufficient number of theaters, there are often queues to watch movies. Yang Dengkui had to rush the construction period and let the three movie theaters under renovation open ahead of schedule.

What is a phenomenal film?

Phenomenal movies have left the cinema, and the whole society is hotly discussing and chasing them.

Before that, few people cared about dinosaurs, and many people had never heard of the term dinosaur at all. After the release of "Jurassic Park", books about dinosaurs increased rapidly in Taiwan's bookstores. What "Dinosaur World", "Jurassic Quest", "Prehistoric Mass Extinction" and so on. There are even experts who appear on TV variety shows to explain popular science about prehistoric creatures to the audience.

The most intuitive is the toy store. In the past, the toys sold were Barbie dolls, Ultraman, etc., but now there are more dinosaur series.

The film screening cycle in Taiwan is generally longer than that in Hong Kong, and generally good films are screened for more than two months. The best-selling films can even be released for half a year.

In just one month, the cumulative box office of "Jurassic Park" in Taiwan has reached 50 million Taiwan dollars, and this is just the beginning. From October to New Year's Day, the Taiwanese box office of "Jurassic Park" easily exceeded 100 million, and it still maintains a very high attendance rate. It looks like it can be released for at least another month or two.

With the popularity of "Jurassic Park". Kang Jianfei also once again entered the attention of the Taiwanese public. A review in the "United Daily News" wrote: "The name Kang Jianfei is full of controversy in Taiwan, but I don't know when his films have set off a trend in Taiwan every year. You can scold him and question him, but He could never be ignored. This time, he challenged our sensibilities again with Jurassic Park. The accolades were unanimous…”

The media can give compliments without hesitation, and the audience can go to the cinema again and again, but the old and young men of the Golden Horse Awards Organizing Committee have a headache this time.

Since 2003, as long as the film has a Chinese dialect, it can participate in the Golden Horse Awards; after 2010, the organizers of the Golden Horse Awards have stipulated that as long as there are 5 Chinese main creators, even if the main language is not Chinese, they can compete for the award.

But at this time, the qualifications for the Golden Horse Award are not so loose, in Kang Jianfei's version of "Jurassic Park". There are four languages, English, Japanese, Malay and Chinese, but the main language of the film is still English.

The organizers have been debating whether Jurassic Park should be nominated for the Golden Horse Awards. It wasn't until a week before the shortlist was announced that a decision was finally made.

Not only did I agree that "Jurassic Park" was shortlisted for this year's Golden Horse Awards, but the organizers also changed the rules of the competition specifically for this film. Films with Chinese dialogues (including Chinese dialects) and films with more than 8 Chinese creators can sign up for the Golden Horse Awards.

Naturally, many local Taiwanese filmmakers objected to this move, believing that the organizers were kneeling at Hong Kong films and kneeling at Kang Jianfei.

but. Protest is invalid!

Why did Taiwanese films decline for so many years, the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards not only did not decline. Is it more influential than before? One of the big reasons is that the influence of Hong Kong films in the world continues to expand. And because Hong Kong filmmakers attach importance to the Taiwan market, the Golden Horse Awards have a great influence on the Hong Kong film industry.

The Golden Horse Awards and Hong Kong films have a mutually reinforcing relationship. If the Golden Horse Awards want to maintain and improve its own influence, it must rely on the participation of Hong Kong films, not those Taiwanese literary films that no one cares about.

It is true that the Golden Horse Awards judges prefer literary films~www.wuxiaspot.com~ More than half of the Golden Horse trophies awarded each year are won by literary films. But the embarrassing thing is that it is those Hong Kong films that have won less awards for the Golden Horse Awards.

In particular, the two awards, the Golden Horse Best Actor and the Best Actress, have basically been awarded to Hong Kong movie stars in recent years. This is not to say that Hong Kong stars have better acting skills than Taiwanese actors, but that Hong Kong stars are more popular with the public and can bring more attention to the Golden Horse Awards within Asia.

As the highest-grossing Hong Kong film this year, it is impossible for the Golden Horse Awards to reject "Jurassic Park", and it is even at the expense of revising the selection rules.

In the latest shortlist of the Golden Horse Awards, "Jurassic Park" won: Best Drama, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Design, Best Modeling Design, Best Sound Recording, Best Film Score 9 nominations.

And before the Golden Horse Awards, "Jurassic Park" had already won its first award: the audience's vote for best picture. (To be continued)

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