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Guan Zhilin really didn't expect that Wang Cong would say it so straightforwardly.

And in fact.

What Wang Cong said was nothing but the facts he knew.

Since the 1980s, the Hong Kong entertainment industry has been deeply influenced by American and Japanese culture.

Many young people are keen on listening to City-Pop, dancing to disco, reading Japanese comics, and playing arcade games.

In their spare time, people also like to watch Hollywood commercial action blockbusters, which are as popular as the current superhero movies.

This made some "smart" Hong Kong Islanders realize a business opportunity, and a large number of "copycat" products were born.

Nowadays, the most familiar statement about plagiarism in the Hong Kong entertainment industry is the sentence "Miyuki Nakajima supports half of the music industry."

There are many pop music in Hong Kong that directly use the music of Nakajima Miyuki Music and then re-write the lyrics and sing it. There is no way to say whether they were authorized or not.

Nowadays, people in the music industry are generally reluctant to mention this matter. In Wang Cong's view, there is a greater possibility that there is no authorization.

Of course, it's not just Miyuki Nakajima. There are too many Japanese singers who have been directly "covered". For example, the singer Xuetou Chang loved to cover Tamaki Koji's songs in his early years.

Japanese music with Chinese lyrics has even become a customary culture in the Hong Kong music scene, which has lasted for nearly fifty years.

In addition to music, comics are an industry where plagiarism is more serious.

Hong Kong comics were considered a popular industry back then, but there were too many plagiarism whirlpools behind it.

What impressed Wang Cong most was the childhood memories of many people. "Old Master" was Wang Ze's plagiarism from Feng Pengdi's work of the same name.

After all, this kind of straightforward plagiarism is in the minority, and most of them are just marginalia.

Due to the popularity of arcade culture, "Street Fighter" and "The King of Fighters" were both popular arcade games loved by young people in Hong Kong Island. Therefore, pirated comics copying them could be said to be everywhere in the Hong Kong Island market at that time.

Not just comics, many movies also choose to ride on the popularity of Japanese games.

Not to mention "Super School Fighter", which is familiar to young people, there are at least five or six Hong Kong movies with the words "Street Fighter" in their titles.

And the content directly applies the appearance, settings and action moves of the game characters.

If the remake of a game can be justified by the reason that "Japanese copyrights are not easy to buy" [then Hong Kong movies' plagiarism of Hollywood at that time can be said to be a bad match.

Many local scholars on Hong Kong Island have pointed out this problem. For example, Peng Lijun, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, wrote in "Evening Is Not Too Late: Post-1997 Hong Kong Films": Hong Kong Island films often copy Hollywood films, which has become a cultural An eternal problem in industry.

The outside world's criticism of Hong Kong movies for plagiarism is even more unkind.

Jiao Xiongping, a film scholar and producer of Wanwan, criticized in the book "Authors and Genres in Wanwan's Films": Hong Kong filmmakers have always been good at plagiarizing Western, especially Hollywood genres. Others popular "Scarface" "Evil Star", Hong Kong Island has "A Better Tomorrow".

at this point.

Wang Cong knows.

He even read an interview.

It was a visit in the early nineties.

At that time, Fatty Wang and Zhou Xingxing had not yet broken up. When interviewed by the media, the two said frankly: "It's not that we are funny, we are just remaking things from children's cartoons for adults to watch."

Here Fatty Wang deliberately emphasized his behavior as a remake. In his concept, a remake is not plagiarism, at least that's what he thought at the time.

But many years later, he would scold others for plagiarism on Weibo, and even use swear words for it, which would make people laugh and laugh. After all, he was looking for a lot of things back then.

"I didn't expect you to have such a thorough understanding of Hong Kong Island's entertainment industry."

After a while, Guan Zhilin said to Wang Cong with a smile.

As someone who had been there and was a popular female star in Hong Kong Island at the time, she naturally knew many things about Hong Kong Island's entertainment industry.

She naturally agrees with what Wang Cong said.

"It's not very thorough either."

Wang Cong shrugged: "People die for money, and birds die for food. If I were in that era, I would have done the same thing."

"ah?"

Guan Zhilin's beautiful eyes flickered and she looked at Wang Cong in surprise.

She really didn't expect that the IFCPA would say that.

But looking at what Wang Cong said was so sincere, it didn't sound like a joke.

Of course Wang Cong was not joking, because he really spoke from his heart.

The reason why there was such large-scale plagiarism in the entertainment industry on Hong Kong Island at that time was, in the final analysis, because of money.

To know,

In the 1980s and 1990s, it was really profitable to plagiarize movies, with box office revenue easily exceeding 10 million, which was a big figure for the Hong Kong film industry at that time.

And there were no competitors, because in Hong Kong commercial films at that time, everyone was making money from "plagiarism", so naturally they would not accuse each other.

Why does this situation not occur in the current mainland film industry? It is because with the expansion of the market, the competition between film and television companies has become more and more fierce. At the same time, the audience's aesthetics has also been significantly improved, and it is no longer a matter of "eating". "What.

At this time, everyone is no longer "copying" friends, but "copying" competitors.

Just like that movie "Young You", after it was exposed as plagiarism, it was almost hammered to death!

But it's a pity.

Because there is a certain top traffic figure as the leading actor, the interest groups behind him and the power of the brainless fans are so powerful that they can be cleared. It can only be said that some people in the mainland entertainment industry don't even give up their face in order to make money. .

Of course, Hong Kong filmmakers may not really take "plagiarism" too seriously. Perhaps in their view, this is also a way of expression.

When Zhou Xingxing was promoting "Yangtze River No. 7" last year, he was interviewed by the Chinese Business Daily and talked about the differences between mainland and Hong Kong filmmakers. Zhou Xingxing said frankly: "There are not many creative people in Hong Kong Island, but there are people who are quick to respond and can plagiarize." Most people in the Mainland are more academic and accomplished, and have a fixed pattern of making films.

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We can feel that in Zhou Xingxing's words, plagiarism is not a "problem", but an ability that is parallel to quick response.

This also allows us to figure out why the first half of "Pulp Fiction" pays homage to "Pulp Fiction", and the second half plagiarizes "Weirdos".

For Hong Kong filmmakers, it is not important to distinguish between plagiarism and tribute. The most important thing is that the film takes shape.

Perhaps in Hong Kong at that time, being able to quickly plagiarize a work and gain favor from the market was also a money-making model recognized by the people of Hong Kong at that time.

We can now accuse them of being profit-seeking, but we cannot deny that their achievements in making money and those plagiarized works linger in the memory of many people.

The reason is very simple. According to Wang Cong, it is like many people like the movie "Love Apartment" and think it is the memory of their youth.

But they completely ignored that the whole show was plagiarized from a series of classic American TV series such as "Friends" and "The Big Bang Theory".

this is the truth.

Guan Zhilin naturally didn't understand.

But after all, she was well-informed. Although she was a little surprised, she still smiled and said to Wang Cong: "I think if you lived in that era, you might be able to become a movie tycoon."

"Haha, maybe."

Wang Cong shrugged: "First of all, I have to have money to make a movie."

This is from my heart.

Many people think that once upon a time Hong Kong films were most famous for their low budget, but in fact, that was purely layman's perception.

I do not care what time.

Making movies is very expensive.

From the perspective of outsiders, you could buy a small villa in Hong Kong with half a million Hong Kong dollars in the early 1980s, so if you spend one million Hong Kong dollars on a movie, it's a big production.

By analogy, if it costs 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, it will be considered a small-budget movie.

But that's not the case at all.

In any era, movies are ultimately commercial operations and belong to the category of art and entertainment under the commercial industry.

Unless you are someone who truly loves art, no one is filming for the purpose of losing money.

Even people like Sunglasses King and Jiang Wen, in addition to their own artistic pursuits, also desire to be recognized by the market.

to be honest.

People like them film for their own pleasure, and then they want to bring everyone else together to enjoy it.

Otherwise, it would just be thrown into the film library after filming, so why would it need to be sent to theaters for release?

Loneliness is the carnival of one person, and carnival is the loneliness of a group of people.

But it's a pity.

People like Sunglasses King and Jiang Wen are so lonely most of the time in their world.

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