With the premiere of Li Xiaohu, the real version of Gamblers, the effect is very significant, the box office of the North American premiere reached 80 million US dollars on the weekend, winning the championship in one fell swoop.

It is rare for Gu Changfeng to make kung fu blockbusters that have been filmed for so many years and it is rare for him to reach the box office list on the first weekend. Moreover, the premiere of 80 million US dollars is already the best result of Gu Changfeng's works.

The fight scenes in "God of Gambling" are very exciting... This is absolutely certain. Gu Changfeng is best at making such action movies. But what attracts North American audiences more is the various gambling techniques that appear in "God of Gambling".

Compared with the original version, Gu Changfeng gave the gambling god Gao Jin more descriptions, portraying him as a genius with an IQ of nearly a demon, using extraordinary wisdom to gambling.

Even viewers who have watched "God of Gamblers" can't help but ask, can the IQ of people in the world reach that level?

If it weren't for the legendary experience of Li Xiaohu sweeping across Las Vegas, most viewers would probably think that the description in the movie was too exaggerated and completely unacceptable, which in turn affected the interest in watching the movie.

But with the living example of Li Xiaohu in front of him, everyone knows that the script of "God of Gambling" was written by this real-life version of the Gambling God who had just swept across the world's casinos. So many viewers couldn't help but associate it. Could it be that someone could really do the gambling techniques that looked mysterious in "God of Gambling"? The prototype of Gambling God Gao Jin is not the author of the script, Li Xiaohu, right?

This speculation is basically very marketable. At least most viewers agree that Li Xiaohu should know the gambling technique that the god of gambling Gao Jin knew.

In fact, this is true. The movie has an exaggerated element of the ability of the God of Gamblers Gao Jin, but it does not exceed Li Xiaohu's ability.

Hollywood often likes to shoot biographical movies because people are curious and are often interested in finding out about some people with legendary experiences.

"God of Gamblers" is not a biographical movie. Li Xiaohu, who is the screenwriter, has a very legendary experience. Even many celebrities can't help but be curious and want to get in touch with Li Xiaohu. Those ordinary audiences naturally have a stronger interest.

However, hype is not omnipotent. It is not a kingly way to seduce audiences into the cinema by curiosity. After all, it is not the kingly way to speak on the box office of the movie, ultimately speaking, it depends on the quality of the movie itself. Fortunately, Gu Changfeng did a pretty good job.

This is compared to North America. The box office of "God of Gamblers" in China is not that good. Although the box office of the premiere weekend exceeded 100 million, which is enough to match its identity as a Hollywood blockbuster, unfortunately, both the critics and the audience have low praise for "God of Gamblers".

The impact of reputation on the box office of the movie is undoubtedly high, especially the audience's comments. Looking at the reputation of "God of Gamblers", there is basically no big domestic box office.

Of course, with Gu Changfeng's golden signboard and Li Xiaohu's joining, the domestic box office of "Gambling God" should be at least 400 million, which is enough to stand out as the most popular, but it is a bit far from the original expectations.

Gu Changfeng was blind and naturally had no face to express his dissatisfaction with Li Xiaohu's remake of the Chinese version of "God of Gambling". He hoped that Li Xiaohu would write him another script, of course, not a gambling film, but a martial arts film script.

Gu Changfeng's original intention of filming "God of Gambling" can be said to be to prepare for a new martial arts film. Thunder Film will also invest in this new martial arts film.

Gu Changfeng is actually good at writing scripts and revising the scripts of "God of Gambling". He did it himself, and it did it very well. At least North American audiences like it very much.

Originally, Gu Changfeng planned to complete the next martial arts movie entirely by himself. However, the failure of "God of Gamblers" in the domestic box office greatly hit Gu Changfeng's confidence and made him suddenly realize that after being in Hollywood for a long time, he understood the appetite of North American audiences, but threw away the most fundamental thing he used to fight for Hollywood.

To make a martial arts film, to make the martial arts film you want, Gu Changfeng was not sure that he could write the script he wanted. This situation was really awkward. He couldn't write what he wanted to express, but instead had to seek help from others.

Some people can make up stories, some people can tell stories, and they may not be able to make wonderful stories. Similarly, people who can tell stories with great sensation and fluctuations, but they may not be able to make wonderful stories. In ancient times, few of those who tell stories about themselves were told original stories, and none of those who wrote books came out to speak.

In the production of a movie, the director's responsibility is to tell stories, and the screenwriter is to write stories. Gu Changfeng has good storytelling ability, so he will be a bit rough when writing stories. He only modified the script of "God of Gambling" based on the script given by Li Xiaohu.

Li Xiaohu is not a master of storytelling, but he doesn't need to write it himself, because many experts have written it for him in his previous life, and he just needs to use it. Gu Changfeng asked him for help, which is to find the right person. At least when it comes to writing martial arts scripts, no one in this world is Li Xiaohu's most successful martial arts film in his previous life. It should be "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and it can even be regarded as the most successful Chinese-language movie. Of course, the success referred to here is success in Hollywood, not in China.

In terms of box office, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is of course successful, with a box office of 128 million US dollars in North America and a box office of 213 million US dollars in the world, perfectly killing all domestic martial arts films.

In terms of award records, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won ten Oscar nominations and finally won four major awards including the Best Foreign Language Film. At many other film awards ceremony, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was also a big winner. In this regard, it also instantly defeated other martial arts films.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which is a good reputation and box office, is the most ideal choice. However, Li Xiaohu quickly denied this plan.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was so amazing. In Li Xiaohu's opinion, this movie is at most a martial arts skin, and it is not a real martial arts film.

Ang Lee gave many profound connotations to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon": the suppression and constraints on individual people, the powerful role and necessity of Eastern social norms, as well as the conflicts and collisions with people and the ultimate tragic reconciliation, etc.

These elements are undoubtedly very attractive to Westerners. However, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" lacks the heroic spirit of a martial arts hero who is a sarcastic swaying world, which is exactly the most basic thing in martial arts films.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" discusses a deep thought and implicit conception of the humanistic connotation of the Jianghu Lake, using traditional Eastern culture as a gimmick, but the thinking of all the characters in it is Westernized. The Chinese do not think like this, and the ancient Chinese are not.

Ang Lee's martial arts perspective is not chivalrous, but in the world. He attempts to describe the world as a special social form. However, unfortunately, the world in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is not the world in the eyes of Orientals.

From the perspective of Westerners, Ang Lee looks at the Eastern world and has a distorted position. How can he shoot the essence of a martial arts film? In the final analysis, the connotation of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is all Western things and has nothing to do with traditional Eastern culture and martial arts culture.

It is no wonder that when "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was released in China, countless viewers shouted that they couldn't understand it. It was not until the news that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won ten Oscar nominations came out that there was a lot of flattery. It seemed that only by gaining recognition from the Western world could it be considered a success, but of course this was wrong.

So the script written by Li Xiaohu to Gu Changfeng is Tsui Hark's "New Dragon Gate Inn". In terms of martial arts films, or Xu Laoqian's works are more pure and classic. Of course, there is no old version of "Long Gate Inn" by Mr. Hu Jinquan in this world, so there is no need to add a "new" word to Li Xiaohu's script.

"New Dragon Inn" is not only the starting point of a new-style martial arts film, but also a classic and milestone in the rate of new-style martial arts films. This is the real martial arts film.

Li Xiaohu felt that "New Dragon Inn" should be more in line with Gu Changfeng's appetite, and the fact is indeed the case. After Gu Changfeng got the script, a series of flatteries almost made Li Xiaohu faint and swaying. The stingy flattery words made Li Xiaohu almost lose his skin...
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