"Weird and bizarre, full of fun and unique!"

"Compared with "Ghost Fighting" at the end of last year, "Qi Men Dun Jia" has a more unrestrained interpretation of folk magic. The jar man in the movie, the nail shadow setting, the flying tuo releasing the sword, the paper bridge, etc. are all dazzling.

Wow!"

"By combining kung fu with folk magic, if we can produce another good film, we can create a sect and add another genre to the Hong Kong film industry!"

At the end of last year, Sammo Hung's "Ghost Fighting" was released, earning more than 5 million at the box office, creating a precedent for fantasy kung fu movies. In early January this year, Yuen Jia Ban's "Qi Men Dun Jia" was released, with a box office of 8 million in more than 20 days, bringing a good start.

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And the reputation is very good, the audience praises it, colleagues praise it, and the media rarely praises it.

There is no concept of "spiritual kung fu movies" now, but everyone knows that this approach is feasible, and there will definitely be a large number of films that follow suit.

The reason why Hong Kong films are brilliant is inseparable from these people's flexible thinking, opportunism, and ability to innovate. For example, kung fu films become popular, but what if the audience gets tired of them after a few years of filming? Combine kung fu with comedy, and a new genre will be born.

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What should I do if I get tired of seeing this?

Combining Kung Fu with Maoshan Taoism and folklore, eh, another branch type has emerged.

Subjectively, it is because they are willing to use their brains, but objectively, it is due to the limitations of the environment. A group of people are nesting in this small place, struggling to survive. If there is nothing new to give the audience, what are they doing for a living?

Therefore, the Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s were really diverse and strange. Almost all the elements that could be filmed were filmed, and the rest were actually just fried rice.

"cheers!"

In the restaurant, the Yuan family was celebrating.

To use the terminology in Hong Kong movies, this is called Tianjiu Wing's shark's fin, double-headed abalone, super invincible sea view, Buddha jumping over the wall, and a table of fresh seafood.

"Boss, we are so prosperous this time, 8 million, which would have ranked third last year!"

"Not necessarily this year. There are too many filmings now, and the box office is rising faster than the Taiwanese girls. In my opinion, it would be good to break into the top ten."

"It's okay to be in the top ten. This is our first play, so it's off to a good start!"

As the boss, Yuan Heping looked at the brothers with a smile. He did not expect that "Qi Men Dun Jia" had such good results. He would try to release it for a while and reach 9 million, or even more than 10 million, which would be even better.

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

The first-generation comedy king Xu Guanwen has released a new film "Modern Bodyguard". Golden Harvest will definitely leave all theaters to this movie.

Hong Kong has three mainstream theater chains, Shaw Brothers with 16 theaters, Golden Harvest with 19 theaters, and Golden Princess with 15 theaters. In addition, there are some Western (foreign film) theater lines, small rural theaters, and 8 left-wing theaters.

Let me briefly mention here that in later generations, a movie was usually released uniformly in theaters across the country, but now it is not.

Shaw Brothers is a large-scale studio system, producing and selling its own one-stop services. It only shows movies produced by itself, just like Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is from Golden Harvest. When he was at his most popular, the audience would not want to see Bruce Lee in Shaw Brothers theaters.

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Golden Harvest is a satellite company. It has opened a lot of companies for Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Xu Guanwen, etc. and invested money and dividends. The theater chain mainly shows the films of these people. If there are still remaining schedules, they will accept the films from outside.

Princess Golden owns New Art City, but New Art City has limited production capacity and cannot support a theater chain, so it allows films from small companies to come in in large quantities, which is the most inclusive.

There are occasional exceptions. For example, when New Arts City was at its peak, Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest showed each other's films and joined forces to fight against each other, but most of them still played behind closed doors.

This situation lasted until the late 1990s. At that time, the entire industry was declining, large companies were unable to invest, and production was reduced. They had no choice but to open theaters and release them uniformly. This is a story for another time.

Mainland China did not release it uniformly at this time, for different reasons.

Most of the movie theaters in various places are affiliated to local film companies. Provincial companies buy back the copies and arrange their own release times. Conditions are backward these days, and there are great differences among regions. Of course, unified screening is not possible.

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

Yuan Xiangren, who was standing next to him, suddenly poked him and whispered: ""Tai Chi" is coming to Hong Kong for promotion, do we want to meet?"

"You want to join us?"

"Of course not, let's meet in private."

"Then don't look for too many people. Just ask Archie and Jiezi for a meal."

Yuan Heping honestly didn't think much of anyone else, but he was obsessed with these two people. 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 out to support them in public, they are leftists and will be blocked every minute and can only meet in private for a while.

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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, from which you can fly directly to Hong Kong; the other is to go to Guangzhou and then pass through Shenzhen.

They chose the first method. In addition to the list of ten people, there were also several staff members from the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office leading the group. The leftist party also sent someone to accompany them throughout the process, a total of more than a dozen people.

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

Gong Xue flew on an airplane for the first time. She touched this and that out of curiosity. Then she saw the presence of the old god Chen Qi and asked, "Have you ever flown on an airplane before?"

"No!"

"Then why are you not surprised at all? Just look at Ji Chunhua and the others."

"People have to compete with each other, and goods have to be thrown away. Some differences are natural. I am different from them."

"What's the difference? He's just stupid!"

"Hey, I understand this, please don't curse."

"I didn't curse, I was just being stupid!" Gong Xue pursed her lips and smiled.

When a man and a woman get along, there is a difference between a relationship with physical intercourse and without physical intercourse - except for the licking dog who spent millions and never even went to bed, that is another species.

After the two kissed and went home again, Gong Xue became much closer to him and became more and more comfortable in his presence, even joking sometimes.

Chen Qi saw that she was teasing him. Good guy, who is afraid of this kind of thing? He moved forward and said with a smile: "Try saying it again and see how I deal with you!"

"Are you crazy?"

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

“Is that Maotai free too?”

“Not only is it free, everyone also gets a bottle!”

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

It was Ji Chunhua who was loyal. He was shouting over there, attracting everyone's attention, but it was the flight attendant pushing a small cart to deliver the food. A bottle of Moutai was clearly displayed on the cart.

The flight to Hong Kong is an international flight.

These days, every international flight comes with a bottle of Maotai liquor. Later, it was no longer a gift, and it was changed to a free drink. Later, the free drink was no longer available, and Moutai became a financial management product.

"Give me some! Give me some!"

"The Chinese cigarettes are also given away?"

"Yes, five for each person."

"Come on, come on, give me five!"

"If there is anything else, please go up and say hello!"

Shame on you!

Not only Ji Chunhua, but also Xiong Xinxin were not much better. They were all rough people who had never gone to school. They were used to hardship. How could they have seen this?

Chen Qi spread his hands and signaled Gong Xue with his eyes, "Look, we are different, right?"
Chapter completed!