Chapter 698 Lively August
August is already the last month of the summer vacation.
Before July was in a bad mood, and there was no good movie except for a two-blooded hero. On the contrary, there were several movies with good trial reviews in August at the end of the summer vacation.
The Swordsman, which has been preparing for filming since last year, has been completed and has been released in August.
Fortunately, the schedules of several movies are not a conflict. Two of the good ones will not be released until mid-term. By then, the popularity of the two movies released in early August will definitely have decreased.
The two movies that were scheduled to be released in the middle of the year are both Jiahe movies. There is no way, who has basically arranged the best schedule in July for Jiahe? In August, it is naturally time for other companies to turn to movies.
One of the two movies belonging to Jiahe is a drama film called "Go to meet". Zhong Chuhong is the heroine, Zhong Zhentao is the hero, and the other person surnamed Zhong controls the hero and heroine, and the director is Xian Qiran.
Among Hong Kong film directors, Xian Qiran is definitely the most awesome one who regards white-collar workers and student groups as the main market.
As one of the important directors of New Wave, Xian Qiran did not make many films, and his works were not as pioneering as other directors' works. "Middle-class fun" is his characteristic.
In his early years, he directed films such as "Enemy" (1979), "Love Calamity" (1980), "Minn Coffee" (1982). "Enemy" and "Minn Coffee" are both urban dramas, and Xian Qiran's "middle-class fun" can be seen in these two films.
"Enemy" is Xian Qiran's feature film debut, a four-section light comedy. Love, encounter, waves, and reunion are four chapters of the film, telling the story of urban men and women from love to marriage to changes after marriage.
The new wave is the "stunning success". Which one is not an amazing work by Xu Ke's "Buddha Change", Xu Anhua's "Crazy Calamity", Zhang Guoming's "Pointing to the Bingbing"?
"Enemy" is relatively peaceful and not a surprising work.
At that time, the master of comedy in the Hong Kong film industry was the Xu brothers. "Enemy" was not an outstanding work, but it did produce urban feels. The fun was also different from the market interest of the Xu brothers, and it was considered a work of its own in comedy works.
From the perspective of "New Wave", the subsequent "Minn Coffee" was still a film that was not "new" enough. However, in the Hong Kong film industry at that time, realistic urban theme works were extremely rare, and "Minn Coffee" could be regarded as a work to fill the gap. In this sense, Xian Qiran deserves to be a "New Wave" champion.
After meeting this movie, Xian Qiran's middle-class fun finally became a success. The people in charge of watching the movie in the theater can be said to be full of praise for this movie, and I don't know if it is because the heroine is her big boss. Anyway, among the people who are responsible for watching the movie, this movie has become the best drama of the year, no doubt about it.
One said that meeting each other is a heavy sword without sharp edges, a great trick is not skillful, and a simple story can make a happy mood. It is great not to be artificial or twisted!
Another thing is that only Xian Qiran's movies can produce such authenticity, and feminism is implicit and unpretentious.
However, Qiao Feng didn't know what was going on. He had never watched this movie in the original time and space, and he didn't plan to watch the sample movie now.
Anyway, if these professionals say it's okay, it should be almost done. After all, their job is to watch movies and determine the prospects of the movies. If you have a grasp of the market, if it's not for the advanced memories in your mind, Qiao Feng is far inferior to these professionals.
Another Jiahe film besides meeting each other is the action film that Jiahe is best at.
Moreover, the starring actor Yuan Biao, one of the three pillars of Jiahe.
A Peacock Prince at the beginning of the year made Yuan Biao become famous in Japan. Now in the Japanese market, Yuan Biao is much more popular than his two senior brothers, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long.
With the box office size of Japan, Yuanbiao's movies earned much more box offices in Japan than in Hong Kong.
So, while Yuan Biao entered the Japanese market, Jiahe filmed a science fiction action film according to the path of the Peacock Prince. He also dug out a sleepy person while digging the remains, and then woke up to make trouble.
The difference is that Prince of Peacock is a fantasy and a fantasy, while this movie called Frozen is a martial arts movie, and the accurate positioning should be reborn.
Feng San, a traitor in the Ming Dynasty, raped and killed the princess. Fang Shouzheng, the imperial guard, was responsible for arresting his senior brother. During the pursuit, Feng San wanted to steal the Black Jade Buddha, the master's treasure, to transcend time and space. However, he was blocked by Fang, and the two fell off the cliff and buried in the snow.
At the time of modern times, the Chinese geological research team found that the bodies of the two were frozen and wanted to transport them to the United States for research. When they passed through Hong Kong, they accidentally touched the electric wire and thawed the two. Fang Shouzheng met the bad girl A Yu and became her personal bodyguard. Feng San joined the Daquan Gang for evil. Fang read the newspaper and found that Feng San was also in Hong Kong, so he tried to chase him again.
This film is completely the same as the movie "From the Gate of Rebirth" starring Yuan Shishi Baoqiang and Ren Dahua.
Qiao Feng didn't watch this sample, but after hearing the secretary telling the summary of this story, he felt that he had seen it somewhere. After thinking about it carefully, he met Bingfeng: The Gate of Rebirth.
What Qiao Feng didn't know was that Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth was really adapted from this movie, Frozen.
However, although the movie "Frozen: Rebirth" was a wonderful game, it was criticized by many people as a bad movie.
In comparison, this original novel, the reputation of the Frozen Hero has much better in the eyes of professionals.
The action scenes are about Yuan Biao and Yuan Hua carrying the banner, and they play martial arts and stunts with their solid foundation. Overall, they are quite attractive.
As for the plot, it is relatively weak, and there are many loopholes and flaws involving time and space shuttle, but this is a common problem in Hong Kong movies.
Another thing is that although the plot is weak, Hong Kong films at this time have a fusion of various elements such as science fiction, action, gunfight, love, comedy, pornography, etc., which is both absurd and lively, and to a certain extent makes up for the weakness of the plot.
Just like Hong Kong culture and Hong Kong itself, Hong Kong is not a simple culture or a genre, but a variety of elements are integrated together, with East and West, tradition and modernity each having their own place. It is reflected in the film to form a diversity of genres and a kind of joke and rebellion against tradition.
The film "Frozen Qixia" is a concentrated reflection of this fusion culture.
The comedy gimmick is left to Zhang Manyu. In addition, a small part of ridicule of "the cousin of the mainland" is also the favorite thing for Hong Kong movies at this time.
In general, from the perspective of professionals and the standards of entertainment commercial films, "The Frozen Man" is a very worth watching movie.
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Chapter completed!