If you want to make a good movie, a good director and a good actor are essential, but more importantly, money and time. These two things are exactly what Hong Kong films lack today.
Take last year's "The Fall of Hong Kong" as an example. It tells the story of a while when Benzene invaded Hong Kong. The screenwriter wanted to portray the small characters in the big era, including family, country, hatred, family, and love. If this kind of subject matter is well filmed, it will be very excellent, and maybe he can win awards internationally.
This film is produced by Wang Jing's studio, and Wang Fatty himself serves as the screenwriter and producer. For this reason, two porn stars Qiu Yueqing (the other time and space is Qiu Shuzhen) and Ye Yuqing were invited to appear, and a group of powerful actors such as Luo Jiaying and Xu Jinjiang joined.
When the film was released, the promotional slogan was "China's Schindler's List", which really attracted a lot of attention.
However, the shooting cost is insufficient and the production time is limited. Director Qian Wenqi's level is also relatively rough. In the end, a good theme was ruined and turned into an inappropriate level 3 film. The most hateful thing is that it is not qualified as a level 3 film, because there is no nude shot, which makes the salty and wet guys excitedly running into the theater curse.
The reason for all is because of the filmmakers’ eagerness to make quick success. Investors urged them to finish the filming and release it quickly to make profits. The producers and directors regard this as a production task. Anyway, just make the film, and it doesn’t matter whether the quality is good or not.
Perhaps Wang Jing really wanted to make the movie well, so he even brought his dad to interview, telling the personal experience of the fall of Hong Kong, and adding it to the ending of the movie to add a sense of history. Unfortunately, the investment budget was insufficient and the shooting time was stuck. Wang Jing was also a clever woman who couldn't cook without rice, so she could only make a rag to hand in the business.
This "Fallen Hong Kong"
With enough funds, if McDonald McDonald is the director, it will definitely be another excellent Hong Kong film, but there is no if.
Kang Jianfei's biggest convenience in filming is that he has money and has plenty of time. No one dares to say anything if he wants to film for a year.
The production budget for "Resident Evil" is HK$300 million, of which Tom Cruise's pay is US$10 million, while the combined pay for other actors is less than US$5 million. The remaining 180 million Hong Kong dollars are practical for shooting and production.
In Hong Kong, except Kang Jianfei, only Cheng Long dares to play such a money-burning movie. Even Xu, Xu, and Xu are not good at playing such a money-burning movie, because investors are already cautious and dare not spend money randomly. Cheng Long's courage to shoot is the confidence brought by overseas box office.
From April to July, three months have passed, and the progress of "Resident Evil" has only been two-thirds. In addition, it has taken half a year to prepare since early December last year, which is unimaginable in Hong Kong today (King of Sunglasses said that the picture of Tusson was broken).
Cheng Long's new film was only planned after the Spring Festival, and it was filmed throughout the day. Now it has been completed later, and we will only wait for early August to log in to the summer season.
In comparison, Kang Jianfei's speed is too slow.
The slower he was, the more he followed Kang Jianfei's colleagues and movie fans, the more he looked forward to it. He knew that he was going to do big news again this time.
As the summer season gets closer, major companies have increased their efforts in film publicity. The most popular one is naturally "The Thunderbolt Fire" starring Cheng Long and Yuan Yongyi. The second is Zhou Xingchi's "The Variety Star Lord". This film is a money-making film produced by Yongsheng Film Company. Before Zhou Xingchi's "God of Cookery" was written, she was invited by Xiang Huaqiang to be the starring actor.
"The Star Lord of Changes" can definitely rank among the top three in the bad movies made by Zhou Xingchi. The plot is a mess, and the jokes are super boring. The only contribution of this movie is probably to make the newcomer Liang Yongqi successfully appear.
This summer, Zhou Xingchi has another movie called "Returning to the Soul" released. This film is produced by Shaw Yifu's Metropolitan Company. The style imitates "This Killer Not Too Cold". The theme is an absurd ghost movie. It is a new bottle of old wine, and the quality is also worrying.
"The Changeable Star Lord" and "Returning the Soul Night" were both filmed by Zhou Xingchi in three and a half months. In less than four months, two garbage works with no sincerity were filmed. Zhou Xingchi had no choice. He had to make back the money he lost in "A Chinese Odyssey". These two dramas were invested by others, and he only needed to get a pay, which was a business that was stable and profitable.
There is another movie worth paying attention to during the summer season, which is "The Adventurer" starring Lin Lingdong, Andy Lau, Guan Zhilin and Wu Qianlian. This movie was also invested by Yongsheng Film Company. Liu Dehua and Zhou Xingchi are in similar situations. The movie he invested in himself has suffered a lot and can only make movies for others everywhere to fill in the gaps.
As for the summer films produced by DreamWorks, one is the art film "Woman Forty" directed by Ann Hui, and the other is the "Young and Dangerous" series "One Hand Covering the Sky" which was scolded by the newspaper.
There are also some other things like "The Birthday Birth", "The Savior", "I Want to Live", and "The Fairy Music Piaopiao", which are all small-scale fights. Although Liang Chaowei, Zhang Aijia, Yuan Yongyi, Aaron Kwok-cheng and others starred, everyone is not optimistic about the box office.
Especially Liang Chaowei, his situation is very awkward. He has long stopped filming TV series and has decided to fight to the death. The series of art films he starred in won awards everywhere and even made a big name in Europe, but he is a loser in Hong Kong.
The films starring Liang Chaowei in the past two years have become more famous than the other, but one is more than the other. He has almost become synonymous with box office poison, and his pay is not even as much as Yuan Yongyi gets.
It is worth mentioning that Chen Huilin, the rich and beautiful girl, has a very smooth career. She signed a contract with Fengxing Records as soon as she debuted. She was invited to make a movie before she officially released a song. She also acted with Aaron Kwok to be the heroine, which made the second- and third-tier actresses envious.
The funniest thing is that Chen Huilin can also tell reporters openly: "I am the actress who is the least afraid of being discussed by others in Hong Kong."
Because her father is rich, the movie "Xianle Piaopiao" she recently starred in is because her father has invested in it, and it is specifically invested for her!
This world is very unfair, and it will make people angry.
In addition to the summer movie, the annual beauty pageant that attracted the attention of all Hong Kong citizens is the annual beauty pageant.
Miss Hong Kong and Sister Asia have just completed the semi-finals, and their respective top 12 beauties have been released. Recently, they have frequently appeared on TVB and Phoenix.
This year's Hong Kong Miss is really unkind, and only a mixed-race boy, Li Jiahui, is quite eye-catching. Her overall quality is not even as good as last year. Sister Ya is slightly better, especially the No. 6 contestant Yang Gongru, who is considered to be the most beautiful beauty pageant this year.
Chapter completed!