The craze caused by Kang Jianfei is not just Tao Xun. After "Mr. Zombie" hit the theaters, the sales of ink fountains and glutinous rice in Hong Kong increased greatly, and the business of those Feng Shui masters also improved a lot. I don't know what other people think of Kang Jianfei, but Hong Kong Feng Shui masters still respect Director Kang very much.
Throughout the summer of 1980, the Hong Kong film industry was dominated by "Mr. Zombie".
This film has made several people famous, the first of which is Lin Zhengying. To ordinary viewers, Lin Zhengying is not even less famous than Kang Jianfei, because he is the male protagonist of this film.
Next is Li Saifeng. Several crews rushed to hire her to film. In the end, Kang Jianfei chose two scripts for her that were not too bad, and each script was paid 150,000 yuan. Zhao Yazhi's salary was only recently increased to 250,000, and Li Saifeng's salary was , already the price of a quasi-A-list actress.
Then there are Lou Nanguang and Xu Guanying. Xu Guanying is used to acting in comedies and is well-known. This time is the icing on the cake. Lou Nanguang is just a newcomer and has suddenly become a well-known supporting actor. He just received the role The salary for that drama has reached 30,000 yuan.
Finally, there is Chen You, a former member of Winner's band. He had a small role in "Mr. Zombie", but he successfully opened up an acting career and was eagerly invited to shoot monster, fantasy and kung fu comedies.
"Mr. Zombie" is not only a money-making monster, but also a star-making machine.
It was only half a month after its release that the attendance rate of "Mr. Zombie" dropped significantly, and theaters gradually reduced the number of screenings.
At this moment, Mr. Zombie, who was alone in Hong Kong seeking defeat, suddenly encountered an unexpected opponent.
Jiang Zhiqiang of Anle Pictures was known as the driving force behind Chinese-language films after the new century. At that time, the helm of Anle Pictures was still Jiang Zhiqiang’s brother, Jiang Zhiwen. Since Anle Cinema only screened Western films, the two When the brothers were in their teens, they followed their father to Europe and the United States to buy Western films. They were very familiar with the film markets in Europe and the United States.
Just last year, Jiang Zhiwen took over Anle Pictures. He bought some World War II documentaries and war video materials in the United States, and after taking them back to Hong Kong, he paired them with some Anti-Japanese War videos bought from Taiwan, plus some old movie clips , these pieces were pieced together and edited into a war documentary called "The Tragic War".
There was no Internet in Hong Kong at this time, and war movies were shoddy and weak. As soon as "The Tragic War" was released, its super-realistic and cruel content and images immediately caused a sensation.
Audiences who had originally been whetted by "Mr. Zombie" disdained to watch other movies and returned to the cinema to watch "Mr. Zombie" over and over again, resulting in a high attendance rate until the release of "The Tragic War" , this patchwork war film immediately attracted movie-starved audiences, and the theaters were sold out after its release.
Unfortunately, the number of theaters in the Anle Cinema chain is too small. Seeing how popular "The Tragic War" was, Jiang Zhiwen immediately contacted other independent theaters and even borrowed a few theaters from Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers to screen it.
"Mr. Zombie" was released on June 28 and was not released until August 11. The total box office in Hong Kong was 21.75 million, becoming the first Hong Kong movie to exceed 20 million in box office.
At this time, the total population of Hong Kong was only 5.1 million. Based on the average movie ticket price of 8 yuan, it is equivalent to one out of every two Hong Kong people who went to the cinema to watch "Mr. Zombie". If we exclude 12 years old For children under the age of 60 and elderly people over 60 years old, the proportion will be even higher!
The report of Oriental Daily was amazed at this and said: "Six months ago, "Happy Ghost" became the first Hong Kong movie to have a box office of over 10 million, and Kang Jianfei was also called the 'millionaire director'. At that time, some newspapers believed that,
The box office record of "Happy Ghost" will remain for at least two years. But just half a year later, director Kang Jianfei once again broke his own box office record with "Mr. Zombie". In addition, the box office value increased by more than 20 million in one fell swoop. This is simply a miracle.
Director Kang Jianfei is the one who creates miracles. He should be called the 'miracle director'..."
"Ming Pao" has been at odds with "Oriental Daily" since last year because of its competition for the sales championship. Kang Jianfei is the one who wrote novels to help "Oriental Daily" regain its sales throne, so "Ming Pao" reported Kang Jianfei
He has never been very active, neither criticizing nor praising him. It seems that he wants to treat him coldly.
But this time, "Ming Pao" actually expressed its opinion, saying that Kang Jianfei broke the box office record twice in a row and created a miracle that other directors could not achieve, and he was worthy of the name of a movie wizard.
While "Mr. Zombie" created miracles, it also caused other movies released at the same time to rush into the street. The impact of this move is that as long as Kang Jianfei's movie is released in the future, except for more confident directors and actors such as Cheng Long, other
Directors changed their dates one after another to avoid a collision with Kang Jianfei, a "disaster film director".
Of course, those who took advantage were Jiang Zhiwen and his Anle Pictures.
After watching "Mr. Zombie", the audience did not like to watch other low-quality movies, but they flocked to watch "The Tragic War". As a result, this war documentary about fighting all over the world took 10.34 million at the box office.
, the box office was hundreds of thousands more than the original time and space, and it suddenly ranked fourth in the annual box office.
The box office of Kang Jianfei's "Mr. Zombie" exceeded 20 million, which has left countless film companies and directors speechless. The box office of "The Tragic War" exceeded 10 million, leaving them dumbfounded again.
I have worked so hard to make a movie, but it is not as good as a documentary that others bought and cut out from various war materials. What kind of world is this?
Hung Kam-bo was speechless. His "Ghostbusters" was released at the end of July. At this time, the movie viewing craze of "Mr. Zombie" had passed. But because of the "Mr. Zombie" Zhu Yu in the front, and "The Tragic War" next to it
In order to compete for the audience, the box office of "Ghost Fighting Ghost" was only over 3 million.
And Lei Juekun, who had great expectations for Hong Jinbao, could only sigh secretly after seeing the box office results.
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Kang Jianfei is very busy, very busy!
After the hit release of "Mr. Zombie", filmmakers came to our door every day and wanted to join Oriental DreamWorks. However, we could not blindly expand the scale now. Kang Jianfei asked Pan Yingzi and Ma Qiao to check and only hired a few
Technical staff were added to the production department, and two administrative staff were recruited to serve as assistants to Ma Qiao and Pan Yingzi.
The next step was to record "Original Scenery of Hometown". When recording the song, Kang Jianfei carried forward the spirit of stealing and plagiarized all the other songs in Soujiro's "Kidō" album.
I think back then, Soujiro was Kang Jianfei's idol. When he grew up, he learned all the songs composed by Soujiro one by one.
Regarding his idol, Kang Jianfei feels that his spare no effort in plagiarizing Soujiro's works is the best support for him. With Soujiro's talent, he will probably create other wonderful songs after he plagiarizes, which will also contribute to world music.
What a new contribution!
Every time he thought about it, Kang Jianfei felt that his move was so selfless and great!
Arriving at the recording studio of Fengxing Records, Kang Jianfei slapped the music score he brought on the table, which shocked the eyes of Fengxing Records' producer named Li Fanyu.
Li Fanyu read the music score and asked: "Mr. Kang, are you the one who composed these pieces?"
Kang Jianfei smiled and nodded, exuding a "temperament" unique to a talented person.
As expected, Li Fanyu said some words of admiration and admiration, then he looked at the Tao Xun in Kang Jianfei's hand, scratched his head for a while, and said: "Well, why don't you play it again, Mr. Kang, and I will think about how to arrange the music for you. After all, I
I’ve never made a pure music record like this before, and I’m not very familiar with Tao Xun’s voice.”
"Okay." Kang Jianfei was also very helpless about the arrangement. He was only half-hearted at playing music. Except for Tao Xun who played very well, he could only play the guitar and the harmonica could fool ordinary people. As for the piano, violin, etc., then
I'm very sorry. Kang Jianfei would have been pretty good if he didn't listen to the sound of the violin as the erhu.
Making pure music records also requires arrangement, such as matching Tao Xun with piano, violin and other musical instruments, otherwise it will sound monotonous.
Kang Jianfei played Tao Xun for more than half an hour, and Li Fanyu also shook his head. He first translated Kang Jianfei's simplified musical notation into five-line notation, and then while listening to Kang Jianfei playing the Tao Xun, he used a pen to draw various marks on the music score.
Arranging music couldn't be done in a short while, so Kang Jianfei took advantage of Li Fanyu's busy schedule and went to Fengxing Records to wander around.
The popular record company has a large office space, but due to a large reduction in staff, two office rooms have been reinstalled with blocking walls and rented out to other companies for services.
Looking around, Kang Jianfei saw a few employees in the company, and perhaps some were running business outside.
Deng Yiming walked out of his office with a rather ugly expression on his face, as if he had encountered something unpleasant. After seeing Kang Jianfei, he forced a smile on his face and said, "How is Mr. Kang's recording going?"
"Li Fanyu is still arranging music." Kang Jianfei saw something wrong with his expression and asked, "What trouble have you encountered?"
"A little thing." Deng Yiming concealed it.
At this moment, a woman came over and said rather painfully: "Boss Deng, it's been half a month and we have only sold more than 2,000 records. I think I'd better go back to Taipei."
Kang Jianfei recognized this woman as Su Rui at a glance. There was nothing he could do about it, she was too famous!
But, how come Su Rui is in Fengxing Records?
Deng Yiming seemed to be because Kang Jianfei was nearby, so he did not say anything, but comforted: "It's okay, I will think of a way to strengthen the publicity..."
"boom!"
Before Deng Yiming finished speaking, the door of the company was kicked open, and several people who were obviously from the street walked in fiercely. The leader even deliberately showed the tattoo on his arm, blew his nose at a desk and said
: "Boss Deng, are you ready with your money? If you don't have any money, my brother will have no choice but to move your company's belongings and sell them to pay off the debt!"
Kang Jianfei looked at Deng Yiming in confusion, but Deng Yiming was pale and speechless. (To be continued) 8
