In the premiere hall, Chen Bosen and Wang Zhonghan, the two founders of "Film Fortnightly", had already put down their pens.
"The Royal Sister" really has nothing to record. It is a commercial action movie through and through, with no ideological and artistic connotation at all.
However, this film was a big breakthrough for Hong Kong films in terms of shooting and production, which gave Chen Bosen and Chen Bosen a huge shock.
Sitting between Chen Bosen and Wang Zhonghan was a middle-aged beauty wearing black-rimmed glasses and a bookish face.
"Sister Tang, what do you think of this movie?" Chen Bosen asked the woman in a respectful tone.
The woman commented: "From a purely commercial film perspective, "The Royal Sisters" is a top-level work even if it is released in Hollywood."
Chen Bosen and Wang Zhonghan did not expect that the woman had such a high opinion of "The Royal Sisters". Wang Zhonghan asked: "Then if this movie is sold in the United States, is it possible to get a good box office?"
The woman said: "It's hard to say. The box office performance of Chinese-language films in the North American market depends first on operation, second on luck, and third on film quality."
Chen Bosen asked in confusion: "Why is the quality of the film still ranked after luck?"
The woman smiled and said: "For example, the Hong Kong movie "The Best Punch in the World" a few years ago, do you think it is better than Bruce Lee's movie? But this movie was the ninth highest-grossing movie in North America that year, far better than Bruce Lee's movie.
The film was a hit in a year. The success of this film is firstly due to its effective operation and good promotion and distribution work; secondly, it was lucky. When it was released, there were no strong films competing at the box office in the United States. Also, it relied on the
The kung fu trend started by Bruce Lee attracted American audiences. As for the quality of the film, apart from the good editing, I really can't find any other advantages in that film."
Chen Bosen and Wang Zhonghan looked educated, and then continued to watch "The Royal Sister" that was being screened.
Who is this woman?
How could Chen Bosen and Wang Zhonghan be so respectful.
She is Hong Kong's famous female director Tang Shuxuan. The Hong Kong film new wave movement that is now in full swing was first proposed two years ago in her film magazine "Close-Up".
Last year, Tang Shuxuan and her husband immigrated to the United States. Before leaving Hong Kong, she stopped the film magazine "Close-Up". Only then did the magazine's editor Chen Bosen and others come out to create "Movie Biweekly".
It can be said that Tang Shuxuan's "Close-Up" is the predecessor of "Movie Biweekly" because the staff teams and publication concepts of the two magazines are of the same origin.
Tang Shuxuan has been insisting on creating art films in Hong Kong in the late 1960s. Her first film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Cannes Film Festival. Eight years ago, when the Cultural Revolution was at its peak in Hong Kong, Tang Shuxuan’s first film
The two films are about the Cultural Revolution, analyzing and reflecting on this movement. This film only passed the censorship in Hong Kong more than a month ago, and it will take at least five or six years for it to be released.
In a sense, Tang Shuxuan can be regarded as the mother of the new wave of Hong Kong movies. She has a very high status among Hong Kong's new filmmakers. Two like Chen Bosen and Wang Zhonghan were just younger brothers who ran magazines behind Tang Shuxuan.
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On the big screen, the chaotic fight scene in the restaurant has ended, but the audience is still immersed in the shocking scene just now. The scene of bullets flying randomly and lightning flashing is really too exciting and enjoyable for today's audience, especially
It was Hiroyuki Sanada grabbing the villain's hair and smashing four or five glass shots with his face, which made the audience feel relieved and amazed. The shot of breaking the glass with his face was shot to the end without any cuts.
of.
The villain who killed Hiroyuki Sanada's wife and daughter was finally killed by Hiroyuki Sanada himself, and the frustration accumulated in the audience's hearts was vented. The plot progressed slowly, with many funny plots interspersed in the middle, which made the audience's mood
Relax and laugh.
But at this moment, the plane escort played by Kang Jianfei was caught by the last big villain, and fell on the outer wall of a high-rise building, attracting Lin Qingxia to fall into his trap.
"Royal Senior Sister" has been shown to this point. In fact, there should be three protagonists, namely Lin Qingxia, Hiroyuki Sanada and Kang Jianfei. According to the general movie plot, naturally Lin Qingxia chases the villain to the rooftop and has a battle of wits and courage, and then succeeds.
Save Kang Jianfei.
But the development of the plot was completely beyond the audience's expectation.
In the original work, here is the villain using a Big Brother phone to talk to the heroine. However, there is no Big Brother phone in Hong Kong now, so Kang Jianfei changed it to a high-power walkie-talkie. The villain called ahead and asked Lin Qingxia to go to a phone booth near the Landmark Plaza in Central.
Then he asked Lin Qingxia to talk with the walkie-talkie he put in the phone booth.
Kang Jianfei saw that Lin Qingxia was being led upstairs. In order to prevent his sweetheart from being put in danger, he was hung upside down on a high building and struggled to bend down to untie the rope tied to his leg by the villain.
Seeing that Kang Jianfei was about to untie himself and commit suicide, the villain quickly pulled him up to the rooftop.
Just when the audience was expecting Kang Jianfei to be pulled up to the rooftop, and then to fight back and escape while the villain was not paying attention, Kang Jianfei suddenly grinned and untied the rope just an arm's length away from the rooftop.
In mid-air, the second male lead, played by Kang Jianfei, danced with his hands and feet and crashed through the glass shed of the building with a "bang", falling to the ground together with the shattered glass.
"Ah!" The moment Kang Jianfei untied the rope and fell, at least one-third of the audience at the scene let out various exclamations at the same time, because the development of the plot was beyond everyone's expectations.
The second male lead played by Kang Jianfei has previously given the audience the image of a half-assed master with a frivolous demeanor, a sentimental attitude, a glib tongue, and a bit of a joke.
But now he actually gave up his own life just to prevent his sweetheart from going to danger. It can be said to be the true seed of infatuation.
On the big screen, the policewoman played by Lin Qingxia looked at the second male lead falling from a tall building, and kept flashing back to the scenes of his careless pursuit of her, leaving silent tears in her eyes.
Kang Jianfei put a lot of effort into the processing of this plot in the later stage, which is ten times more sensational than the original work in another time and space. Tender and sad music sounded, accompanied by Lin Qingxia's tears, and many of Kang Jianfei's life moments.
Fragments of memories, and these fragments are all Kang Jianfei smiling, with various smiles. That mean smile forms a strong contrast with the infatuation and sadness at the moment.
"Bang!"
Lin Qingxia was still crying silently on the screen, but the background sound was the loud sound of Kang Jianfei landing. Then the screen suddenly cut to the top of the building, replaced by the villain's stunned and provocative smile.
At this moment, many of the female audience members in the premiere hall were moved to tears, while the male audience members' anger towards the villain reached another peak.
But this is not over yet. After the second male lead played by Kang Jianfei died, the villain actually dug up his body from the cemetery and recorded the entire process of digging the grave and sent it to Lin Qingxia and Hiroyuki Sanada, claiming that he was
He wanted to let the person who killed his brother die without a burial place.
Chinese people are very particular about retiring to their graves. This villain's actions finally ignited the anger of the audience. One audience member was so angry that he threw the soda bottle in his hand at the screen, but it hit the audience in the front row.
His head hurt so much that the man screamed.
Hong Jinbao loosened his tie and said: "This script was written so that I felt hot all over."
On Chen Bosen's side, Tang Shuxuan, a literary film director with a noble background, couldn't help but twist his body to calm down and said: "That Kang Jianfei is a master at creating an atmosphere. I didn't expect that I have been in the United States for more than a year, and such a thing happened in Hong Kong.
A great director."
The final decisive battle is finally coming!
The villain used the body of the second male lead to attract Hiroyuki Sanada and Lin Qingxia to a construction site, and buried a large amount of explosives there in advance. He hid in the house with a sniper rifle and waited for the protagonists to die.
Such a dangerous ambush made the audience sweat for the two protagonists Lin Qingxia and Hiroyuki Sanada.
Sure enough, as soon as Hiroyuki Sanada drove his car to the construction site, he was immediately suppressed by sniper rifles and was in danger. In the end, he was not stuck in the car that kept leaking oil.
Then when Lin Qingxia appeared on the stage, she attracted laughter and cheers from the audience. But it turned out that she was driving a modified car with a full metal shell armor that could not be penetrated by a sniper rifle.
The most exciting part of the decisive battle is the fight between Lin Qingxia and the villain.
What the audience didn't expect was that the weapon used by the villain was actually a chainsaw. The chainsaw made a loud sound of a diesel motor, and the saw blades were rotating rapidly and slashing at Lin Qingxia again and again. Many viewers made their palms sweat after watching this.
Hong Jinbao was already dumbfounded. He had never thought of using a chainsaw as a weapon in a fighting scene. The action scene on the screen was so visually impactful.
The ending of the story is naturally that the villain was subdued, and the audience cheered, but found that the film was not over yet. I was thinking about Hiroyuki Sanada and Lin Qingxia, one had his wife dead, and the other had his boyfriend, whether they would come to the end.
When they became a couple together, the villain covered in blood climbed out of the ruins holding a torch and opened a gasoline barrel, which was full of bomb fuses.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
A series of explosions sounded, and Kang Jianfei also added a set of overhead shots to make the explosion scene even more grand.
The villain was burned to death, and the two protagonists successfully escaped from the explosion with the body of the second male lead. This ending finally allowed the audience to dissipate all the depression in their hearts, and they felt like they were surviving after a disaster.
"Pa bang bang..."
More than half of the audience applauded spontaneously, especially the explosion scene at the end was so cool. It gave the audience another easter egg who thought it was over. How could they not like it?
Amidst the applause, people discovered that the picture actually appeared on the screen again.
If you open your eyes and take a closer look, you will see behind-the-scenes footage. Most of them are action scenes between Lin Qingxia and Hiroyuki Sanada, and some are scenes of speeding cars and explosions shot by the Raptors SWAT team.
When I saw a stuntman being pulled out covered in blood from a bunch of crashed cars, the applause that had stopped started again, but this time the applause was dedicated to those behind the scenes. (To be completed.
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