On the tenth day of the serialization of "The Misty Journey", when the second paragraph of the novel came, the sales of "Oriental Daily" also increased greatly, reaching a breakthrough sales volume of 166,000 copies. Hong Kong society also
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From the perspective of writing style, "The Misty Journey" is far inferior to Jin Yong's novels, and it is even less up to Gu Long's artistic connotation. But the works serialized in newspapers are, to put it bluntly, just like the online novels of later generations, they are a kind of entertainment.
It's just printed on a paper carrier. There are both good and bad works, good and bad, and most audiences only look at whether the plot is exciting or not, regardless of the quality of the literary talent.
The martial arts novels read by later generations have been revised and proofread by countless people. Not to mention the writing and sentences, even the plots have been greatly deleted. For example, in the original versions of "The Condor" and "The Condor", the characters were poisoned to death.
Yang Kang’s was Qin Nanqin, and the next generation of hero Yang Guo was born to the same strange woman. Unfortunately, after Jin Yong’s modifications, Qin Nanqin and Mu Nianci were combined into one. Many book fans regretted that this
The revisions also made the plot of the novel more compact.
Gu Long often lamented that his novels had too many fallacies and did not have time to revise them repeatedly like Jin Yong did. In fact, Gu Long's worries were unnecessary. After his death, major publishing houses naturally helped him revise them.
As for Ni Ji's novels, there is nothing to say. At most, Ni Ji submitted more than ten manuscripts a day. How many novels do you think he could write at this speed?
Speaking of Ni Jiafeng's handwriting, it is not that his handwriting is too ugly, but that it is so scrawled that it is difficult to read directly in pursuit of speed. The number of people in Hong Kong who can easily read Ni Jiafeng's manuscripts is not more than
Ten, the old typesetters who were familiar with Ni Jiang's handwriting were paid more than half as much as ordinary typesetters.
After "Looking for Qin" came out, those who criticized Kang Jianfei all said that the novel had too much content, and no one said that Kang Jianfei's writing was too bad.
And "The Misty Journey" has been serialized for nearly two weeks. Readers and some novel critics were surprised to find that there was no heroine in this novel. Many people said that "Looking for Love" was banned due to pornographic content.
People criticized him too much, but Kang Jianfei changed his ways this time.
The first person to publicly praise the colleague of "The Misty Journey" is Huang Ying, who is famous for ghostwriting for Gu Long. For example, Kang Jianfei's "Mr. Zombie" was originally supposed to be a novel written by Huang Ying, but it was a pity that Kang Jianfei shamelessly shot it first.
Maybe it's because of "Mr. Zombie". Huang Ying, who loves ghosts and fantasy, has a very good impression of Kang Jianfei. After "The Misty Journey" became popular this time, he was the first to write in a column: "Can "The Misty Journey" be used in
In a short period of time, it surpassed other novels serialized at the same time, relying on novel creativity... Combining modern elements and cosmic theory in Xianxia novels, the plot design is fascinating. It brings readers into a new world, which is fascinating to read.
Can't bear to release the scroll...
The greatest pleasure in reading Mr. Kang Jianfei's novels is that he can constantly bring you new surprises, so that you will never guess the following plot. In terms of creativity, there is no other person in Hong Kong who can match Mr. Kang Jianfei's
Comparatively, this is true for "Looking for the Qin", and so is "The Misty Journey". This can be seen from the films directed by him. He never repeats others' wisdom and makes old things, and every film can always give the audience a brand new experience.
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As a novelist, Ni Jiang usually stays at home writing novels, or goes out to drink with friends. He rarely appears in public. And some well-known newspapers generally do not ask Ni Jiang for manuscripts, so they usually do not take "The Misty Journey" with them.
》Go to him to cause trouble.
Until one day when attending a TV program, the host of LiTV casually mentioned the name "Ethereal Journey" and asked Ni Ji to comment.
Ni Jiang's face turned ugly for a moment. Then he quickly concealed his emotions and said with a dry smile: ""The Misty Journey" is good. But... haha, it's not worth the 500-word remuneration..."
As soon as this statement came out, newspapers reported it the day after the program was aired.
Some newspapers said that Ni Jiang was jealous of Kang Jianfei's high remuneration; some newspapers said that Ni Jiang provoked Kang Jianfei from a distance; and some newspapers said that Ni Jiang was criticizing "The Misty Journey" in disguise for being too poorly written.
For a time, Ni Jiancheng was pushed to the forefront. There were many people who attacked and cursed him, and there were also many people who supported Ni Jiji, Heikang Jianfei and others.
Jin Yong read the newspaper and sighed to Ni Jiam: "Why do you say such things on the TV station?"
"I didn't say it out loud, but I said it on impulse." Ni Jiang also regretted it. He was happy when recording the show, but he had too many troubles afterwards, which made him uneasy.
From then on, media reporters always asked several questions about Kang Jianfei when they met Ni Jiang, which gave Ni Jiang a headache.
The release of "The Royal Sister" and the serialization of "The Misty Journey" were less than a week apart. The seemingly unrelated novels and movies have a sense of complementing each other in terms of promotion.
After hearing that "The Misty Journey" is a novel by Kang Jianfei, many viewers who have watched "The Royal Sister" will read it with curiosity. And the readers of "The Misty Journey" are waiting for the serialization of the novel.
There will also be some people who go to see "The Royal Senior Sister" specifically for the author of the novel.
"The Royal Sister" was released simultaneously in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and "The Misty Journey" was also a huge hit in Hong Kong. At this time, "The Wrong Ride" was the first to be released in various countries in Southeast Asia, and "Mr. Zombie" also began to be released in South Korea.
Among them, the release of "Mr. Zombie" in South Korea was distributed by Princess Jin. This had been agreed a month ago, and Kang Jianfei was too embarrassed to kick Princess Jin aside.
On the first day of its release, "Mr. Zombie" attracted more than 90,000 moviegoers. Three days after its release, the number of moviegoers soared to 340,000, sweeping the Korean box office.
(The Korean box office statistics method is very strange, only counting the number of moviegoers.
In addition, in the early 1980s, due to restrictions imposed by the Korean government, the total number of Hong Kong and Taiwan films released in Korea each year would not exceed 15.
Due to the military garrison, more than 20 American movies are basically released in South Korea every year. Most of them are for the US military and Korean middle- and high-income families to watch. Ordinary Korean audiences prefer to watch Hong Kong and Taiwan films.
As for European and Indian movies, hell, who are they showing in Korea? Koreans didn’t watch European and Indian movies before 1985.)
In the past 1980, the highest-grossing movie in South Korea was Cheng Long's "The Young Master", with a total of nearly 1 million moviegoers (430,000 in Seoul, more than twice as many moviegoers in South Korea as in the capital).
1981 had just arrived, and "Mr. Zombie" had already set off a box office storm in South Korea. Even children's games were imitating the breath-holding plot in "Mr. Zombie", and its popularity was evident.
In just half a month, the number of viewers of "Mr. Zombie" in South Korea reached 1.46 million, far surpassing Cheng Long's "Junior". Of course, "Junior", like Kang Jianfei's "Happy Ghost", has also been well received in South Korea.
The impact of social and political unrest will be very low, because Cheng Long's previous "Drunken Master" and "Snake" both had close to 2 million moviegoers in South Korea.
The political situation in South Korea has gradually stabilized this year. At this time, the ticket price of Korean movies is about 0.8 US dollars. The cumulative box office of "Mr. Zombie" in South Korea for half a month has already reached 1.16 million US dollars, equivalent to 9.34 million Hong Kong dollars.
However, I won’t be able to make much money after that, because most of the box office is contributed by Seoul, the capital of South Korea. At this time, the total box office in South Korea is only about twice the box office in Seoul, which means that the box office revenue in other places in South Korea is only slightly more than that in the capital.
One thing is that regional development is extremely abnormal.
However, in another decade or two, with the development of South Korea's local economy, the national box office will increase to more than five times the capital's box office.
Now "Mr. Zombie" has been screened in Seoul and surrounding areas for half a month, and will soon be screened in other small cities. The final box office is estimated to not exceed 13 million Hong Kong dollars.
In Southeast Asia, Taiwanese movies have always done very well at the box office in the Nanyang region, and the audience listens to the Mandarin dialogue directly without having to dub it again. The Taiwanese movies in the past two years have either been shoddy and made to make money, or they have been made incomprehensible.
art films, Nanyang film studios have greatly reduced the purchase of Taiwanese films.
While the film market cultivated by Taiwanese films over the past ten years is still there, there are many Nanyang audiences who like to watch Taiwanese movies. When "The Wrong Ride" was sold in Hong Kong, it had to be paired with Cantonese dialogue, so after it was released in Taiwan, it was directly sold to Nanyang
Screened in various countries.
Nanyang's cinema developers have long been sophisticated. As soon as "The Wrong Ride" was sold, they frantically re-hyped the scandal between Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia. They neither promoted the director nor the starring role, pointing to Kang Jianfei, the investor and screenwriter.
The hype was so wild that many viewers thought the movie was made by Kang Jianfei and Lin Qingxia, and were fooled into entering the theater.
If this was a bad movie, the audience would probably curse it after watching it.
It just so happens that this is a good movie, just like in a parallel space. As soon as "The Wrong Ride" was released in Nanyang, there was a lot of praise, and it was both well-received and a box office hit.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Fengxing Records also bought the original soundtrack of "The Wrong Ride". Before the movie was finished, the record had sold nearly 100 copies in Nanyang. Su Rui also began to travel back and forth to various countries in Nanyang and began a long journey.
a two-month tour,
Later, some people said that East Asia in 1981 belonged to Kang Jianfei. Starting from New Year's Day of that year, Kang Jianfei's works set off a craze in Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. It was like igniting an explosion in East Asia.
With an atomic bomb, Kang Jianfei's name suddenly spread throughout the film circles of various countries.
Cheng Long used to be a guarantee of box office, and movie theaters and distributors from various countries would pay for a film starring Cheng Long without saying a word. But starting from 1981, as long as these film businessmen saw Kang Jianfei's name on it, no matter it was
Whether it is the screenwriter or the director, both will cause a rush to grab the film. (To be continued) 8