The news that Kang Jianfei won 7 awards during his trip to Taipei quickly spread back to Hong Kong. Although the Hong Kong film industry has never paid attention to literary and artistic films, it pays no less attention to winning awards than Taiwanese filmmakers.
If a newly opened film company can win the Golden Horse Award for its films, it will also receive great attention from its colleagues in Hong Kong.
It is really unrealistic for Chinese-language films to win awards in Europe and the United States today. For decades, there have only been a handful of them. In addition to the European and American international awards, the Asian Film Festival and the Golden Horse Awards are the most valuable. The Asian Film Festival has become an exhibition.
After the event, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, the major Chinese film production areas, focused all their attention on the Golden Horse Awards.
In the past, Hong Kong films were often nominated for the Golden Horse Awards, but basically there were five or six nominations, and only one won the award in the end. The winning ratio was very low.
It is the first time in the history of Hong Kong films that Kang Jianfei has won 6 awards at the Golden Horse Awards.
"Ming Pao Weekly" commented: "Hong Kong films are rising at a rocket speed this year. This is not only reflected in the specific box office data. Oriental DreamWorks' big harvest at the Golden Horse Awards also proves this from the side.
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"Film Fortnightly" expressed some dissatisfaction with the Golden Horse Awards: "In terms of film art, "Dao Ma Dan" is not inferior to "The Wrong Ride" at all. However, the announced results are a bit disappointing, "Da Ma Dan" only won one
The Best Costume Design Award is obviously a deliberate move by the Golden Horse Awards. Especially in the film "Swordsman", any one of the three heroines Brigitte Lin, Chung Chuhong and Rosamund Kwan is eligible to win the Best Actress trophy, but
All three of them failed, and the Best Actress Award was actually awarded to Zhang Aijia in "My Grandpa"..."
The media in Taiwan are also very dissatisfied. Most believe that "The Wrong Ride" only won 6 awards out of 11 nominations. The trophies are really few. For example, the Best Supporting Actress should be awarded to Jiang Xia in "The Wrong Ride" because
Jiang Xia's performance in the film is so perfect.
Kang Jianfei, on the other hand, was dumbfounded. He had received several awards at the awards ceremony, but he had received them as a composer, screenwriter, producer, etc.
The weekend after the Golden Horse Awards, the already recorded "Variety Show 100" was officially broadcast. Since China Television had already announced it, many people switched to the channel and stayed in front of the TV, preparing to watch the TV program that Brigitte Lin would participate in many years later. The ratings of China Television that night
The rate jumped to a terrifying 63%.
Don't question this number. "Variety Show 100" is the TV show with the highest ratings in Taiwan, with higher ratings than TV series. In the few years since "Variety Show 100" was broadcast, China Television defeated Taiwan with "Variety Show 100"
It was not until the introduction of the Hong Kong drama "Dragon Show" that the ratings of "Variety Show 100" were surpassed by "Dragon Show".
This show has a terrifying audience. Kang Jianfei and the others only recorded one of the units. In just over ten minutes, the publicity effect of the show has exceeded the efforts of the theater operators.
A few days later, "Dao Ma Dan" was officially released in Taiwan, but as it was not the New Year, many theaters were full.
In the film, Brigitte Lin's cross-dressing as a woman amazed Taiwanese audiences. Taiwan's "Influence" magazine commented on the film and said: "Brigitte Lin is very lucky. As a well-known actor with a well-established screen image, she met director Kang Jianfei. In their relationship
In the first movie they collaborated with, "The Royal Sisters", director Kang Jianfei made a big subversion, transforming Lin Qingxia, who is accustomed to playing ladies and has a strong literary atmosphere, into a heroic super policewoman, and entered the Japanese and American markets in one fell swoop...
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With this kind of achievement, director Kang Jianfei did not continue to make the sequel to "The Royal Sister" to make money. Instead, he found a new way to make a film in the early Republic of China. Lin Qingxia's men's clothing image in the film is definitely a screen classic. Although this movie also has
The love between children is not as pretentious as most romance films in Taiwan today. The director expresses the love between the five male and female protagonists quite intentionally. Instead, it focuses more on friendship. The kind of story about children in troubled times and the hatred between family and country.
The atmosphere was created very successfully, completely transporting the audience to another time and space...
According to statistics, the total box office of Taiwan's movies has shrunk again this year, and has been far behind the total box office of Hong Kong movies. Two years ago, the total box office of Hong Kong movies was lower than that of Taiwan. What does this mean? It shows that we are in
Regress.
After Bruce Lee's kung fu movies became popular, everyone rushed to make kung fu movies. As a result, within 4 years, more than 200 shoddy Taiwanese kung fu movies could not be released and had to rot in warehouses. After Liu Jiachang's musical romance movie became a hit
, directors are rushing to mass-produce low-quality romance films, and then ask songwriters to add interludes to them. Qiong Yao's movies are selling like hot cakes, and everyone specializes in making three-room movies. This kind of movie now makes the audience want to vomit.
Taiwanese filmmakers should learn more from Director Kang Jianfei, and not make shoddy productions for short-term interests and follow the trend and cause disaster. Judging from all the films of Oriental DreamWorks, this company has a very planned film production, such as "Happy Ghost", "Happy Ghost", "
After "Mr. Zombie" became a hit, no matter how many people outside followed the trend and made movies of the same type, Oriental DreamWorks would wait seven or eight months before making a sequel..."
"Influence" is the most famous professional film magazine in Taiwan. When it came out with a film review, most of it talked about Kang Jianfei and Oriental DreamWorks, and even cursed Taiwanese filmmakers.
This film review caused quite a stir in the Taiwanese film industry, but in the end it did not have any effect. Those who make commercial films continue to follow suit and mass-produce, while those who make literary films become more and more niche, regardless of the box office market.
Taiwan's new wave film movement is a little later than Hong Kong's, and it was actually inspired by Hong Kong's new wave movement.
Some insightful people in the Taiwanese film industry clearly see that Taiwanese films are declining, while Hong Kong films are rising rapidly. Then these people attribute the rise of Hong Kong films to the new wave of Hong Kong films (this factor does exist)
, coupled with the loosening of control over literary and artistic works by the Taiwanese authorities, a new wave of movement was also launched.
When the movement first started, directors would still take into account all aspects. Later, those new directors made films purely for the sake of winning awards, and the films they produced were so foggy that people couldn't understand them at all - since then, Taiwanese films have
Completely dead.
The film review "Influence" can be regarded as a big advertisement for "Dao Ma Dan", attracting many old directors such as Li Xing and Bai Jingrui to the cinema.
With the popularity of "Da Ma Dan", Rosamund Kwan and Chung Chu-hong, who were not well-known in Taiwan, have become household movie stars in Taiwan.
And the "Dream Three Girls" packaged by Oriental DreamWorks are gradually being accepted by more and more people. Guan Zhilin and Zhong Chuhong are considered popular by Lin Qingxia.
The box office response of the movie "Dao Ma Dan" in Taiwan was much better than when it was released in Hong Kong. It may be because Lin Qingxia starred in it, or it may be that Taiwanese audiences are more receptive to artistic films. Anyway, the box office of "Dao Ma Dan" was not
No less than "Royal Senior Sister".
1981 has not yet passed, and the box office of "Dao Ma Dan" in Taiwan has reached close to NT$30 million. However, "Ye Lai Xiang" ("Ghost Horses and Stars"), which was released at the same time, was very tragic, and the box office did not exceed the NT$10 million mark.
Whether it is Mecca, Huang Baiming, or the film's director Xu Ke, they are all extremely depressed when faced with this situation.
They originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that "The Stars" was nominated for the Golden Horse Awards and release it in Taiwan to make money at the box office. Little did they know that Kang Jianfei had the same plan.
The schedules of the two films collided, and "Ghost of the Stars" was directly knocked out by "Dao Ma Dan" and became a hemiplegia.
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In the conference room of Xinyi City, several big names were smoking cigarettes and discussing the company's next drama.
Zhang Aijia was really uncomfortable with the smell of smoke. She stood up and pushed open the window. Suddenly, a rush of cold air rushed in, making everyone shiver.
Huang Baiming asked: "Does anyone know what movies Kang Jianfei will have on the New Year's Eve schedule?"
Majia said: "I inquired from Golden Princess Manager Li that Oriental DreamWorks will recently release a literary film "The Story of Hu Yue". In addition, DreamWorks also has two movies being filmed, one is "The Patrol"
"City Horse", one is "Little Life is Afraid". Among them, "The Story of Hu Yue" and "City Patrol Horse", the male and female protagonists of these two dramas are Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong."
Shi Tian immediately reacted: "It seems Kang Jianfei is ready to support Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong."
Huang Baiming suddenly said: "Do you think our New Art City should also support new talents?"
Since the founding of New Art City, there have been basically a few bosses who are actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers. In addition, they have invited already famous actors to star.
For example, this time "The Best Partner" was a huge hit, but among the three leading actors, Ma Jia is a shareholder of the company, Zhang Aijia is a company executive, and Xu Guanjie is an already famous freelance actor. They did not do anything to promote newcomers at all.
effect.
New Art City has been established for more than a year, and currently there are not many contracted actors under its belt.
Mecca nodded and said: "It's time to sign a few actors with potential, but this matter is not urgent yet. The most important thing now is to finalize the New Year's drama."
Huang Baiming said: "That's why I asked Kang Jianfei what kind of drama he would be doing in the New Year. We must not clash with his genre. "Ghost Horses, Intelligent Stars" was so badly beaten by "Swordsman" in Taiwan, and this is because the genres are different.
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Shi Tian said: "Who cares what he shoots? Our strength is comedy. As long as we use our comedy well, the box office is guaranteed."
Mecca nodded and said: "Yes, what Shi Tian said makes sense. In fact, I already have an idea in my mind. Who still remembers the movie "Brothers and Brothers" in the 1960s?"
Huang Baiming asked in surprise: "Are you going to remake "Brothers Are Difficult"?" 8
