"Tomb Raider" ultimately failed to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. On the one hand, Chinese-language films were not favored by the judges, and on the other hand, the competition was too strong.
This year's Oscar-winning film for Best Foreign Language Film is called "Journey of Hope." Perhaps most ordinary people have never heard of it, but it is indeed a very meaningful film.
Co-produced by Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Italy, "Journey of Hope" tells the story of the bitter blood and tears of smuggled immigrants. The filming technique is plain and not sensational, but the story itself and the realistic performances of non-professional actors are enough to move the audience.
Tears, the issues behind the film are even more thought-provoking.
Although "Tomb Raider" failed to win the award, being nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film has already achieved its expected goal, which will be beneficial to the film's promotion and distribution in Europe and North and South.
In Hong Kong, the Spring Festival film scheduled to be released by Oriental Cinema is "Swordsman". The film is produced by Xu Ke and directed by Hu Jinquan. Li Lianjie plays Linghu Chong, Zhang Yan plays Ren Yingying, Qiu Shuzhen plays Yue Lingshan, and Li Lizhen plays Lan Fenghuang.
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From planning to post-production of the whole drama, apart from arranging individual actors and participating in revising the script, Kang Jianfei had no involvement in other aspects. The film was finally shot, and Xu Ke personally invited Huang Zhan to write "A Laugh in the Sea", and
He also invited his friend Cheng Xiaodong to be a martial artist.
"The Swordsman" took a year to make. During this period, Hu Jinquan and Xu Ke had several conflicts. Both of them were the leaders of the crew. One was the director and the other was the producer. When they disagreed, neither of them agreed.
Don't give in.
"The Swordsman" collided with Cheng Long's "Eagle Project", and both films won respectively, but in terms of box office, Cheng Long was better.
The Hong Kong box office of "Eagle Project" when it was released was 39.04 million, while "The Swordsman" despite rave reviews, only had a box office of 16.88 million. This time Jiahe and Cheng Long won well, although they failed to break the 40 million box office
mark, but it completely dominated the entire Spring Festival movie season.
Just as "Eagle Project" was in theaters, Kang Jianfei's album finally came out.
There are only 4 songs in the entire album, namely the Cantonese songs "Queen's Road East" and "Capital", and the Mandarin songs "Pearl of the Orient" and "One Night in Beijing". Among them, "Queen's Road East" is a duet between Kang Jianfei and Luo Dayou.
, "One Night in Beijing" duet with Ye Qianwen.
There are prefaces on the front and north side of the record, one says Hong Kong and the other says Beijing.
The Hong Kong Side wrote:
If you don't know yet, Hong Kong is the only metropolis in the world with eagles circling in the sky.
If you don’t know yet…
For more than 150 years, Hong Kong has grown up in abandonment, struggling to survive in the cracks between the East and the West. Her history is the trajectory of a dream.
The strange thing is that anyone who comes here seems to gradually enter her dream and grow with her; and miraculously find their dream and don't want to leave.
Because they know that all the impossible difficulties have finally been resolved, and they continue to move forward like a dream.
So such an era finally arrived: the 1990s.
Living here, I feel like a broker, doing the biggest deal between history and the future.
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Wang Fei immediately got a cassette tape from her teacher. After listening to it, she didn’t know how to evaluate it. She could only say: “What a strange record.”
Dai Sicong said: "It's not strange, it's special. The style of "Queen's Road East" and "Capital" are unified. Kang Jianfei is expressing his position. He supports the return of Hong Kong and is optimistic about the reform and opening up of the mainland. As for "Pearl of the Orient" and "Pearl of the Orient"
"One Night in Beijing" is completely lyrical. The best thing is that he uses pop music to sing about the great love that has gone through vicissitudes of history, but also adds elements of Peking opera to express the love between men and women. The music style is so changeable that he can be called a genius.
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Wang Fei pondered the teacher's comment and said: "I still like the song "Pearl of the Orient" the best. "Queen's Avenue East" and "Capital" are too noisy, and "One Night in Beijing" is too frivolous."
Dai Sicong smiled and said: "There are many interpretations of this song "One Night in Beijing". At first glance, it seems to be about a one-night stand. But if you look carefully at the lyrics, it seems to be inspired by tourists on the streets of Beijing.
"Fa, I use Peking Opera to express the ancient capital's romance through the ages. Or, to be more complicated, it sings about the feelings of overseas travelers returning to Beijing, and the sad memories of things and people changing."
"Teacher, you're thinking too much, it's just a song." Wang Fei couldn't help complaining.
It's not just Dai Sicong who thinks too much. At this moment, there are countless people in Hong Kong who are pondering Kang Jianfei's lyrics.
To be honest, Fengxing Records did not overly promote "Queen's Road East", but as Kang Jianfei's first album in his life, he only needed to reveal a little information, and countless media would help promote it for free.
In Hong Kong, there are many people who hate Kang Jianfei and many who are jealous of Kang Jianfei, but there are more people who like to watch his movies, novels, and comics, and the number of die-hard fans alone is no less than that of first-line celebrities.
On the first day of release of "Queen's Road East", the record sales exceeded 10,000, and it continued to be a hit for more than half a month.
In another time and space, how popular was the song "Queen's Road East"? Not only was it played everywhere in the streets, but several movies at that time used this song as the theme song or episode.
It's better if it fits the theme. You said that the style of a comedy film or a gangster film is completely wrong. What's the weird idea behind using a song with such connotation as "Queen's Road East" as the theme song?
Quite simply, the lyrics of "Queen's Road East" touch the g-spot of Hong Kong citizens.
During the Spring Festival, people flocked to the theater to watch Cheng Long's "Eagle Project" and what they walked out of the theater to listen to was "Queen's Road East".
Video stores, department stores, taxis, streets and alleys... No matter where you go, as long as there is a place to play songs, "Queen's Road East" will creep into your ears like a ghost.
"Queen's Road West and Queen's Road East
Queen's Road East, turn to Queen's Road Central
Why is there no royal palace on Queen's Road East?
Crowds of people flocked to Queen's Road
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The lyrics, which are as catchy as nonsense, have simply sung into the hearts of Hong Kong citizens after being interpreted authoritatively by "Tian Tian Daily".
As for the song "Capital", it is far less popular than "Queen's Road East", and some of its lyrics were even criticized by some people as flattering.
Kang Jianfei was speechless. In another time and space, Luo Dayou sang "Capital", and there were not so many people scolding him. Moreover, the lyrics were flattering. They were clearly objective evaluations of whether they were good or not. Some of the lyrics were even very sensitive. Let's take it to the mainland.
It may even be banned.
Also controversial is "One Night in Beijing". This song is taken for granted as a one-night stand, and is believed to be the product of Kang Jianfei's affair in Beijing. There are actually gossip tabloids making up stories about Kang Jianfei some time ago.
While going north to watch the Asian Games, I had an affair with a certain mainland actress.
As for the song "Pearl of the Orient", if it were not sung in Mandarin, its popularity would definitely be no less than that of "Queen's Road East". Whether you hate Kang Jianfei or those who are jealous of him, you have to admit that this song has never been more popular.
The lyrics to the melody are all top-notch.
In less than a week, "Queen's Road East" had sold platinum sales. By the time the Lantern Festival came on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Kang Jianfei's debut album had already achieved four platinum sales.
Those who said that Kang Jianfei used "The Truman Show" to express his dissatisfaction with the mainland finally stopped messing around after the release of "Queen's Road East" and began to express strong contempt for Kang Jianfei.
Professional music critics' evaluations of this album are all positive. They can be summed up in two words: stunning.
After the Spring Festival, although the growth of record sales slowed down, it was still increasing. Later statistics showed that "Queen's Road East" sold a total of 320,000 copies in Hong Kong, which was the record sales of top singers.
Many years later, "Queen's Road East" ranked third on the Hong Kong pop album list of the 1990s selected by "Ming Pao Weekly". The reviewer's comment was: "This is the only small album selected in this list.
There are only 4 songs in this album, but it records the restlessness of Hong Kong in that era..." r1152
