From the perspective of film genres, spy films are not a type of genre film, but a branch of police and gangster films.
As far as China is concerned, whether in mainland China or Taiwan, spy films have appeared very early and have strong political implications. Their propaganda effect is far greater than their storytelling.
As for spy movies in Hong Kong, they are a rare genre. Hong Kong audiences are very familiar with undercover police movies, but they have no idea about spy movies, so "The Wind" is definitely a very novel thing.
Take Zhou Jiaming for example. After watching "The Wind", he only had an unclear feeling. He was shocked by the cruelty and excitement of the spy war. Especially the heroine relied on being a heroine and used needlework to embroider the encrypted Morse code.
, and finally successfully delivered the message.
Damn, this is so cool!
The hidden flashes of swords and murderous intent are far more tense than the fiery gun battles and fierce fighting, giving Zhou Jiaming an unprecedented movie-watching experience.
As for the patriotic feelings in it, to be honest, Zhou Jiaming really has no feelings about it. Although his grandfathers all took refuge in Hong Kong from the mainland, and his parents can also speak a few words of Mandarin, Zhou Jiaming himself has no special feelings for China.
For Zhou Jiaming, "The Wind" is a very good high-intelligence spy drama, which is very enjoyable to watch, but that's all. If I have to add some feelings, it is that the two heroines are very beautiful.
Zhou Jiaming's movie-watching experience represents the views of most young Hong Kong audiences.
More than ten years ago, when Huo Yuanjia and Chen Zhen violently beat the Japanese Japanese on TV, the Hong Kong audience in front of the TV cheered loudly. This situation is gone forever. The new generation born and raised in Hong Kong even emotionally
More towards the UK.
This change can be seen in film and television works. In the previous movies of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the Japanese and Japanese in the movies were all bad guys. In Li Lianjie's "Fist of Heroes" two years ago, the Japanese and Japanese in the movie were all bad guys.
There are bad things, and the feelings of family and country are no longer a selling point and can only be reduced to the background of the story.
On the contrary, in Taiwan, "The Wind" may have more market, although Mr. Li is currently greening Taiwan.
Oriental Film and Television Distribution Company is actively operating, and "The Wind" should land in Taiwan this summer. The "Old Ghost" and "Old Gun" in this film do not emphasize which force they are spies. You can think of them as Chinese spies.
The G underground party can also be considered as the military commanders of the Kuomintang.
Even if it were placed in Taiwan, "The Wind" could still be a "patriotic film."
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Although Hong Kong audiences viewed "The Wind" as a special police and gangster film, this novel genre still ignited the public's enthusiasm for watching movies. Especially those older audiences over 40 years old, whose feelings about home and country have not yet been wiped out, and they are interested in watching movies.
"The Wind" is particularly praised and loved. (Hong Kong had a population of just over one million in 1950, less than half of whom spoke Cantonese. Now it has a population of more than 6 million, many of whom came from the mainland.)
After one month of screening, the Hong Kong box office of "The Wind" was close to the 0 million mark, which shocked countless colleagues in the film industry.
In comparison, Zhou Xingchi was much more depressed.
He had previously built his own film studio, which was affiliated with Oriental DreamWorks. Last year, he upgraded the studio to Caixing Film Company. He invested more than 60 million in the movie "Westward Journey", of which DreamWorks only invested
5 million, and the remaining 5 million was Zhou Xingchi’s own money.
In the sluggish Hong Kong film environment, no one dares to spend their own money to make films. Zhou Xingchi's move shows that he still has a lot of revenge.
At the beginning, "Westward Journey" was only planned to be shot in one piece. However, as the filming progressed, the plot has deviated from Liu Zhenwei and Zhou Xingchi's estimation, and it can only be divided into two parts for release.
The first "Moonlight Box" had a good momentum at the beginning, with more than 5 million box office in two days, and the audience came here because of Zhou Xingchi's name. But it soon stopped working, and the attendance rate dropped crazily.
The local box office is only 5 million. Now that the screening of the second film "The Monkey King" ("Cinderella") has ended, the box office of 0 million has made Zhou Xingchi cry without tears.
The total box office is only 45 million. If the theaters and theater chains share the revenue and then deduct taxes, the producer can get at most 0 million, which is only one-third of the cost.
Zhou Xingchi's Caixing Film Company will lose at least 15 million this time. It depends on how much it can make back at the overseas box office. Oriental Film and Television Distribution Company is doing well, and the overseas box office will still give some share. It is not as rogue as Jiahe.
The overseas box office is often misappropriated, so the producers can only choose to sell off the copyright instead of sharing a share.
After the two "Westward Journey" movies were released, Zhou Xingchi locked himself in the house for two weeks, even missing his girlfriend Mok Wenwei. The main plot of this movie was written by Liu Zhenwei, but many details belong to Zhou Xingchi
Design, and now the movie has hit the market, which has completely destroyed Zhou Xingchi's self-confidence.
After being depressed for half a month, Zhou Xingchi finally adjusted his mentality and drove out in a sports car to a nearby Chinese restaurant.
"Mr. Zhou, what would you like to eat?" The waiter was already immune to Zhou Xingchi because he often came here to eat.
Zhou Xingchi said: "A portion of fried rice."
"OK, just a second."
Ten minutes later, the waiter did not show up. Instead, a chef in a white hat came. The chef put the fried rice on the table and said, "Your rice is here."
Zhou Xingchi looked up and saw that it was an old acquaintance, and said with a smile: "It's you again, where is the waiter?"
The chef replied: "It seems that he has gone to the latrine. I shouted in the kitchen for a long time but no one answered."
Zhou Xingchi said: "I'm surprised, your fried rice is so delicious, why do you work in such a mid-range restaurant?"
The chef said with emotion: "I used to be the chef of Fulinmen. You know the gambling king Stanley Ho. He would eat my special fried rice for 5,000 yuan a time. Later I quit my job and opened my own shop, and I could earn hundreds of thousands a month. The business
It grew bigger and bigger, and even opened three branches."
"So powerful?" Zhou Xingchi said in surprise.
The chef smiled bitterly and said, "It's a pity that my friend tricked me and asked me if I wanted some low-priced beef. I was greedy at the time, so I just said yes."
"Then what?" Zhou Xingchi asked curiously.
The chef sighed: "Then I was tricked. It was a piece of smuggled problematic beef. Not only was I fined a large amount of money, but I was also ordered to close the business for rectification. When I reopened, the bad news had already spread, and no nearby diners were willing to do so."
Dine in my restaurant. All the tens of millions of dollars I saved over the past ten years were wasted in just three months."
"Then you are worse off than me." Zhou Xingchi said with emotion. He found that his setbacks seemed nothing compared to the chef.
The two soon started chatting, talking about the chef's experiences back then. Zhou Xingchi felt that this kind of story was very dramatic and might be made into a movie.
The chef's name is Dai Long, the fried rice king in "God of Cookery" who didn't use overnight rice to make fried rice and was given a zero score by Zhou Xingchi. (To be continued)
