Chapter 696: Shaking with anger, doesnt the supporting actor count as a human being?
The success of "Dark War" was actually expected by many people.
After all, the probability of Li Yi's failure is much lower than the probability of success.
Although the filming speed is fast, which makes some movie fans a little worried, after all, the cast of "Dark War" is the original cast of "Infernal Affairs".
But now the facts tell them that all their worries are unnecessary.
Not only that, because "Dark War" has a clearer style, from a commercial perspective, this movie has a wider audience than "Infernal Affairs".
The special romantic encounter on the bus also attracted many female viewers.
This has invisibly increased the box office potential of "Dark War" a lot.
It can be said that the factors that restrict the box office of police and gangster films to some extent have also been eliminated.
After all, fighting and killing are never what girls love, but "Dark War" is, to a certain extent, really about talking about love and fighting wits.
On the popular film review website, although the score of "Dark War" is not as high as "Infernal Affairs", the score has dropped after the large-scale release. However, the score of 8.9 points is still second only to "Infernal Affairs" in Hong Kong Island.
Second place among police movies.
However, although the rating is lower than that of "Infernal Affairs", its popularity and box office are no less than those of "Infernal Affairs".
Hong Kong movie fans and the media were even more outraged. There was no way around it. If "Infernal Affairs" was successful, you could still say it was just an exception.
The previous Hong Kong police and gangster films failed, and many people clamored that Hong Kong police and gangster films are no longer suitable for this era, and "Infernal Affairs" is just a flash in the pan.
But now, how long has it been?
"Infernal Affairs" everyone feels that the classic is difficult to copy, so it is not universal, but what is the result?
"Dark War" strikes again, with the same original cast and crew, but a completely different story, and the story is actually not particularly novel.
The same two-hero structure, a strong flavor of Hong Kong movies, and full of feelings of old Hong Kong movies, what does this mean?
It's not that audiences don't like watching Hong Kong police and gangster movies, but that many directors simply don't put the effort into filming or telling a good story.
After "Dark War" received a box office of 230 million on the first day, word-of-mouth gained momentum the next day, and the media began to report a lot.
The box office reached a new high, with a box office of 260 million.
However, what is interesting is that there is a new topic that has become popular among netizens.
Because when promoting the movie, they said, "In this movie, although there are police and gangsters who use knives and guns, in general, no one died. The bombs were always fake, and the hostages also faked their deaths.
The "blood" that flowed out always felt like edible ketchup, and some people were beaten, but the injury was on their noses. After applying plaster, they just looked like clowns."
But this "no one died" was dug out by the serious audience.
In fact, generally speaking, the so-called "no one died" in the movie mainly refers to the main characters.
Those supporting roles are usually not included in the calculation.
But if we really want to be more serious, isn’t the actor no longer a human being?
"Isn't the actor a human being? The bank robbery at the beginning, and the body I saw was also fake?"
"The corpse upstairs is indeed fake. Who is acting with a real corpse?"
"You are really a clever little guy upstairs."
"One thing is easy. From a movie perspective, if no one dies, it means no one of the main characters dies. For example, Andy knew he was going to die, but the movie didn't say he died, so he probably didn't die either!"
"Haha, am I not a human being?"
"Well, generally speaking, those two foreigners are indeed not considered "people"!"
"I'm so angry. When can we, the walk-ons, stand up?"
"Sorry, the walk-on guy just can't stand up!"
For a time, the style of painting was distorted. Netizens started a new round of debate on whether the supporting characters in the movie are human beings.
The box office of "Dark War" also continued to advance, and it grossed 1 billion in box office during the four-day May Day holiday.
Of course, this is also because of Li Yi's intimidating power, which caused other movies in the same period to be withdrawn.
Coupled with the huge sales of "Dark War", the film schedule is almost getting higher day by day.
At the highest point, it even exceeded 80% of the film schedule. If it were not for the fact that May Day is not a schedule like the Spring Festival, otherwise, the daily box office would definitely be higher.
But even if this is the case, it is almost a matter of time before the box office of "Dark War" surpasses "Infernal Affairs".
"Dark War" was well received and a box office hit.
People like Wang Feng in the past have shut up. After all, they blamed the scissors, and it was the scissors that cut out their movies, which led to the box office failure.
what about now?
There is nothing particularly sensitive in "Dark War" throughout.
Big scissors means you can pass the trial without cutting a single blade.
Isn't "Dark War" a hit?
However, there was "Infernal Affairs" before and then "Dark War". Although "Dark War" has only been released for a few days, it is already a fact that it is a hit.
You can say one is an example, but what about the other?
When Li Yi was being interviewed by reporters, he was naturally asked again about the topic of the revival of Hong Kong films.
"Does the success of "Dark War" mark the arrival of a renaissance era for police and gangster films in Hong Kong?"
"Of course I hope so. Chinese-language films need a hundred flowers to bloom. Hong Kong films are an important part of Chinese-language films. I certainly hope that Hong Kong films can regain their glory, even if only one genre can survive.
But it’s not enough for me alone!
In fact, this is really the best era for Hong Kong movies, and it is also the last era of revival. Once you miss it, it may be really difficult to see it again in the future."
"Why do you say that?"
"Because, in this era, the sentiments of Hong Kong films have not been wiped away by those shoddy and bad films. It can be said that old Hong Kong films have entrusted the youth and childhood of many old movie fans.
In fact, many people on the Internet lamented why the old Hong Kong films from back then were quite good films now.
However, those directors and actors who were once active in the golden age of Hong Kong films have not completely retired yet and can continue to make and act in movies.
The mainstream group of movie watchers also have a large number of Hong Kong movie fans, so whether it is "Infernal Affairs" or "Dark War", they all have emotional bonuses, so as long as the movie is well-made, there is really no need
Worry about the audience.
But if when this group of old directors, old actors get old, when this group of old movie fans get old, but Hong Kong films have not yet ushered in a rebirth, then the new generation of audiences, unlike the current audience, are watching
Having grown up in old Hong Kong movies, they don’t have any special feelings towards Hong Kong movies.
Therefore, I hope that even if Hong Kong films cannot be revived, at least those who once had good impressions of Hong Kong films will not be wiped out, and at least the new generation of movie fans who have grown up will not be unfamiliar with Hong Kong films. Otherwise, Hong Kong films will
