231【Learning from Director Kang Jianfei】
The news that Kang Jianfei won seven major awards on his trip to Taipei was soon passed back to Hong Kong. Although the Hong Kong film industry has never attached importance to art films, his attention to winning awards is no less than that of Taiwanese filmmakers.
If a newly opened film company wins the Golden Horse Awards, it will also attract a lot of attention from its Hong Kong peers.
It is really unrealistic to want Chinese-language films to win awards in Europe and the United States. There are only a few people in the past few decades. In addition to the European and American international awards, the Asian Film Festival and the Golden Horse Awards are the most valuable. After the Asian Film Festival became an exhibition event, major Chinese-language film production areas such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore have focused their attention on the Golden Horse Awards.
In the past, Hong Kong movies were often nominated by the Golden Horse Awards, but basically five or six were nominated, and only one of them ended up winning the awards, and the winning rate was very low.
Like Kang Jianfei, he won 6 awards at the Golden Horse Awards at one time, which is the first time in the history of Hong Kong films.
Ming Pao Weekly commented: "Hong Kong films are rising at a rocket launch this year, which is not only reflected in the specific box office data, but also proves this from the perspective of Oriental DreamWorks' great gains at the Golden Horse Awards."
"Movie Biweekly" expressed some dissatisfaction with the Golden Horse Awards: "In terms of film art, "Dao Madan" is no lower than "Hit the Wrong Car". However, the released results are a bit disappointing. "Dao Madan" actually won only one Best Costume Design Award, which was obviously intentional for the Golden Horse Awards. Especially in "Dao Madan", Brigitte Lin, Cherie Chung and Rosamund Kwan, any one of them is qualified to win the Best Actress trophy, but all three of them were not selected, and the Best Actress Award was awarded to Zhang Aijia in "My Grandpa"..."
Taiwanese media are also very dissatisfied. Most people think that "The Wrong Car" only won 6 awards for 11 nominations. There are really few trophys. For example, the best supporting actress should be awarded to Jiang Xia in "The Wrong Car" because Jiang Xia's performance in the film is so perfect.
Kang Jianfei was amused and crying. He received several awards at the award ceremony, but he was a composer, screenwriter, producer, etc.
On the weekend after the Golden Horse Awards, the already recorded "Variety Show 100" was officially aired. Since China Television had a preview, many people turned the station and stayed in front of the TV, preparing to watch the TV program that Brigitte Lin participated in the recording many years later. That night, the ratings of China Television jumped to a terrifying 63%.
Don’t question this number. "Variety Show 100" is the highest-rated TV show in Taiwan, and it is higher than the TV series. In the years since "Variety Show 100", CTV defeated all the TV and China Television programs with a "Variety Show 100". It was not until the Hong Kong drama "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" that the ratings of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" were introduced by "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
The horror audience of this program. Kang Jianfei and others recorded only one of the units. In just over ten minutes, the promotional effect has exceeded the efforts of the hospital merchants.
A few days later, "The Legend of the Dao Ma Dan" was officially released in Taiwan. However, the New Year was over, and many theaters were filled.
In the film, Brigitte Lin's dressing up as a woman amazed Taiwanese audience. Taiwan's "Influence" magazine commented on the film: "Brigit Lin is very lucky. As a well-known actor with a fixed screen image, she met Director Kang Jianfei. In their first movie "The Royal Sister", Director Kang Jianfei made a big subversion, and Brigitte Lin, who was accustomed to playing a lady and a strong literary atmosphere, became a heroic super female policeman, and entered the Japanese and American market in one fell swoop...
With this achievement, director Kang Jianfei did not continue to make money by filming the sequel to "The Royal Sister" and instead took a look at the film in the early Republic of China. In the film, Lin Qingxia's men's image is definitely a classic on the screen. Although this film also has the affection of children, it is not as pretentious as most of Taiwan's current romance films. The director expressed the love between the five male and female protagonists with a desire. Instead, he focused more on friendship. The atmosphere of children in troubled times, family, country, and hatred was created very successfully, and brought the audience to another time and space...
According to statistics, Taiwan’s total box office of movies this year has shrunk again, and has been greatly outweighed by the total box office data of Hong Kong’s total movies. Two years ago, the total box office of Hong Kong’s total movies was lower than that of Taiwan. What does this mean? It means we are regressing.
After Bruce Lee's kung fu film became popular, everyone rushed to shoot kung fu films, but in four years, more than 200 shoddy Taiwanese kung fu films were not released, and they could only be ruined in the warehouse. After Liu Jiachang made a big sale in music romance films, the directors rushed to mass-produce inferior romance films, and then asked the songwriters to add interludes. Qiong Yao's movies were very popular, and everyone specialized in filming three-room movies. The audience is now looking at such movies.
Taiwanese filmmakers should learn more from director Kang Jianfei, and don’t be shoddy because of short-term interests, and follow the trend and become disasters. Judging from all the films of Oriental DreamWorks, this company has a very planned film production. After "Happy Ghost" and "Mr. Zombie" are sold, no matter how many people in the outside world follow the trend and shoot the same type of movie, Oriental DreamWorks will be separated by seven or eight months to make the sequel..."
"Influence" is the most famous professional film magazine in Taiwan. After a review of a film, most of them talk about Kang Jianfei and Oriental Dream Factory, and they also scolded Taiwanese filmmakers.
This review caused a lot of response in the Taiwanese film industry, but the final result was that it did not play any role. Those who made commercial films continued to follow the trend of mass production, while those who made artistic films became more and more niche, without considering the box office market at all.
Taiwan’s new movie. Inspur Movement is a little later than Hong Kong, but in fact it was inspired by the new movie.
Some knowledgeable 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 (which does have this factor), and coupled with the relaxation of the control of literary and artistic works by the Taiwan authorities, a new wave movement has also set off.
When the movement first started, the directors still took care of it all. Until later, the new directors made movies to win awards, and the movies they made were incomprehensible and were simply incomprehensible. Since then, Taiwanese movies have completely died.
The film review of "Influence" was considered a big advertisement for "Dao Ma Dan", attracting many old directors such as Li Xing and Bai Jingrui into the cinema.
With the popularity of "The Legend of the Sword", Rosamund Kwan and Cherie Chung, who are completely unfamiliar in Taiwan, have also become household names in Taiwan.
The "Three Dream Girls" packaged by Oriental Dream Factory are gradually accepted by more people. Rosamund Kwan and Chuhong Chung were considered popular by Lin Qingxia.
The box office response of the movie "Dao Madan" in Taiwan is much better than when it was released in Hong Kong. It may be because of the reason why Lin Qingxia starred, or it may be that Taiwanese audiences are more able to accept artistic movies. Anyway, the box office of "Dao Madan" is not less than that of "The Royal Sister".
Before 1981 passed, the box office of "The Legend of Dao Ma Dan" in Taiwan has reached NT$30 million, while "The Legend of Night" ("The Legend of the Ghost") released at the same time is very tragic, with the box office that has not exceeded the 10 million mark.
Whether it is Mecca, Wong Pai-ming, or Xu Ke, the director of this movie, they are extremely depressed in the face of this situation.
They originally wanted to take advantage of the Golden Horse Award nomination by "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to take the opportunity to release it in Taiwan to earn box office, but they didn't expect Kang Jianfei to have the same abacus.
After the two movies crashed, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was directly hit by "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and became paralyzed.
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In the conference room of New Art City, several giants were smoking cigarettes to discuss the company's next drama.
Zhang Aijia was so uncomfortable that she stood up and pushed the window open. Suddenly, a stream of cold air poured in, causing everyone to have a cold war together.
Huang Baiming asked: "Does anyone know what movie Kang Jianfei will be in the New Year?"
Mecca said: "I asked from Princess Jin, Manager Li, that Oriental DreamWorks will release a literary film "The Story of Hu Yue". In addition, DreamWorks has two more dramas being filmed, one is "The Horse of the City" and the other is "The Young Slayer". Among them, "The Story of Hu Yue" and "The Horse of the City" are the male and female protagonists of these two dramas are Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong."
Shi Tian immediately reacted: "It seems that Kang Jianfei is preparing to promote Zhou Runfa and Zhong Chuhong."
Huang Baiming suddenly said: "Do you think our New Art City should also be a newcomer?"
Since its founding, several bosses have basically been acting as actors, screenwriters, directors and producers. In addition, they are invited to act as famous actors.
For example, "Best Partner" is a big hit this time, but among the three starring actors, Mecca is the company's shareholder, Zhang Aijia is the company's executive, and Xu Guanjie is a long-standing freelance actor, and has no role in supporting newcomers at all.
New Art City has been established for more than a year, and so far, there are not many signed actors under its command.
Mecca nodded and said, "It's time to sign a few actors with potential, but this matter is not urgent now. The most important thing is to finalize the New Year show."
Huang Baiming said: "That's why I asked Kang Jianfei what kind of scene to play in the New Year. We must not collide with him. "The Legend of the Ghost" was overwhelmed by "The Legend of the Swords" in Taiwan. This is still a situation where the genres are different."
Shi Tian said: "Whatever he filmed? Our strength is to do comedy. As long as we play our comedy well, the box office will be guaranteed."
Mecca nodded and said, "Yes, Shi Tian makes sense. Actually, I already have an idea in my mind. Who still remembers the movie "Brothers in the 1960s"?"
Chapter completed!