Preach in words. - Don Tears
As far as the Hong Kong film industry is concerned, the box office domination of the past years on Two Mondays is like a myth.
After entering the new century, except for Zhou Xingchi's three lonely and defeat-seeking shots, others cannot talk about the concept of box office domination at all.
Andy Lau and Liang Chaowei each won three annual crowns, but only accounted for four annual places, Jet Li once, Jay Chou once, and the last time was Huang Baiming's group drama comedy film, which can be called the weakest annual crown in history.
In the 1910s, Zhen Zidan won the annual crown twice, Aaron Kwok won the annual crown twice and broke a record, and the two of them each rushed to the 60 million box office at one time.
Others are roughly accidental factors and are not stable.
A previous article analyzed that the box office myth of biweekly comes from the triple strength of the genre, actors and film companies.
As far as today is concerned, the first is the decline in the attractiveness of the theme, the second is that the reputation of the actors is not enough, and the strength of major film companies is also seriously declining, so the box office of Hong Kong films shows a declining appearance.
Specifically, the three actors who performed the strongest at the Hong Kong box office have their own different situations.
That is, Aaron Kwok, Zhen Zidan and Andy Lau are three giant actors.
It can be analyzed, compared and confirmed one by one.
First, let's talk about Aaron Kwok.
It was not easy for him to win the best box office performance with the smallest number of works, especially the small number of commercial works.
In the past two decades, he has released 35 films, including 25 Hong Kong film concepts and 14 commercial films, and the specific box office performance is two annual crowns and one year asian, one record-breaking, and ten times entering the top ten box office list.
The quality of his works is very impressive, and the speed and magnitude of his acting skills are beyond everyone's imagination.
But in terms of box office performance, he has a fatal flaw, that is, he has taken over too many small-budget and niche literary genre films.
Many movies can actually know whether there will be box office performance at the script stage.
For example, "Judo Dragon and Tiger List" talks about faith, "Father and Son" talks about the bottom, "C+ Detective" is small cost suspense, "Favorite" is pure literature and art, "Centennial Floating City" is about Hong Kong people looking for roots, "Christmas Rose" is Yang Caini's small-cost wish film, "Blood Seeking Plum" is Weng Ziguang's realistic exploration, and "Mai Luren" is a portrayal of the suffering of marginal people.
Compared with Zhou Runfa's film list from his rise in 1986 to 1995, there are a total of 46 films, of which only five are literary and artistic niches, and the others belong to the three types of films: gunfight action, gangster and comedy.
So if you want to perform well at the box office, you must choose a commercially entertaining movie, which is the only way.
For example, Aaron Kwok's "Cold War", "Peerless", "Journey to the West" Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essence" and even including "Wind and Cloud 2", the top ten box office lists of this genre are almost ten to nine stable, and there is a probability of winning the annual crown or even breaking records, of course, niche movies will also have good performances, such as "Murderer" and "Mai Luren" have entered the top ten, but after all, the possibility is much smaller.
Of course, for an actor, it is indeed a good thing that commercial literature and art are affirmed.
At least the industry and fans who pay attention to the quality of the film will pay attention to and agree.
Let's talk about Zhen Zidan.
In the 1990s, because Jackie Chan and Jet Li were too dazzling, Zhen Zidan had no sense of existence.
His start should have started with 2002's "Heroes", when fans finally discovered that there was a very good action actor.
In the past 20 years, 40 films have been released, including 32 Hong Kong films, almost all of which are commercial films, and the box office performance is two times the annual crown and one year, a total of eighteen times into the top ten box office list.
The only action superstar in the Hong Kong film industry today, the strongest work is the "Ip Man" series.
There is no shortcoming in his film genre, and basically all of them are action movies that he is good at and popular in the market.
But why doesn't Zhen Zidan have the box office dominance of Jackie Chan in the past?
Analysis from the actor's situation.
On the action skills, Zhen Zidan and Jackie Chan, Jet Li can be compared, and his style is more realistic, and like Jackie Chan, he is biased towards fashion action movies.
If you want to talk about the gap, it may be the acting ability first. Compared with Jackie Chan and Jet Li, Zhen Zidan does have a certain gap in acting performance, and secondly, Jackie Chan's film combines comedic elements, this factor cannot be underestimated, and Zhen Zidan is almost a pure fashion action movie, and in terms of drama, the attraction to the audience is two points weaker.
Therefore, if Zhen Zidan wants to maintain the trend of high box office, he needs to start from the series of movies and create a high-quality signature way, of course, he can no longer go to Jackie Chan's comedy kung fu route, but should take the route of large investment crime action movies, as the only remaining action superstar, the audience is still relatively buying, such as this year's "Anger · Serious Case".
The third place is Andy Lau.
Why put him at the end? Because in the past decade, his performance at the top box office in Hong Kong has been slightly inferior, the best result is a year, and if it comes to the highest box office, he only has the fifty million box office of "Infernal Affairs" in the 00s.
In the past 20 years, he has released 53 works, including 8 cameos, 37 Hong Kong film concept works, 43 commercial films, and 6 niche literary and art films, with box office performances of three annual crowns and five annual asian titles, and another 28 times entering the top ten box office list.
So Andy Lau is popular and the commercial entertainment of the film is enough, why is it still impossible to match Chow Yun-fat?
This question may still start with the two issues of acting and film quality.
Zhou Runfa tried a large number of niche literary and artistic films before his rise with "Hero Nature", although he was named "box office poison", but the tempering effect of acting ability has been very significant, otherwise he would not have won five film emperors in six years, and Andy Lau almost never stopped on the road of commercial entertainment movies after cooperating with Wang Jing in 1986 with Wang Jing", and the performance lacked precipitation and quenching.
What followed, of course, was the homogenization of a large number of films, which were popular enough, but the quality was uneven.
Therefore, if Andy Lau wants to go further at the box office, first of all, he needs to optimize the script, reduce the quantity and seek quality, and then strive to make a breakthrough in performance under the condition of inertia for many years.
The above three basically represent the three with the strongest box office ability among Hong Kong actors.
The so-called difference is only the level of the trend stage.
Among them, Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau benchmarked Chow Yun Fat and Zhen Zidan against Jackie Chan, and as for Chow Sing Chi, no one can approach it.
And the time of the three in the same period, or only the last five years.
After all, the years make people old.