Preach in words. - Don Tears
December 23, 1997.
Aaron Kwok released a brand new album, "Sing This Song."
The choice of the record to be released on Christmas Eve of that year should be the reason for the start of the collaboration with Pepsi.
There is a song called "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield" that is of excellent quality.
In particular, the treatment of the last sentence of the ending vibrato is simply a pinnacle idea, and interested fans can try it.
Eight years later, PepsiCo wanted Aaron Kwok to renew his contract.
He refused on the grounds that he was "mature enough", and it was ridiculous that some media still hyped up the news that he was fired by PepsiCo.
Aaron Kwok has since begun to focus on the film industry.
From this incident, it can be seen that Aaron Kwok is extremely bold.
A year of more than ten million advertising endorsement fees, say throw away, completely do not drag mud and water, at that time, this endorsement fee can almost equal the top Red Star two or three movies of the film remuneration figures.
And this song corresponds to some people's pickiness about him.
Quan dang understood that he was red enough.
For more than ten years, he has attacked the city all the way.
The hardness of his work can be compared with any actor in Hong Kong, and even one of the actors who can play the most.
He is not only the most progressive actor in Hong Kong, but also ranks among the top acting schools in the Hong Kong film industry with his irrefutable acting performance.
This is already the consensus of the vast majority of people.
He is the touchstone for a new director in Hong Kong. As long as there is a good script and excellent film language ability, there is a chance to step up to the sky through cooperation with him, such as Zhou Xianyang of "Murderer", Lu Jianqing and Liang Lemin of "Cold War", Weng Ziguang of "Blood and Plum", and even Zhuang Wenqiang of "Peerless", basically these directors locked him in the script stage.
He can also be called a stabilizer of a movie. However, all the films in which he participated can be regarded as quality assurance, such as the newly filmed movie "Sweeping Drugs 3", that is, the investor directly named him to airborne starring.
In other words, Aaron Kwok's films may not necessarily be good,000, but they will almost certainly be of high quality.
And because his works are either on the edge of reality or epic themes, or suspenseful brain-burning genres, even commercial movies must be watched with brains, such as "Cold War" and "Peerless", which brings about mutual choice and abandonment between movies, actors and some audiences.
But the concept of good looks isn't exactly commercial entertainment.
This road of word-of-mouth and box office, of course, he will continue to go, which is also his difference from many actors.
Because he never only pursues the box office effect, the box office is only a by-product of the work for him.
And this brings up a question that constantly appears in the comment area, in addition to the excellent quality of acting and works, does he have the ability to carry the box office?
Filtering out those deliberately troublesome black steps, some of the doubts are actually serious.
For example, they believe that Aaron Kwok lacks a single antibody box office.
In fact, the existence of this problem itself also shows the strength of Aaron Kwok's box office data.
The only thing that can be questioned is the problem of the single protagonist.
That being the case, let's focus on the concepts of "box office and protagonist".
Any doubt can exist.
However, the question itself should clarify the root cause, and it is not advisable to confuse right and wrong.
One of the most important problems to understand is the box office of niche literary and commercial entertainment films.
For example, the convention in Europe and the United States is to require the theater to reserve a certain number of films for literary and artistic films, which means that it is known that this type of film is not a genre that the audience likes to hear to a large extent, nor is it directed at the box office at all, and its literary and social value is higher than the box office value.
Therefore, if you want to accurately judge an actor's performance ability, you should give priority to their literary niche films and some commercial drama films, and if you want to talk about box office issues, you should remove the niche literary and artistic genre and take commercial production as the benchmark.
The reference objects are Andy Lau, Zheng Yijian and Gu Tianle, three actors with outstanding commercial box office.
First of all, review the box office situation in the five years before his debut (1990-1995).
A total of 20 films were featured, excluding two star films and two cameo films, for a total of 16 films, including starring and supporting actors, which can be observed at the box office.
Two films at the box office of 20 million, namely the films "Five Hundred Million Inspector Leiluo Biography 2 Father and Son Feud" and "91 Divine Eagle Heroes" cooperated with Andy Lau, two at the box office of more than 10 million, one is the starring "Biography of the Hero who Truant School", the other is the film "Dragon God Prince" cooperated with Andy Lau, in addition, "Heavenly Love 2 Days and Long Days" is close to ten million, and the remaining 11 films range from two million to eight million.
Five years before Andy Lau's debut (1981~1985), he made nine films, excluding a dragon set and two cameos, there were six countable box offices, three with a box office of more than 10 million, namely "Run to the Fury Sea" and starring "Unstoppable Love" and "Extralegal Affair", and the other three were below five million.
Zheng Yijian debuted slightly later than Aaron Kwok in the film circle, but can basically be regarded as an actor of the same period, participating in 11 movies in the same period (1992~1995), excluding the previous five cameo supporting films, and the highest of the other six films was the "New Hero Nature" with Liu Qingyun with 8.17 million.
The above data can be concluded that the appeal of the three people in the newcomer period is roughly similar and Zheng Yijian is slightly weaker, and it can be seen from the number of films that Aaron Kwok is indeed a hit, but the quality of the film is uneven, mainly commercial films.
The second five years (1996-2000).
In the past five years, Aaron Kwok has mainly made efforts in the music scene, and has reduced a large number of films in terms of films, shooting a total of six movies.
After the novice period, we only look at the protagonist commercial films.
Aaron Kwok has four commercial protagonist films, including one of the annual crowns, namely "The Mighty Storm" of 41.53 million, one of the 20 million level, that is, "Thunder X-Men" of 20.51 million, and two of the more than 10 million level, namely "Romantic Storm" and "2000 AD".
Andy Lau entered the explosive period of filming, and in the second five years of his career, he made a total of 31 commercial protagonist films, including one of the 40 million level, that is, "The Gambler" cooperated with Stephen Chow, two of the 20 million level, namely "Best Friend" and "Supreme Supreme", 21 tens of millions, and 7 from 4 million to 9 million.
Zheng Yijian has 17 commercial protagonist films, one of which is "The Majesty of the Wind and Clouds", six of which are over 20 million, six of which are over 10 million, and four of which are less than 8 million, and the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series of movies accounts for six of the total number of movies.
Gu Tianle has made 19 films in five years, the highest box office is the supporting role of Andy Lau's "Dragon on the Edge" 8.3 million, other films from 240,000 to 7.3 million cap, ignored.
Andy Lau's box office performance at this stage was roughly similar to that of the entire 1990s, and between 1990 and 2000 he made 45 commercial protagonist films, four at the 30 million level, eight at the 20 million level, twenty-one films in the tens of millions, and 12 films in the other 12 films.
Therefore, on the whole, Aaron Kwok and Zheng Yijian both won the annual championship in the first decade of their careers, and Andy Lau was particularly strong at the average box office in the case of a large number of works, so there was actually no obvious gap in the appeal of the commercial box office at this stage, but this five years was already the peak of Zheng Yijian, and Andy Lau was still on the eve of the peak, and Aaron Kwok did not even count the prelude period.
The next ten years, into the zero zero.
Aaron Kwok's film production is still extremely low, a total of ten films have been made in ten years, of which five commercial genres, only one "Wind and Cloud 2" has a box office of more than 15 million, while the other two literary and artistic niche "Judo Dragon and Tiger List" and "Murderer" have suddenly surpassed 10 million, which is considered to save face.
Andy Lau starred in 21 commercial films, including one 50 million ("Infernal Affairs"), 40 million ("Thin Men and Women"), 5 20 million, 10 million, and 3 below 10 million.
Zheng Yijian filmed 19 films, more than 10 million three, "Wind and Cloud 2" is the culmination, and the other 16 films range from 300,000 to 8 million.
Gu Tianle starred in 22 commercial films in ten years, of which 15 were over 10 million, two were over 20 million, and the lowest box office was 1.29 million.
On the whole, the strongest box office ability in this decade is Andy Lau, Zheng Yijian is going down day by day, Gu Tianle is gradually getting stronger, and Aaron Kwok is in the transition period of the film road, which belongs to the stage of his weakest appeal.
In addition to the Hong Kong box office, it is necessary to introduce mainland box office data and distinguish between film regions.
Aaron Kwok has made nine commercial films, one in Hong Kong ("Cold War 2"), one forty million ("Cold War"), one for 30 million ("Peerless"), one for 20 million ("Journey to the West") and one for 10 million ("Journey to the West" Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences), all five of which are works with Hong Kong film attributes.
The mainland box office situation is three billion-level films, including "Peerless", "Journey to the West of Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essence" and "Journey to the West of the Great Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", in addition to "Breaking the Game" and "Secret War", the other four commercial films are also over 100 million.
Andy Lau starred in fourteen commercial films, four of the 20 million level, one of the 10 million level, other works do not belong to the category of Hong Kong films, there are three billion-level box offices in the mainland, namely "Macau Storm 3", "Anti-Drug 2" and "Bomb Disposal Expert 2", and another 100 million films, partner Gong Li's "I Know the Woman's Heart" failed, the box office did not exceed 100 million.
The number of Gu Tianle movies is too dense, rough statistics of one billion ("Sweeping Drugs 2"), more than 210 million, and another 15 are less than 100 million, and the Hong Kong box office is also up and down.
In terms of the performance of the three people, the Hong Kong regional head box office Aaron Kwok is stronger, the mainland head box office Andy Lau is slightly stronger, when it comes to the box office stability of commercial films, the worst of the three is Gu Tianle, and the head box office is obviously weak.
In summary, the data shows.
As far as commercial films are concerned, The appeal of Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok is fully able to tie for the top.
This is also a conclusion supported by the data of the works.
As for the single-master question raised by some people, in fact, it has long been said that if the double main genre is excluded, the top 30 Hong Kong box office or only the four people left are double Zhou Cheng and Zhen Zidan, who also occupy the advantage of genre films.
And why are high-grossing commercial films almost all double-male structures?
Quite simply, the current Hong Kong film market no longer has the abundant resources of the past, and from an investment perspective, it hopes to reduce risk.
Previously, we have also talked about the advantages and shortcomings of the major giants of Hong Kong films.
From Aaron Kwok's point of view, he did not target the box office, so a single protagonist or multiple protagonists mean nothing to him.
But if you think differently.
Whether in terms of age or physical condition, Aaron Kwok will have a longer career period than Andy Lau and Zhen Zidan.
Therefore, when the other two people retire, the probability of Aaron Kwok's single-handed battle will increase, so the future performance of Hong Kong movies farther away may still fall on Aaron Kwok.
And because of its acting ability and starlight double strong advantages and trends.
He may be able to lay the final heights of Hong Kong cinema.
Only by abandoning the narrow fan vision can we recognize the facts.
It is really funny to pretend to be confused and deliberately confuse the box office performance of commercial and literary films.
Aaron Kwok continues to polish himself.
In fact, he doesn't need fans to wave the flag, because the truth is there.
All articles are only for the restoration of the truth.
Reason speaks, vice versa.