Recently, "The Furious Case" was released in theaters.
As the famous Hong Kong director Chen Musheng, his last work before his death.
"Furious Case", like his previous works, is adrenaline-pumping.
And the evaluation is also very good, Maoyan predicts that the box office of "Fury Case" will be 1 billion.
In recent years, there have been few Hong Kong films with such high box office.
As we all know, over the years, Hong Kong films have gradually declined.
The decline of Hong Kong films has also led to the decline of the living conditions of Hong Kong actors.
It is reported that more than 600 actors in Hong Kong have lost their jobs.
Those who are not unemployed can only receive a basic salary that cannot be lowered.
For example, 47-year-old Hong Kong actor Ao Jianian, in recent years, can not find a job, can only change careers to hair shop apprentices, tea house tea workers, porters...
The former TVB Huadan Wen Bixia, in order to make money, appeared in a shopping mall, and the out-of-tune star X sensibly sang; on the live broadcast, and a certain Internet celebrity who exploded the foul mouth played PK, and was said to be cheap by netizens;
Luo Jialiang, a former TVB brother, was forced to survive and also stood on the commercial performance stage in the mainland.......
The current situation of Hong Kong actors is really sad.
But what many people don't know is that their heartache has long been experienced by mainland actors.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" >1 Jet Li once wanted to play a dead body</h1>
In 1980, 17-year-old Jet Li was invited by Zhang Xinyan to enter the crew of "Shaolin Temple".
At that time, the treatment of Actors from Hong Kong and mainland China was very different.
When filming "Shaolin Temple", Jet Li's salary was one yuan a day; by the time of the third "North and South Shaolin", it had risen to three yuan a day.
At that time, the average annual wage of urban workers in China was 762 yuan, and the monthly wage was 63.5 yuan, which was converted to about 2.1 yuan per day.
That is to say, when Jet Li filmed "North and South Shaolin", his salary was only 0.9 yuan more than the average salary.
Compared with the hard money he earned with sweat, Jet Li was surprised to find that the Hong Kong actors with the same crew could earn 150,000 yuan per month!
Even those who play dead bodies are paid 47 yuan more a day than themselves.
The reluctant Jet Li found the director's theory:
Why do I shoot from morning to night, the salary is so low; those people, just behind my back, mess around with the painting, but the salary is higher than mine, no, I also want to play a dead body!
Watching the movie has been filmed for a long time, the loss of changing the protagonist is very large.
The director eventually agreed that Jet Li could play a dead body part-time after he finished filming his own scenes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="187" >2 Liu Xiaoqing cries and wants to eat meat</h1>
Liu Xiaoqing, as a popular sister in the film industry in the 80s, became red with "Furong Town", "Little Flower" and "Look at this family".
Liu Xiaoqing originally thought that he was already a "dragon and phoenix among people".
But when she and Leung Ka-fai collaborated on "Burning the Yuanmingyuan", she knew what "the first time a countryman entered the city".
At that time, she had no salary for filmmaking, and only had a salary of 50 yuan.
The six-year-old child of the same era, following the director Yang Jie, filmed "Journey to the West" for 6 years, and only took 2,000 yuan.
This was the real situation of the salaries of mainland actors at that time.
The Hong Kong actors who ran the dragon set in the crew couldn't believe it:
You are such a big star, and you are the number one actress in the whole film will have no money?
Later, when he inquired, Liu Xiaoqing learned that Hong Kong actors running a dragon set are N times higher than their own salaries.
And that's not all.
After filming and resting, Hong Kong actors who play the little girl have a hotel room to sleep, Liu Xiaoqing, can only find a place to lie down, make a bunk, squint your eyes.
On the shooting scene, when it was time for mainland actors to eat, each person was given two large steamed buns and a lump of black knotty pickles.
The Hong Kong actor is a dining car, the dining car has braised pork, pot meat, steamed fish, white rice, everything, Hong Kong actors can eat as long as they have a meal ticket.
This scene made Liu Xiaoqing, a group of mainland actors, salivate.
Later, Liu Xiaoqing found that Liang Jiahui did not finish eating the box lunch every time, and would tear up the meal ticket and rush it into the toilet.
Therefore, she took advantage of Liang Jiahui's lack of attention and secretly tore up his meal ticket to go to dinner.
One day, Liu Xiaoqing finally couldn't help but cry, crying and shouting to eat rice and meat.
The production director hurriedly said that he was good and immediately ordered to take meat and rice, but Liu Xiaoqing was not satisfied, saying that he wanted everyone to eat and eat meat.
The production director said with embarrassment: No.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="189" >3 Wu Jing didn't even have a box lunch</h1>
In 1996, Zhang Xinyan, who had promoted Jet Li, tailored a play "Tai Chi Grandmaster" for the 22-year-old Wu Jing.
At that time, the mainland technology was not mature in all aspects, so it was still the shooting team in Hong Kong.
During the filming, Wu Jing went late, often did not receive a box lunch, and no one kept it for him.
He could only have what was left and what to eat.
When it was necessary to change clothes, other Hong Kong actors had assistants to help change clothes, but Wu Jing did not.
The staff of the costume group, coldly pointed to the clothes and let him change them himself.
Once, Wu Jing's mother's birthday arrived. He wanted to call his mother and wish her a happy birthday, but was intimidated by the staff at the scene:
If you don't have money, don't fight.
Seven years later, Wu Jing moved to Hong Kong, the mecca of martial arts films.
After staying up for a year and eating the last meal without eating, he finally got a small supporting role in "Kill the Wolf".
At that time, there was a scene, and the brother Zhen Zidan was fighting.
During filming, Zhen Zidan broke 4 solid wooden sticks towards the same part of Wu Jing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="195" >4 Zhang Fengyi's film remuneration is only one percent of Zhang Guorong</h1>
At the beginning of 1990, Zhang Guorong came to the mainland to shoot "Farewell to the King", and the salary was as high as 1 million Hong Kong dollars.
At that time, Zhang Fengyi, who was in the same crew, as the second male, was said to be paid only a few hundred yuan.
There is also a saying that it is about ten thousand yuan.
It is worth mentioning that the same is the quiet debut of the 90s, when he went to the film studio, the monthly salary was only 195 yuan.
At that time, for most mainland actors, Zhang Guorong's 1 million was an unimaginable huge fortune.
Even if Zhang Fengyi's remuneration is really 10,000, it is 100 times different from Zhang Guorong.
In terms of salary, Zhang Guorong not only "crushed" Zhang Fengyi, but also received preferential treatment from the crew during filming.
At that time, Xu Feng, the owner of Tomson Pictures, specially arranged a hotel for him and invited a nanny.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="197" >5 Hong Kong star status is superior</h1>
In the new century, Hong Kong has been affected by the financial crisis, and the film market is not as good as before.
However, Hong Kong artists still maintain appeal and superior treatment.
In 2000, second-tier Hong Kong star Leung Wing-chi came to the mainland to shoot the family film "My Brothers and Sisters".
After the film was released, it was a huge success at the box office, ranking sixth in the annual list, beating xu Ke's "The Legend of Shushan" and Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour 2", as well as Hollywood blockbuster "Swordfish Action" and other blockbusters.
Is it how well she plays?
Not. Standing next to the shadow emperor Xia Yu, Jiang Wu and others, Liang Yongqi's acting skills can be seen at a glance.
The reason why the box office is so high is because at that time, Hong Kong stars came to the mainland once, which was a sensational news.
What's more, it is the popular Hong Kong star who comes to make a movie.
Coincidentally.
As early as 1992, Wang Zuxian returned to Shucheng, Anhui Province, to worship his ancestors and was treated quite warmly.
People who don't know think who is visiting.
Hong Kong stars are big signs, and since the 80s, they have been the default magic weapon for the film industry.
Even the National Master Zhang Yimou often relied on Hong Kong stars in his early works.
Liang Chaowei, Maggie Cheung and Zhen Zidan in "Heroes" in 2002; Andy Lau and Jin Chengwu in "Ten Faces Ambush" in 2004; Zhou Runfa in "Full of Golden Armor" in 2006...
Until "Di Renjie" in 2010, the big male protagonist is still Hong Kong artist Andy Lau.
It wasn't until 2012, when "Tai 囧" broke the box office list of Chinese movies, that mainland movies really stood up.
Mainland actors have gradually begun to reverse the situation of being restricted.
Five years later, Wu Jing, who drifted back from Hong Kong, directed "Wolf Warrior 2", which slammed the box office of 5.68 billion, completely ending the era of Hong Kong stars.
At that time, the mainland film circle had already given birth to a number of artists with full appeal.
Now we are always envious of the sky-high remuneration of mainland A-list stars, in fact, before the sky-high remuneration, the early mainland actors also experienced a very difficult time.
The so-called thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi; the prosperity of the Hong Kong film circle in that year was born out of the prosperous economy behind it.
Nowadays, the mainland economy is developing rapidly, and the film industry has also ushered in a qualitative take-off.
Actors' salaries have also risen.
I just hope that in the era of film prosperity and high film remuneration, the younger generation of actors will not live up to the high hopes placed in this prosperous world:
Shoot more films with quality and meaningfulness.
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