In the early 1980s, Hong Jinbao and his "Hong Jiabao" marched all the way to victory and were invincible.
Works such as "The Loser's Son", "The Strange Scheme of five lucky stars", "Fast food trucks", "Lucky Star High Photo" and other works have become a large number of audiences, and they have a memory of the film of an era.
The "Iron Triangle" combination composed of Jackie Chan, Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao is also star-studded on the big screen of Hong Kong films at this time.
In 1985, Jackie Chan left Hong Jinbao, founded "Weihe Film", formed a "Family Class", and began to develop his own film career independently.
The "Iron Triangle" film combination also parted ways at this time.
"Chengjia Class" and "Hongjia Class" are all developing in the subject area of action Hong Kong films, and the two classes of people and horses inevitably compete secretly, and Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao often face the situation of "same theme story" market competition.
In 1989, the "Chengjia Class" and the "Hongjia Class" met in a narrow way in the story creativity. Jackie Chan and Hong Jinbao also launched a "literary action film" duel.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > Jackie Chan's "big brother" troubles </h1>
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Jackie Chan led the "Family Class" through thorns, and works such as "Police Story", "Police Story Sequel", "Plan A Sequel", "Brother Dragon and Tiger Brother" swept the Asian film market again and again.
"Fame and fortune" is the long-cherished wish of many filmmakers in the film industry. At the time when the box office performance is incessant, Jackie Chan has also begun to attack various "trophies".
However, unfortunately, the trophies of "Best Actor" and "Best Director" are always out of luck with Jackie Chan.
In order to make up for his regrets, in 1989, Jackie Chan planned a film work with a more literary style, "Miracle", and hoped to win the honors of "Best Director" and "Best Actor" with this work.
After all, works with "literary and artistic themes" have always been the "seed players" of major film festival awards.
It is worth mentioning that although this "Miracle" is remade from the Hollywood movie "Tips and Tricks", it has made many bold changes to the original.
Jackie Chan himself also participated in the script creation of "Miracle" as a screenwriter. In the story of "Miracle", it is also full of many Jackie Chan's mental journeys.
This "Miracle" tells the story of a "big brother who doesn't know". "Nobody" Guo Zhenhua, because of an accident, became the big brother of the gang. Under the support of everyone, this little person also began to stumble on the road of "big brother".
In "Miracle", the role of Guo Zhenhua can be described as a microcosm of Jackie Chan's early acting career.
At the end of the 70s, Jackie Chan, who had a calm career development, unexpectedly ushered in the peak of his career because of a "drunken fist". Later, under the operation of Jiahe, Jackie Chan's film career took place step by step.
In the mid-1980s, Jackie Chan formed "Weihe Film" and filmed one box office masterpiece after another. With the rise of the cause, "big brother" has also begun to become the unanimous name of others for Jackie Chan.
The so-called "cold in the heights". For the title of "big brother", the early Jackie Chan, like "Guo Zhenhua" in the movie, is very jealous.
After all, Jackie Chan in his early years was just an action actor and had little team leadership experience. At first, he filmed under Luo Wei's arrangement, and then filmed under the arrangement of "Jiahe".
Suddenly, the young actor became the director and took the position of producer. Under the support of everyone, Jackie Chan, who has not been a big brother, is also like "Guo Zhenhua" in the movie, and he is hard to grope forward.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > Hong Jinbao's "big brother" annoyance </h1>
In 1989, the people who valued the literary and artistic theme of "big brother" were not only Jackie Chan, but also Hong Jinbao.
This year's "HongJia Class" also launched a very literary and artistic "big brother story" - "Qunlong Drama Phoenix".
Different from the ignorant big brother image interpreted by Jackie Chan in "Miracle", Hong Jinbao in "The Dragon Play Phoenix" presents a stable, decisive and daring big brother image.
Of course, such a "big brother" image is also more in line with Hong Jinbao's personal temperament.
After all, it is different from Jackie Chan, who sat in the "big brother" position halfway. Hong Jinbao has been a master brother in the drama team since childhood, and the leadership ability he has cultivated since childhood has given him an extremely significant advantage in "leading the team".
After entering the film world, Hong Jinbao's "leadership skills" and "team management experience" have played a role again. In the early 1980s, the "HongJia Class" also achieved extremely outstanding results because of Hong Jinbao's decisiveness and composure.
Although in the early 1980s, the film performance of "HongJiaban" has always been very eye-catching, after entering the mid-to-late 80s, "Hongjiaban" also began to encounter development difficulties.
In 1987, Hong Jinbao organized people to shoot "Oriental Condor", which failed miserably at the box office. The "spirit zombie film" that "Hong Jiaban" is most proud of also declined in the late 1980s.
"How to lead the team to break through the career dilemma?" It has become a development problem that Hong Jinbao at this time needs to solve urgently.
In 1989, with this "development problem", Hong Jinbao organized the filming of the movie "Dragons Playing Phoenix". And The voice of Hong Jinbao's troubled career is also inadvertently revealed in this work.
This "Dragon Drama Phoenix" tells the story of the "big brother of the coachman" Luo Tong, with several coachman brothers living hard life. The difficult situation of Luo Tong and several coachman brothers also inadvertently reflected the dilemma of the "Hongjia class" at that time.
In the 1989 Hong Kong film market, Hong Jinbao hoped to rely on this "Dragon Drama Phoenix" to change the embarrassing situation of "Hong Jiaban".
However, the effect of the film after its release disappointed Hong Jinbao.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > Miracle VS Dragons Play Phoenix </h1>
"Miracle" and "Dragon Drama Phoenix" were all released in 1989, but the market performance of the two works showed a huge gap.
In February 1989, "Dragon Drama Phoenix" took the lead in entering the Hong Kong film market. However, in the end, it only achieved a box office performance of more than 14 million Hong Kong dollars.
In contrast, "Miracle", released in June 1989, with a box office of more than 34 million Hong Kong dollars, sat on the second place in the annual Hong Kong film box office (the box office champion this year was "God of Gamblers").
The same is to show the "big brother's mental journey", the same is to set the story background in the Republic of China, the same are the expression of "literary and artistic action films", why the box office of the two works, will more than double the gap?
The reason behind this is inextricably linked to the story structure, scene performance, and cast of the two films.
First of all, in the structural design of the story, although "Miracle" is cloaked in the cloak of a literary film, the core still continues the style of Jackie Chan's action comedy.
The story of laughter from beginning to end also makes the film very attractive to the market.
In the story design of "Dragon Play Phoenix", the first half of the film maintains Hong Jinbao's consistent comedic style, but from the middle section, the story turns from joy to sorrow, and the tragic deaths of "Maltose" and "Xiao Cui" couples render a rich tragic atmosphere for the film.
Although "tragic stories" are easy to touch the audience, they are also easy to be abandoned by the box office market. The sad and joyful differences in the atmosphere of the story doom the box office gap of "Miracle" and "Dragon Drama Phoenix".
Secondly, the difference in the performance of "Miracle" and "Dragon Drama Phoenix" in the action scene also opened up a certain gap in the box office of the two works.
It is worth affirming that the action scenes of "Miracle" and "Dragons and Phoenixes" are very well designed.
In "Dragons Play Phoenix", "Hong JiaBan" played the style characteristics of his small scene fighting to the extreme. And Liu Jialiang and Hong Jinbao's fight scene of "fist is afraid of less strong, stick is afraid of old wolf", which has become a classic in the hearts of countless movie fans.
However, no matter how well the small scene fight is done, it is difficult to resist the shock of the big scene of action.
In "Miracle", Jackie Chan retained his action style of big scenes. Whether it is "rope field battle" or "sky bridge jumping", it brings a different visual experience to the audience.
At the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards, Cheng Jia Ban was shortlisted for "Best Action Design" because of "Miracle" and Hong Jia Ban was shortlisted for "Best Action Design".
In the end, the family class won the trophy, which shows the on-screen charm of the "action scene".
Finally, the gap in the cast of "Miracle" and "Dragon Drama Phoenix" has also become the key to opening up the box office gap between the two works.
In "Miracle", Jackie Chan not only found Mui Yanfang as the heroine, but also arranged For Lu Liangwei, Jacky Cheung, Grasshopper and other people to make cameos in the film, and the party scene at the end of the film was a gathering of half of the Hong Kong film industry.
Although in "The Dragon Play Phoenix", Hong Jinbao also found Liu Jialiang and Mo Shaocong to help, but this lineup is obviously not worth mentioning compared to "Miracle".
Under the crushing of the star lineup, the box office of "Dragon Play Phoenix" naturally cannot be compared with "Miracle".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="59" > Jackie Chan to the left and Hong Jinbao to the right </h1>
Although the box office performance of "Dragons and Phoenixes" is not as good as that of "Miracle", the investment cost is not worse than that of "Miracle".
In an interview with Huang Xia in "Don't Defend Tonight", Jackie Chan once said that "Miracle" spent 68 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, and the construction of the building scenery has also become the biggest expense.
"Dragons play phoenix", which also focuses on the background of the Republic of China era, is not worse than the design of the set, costume, chemical and Taoist aspects, and the investment cost of the film should not be worse than that of "Miracle".
"Miracle" won more than 34 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong and more than 87 million Taiwan dollars in the Taiwan market.
In contrast, "The Dragon Play phoenix" only grossed more than HK$14 million in Hong Kong, while the film only received more than NT$9.1 million in Taiwan.
In the face of the dismal box office results of "Qunlong Drama Phoenix", the development situation of "Hong Jiaban" has also become worse.
After entering the 90s, the development of Hongjiaban became more and more weak. In 1992, forced by market pressure, Hong Jinbao's "Baohe Film" also had no choice but to go out of business.
After "The Dragon Play phoenix", Hong Jinbao's career development became more and more difficult. After "Miracle", Jackie Chan has ushered in a new career peak.
Because of "Miracle", Jackie Chan was nominated for "Double Film Emperor". Although it did not win the award in the end, it laid the groundwork for the road of the film emperor after Jackie Chan.
After entering the 90s, Jackie Chan's career reached its peak again, and the two works of "Police Story 3" and "Major Crimes Unit" also allowed Jackie Chan to win two film emperor trophies in succession.
In the mid-1990s, Hong Jinbao's career fell to the bottom. And the good brother Jackie Chan has not forgotten his friendship with the master brother.
In 1997, Jackie Chan recommended Hong Jinbao as a director for the movie "A Good Man". And this work sold well at the box office in the North American film market, which also opened Hong Jinbao's "Hollywood Hard Work Road".
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