Spit on the upcoming 40th Hong Kong Film Awards
Just yesterday, the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards announced the finalists of major awards.
In the high-profile film emperor nomination link, Lin Jiadong with "Hand Cigarette" and "Wisdom Teeth" two works shortlisted, Wu Zhenyu 3 years later with "Turbid Water Drifting" to fight the golden statue, Xie Xian laozi with the age of 85 with "Kill a Dusk" for the first time to compete for the golden statue emperor, 28-year-old Liang Zhongheng relied on "Mama's Magical Boy" surprise shortlist.
For the shortlist of this Academy Awards, especially the nomination list of best actors, public opinion has been mixed.
Some people say that the nomination list for best actor is very bold, because the 5 films of the 4 candidates are all literary and artistic films without exception, and all commercial films are not available.
Some people say that the Academy Awards pay tribute to the Golden Horse Awards and use their own "doing" to attract attention while returning to their original intention of supporting pure Hong Kong films.
Ultimately, the reason is that this year's Academy Awards ignored "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" and "Fury. Serious Case", ignoring the leaps and bounds in the careers of Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse.
Of the five films, only "Mama's Wonder Boy" grossed 27.4 million, and none of the other four grossed more than 10 million.
However, "Mama's Fantastic Boy", which is a hit at the Hong Kong box office, has been cold on the mainland, in stark contrast to "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" (1.314 billion) and "Fury. Serious cases (1.328 billion) broke the box office record of Hong Kong films on the mainland.
As for the other 4 films, they were never released in the mainland.
The choice of the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards is really confusing.
Say it's paranoid, it gives the co-production "Win the Championship" the opportunity to compete for the Academy Award.
Say that it is narrow, it can accept the 85-year-old Xie Xian, and it can also tolerate the unknown teenager Liang Zhongheng, who has not been debuting for a few years and has few works.
Let's say that it returns to its original intention, it abandons "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" and "Fury", which have shined in the mainland and earned a lot of money for Hong Kong films. "Serious Case" ignored it, but chose to support 5 Hong Kong films that support pure literature and art, and the genre of the film emperor dispute is too single.
Over the years, the residual power of Hong Kong films has dissipated, and compared with the high-grossing films of 4 billion or 5 billion yuan in the mainland, the highest box office of Hong Kong films with long-term fame and fame does not exceed 1.5 billion (except for Jackie Chan's "Kung Fu Yoga"), which cannot improve its box office competitiveness at all.
Andy Lau, who has been dedicated to Hong Kong films for many years, has such a layered, spannacle and contrasting performance method in "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" that he can't even enter the big list.
Many years later, he returned to Hong Kong films again, with a film that represented the level of Hong Kong film acting skills, "Anger. "Serious Case" ignited The successor Officiating Nicholas Tse was not enough to give a nomination quota.
The Academy Awards did this, really chilling the hearts of many stars who are bent on renewing the glory of Hong Kong films.
Some people say that reducing one of Lin Jiadong's two places, fixing Leung Joong Heng's nomination on the best new actor, and joining Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse are not living together. However, none of us are awards executives and cannot influence the choices of executive committee members.
In fact, after more than 40 years of the Academy Awards, there are still many suspenseworthy that deserve to be "broken", such as whether Wu Zhenyu can get the Academy Award Film Emperor, whether zheng Xiuwen, the "lost pearl" of the Academy Award, can have a perfect merit, whether Andy Lau can surpass Chow Yun Fat Liang Jiahui to enjoy the second place of the "Three Gold" Film Emperor, and whether Tse Tingfeng can win the Golden Film Emperor twice and thus stick to Hong Kong films.
Such suspense, with the lottery draw on April 17, will give Wu Zhenyu the answer, whether to finally realize the dream or continue to wait for the time to have their own words.
The remaining suspense will still be announced with the follow-up of the Academy Awards ceremony.
Since the nomination list can no longer be changed, it is actually a lot of things to look at with a normal mind.
The nomination of the film emperor did not give Xie Tingfeng, but gave Xie Tingfeng his father, Xie Xian, the old man is in good shape at the age of 85. In 2020, Taibao was crowned the Golden Statue Film Emperor when he was 70 years old, becoming the oldest Academy Award for Best Actor at the time of the award, so whether Xie Xian can refresh the record of the oldest Golden Statue Film Emperor and win back a city for himself and his son is worth looking forward to!
Andy Lau did not enter the shortlist, and Andy Lau is also friends and disciples of Lin Jiadong but won two places, whether he can follow 2017 after the Golden Statue Film Emperor, he will thank Andy Lau or Gu Tianle or two thanks together after winning the Film Emperor, it is also worth looking forward to. However, the example of two nominations at the awards ceremony but returning home has been interpreted by Jackie Chan and Liu Qingyun to reality. It is also an indisputable fact that the two nominations will diverge and vote on each other while the probability of winning the award is high.
"Wonder Boy" was nominated for Best New Actor and Best Actor for the first time as a leading role, which is also extremely rare in the history of the Academy Awards, if Liang Zhongheng is mentioned, then he will be side by side with Liang Jiahui; if he accepts both bests at the same time, he will become the first person in the history of the Academy Awards.
Finally, Wu Zhenyu, many netizens are upset for Wu Zhenyu, saying that the Academy Awards "owe" him a movie emperor, in the case of the first five nominations, whether he can pocket the "little golden man" is also the biggest highlight of this Academy Awards.
For the highlights of this Academy Awards, I only say the best actor part, and other awards are not listed.
The list is out, and it is futile to complain more. I just hope that the next Academy Awards can stand a little higher, if it continues like this, the Academy Awards are not far from S, and the difference between S and S is only one word, but the nature is completely different.
After all, as the biggest annual event and carnival of Hong Kong films, if there is only this vision and measurement, then the revival of Hong Kong films will be empty talk, and the Academy Awards will also repeat the fate of the Golden Horse Awards and be abandoned by the times.