In the Hong Kong film market in the 1990s, "Double WeekLy Cheng" was undoubtedly the three actors with the most box office appeal.
With his life-fighting stunts and witty fights, Jackie Chan rarely meets opponents in the market of "action comedy".
Relying on superb acting skills and a wide drama path, Zhou Runfa has been in the market of "literary and art films" and "jianghu hero films", and no one can match them.
Because of the market boom of "nonsense comedy" in the early 90s, Stephen Chow also accumulated a huge audience base in the Hong Kong film screen, and the limelight was the same.
Different performance styles and different film themes have created different career trajectories of "double Mondays". However, in 1992, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, and Chow Xing-chi launched a fierce box office battle in the same movie theme.
This year, "Bi-Zhou Cheng" focused its attention on the theme shooting of "undercover police films". As a result, Zhou Runfa and Wu Yusen cooperated in "Hot Hand Detective", Jackie Chan and Tang Jili cooperated in "Police Story 3", and Zhou Xingchi and Chen Jiashang cooperated in "Truant Weilong 2".
With the birth of these three "undercover police films" classics, Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, and Jackie Chan also launched a fierce screen confrontation on top of the same "movie theme".
In this confrontation, Zhou Xingchi and Zhou Runfa fought fiercely, and Jackie Chan became the winner who laughed to the end. Today we will talk about the "undercover police film" war in 1992.
Stephen Chow continues the classic of undercover police bandits, and Chow Yun Fat pays tribute to "Hong Kong police"
In 1991, Zhou Xingchi and Chen Jiashang filmed "Truant Weilong" under the investment of "Yongsheng Film". This "SWAT" went undercover on campus in the absurd comedy story, with a box office score of more than 43 million Hong Kong dollars, beat Jackie Chan's "Flying Eagle Project" and sat on the throne of the annual Hong Kong film box office champion.
Chen Jiashang was also nominated for the "Best Director of the 11th Academy Awards" for the film.
In 1992, "Yongsheng Film" hit the iron while it was hot and planned to shoot a sequel "Truant Veyron 2". And Zhou Xingchi and Chen Jiashang also cooperated again, staging an absurd comedy of "flying tigers making a big fuss on campus".
"Truant Weilong 2" was released on April 9, 1992, but in April of this year, Chow Yun Fat and Wu Yusen also brought an undercover police masterpiece - "Hot Hand Detective".
At the end of the 1980s, Wu Yusen left Xu Ke's "film studio" and set up his own "New Mileage Film", shooting two works, "Blood Street" and "Across the Sea". In 1991, with the high acclaim of "Blood Twins" in North America, Wu Yusen also decided to go to North America to start a new film road.
Before going to North America and shutting down the "New Mileage Movie", Wu Yusen decided to have another film cooperation with his old partner Zhou Runfa.
In the early 1990s, there was some chaos in Hong Kong, and there were many cases of "armed robbery", and these cases were solved thanks to the efforts of the "undercover police".
In order to pay tribute to these "undercover policemen", Wu Yusen planned and filmed the work "Two Heroes of Blood", which was completed and scheduled for April 16, 1992. As a result, in April 1992, "Truant Weilong 2" and "Hot Hand Detective" met unexpectedly, and Chow Yun Fat and Zhou Xingchi also launched a head-on confrontation on the box office market.
"Hot Hand Detective" was released for 21 days from April 16 to May 6. And "Truant Veyron 2" was released for 29 days from April 9 to May 7. In the end, "Hot Hand Detective" won more than 19 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, while "Truant Veyron 2" won more than 31 million Hong Kong dollars.
In the head-to-head confrontation of the Hong Kong film market, "Hot Hand Detective" is inferior to "Truant Weilong 2", and the two works have also opened up a big box office gap.
In fact, in terms of the quality of the work, "Hot Hand Detective" is not inferior to "Truant Veyron 2". The combination of Zhou Runfa and Liang Chaowei is not at all inferior to the pairs of Zhou Xingchi and Wu Mengda.
However, compared with the serious style of undercover police films such as "Hot Hand Detective", the police comedy of "Truant Veyron 2" is more suitable for the screening atmosphere of the cinema line and is more likely to gain the favor of market audiences.
Reboot the big IP of the police bandits, laugh at the last big winner
In April 1992, Stephen Chow and Chow Yun-fat launched a fierce box office battle with two "undercover police theme" film works. In July of this year, Jackie Chan also joined the team of "undercover police" and launched "Police Story 3: Super Police".
It is worth mentioning that this "Police Story 3" is different from the previous "Police Story" and "Police Story Sequel".
The previous two works were self-directed and self-acted by Jackie Chan, and in this "Police Story 3", Jackie Chan was ousted from the director's position.
Why did Jackie Chan suffer such treatment in "Police Story 3"? In fact, the reason for everything has to start from the "Flying Eagle Project" in 1991.
In 1991, the serious overrun of the filming cost of "Flying Eagle Project" made Jackie Chan suffer from Jiahe's cold eyes. After "Flying Eagle Project", Jackie Chan's self-directed and self-acting road was also ended by Jiahe.
After the "Police Story Sequel" in 1988, the classic IP of "Police Story" fell silent. In 1992, Jiahe restarted this IP and planned "Police Story 3".
In order not to let the overrun of the "Flying Eagle Project" happen again on this "Police Story 3", Jiahe found Tang Jili, who is good at controlling funds, to serve as a director for this "Police Story 3". Under the leadership of Tang Jili, this big IP sequel has also embarked on the mode of "undercover police film".
Police Story 3 was released on July 4, 1992, and was released on August 5 of the same year. The film achieved a box office result of more than HK$32 million in 33 days of release.
While achieving good results in the box office market, "Police Story 3" has also received many praises and honors on the film festival podium.
At the 29th Golden Horse Awards, "Police Story 3" was nominated for best film, and Jackie Chan also won the trophy of the Golden Horse Film Emperor with his outstanding performance in the film, which can be described as a box office and trophy.
In the 1992 Hong Kong film market, "Bi-Zhou Cheng" simultaneously focused on the film theme of "undercover police films".
This year's Zhou Runfa and Zhou Xingchi clashed head-on in the April file, and the fight was fierce, and finally "Hot Hand Detective" was defeated by "Truant Veyron 2" and lost in the box office war.
Jackie Chan, who avoided the April file, went ahead above the box office market in July, laughing to the end with excellent box office results and the trophy blessing of "Golden Horse Movie Emperor".