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A few days ago, directed by Wang Jing, Wu Zhenyu, Liang Jiahui, Gu Tianle, Lin Jiadong four major film emperors co-starred in the movie "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon" encountered Waterloo, released for nearly 10 days, the box office is only 200 million or so, Douban score is only 5.5 points, Wang Jing this time can be said to have completely broken a good deck of cards.
In fact, the fluttering street of "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon" is expected, over the years, the story based on the era of the four Chinese detectives has basically been turned over and over again by Hong Kong films. The "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon" that fried cold rice this time, not to mention compared with the "Legend of Leiluo" and "Lame Hao", which were regarded as classics at that time, is much worse than the quality of "Chasing the Dragon" in previous years.
More importantly, several film emperors with an average age of nearly 60 years old, although they are well-known, are much less attractive to today's mainland audiences than before – the older generation of audiences have aesthetic fatigue, and younger audiences lack Hong Kong film feelings. Therefore, the box office of "Chasing the Tiger and the Dragon" is far less than that of the love movie "Your Wedding" in the same period.
Although "Your Wedding" occupies the theme advantage of the couple's file, a small fresh meat Xu Guanghan single anti-four major film emperors also reflects the current situation of the film market that is "the world of young female audiences" today.
And Xu Guanghan is only a Taiwanese actor who can only be regarded as a second- and third-line actor in the mainland, and his popularity can only be dwarfed by the top small fresh meat in the mainland. Referring to the "Send You a Little Red Flower" starring Yi Yanqianxi at the beginning of the year, the box office easily exceeded 1 billion, and the "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" starring Andy Lau can be seen that today's film market has reached the moment of renewal, and the small fresh meat in the mainland has begun to gradually provoke the beams.
In an era when the mainland film and television industry is still relatively backward, all Hong Kong actors with names on the mainland come to the mainland with their own superstar rings, and enjoy preferential treatment as if they are praised by the stars, and their salaries far exceed those of mainland actors, and discrimination and double-standard treatment against mainland actors abound.
A typical example is that in 2004, when mainland actor Wang Bozhao was injured and hospitalized by Hong Kong stars Zhang Weijian and Nicholas Tse when filming "Little Fish and Flowers", which also caused more than 100 actors in the mainland to jointly accuse Hong Kong actors of "bullying" themselves for a long time!
Although wang Bozhao's beating may have been an accident caused by Tse Tingfeng Zhang Weijian's failure to get too involved in the drama when filming, it undoubtedly served as a fuse, igniting the long-standing dissatisfaction of mainland performers with Hong Kong actors who enjoy "supranational treatment".
But feng shui takes turns, with the mainland and Hong Kong film and television industry one after another, now the entertainment industry is already the mainland traffic of small fresh meat world, the Hong Kong performing arts industry has long been followed by no one, still relying on a group of 50 or 60-year-old actors to support the scene.
This is largely due to the fact that since the 21st century, Hong Kong films have been able to enter the mainland market as co-productions, and in order to meet the censorship standards and balance the actors of the two places, the filmmakers usually adopt the combination of Hong Kong male protagonist + mainland female protagonist.
While bringing out a generation of big flowers such as the mainland's "Four Dan Double Ice", it has also led to young actresses in Hong Kong being squeezed by their mainland counterparts first. Then, as the older generation of Hong Kong actors continued to dominate the screen, the younger generation of male actors could not emerge. After Tse Ting-feng after the 80s, there is no successor in the Hong Kong circle, which indirectly makes the mainland's post-00s small fresh meat Yi Yanqianxi become the youngest film emperor nominee in the history of the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Today's Hong Kong film casting has fallen into a strange circle: Hong Kong's local young actors cannot support their popularity without the mainland, and the cost performance of small fresh meat from the mainland is too low for the mainland market, and small fresh meat with both acting skills and traffic like Yi Qianxi is an example after all.
So in 2021, Hong Kong films can only rely on their own 50- and 60-year-old generation to support the scene, but there are not many roles suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, so these male actors often have to play young people, and as these actors grow older, this sense of violation will only become more and more prominent, and I don't know how long they can support Hong Kong movies!
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