When Wang Jing was interviewed, whenever she mentioned her "Weishui History", she must have talked about 1993.
This year was called "Wang Jingnian" by the media.
The prolific Wang Jing was full of firepower, directing 9 films in a year and participating in the screenwriting of 4 films.
1993 was also a year of blowout for Hong Kong films, especially martial arts films.
Of the 130 Hong Kong films in the whole year, martial arts films accounted for one-third.
The market is so big, it is destined to be happy and sad.
Here's an inventory of 12 martial arts films that failed at the box office:
12th: "Seven Princesses of Wuxia"
Starring: Yang Ziqiong, Zheng Yuling, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Min, Wu Junru, Kwan Wing Ho, Chan Ka Ling
Box office: HK$9.8 million.
This movie can be seen as a costumed version of Super School Overlord.
The lineup was so powerful that it was frightening, gathering several beautiful people in Hong Kong at that time.
Zhang Min Chen Jialing is responsible for beauty, Wu Junru Zheng Yuling is responsible for funny, Maggie Cheung Yang Ziqiong is responsible for temperament, Guan Yonghe is pure cannon fodder, blame it on the lack of coffee seats.
Wang Jing always has a way to put together the most bullish X lineup and shoot the most vulgar and spoof bad movies.
This drama has no highlights except for the opening and closing action scenes.
The plot is vulgar, the brain is open, and the strange is extreme.
The appearance of a few leading actors alone cannot save the box office.
The same is like "East becomes West", relying on stars, bridges and sections, but the quality and box office are far behind.
11th Place: "Nerve Knife and Flying Cat"
Starring: Lin Zhiying, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Leung Ka Fai
Box office: HK$9.6 million.
The screenwriter of this film is also Wang Jing, and the director is Zhu Yanping, who is known as "Taiwan Wang Jing".
It is also the routine of "Seven Princesses of Wuxia", with stars but a bland plot.
The theme song "Dream" sung by Lin Zhiying is one of the few highlights.
The best look under the emotional filter is the costume version of Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung CP.
Maggie Cheung is really a universal CP physique, no matter which male star she partners with, she can produce unexpected chemical reactions.
10th: "New Meteor Butterfly Sword"
Starring: Liang Chaowei, Yang Ziqiong, Wang Zuxian, Lin Zhiying, Zhen Zidan
Box office: HK$9.1 million.
A film adapted from Gu Long's classic masterpiece, a follow-up work from the peak of Hong Kong martial arts.
The quality of the film is actually higher than the two films mentioned earlier, but the box office is not good.
In movies at that time, you never had to worry about the actor pulling his crotch, and grabbing it was a star.
Even if it is only a follow-up work, its level is much better than the current martial arts films.
The shot of Yang Ziqiong carrying a human head through the cloister is so beautiful.
When we talk about martial arts, the picture that comes to mind is not the strange martial arts of small fresh meat that are constantly broadcast on major television stations today, but these rather simple martial arts, classics are classics.
9th Place: "New Crane Needle"
Starring: Liang Chaowei, Mei Yanfang, Guan Zhilin
Box Office: HK$8.1 million.
In the 1990s, Xu Ke created a new wave of martial arts, in addition to directing himself, he also supervised or participated in the screenwriting of many films.
The director of this film turned out to be Chen Musheng, who later created a new wave of action fashion films.
Xu Ke once again used his wild imagination.
Guan Zhilin's line, when I was a child, I didn't understand it at all, and when I grew up, I was shocked to re-watch it:
What you left inside me, I will force it out with internal force.
And her sexual fantasy object in the film is actually a girl, when it comes to playing lily complex, who can compare with Xu Ke?
8th Place: The Flying Fox
Starring: Li Ming, Li Jiaxin, Zhang Min
Box office: HK$6.8 million.
The original "Flying Fox" is relatively well-known in Jin Yong's novels.
Moreover, the movie version of the magic change is serious, and the box office failure is reasonable.
But the actors' performances are still above par.
The just sucking of the fingers is a beautiful shot.
Who did Li Jiaxin and Zhang Min choose?
This is not only a problem that plagues Dawn, but also a problem that plagues the audience.
7th Place: The True Colors of the Heroes of the Water Margin
Starring: Wang Zuxian, Leung Ka Fai, Xu Jinjiang, Liu Qingyun
Box office: HK$6 million.
In Hong Kong films, most of the adaptations involving famous works are mainly spoofs.
The most famous is Stephen Chow's Journey to the West.
The degree of magic change of this "Hero Nature of Water Margin" is also very powerful:
Lin Chong of Ji Qing and Lu Zhishen, the most beautiful Lin Niangzi, and the giant baby-like Gao Yannei.
The story of Lin Chong, who is popular in "Water Margin", is selected, and the lineup is strong, but it really has no connotation, pure commercial works.
From the beginning to the end, the viewing of the play is not too high, most of them are typical montage production methods composed of high-frequency editing.
Wang Zuxian is really miserable, always being flirted with by Shan Liwen in various movies, what is this wonderful fate?
Xu Jinjiang was also nominated for best supporting actor at the Academy Awards that year for this film.
6th Place: "Barefoot Boy"
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Maggie Cheung, Dillon, Wu Qianlian
Box office: HK$3.9 million.
This martial arts film directed by Du Qifeng was forced to go offline 12 days after the film was released because of a dispute between the film and the theater.
Instead of the movie uploaded online only released for one day, the box office only more than 1,000 pieces.
Otherwise it wouldn't be just this box office achievement.
The 28-year-old Aaron Kwok is too fresh meat, like a naïve child in the movie, this kind of innocence will feel very awkward and contrived when anyone comes to act.
However, the sub-line of Maggie Cheung and Dillon is too strong, surpassing the main line of Aaron Kwok and Wu Qianlian.
5th place: "Tang Chop the Murderer"
Starring: Zhang Fengyi, Guan Zhilin, Mo Shaocong, Zhang Guangbei, Ni Dahong
Box office: HK$3.3 million.
After "Farewell to the King" became popular all over the world, Zhang Fengyi was temporarily favored by various Hong Kong directors and invited him to star in Hong Kong films.
"Tang Chop the Murderer" is one of them.
Because of the scale, the film was hidden in the snow for ten years.
Guan Zhilin is still a vase, but under such beauty, what else can you ask of her?
A few close-ups, stunning time, gentle years.
Finally understood, what is called the Jingchao cloth skirt does not hide the national color of the heavens.
Ni Dahong's style and boat scene are really "unforgettable".
Time is a magical thing that can turn the sinister and devious Wei Zhongxian into Su Daqiang, who wants to drink hand-ground coffee.
4th place: "Laughing Man Chu Liuxiang"
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Qiu Shuzhen, Zhang Min, Zhang Zhilin
Box Office: HK$3.1 million.
Wang Jing's most reluctant film to be mentioned is the lowest-grossing of the 9 works directed by Wang Jing that year.
Gu Long's novel was adapted into an idol drama, and then put on the style of nonsense comedy, which is Wang Jing's best play.
Similar to his other "non-mainstream" martial arts film" "The Demon Sect Leader of the Dragon Slayer", this is also a work between a serious martial arts film and a spoof comedy, but compared with "Demon Sect Leader", this film is much inferior.
Many people may not be impressed at all, it turns out that Aaron Kwok has also played Chu Liuxiang.
3rd Place: "A Knife to the City"
Starring: Dillon, Yang Fan, Yang Lijing, Guan Zhilin
Box Office: HK$1.9 million.
Luo Wei, a director who has created "Big Brother Tangshan" and "Jingwumen" for Bruce Lee and won Jackie Chan, also wants to share a piece of the martial arts film.
Found Hong Jinbao, Dillon, Yang Fan and other filmmakers to shoot this "A Knife To the City".
This is probably the best martial arts movie ever with lines:
Success or failure is only the first line, why is it always us who fail?
In the future, China will definitely follow my path.
In today's martial arts films, it's hard to find such responsible lines.
Hong Jinbao is better at fists, feet and sticks, and the sword is not very suitable for him.
The film was made very carefully, but the box office is so low, which is regrettable.
2nd Place: "The Prodigal Son of the Border City"
Starring: Dillon, Chen Xunqi, Chen Yulian, Yuan Yongyi, Yuan Jieying, Zhang Zhilin
Box Office: HK$1.54 million.
Chan is an all-rounder in Hong Kong films.
Director, producer, screenwriter, soundtrack, and acting are all involved.
However, this self-written and self-directed "Prodigal Son of border city" failed miserably at the box office, which made people greatly puzzled.
The biggest credit for this point may be the achievement of the marriage between Zhang Zhilin and Yuan Yongyi.
Yuan Yongyi played the heroine "Ding Linglin" in the film, and Lu Xiaojia, played by Zhang Zhilin, was only a small supporting role, and there was an outdoor bathing scene.
The two confirmed their eyes and felt that they had met the right person.
Yuan Yongyi took the initiative to ask Zhang Zhilin to eat hot pot, and the story of everything began.
1st Place: "New Blue Blood Sword"
Starring: Yuan Biao, Zhang Min, Li Xiuxian, Wu Mengda, Yuan Yongyi
Box Office: HK$1.5 million.
Hong Jinbao's "A Knife in the City" hit the street at the box office, and the "New Blue Blood Sword" starring his little brother Yuan Biao also ended in an incredible failure.
The film remake of Jin Yong's novels is rarely successful, the main problem is in the length and trade-offs, and there are many characters who appear but few are impressive.
Except for the love between the Golden Snake Langjun and Lady Wen, almost all the others have become foils.
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1993 was a milestone in the rise and fall of Hong Kong cinema.
In just a few years, Hong Kong martial arts films have suffered a cliff-like retrogression, so that they are still in a slump.
Many veteran filmmakers have faded out because of the failure of their works.
The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave, and the situation is so, and the individual is insignificant in the face of the torrent of history.