Text | Ling Hu Boguang
On April 16, the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards ended, and "Detective Wars" won 4 major awards for Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography, becoming the biggest winner.
Zheng Xiuwen, who was nominated for the 7th Academy Awards, finally turned positive with "Flowing Water and Flowers", which is worthy of congratulations. After all, everyone wishes those who act diligently but have been missing it (of course, the other nominated young actors do not know ah).
Liu Qingyun won the Golden Image actor for the third time with "Detective Wars", which is no bonus for Liu Qingyun.
Best Actor "When the Wind Rises Again" Xu Guanwen, the first generation of Hong Kong comedy king, old man. Best Actress "Still Think You Are the Best" Wang Yanzhi, she is 42 years old, she belongs to the Mesozoic generation in Hong Kong and is not a newcomer, I didn't expect it.
The real newcomer is, of course, the Best Newcomer Award, "Daytime Youth" Lin Nuo. If you add in the other finalists for Best New Actor and you'll find that it's also bleak.
Lu Juean occupies two places with two works, and he is one of the members of Hong Kong's top boy group Mirror. Another Liu Yingting, who is also a member of Mirror, was also shortlisted for Best Newcomer with his works, and 3 of the 5 finalists are traffic singing and dancing stars, which is even more crotch-pulling than the new generation of mainland actors.
Looking at this Hong Kong Film Awards, there is really only one feeling: entertaining yourself, dying early and living early.
Liu Qingyun, Zheng Xiuwen movie queen I endured? "Detective Wars" 4 Awards really can't bear it
There is really nothing to analyze at this Academy Awards, fortunately the best picture was given to the somewhat controversial "To 19-year-old me", but the best director, best screenwriter, etc. to "Detective Wars" really can't. Because this film is worse than "Detective", it is about ten "Poison War" that came to the mainland to shoot!
In fact, I also understand the selection of the judges of the Academy Awards, give the best film to express local literary and artistic films, and encourage creators to create more local films. "Detective Wars" is one of the few commercial films that sell well in the mainland market, and it is also necessary to support it. How can you feed so many people without making money?
This year's winner list, there are three films that are full of harvest. "Detective Wars" won 4 heavy awards, and Koo Tianle's "Tomorrow's War" won the best action design and best visual effects. "When the Wind Rises Again" won three best actor, best art, and best styling.
To be fair, the technical awards won by the latter two films are well deserved, mainly because these 3 commercial blockbusters are too crotch-pulling.
I believe that according to the evaluation of Hong Kong film fans, it is not as good as "Justice Corridor" and "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" to sweep it, I am afraid that it will still serve the public. The result is that "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" did not make the list, and Huang Zihua was not nominated for the best actor, everyone knows how declining Hong Kong movies are now.
Every time I wrote before, many netizens still didn't admit that there were three such a commercial blockbuster, and literary and artistic films were just like that.
There is really nothing to analyze at this Academy Awards, and Bo Guangjun suddenly thought of a direction. Now whenever it comes to the decline of Hong Kong films, there is a remark on the Internet that is more and more recognized by everyone, that is, the prosperity of Hong Kong and Taiwan is inseparable from the mainland, for example, the actors are all in the past in the mainland.
Bo Guangjun went to check, Liu Qingyun was born in Hong Kong, and his ancestral home is Sanshui District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province; Zheng Xiuwen was born on August 19, 1972 in Hong Kong, China, and his ancestral home is Chenghai District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. Best Actor Xu Guanwen was born on September 3, 1942 in Panyu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.
Best Actress Wang Yanzhi was born on June 18, 1980 in Hong Kong, China, and is from Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province.
Best newcomer Lin Nuo, everyone won't think that this little boy's ancestry has anything to do with China, right.
How to say it? The age, origin and identity of these actors are very much in line with the historical changes of Hong Kong. Hui Guanwen belongs to the second and third generations of Hong Kong, and the mainlanders of the early past; Liu Qingyun, Zheng Xiuwen is the fourth and fifth generation, the descendants of mainlanders who went to Hong Kong to develop, and Wang Yanzhi of the sixth and seventh generations of the post-80s generation is the same.
The new generation of Hong Kong actors are locals, as well as Vietnamese who went to Hong Kong at the end of the century, and some foreigners. Of course, there are also some descendants of mainland immigrants, but because of the real environment and other relationships, all aspects have begun to decline rapidly, including everyone's nostalgia for the appearance of Hong Kong stars.
How serious is the decline of Hong Kong films? Let's look at this Academy Awards
The prosperity of Hong Kong and Taiwan back then was also inseparable from the mainland, and no matter how those people went to Hong Kong and Taiwan, they were all inextricably linked with the mainland. I read a book on Hong Kong before, and there is a story in it that the early Hong Kong people had a special plot for Shanghai.
Because before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of such Shanghai business tycoons, elites from all walks of life chose to go to Hong Kong, so the early ones were this century, and in the middle of the century, there were a group of high-class business tycoons, basically all from Shanghai.
So this Hong Kong person has always had a Shanghai complex for Shanghai, and then including before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of mainland literati came to Hong Kong, to tell a joke, the four great talents in Hong Kong are all mainlanders, and Jin Yong's gang themselves have grown up in a complex history.
The later words are these creators in the past in the mainland, they die and die, the old are old, and then the right to speak may fall into the hands of these native Hong Kong young people, and then they have nothing that has not experienced any history, no such concept, and no sense of home and country.
At that time, the past was all talent, and naturally collided to produce a lot of exciting good things.
To be honest, the pool of talent is only so big, and the stage for display is only so big. In previous years, Hong Kong's financial circle could be world-class, but these years it will degenerate into Asia's top. But what is irrevocably is that it is becoming more and more marginalized, leaving fewer top stages for Taiwanese youth, and less atmosphere that naturally produces talent.
The creators of the older generation are slowly passing away, and most of the older generation is a cultural worker in the mainland, and the deep cultural heritage, the sadness of leaving home, the chaotic era, and the free external environment are the sources of creative inspiration. Only then can there be a TV series like "On the Beach" and write "The Great Wall Never Falls".
There will be the line in Tsui Hark's "Huang Feihong", and now the younger generation of creators have such a sense of home and country. The creator is petty bourgeoisie and nostalgic thinking, wants to create a Hong Kong flavor, but also wants to cater to the mainland market, but also can't recognize his position, and finally made a four-like.
Commercial films are too bad, and no one watches literary films? Are Hong Kong movies still saved?
The answer is yes, even if Hong Kong practitioners have a trace of pattern, for the development of the industry, it is not difficult to fish Hong Kong entertainment out of the quagmire. It is necessary to admit that the current trend is the concentration of funds in the mainland, Hong Kong is not the Hollywood of the East, and the blood formation and industrial capacity in entertainment are no longer comparable to Thailand.
In Asia, it is a marginal nature circle, and it is completely out of the fashion in the world, just because of the lagging era, it also gives people the feeling of beauty and twilight. It is not difficult to recognize this point and start again, small circles have small circles of play, generally speaking, marginal culture can enter the mainstream, which is nothing more than universal culture and curiosity mentality.
What's more, the restrictions in the mainland are still very serious, a universal theme, a curious theme, basically a small circle of surprisingly winning play, Thailand, Malaysia, the former South Korea, and now the Japanese film and television circle are this set of play.
Hong Kong is an international metropolis, the financial center of Asia, with three religions and nine streams, black white, yellow and brown mixed mixed; All religions, all cultures, all ideologies and international forces. What is the connection between their soul and body? What better place to sample love than this?
Have we ever seen this boutique, no? Do we need such a gluttonous feast, need. Mainland film and television dramas do have a huge market, mature cultural traditions, and the mainstream has set the threshold, as if it was born as a pie given by Hong Kong and Taiwan. If it becomes a scale, it can also produce a siphon effect and feed back to other themes.
Hong Kong filmmakers really hold a golden rice bowl and ask for rice, and they deserve this group of self-amusement parties.
At this time, some people must say that there are restrictions on Hong Kong films from the mainland, and this is indeed true. The problem is that if you can adapt to the targeted changes in the mainland market, you can make money, and you will have the opportunity to further expand and even make commercial blockbusters. Because of the accumulation of Hong Kong films, the production model has always been more mature than that of the mainland.
Even if you don't enter the mainland market, you can learn Taiwanese film and television dramas and go streaming media. I don't know if you have found it, Netflix is deployed all over the world, Hallyu does not talk, Taiwanese dramas have risen a wave with Netflix, but Hong Kong film and television dramas are not. It is clear that Hong Kong films have accumulated one of the best in Asia, but the mainland market is not good, and the overseas market is not good, and he has lost his advantages in vain.
Don't "touch porcelain" mainland films, judging from this Academy Awards? Hong Kong movies are hard to save
Finally, every time I write this kind of article, someone will always jump out and say how mainland films and television are, and if you don't understand it, you can't observe it. Just this commercial blockbuster in the film and television industry "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Deep Sea" is the first in Asia, the world's advanced breakthrough, "Tomorrow's War" can be compared?
"When the Wind Rises Again" belongs to the era genre film, and the plot of "Nameless" is rotten with some shots, and the service road can't wait for the explosion.
This is far behind the aesthetic level, the breakthrough of the film and television industry, and the theme and content construction of Hong Kong commercial blockbusters. The literary film "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is being released, "Light of the White Tower" and "Art Academy" shortlisted for the main competition of the Berlin Film Festival, and "Burning Winter" that is now shortlisted for Cannes.
You really talk about realism, the same is a documentary, Wang Bing's "Youth" Hong Kong movie is not comparable.
This is the same to shoot the changes of the times in the two places, poor and backward, and then go to foreign film festivals for foreigners to enjoy, you can't play mainland filmmakers at this point, so what else can you play in Hong Kong movies?