The 41st Academy Awards has come to an end, the best actress went to Zheng Xiuwen, and Liu Qingyun was three golden statue actors.
To say that the biggest attraction of this year's Academy Awards is naturally Zheng Xiuwen, who was nominated for the tenth time and finally got his wish.
The audience who chased Hong Kong Film cheered, shouted, and congratulated her, and Andy Lau confessed affectionately when presenting the award to Cheng Xiuwen: "Zheng Xiuwen, there is nothing to tell you, I want to tell you, I love you." ”
This is naturally a climactic moment of the award ceremony, Andy Lau and Cheng Xiuwen, can't help but dream back to "Skinny Men and Women" and "Blind Detective".
Behind this moving and memory killing, people can see that the Hong Kong Film Awards are currying favor and creating gimmicks in order to get more attention.
Because today's Academy Awards have long been "no one cares", as the most influential film awards in the Chinese film industry, only a group of filmmakers in the nineties of the last century are supporting and contributing the last glory.
First, the fact that green and yellow do not accept it
Wu Zhenyu said when presenting the award for Best Actor Liu Qingyun: "The Hong Kong film industry is green and yellow because Liu and Wong are still acting. ”
When Liu Qingyun accepted the award, he said: "It's better to applaud and boo than to be silent. ”
These two sentences are very good, but the depression in Hong Kong revealed between the lines can be described as striking.
The film industry is green and yellow, which can be described as a common problem in the past ten years. Wu Zhenyu turned on the "spit mode", saying that Liu and Huang were still acting (Liu Qingyun and Huang Moumou), which means that the older generation has a brilliant career, and young actors have relatively few opportunities to take the position.
It's true, a truly vibrant environment is one that is active for all ages.
Take the Hong Kong film industry, in the 70s, there were representative figures such as Bruce Lee, Xu Guanwen, Shen Dianxia and so on; Since the 80s, Jackie Chan has been in full swing, Chow Yun-fat is unique, Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Liu Qingyun and others have begun to emerge.
In the 90s, it was also the golden age of Stephen Chow, and the silhouettes of Hong Kong goddesses such as Maggie Cheung, Lin Qingxia, and Wang Zuxian were still deeply imprinted in the hearts of the Chinese people.
There are many, many names that are very powerful, but they are not enough space to type them all.
What are the new faces of Hong Kong's film industry in the 21st century? Patting around, or a couple of "old men".
Are there no old people in the mainland entertainment industry? Representative actors in the 90s of last century, Li Youbin, Chen Baoguo, Wang Zhiwen and others, are now playing supporting roles for young and middle-aged actors!
Did they actively "abdicate"? There are too many excellent newcomers who don't need them to "work hard" all the time.
"Wang Zhiwen" can continue to act and enjoy life, they do not have to bear responsibilities such as "Hong Kong Shadow Glory", they are just a part of the mainland entertainment industry.
Liu Qingyun said: "Applause is better than silence." "In fact, in recent years, the public's evaluation of Hong Kong films has included rare good films such as "Wushuang" and "Furious Heavy Case", as well as a large number of bad films.
But whether it's good or bad, it means that at least there are still people watching Hong Kong films, and the worst case is that no matter whether your Hong Kong film is good or bad, no one has discussed it.
Second, the mainland no longer needs Hong Kong shadows
The mainland does not need Hong Kong films, not that we do not need to watch Hong Kong films, but from the perspective of capital, we do not need to borrow from Hong Kong films.
We need to clarify the concept that there are many conditions for participating in the Hong Kong Film Awards, including "the director must hold a Hong Kong permanent identity card", "at least one production company is a Hong Kong legal company", "at least six work projects are staff members of Hong Kong residents holding Hong Kong permanent identity card", two of the three conditions must be met.
For example, Zhang Ziyi won the Academy Award for Best Actress for "2046", the director of the film Wong Kar-wai is from Hong Kong, and the production company of the film is Zedong Film Company.
Zedong Film Company was established in 1992 by Wong Kar-wai and Lau Zhenwei, and is wholly owned by Hong Kong businessmen.
There is no need to look at the origin of the staff, because "2046" already meets two conditions.
Later, Zhang Ziyi won the Academy Award again with "A Generation of Grandmasters", which is the same reason, because the director is Wong Kar-wai.
Zhou Xun won the Golden Image with the movie "If Love", the director is Chen Kexin, and the film team is Chen Kexin's Hong Kong team. No matter which production company it is, it is eligible to participate.
Let Zhou Dongyu get the 39th Golden Image Film Queen "Young You", in which the director is Zeng Guoxiang (Zeng Zhiwei's son), in which Chen Kexin's Hong Kong company invested.
The winner of the 40th Academy Awards was mainland actress Liu Yase, who starred in the film "Wisdom Teeth" at the time, which was directed by Macao-native Cheng Baorui.
But one of the production companies of "Wisdom Teeth", Sun Entertainment Pictures, is a Hong Kong company, and the boss is Xi Mihua, who was arrested.
In the 40th Academy Awards, there were also mainland actors Liu Yase who won the queen, but in the 41st Academy Awards this time, not only were there no winning mainland filmmakers, but there were even no mainland filmmakers nominated for nominations.
It is not the "targeting" of Hong Kong films, but the co-productions between the mainland and Hong Kong have become less and less, and mainland actors who go to participate in Hong Kong films are even rarer.
If no mainland actor is willing to participate in Hong Kong films, naturally there will be no mainland actors nominated for the Academy Awards.
So why are mainland actors reluctant to go to Hong Kong to make movies? This brings us to the third point.
Third, the Hong Kong film industry has lost its attractiveness
As the former Asian Four Tigers, for a long time, the Hong Kong film industry was to Chinese actors what Vienna Golden Hall was to musicians. Winning the Hong Kong Film Awards is still one of the criteria for evaluating the excellence of actors.
However, in recent years, the influence of the Academy Awards has obviously been slowly weakening, and relatively speaking, the Golden Rooster Award, the Popular Hundred Flowers Award, and the Huabiao Award are more recognized by mainland audiences.
The most important reason why actors no longer yearn for the Hong Kong film industry is, of course, the decline of the Hong Kong film industry and the rise of the mainland film industry.
To put it bluntly, the Hong Kong film market is smaller and less investment, while the mainland film industry is a blue ocean.
For example, in February this year, the box office of the Hong Kong film "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" exceeded 100 million, becoming the highest-grossing local film in Hong Kong film history. Hong Kong has a population of 7.3 million and 1.2 million moviegoers, which is equivalent to one in every six Hong Kong people buying a ticket to see "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" in the theater.
Although this result, for Hong Kong films, is a very bright result. However, the box office of more than 100 million yuan is not even enough for many mainland films to recover costs.
"Hello, Li Huanying" leveraged big profits at a small cost, with a box office of 5.4 billion, and investors "earned 5 billion with tears". And this 5 billion, you need to shoot 50 "Poisonous Tongue Lawyers"!
Pay the same time, the same energy, but the benefits can be very different, how do you choose for you? That's a very real problem. Compared with "awards" and "achievements", actors are just a career, and making money is the last word.
There is also the "quality" of today's new generation of Hong Kong stars.
At this year's Academy Awards ceremony, Hong Kong's new top class also appeared, one is Jiang Tao, and he also took a photo with Andy Lau.
And the comments of netizens can be described as subtle and sharp: "Looks like this, put it in domestic entertainment, is a degree that talk shows and comedy variety shows do not want." ”
Another netizen said: "Is there no one in Hong Kong? ”
This is really true, Hong Kong is really "no one". In Hong Kong in the 90s, there were many beautiful people, that was because Hong Kong was attractive, and handsome guys and beautiful women would run to Hong Kong if they wanted to be famous. There is also a professional term called "talent siphon". (Lin Qingxia and Wang Zuxian both went from Taiwan to Hong Kong to develop)
Now it's different, handsome guys and beauties who want to enter the entertainment industry, the first consideration is naturally the mainland entertainment industry, or going to South Korea as a trainee.
But the funny thing is that Hong Kong's top agent said: Hong Kong stars who go to the mainland to develop are not liked by the Hong Kong people; This means that those who are liked by the people of Hong Kong will stay as the top class.
(Andy Lau and Jackie Chan said: Excuse me? And, this group of top looks, out of Hong Kong, will anyone really like it?
Nowadays, it is the audience of the post-70s, post-80s and some post-90s audiences who miss the Hong Kong circle, and we always carry a beautiful filter for that starry era.
But the filter also had a broken day, when Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, and Koo Tianle couldn't act, quit the stage and went home to retire, what is left of the Hong Kong film industry.