In recent years, Hong Kong's older generation of superstars have overturned at the box office.
Jackie Chan's "Pioneer", "Dragon Horse Spirit" and other blockbusters hit the street, and their reputation plummeted. Donnie Yen's "Search and Rescue" and "Dragon Babu: The Legend of Qiao Feng" performed poorly, and Kwok Fucheng's "Broken Network", "When the Wind Rises Again", "Mai Roader" and "Secret Visitor" were four consecutive swoops. There are also superstars such as Stephen Chow and Sammo Hung who have not released blockbuster new films.
Plus Wu Mengda, Wu Yaohan and other golden supporting roles passed away. Hong Kong films seem to be really getting farther and farther away from young audiences.
At this time, Brother Fa, who has almost no defeat, has shot, and the new film "Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" is scheduled for June 21, and the first shot will be fired for the summer file!
changed 3 titles, 4 years of snow storage, and a cost of 200 million, Zhou Yunfa's raw new film is finally here!
We all know that Chow Yun-fat successfully turned over with "The True Color of Heroes", but the best commercial results in the golden age of Hong Kong films are undoubtedly the "God of Gamblers" series, the first Hong Kong box office broke 37 million Hong Kong dollars, the annual box office champion! Leading an era of Hong Kong films! In 1994, the second Hong Kong box office broke 51.53 million Hong Kong dollars, which was the first Chinese-language film in Hong Kong film history to exceed 50 million.
However, Brother Fa has always been very disgusted with gambling this thing, and even hated it a little. Because his father was a rotten gambler.
Over the years, Brother Fa has always wanted to make an anti-gambling movie, and "Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" can be regarded as fulfilling Brother Fa's dream. The release process of this new film is also quite tortuous, especially the particularity of the theme, the film was originally titled "Glory Years", later became "Sunny Years", and then changed to "I am not a gambler".
Not counting the final "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers", a total of 3 titles were changed.
The movie was actually completed in 2019, but I didn't expect that it was hidden by snow for 4 years after filming, and even Liao Qizhi, one of the starring actors, left the audience forever in 2021, and the cost of film network reporting is 200 million, but from the perspective of the movie trailer, this moisture is a little big, the movie focuses on the plot, there is no big scene, and audiences who want to watch brainless films need to carefully manage expectations.
From the title, you can see that the plot is the other side of "God of Gamblers"!
The bragging fai played by Chow Yun-fat, who is usually addicted to gambling as his life, finally owed 84902 usury, his girlfriend Li Xi saw him die without repentance, and also sadly left, the bragging hui who could not pay off the debt was abandoned by friends, splashed with paint by horses, and beaten by the gang boss.
Desperate, Li Xi came back and asked him to take care of a child, and the reward was 100,000 yuan.
In order to repay the debt, Bragging Hui could only agree, but in the process of getting along, it was found that this child had autism, it was difficult to communicate with people, and what was even more surprising was that he turned out to be Bragging Hui's biological son, at this time Li Xi died of a terminal illness.
Can bragging take his son to a new life?
The screenwriter of the film is Zhuang Wenqiang, and his representative work is the supreme classic "Infernal Affairs" trilogy of Hong Kong films, so the plot of "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" is still guaranteed, plus Brother Fa's acting skills that never have to worry about, the movie may be able to reverse the decline of Hong Kong films.
The box office of "Matchless" broke 1.273 billion, and the 67-year-old Zhou Yunfa was silent for five years!
Counting down, the audience has not seen Brother Fa on the big screen for five years, and Brother Fa's last movie was "Matchless" in 2018, with a Douban score of 8 points, and the mainland box office exceeded 1.273 billion, breaking the box office record of Hong Kong films in the mainland as soon as it was released. Until now, it is one of the best box office results of Hong Kong films in the mainland.
This has a lot to do with Brother Fa's stunning performance.
Brother Fa in the film let young audiences know why he was able to sweep the global Chinese-speaking market back then, elegant and ruffian, personable, possessed by Xiao Ma Ge many times, excellent acting skills, and clean action scenes!
Coupled with the previous "Macao Vice" series, "Journey to the West: The Great Trouble in the Heavenly Palace" and "Let the Bullets Fly", Brother Fa has always been excellent at the box office in the mainland market.
It's a pity that Brother Fa is 67 years old, basically in a state of retirement in recent years, this new film was actually shot 4 years ago, except for a distant "Cold War 3", Brother Fa has no new film plans.
Maybe after that, I really don't make movies.
I hope that "Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" can achieve a good reputation and a high box office. Give this legendary superstar a perfect exit!