In 2023, the Hong Kong movie "probably does die"

"Disappearing Her" completely exploded, the current box office exceeded 1.2 billion on the 7th day of its release, and a certain platform predicted that the box office would reach 3.3 billion, which feels very stable. The movie "I Love You" released at the same time had a box office of 200 million, as an emotional film reflecting the emotional life of the elderly, this box office has actually won.

There is a Hong Kong movie "Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" with a box office of less than 40 million, and it has fallen to the 11th position in 8 days of release, and there is not much hope at the box office.

This movie is starring Chow Yun-fat, and this box office result is worse than Jackie Chan's "Dragon Horse Spirit".

At the same time, the possible blockade to the box office of "Disappearing Her" is "In the Octagon Cage" and "Drug Sweep 3" on July 6, and then the animation "Chang'an 30,000 Li" on the 8th two days later (this animation is too long, and the historical theme, it is difficult to say whether it will succeed).

The director and screenwriter of "In the Octagon Cage" starring Chen Sicheng's good brother Wang Baoqiang, "Drug Sweep 3" is a Hong Kong police blockbuster. So which of these two movies will win? The former I have personally watched the point screening, the latter now has a road show and currently says that the quality is similar to "Drug Sweep 2", and I personally predict that "In the Octagon" may win.

From "Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" to "Drug Sweep 3", to Jackie Chan's "Dragon Horse Spirit" earlier, and "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer", which broke Hong Kong's local record at the beginning of the year. Hong Kong films are becoming less and less viable in the mainland market, and I predict that 2023 may be a strong watershed.

Unless Hong Kong actors like Andy Lau of "The Wandering Earth 2" and Tony Leung of "Nameless" who are attached to the mainland team of the new era. Hong Kong directors, Hong Kong actors' local commercial blockbusters (except for a few directors like Lin Chaoxian), the vast majority of directorial blockbusters will get worse and worse after 2023.

This may be the same as Hollywood blockbusters, and the box office of top commercial blockbusters is difficult to break 1 billion.

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The latest summer file in 2023 is a good proof of this. Originally, the Spring Festival file was also the same, but there were no Hong Kong movies. Andy Lau and Tony Leung participated in mainland works as Hong Kong superstars. The Dragon Boat Show has been released "Disappearing Her", "I Love You" and "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers".

This summer file is "In the Octagon Cage" and "Drug Sweep 3" on July 6, the animation "Chang'an 30,000 Li" on July 8, "Fengsheng" and "Super Family" on July 20.

Why Hong Kong films are no longer attractive is not just a matter of actors getting older.

1, the theme is more suitable for mainland audiences, and constantly breaking through, and Hong Kong directors' films are very conservative, which one 30 years ago, which one is still now.

"Disappearing Her" is a commercial suspense film, hot social topic + hot emotional elements, and suspense reasoning is also a hot new theme in China.

At the peak of Hong Kong and Taiwan movies, there were indeed suspense films such as "Double Eyes", "Accident" and "Butterfly Change". But it is not a genre blockbuster alone as a suspenseful reasoning theme, which is not as good as South Korea, and even less so as Japan, which is the first in Asia.

There are many excellent suspense films in the mainland, but the real big sale of commercial suspense films is Chen Sicheng's "Tang Detective", then the remake of "Manslaughter Series", and then "Disappearing Her".

"In the Octagon Cage" is a realistic theme, adapted from the "Liangshan Fighting Orphans" incident in previous years. A similar commercial drama in China is "I Am Not the God of Medicine".

"Chang'an 30,000 Li" is a historical cartoon, dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, and the theme in domestic animation is a major breakthrough.

Wuershan's "Feng Shen" belongs to the costume mythological epic, which has made a comprehensive breakthrough in the film and television industry after 2010 after the costume magic blockbuster and returned aesthetic to the costume mythological blockbuster.

"I Love You" focuses on the emotional stories of the elderly, and the comedy of "Super Family" is a very common theme in the Chinese film market in recent years, but the latter is so bad that it has the skin of a super-powered blockbuster.

"Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" is still the same set that the prodigal son of Hong Kong's bad gamblers turned back to 20 years ago. "Drug Sweep 3" do you think it is the kind of Hong Kong police blockbuster after 2010? In fact, it was also more than 20 years ago, or even 30 years ago, the Golden Triangle drug trafficking and anti-narcotics, brotherhood and righteousness.

Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung and Li Zixiong have a movie called "Blood Street", directed by John Woo, the time is 1990, this background to Southeast Asia to make money setting, the three brothers are exactly the same in the opposite setting. It's just that gold is exchanged for drugs, and then the film and television industry is upgraded.

"Dragon Horse Spirit" is similar to "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers", and "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" is a TVB lawyer film.

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2, as we all know, Hong Kong actors are very serious, and the new generation of mainland actors is rising.

The three leading actors of "Disappearing Her" are all 35 years old in 88, in addition to Wang Baoqiang in "Octagon Cage", the other two young protagonists are one is "Hidden Corner" Shi Pengyuan, and the other is Chen Yongsheng of "Sniper".

Wu Ershan's "Fengshen "In addition to well-known actors such as Fei Xiang and Huang Bo, Wu Ershan's "Feng Shen" has won five or six young actors at one time.

You may think that these young actors are not well-known, but this movie has been pressed for three years because of an accident, and this young actor is popular with other works, Hou Wenyuan "Children of the Qiao Family" Qi Chenggang, "Coward" male second, Yu Shi "King of the Long Sky" male second, this sand "Shadow of Mountains and Rivers" Li Dongfang, Chen Muchi "Starfall Condensed into Sugar" male second and so on.

And "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" Chow Yun-fat is 68 years old, and then Yuen Yongyi is 51 years old.

There is a young actor Ke Weilin in this film, you have not heard the name, the most important thing is that I mentioned his name, I believe you don't want to know that Jackie Chan in "Dragon Horse Spirit" is 69 years old.

The three male protagonists of "Drug Sweep 3" are Liu Qingyun, Kwok Fucheng and Koo Tianle, plus a young mainland heroine Yang Caiyu, who is 30 years old in Hong Kong police and bandit blockbusters, are a group of actors who can be fathers and play people's boyfriends.

According to the examples listed above, you will also find a cruel thing: young actresses from the mainland go to act in Hong Kong commercial blockbusters, mainly because this blockbuster film resource is still an opportunity (Yang Caiyu is still a TV drama actor, and Chunxia and Liu Yase are even more unknown), the mainland is too rolled, you don't necessarily mix up.

Hong Kong's rare young actress Wen Yongshan was siphoned off to develop in the mainland market.

Why don't mainland audiences watch "Hong Kong movies"? The actor is old, and the backwardness of the subject matter is not the main reason

The third point is the most important, art aesthetics, industrial technology, story plot and expression level, this point can be combined with the theme, Hong Kong and Taiwan creators have lagged behind the mainland.

Especially compared with the increasing number of young directors of the post-80s and post-90s generations in the mainland in recent years. Not only are there fewer and fewer young directors in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but their aesthetic and technical pursuits are getting lower and lower, and they are lagging behind in terms of content and expression.

Let's not talk about the current costume film and television dramas, which have long been filmed in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Even if they come to the mainland market with the same resources, the same stars, and the same subject matter, they shoot far worse than mainland directors.

These modern works "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" are textureless, including the TVB texture of "Poison Tongue Lawyer", which exploded at the beginning of the year.

Let's just say that I have watched Wang Baoqiang's "In the Octagon Cage", and it is also a realistic drama film in terms of theme. The scenery of the mountains in front of this film, the thickness of the sand and gravel land, the romanticism of the wheat field chase, and then the reflection of the Sichuan opera's changing face and the character's inner change.

The first two scenes shot the texture of top literary films, and the last two scenes shot the lens language of top genre films.

The problem is ah, Wang Baoqiang is an actor turned director, and the previous work "Big Trouble" is still a recognized bad film. Although the narrative rhythm of the director's second film still has some problems, there is a huge improvement in the lens language, which shows that people really have heart, attitude, and pursuit.

In contrast, most serious Hong Kong directors have no pursuit in camera language. Some Hong Kong literary and art films are a little better, such as "The Corridor of Justice", but compared with mainland literary films and genre films in recent years. Whether it is light and film, sight and listening, or script and expression, they all lose completely.

You don't believe it?

In recent years, the top literary and art films in the mainland have been "Roadside Picnic" and "Spring River Plumbing", and then "Mistake by the River", which was not shortlisted for Cannes, and "Space Exploration Editorial Department" at the beginning of this year.

Like "Disappearing Her", some people may think that the shooting is a little fancy, but the aesthetic comes, the technology comes, the rhythm and editing come up, and the audience's viewing psychology is captured.

The current aesthetic of the animation "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is not recognized by all audiences, and it depends on the effect of the film, just like Wuershan's "Fengsheng" costume mythological blockbuster.

However, "Chang'an Twelve Hours" director Cao Dun's new film "Dunhuang Heroes" is rumored to be released on October 10 this year, and this film will be based on "Chang'an Twelve Hours", in the Tang Dynasty fine art, service Dao, armor and other film and television industries to be comprehensively upgraded, and will also show grand ancient war scenes.

What about Hong Kong movies, now "Drug Sweep 3" is still leading in the film and television industry, so guess why there are only police blockbusters left in Hong Kong?

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At this time, some people often mention traffic stars, which were indeed more widespread in previous years, but by this year, traffic star film and television dramas are almost two tracks (and crossover but not so serious). There are not many people in the Mesozoic and New Generations in Hong Kong, and the traffic star in Hong Kong is Jiang Tao -

Now that Hong Kong films have lost badly in terms of aesthetics, technology, content, expression, directors, actors, and talents, it is normal for a new generation of mainland audiences to increasingly dislike Hong Kong films.

Finally, I know that many netizens have a deep filter on Hong Kong movies, but from many perspectives, Hong Kong movies are becoming more and more ungrounded and farther away from the current young audience.

"Disappearing Her" talks about hot topics and emotions in recent years (Dapeng's "Keep You Safe" is similar); "In the Octagon Cage" talks about the theme of Chinese social reality. "Chang'an 30,000 Li" and "Dunhuang Heroes" are dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, and "Feng Shen" attempts to recreate the epic of Chinese costume mythology.

From this point of view, there is also the imagination of the rise of China in the new era of "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Deep Sea".

What are Hong Kong movies still making? "Dragon Horse Spirit" and "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" are remembering the Hong Kong movies of 30 years ago. "Anti-Drug 3", "Broken Internet" and "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" are still filming the same set of Hong Kong police and bandit films 30 years ago. Hong Kong filmmakers can't go out of the past, and young people on the mainland must always move forward and walk out of their future.

Lin Chaoxian and Tsui Hark, who have achieved great success in the mainland market. The former is "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea", and the latter is "Outsmart Tiger Mountain" and "Changjin Lake"; Earlier Chen Kexin's "Chinese Partner" and "Darling", apprentice Zeng Guoxiang's "Young You".

Look at the theme, content and expression of these four movies, yo, what a coincidence!