Author: Melon Melon
Recently, the Busan Film Festival in South Korea opened,
In order to save the declining popularity, 68-year-old actor Chow Yun-fat was invited, hoping to create a topic.
As a result, Brother Fa really lived up to his expectations,
A speech of 625 is infuriating.
He first highly praised Korean film and television, and said that he was very happy to see that Korean films inherited Hong Kong films and promoted Hollywood.
Then, turn around and start stepping on China.
"The lack of creative freedom in Hong Kong films has made it difficult for us, especially after the handover in 1997..."
Then, the actor said meaningfully,
The mainland market is too big, and we have to try to solve the way to survive.
Melon takes you to see the scene
Melon said, like 11
When asked by a reporter about the 5.6 billion donation he had previously pledged,
He smiled and said,
"That's all my wife has to donate, and I don't want to donate myself because it's hard to make money."
He said he did not know the exact amount of the donation.
Just said very open-mindedly.
"None of this wealth belongs to me, and I can't take it with me when I leave the world."
A speech 625, directly to the melon listened to the confused.
Brother Fa, you can not donate money, and you can't talk nonsense.
01
First of all, let's talk about the Korean movie that was praised by Brother Fa,
If the "Korean Wave" was once quite influential,
So now, it's basically a bleak wither.
Melon looked it up:
In 2022, more than 100 films were made in South Korea, and only 8 were profitable.
In 2023, Korean films continue to decline all the way, and as of the end of September, only 5 films are barely profitable.
A well-known Korean industry insider said:
"Korean movies are dead, God can't save them!"
Just like this, Emperor Zhou Ying still praised the sky?
If you praise Korea, it is out of the scene of comforting the host,
Brother Nafa's next words are even more puzzling.
He dumped the decline of Hong Kong films on the mainland.
First, he pointed out that "there is no creative freedom in Hong Kong. “
In 2011, Hong Kong released a "3D meat futon", which also hired a number of popular Japanese adult action movie actresses to help.
Excuse me, all third-grade films are allowed to be filmed, how can they be free?
That's right, Hong Kong movies are in decline,
There are many reasons for the decline,
Some are hidden in Chow Yun-fat's recent films.
02
This time, Chow Yun-fat's films at the Busan Film Festival:
"Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers".
That's right, 33 years have passed, and Brother Fa is still playing "God of Gamblers".
"Don't Call Me "God of Gamblers" stills
Although the lineup of the film is strong:
Yuen Yongyi, Fang Zhongxin, the deceased Liao Qizhi...
But the word of mouth is not satisfactory.
The brother Fa in the film is no longer a spirited "gambling god", but a down-and-out "gambler".
"God of Gamblers" is just a gimmick used to create some feelings.
I don't know when it started, "Hong Kong gambling films" ≈ "bad films", which makes it difficult to look forward to it.
Since the 80s of the last century, the "God of Gamblers" series has exploded,
also achieved the golden age of Chow Yun-fat: God of gamblers, Pony and so on,
However, feelings cannot be eaten for a lifetime.
More than 30 years have passed, but the theme of Hong Kong films has remained unchanged:
God of gambling, underworld, police and bandits undercover, anti-drug and anti-corruption.
What's more, the actor is seriously green and yellow.
The 60-year-old policeman chased the 65-year-old gangster all over the street,
Big brother, melon looks tired.
Small pattern, single theme, lack of large production,
The actor does not answer and so on,
These are the reasons for the decline of Hong Kong films.
03
At one time, Taiwan was one of the main box office sources for Hong Kong films,
But later, Taiwan Province still introduced Hollywood movies in large quantities,
It has had a huge impact on Hong Kong films.
Subsequently, Hong Kong also began to introduce Hollywood films in large quantities, further impacting the local film market.
For investors, introducing mature Hollywood blockbusters can make a lot of money, so why spend a lot of money and risk to make local Hong Kong films?
Therefore. Investment in Hong Kong films has been continuously compressed, resulting in the current production cost of a Hong Kong film still controlled at about 30 million.
There can be no big production without investment,
It has also exacerbated the decline of Hong Kong cinema.
In addition, there is a large loss of talent.
When Hong Kong films reached their peak, a large number of actors "went west".
Chow Yun-fat, John Woo, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, etc., have entered Hollywood one after another.
Accompanying them is the most elite team behind Hong Kong movies.
After all, Hong Kong, with a population of 7.4 million, cannot carry huge ambitions.
Some people returned after wandering, but many never returned,
As a result, there has been a "disconnection" in many aspects.
For example, after Chow Yun-fat became famous in Hong Kong, he also ran to Hollywood.
Take a closer look at this villain in "Pirates of the Caribbean", I don't understand why the handsome and dashing Zhou Yingdi has to play such an ugly B role?
"Pirates of the Caribbean" stills
In fact, Brother Fa has also made transformation attempts,
For example, "Full of Golden Armor in the City", "Let the Bullets Fly",
The role of "Huang Shiro" is very classic.
I thought it was the peak, but I didn't expect it to be the endgame.
Stills from "Let the Bullets Fly"
However, more than a decade later, he retreated back into his former comfort zone, and perfectly missed the decade of explosive growth at the box office in the Chinese mainland film market.
04
Among Hong Kong filmmakers, there are many excellent ones.
Among them, there are many people with vision and heart, who have put the core of their career on the mainland and have achieved good results.
For example, Hong Kong director Lin Chaoxian, whose "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea" are both cross-strait cooperation, which can be described as successful.
There is also Andy Lau, who used to act in police and bandit films and gambling god films like Brother Fa, but after many years of deep cultivation of the mainland film market, starred in "The Wandering Earth", and also endorsed Huawei's "extraordinary master".
A still from "The Wandering Earth"
Active integration with the mainland is the best way out for Hong Kong films at present.
And Brother Fa is still playing the God of Gambling, woohoo!
The hero is late, the Hong Kong piece is lonely,
This cauldron, the mainland can't carry it!
Melon said
The late Hong Kong actor Wu Mengda, who starred in "The Wandering Earth 1",
When he received the script, he didn't believe it was written by Chinese.
The film was filmed, the old man cried,
Because he saw for the first time that China's film studios also had special infirmaries and ambulances, which were actually live-action shooting, he excitedly shouted "this is called the film industry"!
After filming the movie, he said in an interview,
"I have been in the film industry for 40 years, and only this time can I really make a movie, and this life is worth it."
Andy Lau, sighed after filming "The Wandering Earth 2":
"I really didn't expect that these high-tech equipment, these new equipment are all made by our Chinese, so proud!"
Film and television must always fit the cultural spirit of an era,
Once at the height of the United States, a series of Hollywood blockbusters such as "Star Wars" and "Transformers" were born.
Now China's industry and science and technology are developing rapidly, and blockbusters such as "The Wandering Earth", "Wolf Warrior", and "Desperate" have also emerged.
Times have changed, gangsters gambling gods, outdated.
Chow Yun-fat said:
"'I'm Not a God of Gamblers' at the Busan Film Festival in South Korea is my last film."
Between words, there is already a sense of silence.
If it really ends at this time, it will be a pity.
The veteran of Hong Kong films, the once magnificent peerless can be called a classic,
But some people still don't realize their limitations at the end of the play, and are still trying to throw off the melancholy and loneliness, including Du Qifeng, Chen Kexin, and Zhou Yunfa in the back.
An era can always create a classic of an era;
It also means that this classic will eventually be replaced by another era.
It's like zombie movies, God of gamblers movies,
It is not the decline of a type of film, but the end of an era.
The glory of the past is gone.
Now in the Chinese film industry,
No more gamblers, underworlds,
It is the self-confidence of a big country and the sea of stars.
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