The Hong Kong film circle is known as "bi-weekly", and its core covers many elements such as "acting, influence, box office", and the most important element of this: "box office" is the key point that truly makes the saying "bi-weekly" recognized by everyone and passed down to this day.
Because if you talk about acting, Liang Jiahui, Liu Qingyun and others are not inferior to these three people, the four kings of popularity that year are even more comprehensively overshadowed these three in the four major fields of film and television songs, on the national and international influence, Jet Li, who broke out of the country at almost the same time as Jackie Chan, is also the bearer of Chinese films.
Therefore, the reason that really makes "Double Weekly Cheng" shout out its name and become the most brilliant representative of Hong Kong films for thirty years is at the box office, from 1979 to 2003, in the last crazy more than twenty years of Hong Kong films, the above three won more than 90% of the annual championships, of which 1985-1999, the three of them won 14 box office championships, and in 1999, Chow Xingchi won the championship again with "The King of Comedy", "Double Weekly Cheng" has been successful since then. Hong Kong cinema also stayed in that most beautiful era.
(*The following box office results, unless otherwise specified, are in Hong Kong dollars.) ）
Younger audiences, the cognition of Jackie Chan may stay in the "New Police Story" and "Zodiac" type of new movies, Jackie Chan really dominated the film industry and the beginning of that era, but more than 40 years have passed.
In 1976, Yuan Lou, who had survived for many years, changed his name to Jackie Chan and starred behind Luo Wei, but whether it was the tailor-made "New Jingwumen" or the "Wind and Rain Double Meteor" of his later partner Wang Yu, the box office results were extremely average.
For a time, Jackie Chan became a "box office poison", thick and thin hair and dark competition jackie Chan did not usher in a turnaround, although the 1978 starring "Snake-like Executioner" and "Drunken Fist" have achieved good results, but the king of the Hong Kong film industry in those years is the Hui brothers who have just achieved Sanlian Zhuang.
It belongs to the era of Jackie Chan, and it will have to wait for several more years. But he only waited for Jackie Chan's first box office champion.
In 1979, Jackie Chan won the championship with "Laughing Fist Strange Moves", we know from the name of the movie alone that this movie must belong to Jackie Chan, and this style has since become the biggest magic weapon for Jackie Chan to survive and sweep the world, it is "kung fu comedy", starting from "Snake-shaped Trick" to "Laughing Fist Strange Move", the road that Jackie Chan has been insisting on has finally ushered in market recognition.
In 1980, Jackie Chan won the championship again with "Master and Brother Out of the Horse", and pulled the box office record of Hong Kong movies directly to the platform of tens of millions, this record belongs to Jackie Chan, and the same movie also made a good start for the 80s, and the next 80s Hong Kong film box office climbed steadily, from 10 million to 36 million, doubling nearly 4 times, but in the first half of the 80s, the protagonist was not Jackie Chan, but the Xu brothers who pressed on the jackie's head.
Jackie Chan held back for 4 years, although in 4 years Jackie Chan gave birth to classic movies such as "A Plan" and "Fast Food Truck", but he could not win the championship until the big outbreak in 1985.
This year, Jackie Chan set a record that many people thought could no longer be broken (if it were not for Stephen Chow's birth, this record would have become Jackie Chan's biggest label), this record is to star in five movies a year, four to win the top four at the box office, and the only one not in this sequence is "Wei Long" because "it" is a movie shot in Hollywood.
For a time, Jackie Chan became the big brother in the jianghu and the banner of the Hong Kong film industry, which also sounded the crazy era of "double Monday Cheng".
Just in 1985, after Jackie Chan had just created this unprecedented record, Jackie Chan thought that he would become the second Xu brothers, and he would definitely be able to take the box office throne, but he did not think that the next year he was pulled off the horse.
And the person who pulled him off the horse was Zhou Runfa.
In 1986, Zhou Runfa won the championship with the movie "The True Colors of Heroes", and the role of "Little Brother Ma" also became one of the most famous images among Zhou Runfa's many roles.
But you don't necessarily know that in 1976, Zhou Runfa made his first film "Reincarnation", but in 10 years, Zhou Runfa did not mention the box office champion, and even a decent box office performance was not achieved.
For a time, Zhou Runfa also had a similar title to Jackie Chan's year: "box office poison", such a journey every big guy has to experience, and Zhou Runfa is no exception.
But since 1986, Zhou Runfa has been transferred.
In 1986/1988/1989, Zhou Runfa won 3 championships, won more than half of the victories in the second half of the 80s competition, and suppressed Jackie Chan who won two, and the movie in which Zhou Runfa won the championship in 1989 became the loudest title of Zhou Runfa today (there is no one), which is the "God of Gamblers".
Later, in 1994, Chow Yun-fat won the championship again with "God of Gamblers 2", with a box office performance of 52.54 million, which once again pulled Hong Kong films to a new platform.
Similarly, "God of Gamblers 2" is also one of the only two films in the entire 90s that broke 50 million, and the other 50 million movie is "Red Fan District" starring Jackie Chan and Mei Yanfang in 1995, with a score of 56.91 million.
And the other person closest to the field of 50 million in those years is the last person to be said next.
Stephen Chow only appeared in a movie for the first time in 1988, and in 1989 he also played the second male in Jet Li's film "The Dragon at the End of the World", but in 1990 he won the box office championship and achieved the next four consecutive championships.
That is, in those years, Stephen Chow became the "box office myth" of Hong Kong films, and there was also the phrase "one film emperor a year, a hundred years of Stephen Chow." ”
1992 is the history of Hong Kong cinema, especially belongs to the year of Stephen Chow, Chow made seven movies that year, five films locked in the top five, this record also broke the previous Jackie Chan's top four, becoming one of the records in the history of Hong Kong cinema that are destined to be unbroken.
More than 90% of the classic films in Stephen Chow's career were born between 1990 and 1999, and in the past ten years, Zhou Xingchi's classic works have been countless, and the box office results have repeatedly broken records, but a rather strange thing is in "Journey to the West".
From 1990 to 1993, Stephen Chow won four championships, and in 1994, Zhou Xingchi's self-directed and self-acting "Domestic Lingling Paint" did not win the championship, but it also received a high box office of 37 million.
However, in 1995, Chow Xingchi is now named a classic and masterpiece by most fans of the "Journey to the West" in January and February successively released, but the box office results are somewhat surprising, the upper part of "Moonlight Treasure Box" won the sixth of the year, the lower part of "Fairy Tales" got the eighth place at the box office, for Chow Xingchi Such achievements are seriously lower than expected, also at the word of mouth level of Hong Kong citizens did not buy it, many Hong Kong citizens complained that "Journey to the West" was not good, and finally ended in 1995, The annual box office champion spent "Red Fan District" (Jackie Chan), and the results were more than 10 million more than the sum of the two parts of "Journey to the West".
But no one thought that after the return in 1997, "Journey to the West" quickly became popular and popular in the mainland, and the lines in the play became a classic dialogue that young people rushed to imitate.
After entering the 21st century, the era of "double Weekly Cheng" basically ended, in 2001 and 2004 Chow Xingchi won two championships, while Chow Yun Fat and Jackie Chan basically bid farewell to the Hong Kong film industry and chose a broader market, that is, from that time on, the golden century of Hong Kong films slowly ended.
In the more than ten years that the three of them have dominated the jianghu, the Hong Kong film industry has emerged with talents, including Jet Li from the south, as well as and Froml lau, Leung Ka Fai and others who are born and raised, but no matter who is in the field of film, no one can shake the status of the three of them, Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan and Chow Xingchi from three different directions, or gangsters, or kung fu, or comedy, the three people do not interfere with each other and create their own myths and times.
(Text/Dawa)