"Shaolin Temple" is a color widescreen kung fu film produced by Hong Kong Central Plains Film Company in 1982, which caused a sensation. A wave of new styles of martial arts movies has been set off in China and even the world, making Jet Li become an international movie star in one fell swoop, and has set off a craze for martial arts in China. Unlike many other martial arts movies that use doubles and stunts, Jet Li shows most of his real skills.
The movie ticket of "Shaolin Temple" back then was a dime and a movie ticket. A dime is considered a piece of waste paper in the current society, but in that era in 1982, a dime could buy a lot of things. , Even in that era of scarcity, it is hard to resist people's love for movies. Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple" even achieved a box office of 160 million yuan, becoming the box office champion at that time.
Of course, it’s not a big deal to put 160 million in the box office today. It may not even make it into the top 50 box office of the year. But in 1982, our people were still hungry and full. In that era of scarcity If you can get a box office of 160 million yuan, if you change it to the present, you will also be the box office champion in China.
Some netizens calculated that the box office of the year was at the current level (purely entertainment). The ticket price of
at that time was one dime, and the box office was 161.5 million yuan.
1615 million ÷ 0.1 yuan = 1.615 million people
At that time, the number of people who went to the cinema to watch movies reached 1.615 billion
Shaolin Temple is a 2d movie. According to the current minimum ticket price of 20 yuan for a 2d movie in the cinema, it is:
1.615 billion×20=32.3 billion
so the total box office is about 32.3 billion yuan So far, the highest box office of a single movie is "Wolf Warrior II" with a box office of 5.677 billion, and the world's highest box office of "Avatar" is US$2.7 billion, which is about 17 billion yuan. (The above is just for entertainment, don’t take it seriously)
because many people still watched it with projectors in the countryside, basically they didn’t charge movie tickets, otherwise the box office should be higher.
In that era when materials were scarce and entertainment was scarce, the achievement of "Shaolin Temple" was really remarkable.
