entered the millennium, the Hong Kong film market continued to decline, and eschatological plots were everywhere.
At this time, Wang Jing, as the most profitable commercial director, still resolutely produced two gambling films "The King of Thousand Kings 2000" and "Chinese Gambler". The former is his director, and the latter is his producer and screenwriter.
In order to support Zhang Jiahui, Wang Jing really has reached the state of omnipotence. Among the kings of the thousand kings, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invite the king of comedy Stephen Chow to appear as a guest (although it turned out to be anti-guest.) The latter invited the red at the time. The darkened Koo Tianle partner Zhang Jiahui. This wave of commercial operations really slipped away. The former has the box office guarantee of Stephen Chow, and the latter is the usual kung fu gambling chaos, Louis Koo is responsible for the cool plus action, and Zhang Jiahui is responsible for the funny. In one respect, this is equivalent to insurance for movies.
really did well in the downturn of the movie market.
However, what I am going to talk about today has nothing to do with the two films themselves.
all know that Wang Jing loves spoofs, especially using some classic movies or phenomena to make nonsensical processing and put them into his own movies. This is also a manifestation of his talent.
and spoofs are inevitable in these two movies.
Let me talk about the spoof in "The King of Thousand Kings 2000" first.
first eats his own money and replaces Dragon Five with Deaf Five to create a laugh. Then, Zhang Jiahui was tattooed and he was stabbed with the five characters I love Cai Fenghua. Of course, for mainland audiences who don't understand Hong Kong music, this stalk doesn't work.
In the end, Zhang Jiahui parodyed several classic movies in order to deceive Stephen Chow. One was Zhenzi who crawled out of the TV (spoof "Midnight Ring"), and the last was Zhang Jiahui pretending to be the hero of China (spoof movie) "Chinese Hero").
In addition to the Japanese horror film "Midnight Ring" that scared the world, Wang Jing chose Ekin Cheng's "Chinese Hero". It can be seen that the film’s success in Hong Kong at that time, and Ekin Cheng’s high popularity in Hong Kong at that time, the Fifth Heavenly King is not a fiction!
Next, let’s take a look at some of the slogans in "Chinese Gamblers". First, Zhang Jiahui imitated Stephen Chow and sang a red song "The Eyes Want to Travel" at dawn, and then he spoofed in a dream. The MV of Liming's electronic song "All Day Love" is of course very funny.
Wang Jing is the most business-minded commercial director in Hong Kong. Every shot of his is closely calculated. It is by no means a sudden whim. Therefore, we have every reason to believe that the purpose of these spoofs in his film is absolutely Towards the high popularity of Liming and Ekin Cheng in Hong Kong at that time.
At the time, Ekin Cheng relied on 1998's "Fight and Cloud Dominates the World" to end the double Monday box office dominance. In the second half of 1999, "Chinese Heroes" was launched, and its popularity reached the four kings. At that time, Liming was also making a comeback in the music scene with his dynamic electronic dance music. His electronic music had a fashionable style, dynamic rhythm and catchy, which seemed to be a classic popular among young people in Hong Kong.
Seeing the essence through the phenomenon, through Wang Jing’s two funny gambling films, it is not difficult to find that the two most popular celebrities in Hong Kong in 2000 were Ekin Cheng and Liming. One was based on movies and the other was based on songs. Does
suddenly feel that the editor is very witty?
