Speaking of "Lunar New Year films", they can be regarded as one of the film types exclusive to the Chinese film industry.
This is a category of movies released between the end of the year and the Lunar New Year, with the main purpose of celebrating the New Year.
In order to match the strong New Year atmosphere at this moment, as well as the joyful mood of every household to welcome family members home, and the hope that the family can be reunited, most New Year films will be mainly family movies, with both comedy and family reunion as the theme. Main tone.
Speaking of the best among Chinese New Year films, we must recommend this classic Chinese New Year comedy "Happy Events" that has stood out in the history of Chinese New Year films and remains popular for many years.
Although "A Happy Event in the Family" has been released since its release in 1992, there have been sequels "A Happy Event in the Family" and various reprints.
seems to be unable to compare with the 4k digitally restored extended version that will be released in February 2024.
This "Family Happiness", regarded as a classic New Year film, not only brings together a number of king and queen-level actors such as Stephen Chow, Leslie Cheung, Wong Pak Ming, Maggie Cheung, Sandra Ng, Mo Shunyun, etc., but is also known as one of the comedy masters. The famous director Gao Zhisen directed it himself.
This is a rare movie with a combination of top superstars, and it is also a movie that is unlikely to reproduce its glory and classics today.
But as most modern people have become accustomed to watching movies on small screens, "Happy Events at Home" has actually launched a newly created 4k digitally restored and extended version, and is preparing to be released in theaters during the Lunar New Year this year.
This New Year film "A Happy Event in the Family", released in 1992, tells a family and love story between three brothers of the Chang family.
I don’t know whether it’s because of the good writing by the screenwriter, the good direction by the director, or the good acting by the actors. In short, the story of "A Happy Event in the Family" is crazy, hilarious, and heartwarming. It was even rumored that " There are rumors about the case of "stealing film negatives in the middle of the night".
The movie fans were not disappointed either. It was a hit upon its release and broke the box office record at the time with a total box office of nearly 49 million Hong Kong dollars. It also became a Chinese-language film that won the Rotten Tomatoes Award and is still being awarded today. 90% good result.
As the director of "Happy Events at Home", Gao Zhisen achieved success and popularity with the "Wealth and Power" series of movies in his early years, which gave him inspiration for filming "Happy Events at Home".
The most distinctive feature of "Happy Events at Home" is that he adopted an exaggerated narrative technique during filming, pushing almost all scenes to extremes.
Therefore, Stephen Chow's "Undirected Psychotic Intermittent Systemic Dysfunction", Leslie Cheung's "Giving a Child is Too Painful", Maggie Cheung and Stephen Chow's "Paris Tower Reversal and Reversal Kiss Scene", and Sandra Ng's "Encounter" Why have we known each other before?"
These seemingly confusing scenes in the film not only had a profound impact on the Chinese-speaking society, becoming common jokes among friends when they get together, but also became famous scenes that are still cut out by many netizens today. As an emoticon collection.
When "A Happy Event in the Family" officially entered its 32nd week of release, Baodao Films unexpectedly re-introduced this "A Happy Event in the Family" and launched a so-called 4k digitally restored extended version.
Judging from the available information, the 4k digitally restored extended version released this time not only includes the scene that was cut when it was released that year, "the three Chang brothers wearing stockings and engaging in a ridiculous gun battle with the gangsters", There are also "enough and unnecessary explosion scenes" that are enough to escalate the popularity of this film.
In addition to the most eye-catching extended content, the 4k digitally restored extended version of "Happy Events at Home" does not follow the traditional thinking of remaking the old with the old. Instead, the director personally supervised the 4k color grading, which will make " The picture of "Happy Events at Home" is more detailed and vivid, and it is more in line with the viewing needs of modern people.
It's a pity that this 4k digitally restored extended version of "A Happy Event in the Family" with many memories and highlights is not what you and I want to see.
Because it will only be released in Baodao Cinema during the Lunar New Year period in 2024, I wonder who among you and me today can witness those hilarious scenes that have never been shown before?
’s interpretation of “Happy Events in the Family” will be written here for the time being. More exciting interpretations will be discussed in the next chapter.
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