Hong Kong movies in recent years have always brought us some surprises.
When we feel that Hong Kong films have declined, it won’t take long for a film to have a high box office performance, and sometimes one or two films will be produced that have a good reputation and can even be passed down as classics. Hong Kong movies such as " Chills ", " Equatorial ", "Anti-Drug 2" and "The Case of Fury" are Hong Kong movies that achieve these points.
And just when we felt that Hong Kong movies were good again, for more than a year, dozens of Hong Kong movies became bad movies in the eyes of the audience, and none of these Hong Kong movies were regarded as bad movies. It has created relatively impressive box office results. Movies like " When Comes Back", " Offline ", " Anti-Virus 3" and " Stealth " etc. have poor reputations and poor box office performance.
Because for more than a year, dozens of Hong Kong movies have failed to create relatively impressive box office results in the Chinese mainland market, and their reputations are also very poor. So at this time, some people said: "Hong Kong movies are dead now."
But just when we have completely lost confidence in Hong Kong movies and even thought that Hong Kong movies are "dead", suddenly there is another Hong Kong movie that performs well at the box office and has a good reputation. It was released in May this year. The first officially released " Kowloon Walled City: The Siege ".
During the screening period before its official release, "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" showed strong box office harvesting power. After its official release, its daily box office performance has also been very stable, with more than 50 million yuan in revenue every day, and the cumulative total box office in four days has exceeded 300 million yuan.
At this time, as one of the leading actors in the film and the only one with real kung fu, Sammo Hung should have begun to "understand" Stephen Chow at that time.
From some perspectives, "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" is very similar to " Kung Fu " directed and starred by Stephen Chow.
In the movie "Kung Fu", the only "pure land" Ping Shing Walled City was filmed in the Kowloon Walled City, and both movies are Kung Fu movies.
And the most exciting fighting scene in the movie "Kung Fu" is in Pingcheng Village, where there are so many masters, such as the fried hawker, the tailor master, the coolie, the landlord and the landlord, etc., they are all top-notch experts. In order to protect the peace of Pingcheng Village, he broke his hidden identity. In the end, the real master A Xing (played by Stephen Chow) was introduced. His final battle with the Fire Cloud Evil God is the most exciting part of the film.
Audiences who are familiar with the movie "Kung Fu" should know that Sammo Hung was one of the film's martial arts directors. The fight scene between the three masters and the Tomahawk Gang in the movie was personally directed by Sammo Hung.
However, there were differences in the action concepts between Sammo Hung and Stephen Chow in the later stage, which led to Sammo Hung himself quitting midway. At that time, Sammo Hung even had some complaints against Stephen Chow.
Nowadays, " Kowloon Walled City ", which has similar scenes to "Kung Fu", has become a great success. Sammo Hung's complaints about Stephen Chow should have disappeared. At this moment, he may have truly "understood" Stephen Chow at that time. Stephen Chow is indeed a great film director and actor.
