Chen Haonan and pheasant get together again. Behind this movie is 20 years of feelings.

Special feature of 1905 film network It’s another Mid-Autumn Festival. With several new Chinese films joining the station circle, the market that has been depressed for many days is about to revive.

As the first film, directed by Qian Jiale and starring Ekin Cheng, Jordan chan, Xie Tianhua, Lin Xiaofeng and Qian Jiale, it is undoubtedly the most anticipated film by the audience at present.

No matter the number of people who want to see it, the market arrangement or the first day box office, it is currently at the top of the films of the same period, which can be described as "threatening".

Although we have a large number of die-hard fans for 22 years, and although we are still friends in need, will we really get used to seeing the hot-blooded teenagers who used to fight from Causeway Bay to Tsim Sha Tsui with knives become middle-aged uncles who are now fighting overseas with guns?

Fortunately, after watching the whole film, all the worries and doubts are "superfluous": the background has moved to Inner Mongolia, Budapest, Hungary and Fukuoka and Montenegro, which has made the film break away from the traditional routine and become an international large-scale action movie.

In other words,In terms of scale and effect, The Golden Brothers has surpassed the traditional Jianghu movies.

In the plot, there was a hot scene from the beginning, and then there was no sloppiness all the way, and all kinds of blood were boiling, but they didn’t fight blindly, especially in Budapest, where everyone "outsmarted" first, then got involved in the plot, and then set off a gun battle, which made people scream and enjoy themselves in one go, and the reversal and conflict among them made people sweat.

But don’t think that this is all. Later, such as the villain plan, the Japanese flying car, and even the final battle of "siege" are quite enjoyable, and one wave after another makes people applaud.

At the same time, we did not forget to continue the brotherly feelings of the past films, especially a few literary dramas, which also earned a lot of tears from the audience. It can be seen that as a director, Qian Jiale can be described as "both civil and military", which has not only produced the usual lively rhythm of Hong Kong films, but also sublimated them to the international level of action, and even preserved the classic feelings. It is really not simple.

In a word, The Golden Brothers is a transnational action film with special feelings and characteristics.Regardless of the audience or fans of genre films, it is enough to say that they are satisfied!

In fact, the "Golden Brothers" group began in the film in 1998 and has been formally formed for exactly 20 years.

But for many viewers who like them, when did this feeling begin?

It is said that ten or twenty years ago, the mainland was still the era of video halls. From videos to VCDs, there were always a group of young fans watching various Hong Kong movies around a 20-inch TV.

Among them, the most clamoring for the boss to show it must be as many as dozens of this series of movies.

After seeing blood boiling or tears, "Causeway Bay" has become the most vivid landmark memory of that generation of young people for Hong Kong, and "I am a bearer in Causeway Bay" has also become one of their most common catchphrases. Even the organizational composition, location distribution and membership power of "Hong Xing" and "East Star" have been well analyzed by them, as if they were really "Jianghu people".

Film stills

Even the audience who have seen this series of movies, no matter from the north or the south, will basically hum two sentences: "Jiandong always basks in the sun, I play in the sun", "To forget the wrong and to miss the past" and "I will rush in at will and look forward to it".

Not to mention that at that time, young people all over the street were imitating Chen Haonan’s hairstyle or pheasant’s expression, and even putting a watermark "tattoo" on their bodies, as if people could become characters in movies if they saw a pattern. …

All the details are destined to evoke the classic feelings of the audience from all aspects after more than 20 years. For example, in 2015, the five brothers came to four:

"friendship days Concert" has traveled all over the country. Whenever the melody of "friendship days" rings, there is always a chorus:

In 2017, the online drama "Anti-Black" with a good reputation in the mainland, in addition to "Pheasant Brother" Jordan chan, there are also "Big Brother B" Wu Zhixiong and "East Star Camel" Wai-Man Chan, etc.

Of course, the variety show "Where is Dad Going 5" is indispensable. Only Jordan chan "loses his temper" with his son Jasper, and netizens will feel that "Pheasant Brother is possessed!" ：

The film directed by Wu Junru for the first time also has one of the indispensable elements:

Including those that haven’t been released, and with the participation of Ekin Cheng, Xie Tianhua and Lin Xiaofeng, it was called a reunion by the audience.

In short, even if time flies and youth is gone, the audience will always accept this "feeling card" that has lasted for more than 20 years. But many people may not know that the birth of this IP is also a secret history of Hong Kong movies.

It is said that before the filming of the first film, director Liu Weiqiang and screenwriter Wen Juan were still "enemies", which was related to Wen Juan’s various ridicules and curses on the film directed by Liu Weiqiang on the radio. Liu Weiqiang, who was furious, planned to beat him. He didn’t want Jing Wong to pull them together, but he proposed a three-person company to film, which was as dramatic as "becoming sworn brothers" in reality.

To this end, the three also set up a film company that was very representative of Hong Kong film industry in the late 1990s: BOB.

However, compared with today’s classic status, many people were not optimistic about bringing the prototype comics to the screen. Even Jing Wong, as a producer, thought that this piece was difficult to sell, but Wen Juan was full of confidence: "I don’t think this film is a Jianghu film, but when it is a youth growth film, I want to make those who don’t know Jianghu feel very good."

Stills of "People in Jianghu"

However, the performance of "People in the Jianghu" is still beyond everyone’s imagination: all the performances in Hong Kong were full, with a total of more than 900,000 in half an hour. By 1: 30 midnight, it had received 1.08 million, and finally the midnight box office alone reached more than 1.3 million!

In the end, relying on the "dead schedule" one week before Christmas, the cumulative box office grossed 21.12 million Hong Kong dollars, which officially opened the box office myth of this series of movies.

Stills of "People in Jianghu"

　

More miraculously, after Man in the Jianghu, the three masters actually finished two sequels in half a year: and.

The former started in mid-February, and it took only 14 days to shoot with the framing tape. On March 28, it went to the midnight show. On the premise that there was no time to prepare at all, even in Ekin Cheng, there was only a four-day schedule, and the scene was started by "flying paper boy" every day; The latter received a deposit in mid-April, flew to the Netherlands for filming at the end of the month, filmed the whole film in May and released it at the end of June, just to catch up with the summer file … …

Even so, the two sequels still earned HK$ 22.49 million and HK$ 19.5 million respectively. In other words, in the past six months, the cumulative revenue of the trilogy has reached 63 million Hong Kong dollars, which is one of the most representative Hong Kong IP films in the late 1990s.

　

According to statistics, as of 2000, the cumulative box office of the six-part series (People in Jianghu, Raptors Crossing the River, absolute monarch, Invincible, enter the dragon, Winner is King) has exceeded 99 million Hong Kong dollars, which can be described as earning a lot of money compared with the low-cost production of each episode.

Of course, this is not to mention all kinds of "foreign articles" such as Thirteen Sisters in Hongxing, The Story of Pheasant, Hong Xing Large Allen, etc. If all the statistics are true, then this IP has accumulated a box office of at least over HK$ 100 million at the low tide of Hong Kong movies in the middle and late 1990s, which, to some extent, is a "rescue" series!

In addition to the box office success, the trilogy has also spawned a large number of classic lines that still make the audience memorize.

Jing Kun’s cruelty:

Pheasant’s vagrancy;

Raven’s unruly madness:

There is also the same touching love, such as the trouble of Chen Haonan and Xiao stammer:

Pheasant’s confession to Ding Yao;

Even more indispensable is the brotherhood of "there is no afterlife in this life":

And prevent young people from going astray, and summarize and reflect on the rivers and lakes:

Looking back at the whole series, it is actually not to teach young people to enter the underworld, nor to show the secret history of various underworld, but to make people understand what "love and righteousness are worth a thousand dollars", to promote the sharing of troubles between brothers, and to reveal the values that all gangsters have no good end.

Therefore, from Hong Kong in those days to the mainland today, it always resonates with the younger generation.

　

It is worth mentioning that the play emphasizes punishing evil and promoting good, and crouching tiger, hidden dragon is the same outside the play.

In this series, several big brothers and sisters are film emperors, and their acting strength is overwhelming.

Among them, Wu Junru is the first actor who won the best actress with this series of films:

Wu Junru won the Golden Award for "Thirteen Sisters of Hongxing".

In contrast, the "younger generation" has made great achievements in acting. For example, Jordan chan, the pheasant, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Karen Mok, who plays the priest’s daughter, also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. No wonder there is a tacit understanding in the film:

Even the behind-the-scenes creation, together with the Infernal Affairs series, has become two labels of Liu Weiqiang’s directorial career:

Qian Jiale, who plays "Big Head", not only won the Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actor, but also won the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Design several years ago.

Today, he is not only a well-known director and action director, but also the president of the Hong Kong Action Acrobatics Association, which can be described as fame and fortune:

Interestingly, in addition to showing the scenery of rivers and lakes, it has also brought joy to Hong Kong people (even viewers watching TVB in South China) for ten years.

Since 1995, the variety show "Super Invincible Winner", starring Ceng Zhiwei, has been ranked first in Hong Kong’s ratings for a long time. Various game links have made the audience smile. As "awards for the elderly", Lin Xiaofeng, Jordan chan and Qian Jiale have also contributed, which is enough to prove that these "teenagers" have many talents:

Now "Golden Brothers" is produced by Ceng Zhiwei, which can be said to reproduce these two classic signs at the same time, thus bringing more classic feelings.

So, with these unique cards, will you go to the cinema to support the "sentimental" work "Golden Brothers"?