In recent years, there has gradually emerged a wave of ticket appreciation in the Hong Kong film industry, aiming to attract audiences by relying on the frequent appearance of the starring cast in movie theaters, so that many fans of actors have repeatedly bought tickets to flush them, which has helped many Hong Kong films create extremely high box office. However, movie star Oh Jin Woo seems to have reservations about this ethos.
On the 28th, Wu Zhenyu appeared in a local cinema to thank the votes for "The Negotiator", which made many viewers happy, and the reporters on the scene were also surprised, because he has rarely participated in such activities. In order to understand the reason for his participation in the event, the reporter made an inquiry.
Wu Zhenyu said that "The Negotiator" has achieved good results, no matter how busy he is, he has to squeeze out time to thank him, and he does not resist thanking the ticket, such as when the starring "Uncle Against the Current" was released a few years ago, he went to Mong Kok many times to attend, the reason is that he really thinks the movie is good and hopes that more audiences will enter, but this should not be the main way to wash the box office, and the level of the box office should be determined by the quality of the movie.
"A movie must be successful before it can go to the cinema to thank the audience, and you can't immediately thank the box office as soon as it is released. You have to thank everyone before you have a good box office, and you can't thank you for the box office. He said.
There is no doubt that this is a frank answer, but it is also easy to offend people, after all, now that the Hong Kong circle has become a trend of thanking votes, some big names are still active practitioners, and criticizing this atmosphere is like slapping them in the face. However, the reporter was satisfied with this, and immediately asked: "If the box office of "Negotiator" exceeds 20 million Hong Kong dollars, will you come out again to thank the votes?" ”
Wu Zhenyu replied: "Actually...... We're busy, and we can't just say yes. I will go north after this farewell, and I will be able to go home in 3 months, and I will have to wait for 3 months later, in mid-September. ”
To be honest, I was deeply touched after seeing Wu Zhenyu's answer. In my opinion, the Hong Kong film industry's ticket appreciation atmosphere in recent years has reached an extremely exaggerated point, and it has come time to refrain from it, such as "12 Strange Thieves" starring the local group MIRROR on the first day, which was released at the end of March this year, although it is regarded by many people as the worst cinema movie in the Hong Kong circle in recent years, and is even accused of not being worthy of being called a movie, but it still relies on the high frequency of 414 shows in the first 5 days of the release, and at least hundreds of shows in the middle and late stages, relying on attracting fans to enter many times in a row, dozens of times, hundreds of times, finally got a box office of 22.13 million Hong Kong dollars, and it has so far ranked among the top five Chinese films in Hong Kong this year.
This kind of box office, which has nothing to do with the quality of the film and relies purely on thank you votes, is just an illusion of prosperity, and in the long run, it will inevitably deal a major blow to the Hong Kong film industry. Let's imagine, if the main actors go to the cinema to thank the ticket is the main selling point of the movie itself, and it mainly relies on the same method as the meeting to make money, then why do you have to make a movie seriously? So why use so many scenes in front of and behind the scenes? The filmmaker can just take a video with his mobile phone! Anyway, as long as the main actors are in the cinema, the audience is just to see the stars! It's a terrible scene.
Therefore, whether it is the audience or film practitioners, they must be rational, with a higher moral bottom line and aesthetic level. Only in this way will things that insult the film industry and the intelligence of the masses not become mainstream.