Although Li Changsheng has traveled to the mainland more frequently these years, he still will not give up Xiangjiang's entertainment circle, especially the film circle.
He will also bring Xiangjiang's high-grossing and high-repute movies to the screen.
He doesn't only value the box office, those classic movies with high reputation in later generations, even if they don't make money, he will put them on the screen.
He didn't have time to act himself, so he asked Zhou Runfa to act.
Although Zhou Runfa had discriminated against mainlanders, but Li Changsheng had abolished him and made him be a good man with as few desires as he wanted.
This year, Li Changsheng also asked Zhou Jianchao to act in a war art film.
This will allow Zhou Runfa to win the Best Actor Award at the Golden Horse Awards.
It turns out that in that time and space, this movie is "Waiting for Dawn" produced by Debao Company (this has nothing to do with the later Li Tianwang, it is purely waiting for the dawn).
The director is Puzhi, an abandoned general of New Art City. Debao was a start-up with limited funds, so he asked Golden Harvest to invest together. He Guanchang felt that the film would lose money and was hesitant, so Cen Kin-hsun flirted with him like a baby. He Guanchang thought of the curly-haired planning of "The Banners of Hong Kong and Hong Kong", so he agreed with a soft heart, and he really lost money.
However, Cen Jianxun still went his own way, making money by making raucous comedies while frantically looking for money to make literary films, which went hand in hand. Under his administration, Debao has become increasingly prosperous, and the types of films are quite divided, but they all accurately match the aesthetic tastes of the urban middle class.
Cen Jianxun asked his former boss Chen Guanzhong to write the script of "Waiting for Dawn". This is the first time that Chen Guanzhong is in charge of writing the screenplay independently. Although it is not refined enough, the story is written in a realistic and fascinating way, with both artistic and commercial aspects, and a grand vision can be seen in small details.
The film is also based on the background of the Japanese invasion of Huawei, vividly depicting the love of children in troubled times, and won multiple nominations for the Academy Awards.
The three leading actors gave excellent performances. The young Zhou Runfa and Wan Ziliang both have strong muscles, full of unscrupulous optimism and aggressiveness. The whole film is full of vitality, which is exactly the spirit of the times when Xiangjiang people started from the grassroots.
Zhou Runfa won the Golden Horse Award and Asia-Pacific Film Festival double best actor for this film for the first time. Many years later, before he left Xiangjiang, in his work "Peace Hotel", the heroine was Ye Tong, who sent him out of the arena as if by fate, and witnessed his reincarnation in Xiangjiang's film career.
Zhou Runfa's image, temperament and conduct are well-known in the circle, so Xu Anhua has always been full of praise for him, thinking that "Fazi" is "a star and an actor", capable of writing and martial arts, dedicated and humble.
However, the box office results of each film are only seven to eight million, which does not meet the status of a first-line star. The unsatisfactory "Aura is Impressive" is also considered to be the credit of Huang Miaoming.
Xiangjiang is a highly commercialized society, especially in that golden age of rapid development, even if you win the best actor, everything will be empty if you don't sell it.
Such an excellent work as "Waiting for Dawn" sold only 7 million in the hot film market in 1984. Can't (Dema Zhao) make people lament that Zhou Runfa's luck is bad, he is still the poisonous one.
Maybe it's because the title of the film is not flattering, and he still needs to wait for the dawn to break, "Who knows what will happen after dawn?"
Zhou Guifa was shortlisted for Best Actor for the first time in "Waiting for Dawn" at the next year's Academy Awards, but lost to Li Xiuxian, who directed and acted in "Public Servant". A few years later, the two of them will stage the most classic duel between two heroes in Chinese-language police and gangster films in front of Wu Yusen's camera. .
