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Decline of Hong Kong Movies:

Causes, effects and solutions

Solutions

Causes

1. Government input capitals: set up movie fundings; train freshmen into the industry

1.Structural Change

1990s: Asian financial turmoil-> a few movie companies closed up-> overall market shrinked

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2003: SARS-> theaters virtually empty-> shut down film production for four months-> only 54 local movies were made (Li, 2004).

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2. Inferior Production

Famous actors (e.g. Jacky Chan) quitted the HK movie industry but work for Chinese or Hollywood productions

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Exhaustion of overused formulas (Yang, 2003)

e.g. vulgar comedies

2000s: Less freshmen enter the industry; Lack of capital and government support

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2. Open China market: cooperate with talented directors and actors; attract mainland audiences

Unprofessional new actors-> idolized star without acting skills

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Immature and insufficient CG techniques

Introduction

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Only one local production (Gum Gai 3) is in the top 10 rank of Hong Kong’s 2014 Box Office (Boxofficemojo,2014)

Audiences turn to Hollywood and Taiwanese productions !!!

Effects

Prosperous period of HK movies: 1960s-1990s

e.g. Fist of Fury, Teddyboy

1. Jeopardise Hong Kong’s cultural image

Local production’s box office dropped from $10 hundred million in 1993 to $4.5 hundred million in 2001 (HKfilm100, 2015)

2. Lower residents’ entertainment level

3. Lose a way to promote HK characteristic to foreigners

Purpose of writing:

- To arouse the attention of HK people to local movie industry

-To suggest possible solutions for government and movie industry to rescue HK movies

THESIS STATEMENT

This study provides insight into the current development of HK movies, discover the failure and discuss the possible ways to save HK movie industry, as well as helping HK’s cultural and creative industry, in order to create a better unique characteristic of HK through movies.

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