In the Spring Festival of 2016, Star Lord hit a historic record of 3.3 billion box office with "The Mermaid", which showed us the infinite possibilities of domestic films. We thought this was the pinnacle of domestic films, but who would have thought? Just one year later, in the summer season, Wu Jing defeated five generals with "Wolf Warrior 2" and won 5.68 billion box office in one fell swoop, which once again refreshed the film history record and remains to this day.
Poster But throughout the entire Chinese film history, there is one film we have to talk about. The film was directed by Zhang Xinyan, with Lu Zhaozhang and Xue Hou as the screenwriters, and Jet Li, Jie Yuhai, Ji Chunhua, etc. as the starring roles. It is "Shaolin Temple" released on January 21, 1982. The film aroused huge repercussions after its release that year, and affected the overseas film market, with countries snapping up copyrights one after another.
So what does this 1980s film have to do with box office history? And listen to the editor in detail.
"Shaolin Temple" made a box office of 161,578,000, which was unprecedented at the time. Just imagine that the ticket price was only a dime when it was released at the time, so the total number of votes was about 1.6 billion, while the total population of China in 1982 was only 1.017 billion, which meant that all the people in China at that time Everyone has seen the movie, and some have seen it more than once. According to the data given by Lighthouse Professional Edition, the number of viewers of "Wolf Warrior 2" is only 160 million, but its average ticket price is 35.6 yuan.
So to put it another way, if the average ticket price of "Shaolin Temple" is 35 yuan, then the current box office of "Shaolin Temple" is at least 56 billion yuan, which means that the total box office of "Shaolin Temple" is "Wolf Warrior". 2" as much as 10 times the total box office.
So no matter what, the influence of "Shaolin Temple" on the Chinese people is unprecedented, and it can definitely be regarded as a box office miracle in the history of Chinese film! !
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