The world begins with Hong Kong movies

Chapter 683 A perfectly normal thing! (Seeking monthly votes)
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, He Fan boarded the train back to school.

He carried several sacks of local specialties from his hometown with him.

Especially the preserved fish, preserved meat, preserved sausage, and homemade chili sauce, all in case he didn't eat well at school.

It's truly a bit of a laugh-out-loud situation!

He clearly eats very ordinary food at home, and even when he takes the initiative to spend money, he can't significantly improve his life. Yet, he can produce so many good things at this moment.

Fortunately, the school cafeteria also provides special cooking services; otherwise, he wouldn't know how to eat all these delicious preserved foods.
At that time, not only the university, but the entire society of Nanhua University was conservative.

Most college students live in dormitories and very few rent apartments off-campus.

Unless you are not only academically proficient but also have plenty of free time.

Otherwise, given the heavy academic workload, even if they had money in their pockets, they wouldn't be interested in renting a place outside.

Daily exercise and intense studying basically drain most of my energy, leaving me with no energy to do anything else, even if I wanted to.

Thank you to Nanhua University for its great attention to undergraduate and junior college students.

Starting from the third year of junior high school, all college and junior college students from Hunan Province will have special carriages for them to ride in after arriving in the provincial capital.

This saves a lot of trouble during the journey.

The passengers in the carriage were all students and junior college students from Nanhua University, so they could easily chat together and had many common topics.

Just like when we arrived, security personnel were stationed in these carriages.

By the time we arrived at the school, it was already the seventh day of the lunar new year.

Thanks to daily exercise over the past six months and adequate nutrition, I didn't feel particularly tired after two days of traveling by train, which is quite a benefit.

Like him, many of his classmates returned to school early.

When I went to the classroom to study during the day, I saw that at least half of the students had returned to school early.

He Fan happily wished his classmates a belated Happy New Year and quickly got into study mode.

For some reason, even without the aid of burning incense to help him concentrate, he was in a pretty good state of mind when studying in the classroom.

Since it's not a regular class, and it mainly involves previewing lessons and reading books related to the major, there's still some time available for entertainment and leisure.

Fortunately, he didn't slack off at home and finished his winter vacation homework early, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to enjoy going out to play.

The primary form of entertainment is, of course, watching movies.

Although Nanhua was only founded eleven years ago, its film industry is quite developed.

The dominant force was state-owned film studios, supplemented by private film companies, which were said to be very competitive, at least in Southeast Asia and East Asia.

Action films, martial arts films, romance films, military films, historical films, and so on—there's something for everyone.

It is said that many of the high-quality films produced by state-owned film studios were based on scripts provided by Wu Aiguo, the founder of Nanhua Film Studio.

The high-quality films produced by the Nanhua State-owned Film Studio are said to be quite popular throughout Southeast Asia and East Asia, making it a well-known brand.

Especially in the field of military action films, it can be said to be unparalleled.

It is said that the "Mountain and Forest Bandit Suppression" film series produced by the state-owned film studio caused a huge sensation throughout Southeast Asia and East Asia.

It was also through the movie that people throughout Southeast Asia and East Asia came to know that the special forces soldiers in the mountains of South China were extremely capable.

Isn't that amazing!
The banditry in the Nanhua area has been largely eradicated.

This is an absolutely remarkable achievement for Southeast Asian countries that are also plagued by banditry.

Not to mention, it also involved the use of special tactics, coupled with a fast-paced plot and explosive battle scenes, causing a sensation throughout Asia upon its release. In fact, in East and Southeast Asia, it even surpassed Bruce Lee's kung fu movies, which is quite remarkable.

According to one of his classmates, Bruce Lee's fighting skills in the movies were so strong that he basically fought a group of people all by himself.

Such movies are indeed enjoyable to watch, but they are far removed from the lives of ordinary people.

Military action films, on the other hand, are much more accessible to Southeast Asian audiences.

It's possible that a single viewer's slight outburst could turn them into a character similar to the protagonist of the movie.

Arms are really worthless in Southeast Asia!

Following the trend, He Fan watched several recently popular military action movies with his classmates.

Sure enough, it was a very enjoyable watch, and even long after leaving the cinema, I still found it hard to quickly recover from the exhilarating feeling.

These films are basically based on real events.

The protagonist is usually part of a special forces team, not just a single person.

Each film is an operation targeting different mountain bandits.

There are fierce battles, extremely dangerous close-quarters combat, and of course, plenty of sharp action-packed fight scenes.

He Fan, having practiced martial arts for more than half a year, could naturally tell that some of the fights in the movie were real.

It can only be said that some of the action actors in the film have real skills and are not just showing off.

When you see urban action movies, they are mostly about martial arts schools challenging each other, and there are no scenes of gang fights or red stick battles.

Just kidding, how long has Nanhua been established?
If gangs were everywhere this early on, what future would they have? They wouldn't even be as good as Hong Kong Island.

Afterwards, He Fan and his classmates watched various types of films, including romance and historical films, which were generally of decent quality.

If it weren't for other things, he and his classmates would have stayed in the movie theater and never come out.

It can be said that the films produced by the South China film industry left a very deep impression on He Fan; at the very least, they were very entertaining.

During this time, he also watched movies that were broadcast from Hong Kong Island.

Well, the quality and plot are decent, but they still fall short compared to films produced by South China Film Company.

In other words, comedy movies from that area have a considerable market in Nanhua.

However, the audience in South China seems to prefer watching domestic sketches and comedy films performed by comedians.

The so-called deadpan comedians of Hong Kong Island are not as down-to-earth as the mainland's Chen Xiaoer and Zhu Shimao duo.

Of course, it's possible that the environment on Hong Kong Island is very different from that in South China and the mainland.

Anyway, in He Fan's opinion, kung fu elements appear in almost every type of movie.

The audience gets the impression that everyone in Nanhua knows kung fu, and that they are quite skilled at it.

"Isn't that just the truth?"

Faced with his doubts, his classmate who went out to see a movie with him asked a question in return, which immediately silenced He Fan.

Yes, that's an undeniable fact.

As far as he knew, martial arts training had become widespread in schools throughout the Nanhua area; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to learn authentic Baduanjin and Xingyiquan so easily. Did he really think they were as common as cabbages growing on the roadside?

(End of this chapter)