Bad temper, foul-mouthed, refusal to accept awards......

06 Academy Awards, won several awards for Best Film and Best Director, and directly said that he was not available?

The next day, all newspapers in Hong Kong could only publish photos of the trophy held high when he won the award for "Gunfire" in '90.

Won the grand prize three times, and deliberately missed each time. Even Chairman Chen Jiashang could only help him play a round and said: "He just doesn't like the rules of the game." ”

"Come home with me for dinner and taste the red wine I hidden!"

Du Qifeng cut a cigar with his own hands, saw Ding Cheng shook his head, and said enthusiastically: "Don't listen to those paparazzi, in fact, I am a very interesting person, food, wine, cigars, all of them are indispensable." ”

Ding Cheng smiled slightly, he had asked Liu Tianwang a lot of inside stories before he came, after all, they were friends who had worked together for many years.

The seemingly awesome guy in front of him often holds his wife's hand and listens to farmers explain the knowledge of identifying hairy crabs by Yangcheng Lake......

Make the crew look like a barbecue stand, full of food......

A cigar costs a few hundred yuan, and under his influence, Tsui Hark and Ren Dahua fell in love with this sip......

I never watch my own films at the premiere, the most important thing is to meet friends through films, and my biggest hobby is to taste the red wines of the famous wineries in the Bordeaux region in the south of France.

It is rumored that there are four wine cabinets in the house, which contain more than 100 bottles of top red wine from all over the world, including Laphae, Latour and Mouton from the 80s, each bottle casually costs more than 100,000 US dollars.

Red wine is like a second wife, and most of the assets are used for collection, not to mention tens of millions.

"There's a script I want you to see. Du Qifeng didn't talk nonsense, he took out the notebook directly, handed it to Ding Cheng and said, "I feel that you are very suitable for this role." ”

Ding Cheng put down the coffee and took it with both hands, there were only two words on it:

Blind detective?

"Playing a blind man?" I was stunned and didn't show it, so I watched it first.

Quickly browsed it, raised his head and asked the first sentence: "The heroine is Zheng Xiuwen?"

"What do you think?" Du Qifeng laughed and said: "Originally, I wanted to find Liu Tianwang to act, after all, the two have worked together as a couple for many years, and the audience recognizes this." ”

"You didn't change your mind until you appeared, after all, it's cheaper, and with the growing fame, the four gold Grand Slams are too powerful!"

Ding Cheng smiled and waved his hand, read the script again, pondered for a moment, and said seriously: "I like it very much, and I am also good at suspense routines, the only challenge is to play a blind man." ”

"That's why I found you!" Du Qifeng took a deep breath of his cigar, slowly exhaled it, and said confidently: "I've seen all your works, but the blind haven't acted, right?"

Ding Cheng nodded secretly, he is worthy of being a highly stylized director, his eyesight is really poisonous!

"No problem!" said something to this day, and said with a smile: "You are one of the directors I have wanted to work with for a long time, what else do you say when you have this opportunity to learn?"

"Hahaha, okay!" Du Qifeng was very satisfied, the young man was refreshing, and without saying a word, he went home, opened a bottle and treasured it for a long time, and chatted while drinking.

I heard that Ding Cheng liked the detective the most back then, and recalled with a smile: "Wei Jiahui and I are very strange, basically never appear on the set at the same time, he wrote the script at home and sent it over, and then asked the assistant director to communicate with me." ”

"The first exception was the detective, and the two of us were on set at the same time, and all the staff were surprised. ”

"No way, the characters in that play are too complex to use the old methods, and we discussed and wanted to try some new ways to cooperate. ”

Ding Cheng saw the director's casual appearance, and secretly laughed, in Liu Tianwang's mouth, it was another version: as long as someone shouted, Lao Du came, and the crew on Kwun Tong Street would immediately stir.

In the last second, the idle staff all began to work hard, some were serving tea and water, some were busy moving stools, some were busy setting up machines, and some were running around inexplicably......

The actors are in a hurry to adjust their emotions and pretend to be in their chests, but in fact, they don't know what to do.

Have you seen Meryl Streep look in "The Witch of Fashion"?

He's exactly the same!

No one else would ever dare to sit on the chair behind the monitor on the set, not even the assistant director dared to look at it, and the control of this territory only belonged to To Qifeng.

"I don't rely on my left brain when filming, but on my right brain. ”

"Most directors rely on their left brain when filming, and they need to be logical and thoughtful. I like to rely on my right brain, by feeling, on a whim. ”

Ding Cheng suddenly remembered a sentence that Liu Qingyun once said in an interview: The twenty-year cooperation experience with Du Qifeng can be summed up in only eight words: Galaxy image, unimaginable!

Never play cards according to the convention, as soon as you have an idea in your head, you start working immediately.

called the actor at two o'clock in the middle of the night, and summoned people to film immediately. In "Detective", Liu Qingyun has to wear a small suit, ankle-baring pants, and big scalp shoes, a typical neurotic dress.

For the sake of authenticity, he even had to go into battle in person to shoot the scene of being buried alive and rolled downstairs in a suitcase. I also pretend to be able to see all kinds of hidden personalities, and I almost split my personality at the end.

Therefore, Liu Tianwang admonished himself earnestly: "At the shooting scene, if you want to ask the director, why did this shot be shot like this, why did you choose this angle? It's just intuition, not so many theories. ”

This is also the biggest reason to let yourself appreciate!

Johnny To tasted lipstick and said casually: "In my eyes, there are only two types of movies, one is the film that I like very much, and the work with strong personal ideas, which is called a galaxy imaging film. ”

"The other type is just films that are made to support a family and for the commercial market. ”

"After the Great Depression in '98, the output dropped from more than 160 to only 60, and none of the films we made made money. It didn't matter to me when everyone commented on "Dark War" whether it was good or not, because from the market side, they were all dead. ”

"I didn't have the money to pay the rent, and Galaxy Imaging almost went out of business. ”

Stephen Chow and Wong Kar-wai did not have such troubles, Xinghui Company started from acting in kung fu comedy, and after he became the boss, he continued to fight for this broad road of business. ”

"Wong Kar-wai's Zedong company was even luckier, catching the last train of the best time for Hong Kong films, and all kinds of overseas funds strongly supported him, claiming that he was what he was: a European director who happened to make films in Cantonese?"

"Only I am the most unlucky, I have to stick to the local genre film to push into new ones, and solve the problem of commercial survival. I really can't shoot it, and the later "Lonely Men and Widows", "Thin Men and Women", "Spicy Hands Rejuvenation", "Ligu Ligu New Year's Wealth", "Zhong Wuyan", "I See a Ghost in My Left Eye" ......"

"In fact, it's basically Wei Jiahui who is in charge, and I can only serve as a producer. I want to survive first, make three commercial films a year, and make some money to prepare a film that really has my personal style. ”

Ding Cheng sighed, everyone must constantly compromise between business and style, and when they come out, they are full of flowers, and if they can't get out, there is only a dead end.

Du Qifeng looked at Ding Cheng, opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and said frankly: "Actually, ......"

"I don't dare to go to the mainland to make movies!"

Seeing that Ding Cheng was confused, he explained: "I am sixty-four this year, I often can't sleep well, I can't eat well, sometimes I am very confused, even the movie is very contradictory, I don't know what to do in the future?"

"I really want to film in the mainland, but I am always worried about whether the movies I make are wonderful enough, and I am afraid that the mainland audience will not buy it and will not approve of it. ”

"I'm most afraid of telling a story in the language of the mainland, I'm afraid that I won't be able to catch the ground, and the stories told in movies are nondescript. ”

"What makes me most angry is "Big Man Has Great Wisdom", after a movie that I am quite satisfied with entered the mainland, all the content of the previous life was completely deleted, and it almost became another movie!"

"Later, I got angry and made two romance films in a row, "Single Man and Woman" and "High Altitude Love 2", and the result was a big hit......"

Ding Cheng smiled and said nothing, no way, the biggest challenge of his movie is not the audience, but whether it can pass the review?