Xu Qian and Warner don't have a simple fate!

Because of "Ip Man" before, Xu Qian had cooperated with Warner, and a strategic partnership was established between the two!

Warner took a fancy to the copyright of "Infernal Affairs", which made Xu Qian very surprised, but he also took it for granted!

Because in another world, Warner acquired the rights to Infernal Affairs!

In another world

In 2003, the production companies of Richard Downer and Robert De Niro, directors of the American film "Superman", wanted to buy the rights to remake "Infernal Affairs".

After five companies bid, Warner Bros. Pictures won with $1.75 million. In 2006, "Infernal Affairs" was remade into a movie, and more importantly, director Martin Scorsese won the Best Director Award for "The Departed"!

Therefore, "Infernal Affairs" and Warner are fateful!

Why is Infernal Affairs so popular in the West?

Xu Qian thinks it should be because the original inspiration for "Infernal Affairs" came from the movie "Changing Face" directed by Wu Baige.

Director Mai thinks that the "exchange of faces" in "Changing Faces" is impossible to happen in reality, so Director Mai asks if it is possible to tell a story and swap the two characters, but there is no need for surgery, just an exchange of identities and hearts.

Director Mak and Director Zhuang have been communicating with each other in writing when they were creating the script of "Infernal Affairs", Mak Zhaohui finished writing a complete script and sent it to Director Zhuang, Director Zhuang changed the script again and wrote a letter to Director Mak for revision!

In Director Mai's script conception, there was originally only a story line from a police officer to an undercover undercover underworld. Later, Director Liu added a lot of elements on the basis of the original script, and joined the underworld people to go to the police station as another line of undercover. In the process of revising the script, the positioning of "Infernal Affairs" also changed, and the film script was originally focused on the battle of wits between police and bandits, and later the elements of gangster or hero films became stronger!

One of the reasons for its popularity in the West is that it is inspired by Wu Baige's "Changing Face"!

After all, Wu Baige has also been in Hollywood, his film concept is close to the West, and "Infernal Affairs" is inspired by his "Changing Face" naturally has some elements that cater to the West!

But that's not the main reason!

The most important reason is that this police movie is indeed a classic!

Time flies, more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and when people look back again, they find that the movie "Infernal Affairs" has not only become an epoch-making work in the history of Hong Kong films, but also the pinnacle of the Hong Kong police and gangster film genre.

Before "Infernal Affairs", almost all the undercover images in Hong Kong police movies and even world police movies were police undercover agents, in those movies, the undercover agents usually have a strong heart, even if they suffer all kinds of pain, they will not waver, and finally subdue the bandit leader with their own hands, put on the police uniform again, and add glory. But "Infernal Affairs" is an alternative, what it shows us is that the underworld also has undercover agents in the police, and even undercover police officers will have fragile hearts, and the underworld also wants to be motivated, and good people have no good rewards.

These things were not in the previous world movies.

Those who are familiar with Hong Kong police and gangster movies know that among those police and gangster films during the boom period of Hong Kong films, except for a few such as "Dark War", most of them are black and white, and the positive characters occupy a lot of space in the movie from beginning to end, and the final result is the victory of justice over evil, but in "Infernal Affairs", it starts with a villain and ends with a villain.

The first appearance in the film is the teenage gangster Liu Jianming, the camera gives him a long close-up, so that the audience can see a thin teenager with a glint in his eyes, in his eyes, we see his admiration, envy and eagerness to try the boss Han Chen. At the end of the film, the shot is also a close-up of Liu Jianming, but at this time, he is already middle-aged, and there is no light in his eyes, revealing confusion and contemplation.

Just from the echoes of the details at the beginning and the end, you can see how different this film is.

In addition to the surprise in terms of plot, "Infernal Affairs" also exceeds the stereotype of ordinary Hong Kong police movies in terms of form. Just as there will be scenes of street slashing in the Crazy Boy movie, there will definitely be fierce gunfight scenes in Hong Kong police and gangster films with sharp contradictions, and even the shootout scenes of several movies have become classic representatives of Hong Kong movies, but in "Infernal Affairs", the regular project of "gunfight" has almost been erased, and only after Officer Huang fell from the building, there was a scene of a gunfight between police and bandits, and this shootout only lasted for more than 30 seconds.

It stands to reason that there is no shootout in Hong Kong police films, just like stir-frying without oil, which will cause strong disgust among the audience, but "Infernal Affairs" has gone its own way. The change from "martial arts" to "literary opera" not only did not make the audience buy it, but it was more suitable for the content of the story, making the story thrilling, so that the audience could devote more energy to paying attention to the protagonists Liu Jianming and Chen Yongren. This unique approach has also opened up a new way for Hong Kong police movies, that is, not relying on hot action scenes to attract audiences, but relying on excellent plot and character performance to attract audiences.

Because of its unique approach in form and content, "Infernal Affairs" has embarked on a path of its own, a unique one!

This is the reason why "Infernal Affairs" is sought after by the West and even the world!

Because it's classic, because it's good, because it's innovative, because it's out of a way that no one else has ever taken!

Xu Qian also expected this a long time ago, and he had already prepared when he wrote the script of "Infernal Affairs"!

He not only wrote the script of "Infernal Affairs"!

I also wrote the script of "The Departed"!

"The Departed" won an Oscar in another world, and of course this award is largely due to its director Martin Scorsese!

Martin Scorsese is not young, if he doesn't win the award that year, he probably won't have a chance!

But even so, there is no denying the classics of this movie!

Although Xu Qian didn't feel comfortable watching this movie, he didn't feel as good as our Chinese version of "Infernal Affairs", he was not forced at all, and the protagonist was ruffian!

But this film definitely fits the values of the West and conforms to the value system of Western films!

Xu Qian is ready to use this script as his bargaining chip!

Although Hollywood actually has a lot of excellent scripts, and the library of scripts is countless, no one dares to guarantee whether a movie will sell well if it is not released!

Of course, sequel movies and superhero movies are basically impossible to hit the streets!

If Xu Qian was a nobody now, holding a script to Warner, no one would be able to bird him!

But now Xu Qian is no longer what it used to be!

He is a director who has proven his creative ability!

The youth trilogy, "Ip Man" and "Infernal Affairs" have all been great successes!

And the original idea of "Infernal Affairs" came from him, if Warner wants to own the copyright of "Infernal Affairs", then it has to consider Xu Qian's opinion, even if it is just pretending, it will definitely give Xu Qian a little face, this is the attitude that must be made!

This is Xu Qian's confidence now!

He's so confident now!

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