"It's boring. ”

In a movie theater in Mong Kok, Yau Nai-hai, Yau Ta Chi and Chan Ka-lok, sitting in the back row of the theater, were smoking cigarettes and watching movies with some lack of interest.

Smoking was allowed in cinemas during this period, and when "The True Colors of Heroes" was screened at midnight, Wu Yusen's cigarettes were one after another, because the audience did not react at all, and even after the screening, they remained silent until a long time, and then burst into warm applause.

It was these applause that made Zhou Yanfa, who had always been afraid of being beaten, sit still.

Today, You Naihai and You Dazhi worked 'overtime' until the latest in a company that had not opened, so Chen Jialuo invited them to have a meal and watch Wang Jiawei's debut novel "Mong Kok Carmen" together.

In fact, when this movie was first released, the box office was quite impressive, but unfortunately the follow-up was weak, which can be seen from the few audiences in front.

Later, this "Mong Kok Carmen" received a lot of praise, in fact, in Chen Jialuo's view, if the director of this movie was not Wang Jiawei, he would not have the current praise, and many people gave praise only because he was Wang Jiawei.

Jumping out of Wang Jiawei's aperture effect, Hong Kong films during the "Mong Kok Carmen" period are at their peak, and the core of "Mong Kok Carmen" is about brotherhood, children's love, and rivers and lakes, and uses the downfall of the two old boys to highlight the background of the times.

But in this period, there is a "True Colors of Heroes", Wu Yusen's bullets are far more atmospheric and clever than Wang Jiawei's sensationalism.

For Chan Ka-lok, the story of "Carmen in Mong Kok" has long been familiar to him, and he asked: "Why is it boring, do you know?"

You Naihai, who ate the screenwriter's bowl of rice, did not hesitate and said: "The script is too bad. ”

The most reluctant part of the movie is indeed the script, "Mong Kok Carmen" has a story but the story is too weak. was originally quite decent, but as soon as Wan Qiliang knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, he suddenly suddenly got out of the scene, and then flipped through several movies that Wang Jiawei was a screenwriter before he became a director, which was also unsatisfactory.

It's no wonder that Wang Jiawei didn't use a script to make movies later, and the funniest thing is that when this guy entered the industry and ate this bowl of rice, the first thing to do was the screenwriter.

"So the script I gave you, you have to change it again, it was the first movie of our Red Flower Society. ”

After talking to You Naihai, Chen Jialuo turned his head to look at You Dazhi and said: "Our new film will be hand-held photography, and Wang Jiawei uses a lot of such lenses in this film." ”

The scene where Liu Dehua chases Zhang Xueyou just now is obvious, using a large number of hand-held shots to create a sense of visual turmoil, and to enhance the uneasiness and panic of the actor's potential hints from another level. But if you watch too many shots like this, you will have a headache. ”

You Azhi thought for a while and asked, "Brother Luo, do you want to have a realistic movie?"

As a director, You Dazhi is very aware that the light and shadow tones of the film are all a style or a tone.

For example, in this "Mong Kok Carmen", the light and shadow tones of the whole movie are large color blocks and cold colors, and the actors' close-ups are basically gray-blue tones on their faces, and the background is rendered dark red.

When the two of them were talking in the bathroom after robbing the owner of the mahjong shop, the picture design at this time was a triangular opposition (Liu Dehua and Zhang Xueyou stood left and right, and Liu Dehua's face reflected in the mirror), what is interesting is that in the visual distribution, if you look closely, you can find that the practical depth of field here is always only the face of the interlocutor is a real mirror.

Later, when Zhang Xueyou slumped on the ground, the characters and the background cooperated to create a layered sense of light and shadow, highlighting the loneliness, powerlessness and depression that the film needed to create at this time.

Since Chen Jialuo wants to shoot with handheld photography, it is impossible to shoot a movie like "A Chinese Ghost Story", but "Prison Storm" has some handheld photography lenses.

"When Ah Hai changes the script, you go and take a look, and prepare early, our first movie, I plan to let you and Ah Huo be the executive director together. ”

Saying that, Chen Jialuo got up and said, "Let's go, you don't need to look at it later." ”

Although "Mong Kok Carmen" is Wang Jiawei's first film, few people mention it again.

Because it is in an embarrassing situation in Wang Jiawei's movies and even in the entire Hong Kong film field.

As long as we carefully analyze the "hero film" and "Mong Kok Carmen", we can see that the former is full of justice and moral ideals, and is a world of good and evil, orderly order;

The audience was originally immersed in the clouds and fog brought by the hero, but was pulled back to reality in an instant, such a movie, such an ending, it is like making people look forward to the dawn all the time, who would have thought that it would be depressed until the end of the film, and no one is happy.

Because of this, Chen Jialuo specially took You Naihai and You Dazhi to watch this movie.

Both of them will be the right-hand men of the Red Flower Society in the future, and their understanding and opinions on the film will be extremely important in the filming of the film in the future.

Wang Jiawei's debut novel has shooting lights and shortcomings, which is a good object for them to study. As for movies like "Best Friend", it's not the style of the two at all.

"Actually, Xueyou feels a little too hard here, but under the madness, it is in line with the character, and it is obvious that he has stolen a lot of Liu Dehua's limelight. ”

Leaving the movie theater early, You Dazhi said: "I used to see Zhang Manyu as a vase, and she acted well in this play." ”

"Don't underestimate Wang Jiawei, his movies are still very interesting. And the debut film has exceeded 10 million box office, although it is about to go down, but it can be regarded as standing. Chen Jialuo said this, purely to stimulate a swim to answer the mind and swim in Naihai.

Even though each "Wang Jiawei work" has many big-name stars, it can't stimulate the box office. The box office value of the signboard "Wang Jiawei" in Hong Kong is only about 7 million to 9 million, because the only film he bought more than 10 million at the box office in Hong Kong is "Carmen in Mong Kok".

The debut film can exceed 10 million box office, which is already a big success, after all, the investment is not large. You Azhi and You Nahai nodded, and said at the same time: "It's quite powerful, but it's not as good as Brother Luo." ”

“…… In my first play, the box office did not break 10 million. Chen Jialuo rolled his eyes and said.

"I heard that our new drama is cooperating with Yongsheng, Brother Luo, you are not afraid that Wang Jing and them will see you fighting! "The Best Friend" was very tight at the box office at the beginning, but now it is directly surpassed by "Tiger Guard". If it weren't for the same period as "A Chinese Ghost Story 2", maybe the box office would have been much higher~"