Chapter 201: Choose each other and achieve each other
"A Chinese Ghost Story 1" last year, the box office in the city was more than 32 million. "Prison Storm" won 36 million.
Last year, Chan's two films grossed more than 70 million at the box office in Hong Kong alone.
completely reversed Leslie Cheung's movie image, let Wang Guxian ascend to the sky in one step, let Zhou Yunfa jump out of the image of Little Ma, and let Liang Jiahui return to the public's eye.
And he himself also won the Academy Award for Best Director last year.
Now everyone has a positive attitude towards Chen Jialuo's words that the box office of "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" should exceed 30 million.
Because this sequel is really different from the sequels of other movies.
In terms of the content of the movie, the second part has almost nothing to do with the title "A Chinese Ghost Story".
But the three words "The Way of the World" do add the finishing touch, pointing out the true meaning of the movie.
The second part is not about demons and monsters, but about the real way of the world.
The many political metaphors in the movie are so wonderful that they are breathtaking, and it is really powerful to use the movie to satirize the past and the present without making people feel preachy.
So I think if Pu Songling is still alive, he should prefer the second part more than the first, although the first part is wonderful and poignant, but the flesh and soul of Liao Zhai is not a love story of talented children and ghosts, but a metaphor for the past and the present, using demons and monsters to satirize the world.
From this point of view, "The Way of the World" has the three flavors of Pu Songling.
If Pu Songling, who is tired of being a human language and loves to listen to the ghosts of the autumn grave singing, knows what to do, I am afraid that he will return to the sun in person and buy tickets to support Chen Jialuo's field. - "White Horse in the Film Industry"
Compared with the psychedelic atmosphere of human-ghost love that the first part focuses on, the second part of "A Chinese Ghost Story" does not focus on the war between humans and demons.
This film focuses on portraying a chaotic world, people's livelihood is difficult, and demons are dancing wildly, and it has a stronger sense of mocking the chaos of real society than the previous one, and it is rare for a film based on commercial purposes to maintain such a deep theme.
There are many fight scenes in this film, and the production of special effects Chen Jialuo invited the Hollywood team, and there is almost no local fantasy film to compete with, with dynamic framing angles and fast editing style, the whole film gives people a visual enjoyment of strength and beauty. ——"Xin Ming Pao"
"A Chinese Ghost Story 2" is called "The Way of the World", and "A Chinese Ghost Story 1" is called "Demon Road", is it because the heroine has changed from a ghost to a human?
Ning Caichen met Fu Qingfeng, who looked similar, with endless thoughts about Nie Xiaoqian, and began another emotional entanglement. It's just that this time it's not people and ghosts who are sparse, but feudal etiquette has become the biggest obstacle - Fu Qingfeng was married by his parents and promised to others.
However, perhaps Chen Jialuo was pressured by the audience because of the sad ending of the first episode of "A Chinese Ghost Story", so he ended with joy in the second episode - Fu Qingfeng eloped on the day of marriage and wandered the world with Ning Caichen.
Although the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series of movies is rampant with demons, they are all about the human world. The world in every movie is not the law of the jungle, and the human heart is full of sinisterness, which can be described as a hell.
However, in comparison, the reality of the episode "The Way of the World" is larger, isn't the Qingjie where love triumphs over feudal etiquette the story of people struggling with the existing order and pursuing freedom?
What's more, it is not only the society that is bad in "The Way of the World", but also the court, all the ministers of the court are controlled by demons, and the world will naturally be in chaos. This may be Chan Ka-lok's reflection on the current situation in Hong Kong. - Ta Kung Pao
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Leslie Cheung was interviewed by reporters at the unveiling ceremony of a store yesterday, and learned that "A Chinese Ghost Story 2" was high at the box office, thanked the audience for their support, and bluntly said that if it weren't for Chen Jialuo, maybe he could only play a childish rich young man, and his image was not pleasing to him, thank you Ning Caichen for this role.
Ning Caichen, a lovely scholar who is extremely loyal, makes the audience sympathize and pity him. And Ning Caichen in the film is unswervingly committed to love, and Leslie Cheung smiled and said that it matches his image of singing love songs.
Leslie Cheung was asked about the pleasing character he played in the "A Chinese Ghost Story" series, who was loyal, upright and simple. With such dedication, is it back to yourself?
He said that he liked this character very much when he read the script, and he felt that the scholar in the play was very simple, and he had a sense of justice for the first time in the world, and he had no distractions and thought that the whole world was beautiful.
It's as pure as everyone who has just entered society, "It's okay to say that it's a performance, because I've also gone through this stage." ”
In order to invite Leslie Cheung to play this role, Chen Jialuo went to the backstage of the Red Pavilion to find it, but he didn't give up when he was rejected, and after watching the whole concert, he invited him to have supper, and finally moved with sincerity.
Looking at Wang Guxian, Qiu Shuzhen, Zhang Xueyou and others, which one is not a leap forward in their careers after filming.
In fact, Leslie Cheung and Wang Guxian took over the filming of this movie at that time, so why not take a risk?
Now Leslie Cheung is Ning Caichen, and Wang Guxian is Nie Xiaoqian, this is after mutual choice, mutual achievement.
At first, Chen Jialuo was criticized for 'grandstanding', and now everyone recognizes it, and he has also survived all the way.
Especially in the sequel of the movie, this skill is not something that every director can do.
"A Chinese Ghost Story 2" has a ferocious momentum, and Golden Harvest sacrificed Wang Jing's "Best Friend", although the reputation is average, but it is better than joy, and the box office is not bad, so that the number of films in "Leather Lantern 2" has been seriously squeezed.
As for Debao's "Three's World", it has completely become a foil, and almost no one will mention this movie again.
"Uncle Zombie", which has always been optimistic before, has seriously shrunk at the box office on the first day of encountering "A Chinese Ghost Story", and it is estimated that "Overlord Flower" will be officially released in a few days.
Of course, it is naturally impossible for a theater chain to have only one movie released. It's just that these movies are the main ones, or just like the original "A Chinese Ghost Story", which has become a dark horse and grabbed the number of films.
"Tiger Shift" starring Zhou Runfa has also been put on the agenda on the New Arts City, and maybe it will be able to kill all sides together with "A Chinese Ghost Story 2", making the New Art City laugh proudly.
Just when the fight in the summer file officially started, and in the case of a chaotic war, "Sing Tao Daily" suddenly broke a big news.
And this big news also once again gave a free advertisement for "A Chinese Ghost Story 2", and at the same time, it also made the box office of "Leather Lantern 2" completely plummet, so that Director Jia Liang was invited back by the West Kowloon Police Station to assist in the investigation.
Director Jia Liang, who was sympathetic to everyone at the beginning, became a street rat overnight, everyone shouted and beat him, and the media also spoke out, denouncing Jia Liang and the entertainment production company behind it.