Chapter 292: Actor-level acting
When Zhao Zhenghao answered Xiao Xiang's question, he danced with his hands, his excitement was overflowing, and when he talked about it, the bright smile on his face made people want to be jealous, but he couldn't be jealous.
Xiao Xiang is also a father, and he can empathize with Zhao Zhenghao's mood at the moment and understand it quite well, but after all, this is the premiere of "Infernal Affairs", and he can't let private matters delay his business, so Xiao Xiang's next question is related to the movie, "It is said that Diandian also starred in this movie?"
This news is not news, Yu Yabin's cameo appearance in "Infernal Affairs" has long been used as a publicity point for the movie, and the publicity is well known.
Zhao Zhenghao laughed and said, "If you insist on saying this, it's not wrong, Yabin made a cameo appearance as my ex-girlfriend in this movie, and when she was filming, the dots were still in her stomach." ”
Xiao Xiang quipped, "Wow! Then our little princess can be regarded as a child star!"
Zhao Zhenghao laughed, neither does he agree, nor does he deny.
Xiao Xiang did not dwell on this topic, and continued to interview, "This movie will obviously not be your last work, and if you make a movie in the future, if you have a suitable role, will you let Diandian star it?" Let her be a real child star?"
Zhao Zhenghao replied with a smile, "I really haven't thought about this problem, I need to go back and discuss it with Yabin, my grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents, of course, the most important thing is to ask for my own opinions." ”
Xiao Xiang laughed and said, "It seems that your status in front of Diandian is not very high." ”
Zhao Zhenghao spread his hands and said helplessly, "There is no way, my work is too busy, I can't always be by her side, I pay less, and the return will naturally not be much, she is still young now, and it doesn't feel too obvious, when she is older, she will recognize people, I will definitely find a way to accompany her more, I don't want to be treated as a stranger by her one day." ”
Xiao Xiang sighed, "Yes, this is a common problem in our acting work, we are too busy with our usual work, and we have to fly all over the world, so we rarely have time to spend with our families." ”
Speaking of this, Xiao Xiang suddenly realized that his interview was a little off-topic, and hurriedly made up for it, "Through the trailer, we know that this movie is about a pure story of Xiangjiang, how did you come up with the idea of making such a movie?"
Faced with this problem, Zhao Zhenghao said the rhetoric that he had thought of a long time ago, "Everyone knows that I went to New Zealand with my parents when I was very young, and when I first arrived there, I didn't understand the language and didn't have any friends. ”
"One of my favorite things to watch is Xiangjiang's police movies and action movies, I watched a lot of them during that time, and then this habit has been maintained, and the last time I personally bought a ticket to watch a movie in the cinema was the "Black Gold" four years ago. ”
"Black Gold" is the last glorious work of Xiangjiang films in recent years, and when it was released four years ago, it won a box office of 5.4 billion yuan in the territory of the Dragon Kingdom, creating a box office record for Xiangjiang films in the history of Dragon Kingdom films.
The Xiangjiang movie referred to here is directed by the director of Xiangjiang, and the main actors are all born in Xiangjiang, filmed in Xiangjiang, and tells the pure story of Xiangjiang.
Zhao Zhenghao's version of "Infernal Affairs", although it is a Xiangjiang story, but because the main creators are all from the mainland, it is not a pure Xiangjiang movie.
The reason why Zhao Zhenghao took out a movie he watched four years ago here is because since four years ago, with his popularity, public occasions like movie theaters, except for attending necessary events, can no longer go in private in his personal capacity.
Everyone is aware of this situation.
After Zhao Zhenghao personally bought tickets to the cinema to support this "Black Gold", he also sent a scarf to help promote it spontaneously, and then he was frightened by the messages of his fans under the scarf, and he didn't dare to go to the cinema alone anymore.
"When I started making movies myself, I always had the idea of making a Xiangjiang police film in my mind, and then this story gradually took shape in my mind, and after I finished its script, I showed it to the people around me, and the response was good, so I decided to shoot him. ”
Xiao Xiang asked again, "In this movie, you invited three actors, played for yourself, and when you played with them, did you have any pressure?"
"Of course there is!" Zhao Zhenghao replied with a smile, "I grew up watching movies about Brother Wang and Angkor, they are my idols, and to be honest, I was a little surprised to be able to invite them to participate in this movie, because when I sent them an invitation, I just had the attitude of trying, and I didn't think that they would agree." ”
"Later, I received a call from Brother Wang, he invited me to eat hot pot, at that time, when I received a call from Brother Wang, I felt very nervous, you know, I was nervous when I was going to meet my idol, in order to make this meeting go smoothly, I also specially asked Brother Cui and Brother Yan to accompany me to be brave. ”
"I didn't expect that a hot pot would allow me to invite two actors, I'm so lucky. ”
"It was also unexpected to be able to invite Brother Guo, although when I was writing this script, I had several of my own templates for the leading actors in it, among which Brother Guo was the first one, but an actor like him was scheduled to be two years later, and I didn't expect to invite him at all. ”
"However, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, I have to do my best 100%, so after Brother Guo took the script, I had the courage to make a few harassing phone calls to him, Brother Guo may have been annoyed by me, and directly called me to his studio, and then, in such a daze, he agreed to act!"
"After confirming the news that Brother Wang, Ang Ge, and Brother Guo were going to star in this movie, I handed over the preparation of the crew to Yulan, and devoted myself to figuring out the characters, although I wrote this script, and I know the setting of each character best, but in order to ensure that during the filming, I did not drag the three of them back, I still studied the script seriously, and simulated every scene dozens or hundreds of times, and during the concert in Europe, my free time was spent on this. ”
"After studying a lot, I have some experience, so I didn't lose face in front of Brother Wang and them. ”
In the previous promotional activities, Wang Bangmin and Wu Hai have repeatedly mentioned that Zhao Zhenghao has dedicated "actor-level acting skills" in this movie, and while building momentum for "Infernal Affairs", he is also helping Zhao Zhenghao to promote and build momentum.
In the subsequent interview, Guo Ziping, Wang Bangmin, Wu Hai and others came on the stage one by one, and when asked about their views on Zhao Zhenghao's performance in the movie, they praised in unison, so that Zhao Zhenghao's fans at the scene, and fans who watched the premiere through the live broadcast, had a little more expectations for Zhao Zhenghao's performance.
The first to appreciate Zhao Zhenghao's "actor-level acting skills" were the thousands of fans of Zhao Zhenghao who were lucky enough to come to the premiere of "Infernal Affairs".
Just after the interview, the feature film of "Infernal Affairs" was released in front of the public for the first time.
Prior to this, Penguin Pictures had organized several small-scale media and critics' test screenings, which received good feedback, and in order to maintain the mystery of the film, no test screenings were held for fans, which showed Penguin Pictures' super confidence in "Infernal Affairs".
The beginning of the movie begins with Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming's unexpected encounter in a video store.
Although in the previously exposed stills and the promotional video launched, Zhao Zhenghao's fans and other fans have seen Zhao Zhenghao's new image in this movie, which is different from the past, but when they saw it again in the feature film, they still expressed their heartfelt admiration.
At the beginning of the movie, Chen Yongren, played by Zhao Zhenghao, combed with a completely different hairstyle from Zhao Zhenghao's previous image, wearing a black leather jacket with a black shirt inside, black pants and black leather shoes underneath, and a scruffy beard on the side of his mouth.
When talking to the owner of the video store, he also exploded foul language, and his image was a little subversive, which made Zhao Zhenghao's fans feel fresh.
After the scenes in the video store, two scenes were used to show the apparent identities of Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming respectively.
Chen Yongren's scene is that he and a thug went to collect debts for Han Chen together, Chen Yongren had a plaster on his hand, but he still moved forward bravely, beating two tricks with one hand, and he was ruthless.
In the scene of Liu Jianming, he skillfully pretended to be a lawyer in the police station and fooled the suspect into exposing himself, but he still didn't know it, showing his capable style.
Just looking at the scenes in the first few minutes, Chen Yongren is obviously an underworld horse boy and a villain, while Liu Jianming is a capable officer in the police station, with a bright and majestic image.
After these two scenes, the plot directly enters a small climax, Han Chen and a group of subordinates conduct drug transactions in a downtown restaurant, and the police closely monitor them across the street.
Chen Yongren, as Han Chen's horsemate, played the role of helping Han Chen check the color of the sample, I saw him skillfully take out the hidden sample from a cigar, pour it on the table, use a card to make the powdered sample, and then use the smoking tool rolled into paper money, and suck it into his nose.
Randomly, Chen Yongren's face showed an expression of falling into a psychedelic state after taking drugs, Zhao Zhenghao's performance was very good, and he looked more addicted than an addict.
Later, Zhao Zhenghao also designed some small movements for the character to show that he is indeed a veteran drug addict.
Seeing this, even Zhao Zhenghao's fans temporarily forgot about Zhao Zhenghao and devoted themselves to the plot, and were very convinced of Zhao Zhenghao's performance, thinking that Chen Yongren was an underworld horse boy with all five poisons!
Ordinary movie fans can't appreciate the subtleties of Zhao Zhenghao's performance in this performance, but professional film critics can tell the difference, just looking at this performance, Wang Bangmin said earlier, Zhao Zhenghao's "actor-level acting skills" contributed in this movie, you can sit down.
The sample condition was very good, the transaction went smoothly, and there was nothing to do with Chen Yongren next.
On the police side, Liu Jianming, who also participated in the arrest of Han Chen's criminal gang, is only a small role, and the one who controls the overall situation is Officer Huang Zhicheng played by Wang Bangmin.
Through a few close-ups, the audience quickly felt that something was wrong between the police and Han Chen, and the police seemed to be able to grasp the details of Han Chen's transaction at any time;
Then, through a montage, the audience saw that Chen Yongren and Huang Zhicheng had been contacting each other with Morse passwords, and Liu Jianming and Han Chen were also contacting through mobile phone text messages.
The audience couldn't help but fall into confusion, Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming, under the surface identity, is there any other identity hidden?
In the end, with Liu Jianming's whistleblowing, the police's arrest of Han Chen's criminal gang ended in failure, and both sides knew that they had placed undercover agents in each other's interior!
Then, through a flashback plot, the audience woke up to the fact that Chen Yongren, the underworld horse boy who was full of drugs before, turned out to be an undercover agent of the police!
Liu Jianming's true identity was also exposed, and it was the spy sent by Han Chen to the police station.
Seeing this, the audience's brains sighed in unison as if they were about to explode-this brain hole in this movie is really exquisite!
In the previous police and gangster films, the police sent undercover agents to the underworld, but in this film, the underworld actually planted spies in the police force!
The audience's interest was hooked up at once, and the body couldn't help leaning forward and concentrating on the next plot.
Subsequently, it was Huang Zhicheng and Han Chen, the two big guys, who had a head-to-head confrontation in the detention room of the police station, Huang Zhicheng's wisdom bead was in his hands, and Han Chen's ruthlessness and viciousness were revealed in this confrontation.
The skills of Wang Bangmin and Wu Hai's veteran actor are vividly demonstrated in this scene.
After this small climax, the plot of the movie enters the middle of the flat and straightforward narration, and the only three female characters in this men's play appear one after another.
When the audience saw Yu Yabin's cameo appearance as Chen Yongren's ex-girlfriend, with a five or six-year-old girl, and Chen Yongren met by chance on the side of the road, they couldn't help but smile knowingly.
I don't know if Zhao Zhenghao knew the gender of the little bit in Yu Yabin's stomach when he filmed this scene, if he didn't know, then this scene would have another point to gossip about.
- Is Zhao Zhenghao looking forward to Yu Yabin giving birth to a daughter for him, so in this scene, a little girl was arranged instead of a little boy?
In these cutscenes, the police and Han Chen are interspersed, each using their own means to dig out the plot of the undercover agent who planted the other party in his own interior.
However, in the process of digging up the inner ghost, the progress of the police obviously lagged behind Han Chen, because the police actually handed over this work to the inner ghost Liu Jianming to be responsible!