In the end, Cho Jung-ho chose the first choice of several main roles for "The Departed", and all accepted the invitation and decided to participate in the film.

Among them, the gangster who plays "The Departed" is a veteran actor of the Academy Awards, and Rodri, an acting star who can be ranked in the top ten in Hollywood history!

In the United States, there are countless people with the surname Rodri, and in Hollywood, there are also many people with the surname this, but the most famous of so many Rodri, it is none other than this old gentleman who is over seventy years old.

In the global film industry, as long as the name Rodri is mentioned, if there is no specific reference, it must be him.

In the original "The Departed", this role is played by Jack Nicholson, who is also a veteran Academy Award winner, and has two Academy Award winners, and has been nominated more than a dozen times.

However, if you compare horizontally, Zhao Zhenghao believes that his achievements are still not as good as Rodri.

Rodri didn't have as many awards and nominations as Nicholson, and that's because Rodri starred in fewer films and was unimaginably picky about the script.

According to statistics, since Rodri's debut, more than 50 years have passed, and he has only starred in 30 movies, and if you deduct a few of them are only cameos, the number is even less, on average, only one can be filmed every two or three years.

Moreover, in the early stage of his debut, the frequency of filming movies is still normal after all, basically one a year, that is to say, in the more than 30 years since he won the Academy Award, there have been less than ten films, most of which are only cameos, not leading actors.

Especially after entering the 21st century, Rodri has taken on less frequent films, and has only starred in two films in the past decade.

Originally, these two movies were able to make him compete for the Academy Awards, even if he couldn't win the award, it would be easy to get a nomination.

However, at the age of fifty-eight, after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Academy Awards, he publicly announced that he would no longer compete in the Academy Awards as an individual, so his Academy Award nominations were forever fixed at eleven times.

Zhao Zhenghao listed this great god as the first choice to play the villain of "The Departed", just with respect for him, he didn't think that this wish could come true, and now the news that Rodri agreed to play it is really a surprise.

With Rodri's blessing, Zhao Zhenghao is more confident in filming this "Departed" and making it a surpassing existence like all his previous directorial works.

Good news one after another, in today's Hollywood, Felipe, known as the "first little student", then agreed to take over the role of Chen Yongren in the original work, one of the male protagonists of this "Departed".

Felipe is similar in age to Zhao Zhenghao, and his current status in Hollywood is the same as Zhao Zhenghao in the Dragon Kingdom film industry, the hottest actor, the charm of thousands of girls and young women, has been at the top of the list of American stars for several consecutive years, and his popularity has broken through the sky.

The nearly three movies starring him have exceeded $500 million at the box office in North America and $1 billion worldwide, including one released in Dragon Country, which also exceeded 5 billion Dragon Coins at the box office in Dragon Country.

In such a comparison, Felipe's movies seem to be inferior to Zhao Zhenghao's several directorial works in terms of box office performance, so it seems that he is not as good as Zhao Zhenghao.

However, this is not the case.

Zhao Zhenghao is backed by the largest film market in the international film industry today - Dragon Kingdom, and none of the director's works is less than 5 billion Dragon Country coins, which is a advantage of the huge population welfare of Dragon Kingdom.

The total population of the Dragon Kingdom is now as high as 1.4 billion, which is nearly five times that of the United States!

In terms of population, the capacity of the film market in the Dragon Kingdom can theoretically reach five times that of the United States! Now it is 1.5 times that of the United States, and there is still a lot of potential to be tapped.

The economy of the Dragon Kingdom has maintained rapid growth in recent years, relatively speaking, movie ticket prices, but not much higher, coupled with the prevalence of online payment, there are a large number of discounts available, calculated, fans to watch a movie, the cost is lower than that of American movie fans.

Moreover, the obsession of fans in Dragon Country to chase stars is much crazier than that in the United States.

There used to be an avid fan of Zhao Zhenghao, and he watched "A Chinese Ghost Story" twenty times in a row!

Among Zhao Zhenghao's fans, there is a default standard, if you only watch his movies once, you can be regarded as a passer-by fan, and you can be called an "iron fan" if you brush it twice, and true love fans and die-hard fans have to be brushed three or four times or even more.

This is one of the important reasons why Zhao Zhenghao's films have been able to repeatedly hit the box office in Dragon Country.

If these fan effects are discarded, Zhao Zhenghao will not reach the level of standing shoulder to shoulder with Felipe in terms of influence in the international film industry.

Felipe's acting career so far is more of a protagonist than Zhao Zhenghao's pig's foot, and along the way, everything has been smooth sailing, and there have been almost no twists and turns.

The fundamental reason why Zhao Zhenghao can achieve today's achievements is more fantastical, relying on his identity as a traverser and the "super idol system" of traversal welfare, while Felipe is really the result of talent and hard work.

Felipe's only regret now is that because his appearance is the same as Zhao Zhenghao, he is too good and is not very well treated by the old stubborn in the Academy Awards organizing committee.

Therefore, in the past two years, when Felipe chose the script, the standards have changed a lot from previous years, and his interest in purely commercial blockbusters has greatly decreased, and he is more inclined to some roles that have high acting requirements and are quite challenging, the purpose is to use his own efforts to change the Academy Award Organizing Committee's impression of his own class, and strive to realize his dream of being an Academy Award actor as soon as possible.

The role of the police undercover in "The Departed" definitely meets Felipe's requirements, and it is by no means easy to play him alive and colorful.

Moreover, the character in "The Departed" cannot be simply compared with Chen Yongren in "Infernal Affairs", because although the context of these two stories originates from the same origin, due to the different social backgrounds and different experiences of the characters, the two versions of the same character are quite different in terms of personality.

In Zhao Zhenghao's previous life, the roles played by Liang Chaowei and Xiao Lizi respectively gave people the feeling that they were completely different, and the performance methods and performance effects were all very different.

However, this character is indeed a very challenging role, and once he can perform brilliantly, he will definitely meet the Academy Award standard!

Zhao Zhenghao's performance in "Infernal Affairs 1" cannot be said to completely surpass Liang Chaowei's version, but it is definitely up to the Academy Award standard for Best Actor, just because Zhao Zhenghao didn't think so far at the time and did not operate the "Rushing Olympics" for "Infernal Affairs 1", otherwise he might have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor with this role, realizing a historic breakthrough for Dragon Country actors at the Academy Awards.

Therefore, Felipe fell in love with this role and decided to play it, which did not surprise Zhao Zhenghao.

What makes Zhao Zhenghao feel weird is that because Felipe chose this role, he can only choose to play the undercover gangster in "The Departed", that is, the role of Liu Jianming in "Infernal Affairs 1".

Although Cho has told the people at Warner Bros. Pictures that he can play any role in "The Departed" — limited to a few main characters, of course.

If needed, he can play the role of the gangster played by Rodri, and he only needs to adjust the plot of the script accordingly, with Zhao Zhenghao's acting skills, the performance achieves the effect required by the plot, and there is no problem at all.

The acting skills blessed by the black technology of the "Super Idol System" are all-round and unrestricted, with Zhao Zhenghao's conditions, from eighteen to eighty, and even men dressed as women, there will be no problem, not to mention just playing an underworld boss?

Acting as a gangster undercover agent whose psychological activities are more complicated and difficult to play is actually more difficult does not pose any challenge to Zhao Zhenghao.

When filming "Infernal Affairs 1", the two roles of Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming, Zhao Zhenghao asked Guo Ziping to pick the first role, and Zhao Zhenghao played Guo Ziping to pick the rest, because Guo Ziping also saw that Liu Jianming's role was more difficult, so he chose him, so Zhao Zhenghao played Chen Yongren.

The current situation is the opposite of what it was at the beginning, Felipe attaches more importance to the police undercover, that is, the role of Chen Yongren - from this point of view, it cannot be said that Felipe still has some idol baggage, and his breakthrough is not thorough enough, and he finally chooses a positive role, the police undercover, rather than a negative role, gangster undercover.

In "Infernal Affairs 1", in order to make the plot more in line with the theme of the film, at the end of the end, Liu Jianming, who was an undercover gangster, did not die, but was trapped in Infernal Hell forever and could not be reincarnated.

In response to an old saying in the Dragon Kingdom, "Sometimes, death is a relief, and it is even more difficult to live!"

In "The Departed", due to the difference in the story background and social environment, Zhao Zhenghao respected the setting of the original "The Departed" and let Liu Jianming also die, conveying the concept of "justice may be late, but it will never be absent" in traditional American values.

The means are up for debate, but the result is absolutely politically correct!

At this point, the role of gangster undercover, no matter how glamorous he looks out, is a negative character in terms of character setting, and in the eyes of traditional Hollywood filmmakers, this character may not be regarded as the protagonist of "The Departed", but can only be regarded as a big supporting role.

Especially when the person who plays this role is Zhao Zhenghao, who is not from Hollywood, when he is nominated for the Academy Awards in the future, it is very likely that Zhao Zhenghao can only be nominated for "Best Supporting Actor", but not "Best Actor".

This is not something that Zhao Zhenghao can control, and it is useless to think about this now, Zhao Zhenghao can only do his best now, and at this stage, he can't demand that everything be perfect.

The funds are in place, several main roles have been finalized, and the remaining supporting roles are easy to solve, Hollywood is still the world's largest film industry base, including outstanding film talents from all over the world, and there are countless powerful actors.

Therefore, when the outside world had just received the news of the formation, the crew had already completed the construction with lightning speed, and immediately entered the filming stage.

The reason why they are in such a hurry is because both "Zhenghao Studios" and Warner Bros. Pictures want to release this film before the end of the year to catch up with next year's awards season.

Zhao Zhenghao and his "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" shined in this year's awards season, conquering Hollywood as a non-Hollywood background, and becoming famous.

The difficulty of filming "The Departed" is not big or small.

It is said that it is not easy to shoot because there are many characters in the film, the relationship is intricate, and there are many inner dramas and confrontation scenes, which require the actors to dedicate the most exquisite acting skills in the best state.

Moreover, it is not enough for one or two people to be brilliant, it is necessary for several of the main characters to be evenly matched in order to fully show the excitement of the film.

For actors, the difficulty is not a star.

said that it was not difficult to shoot because the actors assembled by Warner Bros. Pictures for this film have no acting skills to say, and their work attitude is impeccable.

And Zhao Zhenghao's directing skills with the blessing of the "super idol system", of course, there is no problem of dropping the chain.

Whether it is the veteran actor Rodri or the popular student Felipe, after being filmed, he was quickly impressed by Zhao Zhenghao's calm and well-scheduled directorial skills, and his previous worries about Zhao Zhenghao's directing skills were swept away, and he fully cooperated and devoted himself to it, and in a very short period of time, he formed a sufficient tacit understanding with Zhao Zhenghao.

In terms of performance, the three people with the heaviest roles in the film have also achieved the effect of motivating and promoting each other, Zhao Zhenghao did not fall behind in front of the free-flowing Rodri, and his performance did not fall behind at all, which stimulated the old actor and old man to talk about juvenile madness and full firepower; Felipe was naturally not to be outdone in front of the two of them, put down all his burdens, and broke out in an all-round way.