Chapter 121: The King of Comedy
Wang Jie did not make any film and television works this summer, on the one hand, the movie he wants to produce requires a lot of computer CG technology for post-production, and on the other hand, he wants to build a foundation for his son.
Just after Christmas last year, Lin Qingxia gave birth to a lively and lovely son for Wang Jie, and the women cared for this child, but during the Spring Festival, Audrey Hepburn also officially announced that she was pregnant, which made other women naturally have more thoughts. Wang Jie doesn't have any opinion on this, but he won't let his women have too many offspring, first, it will hinder his own practice, and second, the children will share the luck of their parents.
This year's Spring Festival Wang Jie and his family spent in Xiangjiang, originally Hua Sanshao also invited Wang Jie to go to China again, but Wang Jie refused, this year's China is turbulent, Wang Jie does not want to get involved in any trend. In his spare time, Wang Jie wrote three scripts for Xiangjiang DreamWorks Pictures, namely "Love Saint", "Gambling Saint" and "Truant Dragon". From these three works, it is obvious that Wang Jie wants to make an artist popular, a man known as the king of comedy in the original time and space - Zhou Xingchi.
Speaking of Zhou Xingchi, his life is much smoother than the original time and space, after he and his friend Liang Chaowei entered Jiayi together, due to the requirements of Wang Jie's name training, Zhou Xingchi first studied at Nortel for four years, including the first two years of acting, and the next two years transferred to the director major. After completing his studies, Wang Jie sent him to Industrial Light & Magic to study special effects for two years, and followed George Lucas to participate in the production of the follow-up series of "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and did not return to Xiangjiang until June last year. Although his friend Liang Chaowei has become popular, Zhou Xingchi is not envious, after Wang Jie's several admonitions and encouragement, Zhou Xingchi's current personality and vision are not the same as the original time and space.
These three works, in addition to the director of "Love Saint" designated Mecca, the director of "The Saint of Gambling" was handed over to DreamWorks' new director Liu Zhenwei, and Wang Jie of "Truant Dragon" named Zhou Xingchi to be fully responsible, which made Zhou Xingchi very moved, and he also made a special trip to visit Wang Jie after getting the script.
On June 1, "Love Saint" starring Zhou Xingchi In fact, regardless of the past and present life, the reason why Xiangjiang has shot so many various comedy movies has a lot to do with the taste of Xiangjiang audiences, Xiangjiang is a small area, with a large population, people's lives are very stressful, and the purpose of watching movies in the theater is mainly to relax, so comedy movies often become the first choice, plus comedy movies are often very low-cost, and many filmmakers in Xiangjiang like to be small and broad, blindly follow the trend, and shoddy, so the original time and space in the mid-to-late nineties, Xiangjiang movies were depressed。
The plot of "Love Saint" is very interesting, it tells the story of Cheng Sheng (played by Zhou Xingchi) is an idle man, who is abducted and deceived all day long, and does all kinds of evil. One day pretending to be blind to cheat, he met a female liar (played by Mao Shunjun) who was bullied by the brother and thug (played by Yuan Hua) of King Guili, who collected debts. On the other hand. The old Jianghu Chow Yun-fat (played by Wu Ma) also owes a debt to King Guili (played by Zhang Yaoyang) and is unable to pay it off. HE FINDS A WAY TO FIND HIS OLD LOVER, SISTER PING (PLAYED BY SWEET GIRL) AND SONG HALL LADY APPLE (PLAYED BY YE ZIMEI) CONSPIRE TO IMPERSONATE A FAMILY TO DEFRAUD A KUOSHAO. Unexpectedly, the deceived Kuo Shao was dressed by Cheng Sheng, and he also wanted to deceive this rich man. A scam, full of jokes.....
However, "Love Saint" has failed in the eyes of many critics and media. Ni Huan commented in the new issue of "Ming Pao Weekly": A considerable part of the jokes in the film are made by relying on the "terrifying" image of "Boba" Ye Zimei. The indecency of this technique itself is very common in Xiangjiang films, but it lacks a sense of humor and is a little more disgusting, and it is also suspected of abuse. For example, Cheng Sheng had a kiss with the drunk "Bobo" with the purpose of taking advantage, and suddenly "Bobo" vomited when he was drunk...... It inevitably makes people feel physiologically uncomfortable, which is inferior.
The rivalry between Zhou Xingchi and the veteran Wu Ma is very exciting, and the two of them are very interesting in the living room of the mansion. "I've been lonely all my life, and the only thing that depends on me is this head."
The film repeatedly emphasizes "making money with your brains", but it is precisely because it pays too much attention to this concept, and the design is too contrived, which is definitely the typical style of Mecca. Zhou Xingchi, an actor, was almost shackled, and his strengths were not fully utilized. However, Mao Shunjun's stupidity and Zhou Xingchi's self-made cleverness are a veritable pair of living treasures.
One of the major contributions of this film in language is the "piece of" that actor Zhou Xingchi often hangs on his lips, and at the end of the film, he came with a sentence, the magic is in this "tuo" word, this measure word is really rich in Chinese language and writing. This slang phrase will definitely be sung among the people of Xiangjiang for a period of time in the future. "Tuo", wonderful.
The reason why Ni Frame's wording is so poor, in addition to the film itself, is more dissatisfaction with Wang Jie.
Ni Kuang was smuggled to Xiangjiang in 1957, where he worked as a worker, proofreader, editor, and became a self-taught professional writer. He writes a wide range of novels, including detectives, science fiction, gods and monsters, martial arts, and romance. He also writes 8,000 words per hour (handwritten) and has written serials for 12 newspapers at the same time. Martial arts novels are represented by "Six-Fingered Qin Demon", which has a peculiar imagination, and also wrote "Dragon Babu" serialized during Jin Yong's time abroad.
Ni Frame has three hobbies in his life, one is wine, when he was young, he could drink at least one liter of XO a day, once he announced "quitting alcohol", but the definition is that wine can be drunk, but don't get drunk, now you can drink or not, but still think that wine is the best "anti-depressant". The second is cigarettes, and he has smoked for 35 years, with a maximum of four to five packs a day (non-stop when brushing his teeth - the cigarette is bitten on the right side when brushing the left tooth; the cigarette is bitten on the left side when brushing the right side). Until one day, I heard God's voice say several times, "You can stop smoking!" and never smoked again. (God's meaning Ni Kuang thought for a while before he understood that the so-called "you can not smoke" means that the 35-year "smoking punishment" that God has imposed on him has expired.) The third is that women are the most appreciative of supple and obedient women, and of course external beauty is also very important. Shuang'er in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" is a typical example of the perfect wife in Ni Frame's mind.
Wang Jie still admires Ni Frame, although he is a little immoral, but Ni Frame can be regarded as versatile, Ni Frame is the most prolific and diverse writer, he calls himself "the person who writes the most Chinese characters since the beginning of mankind". In fact, this is Ni Frame's self-humility, and the word "Han" in this sentence can be deleted. Ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, the only possible opponent of Ni Frame is the Western science fiction master Esimov. However, Master Ai's English is mostly typed by typewriters or word processors, so no one can find a counter-proof for this sentence. Ni Box is also the most professional writer with professional ethics, he never delays or defaults on manuscripts (he writes too fast in the early days, and deliberately puts it on hold for a few days after writing). However, the manuscript fee and royalties are extremely high, and there are two major principles: please pay first, and the goods will not be changed (the novel is absolutely not allowed to be changed, and the script is never asked).
Since coming to Hong Kong from the mainland in 1957, he has been writing for 30 years, seven days a week, and tens of thousands of words a day. The most amazing thing is that he can write for thirty years without constant inspiration, with endless themes and a guarantee of best-selling. People in the rivers and lakes even jokingly called him "the emperor of bagged books". There is a joke circulating in the publishing world: even if Ni Box writes a wordless book, it will be sold out quickly. At best, the next time you buy Ni Frame's work, you can see clearly whether it is a sequel to the wordless Book of Heaven! In Xiangjiang, there are very few writers who are "rich" purely by writing, and Ni Frame is one of them.
In addition, Ni Frame is an amateur master of carved seals, and it was by forging a variety of official seals, letters of introduction, identity documents, etc., that he was able to defect all the way from Beihai Province to Xiangjiang. The raw material of the pseudo-engraved seal is soap, and there is no sample according to it, only that the larger the engraving, the more bluffing it becomes. He is also an amateur expert in marine shell taxonomy, having purchased thousands of reference books and rented a living flat to display his collection of shells. He spent several years collecting and studying seashells, and although he eventually sold his beloved collection, his knowledge of seashells reached the level of an expert.
The reason why Ni Frame has a grudge with Wang Jie has a lot to do with his very unobtrusive son Ni Zhen. During the Spring Festival this year, when Ni Zhen was doing a show in Jiayi, he unexpectedly met Li Jiaxin and Zhou Huimin, and he was shocked at the moment, and immediately launched a passionate offensive, but the two women didn't even give him a straight eye, and then the brainless Ni Zhen spent a lot of money to invite some friends on the road, wanting to coerce Li Jiaxin and Zhou Huimin to comply, but they were cleaned up by the second daughter's bodyguard, and Ni Zhen was even broken by the second daughter's nose bridge and broke the phase. After that, Ni Frame wanted to find a place for his son, and when he learned that Wang Jie was behind the second daughter, he wisely chose to give up, but from then on, as long as the movie released by DreamWorks, Ni Frame must pick and choose.