Chapter 158 Opening Works

The original film of "Overlord Flower" is an action comedy produced by Golden Harvest and Weihe Company in 1988, produced by Cheng Long, directed by Qian Shengwei, and directed by the martial arts class of the family class. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It is told that the Xiangjiang police found it necessary to set up a women's special police team in an operation to protect the visiting Middle East oil king and his wife, so the senior police department appointed Madam Hu, played by Hu Huizhong, as an instructor to form a female special police overlord flower unit.

The whole film is full of comedy style, from the work training and daily life of the members of Overlord Flower at the beginning, to the final fight against the international jewelry thief group, the whole process is full of laughter, making the audience laugh non-stop.

After the original film was released in June 1988, it recorded more than 15 million at the box office, ranking 17th at the annual box office. The first place that year was produced by Xinyi City and written by Huang Baiming, the Chinese New Year film "Eight Star Annunciation" with a huge star cast.

Cheng Weiliang believes that telling about female special police is a good theme. He believes that there are several reasons why the box office of the original film is not outstanding enough.

First, it will be released on June 3, the release schedule is more embarrassing, and the end of June to the beginning of July is the beginning of the popular summer file, and "Overlord Flower" will give way to other summer films in two weeks after its release.

The small-budget film got a box office of more than 15 million in just two weeks after its release, which is a good result, so the sequel to "Overlord Flower" was filmed in the second year, ranking in the Spring Festival schedule, ranking ninth at the box office.

Second, the subject matter itself is not new enough. In the mid-to-late 80s, it was a period when Xiangjiang films were maturing, and various themes emerged one after another.

Before 88 years, there were already many TV movies with the police as the main story, including "Xinzha Senior Brother" starring Liang Chaowei, Cheng Long's action blockbuster "Police Story", and Yang Ziqiong's "Royal Senior Sister", which tells the story of female policemen, so "Overlord Flower" no longer has the advantage in the word "new".

Third, the quality of the production of the film itself. The film is not valued by Cheng Long's production team, Weihe Company has the action blockbuster "Flying Dragon Warrior" before the Chinese New Year in 88 years to be busy, and the summer file "Police Story Sequel" has to gather the strength of the whole team, so "Overlord Flower" is only responsible for a small director, and the family class takes time to cooperate.

"Overlord Flower" is positioned as a small-to-medium budget comedy, rather than an action blockbuster, and its production quality can be imagined.

There are a lot of funny clips in the film, but I have watched countless jokes from comedy movies for several years, and the audience in Xiangjiang has experienced a hundred battles and doesn't buy it very much.

The action scenes in the film are relatively perfunctory, and the climactic scene of the last fight against the boss of the international jewelry thief is also designed so-so, the scene is not big enough, and the fight is not strong enough!

Therefore, the box office of "Overlord Flower" is neither high nor low, and it is in the middle and upper reaches.

Now, Cheng Weiliang has advanced the theme of "Overlord Flower" from 88 to 84, seizing the opportunity of police themes and female police themes. I believe that you will get a different effect.

And, on the basis of maintaining the original general structure of the film, it has been adapted to a certain extent.

First, in terms of literary drama, the love chase game scenes of the Flying Tigers Ah Wen and the overlord Hua Ah Zhen played by Du Dewei in the two scenes of "Meet at the Ice Rink" and "Meet at the Dance Hall" in the original film were deleted.

The pursuit game of these two occupies a considerable part of the movie, but in the end, it turns out that Ah Zhen's role is not very good, but it is the team members played by Wu Junru and Hui Yinghong who are outstanding.

The space occupied is not proportional to the contribution to the movie, so Cheng Weiliang deleted these two scenes and reduced the role to an ordinary passer-by.

The original film's roles for the Overlord Flower players were distributed evenly and scattered, which was not conducive to highlighting the roles of the team members and deepening the audience's impression of them.

Therefore, Cheng Weiliang changed the six team members that the original film focused on describing to four team members, and made their personality traits distinct and labeled.

The scenes of Ah Zhen and Bei Cry were reduced, and passers-by were armored.

Amy played by Wu Junru: has sisterly righteousness, a big mouth, is funny, and is responsible for funny scenes.

Ami played by Hui Yinghong: Competitive personality and good kung fu skills, some male team members can't beat her, and she has won many championships.

Alain played by Jian Huizhen: has a weak personality, poor skills, drags his feet, and is disliked by Ami on the same team, but he also has a tenacious fighting spirit.

Cheng Weiliang added a special feature for her, she has a special shooting talent, and was directly selected from the police academy as the overlord flower. He made a great contribution to the later big fight jewelry thieves.

Karen played by Boanne: In addition to the fact that she is more beautiful, she was deceived by an emotional liar with Bei Cry in the film, and it was inadvertently exposed, and the scene where the team members went to beat the liar together is more impressive, this role is not very outstanding.

Cheng Weiliang's role was adapted to have a relatively pure mind, but he was born with a sense of danger, so he was deceived for a while, but he soon realized that he was deceived from the details. He also relied on this perception ability to detect the jewel thief halfway through and alert his companions.

Later, he also had a crush on the handsome young Interpol guest instructor, and finally fought with him to fight the big thief boss!

Cheng Weiliang's changes to the roles of Alain and Karen, in addition to making their images more distinct, are to tell the audience that every member of Overlord Flower is not weak, and each of them has their own skills.

After reducing the love scene between Ah Wen and Ah Zhen in the original film, the role of a young Interpol Cheng instructor was added instead.

Instructor Cheng will have a chance encounter with MDAM Hu in the playground, recalling the "playground night talk" scene of the past years of fighting side by side, and the ambiguous atmosphere will cause the audience to speculate about the past story of the two of them.

At the same time, there will also be a scene, after Karen and other Overlord Flower players come back from vacation, they meet the newcomer Instructor Cheng at the door, and when they see him with a tender face, they mistakenly think that he is a new Flying Tiger player, and the team members tease him, but finally find out that he is a new guest instructor's hilarious scene.

Second, while Cheng Weiliang changed the literary drama, he also increased the proportion of action scenes, especially the last scene of the brave fight against international thieves, which will increase the fight scenes.

Increase the gunfights, explosions, and fighting scenes, add a second boss, and Instructor Cheng leads all the female team members to fight the big boss together, the second boss!

After learning that the bandits had tied a time bomb to the captured team members and that every second had to be counted, Instructor Cheng and the others finally eliminated all the bandits, rescued the captured team members, and at the last thrilling moment, the time bomb was defused by Karen.

The original film is a 30% action + 70% funny = action comedy, if you are mean, you can call it a comedy, then now Cheng Weiliang wants to make it a good comedy action movie.

"So, who will play Instructor Cheng, an important role that combines love and action scenes?" Shao Ding looked at the cast and crew form in his hand, and there were many blank spaces on it that were not filled in.

"Me!" Cheng Weiliang smiled and pointed to himself.

"There's really no one more suitable person than the general manager!" Su Shuying thought to herself. 's handsome appearance, the super popularity brought by playing Daoming Temple, and his role as Instructor Cheng, the box office of the film can be a little more.

I wonder what he will look like when he puts on a police uniform? Will he be fascinated by a group of girls again?

"So Karen, the beautiful female student character, boss, which young actress do you like?" Fu Yongqing asked. Others also looked over and were more curious about the question.

"You guys first find these people for me according to the list of actors and the list of the film crew I gave. Cheng Weiliang rotated the boss's chair back and said to them: "As for Karen, let me think about it, I haven't made a final decision yet." ”