Chapter 028: Chemical Reactions
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"Miracle Worker" is written in five large red fonts, which is the title of the first article in the latest issue of Cinema Fortnightly, and on the cover is a photo of Mo Fei wearing Chinese costumes.
At this time, the "Film Fortnightly" was still printed in black and white, and the fact that it was able to use red font on the title shows the importance that the magazine attaches to this topic, and also illustrates the influence of its content from one side.
Since the release of "Sky Trap", Mo Fei has become the most talked about topic in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, a young man who created the box office myth of Hong Kong movies, removed the title of "box office poison" on Zhou Yanfa's head, and became popular with the highest-grossing film director Wang Jing.
It has not been a year since his debut, and he has written thirty songs, each of which was selected into the top ten golden songs, and Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, and Chen Baiqiang ranked among the top three in last year's top ten golden songs, relying on the songs written by Mo Fei. Since the beginning of this year, Tan Yonglin, Zhong Zhentao, Zhang Guorong and others have successively made many golden songs on the list, more than half of which are from his pen.
made his first movie, and won the Hong Kong box office championship in one fell swoop with a score that exceeded the historical record, ranking fourth at the North American box office, and the global box office exceeded 900 million Hong Kong dollars.
This time Hong Kong films have really conquered the North American market, making Americans rush to pay for the dollars in their bags to watch Hong Kong movies. It does not rely on traditional kung fu and ghost horse funny, but the plot and story, but it has more advantages than the original kung fu and funny.
Mo Fei is completely famous, and there are already a lot of gossip newspaper and magazine reporters who want to interview Mo Fei, or some of them just squat near Mo Fei's house and famous craftsman music, waiting to capture some of Mo Fei's "unusual" shots. There are also flexible reporters who found the previous crew members of "Sky Trap", hoping to learn useful things from the side through these people.
Accepting an interview with "Film Fortnightly", it was also decided after thinking about it, the box office of "Peace Hotel" will definitely lose to "Sky Trap", if you want to lose not ugly, you must have suitable hype and publicity, "Film Fortnightly" interview offer, undoubtedly gave Mo Fei such an opportunity to launch his new movie.
Because Ye Qianwen is not filming, she will go to the company from time to time to learn Cantonese pronunciation with Mo Fei, and the news of signing this singer cannot be known to the outside world for the time being, so Mo Fei set the location of the interview in a teahouse.
The dress of Chinese clothing is specially customized by an old tailor with exquisite craftsmanship, which is a definition of his own image, in this era when everyone tries their best to get close to Westernization, a person who stubbornly adheres to the Chinese style will undoubtedly have a strong recognition.
And in his previous life, he also kept the Chinese style as much as possible, if it was not for some places where it was necessary to dress in Western style, he would mostly appear in Chinese style, which can be regarded as a small contribution to the persistence of traditional culture.
This report uses this paragraph at the beginning to lead to the reporter's interview with Mo Fei:
HK$900 million! This figure can be reminiscent of a lot, the net worth of a wealthy man, the market value of a listed company, or the cost of a large project, but what we are talking about here is only the box office of a movie.
Mo Fei, a newcomer to the film industry; Wang Jing, a new generation of directors; Zhou Yunfa and Zhong Chuhong, two stars with good strength. It was they who jointly created a landmark film for Hong Kong films, which continuously refreshed various box office records of Hong Kong films, and finally won the perfect data of more than 900 million Hong Kong dollars at the global box office.
Mr. Mo Fei, an important figure in the creation of this Hong Kong film myth, was the owner of a record company before, how he sold his first movie 900 million at the box office, and today I will find out for you.
After all, "Bi-weekly" is a regular film magazine, of course, it will not ask some boring gossip questions, it is basically within the scope of movies. Occasional little jokes and gossip, just to enhance the pleasure of reading, and write some interesting things that appear during the filming process, etc., and will not write nonsense about ** questions at all.
The final content is an interview with several creators in "Sky Trap", as well as an interview with Wu Yusen, the director of "Peace Hotel", to describe Mo Fei in a few simple sentences.
Zhong Chuhong's description is the simplest, but it is also very objective and to the point: I don't know much about other aspects, but Mr. Mo is very talented, which is recognized by all those who have worked with him, and although he has never made a movie, he can understand movies better than people who have been in this industry for many years, if there must be a definition, then he may be a genius.
Wang Jing and Mo Fei have a good relationship, and they talk more casually: Ah Mo is actually very interesting, you can't think of what his original life ideal was, the first is to be a chef, then a rock singer, and finally a costume designer; But when he went to college, he majored in chemistry, and making movies was just a sudden idea. I met him at the hotel at that time, and joked that he was so good at writing songs that it would be better to write a script to make a movie, and then he told me the story of the male and female thief, which is the original version of "The Sky Trap", and this movie was made under such circumstances.
You ask me if his craftsmanship is good? Of course, it's good, and if you eat it, you can't say it's bad. Let me tell you, he cares far more about his cooking skills than about movies, and in his own words, making movies means that he is not doing his job, how can you say that his skills are not good.
Mo Fei's other friend, Zhou Yanfa, doesn't speak like Wang Jing, his words are very sincere, making people feel more like they are doing an interview: what do you say about the overall feeling that Mo gives me, sometimes I feel that he is a monster, and he can be very attractive in everything. Let's not talk about the songs he wrote, almost everyone in Hong Kong should have heard them, and the movie has the best proof, everyone knows it. What I want to say is that he is also amazing in other aspects, just like a monster with a lot of things in his head, he can do quite well in many aspects, let's talk about cooking, he makes dim sum better than the master of the big restaurant, and he originally studied the major, but also read a master's degree, do you say he is a monster.
When it came to Wu Yusen's interview, the main thing was to thank and praise: Mr. Mo is a person who understands movies very well, and he said a sentence that I admire the most, movies are for the audience, and every member of the crew is serving each other, props, lighting and other departments are serving the actors, and the actors are also serving them, so as not to let their hard work be in vain; The director is working for the actors and other crew so that they can better cooperate to make the film right; The producer serves the entire crew, so that every cast and crew can work smoothly, and then bring everyone's work to more audiences.
And Mr. Mo is also a rare talent in terms of control of the movie, the directors and actors who have read his script admit this, he is like having a magical ability, the script written to each director is completely in accordance with the director's mind to ponder and scrutinize, the hard work can be imagined, and it also proves that he said that "the producer serves the whole crew", such an ability at least I have never seen the second person have.
(The reporter asked Wang Jing and Zhou Yanfa about their cooking skills) Hehe, what they said is completely right, his cooking skills are the best I have ever seen, at least in the entertainment industry, and it will not be bad compared with the chefs of those big hotels. Once I went to his house and saw a lot of bottles and cans, I thought they would contain some chemicals related to his original profession, but in the end he took out of the jars was food. I think it is precisely because he has studied many aspects of life that he has been able to come to understand more than others, and this may be one of the reasons why he is better than others.
Could it be that I watched this issue of "Bi-weekly" on the way to the company, and the whole article was full of praise, but I didn't accept it politely at all, the results of this movie are worthy of such praise, presumably when it is remade fifteen years later, it will have more box office appeal than the original one, this is the progress he has brought to Hong Kong films.
Regarding the words of Wang Jing and others in the end, he was not very embarrassed, except for the master's degree in chemistry that he almost got it, the others were his real level, and he was also proud of himself in his previous life.
After going to the company, several people in the company said congratulatory words to Mo Fei, and it was not so polite to be in front of people, so he could only say a few modest words, and then pay a big meal in return for these good words.
As soon as she entered the office, the ghost girl came in with a copy of "Biweekly", and before the person fully entered the office, she raised the magazine in her hand and shouted excitedly: "Boss, you are so sharp." ”
The pronunciation of this sentence is actually authentic Cantonese, Mo Fei looked at the ghost sister and was stunned, and said, "What you said just now, say it again." ”
"Boss, you're so sharp. Is that right? I've been practicing for more than an hour, just to congratulate you. The ghost looked at Mo Fei without any confidence, hoping to get a more affirmative answer from him.
Mo Fei nodded heavily and said, "Hehe, the pronunciation is very correct, very standard, and the use of tone is also in place, if you only say this sentence, you are already a complete Hong Kong person." ”
After receiving Mo Fei's compliment, the ghost girl was quite happy and said: "I can finally say an authentic Cantonese sentence, instead of a single word like before, if you want to say a complete sentence, you have to stumble." To celebrate this success, I'm going to invite you to dinner tonight, and you'll learn to speak quickly at the dinner table. ”
The ghost doesn't know what's wrong with him, he wants to see Mo Fei every day, and he thinks of him even when he is on the set, and he has been scolded by the director several times because he thinks of him. learned that Mo Fei was on the cover of a magazine and became a big figure in the Hong Kong film industry, and I couldn't help but be happy for him in my heart.
The pseudo-chemistry master didn't feel anything, he was still completely at work, and he didn't feel that the feelings between the two had produced a chemical reaction, so he readily agreed.
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