"This is really not an exaggeration or to attract everyone's attention to this movie, Director Lin's statement is the same for me, when Mr. Lin asked me to make this movie, he said that the actor in the film will become the most classic and indelible role since I started the film, I didn't believe it at the time, but in the process of shooting this movie, I feel more and more that he is right, I believe that all the audiences who have come to the cinema to see this movie will agree with my point of view."

Zhou Runfa's words caused quite a stir on the reporter's side, and someone immediately asked him, will "The Shawshank Redemption" be more classic than Gao Jin in "God of Gamblers" and Xiao Ma in "The True Color of Heroes"?

This kind of questioning with a trap and ambush has always been a common trick of media reporters, and newcomers who are new to the industry often suffer losses, but people like Zhou Yunfa who have been in the entertainment industry for many years can see the curves and curves in it at a glance.

"God of Gamblers" is good to say, the taste of commercial films is too strong, although the role of Gao Jin is classic, but it is more just a sign that Zhou Runfa has turned from a "poison hair" salted fish to a "fairy hair", but the little horse brother in "The True Color of Heroes" is different, the famous masterpiece of the great director Wu Yusen swept the Academy Awards that year, and even made Zhou Runfa win his first Academy Award Little Golden Man.

If Zhou Yunfa answers the reporter's questions, he not only denies his past achievements, but also invisibly denies Wang Jing and Wu Yusen.

Regardless of whether Zhou Yunfa himself has such an idea, the media will write in this direction afterwards.

Wang Jing values profit and does not respect his name, and it is likely that he will laugh it off when he hears Zhou Yunfa say this, but Wu Yusen is different. What's even worse is that. He is also one of the judges of the main competition unit of the Hong Kong Film Festival.

Surprisingly. Zhou Yanfa really replied like this.

"I'm still saying that, as long as anyone who has seen this movie, they will agree with me."

The excited media reporters also wanted to continue to expand the results, and pointed their questions at Huang Qiusen.

"Mr. Huang, do you also think that your role in this film is the best?"

Huang Qiusen, as if he didn't know the intentions of the reporter, nodded without hesitation and agreed with this statement.

The overjoyed reporter took advantage of the victory to chase after him, and added: "Better than Dr. Fan in "The Silence of the Lambs"? ”

Huang Qiusen topped the Academy Awards for Best Actor with "The Silence of the Lambs". If he really admits it, he is undoubtedly slapping himself in the face, although Huang Qiusen of "The Shawshank Redemption" is also one of the leading actors, his partner is Zhou Runfa, if this film wins the award, the winner can only be Zhou Runfa instead of Huang Qiusen.

Which work that is obviously impossible to win an award to deny his famous work, Huang Qiusen really said so, what will the judges of the Academy Awards think?

The reporter who asked this question was very proud, he thought that Huang Qiusen would definitely be asked, but he didn't expect Huang Qiusen to say something that made people stunned.

"If you're talking about supporting actors. I really feel that "The Shawshank Redemption" is the best role I have ever played. ”

The expressions of the reporters who asked questions on the other side were obviously stunned, and Huang Qiusen was clearly written on the movie promotional poster as the starring actor. And he himself only admits that he is playing a supporting role, of course, a movie with a supporting role cannot be compared with a movie with a starring role, Huang Qiusen's understatement dissolves all the traps carefully prepared by the reporter.

Just when the reporters were still distracted, Lin Lingdong and the three of them had already continued to walk forward under the reminder of the staff, and when the reporters came back to their senses, they wanted to ask questions, but it was too late.

Although the original intention of Lin Lingdong and the three of them was not to promote "The Shawshank Redemption", this paragraph happened after the red carpet episode spread, and the media reporters at the scene were discussing this matter, and then they were all full of interest in the film "The Shawshank Redemption".

It is a pity that "The Shawshank Redemption" was only shown 3 times at the film festival, and most of the seats were occupied by the judges and filmmakers who came to participate in the film festival, and the tickets allocated to the media were pitiful, especially at today's premiere, only the reporters of the "Ming Pao" department in Hong Kong had tickets in their hands, and reporters from other media could only wait outside the door.

The situation of "Ghost Blows the Lantern" is much better, with a total of 10 screenings at the festival, which can not only meet the needs of the judges and the media, but also bring a sneak peek of many tourists to Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong media is not without emotions about this, the most intuitive manifestation is that after the opening ceremony, "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Ghost Blows the Lantern" were simultaneously released in different movie theaters, and the number of reporters who ran to report the premiere of "The Ghost Blows the Lantern" was significantly larger than the number of reporters who reported on "The Shawshank Redemption".

As soon as the opening ceremony ended, all the judges, including filmmakers from various countries, were all pulled by Lin Youlun to the side of "The Shawshank Redemption", which is cheap The reporters who stayed in the premiere theater of "The Shawshank Redemption" have little competition, and there are many people who are willing to be interviewed, basically every reporter gets one or two scoops in their hands.

Of course, before watching "The Shawshank Redemption", the judges or filmmakers interviewed were very cautious, and in fact there was not much valuable information, what really mattered was their attitude and thoughts after they came out of the movie.

At the beginning of the premiere here, those reporters who ran in the wrong place rushed over one after another after receiving the news, and the entrance of the movie theater was soon surrounded by reporters.

The judges sitting in the screening room had no idea what was happening outside the hallway, and their attention was now completely absorbed by the story on the big screen.

The Hong Kong version of "The Shawshank Redemption" is under the banner of a sequel to "Prison Storm", and the film style naturally continues Lin Lingdong's usual realistic and dark-biased tone.

At the beginning of the film, cross-cut images are transmitted to the audience in all the screening rooms: a drunk man in a car, a court interrogation, a couple of cheating men and women. Huan, the drunk man loaded the bullet, the court interrogation, the drunk man got out of the car with a gun, and other frames of information, successfully aroused the curiosity of the audience, and then with the lawyer's statement, everyone quickly figured out the "facts".

The story takes place in Hong Kong in the 60s, and Zhou Yunfa plays a successful banker who shoots his wife and her lover after getting drunk because his wife is fornicating.

The facts of the case look clear, and the film does not go through any further recap, with the judge convicting Zhou of homicide and then serving his sentence in prison.

At this moment, all the audience thought that Zhou Runfa should be imprisoned, and at the same time they couldn't help but have some doubts in their hearts, this is not the style of Lin Lingdong's movie, if the protagonist is not wronged, how should the story develop?

With deep confusion, everyone looked down patiently.

The story enters the prison part, when the prison boss played by Huang Qiusen asks Zhou Runfa why he will go to prison, Zhou Yunfa said: "I am innocent." ”

If it is replaced by other actors, the audience may still be suspicious, but Zhou Yunfa has always been a tall and positive image in the minds of the audience, and as soon as he said this, many viewers immediately believed his words, but they still haven't figured out why he was wronged and imprisoned.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Huang Qiusen laughed and said a more classic line.

"Those who come here are innocent."

This seems to be a satire of Zhou Yunfa's unclear situation, but at the same time, it is more like a satire of Hong Kong's chaotic and corrupt political and legal system in the 60s, and the theme of this film is also revealed in such casual dialogues, which is still Lin Lingdong's black realistic style.

At this moment, the audience is most concerned about the truth about Zhou Runfa's murder of his wife, but the movie has been hanging everyone's appetite and began to tell about Zhou Yunfa's depressed and ordinary life in prison, he got a small pickaxe through Huang Qiusen, saying that it was used to carve some small plays, and after slowly getting acquainted with Huang Qiusheng, even Huang Qiusen helped him get a poster of movie star Xia Meng and pasted it on the wall.

During a labor trip, Zhou Yunfa overheard the prison warden talking about stock investment, and Zhou Yunfa said that he could help the prison warden invest and make money, and in exchange for the three inmates he worked with him were each given three bottles of beer.

Under the guidance of Zhou Yunfa, the prison warden made a lot of money by investing in stocks, and then he gradually began to ask Zhou Yunfa to help him manage his own finances, and at the same time, the prison guards also approached Zhou Yunfa and asked him to guide him on ways to make money through investment, in return, Zhou Yunfa moved into a separate prison and enjoyed better treatment than other prisoners, and even won a prison library for his fellow inmates.

Although this story is bland, the handling of details can always firmly grab the audience's attention, but many people are puzzled when they see this, it is also a description of the prison theme, "The Shawshank Redemption" is like a fairy tale compared with the cruel prison life in Lin Lingdong's previous "Prison Storm".

Could it be that Lin Lingdong has really changed sex this time?

What answers all the audience's questions is the abrupt turn of the story, a guy who is imprisoned for theft inadvertently reveals to Zhou Yunfa that he once killed a man and a woman with a gun in the hands of a drunk man during a robbery, but afterwards the judge blamed the murder on the drunk man.

Seeing this, the audience suddenly realized, maybe, probably, this is the reason why Zhou Yunfa was unjustly imprisoned.

At the moment when they learned the truth, everyone guessed what Zhou Yunfa would do next, but they couldn't help but wonder in their hearts, things shouldn't be so simple, right? (To be continued......)