404 The Story of Ah Lang
It is impossible to correct people's surnames immediately, this requires a process, and Wang Xiaohu did not expect Wu Mengda to quit gambling immediately, but he always had to give him some warnings, so that he could remember the warnings of his surname, so that he would not continue to follow the wrong path in the future. [No pop-up novel network]
"I conceived a script." Wang Xiaohu looked at Chow Yun-fat and Wu Mengda, and said quietly: "I plan to start the film after the New Year, you will be the starring role, and Ada will play the most supporting role." β
Since starring in "Ip Man", Chow Yun-fat was "assigned" by Wang Xiaohu to TVB TV to hone his training, and in the past two years, he has run through three TV series, although he has performed very hard, but after all, he has not been favored by TVB's TV directors, the reason is very simple, because Chow Yun-fat is too eye-catching, and his acting skills are too good to steal the roles of the leading actors.
This embarrassing situation barely ended after the hit of "Jingwumen", from the end of last month to the present, "Jingwumen" has been broadcast for seventeen episodes, Chow Yun-fat played Cai Xuefu was hated by Hong Kong citizens and gritted his teeth, and then those directors of TVB seemed to smell a little knock on the door, and rushed to let Chow Yun-fat play a cameo role as a bad guy in their TV series, as if he was born to be a bad guy.
This kind of phenomenon is naturally what Chow Yun-fat doesn't want to see, he has been depressed for a long time, and now when he heard Wang Xiaohu say that he should be the starring actor, the depression that he had been squeezing for a long time was swept away, and he asked with a smile: "Brother Tiger, finally give me the opportunity to be the starring role, otherwise I will become a bad guy stereotyped actor." β
Wang Xiaohu still knows what happened to Chow Yun-fat during this time, and said with a smile: "Do you know why I keep letting you play the role of a bad guy?" β
Chow Yun-fat shook his head and said, "I don't know." β
He really didn't know, he originally thought that Brother Tiger arranged this way because of the bad impression he left when he worked in Bruce Lee's restaurant, but with the development of the past two years, he found that things were not like that, Brother Tiger not only did not remember the grudge carefully, but even let him take classes in the TVB artist training class and recommended him to work on TVB TV station, and this matter has been bothering him for a long time.
"Actually, the reason is very simple, because being a bad guy can hone your acting skills." Wang Xiaohu said a word, saw Chow Yun-fat's slightly thoughtful look, and continued: "Whether it is Li Zhao, the translator of this book, or Cai Xuefu, the son of Cai Liujin, they all seem to be bad people, but they are fundamentally different, at least Li Zhao's badness is on the surface, and his heart is kind and backbone. And Cai Xuefu is from the inside of the bone to the outside. β
After watching Cai Xuefu's person appear on the TV, many viewers hated to get into the TV and slap him a few times. Cai Liujin asked him to leave Shanghai for his own good, but not only did he not understand his father's hard work, but instead colluded with him and shot at his biological father; killed his second uncle Cai Jinhu in cold blood; What's even more shameful is that he not only joined his own nationality, but also took a dog named "Dog Raising Rich Learning"! At the wedding banquet between Hideaki Ishii and Yumi Takeda, when he learned that he had received the rights and interests of Germany in Shandong, he was the first to knock on his knife and fork and shout "Long live the Emperor".
The most shameful thing is that he actually threatened to let his father Cai Liujin go, and stained his father's confidante Qiqiao. "Xuefu, I have two guns here, one has bullets, one has no bullets, you choose one", the father and son finally had a showdown, the scene was so unbearable, there was only one shot, and one shot ended an extremely shameful life. Cai Xuefu's expression was very painful when he died, but the audience did not feel pleasure, on the contrary, his heart was very heavy.
"Jingwumen" stopped filming, in fact, it also left a lot of time for Chow Yun-fat to deeply figure out Cai Xuefu's character surname, usually he always kept the script in his hand, listed Cai Xuefu's surname on paper, analyzed his words and deeds, and said that it was not too much to say that he was enchanted. Just like Chow Yun-fat's persistence and diligence, there is Cai Xuefu, the real character of Cai Xuefu, who makes those who see angry and those who hear scolding his mother, so real that even if Chow Yun-fat walks on the street, he will hear many citizens pointing and talking behind him.
Now that Wang Xiaohu has finally revealed the mystery, Chow Yun-fat looks back on the trajectory of his development in the film and television industry in the past three years, and finds that even if the lecturer of the TVB artist training class talks about how the sky falls, it is not as fast and direct as Wang Xiaohu's method can improve an actor's acting skills!
"Are you still struggling to play the role of a villain now?" Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.
Chow Yun-fat shook his head, his face was full of joy, but he scratched his head a little embarrassedly and said, "Don't be entangled, thank you Brother Hu for your hard work over the years." β
"I will cultivate again, if you don't seek to be motivated, it will still be useless, all of this is the result of your own hard work." Wang Xiaohu patted him on the shoulder and said: "Acting is only in your own hands, and you can act like anything." β
The two of them asked and answered each other, which made Wu Mengda, who was covered in scars, stunned when he heard it, he only now knew that Fa Zai's acting skills were so good through continuous hard work and diligence, and then look at himself, he is also a student of the third phase, and he is like Zhongtian, but he has become a gambler.
This had a very important impact on Wu Mengda's heart, he sighed heavily, lowered his head a little ashamedly, and there was a tide in his eyes, and there was a factor called remorse in his heart and brain.
When Wu Mengda completed an inner confession, he heard Wang Xiaohu talking about the script creativity of the new film, Wang Xiaohu had said that he was also playing a supporting role in the new film, so he forgot the pain all over his body and listened attentively to Wang Xiaohu's play.
The plot of this story is about: the rich girl ** married the motorcyclist Ah Lang despite the opposition of her family. Later, it was discovered that Ah Lang was addicted to racing and had no time to take care of her, and when she was about to give birth, Ah Lang was imprisoned for killing a police officer by an illegal racing car. **The mother colluded with doctors to trick the baby into going to the United States by pretending that she was dead. After being released from prison, Ah Lang deeply regretted his previous behavior, so he retrieved his son Bo Tsai from the orphanage, and the two depended on each other. 10 years later, **, who already had a fiancΓ©, returned to Hong Kong to do business, and she knew that her son had grown into a young racing player, and she wanted to ask Ah Lang's consent to take her son to the United States. Ah Lang, who still loves ** in his heart, in order to fight for the sincerity of remarrying with **, participated in the car race regardless of his age and physical condition, but died in a car accident due to the recurrence of his old illness when he was about to win......"
That's right, the script of the new film that Wang Xiaohu is talking about now is Chow Yun-fat's masterpiece "The Story of Ah Lang", although the story of the film is relatively simple, it is full of romantic tragedy, full of dramatic tension and tear-jerking.
Wang Xiaohu still remembers that Chow Yun-fat's performance in this film is also remarkable, he delicately expressed Ah Lang's meticulous care for his son, and at the same time implicitly expressed his desire to renew the old friendship with his wife. In different situations, the helplessness, ecstasy, disappointment and other different inner activities revealed in his eyes truly and accurately grasped the emotional world of Ah Lang, the prodigal son in the past, and his acting skills were vividly and vividly played in "Ah Lang's Story". (The classic of Father and Son is not "Letter to Dad", that film will be filmed sooner or later, but not now, I have to wait for a key character to appear, soon, don't worry.) What moved Wang Xiaohu even more was that the end of this movie came from Luo Dayou's famous work "The Way You Look", a song that was sung badly, a song that was sensational to the extreme, when Luo Dayou's vicissitudes of voice were matched with the tearful lyrics and a poignant ending, the tragic hero of Ah Lang was vividly brought out, and he earned the tears of I don't know how many people!
At the same time as this film was popular, Chow Yun-fat's superb acting skills completely brought the down-and-out driver of Ah Lang to life, and once again won the unanimous affirmation of the expert judges with his impeccable acting skills, and won the Academy Award Best Actor Throne!
is such a classic film, how can Wang Xiaohu let it go? What's more, he feels that it is time to pick up Chow Yun-fat.
After Wang Xiaohu finished talking about the general plot of the script, he found that Chow Yun-fat was frowning and pondering, and Wu Mengda stared at the big eyes like a goose looking at this and that.
After a long while, Wang Xiaohu asked, "This time the character is not a bad guy, are you interested?" β
Chow Yun-fat let out an "ah", shook his head and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Brother Hu, I was figuring out Ah Lang's surname just now." β
"Huh. Got into character so quickly? Wang Xiaohu didn't blame, and was even a little happy, which shows that Chow Yun-fat is working hard all the time, and even in less than a minute, he began to figure out the character's surname, which is a good phenomenon, and don't blame him for being able to win the title of the god of acting in the future.
"Yes, Brother Tiger, you may not know, this film is very stressful for me." Chow Yun-fat frowned and analyzed: "Because Brother Tiger has portrayed the role of his father in "Ah Hu", it is not very difficult for me to surpass Brother Tiger's words. β
Wang Xiaohu was stunned when he heard this, and immediately understood Chow Yun-fat's reason, in fact, if you think about it carefully, "Ah Hu" and "Ah Lang's Story" are still somewhat similar in terms of plot, such as the male protagonists are in prison, for example, they both have a rebellious child, for example, they both returned to the sports field they are good at in order to save their family affection and love, and finally fell tragically and earned a lot of tears.
Historically, "Ah Lang's Story" was released in 1989, while "Ah Hu" was released in 2000, needless to say, "Ah Hu" is a classic hodgepodge that encompasses Hong Kong film characteristics and Hollywood inspiration, and now Chow Yun-fat has concerns about two films with similar styles.
"Brother Tiger, I'm afraid that if I don't act well, it will affect the box office." Chow Yun-fat directly said this concern, after all, Wang Xiaohu's films are box office vampires, and he doesn't want to mess up Wang Xiaohu's golden sign for his own sake.
(To be continued)