Chapter 206: The Nerve Knife of the Film Industry

Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei turned out to be friends, and Lu Yan never knew about this matter. But this time, the two collaborated on a script as a stepping stone, hoping to join Dongcheng Images. Such a thing is undoubtedly a good thing for Lu Yan and Dongcheng Image.

In fact, Wong Kar-wai still has no plans, but Liu Zhenwei is different. Liu Zhenwei used to be the general manager of a film company, so he understands very well that Dongcheng Imaging is in a hurry to meet talents in all aspects. And they thought that they and Wong Kar-wai's talents were not bad, so the two came to Dongcheng Video with the attitude of trying.

As Liu Zhenwei's friend, Wang Jing is of course willing to help this friend. Because of many mistakes, the two finally got the news that the boss Lu Yan wanted to meet them.

For Lu Yan, a young boy, people who are not familiar with him will always feel that he is covered with a veil of mystery. However, the legendary color given by Lu Yan has to be sideways. The holder of the box office record of Hong Kong films, the youngest winner of the Best Film at the Academy Awards, the youngest winner of the Golden Horse Awards for Best Director, the nominations for other Best Screenplay, and the Best Original Music awards are directly ignored by too dazzling light.

But the really most amazing thing is undoubtedly the good works. It is precisely because of such works that Chow Yun-fat, Dillon, Leslie Cheung, Wang Zuxian, Andy Lau ...... And every young person who joins Dongcheng Imaging has been given many opportunities to show their talents.

Whether it is Liu Weiqiang and Du Kefeng in photography, Cheng Xiaodong, martial arts instructor, or Tim Yip, a part-time student in art direction and art design...... and Wang Jing, who filmed "God of Gamblers" just after entering Dongcheng Films, their fame in the Hong Kong film industry is becoming more and more a guarantee.

In fact, what can really make everyone shine is Lu Yan, who left the New Art City with all his heart. This posterior boy single-handedly created the image of Dongcheng. Although it is still a decent independent production company at home, it is enough to compete with several other major film companies in terms of films

It is precisely because it is the total factor, after Liu Zhenwei's measurement, he decided to pull Wong Kar-wai to Dongcheng to try it.

With Wang Jing's opening, coupled with the name of the two, Lu Yan has long been thunderous. In the case that there are not many scenes in "Rouge Buckle", Lu Yan can finally meet these two newcomers who have recently joined the screenwriting department of Dongcheng Images. In fact, although there is a screenwriting department, in fact, only a few of them, Lu Yan and Wang Jing can create independently.

But the first time the two stepped into Lu Yan's office, they felt that they were too young. Although he also knows Lu Yan's age, it is indeed a little unbelievable that the boss who really saw Dongcheng Image is so young, and "The True Color of Heroes" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" are actually written by him

And while they were looking at Lu Yan, why didn't Lu Yan look at these two. Liu Zhenwei is still Liu Zhenwei, but the first Wong Kar-wai has not yet worn sunglasses. But I'm also wearing black-framed glasses, which looks quite gentle.

"Boss"

The current Lu Yan obviously has more status and prestige than them. However, Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei did not have much restraint, especially Liu Zhenwei, who was the manager of a film company at the beginning. The connections in the circle are not bad.

"Two sit" Lu Yan waved his hand with a smile, and now he is not a young man who just came out of the house. The people who should have seen it have also seen it, and now there is nothing special about Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei. It's just that the company can pull these two new forces, which is really good for future development.

At this moment, on Lu Yan's table, there is a script co-written by Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai. As early as yesterday, Wang Jing had already sent this script over.

The script is actually not too outstanding, and there are even some small flaws in Lu Yan's opinion. However, the highlights are also very obvious.

This script, called "Fierce Ghost Mission", is Liu Zhenwei's debut film. Although Wong Kar-wai also participated in the compilation, the main ideaman was Liu Zhenwei himself. It was from this movie that his exaggerated and vulgar, flirtatious, crazy and indulgent, hippie and self-deprecating characteristics appeared in it one by one.

For example, the lustful, timid personality and betrayal shortcomings shared between Kim McGee and Meng Chao in the script created a lot of opportunities for the two of them to be exaggerated and vulgar and flirtatious. Checking how colleagues dress on the stairs and singing the "Rose" love song in front of the female boss at the top are all manifestations of Liu Zhenwei's comedy style gradually taking shape.

Absorbing the characteristics of cartoons, refining the essence of nonsense and comedy in other types of movies, greatly rewriting or completely subverting the classic scenes in traditional movies, reversing the comedy of orthodox characters, and carrying out alternative packaging of modern fashion are another feature of Liu Zhenwei's films.

Not only that, Liu Zhenwei also likes to add a lot of jokes to the details. For example, the female boss was trapped in the woods and had to put her underwear embroidered with roses on her head as a last resort, and Meng Chao caught chickens and met zombies, all of which showed a full sense of game in detail.

Throughout the creative process, Liu Zhenwei always uses a light-hearted and humorous mode with a full sense of game, unbridled creative imagination, and reverse-wild film thinking and unconventional genre interpretation to enrich his expression, making the film more unique and unique.

I have to say that Liu Zhenwei is really the most elusive nerve knife in Hong Kong movies

But such a script, in Lu Yan's opinion, is indeed still lacking a lot of things. Of course, there is definitely a small cost investment in movies from the perspective of income. However, Lu Yan's requirement for Dongcheng Imaging at this stage is to try his best to make a film that triggers the diffusion of Hong Kong film thinking

He gently held the script, and Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai also stared at the young boss tightly. Everyone also knows that this little boss is not only a ghost director, but also one of the geniuses in screenwriting.

"Zhen viagra, most of this script should be written by you, right?"

Hearing this, Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai were slightly stunned. They don't know how Lu Yan saw it, after all, this is also Liu Zhenwei's debut novel.

"Boss, how do you tell? In fact, this script has nothing to do with me" Wong Kar-wai took the lead in differentiating, he could see Lu Yan's appreciation of Liu Zhenwei, and he immediately put himself aside.

Although Liu Zhenwei was surprised, he also nodded and said: "Jiawei has given a lot of inspiration."

"Actually, this script is very good, and many of the ideas are quite novel." Lu Yan smiled slightly, and said without delving into this question: "Actually, it's nothing to shoot this movie, but I have a new idea to get a script with you." When the time comes, how about you being the director and letting Wang Jing be the producer, are you interested? ”

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei were stunned by Lu Yan's words.

It turned out that when they heard Lu Yan say that it was a bit difficult to shoot this script, they were a little disappointed. But when he heard Lu Yan's words, he was suddenly hooked up. Although Lu Yan did not mention Wong Kar-wai, he was still very happy for Liu Zhenwei.

"This idea has actually been in my head for a long time, and I originally wanted to write it for Wang Jing. But after reading this script of yours, I think you fit perfectly. There are a lot of new ideas in particular, and it would be better if we wrote them together. And I've heard that you've been an executive producer before, so you shouldn't have any problem with handhelds. Lu Yan looked at Liu Zhenwei, who was a little incredulous, and suddenly asked, "When did you enter the industry?" ”

"Actually, my interest in movies has been around since I was a child, when my mom would take me to the movies almost every night. Films from that time are now known as Cantonese fragments. So when Liu Zhenwei participated in the production of the movie, it was like digging up a treasure. However, the company unfortunately collapsed in 1985.

"After the company collapsed, I left the film industry for about a year, and then I felt that I still couldn't live without movies." But what studio would want to hire someone from a former studio that went out of business to be its manager? So Liu Zhenwei chose to be a screenwriter.

Listening to Liu Zhenwei's explanation, Lu Yan smiled indifferently. No wonder this guy can become friends with Wong Kar-wai, and Liu Zhenwei, who has an extremely rich imagination, started as a screenwriter, which is not as smooth as ideal. At the most downfall, he met another screenwriter who had just been fired: Wong Kar-wai. Two talented guys fell in love at first sight: "Why are the two of us so strong but can't get ahead?" They lamented that their fate was not good, but they comforted and encouraged each other.

It is precisely because of these karmic gatherings that the two finally decided to try their luck at Dongcheng Image. But this good fortune seems to have come too quickly, Lu Yan not only has to write the script with Liu Zhenwei, but also let him play the director?

Although Lu Yan is young, such a show of bearing can't help but make Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai look at them even more. No wonder this boss can have such a result, he really doesn't care about the use of newcomers, but they are very confident in themselves, so after thinking about it, Liu Zhenwei suddenly asked: "Boss, can you tell me what kind of subject it is about?" ”