Chapter 527: There is no door to hell
After sending Shi Nansheng back, Xu Guanwu waited for two days, but did not wait for the news of Wu Siyuan's defection, but heard the news that Jiahe and Siyuan Film Company jointly invested in Xu Ke's new play.
Seeing the newspaper where Wu Siyuan, Zou Wenhuai, and He Guanchang were smiling happily, Xu Guanwu knew that he had been used as an arrow target.
However, he didn't have the heart to deal with this matter anymore, because there was a bigger thing recently, that is, the "Huiyan Yaji" Charity Foundation, which was officially announced.
Hui Yan Ya Ji Charity Foundation was co-founded by Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia, and the two of them serve as the honorary presidents of Hui Yan Ya Ji. The sister-in-law Chen Jieying and the fourth sibling Lin Bao serve as honorary directors. The rest of the members are all newly elected Hong Kong beauties.
The initial funding of this charitable foundation was provided by Hui's family, and the purpose was to use the influence of Miss Hong Kong to serve the people of Hong Kong and bring them peace and happiness.
Because the charity foundation was founded by the wealthy Hui family, and the members are all shortlisted beauties of Miss Hong Kong, it immediately attracted many media reports as soon as it was announced.
The Wai Yin Grace Charity Foundation implements a rotating president system, and each president is voted by the Miss Hong Kong beauties of the year, and then is responsible for presiding over various activities of the Wai Yan Grace Charity Foundation. To put it simply, it is just to act as the façade of Hui Yan Yaji, but because this façade has to attend various activities on behalf of Hui Yan Yaji, because charity activities are very noble activities, and there are many Hong Kong governors and celebrities and rich people coming and going, so it is not only a great opportunity to enhance the image, but also a great opportunity to make friends with the rich people in the city.
For these girls with average backgrounds but beautiful and moving, it is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to climb the dragon gate. Of course, if it's really good-hearted. Do something good on behalf of a charitable foundation. It's a pleasure to think about it.
This year, he is the president of the Hui Yan Ya Ji Charity Foundation. is the champion of this year's Miss Hong Kong, Zheng Wenya. She won the Miss Hong Kong championship a month ago, and then participated in the beauty pageant of Miss Shilu World, but unfortunately she did not enter the top three. However, this did not detract from her super popularity.
The elected beauties were elected as the president of the first Huiyan Yaji Charity Foundation, which also proves that Zheng Wenya is indeed well-deserved, and she has a good relationship with many participating beauties.
After Cheng Wenya was elected as the president of Hui Yin Yaji Charity Foundation, she immediately began to cooperate with the Welfare Department to carry out activities to care for the elderly in the community. Zheng Wenya personally took all the beauties to the community to send summer expenses to the lonely and widowed elderly. Send electric fans, send books to the elderly community, send activity equipment, send air conditioners, etc.
Of course, TVB also sent people to track and shoot the whole process, so that Zheng Wenya and the beauties could do charity and publicize it widely. Because the Hui family is willing to spend money, the first donation is as high as 20 million, so the generosity of Hui Yan Yaji Charity Foundation naturally makes the elderly happy, the community satisfied, and the audience in front of the TV satisfied.
And Cheng Wenya and the beauties braved the heat to walk around the community. Do good deeds for the lonely and widowed elderly, and the whole process is a smiling face. It can't help but make people very moved, so he is called "Smiling Angel", and not only has his popularity been maintained at a high level, but his image is also healthy and moving.
The charity event has only been held for a week, and advertisers have already invited them to shoot commercials. However, in order to avoid linking charitable foundations with commercial activities, charitable foundations have signed agreements with these members in advance that they are not allowed to talk about commercial advertisements during their tenure as presidents, and public service advertisements do not matter. As for ordinary members receiving advertisements, they are not allowed to receive advertisements that damage their image, so as to avoid any adverse impact on charitable foundations.
Although Zheng Wenya was unable to shoot commercials within a year, it was actually not a big loss for her, because she also knew that there were opportunities for commercials to be filmed. But like the president of the Hui Yan Yaji Charity Foundation, there is only one time in his life.
With this title, she can receive countless invitations, whether it is charity events, parties hosted by celebrities and gentlemen, banquets at the Governor's Palace, etc., she can enter and exit all kinds of high-end events, which is not just money can be done.
Xu Guanwu has been busy playing chess for the Huiyan Yaji Charity Foundation in the past few days, so he has no time to care about Wu Siyuan and Xu Ke. To be honest, they put it together this time, Xu Guanwu said that it was nonsense not to be depressed, but he also knew the truth of Lu Daoshu's big move. My tree is so tall that it is inevitable that someone will come uninvited and run under the tree to take shelter from the wind and rain. Wu Siyuan clearly crossed the bridge with him this time, and took the opportunity to ask for more benefits from Jiahe.
Wu Siyuan and Zou Wenhuai walked together again after this incident, and planned to invest in a new film for Xu Ke again, and the film was the "No Door to Hell" that Xu Guanwu had seen and admired. Seeing that the newspaper said that Xu Ke planned to take material from Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman", Xu Guanwu knew that he planned to make this extremely cult movie.
"No Gate to Hell" can be called a wonderful flower in the history of Hong Kong cinema, extremely dark, completely beyond imagination. The film tells the story of a remote village called Da Hometown, for some reason the villagers like to eat human flesh, all the people who come to this village are slaughtered by the security team, and then the security captain is responsible for distribution, and the villagers take it after the most, and eat it as if they were eating ordinary pork.
In order to hunt down the Jiangyang thief Rolex, Agent 999 came to the big hometown with the thief Bao Tie Dan, and neither of them knew the vicious customs of the big hometown, so they attracted a series of attacks by the security guards.
Jiang Yang's thief Rolex served as the deputy captain of the security team in his hometown, and although he also ate human flesh, he had a troubled conscience, so he told the secret agent 999 about the vicious customs of this place.
Clinker 999 didn't believe it at all, and it wasn't until Rolex was killed that 999 woke up, and later killed the captain of the security team with Bao Tiegan. It's just that the villagers' habit of cannibalism has been deeply rooted, and although the village girl Ah Lian has left her hometown, she still likes to eat people's hearts. At the end of the movie, Ah Lian is holding a steaming heart and smiling at the audience.
Xu Guanwu remembered that after watching this film at that time, he was speechless in surprise. He watched this film at the time and downloaded it for Xu Ke's name, and thought it was a ghost movie at the time. But I didn't expect to realize that Lu Dao was a black horror movie after watching it.
Although Xu Ke also added a lot of jokes, such as thieves fighting wits. For example, political ridicule. Such as funny fights and so on. But the film doesn't feel easy, it's oppressive and hopeless.
In the film, it is mentioned that the villagers cannibalize human flesh because of the command of the security captain, but when habits become natural, even if the most rearly captain is dead, people are still used to dismembering his body. The village girl Ah Lian was taken away from her hometown, and she is still used to digging out people's hearts. This fatalistic ending is hopeless.
At the same time, there are also a lot of bloody scenes in the film, such as tying people to the board. Use a chainsaw to directly cut open the stomach, and let the blood flow non-stop; For example, the security team members were killed by him on the way to chase and kill the secret agent 999. During the period, there were countless scenes of all kinds of killings; And there are many scenes of people happily eating human flesh in the film, which makes people shudder, and it can't be described with metamorphosis alone.
It was the first time Xu Guanwu saw such a dark film, and it was from the hands of the ghost Xu Ke, and he really felt very admired. Xu Guanwu always thought that Xu Ke would only make ghost movies, martial arts films or urban films, but he didn't expect that making horror movies was also first-class, and even horror movies couldn't escape his naughtiness. I just added a lot of political metaphors to it.
It is difficult to tell whether the Great Hometown represents Hong Kong or South Vietnam. But the name of the village is also evocative. Because everyone will have a hometown, and everyone's hometown will have a variety of different customs and habits. Some of these customs may be cute and likable. But there may be some customs and habits, but they make people feel chilling. It is the "big hometown" in reality, although it may not be the real cannibalism, but as Mr. Lu Xun said, killing people with knives, killing people with a pen, killing people with rituals, killing people with prejudice, is actually the same.
The villagers in the big hometown take pleasure in cannibalism, believing that the taste of human meat is the most beautiful in the world, and no chicken or pork can compare with it. So when they heard the gong of the security team, the villagers, who were originally normal, immediately turned into cannibalistic demons. It was chilling to see the happy smiles on their faces as they waited to divide the human flesh.
And the funniest thing is that after eating human flesh, these people still have to pretend to chant scriptures, and they are more ridiculous than these people who are buried in their wombs.
But in fact, in the real society, will everyone be like this? Seeing someone fighting, their heads were bleeding, some people were excited, and the onlookers on the inside and outside were three; Seeing someone jumping off the building, they were also onlookers on the third floor and the outer three floors, looking up excitedly one by one, lest they miss any wonderful shots. If there are new joiners who don't know, they will also inquire about the people next to them with great interest. I couldn't wait to shout directly at the top of my voice, "You're jumping!" ”……
In fact, what is the difference between these people and those cold-blooded cannibals in their hometowns?
"No Gate to Hell" is the second part of Xu Ke's dark trilogy, but the style is much darker than the first "Butterfly Change", and it is also the darkest plot in the dark trilogy.
"Butterfly Change" tells the story of martial arts battles and vendettas, in order to compete for the position of martial arts overlord, I don't hesitate to kill me, I will kill you, except for the scholar Fang Hongye, who does not understand martial arts, everyone else died in Shenjiabao.
Those who know martial arts and want to use this to dominate the world are all dead, but those who don't know martial arts can live to the bottom of the world, which is really worth pondering.
In "No Gate to Hell", the security team was supposed to keep one side safe, but they were the murderers of outsiders. And the villagers who should be simple and kind are happy to eat human flesh. And in order to eat human flesh, there was no humanity to speak of at all, and he successively led the secret agent 999 and the thief to the slaughterhouse where he killed.
Secret agent 999 was supposed to eliminate violence and peace, but he only cared about inviting rewards for meritorious deeds. The only thing that still has humanity in the film is the Jiangyang thief Rolex, although he is bent on changing the bad habit of cannibalism in the village, but he is unable to support it alone, and he repeatedly fails to ventilate to the outside world, and even the skin on his chest was cut off by the secret agent Jiujiujiu who wants to make meritorious contributions.
And the security captain himself is a murderer, bullying and oppressing the villagers in his hometown, but he cried when he read "Lonely Heart" at night, lamenting that he had no friends.
The film is mixed with too much selfishness of Xu Ke, so it is full of strong personal style. But alas, this dark style is not appreciated by everyone, so this film also became his second box office failure.
Later, Xu Ke changed his style and made the urban documentary "The First Type of Danger", but unfortunately because it involved juvenile crime and too many explosive and bloody crime scenes, the film was subsequently banned, although a lot of violent scenes have been deleted, but it still can't pass the review of the Electrical Inspection Bureau, so the difference in the box office of this movie can be imagined.
Although all three films were unfavorable at the box office, Xu Ke's talent had been perfectly displayed, so he was called the best of the New Wave directors, and was subsequently favored by Xinyicheng, who was eager to recruit.
Just when Golden Harvest and Siyuan Pictures announced their investment in Xu Ke's new film, Xu Guanwu also happily ushered in the opening of the "Queen Victoria" gambling ship. (To be continued......)