At the beginning of April, directed by Wang Jing and starring Zhang Guorong, Leung Jiahui, Lan Jieying, Mao Xianyun, Lou Blu-ray, and Chen Jialing, "Best Loss Friend 2" was officially launched.

This movie has attracted a lot of attention from the beginning, among several leading actors, Zhang Guorong has just become popular because of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Leung Jiahui has just returned from filming "Tongzhi Zhongxing" in the mainland, and Lan Jieying's current reputation is even more mixed.

(Note: "Tongzhi Zhongxing" is the third part of "The Legend of Cixi" after "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to the Politics of the Curtain", another time and space has not been filmed, and is now jointly produced by DreamWorks and China Film Co-production Company, and will be released in the summer after the completion of the later stage.) ）

After joining DreamWorks, Leung Ka-fai only played a few small roles in other movies, but he made two more movies in the mainland, which was ridiculed as a "red actor" by some Hong Kong media.

Such a cast comes out, it's not too eye-catching.

About half a month later, the scandal between Cheng Long and Lan Jieying gradually stopped, which was the result of the joint efforts of Golden Harvest and DreamWorks.

In the report of "Splashing Wine Gate", although Golden Harvest tried its best to clear up Cheng Long, in the end, many people believed that Cheng Long was at fault, and there were even rumors that Cheng Long was extremely lustful.

With Cheng Long's current fame, there is no need to rely on hype to expose it, so this scandal will do him more harm than good.

Lan Jieying's side is more beneficial than harmful, because of TVB's long-term ban, her fame has been almost consumed. is now famous for winning the Best Newcomer at the Academy Awards, as well as having an affair with Cheng Long, and then starred in Wang Jing's new film and had an unclear relationship with Kang Jianfei. So much so that Lan Jieying stayed in the headline position of the entertainment section for half a month, and her exposure exceeded that of Hong Kong's first-line top actresses.

However, the news spread across the ocean to Japan and Taiwan, and Cheng Long's fans over there stopped doing it. Taiwan is a little better, Japanese Cheng Long fans collectively angrily sprayed Lan Jieying, and some people even made transatlantic phone calls or wrote letters to Oriental Entertainment Company, claiming that if Lan Jieying was not banned, they would commit suicide in protest.

Unlike Lan Jieying's boycott in Japan, Wang Guxian became popular overnight in Japan and South Korea.

In April, the screening of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in Asia has completely ended, with a total box office of more than 137 million Hong Kong dollars.

In another time and space. "A Chinese Ghost Story" is very popular overseas although it can only be considered good at the box office in Hong Kong because of the problem of film scheduling and scheduling. In addition to the countries of the South Seas, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. "A Chinese Ghost Story" has also been released in 8 countries including Japan, France, South Korea, Finland, and Sweden.

Now that DreamWorks' overseas distribution capabilities are even stronger, "A Chinese Ghost Story" was released in Japan on the heels of "Shushan", sweeping the box office market during the Chinese New Year in Japan. Wang Jixian surpassed Lin Qingxia with only one play and became the most popular foreign actress in Japan.

And the South Korean side is even crazier. Although the Korean box office is much lower than the Japanese box office. But Koreans' love for "A Chinese Ghost Story" can no longer be described in words.

Wang Ku-hyun has become the dream lover of many men in South Korea, while Jang Kok Yong is also ranked first among the most popular foreign male stars in South Korea (Cheng Long is ranked third).

Just before the start of filming "Best Friend 2", Zhang Guorong also went to South Korea to appear on a show, and when he left the TV station after recording the show, it also caused a small commotion.

A film review in Japan's "Film Xunbao" gave "A Chinese Ghost Story" a very high evaluation: "The investment cost of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is one-fifth of "Shushan", and the box office in Japan is a quarter of "Shushan", but from the perspective of film art, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is more surprising than "Shushan".

"Shushan" is better than special effects, scenes and beautiful scenery. In these respects, A Chinese Ghost Story is much inferior. "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also extremely old-fashioned in terms of storyline. is far less exciting than the story of "Shushan".

The essence of A Chinese Ghost Story lies in who and how it interprets the story:

First of all, director Kang Jianfei found the best story spokesperson, that is, Wang Guxian. In this film, Xiaoqian, played by Wang Guxian, captures the audience's hearts with amazing beauty, and the whole film is filled with a strange and sad romantic and liberal atmosphere. The stunning female ghost Xiaoqian is enough to make any man in the world fall for her, and her unforgettable love with Ning Caichen has become an eternal sentimentality in the hearts of the audience;

Secondly, let's talk about the interpretation of this film. The drama "A Chinese Ghost Story" shows a very high level of screenwriting, the rhythm is tense and bright, the climax is repeated, and the development of the plot seems to have stepped on the development node of the audience's soul and love.

In terms of styling design, Xiaoqian's white clothes are like snow, elegant and light, Ning Caichen seems to be dressed as a scholar in the Song Dynasty, and Yan Chixia's shape is rough and simple. The soundtrack in the film is the highlight of the highlights, in addition to the moving melody, it is also rich in the classical beauty of China. From every detail of the film, we can find that the music and sound effects and plot development are almost seamless, like the music escaping from the woods, using the harpsichord to represent the roar of the dryad, and using the flute to show the sharpness of the Taoist.

Let's talk about the action scenes, in this film, all the shots of the master's fights are shot from the bottom up, and the cameraman is chased out by the cameraman lying on a pre-set slide. In this way, the picture produces a three-dimensional scrolling effect, and the tilt angle of the master's martial arts as a one-dimensional picture changes to two dimensions, and the fast panning follow-up is three-dimensional, making the whole action scene rich and thrilling. The director used a lot of oblique composition shots and block cutting editing techniques, low camera vertical shooting, so that the object is deformed, oblique composition of the lens and block cutting editing techniques, so that the lens has an unstable feeling, thereby strengthening the sense of movement, producing a huge momentum and strong visual shock. On the whole, the action scenes in "A Chinese Ghost Story" are different from traditional Chinese kung fu films, not focusing on real kung fu with one move and one style, but about the deification and illusion of martial arts, and the use of guò stunts and editing methods. To create visual spectacles beyond the limits of physical conventions and the human body......"

The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, which has been running for two years, has recently included "Police Story", "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" as teaching materials, and these three films have become compulsory courses in the Academy's directing department.

As for the European and American side. The release of "A Chinese Ghost Story" will have to wait until after the Cannes Film Festival to be released, and I don't know how much box office it can get back.

As the director of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Kang Jianfei's reputation in the Japanese film industry has also reached a higher level, and some people have already respected him as a master of commercial cinema - because Kang Jianfei's films are often sold in Japan.

This time he went to Japan to shoot "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and Kang Jianfei was blocked by Japanese reporters at the filming location.

In Kang Jianfei's adaptation of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", the hero and heroine are both part of a multinational killer group headquartered in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. and the heroes and heroines played by Kang Jianfei and Zhong Chuhong. It was when he completed an assassination mission in Japan that he accidentally met and fell in love.

The film was filmed in several countries, and all of them were high-grossing DreamWorks films. Filming in multiple countries can show that the film is international and high-grade. Second, it is also to cater to fans in these filming countries, in order to increase the overseas box office.

Of course, multi-national framing also caused the cost of filming to increase exponentially.

After Kang Jianfei's shooting plan was initially formulated, there was already a special person in charge of preparation.

For example, shooting in Japan. It takes about 5 to 7 days. And the crew has already been with The Peninsula Tokyo. and several businesses in Ginza reached a sponsorship agreement to provide free space for the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" crew to use for filming.

In addition, The Peninsula Tokyo will also provide free room and board for the Hong Kong crew of Mr. and Mrs. Smith for one week.

The price Kang had to pay for this was the appearance of the Peninsula Tokyo logo in the movie for a second. As for the merchants in Ginza, they are much more casual, just shake a few indoor shots, which is completely a friendship and cooperation.

The location where Kang Jianfei was besieged by Japanese journalists. It was in the lobby of The Peninsula Tokyo that he was still setting up a seat with Li Yu and Zhong Zhiwen. The reporters who rushed to hear the news broke in despite the obstruction of the hotel security.

After all, it is to go to other people's territory to film, there is no need to offend local reporters, and when the movie is released, these reporters need to cooperate with the publicity. Kang Jianfei asked Li Yu and Zhong Zhiwen to continue their work, and he brought the more than a dozen Japanese reporters to a corner of the lobby and said: "Japanese journalist friends are really enthusiastic, and I am very happy to accept your interviews, but due to the tight shooting time, I hope you can understand, and I can only answer a few simple questions today." ”

After several years of studying without any effort, Kang Jianfei's English level is still passable, and basic daily communication is no problem. However, the English spoken by the Japanese is very worrying, sometimes even the British cannot understand it, in order to avoid the mishearing of the wrong thing, Kang Jianfei still speaks Chinese, and then translated into Japanese by the Japanese personnel of the crew.

A reporter at the front took the lead in asking: "Mr. Kang, I heard that you are directing and acting in an urban action movie this time, why don't you invite Lin Qingxia, Li Saifeng or Miss Wang Guxian to be the heroine?" ”

Now Wang Guxian and Li Saifeng are the most popular Hong Kong actresses in Hong Kong, Lin Qingxia also had many fans in Japan a few years ago because of "Royal Sister", but in the past two years, she has been in a semi-retired state, and the movie Kadokawa Pictures she participated in last year also did not sell well, so her popularity has dropped a lot.

Except for Wang Guxian, Li Saifeng and Lin Qingxia, the Japanese really don't have much impression of other Hong Kong actresses. The "Best Partner" series also sold well in Japan, but the heroine Zhang Aijia is not very popular in Japan, and few Japanese people can call Zhang Aijia's name.

So now Golden Harvest and New Art City are very embarrassed, the Japanese market has unlimited potential for Hong Kong films, but these two companies have never been able to launch actresses who are popular in Japan. In order to take care of the Japanese box office market, Golden Harvest and New Arts City have only two options, one is to go to Oriental Entertainment Company to invite Li Saifeng and Wang Guxian to film, and the other is to invite Japanese popular actresses to Hong Kong to be the heroines. The former option is cheaper for Kang Jianfei, and although the latter option is good, the salary of the popular Japanese actress is too high.

Kang Jianfei just took this opportunity to introduce Zhong Chuhong to Japanese reporters, and he called Zhong Chuhong, who was dressed sexily, over: "This is Miss Zhong Chuhong, the heroine of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", she is also a popular actress in Hong Kong. As for why Lin Qingxia was not invited to play the heroine, the answer is very simple, because they are not suitable for this role. ”

"A Chinese Ghost Story is very good, has Mr. Kang considered making a sequel?" Another reporter asked.

Kang Jianfei nodded and said, "The plan for a sequel is currently being discussed. However, the sequel to "Shushan" has been finalized, and director Xu Ke will officially start filming in the second half of the year. ”

The reporter's question began to shift to gossip: "Mr. Kang, there are rumors that Wang Guxian and Zhang Guorong are in love, is it true?" ”

Kang Jianfei smiled: "Then you have to ask the party." Well, time is tight, and I'll answer five more questions. ”

"Mr. Kang......" (To be continued......)