Chapter 140: A Hand of Revealed Hand (2/4)
Brother Hu, who is very popular in the mainland, was directly ignored...
Hong Kong is very xenophobic, especially in the film and television industry, how many years has Liu Jialing been called Beimei...
This circle can be regarded as centered on To Qifeng.
As early as the 80s of the last century, Johnny To filmed his first movie "Blue Water and Cold Mountain Killing Gold", and after not getting a response, he devoted himself to making TV series.
In 86, at the invitation of Huang Baiming, he learned about "Happy Ghosts and Ghosts", and then joined Xinyicheng, tried the production of police and gangster films, and also began to get involved in comedy-themed films.
During the period of New Art City, Du Qifeng has representative works, namely "Eight Star Annunciation" and "The Story of Ah Lang"...
In the early 90s, after the dissolution of Xinyicheng, Johnny To, Huang Baiming and Ying Jiazhen jointly established Baijiafeng Film Production Company...
Although Bai Jiafeng was established, Huang Baiming focused on the Oriental Film Group, and To Qifeng began to preside over the overall situation, but at that time he had not yet found his own style, and filmed eight dramas in three years, "Supreme 2: Forever Dominating the World", "Beach Boy and Master Zhou", "Death Judge", "Kick to the Treasure", "Barefoot Kid", "Three Heroes of the East", "The Legend of Modern Heroes", "Jigong"...
Then he took the initiative to take a break for a year, and filmed "Spicy Detective" in 95...
This film breaks the traditional police and bandit model of black and white, and is an important turning point in Johnny To's film career.
In 96, there was a film production company with a unique style in the history of Hong Kong films, and its name Galaxy Images.
The initiator is Johnny To, and it combines Wei Jiahui, You Dazhi, You Naihai, Situ Jinyuan and other talents...
Let's put it this way, in 96, Hong Kong films have declined.
The appearance of the Milky Way Image is bound to take on the task of saving the building, just like a dying man who has taken a booster!
Indeed, in the early galactic images, there is a kind of independence and self-confidence that loves to look at and not look at rolling, and the masterpieces of this period, "The Birth of a Word", "Two Dry Can Only Live One", "True Hero", "Very Suddenly", "Dark Flower"...
After 2000, "PTU" and "Big Guy" were also good, and "Underworld" and "Detective" were at their peak...
Later, Johnny To didn't seem to know how to make movies, "Gorgeous Office Worker", "Threesome", "My Boxing Boyfriend"...
Refresh To Qifeng's bottom line one after another...
Fortunately, Wei Jiahui filmed a "Detective War" in 22 years, and barely kept the bottoms of Galaxy Images!
Johnny To can't talk about discriminating against mainland actors, he doesn't know anything about the mainland!
He rarely uses mainland actors, the reason is very simple, the style is incompatible, and his personality movies are rooted in local gangster films and police films, backgrounds, stories, scenes, dialogues, and actions. All of them are made in Hong Kong. Let mainlanders perform, it is difficult to integrate into that atmosphere, and it is easy to dance.
Another point, Johnny To's filming is also very slow, but he often has multiple movies started at the same time, which makes people ignore his production cycle, Liu Qingyun, Ren Dahua and other one-vote men can become queen actors, also because only they can accept Lao Du's filming rhythm, he sometimes wants to shoot scenes, make a phone call at will, and it will be there in an hour!
Instead, Chen Musheng nodded at Brother Hu...
After Shen Xudong sat down, he first chatted with Chen Musheng for a while.
Director Chen's "Three Forks" has finished filming and is conceiving a new work.
He plans to make an action film with a relatively strong commercial attribute with the production company of "Three Forks", that is, Media Asia, and "Three Forks" will definitely not be a big hit!
"Action movie, who are you looking to star in?"
"Guo Fucheng and Wu Yanzu, we've all talked about it!"
Shen Xudong frowned: "... That's a little hard..."
Chen Musheng immediately answered: "What's wrong?" Do you have an idea?"
"Hmm!" Shen Xudong nodded, and then asked him, "Has Director Chen watched "Extraordinary Human Traffickers"?"
"The one Shu Qi played?"
Shen Xudong: "Yes, I think this idea is quite good..."
Chen Musheng thought thoughtfully: "Rescue the kidnapped hostages..."
6Well, my idea is that my sister or daughter travels to Thailand, Vietnam and other countries, and then gets caught by the gang, and my brother or father, who is a policeman, goes overseas to rescue me alone..."
Lin Lingdong, who had been listening to the side, interjected: "Police? Wouldn't the identity of the police be too weak?"
"This identity is a bit fake, so change it to a retired special forces or mercenary... The more mysterious, the better!"
Chen Musheng was interested, but... Or asked: "... You need a professional action actor for this, right?"
"That must be... After all, what action movies want is hard bridges and hard horses, fists to the flesh... That's why it's not appropriate for me to talk about Guo Fucheng and Wu Yanzu!"
“… So who do you think is suitable?"
"Donnie Yen, he can fight now, and the price is cheap, he is the only one left, by the way, plus Wu Jing and Zhang Jing... The whole brother is together..."
"The three of them together? The villain..."
The villain thinks he has a gun, but he really can't do it, looking for Fu Zhaolong + An Zhijie... Villains don't sell D anymore, they can sell human organs or sell women to Europe..."
After a pause, Shen Xudong continued: "It's mainly action scenes, I think you can refer to the hand-to-hand combat in "Very Human Traffickers" and "Spy Shadows"..."
Chen Musheng nodded: "Okay, I'll go back and discuss with the boss, if there is no problem, the next step will be this!"
"Then I'll go back and sort out the script and send it to you..."
After thinking about it, he pushed Brother Hu, who had been silent, over: "Arrange a role for him... He's really popular in the mainland! govern
"Can he fight?"
"Running a trick, playing my daughter's boyfriend, I was beaten half to death, and I ran back to report the news..."
Chen Musheng glanced at Brother Hu: "It's okay, then you hurry up and write the script!"
"No problem..."
"What's this movie called?"
"Hurricane Rescue, right? How?"
Excellent!"
"Well, I said he's amazing..."
After the story of "Hurricane Rescue" was told, Chen Musheng said to Du Qifeng with a little ostentatiousness...
"In your words? I've seen him in Venice!"
Du Qifeng took a cigar in his mouth, looked at Shen Xudong, and then at Zheng Baorui, and then said: "Two days ago, Pou-Soi invited us to watch "Cruel Street" together, it is indeed different from ordinary gangster films, the actor actually died..."
Pou-Soi is Zheng Baorui...
Almost all of them have English names here in Hong Kong, and they also call each other by English names. Is this closer to the UK?
《… That's why it's called the brutal streets... Those who mix the underworld are always at the bottom of society, what kind of friendship and morality, it's too fake..."
"But I'm afraid the box office won't be high!"
"Not necessarily," Shen Xudong shook his head: "Maybe the audience has already seen enough of that so-called romantic gangster movie!"