Chapter 223: Jade and Stone

If you want to use two objects as a metaphor for "Infernal Affairs" and "The Departed", "Infernal Affairs" is a carefully carved and exquisite jade, and "The Departed" is an unadorned and natural stone.

"Infernal Affairs" weakens the violent scenes, focuses on the psychological activities of the characters, and greatly enhances the plot tension of the film through the portrayal of the characters' psychology. And "The Departed" is just the opposite, it shows the violent scenes and foul dialogues to the audience nakedly, without the slightest scruples, and a large number of "tricks" make the audience's hearts beat and give people a hearty feeling.

China is an ancient country with a 5,000-year-old culture, and it has come to the present with labels such as restrained, subtle, and polite. "Infernal Affairs" is a Chinese film, and its literary and profound meanings, as well as the strong Buddhist Zen principles in the film, are all influenced by the culture of China.

"The Departed" comes to our eyes with a standard American label, it is decisive and capable, with cramped alleys, bustling streets, and rude dialogue, all of which reflect American fashion. Due to the difference in the cultural heritage of the two countries, two different styles of films have been created.

And this is something that Qiao Feng has always paid great attention to when he misappropriated Hollywood movies, and it must be paid attention to.

If you want to have a market in Hollywood in Europe and the United States, the core values of the film must be in line with the values of Europeans and Americans, otherwise it will be like Infernal Affairs and Departed, the former can only shine in the Chinese-speaking circle, and the latter can only be popular in the European and American markets.

Therefore, Qiao Feng must frame the big frame and theme, and not give Du Qifeng too much natural play, and add too many things that belong to Du's style to it, at least the core of the framework is not good.

In terms of details, Du Qifeng can be made a little more delicate and delicate.

This is a multiple-choice question, either China and the West are solid, or you can only choose one of the two, if you are aiming at the European and American markets, then you will be biased towards European and American values, if you are aiming at the Chinese-speaking circle, then you will be biased towards the values of the Chinese-speaking circle.

This lethal weapon is undoubtedly biased towards Europe and the United States, because this film doesn't seem to be very popular with Qiao Feng, who is used to watching Hollywood films, and doesn't like to watch it very much, let alone Hong Kong and Southeast Asian audiences at this time.

Regarding the starring candidates, Qiao Feng decided to use Li Lianjie.

Since filming Kung Fu Kid to break through the love barrier, Li Lianjie has not filmed for a long time, but this is also Qiao Feng's higher requirements for Brother Jie.

Because Li Lianjie is different from Cheng Long, Cheng Long has already played tricks before he became famous, he has been a dragon and tiger martial artist, and he has made a lot of bad movies, and his acting skills have been honed a little.

Brother Jie made him famous in the first Shaolin Temple, and then the second and third films were very high box office.

Therefore, after filming the kung fu kid to break through the love barrier, Qiao Feng asked Li Lianjie to go back to the wireless training class to learn acting.

As a kung fu star, although acting skills are not too important, the level of acting skills is the key to what height you can go.

If you don't have acting skills, then no matter how high the height is, it can't be much higher.

The barrel theory is like this, it's not your strengths but your shortcomings that limit how much water you can hold, and for kung fu stars, acting is this shortcoming.

Regarding Qiao Feng's request to continue learning acting, because there were previous examples, Li Lianjie agreed without much resistance.

Now, it's time to put it into practice.

The reason why Li Lianjie was chosen was that Qiao Feng felt that kung fu stars were still the easiest to break into Hollywood, and Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, and Yang Ziqiong in his previous life proved this.

The second is because Li Lianjie has a deep relationship with the series of fatal temptation movies.

In the original plane, of course.

At that time, Li Lianjie was in Hong Kong, and after becoming famous in the Chinese-speaking circle in Southeast Asia, he was ready to break into Hollywood like Cheng Long.

His first film in the United States was the fourth in the Lethal Weapons series.

In this film, Li Lianjie can be said to have suffered a great insult, at that time, because Li Lianjie was new to the United States, he was not familiar with the place, everything had to start from scratch, he was invited to audition again and again, and returned again and again.

Then Richard Donner, the director of Fatal Temptation 4 in one day, came to the door and offered $1 million for him to play a role.

One million US dollars, that is far lower than Li Lianjie's worth, because at that time in Hong Kong, Li Lianjie's worth was already more than 10 million for a film, or even higher and higher salary.

But Li Lianjie agreed in order to seize the hard-won opportunity.

When Jet Li agreed, he didn't expect the other party to say: "I changed my mind, $700,000." ”

Although this was a bit infuriating, Li Lianjie still smiled and agreed.

Unexpectedly, the other party did not stop there, but said inch by inch: "I think $500,000 is the most appropriate price, can you accept it?"

The successive changes made the people next to him angry, but Jet Li still said calmly: "Okay, this price is okay." ”

was already far lower than his salary, but it was cut in half, and it was reduced again and again after each negotiation, which is tantamount to humiliation.

But Li Lianjie agreed, and then he seized this opportunity to enter Hollywood at once, and after that, the film he took over in Hollywood was directly the actor.

And the scene in Lethal Weapon 4 that appears for less than ten minutes is also the only supporting role for Li Lianjie since he started filming, in addition to Li Lianjie has been the absolute protagonist since he started acting as an actor in movies.

Of course, those supporting roles that make cameos or return favors when they get older can't be counted.

Because at that time, movies were no longer a career for Li Lianjie, but a hobby, and it was dispensable.

Brother Jie's only villain in his year, or the supporting role, was confessed to the lethal weapon, and he was repeatedly cut in front of him almost humiliatingly, although in order to break into Hollywood, Brother Jie took the film with a smile, but Qiao Feng, who is a fan of Brother Jie, has always been obsessed with this.

Now that he has this opportunity, he wants to take out a lethal weapon to shoot, so what do you say, this actor has to choose Brother Jie, although no one knows why except Qiao Feng, but Qiao Feng feels that he has to take this breath for Brother Jie in the air.

Let Mel Gibson his grandmother's eggs, anyway, Australians are not a good thing, and because of suspected racial discrimination, they scolded Jews and were boycotted and banned by many Hollywood celebrity media.

In this case, don't spoil such a money-making series, and as for Richard Donner, who humiliated Brother Jay, he is even more cool and staying.

Although this guy became famous for filming Superman as early as the seventies, he didn't have a good work for many years after that, and it wasn't until he directed the Lethal Weapons series that he became popular again and became a Hollywood heavyweight director.

Now that Qiao Feng has taken the lethal weapon first, if he doesn't get it, this guy will disappear directly from the film industry, even if he doesn't disappear, I'm afraid that if he doesn't have good luck, he won't be able to become a Hollywood heavyweight director.

However, he deserves to let his grandson humiliate Brother Jie.