This director is very reliable

Chapter 966 Chaos (25)

Lin Chaoxian made his debut with Chen Jiashang in the early years, and Chen Jiashang was behind the scenes to help manage his first work "G4 Agent"!
"G4 Agent" can be regarded as a gold medal team, Chen Qingjia screenwriter, gold medal photographer Huang Yongheng, Mei Linmao was invited for the music, Zhang Zhilin, Li Ruotong and Huang Qiusheng were the actors, Zheng Danrui and Gu Dezhao also didn't receive a penny to help out...

Not only that, the following year, the two co-directed "Beast Detective" and won the Best Film and Best Director at the Academy Awards, thus establishing a smooth path in the film industry.

But Chen Jiashang has a problem. He doesn’t have his own style, and his shooting types are not fixed. Let’s put it this way, Chen Jiashang is a person who has a keen sense of smell and is good at finding business opportunities in movies. What is his purpose of creation? This practice can keep him making movies, but it will also lead to mixed reputation...

Looking back on Chen Jiashang's works, there are not only classics such as "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier" and "Jing Wu Heroes", but also bad films of the "Four Famous Catch" series, and there are also "King of Fighters" and "Painted Wall" that can be written into The work of bad film history!
Lin Chaoxian has followed Chen Jiashang for more than ten years, so he naturally has this problem!

At first, like his master, he regarded movies as a business, and made purely profitable movies such as "Desperate Way", "Wind and Cloud" and other inexplicable movies...

It wasn't until the filming of "The Witness" in 2008 that Lin Chaoxian really found out his own development direction...

After the turn of the millennium, the number of cross-strait co-productions has increased, and directors who are good at cops, gangsters, and gunfights have become popular for a while, and Lin Chaoxian is no exception!
Let's talk about gangster movies...

After "Infernal Affairs", the Hong Kong film and television industry has become obsessed with star groups.

The subject matter also tends to be police and gangster films, all kinds of cool meanings, in short, I don’t know the so-called,
Of course, it's not that I'm unwilling to try other genres. There are action, comedy, and romance genres, but they are usually not very popular!
The opposition between good and evil in police and gangster films is relatively clear, and it does not conflict with mainland culture, so it is easier to be sought after by the market!
In addition, Hong Kong films are actually a star-centric system.

The celebrity-centered system is easy to understand. First find celebrities, then squeeze money, and then save scripts and start filming. This way it is easy to pile up all kinds of jokes, or a drama like seeing a dragon unloading his armor.

Expect them to break new ground and tinker with new themes?
is it possible?
"The Witness" and "The Informant" are not bad at all, but if you want to talk about how brilliant they are, they can't even talk about it!
The police and gangster films shot by Lin Chaoxian during this period did not attract attention in the hot gun battles, but gained depth by digging into the inner world of the police...

But let's be honest, what do Hong Kong movies rely on?
In the 80s, Hong Kong films became popular all over the world, relying on the natural skill of funny techniques and the grandeur of action!
Do you want to attract the audience's attention by digging the depth of the characters?

This is the housekeeping skill of a European literary film director. Can you compare with them?
Regardless of scale or subject matter, how can you compare with others?
Later, he started filming "Reverse War" with great ambitions.

But Hong Kong movies are so big, no matter how high-minded Lin Chaoxian is, he can only be a dojo in a screw shell; no matter how majestic his heart is, he will pierce the space for Hong Kong movies, and it will undoubtedly be broken in the end.

The facts are similar. "Reverse War" claims to have an investment of 1.8 million yuan, including the box office in Southeast Asia, and the final box office is [-] million yuan, a blood loss of [-] million yuan!

After the disastrous defeat of "Reverse War", Lin Chaoxian no longer has any major productions, "Guild War" and "Broken Wind" are types with relatively small investment...

Then he was recruited by Shen Changlin to film "Operation Mekong", and then "Operation Red Sea",

"...Did you just talk about family and country feelings?"

"Yes, "Operation Red Sea" and "Wolf Warrior", including the previous "Operation Mekong" and our subsequent "Heroes of Fire", are actually the main theme works..."

"Operation Mekong", don't look at the "dangerous filming" mentioned in the media release, you just look at it, in fact, there are two elements that Lin Chaoxian has always been familiar with, one is the informant, and the other is the gun battle.

These two elements, after adding China's national background, immediately revitalized Lin Chaoxian's film, which was already severely visually fatigued and exhausted in content.

After a pause, Shen Changlin continued: "Lin Chaoxian's success is of reference value. I think Hong Kong directors who go north should learn from him. After a mature commercial film director gets in touch with China's national consciousness, he can radiate as much as Hollywood. The power of cinema."

"Are there any other movies after Lin Chaoxian?"

"There is also a film about rescue at sea...but we are only responsible for the distribution of this film..."

"why?"

Why else?
It sucks!

"Emergency Rescue" is really bad, there is not a complete story, and the impression is not even as good as "Heroes of Fire"!

The traces of rushing work and the mentality of praising people in this film are too obvious.

Obviously, the main plot can be set as a conflict of ideas: when the heroine played by Xin Zhilei joined the team, there was a significant difference in concept from the team led by the male lead played by Peng Yuyan. Xin Zhilei obviously obeyed the rules and data, But Peng Yuyan and his teammates are more aggressive.

This layer of contradictions disappears with each pat...

In order to highlight Peng Yuyan's muscles, he was arranged shirtless in various ways. As for acting skills...

Really like a newcomer!
The whole process was awkward, and almost every major scene was pulled down!

Shen Changlin invested in such a movie?
Is he out of his mind?

……

After talking about Huayi, Shen Changlin didn't really want to answer, after all, he was a colleague...

After deliberating for a while, he said, "I'm still saying that Huayi is famous for her movies. Whether it's transforming into the Internet or real estate, it's not a good idea..."

"How much do you know about the chaos in the entertainment industry?"

"Probably know a little..."

"Then why do you think you have frequent thoughts?"

Shen Changlin said casually: "The quality of the personnel is low. In the current industry, apart from a small number of teenagers who want to become actors, except for those who love acting, most of them are people who worship vanity and other low-quality people. These people enter the entertainment circle or rely on flowers. Money depends on power relations. Once you succeed, it is hard not to get lost. Once lost, you think you can be above the law, you can ignore moral shame, and forget that you are a Chinese citizen besides being an artist! The legal and moral principles that should be observed!"

"In addition, many unhealthy media have wrongly guided the sense of value. These media have irresponsible bragging and mythical artists, making young people blindly worship and regard them as their idols, and fanatical pursuit of them as the ultimate goal of life. Artists have the illusion that they are really gods, they are higher than ordinary people, and they should have the privilege of transcending universal values.”

"In the end, it's capital that fuels the flames. Compared with artists who are both virtuous and talented, capital prefers people with less moral sense...because these people are easier to control!"

In the past, whether a celebrity was popular or not depended on whether he was popular enough, but now if he is not a celebrity, then the traffic, what do you think of the traffic?
Inject water!
The more water, the greater the flow!
"Then...how should we stop it?"

Shen Changlin scratched his head: "I don't know..."

No one knows how to do this stuff.

They are all clear and active, but scandals are still frequent...

(End of this chapter)