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Chapter 267

Monday, premiere.

"Wushuang" has capital from the Mainland and Hong Kong co-invested, so the film critics on the scene were from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Looking at the reporters surrounding them, the blue ID badges hanging on their chests indicate their origins. They include Guangming Daily, Youth Daily, South China Morning Post, and Ming Pao.

"Why did you invite him here?" Ye Jianxuan frowned.

"Who?" Huang Baiyou followed his gaze and saw several film critics gathered around in a small group, talking and laughing.

There are small groups that are familiar to you and can be called by name.

"A nasty film critic." Ye Jianxuan's words were referring to Shen Zhongyi, a short middle-aged man in the small group.

He is a Ming Pao columnist, travel novelist and film critic.

Shen Zhongyi is well known to the public as a film critic, and he rose to prominence by criticizing Ye Jianxuan. "You have great personal charm, but you don't have to show off like a peacock. No matter who you play, you are Ye Jianxuan." This was also what Shen Zhongyi said.

Compared with the premiere invitation lineup of "Detective", "Wushuang" is much more grand in every aspect and has more publicity funds.

"Don't be as crazy as the detective. I hope to make some normal dramas." Film critic Leon said.

"My hopes are different from yours. I hope that Ye Jianxuan will screen less and give a performance that conforms to the script." Shen Zhongyi said.

But no one took up the following words. Firstly, they didn’t want to criticize Ye Jianxuan to gain traffic. Secondly, Ye Jianxuan was known as the God of Acting in Hong Kong, and most people in mainland China recognized his acting skills.

"Ahem, if you have anything to say, let the reporters ask you questions later." Some film critics skipped the topic.

I can't wait.

Whether it is the main creative team, guests on site, or friends.

So let’s not talk too much, skip the boring reporters’ questions, and go straight to the main film.

The story begins with Li Wen, played by Huang Baiyou, making fake stamps in a Thai prison.

The scene was explained in a few shots. If you want to send a letter, you need to pay the prison guard enough money, and the character played by Huang Baiyou has no money.

"Oh? For Panorama, not a stand-in?" film critic Zhang Zhigao discovered in surprise.

Usually this kind of shot only shows close-ups of hands.In terms of high emotional intelligence, it is to make the audience see clearly.

But who among the film critics present doesn’t know the saying of low emotional intelligence?
Hire a substitute.

As soon as this shot came out, it was obvious that the actor himself used fish bones to copy it.

"I heard that Huang Baiyou would learn the knowledge needed for filming in advance, such as learning Cantonese opera when filming Thirteenth Lang of the South China Sea." Film critic She Jun said, "Now it seems that he is obviously learning painting for filming."

Zhang Zhigao couldn't help but nod, what is the template of a professional actor, this is it!All the actors are on par with Huang Baiyou.

Zhou Beihong is capable, and he explained the whole story in three strokes, five divisions and two divisions.

The movie advances through Li Wen's flashback, and the painter, a criminal who is wanted by the police for counterfeit money, has to interrogate Li Wen to find out.

Ruan Wenyu was very sad when she found out that her boyfriend started making fake paintings, and said she couldn't accept it, so she placed one of Li Wen's paintings in her art exhibition.

"Whether it is real or fake, the fact that the remaining one cannot be sold is the best proof." Huang Baiyou walked into the gallery slowly, his steps slow and unsteady.

"I quit." Huang Baiyou said softly.It is very light, as if there is a dandelion in front of the mouth, and the dandelion will be blown away with a little force.

"What are you going to do if you don't do this? Do you want to continue painting fake paintings?" His girlfriend Ruan Wenyu felt very broken.

Seeing this scene, the film critics present screamed inwardly that it was bad because Chang Shudi didn't catch it.

In fact, this section is Chang Shudi's best performance during the filming.

Huang Baiyou smiled, not bitterly or helplessly, as if he had really heard a big joke.

Isn't it just a joke?Li Wen, who cared so much about his reputation, now gave up painting completely and turned to making fake paintings.

He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, smoked one and put it in his mouth. His smile seemed to be telling Chang Shudi and the audience——

"Smile, why don't you laugh? Isn't this joke funny?"

"I'm sorry, I..." Ruan Wenyu, played by Chang Shudi, realized that he had said the wrong thing and immediately apologized, but looking at Li Wen's expression, he couldn't say the next words.

Li Wen, played by Huang Baiyou, has a detail here. He took out a lighter, lit his painting on fire first, and then lit a cigarette.

It seems like-accompanying one to commemorate the days of practicing painting.

"This performance has clear layers and nothing unexpected, but it's just a good performance!" said a guest director at the scene.

The director is Tong Qu, whom I have worked with before.

"Solid acting, especially when he looked at the burned painting at the end, as if he had burned it with his own hands, the acting was so good." Another actor commented.

The actor is an A-list actor who has never worked with Huang.

A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door. This is the current situation.

Chang Shudi's acting skills are not bad, definitely above average, but compared to Huang Baiyou, there is still a certain gap.

Li Wen's character is cowardly and timid. Huang Baiyou will not change the script just because he wants to make his character likable.

In fact, isn't cowardice something that exists in most people's hearts?
Huang Baiyou demonstrated the character's reasons for being timid and cowardly, as well as the character's self-destructive regret.

The emotions are very full and progressive.

When the movie ended, all the critics stood up and applauded.

…………

"It's my turn to have good luck." Zhou Beihong said.

The film and television drama market is really not a stage where good results can be achieved if the filming is good.Whether your grades are good or not depends on your fate, this is what Zhou Beihong thinks in his heart.

Zhou Beihong thought he had grasped the version answer.

"Brother Ye, do you have confidence in the movie?" Zhou Beihong asked Ye Jianxuan next to him.

"Aren't you confident in answering reporters' questions at the press conference?" Ye Jianxuan imitated the director's tone at the press conference three hours ago.

Xuedao: "I am confident in the quality of the movie and have set a small goal - a box office of one billion."

"I don't think there is any conflict at all between having confidence and beating the drum in my heart." Zhou Beihong said, "My confidence comes from having mastered the mainland version of the answer."

The answer to the mainland version, wouldn’t it be Huang Baiyou?Ye Jianxuan looked at Zhou Beihong. "Everything is fate, and you can't control it at all. Every few years in the Mainland, this kind of person who combines luck and luck will appear. The last one was Yuan Xiangshi. From 2018 to 2022, Yuan Xiangshi also filmed something and made a lot of money. What."

The implication of Zhou Beihong's words is that Huang Baiyou is Yuan Xiangshi's next successor.

"However, Huang is still a little worse than Yuan. The average box office of Yuan Xiangshi's movies during his peak period was one billion." Zhou Beihong said, "Yuan Xiangshi has great luck, while Huang Baiyou has small luck."

"If you put it like that, there is a small problem. Master Yuan Xiang only has one Golden Rooster Best Actor, while Bai You is far ahead in terms of acting awards."

Ye Jianxuan doesn't like to listen to fate. He obviously got it through his own efforts.

"Not only is he the Golden Rooster Best Actor, there are also many Best Actors at foreign film festivals, not to mention he is also the youngest TV star in the Mainland."

"What you say makes sense. It proves that Huang Baiyou is also very lucky, but his luck lies in awards. "Detective" was also nominated for the Golden Statue and Golden Horse, so the chances are great." Zhou Beihong was awakened, and he felt more and more lucky the more he talked. reason.

It makes sense, because the films Yuan Xiangshi stars in are mainly commercial films, while Huang Baiyou's direction is drama films and reality-themed films.

"Brother Ye, don't believe it. We who make movies should believe more in these things." Zhou Beihong said.

When your friends don't believe in something that you believe in, you will be particularly excited.

Zhou Beihong continued: "There is a limit to the amount of luck a person can gather, and there must be a focus. Otherwise, if you let Huang Baiyou and Yuan Xiangshi swap places, they will not be able to reach the other's height."

"Master Yuan Xiang will definitely not be able to win so many acting awards. He is a mediocre performer, but if Huang Baiyou takes more commercial films, I think he can reach this height." Ye Jianxuan said.

A mediocre performer, Zhou Beihong was speechless when he heard this title. You are worthy of being called you. Your vision is really high.

From the conversation between the two, it was learned that the omitted press questions at the premiere went smoothly and no reporters caused trouble.

Anyway, it’s today’s premiere, tonight’s zero o’clock show, “Wushuang” officially meets the audience!

["Anything done to the extreme is art."

"There is only one Li Wen in this world, you have your own value!"

"Do you know that men who can do great things do it all for women. Men who give up on love can't accomplish anything."

...]
Let’s first look at the reactions after the zero o’clock screening. Most of these comments were made at two or three o’clock. The whole movie lasts two hours, which is a very reasonable time.

Winina: "Praise to the screenwriter, praise to the director, and praise to the actors for carefully writing such a wonderful scam for our fans." (Rate 5 stars)
Xiaobai veteran: "The first half is a bit stretched, but the second half is full of twists and turns, unexpected, very good." (Rating 4 stars)
Starship, LVE: "This is what Hong Kong movies should be like. The previous detective was so confusing that I couldn't understand it. But... both movies starred Bai Di. Why did Bai Di become a Hong Kong movie?" Are you a professional account?" (Rating 4.5 stars)
sztd: "The gunfight scene in the middle is a bit forced, the rest is five stars." (Rating 3 stars)
The swaying rat: "It turns out that from the beginning, the title of the film was clear, Wushuang - there is no second person." (Rating 5 stars)
……

There are mostly positive reviews, with a score of 7.8 on Douban, indicating there is room for improvement.

Chu Yuan, the director of Daydream Studio, is focused on the reputation of "Wushuang" whether during working hours or during breaks.

Therefore, she didn't sleep even in the middle of the night, and even the navy was ready.

"The trend is good, great." Chu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Chu Yuan, the champion of staying up late, went to bed at five o'clock. The next day, the reviews posted online by film critics were also released. Chu Yuan still paid attention to the whole process.

Nowadays, fewer people read movie reviews. Unless the audience doesn’t understand a certain movie, most people rarely actively search for movie reviews.

However, film reviews played a big role in the early spread of the film on the Internet, so Chu Yuan watched every film critic invited to the premiere.

There are more than 40 copies in Xiangjiang and the Mainland. It is impossible to write down all of them. I can only choose the two that Chu Yuan is interested in.

["Wushuang" is bathed in rough, desaturated browns and grays, keeping the scene simmering with tension, which is Zhou Beihong's consistent style.

Based on the wonderful drama between Huang Baiyou and Ye Jianxuan, a huge net is cleverly laid out.

The financial support from Jinyi Film and Television Group has ensured that the criminal themes in Hong Kong films have long had any vague moral shortcomings. The minimum requirement is that the criminal must die or be brought to justice.

Likewise, the script's pacing is flawless, although there are jarring flashbacks within flashbacks that make the foreplay to the painter's appearance confusing for a few minutes, and the first act seems too boring.

But when Li Wen enters the counterfeit banknote group, the plot enters the second act and regains its rhythm. The climax of "Wushuang" is the highway ink robbery case, timidity and unscrupulousness, madness and conservatism...

To say no more would be a spoiler, "Warrior" could have had a tighter narrative and sharper characterization, but instead it dilutes the character of an ambitious crime thriller.

Its fun lies in its novelty, creativity and fascinatingness, as well as the wonderful duel between Ye Jianxuan and Huang Baiyou, the collision between the strongest of the older generation in Hong Kong and the new generation in mainland China, and the historic cooperation. ]
Looking at the content of this film review, praising Ye Jianxuan, I know it was definitely not written by Xiangjiang film critic Shen Zhongyi.

It's indeed not the case. The signature was written by film critic She Jun and posted on Youth Network with the title "Wushuang!"The most exciting collision between the old and new generations"

Film critics have strange tastes, especially when people have preconceived ideas. That's right, it's easy to review.

Look, the review starts with a curse.

[As a Hong Kong-style thriller, "Wu Shuang" is less satisfying.

Its non-linear structure - most of the movie is one long flashback.

As Huang Baiyou's character confesses to the police - fascinating, but when we realize these flashbacks are unreliable...

While this heightens the film's core reflection on the cost of forgery, the structure also makes the final reel's big twist particularly inconspicuous.

Plot twists only really work when the audience is deceiving themselves in some way, rather than when being simply deceived.

Amplifying these shortcomings is the brilliance of Ip Kin-Hsien, whose character is both gentlemanly and elusive, and the film serves fans, glimpsed in the trailer lighting up a cigarette with counterfeit money.

Ye Jianxuan and the wonderful roles he has played before are very exciting, but this is not enough to cover up the fact that Ye Jianxuan has played another role as Ye Jianxuan.

But the painter is a very ambiguous and extremely cruel person, perhaps the darkest role he has ever played. Ye Jianxuan's acting skills are overwhelming. I only saw an unqualified actor who randomly exuded charm on the stage.

Like Punch in Bad Clown. ]
He didn't curse directly. After all, the literati use their pens to kill people. It would be unethical to curse directly.

During the trial, Yi justifiedly criticized Ye Jianxuan. At the end, he even used Punch to describe Ye Jianxuan. Punch is a clown image that often appears in British dramas.

However, Shen Zhongyi still praised the entire movie, because "Wushuang" does have remarkable aspects.

[The Li Wen role that Huang Baiyou received was a more thankless role. Li Wen and the painter were yin and yang, a confident gangster and a principled coward. It was a pleasure to watch them interact.

And it was Huang Baiyou who made this fun develop, because he successfully made the unlikable character relatable.

The scene of him smoking a cigarette and watching his painting being burned, instantly recalled in my mind that losing football and giving up something that you have loved and persisted in for a long time will always hurt the person involved the most.

Long story short: The Unparalleled is a spectacular, often engrossing crime thriller that isn't as clever as it could be, but is worth watching in its entirety, driven by Huang Baiyou's solid acting. ]
This comment is to criticize Ye Jianxuan and then praise Huang Baiyou.

Regardless of whether Shen Zhongyi is sincere or not, he has brought trouble to Huang Baiyou.

　In fact, it is difficult to write a movie review because it is easy to get tired of just praising "the movie is beautiful and exciting", so I will check the reviews of various real film critics and adapt it, hoping to make it more immersive.

　　This chapter has 6 words and is not divided into chapters. 4k was not successful, but [-]k is still available.

　　
　
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