China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 721 I'll Get the Color-changing Ink
It is a consensus that Hong Kong films are no longer popular.

It is impossible for Li Yu to lie with his eyes open and say that Hong Kong films are in their heyday and that the Hong Kong film industry is still the Little Hollywood of the East just because Zhuang Wenqiang is the only one who cannot accept such a conclusion.

Although Zhuang Wenqiang was somewhat dissatisfied with Li Yu's comments on the Hong Kong film Sunset.

But to most people at the scene, Li Yu's evaluation was extremely high.

This is the best commercial film in Hong Kong in the past five years. This evaluation is too high.

How high is it? Many people think that Li Yu is just bragging.

From the beneficiary's perspective, it is not impossible for Li Yu to brag. Li Yu is the largest investor in "Wushuang" and Li Yu has every reason to brag.

"Director Li, this is the best commercial film from Hong Kong in the past five years. Isn't your evaluation a bit too high? You are the investor of the film. Are you bragging about your own performance?"

Someone asked this question.

Li Yu replied calmly, "Whether I am boasting or not, you will know once you go to the theater and watch it. This is a work that Director Zhuang has spent ten years on. Director Zhuang is the author of the Infernal Affairs series. I don't need to comment too much on his level."

"Thank you Director Li for giving me and my work such a high evaluation..."

Zhuang Wenqiang smiled and sincerely thanked Li Yu for giving him face. Then he changed the subject and talked about the current situation of Hong Kong films: "Many people say that our Hong Kong films are declining, and some say that our Hong Kong films will die in the future. What I want to say is that as long as we, the older generation of filmmakers, are still working hard, Hong Kong films will never die."

Li Yu declined to comment on this.

Since Zhuang Wenqiang cares so much about this, he shouldn't slap Zhuang Wenqiang in the face.

He could also understand Zhuang Wenqiang's feelings. He had witnessed the fall of Hong Kong films from their peak, and he himself loved this industry very much, so it was impossible for him not to feel heartbroken.

Like Li Yu, he sometimes feels sad when he sees the rampant traffic stars in the domestic entertainment industry and the increasingly poor quality of movies and TV series.

The photographic equipment and production concepts of more than ten or twenty years ago were backward. There were many things we needed to learn from the teams in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and we had to be dominated by Hong Kong and Taiwan artists.

The conditions at that time were not very good, but many classic works were produced.

Now that conditions are better, the works are getting worse and worse.

As the lead actor of the same idol drama, he received several times or even ten times the salary of the leading actors in Silla and Sakura, but his professional ability was far inferior to them.

What’s even funnier is that some domestic film and television production companies have actually bought back the remake rights to some pretty good Silla dramas.

The resulting remake was horrible, and Li Yu felt that this behavior was truly shameful.

There are foreign templates right there, and if they are asked to copy them, they can make a mess of it. I really don't know how to evaluate them.

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On the day of the premiere of "Wushuang", Li Yu bought a movie ticket at his own expense and went to the cinema to watch the afterglow of this Hong Kong film.

The lead actress Da Tiantian also bought the movie tickets at her own expense and went to the cinema to watch the movie with Li Yu.

Li Yu had to admit that this kind of well-made Hong Kong-style "police and gangster film" was indeed several levels higher than the mainland's police and gangster films.

The movie "Wushuang" is quite good, it is a very authentic Hong Kong movie.

The rivalry between Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok is wonderful. The process of making counterfeit money is portrayed in great detail, giving a strong sense of immersion.

When some young people who are full of vigor and vitality are watching the film in the cinema, they may have been thinking about how to solve the color-changing ink, find someone to solve the acid-free paper, and then work together to build a bigger and stronger business plan. The progressive reversals and the fate and emotional foreshadowing of the characters are also quite interesting.

Regarding the ending of "Wushuang" and the imagination space left in some plots, Li Yu feels that it will attract a lot of discussion among the audience in the future.

Because many parts of the movie are left blank, it seems that as long as the audience is willing, whatever ending they think it should be is the ending.

For example, some people must think that Ruan Wen is a painter, and Li Wen and Wu Xiuqing are just her subordinates. After the fight, they escaped, and Li Wen was framed by Ruan Wen and imprisoned. Later, Wu Xiuqing pulled Li Wen out and staged a self-destructive escape drama. In the end, Ruan Wen stayed out of the matter and successfully cleared himself.

Those who say that Ruan Wen is a painter must be in the minority, and they are the kind of people with wild imaginations.

The ending that most people agree on is that Li Wen is the painter, and he regards Wu Xiuqing as a substitute for Ruan Wen. Wu Xiuqing turns love into hatred, so she blew herself up and died with Li Wen.

There are also some people who think that Li Wen is a painter, and all the stories he told were actually fabricated in order to get away with it and deceive the police.

The final self-explosion was to create the illusion that he and Wu Xiuqing were already dead. After that, he and Wu Xiuqing would change their faces, hide their identities, and escape.

Li Yu personally prefers a combination of the second and third endings.

The story Li Wen told was indeed false. Wu Xiuqing cooperated with him perfectly and fabricated a perfect escape plan, successfully deceiving the police.

In the end, Wu Xiuqing discovered that she was just a substitute for Ruan Wen, so she chose to die with Li Wen.

Li Wen eventually died after the people around him.

This is also in line with the values ​​of old Hong Kong films: if you mess around, you will always have to pay for it.

Everyone has their own opinions, and there are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand audiences.

Li Yu feels that the most exciting part of the movie is the depiction of making counterfeit money, which is indeed very interesting and looks very professional.

It is foreseeable that professional terms such as color-changing ink and acid-free paper will become hot topics on the Chinese Internet.

After Da Tiantian walked out of the theater, she was a little excited. She patted Li Yu on the shoulder and said, "Why don't you stop being a director and go get the acid-free paper while I get the color-changing ink. Let's do something big together."

"Don't dream. Do you think you can really make a big buck by following the process taught in the movie? Decades ago, the techniques in the movie were indeed advanced counterfeiting techniques.

Forget it now. We don’t know how many rounds of improvements have been made to it, and the anti-counterfeiting technology has also been improved countless times.

Let me put it this way, if that method in the movie really worked now, the entire crew would have to go for tea before they finished filming. "

Li Yu joked.

No way, no way, no one really thinks that they can make a big splash by just mastering color-changing ink and acid-free paper, right?

The fact that it can be filmed and shown to everyone shows that the technology is already behind the times, and obviously behind.

By the way, acid-free paper can be purchased in China, because Chinese banknotes are not made of acid-free paper at all.

Da Tiantian was a little disappointed: "It looked so realistic, I thought it was real."

"It does look quite realistic. At least it can fool people like you who don't know much about the business pretty well." Li Yu said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)