The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 472 New Movie Preparations

However, "The Sea Wolf of the Royal Senior Sister" is just a police film of average quality. Although the action scenes are transferred from the common urban streets to the freighter in the vast sea, it does not actually bring out the unique terrain characteristics of the ship. .The chase scene in the cabin is no different from the common corridor chase scene, and the final duel between the pros and cons on the deck is actually no different from the common warehouse battle.

In addition, the theme is outdated and the shooting techniques are quite old-fashioned. Neither the pros nor the pros were successful in shaping the film. Therefore, although talented actors such as Ren Daling and Xu Shaoqiang joined in, the film did not arouse much response. , is just a work of average quality among the many gangster films in Hong Kong.

And Zhang Jian's "Sea Wolf" fully takes into account the characteristics of the ship's airtight and complex terrain, and the hero is also set as a special soldier in South Vietnam before, so killing people pays attention to one-hit kills, rarely There is that kind of fighting scene that lasts more than ten minutes, one hit will kill, one hit will kill, if you miss, you will run away quickly, use the terrain to cover your whereabouts, so that your opponent can't see, hear, touch, but Be there all the time.Like the vengeful ghost on the ship, vowing to pay for these murderers.

At the same time, the style of this film is also darker, with the boundless high seas, the desperate refugees, crying every day, calling the earth and the earth not working, and finally being rescued but only getting out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den, there is no hope at all.Family members, friends, and fellow travelers were robbed, tortured and killed, and even their gold teeth were pulled out. The income was only tens of thousands of dollars. It was like grabbing food from a beggar's bowl.

The tyranny of the murderer further contrasts the helplessness of the hero. When his family was slaughtered, he had no money, water, food, and he was injured, how should he avenge these demons?

Director Zhang Jian has become more and more proficient in this kind of urban gangster action movies since he filmed the trilogy of "The Man Thief and the Girl Singing", "A Deadly Life", and "The Way of the Dragon" with South Vietnamese refugees.This time, "Sea Wolf", the rumored trilogy of South Vietnamese refugees, has received unanimous praise just after the script was released.

The seven-member group meeting unanimously passed the approval of the film. The speed and unanimity of opinions really set a new record.

Zhang Jian still chose Lu Liangwei as the leading actor in the film "Sea Wolf", because the two have collaborated many times before and have cultivated a very good tacit understanding, just like Zhou Runfa is to Wu Yusen, and Zhou Xingchi is to Wang Jing. Complementary relationship.

Lu Liangwei is both handsome and has solid acting skills. He is also an overseas Chinese in South Vietnam, and he is young and strong, and it is not difficult to shoot Kung Fu movies, so he is quite a suitable candidate.His previous starring roles in "The Bandit and the Girl Sing", "A Fate" and "The Way of the Dragon" have all been very popular. He can be regarded as one of the most popular male stars in urban action movies now, not compared to Cheng Long and Hong Jingbao. , Yuan Biao and their kung fu superstars are poor.

And because he is tall and handsome, he is very popular among young girls, especially the brave and wise images he portrayed on the screen make him the most popular The male star has caused a lot of scandalous news because of this.

Xu Guanwu doesn't care too much about the actor's private life, after all, people also have their own freedom, and it is impossible for the company to control every place.In addition, proper pornographic news will also maintain the actor's exposure, so the company still keeps a blind eye to Lu Liangwei's so many incidents, as long as it doesn't get too outrageous and doesn't offend The boundaries of the law, basically the company will not care how you mess around.

But if I can't control myself, get into fights and hurt people, or even scandals such as Western Drugs come out, then the company can't protect it, and I have to choose Xuezang at that time, and it is impossible to support it unconditionally.Fortunately, although Lu Liangwei is flirtatious, he still knows how to measure it. He belongs to the kind who never makes big mistakes and keeps making small mistakes.Although letting the company come out to wipe his ass from time to time, it's not too outrageous anyway.

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In addition to Zhang Jian's "Sea Wolf", the Xu Brothers will film another comedy film this year called "Rich World". Xu Guanjie, and Xu Guanying, a smuggler who only wants to have a meal and a negotiable salary, went to major listed companies to install wiretapping devices, thereby eavesdropping on the board meetings of listed companies, stealing business secrets and selling nameplates.

During the period, I naturally saw all kinds of ugly behaviors of listed companies, such as tampering with accounts, defrauding minority shareholders, insider trading, etc., and Xu Guanwen's frequent wins also attracted the attention of the black gang. At the same time, they accidentally eavesdropped on a leather bag The company's plan to cheat money by going public also attracted the attention of Laoqian Group.

Under the investigation of both sides, the three Xu Guanwen brothers were in a panic and made a series of jokes.But in the end, both the fraudulent group and the underworld society were arrested, and the three brothers Xu Guanwen also won the Hong Kong Good Citizen Award for their meritorious service in exposing the crime.Xu Guanying also obtained a Hong Kong identity card.

The reason why Xu Guanwen wanted to make this film was mainly because of the fire in the Hong Kong stock market in recent years.After the stock market crash in [-], the Hong Kong stock market was already extremely bleak, causing people to panic, jumping off buildings, crazy, bankrupt, and liquidation, and so on.

However, so many years have passed, and with the rapid development of Hong Kong's economy, the stock market has become hot again.People began to speculate in stocks frantically again, which meant that the scars were healed and the pain was forgotten.

Xu Guanwen naturally sympathizes with and hates these people who have lost their rationality in order to get rich.As for those financial crocodiles who do evil in the stock market, and even the gangsters who want to cheat money while the stock market is booming, there is only hatred left.

That's why he came up with the idea of ​​making such a movie, hoping that people who see this movie can calm down and calm down, and also warn those financial predators who are misbehaving in the stock market, it's not that the time has not come.

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The big boss wanted to make such a movie, so naturally no one would raise their hands and agree.However, Xu Guanwu still has his own ideas about the mainland smuggler played by Xu Guanying.

In the film, the mainland smuggler played by Xu Guanying does not have an ID card, so he can only live by thieves, and finally he is too hungry to walk before being taken in by Xu Guanwen.

There are still many mainland smugglers like this in Hong Kong. After they smuggle here, because they don't have ID cards, they can't find serious jobs.Of course, under such circumstances, many social problems will arise, and it will also cause dissatisfaction among Hong Kong citizens.The smugglers have also become the targets of severe crackdown by the Hong Kong police.

The reason why Xu Guanwen wanted to join the role of a smuggler is actually based on the fact that there are more and more smugglers in Hong Kong.Appropriately introducing hot social topics in comedy movies is also a magic weapon to boost the box office and attract the attention of the public.

However, Xu Guanwu thinks that it is not good to write Xu Guanying as a stowaway who relies on thieves to earn a living. He suggested changing it to an honest stowaway who worked illegally on the construction site, but was kicked out of the construction site by an unscrupulous boss. .In this way, the image of smugglers will undoubtedly be much brighter, and it will be easier to arouse the sympathy of Hong Kong citizens.

What Xu Guanwu did was to avoid blackening mainland smugglers and embarrassing the people in the mainland.How other companies photograph mainlanders, Xu Guanwu, has no control, but in Xu's, he doesn't want to photograph mainlanders who are either provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers, or A Can's cousin who doesn't understand anything.

After Xu Guanwen listened to his second brother's opinion, after thinking about it, he also felt that such a change would improve Xu Guanying's image a lot, and it would not do much damage to the story itself, so he nodded and agreed with his opinion.

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Xu then announced the start of filming of these four films, and began to make a big fuss about public opinion, warming up for these four films in advance, so that they can always maintain a high degree of attention.

In addition to Xu's big moves this year, Shaw and Golden Harvest are not idle, and have launched many projects one after another.For example, Zeng Zhiwei of Golden Harvest started filming "Nong Ben Passionate", still following the urban comedy route of picking up girls.

In addition to Wu Siyuan's new martial arts movie "Butterfly Change", which will be released this year, there is also a "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" about South Vietnamese refugees. Fleeing to Hong Kong, they supported each other during the escape process, so they forged a deep friendship and became brothers by sworn brothers.

But because he came to Hong Kong with no food and clothing, he was forced to embark on the road of illegal crimes, and by virtue of the skills he had trained in the army before, he gained a great reputation with the Hong Kong police's wits and courage, but in the end because of a woman And fell apart, the story of being swept away by the police in one fell swoop because of internal strife.

This film follows Zhang Jian's South Vietnamese refugee trilogy series in terms of subject matter. It also tells the story of South Vietnamese refugees. Because of lack of food and clothing, they take risks and take risks to commit crimes. The final ending is also dead without a place to die.However, Wu Siyuan's film also has a breakthrough, that is, it filmed the two brothers from scratch, and quickly pulled together the initials of the establishment, which can be regarded as an innovation in the theme of the black society.

The Yuan Jiaban brothers are still the theme of Kung Fu in the early Republic of China, but this time the momentum is much smaller.The reason is that the brothers Hong Jingbao who were filming Kung Fu comedies in the early Republic of China with them before have all gone to film "Project A". The investment of up to 500 million US dollars really scares people to death.

The Yuan Jiaban brothers have made many films over the years, but the cost of each film is at most more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars. Compared with the three brothers Hong Jingbao, it is not even a fraction of it. Attract media attention.Because they were all attracted by the news that "Plan A" was about to be screened in the United States.

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The Shaw Brothers also made frequent moves this year. In addition to sponsoring Jiayi TV to hold the Miss Oriental beauty pageant to attract young talents to join, they also specially promoted and released directors of the younger generation, mostly young people promoted from Jiayi TV.Most of them have studied abroad and learned advanced foreign film knowledge.At the same time, I have honed in the TV station for a long time, and I have a certain understanding of the needs of the current audience, so it can be said that it has rich potential.

In addition to promoting newcomers, the old directors did not forget to let them continue to use their spare heat.It is said that director Li Hanxiang has five films to shoot this year, while director Chang Cheh still has four films to shoot despite his lack of box office appeal.In addition, powerful directors such as character director Mou Dunfu and nervous director Sun Zhong also have tasks to complete this year.

Speaking of tasks, it is a reward and punishment plan specially proposed by Shaw Brothers in order to increase income and at the same time stimulate the enthusiasm of employees.Each director will receive a certain number of tasks at the beginning of the year, and those who complete the tasks can get a certain reward. Those who fail to complete the tasks will not only cancel the rewards, but also deduct part of their salary as compensation.And if the director can exceed the task, the reward will be very generous.

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