I didn't want to be an actor

Hong Kong comedy movies…

Or comedy movies, looking at the world, localized comedy is the magic weapon for most countries to fight Hollywood. Compared with high-concept, big-budget Hollywood movies, comedies that hit the audience's funny points win with a small effort.

The most popular movies in France, Italy, and Germany are almost all comedies.

The top ten French domestic box office movies are basically comedies, "Welcome to the North", "The Great Escape", "Vacationers", "The Hardest Father-in-law and Mother-in-law" - don't brag about the French audience being advanced, they like to watch art films.

Germany has "Damn Goethe" and "Rabbit Without Ears", Italy has "The Sun is Fierce" and "What a Beautiful Day"...

The same is true for Hong Kong. 22 years ago, the local box office list, "Kung Fu" and "Shaolin Soccer" dominated the list for nearly 20 years!

However, after Stephen Chow, Hong Kong-style comedies can no longer sell in the mainland!

In the early days, when Hong Kong filmmakers went north, many directors made comedies.

Not to mention Liu Zhenwei, he contributed "The Legend of Yue Guang", "A Chinese Odyssey 2011", etc.

Huang Baiming and Wang Jing also made all kinds of bad movies. The former made "All's Well, Ends Well 2009", "Happy Events in Flower Fields 2010", "The Strongest Happy Event", "Eight Stars Announcement", "Hundred Star Hotel", "Six Fortunes"... and reaped the box office every year, but later he couldn't do it anymore;

The latter contributed a bunch of bad movies such as "Beauty Secret Order", "God of Wealth Inn", "Ace of Kings"...!

They are impetuous, only have money in their eyes, and have no future.

They thought that they could make something that people all over the country like by finding a few buzzwords on the Internet and inserting them into the original story structure, and they thought it was very "down-to-earth"...

In fact, they were successful overnight and incoherent.

Mainland audiences were cut too many times, and they directly formed a stereotype of Hong Kong-style comedy.

In fact, many times, it was those directors who gave up a lot of things in order to cater to the viewing habits of the mainland. The problem is that these things are exactly the essence of Hong Kong comedy movies.

If you follow your own routine and honestly make a Cantonese comedy, with a little sincerity, it can still radiate to the mainland.

"Dragon's Edge" is very funny!

Comedy can only produce good fruits if it is deeply rooted in its own cultural soil. If it is removed and moved to someone else's territory, it will be a mess!

However, the comedies that Zheng Zhongji played later were really as embarrassing as they could be...

Xu Ke's first movie to go viral, "Ghost in the Shell", was a black comedy and won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director.

Therefore, he still pays attention to comedy...

"In the era of information explosion, many jokes, spoofs, and cold jokes have been known by the majority of netizens. Comedy movies are most taboo to rehash old stories, and the audience will not feel fresh... But the so-called Hong Kong-style comedy loves to rehash old stories..."

Xu Ke nodded: "I think so too!"

Shen Liang added: "The most important thing is that Hong Kong movies have lost the siphon effect. Real talents will not go south to Hong Kong to develop. They have plenty of opportunities to become famous in the mainland!"

"..."

Xu Ke did not refute, but talked about "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"...

Oh, he plans to intercept the filming of defending Xiangyang in "The Return of the Condor Heroes" - this time he will shoot the battle of Guo Jing and Huang Rong defending Xiangyang before their marriage.

There is still room for improvement.

Shen Liang did not say much...

No matter what, Xu Ke is already old. He is willing to shoot martial arts, and Shen Liang will definitely support him. However, Liang Ge advises him to be cautious in casting Huang Rong!

"Huang Rong is not an ordinary female character!"

Xu Ke nodded: "Well, she is the most popular heroine in all of Jin Yong's martial arts works!"

"Uh, almost..."

Shen Liang originally wanted to say that in Jin Yong fan fiction, and even martial arts fan fiction, Huang Rong is the most common heroine, no one else!

She covers the whole process from a girl, to a young wife, to a young woman, and then to a middle-aged beautiful woman;

A rich daughter, a female knight, a woman dressed as a man, a superior status, a wife, a mother and daughter... There is plenty of room for you to play with any of the above attributes, which is simply too convenient.

The creative materials that can be provided are simply unlimited...

With her own family, she contributed all the heroines of the Legend of the Condor Heroes except Xiaolongnu.

The reason why Huang Rong is so adaptable is not only because she has the dual identities of a girl + a wife in The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, but also because the personality created by Jin Yong for her is richer, with a distinct personality, strong affinity, and a full sense of life, which is not applicable to any other heroine or female supporting role in Jin Yong's novels.

"But I haven't found a suitable candidate yet..."

"Take your time to choose, there will definitely be a suitable one!"

After chatting for a while, the staff urged Shen Liang to start work.

"It's so miserable, I have to hang on the wire again," Shen Liang stood up: "Director, I'll go first!"

"Hmm..."

...

"Assassination of Novelist" didn't really add much to Yang Mi.

Although she played the villain Tu Ling, Douyin spread all kinds of pictures: lighting the cigarette neatly, smoking in a familiar posture, Tu Ling raised her eyes, and only a ruthless gaze remained in the smoke.

The image of the cold and beautiful female villain seemed to stand within a few seconds...

The problem is that although Tu Ling is nominally the second in the film, her role is less than 20 minutes, and her role alone is almost zero, she is a pure tool!

This kind of role has almost no difficulty in acting, and there is no acting performance and room for development. It is a role that can be easily handled by just pulling a third-tier actress who has passed the age and putting on a lawyer's professional suit.

The importance and role of the role are not even as good as Que'er in "Painted Skin 2"...

Maybe because of last year's "Famous", she became popular again, and then "Thank You Doctor" was broadcast...

Then, the backlash was even more serious, and the Internet was full of marketing articles that blackened her...

It's normal, she is negotiating with Jiaxing, and Jiaxing's public relations team is not working at all!

But if you say that "Assassination of Novelist" has no impact at all, that's not right...

At least her total box office data exceeded 12 billion, surpassing Mary, and regaining the title of box office queen.

In terms of box office performance, she is indeed the number one actress!

This is very useful when fighting for resources. I heard that she tore up two luxury endorsements...

After finally finishing the promotion of "Assassination of Novelist", she is going to visit "Shushan" to meet her good sister Liu Shishi, and squeeze Shen Liang by the way!

Directly booked a hotel.

When Shen Liang arrived, Yang Mi was greeting Liu Shishi...

It's nothing more than you are beautiful again.

Liang Ge greeted: "Mijie, Shishijie!"

"...I heard you were hanging on the wire for three hours this afternoon, are you okay?"

"What's the matter?" Shen Liang waved his hand and explained: "It's mainly to cooperate with the special effects department to collect data... There's no need to hang on the wire tomorrow!"

"Collecting data?" Yang Mi was curious: "Shishi, do you also need to collect data?"

Liu Shishi recalled, then shook her head: "I don't think I didn't..."

Shen Liang: "You did... You hung on the wire three times on your first day in the group, don't you remember?"

"That's collecting data? How come it's so fast?"

"I arranged for a stand-in to collect it a long time ago... It's very quick after some modification!"

Yang Mi was curious: "Then why didn't you use a stand-in?"

"I did... It was mainly for the subsequent shooting of a few appearance shots..."