In early April, "Best Bad Friends 2" directed by Wang Jing and starring Leslie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Lan Jieying, Moh Shunjun, Lou Nanguang and Chen Jialing officially started filming.
This movie has attracted many attention from the beginning. Among the several starring actors, Leslie Cheung has just become popular because of "A Chinese Ghost Story", while Tony Leung has just returned from filming "Tongzhi Zhongxing" from the mainland, and Lan Jieying's current reputation is mixed.
(Note: "Tongzhi Zhongxing" is the third part of "The Legend of Cixi" after "The Old Summer Palace" and "The Curtain of the State". Another time and space has not been filmed. It is now jointly filmed by DreamWorks and Chinese Film Cooperative Production Company. It will be released in the summer after the later completion.)
After joining DreamWorks, Tony Leung only played a few small roles in other movies. However, he made two more movies in mainland China, and was ridiculed as a red actor by some Hong Kong media.
Such a cast is simply eye-catching.
About half a month later, the scandal between Jackie Chan and Lan Jieying gradually ceased, which was the result of the joint efforts of Jiahe and DreamWorks.
In the report of Pojiu Gate, although Jiahe tried his best to distinguish Jackie Chan, in the end, many people believed that Jackie Chan was wrong, and there were even rumors that Jackie Chan was extremely lustful.
With Jackie Chan's current fame, there is no need to rely on hype to expose him, so this scandal is harmful to him but not beneficial.
Lan Jieying's side is more profit than harm. Because of TVB's long-term ban, her fame has been consumed almost the same.
Now he is famous for winning the Best Newcomer for the Academy Awards and having a scandal with Jackie Chan. He then starred in Wang Jing's new film and had an unknown relationship with Kang Jianfei. So much so that Lan Jieying stayed on the entertainment page headline for half a month, and her exposure exceeded that of Hong Kong's top actresses.
However, this news spread to Japan and Taiwan, and Jackie Chan fans there stopped doing it. Taiwan is a little better. Japanese Jackie Chan fans collectively criticized Lan Jieying, and some even made calls or wrote to Oriental Entertainment, claiming that if they did not ban Lan Jieying and the others would commit suicide in protest.
Unlike the boycott that Lan Jieying received in Japan, Joey Wong became popular overnight in Japan and South Korea.
In April, the screening of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in Asia had completely ended, with a total box office of more than HK$137 million.
In another time and space, although "A Chinese Ghost Story" has a box office in Hong Kong only good, it is very popular overseas due to its schedule and schedule.
In addition to Southeast Asian countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, "A Chinese Ghost Story" has also been released in eight countries including Japan, France, South Korea, Finland, Sweden.
DreamWorks' overseas distribution capabilities are now even stronger. "A Chinese Ghost Story" was released in Japan, sweeping the box office market during the Spring Festival in Japan.
Joey Wong surpassed Brigitte Lin with just one drama and became the most popular foreign actress in Japan.
South Korea is even more crazy. Although the box office of South Korea is much lower than that of Japan, the Korean love for "A Chinese Ghost Story" can no longer be described in words.
Joey Wong became the dream lover of many men in South Korea, and Leslie Cheung also ranked first among the most popular foreign male stars in South Korea (Jackie Chan ranked third).
Just before the filming of "Best Bad Friends 2", Leslie Cheung went to South Korea to play a show. After recording the show, he caused a small commotion.
A review from Japan's "Movie News" gave "A Chinese Ghost Story" a very high evaluation: The investment cost of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is one-fifth of "Shushan", and the box office in Japan is one-quarter of "Shushan". However, from the perspective of film art, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is more surprising than "Shushan".
"Shushan" is better in its special effects, scenes and beautiful scenery, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" is much inferior in these aspects.
In terms of the plot of "A Chinese Ghost Story", "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also extremely old-fashioned, far less exciting than the story of "Shushan".
The essence of "A Chinese Ghost Story" lies in the people and ways of interpreting the story:
First of all, Director Kang Jianfei found the best story spokesperson, that is Joey Wong.
In this film, Xiaoqian, played by Joey Wong, captured the hearts of the audience with amazing beauty, and the whole film is filled with a strange and sad atmosphere of romance and liberalism.
The gorgeous female ghost Xiaoqian is enough to make any man in the world fall in love with her, and her unforgettable love with Ning Caichen becomes the eternal sadness in the hearts of the audience;
Secondly, let’s talk about the interpretation of this film.
The drama "A Chinese Ghost Story" shows an extremely high level of screenwriter, with a tense and bright rhythm and climaxes one after another, and the development of the plot seems to have stepped on the node of the audience's soul and emotions.
In terms of styling, Xiaoqian's white clothes are as elegant as snow, while Ning Caichen seems to be dressed as a book boy from the Song Dynasty, and Yàn Chixia's shape is rough and simple.
The soundtrack in the film is the highlight of the highlights. In addition to the moving melody, it is rich in Chinese classical beauty.
Deep mixing and echoing effects create a sense of space and mystery. In the film, Chinese and Western instruments such as erhu, harpsichord, flute and other Chinese and Western instruments are mixed. From every detail of the film, we can find that the music and sound effects and plot development are almost seamless, like the music that escapes the woods. The harpsichord represents the roar of the tree demon and uses the flute to show the sharpness of the Taoist priest. The two sound tracks are singing up and down, from far to near, and change in real time as the camera progresses, giving people the desire to rise up and escape from the woods.
Let’s talk about the action scenes. In this film, all the masters’ fight scenes are shot from bottom to top, and the photographer is lying on the pre-built slide rail and chased him out.This creates a three-dimensional scroll effect on the screen. The master's martial arts movement changes the inclination angle of the one-dimensional picture into two dimensions, and the fast-translated follow-ups into three dimensions, making the entire action scene rich in levels and thrilling.The director used a lot of tilted composition lenses and block cutting editing techniques, and the low-camera upward shooting caused the object to deform. The oblique composition lenses and block cutting editing techniques made the lens feel unstable, thereby enhancing the sense of movement, creating a huge momentum and strong visual shock.Overall, the action scenes in "A Chinese Ghost Story" are different from traditional Chinese kung fu films. They focus not on real kung fu with one move, but on deification and illusion of martial arts, and through special skills and editing methods, they create visual wonders beyond the physical conventions and limits of the human body...
The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, which has been in operation for two years, recently listed "Police Story", "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" as textbooks. These three films have become compulsory courses in the Director's Department of the Academy of Performing Arts.
As for Europe and the United States, the release of "A Chinese Ghost Story" will have to wait until after the Cannes Film Festival. I don't know how many box offices it can get.
As the director of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Kang Jianfei's reputation in the Japanese film industry has also risen to a higher level. Some people have respectfully called him a commercial film master because Kang Jianfei's movies are often sold well in Japan.
This time when he went to Japan to shoot "Mr. Smiths", Kang Jianfei was blocked by Japanese reporters at the scene.
In "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" adapted by Kang Jianfei, the male and female protagonists are both located in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
The male and female protagonists played by Kang Jianfei and Cherie Chung accidentally met and fell in love when they completed the assassination mission in Japan.
The film is filmed in several countries, and all of them are countries and regions with high box office in DreamWorks.
The filming of many countries can make the film international and high-end, and the film fans of these filming countries can also be catered to the fans of these filming countries to increase the overseas box office.
Of course, filming in multiple countries has also caused the cost of shooting to double.
After Kang Jianfei's shooting plan was initially formulated, a dedicated person was already responsible for the preparation.
For example, shooting in Japan takes about 5 to 7 days.
The crew has already reached sponsorship agreements with several merchants in the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel and Ginza, providing free venues for the crew of "Mrs. Smiths" for filming.
In addition, the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel will also provide Hong Kong staff on the "Smiths" crew with free food and accommodation for a week.
The price Kang Jianfei needs to pay for this is that the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel logo appears in the movie for a second.
As for those Ginza merchants, they have to be much more casual. Just just swipe a few indoor shots, which is completely a friendly cooperation.
The place where Kang Jianfei was besieged by Japanese reporters was in the lobby of the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel. He was still setting up a camera with Ang Lee and Zhong Zhiwen. The reporters who rushed over after hearing the news broke in regardless of the hotel security guards' obstruction.
After all, they are going to other people's territory to film, so there is no need to offend local reporters. Moreover, these reporters need to cooperate with the promotion when the movie is released.
Kang Jianfei asked Ang Lee and Zhong Zhiwen to continue working, and he brought the dozen Japanese reporters to a corner of the lobby and said: Japanese journalists are so enthusiastic. I am very happy to be interviewed by you, but due to the tight shooting time, I hope everyone can understand. Today I can only answer a few simple questions.
After several years of study without any effort, Kang Jianfei's English level is still acceptable, and basic daily communication is fine.
However, the English spoken by the Japanese is urgent, and sometimes even the British cannot understand it. In order to avoid the incident of hearing and saying it wrong, Kang Jianfei still spoke in Chinese, and then translated it into Japanese by the Japanese staff on the crew.
A reporter huddled in the front asked first: Mr. Kang, I heard that you are directing and acting in an urban action movie this time. Why didn’t Brigitte Lin, Li Saifeng or Miss Wang Zuxian be the heroines?
Now Joey Wong and Lee Sai-feng are the most popular Hong Kong actresses in Hong Kong. Brigitte Lin also had many fans in Japan because of "The Royal Sister" a few years ago, but she has been in a semi-retired state in the past two years. The movie Kakugawa film she participated in last year was not selling well, so her popularity has dropped a lot.
Apart from Joey Wong, Lee Sai-feng and Brigitte Lin, the Japanese really have no impression of other Hong Kong actresses.
The "Best Partner" series also sold well in Japan, but the heroine Sylvia Sylvia is not very popular in Japan, and few Japanese people can call Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia.
So now Jiahe and Xinyi City are very embarrassed. The Japanese market has unlimited potential for Hong Kong films, but these two companies have never been able to launch popular actresses in Japan.
In order to take care of the Japanese box office market, Jiahe and Xinyi City have only two options: one is to go to Oriental Entertainment to invite Lee Saifeng and Joey Wong to film, and the other is to invite Japanese popular actresses to Hong Kong to be the heroine.
The first choice is cheaper than Kang Jianfei, and the latter choice is good, but the pay for popular Japanese actresses is too high.
Kang Jianfei took this opportunity to introduce Cherie Chung to Japanese reporters. He called Cherie Chung, who was dressed in sexy clothes: This is Miss Cherie Chung, the heroine of "Mrs. Smiths", and she is also a top-tier actress in Hong Kong.As for why Brigitte Lin and the others were not invited to play the heroine, the answer is very simple, because they are not suitable for this role.
"A Chinese Ghost Story" is very good. Has Mr. Kang considered filming a sequel?Another reporter asked.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: The plan for the sequel is currently under discussion.However, the sequel to "Shushan" has been finalized, and director Tsui Hark will officially start filming in the second half of the year.
The reporter's questions began to shift to gossip: Mr. Kang, there are rumors that Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung are in love. Is that true?
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: You have to ask the person involved.OK, time is tight, I will answer five more questions.
Mr. Kang...
This movie has attracted many attention from the beginning. Among the several starring actors, Leslie Cheung has just become popular because of "A Chinese Ghost Story", while Tony Leung has just returned from filming "Tongzhi Zhongxing" from the mainland, and Lan Jieying's current reputation is mixed.
(Note: "Tongzhi Zhongxing" is the third part of "The Legend of Cixi" after "The Old Summer Palace" and "The Curtain of the State". Another time and space has not been filmed. It is now jointly filmed by DreamWorks and Chinese Film Cooperative Production Company. It will be released in the summer after the later completion.)
After joining DreamWorks, Tony Leung only played a few small roles in other movies. However, he made two more movies in mainland China, and was ridiculed as a red actor by some Hong Kong media.
Such a cast is simply eye-catching.
About half a month later, the scandal between Jackie Chan and Lan Jieying gradually ceased, which was the result of the joint efforts of Jiahe and DreamWorks.
In the report of Pojiu Gate, although Jiahe tried his best to distinguish Jackie Chan, in the end, many people believed that Jackie Chan was wrong, and there were even rumors that Jackie Chan was extremely lustful.
With Jackie Chan's current fame, there is no need to rely on hype to expose him, so this scandal is harmful to him but not beneficial.
Lan Jieying's side is more profit than harm. Because of TVB's long-term ban, her fame has been consumed almost the same.
Now he is famous for winning the Best Newcomer for the Academy Awards and having a scandal with Jackie Chan. He then starred in Wang Jing's new film and had an unknown relationship with Kang Jianfei. So much so that Lan Jieying stayed on the entertainment page headline for half a month, and her exposure exceeded that of Hong Kong's top actresses.
However, this news spread to Japan and Taiwan, and Jackie Chan fans there stopped doing it. Taiwan is a little better. Japanese Jackie Chan fans collectively criticized Lan Jieying, and some even made calls or wrote to Oriental Entertainment, claiming that if they did not ban Lan Jieying and the others would commit suicide in protest.
Unlike the boycott that Lan Jieying received in Japan, Joey Wong became popular overnight in Japan and South Korea.
In April, the screening of "A Chinese Ghost Story" in Asia had completely ended, with a total box office of more than HK$137 million.
In another time and space, although "A Chinese Ghost Story" has a box office in Hong Kong only good, it is very popular overseas due to its schedule and schedule.
In addition to Southeast Asian countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, "A Chinese Ghost Story" has also been released in eight countries including Japan, France, South Korea, Finland, Sweden.
DreamWorks' overseas distribution capabilities are now even stronger. "A Chinese Ghost Story" was released in Japan, sweeping the box office market during the Spring Festival in Japan.
Joey Wong surpassed Brigitte Lin with just one drama and became the most popular foreign actress in Japan.
South Korea is even more crazy. Although the box office of South Korea is much lower than that of Japan, the Korean love for "A Chinese Ghost Story" can no longer be described in words.
Joey Wong became the dream lover of many men in South Korea, and Leslie Cheung also ranked first among the most popular foreign male stars in South Korea (Jackie Chan ranked third).
Just before the filming of "Best Bad Friends 2", Leslie Cheung went to South Korea to play a show. After recording the show, he caused a small commotion.
A review from Japan's "Movie News" gave "A Chinese Ghost Story" a very high evaluation: The investment cost of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is one-fifth of "Shushan", and the box office in Japan is one-quarter of "Shushan". However, from the perspective of film art, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is more surprising than "Shushan".
"Shushan" is better in its special effects, scenes and beautiful scenery, and "A Chinese Ghost Story" is much inferior in these aspects.
In terms of the plot of "A Chinese Ghost Story", "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also extremely old-fashioned, far less exciting than the story of "Shushan".
The essence of "A Chinese Ghost Story" lies in the people and ways of interpreting the story:
First of all, Director Kang Jianfei found the best story spokesperson, that is Joey Wong.
In this film, Xiaoqian, played by Joey Wong, captured the hearts of the audience with amazing beauty, and the whole film is filled with a strange and sad atmosphere of romance and liberalism.
The gorgeous female ghost Xiaoqian is enough to make any man in the world fall in love with her, and her unforgettable love with Ning Caichen becomes the eternal sadness in the hearts of the audience;
Secondly, let’s talk about the interpretation of this film.
The drama "A Chinese Ghost Story" shows an extremely high level of screenwriter, with a tense and bright rhythm and climaxes one after another, and the development of the plot seems to have stepped on the node of the audience's soul and emotions.
In terms of styling, Xiaoqian's white clothes are as elegant as snow, while Ning Caichen seems to be dressed as a book boy from the Song Dynasty, and Yàn Chixia's shape is rough and simple.
The soundtrack in the film is the highlight of the highlights. In addition to the moving melody, it is rich in Chinese classical beauty.
Deep mixing and echoing effects create a sense of space and mystery. In the film, Chinese and Western instruments such as erhu, harpsichord, flute and other Chinese and Western instruments are mixed. From every detail of the film, we can find that the music and sound effects and plot development are almost seamless, like the music that escapes the woods. The harpsichord represents the roar of the tree demon and uses the flute to show the sharpness of the Taoist priest. The two sound tracks are singing up and down, from far to near, and change in real time as the camera progresses, giving people the desire to rise up and escape from the woods.
Let’s talk about the action scenes. In this film, all the masters’ fight scenes are shot from bottom to top, and the photographer is lying on the pre-built slide rail and chased him out.This creates a three-dimensional scroll effect on the screen. The master's martial arts movement changes the inclination angle of the one-dimensional picture into two dimensions, and the fast-translated follow-ups into three dimensions, making the entire action scene rich in levels and thrilling.The director used a lot of tilted composition lenses and block cutting editing techniques, and the low-camera upward shooting caused the object to deform. The oblique composition lenses and block cutting editing techniques made the lens feel unstable, thereby enhancing the sense of movement, creating a huge momentum and strong visual shock.Overall, the action scenes in "A Chinese Ghost Story" are different from traditional Chinese kung fu films. They focus not on real kung fu with one move, but on deification and illusion of martial arts, and through special skills and editing methods, they create visual wonders beyond the physical conventions and limits of the human body...
The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, which has been in operation for two years, recently listed "Police Story", "Shushan" and "A Chinese Ghost Story" as textbooks. These three films have become compulsory courses in the Director's Department of the Academy of Performing Arts.
As for Europe and the United States, the release of "A Chinese Ghost Story" will have to wait until after the Cannes Film Festival. I don't know how many box offices it can get.
As the director of "A Chinese Ghost Story", Kang Jianfei's reputation in the Japanese film industry has also risen to a higher level. Some people have respectfully called him a commercial film master because Kang Jianfei's movies are often sold well in Japan.
This time when he went to Japan to shoot "Mr. Smiths", Kang Jianfei was blocked by Japanese reporters at the scene.
In "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" adapted by Kang Jianfei, the male and female protagonists are both located in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
The male and female protagonists played by Kang Jianfei and Cherie Chung accidentally met and fell in love when they completed the assassination mission in Japan.
The film is filmed in several countries, and all of them are countries and regions with high box office in DreamWorks.
The filming of many countries can make the film international and high-end, and the film fans of these filming countries can also be catered to the fans of these filming countries to increase the overseas box office.
Of course, filming in multiple countries has also caused the cost of shooting to double.
After Kang Jianfei's shooting plan was initially formulated, a dedicated person was already responsible for the preparation.
For example, shooting in Japan takes about 5 to 7 days.
The crew has already reached sponsorship agreements with several merchants in the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel and Ginza, providing free venues for the crew of "Mrs. Smiths" for filming.
In addition, the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel will also provide Hong Kong staff on the "Smiths" crew with free food and accommodation for a week.
The price Kang Jianfei needs to pay for this is that the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel logo appears in the movie for a second.
As for those Ginza merchants, they have to be much more casual. Just just swipe a few indoor shots, which is completely a friendly cooperation.
The place where Kang Jianfei was besieged by Japanese reporters was in the lobby of the Tokyo Peninsula Hotel. He was still setting up a camera with Ang Lee and Zhong Zhiwen. The reporters who rushed over after hearing the news broke in regardless of the hotel security guards' obstruction.
After all, they are going to other people's territory to film, so there is no need to offend local reporters. Moreover, these reporters need to cooperate with the promotion when the movie is released.
Kang Jianfei asked Ang Lee and Zhong Zhiwen to continue working, and he brought the dozen Japanese reporters to a corner of the lobby and said: Japanese journalists are so enthusiastic. I am very happy to be interviewed by you, but due to the tight shooting time, I hope everyone can understand. Today I can only answer a few simple questions.
After several years of study without any effort, Kang Jianfei's English level is still acceptable, and basic daily communication is fine.
However, the English spoken by the Japanese is urgent, and sometimes even the British cannot understand it. In order to avoid the incident of hearing and saying it wrong, Kang Jianfei still spoke in Chinese, and then translated it into Japanese by the Japanese staff on the crew.
A reporter huddled in the front asked first: Mr. Kang, I heard that you are directing and acting in an urban action movie this time. Why didn’t Brigitte Lin, Li Saifeng or Miss Wang Zuxian be the heroines?
Now Joey Wong and Lee Sai-feng are the most popular Hong Kong actresses in Hong Kong. Brigitte Lin also had many fans in Japan because of "The Royal Sister" a few years ago, but she has been in a semi-retired state in the past two years. The movie Kakugawa film she participated in last year was not selling well, so her popularity has dropped a lot.
Apart from Joey Wong, Lee Sai-feng and Brigitte Lin, the Japanese really have no impression of other Hong Kong actresses.
The "Best Partner" series also sold well in Japan, but the heroine Sylvia Sylvia is not very popular in Japan, and few Japanese people can call Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia.
So now Jiahe and Xinyi City are very embarrassed. The Japanese market has unlimited potential for Hong Kong films, but these two companies have never been able to launch popular actresses in Japan.
In order to take care of the Japanese box office market, Jiahe and Xinyi City have only two options: one is to go to Oriental Entertainment to invite Lee Saifeng and Joey Wong to film, and the other is to invite Japanese popular actresses to Hong Kong to be the heroine.
The first choice is cheaper than Kang Jianfei, and the latter choice is good, but the pay for popular Japanese actresses is too high.
Kang Jianfei took this opportunity to introduce Cherie Chung to Japanese reporters. He called Cherie Chung, who was dressed in sexy clothes: This is Miss Cherie Chung, the heroine of "Mrs. Smiths", and she is also a top-tier actress in Hong Kong.As for why Brigitte Lin and the others were not invited to play the heroine, the answer is very simple, because they are not suitable for this role.
"A Chinese Ghost Story" is very good. Has Mr. Kang considered filming a sequel?Another reporter asked.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: The plan for the sequel is currently under discussion.However, the sequel to "Shushan" has been finalized, and director Tsui Hark will officially start filming in the second half of the year.
The reporter's questions began to shift to gossip: Mr. Kang, there are rumors that Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung are in love. Is that true?
Kang Jianfei smiled and said: You have to ask the person involved.OK, time is tight, I will answer five more questions.
Mr. Kang...
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