hurt Zhongyong
has a director, the prodigal son always felt it was a pity.
He has shot stunning black humor classics, and his attempts at genre films have also been at the forefront of the entire Chinese film scene.
He brought many different colors to the dull Hong Kong film market. In the early days,
also interacted and quarreled with netizens on Weibo every day, and was a lively person.
Later, his ass was crooked and his talents ran out. One movie was not as good as one movie, and his sincerity was lost.
That’s right, I’m talking about "Peng Haoxiang," a former genius, and today’s film and television industry bastard.
From the debut of "Summer Homework" to the stunning audience of "Buying a Fierce and Shooting People", his start is not unsightly.
and then "Big Man" is bold, and has a new perspective of "Youth Dream Workshop", coupled with the deep light and shadow of "Isabella", his ascending channel is not perfect.
But since "Zhi Ming and Chun Jiao" made money in the Mainland, he has basically been depressed. The works after
only pay tribute to Quentin's "Pulp Comedy" which has some meaning, and the others are small box office productions, which are lackluster.
Peng Haoxiang is very similar to Quentin, both are talented alternative directors.
But Quentin has mixed into the mainstream Hollywood, and Peng Haoxiang...he has also become the most mainstream death of Hong Kong directors: shooting things just like making money in the Mainland.
This year's Oscar, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" only won the best actor and art direction award, but I still like this film (except for Bruce Lee).
That is Quentin's love letter to Hollywood, it's a parallel world.
Then I saw Martin Scorsese, who was very old and accompanied the entire run of "The Irishman".
Then, I thought of Peng Haoxiang. He also made a movie similar to "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" many years ago. Even from the current perspective, it is still the pinnacle of Chinese black humor.
He wrote a letter dedicated to the film industry with his unbelievable but sensible script and Cult-savvy scenes. There is still a ruthless ridicule of the state of Hong Kong movies between the lines.
Yes, I'm talking about "Buying the Murder and Shooting People". There are no big stars in the
killer's "special service"
movie "Buying the Murder and Shooting People", and the protagonists are all gold medal supporting roles in other dramas.
Now if Ge Minhui, Zhang Daming, Zhan Ruiwen, etc. produce another movie, it is basically a bad movie, or maybe it is the kind of Internet big.
But at that time, under the leadership of Peng Haoxiang, they made a film history classic abruptly. The beginning of the story of
was the collapse of the Hong Kong bubble economy, and the killer Bart’s business was also affected. Not only did the order volume decrease, but peers launched installment payments to seize the market.
And Bart's family is also a mess. Because of the shrinking income, his wife's family shows him every day, especially his mother-in-law stings his wallet.
At the same time, my wife only knows how to spend money and is used to spending money; her husband seems to be harmless, but privately seeks Bart to kill his wife (that is, Bart's mother-in-law).
Bart refused with technical difficulty.
has nothing to do. In order to keep the customers, he can only accept Mrs. Ko's request and provide "special services"-that is, records the killing of the murder target in for the benefactors to watch and relieve their hatred.
But he has to carry the gun and the camera alone, and the effect is not good.
can only find a down-and-coming filmmaker Ah Quan who wants to be Martin Scorsese. The two of
cooperate with each other tacitly: Bart plays the role of the killer, and at best cooperates with Ah Quan in terms of light and angle; Ah Quan puts his enthusiasm for the nowhere to be placed in the film into different killing orders. The film made by the best partner of
made the ladies stunnedThe tongue, the degree of completion is super high.
Bart's business is also booming, orders are flooding in, and the money is soft.
almost monopolized the killing service of Mrs. Ko in Hong Kong.
Until one time, before killing the black boss, he forgot to shout "Brother Hong Xingbiao let me kill you". So that the film failed.
But Ah Quan deserves to be a "director's house (is there such a thing)", he proposed "re-shooting".
However, a few seconds of re-shooting is actually very complicated. Ah Quan brought in actor friends and girlfriends to come over to play the role.
Speaking of it, this is also the first time I have seen it in a movie: filmmaking turned out to be such a complicated thing.
Who knows that the make-up is not finished, Brother Biao can't wait to come over, and then asks himself to replace Bart. In short,
is that actors are afraid of directors, directors are afraid of productions, and producers are afraid of gold masters-gold masters don't understand . So most movies are rubbish.
This paragraph is the most direct mockery of Hong Kong movies (and not our current movies). The final outcome of
is thought-provoking. Bart was a killer because he admired Alan Delon’s appearance in "The Lone Killer"; but after he really became an actor and played as a killer, he found that it was not the case at all. .
Ah Quan finally became a famous director, but everyone said he imitated Martin Scorsese.
Actually, I am very concerned about how Ahquan’s girlfriend Michiko is doing, but the movie does not give an explanation.
She is an unknown actress from Japan. She works as a counselor on the set of a love action movie-what is a counselor? Go and watch it yourself.
Then she came to Hong Kong to chase her dream. Although she was taken advantage of by various kinds on the set, she still insisted and believed that one day she could get out of the circle through hard work.
Relying on his love for movies and his "incompetence" to the Hong Kong film circle, Peng Haoxiang pushed himself to the level of the Academy Awards.
didn't know if he would have thought that after many years, his "unacceptable" still exists, but his love seems to be missing.
Uncontested
Peng Haoxiang really liked movies and dared to take risks.
even has a bit of spine at the Golden Image Awards, dare to nominate "Buying a Murder and Shooting People" that satirizes the entire film industry.
But later, perhaps it was because of the excessive power of capital in the Chinese-language film market; it could also be the decline of Hong Kong movies, which brought inexplicable pressure on Director Peng. In short, his works no longer have aura. The original features of
, such as trivial, spit, brain hole, etc., are all like melons that have been gnawed, not fragrant.
so that after reading "Chunjiao Save Zhiming", I wrote an outrageous article called "Peng Haoxiang's Entry into the Palace". The full text was so irritating that I went to Weibo and forwarded it to Director Peng. Unfortunately, it was received by the system. deleted.
I still remember that after watching "Buying the Murders and Shooting People", I also wrote an article called "Quentin is so true". The same enthusiasm sent to Weibo, but Director Peng said back to me, don't compare him with the director of the same period, just watch the work well or bad.
one after another, one drink and one peck.
"Buying the Murder and Shooting People" was released in 2001, and it is almost 20 years now. The 20 years of
are also 20 years in which Hong Kong movies have been hard to come back and eventually died. The occasional "jumping of corpses" in recent years cannot conceal the truth that it has long since passed away.
But as a fan and not a critic, I hope Peng Haoxiang can recover. After all, although there are a lot more Chinese-language movies that can be watched, they are amazing, and there are not many movies a year.
This is perhaps the most irreconcilable contradiction between directors and fans: Although I still want to watch Peng Haoxiang-style movies, Director Peng doesn't seem to like making movies anymore.
