has worked with many famous directors in Stephen Chow's film career, and Liu Zhenwei is the one to be mentioned anyway. The reason is simple. The big story of Journey to the West, which is still regarded by most people as "God Work", came from him.
Liu Zhenwei
When looking back at the two films being released in 1995, the audience screamed and expressed “unintelligible”, including Fang Yihua, who was already at the senior level of Shaw Brothers, was also chatting with Liu Zhenwei. "How can Monkey King have love?" to express my confusion. Fortunately, many years later, after everyone's careful interpretation, I finally gave a fair evaluation of the work.
"Return to Soul Night" Stephen Chow
However, the film mentioned below is still the most controversial of Stephen Chow's works today. That is "Return Soul Night" which was also released in 1995. Liu Zhenwei served as director and screenwriter.
"Return to Soul Night"
If divided according to the traditional Hong Kong movie genre, "Return to Soul Night" is a "ghost film", a genre that Stephen Chow is less involved in, but Liu Zhenwei came in handy. As far as the audience is concerned, they have to face a doubt, that is, the film is more biased towards Stephen Chow's nonsensical performance or Liu Zhenwei's classic routine?
Zhou Xingchi
Zhou Xingchi played Leon is a great challenge, because for the first time in his film career, he had the most direct contact with "abnormal humans". Due to the limitation of the character background, Leon has relatively few lines and cannot highlight Zhou Xingchi's "eloquence". Although there are dialogues between characters, two or more people are often not on the same channel. Correspondingly, Zhou Xingchi added some perverse little moves in this film, which adds a lot to the film. Frankly speaking, this is a better attempt for actors, but it is really a matter of the benevolent who sees the benevolent and the wise sees the wisdom of the benevolent.
"Return to the Soul Night" Karen Mok
As a screenwriter and director, Liu Zhenwei played a lot this time. Because he "borrowed" the role of the classic movie "This Killer Is Not So Cold". In addition to "This Assassin Isn't Cold", Liu Zhenwei still does not forget to tease his friend Wang Jiawei and "bring" "Chongqing Forest" into "Return to the Soul Night". Fortunately, his "tribute" to the two works is within the acceptable range, otherwise a lot of talk will be left behind.
"Return to the Soul Night"
In fact, if you have a better understanding of Liu Zhenwei's work, you should be able to find the shadow of another movie in "Return to the Soul Night", that is, "The Mansion of Ghost The same limited scenes are all in a building; the same character configuration, the undercover police squad corresponds to the security team; the same funny stalk, the "eating money" bridge is indispensable. However, compared with the directness and exaggeration of the previous work, the latter has obviously improved a lot in terms of characterization and story depth. What needs to be pointed out is that the background music created by Hu Weili for this film is really mysterious, and it is indeed a classic "scary" element.
Back to the Soul Night
This work devoted much of Liu Zhenwei’s hard work was not cleared when the audience was on the "Westward Journey" when it was released, and they saw such a "weird" work, resulting in unsatisfactory box office results, only 1600 Ten thousand Hong Kong dollars. What you need to know is that "Big Westward Journey" was criticized at the time, and the two parts of the movie still had more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. Perhaps, solid data is also one of the reasons why the movie lingers in the controversy circle!
Zhou Xingchi
Liu Zhenwei once said that the reason for the script "Return to the Soul Night" was because the genius-like concept of "Journey to the West" did not get the due praise, but received extremely negative reviews. From his personal point of view, he could not change the current situation at the time, but he could use his works to speak, so he used the neurosis in the eyes of ordinary people to become a "ghost hunter", conceiving a novel and profound story. On the one hand, he can show his talent in screenwriting, on the other hand, he is also a kind of uncompromising. He is still dissatisfied with the loss of the box office and word-of-mouth of "Western Journey". It's a pity that the idea is good, but there is a suspicion of being lazy in specific operations, even if those things are originally my own creativity. However, according to the production speed of Hong Kong films at that time, the time left for him was not very abundant. Interestingly, Ms. Fang Yihua also participated in the behind-the-scenes work of the film as the producer.
回魂夜
No matter whether it is Stephen Chow’s most controversial work in your mind, a shining point must exist, that is, Liu Zhenwei still retains the unconvinced spirit when shooting the movie, and it is also for us Respect retains meaning.
