directed and written by Feng Zhiqiang, and produced by Er Dongsheng, the movie "Crime Scene" starring Louis Koo, Zhang Jicong, Xuan Xuan, Yan Zhuoling, Jiang Haowen, was released nationwide on October 12, and the box office exceeded 100 million in three days. The film opens with a murder case, which leads to the investigation of who is the murderer. The criminal played by Gu Tianle became the most wanted criminal, but as the investigation deepened, it was not simple to discover the truth of the case.
The structure of the film is a bit similar to "Murder on the Orient Express", but director Feng Zhiqiang said that he was not affected by the movie, "just hope to do something original". He was a screenwriter and participated in the script creation of Zhou Xingchi's movies many times. Such as "Shaolin Football", "Yangtze River No. 7", "Journey to the West" and "Mermaid", this time he co-produced Er Dongsheng, and Gu Tianle and Xuan Xuan, a pair of screen partners for many years, have renewed their leading edge. What's interesting is that the film is the sixth film that model worker actor Louis Koo has on the big screen in the mainland this year. According to the project, from 2019 to 2020, there are still 17 films in which Koo Tianle participated in the show, and most of them have been finished. "Crime Scene" is probably not the last Koo Tianle on the screen this year. The Beijing News reporter exclusively interviewed the film's producer Er Dongsheng and director Feng Zhiqiang to talk about the behind-the-scenes story of the film's creation.
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Directors Feng Zhiqiang and Yee Dongsheng met at the Hong Kong Directors’ Association, but they have had no chance to cooperate. The last work of the two was all music made by Jin Peida, so they started to talk about how to find Jin Peida to make music, and slowly talked about Feng Zhiqiang's script. Er Dongsheng revealed that this script has been in the works for a long time. I originally found another actor to perform it, but in the end it didn’t work together. So I thought of Gu Tianle. “As a result, Feng Zhiqiang met Gu Tianle the next day. Interest." Koo Tianle’s Tianxia Company became one of the producers, and the long-awaited project began.
Er Dongsheng is also a screenwriter. He has read Feng Zhiqiang's previous screenwriters. After seeing the new script this time, he feels that the style is different from the previous one. “It pays more attention to reasoning and is relatively rare in the market”. He said that as a producer, he will give new directors a lot of space in creation. “I don’t care what shooting technique is used, and I won’t be on the scene all the time. Basically, I will leave it to the director.” However, Er Dongsheng played a role as a supervisor. The role of coordination, how to grasp the scale of the script, can not only meet the requirements of the investors, but also pass the review. In the end, Er Dongsheng also participated in the final cut of the film, and as a result, ten versions were cut.
In recent years, Er Dongsheng has been a producer and has supported many young directors. Some of the films have low cost and good scripts. He does not charge any money and helps to do them for free. During the interview, Feng Zhiqiang expressed his gratitude to Er Dongsheng, calling him the "Batman" of the new film director. Er Dongsheng said, you don’t have to thank me. I collect money for normal movies. "Gu Tianle has paid me a production fee for this movie."
Story
Choosing a parrot as an eyewitness
"Crime Scene" is the fourth work directed by Feng Zhiqiang. The first three movies are action comedies, crazy comedies, and musical love genres. This time it is an original cop type. He wanted to cut into the story from the perspective of a witness. He felt that if the witness was an animal, it would be more interesting. Few people took photos like this before. He considered cats and dogs, but thought it was too routine, and finally chose a parrot as a witness to witness the entire crime scene. Because the parrot can talk and has the IQ of a human 5-year-old child, he can take notes with the police, so the story starts from here.
"There is only one parrot in the movie. In fact, many different parrots were arranged during filming." The director revealed that it is impossible to prepare only one for shooting animals, because the parrots are difficult to tune, and the crew took a long time to capture their looks. Some are more beautiful when flying, some are more pleasant to speak, and some are more cute in a daze. Most of the time they are waiting there, "Can't force it." However, some of the more dangerous shots have special effects.
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Koo Tianle Xuanxuan worked together after 18 years in the
film. Wang Xinyuan, played by Koo Tianle, is a gangster, but sometimes shows a very affectionate side. When the director first designed this character, he set a bottom line for this character: he would only show mercy to those who betrayed him. After
decided to play Wang Xinyuan as Louis Koo, the director was considering the landlady. Because the main line of the whole story is how Wang Xinyuan startedThe criminals slowly found their conscience to be liberated, and the landlady was an important role in triggering Wang Xinyuan's transformation. In the director’s setting, the landlady’s eyes are not good. I don’t know that Wang Xinyuan is a wanted criminal. She has a different attitude towards him. This makes Wang Xinyuan feel another possibility in life, and slowly treats the landlady as the landlady. A safe haven. The director felt that these two roles must be actors with a tacit understanding. Although each encounter is short, it can spark sparks. Naturally, he thought of Xuan Xuan, who had previously worked with Louis Koo. The film also contributed to the first collaboration between the two people on the big screen in 18 years since "Looking for the Qin".
"Model Worker" Louis Koo
Unreleased movie
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(co-actor: Wen Bixia)
"Dynasty Warriors"
(co-actor: Wang Kai Han Geng)
"Escape from Birth Day 2"
z(co-actor) : Liu Qingyun)
"Destroying Phase"
(co-actor: Lin Jiadong)
"Death Notice: Dark One"
(co-actor: Wu Zhenyu)
"Guardian"
(co-actor: Zhang Jiahui)
"Tomorrow's War"
(cooperating actor: Liu Qingyun)
"egg waffle"
(cooperating actor: Lin Jiadong)
"not falling down"
(cooperating actor: Ariel Lin)
"Money Empire 2: The Four Inspectors"
(cooperating actor: Liang Jiahui)
"Looking for the Qin"
(cooperating actor: Lin Feng)
"Inspecting the Wind"
(cooperating actor: Andy Lau)
"Fighting the Darkness"
(cooperating actor: Zhang Jiahui)
"Wind Forest Volcano"
(cooperating actor: Takeshi Kaneshiro)
"Anti-Corruption Storm 5"
"Wind and Cloud"
"New Shushan"
■ Action drama
Jewelry shop robbery
This is a flashback in the film. It is about the robbery of the jewelry store by the gangster Wang Xinyuan led by Gu Tianle. This scene was filmed in a downtown area. The scene was relatively large, mainly to show Wang Xinyuan's courage. It feels like the whole world knows that he robbed a jewelry store. However, the director designed this scene as a flashback to tell the audience that the movie is actually talking about a person who has done bad things before and how to find a way to get back to himself.
The laundry explosion scene
This scene is mainly to show the pain of the role, the director designed a "one shot to the end" long shot, Wang Xinyuan played by Gu Tianle and Ouyang played by his brother Li Cansen after speaking in the laundry, the shot After leaving the laundry with Gu Tianle, there was an explosion. The camera followed Gu Tianle back to the shop and saw that Li Cansen had been killed.
Four-player gunfight
This four-person gunfight, including Louis Koo, Jiang Haowen, and Zhang Jicong, is considered by the director to be the most difficult to shoot in the whole film, because the interaction between the four characters must be shown in this action scene. , Each of them has different psychological development, which is the most difficult to deal with.
Mass graves gun battle
The last scene of the film chose mass graves. The director referred to a real place and then found a mountain to build some tombstones on it. He also chose such a place as the ending of Wang Xinyuan’s character. And the final destination.
