. It only took fourteen days to shoot in the early stage. It is said that it took four days to write the script. This situation is probably a bad film now.
However, under the many bad movie elements, relying on many powerful actors, can actually turn the corruption into magic, and make a movie that should be a bad movie into a classic.
Someone said: If one day, only one comedy movie is allowed in the world.
It must be "East and West"!
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This movie that made countless people happy was released in 1993.
"East is the West" is produced by Wong Kar-wai, directed by Liu Zhenwei, Huang Zhan and Lei Songde are in charge of the soundtrack work, the photography director is Bao Dexi, the art director is Wong Kar-wai’s Zhang Shuping, and the martial arts director is Hong Jinbao...
and also has big names The troupe, like Zhou Xingchi, Li Zongsheng, and Lin Yilian.
The conscience of heaven and earth, from the director to the producer to the soundtrack, the film was half of the Hong Kong film scene at that time! The cast of
is even more powerful, almost the all-star lineup of the golden age of Hong Kong movies: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Karen Leung, Carina Lau, Chung Zhentao, Ye Yuqing, Wang Zuxian, etc. Is
just picking one out alone enough to hold up a movie?
is such a group of big-name actors, who gather together to laugh and swear, completely disregarding their own image, doing their best to make fun, and dedicated a classic comedy movie to the audience.
Of course, many people know the behind-the-scenes story of "East as the West".
When Wong Kar-wai was filming "Evil and West Poison" in 1992, the shooting budget exceeded the budget.
In order to relieve the urgent need, the partner Liu Zhenwei used the original team of "Evil East and West Poison" to shoot a funny version, and it was released in the Lunar New Year archives that year, so "East becomes West".
It was the end of the year when the shooting of "East and West" started, but Liu Zhenwei still worked hand in hand with the superstars to catch the last train of the Lunar New Year stall.
still rushed to the Valentine's Day due to the early Chinese New Year that year. In the end, the box office in Hong Kong was 22 million Hong Kong dollars, ranking 10th in the year. Although
is not as good as the same year's "Tang Bohu Point the Autumn Fragrance" and "Happy Anniversary in the Flower Field", these box office revenues finally made Wong Kar-wai finished filming "Evil and West Poison".
In other words, without "Eastern Evil", "Eastern Evil and Western Poison" may be "dystocia".
Although Director Liu himself is not very satisfied, in today’s opinion, "East as the West" is also regarded as a classic in comedy, and the classic lines and passages in it still make people laugh today. power. The reason why classic movies of
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endures for a long time is that one of the scenes has aroused strong resonance from the audience.
is just like the passage that Zhizunbao said to Zixia in "A Journey to the West", and has become the most classic scene in Journey to the West. The passage of
also resonated with many people, and the combination of other elements made it a classic.
And in "East as the West", I always remember Tony Leung’s sausage mouth, Ye Yuqing’s crab dance, and the hidden weapon in the boots, the big tripods with the scriptures of nine Yin, the famous "Shuangfeiyan" and "I love "you" and Leung Ka Fai's stunning female appearance are really unforgettable.
As long as you talk about this film, the segments and characters in it appear in front of your eyes completely out of the control of your mind. In a very strange way, it is: never think of it, never forget.
Jacky Cheung used "the whitest and cleanest young gang leader in the history of the Beggar Gang" to confirm the style of painting.
Carina Lau is considered the most open-minded of the female stars. She played Zhou Botong in "East and West", and her relationship with the brother Wang Chongyang, played by Zhong Zhentao, was unclear. , It's so fierce.
Maggie Cheung has relatively few scenes, but her utterances are also very comical.
Wang Zuxian has always been the screen image of the goddess Fan, but he has become a "female nerve" in "East as the West".
's cousin Tow Wai Leung with sausage mouth, nothing makes the male audience more happy than a handsome guy using himself to start a bath.
Leslie Cheung is still practicing with Wang Zuxian as soon as he appears on the stage.When in ecstasy, turning around and seeing Brigitte Lin, she started to become nympho.
Liang Jiahui plays both the Dali Prince Duan and his grandfather. He exploded in English as soon as he came up, and then he came to Central Plains to find a real man.
When the two met, the two singing and dancing performances in the inn were the climax of the movie. Huang Zhan's two ghostly episodes "Brother Liang" and "Against the Swallow" played a huge comedic role.
The beggar gang leader who won back from Guessing Boxing, the cousin Hong Qi, who doesn’t want to commit suicide by herself, is the "cousin" who feels crushed by others every day;
scary animals and people who scared animals, Wang Chongyang who was injured by a hidden boot , Zhou Botong, who loves muscular guys, has a brow and a sword, affectionate swords, and so on.
is ridiculous and funny, so some people say that this movie subverts the meaning of martial arts.
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This 93-year film still seems to be a classic among the classics. Many of the funny sections Liu Zhenwei used in it were from the movies he directed before.
Although maybe it can not bring us any deep ideas.
However, it does not require us to think, it only requires us to laugh, how to be happy and how to be happy.
It is carefree from the heart, purely for the purpose of funny, it is for the box office itself, and there is no unnecessary consideration of winning and acting.
Unconstrained imagination, proficient comedy techniques, nonsensical performance, super fast rhythm, smooth martial arts, bright colors and fine art, really special Liu Zhenwei's style.
I really like to watch the two films "Evil Evil" and "Easy to the West" together. I just think it's very enjoyable to watch this way.
can see these stars with completely different performance styles to extremes, but it is said that the two films were shot almost at the same time. You can imagine how "painful" these stars are.
tried to imagine a scene. When filming, these same actors went crazy with Liu Zhenwei during the day, and at night with Wong Kar-wei in the spring and the autumn. Does it feel like "great joy and great compassion"?
Some people say that there are always sorrows, and joy is hard to last, and they cannot always expect gods to come down to rescue.
A movie can entertain you, and that is his greatest significance.
classic spoof movies will of course still appear, but it’s hard to have any classics like "East is the West".
That is the best time in Hong Kong movies. Every fragment in the play is almost a classic of Hong Kong style.
