The movie "Assassination Storm" adapted from Zhou Haohui's high-scoring suspense novel "Death Notice: Darker" was recently released. How is the performance of "Assassination Storm", which tests the new direction of suspense reasoning in the traditional genre of Hong Kong-style police and gangster films and gathers many powerful Hong Kong actors?
html On August 24, director Qiu Litao and the original author Zhou Haohui brought the movie "Assassination Storm" as guests on the movie channel's "Today's Film Review" program, revealing the behind-the-scenes secrets of this suspenseful crime movie to the audience.
The director’s original work was rated by each other.
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was a guest on "Today's Film Critic". The two main creators rated each other's "performance" respectively. Director Qiu Litao gave Zhou Haohui's original work a score of 9 because "nothing is perfect in the world, and a score of 9 is the highest." In his opinion, the layout of this original novel is very different. The mysterious killer "Darker" changes from a person to a symbol and an idea, which is very interesting. Zhou Haohui gave Qiu Litao's directorial work 8 points, with 1 point "deducted" because he looks forward to better creations in the future, and the other 1 point he hopes to make up for it after getting familiar with it and working together again. He pointed out that Director Qiu's film style can well present what the novel wants to express. In this regard, Qiu Litao also said with a smile that when watching movies adapted from novels, he would find that the details of the novels were not shown. "If I were him, I would be so angry!"
Talking about the starring actors in the same film, Zhou Haohui said to " "Today's Film Critics" shared that Zhang Chilin was recognized by many book fans as being very suitable for the role of Luo Fei. From the image to the wisdom, calmness, restraint but inner enthusiasm, the temperament is very consistent. Qiu Litao added that Zhang Zhilin likes to play intellectual games very much, and he feels a little melancholy when he is not talking, which is in line with the sad state of the character's girlfriend in the film after his girlfriend passed away. Regarding Louis Koo's performance, Zhou Haohui continued to point out to "Today's Film Critic" that he made some breakthrough performances, played four roles, and brought enough twists to the audience. In order to bring freshness to Louis Koo, who has dominated the screen in recent years, Qiu Litao bluntly said that in addition to his multiple roles, he also needs to put makeup on him frequently. Once after three or four hours of makeup, his skin was a bit broken, which was very hard.
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Regarding Wu Zhenyu's performance, Zhou Haohui told "Today's Film Critic" that he has a very personal style and accurately grasped the contradictory state of good and evil in the character of Han Hao. Talking about the cooperation of three "familiar" actors, Qiu Litao also shared his fun on the set with "Today's Film Critic". According to him, in a scene where Ng Chun-yu and Julian Cheung were in the command car, the dialogue between the two quarreling was "impossible to write". They could only make the two understand each other's positions and then rely on the tacit understanding of many years of cooperation to perform. "I just want them to speak at almost the same time, very fast but not overshadowing each other's scenes, so the rhythm is very troublesome. When I say Cut, I actually find it funny."
Regarding the directing sequence of "Assassination Storm" Qiu Litao admitted to "Today's Film Critic" that he was in a "path-exploring position, taking a road I have never walked before." He continued to say that for him, this road is feasible and not a dead end. The film adds suspense and reasoning features to the story frame of a police film. Although this feature has been found in previous Chinese-language films, there are not many, especially since he has never filmed it himself. "If this attempt is successful to a certain extent, maybe our next episode will really focus on the plot. The action is what the plot needs. If it is not needed, just leave it without it. It doesn't necessarily need to be packaged as an action movie, just It is a very neat and suspenseful movie."
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