Lau Ching-wan and Ng Chun-yu shot many classic works in the 1990s, among which the most talked about is Galaxy Image's pioneering work "The Birth of a Prefix".
The movie had mixed reviews when it was released, and even hovered on the edge of being a bad movie. However, it was finally rehabilitated many years later and is regarded as a classic of director Wei Jiahui. Due to copyright issues, there has never been a restored version. Every time it is re-released in the theater, it is always full.
However, for the two actors, "The Birth of a Prefix" was a nightmare. Liu Qingyun even said categorically: "It is the most difficult movie I have ever made since I started acting. It was more difficult than filming "The First Time"."
Have you worked hard on "Emergency"? Where is the hard work?
Galaxy Image's entrepreneurial work "The Birth of a Prefix", produced by Johnnie To and directed by Wei Jiahui, requires innovation and not repetition. The story of "The Birth of a Prefix" originated from a decision made by Liu Qingyun in the play, which will lead to two endings. Wei Jiahui filmed both endings for everyone to see.
This is not the hard part. The most difficult thing is that Wei Sheng required many scenes to be shot in one take with long shots, including large-scale action scenes.
Lau Ching Wan: ""The Birth of a Prefix" is the hardest movie I have ever worked on since I started working on a movie. I have worked harder than "The Last Day". "The Last Day" is dangerous because there are many chemicals and I have to shoot a scene every day, but "One Day" is dangerous. The hard thing about "Zitou" is that you don't know what to do with a scene, a bunch of people, a shot of a large group of people, and a wide-angle lens. If the camera turns around and someone is late or disobedient, everything will happen. Everything has to be done over again. If you think about it, everyone took 3 or 4 takes, and the fire started to rise!"
Wu Zhenyu quite agreed, and he also described the fish pond collapse in the scene as "unforgettable". play.
Zhenyu: "After filming all night that day, we went to a place in Yuen Long and had to pretend to be mud in a fish pond. We slowly lost our support along the way. But do you know how deep the water in the fish pond is? There is only so much water in the fish pond. (up to waist level), so you have to collapse in, cry out, "Oops!" As long as one person has the wrong rhythm or is not consistent, we have to do it again.
Of course Wu Zhenyu will get angry at this moment: "x! Who! Then he has to go up and flush the water, from dry to wet and then many times. You know the fish pond, the life, death and burial of the fish are all here, it seems that they were photographed 3 or 4 times , everyone no longer cares about how unbearable the fish pond is, so they finished filming and went home. Fortunately, Xu Jinjiang’s scene was so good (editor’s note: it’s actually still happening), otherwise he would have been too stupid and too stupid! Gao, how come you are not successful? So Xu Jinjiang always troubles us."
There was also a scene where Zou Kaiguang set fire to the car and exploded before the others got out of the car. Wu Zhenyu saw it during the filming. Every car was filled with electric fuel, three big bags of it, and what worried him most was that the crew arranged to use radio to ignite the ignition...
Francis Ng: "I got on the car and saw bags of purple stuff on the car, flashing under the lights. It flashed back and forth, and there were three big bags of gasoline. It turned out that the gasoline was purple because I had never seen such a big bag before. "
Zhenyu recalled that the radio detonation was used in the filming, and it was indeed triggered by a phone call.
"It's true! One time a staff member suddenly shouted at the scene: 'Oops!' I asked what happened? 'He asked who was calling?' I said?! x you old x, we are not dead this time Is it settled? Boss, everyone was chatting in the car, and then suddenly everything was gone."
Liu Qingyun added: "The movie industry will be over by then!"
Zhenyu: "Yeah, Then there will be no shortage of people. After this group of people are exposed, they will have to support each other. There must be new people!"
Zhenyu wanted to perform with peace of mind, so he asked the crew to separate the lines first and wait for everyone to leave. Plug in the wire and detonate.
Lau Ching Wan: "In another scene we were filming, there was an uncle who held a gun, loaded it, and pointed it at me. The design of the scene was for him to speak the dialogue, and after I finished speaking, I would shrink down and he would fire several shots. The person in charge of the firearms My colleague had already told me, and I told my uncle, "Uncle, it's so simple. Just don't put your finger on the shooting area, because as soon as you put it up, you will press it when you get excited. So I kept looking at him, and when I saw him moving his fingers, I stopped him: ‘Uncle! Uncle! Uncle! ’ He replied to me: ‘Yes! right! right! ’ Because it’s true that he will fight whenever he gets excited. "
The whole film was completed under a situation full of unknowns. Although the painting was not recognized that day, it has become a classic. In the end, Galaxy Image is just like its title and plot. It established itself through ups and downs. Unique prefix
