The movie " Customs Front " directed by Qiu Litao and starring Nicholas Tse , Jacky Cheung, and Karen Lam is currently in theaters. As a Hong Kong-style police film, the film focuses on the customs department, which is rarely seen on the big screen, and tells the thrilling story of how they cracked a major smuggling case. The film not only stars Jacky Cheung, who has not filmed for a long time, but also stars Nicholas Tse as the action director for the first time.
"Customs Front" director Qiu Litao, action director and lead actor Nicholas Tse, lead actor Carrie Lam, and lead actor Kwan Chi-bin appeared at the Shanghai Cinema to share the behind-the-scenes stories of the film with Shanghai audiences.
The film tells the story of a cargo ship that the customs seized during a routine maritime patrol that contained a large number of lethal weapons. During the investigation, it was bombed and robbed by a group of overseas forces. In order to track down the truth about smuggling, Zhang Yunnan (played by Jacky Cheung) sent his subordinate Zhou Zhengli (played by Nicholas Tse) to go overseas with the Interpol, and went through the huge and complex arms black market. Zhou Zhengli, who was chasing clues under heavy fire, just had a clue, and then he found out what had happened. There is another hidden secret behind the theft of arms...
In the film, Jacky Cheung and Nicholas Tse, who have not appeared on the big screen for a long time, play a pair of master-student customs policemen. Jacky Cheung plays Zhang Yunnan, who suffers from high-functioning depression. In the eyes of outsiders, he is strong and emotionally intelligent. High, but in fact his heart is full of pain and struggle.
Off-screen, the two collaborated on the theme song of "Customs Front" "Far Far Away", composed by Nicholas Tse and sung by Jacky Cheung.
Nicholas Tse, who has always been keen on creating rock music, the movie theme song he created for "The God of Song" is extremely gentle and calm, and has a sense of innovation in lyrical rock.
Jacky Cheung's performance can be said to be steady and progressive. In the "acting" in the film, he presents the pain and division of patients with emotional illness in contemporary cities; in the "singing" in the song, he sings about human nature with a voice full of story-telling. Sea sea, desolation and helplessness.
Regarding this theme song, Nicholas Tse shared that the creation took place during the filming of the film. After filming the final scene of the film with Jacky Cheung where the master and the apprentice are accompanied by the seaside, drinking and talking, he came up with the concept of "a place far away". In order to express his passion for creation, he wrote this "very psychotic" song based on the experiences of the characters in the film and his own thoughts on contemporary people's social relationships. In the
film, Nicholas Tse, who "unlocked" his new identity, not only formed his own action team, but also insisted on "no post-production" in the fighting scenes, "no special effects" in the explosion scenes, and everything had to be "real", such as helicopters hoisting cars and snatching weapons. Fighting at high altitudes with a life-threatening jump, holding your breath and engaging in life-and-death fights with opponents underwater, and a long shot of "one dozen and more" with 64 moves.
serves as an action director for the first time. Nicholas Tse has also gained a deeper understanding of shooting action films. Regarding the choice between real-life shooting and special effects, he believes that the effect of real-life shooting is still far better than special effects. "In addition to budget constraints, the actors' microscopic There is no way to do detailed special effects such as facial expressions and clothing fluctuations, so I think we should stick to real people. I think Chinese action movies have a place in the world because of this skill. It would be a pity to give up now. "
There is another person at the Shanghai road show. Special audiences and a group of main creators expressed their own viewing experience and inner feelings. It turned out that this audience member was a student from Shanghai Customs College. She expressed excitedly that she was very grateful to the director for focusing his creation on the customs community, and also to the actors for vividly interpreting the anti-smuggling tasks of customs officers.
At the end of his speech, the audience also enthusiastically called on candidates to apply for the Customs College and Customs agencies. Lin Jiaxin said that she had admiration for the customs officers the day she tried on the uniform. Guan Zhibin also expressed the hope that more students at the Customs College can take the exam. Go to the theater and watch the movie.
