The movie " Customs Front " directed by Qiu Litao and starring Nicholas Tse , Jacky Cheung, and Karen Lam is currently in theaters. Last weekend, director Qiu Litao, action director and lead star Nicholas Tse, lead star Carrie Lam, and lead actor Guan Zhibin appeared at Shanghai Cinemas last weekend to share the behind-the-scenes stories of the film with the audience.
As a Hong Kong-style police film, this film focuses on the customs department that rarely appears on the big screen. During a routine maritime patrol, the Customs seized a cargo ship containing 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 has high emotional intelligence. , 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 Jacky Cheung is extremely graceful and calm, with 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 presented the pain and division of patients with emotional illness in contemporary cities; in the "singing" in the song, he sang about the ocean of humanity with a voice full of story. The sea is desolate and helpless.
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 chatting and having a drink at the beach, he suddenly became interested in the concept of "a place far away". He developed a passion for creation. Combining the situations and experiences of the characters in the film with his own thoughts on contemporary people's social relationships, he wrote this "very psychotic" song.
In the film, Nicholas Tse, who loves action movies but serves as the "action director" for the first time in a movie, not only formed his own action team, but also insisted on "no post-production" in the fighting scenes and "no special effects" in the explosion scenes, and everything must be "real" ", such as a helicopter hoisting a car, a life-threatening jump and fighting at high altitude, holding your breath in a life-and-death struggle with an opponent underwater, and a "one dozen and more" 64-move long shot scene. Regarding the choice between real-life shooting and special effects, the action director bluntly said that the effect of real-life shooting is still far better than special effects at present: "In addition to budget constraints, there is no way to do detailed special effects such as actors' micro-expressions and clothing fluctuations, so I think We must 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." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Sun Jiayin)
