Speaking of Hong Kong-produced films, everyone must think of Liu Zhenwei's two films "A Chinese Journey to the West: The Great Sage" and "A Chinese Journey to the West: Moonlight Treasure Box". These two films with ratings of 9.2 and 9.0 can be said to be Hong Kong. The film's most memorable film. Director Liu Zhenwei of
has also become one of Hong Kong's most famous directors because of these two films. These two films have also become the pinnacle of Liu Zhenwei.
In addition, the works of his subsequent directors are all lackluster. After the same series, the film "A Story of Journey to the West: Love You for Ten Thousand Years" only has a low score of 3.5. People are too impressed.
And the director of the film we are going to introduce today is Liu Zhenwei. He shot this "East to the West" before the two "Journey to the West". Among the top five Hong Kong films on a certain movie platform, three One is his work, and the other two are Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy" and Wang Jiawei's "Chongqing Forest".
, who was born as a screenwriter, has shown his extraordinary screenwriting ability in both "A Chinese Journey to the West", and the next "East to Become West" is also a work written and directed by him.
This Dong Chengxi was filmed in 1992 and was released on Valentine’s Day the following year. At that time, the film was made to save the scene, because the filming of "Evil West Poison" directed by Wong Kar Wai far exceeded the expected time. Under the unhappy business, Wong Kar-wai remembered his good partner Liu Zhenwei, and strongly recommended him to shoot a comedy emergency, which was the birth of "East and West".
Although the film was completed without a script, and time was limited at the time, it took only 27 days to complete the filming in order to be released in time for the Spring Festival, but the film was well received after it was released. Exceeding the two-year-old filming of "Evil East and West Poison", the box office also entered the top ten Hong Kong-produced films that year, and Zhou Xingchi's "Tang Bohu Dian Qiuxiang" was the top 10 Hong Kong box office in 1993, reaching 22 million. "Evil East and West Poison" is only less than 10 million.
Originally, all the big names signed the contract for the upper and lower parts of "Evil and West Poison", so they were just drawn to shoot "Easy and West", which also made this film that still seems to be a super lineup. . This can be regarded as the all-star lineup of the golden age of Hong Kong movies, including Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Karen Leung, Chung Chung, Ye Yuqing and Joey Wang.
is not only an all-star actor, but also a production team that brings together half of the Hong Kong film industry. Director Liu Zhenwei is Wong Kar-wai's gold partner and the director of the famous film "The Holy Gambling" by Star Chow. The martial arts director Sammo Hung is familiar to everyone. Art director Zhang Shuping He has won nearly 20 awards at the Hong Kong Academy Awards. The masterpiece of photography director Bao Dexi is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Huang Zhan, one of the four greatest talents in Hong Kong, wrote lyrics and music for the film episode.
In this film, everyone is most impressed by the self-breaking performance of these ten big stars. Let me take you to review it below.
1 Leslie Cheung: The first thing
wants to talk about is naturally his brother's performance. In this film, the elder brother plays the role of Medicine Master Dongxie Huang. His identity is very complicated. He is not only a cousin and senior brother and sister with Wang Zuxian, but also has fate with Master Yideng (Nandi).
He is the "sincere man" of Master Yideng. He has three 6s on his chest. If he says "I love you" three times, Master Yideng (Nandi) will be promoted to immortality.
2 Lin Qingxia: The second person
will introduce is the three princesses played by Lin Qingxia. She has a noble status, but she was chased and killed at the beginning, and she is a princess in trouble.
She and Dongxie Huang Yaoshi studied under the same person, and can be regarded as a sister and brother. The only move that she is good at is "Boundless Sea". It's a pity that the attack direction of this move is erratic, and she has been killed many times. In addition to the relationship between
and Huang Yaoshi, she also had a marriage contract with a master in the film, that is, Master Yideng, but she readily agreed to Master Yideng's decision to be a god after her marriage.
3 Tony Leung: After
has finished talking about Dongxie, it is natural to talk about Ouyang Feng of Western Drugs. Tony Leung contributed a disfigured performance in the film. The two-part sausage mouth is really impressive.
he is in this movieIn the film, the stepmother and queen of the three princesses (played by Brigitte Lin) is a cousin, who also intends to murder the emperor and the princess, is a big villain who does no evil.
The few matches between him and Beigai Hongqigong made everyone hate him and feel distressed. It was too sad and urging. They couldn't escape being beaten. In the end, they were carried back into the hole by a bunch of monsters.
4 Liang Jiahui:
has finished talking about Ouyang Feng, who is quite scheming, and now I want to talk about the dull king and the third princess (played by Lin Qingxia) in this film. He has been looking for his sincere person from the beginning. Asking everyone on the street to show him whether there is a mark on his body is also very affectionate.
In this film, his biggest highlight is a rivalry with Dongxie Huang Yaoshi (played by Leslie Cheung). This reverse dance is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Everyone says he is the ugliest reverse dance in the film.
5 Carina Lau:
talks about cross-talking. In the film, in addition to the women who cross-talked Leung Ka-fai, there is also a true old naughty boy Zhou Botong who cross-crossed Carina Lau. Carina Lau is really free, not only to cross-talk, but also with herself in the film His brother Wang Chongyang has a relationship that surpasses his brothers. The most frequent scene of
is when she touches other boys' chest muscles. An actress not only makes a lot of jokes, but also makes her characters more vivid and vivid.
6 Jacky Cheung:
This time Jacky Cheung's beggar Hong Qigong is the "whitest and cleanest young gang leader in the history of the beggar gang".
is not only a love affair, she is obsessed with her cousin, but unfortunately the cousin only had her brother Huang Yaoshi (played by Leslie Cheung) in her heart.
was frustrated in love. He tried to end his life several times and failed to save others, so there were several confrontations with Xidu Ouyang Feng. Unfortunately, Ouyang Feng was not his opponent every time, not only failed to help. Instead, he scarred himself.
7 Wang Zuxian:
Wang Zuxian does not have many roles in it. She is the younger sister of Dongxie Huang Yaoshi. She grew up together. The opening scene is to practice sword with Huang Yaoshi.
She is still Hong Qigong’s cousin and has a marriage contract with Hong Qigong, but at first she looked down on the shameless Hong Qigong (played by Jacky Cheung), and only missed her brother Huang Yaoshi. People with discerning eyes would definitely choose Leslie Cheung instead of Jacky Cheung. .
8 Maggie Cheung:
Maggie Cheung has very few scenes in it. She has no relationship with other actors, nor has her own uniqueness. She appeared as a national teacher. The longest used prop is the crystal ball and her own. Flying carpet and flying boots.
9 Zhong Zhentao:
Zhong Zhentao's Quanzheng King Chongyang is the senior of Zhou Botong (played by Carina Lau), but he was killed under the boots of Western Drug Ouyang Feng as soon as he appeared, and he called it a hidden weapon, so there were not many scenes.
10 Ye Yuqing:
can be said to be the most beautiful character in the film. Not only is she fashionable, but she also has a special status. The queen is the face of the whole film. In front of her, even Wang Zuxian and Lin Qingxia are overshadowed. Now, a good figure is really unstoppable.
In addition to these characters, let's take a look at a few wonderful shots in the film. For example, Leung Ka Fai's contribution to the life of the first public dance, and Leslie Cheung's "Double Flying Swallows" are really wonderful.
originally planned for Brigitte Lin to star in this scene, but at that time it did not catch up with the filming. The mistakes were reversed by Liang Jiahui. The final result was more joyful and became a classic scene in the film.
And this dance is also the first time for Liang Jiahui to dance publicly. It is not easy for him to have such an effect if he never knows how to dance.
In addition to Leung Ka-fai’s counter-acting, the other person who was worried about the counter-acting was Carina Lau. Until many years later, she also expressed that she hated playing such a big fat man. It was really ruining the image, but compared to Maggie Cheung’s cameo Her role is even more impressive.
Wang Zuxian has always been a goddess-like existence on the screen, and began to be reluctant to play this female nerve, "Do you think I don't know what you think? Humph!". This kind of cuteness occasionally has unexpected surprises, so cute.
z125At that time, a group of celebrities filmed "Evil East and West Poison" during the day and "Easy to the West" at night, releasing the depressed mood during the day at night. It was a performance without script.Leung Ka Fai recalled the behind-the-scenes story of the filming in the variety show and said: "On the set back then, my brother (Leslie Cheung) thought of using the song "Shuang Fei Yan". In order to match the scene, he also composed new words." Leung Ka Fai also broke the news: "At that time, we had no idea about the image and how to complete the scene. He (Leslie Cheung) hummed once, and then there was the scene of "Shuang Feiyan"." After this film, Liu Zhenwei was in 2 Years later, in 1995, the classic "Journey to the West" series was launched, which was another work by Wong Kar-wai. It can be said that Wong Kar-wai made Liu Zhenwei, and every time she saved it, he can become an immortal masterpiece.
Liu Zhenwei withdrew from the film industry in 1998, until three years later he cooperated with "Unparalleled Under Heaven". This comedy film directed by Liu Zhenwei and supervised by Wong Kar Wai was the last collaboration between the two and Liu Zhenwei's last work with a score of more than 7 points.
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