say that he is the "king of bad movies", but he has been at the forefront of the box office all year round, with a total box office of 6 billion.
Er Dongsheng once said to us: 20 Wang Jiawei is not worth a Wang Jing, Xu Hark and Zhou Xingchi together can only reach Wang Jing. It's like the "Macao Wind and Cloud" series he shot in recent years. While he was shouted "bad movie", he got nearly 260,000 box office.
is so "bad" and there is still such a market, who is it like Wang Jing?
Wang Jing, who has been "siding" in Hong Kong commercial films for nearly 40 years, is destined not to be forgotten.
"Of course, many people will say that I am not advanced enough, not enough to have any meaning or anything, but after he finishes speaking, he will still go to my movies, because he has to watch something entertaining. So it doesn’t matter, I think only the box office can It proves that the (movie) is good or the box office is not good. It’s useless if you say that I’m good.” He doesn’t care about this label. He thinks this kind of “personal behavior” is an act of demonstrating his superiority by stepping on others. You have to understand that the person who writes this may not be very professional himself, but he has to pretend to be very good, so he has to write like this." The audience of
doesn't like it, and it's useless to shoot
What Wang Jing really cares about is whether the audience likes it. “I’m happy with everything, mainly because the audience likes it after watching it. If the audience doesn’t like it and doesn’t have the support of the audience, basically it’s useless for you to shoot anything.” In fact, he’s been filming in any genre for more than 40 years. He is very good at gambling movies, comedy movies, syndicate movies, and they are all he likes to shoot.
Among them, “gambling series” is Wang Jing’s iconic and one of the most classic movie genres, but few people will know that before creating these movies, Wang Jing was very repulsive of “gambling” itself because his mother used to gamble. Almost hurt their family.
was able to "overcome" this psychological barrier to create a movie about gambling at the beginning, entirely because at that time Wang Jing's wife was about to give birth to a child, and he urgently needed to earn "milk powder" before signing this film contract with Shaw Brothers. For him opened the door of "gambling series" movies.
From the first film "A Thousand Kings Fighting Thousand Kings" directed in 1981, to the "God of Gamblers" series, "Gamblers" series, "Gamblers", "Sacred Gamblers 2", "A Thousand Kings 2000", " "Supreme" series, "Birds" series, "Beware of Old Thousands"... In these films, Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Stephen Chow, Zhang Jiahui and other stars have left a very popular "gambling king" image on the screen. This is also the reason why so many people still want to watch the "Macao Wind and Cloud" series, which is a continuation of the "gambling series".
In the most brilliant and prosperous period of Hong Kong movies, Wang Jing also filmed romantic comedies such as "Hardcover Chasing Girls", "Tricky Experts", and "The Deer Tripod" and other "Crystal Girls"; and when Hong Kong movies declined, he insisted Created in Hong Kong style, he made films such as "My Savage Classmate", "Affectionate Drinking Water" and "Senior Brother Xinzha". Even if the film market moves to the mainland, he insists on using Hong Kong actors, Hong Kong stories, and Hong Kong styles.
In recent years, as the audience's preferences have changed, Wang Jing did not continue the creation of the "Macao Wind and Cloud" series, but started the creation of the crime hero film "Chasing the Dragon" series.
"Chasing the Dragon" does not have Wang Jing's usual comic and perverse storyline, but a serious and profound story of a story adapted from real characters. In the 1970s, the drug tycoon Wu Xihao and the 500 million detective Lu were both sympathetic and arrogant. The story of the two heroes of Le, starring Donnie Yen (playing Lap Hao) and Andy Lau (playing Lei Luo) respectively, the film also reproduces the now-defunct "Kowloon Walled City", allowing the audience to see a real and vivid Hong Kong.
"Chasing the Dragon" suddenly made the audience very uncomfortable, but maintained a consistently high box office level, with a final box office of nearly 600 million. It has also won praise from the industry, audiences and film critics, and nominated 5 Hong Kong Film Awards.
"The audience is very interested in watching the story of this desperado finally being sanctioned by law. It is a bit curious, and it is a certain distance from them. Maybe you have only heard a little bit (the stories of these people), so just I want to know more." Wang Jing believes that every period will have a hero, and the stories of these people make him very creative.
"Chasing the Dragon 2", which was released in June this year, also comes from real character stories and is adapted from the famous Hong Kong gangster Long Zhiqiang in the 1990s.
In fact, before the filming of "Chasing the Dragon 1," Wang Jing opposed Wu Xihao and Lu LeThe stories of real characters are very interesting, and a number of related themes have been created from this. Not only did he become a producer in the two "The Story of 500 Million Inspector Lei Luo", he also directed "The Empire of Money". To a certain extent, they have made good preparations for "Chasing the Dragon". Since
does not have a fixed filming method like a comedy commercial film, he must be fully prepared and follow the whole process to ensure the story is displayed. As he himself said, every one of his films was taken seriously and sincerely.
Wang Jing, who has been in the film industry for 40 years, is the third generation of filmmakers in their "Wang Family". Her uncle was engaged in movies in Shanghai during Du Yuesheng's time; her father Wang Tianlin is a famous Hong Kong film director and trained Du Qifeng and Lin Ling Dong, Lin Delu and other directors who are now carrying the banner of Hong Kong movies; now the "Wang Family" also has the daughter of the fourth generation filmmaker Wang Jing.
Wang Jing, who grew up in such a movie family, certainly knows exactly what a movie is and what kind of movie to make.
"Film is our business. We can't just make some movies that we watched at home with our old friends, right?" Therefore, he believes that "making money" is the most important principle for making commercial films, and we must follow the principle of "not giving "The boss loses money" to shoot.
"If investors always lose money, who would dare to cooperate in the future!" Wang Jing has been making "gambling films" for so many years, but never "gambling" on movies.
But for the secret to the big box office sales, Wang Jing feels that the most fundamental thing is "don't take yourself too seriously". He thinks that movies are some casual things that everyone does when the society is stable. "Don't watch your own movies so much and so importantly. If the society is unstable, the first movie will be gone."
And he thinks It doesn’t necessarily mean that a good shot will sell at a better box office. Often objective factors are more dominant. “You have to understand your opponents, schedules, and weather. You have to understand these reasons. It’s raining heavily (no one goes out to watch movies). Your box office must not be so good, this is the most important thing."
has no audience, no matter how beautiful it is, it will not be popular.
Actually, Wang Jing likes to watch literary films, and also lost money to support the shooting of some good literary films. .
Xu Anhua's "Day and Night in Tin Shui Wai", "Night and Fog in Tian Shui Wai", and "Fried Rice at a Free Time" are all produced by Wang Jing, because Xu Anhua is one of the directors he admires and admires, and learned that her films cannot be found Investment, Wang Jing took the initiative to contact and support her creation.
Xu Anhua said afterwards: "I am very grateful to Wang Jing. Under the premise that there is probably no mainland market, he also invested in the film "Fried Rice with Freedom". This risk is very high. If Hong Kong's box office is not good, he will I’ve lost money.” In addition to Xu Anhua, Wang Jing has either contributed money or effort to support the shooting of many literary films. He once said in an interview: “The literary films all over the world don’t make money. You still have money in your pocket to support. Just support it. If you can't make money, you should train new people." For 40 years, Wang Jing has brought out many directors and actors. For example, Liu Weiqiang, who later directed the "Infernal Affairs" series, and those little actors who were unknown before making his movie, and later famous people like Andy Lau, Zhou Xingchi, and Qiu Shuzhen.
watched these people become more popular, which made Wang Jing feel very fulfilled. He also wrote in his autobiography: "I have made superstars in front of the stage and behind the scenes. This is the real success of the film industry."
Today, in almost every Wang Jing movie, there will always be a group of Uranus superstars. But Wang Jing denied that this was the good fame he had formed in the circle for many years. On the one hand, the script itself attracted them, and on the other hand, he really "understands" these actors.
"I am more experienced, so I don't have to be humble. Popularity is really not important here. The most important thing is whether they are willing to play a case that they feel they have the opportunity to reach a level in the box office and word of mouth." He knows the characters of these actors well, what they are interested in, what they want to film, or what they want to avoid, or what they don't like to act. Wang Jing knows what to impress them, and how to shoot them to make the audience like them.
"Audience fate is the most important thing. Some say you are beautiful, but many viewers, especially female audiences, just don’t like you, so it’s hard for you to become popular. I dare not say that I have any ability to make those people particularly beautiful. But I will look for the angle before, find out their characteristics and enlarge them as much as possible, and try to cover or remove some of their shortcomings.It will look good when it is shot. All you can see are the good-looking parts of him. Both men and women are the same.
For example, if a girl is in a crime movie, it is enough to shoot her eye-catchingly, because the scene should all be on men. How the girl shoots her highlights, Qiu Yinong (in "Chasing the Dragon 2" The advantage of the female protagonist) is her model figure, so she reveals it to make her more playful. Try to remove all the bad angles. This is also a common trick I used to shoot actresses.
But it is more difficult now, because the mainland is too big. The set in Hong Kong and Taiwan used to be useless in the mainland. If you use that set, the cost is unimaginable, so you can only take it slowly. "
Regardless of the ups and downs of the film market and audience needs, he can always find the rhythm. No wonder he sells everything he shoots, becoming a rare director in the film industry who does not lose money to the "boss".
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