1869 [Blood on the Street]
Xia Tian then selected the movie "Rogue Chapo" and "The King of Kings" brought by Liu Zhenwei.
"The Fortune of the King" tells the story of several female police officers being tricked by their boss and sent to investigate a jewelry theft case. During this process, they had an affair with several male police officers and finally successfully solved the case.
Simply put, "The Forbidden Star" is actually a low-end version of "The Forbidden Flower" and "The Forbidden Star". The story is not only uninnovative, but also extremely vulgar and boring. In particular, it adds a lot of unnecessary funny plots, which makes it feel like it is a squeaking smile.
In comparison, although "The Rogue Crazy" has many shortcomings, the story is smooth overall.
It tells the story of policewoman An Nan who was on duty, causing her father to die at the hands of the poisonous family due to reckless impulse. Afterwards, she changed her past and vowed to take revenge, becoming a heroic female detective, and eventually brought her enemy to justice.
Liu Zhenwei added a lot of hardships to the policewoman An Nan in the script. Her father, colleagues, civilians, passers-by, and even the only gangster who had a crush on her was killed by her, and she wrote her as the Lone Star of Tiansha.
To be honest, this way of writing is really unnecessary, and it feels like it is deliberately done. Moreover, there is too much darkness and violence in the story, which seems a bit too much in summer.
"Director Liu, although I have approved this drama, I still hope you can change it." Xia Tian said to Liu Zhenwei, "Try not to have so much violence, and don't write the story so dark."
The audience watches police and gangster movies to vent the suppressed violent emotions in their hearts. Everyone is inevitably angry in life, but not every time they get angry, they can do it. For example, quarrel with their girlfriends, scolded by their bosses, etc., watching movies to vent their anger is a good way.
In order to satisfy the audience's emotions, police and gangster films are not only full of violent scenes such as gunfights, car chases, explosions, and fighting, but also often set a relatively satisfactory ending.
For example, in "Police Story", Cheng Long finally brought Zhu Tao from the big poisonous farm to justice; for example, in "Die Hard", Mike not only defeated the gangsters one by one, but also successfully saved his marriage; for example, in "The Jedi Men", Mike and Laurie not only caught the criminal who stole the police station's poison crystal, but also Mike successfully captured the female witness Julie...
Of course, there are also some police and gangster films that are not successful. For example, in "The Black X Club", Ale killed Dad and his wife at the end; for example, in "Infernal Affairs", Liu Jianming, who is an undercover agent of the Black X Club, survived, while Chen Yongren, who is an undercover agent of the police, died; for example, in "Dark Flower", the killer Yaodong and the policeman Achen fought wits and courage, and lived to the death, but in the end, they could not escape the old man Mr. Hong's plot...
But these police and gangster films focus on the plot, which can be classified into drama films. They are different from exciting and popular police and gangster action films such as "Police Story", "Die Hard" and "Jedi Men".
If "The Hooligan" is designed with so many action scenes, it is considered a police and gangster action movie. But in terms of the story, it is a drama film. Simply put, it means that both ends do not shore. As a police and gangster action movie, the story is not perfect enough; as a drama film, the story is not concise enough.
After hearing Xia Tian’s advice, Liu Zhenwei nodded, "I understand, Mr. Xia. Then I will go back and change it again, and I will leave it to you after it is corrected."
Xia Tian nodded, "In terms of actors, the heroine An Nan should be played by Ng Junru. The male protagonist Xiaoxian can consider Zhou Xingchi, while fellow Taoist Zhen can consider Zhou Haimei..."
After hearing this, Liu Zhenwei nodded and agreed. Ng Junru and Zhou Xingchi were also planning to use it. He had already collaborated on filming "The School of Ghosts" and "The School of Ghosts", and he had a very tacit understanding.
As for fellow Taoist Zhen, Liu Zhenwei originally planned to invite Yang Lijing to act, and he worked together before when filming. However, since the boss recommended Zhou Haimei and she is more famous than Yang Lijing, he had to accept it first.
"Okay, you can just step down if you have nothing to do." Xia Tian waved his hand again.
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After Liu Zhenwei left, Xia Tian picked up Wu Yusen's "Bloody Street".
This script tells the story of Xiaorong, Ab and Huizai, a good brother who grew up together in Shikyu. In order to help Ab raise funds to get married, he accidentally killed someone and was forced to flee to Nanyue and join Xiaorong's cousin Ale.
A Le is a professional killer. He brought three people to black and robbed the gold traded by the gang. But the four of them immediately turned against each other because of this box of gold. Xiaorong betrayed his brothers, injured Huizai, and brought gold back to Hong Kong and became a rich man.
Huizai was shot in the head and the pain continued. She was forced to become an insensitive killer. She earned money to buy poison crystals to relieve the pain. Ah b found Huizai, used a bullet to end the pain of his friend, and returned to Hong Kong to avenge him...
To be honest, the story of "Bloody Street" is stronger than "The True Color of Heroes". It places the friendship between men in the context of social change, making it more complex and moving.
It is said that the first half of this story was written by Wu Yusen based on his life experience. When he was a child, he also lived in the wooden house area of Shikkyu and had two very good friends. Ah B in the movie is Wu Yusen, and Xiaorong and Huizai are his two good friends.
Xia Tian had watched this movie in his previous life and felt it was really good, but after watching it, I was in a heavy mood. The three originally very good friends made their brothers turn against each other because of a box of gold. This is really a sad story. But it is also because it is a tragedy that it is more infectious.
However, this movie is said to have suffered a lot. First, because the hero film was out of date at that time, and even Wu Yusen was not able to turn the tide; second, because the plot was too dark, the brothers turned against each other and attacked each other, which made the audience unhappy; third, the three actors in the film, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Xueyou and Li Zixiong were not on the front line at that time, and the box office appeal was poor; fourth, the movie was filmed in Thailand, and there were many war scenes, so the investment was large.
Despite this, Xia Tian decided to invest in this movie because it is a good movie and worth investing in. Even if you lose money, you will only treat it as a good deed. Besides, you may not necessarily lose money.
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"Director Wu, I have read this script. It's very good and can be filmed." Xia Tian nodded and smiled.
"Thank you, Mr. Xia." Wu Yusen smiled happily when he heard this. He knew that Xia Tian had the vision and would definitely approve him to shoot this movie.
"Well, in terms of male actors, I think Ah B will be played by Zhang Guorong, Huizai will be played by Liang Jiahui, and Xiaorong will be played by Wu Zhenyu, what do you think?" Xia Tian suggested with a smile.
Although Liang Chaowei won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Academy Awards in 1988, he will be the end of the 1990s when he truly became a first-tier superstar who can hold the box office.
Before this, he had been under his control by Zhou Runfa, Zhang Guorong, Liu Dehua, Cheng Long, Zhou Xingchi, Li Lianjie and others. This can be seen from the pay of the movie. In 1992, Liu Dehua's pay had reached 4 million Hong Kong dollars, while Liang Chaowei's pay was less than one million.
Chapter completed!