"Fighting Swordsman" Liu Weiqiang's second co-production with over 100 million box office

Liu Weiqiang, who was born as a photographer, learned from Huang Yuetai. If Gu Changwei is the number one photographer in mainland China, then Huang Yuetai is the number one photographer in Hong Kong. Earlier, Liu Weiqiang was a non-royal photographer of Wong Kar Wai. Later, he became a director and came out to conquer the world, and he was the same as Chen Kexin. One wave, I think he is the smartest director in Hong Kong. He created the brilliance of Young and Dangerous, and reached the peak of his career with the Infernal Affairs series. No Hong Kong movie has ever been remade by Hollywood and won several important Oscars. The grand prize, the scenery of Martin Scorsese's "Infernal Affairs" made Liu Weiqiang attract the attention of Hollywood, and then he entered Hollywood alone, and the "iron triangle" formed by Liu Weiqiang, Mai Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang also parted ways. Unaccustomed to the soil and water, he had to return to Hong Kong again and follow the trend to develop northward.
"Jingwu Fengyun" is Liu Weiqiang's second film to develop north, and his first "You Dragon and Phoenix" box office easily ranks in the 100 million yuan club. The director's success lies in his solid camera skills, his vision for the needs of the current film market, and his choice of actors.
When the film was released, it happened to be at a time of tension between China and Japan, so it unexpectedly got on the nationalist express, which brought great convenience to the promotion and marketing of the film, and really gave the Chinese people a shot of excitement. agent.
Besides the actors, as an action movie, the action designer and the hero Donnie Yen are undoubtedly the core characters of the movie. Action movies are the strengths of Hong Kong directors, and they have won the favor of domestic audiences. Jackie Chan has been unstoppable. Sammo Hung's image There are limitations. The fat body makes fighting quite difficult. Wu Jing's image is too tender and limited, and it is not yet a climate. Nicholas Tse is willing to work hard. Unfortunately, he is not a martial artist. Knowing that his time has come, he spared no effort to show off his skills on the screen, and the audience is naturally hooked. Moreover, Donnie Yen has previously cooperated with director Yip Weixin for a series of successful action films, which has made him quite popular in the country. Guess who else?
As for Shu Qi, who can be regarded as Liu Weiqiang's royal actor, Liu Weiqiang has always been interested in Shu Qi, and has established a good cooperative relationship with Shu Qi since the young and Dangerous Boys. Liu Weiqiang may not be the most powerful director, but he must be good at employing people. The director, he chose Huang Bo in this film and Zhang Hanyu in "You Dragon and Phoenix" is a reason, because these two are both famous domestic actors in the past two years, and they are suitable for their respective films. Role, there is often such a funny role in his movies. Before this role, Du Wenze has always played this role, such as silly strong in Infernal Affairs, Amu in initial D, bragging in Hucheng City, if this is A Hong Kong movie, I think there is no doubt that the role of Huang Bo will still be played by Du Wenze, but unfortunately the Hong Kong film is dead. This is a so-called co-production film. In the mainland, Huang Bo's popularity and box office appeal are far from Du Wenze's. Above, this is the reality. We can only deeply regret that Du Wenze did not participate in the performance. Fortunately, Huang Bo's performance is really brilliant, what else can we say?
The music of this film is still performed by Liu Weiqiang's old partner Chen Guangrong. This film music producer, second only to Jin Peida, has always been reused by Liu Weiqiang. , but the brilliance of Young and Dangerous is still shining. A few days ago, when I was on the bus, two male classmates who looked like middle school students sitting behind me were playing the episode of "Young and Dangerous" on their mobile phones. Talking about where they were and who they besieged recently, because of a female classmate, with the tone of a person in the campus, a few movies can influence generations of young people in this way, and even become a man in the growth history of every man. Stimulant and necessary homework, then it must have unparalleled appeal in itself, which must have been far from the creator's original thought.
You can't say that they have lost the passion and vigor they had when they originally created them. I believe they still love to create movies, but they just follow the current movie market, a market that has to cater to the public's taste, and a hero who judges success or failure at the box office. In the market, once a director's intention to create is to cater to the public's taste, his film will be doomed if he is not careful. He can only create such nondescript and incomprehensible films, such as Chen Kaige's "The Promise" and Feng Xiaogang's "Night Banquet". In this way, Liu Weiqiang began to make low-level but blockbuster movies step by step. You can no longer expect him to make a movie like "Infernal Affairs". The hardest thing for a person to surpass is himself, especially under the mainland film censorship system, He's slipping a bit slower, and we're already relieved.

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