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Volume One: A New Song and a Glass of Wine Chapter 1018: "Evil in the East and Poison in the West"

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    After dinner, Zhou Huimin was called into the room alone by Chen Huiqing to give instructions. When she came out, she happened to pass by Lin Youlun's study. Seeing that the light inside was still on, she opened the door and walked in.

    Lin Youlun raised his head when he heard the footsteps and saw Zhou Huimin coming in. He stopped what he was doing and stood up. He walked over and took Zhou Huimin's hand to sit on the sofa aside.

    "I'm not bothering you, right?"

    "The nomination list for this year's Academy Awards has come out. They faxed a copy over for me to take a look at. It's basically fine." Lin Youlun raised his hand to help Zhou Huimin smooth the messy hair in front of his forehead and asked with a smile:  "Is there something you want to tell me?"

    Zhou Huimin¡¯s mind was already attracted by the shortlist of the Academy Awards, but she came back to her senses after hearing Lin Youlun¡¯s words.

    ¡°Are you serious about going to Thailand?¡±

    "What, you don't want to go?"

    Zhou Huimin shook his head hastily, "No, I mean it really doesn't matter?"

    "Of course it doesn't matter. I have the final say on how this movie is made. If you really care about this, then I will arrange a role for you in the movie that doesn't have many scenes, so that the two of us can go there together legitimately.  On vacation."

    Lin Youlun said this, but he had other plans in his heart.

    "The Hangover 2" inherits the style of its predecessor. It is still a funny story about three men getting drunk and causing trouble. The content of the movie is very interesting, but the filming process is quite boring, especially having to face Huang Zhan and Cai Lan all day long.  As an old man, Lin Youlun felt really boring.

    If Zhou Huimin can accompany him there, not only will he have someone to talk to when he is bored.  After shooting, you can also travel around together.  The whole trip to Thailand will be much easier.

    Zhou Huimin had no objection to Lin Youlun's arrangement.  After finishing the discussion, she asked about the Academy Awards.

    Lin Youlun stood up and returned to his desk, brought a fax and handed it to Zhou Huimin.

    "Well, you can see for yourself."

    Zhou Huimin quickly glanced at the shortlist, and his first thought was why are there so many Wang Jiawei¡¯s names?

    Lin Youlun was also helpless about this result. In previous years, he might have beaten Wang Jiawei, but this year's situation is special.

    Firstly, there really weren¡¯t many outstanding Hong Kong films in 1994.  Secondly, Wang Jiawei, who has always been known for his procrastination in filming, actually made a small breakthrough last year. Two movies were released at the same time, and the quality level was a small peak in his director career.

    So there is no doubt that both films have been nominated for this year's Academy Awards and have become competitors in multiple awards.

    In the history of the Academy Awards, it often happens that an actor is nominated for an award with different movies at the same time, but it is rare for the same director to be nominated for the same award with different works and play opposite himself.

    Wang Jiawei has also broken a record, and one of the two movies that helped him be shortlisted is called "Ashes of Time".  One is called "Chungking Express."

    "Ashes of Time" has been delayed for nearly two years, and some people even joked that this movie brought down Lin Jianyue's Media Asia.  Having cheated Deng Guangrong before, and then Lin Jianyue, Wang Jiawei can be regarded as a "nightmare" for Hong Kong film investors. Many people avoid him, but some people just don't believe in this evil.

    After Media Asia ceased production, it was quickly resold. Many people thought that the movie "Ashes of Time" was either aborted, or that the director was replaced and the clips shot by Wang Jiawei were randomly edited and released. With so many big-name stars,  , at least some cost can be recovered.

    "But what no one expected was that the boss Yang who took over Media Asia actually chose to continue to support Wang Jiawei, and "Ashes of Time" was successfully filmed.

    Of course, Boss Yang is not a fool. He is willing to do this. In fact, he has taken a fancy to "The Legend of East and West" with the same cast as "Ashes of Time". Liu Zhenwei finished filming this movie.  At that time, the investment company in the title sequence still had the logo of Media Asia, but by the time the movie was actually released, it had been replaced by the logo of the new company.

    Liu Zhenwei shot this nonsensical comedy in more than a week. When it was released in February 1995, it caused a huge sensation. In just half a month, the box office grossed more than 30 million, and everyone turned around and praised it.  That boss Yang really has a good eye.

    Of course, in the eyes of professionals, the success of Liu Zhenwei's movie is actually a coincidence. Such box office results do not mean that it is an excellent comedy.

    This movie can be a hit, the main reason is that during the early 1995 period, Zhou Xingchi's comedy, which was supposed to dominate this period, was absent due to various reasons, so that there was a big gap in the entire Hong Kong comedy film market. With the emergence of "East and West",  It caters to the needs of this segment of the audience, so it is not surprising that it was a hit upon release.

    What is really strange is Liu Zhenwei's own attitude towards the movie. At that time, he said in an interview with the media: "If you ask me which movie I like the most, I can't tell you, but the one I hate the most is "Eastern".  Chengxijiu"."

    In any case, "Dongchengxijiu" was a huge success at the box office, while "Ashes of Time" with the same cast only made more than 10 million at the box office. This is because some viewers saw such stars starring in it.  Spend money to buy tickets and go to the cinema to kill some time, otherwise the box office of this movie will only be even worse.

    As early as the time of "Days of Wild", the audience already knew that Wang Jiawei was a guy who liked to sell dogs' meat on sheep's heads. According to the pre-release publicity, the movie was supposed to be an action shootout movie, but it finally entered the cinema.  However, the audience was very depressed to find that this movie only fired one shot or two snatches from beginning to end, which was completely inconsistent with action movies.

    In "Ashes of Time", Wang Jiawei continues to carry forward this style. There are basically no martial arts scenes in the film. Instead, there are long and unintelligible dialogues between the characters. Audiences who watch martial arts movies will definitely be disappointed.  Disappointing, but in the eyes of professionals, the distinctive performances in this movie that extremely demonstrate skills can be regarded as a model of Hong Kong literary films, especially the scene where Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Ka Fai sit opposite each other and drink water. It seems interesting to outsiders, but  The parties involved did not enjoy it that much.

    When filming this scene, both Tony Leung Ka Fai and Leslie Cheung drank water until they were about to vomit, and finally achieved an effect that satisfied Wang Jiawei. However, it was easy to switch to Liu Zhenwei. The actors could write, direct and act by themselves.  , wearing ancient costumes, dancing Cha Cha, and even the songs he sang were improvised on the spot by Leslie Cheung.

    During the days when the two dramas were being filmed at the same time, we filmed "A Time and a Time" in the morning and "Ashes of Time" in the afternoon. On one side, it was hilarious, but on the other side, it was deadly serious and boring. The actors were all tortured to the point of losing their spirits.  Signs of division.

    Among them, the one who suffered the most was Lin Qingxia. She played two roles in "Ashes of Time". Others only split once, but she had to split twice.

    Among the many big-name leading actors, the only one who didn't suffer this was Wang Zuxian - because Wang Jiawei's filming progress was too slow. When she finished filming "Ashes of Time", she was the only one who filmed "Ashes of Time".  ¡¯s film, and the schedule she could leave for Wang Jiawei has also ended.

    In the end, "Ashes of Time" only showed a side shot of Wang Zuxian, which lasted less than two seconds. Only the most attentive fans could find it.

    After the film was released, a reporter interviewed Wang Jiawei and asked him why he gave Wang Zuxian so few scenes. Wang Jiawei told the truth, but soon changed his story and said that there will be a final version of "Ashes of Time" in the future.  There will definitely be more scenes of Wang Zuxian in it.

    Wang Jiawei himself explained that this decision was made in response to strong requests from fans, but there is another theory circulating in the market - because there was no footage of Wang Zuxian, Lin Youlun was very unhappy after watching "Ashes of Time" and  Have someone give Wang Jiawei a message and let him figure it out.

    The truth of the matter is not that complicated. The main reason is that Wang Jiawei himself felt very sorry for Wang Zuxian.

    Because the investor of this movie was Media Asia Film Company at the beginning, and because of the bad relationship between Lin Jianyue and Lin Youlun, Wang Zuxian's agreement to star in the film really gave Wang Jiawei a big name, and she was hired when she first took on the film.  When asked, he happily answered: "I usually don't take many group plays. I completely trust the director in this play, so I took it."

    In fact, Wang Jiawei himself is quite aggrieved. The all-star cast of "Ashes of Time" looks very luxurious, but it is very troublesome to operate. Wang Jiawei himself is not the kind of director who shoots films very efficiently, and these big stars  Everyone is busier than the other. For example, Lin Qingxia is filming several dramas at the same time, and the schedule left for this drama is very limited. Everyone comes and goes, and what they shoot are only some fragmentary scenes, and then there is only  Leslie Cheung's scenes are relatively complete, so Wang Jiawei finally designed the structure of the film to tell the stories of different characters in the tone of Western Poison Ouyang Feng.

    This was a problem for the film's editor. The one who initially edited the film for Wang Jiawei was Tan Jiaming, a very famous art film director in the new wave of movies. He was also half of Wang Jiawei's master. He was sent to the United States by Wireless to study film at public expense.  Editing skills were handled by him single-handedly in "Days of Being Wild".

    It stands to reason that the cooperation between the two should be very pleasant, but in fact the two parties ended up breaking up on bad terms.The reason is that Wang Jiawei gave the film edited by Tan Jiawei to someone else to "execute", which made Tan Jiaming very unhappy. He believed that even if Wang Jiawei was not satisfied with the film he had edited, he should ask him to modify it.

    After that, Wang Jiawei also approached Tan Jiaming to edit other movies, but Tan Jiaming was no longer willing to help. Because of this, Tan Jiaming's name was not seen in this year's Academy Awards shortlist.  (To be continued)
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