"Love Actually" was already being promoted before filming started. At that time, it was just a simple text promotion, and even the poster only had the words "Love Actually"; after the filming started for a while, the protagonist's makeup photo appeared on the poster. ; Three days before the release, some small films began to be broadcast during ATV's advertising time.
Compared with other movies, this film has very little promotional content and the money spent on promotion is also very small. However, after last year's New Year's film "Party A and Party B", Phoenix Culture's New Year's film has already It has attracted much attention from the audience. Just the gimmick of "Phoenix Culture Presents All" is enough to attract most of the audience.
¡°Whenever I feel worried about the world situation, I think of that scene in the arrival hall of Kai Tak Airport. Almost everyone thinks that the world is full of hatred and greed, but I beg to differ; in my opinion, love In any corner, it may not be noble enough, or not worth mentioning, but it will always be there, father and son, mother and daughter, husband and wife, brothers and sisters, boyfriend, girlfriend, old friends
When you are frightened or in pain, you will always call mother, not the bad classmates who beat you when you were young; when you are in danger, when you are helpless or desperate, what you can think of must not be revenge or hatred, but what you want To love people, family, friends, etc.
If you experience and search carefully, you will find that true love is everywhere! "
?With the specially edited background of various hugs outside the entry channel of Kai Tak Airport, this passage makes people feel even more moved after listening to it. The content of the movie has not officially started yet. The audience has already decided that this is indeed a film worth watching.
After a touching narration. The movie begins to explain the theme of the story, but this movie is different from other movies. It is composed of ten small stories that seem to be unrelated, but are connected together by a main thread. Ultimately, it highlights that "true love is nowhere to be found". Not in¡± topic.
The film begins with a shot of a has-been rock singer in the recording studio. The rock singer covers an old song by the Caveman Band, "True Love Is Everywhere," into a rock version, hoping to regain the first place in his career. Second spring. For the future English version of the film, in this story. Could it be that instead of using the same-sex agent theme, the agent of rock singer Zeng Jiang was replaced by Xu Anhua.
Then came the writer played by Leslie Cheung. As he was about to go out, he tenderly expressed his love to his girlfriend many times. But he didn¡¯t know, and neither did the audience, that the writer¡¯s classmate¡¯s head would soon be colored. .
The rich man played by Chow Yun-fat has just acquired a rival company and went to work in a new office building. When he met Ye Qianwen, a female secretary who had also just arrived at the company, the rich man seemed to fall in love at first sight with this female secretary.
In the scene where the big-backed Zhou Runfa appears, maybe he was equipped with a special prop - black-rimmed glasses. This should be the first scene in a Hong Kong movie to imitate Superman Lee. This somewhat spoof scene really aroused the audience's attention. There was laughter at the table.
Liu Songren, a newly widowed man who calls his friends, is extremely lonely; Huang Qiu Sheng, the cook, expresses his love to every woman in the restaurant, even the girl whose male partner has just left. And in the subsequent plot. The audience will find out that Xiao Fangfang, the widower's friend on the phone, is the sister of wealthy businessman Zhou Runfa. The little son left by his late wife and ex-husband is secretly in love with Wu Mengda's daughter, and the girl Fu Yiwei who was shown love by the cook is the daughter of Wu Mengda, the brother-in-law of a wealthy businessman. Secretary and future lover.
There is a wedding going on in the church. The best man serves as the wife of his best friend, who is also the bride¡¯s secret admirer. His face was full of displeasure, but he had to force himself to make a "congratulations" expression, and he had to hold back his sadness and arrange various surprises for his goddess.
In the video studio on the set, Wu Zhenyu and Xia Wenxi, a pair of naked actors and actresses, were simulating doggy style on the edge of a pillar. They were also chatting about whether there was a traffic jam on the way to the set today, and who knew when the Star Ferry crossing the sea would be. The price will rise.
¡° About ten minutes is nothing, for a movie that lasts more than two hours. After the identity of each protagonist of the story is explained in a seemingly confusing manner, the plot of the movie begins.
At the wedding, the photographer friend who had a crush on the bride complained to the bridesmaids about who chose the bad music, and did not forget to give all the shots to his goddess.
After the widower buried his wife, he began to learn how to be a good stepfather, raise the child his wife left behind who was completely unrelated to him, and teach him how to pick up girls.
When the writer returned home, he found a strange man who claimed to be here to borrow a video tape and was giving him recommendations. However, he heard that his girlfriend in the back room was not telling him that he was waiting for favor and that he had to have a good time before her boyfriend came back. one time.Because the rich man misunderstood his secretary and Pierce Brosnan, the president of the foreign-funded consortium**, he opposed the press conference of the cooperation between the two companies and said that he would not let the other party take any advantage. However, he unexpectedly became the subject of a fight between Chinese-funded and foreign-funded companies. He was a representative figure of capital and won the praise and support of shareholders and investors. The company's stock price began to skyrocket the next day, but the secretary resigned and left because he was misunderstood.
The rich man¡¯s brother-in-law Wu Mengda not only flirts with his secretary, but also plays the role of the Yuexia old man between the male and female employees in the company. He tries to bring together the designers Guan Zhilin and Liang Chaowei, but the effect is of course not good.
Wu Zhenyu and Xia Wenxi, a pair of naked men and women, finally want to take action; the writer Zhang Guorong temporarily left the sad place of Hong Kong and went to the warm spring-like Myanmar to worship Buddha and continue his writing while on vacation; Huang Qiusheng felt that Hong Kong girls It didn't suit me, so I bought a backpack full of condoms, sold my house, and went to Japan to find a girl who truly loves me.
At this point, everything seems to be developing in the opposite direction of chaos, and the situation has become even worse. If it continues like this, this movie will undoubtedly be a super bad movie. But the audience knows that Phoenix Culture will not produce bad movies, and there must be a plot behind it that makes the whole movie more exciting.
It is indeed the case. First, the two designers started dating. But there is an obstacle between them. Designer Guan Zhilin has a mentally ill younger brother Zhou Xingchi. It will always cause destruction at critical moments.
Photographer Lin Wei's video tape with the goddess in the camera was discovered. Both the goddess and he acted very embarrassed. It would not be good if this situation continued. The rock singer was promoting on the radio and television, but everyone said that he adapted the song "Spring Is Everywhere" is a super bad song, and he himself is a bit broken; the writer met a housekeeper girl in Myanmar who would chase his scattered manuscripts everywhere in strong winds regardless of danger. I went to pick it up, but the girl left in the end; the rich man¡¯s sister discovered the necklace in her husband¡¯s pocket when the Spring Festival was approaching. But what her husband gave her was a record
The plot is getting more and more sadistic. Except for the unrelated father and son who are very happy and Huang Qiu Sheng found a gentle and kind-hearted girl in Japan, the situation of everyone else is not so good. But the more it is like this, the more important it is at the end of the movie. There's a satisfying exposition, otherwise this would have to be a bad movie. Super bad movie.
Time flies faster in the movie world. In just over an hour, it has gone from five weeks before the Spring Festival to the end of the year. There are still two days left before the Spring Festival, and the final part of the story will follow. , a New Year¡¯s film. It would be inappropriate to talk about it until the second month of the lunar calendar.
The love between the two designers finally came to nothing. Guan Zhilin's mentally ill brother became a big obstacle for her to enjoy love. This day she finally took the courage to show off to Liang Chaowei. Her brother is more important than love. But isn't this also an expression of love?
Lin Wei finally played a good guy in the movie, and he was a very touching good guy. I brought a tape recorder to the door of my friend Chen Baixiang's house, and expressed my love with words and music on the cardboard. From then on, I ended my secret love and started to look for a girl of my own. The goddess gently placed her hand on my forehead. A kiss can be regarded as an extra reward for this secret love.
After the writer Zhang Guorong returned to Hong Kong, he could never forget the girl chasing the manuscript in the wind. When the Spring Festival was approaching, he finally learned simple Burmese. He wanted to find the girl before the Spring Festival, and then compose a sincere and heartfelt poem. Great love, the result is of course satisfying.
The soundtrack of this section is "True Love" by Jacky Cheung. This song, which was supposed to appear ten years later, has finally become the first "future song" that Jacky Cheung is allowed to sing. It matches the picture of Honami looking forward to the future happiness. Expression, full of emotion.
On this night, the rich man Zhou Runfa finally saw the card left by his secretary. It briefly described the truth about being "raped" that day and also expressed his own feelings. At this time, the rich man has determined that it will be a great regret if he does not find the woman he loves deeply immediately. So we hired a driver and a convoy, and went to the low-income residential area where the secretary lived temporarily to find someone door-to-door. He caught his little secretary before the secretary and his family were going to school for a performance, and then the two of them kissed behind the curtain. was accidentally broadcast live to an audience.
Two naked stand-in actors finished their work and went home. They passed by the school where a party was taking place and saw the live broadcast of the rich man and his secretary kissing. They were so excited that they confessed their love to each other and held hands and returned to the home of one of them. This was what they planned to do in the new year. pass.
The outdated rock star Zeng Jiang finally unexpectedly won the sales championship of the latest issue through an adaptation of a so-called bad song, and also won the support of more fans. At this time, he also discovered thatThe agent who has always supported him is the most important thing to him.
The rich man's sister is a typical representative of women. She is strong and resilient. She took the initiative to reveal the affair in front of her husband, but she still had to maintain enough smile and joy in front of her children. The husband looked at his wife and finally felt that he had done it. wrong.
Liu Songren¡¯s stepson finally got the opportunity to perform on the same stage as the girl he had a crush on, but the girl had to leave Hong Kong after the performance. In order not to disappoint his son, stepfather Liu Songren chased him to the airport after the performance.
Another parent of a student whom Liu Songren met at the school performance party also followed Liu Songren and his son to the airport. The two helped the boy escape the security guards and rushed into the airport to confess to the girl he had a crush on, only to find that they already knew his name. , and gave him a hug.
Everything was going well. Another week later, we were still at the airport, but the scene was outside the immigration channel.
Huang Qiusheng returned to Hong Kong with a Japanese girl, and also brought one back to Zhang Xueyou, who was skeptical at first; Zhang Guorong returned to Hong Kong from Myanmar with Bonami, ready to start a good life; the couple Wu Mengda and Xiao Fangfang also brought When his son and daughter returned to Hong Kong from the United States, Liu Songren, his son and his new girlfriend came to pick him up. The two little guys had a secret love; the rich man Zhou Yunfa returned to Hong Kong after completing negotiations with the American consortium, and embraced his secretary's girlfriend affectionately at the immigration hall ¡
Next, everyone in the immigration hall began to hug the people around them, including family members, friends, etc. The number of hugs in the picture also changed from one to ten, one hundred, one thousand
In the original version of "True Love Is Everywhere" by the Caveman Band, the lights in the theater lobby came on, but the audience had no intention of leaving.
Most of the audience at the premiere were professional and picky, but no one was not affected by this movie. They all stood up and started applauding this heart-warming movie.
The creators and actors in the front row also stood up and bowed to the audience. This time, more than 70% of Hong Kong's most popular stars came to express their gratitude. It was also called by the media the largest lineup and the most luxurious thank you in the history of Hong Kong movies.
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(Words cannot express one-third of the touching feeling of the movie itself, and even more so after the changes. This is one of my favorite tender movies, and it can move even the most affectionate person to tears. If you haven¡¯t watched it, Students who have passed it can give it a try.) (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. to read. )