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Chapter 49 Chapter 49: From Fiona Fiona to Jacky Cheung

Hong Kong Movie Night and Fog 汤祯兆 1451Words 2018-03-18
Han Han whirlwind came to Hong Kong and pointed out that the Hong Kong film actress he admired and remembered was Cecilia Cheung. I believe this is also the truth in many people's minds.Hong Kong movies have always given people a bad impression, making people think that all masculinity is paramount, female dramas have no way to take root, and hard work can only lead to death. Therefore, the screens are full of vase characters, and a vicious circle is born. Of course, that is not entirely unreasonable, but you will probably remember "Three Heroes of the East" (Anita Mui, Michelle Yeoh and Maggie Cheung), rather than "The True Colors of Women" (Gigi Leung and Fiona Sit).In recent years, the mainland actresses have been monopolizing the best actress elections, big and small (Hua Yinghong managed to get back one session at the 2010 Film Awards), which more or less illustrates the relationship between chicken and egg. Annoyance - only with competent actresses can there be a decent female drama, otherwise the vase-like arrangement is sometimes a mobilization arrangement that puts the overall situation first.If Anxi hadn't had Tang Wei to draw his sword, "Full Moon Hennessy" would have been greatly eclipsed. Can you imagine Lin Jiaxin playing the role of Ai Lian?

Therefore, I think Huang Zhenzhen, Chen Qingjia and Qin Xiaozhen all used Sit Kaiqi correctly this year.Needless to say, watching "Integrity Action 2009" last year, Fiona Sit played the role of the ICAC investigator Xu Qishan, which is indeed unsatisfactory - facing an "investigator" who walks like a catwalk and is interrogated eight times higher, any Everyone can see how difficult it is to direct.Strictly speaking, Fiona Sit is indeed a new local actress who has participated more in movies in recent years. I believe the creators behind the scenes have also racked their brains to improve her "eye-catching" level.Therefore, Ah Hua in "Break Up I Say I Love You" and Tian Ai in "Human Comedy" are actually performances that the creators took advantage of in order to fit the characteristics of the actors themselves.Among them, Chen Qingjia and Qin Xiaozhen are particularly sharp-eyed. They clearly saw that Fiona Sit is in style as a Hong Kong girl, so they reshaped the unruly and difficult part. In fact, this is also the pleasing and refreshing part of the first half of "Say I Love You". , because Fiona Fiona's performance is more realistic.On the other hand, when the second half of the film enters the "growth" part of Ah Hua, the film begins to enter a predicament - it is far-fetched to ask Ah Hua to explain the background of Tianshuiwei's struggle through oral instructions, and the actors are also unable to enter the level of repeated inner struggles. Until the beginning of a defeated situation.But "Human Comedy" fully sees through the characteristics and limitations of the actors, so it expands and exaggerates the characteristics of Hong Kong women, which are originally superficial and self-centered, to the point of comedy, and packages them with spiritual problems - which not only satisfies the visual The absurd pleasure (exaggerating the reality into a comedy is always a good way to resonate with people), while avoiding provoking the audience (everything is just a cover-up of mental illness, avoiding the associative stimulation of the audience to check in on the real level), that is indeed For the shrewd design - the older the ginger, the hotter it is, believe it!

This reminds me of Jacky Cheung. 2010 is a harvest period for Jacky Cheung to reappear on the screen. Not only is there a large number of films, but his performance is also surprising. The scene with Liu Ruoying in "Love in the City is Hot" is certainly the soul essence of the whole film; even if it is like Shi Jian in the Chinese New Year film "72 Tenants", it is also easy and natural, and he is competent in his job.Of course, in the heavyweight work "Full Moon Hennessy", Jacky Cheung's A Lai's middle-aged crisis is just constructed with the opposite as a potential contrast - fooling around vs. getting a family and getting married, fully realizing courtship vs. restrained and withdrawn.Jacky Cheung once said in an interview that it was a rare blow for him to return empty-handed from the Hong Kong Film Awards.I think to a certain extent it just shows the actor's point of view, and it may not really be able to see through the individual's true qualities and strengths.Jacky Cheung's sense of comedy has been proven as early as the 1980s (such as playing Kim McKee in the "Ghost" series), and I think his best feature is to make life easy for small people with realistic flavor Self-satisfied, with a touch of comic humor, but never too much.

That is actually the revelation of Wu Fei ("Carmen in Mong Kok"): Once Jacky Cheung's character plays a heavy role, it will weaken his brilliance on the screen; The opposite effect comes.And Anxi's use of Jacky Cheung's method this time happened to be a screen design that was relocated and considered personally for him, making full use of the actor's strengths mentioned just now.Yes, from Fiona Sit and Jacky Cheung, I can see the deep affection of the behind-the-scenes creators for the actors, and only in this way can everyone have the opportunity to gradually get out of the valley of Hong Kong-produced films.

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