Never seen such a ridiculous crew, not even the script began to shoot. It took only 27 days to shoot and post-production to make 10 big stars play, but it unexpectedly created the peak of comedy.
This movie is the controversial "East becomes West", people who like it are regarded as classics, and people who don't like it complain that it is a bad film, purely pieced together. But whether it is a screen classic or a "patchwork", the high score of Douban 8.7 is an indisputable fact. However, such a funny masterpiece is full of all kinds of heartache behind it.
At the beginning, Wong Kar-wai's "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" was filmed for two full years, but after the film was released, the word-of-mouth box office double hit the street, and the boss Deng Guangrong was angry and directly lived in the hospital. At this point, Wong Kar-wai could only find another way out, and he invited Liu Zhenwei to set up The Zedong Film Company together. At the same time, in order to open up their popularity, they bought the copyright of the novel "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter" and planned to shoot the movie "East Evil and West Poison" to be released in the New Year file.
But Wong Kar-wai is still "dead", a month later he is still shooting the film to start the camera, according to this speed to specify can not catch up with the New Year file. Liu Zhenwei couldn't help but talk to Wong Kar-wai about catching up with the schedule, but the other party said that you should make a New Year film first.
Hearing this sentence, Liu Zhenwei directly collapsed, and the script did not make much movies. It can be said that the only one in the whole crew who did not collapse was Wong Kar-wai, still slowly filming his "East Evil West Poison".
It is worth mentioning that at that time, the film was filmed in Yulin, Shaanxi, and the signal that there was no shop in front of the village was not good, and the actors did not even have a place for entertainment. Not to mention wong kar-wai grinding and rubbing, a shot can be shot hundreds of times. What makes people even more devastated is that Wong Kar-wai makes movies only by feelings and never uses scripts.
After shooting in the vast Gobi Desert for a few months, Liang Jiahui finally couldn't help but shout, he had never been so painful, and he didn't know what he was filming. His brother Zhang Guorong was also almost driven crazy, and in order to make fun of the suffering, he took other actors to bury watermelons in the desert. Because the watermelon will be particularly sweet after hot expansion and contraction, but the desert is flowing, so every time you dig the watermelon, it depends on fate.
A group of actors on this side are not happy to find watermelons, while on the other side, Liu Zhenwei's head is bigger. Seeing that the day of the investor's handover of the film is approaching, Wong Kar-wai's work is only 1% complete. In order not to let the investor withdraw, Liu Zhenwei can only harden his scalp.
He summoned the original team of "East Evil and West Poison" and used their free time to shoot the second movie "East becomes West". In order to catch up with the Lunar New Year file, Liu Zhenwei had to write the script while shooting, so the autonomy of the actors was very high.
In addition, Liu Zhenwei knows that this group of actors is tortured by Wong Kar-wai to the point of madness, so when filming "East becomes West", he let everyone play freely. The crowd brainstormed to come up with all sorts of nonsense clips, and added a lot of mutually detrimental lines.
For example, at that time, Wang Zuxian and Liu Jialing were exposed by the media that there was a "dispute over positions", and the two took the opportunity to lose each other in the movie. I had never heard such a funny line, and I had never seen such a narcissistic Wang Zuxian. However, there is another person who is more narcissistic than the "little master sister", he is the amorous prodigal son Hong Qi, played by Jacky Cheung. That dialect version of "Heavenly Envy Talent" really poked my laugh.
In addition to these funny lines, the most classic in the movie is the "double flying swallow". Among them, the lines are temporarily adapted by Zhang Guorong, and the dance moves are completely improvised by the two; the performance effect is extremely brilliant, and it has to be said that the old Hong Kong actors are all powerful.
At that time, they filmed the comedy film "East into The West" here in Liu Zhenwei during the day, and went to Wong Kar-wai at night to pretend to be deep and shoot the martial arts film "East Evil and West Poison". The difference is so great that it is a miracle that the actors are not schizophrenic.
In order to relieve the pressure and enhance the feelings, Wang Zuxian and others played mahjong. Maybe it was because Heaven favored Lin Qingxia, no matter how bad her card skills were, she could still win. Zhang Guorong, who lost money every time, was angry, but he scolded and grinned on the surface, but his hands were shaking when playing cards.
Compared with Zhang Guorong, Jacky Cheung is much smarter, and when Wang Zuxian and the three of them play mahjong, Jacky Cheung and Liu Jialing also opened a table next to them. However, Liu Jialing's card skills are too high, Jacky Cheung really can't play every time to lose, and he also laughs at himself that the remuneration of this play has lost to Liu Jialing. But Jacky Cheung is too "chicken thief", once the money is lost, he will find Liang Chaowei to fight together, because Liang Chaowei's card skills are worse than his.
The movie "East into West" can be said to be a star-studded group, and there are so many big stars who naturally have people to visit the class. It is said that Zhou Xingchi Li Zongsheng and Lin Yilian have come, and Liu Zhenwei also invited Zhou Xingchi to make a cameo, but the other side refused. Maybe it was because he saw that the shooting process was too "casual" and Zhou Xingchi refused to act!
In February 1993, "East Becomes West" was filmed in the fight of the actors, and this 27-day rescue work earned 23.46 million at the box office. From an artistic point of view, this is a lowly complete work; the lines and characters are very funny, but there is little real ideological connotation.
The audience also had mixed reviews for it, and those who did not like it abandoned it like a shoe, and liked to watch it repeatedly as a classic. It even said that if Hong Kong can only keep one comedy, it must be "East becomes West". What do you think about that?
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