Shooting a rescue movie in 27 days has become a masterpiece that has 540,000 people scored 8.7 points. "East becomes West" as a film. Not even the most basic script, the lines and plot are all written by the actors, why has it become a classic of a generation. How the truth of the facts is, long press likes to take you to understand the "Eagle Hero Legend east into west", you don't know the behind-the-scenes story. Liu Zhenwei temporarily decided to shoot "East becomes West". 1993 Spring Festival A star-studded film, even filming and post-production, only took 27 days to release the film. After its release, the film won 22 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office and became one of the most classic comedies in Hong Kong history. This movie is a comedy movie directed by Liu Zhenwei and starring Hong Jinbao as a martial arts director, "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter Heroes". Liang Chaowei's sausage mouth, Liang Jiahui's women's clothing style. This nonsensical comedy has countless impressive bridges and has been loved by many people. But the appearance of this movie is forced to be helpless. To say that "East Becomes West" must also start from "East Evil and West Poison".
It is said that when Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai jointly opened a company, the first film to be filmed was "East Evil and West Poison". At that time, Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei discussed well, Wong Kar-wai first filmed the first Part of the Lunar New Year file, and Liu Zhenwei filmed the second part. A week after filming began, Liu Zhenwei looked at wong kar-wai filming Ouyang Feng fighting, and he felt that Wong Kar-wai's works would be well received, so he left satisfied. After a while, Liu Zhenwei rushed to the set and found that he was still filming Ouyang Feng fighting, Liu Zhenwei thought, Wong Kar-wai is Wong Kar-wai, a shot is so strict, the work will definitely sell well. After a while, Liu Zhenwei went to the set again, and Wong Kar-wai was still shooting this shot. The actors are also very anxious, because they are staying up every day, and they have no idea what they are shooting, how they should shoot, why is this so? Because the director does not even have a script, everyone knows that Wong Kar-wai has always made movies based only on feelings, but such a slow process, even if the actors are not in a hurry, the investors cannot sit still. The east evil and west poison that was originally going to catch the New Year file were not finished on time, which means that investors may lose money. Liu Zhenwei could not sit still, so he consulted with Wong Kar-wai And then go on like this, the New Year file must not be able to keep up, Wong Kar-wai said, or you shoot first, in order to invest in the return of capital, at the request of Wong Kar-wai, director Liu Zhenwei used the original team to shoot a "East into the West", but temporarily shooting "East into the West", where is the script?
27 days of actors free play to achieve "East becomes West". In 1992, Liu Zhenwei, who was forced to the extreme by the investor, and Zhang Guorong and Liang Jiahui, who were oppressed to the extreme by Wong Kar-wai, collectively came to indulge. "East Evil West Poison" and "East Become West" seem to be two works of title confrontation, but they are actually produced by a film company. Due to the simultaneous shooting of "East Evil and West Poison", the salaries of the actors are given by the "East Evil and West Poison" crew, that is to say, "East Becomes West" "White Prostitute" A number of big-name actors, applying them to make movies. And Liu Zhenwei's original intention of shooting "East into West" is very simple, that is, so many big-name actors are put together to look good and have a card face. There is no script, just shoot while writing, there is no main line, just play temporarily. Zhang Guorong also took on the role of songwriter, and Jacky Cheung played the role of lead singer. In fact, "East becomes West" is not entirely Liu Zhenwei's own original, he also imitated his just finished filming "92 Black Roses to Black Roses" and the supervising producer's "Rose Rose I Love You". From the decision to start shooting to the actual shooting on the spot, Liu Zhenwei only took eight days to prepare, and the film was filmed in such an anxious situation, until it was suspended for a week because of the set, but during this week, Liu Zhenwei suddenly played for hours.
It turned out that he temporarily took on a private job to help Yuankui write the script of the movie "Fang Shiyu", and Liu Zhenwei was entrusted to write in the hotel for five days, and after writing it, he slept with his head stuffy for a day, and then went back to shoot. Since the script is choreographed, this also gives the actors a lot of freedom to play. Liang Jiahui and Zhang Guorong's double flying swallow performance is also a classic, however, what many people don't know is that this classic double flying swallow is actually a word that Zhang Guorong changed in more than twenty minutes, and the dance movements are also played by Liang Jiahui and Zhang Guorong on the spot. Perhaps it is this improvisation that makes this performance so successful. A number of movie stars on both sides of the acting at the same time, during the day to shoot "East into the West" to engage in comedy, everyone is happy and happy, and at night to pretend to be deep to shoot "East Evil West Poison", almost make people into schizophrenia, fortunately, several people have a unique way to relieve stress, so that the classic can be successfully filmed.
Lin Qingxia Zhang Guorong relies on playing mahjong to relieve stress, in 92 years, "East becomes West" and "East Evil west poison" were filmed at the same time, happy during the day, and at night they had to pretend to be deep, which made the crew and actors crazy. But fortunately, they have a unique way to decompress - rubbing mahjong. Zhang Guorong, Lin Qingxia, Wang Zuxian and others played mahjong, and the high-value stars played mahjong, which is indeed no different from ordinary people. Lin Qingxia's card skills are poor but her luck is good, she can win every time, even if it is her idol Zhang Guorong sitting opposite, she does not tolerate it at all. Let the always competitive Zhang Guorong is very dissatisfied, although the star is not bad money, do not care about the money lost, but the face can not hang ah. After each loss, he shouted "play next time", and Wang Zuxian couldn't help but debunk him, saying that his brother's hands were shaking every time he played mahjong.
In the interview, Wang Zuxian said that he usually does not take this kind of group drama of many stars, and he completely trusts the director to take the play "East Evil and West Poison", but after filming in the desert for several months, the role is cut by the director at all, fortunately, "East becomes West" to relieve her pressure. Even Lin Qingxia, who rarely shoots comedies, feels very happy and fun, just like this, in a happy and joyful atmosphere, the whole crew took 27 days to shoot "East into West", and it was successfully released during the Spring Festival. It was a huge box office success, ranking tenth in the 1993 box office list, with a receipt of HK$22.37 million. The following year, "East Evil and West Poison" was released, but the box office was only 9.02 million Hong Kong dollars, and the "East Evil and West Poison" that was seriously filmed hit the street, and the sloppy "East into the West" soared at the box office, which was really "heart to plant flowers and flowers, no intention to plant willows and willows". Now this film has been released nearly 30 years ago, but the joy it brings us and the interesting things behind the scenes are unique in the world, and it is also an irreplaceable classic in our hearts, and "East becomes West" has become the last song of the stars.