Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Li Li
The "2022 Guangdong Excellent Film Viewing Promotion Conference "First-class Accusations"" sponsored by the Guangdong Film Bureau was recently held in Guangzhou Tajinyi Air Film City. As a Guangdong-Hong Kong co-production of legal films, the film is starred by Fang Zhongxin, Bao Qijing, Liao Qizhi, Zeng Jiang and many other veteran Hong Kong drama bones. This is also one of Liao Qizhi's last works during his lifetime, and he has always dedicated a complex, wonderful and memorable role. After the screening on the same day, the audience spontaneously applauded for half a minute to pay tribute to "Uncle Zhi".
"First-class Accusation" is co-produced by Shenzhen Kunpeng Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd. and many other local film and television institutions in Guangdong, directed by Huang Guohui, starring Fang Zhongxin, Tan Yaowen and Chen Jiale, and starring Bao Qijing, Liao Qizhi, Zeng Jiang, Zhang Jiansheng, He Peiyu and Zhang Songzhi. The film integrates a variety of plot elements such as courtroom, crime, anti-corruption, and anti-gang crime, coupled with the all-star cast of Hong Kong films and a super production team, allowing the audience to relive the style of high-level Hong Kong-style legal films.
The story begins with a suspenseful murder involving a political and business crocodile. With the mysterious death of the only daughter of the richest man in the city, barrister Lei Youhui (Fang Zhongxin) is determined to assist newcomer lawyer He Xueming (Chen Jiale) to wash away the grievances of Li Yifeng (Wong Ding Qian), who has been charged with first-degree murder. In the process of investigation and evidence collection, the two lawyers encountered multiple difficulties such as witness retraction, evidence destruction, and the killing of colleagues because they violated interest groups, but in the end, they cleverly introduced the real culprit during the trial and achieved a "Jedi counterattack". The film expresses the theme of "confronting the powerful in order to restore the truth of the facts", and a series of multi-party competitions around money, power and justice are full of tension. What is even more rare is that as a legal theme film that is rare on the big screen in recent years, "First-class Accusation" maintains the pure style of Hong Kong-style legal film, and many sword-rattling court scenes are particularly enjoyable to the audience.
The actors in the film are all acting well. In addition to Fang Zhongxin, Bao Qijing, Zeng Jiang, and Tan Yaowen, Liao Qizhi, who passed away last year, is particularly worth mentioning. The six-time Hong Kong Academy Awards nomination and twice "Best Supporting Actor" has brought countless familiar works to the audience in the past. This time, Liao Qizhi played a rich man who lost his beloved daughter in the film, and although the performance did not have a large length, every scene made people feel the complex human struggle.
On the same day, Xiong Peng, the producer of "First-class Accusation", sighed during the post-screening exchange: "The most regrettable thing is that Uncle Zhi died before the film was released." He recalled that there was a highlight of Liao Qizhi and Zeng Jiang in the film, and the two had supplemented their lines in 2020, "I didn't expect that just four months after that, the news of Uncle Zhi's death came." Xiong Peng said: "The epidemic has made many things uncertain, but the only thing we are sure of is to follow the path of the movie to the end like Uncle Zhi. ”
It is reported that after the release of "First-level Accusation" in the mainland on October 8 last year, it quickly rushed to the position of the first place in the video platform hit list, the first place in the maoyan hot list, and the first place in the Kuaishou entertainment list, with a total of 500 million + new media topics, and the number of effective moviegoers on the whole network exceeded 6 million. At the same time, this legal anti-black masterpiece has received audience ratings of Youku 8.5, iQiyi 8.5, and Tencent Video 7.7, which is the upstream level of the same type of film. At the same time, the film was also released in major theaters in Hong Kong, China on October 28 last year, winning the box office championship of new films for 7 consecutive days, during which it also surpassed Hollywood blockbusters such as "007: No Time to Die" and won the single-day movie attendance champion. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
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Editor-in-charge | Shao Ziheng