On the evening of February 2, 2004, actor Wu Ruofu met with producer Chen Yong, Hong Kong director Lu Lunchang, and another producer in Sanlitun, Beijing, to discuss a collaborative project.
The 4 people originally made an appointment to meet at the café, but due to the prohibition of smoking in the café, several people went to the Leopard Hao Bar opposite the café.
This night, the 4 people talked happily until the early morning of the 3rd, and then walked out of the bar and prepared to drive home separately.
At that time, Wu Ruofu was a well-known actor, driving a BMW, and when he was about to get on the car, he was suddenly stopped by three men.
Three men, dressed in police uniforms and claiming to be police officers from Fengtai District, asked Wu Ruofu to go to the police station on suspicion of hitting someone with Wu Ruofu's vehicle.
When Wu Ruofu was preparing to get into the three men's cars, he found that the cars of the three men were not police car license plates, so he became alert.
He told the three that he could join them in the investigation, but would have to wait for the police car to come and take the police car to go, and was ready to dial 110.
When the three people saw that Wu Ruofu was going to call the police, they suddenly hardened up and took out handcuffs to stuff Wu Ruofu directly into the car. Wu Ruofu's friends came forward to pull when they saw the situation, and the people on both sides were entangled in this way.
At this time, the three men took out pistols and threatened Wu Ruofu to go with them, in order not to make the situation more serious, Wu Ruofu agreed to get into the car, and after the car drove away, Wu Ruofu's friend immediately called the police.
The 22-hour life-and-death rescue began...
This was a real case, because the kidnapped person was a popular star, and the case was very sensational at the time.
At the same time, whether it is the wit and courage of Wu Ruofu and the kidnappers, or the rapid action of the police, the case has been covered with a legendary color, and it has soon become the material for major film and television dramas.
This case not only has a documentary made by the police, but also an interview record of the parties, which is very detailed about the entire case process.
In addition, the case has also appeared in the third part of "Six Groups of Serious Cases" and "SWAT Force" in the form of prototypes, but it should be said that the most well-known is the movie "Mr. Rescue Mr. Wu" released in 2015, which almost restores the entire real case process.
On September 30, 2015, "Rescue Mr. Wu", directed by Ding Sheng and starring Andy Lau, Wang Qianyuan, Liu Ye and Wu Ruofu, was released.
After the release of the film, it earned 195 million yuan at the box office in the mainland, and its reputation was also in full bloom.
Not only did it have a high score of 7.7 points given by more than 350,000 netizens on Douban, but also won the 31st Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, 16th Huabiao Awards Outstanding Feature Film Award, Best Supporting Actor at the Chinese Film and Media Awards, and many nominations for the Golden Horse Awards.
Although the story prototype itself is very exciting, "Rescue Mr. Wu" as a movie is also very watchable.
The film adopts a non-linear narrative approach, which begins with a clear explanation of who the kidnappers are, and then tells the story through the kidnappers' memories.
This kind of non-continuity that highlights the time and space, coupled with the director's editing technique, makes us more substitutionary in the process of watching the film, and makes the story more attractive.
In fact, South Korea has been remaking domestic films, such as the remake of "Tracking" of "Top Secret Tracking", the remake of "Hero's True Colors" of "The Bookless", the remake of "Silence" of "Witnessed by the Whole People", the remake of the film of the same name "Drug War" and so on.
On the basis of the good reputation of the original work, the lineup of several remakes is also good, and the results of the remake are not bad, and some even surpass the original version.
But this time, watching "Mr. Rescue Mr. Wu" and "Hostage" together, the advantages of domestic movies have come out again.
What do you mean by that? Let's elaborate on that below.
A few days ago, the crime movie "Hostage" starring Huang Zhengmin, the emperor of The Green Dragon Film, released the first trailer, which lasted only 1 minute, but also revealed a lot of important information.
First of all, the Korean version has changes in the plot.
"Hostage" tells the story of huang zhengmin, a superstar played by Huang Zhengmin, who is kidnapped after a movie screening, the cunning and arrogant kidnappers demand that he pay a sky-high ransom, and Huang Zhengmin desperately flees for his life in order to survive.
Judging from the plot summary, there are still some differences from the original version, the most obvious of which is Huang Zhengming's protagonist status.
The other characters in the trailer are almost completely invisible, all of which are Huang Zhengmin's "one-man show".
Have panic when kidnapped;
Wretchedness when beaten;
Composure when wanting to save yourself;
And in terms of hostages, it seems that there is only One Huang Zhengmin, and the two people in the prototype story help each other to the Korean version of the story and do not appear.
In this way, will this story, which was originally wonderful in both lines, become the performance and play of only Huang Zhengmin?
Secondly, can the actor's acting skills hold up?
Of course, this question does not mean that the absolute starring Huang Zhengmin, Huang Zhengmin as the Qinglong Film Emperor, his acting skills are obvious to all, let him play the role of Andy Lau, it can be said that it is easy, not lost at all.
But in "Rescue Mr. Wu", the most brilliant thing is not "Mr. Wu" played by Hua Ge, but Zhang Hua played by Wang Qianyuan.
Zhang Hua in the movie has a very distinct personality, and he is an extremely contradictory person.
On the one hand, he was greedy for money and extreme, and played an absolute leadership role in the whole case, with fierce means and strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities.
But at the same time, he is also a filial piety, even in prison, he is also worried about his mother, and his separation drama with his mother can actually make people see tears, which is both a very hard and a little soft "contradiction".
And Wang Qianyuan also made painstaking efforts to present such a "special" character.
In order to shoot the interrogation scene for seven days without washing his hair, for thirty seconds of film footage, he did not drink water for three days, and he went to the sauna ten hours in advance to experience dehydration.
Although the role is not much, it can vividly interpret the image of the kidnapper who is crazy and has no moral bottom line, which is daunting.
In the Douban short review of this movie, Gao Zan's comments are all affirmations of Wang Qianyuan's acting skills.
It is no exaggeration to say that the reason why this movie can be so successful is inseparable from Wang Qianyuan's efforts. In fact, many of the awards and nominations won by the film are also given to Wang Qianyuan's interpretation.
So this Korean remake, Huang Zhengmin "played" Andy Lau I am not worried, or simply say that it does not matter, I am more concerned about, who can "play" Wang Qianyuan?
Judging from the information currently released by the movie "Hostage", except for the director and lead actor Huang Zhengmin, there is no clear information for other actors.
According to Korean media sources, in addition to Huang Zhengmin in "Hostage", the other main creators are newcomers, and no specific information has been given.
Not to mention whether the newcomer actors can "play" the taste of Wang Qianyuan, that is, whether they can catch Huang Zhengmin's plays are all big question marks.
Similarly, the director of this film is also a newcomer, according to the Douban Filmmaker entry, this film is his directorial debut.
These hidden messages have also become the biggest variable in this movie.
In short, the film will be released in South Korea in August this year, and it will be known exactly how it will be.
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