The production team and cast of the movie "My Hometown and Me" are strong, seven directors plus more than a dozen big coffee actors, using the tactics of the sea of people, and it is hard to top the main theme series of movies into one of the two major movies "gold sucking disk" on National Day.
But when it comes to the strong lineup, no movie can match the 1991 "Night Feast of the Giants", which has only 6.9 points on Douban and has been called by film critics as the largest lineup and the worst content of the luxury version of hong Kong movies.
However, there are two points that deserve our thumbs up.
First of all, it is worth praising that this movie is a good deed of Hong Kong stars to prepare donations for the floods in the mainland, and the stars almost all participate in the performance with zero film remuneration.
The reason is not him, because this film gathered more than 200 first- and second-tier film stars in Hong Kong at that time, and it must be emphasized here that if you want to appear in this movie, you must have an absolute "name" in the Hong Kong film and television circle!
At that time, Zhang Guorong, Mei Yanfang, and Huang Jiaju were still there, and at that time, Guan Zhilin, Wang Zuxian, and Maggie Cheung were still the goddesses of Miaoling.
Many people say that the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of Hong Kong films, so "Night Banquet at the Giants" was the most authoritative star "group photo" in the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time, and it can also be said that it was the last glory of Hong Kong films, because two years later, Hong Kong films lost the Taiwan market.
In the following time period, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, etc., the blockbuster area of the box office of the original Hong Kong film, were all conquered by Hollywood movies. Especially in 1997, the big ship "Titanic" sailed over, turning the Hong Kong market upside down and never being able to turn over again.
Follow-up can only rely on independent celebrities such as Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and Stephen Chow to support the Hong Kong film market.
Many people commented on this movie and said it was a bad movie. The plot is empty, the story structure is messy, but you don't want to think about it before you comment, how difficult is it to let these more than 200 movie stars appear in the 90-minute movie, and tell a complete story?
More importantly, this film was a public welfare film that was temporarily filmed to rescue the floods in East China at that time, and the whole process took 4 days.
As you can imagine. Director Xu Ke, Gao Zhisen, Zhang Tongzu, Zhang Jianting and others to arrange more than 200 stars to enter the scene in 90 minutes, many people are a shot, how difficult is the order of the performance, they are not waiting for the group performance in Hengdian, how big is the amount of this project, 4 days can make such a movie, what else to say?
Probably only the "Oriental Hollywood", where the film industry is very mature, can produce such a film in such a short period of time.
Now, in addition to the public welfare, this film also comprehensively records the faces of all sentient beings in the heyday of Hong Kong cinema, not only no ancients before, but also no one after that. Make this film extremely collectible.
This is also worthy of praise.
Fortunately, "The Night Feast of the Giants" has a ready-made script, and Wang Jing, Xu Ke, Gao Zhisen, and Chen Jiashang, who were launched to be screenwriters, saved a lot of effort, directly took a Cantonese film from the 50s, adapted it, the content of the film is indeed not worth mentioning, but each character has designed its own laughing stem, which is not simple, and also makes this public welfare comedy have absolute commemorative significance.
The lead actor left to Zeng Zhiwei, who can "eat" the most in the show business circle, and the wife assigned to him in the film is Zheng Yuling, the couple is tall and short, and there is a sense of joy when they walk together.
And the two of them, led by agent Jacky Cheung, had a series of ridiculous absurd stories.
In the film, Jacky Cheung and Wang Zuxian have a rival scene, why say it? This is where the film is advanced, and it connects the entire history of Hong Kong cinema.
These two are a couple in the New Year film "East becomes the West", Jacky Cheung, who plays Beiqi, shows love to his cousin Wang Zuxian, jumps on a high tree and keeps singing "I love you", but has always loved and can't help it, especially sad.
But in this movie, Jacky Cheung re-sings the sentence to Wang Zuxian, who returned from exile: Do you know that I am waiting for you? His wife Wang Zuxian immediately replied: Love you more every day!
These dialogue lines not only include Jacky Cheung's songs, but also correspond to the plot of "East becomes West", who can say that it is meaningless.
There are many such roles in the film, you can't treat the actor in the movie as an independent role, you have to connect the actor with his entire performance style, only then do you understand the painstaking efforts of the screenwriter and director.
For example, in the early days of Ren Dahua, because he was famous for playing "Cow Lang" in "Hong Kong Dancing Man", he became a "duck" in this movie, and Chow Sing Chi's "Gambling Saint" was on fire, so he gave him the style of the god of gambling; Liang Chaowei continued to use the style of "Hot Hand Detective", and Ge Minhui used the hairstyle of "Counting Dead Grass".
At the same time, the movie really went to great lengths to find a reason for the stars. Xingye became a living person and transformed Gong Li out. And Gong Li's own role has not yet "covered the heat", so he said to Zeng Zhiwei: I like you, you are the personable Mr. Zhang!
Zeng Zhiwei responded: I am not surnamed Zhang! Xingye directly stepped in and told Zeng Zhiwei: You are really surnamed Zhang, and you don't believe in looking in the mirror. So we see in the lens that Zeng Zhiwei's mirror has become Zhang Guorong's nonsense bridge.
There are many more such bridge movies, illogical, and even disorganized, but it is itself to make more stars appear.
Watching this movie now, the biggest motivation is to let yourself recognize who the star in the camera is, after all, there are many stars who are smaller and farther away, and young people do not know.
There is also the end of the movie, all the movie stars gathered in the food stall, should be the most luxurious scene in the history of the entire Hong Kong film, personally feel that this is also like a celebration banquet of this public welfare film, celebrating that everyone in 4 days, the entire film was filmed.
It must be admitted that regardless of the content of the movie, there is indeed a set of "fast movies" in the Hong Kong film and television circle shooting a luxurious lineup.
Remember that when Wong Kar-wai was filming "East Evil and West Poison", the schedule was too long, director Liu Zhenwei picked up the leak, with 27 days, asked many stars to shoot a New Year comedy film, but also this speed shooting mode, it seems that Hong Kong stars have adapted to this operation process, if there is no tacit cooperation with them, such a short time to shoot a movie, like a fantasy.