Zhong Shaoxiong is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He has directed "The Whole City College Entrance Examination" and won the Excellent Film Award of the 15th China Film Huabiao Awards, "Sui and Tang Dynasties" won the Outstanding Contribution Award for Television Drama Production at the 8th Sino-US Film Festival, and has filmed popular film and television dramas such as "Dragon and Tiger Brothers of the Four Families", "Tang Chop the Murderer", "Black and White Battlefield", "Seeing Flowers in the Mist", "Macau Storm", "Secret War" and so on.
In this exclusive interview, Zhong Shaoxiong frankly said: "My goal is to shoot each scene well, and I hope that the new directors who enter the film and television circle will not only be diligent, but also get more scripts!" I was lucky, when I was a little brother, I followed Xiang Huaqiang and Huang Ying, learned how to write a script, and how to make the plot ups and downs. Because only when the script comes out, can we talk about the style of dressing, do not shoot for the style, resulting in many alternative literary and artistic dramas are not clear, must slowly be an assistant director, deputy, figure out the process and then shoot the scene! ”
Just when Zhong Shaoxiong was preparing for the upcoming launch of "The King of Chinese Soldiers", Lu Jingshan, Jiang Luxia, Li Yuan, Yu Wenle starred, in addition to recommending this work, he also talked about his experience in the film and television circle for several years, as well as interesting stories about cooperation with Zhou Runfa, Aaron Kwok, Ren Dahua, Guan Zhilin, Zhao Liying, Fu Dalong, Tang Yixin, Zhu Yilong, Wang Jing, Gan Tingting, maggieQ, Wang Baoqiang and other partners.
Huang Ying's assistant director to the blockbuster director
Zhong Shaoxiong, originally from Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, was born in Hong Kong, China. Since he was a child, he was the most fond of watching dramas, because his grandfather was the head of martial arts training, he could sit in the front row of Cantonese dramas, other children could not stand it, Zhong Shaoxiong was watching for three or four hours at a time, and often secretly got up at two o'clock in the middle of the night to watch Cantonese feature films.
After being admitted to He Wentian Huaying Middle School, Zhong Shaoxiong also established his own drama club, serving as the chairman, and he came to do the literary and art evenings and dramas at the beginning of the school, which was equivalent to already engaging in the profession of theater director. When he was crazy about movies, Hong Kong KMS Golden Lion rented movies and television, directly paid a thousand yuan to watch a year, and all the movies were casually watched!
Since he was a child, he liked movies and played ball, plus the University of Hong Kong was relatively small, and Zhong Shaoxiong had no idea about going to college, so he followed his father Zhong Guoren's "0.38" to become an actor. Zhong Shaoxiong was only 16 years old at the time, and he played a juvenile delinquent who collected money for his family and went to prison, and later he participated in "Fierce Scorpion", wrote and participated in the movie "Qinglian Youth", and has since entered the industry.
He was an assistant director of Huang Ying
Although he has been an actor, when he was 18 to 20 years old, Zhong Shaoxiong's life goal was to become a director, so he worked as a machine worker, a lighting worker, a small worker, an assistant director, and an assistant in various crews! Fortunately, when Zhong Shaoxiong was a small assistant director, he used to write "Heavenly Silkworm Change", "Big Hero Shen Shengyi", "Mr. Zombie" gold medal screenwriter Huang Ying, so he met with Huang Ying, Chen Huiyi, Xiang Huaqiang and others every day to study the script.
At that time, the creative atmosphere was very good, every day from eight o'clock to twelve o'clock to open a script discussion meeting, if you write a police station, underworld drama, call the corresponding people to the meeting, everyone you sentence me a sentence, Zhong Shaoxiong is responsible for the meeting minutes, and then read to everyone. Zhou Runfa, Ke Junxiong, Cheng Kui'an and Lin Wei starred in "Righteous Ben Without Words", and Andy Lau, Guan Zhilin, Wu Zhenyu starred in "Proud Eagle" and other films, which were born!
In 1989, the hit "Proud Eagle" was Zhong Shaoxiong's first police blockbuster as an executive director, when fifteen thousand rounds of bullets were fired, except for Wu Yusen and Zhou Runfa's cooperation "Blood Double Male", which is the most popular in this film! "Although it is an executive director, I enjoy the fun of executive filming! (Haha)"
When the assistant director made five plays, Zhong Shaoxiong wanted to be his own director, because he grew up in Yau Ma Di, his grandfather was a kung fu person, there was always a large group of gangsters walking around on the side, Zhong Shaoxiong liked the two major figures of the lame Hao period in the same period - the Ma brothers in the four major families.
After all, they are the only two brothers, never quarrel, in 1972 they can still run to Taiwan, their righteous spirit will be very good to shoot. Zhong Shaoxiong found two screenwriters, one of whom also participated in the screenwriting of "Crippled Hao", and they co-wrote the script of "Dragon and Tiger Brothers of the Four Families"! Unexpectedly, after handing it to Xiang Huaqiang, he also smiled: "Why do you still want to shoot my friend?" ”
Later, Zhong Shaoxiong directed "Dragon and Tiger Brothers of the Four Families", found Lu Liangwei, Zheng Zeshi, Li Zhi, Zeng Jiang starring, and the box office exceeded 12 million after the release! After all, the Hong Kong market is small, and even if the box office of 10 million is a big seller, as a newcomer director, it is already a very good result.
Among them, Lu Liangwei plays Ma Jianshan, who believes that running a newspaper cannot be a monopoly is the mentality of 25-year-old Zhong Shaoxiong. "In the jianghu, you must tolerate people's hearts!" "Oriental Daily" is made by two brothers, this sentence is also my own ideal, I hope that everyone in the newspaper can watch, and my movie also hopes that everyone can watch it! ”
Talking about why he shined on the first film, Zhong Shaoxiong frankly said, "I used to work as an assistant director for five or six films, and each play was a real and diligent officer, not the kind of person who collected money and did less." Even if I come home from work every day, I have to write a notice for tomorrow's filming, how to design the camera, and I am very happy to write. So I often tell the assistant director that you have to run around to shoot gunfight scenes, you have to suffer! ”
The only regret is that a few months before the hit, it caught up with the cross-era classic blockbuster "Lame Hao", and it was still starring Lu Liangwei, Zheng Zeshi and Zeng Jiang, so some people said that "Four Families" was following the trend. In this regard, Zhong Shaoxiong frankly said: "In fact, when I wrote the script, they had already shot half of it, and we were definitely not following the trend." After all, the script was written for more than a month, filmed for more than two months, and more than two months later! ”
I have filmed all kinds of scenes all the way ups and downs
"In 1982, when I came to Beijing at the age of 19 to see the Great Wall, my parents were very surprised: Why do you have to go alone?" Because of the love for the motherland!
Later, after Zhong Shaoxiong became a director, he also led the team to shoot the martial arts blockbuster "Tang Chop the Murderer" in Beijing and the Kangxi Grassland. At that time, with an investment of 8 million yuan, bringing together Zhang Fengyi, Mo Shaocong, Guan Zhilin, Zhang Guangbei and other big names, in 1993 it was already a top masterpiece co-produced between China and Hong Kong, earlier than "Huang Feihong's Lion King".
Situ Huizhuo, Zhang Tan screenwriter, Zhang Tan is still a good friend of the original author Wen Rui'an, so he knows martial arts very well. Zhong Shaoxiong introduced, "This is a crazy work, at that time my mentality was more arrogant and proud, Tang Chou was my mentality, he always stood on the highest peak, the world is the only one." After all, 26-year-old as a director, can write and martial arts! And Wang Kou is also chasing Tang Chou, and I also have to chase, to chase to be a good director! ”
This film has been filmed day and night for more than two months, and Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that the shooting is very painful! One day, I took a good night in the shed of the North Film Studio, and only Zhong Shaoxiong, photographers Zhao Fei and Mo Shaocong were left. Therefore, Zhong Shaoxiong needs to turn on the lights and smoke by himself, "After all, other employees can't rotate the shaft, but tomorrow Mo Shaocong wants to catch the plane, first shoot all his close-up shots!" ”
With Heavyweight performers such as Zhang Fengyi, Mo Shaocong, and Zhang Guangbei, Zhong Shaoxiong also needs to do stunts and lights himself. The heroine Guan Zhilin performed very well, and Zhong Shaoxiong said that he shot her melancholy and beautiful elegance, after all, she is Tang Cho's dream and future.
After the hit "Tang Chop the Murderer", at first few people watched it, and then the North Film Studio took it to participate in the film festival screening, and with the word-of-mouth effect, it was still a fire.
Although "Tang Chop the Murderer" achieved good results, due to the difficulties of investment in the Hong Kong film market, Zhong Shaoxiong did not hit the iron while it was hot and continued to shoot large-scale productions. Instead, he filmed small and medium-sized productions such as "Daughter When Self-Reliance", "Sadistic Love", "Oriental Express", "Number One Tough General", "Ghost Please Look at the Drama" and other small and medium-sized productions, the theme design of police, action, crime, pornography, horror, but the filming process bumped and bumped, all the way hard.
"Daughter when self-improvement" He chose not to shoot the reflection of the opponent who shot, thinking that the rhythm would be tight, and the result was wrong; "Sadistic Love" was filmed by other directors for ten days, Li Xiuxian's boss was not satisfied, and the temporary adjustment of Zhong Shaoxiong came to shoot, the result was that it was a three-level film, and as a result, a lot of large-scale shots were not allowed to be broadcast, and could only be deleted.
"Orient Express" could not be finished for personal reasons, another director filmed the last seven days and editing, Zhong Shaoxiong was not satisfied with the final film!
Filming "Love Trap Paramount" with Huang Baiming, originally invited Chen Baolian, a beautiful actress who had depression at that time, to make it in a blues style. Unexpectedly, it actually became Chen Baolian's last work before suicide, and Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that her on-site state was a bit strange, fortunately it did not affect the shooting.
"The Number One Tough General" was originally The ambition of Zhong Shaoxiong, when the most powerful robbery scene, a gangster robbed the street scene of five golden banks, Zhong Shaoxiong had directly deployed eight machines in advance! From the eighth floor to the fifth floor to the ground floor, there are still machines hidden in the cart by photographers, but Zhong Shaoxiong has to run to see each machine repeatedly!
So start practicing at five o'clock in the morning, slowly pondering the shooting, familiarizing yourself with the environment, and finally shooting smoothly. In order to avoid shooting at the most troublesome time, the crew chose to shoot at half past ten. There were 200 factories that day, responsible for protecting the elderly and children of the entire street. Under the order of Director Zhong, Ren Dahua played a bandit and came out to shoot, and the effect was super shocking.
Unfortunately, "The Number One Tough General" is also a lot of shots that cannot be passed at three levels, and Ye Jihuan's family does not agree to shoot it, and can only write the character as a neurosis. Zhong Shaoxiong went to Malaysia for a vacation at the time, and the boss was forced to re-edit a version in order to pass the screening, which was also not as expected.
Because he felt that the underworld was very miserable, he was used to cut people since he was a child, director Zhong Shaoxiong once launched "Knife Hand" with Peng Haoxiang screenwriter, and the result was that the evaluation was polarized, Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that "after all, there are many self-righteous techniques in literary and art films in "Knife Hand", and we use the more extreme and alternative methods of Japanese movies, so the word of mouth controversy is very large. ”
He revealed that he was optimistic about Peng Haoxiang very early on, and when all Hong Kong directors were watching "The Godfather", "Rocky" and "First Blood", only he was watching Hollywood romantic comedies and relishing it. Therefore, after "Buy Murder Shooter" and "Big Husband", he can shoot the brilliant "Zhiming and Chunjiao" trilogy!
After "Knife Hand", director Zhong Shaoxiong also launched "Zheng Jiang", and then filmed the five brothers fighting each other, which is diametrically opposed to the unity of "Knife Hand". At that time, Guo Xianni was Miss Hong Kong, the most beautiful woman in Hong Kong. The more beautiful and attractive the girl, the easier it is to deceive people, and the main villain is Du Wenze, so the reverse audience can not guess.
In 2000, Zhong Shaoxiong also became one of the small and medium-sized film cadres in the low tide of Hong Kong cinema at that time, and only he and director Qiu Litao could make six or seven films a year at the same time. But he chose to stop, after all, he was worried about the decline of the artistic quality of his film, and chose to slow down the pace
He also revealed that Zhu Yin played a ghost in "Six Degrees of Cold Heart", and she needed to be emotionally high every time, which was a miserable for her! In her last scene, she acted with film emperor-level figures such as Zhang Jiahui and Wu Zhenyu, and everyone left for an hour to start filming, and as a result, the actors' emotional investment was too much, and their respective mentalities collapsed!
After "Ghost Hunting" and "Six Degrees of Cold Heart", director Zhong Shaoxiong decided to give up the shooting of horror films, "If I shoot ghosts that are fake, they are all scaring the audience, it is better not to shoot!" ”
There is a tacit understanding with Wang Jing
Wang Jing saw that "Knife Hand" and "Zheng General" had become a small miracle in Hong Kong movies, investing millions of dollars, and also making the film circle prosperous, she said: "You are shooting well!" Do you want to come over and help me? So there was 2001's "My Savage Classmate", Zhong Shaoxiong also invented the martial arts method of slow shooting and fast shooting, so that Cheng Xiaodong won the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Design.
Then, "Naked Agent", "Fierce Man and Widow", "Black and White Battlefield", "Que Sheng", "Macau Storm", "Legend of the Demon", "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", "Adventure King Wesley" and other film and television dramas, Wang Jing and Zhong Shaoxiong began to cooperate in depth and worked together in the Film Dynasty Company
"He was too lazy to shoot some scenes, and probably asked me to shoot what style and taste, so I went to shoot." But I went to shoot for a dozen hours and came back, and if he didn't finish his thoughts he would scold me. It is not a gunman or a puppet at all, I have some good ideas, he will listen! Zhong Shaoxiong introduced.
In zhong Shaoxiong's eyes, Wang Jing will always be the chief designer of the film project, no matter what the outside world says, he is the core brain of the project!
"You don't have his brain, Hong Kong movies have revived several times, he has stood at the peak, the mainland market is hot, Zhang Yimou and Ang Li's martial arts blockbusters are on fire, director Wang Jing is also the first to come to the mainland, and Bona Yudong cooperated with "Great Shanghai" and "Chasing the Dragon" and other high-quality blockbusters, and then slowly a few of our forwards came to fight the world!"
Among them, "Naked Agent" is an international blockbuster tailored by Hollywood company and Huanya boss Lin Jianyue, who praises Maggie Q (Li Meiqi), wang jing and Cheng Xiaodong, and Zhong Shaoxiong as the executive director. Hollywood first gave three days of money, let a film flower, and then decided to invest, Zhong Shaoxiong and Cheng Xiaodong filmed in Shenzhen, chose the most beautiful hotel, swimming pool, bought high heels, sunglasses.
As a result, after shooting for three days, I came back to find that I shot in the wrong direction and was scolded by director Wang Jing! After two minutes, Zhong Shaoxiong made a clever move, he said: "I'm sorry, give me another chance to reshoot, don't need so much money." He remembered the advertisement of Figo and Xiao Luo playing football in the ruins, so he took Maggie Q and Anya wearing small vests to the worst barbed wire mesh place in the Shenzhen Rotten Tail Building, and re-shot it, and the result was OK!
There is a scene where the fierce MADAMEM drunkenly broke the three female agents "coming of age ceremony", because of the three foreign fierce male sailors, all black and white, they are not professional actors, filming the bed scene of the wasted girls, they grabbed and tore the actress's clothes, Maggie Q, Anya because they want to act with cooperation, can not move, can only cry in pain, suffered a lot! This startled both directors!
Although director Cheng Xiaodong saw that the situation was not good and wanted to stop it, Zhong Shaoxiong pulled him aside, "Because it is the same as the real thing!" Can't stop! After filming this heavy passion scene, Maggie Q's mood can still be calmed down, and the other two girls can't hold back, they all run to vomit and cry!
Because it was the most bitter and the worst, it looked good, and later made into "Naked Agent" that everyone liked!
And through the "Law of Torture and Killing" and "Naked Agent" to cooperate with Wu Yanzu, Zhong Shaoxiong commented on him, "He is super handsome, and there is a little evil qi, in my heart is the same as Zheng Shaoqiu!" ”
Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that the most tacit cooperation between himself and Wang Jing was "Black and White Battlefield", which was not only selected as the annual masterpiece recommended by the Hong Kong Film Critics Association, but also won the Best Screenplay Award of the Hong Kong Critics Association for the first time in her life!
This is a gangster family drama, Wang Jing found Zeng Zhiwei and Yu Wenle to play two fathers and sons, as a gangster leader Zeng Zhiwei used bitter meat to kill everyone who murdered him, and finally supported his illegitimate son Yu Wenle to take the throne, which was counterproductive. The story has many twists and turns, and the ending is quite a fable of ancient Greek mythology. Touched a lot of viewers.
Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that "Knife Hand" invested three million, "Black and White Battlefield" Wang Jing relaxed the investment to five million, he asked Zhong Shaoxiong to use his own literary and artistic style to shoot, so photography, art, editing are very exquisite, and also agreed to use Zhong Shaoxiong's idea of Yu Wenle suicide as the end!
Zhong Shaoxiong said frankly: "The original script was to make him comfortable to be the dragon head, but I let him commit suicide, because human nature is like this!" So many brothers from the Tuen Mun shop are dead, his girlfriend is also dead at the phone booth, and the enemy Tsang Chi Wai did not tell him that he was his father earlier, so when the conflict was maximized, he completely collapsed! ”
Speaking of Yu Wenle, although he is a popular male star in Hong Kong after the 80s, why is he not as popular as Nicholas Tse? Zhong Shaoxiong believes that his performance potential is far from being tapped!
"Although some people think that he is very similar to Fang Zhongxin's performance, Fang Zhongxin is actually more gentle and elegant, Yu Wenle can break out like Zhou Runfa, but he always plays the male number two like "The True Colors of Boys", or the assistant role of Zhou Runfa in "Macau Storm 2", Director Zhong hopes that Yu Wenle's agent can go to the mainland to take over the big drama and PK with excellent actors in the mainland, which can promote the benign development of Yu Wenle's acting career!
Zhong Shaoxiong and Wang Jing's co-director "Mong Kok Prison" was selected as one of the top eight best works of the year recommended by the Hong Kong Film Critics Association, but the style is also unusual! Although they were all neurotic crime themes, they did not follow the trend of "Detective" at that time. He and Wang Jing thought of Jason Statham starring in "High Voltage", "so we used a little bit of that kind of alternative approach, there was no Du Qifeng thing." ”
Female No. 1 Mo Xiaoqi was selected by Wang Jing, Zhong Shaoxiong said, "Her acting skills are very good, just like "Half Sea Water, Half Flame" and "Great Shanghai", she has acted very well! ”
One day, Zhong Shaoxiong was in a daze at Wang Jing's company, he believed that the Hong Kong market is not good now, Wang Jing's fine films only sell for up to five million, and it is necessary to go to the mainland to shoot martial arts dramas to open up new commercial fields. He also took the initiative to ask Miao to be the producer and director of "Snowy Mountain Flying Fox", because the TV series has the greatest power.
Nie Yuan was a small student of Ciwen Company, Wang Jing found Zhu Yin, Zhong Xintong, as well as Fang Zhongxin, Huang Qiusheng, and An Yixuan, a total of three groups filmed in the mainland, zhong Shaoxiong was responsible for group A. "All the actors in it are big names and perform very well, Zhong Xintong was cute and beautiful at that time, and he was super good-looking in blue clothes and the most popular!"
However, the drama has a high rating, and the details of the controversy such as Fu Kang'an's rape of Miao Ruolan, Cheng Lingsu's dedication to Hu Fei, Hu Fei and Yuan Ziyi's fall off a cliff and not die are all made up by Wang Jing's modification of the original work, so it is questioned by the audience. "Whether you like Wang Jing or not, Wang Jing is willing to change it, he told me that Jin Yong's novels are all backwards, and I know why I did it!"
Filming film and television drama stories in the mainland
Yang Dengkui's boss once took Liu Weiqiang and Zhong Shaoxiong to a meeting in the mainland and wanted to shoot a costume drama, but the script could not be written until 21 episodes, and there was no way to do 40 episodes to abandon the project. It just so happened that the partner of Boss Yang's company was making the antique theme of "Seeing Flowers in the Fog", and found a lot of big directors who thought they would shoot slowly and slowly, so they said to Zhong Shaoxiong: "Liu Weiqiang is looking for you to shoot a play, you are sure OK!"
After that, Li Youbin and Xing Jiadong were found, and when Little Song Jia heard that Li Youbin joined, he immediately agreed to play the female number one. Through business experience, Zhong Shaoxiong adjusted the script, making the love of the second female Si Kehua (formerly known as Si Guangmin) complicated, so that a pair of young plum bamboo horse lovers were separated, so that the sadomasochistic love drama was very eye-catching, and Li Youbin, Song Jia, and Xing Jiadong performed excellently, and finally made into a sensational boutique drama.
Later, based on Shan Tianfang's commentary, the costume epic drama "Sui and Tang Dynasty Yanyi" was also co-directed by Zhong Shaoxiong. He revealed, "Fu Dalong is a performance artist, and he talked to me for two or three days about how yang Guang, the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, acted, and he was very intoxicated! After talking about every detail of the character, I have a special study, including how to get the beard! Yan Yikuan has played Yan Qing, naturally qin qiong's best candidate, I always look at him next to him, because he is handsome! He has a sense of handsomeness similar to Aaron Kwok. ”
Tang Yixin was temporarily selected, before there was an actress who acted for two days and did not do it, I did not expect Tang Yixin to act so cute. Including Gan Tingting, Zhang Han, Wang Like, Bai Bing, Wang Baoqiang and others are outstanding, although some people think that Jiang Wu's performance of Cheng bites Jin a bit, but Zhong Shaoxiong said: "It is possible that he has such a special understanding of the character!" ”
The biggest regret of "Sui and Tang Dynasty" is that Zhong Shaoxiong only filmed the front, because the contract is 30 episodes, for commercial purposes the script was written to 38 episodes, it really can't be written, and the final broadcast is 62 episodes, plus Zhong Shaoxiong still has to shoot the "Whole City College Entrance Examination", the back is filmed by others, Zhong Shaoxiong revealed, "I think the scene in Wagangzhai is not so delicate, because it is not me who shoots!" ”
Why rush to shoot "The Whole City College Entrance Examination"? Zhong Shaoxiong said that although he was stereotyped as a director of crime violence and suspense, he had a literary and artistic dream in his heart, plus the invitation of producer Liu Jianhua, he said to Fang Zhongxin: "Although the film remuneration is less than half, but we have made so many commercial action films before, it is better to shoot a literary and artistic film, as a trip!" He invited Fang Zhongxin, who was the film emperor level, and took Tan Jiexi, Qiao Qiao and other newcomers to shoot.
When Tan Jiexi participated in "Happy Male Voice", wearing shorts and playing the guitar, Zhong Shaoxiong felt that he was very iron with the characters, a naughty student who did not love test scores and did not pursue fame and fortune, even if he gave up the college entrance examination, he also became an employee of Shenzhen Technology Company, proving that there are many choices in life! And Tan Jiexi asked who wrote "One Piece" in class, and Fang Zhongxin easily replied to Eiichiro Oda, which proved that as a people's teacher, he knew the students' books very well, so he could teach them!
After entering the mainland to shoot film and television dramas, Zhong Shaoxiong has filmed film and television dramas such as "House War", "Code Blue Action", and "Forward Contract", and he is busy and happy. One day, director Wang Jing said to him: "Come back and help me shoot "Macau Storm"!" Therefore, Zhong Shaoxiong cooperated with Zhou Runfa, Nicholas Tse and Jing Tian in "Macau Storm", and also filmed "Macau Storm 3"! He said, "Because I had to prepare for "Secret War" at that time, I didn't shoot "Macau 2"! ”
In Zhong Shaoxiong's view, Zhou Runfa can be hailed as the god of Hong Kong acting because he has been working hard in TVB since he was 19 years old and has extraordinary talent. At that time, he used the performance PK Zheng Shaoqiu, and was also praised by director Wang Jing in "People in the Net" and "Thousand Kings Qunying Society", and cooperated with Xie Xian and other predecessors to play against each other, plus people are handsome and have good performance understanding, and they are more and more powerful.
"Only he has three ways of performing, one is the little horse brother with a gun in "The True Colors of Heroes", one is "Autumn Fairy Tale", "Aaron's Story" Chinese art xiaosheng, and the other is the comedic performance in "Hardcover Chasing Girls" and "God of Gamblers", and he shuttles smoothly in the three performances, and no one else can do it!" Zhong Shaoxiong's praise for Zhou Runfa was overflowing.
However, after the reputation of "Macau Storm 3" was not as good as expected, not only director Wang Jing was scolded, but Also Zhong Shaoxiong was scolded, "Don't we want to shoot well?" The first episode invested 85 million yuan, Zhou Runfa paid more than 30 million yuan, the third part invested 120 million, and the third part invested 250 million. So much money, everyone is actually very serious about shooting.
The problem is that Wang Jing, Zhong Shaoxiong, Liu Weiqiang's three-person cooperation script is a bit chaotic, the first two are Wang Jing's style, the third episode does not know how to go up a level, they used some Hollywood comedy methods, the result is not satisfactory. Including Zhong Shaoxiong and Wang Jing spent eight months to do computer special effects of the "Legend of the Descending Demon", Zhong Shaoxiong also exclusively revealed that "I also paid 2 million yuan to do special effects, no matter that Hairun and Wang Jing asked for money, they were scolded!" ”
According to his analysis, after "Macau Storm 3" and "The Legend of the Descending Demons", the mainland market is in a period of transition, and co-production blockbusters such as "The Legend of the Fish Pearl", "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", "Qimen Dunjia", and "Di Renjie's Four Heavenly Kings" have not been as expected. Zhong Shaoxiong believes that it is not that the Hong Kong team has taken more money and does not shoot seriously, but that the shooting direction is not correct. Because after the rise of online movies, mainland audiences have more demanding requirements for entering the theater, and they have already pursued higher special effects movies such as demons and ghosts!
Zhong Shaoxiong frankly said, "Just like "Medicine God" first wanted to make a comedy, and slowly became a realist masterpiece, "The Unknown Generation" only has 20 million productions, but all aspects are very stable, and mainland audiences must pursue such topical boutique dramas! ”
"Secret War" will start again
"The Eternal Airwaves" was once the spy war theme that Zhong Shaoxiong most wanted to shoot, and the chief producer once went to Hong Kong to inspect him. Zhong Shaoxiong also met the family of the martyr's prototype Li Bai and promised to take a good photo.
He selected Aaron Kwok, a king-level superstar in Hong Kong, as well as Zhao Liying, a popular flower dan who picked the beams of "The Legend of Lu Zhen" and "Legend of Chasing Fish", The Hong Kong Film Emperor Ren Dahua, and Zhu Yilong, Zhang Han, Zhang Lanxin and other potential stock newcomers, and decided to shoot a red main melody giant
Speaking of Aaron Kwok, Zhong Shaoxiong believes that "I think he performed for two eras, one is a debut Taiwanese small motorcycle poster, and a handsome guy who sings endless love and love for you, completely fascinated by the two sides of the strait and three places!" But he tried to act in his heart after "Father and Son", including I think he also acted best in "Secret War"! ”
Ren Dahua is the actor with whom Zhong Shaoxiong has cooperated the most, and the two have cooperated at least five or six times, including director Wang Jing, who also likes him, so come on! "In fact, he also has so many faces of Zhou Runfa, the difference between the two is less than one or two years old, but the route is different!"
He initially took the model model in TVB, but Chow Yun Fat, Liang Chaowei, Andy Lau are all there, and can only be the villain in "Frenzy" and "New Za Master Brother", but this person has a wide range of dramas! At the peak of Hong Kong movies, Andy Lau and Chow Yun Fat had great box office appeal, but the circle knew that as long as they signed Ren Dahua, they could make money, and even people who bought films in the Middle East liked him!
Zhu Yilong is also Zhong Shaoxiong's most optimistic mainland newcomer actor, when filming Zhu Yilong's daily smile shot, Zhong Shaoxiong feels that his melancholy eyes are almost exactly the same as Liang Chaowei before, but he still lacks a heavyweight boutique drama like "New Brother Za" to pick up liang to sharpen his acting skills.
Zhang Han is a very positive actor with a very good mentality! Zhong Shaoxiong believes that Zhao Liying played very well in "Secret War" and is very malleable! He gave Zhao Liying a 70 points for acting talent, and he believed that the performance talent of zheng Zeshi, Zhou Runfa and other old drama bones was higher, which showed that the powerful actors were not good!
"The New Eternal Radio Wave" was once the most ambitious film in director Zhong Shaoxiong's life, he not only wanted to express the mood of the revolutionary party at that time, but also hoped that young people now understand what faith is, "Now that everyone opens their eyes and has everything, who knows the hardships of the revolutionary heroes who climbed the snowy mountains and crossed the grasslands?" ”
Among them, when Zhao Liying rescued Aaron Kwok, the male and female protagonists not only had the spirit to face the password, Zhao Liying's spicy and delicate performance, including Zhu Yilong kidnapping Ren Dahua's family over there, and the camera switched through a child-feeding cake shot, all of which made the suspense tension super good. However, Don't kill after Ren Dahua escapes, Director Zhong deliberately leaves blank, and the CG special effects for the big scene at the end are slightly fake, all of which have a certain controversial component.
In this regard, Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that any play is not a good script can be shot satisfactorily, but also need to shoot without problems, post-production is rigorous and meticulous, so there are too many things that are not controlled by the director. Just like "The Eternal Radio Wave" was renamed "Secret War" by the top level, director Zhong Shaoxiong felt that "the name is not justified!" ", we must also be forced to push the project forward.
And he believes that it is also very important to publicize and distribute now, and "Secret War" and "Thor" and other Hollywood blockbusters are popular at the same time, and it is not a wise choice, so the final box office and word of mouth are not as expected.
After the box office failure of "Secret War", Zhong Shaoxiong, who has always been diligent, did not immediately start shooting a new film, but instead pondered for a long time! He said: "One day I was chatting with the film critic Shi Fan and suddenly woke me up! He said: "Director Zhong, the shots and scripts of many of your fine film and television dramas are fine, but Douban has always had a low score, and the key is that you feel that the pressure of filming is relatively low!" ”
Therefore, Zhong Shaoxiong immediately woke up and pushed a lot of comedy projects, even if he signed comedy films, he did not shoot low-pressure films, and currently focused on the special female soldier theme "Chinese Soldier King"!
Lu Jingshan, Jiang Luxia, Li Yuan, yu Wenle starred, hoping to make a blockbuster like "Wolf Warrior" and "Red Sea Action"!
Just like the photographer of "Infernal Affairs", the stylist of "Detective Chinatown", including a very expensive martial arts design of the chengjia class, have been invited! "I invited the best production team in Hong Kong this time, there will definitely be no last scene of "Secret War", until the plane flies, and everyone thinks that the special effects are fake!"
New film plan: In addition to the executive producer of "Infernal Walker: Black Blood Storm", next year plans to shoot "China SWAT", and "China Queen"! Two films are also in preparation, one is the theme of the end of the world, the other is the theme of realism, similar to "The Distance Between Us and Evil", each play must be real, serious to get the script and production!
He hoped that everyone would give a little tolerance to the small fresh meat and small flowers, Yuan Shanshan and Jing Tian had cooperated, not as bad as everyone said! "Jing Tian just didn't understand the deep performance, Yuan Shanshan is too beautiful, limiting the play road!"
A popular little fresh meat detective class said: "I am a singing and dancing, where can I act?" But there are 100 million pieces of remuneration, can not not go! ”
Zhong Shaoxiong revealed that he shoots three scenes a day in the movie, tv series he shoots ten scenes a day, many groups shoot thirty scenes, more than ten hours are filming, handsome and beautiful women stay up late to memorize lines will have dark circles, so there will be actors who do not memorize lines, because there is no time to memorize, I hope the relevant crew can adjust it!
Usually did not start work, Zhong Shaoxiong slept until he woke up naturally, and when he started working, he filmed every day and night, from the 80s to the present, he was so busy working, but he had won the Huabiao Award, and there were also high-box office blockbusters, no regrets.
Compared with directors Wang Jing, Xu Ke, Du Qifeng and Lin Chaoxian, who has strong directing skills, Zhong Shaoxiong said: "I am friends with them, and they are also the cadres of Hong Kong films. ”
Zhong Shaoxiong gave himself a high score of more than 70 points for the director's level, he believes that although each project is different, if he works hard, he can reach 80 to 90 points, "If director Wang Jing gives a high-quality script, I can also shoot a quality blockbuster like "Chasing the Dragon", after all, I have the foundation of "Four Families"! ”
He loves Coppola, the director of "The Godfather", and thinks that he wants to target him to shoot ups and downs!
"Many years later, I hope everyone will evaluate Zhong Shaoxiong as a hard-working director who wants to make a good scene."
After "Macau Storm" and "Secret War", Zhong Shaoxiong has grown up, and "The King of Chinese Soldiers" has started again!