Wang Jing's new work "Boss Lady 2 Sneaking Around" was launched for 6 days, with a cumulative box office of 3.792 million and 1.354 million moviegoers, which currently ranks first in the online broadcast popularity list.
Last year, Brother Jia introduced Wang Jing's "Boss Lady", co-starring "Crystal Girl" Xu Dongdong and Xie Miao, as well as Mars, Liu Tengyuan and Gui Jingjing.
This sequel retains the main actors Xu Dongdong, Liu Tengyuan and Gui Jingjing, but neither Xie Miao nor Mars returns, but is replaced by Xie Tianhua and Tang Zhenye, and the story does not continue the plot line of the previous work.
Film director Wang Jing, director Jiang Guomin, cinematographer Jiang Guomin has cooperated with Wang Jing so far in 13 films, the film's producer and screenwriter are Wang Jing, as a fan can see if his screenwriting ability in this low-cost network movie has improved.
One
Xie Tianhua, who debuted as a member of the Wind and Fire Sea in 1992, is well known for participating in the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series of movies. In 2009, due to the role of Lagunding Brother in the TVB hit drama "Police Sniper", the second spring of his acting career was ushered in, and TVB broke through to open a new drama "Stealth Sniper" for him, which made the role of Brother Lauughing more into the hearts of the people.
This "Boss Lady 2" uses the subtitle of "Endless Stealth", obviously Wang Jing wants to borrow the heat of Brother Lauughing to fry a wave of cold rice, from this title can also be understood, the story must be related to "undercover".
However, this time, Xie Tianhua did not play undercover, but played a big brother named Lei Marriott.
Going undercover is the heroine Xu Dongdong, who is called "White Rose" in the film, a member of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, who was sent to Lei Marriott to do undercover.
But Lei Marriott is not a big bad guy, his opponent Fei Kun (Tang Zhenye) is the bad guy, this Fat Kun and British police officer Gao Bai Hunt colluded with each other to use "yellow gambling drugs" to disrupt Hong Kong's social order.
White Rose's father, Lao Bai, is a Chinese police officer, who cracks a large number of contraband of Fei Kun, but is found by Fei Kun and Gao Bai to seek revenge, both husband and wife are killed, only White Rose can escape because of the help of Lei Marriott.
In the 1970s, hong Kong established the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and White Rose, in order to deal with Fei Kun, blended into the underworld and became Lei Marriott's subordinate.
At this time, Lei Marriott had set up its own portal, and formed four major families underworld with two gangs, Fei Kun, Chaozhou Congee, and Hua ZaiRong, controlling illegal business in Hong Kong.
Among the four, Fei Kun was the most powerful, but he was full of evil, and the police hierarchy was very dissatisfied with him, so he secretly supported Lei Marriott to take the position and replaced Fei Kun to control the transaction with the Golden Triangle.
Of course, Fei Kun did not want to submit to the subordinate, and he secretly persuaded Chaozhou Porridge and Hua Zairong to form the same front, and Jolei Marriott held a meeting to kill him.
At the same time, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has also obtained evidence of the crimes committed by Superintendent GaoBai and the four major families, and is ready to arrest them in one fell swoop on the day of the meeting.
Lei Marriott is kind to White Rose, and White Rose does not want to see him in trouble, so he convinces Lei Marriott to give up his illegal business and leave Hong Kong, and then quit the jianghu.
After consideration, Lei Marriott also decided to quit, and he made his decision at the meeting of the four major families. But at this time, Fei Kun has already bribed Lei Marriott's bodyguard, Xiao Wei (Li Xuan), and is ready to attack him.
After a shootout, Fei Kun, Chaozhou Congee, and Hua Zairong were all arrested by the ICAC Task Force, but Lei Marriott escaped under the cover of white roses.
However, White Rose was caught by Xiao Wei, who was ready to run away, and extorted 5 million Hong Kong dollars from Lei Marriott as a travel fee.
In order to save the white rose, Lei Marriott had to risk his life, but in the end they were all netted by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Lei Marriott was charged with 37 counts of drug trafficking, bribery, and obstruction of justice, but was sentenced to 20 years in prison for voluntarily surrendering himself and testifying as a tainted witness.
In the end, although Ray Marriott was also sentenced, White Rose was willing to wait for him, and if he performed well in prison, he was likely to be released early.
Two
Compared with online movies and cinema movies, the mode of operation is completely different.
Imagine that in the current context of fast food culture, many online videos are a few minutes to ten or twenty minutes long, and a movie of more than two hours like a cinema movie is difficult for netizens who use mobile phones to watch movies to watch it seriously.
Therefore, the average length of online movies is about 90 minutes, which makes the story simple, the clues clear, and the short and concise.
Wang Jing, who is now mainly engaged in the production of online movies, has long figured out the doorway of this - like "Boss Lady 2", the length of the film is only 80 minutes, there are few characters, the plot is single, and there are no big scenes, and it is not easy to tell the story seriously.
In fact, netizens can easily find that this movie is about the lame leader of Hong Kong's "Yiqun" in the 1970s, and the prototype of "Lei Marriott" is him.
Crippled Howe was arrested after returning to Hong Kong in late 1974, sentenced to 30 years in prison, and released from prison in 1991, but died of liver cancer 25 days later.
The prototype of Fei Kun is Wu Zhenkun, nicknamed "Fat Zai Kun", who was originally the eldest brother of Lame Hao, and the relationship between the two was actually very good, and he once founded the new "Three Holy Societies" with "Dwarf ZaiYi".
But his ending is also the same as in the movie, he was arrested for committing a crime with lame Hao, and later sent to prison.
This history has been adapted by Ma Dangxiong and Pan Wenjie into the Academy Award-winning film "Lame Hao", and Wang Jing herself has also filmed "Money Empire", "Chasing Dragons" and "Chasing Tigers and Catching Dragons".
So, the movies of "Boss Lady 2" all look familiar.
For the sake of the length of the film, Wang Jing also does not want to make the story line so complicated, so delete the complicated and simplify, delete all the characters that can be deleted, and only retain the core characters who can tell a story well.
But this story is still much richer than last year's "Boss Lady", which is also a kind of progress.
Three
Although "Boss Lady 2" is a low-budget network movie, it may invite Xie Tianhua and Tang Zhenye, two old-fashioned men, to star, but there is still a lot of point of view.
The best performance in the film is Xie Tianhua, although he plays the underworld big brother, but the kind of anger in his bones is unchanged, and the cynicism revealed between the eyebrows is very well interpreted.
Although Lei Marriott in this film is not the kind of tall and full-fledged character with a righteous face, he is also a person with good intentions and can change his mistakes.
The best thing about Xie Tianhua's performance is that he can understand the characteristics of the role and grasp the measure of the performance.
In several competitions with his opponent Fei Kun, Lei Marriott was confident, even if he was in danger.
Xie Tianhua used to use his eyes to show the calmness of the character; And when facing the beloved, you can reveal the affection from the eyes.
In contrast, Tang Zhenye has been bleaker in recent years, and when Andy Lau opened the live broadcast last year, he also said that he was the most handsome of the TVB Five Tigers.
Duan Yu, who played in the 82nd edition of "Tianlong Babu", once fascinated thousands of young girls, and the future was bright at that time.
But then Weng Meiling's suicide pushed Tang Zhenye to the cusp of the storm, and the Hong Kong media portrayed him as a negative man in order to hype hot spots, making him indefensible, and his acting career was also affected.
During that time, he also gradually became decadent, his figure became fat, and his appearance also changed a lot, and when he reappeared, he had changed from small fresh meat to bald greasy uncle.
Tang Zhenye simply "went black in one way" and began to play the role of villain. In this film, although Fei Kun, played by Tang Zhenye, is also a villain, he is humble and funny.
Tang Zhenye is now very fat, with a bald head of "no grass", and his expressions and actions are all drama. It can be seen that Tang Zhenye hopes to give the character a sense of humor, and he often shows the badness of the character in a serious manner, but the villain of Fei Kun runs into walls everywhere, which makes people laugh.
Tang Zhenye now has to take on many movies and TV series every year, although he plays a role that does not have a small role, but he is working very hard to interpret the role and strive to play each role well.
This kind of professional quality only possessed by old actors is rare in the current film and television circle.
Finally, it must be mentioned that the "big sister-in-law" Xu Dongdong, everyone used to call her "big sister-in-law", or because the role created by her and Zhang Yishan's "Residual Sin" was very successful, so that she gradually entered people's vision.
She is also one of the "crystal girls" that Wang Jing focuses on cultivating, and over the years, the action scenes have also made great progress.
Wang Jing has won the "crystal girls" one after another over the years, Xu Dongdong is a relatively low starting point in it, but she is very hard,she not only works hard to fit, but also continues to improve her acting skills.
In this film, Xu Dongdong covered most of the fighting scenes, and passed those dragon and tiger martial arts masters, and did not fall behind at all.
The biggest highlight is a fight with Xie Tianhua, the two combine dance and martial arts movements, and the movements are both beautiful and exciting.
The whole movie has her presence and indeed has a lot of highlights, Renmei acting skills are also constantly improving, "sister-in-law" Xu Dongdong can look forward to the future!
It should be said that this "Boss Lady 2" is still very interesting:
One is that the story is well told;
Second, the performances of Xie Tianhua and Tang Zhenye are remarkable;
Third, Xu Dongdong's eyes are bright, and the action scenes she and Xie Tianhua contributed are also very good-looking.
The box office performance of this movie is quite good, and the IP of "Boss Lady", which belongs to Xu Dongdong, is estimated to continue to be filmed, which is expected.
(Rotten Tomatoes Movie Editorial Department: Blood Dan Heart)