Preach in the text. ——Tang Tears
Aaron Kwok picked the script.
It's not "news" anymore.
In 1992.
There is a movie that has been misrepresented as "Sharpshooter".
It's actually "Dangerous Lover."
It is said that the jailer dragon warned him not to take indiscriminate films.
He thought so.
So after fulfilling the big deal of miscellaneous pieces that the agency helped him pick up.
Switched to Warner Records and resolved all contract disputes.
Decisively start making only one movie a year.
Aaron Kwok's contract that year was very chaotic.
In Hong Kong, he signed contracts with Wireless and Huaxing Entertainment Co., Ltd. as an artist and singer respectively; At the same time, he signed contracts with Taiwan's Fulong Company and Times Company to make films, open concerts and record records; The Times also signed his record distribution rights in Hong Kong and Taiwan to Hong Kong Huaxing Company and Taiwan UFO Company respectively.
If it wasn't for Xiaomei Yiqi's help, help him quickly cut through the chaos.
It is estimated that it is difficult to be good.
And even if the contract dispute is resolved, but offended Huaxing Records, it is equivalent to planting a dark thunder with TVB's "evil".
Therefore, he was extremely unsatisfactory in the music industry awards in the early stage, especially at the TVB awards ceremony.
Then from 1994 to 1999, only five films were released in six years, but three of them, "Romantic Storm", "Anna Madeleine" and "The Storm of the World" were of good quality.
Of course, at this time, the level of "picking the script" is quite shallow, or it can be understood as rejecting the "nonsense" script.
Judging from the film list, in the era when "nonsense" movies were prevalent, Aaron Kwok only had "Jiuyi God Eagle Hero", "The Legend of the Truant Hero", "The Prince of the Dragon God", "The King of a Thousand Faces", "The Laughing Man Chu Liuxiang" and "Lun Wen Shu Old Point Liu Xiankai" and other early works can be classified into this genre, and only three really lead the starring roles, and since 1995, there has been no contact with this type of film.
A few years later, he took over Tan Jiaming's "Father and Son".
This time, Tan Jiaming told him that you must pick a more difficult role to play.
This sentence should be rooted in his "growth-type" characteristic.
And Aaron Kwok thought so.
From 2006 to 2011, nine films were made in those six years, including the niche literary category of "Father and Son", "C+ Detective", "Silver Empire", "Murderer", "B+ Detective" and "Favorite", as well as three commercial films, namely "Wind and Cloud 2", "Whole City Alert" and "Global Love".
The performance of this stage can be described as "clear and clear".
On the one hand, the driving ability of niche literary and art films has quickly soared to the top, and on the other hand, the experience of commercial films is insufficient, especially the role shaping of "The Whole City is on Alert", showing a clear "inadequacy".
During this period, Chen Kexin's commercial blockbuster "October Siege" was rejected, for unknown reasons.
Looking at the review, Aaron Kwok's film acceptance standards began to stabilize, that is, "the difficulty of the role and the space to play" and "the depth and novelty of the script" as the standard.
As for the investment size, lineup and remuneration, these are secondary factors.
But at the same time he was aware of another problem.
Box office value is an important part of the actor's comprehensive strength.
So he said during the promotion of "Cold War" in 2012 that the box office problem is a factor that must be considered.
In the following seven years, it has established its status as a box office superstar with six commercial films in succession, including 254 million "Cold War", 1.046 billion "Journey to the West's Big Haunting Heavenly Palace", 1.2 billion "Journey to the West: Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences", 678 million "Cold War 2", 715 million "Daughter Country of the Journey to the West" and 1.274 billion "Peerless".
But at the same time, he revealed during the promotion of "Journey to the West: The Haunting of the Heavenly Palace" that he rejected many conventional commercial film scripts.
This shows that he took over the commercial film, and there are still standards in front.
Of course, he certainly can't control the final quality of the film, such as "Journey to the West", which is called a bad film, but on the contrary, Aaron Kwok's role of "Bull Demon King" has been well received.
The standard may be that blockbusters pick characters, and small films require the "double excellence" of plot and characters.
As for "Journey to the West's Sun Wukong Three Dozen White Bone Essences" being labeled as a "bad film", it is purely a misreading.
This movie is not perfect, but if you remove the deliberate funny of the Eight Precepts and the Sand Monk, you can jump to the "excellent" level, and Sun Wukong, played by Aaron Kwok, especially has a unique eye aura and body language.
As director Zheng Baorui said, "Aaron Kwok is the most suitable actor for the role of Sun Wukong. ”
"Journey to the West's Daughter Country" is too lazy to talk about, a work that seriously deviates from the direction and theme, and the gods are difficult to save.
In this decade, in addition to the box office excellence, the work has swept the Hong Kong Film Awards three times.
There are even relics such as "A Hundred Years of Floating City".
There were two things that had a big impact on him during this period.
In 2016, he won the Golden Film Emperor with "Treading Blood and Finding Plums".
Invited by Zhuang Wenqiang, he starred in the movie "Peerless", which was released in 2018.
The former broke the psychological barrier about the award, the latter broke the last barrier of his commercial film performance, and the "double gold" film emperor and the actors who penetrated the barrier of commercial and literary performances became his new label.
During the filming of Sweep 3, he said he was "in search of a new movie role."
The ability to be at the top, and the mentality of being obsessed with drama, is a perfect state.
At present, the list of films to be screened, including "When the Wind Rises Again", "Sweeping Drugs 3", "The Insider", "Broken Internet", "Temporary Robbery", "The Secret of June" and "Daddy is Wealthy", five commercial films, two niche literary films, of which "Broken Net" has been finalized, "When the Wind Rises Again" is about to premiere, and "Sweeping Drugs 3" and "The Insider" are also likely to be released within this year.
In the latest interview, he said that he had read a lot of scripts recently, and if he was selected, he might even go abroad to shoot a movie.
Taking difficulty as the standard, realizing self-renewal and growth is indeed unique in the film world.
It can be described as a legend of "picking the script".
Someone said in the comment section.
If you want to watch Hong Kong movies, I am glad that there is also Aaron Kwok.
Whether this sentence is too presumptuous is not mentioned for the time being.
Aaron Kwok uses his "sense of quality" to carry the banner of Hong Kong film.
It can indeed be described as the "last glory" of Hong Kong films.