"Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" set a Hong Kong film record, sincerity is the biggest must-move

Author: Green Stream

In addition to Huang Zihua's box office appeal, more importantly, it captures the general public's desire for justice, and it allows Zihua to use his iconic body language to loudly tell the audience that justice exists and that there are people who fight for it.

As at the beginning of the trial scene of the film, Lawyer Lin said to the jury: For this single case, you only need to know one thing, that is, human nature.

Different from the Japanese legal drama "Li Dog Hi", barrister Gu Meimon reminded the judge in a play defending a murder suspect: You are professional legal experts, you cannot let people's favor influence the law, and you cannot let public opinion guide the professional judgment of legal practitioners. "Poisonous Tongue" inspires the jury's empathy from beginning to end, and also inspires the audience's most simple empathy.

He knows that we are not looking at reversals, not for eloquence, not for reasoning. We are just struggling to survive and eat in our spare time, wanting to get a little warm comfort, trying to find a little confidence in human nature, even if it is only in movies.

In "Poisonous Tongue", there is actor Xie Junhao, who sees the blessing of Norma Lin, so that many viewers do not understand why Huang Zihua is so sought after. "Huang Zihua's acting skills are just like that."

Huang Zihua is certainly a good actor, but his acting skills are definitely different from the mainstays of his contemporaries in Hong Kong, that is, in TVB dramas, he is not the top in terms of acting skills. But the magic is that as long as it is a film and television work starring him, no matter how other characters crush him in acting, he is the soul of this work after all. Not to mention far, can Lawyer Lin of "Poisonous Tongue" change an actor and have such achievements? To put it a little further, the several rescue works he shot for TVB are by no means just relying on acting skills.

Actor Huang Zihua, the most out of the circle in the mainland may be a series of migrant memes derived from the stills of "Male Love and Female Love", or it may be the paragraph he told to Japanese young actors about the Diaoyu Islands at an awards ceremony.

For audiences in Cantonese-speaking regions, he also has a more important identity - the founder of Hong Kong Don Du Xiao. In 1990, 30-year-old Huang Zihua began to talk about "The History of Flesh and Blood in the Entertainment Industry" in the form of an original performance, and began to laugh. Dong Du laughs, that is, stand up comedy. Huang Zihua spent nine months polishing the script alone, monologue for more than 90 minutes, and spent tens of thousands of yuan to produce. There are eyes in the sky, and the response was enthusiastic at that time, and now it is also a classic among the classics, and it is always new.

At that time, there was no shortage of highly educated artists in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and Wong Zihua graduated from the University of Alberta in Canada with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. This makes his laughter always thought-provoking beyond joy, and never entertaining or preaching.

"Male Love and Female Love", "Dong Du Detective", "Adultererous Jian" and other TV series have a strong Huang Zihua color whether it is lines or performance style, we watch these TV series enjoyable, not in Huang Zihua's acting skills, but as a derivative of Dong Du Xiao, after all, Dong Du Xiao only has one for a few years, in the contemporary society where everything is developing rapidly, wait until I pants out, wait until you return water.

To see Huang Zihua's acting skills, you must watch "Very Citizen", he plays Puyi, Jiang Wenli plays Wanrong, in this historical drama, Huang Zihua gave a perfect answer as an actor.

Dong Duxiao's success depends on wisdom, but also on sincerity. Telling the truth to the point, fully engaged in hurt, and more courageous than activists, sober dreamers.

To be honest, the films starring Huang Zihua have never gone out of the Hong Kong market, but in the past two years, "Still Think You Are the Best" and "Poisonous Tongue" have still allowed more mainland audiences to see his works, which are different from the police and bandit genre Hong Kong films we are familiar with, giving us a sense of freshness. But if you have to compare it with Xie Junhao's "Nanhai Thirteen Lang" and Tony Leung's "In the Mood for Love", it is a bit untouching on martial virtue. Literary films have the audience of literary films, and commercial films have the consideration of commercial films.

Jiang Zhiqiang, the producer of "Poisonous Tongue", is the producer and overseas distributor of Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou, and knows the eight major Hollywood film companies well, and he certainly knows how to adapt to the needs of the market. On February 21, "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" broke 100 million at the box office in Hong Kong, China. This is the first Chinese-language film with a box office of more than 100 million in the history of Hong Kong film in a century. The return at the box office is the best medallion.

However, as of February 28, 2023, the total box office of "Poisonous Tongue" in the mainland has only exceeded 70 million. If the contribution of Cantonese-speaking areas is excluded, the results will be even less satisfactory. The film's reputation among film critics is still very good, and the response is also very good among the audience who buy tickets to see it, but there are not many audiences who come to admire it, presumably the difference between the north and the south and the cultural background also have a great impact.

The story of "Poisonous Tongue" is quite simple, but simplicity does not equal plainness. When a middle-aged man who pursues worldly success finally chooses to defend justice, when a migrant worker who is in a mess finally remembers his career pursuit, and when a retired actor who laughs at the story and shouts "everything is wrong" for everyone, "Poisonous Tongue" successfully makes the audience empathize. Sincerity is the biggest must-have. The sky has eyes, and the audience is the sky.