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Putting aside many off-site topics, Today's Peng Haoxiang can be called a "ghost talent" director. His works are imaginative and imaginative, and he is one of the more unique contemporary Hong Kong directors.
However, few people know that director Peng Haoxiang was able to realize his film dream, thanks to the promotion of Mr. Zou Wenhuai, the founder of Jiahe.
On November 2 last year, Mr. Zou Wenhuai passed away, and among the many filmmakers' nostalgia for the film tycoon, Peng Haoxiang's speech was the most sad.
Because of the support of Mr. Zou Wenhuai, Peng Haoxiang was able to make his first work, "Buy murder and shoot people", in this debut work, Peng Haoxiang used a comedy method to solve a murder case into a filmmaker's self-statement, using absurdity to dissolve killer heroism, and also ridiculed the Hong Kong movies that are under the river.
Director: Peng Haoxiang
Writers: Peng Haoxiang / Gu Dezhao
Starring: Ge Minhui / Zhang Daming / Zhan Ruiwen / Higuchi Asuka / Chen Huimin / more...
Genre: Comedy / Action / Crime
Country/Region of Production: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese / French / Japanese
Release: 2001-08-16 (Hong Kong)
Runtime: 99 minutes
Douban: 8.2
This sharp debut film was nominated for Best Screenplay at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards and opened the way for Peng Haoxiang's funny ghost horse.
The film tells the story of Bart, a professional killer played by Ge Minhui, who fell into a personal economic crisis after the financial storm.
Forced to do so, he could only agree to provide murder services for the rich wife. But Futa asked to film the whole process while killing people to vent their hatred.
However, Bart shot alone while shooting, and the recorded work was so tragic that Kota only looked at it a few times and said that it was unacceptable.
So Bart decided to find a partner, at which time the frustrated director Li Dongquan, played by Zhang Daming, appeared.
The first collaboration between the two was almost seamless, but Ah Quan thought that it was really just filming, so he asked for light for a while, and bart for the location of the killing, until he found that the actor playing the deceased could not change his expression, he realized that this was a real killing, but he had to do it hard.
When the film was filmed, Ah Quan also carried out elaborate post-production of the killing clips, plus the spoof Jiahe title and fancy subtitles such as Warning, under his editing, Bart became a rather attractive killer, and the video was even more stunned.
So the next two people "buy murder shooter" business booming, Bart killed more and more people, Ah Quan's shooting techniques are becoming more and more exquisite, and even in the shooting process also mastered the absolute control of the film, in the process of shooting Bart killing people successfully realized their own dream of directing.
The irony of the film lies in this, when he first debuted, Ah Quan worked hard in the crew as an assistant director, with the dream of becoming a great director like idol Martin Scorsese, but he was trapped by reality, and could only be an assistant director of a tertiary film, and was summoned by different people all day long.
When he works with Bart to kill people and make films, he can have the greatest control, do not have to accept anyone's manipulation, and indulge in pure artistic creation.
When the business of the two is going smoothly, the underworld boss Biao appears.
Biao Ge asked them to kill the traitor Double Gun Male at a high price, and to record the words "Biao Ge ordered me to kill you", so that Biao Ge could justifiably inherit the highest position of the gang, so Bart and the two decided to do it at the birthday party of The Double Gun Male.
Things were going well, but at the crucial moment, the two-gun male was preemptively killed by a killer sent by another big brother, and a video was also recorded, but soon the killer was killed in a chaotic gun battle.
Bart was unable to make a difference to Biao, so Ah Quan proposed to make up for it. And found his Japanese girlfriend to rescue, and at the same time found a double-gun male who resembled a double gun male, and the group began to make up for the shooting.
In the process of reshooting, Biao Ge suddenly came to the scene in person, pointed at Ah Quan's shooting, asked for more, said that Bart's shooting posture was wrong, said that the expression was not right, many requirements, and even asked to add the picture of the white pigeon flying in Wu Yusen's movie, as if they were really filming an elaborate drama.
In the end, Biao Brother was even more addicted to the drama, forcibly took off Bart's clothes to play the killer himself, but unexpectedly killed the stunt actor with a real gun and became a real killer. The police enter and catch Biao, while Ah Quan and Bart take advantage of the chaos to disguise themselves as takeaway brothers and escape.
At the end of the story, both of them have achieved their ideals.
Inspired by his idol Martin Scorsese, Ah Quan developed a film career, and Bart became a ruthless killer like his idol Alain Deron, but in the film.
Peng Haoxiang ridiculed the director's helpless position in film production in a comedic way, and while making fun of himself, he did not forget to attack the declining Hong Kong film industry, ah Quan's situation when he met Bart in the film was Peng Haoxiang's own personal experience in his early years, and he finally chose to refuse, because he only wanted to make movies, simply make movies.
Peng Haoxiang used this film to let the audience re-understand the charm of the film, just like the killing clip edited by Ah Quan, there is no bad theme, only the director's attitude to the film and the degree of cherishing of his feathers.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Carrie Chung
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