Over the years, the mainland film and television circle has set off a wave of Hong Kong nostalgia, and countless classic works and star characters in the hearts of the post-80s and post-90s have been re-sent to the screen, hoping that the audience can pay for the feelings. But with the appearance of bad movies again and again, everyone's nostalgic thoughts have faded a lot, so that now they all smell "feelings" discolored. Recently, the trailer of the new movie "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" starring Zhou Runfa and Yuan Yongyi was exposed, and many netizens have questioned that it is another bad film that sells feelings.
This suspicion is not without merit.
First of all, the title of the film is "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers", starring Chow Yun Fat, it is easy for the audience to associate with the classic Hong Kong film "God of Gamblers"; secondly, from the content of the trailer of the Mandarin version (the Cantonese version does not seem to be released), it is a gambling card, and it is a reference to the history of the gambling money scenery in Hong Kong that year, which makes people have to suspect that this is a story about Gao Jin's downfall after 30 years; third, the original name of this movie is "The Proud Sun Years", which has been modified several times to become "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers", which is obviously intended to borrow the IP of "God of Gamblers"; fourth, The voice acting of the trailer is very weird and has the potential to be shoddy.
Combining the above four points, this movie seems to have the potential of "circle money and bad films". Don't really say, just watching the title of "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers", there is a bit of a taste of network movies.
However, the director of "Don't Call Me god of gambling" is Pan Yaoming, who won the Two "Best Cinematography Awards" of the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards; the screenwriter is Zhuang Wenqiang, who has written "Infernal Affairs", "Peerless", and "Eavesdropping"; the cast is Chow Yun Fat, Yuan Yongyi, Fang Zhongxin, Liao Qizhi (deceased), Huang Debin, and Cai Yizhi; such a top-level matching makes this play look less simple.
Some senior fans said that this drama is actually not a sequel to "God of Gamblers", but a literary and artistic drama about running sports, which tells the father-son relationship between a drug-rehabilitated father and a mentally handicapped son, and is a story of a prodigal son turning back. If this statement is true, then why did the filmmaker change its name to "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" and cut the trailer for the brother's gambling card?
The audience's feelings are not the reason for the filmmakers to make bad films, nor are they the dependence of the filmmakers to rub traffic, what is the difference between doing so and the article title party? I hope this is not true, but I hope that the film can dispel everyone's doubts in the next trailer release.