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Wang Jing posted on Weibo claiming to envy Wong Kar-wai
With Wong Kar-wai's new drama "Flowers" playing more than halfway through, Wang Jing released her views on this TV series on her social platform.
The opening chapter is "I really envy Wong Kar-wai".
After saying this, I talked about my feelings after watching the work "Flowers": Uncle You Benchang is amazing, Hu Ge is reminiscent of Chow Yun-fat in his heyday, Miss Wang has made obvious progress, and Xin Zhilei's Li Li is not easy to present.
Although the whole article is praising Wong Kar-wai, but the envy of Wong Kar-wai between the words is overflowing, when I learned that Wong Kar-wai was filming "Flowers" during the epidemic, it was quite difficult, and I sweated for him, but the effect presented was wonderful.
The reason why Wang Jing envies Wong Kar-wai is because Wong Kar-wai can always shoot works according to his heart, and he does not need to calculate the cost of time, money, and return on investment.
In order to shoot your own works, in order to be the right investor, you often need to carefully calculate clearly, control costs, and calculate profits, all of which leads to the fact that you can't let go of your hands and feet to pursue the film you want to shoot.
And Wang Jing herself also said that she would like to have a chance to shoot a work, without calculating the profit, just to meet her preferences, but because of her age, I don't know if there will be a chance to fulfill her long-cherished wish.
Although he envies Wong Kar-wai, Wang Jing is really happy for Wong Kar-wai and proud of him, because he is also a director, and he knows too well how difficult Wong Kar-wai has been along the way.
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Both Shanghainese came to Hong Kong to develop and both directors, but the way out is very different
In fact, this is not the first time Wang Jing has publicly praised Wong Kar-wai, in an earlier interview, Wang Jing also expressed a similar opinion: "Wong Kar-wai's courage is very admirable, he is very persistent in following his path, it is a very difficult road, let me go, I may not have so much courage. ”
Wong Kar-wai and Wang Jing are both Shanghainese, both went to Hong Kong to develop, and both grew up in the atmosphere of Shanghainese gathering in Tsim Sha Tsui, one graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the other graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, both of which are the best schools in Hong Kong, and the two have common characteristics.
Although after graduation, the two have devoted themselves to the entertainment industry and become directors, but the development of the two has taken completely different paths.
Wong Kar-wai is a person who adheres to his ideals and has an idealized spiritual world of his own, but before he became famous, he did bear the title of "box office poison".
Wang Jing once joked about Wong Kar-wai: "Wong Kar-wai will not only starve the editor to death, but also the boss." ”
The reason why I say this is because although almost all actors can win awards for filming Wong Kar-wai's movies, his works are not well received and almost do not make much money.
At the beginning of Wang Jing's debut, she also thought about making literary films and expressing her thoughts in her chest, but Wang Jing also suffered the curse of literary films - not making money.
Since then, Wang Jing has regarded filming movies as a business, and what business considers is the return on investment, so what the audience likes, he will shoot for the audience.
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Wang Jing supported a group of Hong Kong film and television practitioners during the difficult period of the Hong Kong film and television industry
In the 90s, the entire Hong Kong film industry went into decline, and many filmmakers had no work to do and nothing to do, but Wang Jing was still starting.
Because when filming commercial films, he is definitely a person who must compare his money, and he will not spend a penny more.
Wang Jing is famous for guaranteeing the return of investors, Wang Jing said, I am just a businessman, I don't want to hear others measure themselves by moral standards, I will only talk about business, as long as the boss can afford to pay for me, I will be fine.
One million has a million shots, ten million has a million shots, fast shoots have fast shots, slow beats have slow beats, but no matter what, I will let them invest money reasonably and try not to smash their own rice class owner's pot.
It is precisely because Wang Jing's return to investors is relatively high, so investors rarely lose money when they invest in him, so in the most lonely era of Hong Kong films, it was he who insisted on starting work to feed a large number of people.
Wang Jing said about her identity in an interview when "Chasing the Dragon" was released: "Actually, I am the most powerful, the first is the screenwriter, the second is the producer, the third is the actor, and the fourth is the director."
In the beginning, I even thought that I was a good, but then I found out that a lot of people me, and I slowly built up my confidence.
Actually, I am filming from the perspective of a producer, and I won't use 11 yuan to shoot something that can be shot for 10 yuan. So the level has been at 75 points for a long time. I will try to change that in the last decade of my directorial career. ”
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Wang Jing has brought many juniors in the industry, and the evaluation is mixed
Wang Jing has shot a lot of films, the number is so high, and the progress is so fast, it can be said that few directors can compare with it.
In the same way, there are many labels that accompany him: gambling films, erotic films, etc., are not glamorous words, and the only characteristic of these words is entertainment.
Because there are too many films filmed and the content is too superficial, it is shamed by many directors in the film and television industry. Among these directors, the most representative is Er Dongsheng, Er Dongsheng also publicly ridiculed Wang Jing in his works: "No one wants you to be Wong Kar-wai, can you be Wang Jing"?
Regarding Er Dongsheng's ridicule, Wang Jing smiled when she heard it, and replied: "Wong Kar-wai and I are very good friends, although we have different styles and concepts of making movies, there is no contradiction between us.
He pursues the artistic achievements of the film itself in today's concept, while I pursue more good-looking and money-making, I think that making movies must make money, otherwise I simply don't make them.
I have adapted a lot of Wong Kar-wai movies, and that's because after I adapted it, everyone around me laughed so much that I simply took it to the market, and it really made a lot of money.
I don't mind people saying that I'm a 'bad movie director', the film market should develop in an all-round way, there must be both ingenious people like Wong Kar-wai and people like me who make movies to make money, if they are like Wong Kar-wai, who do so many practitioners rely on to feed, I believe that my films will be repeatedly mentioned and will have pertinent comments after many years. ”
Director Xu Anhua also looked down on Wang Jing, saying that he had a bad attitude towards filming, and all the movies he made were bad movies. But later, when he made a literary film and no one invested, it was Wang Jing who was willing to stand up and give money, and told him that he just filmed it, and it would be okay if he lost it.
He not only invested in Xu Anhua alone, he also invested in many literary films of younger generations in the industry, but basically he did not make money or even lost money.
But in this regard, Wang Jing is very open: "Literary films all over the world are not profitable, I still have money in my pocket, so I can support it." If you can't make money, you should train new people. ”
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Wang Jing was very sober
In fact, Wang Jing is a very sober person, and he knows very well the laws of business society.
With Wong Kar-wai in the film world of literary films, and Stephen Chow in the film world of comedy films, then he can only go out of the third way, since entertainment can make money, then go in the direction of entertainment.
But I didn't expect to give myself a way out.
It's not that he hasn't shot classic films, such as "God of Gamblers", "Jiupin Sesame Official", etc., but because the number of films shot is too large, it can no longer cover the brilliance of his high-scoring films.
Regardless of whether the works he shot are bad movies or not, but he has really fed a group of people, promoted a group of people, and supported the dreams of other directors, maybe he knows that since he has been scolded as the "king of bad movies", it is better to rot him than a bad nest.
Wang Jing's sobriety, when you don't go to understand him in depth, it is difficult to associate him with these words, but after understanding, you find that he is wise, transparent, frank, and sees the problem to the point.