Andy Lau in the supermarket thaws once a year, but Andy Lau in the theater has never frozen, two in a row a year ago, and another one for the Spring Festival, and I have seen him three times in two months.
This should be Andy Lau's first starring role in a movie directed by Ning Hao, although he voted for "Crazy Stone" more than ten years ago. This incident is also mentioned in "Mr. Red Carpet".
This is also the feature of the film that Ning Hao spent a lot of effort to create, and of course, the practice of weaving the actors' extra-play elements into the play is not very new. "Flowers" has just finished reading, and Mr. Qiang directly asked Lingzi to surname Ma.
Ning Hao did this, first of all, it must be out of commercial selling point considerations, these things are like easter eggs, allowing the audience to relive Andy Lau's career over the years, including his gossip, such as hidden marriage or something.
In the era of traffic, memes are very important. Not to mention Louis Koo, who doesn't eat beef, those old actors of TVB who have famous scenes in their works have been reemployed in the field of short videos. For example, Brother Xing, who often invites Liang Feifei to dinner, and so on.
"Mr. Red Carpet" uses these methods and at the same time mocks people who like these things, you can say sarcasm or backstabbing.
Ning Hao's last feature film "Crazy Aliens" ridiculed everyone crazily, the upper class, the bottom, Chinese, American, in short, the people who appeared in the film, they all mocked it all over again.
"Mr. Red Carpet" attempts to convey a theme that runs through the film, and these easter eggs are also part of the theme elaboration, which begins with Andy Lau lying in a hibernation pod-like instrument, and the tree outside the window is cut down, and the tree can be seen as a symbol of the original and the real.
After Andy Lau came out of the instrument, it was like a person in the old era who had been frozen for many years and suddenly woke up, isn't this thawing in the physical sense?
This film was still filmed early, otherwise it is completely possible to make use of the hot terrier of the previous year, and the beginning is a scene of a science fiction film, Andy Lau came out of the hibernation cabin, and then began to sing "Wishing you prosperity".
The camera pulled away, and it turned out to be the shooting site of the video of Station D. In short, the character of Lau Weichi, like Captain America, wakes up in an era that he has never seen before, and he is very uncomfortable.
The last shot of the film is when he steps on a balance bike and races in the house, and the window is full of steel forests, and he adapts to the world. What kind of world is this world?
In fact, it's a cliché, it's the post-truth era. No one cares what is true and what is false. Therefore, injecting Andy Lau's elements into the character of Lau Weichi is also deliberately confusing the true and false, echoing the theme.
Liu Weichi is a person who seems to pursue reality, but his steps towards reality are only small steps. Book a three-star hotel to experience the life of a farmer, how long does it take to get to the real countryside?
And when he was closest to the truth, that is, when he entered the pig farm and saw the pig killing knife and a place of pig blood, he resisted this bloody truth, and only took two photos at the door, and felt that he was trying very hard to experience life.
This kind of character state is a bit like the rich people in "Parasite", they don't have any bad intentions, but there are natural barriers between them and the bottom.
Ning Hao also satirized "Parasite" and Bong Joon-ho in the film, but he used the same type of method in creation, and even I doubt that Liu Weichi's home is a reference to the scene design of "Parasite", another backstab.
Originally, it was good for "Mr. Red Carpet" to stay in this state, but the subsequent cyberbullying incident was a bit clichéd in order to get close to the theme.
I just watched it on Xin Yukun's "Hot Search" last year, and it was a not very good experience. When you want to reason directly, your sarcasm immediately weakens.
The scene where the pet pig makes trouble in the office, regardless of the rhythm or concept, can immediately think of the same style. In terms of rhythm, such as the wedding scene at the end of "Donkey Gets Water", there was also a big fuss, and then it ended in death.
uses the panic of the pig to refer to Liu Weichi's panic in the face of the times, just like the ostrich in "Lao Paoer" to show the situation of the sixth master. But there is still a wonderful pen here, he did not see the bloody process on the pig farm, but saw it with his own eyes in the high-rise building.
Moreover, in the pig farm, the pig is killed, and in the high-rise pig is suicide, which touches the spiritual level of self-destruction. Liu Weichi didn't want to end up like a pig, so he could only step on a balance bike and adapt to the times.
However, Ning Hao didn't directly show the bloody picture of the pig falling to the audience, and I don't know if he was sympathizing with the audience? or mocking the audience, thinking that we have become accustomed to avoiding the cruel truth anyway.
If the people who appear in Ning Hao's movies can't escape ridicule, then this time Ning Hao personally went into battle, naturally he couldn't avoid self-deprecation, and he used the same method as Liu Weichi, which also moved the identity of the director in reality.
The film shows how a director gets along with big-name actors on the set, in fact, it translates as how a director scolds big-name actors without offending them.
For example, when helping an actor adjust his emotions, he takes the opportunity to "push your lungs" to the actor, or uses the words of scolding the actor to scold the screenwriter and other types of work, and the actor can also receive the information next to him.
Liu Weichi decided to go to the countryside after the director scolded the screenwriter for not experiencing rural life. In addition to showing off these directing skills, Ning Hao is also ruthless to the director's profession.
The role of Lin Hao he played is the same kind of person as Liu Weichi. He was also very eager for awards, so he went to work as a subject at a film festival and make some films that satisfied the aesthetics of the oriental mysticism of foreign judges.
He thinks that he is very pursuing movies, principled and bottom-line. The investor's sentence "What virtue is the movie now" can anger him. As a result, the implant was obediently patted.
There are also those self-congratulatory stalks in the industry, it's hard not to think of Wei Shujun, Ning Hao spent so much effort and invited such a big actor, but the result was just a little Wei Shujun. And Wei Shujun has really been to Cannes, although it is not the main competition.
But his film doesn't shoot farmers, isn't it still exhibited? "Mr. Red Carpet" is also exhibited, but it is the Toronto Film Festival, and Pingyao in China. The reality is even more ironic.
I think this thing can be a little more crazy, and the director should not hold it, before the movie is released, he will directly shoot a few short videos on the vertical screen, and all kinds of elements similar to "Lao Tie liao liao liao" are all straightened up, and the more they sink, the better.
The film originally wanted to open up the space inside and outside the play, but about Andy Lau's stalks, the age is really a bit old, why not just take the initiative to create a new stalk, create a new channel in reality, attract the audience, and then be ridiculed by you.
Judging from the current box office, the audience doesn't seem to buy it very much, maybe the film doesn't have that kind of direct laughter, as a fan who can get some internal stalks, I also think that "Mr. Red Carpet" is not as funny as Kong Dashan's "The Future of the Legal System".
is different from those self-indulgent art films, ridicule originally wanted to attract attention, "Mr. Red Carpet" is an award that does not pay attention to, and the public does not pay much attention to it, Ning Hao neither walked on the author's single-plank bridge this time, nor did he step on the balance car of the times.