In 2006, Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" invested only 3.5 million yuan, and it received 23.5 million at the box office, becoming the dark horse at the box office that year.
Director Ning Hao can be said to be the originator of small-budget comedy films, although after this, it is difficult to surpass the status of "Crazy Stone" in people's minds.
3 years later, he launched the second part of the "Crazy" series, "Crazy Racing", this time without worrying about money, got 10 million investment, and finally earned 110 million box office, which is another successful small bo. #影视杂谈 #
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Guoli is also the producer and producer of this film, and revealed on a certain program that he made more than 3 million profits for this film.
"Crazy Racing" still continues the multi-line narrative style, intricate at the same time, there are hilarious and continuous unexpected gains, Douban as high as 8.1 points.
First, the first line - racing driver Geng Hao
The first line is the racing driver Geng Hao played by Huang Bo, and unlike the supporting role thief played in the previous work, he plays the main role here.
This can be said to be the first part of Huang Bo's life to open the film emperor, because this is the first time he played the main role, originally he was going to play a small minion like the previous work, but Ning Hao felt that it was a pity that he was a supporting role, so he asked him to play the male lead.
In early 2009, "Crazy Racing" was released, and "Bullfighting" starring Huang Bo was also released in the middle of the year, and the two works of Ning Hao and Guan Hu made him completely popular, and since then he has slowly entered the front line of actors.
In the film, Geng Hao is a very unlucky racing driver, he is 0.01 seconds away from the first place in a race, and finally lost to the second place.
But this is not the most tragic, and even more unfortunate is the drink he endorsed Li Fara (Jiukong), which contains drugs such as doping, which led to his lifetime ban.
His master (Ma Shaohua) was so angry that he beat him up in the rain, causing him to faint, and finally paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, Geng Hao and his master did a seafood delivery business for 5 years to support himself.
It is said that in that scene in the rain, Huang Bo stood in the rain and was beaten badly for a day, and ask how many stars can do it now.
Five years later, Geng Hao saw Li Fara's endorsement advertisement on TV, and the master was angry to death, so he wanted to give the master a big funeral, he found a burial company, and the boss here was played by Xu Zheng.
The burial sales place is like a real estate company, and the cemetery has a "luxurious and well-decorated cemetery", a duplex small Western-style building, a back garden, and a triad eighteen-way gift, and even a beautiful little paper man...
Xu Zheng was able to star in "Crazy Stone" that year, thanks to watching Ning Hao's script for Xiao Taohong, with the last cooperation, Xu Zheng joined in this time.
Because it is a "cemetery sale", Ning Hao let him perform extremely exaggerated, and he must be fast in the speed of speech, and there is a state of "hey bar".
In the end, Xu Zheng finished very well, full of golden sentences, worth a lifetime of collection. You are a young man who demands progress, and it is good that you want to learn from me, but to learn things, you must have an attitude of learning things.
Second, the second line - two stupid killers: brother-in-law and brother-in-law
Like "Crazy Stone", there are also stupid killers here, two rural people played by Wang Shuangbao and Bado, who became killers in order to earn money and marry their daughters-in-law.
At first, they were hired by Li Farah to kill his wife, but they were successfully rebelled by Farah Lee's wife with a commission of more than ten thousand.
But because one of them always killed the photo of the target in order to learn TV dramas, they caught the wrong person, and they caught the Thai drug lord and killer ChaChai.
Played by Woorapoj Thuantanon, the famous Thai kung fu star and former Thai Muay Thai champion.
In order to act conveniently, the two stupid killers also disguised themselves as policemen to deceive Geng Hao's car, so that the lines of Geng Hao, Li Fara, and the Thai drug lord were all connected.
In this line, the most wonderful thing is the scene where Li Fara and his wife play, both of them find each other to kill themselves, and the two killers also decided not to do this business because the two were husband and wife, and even became a peacemaker, saying that it was better to demolish ten temples than destroy a marriage.
Facing his strong wife, Li Farah could only kneel on the ground and beg for forgiveness, but in the pushing, he accidentally killed his wife with a knife, and the wife fell on him covered in blood.
Obviously, it is a murder scene, but the soundtrack is Liu Guiqin's singing of "Hundred Beauty and Thousands of Women":
On this quiet night, embrace you,
You are like a flower, blushing shyly,
A hundred and one charms, let me six gods out of the blue, the soul is lost.
The saxophone and the harmonica are extremely romantic and leisurely, intertwined with The Horror of Li Farah and the bright red blood on the ground, which is both beautiful and frightening.
The lyrics are sung by Lang's love concubine, as if recalling the romance of the two people's first acquaintance, and the pool of blood on the ground is intertwined with yesterday's affection.
Third, the third line - the Taiwan Provincial Gang Quartet
In order to evade the police, the Thai drug dealer put the drugs on Li Fara's car, and Geng Hao went to find Li Fara to collect debts, and Li Fara gave him the money in order to marry him for his wife's death, and Geng Hao's fingerprints were left on the murder weapon.
After Geng Hao left, Li Fara stabbed himself again, trying to blame him for all the crimes, but when he stabbed himself, he was seen by two stupid killers, so the killer changed his profession and became a thief, wanting to steal money and leave.
Geng Hao had money to give his master a big funeral, so he went to Xu Sales and specially asked for the "Eighteen Xiang Send", but because he helped Li Fara carry the black cauldron for no reason, he became an outlaw fugitive again.
It is because of the order of the underworld's "Eighteen Gifts", Geng Hao thought that the gang four at the door was a package he had paid, he handed the ashes to them, and the Boss of the East Sea (Rong Xiang) thought that this was white powder, so he gave him the money.
Out of "sincerity", he checked the goods in the taxi after leaving, and found that it was fake, big brother, the taste was not right.
The second little brother Ajie, who tasted powder, was also not small, and Hou Xiaoxian once commented on him: the gangster boss created by Gao Jie is a "performance without traces". He is also featured in many Hong Kong films, such as "The Love of the 94 One-Armed Knife" and "The Gambler 1999".
Seeing their bizarre behavior, the taxi driver looked in the rearview mirror and laughed like crazy:
Can that taste right? The brain let the door squeeze.
This line is only two or three sentences, but the extremely scene-grabbing taxi driver is played by director Ning Hao, who originally found an actor in Guangzhou before starting the machine, but later for other reasons, the actor did not come, but this role is very important, and finally Ning Hao decided to take the initiative to ask for help.
Of course, maybe this actor is not looking for it, as we all know, Ning Hao likes cameos the most, and in his heart he probably always has a dream of being an actor.
The gang foursome was miserable, did not get the goods, the money was sent out, and the local gang was too rude.
The line of the East China Sea, in addition to the plot, the most interesting thing is that he appeared for the first time, and the soundtrack he appeared for the last time, the Hokkien song sung by himself - "Floating Brothers".
The fate of the four brothers is really as floating as the lyrics: a lot of chaos, a lot of failures.
The black boss played by Rong Xiang, fierce and means, would rather kill than let go of one, but a Taiwanese provincial tone can be said to contribute half of the laughter of the whole film, this is a great actor, it is a pity that he was gone in 2013, at the age of 43.
Fourth, the fourth line - the police who are dedicated to their work
Because Geng Hao is suspected of murder, he was hunted down by the police, and the small glasses policeman is played by Wang Xun, which may fade the cunning and treacherous image of the small accountant in "Crazy Stone", and the policeman he plays here is considered to be stable.
In order to catch Geng Hao's meritorious service, he followed Geng Hao all the way to the scene of the bicycle race, Geng Hao dressed as a racing driver to mix into the race, for a moment he felt like he had returned to the racing driver career of five years ago, so he ignored it and forgot that he was running for his life.
The two policemen's car was followed by stupid thieves who mistakenly thought they were drug dealers, and the two achieved a career leap from thieves to drug dealers.
In the end, Geng Hao and the East China Sea gangsters who survived the explosion came to a peak duel, but they were still rushed by the police, and Wang Xun's credit was robbed by others.
The two sat in front of the car and sighed, not expecting that the two stupid thieves came to the door with drugs, and the two eventually hit and bumped into the police force.
The ending of the movie is somewhat similar to "Crazy Stone", and finally the two hundred thousand dollars fell into the "hands" of Geng Hao's master who had washed away the grievances.
Just like in "Crazy Stone", the last gem was given to his wife by Guo Tao as a fake stone, and the gem eventually lost its priceless "value".
In addition, some of the small details in the movie are also particularly clever, the first place, Tokai's men throw lighters at the beginning and end, why does he always do this?
Because at the beginning he also threw a lighter on the ship, in order to attract the attention of the opponent to facilitate the sneak attack, he did not expect to throw the lighter for the last time, igniting the gas in the house, and finally killing himself;
Second, why did the two policemen's cars suddenly run out of gas when they were chasing Geng Hao? Because Donghai and his party put oil on the fuel tank in front of Geng Hao's house, they tried to ignite the taxi to retaliate against the "local gang" they said was deceiving people too much;
In the third place, Li Farah finally tried to escape, but why did the brakes break? This is the "stupid killer" to do, they first wanted to fake the car accident to kill Li Fara's wife, but she found out, which has the "rebellion" behind;
Fourth, the Thai drug lord ends up freezing to death, which doesn't echo the scene where he kills the real Thai racer and stuffs him in the refrigerator?
Seeing this, is there a feeling of "reincarnation of cause and effect", good people have good rewards, and bad people must die at their own hands.
The Buddhist concept of good and evil has been perfectly presented in the film directed by Ning Hao, as he said, he is a second-rate director, he wants to surpass the second to become the first, but in my opinion, he has long been the first of small-cost comedies, and no one has been able to surpass it so far. (Author: Song Juhan)