<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > talented and advanced Liu Zhenwei</h1>
"Take the prize to find Wong Kar Wai, and make money to find Liu Zhenwei." This sentence began in the golden age of Hong Kong films and was widely circulated.
Now many viewers for Liu Zhenwei's impression, has also become a bad film professional household, in recent years, the film, basically is to release one, the street one, but in the golden age of Hong Kong films, Liu Zhenwei is definitely one of the top two signature directors, and the same as the king of bad films Wang Jing director, can be described as a strange hero, Wang Jing himself made bad films, do not forget to support the creation of various literary and art films, Liu Zhenwei is both in other people's crews, multi-tasking, to help other directors to ensure the quality of the film, It is also necessary to create a series of commercial films with different styles to ensure the overall revenue of the company.
At the end of 1992, Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai shared a lease with Zedong Film Company, the original plan was for Wong Kar-wai to shoot the upper part, Liu Zhenwei filmed the lower part of "East Evil and West Poison", to be released in the Lunar New Year, the result of Wong Kar-wai's procrastinating personality, seeing that the film is unable to keep up, Liu Zhenwei made a "East into the West", 27 days to complete, the investment in both films were earned back.
From this point alone, it is not difficult to see that Liu Zhenwei's talent in directing is brilliant, in addition to "East becomes West", the situation of catching ducks on the shelves, integrating various constraints such as martial arts films, song and dance films, opera films, etc., in the case of illogical creation, creating a cross-era comedy classic.
Many of the films we are familiar with are produced through his hands, the most typical is Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West", Liu Zhenwei is both a director and screenwriter, but from the box office fiasco of "Journey to the West", and then by the reputation of the performance of the altar of film history, many of Liu Zhenwei's creative ideas are more advanced, this kind of advancement, it is easy to let a good film be buried by the times, and in Liu Zhenwei's creative career, in addition to "Journey to the West", there is really a forgotten masterpiece "Infinite Resurrection".
In 2002, Hong Kong films have gradually gone downhill, that year, Hong Kong filmmakers worked together to create a salvation work "Infernal Affairs", dominating the Hong Kong film box office list, but the top ten other leading positions have been occupied by Hollywood, so under such circumstances, Liu Zhenwei's "Infinite Resurrection" that presents a forward-thinking concept is naturally a fiasco.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > time travel that can't be played badly</h1>
From the story point of view, the story routine of "Infinite Resurrection" has Liu Zhenwei's consistent creative characteristics, time and space travel with love redemption, hoping to make up for the mistakes he has made by going back to time, but what is more interesting is that the male protagonist first wants to save his good friends, and only in the past time and space has met true love, and his good friends happen to be gay.
The protagonist of the film, Aren (Zheng Yijian), is a casino dealer, in this movie to win is not gambling skills, but luck, the momentum is strong enough, luck is strong enough, you come to the casino to gamble money, you are lucky enough, the casino can change the dealer, but you only have one person, and Aren's years in the casino, never met anyone with better luck than him, he is also the table that wins the most money in the whole casino.
However, because of his extreme personality, good joy, there has been no room for promotion, the girlfriend also dumped him at this time, disheartened Aren, feel that he can not be willing to do this, want to go to the top of the casino, Las Vegas, the scenery, let his girlfriend regret his choice, in order to be able to go to the VIP table in Las Vegas, let his good friend A Xing (Guan Jiwei) help him steal the money from the casino safe as gambling funds.
Although Ah Xing did not agree on the surface, he finally came to Ah Ren with money, and Ah Ren and Ah Xing took the money to take Las Vegas and killed all four parties, only to be suppressed by a brother of the casino, Jesus (Alexander Fung), and lost all the money.
Desperate, Ah Ren decides to take a desperate risk and rob the jewelry merchant ah Xing met in the casino, after the car overturns, Ah Ren wakes up again and has arrived at the hospital, does not remember what happened last night, and gets acquainted with the policewoman Tina (Cecilia Cheung), who tells him that Ah Xing may not have died in a car accident, but was murdered.
In the process of finding the murderer, Arren and Tina have an argument in a car because of his shortfall, and the car accident occurs again, while the two people travel to three days ago because of the turning stone in the car, that is, Before Aren and Ah Xing just stole the money from the safe and prepared to go to Las Vegas.
Arren decides to go back to the casino to gamble for himself on Christmas Day, before that, Aren also learned that his girlfriend is Tina's boyfriend who cheated on her, and after the argument, Aren looks at the crying Tina and finally understands that gay A-star, that helpless moment.
After Ah Ren returned to the casino, he repeated the victory of Christmas night again, and met Jesus again, this time Ah Ren won the momentum, won the luck, defeated Jesus, after winning, Ah Ren threw the money in his hand into the air, under the eyes of everyone, walked out of the casino, a set of upgraded shots, although Ah Ren was wearing the worst costume and dragging a bunch of tassels, but at that moment, Ah Ren almost coached every screen image of Zheng Yijian.
At the end of the story, Ah Ren finally knows that on Christmas night, it is his lustful self, who killed his best friend Ah Xing, who has grown up after a series of events, and in the face of the blackened self three days ago, one good and one evil, the duel of people's hearts has become the final topic.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-center-line" > use a space-time to create the most perfect ending</h1>
The story will always have a perfect ending, the 28th Ofhan made up for his mistakes, brought back the money he won, met the original Tina, at this time he has been in love with another time and space Tina, in the sunny warm afternoon, one has loved, one does not know, here slowly meet, Cecilia Cheung hid the fate stone in his sleeve, looked at him in front of him, looked down and smiled, the story may have a better development.
There is a beast love theory in the film, the design is quite interesting - people first know, then communicate, after the interaction, everyone is unhappy, and then break up and say that they want to divorce, but the animals are different, on the contrary, first hide and mate, then communicate, have a litter of children, pay homework, so there will never be a divorce, so, in reverse development, is better than us.
From this concept alone, we can feel that Liu Zhenwei's thinking in the creation of that period was jumping out and ahead, at first glance, it is indeed difficult to accept. And it is this animal love theory, so that many people recall, more than a different meaning, is this really better than human love.
Thinking back to the end, when Cecilia Cheung resolutely rolled into the black hole with the evil Zheng Yijian, the love that broke out at that moment was better than the boyfriend of three years, you said that we would still meet, and the opposite love trend of the two seemed to be better than the normal love trend.
Strictly speaking, the logic of this film is more meticulous than many of the time and space travel created by Liu Zhenwei, and the emotional drama shaping is also on top of several other films, Cecilia Cheung in 2002, can be said to be her most beautiful time, nothing needs to be done, as long as she stands in front of the screen, that smile can attract the attention of the audience.
And Zheng Yijian has experienced many screen challenges, as Chen Haonan, as Nie Feng, as a Hero of Hua, and in this play, he is paranoid to grow, and the two Aren have created two completely different feelings, natural and smooth.
Guan Jiwei, who plays Ah Ren's friend Ah Xing, became famous in "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2", playing a homosexual in this film, that kind of emotion that cannot be suppressed, and when the truth is revealed, you slowly understand where his introverted emotions come from. Unfortunately, after that, I never saw Guan Jiwei's works again.
The setting of the back stone in the film is very clever, people will make a lot of mistakes in their lives, the moment of making mistakes, we make a choice that we will regret for a lifetime because of impulsiveness, but not everyone has the opportunity to correct, but Because of the back stone, Aren has a chance to go back to the past, to make up for the mistakes he made, to re-understand himself.
It's just a pity that the beautiful fairy tale only stays in the movie, Liu Zhenwei's masterpiece career, also ended here, after that he still loves to play miscellaneous, still loves to play time and space travel, but there is no masterpiece.