In 1987, Zhou Runfa was popular because of the hero's true color and officially signed a contract with New Art City, to shoot enough 8 movies in one and a half years, the next year Zhou Runfa completed the task ahead of schedule, so New Art City signed 7 more, two years later, in 1989, Mai Jia established New Art City Entertainment, and Shi Tian established a New Art City Entertainment, and New Art City Pictures fell apart for a time. Princess Jin was very disappointed to see this, so she put aside the new art city to produce its own independent film, and the blood double male is the work produced by the golden princess, the film lineup is strong, I am the projectionist Wang Changxi, and the film I want to tell you today is "Blood Double Male".
Wu Yusen began to conceive of the film Wu Yusen very early, after shooting the hero's true colors, the professional killer related theme was loved by many audiences, so Wu Yusen inspired Melville's lone killer and began to create the first draft of the script. At first, the plot wanted to tell a story about the two policemen, but this script was decisively rejected after being handed over to the top management of New Art City, Xu Ke did not support the script after reading it, and the company still had a concern, shooting police films must be performed by Zhou Runfa, because at that time, Zhou Runfa did not have two or three movies in the schedule at the same time, Wu Yusen felt very sorry and a little frustrated. Zhou Runfa was very righteous after learning about it, and personally found Xu Ke and said that he wanted to play the blood double male, so the blood double male finally started, if there was no Zhou Runfa, there would be no birth of the movie blood double male.
The plot of the two heroes is not a twist, but it is a representative work that can represent Wu Yusen's violent aesthetics, which is enough to be called one of Wu Yusen's most perfect film works, this film concentrates all the representative symbols that Wu Yusen's films can appear, and is vividly expressed in the film. Wu Yusen's every film has an unforgettable classic picture, there is a dragon boat chase race in the blood double male, which is also Wu Yusen's own favorite scene, he hopes to use the dragon boat race to compare the killer and the police chasing each other in the movie, in order to shoot this competition, the crew has filmed many shots of the dragon boat race more than five months ago, when the shooting began, Wu Yusen asked to reconstruct the entire scene to achieve a realistic effect. The editor frowned after watching it, how to cut it, Wu Yusen personally began to edit with a big hand, although it took the director himself to spend a full three weeks, the scene of the dragon boat chase was already wonderful.
But the church shootout at the end, that's the beauty of the whole movie, it took 28 days to complete the two parts of the gunfight inside and outside the church, but when we filmed this part, we almost went blind, which was on the front page of major newspapers and magazines at the time. During the filming, the director strives for the truth of the props, the bullet uses a special bullet although it does not contain gunpowder, but as usual installed into the gun, during the filming process, such an empty package bullet hit the eyelids of Fa Ge, almost caused Fa Ge's blindness, but in order not to delay the shooting progress Zhou Runfa insisted on waiting until the end of the shooting to deal with the wound, but it is also a blessing in disguise, Chow Yun Fat with such a wound left the most handsome scene in the history of Hong Kong cinema. After filming the scene of the church shootout, Zhou Runfa made a suggestion, after all, he is a brother with a Mary Sue name who likes to interlock his fingers, and hopes that Xiaozhuang and Jenny will go out with ten fingers and go out to die together, and face Cheng Kui'an's guns and bullets together, which is a beautiful love story. Wu Yusen asked where the tragedy is, the tragedy should be two people crawling towards each other, and then miss each other, being teased by fate, people who love each other can not be together until death, this is the real tragedy, Wu Yusen directed this wave of operations, really let Changxi look at each other, it seems that the loyal and honest director also has such a fierce side.
In addition, the ending originally set by Wu Yusen is still very family-friendly, after Xiaozhuang's death, Jenny went to the United States alone, and then Li Xiuxian appeared to accompany her, lived a happy life, and ushered in a happy ending. But at that time, the progress was much later than the original progress, Ye Qianwen, who played Jenny, could not make up for the ending behind, Wu Yusen had to give up such a plot, taking Xiaozhuang's death as the final solution, and set up a picture of Li Ying, who was a policeman, shooting at Xiaozhuang, ushering in the friendship between men for several years. Wu Yusen in order to greatly let the actor play, will often go to communicate with the actor, there is a scene in the blood double male is the killer was betrayed by his friends for many years, Wu Yusen went to ask Zhou Runfa in the past experience, whether he had been betrayed by friends, Zhou Runfa said yes, Wu Yusen let Zhou Runfa say how he felt, and then Wu Yusen began to change the script combined with Zhou Runfa's feelings to modify the betrayal scene. He hopes that the actors will integrate their own life experience and feelings into the script characters, let the actors seem to play themselves, let the actors release their acting skills to the greatest extent, and all the emotions become natural and real, thus contributing to the classics in the movie, it does not matter who owes whom, otherwise what friends do.
Speaking of friends, originally Wu Yusen and Xu Ke were good partners, the two met in the heyday of Hong Kong cinema to cooperate several times, but it is also inevitable that the future parting ways, there are rumors that the two are not compatible, the two also came forward to explain that they are still friends, in any case, the two have joined forces to create a unique classic. From the beginning of Hero Essence 2 in 1987, the differences between the two in creation intensified, until the film Of Blood and Blood, the contradiction between the two people has reached its peak, Xu Ke is very strong, Wu Yusen is not willing to give in, and finally the two are unhappy and dispersed. At that time, the crew was once in a state of lack of funds, Zhou Runfa found the Golden Princess investment with his own reputation and popularity, and Li Xiuxian's film company also reached out to help, because of this, Xu Ke was not happy, he scolded Zhou Runfa as an ungrateful person, and angrily said that Zhou Runfa left Xu Ke, and the acting career would soon decline. After the release of the blood double male, Zhou Runfa and Xu Ke cooperated for the last time hero 3, probably Xu Ke was still angry on the hero 3 the protagonist completely became Mei Yanfang, Zhou Runfa became a background board, I have to say that Xu Laowei is still quite revenge, after the two no longer cooperate, but the grudge will fade with time, will slowly fade, in the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards, Zhou Runfa and Uncle Nebula together awarded the best director award for Xu Ke, it is also a laugh and a vendetta.
In 1986, Wu Yusen laid down his violent aesthetic style with his heroic nature, what he is best at is to use slow motion to express strength and beauty, through the performance of characters, using large-scale shooting, using catharsis to create the intensity and tension of the scene, such scenes all stimulate the audience's adrenaline, and therefore Wu Yusen's films have created one famous scene after another. As Wu Yusen said, this is what I want to express most with the lens, philosophical films, knightly protagonists, but also express the ideal in my heart, this is Wu Yusen's lens of jianghu life, under the violence to show romance and poetry.
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