On the filming scene of "Operation Red Sea", the wind swept through the yellow sand, and breathing was difficult. The actors staggered forward, and after filming, they said, "Only half a life remains." ”
After "Breaking the Wind", Wang Luodan was interviewed in a racing suit, still with a bitter face: "I thought I was a girl, he would take care of a little, but he was really a little unkind." ”
When "Emergency Rescue" was successfully completed, Peng Yuyan publicly said: "He made me feel afraid of filming for the first time. ”
Different scenes, different actors, but the same person is complaining.
He is Lin Chaoxian, known as the "devil" director, and the actors who have filmed his plays have not said that he is cruel, and there are many people who do not want to cooperate anymore.
When the reporter asked about his title of "devil", Lin Chaoxian smiled and said: "Actually, I think they also like me to abuse them." ”
It seems like a joke, but it is also a big truth.
After all, Lin Chaoxian's production must be a fine product, and most of the actors who "survived" from his hands were reborn, and it was not a problem to ask the Emperor of The Movie. Peng Yuyan, Zhang Jiahui, and Xie Tingfeng can all prove this for him.
Lin Chaoxian, born in Hong Kong in 1965, is a generation that follows the ups and downs of Hong Kong movies.
His films are always full of "violent" scenes, but they reflect the intertwining of cold and warmth in the world, love and hate. This delicate way of expression has a lot to do with the environment and experience he grew up in.
Lin Chaoxian's family is cold and serious than the average traditional Chinese family, and the family is hierarchical. Father generally does not speak, chopsticks bang knock twice, Lin Mu will have to immediately add food.
Living in such a family that lacks temperature, Lin Chaoxian has become a bad boy, and this bad is not the naughty mischief of ordinary children, "I am not an ordinary ancient puzzle boy, in short, a bad person." Lin Chaoxian commented on himself.
The father is indifferent to the child, but the mother is his heart, in order to let Lin Chaoxian be able to stay away from the bad environment, she follows the example of Meng Mu and moves several times, but the adolescent boy always has a spirit and often works against the mother.
Later, when his father died, he held his hand tightly and shouted his name over and over again, and he realized that his father may have loved him, but he was not good at expressing it. After experiencing life and death, Lin Chaoxian also slowly understood his mother's hard work.
But he still doesn't like to read, bad boys also have their own hobbies, Lin Chaoxian likes the military, his biggest dream is to become a policeman, but Hong Kong can't be a soldier, and he can't get into the police academy of his choice because of his poor grades.
Ke Lin Chaoxian really liked, at that time the Network was not developed, he specially bought books from other places, and some strategic, weapons and equipment books were his favorite.
He also cut out all the military news in the newspapers and posted them in his notebooks for his own database.
That serious momentum and high school students have a hard time to enter the university, if they could have worked so hard and carefully in their studies, it is estimated that Lin Chaoxian would not have been able to become a director.
With such a reserve of military theory and news, it also affected Lin Chaoxian's style of truth, cruelty, fist to flesh in his future films
But hobbies are hobbies, can not be eaten as food, in order to earn money to live, Lin Chaoxian can only go to work.
It was the summer vacation, he saw an advertisement in the newspaper to recruit small workers, and went to apply for a job to know that he was going to work in New Art City.
In the 1980s, New Art City Company shared the Hong Kong film world with Jiahe and Shaw, with great strength and talent. Mai Jia, Xu Ke, Zeng Zhiwei and other "seven monsters" have successively made classic films such as the "Best Partner" series and the "Happy Ghost" series.
Lin Chaoxian began in the office, doing some errands and sending documents, and then he was transferred to the crew as a small worker, and the first time he followed the group was Zeng Zhiwei's "Best Partner".
In the past two years, he has been in various crews and various miscellaneous positions, and it can be said that he has done every job in the crew, and he is familiar with every process.
Lin Chaoxian, who is less than 20 years old, accidentally bumped into the red and green Hong Kong film circle, starting from the lowest level of small work, down-to-earth, seizing the opportunity, and embracing the directorial career step by step.
In 1983, Lin Chaoxian, a small worker in the crew, met the director Chen Jiashang, who studied under the big director Xu Ke, and his ability was naturally extraordinary.
When Chen Jiashang was filming his first film " Three People's World "Three People's World", Lin Chaoxian worked in the crew and was impressed by the talent of the director until the film was finished.
After that, as soon as Lin Chaoxian heard that Chen Jiashang wanted to make a movie, he went to work as a small worker in the crew.
After being a small follower of Chen Jia for 6 years, he finally attracted the attention of others. At that time, Lin Chaoxian had gotten rid of the identity of a small worker and served as a production assistant in the movie "Little Man Weekly", and this slightly "status" job successfully made him show his face in front of Chen Jiashang.
Lin Chaoxian has worked in the crew for nearly 10 years, and his accumulated experience is really quite a lot, and in the frequent meetings between the two, Chen Jiashang felt that this young man had "something", and he had a heart of pity.
At that time, there was no so-called "science class origin", the directors were all out of the struggle and learning from the teacher, Chen Jiashang took Lin Chaoxian as an apprentice, let him be his own assistant director, while working while studying.
Chen Jiashang taught his apprentices and never skimped on the opportunity to start shooting; Lin Chaoxian, despite his hard work for the master, accumulated a lot of shooting experience under Chen Jiashang's hands, and the two supported each other to make a lot of excellent films, such as "Truant Weilong", "Thunderbolt Fire", "Flying Tiger" and so on.
After fighting side by side for 8 years, Lin Chaoxian finally dared to go it alone.
In 1997, Lin Chaoxian, who had been working in the film industry for 15 years, finally made his debut film "G4 Agent", which was slightly immature but also a successful test. He learned a lot from it and played a big role in his future shooting.
"I wanted to shoot too much of the first work, and I stuffed it all in, but it was not good, it should be cut off, and it was enough to keep one." Lin Chaoxian said this about his first film.
The second time he matured a lot, he and his master worked together to shoot "Beast Cop" and won the Academy Award for Best Director, an honor that gave him a name among Hong Kong directors.
Immersed in the set for many years, learning from the big director, the second film won the Academy Award, such an aura added to the body, Lin Chaoxian can not say that he will go straight to the sky after that, but at least it will go smoothly, right?
But Lin Chaoxian also took a "bad luck" script, which is related to the Hong Kong environment in which he lives.
After the return of Hong Kong in 1997, great changes have taken place in both economy, life and culture, and the Hong Kong film circle has also been tired at this time, and police films, as the subject matter that has been filmed badly, have been difficult to make. Therefore, the directors of police films either switch to other subjects or go to the mainland with great opportunities.
Lin Chaoxian has walked through the golden age of the Hong Kong film circle and witnessed the scenery of the great directors, but when it is his turn to show his fists, Hong Kong films are unable to bear his dreams.
A few years ago, Lin Chaoxian still gritted his teeth and braced, in order to shoot, he insisted on his own style while trying to change.
"Jianghu Emergency" is a perfect answer, Lin Chaoxian used black humor to create a movie with a police movie shell, but inside it is a movie about the love and hate of a jianghu person.
The film was widely acclaimed after its release in Hong Kong, receiving four nominations for the Academy Awards, and Lin Chaoxian also became a gangster in the police creation film with this success.
Two years later, "Heavy Police" showed Lin Chaoxian's amazing film achievements, the film played with explosive action scenes and sports photography, and the strong sensory stimulation made the audience applaud one after another.
But the only thing that can satisfy Lin Chaoxian is these two movies, in 6 years, Lin Chaoxian has made too many movies that he does not like and does not want to make but has to make.
In order to comply with the market, Lin Chaoxian, who is good at police films, has made many romance films, commercial films and comedies.
"Love in Heaven", "Love Planet", "Charge", "Thousand Machines" and so on were all made under his compromise, and he once said that "Thousand Machines Change" is a pure commercial film, which he does not like.
Before the filming of "Charge Forward", Lin Chaoxian rubbed his fists and felt that he was full of energy and would definitely make the movie well.
Two weeks after the boot, investors suddenly approached Lin Chaoxian and said that the action movie was sluggish and wanted to change it to comedy.
Lin Chaoxian was dumbfounded, all turned on and still want to change comedy? What to do?
Either change or not, Lin Chaoxian chose the former.
This time the compromise made him deeply shocked, and after filming, he stopped doing it and went to teach for 2 years.
In two years, Lin Chaoxian not only reflected on himself, but also questioned himself, always asking himself whether he was really suitable for this industry, and did not dare to teach students about directing during the teaching time, and only said that he had experience as an assistant director.
The big director with unlimited appearance has actually been devastated, and he almost let him leave this film circle.
Meng Shengren said it well: Heaven will send down a great task to the Si people, and they will first suffer their hearts, strain their bones and bones, starve their bodies, empty their bodies, and confuse their deeds, so they will be tempted to endure and gain what they cannot.
Lin Chaoxian survived the test of many tribulations, and the opportunity to turn the tables against the wind will eventually come.
In 2007, he took over the filming of "Sharpshooter". This is the first film in which Lin Chaoxian has reorganized his thinking and controlled the whole line after two years of depression.
After the filming of this film, Lin Chaoxian firmly established his own direction: the theme is clear, the context is clear, and the thinking is completely controlled by himself. In the works since then, Lin Chaoxian has been following this pace.
"It rewrote my destiny." Lin Chaoxian mentioned in the interview that if he had not filmed "Sharpshooter", he would have changed careers a long time ago.
With a clear direction, Lin Chaoxian began to think about the way out after that, and it was unlikely that Hong Kong could let him do whatever he wanted, and after thinking about it, he decided to go north to survive.
After arriving in the mainland, Lin Chaoxian has a broader play, he no longer has to grievance the film scene in order to save money, nor will he compromise to change the script, his film style is more distinct, and every frame is permeated with Lin Chaoxian's fierceness and ambition.
Since 2008, Lin Chaoxian has let go of his hands and feet to do it. Successively filmed police action films "Witness", "Informant", "Guild Wars", "Magic Police", box office word of mouth double harvest, fire throughout the two sides of the strait and three places.
Lin Chaoxian's devil name was also passed on during this time, because Lin Chaoxian pursued truth, often requiring actors to train three months in advance, until they met the requirements, regardless of men and women, never soft-hearted.
Zhang Jiahui jumped from "Ten Thousand Years Dragon Set" to "Seven Materials Shadow Emperor" under his tutelage, and has since embarked on the altar.
The price was that he was kicked and broke his finger during filming, and even if he had surgery, he could not fully recover, so Lin Chaoxian was chased by Kwan Wing Ho on the phone.
In addition to "torturing" actors to make him famous, Lin Chaoxian is also very good at discovering the characteristics of actors and allowing them to achieve higher artistic achievements.
He has cooperated with Nicholas Tse for many times, and has great confidence in Tse Tingfeng, in "Informant", he let Tse Tingfeng put aside the play and acted in a lot of literary dramas, and this cooperation directly made Tse Tingfeng become the first post-80s golden statue emperor.
Cooperate with superstar Jay Chou to break the past "cool" and "handsome" impressions, so that Jay Chou successfully has a breakthrough after "Head Text D".
Peng Yuyan, who has cooperated with him many times, has polished it with his own hands, from a small fresh meat in a vase to a small fresh meat in his current strength.
Lin Chaoxian also won the title of "Shadow Emperor Harvester" for this reason.
In 2015, Lin Chaoxian, who was tired of making police films, wanted to do something new, just when Bona's boss Yu Dong took the book of "Mekong Operation" to consult with him, Lin Chaoxian, who loved the military since childhood, agreed with his mouth.
Lin Chaoxian's excellent directing ability has made more people see him, recognize him, and follow him, but this is the first time that Lin Chaoxian is really making a film with domestic themes.
With multi-party support and sufficient funds, every picture of Lin Chaoxian is as real as possible, really fried, and truly restored.
This more realistic work attitude made "Operation Mekong" a high box office, and he was given the opportunity to shoot "Operation Red Sea" and "Emergency Rescue".
Each one has a long preparation time, and each one is an investment of hundreds of millions, but each one has not disappointed fans.
"Red Sea Action" made Lin Chaoxian win the 27th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award, and people praised him for opening the precedent of domestic main theme action films.
"The first person to cooperate with the official", "the first person in Chinese action films", "the most professional military action film director in China" and other names followed, it seems that no amount of praise is too much, Lin Chaoxian really walked into the heart of Chinese.
Looking back at Lin Chaoxian's experience, you will find that he actually lived a very "bitter", which was manifested in his first 43 years as a lack of family and a bad career, and later it became his hard pursuit of movies and excellence.
This "bitter" turning point only appeared when he decided to catch the last train to the north, the good birds chose the tree to live, and Lin Chaoxian chose the right one.
Eagle strikes the long sky, Lin Chaoxian can finally show his fists and feet in his territory, "bitter" to make fun.
He does not have to postpone his favorite script, nor does he have to bear the unreasonable demands of the capital, he can start the machine passionately when the energy is bursting, and he can spend a long time preparing for the movie.
The battle turns from star to star, tide rises and falls is the truth of the road, whether you like it or not, this era is always changing. When there is no way to go, you may wish to learn from Lin Chaoxian, and finding another way out is a good "way out".
Laymen who refuse to do mediocre things, with the mentality of "there is no grandfather here, there is a place to stay for the grandfather", to be a real dashing person.
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