It's you, it's you, it's you who dreams
"Sweet Honey"
[The first three awards for best director Grand Slam Chen Kexin, directed 15 films, 7 renamed]
The Three Chinese Film Awards, the Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Films, the Hong Kong Film Awards, and the Golden Horse Awards for Films in Taiwan represent the highest honors of Chinese films. The filmmakers who win the three film awards are the elite of the industry; if they can win awards at these three film awards, they are definitely the elite of the elite.
For example, the only actors who have achieved the Golden Rooster Award, the Golden Film Award and the Golden Horse Award Grand Slam are Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun and Zhou Dongyu, while there are only 2 Grand Slam directors, namely Xu Ke and Chen Kexin.
Among them, Chen Kexin won the Best Director Award at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1997 with "Sweet Honey", the Best Director Award at the 43rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards in 2006 with "If Love", and the Best Director Award at the 29th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards in 2013 with "Chinese Partner", completing the Grand Slam in 16 years. [Xu Ke was from 1981 to 2015, and it took 34 years to complete the Grand Slam.] 】
As the first best director grand slam at the three Chinese film awards, Chen Kexin only became a director for the first time when filming "A Tale of Two Cities" in 1991, and he had only directed 15 films until "Win the Championship" released in 2020. Instead, as a producer, he produced more than 30 films.
In addition to sweeping major film awards, Chen Kexin's film life of more than 30 years has experienced the most is the film name change.
At least 7 of the 15 films he directed were titled.
The volleyball-themed drama film "Win the Championship", which was released on September 25, 2020, was originally titled "Chinese Women's Volleyball Team".
Gong Li, Huang Bo and Lang Ping's daughter Bailang starred, and the Chinese women's volleyball team actively starred in the national players themselves, "Win the Championship", which was originally a 2020 New Year's Eve film, and only released a new meritorious coach version trailer on January 9, 2020; it is said that it is because of the dissatisfaction of a coach, on January 17, 2020, the movie "Chinese Women's Volleyball Team" announced that it was renamed "Win the Championship".
Later, due to the epidemic, it withdrew from the New Year file and officially released it until the National Day file in 2020.
One film project that predates "Win the Championship" is the biopic "Li Na", which tells the life story of legendary Chinese tennis player Li Na.
As early as 2015, Li Na personally announced on the Internet that the movie "Li Na" was directed by Chen Kexin and released a concept poster. Later, important information such as the male protagonist played by Hu Ge was announced successively, and it was officially announced on February 21, 2019.
In May 2019, the film producer quietly announced that "Li Na" was renamed "Alone on the Field" and was approved for the project, but there is still no news of finalization. [This film is based on Li Na's autobiography "Alone on the Field".] 】
The 2014 abduction-themed drama film "Dear" sent Zhao Wei to the throne of the Queen of the Hong Kong Academy Awards, and Zhang Yi also won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor. It also changed the title of the film, using the titles of "Home", "Kidnapping", "Dear Child of Home" and then changed to "Dear Child".
It is said that the reason why this film will be renamed from "Dear Child" is because many people will call "Dear Child" the abbreviation "Child", so that people feel that this is a children's film. In addition, the actors filmed in the crew, and every day they called each other dear, so they decided to omit the title of the film "Dear".
Zhao Wei believes that today's title is more atmospheric, and there are not as many children's plays in the film as adults, adults sing the protagonists, and children are hidden in the film.
Huang Bo summed up: Because the child was lost, only the dear was left.
It all seems to make perfect sense.
The 2013 entrepreneurial drama film "Chinese Partner" was a milestone for Chen Kexin to complete the Best Director Grand Slam, and also helped Huang Xiaoming win the Golden Rooster Award for the first time.
The original title of this "Chinese Partner" was "Three Mr. China" and "Mr. China", and its Taiwanese title was "Sea and Sky", and the English title was "Americandreams in China".
In 2007, the costume war blockbuster "Submission of Names" gathered three superstars, Jet Li, Andy Lau and Jin Chengwu, helping Jet Li win the Academy Award for the first time.
The story outline of "Letter of Submission" is adapted from the thorn horse case, one of the four strange cases in the late Qing Dynasty, and the original title of this film is called "Thorn Horse", which is also a tribute to Zhang Che's version of "Thorn Horse" in 1973.
However, the plot and viewpoint of "Cast Name" are many different from the film "Thorn Horse" directed by Zhang Che, and it is not a remake.
In order to avoid confusion with the previous work, Chen Kexin decided to change the name to "Letter of Submission".
The letter of submission in the title of the film, "Letter of Submission", is an ancient pledge to join an illegal organization to express loyalty. Originating from the plot of Lin rushing to Liangshan in "Water Margin", he wants to kill a person before joining the gang and taking the head of a person as a name.
The 2005 song and dance film "If Love" made Zhou Xun a double film queen of the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards, and its original title was "Don't Forget Me", and Chen Kexin also considered using "Red" to name the film.
Jacky Cheung sang the theme song of the movie "If."
• Love" and multiple interludes, and won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song.
In the 1996 literary and art film "Sweet Honey", Maggie Cheung, who had been in the film for 2 years, once again became the queen of the Academy Awards and the Golden Horse Awards.
The title of "Sweet Honey" was originally the name given by screenwriter Kishi Nishi as "Big City Little Love", and at the beginning, he did not intend to use Teresa Teng's song. However, halfway through the script, the news of Teresa Teng's death came; Kishini believed that "looking at the Chinese world, only Teresa Teresa can cross the cultural and regional barriers and make everyone respect", so she wrote Teresa Teng into it, and the final title was changed to "Sweet Honey".
[In 2004, the male protagonist of "Sweet Honey", Dawn, invested in a love film called "Small Things in the Big City", starring himself and Faye Wong, and Faye Wong was the original heroine selected by "Sweet Honey". 】
In addition, Chen Kexin supervised the production of "October Siege", the original title of the film was "October Victoria City" and "Bodyguard and Assassin". The last title of the film was also ridiculed by Huang Zihua at the Academy Awards ceremony: The solution is the siege of the city in October, can't other months?
It can be said that Chen Kexin's film, until the moment of the final release, is not necessarily called anything.