In 2002, the movie "Infernal Affairs" turned out to be a success.
This movie subverts the routine of previous Hong Kong films, a strong cause and effect reincarnation of fate variables, and good people also have evil pasts.
The three people who created "Infernal Affairs" were Liu Weiqiang, Zhuang Wenqiang and Mak Zhaohui.
Each of them has its own expertise:
Liu Weiqiang's photography style is strong, and "Chongqing Forest" was photographed by him and Du Kefeng.
Zhuang Wenqiang and Mak Siu-fai specialize in scripts and are good at creating stories that are fierce and meaningful.
In the end, the film was co-written and directed by three people. They are known as the "Iron Triangle Combination".
"Infernal Affairs" was filmed for a total of three episodes, plus "Head Text d", which made the "Iron Triangle" pay higher.
Investors want to make movies, first have to pay the three of them, and then talk about the star's remuneration, production, etc...
The cost is too large, and many investors say that they can't eat it.
For business reasons, they had to be separated.
In 2006, after the trio collaborated to complete their last work, "Wounded City", the "Iron Triangle" broke up.
After separating, they all experienced a short period of low ebb.
Zhuang Wenqiang and Mak Zhaohui wrote several scripts, but they could not find investors.
The Hong Kong market has a good box office of 20 to 30 million, and the top sky is 40 to 50 million.
Moreover, piracy is everywhere, movies are not easy to do, and you can't make money.
The stock market can make money.
In 2007, the Hang Seng Index was close to 32,000 points, and the whole city was speculating in stocks, and everyone invested money in stocks.
In the café, Zhuang Wenqiang and investors talked about a script, and behind him came other guests bragging about how much money the stock made.
The film's loneliness and the expansion of stocks gave Zhuang Wenqiang an idea: to create a script about economic crimes.
He thought like a fountain, worked hard to write the book, and wrote the script in 10 days.
The original intention of the creation was to express dissatisfaction with the contrast between the stock and film markets.
Not long after writing it, the Hong Kong stock market collapsed.
This is even worse, investors have no money, citizens are in a bad mood, and they do not go to the cinema to see movies. The film market is sluggish.
Zhuang Wenqiang was ready for the script not to be sold.
At a dinner, Zhuang Wenqiang took the script and wanted to ask Er Dongsheng for suggestions for revision.
As soon as Er Dongsheng read the script, he was shocked, "What a good modification, a good story, it must be made into a movie!" ”
He patted his chest, "The sponsorship is wrapped up in me." ”
Er Dongsheng became the film's executive producer.
He pulled in investors and persuaded Liu Qingyun, Gu Tianle, and Wu Yanzu to star.
At his instigation, the script was finally turned into the movie "Eavesdropping".
The film opens with a special scene of a group of rats nibbling on dirty food in a garbage dump.
The opening shot is used to render the tone of the film.
It's a movie about lust, greed, and dirtiness.
Liu Qingyun, Gu Tianle and Wu Yanzu are three members of the Economic Crime Investigation Division.
They used superb eavesdropping methods to investigate the stock trading of a listed company called "Fenghua".
During a wiretapping, Gu Tianle and Wu Yanzu knew that Fenghua's stock would rise from 2 mao to 1 yuan 2.
They secretly took 5 million yuan to buy Fenghua's stock.
After Liu Qingyun knew the situation, he chose not to report it.
Gu Tianle and Wu Yanzu were his subordinates, who had followed him for many years, and Gu was terminally ill, and he wanted to use the money to leave it to his wife and children.
On the one hand is conscience, on the other side is brotherhood, Liu Qingyun can not choose.
This matter was soon discovered by the black hand behind "Fenghua", who took revenge on these three people...
On the surface, this is a police film about economic crimes, eavesdropping, and anti-eavesdropping.
In fact, this is a "very scary" movie.
Zhuang Wenqiang once said after writing the script:
The three protagonists in the story (played by Liu Qingyun, Gu Tianle, and Wu Yanzu) are actually not isolated three people, they are all my (Zhuang Wenqiang's) inner personality.
Every personality is complex —
There are 2 contents in the eavesdropping recording:
First, the stock will change from 2 cents to 1.2 yuan.
Second, assassinate the boss of a listed company.
When Liu Qingyun learned that Gu and Wu had bought stocks, he did not want the murder to happen, so he secretly saved the owner of the listed company.
In the rescue, he exposed his identity, offended the black hand behind the scenes, and things got worse and worse...
Liu Qingyun represents the foolishness of human nature.
In fact, he didn't take any advantage of the whole thing, he was completely to help his brothers, but he did it wrong, and he delusionally thought that everything was safe and secure.
At the same time he was a hesitant man.
He has an underground girlfriend. The girlfriend is the ex-wife of a colleague, and he has been hesitant to confess to his colleague.
Deeply speaking, Liu Qingyun represents the master personality.
Good nature, hesitation.
Gu Tianle played a very tragic role, his son was ill, and the family struggled to survive on his salary.
He was diagnosed with cancer and only had a one-year life.
He took out 200,000 savings, hoping to make a sum of money in the stock market through "eavesdropping" intelligence for his family.
In the end, his family was tragically destroyed by the black hand behind the scenes, and he survived and lost his legs and hands.
Deeply speaking, he represents responsibility and pressure in the personality.
Wu Yanzu was greedy.
He married the daughter of a rich man, and he was already rich. But he felt that kind of money was "charity."
He wants to make money with his own skills.
He borrowed $5 million and put it all in stock.
Deeply speaking, he represents ambition, temptation, and desire in personality.
The personalities of the three people are all in Zhuang Wenqiang, so when writing the script, he split these three personalities into three people to amplify the effect of good and evil.
He devoted a great deal of effort to this story.
Linking these three personalities is the deep idea of this movie.
Each of us is a mortal like Liu Qingyun.
There are gu Tianle's responsibilities and pressures, and when he encounters an opportunity to make a fortune, his heart will fluctuate like Wu Yanzu.
So this story is about the split personality in everyone's heart in the face of desire, and there are always a few voices that are "whispering" to themselves.
At the end of the film, Liu's girlfriend is dead, Wu is dead, and Gu's family is dead. The price of a mistake is such a painful chain reaction.
Gu Tianle wore a prosthetic leg and drove down the sea along with the black hand behind the scenes.
The theme song is "Don't Forget your heart".
The strong tragic ending and theme song impact and shock the hearts of each audience. This is also the idea that the film is trying to convey to each audience:
Try the fa by example, there is no way back.
In 2009, "Eavesdropping" was released in the mainland, and the box office broke through 10 million yuan on the first day.
Coupled with box office revenue in Hong Kong and Singapore-Matai, the total box office of "Eavesdropping" reached 110 million.
Became the no.1 of the police films of the year.
This has given Hong Kong films hope to look ahead and enter the mainland market.
Since then, such as "Anti-Drug", "Cold War", "Integrity Storm", "Apostle Walker", "Crime Scene" box office has repeatedly reached new highs.
More investors are willing to spend money to invest, and Hong Kong films and co-productions are produced in a high-level direction.
In the blink of an eye, "Eavesdropping" has been a movie for twelve years.
With its brave theme, strong script and superb acting skills of the actors, it occupies an important position in the history of Hong Kong films.
Between good and evil, don't forget to be at ease.
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