Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Hu Guangxin
Starring Fang Zhongxin, Tan Yaowen, Chen Jiale and Bao Qijing, and co-starring Liao Qizhi, Zeng Jiang, Zhang Jiansheng, He Peiyu and Zhang Songzhi, the movie "First-Class Accusation" is being broadcast on the whole network. The film begins with a suspenseful murder case: Guo Jiayi, the daughter of the rich businessman Guo Shirong (played by Liao Qizhi), dies bizarrely and violently, and barrister Lei Youhui (Fang Zhongxin) is determined to assist newcomer lawyer He Xueming (Chen Jiale) to wash away the grievances of Li Yifeng (Wong Dingqian), who is charged with first-degree murder, and a series of multi-party competitions around money, power and justice are gradually unfolded in front of the audience.
This Hong Kong-flavored film is actually a Guangdong-Hong Kong co-production. Recently, Xiong Peng, producer of "First-level Accusation" and general manager of Shenzhen Kunpeng Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd., was interviewed by reporters. He believes that relying on the geographical, resource and policy advantages of the Greater Bay Area, Guangdong-Hong Kong co-productions have made great achievements.
Liao Qizhi once again partnered with Fang Zhongxin
"First-level Accusations" integrates a variety of elements such as legality, crime, anti-corruption, and anti-gang crime, depicts the shady scene of politics and business under the collusion of power and money with a ups and downs plot, and at the same time digs deep into the profession of lawyers through the role of Lawyer Lei Youhui, a lawyer with a complex personality and a clever defense method.
The film brings together a group of actors and actresses. Fang Zhongxin plays Lei Youhui, a barrister who wanders between black and white, and his opponent Chen Kangli is played by Tam Yiu-man, and the two are tit-for-tat but feel sorry for each other in the film. Chen Jiale, a young actor who has participated in high-quality film and television works such as "Big City Little Love", "Breaking the Wind", and "Reverse Edge", starred in the film as a hot-blooded newcomer lawyer who has repeatedly lost lawsuits but never yielded; while Bao Qijing, a famous actress after the Hong Kong Academy Awards, played the role of Zhu Ma, who was desperately running to save her grandson who was unjustly imprisoned. At the same time, Zhang Songzhi, Luo Yingjun, Chen Baoyuan, Liao Bi'er and other "familiar faces" have all starred in wonderful performances.
It is worth mentioning that Liao Qizhi played the rich businessman Guo Shirong who lost his beloved daughter in the film, which is Liao Qizhi's second cooperation with Fang Zhongxin after the TVB word-of-mouth drama "Legal Strongman". He impressed the audience with his limited role and played out the struggles of a father to the fullest. Unfortunately, Liao Qizhi died of illness in March this year and was not able to see the release of "First-Class Accusation" in person. Xiong Peng admitted that he missed Liao Qizhi very much: "Because of the cooperation at work, I became very good friends with Uncle Zhi, so we invited him to join when we were preparing to shoot "First-level Accusation". The film's promotional campaign, he was the most attended actor. Last October, he was also dubbing for our film. ”
In addition to a large number of powerful actors, the production team behind "First-level Accusation" cannot be underestimated. The film's screenwriting director is Bao Weicong, the editor of TVB Gold Medal, whose works include "Pearls of Glory" and "Everyone Is Happy"; co-screenwriter Zhen Bairong's works have won awards many times, and his representative work "Oriental Wall Street" has received rave reviews; director of photography Xie Zhongdao has participated in the filming of more than 30 excellent film and television works, and has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for many times with films such as "Cold War", "Kill the Wolf, Greedy Wolf", "Ip Man 3" and so on.
"First-Degree Accusation" is expected to be a series of works
The production team and the actors in front of the screen of "First-level Accusation" are pure "Hong Kong film flavor", but the producer behind it is a number of local film and television cultural enterprises in Guangdong. Xiong Peng revealed that this film is a "propositional composition" handed over by Guangdong Film and Television Company to the Hong Kong creative team. They found that in recent years, there are few excellent legal works on the big screen, and legality is one of the best themes for Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, "We set the direction of legal policy from the beginning, and then began to find a production team and actors."
Guangdong-Hong Kong co-productions have begun to rise in recent years. "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" ranked among the top 50 domestic films at the box office with a box office of 1.3 billion yuan, and although "First-level Accusation" was not in theaters, the playback data of its network platform was also quite gratifying: after the film was released in the mainland on October 8, it instantly rushed to the first place in the video platform hit list and the first place in the cat's eye popularity list, the total number of new media topics exceeded 500 million, and the number of effective viewers on the whole network exceeded 6 million. Xiong Peng believes that in the co-production market, Guangdong film and television companies have many advantages. First of all, Guangdong and Hong Kong are geographically close and easy to communicate. Secondly, the cultural background of the two is similar, with the participation of Guangdong film and television companies, co-productions can not only retain the Hong Kong flavor of the film to the greatest extent, but also dock with the tastes of mainland audiences, "The Hong Kong team does not know much about the mainland market, so we participate in the creation of the film, the construction of the team, and make suggestions from the perspective of the market"; at the same time, Guangdong Province is one of the dominant box office warehouses for co-production films, "In Guangdong, ordinary domestic films can only accumulate about 16% of the box office results, but co-productions with Hong Kong can account for more than 20%." ”。
Xiong Peng is optimistic about the future of Guangdong-Hong Kong co-productions. He revealed that Kunpeng Culture will continue to produce Guangdong-Hong Kong co-production films in the future, and is currently preparing to shoot the first directorial work "Missing" by the well-known director of photography Xie Zhongdao, and "First-class Accusation" is also expected to be a series of works. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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