This article was published on the Hong Kong Film Public Account
As of press time, the official "Peerless Master" has announced that it has jumped to the summer of 17 years, due to the long post-processing time.
2016 is coming to an end, and the 17-year Lunar New Year file will usher in a new fight.
Zhou Xingchi and Xu Kewang finally met Wang's "Journey to the West", Xie Tingfeng and Ge You's "Decisive Battle of the God of Food", Wang Baoqiang's "Big Trouble Tianzhu", Guo Degang and Xiao Yueyue's "Happy Comedian", and Wanda's "Forgetful Village".
In this menacing wave of blockbusters, there is actually a not so well-known name: Lu Zhengyu's "Peerless Master"!
Dare to squeeze in on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the most fierce and fierce competition in the film industry, it can be seen that this Lu Zhengyu is not insignificant. Under further careful study, he, who is called "Lu Xiaoyu" by the jianghu people, is actually zhou Xingchi's royal screenwriter! Lu Zhengyu is one of the screenwriters in Stephen Chow's work "The Mermaid", which set a record of 3.3 billion Chinese box office on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2016.
Not only that, but he also made a cameo role in the movie! ——Mr. Ban Liao, the number one person next to Liu Xuan, played by Deng Chao, is played by Lu Zhengyu.
In Xingye's previous work, "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil", Lu Zhengyu is still a dart board hand-picked by Zhou Xingchi, but unlike in "Mermaid", he played a role in his true colors, in "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil", Lu Zhengyu played the role of the boss of the "Exorcist Legion".
(It's the fat man on the left)
Like all post-80s generations, Lu Zhengyu, who grew up watching Zhou Xingchi's movies, is an authentic and thorough "star fan".
Needless to say that this generation can be familiar with lines such as "Journey to the West" and "Domestic Lingling Paint", in Lu Zhengyu's growing memory, Zhou Xingchi is the spiritual idol who accompanied him through the lonely long night, and "nonsense comedy" has gradually become the focus of Lu Zhengyu's future creative path.
Lu Zhengyu is a Hunan native, from the multimedia design industry, and the number one fan of Xingye. During his college years, he remade "Infernal Affairs", and with the help of the internet boom, this remade short film was widely disseminated and praised on the Internet. After that, he used his family DV to shoot comedy short films such as "Master" and "Mo Xiaobai's Diary of a Water Monster", and won awards such as Best Feature Film at the Beijing University Student Film Festival.
(Lu Zhengyu University's work "Master", the shape is also very similar to Zhou Xingchi)
Lo Zhengyu's creations almost all follow the production characteristics of Hong Kong films, retaining the essence of Hong Kong-style "nonsense", combined with bizarre and eccentric plot development, to create a new dimension of Lu Xiaoyu-style "nonsense comedy". Subsequently, Lu Zhengyu took over the advertisement for the customer, and his micro-film work "Return to Glory" had a hit rate of more than 8 million in the 10 days after its launch, which was a very high number of online clicks at that time. Since then, micro-films such as "One Person And Half", which has been tailored for advertisers, have led the way in the click rate of other works launched in the same period.
In 2009, he reached the first height in the history of his advertising work: "Hip Hop Quartet". It is said that this set of works was originally just a series of products created for advertisers, but after the launch of the first season, the influence quickly spread to the entire Internet, even if there are very obvious traces of "advertising" in this set of works, there are still endless audiences calling for "Hip Hop" to have a sequel. "Hip Hop Quartet" is also the first web drama in the history of the Internet to break through 100 million clicks, it should be said that it is the emergence of this set of works that has established the concept of "web drama" in the film and television industry.
At that time, the dominant Youku began to notice this "unusual" post-80s, so it invested in the filming of Lu Zhengyu's subsequent works, which also made Lu Zhengyu more and more mature in his personal style comedy works.
When Lu Zhengyu's self-made web drama was in full swing to invade the Internet, Lu Zhengyu met the biggest idol of his life: Zhou Xingchi. In 2008, "Yangtze River No. 7" entered the publicity period, and Zhou Xingchi fans would send an invitation to Lu Zhengyu, hoping that Lu Zhengyu could make a tribute short film representing the mood of film fans for The film club to send to Zhou Xingchi in the "Lu Yu Has a Date" in which Mr. Zhou Xingchi participated. Lu Zhengyu, who loves shooting, gladly accepted this task, thinking about how glorious it was for his works to be seen by his idols!
Deadly Stephen Chow Short Film "Our Story"
The father-son relationship in the film, the heat and expectation of Zhou Xingchi's movie, the beautiful vision of an ordinary person for life, the sudden spoof, etc., these stories that frequently appear under the lens of Xingye have also been moved into the short film, and Zhou Xingchi praised it after watching this short film, and even cried xu Jiao at that time.
And Lu Zhengyu himself is the male protagonist in this short film, and his shape is very similar to Zhou Xingchi.
These experiences were later chased and beaten by media reporters for participating in Stephen Chow's works, and Lu Zhengyu wrote in his memoirs:
At that time, I felt that it was really good to come to Beijing, and these things were unimaginable to me at that time! So I immediately went into full swing to prepare for filming, and I remember that it was only two days before the program was recorded, and I didn't have a penny of money, and I was very poor and didn't have money to shoot. A few warm and kind friends helped me finish the shooting for free.
The show came to an end and my film started airing. Looking at Mr. Zhou on the stage, it was as if I had seen a stranger who had known him for a long time, and I thought I was not as nervous as I thought. In the end, he also got the opportunity to take a photo with him on stage and gave him a disc of his work collection at that time. When I returned home after the show, when I looked back at the details, I found that everything around me was blank, and I didn't remember anything, only that his eyes were very focused and his handshake was very powerful. I remember he praised my film and he said to everyone, "He made a good shot, thank you." "Afterwards, someone told me, don't take the praise too seriously, it's all the program process, I don't care, I have to believe it's true."
It is such an opportunity to "inadvertently plant willows and willows" that allows Lu Zhengyu to face his idols directly, and makes Zhou Xingchi begin to notice this rare plastic talent. In 2011, Zhou Xingchi, who has not appeared for a long time, is preparing for "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil", xingye does not want to use the old actors before, hopes to have new blood to join in, and is looking for a new face for a role.
Hearing that Lu Zhengyu was recruiting actors, he immediately found the assistant director Mao Sui to introduce himself, staring at his mobile phone every day, afraid of missing any opportunity to be able to have close contact with his idol.
When Zhou Xingchi got Lu Zhengyu's information, he remembered the short film he saw and the young man in "Lu Yu Has a Date" a few years ago, so he was willing to let Lu Zhengyu try to participate in the production of his new work.
- "Mr. Zhou, can you let me play a role?" It's okay to play a dead body in your movie. --"I can play the dead body, I don't need you to play this." ”
Zhou Xingchi is like Yin Tianqiu in "The King of Comedy", seriously considering which role Lu Zhengyu can play, but because the actors have been basically determined, only the "big fire" next to the heroine is left. In the end, the character, who could hardly recognize facial features, fell into lu Zhengyu's hands.
In Lu Zhengyu's memories of cooperation with Zhou Xingchi, Xingye taught him two points:
One is that no matter how funny the bridge section is discussed by everyone, as long as it affects the expression of the main story line of the play, he will resolutely delete it. It's a simple truth to listen to, and for a comedy creator, it's not a good decision, and it's not easy to see so clearly. "See the essence clearly, don't forget the original intention." He does this to everything. Another thing is that, at the first opportunity, he humbly consults each person and discusses their views on the lines and bridges. Suddenly grabbing photographers, assistants, and visiting guests to ask questions is a common thing. Constantly using various methods to find the answer that is close to the best. And while he's doing all this, he can also perfectly control the shooting schedule without delaying, wow. He always tries harder than you. But he's still smarter than you.
Those gossip about Zhou Xingchi were only left with the word "reverence" in front of Lu Zhengyu.
The hit of "Journey to the West to Descend the Devil" brought Lu Zhengyu not only fame, but also allowed him to fully experience the production system from the big movie for the first time. Lu Zhengyu, who stole from the idol, did not become ethereal because of this, but selectively filtered out unnecessary exposure and investors, calmed down, and continued to devote himself to the original creation.
At the end of 2013, another peak in Lu Zhengyu's creative history was born, that is, the web drama series "Peerless Master" with a movie level. In the 5 days since Youku was launched, the average daily order volume of "Peerless Master" paid ranked first among the films launched in the same period for many days, surpassing the popular blockbusters such as "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi", "A Generation of Grandmasters" and "101 Marriage Proposals", and many netizens said that their first online payment was dedicated to Lu Zhengyu.
The success of this work not only separated the name Lu Zhengyu from Zhou Xingchi, but also pushed Lu Xiaoyu's personalized "nonsense" comedy into a wide range of public vision.
As for how popular this work really is? Let me give you an example Open the WeChat chat box, and you will find that one of the several new expressions added by WeChat is extremely popular with everyone:
That's the first one from the left [hey ha]!
This new expression that makes countless fans crazy is the classic bridge section of Lu Zhengyu's highly popular web drama "Peerless Master".
(Poke will move)
Another phenomenon-level event is the clip of the recent brushing of Weibo and the circle of friends: I am still a child!
Isn't it true that some readers have not only uttered: "It was him!" Such an exclamation? In the spring of 2013, "Peerless Master" swept the Internet. Since then, there have been a variety of "hey ha" expressions. The biggest comedic impression of Lu Zhengyu comes from this.
In addition to "nonsense", the biggest highlight of "Peerless Master" is to pay tribute to the years of Hong Kong films, the background music of the film includes Jiahe, Shaw's classic "Raptor Across the River", "Dragon Fights Tiger Fight", "One-Armed Knife", TV series version of "Lu Xiaofeng", "Drunken Man", etc., the character setting and background age all reveal a strong Shaw film style. No one can believe that this is all from the hands of a post-80s mainlander who loves Hong Kong films.
Although "Peerless Master" is not a large-scale production, but the creator's portrayal of the character performance can be described as extremely careful, the character performance is quite exaggerated, thus triggering the off-screen audience's laughter perception, but these expressions do not appear delicate and contrived, not exaggerated, so that the body language and facial expressions are mixed into a joke is obviously inheriting the essence of The Hong Kong film comedy of the 80s and 90s, exaggerated, amplified but relaxed, natural, and natural.
The design of the lines is also closely following the spirit of nonsense: "A talented and incomparably handsome young man like me is destined to have no friends in his life", and the lonely and defeated nonsense hero is enough to become the darling of a round of hot emojis.
At the beginning of this year, the release of "The Mermaid" once again tied Lu Zhengyu to his idol Zhou Xingchi. However, this time, Lu Zhengyu is a staff member determined in advance, not only playing a weighty role in the film, but also an important casting representative and executive director of "The Mermaid", that is, our "star girl" ultimately needs Lu Zhengyu's consent to be born.
In the performance of "Mermaid", Lu Zhengyu shows his comedic style all the time, although there will be many fans of Zhou Xingchi who think that Lu Zhengyu is still imitating Xingye, but he can not lose the standard in the xingye work with such a powerful aura, and even many viewers are impressed by the role of spitting white foam and rolling after watching it, which is Lu Zhengyu's own comedic charm, no baggage, natural charm.
In the blink of an eye, the new year's New Year file is about to be killed, Zhou Xingchi and Xu Ke's capital cooperation "Journey to the West" nearly 30 years later, "Journey to the West" no longer has Lu Zhengyu's figure, but he stepped forward on his own, frontally calling idol Zhou Xingchi, the movie version of "Peerless Master" also announced that it was set for the first day of the New Year, continuing the nonsense of Internet works, and more is Lu Zhengyu himself wants to express more, newer and richer creative jokes.
Trailer for "Peerless Masters"
The new Golden Horse Film Emperor Fan Wei will play the male lead of "Peerless Master", and even the long-unknown Japanese kung fu actor Kurata Hosaki was invited by Lu Zhengyu, Kurata Hoaki is Bruce Lee's former friend, and his role in Jet Li's version of "Jingwu Hero" in 1994 is impressive.
Ten years of grinding a sword, breaking the cocoon and finally becoming a butterfly. From the short video clips filmed when I was in college, to the screenwriter of the series of short dramas "Hip Hop Quartet" and "Journey to the West", to "Mermaid" and the "Peerless Master" emoji that swept the Internet, and the movie version of "Peerless Master" that now dares to face pk idols.
In an interview with Sohu, Lu Zhengyu said: "I am very lucky to be able to get to this step. "But for young people, he advises, you need to be cautious when you enter the industry." If you have decided, you must boldly move forward. Don't give up, don't give up. Lu Zhengyu, born in 1983, who said that he would not be the next "king of comedy"?
Can't help but sigh: Zhou Xingchi, you finally have someone to follow!
Explanation: As of press time, the official "Peerless Master" has announced that it has jumped to the summer of 17 years, due to the long post-processing time. Well, but the third aunt has worked hard to write this manuscript can not be sent! Everyone is interested to remember the summer file to see it again!
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