This article is written by Edmund
still human，still dream。
These are the two lines in "The Fallen Man" that impressed me the most, and this is also the theme of this literary film.
The biggest role of this "Fallen Man" is to make everyone remember that Huang Qiusheng is still an actor, still has his own pursuits, and his dreams are very ethereal and difficult to land.
First, the Golden Horse Award is the best platform for Chinese films
The film festival is the best platform for filmmakers, not because the Academy Awards Wong Qiu Sheng won the film emperor, it is estimated that it is difficult for us to contact this Hong Kong local film. This year's Golden Horse Awards are missing mainland and Hong Kong film competitions, and perhaps we can see more Taiwanese niche works.
Newcomer director, small cost production, the biggest cast is Huang Qiusheng, who starred in zero film remuneration, there is no hustle and bustle of gunfights and fights, only ordinary city life.
Even if such a film is produced in the mainland, it is difficult for investors to be optimistic, and the box office prospects are dismal. Not to mention a Hong Kong local film that we think is full of "waste youth".
Thanks to Huang Qiusheng, the shadow emperor who could have played the black boss police chief next to Gu Tianle. Because he was excluded from the Hong Kong film circle by the mainland, he became a marginal figure.
The mainland film market is too important to Hong Kong films, and even larger investments dare not look for him. What has Huang Qiusheng done over the years? Hui Chao TVB played Du Yuesheng in "Owl Xiong", cooperated with Qiu Litao in the three-level film "Insomnia", and is said to have acted in some dramas, it is said that life was once difficult and was also assisted by the emperor's boss Yang Shoucheng.
Originally, Huang Qiusheng could act in seven movies a year like Gu Tianle, seamlessly switching between the gang boss and the police chief. Originally, like Liu Jialing, he could have taken the time to show his face in the mainland reality show and move his mouth to live a rich life.
However, this unspecified ban brought his good life to the bottom. We've also forgotten about this old Hong Kong drama bone.
Fortunately, there is an Academy Award, and the Academy Awards still did not forget that he not only won the award this time, but also Huang Qiusheng himself has participated in the awards of the Academy Awards many times.
Although what he said will embarrass the president of the Academy Awards and make Jackie Chan cold, the Academy Awards will still give him the opportunity to show his face, so that those of us who pay attention to Hong Kong movies will not forget him.
This time, "The Fallen Man" came. There is no need to be like the "Ten Years" of that year, film critics collectively avoided, after winning the award, there are still many reports, but no mainland reporter dares to have a front-line interview report. I was afraid that he would speak surprisingly again, afraid that he would suddenly disappear from this line.
The film itself is free, and the process of making the film itself is freely expressed, irrelevant to politics.
Second, the movie story itself is very plain, and the highlights all rely on Huang Qiusheng's acting skills
Huang Qiusheng played Chang Rong, a construction worker who fell halfway from scaffolding. He received a sum of compensation, but his wife was separated.
Changrong fell at the critical moment when his son was reviewing for the exam preparation, which affected his son's play and failed the college entrance examination. After the wife divorced and remarried, his son was admitted to a university in the United States, living a beautiful life and studying every day.
This made Chang Rong's mood even more sad, helpless to live to be taken care of, had to ask the Filipino maid to take care of the living.
So, there was a young Filipino maid evelyn.
Taking care of this sad old man is naturally not an easy task, the old man will feel that the dish is not in line with the taste, do not understand English, will count the dish money with you for fear of corruption, will point out when you clean the room, and even need to change the diaper massage in the middle of the night to get up and help turn over.
Evelyn, who was a nurse by birth, endured all this, took care of everything in her life, and gradually gained the trust of Changrong.
Chang Rong also helped Evelyn buy an expensive SLR camera to help her realize her dreams. Even though Evelyn was in a hurry to sell the camera with the money, ChangRong bought him another one and continued to encourage her to realize her dreams.
So Evelyn participated in the photography exhibition and won a special prize, and also worked as an assistant professor. The dream seems to be right in front of us.
But the dream once contradicted reality.
After she left, who would take care of Chang Rong?
The parting is very painful, the relationship between the two has been ambiguous, and it is almost the last step.
Huang Qiusheng does not have to fight and jump off the building to shoot bullets like traditional Hong Kong films, sitting in a wheelchair and moving his mouth to make a few expressions can be performed, the edge of the strange old man seems to be right next to you, and he also took the emperor. This once again shows his strength, in fact, his strength does not need to be shown for a long time.
Without Huang Qiusheng, the story is easy to be dull and uninteresting. After all, this kind of life-like story is easy to cliché, making people feel that Hong Kong is indeed "not saved".
Even so, the film story is not handled well, this master-servant relationship is handled very ambiguously, if it is not Changrong half-dead, the two are almost in bed. Crossing the border can easily become vulgar. Huang Qiusheng himself is probably aware of this problem, so he has been restrained since then, and this restrained performance is valuable.
3. Do Hong Kong movies still have dreams?
From "Anti-Corruption Storm 4" to "Sweeping Drugs 2" to "Acts 2", the Hong Kong films with flowing water, the ancient Tianle of iron.
You can cover the three high-grossing films mentioned above with the same reviews. Endless car chases and gun battles, brotherhood floats on the surface, the story of routines, after watching a chicken feather, nothing moved.
There are very few anti-routine intentional works like "Cold War" and "Peerless", and more assembly line works such as "Acts 2" fill the big screen. The audience's aesthetic fatigue will slow down, and in a few months the same movie will come back.
In this way, we will watch Gu Tianle from fifty to sixty years old, and Zhou Runfa from sixty years old to seventy years old. There is no successor to Hong Kong films, male actors are getting older and older, and actresses directly withdraw from the film industry.
Can't you act without acting? Hong Kong films are already an industrialized system, and the employees who take a break are estimated to be unable to eat, KPI cannot be completed, and the stock price is also affected.
Such a dilemma, you can hardly say that Hong Kong movies still have dreams, but also let Wong Kar-wai use front-line actors to spend so long to win one or two awards in Cannes and fail at the box office.
For Gu Tianle, making a movie is just a job, and winning the Academy Award is only an affirmation of the work. Taking advantage of their own health, acting in more movies, and consuming fame for box office is the right thing to do.
For Huang Qiusheng, anyway, the space given by the film circle is already very narrow, it is better to support the newcomer director, take the film emperor and pose.
This is the Hong Kong filmmaker, the torn Hong Kong film circle.
Embracing mainland capitalists such as Gu Tianle, with a box office of billions a year, can have unlimited scenery and do a lot of good deeds.
Those who are ostracized by mainland capital, such as Huang Qiusheng, will have a difficult life, but in Hong Kong there will be opportunities to speak, and in the mainland you will "lose your voice".
Dream? Making movies is just a job, and Hong Kong people don't have dreams.