What is the purpose of making a movie?
A thousand directors, able to give a thousand different answers.
To become an artist? For the sake of a hundred lifetimes? Educating the next generation or even the next generation?
In director Wang Jing's case, there is always only one answer: to make money.
In Wang Jing's eyes, making movies is just doing legal business, and movies are a business, not art.
What can sell is a good movie.
Most Chinese believe in the middle way and are ashamed to talk about money.
In Wang Jing's place does not exist, like money is like, nothing else, make a lot of money, who does not like it?
Of course, Wang Jing's filming is not entirely for the sake of making money.
He also has higher pursuits, such as: bubble girls.
He naturally does not want to make movies like Jia Bing, who will only "soak goji berries".
Like Xu Zheng, he wanted to shoot a TV series "Spring Brilliant Pig Eight Commandments" to "bubble" Tao Hong.
In this regard, Wang Jing is Xu Zheng's "predecessor", because he not only soaked in it, but also the great beauty Qiu Shuzhen, who is known as "the desire of all Hong Kong men".
It can be said that Wang Jing is "sober in the world".
His sobriety begins with his life experience.
Today, let's talk about Wang Jing.
In the spring of 1955, Wang Jing was born in Hong Kong.
Looking at the fat boy in front of him, the director's father was very happy.
He named his son Wang Rixiang and hoped that he would be auspicious and worry-free in his life.
Later, Wang Rixiang walked the rivers and lakes and changed his name to Wang Jing.
Wang Tianlin often shoots outside, it is difficult to go home, and most of the time he is on the set.
Under the influence of the ear, Wang Jing also fell in love with movies in her childhood.
The most common thing to do is to look through my father's collection of books and a large number of scripts.
Just watching is not addictive, but also pull the small partners around them, become the "director", let the small partners play different roles.
At the same time, Wang Tianlin's directing career is thriving if it is helped by God.
In 1959, after Wang Tianlin joined the International Film Mao Industry Co., Ltd., the comedy film "Family has a Happy Affair" also won the Best Director Award at the 7th Asian Film Festival.
In 1963, the love song and dance film "Little Children" won the 2nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards Excellent Feature Film Award.
The film is constantly on, and the fanny pack is also bulging.
But in the early 70s, Wang Tianlin's career suffered "Waterloo".
Wang Tianlin's film and television company went bankrupt, and Wang Tianlin was unemployed at home.
What was even more shocking than this was that Wang Tianlin also found that because his wife loved gambling, she was in debt.
The 43-year-old Wang Tianlin was very sad, and his 16-year-old son Wang Jing also sighed with sighs.
What might be the solution? The debts that are owed always have to be repaid.
Debt repayment is a matter of course.
After losing his job, Wang Tianlin had to look around for a job and went to work at Jiahe Film Company.
Filmed many movies such as "Pursuit" and "Deadly Boxer" to pay off his wife's debts.
But not long after the good days, the family situation has changed, Wang Jing's mother gambling addiction has been committed again, and she has begun to gamble again, and no matter how much money she can make money, she can't stand such a "manufacturing", and soon, the family is in trouble again.
The family suddenly encountered great changes, in fact, the most injured should be Wang Jing.
Once lived the life of a rich man with no worries about food and clothing, he has now become a poor boy, and when he eats a meal, he must consider how many steel hammers he has, and few people can appreciate this change.
At that time, Wang Jing was deeply disgusted with gambling and began to realize the importance of money.
In 1973, Wang Tianlin joined TVB and began to shoot film and television dramas such as "Shandong Boss" and "Laughing Karma", and also pioneered the introduction of "Weiya" into the filming of martial arts dramas, and latecomers followed suit, and it was also during this time that great directors such as Du Qifeng were trained.
Wang Jing was also successfully admitted to the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, and while studying, under the introduction of her father, she went to TVB to work part-time and earn extra money.
Of course, when I entered the university, I did not forget to fall in love, and I fell in love with a girl who was 4 years younger than myself, Ding Dejun. A few years later, they married and had a daughter.
In 1976, Wang Jing officially began her screenwriting career as the screenwriter of Qiong Yao's drama "A Thousand Knots in the Heart", and later, she was recommended by her father Wang Tianlin to write a screenwriter for the martial arts drama "Lu Xiaofeng".
Incidentally, I went to "Happy Tonight" to write jokes, a joke was used for 8 yuan to get, and writing a short play can get 80 yuan.
Of course, these are small amounts of money, Wang Jing has greater "ambitions", watching some screenwriters around her poor and sad, and finally hanging, falling down.
He was not reconciled, he not only had to be a screenwriter, but also a director, a boss.
In 1981, he finally waited for an opportunity. Filmed "A Thousand Kings Fighting a Thousand Masters" for Shaw Film Company.
I thought that being a director was a natural thing, but the first time she sat in front of the monitor, Wang Jing made a mistake.
I used to be a screenwriter, it was all text work, but now I personally direct the film, and I don't even know how many shots a movie needs.
There was no way but to ask my father for advice. Wang Tianlin did not say it directly, but went directly to the set the next day to see it. For three consecutive days, this was the case, and only when he saw Wang Jing shooting unreasonablely would he point out next to him.
On the fourth day, simply let go and let Wang Jing ponder alone. What makes Wang Jing herself even more unexpected is that the first electrocution movie has obtained good box office results, and TVB executives and Shaw Film Company have invested in the "olive branch" to keep Wang Jing with high salaries.
Wang Jingle was broken, but still consulted his friend Huang Xia.com. When he was full of wine and food, Huang Xia threw out a ridiculous answer: Whoever gives more money will go to whoever is there!
Therefore, Wang Jing resolutely went to The Shaw Family, who gave more money.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong films blossomed, and various directors showed their fists and feet, making countless classic films of different types. But if we talk about the high output and the number of genres, few directors can compare with Wang Jing.
Wuxia films, "hardcover girl chase" series, nonsense comedies, wind and moon films... Anything you can imagine, Wang Jing has almost all photographed.
The film has been filmed a lot, and the natural good and bad are uneven.
There are those that are regarded as classics, such as the "Gambler" series: "Gambler", "Gambler II" above the beach gambling saint", "King of a Thousand Kings 2000" and so on.
Wang Jing probably couldn't imagine that the gambling she once hated the most, in the film industry, made herself mixed up, making many directors hopeless.
During the period of cooperation with Zhou Xingchi, which was also the peak period of Wang Jing, the series of "Trick Expert", "Truancy Weilong" and "Deer DingJi" are still talked about by the audience.
Later, due to the problem of film remuneration, after cooperating with "King of a Thousand Kings 2000", Zhou Xingchi and Wang Jing had a contradiction because of the problem of film remuneration, and Wang Jing scolded Zhou Xingchi for only money in his eyes and ruthlessness.
But aside from the conflict of interests, Wang Jing is still a reasonable person, at least, for Zhou Xingchi's performance talent, undisguised appreciation, and gave praise.
No one before, no one after, Zhou Xingchi is a talented actor.
After parting ways with Zhou Xingchi, Wang Jing also made a lot of movies, zero and zero total, made nearly 400 movies, naturally, it is indispensable to be hung up as the "king of bad films".
Of course, Wang Jing is also envious of those who have made good films, such as Wong Kar-wai, and Xu Anhua and so on. Since he couldn't be Wong Kar-wai, he made a big mockery of Wong Kar-wai in the movie.
Although he knew that literary and art films did not make money, he still risked losing money and invested in Xu Anhua to shoot "The Day and Night of Tin Shui Wai" and "Have to Fry Idle Rice", which made Xu Anhua particularly moved.
However, whether it is a classic or a bad film, Wang Jingcai does not care. All he cares about is whether it can be a box office hit, the boss is happy to make money, and he is happy himself. You shoot your literary films, I shoot my entertainment films, and neither of them is delayed.
With money, there is the capital of the bubble girl.
Qiu Shuzhen, who participated in the selection of Hong Kong sisters in 1987, became the most beautiful woman in Hong Kong that year.
Originally the champion was in sight, but he did not expect to be reported by his girlfriend before the final, and he lost the championship's throne.
But this did not affect Wang Jing's appreciation of the beautiful woman Qiu Shuzhen, and she was bent on "plate" into her own bowl.
It's just a pity that at that time, Wang Jing was not the only one who "appreciated" Qiu Shuzhen, and there was never a shortage of suitors. Rich men, luxury cars, famous watches, Wang Jing can only look at the ocean and sigh.
However, in the few years that she signed a contract with the film and television company, Qiu Shuzhen was always tepid, and only then did she give Wang Jing the opportunity to capture her step by step.
In order to praise Qiu Shuzhen, Wang Jing can be said to have spared no expense.
After 1990, Hong Kong films fell into a downturn, and Wang Jing actively sought a transformation for Qiu Shuzhen, changing from the pure route to the sexy route. Filmed a series of explosive wind and moon films.
But even so, Qiu Shuzhen also took great care of her, and asked the best photographer to clear the scene.
This kind of sexiness, under the protection of Wang Jing, is limited.
For Qiu Shuzhen, Wang Jing's "preference" can be seen.
Can Qiu Shuzhen not feel Wang Jing's love? Even if she knows that Wang Jing is a person with a family, she does not mind being "small", but Wang Jing plays too much, and when she turns around, she goes to praise Actresses such as Shu Qi and Li Lizhen, which makes Qiu Shuzhen, who has been suffering for many years, see no hope, and this relationship will not end.
But Wang Jing has always been obsessed with this relationship, although Qiu Shuzhen has been married to a woman, after many years, some people want to borrow Qiu Shuzhen to speculate, Wang Jing will still stand up for Qiu Shuzhen for the first time.
Regarding Wang Jing's evaluation, I think that I don't want to repeat it too much, and perhaps it is most appropriate to quote a sentence by Zheng Zeshi to sum it up: in the years when Hong Kong cinema was at its lowest, it was director Wang Jing who insisted on starting to make bad films, which really supported a large number of behind-the-scenes staff.
So, what about making bad movies?
The economic base determines the superstructure, and sometimes, the inevitable trade-offs will help many people, and that is enough.
Thousands of autumns are right and wrong, leave it to future generations to comment.
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