Chapter 1154 Ideas and Layout (Part 1)

"It's not easy to untie the relationship between you and Mary for the time being... However, I can arrange for you to participate in a few more variety shows, the kind of husband-and-wife variety shows... so that the audience will gradually understand that you two are just working partners!"

Shen Xudong turned around and said something to Shen Teng or Mary.

The Shenma combination is always successful!

From the perspective of business interests, maintaining the existing combination is very beneficial, but... Shen Teng and Mary are both in their thirties, and each of them is married...

It can easily affect the family, so you should definitely avoid suspicion...

Of course, they definitely have nothing. At such an old age, they are finally worth over 100 million yuan.

If anything, it's called cheating!

Shen Teng hesitated: "...a variety show by a husband and wife team?"

But Mary asked: "The kind of "Happiness Trio"?"

"Yes...actually, it's good for comedians to appear in this kind of program, and you don't have to worry about affecting the public's impression..."

Shen Teng didn't really want to participate - he had previously participated in a show called "The Son-in-Law Is Coming" and was forced to get married on the show...

From this perspective, Shen Teng is really a good person. He once said: If my girlfriend of ten years gets married and I don't marry her, I will be a sinner.

Didn’t Yang Di also have a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend for 17 years and then break up?

I would rather be scolded as a sinner by public opinion than get married...

Although few female readers have read my novels, I still want to say, don’t fall in love, don’t believe the nonsense that I’m not good enough now and don’t have enough financial strength to marry you.

When he becomes good, you will be the first to be replaced. His implication is that he can only match you now, and when he becomes better, he will be worthy of a better person - the first sword coming ashore is to kill the person you like first.

Mary was a little moved: "...I'll go back and ask Wenhe..."

"Where's Shen Teng?"

"I'll forget it..."

"Let's go together," Shen Xudong looked at Shen Teng seriously: "I really like "Railway Guerrillas", and Wang Qi was once an elf-like actress..."

Shen Teng still declined: "I don't have any interest in private..."

"It's okay. Just treat it as if the show team paid for you two to travel. By the way, Wu Jing will also participate in this season..."

"Wu Jing? Now that he's here, do I still have a camera?"

"...Don't worry about this, the program team will arrange family interactions!"

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During the National Day period, as expected, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" was a hit. In seven days, it took in a box office of 1.7 billion. You must know that the box office for the entire National Day period was less than 2.8 billion...

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" accounted for 60%.

One family!

This is to be expected.

After all, the reputations of Wang Jing and Dapeng are completely untrustworthy!

As for Jackie Chan…

In fact, it’s almost the same!

They released three bad movies in a row: "Escape", "Railway Tiger", and "Kung Fu Yoga"!

Especially "Kung Fu Yoga", when it was promoted, it said it had the best reputation, and it took a bad movie to a level that it didn't belong to, and the backlash after that was very severe...

On the contrary, Wang Jing's "Chasing the Dragon" is eye-catching!

By the way, another movie of Wang Jing's "The Legend of Conquering the Devil" was originally scheduled for National Day. Wang Jing himself may have learned the lessons from the failure of "Ace", which was released for National Day last year, and realized that he would continue to follow the same old path to defraud money. It didn’t work out anymore, so I changed the gear of "The Legend of Conquering the Demon" and replaced it with "Chasing the Dragon"...

In other words, he actually knows the difference between a bad movie and a good one!

Shen Xudong went to see "Chasing the Dragon"...

You want to say how classic it is, but you can't even talk about it...

In fact, from the era of Xiang Huaqiang's rise, if Wang Jing's film style is analyzed, baggage-taking, jokes, and borrowings account for the majority of the films.

Especially "The Tricky Expert" and "The Variety Star King"...

Hollywood's cultural export at the end of the 20th century provided a wealth of film material for Hong Kong films. Wang Jing's appropriationism is both clever and localized.

Wang Jinghe and Xiang Huaqiang made a lot of money from borrowing, which made him gradually become lazy and slack in creative thinking.

Brainless copying of blockbuster movies and over-reliance on classics gradually bring visual fatigue to the audience.

After entering the 21st century, Wang Jing's reputation fell to the bottom with the box office of "The Bird" with a box office of 5 million in Hong Kong and the "Future Police" with a box office of 3 million...

The audience's immunity to low-level comedies is increasing day by day, and Wang Jing gradually loses his original market.

Especially the "Macau" trilogy and "The King of Aces"...it's so fucking bad!

In fact, in the past ten years, Wang Jing has made a very good movie - "Black and White Forest".

It's borrowed from "Infernal Affairs", but the style is very similar to Johnnie To...

Cold, harsh and fatalistic...

Then there was "Empire of Money", which was actually about corruption in the Hong Kong police force in the 1960s. It was actually the same theme as his "The Legend of Detective Lei Luo"...

From "Empire of Money" to "Chasing the Dragon", "Big Shanghai" must be mentioned!

The battle scenes between the top killers and the fight on the dock in "Big Shanghai" are very characteristic of Zhang Che's violent aesthetics, and add a sense of romance...

As for "Chasing the Dragon", Wang Jing said in the interview, "Lai Hao's movie was only mentioned briefly to Lei Luo, and Lei Luo's movie was only briefly mentioned to Lai Hao. He wanted to film the story between these two people... I think Through the underworld and the white path, the style of the entire era is accurately outlined. ’

In other words, he wants to make a film "Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong"...

But compared to "Once Upon a Time in America", "Chasing the Dragon" is much worse. The most important thing is that Lai Hao and Renault are like two separated individuals. They are kings in their own worlds, but when they come together, the sense of separation is too strong. !

It can only be considered excellent at best, far from a classic...

By the way, a lot of space was spent highlighting the contradiction between the British, the colonists at the time, and the Chinese Hong Kong people.

Use more space to show the Kowloon Walled City, a "cancer" that grew under British rule.

It’s obvious that the film does this, and essentially it wants to tell everyone that none of the British colonists are good.

Wang Jing tried to create a new film type: the nationalist gangster film.

I do drugs, I kill, I am a gangster, but I am patriotic!

In the movie, the lame man used a bulldozer to shovel up the British. There was such a serious sibling hatred. I thought he would shout: Which company has the best excavator technology? Hong Kong and Kowloon are looking for the lame man... I didn't expect him to say, this place is not British. , is from China.

How embarrassing!

In fact, what Donnie Yen said in the Cantonese version is "Where is your land? Mine!" Translate, "This is your land?" our! ’

It's a bit of a charlatan's big brother telling people that this place is my territory and you've crossed the line. It's completely in line with the character...

Let’s talk specifically about "Chasing the Dragon". Frankly speaking, "Chasing the Dragon" is very good. The story is not complicated, but the plot is smooth and flowing, the pictures are gorgeous, the film has a strong Hong Kong flavor, and the occasional jokes make people laugh.

Especially the first half, it is so smooth that it cannot be matched with the name Wang Jing.

It seems trivial, but in fact it is very ambitious. It can be said that it is very successful and very classy.

Life and death are determined by fate, wealth is in the sky, pornography, gambling and drugs, swords, sticks and guns, and death by head and feet are in danger. Bloody feud, beautiful women inserting needles, falling in love and killing each other, unpredictable black and white...

It's a pity that the second half is a bit of a slump...

However, the popularity of the film "Chasing the Dragon" made Shen Xudong see a popular theme - an in-depth description of the British colonization of Hong Kong...