Cold knowledge behind "Going East and Going West", watermelon buried in the desert of Leslie Cheung, the battle of four goddesses.

If you make a movie, it can be both literary and funny;

Not only can you win a lot of prizes, but you can also make the box office hot and earn money, and improve your popularity;

But the price is that the filming period is particularly hard.

In that way, many actors will rush to shoot and know the result in advance, and everyone is willing;

But if you don't know the result in advance;

Many are not necessarily willing.

1993, Wong Kar-wai and Liu Zhenwei bought the copyright of Jin Yong's The Condor Heroes;

At that time, the two agreed to make this film together.

After that, Wong Kar-wai and a group of actors first filmed Ashes of Time.

Wong Kar-wai dawdled along, even 1% of the film progress was not finished;

This made Liu Zhenwei sit still, because the film company didn't have enough money to burn.

As a genius, Wong Kar-wai is too attached to literary films, and now he is a real box office poison.

Liu Zhenwei is very familiar with Wong Kar-wai.

Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai 1984 met on the set of the movie Lucky and Paradise;

1985, Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai participated in the film industry of the film company founded by Deng Guangrong, the big boss of the film industry.

Later, Wong Kar-wai introduced the classic literary film Tears Flowing.

Liu Zhenwei's widely acclaimed The Devil's errand was shot at that time.

While Liu Zhenwei continued the comedy route, Wong Kar-wai became more and more biased;

It took two years to shoot the famous punk story.

This film established the status of Wong Kar-wai's literary film goddess. In terms of box office, The Story of Teddy Boy only took 9 million yuan, and the film company lost180,000.

In less than two weeks, Deng Guangrong, the boss, was hospitalized on the spot after learning that he had been expelled from the cinema.

In this case, Liu Zhenwei and Wong Kar-wai can only leave a prominent shadow.

After that, they co-founded Zedong Film Company, and then began to shoot Ashes of Time.

In Wong Kar-wai, where the box office has fallen sharply, it is still inflexible and procrastinating.

Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Leslie Cheung often go back and forth hundreds of times because of one shot;

And Wong Kar-wai didn't pass the standard, which made them extremely collapsed.

To make the actor collapse, Wong Kar-wai clapped his hands and threw away all the scripts.

There is no script that makes actors feel uncertain about the plot and characters;

I don't even know how to practice, and no one knows what Wong Kar-wai is thinking.

Because although art is subjective, it feels too unreal.

When people are doing something that they feel meaningless for a long time, they will begin to doubt and become crazy.

"Ashes of Time" was filmed in Yulin, Shaanxi;

Yulin is close to the Mu Us Desert (which was a desert at that time) and is located in a remote place.

It's inconvenient to go anywhere.

In order to make life more interesting, Leslie Cheung heard that burying watermelons in the sand and experiencing thermal expansion and cold contraction would be particularly delicious;

Bored, he took everyone to bury watermelons.

Because the desert is flowing, watermelon soon loses its position after being buried.

Therefore, a group of Hong Kong actors, burying watermelons and digging watermelons have become a landscape, and they can also feel the boredom and helplessness of the actors.

The actor's depression and boredom are fully vented in "Going East and Going West";

So in "Going East and Going West", everyone is fighting wild, which is the biggest reason.

Because everyone was abused by Wong Kar-wai during the day and relaxed by Liu Zhenwei at night, once and for all, a tight and a loose became a classic.

Looking at the ashes with no progress in time, Liu Zhenwei asked Wong Kar-wai the date of completion.

Wong Kar-wai's deep sunglasses are full of confusion at this time, because he also wants to know when it will end.

At that time, one month before the Chinese New Year, Wong Kar-wai decided to give the actors a holiday;

But he thought about it and said to Liu Zhenwei, Why don't you make a second film?

Hearing this sentence, Liu Zhenwei wanted to strangle Wong Kar-wai on the spot;

What did the chronic patient say to the second part? He doesn't even have a script or an outline.

However, watching daily money burning and watching stagnant movies;

Liu Zhenwei remained calm because he knew that the movie he wanted to make should start.

Under the influence of Stephen Chow, comedy is more popular with the audience.

Because Liu Zhenwei made a comedy like "92 92 Legend Black Rose";

Liu Zhenwei immediately began preparations for "going east and going west".

The actors are happy to return to Hong Kong to make comedies.

Liu Zhenwei also discussed the content of the script creation with the actors;

In this way, this makes the actors who have not filmed for a long time very happy.

At the beginning of the film, it is said that this is a ridiculous thing for martial arts characters when they are young;

Le Feng believes that this film is more like the absurdity of these big stars when they were young.

Because the actors are not only absurd, but also absurd. Many funny scenes are even more absurd than Stephen Chow's nonsense.

These meaningless actions are made by stars such as Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Carina Lau, which are more meaningful.

Many classic plots of this film are still classics in our memory;

I love you; Singing by Jacky Cheung;

Death can't beat Tony Leung Chiu Wai in Jacky Cheung;

The real person Tony Leung Ka Fai is looking for; Carina Lau three flowers gathered at the top;

Joey Wong and Leslie Cheung sang the double swallows that day, and Zhong Zhentao's flying boots;

Ye Yuqing's drum and crab dance, as well as the classic "banana, you are guava";

Are unforgettable memories of the audience.

This film is from Jin Yong's classic Legend of the Condor Heroes.

In addition to using names such as Ouyang Feng, Huang and Hong Qigong, the plot is completely another story.

At that time, the trend of new martial arts movies in Hong Kong was surging.

Under the guidance of Tsui Hark's the legendary swordsman, a large number of good movies appeared at that time, such as The Demon Master.

This film is full of satire on the new martial arts movies;

The film exposed the shooting process of a large number of martial arts actions;

In particular, the scene of Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Ka Fai fighting on the roof was just like a gunfight.

The weak Nan Di in the film eventually became Jigong;

Brigitte Lin's magical power without physiognomy is really "without physiognomy", and the Nine Yin Sutra was originally carved on the toilet, which is a mockery of martial arts films.

The film is more reflected in the name of the new martial arts film;

Such as "Dry Fire Palm", "Affectionate Knife" and "Playing with Sword";

They are all aimed at the history of Jin Yong's love for women when he was young.

Unlike dull Wong Kar-wai;

When the whole movie was filmed, the crew was not serious at all, and everyone was talking and laughing.

I even play mahjong in my spare time.

Leslie Cheung called for the defeat of "Dong Fangbubai" Brigitte Lin;

However, Brigitte Lin always wins money. As a non-mahjong fan, Joey Wong is always dragged to play mahjong.

She always stinks and is called "bitch scratching" (Cantonese sounds like a ghost story).

When it comes to the cast, there may not be a more powerful film lineup than "Going East and Going West";

The four men are Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jacky Cheung and Zhong Zhentao.

The four most popular Hua Dan are Carina Lau, Brigitte Lin, Joey Wong, Maggie Cheung and Ye Yuqing.

As the saying goes, three women's lives, not to mention four big stars this time.

A woman's mind is very heavy. Before each shoot, several female stars always deliberately lengthen their makeup time, unwilling to let themselves go to the set first.

This time-wasting and scheming behavior makes director Liu Zhenwei very headache;

These actresses are all big names, and none of them can be persuaded, which makes Liu Zhenwei very sad.

The other two protagonists in the film, Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin, are reported to have no electricity;

Their feud originated from Tsui Hark's Xinlongmen Inn.

In the film, the gold inlaid jade played greatly overshadowed the Qiu played;

This made Brigitte Lin, then known as the first actress, very unhappy.

From then on, the relationship between the two became strange, and when filming "Going East and Going West", they hardly talked.

Many fans of "Ashes of Time" say that "Going East and Going West" is an insult to literary films;

Le Feng doesn't think it is necessary to go online like this.

Because from the box office, "Going East and Going West" crushed "Ashes of Time".

Judging from the audience's senses and the popularity of the film, Ashes of Time makes people feel uncomfortable.

And the popularity of "Going East and Going West" and the audience's familiarity with the movie plot;

Let "going east and going west" become a hot topic today.

From the perspective of film art, Le Feng has always believed that the standard of a good film is to make people understand first, and then to pull the connotation;

People can't understand excuses that shouldn't be justified and thoughtful.

"Going East and Going West" makes people laugh from ear to ear in the plot, and also satirizes Hong Kong movies ideologically.

Although it only took 27 days, it is a classic nonsense comedy and a really good movie.