He married Tong Liya because of his talent and strength

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Not long ago, the Golden Horse Awards announced the nomination list, "Bon Voyage", "July and Ansheng" and "I'm Not Pan Jinlian" " led the nominations, with Fan Bingbing, Ma Sichun, and Zhou Dongyu nominated for Best Actress.

Because: The five nominations for "Detective Chinatown" are all technical awards.

Technology is an important component of a movie. Director + screenwriter Chen Sicheng is indispensable for being able to collect so many technical nominations.

Not only did it gross more than 800 million at the domestic box office, it was nominated for 5 Golden Horse Awards and was also recognized internationally.

Before being nominated for the Golden Horse Awards, "Detective Chinatown" was screened in the special screening section of the Venice International Film Festival.

Shoji Shimada, the master of Japanese mystery novels, called "Detective Chinatown" a "masterpiece of mystery" on Weibo.

When Chen Sicheng started making "Detective Chinatown", his idea was actually very simple: he regarded movies as his dream, and "Detective Chinatown" was the realization of his dream.

"Dream" has long been the most familiar formula in talent shows and chicken soup articles.

Chen Sicheng initially made his debut as an actor. In 2003, the TV series "The Beach" was broadcast. From Chen Sicheng's position on the poster (far left), it can be seen that he was still a newcomer at the time.

Wang Xuebing, a big shot at the time, discovered that Chen Sicheng was a restless actor with many ideas while filming "The Beach".

When filming, he would arrive early every day, and he would discuss with the actors who were all bigger than him: How about we shoot like this... Everyone felt that this young man had a lot of ideas, but Chen Sicheng It's not just a random thought.

Chen Sicheng, who studied acting, fulfilled his dream of becoming an actor in "Soldier Assault".

"Beijing Love Story" made his creative dream come true.

When he collaborated with Wang Xuebing again in the movie version of "Beijing Love Story", he was already a director + screenwriter + actor. As Wang Xuebing said, he realized all the "such and such" that he thought about back then.

By the time of "Detective Chinatown", Chen Sicheng had already explored the entire industry. The whole industry was talking about IP. Chen Sicheng felt that popular IPs were other people's dreams and stories, so he wanted to make one. I am a pure storyteller, so I chose originality.

If you only have a dream, it is likely to be "just a thought" in the end. You have to work hard to gradually outline its outline.

It is said that the script of "Detective Chinatown" was written by Chen Sicheng on the plane. He studied suspense novels such as "The Devotion of Suspect X" and wrote a 40,000-word script and a 100,000-word script by himself. He also wrote biographies of characters and took his team to Thailand to conduct interviews with private detectives and police officers.

Someone on the Internet once questioned: Isn’t this Chen Sicheng’s handwriting?

After coming up with the script and worrying about the production, he personally trained the actors.

While filming the nightclub scene in the film, the underage Liu Haoran was sitting among a group of sexy girls, feeling very shy and nervous. Chen Sicheng personally took part in the battle, demonstrating for the hot girls to sway their hips and twist their waists, and also directed the hot girls to hug Liu Haoran. During the final filming, Liu Haoran had a dull look on his face, and the contrast was so cute.

This drama made "Produced by Chen Sicheng" a guarantee of the quality of the work, and he then started a new crossover - serving as a producer in the new drama "Great Expectations". In this way, his titles are really dazzling: director, screenwriter, producer, actor. For every movie, he can take out several of these elements and arrange and combine them freely.

Filmmakers who can combine producer + actor + screenwriter status include Jackie Chan, Tsui Hark, Huang Baiming, Jiang Wen, etc., but they are all veterans who have been in the industry for many years... Now, Chen Sicheng has also joined This luxury package.

At first everyone thought that Chen Sicheng was going to make "Northern Love 2" and "Northern Love 3", but he quietly made "Detective Chinatown"; now everyone thinks that he will strike while the iron is hot to prepare for "Northern Love" "Detective Chinatown 2", he put aside the love and suspense that he had already played with, started martial arts, and created this new drama "Great Expectations". Chen Sicheng, does your wife Tong Liya know that you are so willful?

After writing "Northern Ireland", Chen Sicheng began to prepare "Great Expectations". He wanted to use this story of Shanghai heroes competing for hegemony to fulfill his martial arts dream. It's old Shanghai, and it's martial arts again. The challenge is not small: there are old Shanghai-themed film and television dramas, such as "Shanghai Bund" and "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and other classics, as well as big martial arts movies, including Tsui Hark, Ang Lee, and Xu Haofeng. How can you break through?

It took 5 years to write the script of "Great Expectations". Chen Sicheng looked for books to read by himself, went through all the famous three tycoons, and then made the "Four Generations of Tycoons" Persona.

With the script in hand and homework done, the director convened a group of technical experts: Du Jie, the cinematographer who had shot "No Man's Land" and "Crazy Stone", and the action director of "Zodiac" Wu Gang, yes, they are all nominated now! Styling designer Zhang Shijie won the Golden Horse Award for Best Styling Design. He was the one who made Liu Haoran's trench coat and Tong Liya's sexy outfit in "Detective Chinatown".

In order to restore Shanghai in 1922, the crew filmed in three locations: Hengdian, Xiangshan, and Shanghai. Important scenes were all custom-built, and this is where the most expensive part of the entire show was spent.

In order to maintain the standard, producer Chen Sicheng hired Xie Ze, one of the directors of "The Legend of Mi Yue", to direct, and Huang Wei, the styling director of "Tiny Times". Di Kun, the art director of the TV series "Mr. Good", took action. You know, the quality of the actors is definitely more than fifty cents.

Today, the "Hong Xing Ba Da Dao" version of the character poster was released, which looks like this:

The four generations of tycoons changed from long robes and mandarin jackets to long gowns, then to old-style suits, and finally to shirt suits. Pants are in line with the saying "you are what you wear".

Among the first generation tycoons, Chu Tianshu, played by Wang Deshun, covers the sky with one hand in Shanghai.

Jin Shijie and Zhang Shuangli are both gangsters. One has a life-saving grace for the protagonist Hong San, and the other has a relationship with Hong San's mother. As the first-generation tycoon who founded the company, he is an experienced and powerful actor who can control the role.

Zhao Lixin and Ni Dahong, the second generation tycoons, look like Xu Wenqiang and Ding Li in "Shanghai Bund". They are in their prime and want to do big things.

Zhao Lixin plays the third master of the Qing Gang, who is Hong San’s master and a military advisor. The master Ni Dahong is trying to control Shanghai. It can be seen from his expression that the city is very deep.

The protagonist of the whole drama is in this picture: Hong San played by Chen Sicheng.

He is protected by his grandfathers and uncles, and accompanied by gay friends such as Yuan Hong and Fu Dalong, but he is also very affectionate and righteous and good at sociability. He can always turn danger into danger in times of crisis and grow up in the end. For True Tycoon Hong San.

The two new generations, Liu Haoran and Chen Hao, are far apart from their predecessors. They are indispensable among the four generations of tycoons because they are the youngest generation.

This batch of casts overlaps and differs from everyone’s guesses.

Jin Shijie played a perverted and strange old man in "Detective Chinatown". He can scare people with a smile and sing songs in KTV. If the tycoon had some ability to calm people down, , you can’t become a tycoon, right?

Zhao Lixin, who plays the second-generation tycoon, has played the heroic Cao Cao in "The Legend of Cao Cao" and Zhang Yi in "The Legend of Miyue". He has both an elegant temperament and the ability to debate endlessly. This backbone of the acting school is also consistent with the feeling of connecting with the second generation tycoon.

Yuan Hong's "Thirteenth Master" won a lot of fans, but he relied on his acting skills. He played the role of Sun Shaoping, a farmer's son in "The Ordinary World", with his earthy appearance and northern Shaanxi accent. Not an idol, but very interesting. This time, I played a young boy with Chen Sicheng. He had to play from a teenager to an adult. In the end, he had different views and went his own way. It was very challenging.

Liu Haoran’s previous roles, from Yu Huai, a top student with a first love, to Song Ge, a young boy who has a crush on girls, are all characters who are not much different from him in age. In "Detective Chinatown", the little detective Qin Feng, who can't even speak clearly but has profound insights into good and evil, has undergone a transformation. This time the "tycoon" is more different from him, and people are more excited about it.

Although "Great Expectations" is still in hot filming, as it is "produced by Chen Sicheng" and has a fairly reliable main creative lineup, it should be a popular drama, right? You Keke can’t wait to watch this drama:

Previously, Chen Sicheng has been called a "fashion insulator" by netizens, and even his agent complained that he doesn't care about appearance or image. However, compared with celebrities with only appearance, strength + talent are the strongest fashion items.

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