Starting From Cutting Hu Bai Niangzi To Dominate Xiangjiang

Before that, Li Changsheng had already successfully intercepted Hu Lan Jieying, completely changing her fate!

Li Changsheng will let Lan Jieying play more tragedies, because her temperament is more suitable for tragedies.

Li Changsheng's two companies, Golden Harvest and New Art City, have a very good development momentum now. They don't just shoot comedies blindly, they also shoot, very responsive, and try trendy tragedies.

This made another film company very envious, but felt that they were hard to catch up with. That film company was the famous Shaw Brothers Films.

Compared with the thriving Golden Harvest New Art City, Shaw Films is gradually declining now, and it is completely impossible to compete with these two companies.

Just like this in 2006, Ji Changsheng even cut off one of their beautiful directors!

Going back more than ten years ago, the Shaw Brothers were the most good at filming tragedies. Now that the audience's tastes have changed, the Shaw Brothers wants to catch up, but no matter whether it's sad or happy, they can't keep track of the pulse of the times.

1985 was the curtain call for Shaw Brothers in the film industry. Before it collapsed, the last shadow it left to the film industry was not just the shrinking output and box office. At the end of the journey, the dying titan no longer worries about gains and losses, and still has the intention of seeking change in relief, and gives it to the young people to give it a go. Although the few literary films produced are unable to recover, they have after all demonstrated the magnanimity that the former overlord should have and background.

Even after more than 20 years of glorious glory of Shaw Brothers, the brilliance of these niche works cannot be concealed. They are like small flowers blooming on the ruins, absorbing nutrients from the broken tiles and ruins, indicating that the Hong Kong film industry has completed the replacement of dry and prosperous, and passed on from generation to generation.

In 1983, Fang Yihua went to New York to watch a photographic equipment exhibition. Zhang Wanting, a female master student in the film department of New York University, explained to her. Fang Yihua liked her very much and offered to help her if she wanted to make a film.

In 1984, Zhang Wanting was preparing for her graduation work and returned to Xiangjiang with a few pages of script outline written by her classmate Luo Qirui. She was so lucky to ask for one million Hong Kong dollars from Fang Yihua, who is known for being stingy.

Li Yin, an alumnus who graduated in the same year as her, could only stay at home and work as a househusband for six years.

Zhang Wanting used all non-professional actors, Gong Qirui as the planner and screenwriter, and another Baodao classmate Jing Yongzhuo starred in her debut film "Illegal Immigrant".

Released in 1985, this low-budget film earned five million at the box office and won the Best Director Award at the Academy Awards, making it a blockbuster.

Zhang Wanting, who doesn't have much life experience, starts with the people and things around her. The film tells the story of middle-aged and young women who struggle to gain identity after being smuggled into the United States. The plot is not complicated, and the structure of the script is quite satisfactory, but the perspective is unique, the images are simple, and it is full of real texture close to life.

The protagonist lives in a circle isolated from normal society, and is always anxious for survival. The lack of identity, the intrusion of the underworld, and unplanned love all make him exhausted. "It truly reflects the hardships of the first generation of immigrants.

New York's Chinatown is an environment that Zhang Wanting and Luo Qirui can personally touch. The gangs, gangsters, and casinos there are similar to but different from Xiangjiang, and they are full of legends. Creative impulse.

From "Illegal Immigration", we can see the shadow of the later masterpiece "Autumn Fairy Tale".

The delicate styles of Gongzhang and Zhang who pay attention to the emotions of characters and are good at portraying their hearts began to show, and immigration and wandering have since become their iconic themes.

Before Luo Qirui went to study in the United States, he directed a version of "Farewell My Concubine". Li Bihua first wrote the script for him and then turned it into a novel. Later, through Lu Wei's hand, there was Chen Kaige Zhang Guorong's version of the classic.

Luo Qirui is pessimistic and meticulous by nature, thinks twice before acting, while Zhang Wanting is more resilient and motivated, bold and unconstrained. The two have complementary personalities and share similar interests, and they have become the most famous husband and wife team in the Xiangjiang film circle. .