Released ten days later, "In Search of Plum Blossoms" ended up with a box office of 15 million. It was regarded as the champion of this year's literary films. Then, after careful people spread the word, it came to the mainland, and the news quickly spread.
"Damn it, Su Ze actually acted in a B-level movie?"
"Ah, my male god has finally fallen!"
"I really like!"
"It's suspenseful, bloody and exciting."
"It's a pity that I can't go to the cinema to watch it."
"Douban has split, sisters, go support Brother Ze!"
In just a few days, more than 60,000 people have rated it, and Douban has locked it at 8.2. Even Su Ze did not expect this result.
The investment has basically paid off. The good reputation is an unexpected surprise. The results are better than expected. Su Ze is very satisfied.
There are two more works to come. Sister Tao will definitely pass the review, but I don’t know how much the box office will be. After all, Xu Anhua’s literary films have a very small audience and are very picky about the audience.
Witnesses are not a big problem. Xing Yukun has been honing his sword for two years. This masterpiece is comparable to The Invisible Guest. Suspense fans have something to look forward to, but it won’t be released until the end of the year at the earliest.
"Zheng Baorui?" Su Ze looked at the script, the director of Mai Luren?
"Sha Po Wolf 2 made Louis Koo the best actor." Kong Xue said with a smile: "In his early years, he directed Monster and Dog Eat Dog, and his style is very unique."
"This time, Johnnie To is still the producer. He found me through connections and wanted to cooperate with you."
Su Ze nodded, and there was no need to ask who was the matchmaker. Now that he had a good reputation in Hong Kong, there were many directors he wanted to work with.
In the final analysis, you still have to read the script, and everything else is nonsense.
"Accident?" Su Ze was really surprised when he saw the name. It was suspenseful reasoning again, and Su Ze smiled.
The more I watch, the more excited I become. It is worthy of being the image of the Milky Way, and worthy of Johnnie To!
Take the role without saying a word!
Kong Xue went to settle the contract. The male protagonist, nicknamed Brain, is a professional assassin. He is good at planning seamless assassination plans. His murderous methods can make the target person die in an accident.
On the surface, the victim died unexpectedly, but the truth was that the members of the assassination team jointly planned a shocking murder. However, the killings day after day made him lose himself, and he often dreamed that he died in an accident.
Every mission, I became more and more cautious to prevent accidents from happening to me. During a mission, I suddenly encountered a real traffic accident, resulting in the death of a teammate.
When the accident maker encounters an accident, the result develops in an unpredictable direction.
A week later, I arrived in Hong Kong and met director Paul Cheng and Johnnie To, whom I had been thinking about. Fortunately for the director, Johnnie To was obviously getting older and had basically stopped directing in the past few years, so the opportunity was rare.
Although they met for the first time, they got along very well. After two years of training, Su Ze is very familiar with the Hong Kong Island team and understands their personalities and tempers. He is no longer a newcomer.
Efficiency is still efficiency, and filming will start soon. I saw Lin Xue, the supporting actor of Wannian, and several old TVB drama stars such as Michelle Ye and Feng Suifan, and of course the second male lead...
Brother Xiao Qi!
A talented person who was delayed by singing!
I am extremely looking forward to this time. It is my first time to cooperate with Galaxy Video. Before this, the audience has never thought that crime films can be made in such a literary and artistic way, and that literary and artistic films can be made in such a worldly way.
Johnnie To is a well-known strict teacher. It is said that he would curse every five seconds on the set. He has a solemn expression and strives for excellence in every scene. It is not an easy task to work under the direction of Sir To.
Zhuang Wenqiang, Wei Jiahui, You Dazhi, Luo Yongchang... all studied film creation closely with Lao Du. To a certain extent, the styles of these directors are integrated with Galaxy Image.
Even at certain moments, the audience cannot tell the difference. This is because the films produced by Galaxy Image always have strong stylized visual traces and irresistible, repeated textual motifs:
Fate.
When various elements are put together, the works presented by these directors are subconsciously summarized as creations under the galaxy image system.
This time, Zheng Baorui can be said to be Johnnie To's disciple who taught him step by step before retiring. Later, we found out that the original name was unexpectedly assassination, but it turned out to be one of the trilogy that inherited the "Dark" series of Galaxy Image?
The remaining two are "Dark Flower" and "Dark War".
It consists of the brain leader played by Cold and Intelligent himself, A Fei played by Lin Xue, Xuan Ye who likes Goo Jai but is a bit greedy, and A Bo played by Feng Suifan who later develops Alzheimer's disease.
Specializing in creating accidents to kill clients, the methods adopted are mostly electric shocks, lightning strikes, car accidents, falling hanging objects, etc., and try to use the concept of natural occurrence to murder.
The brain is responsible for overall control, with Xuan Ye assisting in making the bait, and Lin Xue and Feng Suifan acting as deceivers. In the first scene, Zheng Baorui goes straight to the point and directly designs a thrilling accident, showing the audience a violent and intelligent murder without any room for error.
It is still the style of Galaxy Image, with a simple meeting scene between four people, the social class, organizational structure and internal relationships of the gang can be seen at a glance.
Helping an ordinary middle-aged man kill his father in order to defraud the insurance company and obtain inheritance. The four people may have been numb to such a plot, but their inner struggle and humanity can be seen in a casual line.
However, the character of Brain that he created was immersed in the mental work of creating accidents, allowing him to forget that his wife passed away due to an unexpected car accident.
Next, how to kill this poor old man by accident?
The brain came up with a plan: rain, electricity, and accidental electric shock. So the four people waited for the rain on the road they must pass every day, but God either rained early or rained late.
I spent countless nights squatting in vain, missing the expressions of the characters when it rained, the busy streets, and the shooting of the bus. Zheng Baorui's lens fully showed the process of waiting for the rain, allowing the audience to deeply understand the character's entanglement and waiting mood.
Finally, on the rainy murder night, the old man played by Feng Suifan suffered from a mental disorder similar to Alzheimer's disease. However, his brain did not want to miss the rare opportunity and let Lin Xue continue the plan. As a result, the target was brutally killed by a carefully arranged accident.
But something went wrong and a passing bus accidentally caused an accident. He was knocked down and the fat man was accidentally killed?
I returned home trembling and frightened, but I didn't know that there was an accident at home, and all the savings from the murder were stolen?
Was it an accident or something?
The brain is completely confused!
Because I kept causing accidents, I no longer believed that these were accidents, so I followed the murderer and watched him fall to his death. I thought it was a rigged murder, but I didn't believe that the murderer couldn't bear the condemnation of his conscience and chose to commit suicide.
I also saw my accomplices going to collect money, and I figured out the conspiracy that I took for granted. I felt that everything was not an accident, and I concluded that the insurance manager played by Michelle Ye and Ren Xianqi was a behind-the-scenes mastermind.
So he made up his mind to accidentally kill the woman who was actually secretly in love with him, and continued to monitor the insurance manager who was actually an honest man.
Everything is on the verge of getting out of control!