The National Day season ended, and the final box office of the two works was 1.2 billion, unexpectedly 480 million, and the rest were witnesses.
Xin Yukun was very satisfied, as it was considered the highest box office record of his career, and then he applied for various awards to see if he could gain both fame and fortune.
Su Ze didn't care. Since reaching tens of billions, there has been little progress. No matter how much the box office is, it is just a number. Ten billion is worth celebrating, and no matter how many viewers there are, there is no intention to remember it.
This year will be over soon, and next year will be my 30th year. I am looking forward to winning awards but not being obsessed. Experience different roles and shape different lives is my eternal pursuit.
"Looking for me to act?" Suddenly I received a call from Zhang Jiahui, saying that he had a script he wanted to recommend?
I have long been accustomed to this kind of thing. This is how things are done in Hong Kong. It pays attention to human relations and sophistication. It's just that you, Zha Zhahui, don't have time for me to act. What the hell is that?
Two days later, I met Zhou Xiangyang, Ang Lee’s royal assistant and a famous producer, and also saw the so-called good script recommended by Zha Zhahui, which was another suspense film.
"Big Chase?" Su Ze was a little disappointed when he saw the name. Could it be that it was a police action movie? To be fair, it was a bit strange to have too many big scenes mixed with suspense.
"The protagonist is mute." Zhou Xiangyang was obviously prepared for it. He had some understanding of Su Ze's personality and said directly without any nonsense: "Simon Yam has joined."
"Brother Hua?" Su Ze's eyes lit up and he began to read the script seriously. The more he read, the more fascinated he became.
Zhou Xiangyang looked at Su Ze. He originally wanted to find Zhang Jiahui, but he really didn't have time, so he took the initiative to recommend the person in front of him.
Of course, Su Ze is no stranger to him. He can be said to be the most popular actor on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the youngest billionaire actor, and a real big shot.
The main reason why I didn't do it right away was because of the age of the character. This time the male protagonist must be at least in his early forties. After all, the character is the father of a teenage daughter, and Su Ze is too young after all.
But it is not easy for Zhang Jiahui to take the initiative to recommend, and it is even rarer to have the opportunity to cooperate with Su Ze, so I still come. No matter what the result is, I will give it a try.
As for age?
It’s not like Su Ze has never acted before!
After Su Ze read the script, he couldn't help but complain about the name.
The script is very exciting. At the beginning, the audience is presented with three middle-aged men with different backgrounds. As the story progresses, questions are constantly thrown to the audience.
Simon Yam plays Lam Ching-chung, a slovenly police detective who is obsessed with his work. He doesn't care much about his family. He is obsessed with finding the truth behind the case and often makes futile efforts on some old cases.
The male protagonist Wang Yuanyang is a delinquent young man who mutilated himself and lost his voice. He has been in prison for twenty years. He has a reputation as a murderer. After he was released from prison, he was implicated in a murder case.
Xu Hanlin, a rich and handsome man who lives a luxurious life, a talented artist, and a moody adoptive father.
The story unfolds between the three people.
Only then did I realize that the script was actually written by To Chi-lang, a famous Hong Kong beauty screenwriter?
This person has written "Huo Yuanjia", "The Untold Secret", "Su Qier", "The Murderer", "Jianghu"...
Known as the most duplicitous talented woman, she is a complete and experienced lover of heavy taste.
The first movie I wrote was "Jiang Hu" starring Liu Tianwang, and the one that impressed me most was Guan Xi Ge and Gou Hehehe.
"Fearless" depicts the inner demons of middle-aged men and violent beatings; "The Killer" has a perverted killer who inserts nails into people's eyes and uses an electric drill to drill holes in people's bodies and bleed them to death.
Without further ado, sign the contract.
The next three months are about losing weight, at least 30 pounds. The patience and suppression I put in are actually to get closer to the psychological state of Wang Yuanyang, a prison mute embarking on the road of revenge.
Finally understand why Zha Zhahui didn’t accept such a good script?
You've simply been tortured by the devil Lin and left a psychological shadow!
It is not difficult to portray a mute, as Explosive Silence has proven at the time, but the role of this vengeful father is deeper and darker.
Close your eyes and begin to understand the character. A dangerous man, an extremely felon. He committed murder when he was a teenager and was sentenced to twenty years in prison for breaking into a house and killing a girl.
There was a long scar on his neck. No one had heard him speak a word in twenty years. His gloomy and murderous eyes were so intimidating that everyone in prison called him Mute.
After being released from prison, instead of rejoining the society, he met the family of his former victim and unexpectedly discovered that Xu Hanlin’s second daughter, Xu Xue, looked exactly like the deceased woman twenty years ago!
Wang Yuanyang therefore followed Xu Xue day and night, and even threatened the Xu family with death.
As the story slowly unfolds, the impact of this incident is felt. The story itself has the style of Keigo Higashino. Compared with traditional police and gangster films, the focus of the story is not on the superb criminal skills of criminals and the fierce game between police and gangsters, but on the performance.
The protagonist's personality is distorted, and the murder plot happened naturally.
The first half uses suspense to attract the audience's attention. In the second half, guided by Wang Yuanyang's abnormal behavior, the character played by Simon Yam begins to notice the clues hidden under the surface of the case and uncovers the truth step by step.
I just didn't expect that knowing the truth would not help others, but would instead deprive this poor father of a chance to recognize his daughter and have a chance to live.
It seems suspenseful, but it is actually a work describing father's love!
Everyone has a great father. Their love for us may be like Wang Yuanyang's, never saying it in their mouths, but it is so real.
The reason why the character is so moving is that he doesn’t have a single line, but his emotions are interpreted so perfectly. His unspeakable injustice, unspeakable pain, unspeakable suffering...
All must be completely relatable to the audience.
The two fathers formed a sharp contrast. Wang Yuanyang only wanted to see his daughter grow up day by day, and no longer wanted to investigate the truth about what happened at that time. Maybe it was like this at the beginning, so he would start to work in the place assigned to him until he saw his own.
daughter.
The character created by Simon Yam has been on the run to find the truth since his wife jumped from the building, so much so that he forgot to care about his daughter. It was only later that he saw Wang Yuanyang that he suddenly realized that he no longer pursued the past.
Live well in the present, so I started a new life, started a new relationship, and started caring about my daughter.
After a few days of preparation, the shooting officially started. When I met Simon Yam, I had said hello a few times before. This was the first official collaboration.
In fact, the plot is not too complicated. The father who violently beat his daughter Xu Xue died mysteriously under horrific means such as heavy beatings, burning rocks, and sinking into the sea. Detective Lin Zhengzhong began to investigate the truth.
Wang Yuanyang, who was accused of killing Xu Yiyun and imprisoned, became the biggest suspect, and he was most likely Xu Xue's biological father.
So there are two main questions to be solved: First, how did Xu Hanlin die? Is the prisoner Wang Yuanyang? And what happened to the case twenty years ago?