In early 2008, after "Kung Fu", Stephen Chow's new film Yangtze River 7 was released.
The audience who was looking forward to Stephen Chow's movies was very much disappointed at this time;
's Douban score was hovering around 6 points.
Many viewers who want to watch nonsensical comedy are very disappointed.
, a movie that focuses on family warmth and emotional drama, has received unanimous praise from everyone now.
Stephen Chow has grown old and his ambition is no longer
Since "Kung Fu", Stephen Chow's enthusiasm for movies has dropped sharply;
At its peak, Stephen Chow can act in 10 films a year;
But after 2000, it is rare to produce one in three years.
After experiencing countless successes, Stephen Chow gradually no longer cared about movies;
or the requirements were deeper;
slow work and meticulous work are what Stephen Chow has asked in recent years.
In fact, Stephen Chow in 2007 no longer needs to be responsible to the audience;
he does not have to change his content to cater to the market.
He can take pictures as much as he wants.
filming, I want to shoot, which may not be in line with the market, but it is enough for people to see the director's soul;
Judging from this warm movie, Stephen Chow's soul is hot.
Warm and touching plot
Movie tells the story of a poor father, Zhou Tie (played by Stephen Chow), who lives in a broken house on the street of Ningbo, and is accompanied by his youngest son Xiao Di (played by Xu Jiao) all day long.
Zhou Tie worked hard on the construction site, and lived a tired and sad life all day.
But in order to support his son to attend a noble school, he saved money all day long, and his life with his son was also hard.
Xiao Di is often ridiculed by her classmates because she is poor in school;
Xiao Di and her father had an argument during a purchase of toys.
My father, who felt sorry for his son, went to the garbage dump to pick up a small ball and came back.
What everyone did not expect was that this alien creature called Yangtze River 7 brought earth-shaking changes to Xiao Di's life.
Yangtze River No. 7 not only repaired the electric fan of Xiao Di's house, but also made Xiao Di welcome in the school.
In an accident, Zhou Tie fell down the stairs.
In order to save Zhou Tie, Yangtze River 7 sacrificed itself, saved Zhou Tie, and turned itself back into a furry toy.
Finally, the alien spacecraft came back and Xiao Di discovered that there were countless Yangtze River 7.
plot develops very smoothly and the structure is relatively simple.
film focuses on the plot of the characters Changjiang No. 7 and Xiao Di;
Stephen Chow does not have many scenes, which also reflects Stephen Chow’s true thoughts about the movie.
UFO that spends millions of dollars
The creative sources of the whole movie are two aspects. The first is Spielberg 's classic movie "E·T";
The second is my country's Shenzhou spacecraft. There are 5 UFOs in the
videos, and a total of millions of dollars are spent.
Real life of migrant workers
In the video, Stephen Chow always wears torn shoes, his hair and beard are gray, his whole body is dirty, and he looks like a down-and-out migrant worker.
video also focuses on the details of Zhou Tie's family's poverty;
Zhou Tie's family, who even couldn't bear to buy an electric fan, lived in a broken house that was demolished;
ate very little leftovers, which made the audience feel very sad. The scene of the
video on the construction site is also quite sad;
is in the towering building, dust is flying, watching Stephen Chow smash the construction site with a hammer and hammer;
video's compassion for migrant workers at the bottom is immediately reflected.
Stephen Chow's later film educational significance
Stephen Chow became famous for gambling movies, such as " Gambling Saint " and "Gambling Man" that officially made him a first-line actor in Hong Kong.
has become the comedy king of Hong Kong movies with movies such as "False School Veyron".
Although these movies are fun, they have no educational significance.
gambling and playing around in school, studying how to mess with people all day long;
is a bad thing to teach bad teenagers in theory.
For this, Stephen Chow, who started directing the movie, cared about it very much.
So when filming "Shaolin Football";
Stephen Chow changed the script of Tian Qiwen , about the brothers who used martial arts skills as thieves and crimes;
's purpose is to purify the social atmosphere. The words of educating children in the video are the original words of Stephen Chow's mother
Although Zhou Tie in the video is poor, he is very upright.
He has been teaching Xiao Di to be upright, not to brag, not to fight.
These principles may sound very knowledgeable, but they make sense.
Especially for the poor, being a dignified person is the guarantee of a good life, because the poor have no capital to do evil.
In fact, these words were not original by Stephen Chow, but what his mother said to him when she was a child;
, including the plot of buying toys, are all Stephen Chow's memories, but Stephen Chow just put it in the movie.
The male lead was originally scheduled to be Stephen Chow
In "Kung Fu", Stephen Chow and Feng Xiaogang's cooperation was very pleasant, and Feng Xiaogang's acting skills impressed Stephen Chow very deeply.
Before the filming started, Zhou Xingchi wanted to hand over the role of Zhou Tie to Feng Xiaogang.
But Feng Xiaogang is filming " Episode ", and there is no schedule at all.
For this reason, Stephen Chow found Ge You through Feng Xiaogang, and was communicating with Ge You;
Han Sanping (Chairman of of China Film Group) came out to stop it;
Han Sanping believes that Stephen Chow is very much like a migrant worker and does not need to invite others.
After repeated consideration, Stephen Chow agreed.
There are many actors dressed in a man's costume in the film
The protagonist Xu Jiao in the film was chosen by Stephen Chow;
In order to choose this protagonist, Stephen Chow waited for a year and a half.
Everyone knows that Xu Jiao is a girl. After filming "Yangtze River Seven", Stephen Chow also accepted Xu Jiao as his goddaughter. Chen Junsheng, another rich son of the video, is also a girl;
's arrogant look really makes people unable to see her gender.
In addition to dressing up as a man, he also dressing up as a woman. In the film, the big man is beautiful and beautiful, and he is a boy.
Meijiao's real name is Han Yonghua. She is a university professor. Because she is really a fan of Stephen Chow, Stephen Chow asked him to take pictures.
essential tribute link
Stephen Chow's movies will never lack imitation and tribute, which is a major feature of Stephen Chow's movies.
For example, the plot of "American Journey to the West" is created by imitating Wong Kar-wai's movie.
In this film, the UFO in the scene where Stephen Chow picked up garbage in the garbage dump pays tribute to Spielberg's classic "E·T".
Stephen Chow used the clothes rack and the newspaper to beat Xu Jiao. The scene of the scene of "Pulp Novels" paid tribute to him.
Xu Jiao competed with the physical education teacher to pay tribute to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". There are many tribute clips. If you are interested, you can go back and take a look.
And I don’t need to say more about my own "Kung Fu" clip, everyone must know.
hard special effects production process
The special effects of this film are found in the same movie special effects company as the Tsui Hark movie "The Legend of Shushan";
Tsui Hark's "The Legend of Shushan" lost a big box office at that time, and the bad special effects are a big reason.
When I received "Yangtze River Seven", people in the entire film company felt very stressed.
Before the filming of the movie started, the staff of the special effects company took out two hundred alien sketches for Stephen Chow to choose;
Stephen Chow did not say a word, and took out a sketch himself.
Stephen Chow's move made everyone very depressed, but this is Stephen Chow's style. He always thinks he is good.
In fact, the original form of Stephen Chow's sketch is a dog he raised when he was on TVB;
This dog gave Stephen Chow great comfort during Stephen Chow's down and out period, so Stephen Chow never forgets it;
In the process of making special effects, the staff of the special effects company deeply felt Stephen Chow's seriousness.
Stephen Chow loves to ask why, and some questions are so they can't answer them;
Stephen Chow often asks them to work overtime in the middle of the night, and the people in the special effects company are very nervous.
Under Stephen Chow's supervision, Qizai in the movie is very naughty and cute;
Even the actions of learning Bruce Lee were so similar, which is undoubtedly the result of Stephen Chow's serious supervision.
seriously supervises the acting of migrant workers
Stephen Chow not only comes out to supervise the special effects, but also controls the details very strictly. The migrant workers in the
video are all real migrant workers, which Stephen Chow insists on.
These migrant workers who only had a few lines filmed the whole day for these lines;
Lin Zicong , who had scenes that day, could only wait by the side.
Zhang Yuqi was almost replaced
In the film, the new "Star Girl" Zhang Yuqi was almost kicked out of the crew by Stephen Chow.
The reason is that Zhang Yuqi returned to Shanghai without communicating with Stephen Chow and had double eyelids cut.
This caused the film to be dissonant;
made the previous week's shooting material inconsistent with Zhang Yuqi's current facial image;
can only be invalidated in the end;
caused the crew to lose hundreds of thousands.
This made Stephen Chow announce his angrily that he would change the heroine.
Zhang Yuqi quickly cried and apologized to Stephen Chow, and took the initiative to go back to Shanghai, and sewed back the original single eyelids.
In fact, Stephen Chow still likes Zhang Yuqi very much;
When Zhang Yuqi went to audition, Stephen Chow said to her: "Don't put on makeup, you are good-looking without makeup, you can only be on camera if you are real."
This shows Stephen Chow's attitude towards Zhang Yuqi.
"Yangtze River Seven" is a work that Stephen Chow has taken great care in his opinion; although
was rated as a "bad movie" by many people 12 years ago, now looking back at the works;
can see a lot of Stephen Chow's good intentions.
However, after this movie, Stephen Chow never appeared in the movie again;
But Le Feng still hopes that Stephen Chow can star in the movie again;
will definitely add a movie ticket to Stephen Chow.
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