It’s been a long time since I heard these three words say in my mouth.
"Zihua Shen".
Hong Kong films and Hong Kong dramas, from curry coffee to the emperor of the video and the gods.
Legend seems to be stuck in the past.
But who would have thought that he would come back overnight, and Sir's circle of friends was collectively excited.
Look again and the scores of the preview came out.
Douban 8.1.
"Pure Hong Kong flavor" and "hilarious comedy of the year" are the most heard by Sir.
It seems that Zihua's curse of "box office poison" is going to be broken?
I know you can't wait.
So before the release, Sir interviewed Zihua and the director of this new film, Chen Yongshen, and asked you all clearly at one time.
Still think you're the best
01
Hong Kong style comedy
Sir once said one of the rules of titles.
romance films with long titles are probably bad movies.
But " still thinks you are the best " is to break the rules.
First of all, Sir must emphasize here:
For a better viewing experience, please choose the Cantonese version! Cantonese version! Cantonese version!
Because there are too many Cantonese dialect memes buried in it.
But don't worry, you won't misunderstand.
In Cantonese, snatching a woman from a brother is a manifestation of infidelity and injustice.
is called "Gou Yisao".
In Cantonese, the pronunciation of "2" is exactly the same as "meaning".
So.
When the eldest brother ( Huang Zihua decoration) found that his second brother's current position is his ex, and he still wants to recover it. What do we call this behavior?
"It's definitely my sister-in-law of Gou Er (Yi)!"
A homophone is given to everyone.
Imagine.
At the home dinner, watching his ex-girlfriend Monica (Liston Deng ) feed his younger brother (Zhang Jicong ).
What kind of Shura field is this?
This is not the end.
If, the ex-girlfriend comes to live with his younger brother. What is the behavior of
?
is called "It is better to occupy the magpie's nest than to wait for it to change."
The day after his ex came, the eldest brother also brought back a girl, Meow Meow (Lin Mingzhen ).
and not long.
"Sister-in-law" has also moved in.
And this beautiful internet celebrity Meow Meow, another otakus third brother ( Chen Zhanwen decoration) has been chasing the goddess on the Internet for a long time.
Now, the arrival of Meow Meow made the third brother's girlfriend Josephine ( Wang Wanzhi decoration) completely knock down the jealousy......
And these 6 people are about to live under the same roof. The relationship between
is too messy.
is even a bit scary.
However, the origin of this script was actually a challenge set by director Chen Yongshen and himself.
Director Chen thought, if the script is good enough, can you tell a fun story in a room with 6 people without having to walk out (this scene)?
Moreover, no matter what disputes a family living under the same roof had that day, they were so angry that they closed the door and left no one. When it was time for dinner, they would go out of the room and have a meal face to face.
This situation itself is full of dramatic tension.
However, to write such a script, you must have solid skills.
is just a joke.
The movie scripts written by Chen Yongshen have their names.
want a ghost movie? " Horror Hotline: Big Headed Baby ";
Want a romantic movie? "The Lion Roar in Hedong";
Want a love funny movie? " New Junior Sister ";
inspirational film? "Next Stop...Di Queen";
Want to adapt a comic work? "Subway";
years ago " Countercurrent Uncle ", he wrote and directed for the first time, and was nominated for eleven Hong Kong Film Awards.
△ Nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2019
Director said that before the filming of this movie, we had a consensus, not filmed like a funny movie, but as real drama .
Before shooting, he also wrote 4 to 7 pages of character background and sent it to every actor. also allows each actor to understand the character and background of the character he wants to play.
And everyone has to participate in the script reading meeting. Many plays have been rehearsed when reading scripts. Therefore, the "opposite" battles between actors are like the battles of masters in Jin Yong novels.
"Your reaction is big, so should I be bigger? Your movement is small, should I be smaller than you?" The directors must carefully grasp the chemistry of the actors on the scene. If
can have such a chemical reaction, you still have to choose a good actor.
Because of many funny points, they are not designed entirely by the script.
Meow Meow is not standard in Cantonese and makes a lot of jokes in the movie.
There is a scene where Josephine is angry with her third brother, and Monica and Meow Meow comfort her.
Monica said: Third brother loves you so much!
Miaomiao also echoed: #￥%@￥%&%￥#￥*&￥
Result Josephine cried even harder: What did she say? Actually, I have never understood what she said...
Haha, originally, non-standard Cantonese will make people cute.
Director also revealed in the interview that the reason he chose Lin Mingzhen to play Meow Meow is because the character Meow Meow has a very different temperament from this family.
"She broke into this family like an alien and said some challenging words," so she wanted to find a girl who was not standard in Cantonese.
This is also a local feature of Hong Kong. The director said: "Hong Kong people are particularly tolerant of girls who are not good at speaking Cantonese and like those girls from other places."
Facts prove that Lin Mingzhen chose the right choice.
When Lin Mingzhen compared "Kissing one, muamua~ good", Sir believed that every man showed a smile that his girlfriend was not easily noticed. Director
said that this action was completely designed by her.
fresh, natural, sugar content max.
(Look it again!)
"When she made this action, Huang Zihua, Zhang Jicong, and Chen Zhanwen all showed (smiling) expressions, and I knew this action could be done."
△ During the interview, the director excitedly restored the action
and talked to the joy. The director also told us a little secret:
In the movie, Huang Zihua cried no less than four times.
Huang Zihua is very devoted to this character, and shed tears when she was moved by herself when she was photographed.
Huang Zihua also said: "The tears that the audience shed in my play may be 1/3-1/4 less than when I actually filmed it."
Sir also revealed to you a "little secret" that Huang Zihua said:
Before the filming of the movie started, Huang Zihua wanted to make an appointment with Li Xin Deng. After all, they were ex-family relationships in the play, so he wanted to ask her out to cultivate a "love" relationship and experience the feeling of "breakup".
But unfortunately, it would be fine if there was no such opportunity.
It can be seen that a good script can not only immerse actors in it, but also a prerequisite for actors to perform their acting skills and achieve twice the result with half the effort. The movie
also did it.
dramatic tension is extremely strong, and everyone's personality is also particularly prominent.
Home girl and e-sports otakus, internet celebrity model and old-fashioned photographer, but the only second brother and girlfriend have similar social status.
However, Monica's clear literary and intellectual temperament is somewhat different from the middle-class business man of her second brother.
How can these characters make the characteristics so distinctive?
In fact, when the director writes the script, he already has an actor candidate in his heart. The three characters in the script are written by Wang Wanzhi, Chen Zhanwen and Zhang Jicong.
It was Huang Zihua, and Director Chen was a little nervous.
Because he has always regarded Huang Zihua as an idol, he dare not easily visit this comedy master who has not acted in other people's plays for more than 20 years.
However, after Huang Zihua read the script, he couldn't put it down. He finished reading the novel quickly. Then, he agreed to play the role of Big Brother.
When talking about the script, Huang Zihua told Sir:
The script has always been in the same "scene", the "situation" (okay) is still in this room. Will they go out and whether they are inside from beginning to end? There has always been this question (hooked) to watch it, and at the same time, they feel that it is getting better and better. Where is the
hook?
What is the most feared by a family of 6 people?
People living here have ulterior motives.
The younger brothers wanted to sell their father and leave the barbecue factory. After getting a sum of money, they all split up their families;
The elder brother, as a man with insecure, wants to drag their younger brothers around.
How long can this crumbling home last?
Chen Yongshen designed a very beautiful hook.
He used the dining table to carry the most vulnerable and terrifying interpersonal relationships of this family.
02
Food
0 green lyrics: "Who is from the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, but is confined to the kitchen and love day and night."
Kitchen, and love.
are two words that cannot be escaped by everyone in the world.
So, director Chen Yongshen chose to use "eating" to describe the contradictions of the family of six.
After all, no matter how loud it is, in Chinese families, they will still come out to sit at a dining table when they are eating.
"This scene is very interesting, and in Hong Kong, there has been no good dining scene for a long time."
Diet, men and women, food, sex, and sex, eating and chatting around the dining table is the thing that is closest to human social interaction and reflects emotions.
Sir was very impressed by the few meals in the movie.
First meal .
are all Guangdong hard dishes. braised pork trotters , plum vegetable braised pork trunk .........
formally served, and the dishes are exquisite.
Home atmosphere is still a normal state.
However, when the eldest brother came back with his new girlfriend, and announced that she was his new girlfriend.
The atmosphere changes.
Director also left a little thought in the dishes:
As soon as Meow Meow was served, she was a big mouthful of the favorite plum dish, and she was very clear about the taste and production method of the plum dish.
Director said, "If a girl likes a very manly hard dish, she will actually think she is very cute."
Next, The second meal is a "molecular cuisine".
Miaomiao helped Josephine to enter the catering industry's internet celebrities, so on that night they studied many strange dishes.
Steak made of pork, pork patty made of beef;
crab made of fish, fish made of crab meat;
also make jelly like bitter melon soup.
Why do you want to make such a dish? It's not a coincidence.
Before this meal, the eldest brother found out that his second brother was still "sister-in-law" and he had ulterior motives for her;
Monica also had a sway in love between his eldest brother and his second brother;
, and Miaomiao also found that his boyfriend still couldn't let go of his past...
In Cantonese, there is a special word called: pretending to be a crab , specifically referring to those who are "pretending".
Look at the people at this table, the disguise has been seen through, but they continue to act.
The third meal, is a "great collapse of the century" according to Huang Zihua.
No one can eat this meal.
Before the meal was ready, each pair of relationships fell apart.
The third brother proposed to his girlfriend who had been with him for many years.
However, after Josephine had his own "Internet celebrity" career, she found that her feelings for her third brother were no longer the " love brain " she used to be.
And the second brother and the eldest brother are also because of [beep--] (this is absolutely not spoiled, it is the biggest highlight of the movie).
sneer finally broke out.
On the dining table, food has become the object of venting and no longer has the magic to gather the family.
Everyone is venting their anger at this moment. In short, the "chicken feathers and duck blood" eaten in this meal is messy.
The last meal is a reunion dinner made by the eldest brother for his two younger brothers.
is also a "parting meal". The key to the dish is a piece of char siu.
Three brothers have watched their father run a factory to make char siu and sell char siu since childhood. Moreover, this rough and not very delicious char siu makes them have shadows when they become adults.
This time, in the reunion dinner prepared by the elder brother, the taste of my father's char siu was perfectly restored.
At the dinner table, the eldest brother announced: I have sold this house, and I will divide the remaining money.
At this time, he was also willing to let go so that his brother and himself could "go out and go away."
Have you discovered that these four meals are the process of peeling off the relationship between this family.
From embarrassment, to concealment, to anger, and finally calm down and reconcile.
This is the director’s little thought at the dinner table.
However, it is not just a dinner table show that is so full of emotions.
Even a dish is hidden.
In the movie, Meow Meow asked Josephine what would you do if you were going to make a meal for him.
She said: Shit! This paragraph of
At first glance, it seems to be a "lower three-way" meme.
When Josephine made a "soup cabbage rose" with cabbage and bacon, and posted the production video online.
traffic exploded.
However, she found that she didn't want to share this joy with her boyfriend at all.
even, the "cabbage flower" that symbolizes "little prince and roses", was not done for him.
Josephine is the last "awakening" of the definition of love.
No longer want to spend time cooking for your lover, but it also lost some sparks to this love.
03
Char Shui
It can be said that although this movie uses many techniques to shoot food and tables.
However, the final landing point is still "a piece of char siu".
"Bar Siu" is a very common food in Cantonese-speaking areas. Even when cursing people, they will say "It is better to have raw char siu than to give birth to you."
People of any class will have a special liking for char siu.
char siu is also the director's childhood taste: "When you can't think of what to eat, just eat char siu rice ... When I was a child, my mother found that there was a bad dish when cooking, so she asked me to go downstairs to buy a plate of char siu."
"char siu" is a food that can pull the audience into memories at once.
is also a heavy object that can't be picked up and put down.
In the movie, the eldest brother has been guarding the Youfu Char Shui Factory left by his father.
The three brothers live in this three-bedroom apartment converted from a broken factory building. The environment is bad, it is hot and stuffy.
The sentence that Big Brother said most is, "The person is there, and the (char siew) stove is there."
Big Brother perfectly interprets "the elder brother is like a father" in this big family.
He couldn't let go of the "char siu" in his heart - for fear that he would become nothing if he put down anything.
Huang Zihua's definition of this sad middle-aged man is:
There is no relationship, no career, and there are inherent shortcomings.
And, he used a word to describe the eldest brother, "funny".
Because when fate is so absurd that you can't express your emotions even when you cry, you will laugh out loud.
So, when the audience will see that the elder brother holds the existing "love" tightly because of his "cowardice" and lack of security - whether it is the love of his ex-girlfriend or the love of his younger brothers, the harder he exerts, the more he keeps losing.
He grabbed all his feelings in panic, but instead became nothing. In the interview with
, Huang Zihua talked about his understanding of "pick up" and "let go".
What is life?
Murakami Haruki said: Life is an analogy.
We think life is the end and feelings are a hint.But if the whole life is hinting at something else, then we actually know very little, so we can let go of some.
Let Zihua tell you another little story about the imperfect one that happened on the set.
There is a scene where everyone listens to a song in their respective rooms, "I Still Think You're the Best". He was very dedicated to the scene of
. He heard this song and tears came out without any effort.
"But, how could I know if there was a problem with the audio, I had to shoot it again. At that time, we had already taken other clips. I had already put down that kind of relationship...I am no longer afraid of seeing Leslie Teng."
After returning to the set, he wanted to regain that relationship again, so he hid on the sofa and quietly returned to his broken heart. Unexpectedly, the director found out that he was there and came to chat with him.
"After chatting here, I turned on the computer there (I don't know if the status is right). I still feel a little regretful, but there is no way. Movies are a regretful art."
But not everything is perfect, not all emotional scenes need to be rumbling.
On the contrary, this "inadvertent" made Sir feel that the feelings of six people when listening to a song are just right.
In fact, the same is true in a "imperfect" char siu set by the director.
The method of making char saut is not very mysterious, everyone will do it. Whether
is delicious is another matter.
In the movie, the director sets his father's char siu to "not delicious char siu" . The eldest brother inherits his father's craftsmanship, and every char siu he makes is also "not delicious".
Why set a bad char siu?
"Dear char siu, everyone has finished shooting, delicious food, everyone must inherit it. But do ordinary people really make a lot of delicious food? Its success is due to its lack of delicious food."
This is the life of many people.
Repeatedly torment, the result may not be good.
is not outstanding, but just fills up one meal after another.
is not perfect, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Huang Zihua said:
Many times we have many restrictions on our lives (that are many times). When we are about to have children at the age of time, nothing is called no achievements, and what we have is "get" (the meaning of greatness in Cantonese).
In fact, we have put a lot of restrictions in (life), and these restrictions also come from labels that society believes, as if they are determined to be like this.
is sometimes good.
But when it makes you unhappy, you may have to let go of some, but it is better.
But in the imperfection, there is a special and unique memory.
The love between brother and Monica is also imperfect.
Finally they met again on the street again. When they were face to face, they said something.
The relationship between us does not have to be defined by words.
This is also a kind of relief for "imperfection".
In contrast, this "imperfect" char siu symbolizes not only a dish, but a delicacy.
Instead, our experience of family affection and love is imperfect, but it is still difficult to give up, and it is deeply imprinted in the minds of many people.
Only when you eat the unique taste can you accurately evoke memories of a specific time and person.
This year, Zihua asked us for a meal.
A group of people are talking and laughing, affectionate and interesting.
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