Question:
Which movie has the strongest lineup in the history of Chinese films?
" Founding of the Kingdom "?
"Happy Events in Family"? Of course, both of these movies are super good at playing, but to say the "strongest lineup"...
30 years ago, " Night Banquet ".
In today's words -
top stream, I almost couldn't put down a poster.
In the summer of 1991, a major flood occurred in East China, and more than 90 million people were affected in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces alone, and about 2 million people were displaced.
Hong Kong film industry mobilized all to help the disaster area -
, and the filming was completed in 4 days.
only takes two minutes to participate.
Even superstars like Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung, and Stephen Chow only have a few seconds to play.
I don’t know when this movie has become a proof of the glory and unity of Hong Kong movies.
Looking for celebrity eggs in the film has also become a rare pleasure for movie fans.
Unprecedented, no one comes after that?
no.
Someone really wants to reproduce such a grand occasion.
There is always love in isolation
same for public welfare, last time it was a flood, this time it was an epidemic.
is a Hong Kong-style comedy created by the whole industry working together.
is just this time, Sir really can't laugh.
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Last year's epidemic caused a heavy blow to Hong Kong movies. In order to boost people's morale and provide opportunities to start construction, many bigwigs in the circle led by Tsang Eric Tsang, Huang Baiming , Xiang Huaqiang , Jiang Zhiqiang , and Yang Shoucheng jointly launched a series of projects such as "Always Love in Quarantine".
is said to be a new chapter because it was under the banner of "New Feast of Wealthy Family" at the beginning of the project. The producer of
is also very powerful, bringing together one of the most important film companies in Hong Kong. The front and behind the scenes of
is a big hit, and half of the Hong Kong film industry is here to help.
In addition to the above, there are Andy Lau, Joey Yung, Lu Guanting, who appear in the end of the film...
The two actors, Eric Tsang and Tony Tony Leung, reunited 18 years later, and the duo of the beauty hunting continued their relationship with "The Real Man" and "stolen food" everywhere.
Last year, he just won the Academy Awards and best supporting actor in Hong Kong, Zhang Daming, who seemed to have just come from "Mai Passerby".
There is also the Hong Kong comedy master - Xu Guanwen .
partnered with Qian Jiale , paying tribute to his classic work "Modern Bodyguard" in the film.
Various signs indicate that the familiar Hong Kong flavor is back. Is this really the case with
?
The reality is -
The Hong Kong film industry worked together to make a big bad movie.
The first scene, Hong Kong Pier.
Fang Lishen appeared, carrying a black bag.
The camera is sneaky, taking pictures of the bag, and then taking pictures of Fang Lishen’s expressions and the security personnel’s expressions.
keeps giving you hints: This pack is unusual, this person is not simple, something big will happen...
As expected, a group of men in black surrounded him.
The atmosphere began to tense...
Fang Lishen saw something was wrong and ran away.
Just run away.
As a result, he took the initiative to get into the enemy's encirclement and was taken away directly.
What kind of mentally retarded plot is this?
What’s scary is that the mental retardation runs through the whole process.
Where did Fang Lishen be taken?
black confined space, Louis Koo wore an epidemic prevention mask to start interrogating Fang Lishen - a routine routine for police and gangster films.
makes it so serious and mobilizes the masses. I think there is at least a "conspiracy" and "evil deeds" similar to those who have confirmed COVID-19 retaliated and deliberately spread the virus. As a result, this section only serves to lead to the main location of the movie - Gurney Hotel (homophony "isolation") .
heat, screenwriter, it doesn’t cost money to write homophones in your company, right?
Because it is suspected of having a virus carrier, this five-star hotel was urgently quarantined by the epidemic prevention department for two weeks, and no one is allowed to enter and exit.
"Always Love in Quarantine" tells the story of a hotel that happened in two weeks of quarantine.
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This movie is not only a mentally retarded movie.
, and it is also "bulk rotten pieces" .
plot, in bulk -
has a duration of 90 minutes and has as many as 5 narrative lines.
The narrative efficiency...is OK, it is worthy of being a Hong Kong film.
Story Line 1:
Eric Tsang and Tony Tony Tsang are old friends in the film, and they have been stealing fish together for many years.
When Tony Leung was young, he was caught by his wife for an affair. He was imprisoned at home for more than ten years and could not go out (an old joke on "The Real Man").
The epidemic is coming, and the opportunity is coming.
Zhi Wei disguised himself as an epidemic prevention staff and took Tony Leung out of the "jail" and formed a group to have an affair in the hotel. As a result, he was isolated in the hotel and could not get out, and the girl he had made an appointment could not get in.
Story line two:
A young couple Lu Yong, Su Lisan , want to get married and hold a banquet, try the dishes in the Gurney Hotel.
But because they were isolated in the hotel, the conflict between the two intensified and broke out.
Story Line 3:
Zhang Jicong and Zhang Zhilin are the bosses of two small gangs, and the water (happiness) is not unfair to the family.
was originally going to discuss business in the hotel bathhouse, but the hotel was suddenly blocked.
The younger brothers all escaped, but the two bosses were "impeded" in the hotel and slept in the same bed.
forget it. The two lines behind
Sir do not waste time introducing.
In short, it seems to be a lot of content.
, but it does not matter whether it is the primary or secondary, and it uses even force. Each one is sloppy and chews the same wax.
pseudo-multi-line narrative, essentially a unit drama platter.
Each story has its own theme.
As for the theme of these (five) stories, we don’t need to look for them. The director seemed to be afraid that we would not understand them, so he let Tony Leung in the film say it out:
It turns out that love is always by his side
It doesn’t matter if he misses it. The English name of this movie is also titled:
All You Need is Love
But note that the five pairs of relationships in the film cover multiple classes and multiple emotions in society, such as gangsters, white-collar workers in the workplace, urban lovers, upper-class rich people, middle-aged middle-aged people, family, friendship, and love are all in one place.
Each group and every emotion has its own special features.
is worthy of praise, and it also needs to be discussed in different situations.
But in this movie, their relationships and all emotions were all solved by such a sentence.
Sir is not against a movie making chicken soup. What Sir is disgusted with is that you actually poured me. I drink it slowly. Do you still think I have a bad appetite?
Please see how it is filled.
Zeng Zhiwei has attracted bees and butterflies for most of his life, but in the end he changed his nature because of a few words his wife sent with a drone, and changed his past and kept his body as jade.
Lu Yong and Su Lisan had a big fight in the room over the "right to speak". After hearing a few words from Tony Leung, Lu Yong turned around and proposed.
Zhang Jicong and Zhang Zhilin suspected that they had been infected with the new coronavirus because of their physical discomfort. The two of them were heart-warming and expressing their feelings to each other in the room, and then they became good brothers who could have diarrhea on the toilet at the same time.
… 180-degree sharp turns of characters above
only happens in the last 20 minutes of the story.
What have you been doing long ago?
Some people may say that this is a nonsensical comedy, and there is no need to be serious about the story.
OK, let’s talk about comedy. The most important question of
- Is funny?
I have to say, because there are too many stars in the film.
Some people, Hong Kong movie fans will feel happy when they see it.
is funny, only stopping at the shallowest layer.
Once the movie seriously plays jokes and burdens, there are only countless crows flying by in Sir's heart...
jokes, not for characters, nor for themes or stories.
is nothing more than those tricks that can be thought of with your thighs:
makes a mistake.
is smart.
and the slap in the face after being smart.
Sir sincerely makes a suggestion.
Since we can invite so many celebrities at once.
might as well let them sit down honestly, chat, and drink.
may be N times more laughing than now.
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Now look back at "The Feast of the Wealthy Family", you can't say how good it is.
The key is that its lineup is unprecedented and later - there are probably no more visitors. It was the golden age of Hong Kong movies and the golden age of the actors in the movie.
As Eason Chan sang in the song:
Break up in the Golden Square and reunited outside the Times.
Gold Square and Times Square.
The two place names in Hong Kong are new and old, but very close.
From Golden Square to Times Square, we have only walked a few streets, but the whole world has turned upside down.
This is also the current situation:
From "A Night Banquet for the Rich Family" to "Always There is Love in Quarantine", it has plummeted in 30 years.
is not how bad the latter is.
is just that the audience has changed, the times have changed, and the movie has not changed much, and it is still standing still.
"A New Banquet for Wealthy Family" amused Zeng Zhiwei's height, and "There is always love in quarantine" continues to make fun of a girl's appearance.
Even Yuan Qiu is still the landlady.
But outside the movie, the world changes.
Once upon a time, Hong Kong movies and the entire city of Hong Kong were filled with modern civilization that mainland audiences yearned for.
Nowadays, Hong Kong cannot even keep its own people, and movies are heading north.
Specifically for this movie "Always Love Isolated", it currently has only 4.4 points on Douban, and it is full of bad reviews. What is even more terrifying than these criticisms is that it failed to be released in theaters in mainland China, so it had to become a big internet giant and could not escape the fate of being deleted for 16 minutes.
Yes, why it looks so ugly.
One reason that cannot be ignored is the substantial cuts it has encountered, which leads to incoherence of narrative and rhythm. There are many poops in the deleted shots of
, but this is the most faithful urban spirit of Hong Kong citizens' comedy.
Rather, the movie talks about Hong Kong people being "trapped from the epidemic". What
Sir sees is the embarrassing situation that a Hong Kong filmmaker wants to escape but cannot escape.
Hong Kong filmmakers have lost their desire to express themselves as a whole.
Sylvia The most mentioned words are: love, joy, warmth, positive energy...
does not mean that there is no love and positive energy in the epidemic era.
Can the real people in the market have only love and positive energy when facing the epidemic?
Hong Kong filmmakers once took pragmatic as the principle.
They do not raise their professions and do not claim to be artists. They make movies just to "find a living" (making life), which is no essential difference from opening a restaurant or renting it out.
What about
now?
When the movies require them to be "pragmatic", they become at a loss.
"Always Love in Quarantine" seems to be a group of people, but in fact they are both independent and in harmony with their appearance.
Behind the "unity" of the Hong Kong film industry, it is more like a mess of sand.
Sir noticed that there is a saying in the barrage: What else do you want to do with a charity movie?
Sir dare not agree.
Since we choose to spend time or money to watch a movie, we should put higher requirements on the movie, which has nothing to do with whether the movie is a charity film.
puts higher demands on them, which is the true respect for them and the respect for ordinary people who have experienced the epidemic.
After all.
said pessimistically.
This may be the last time we saw this group of people "gathering" in such a neat way in a Hong Kong movie.
The picture in this article comes from the Internet
Editor assistant: Doraemon
