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Chapter 249 Playing a Blind Person?
Bad temper, swearing, refusing to accept the award...

In the 06 Golden Statue Awards Ceremony, he won several awards for Best Picture and Best Director, so he just said that he didn't have time to attend?
The next day, newspapers in Hong Kong could only publish photos of 90 holding the trophy when he won the award with "Gunfire".

He won the grand prize three times, and was absent on purpose every time.Even the chairman, Chen Jiashang, could only smooth things over for him: "He just doesn't like the rules of the game."

"Come home with me later for dinner and taste the red wine I have hidden!"

Du Qifeng cut open a cigar with his own hands, seeing Ding Cheng shaking his head, he cut straight to the point and said enthusiastically: "Don't listen to those paparazzi's nonsense, in fact, I am a very interesting person. Food, wine, and cigars are all indispensable."

Ding Cheng smiled slightly. Before coming here, he had inquired a lot about the inside story with Liu Tianwang. After all, they are friends who have cooperated for many years.

This seemingly awesome guy in front of me often holds his wife's hand and listens to farmers explaining how to identify hairy crabs by the Yangcheng Lake...

Make the crew look like a barbecue stall, with food everywhere...

A cigar costs several hundred yuan. Under his influence, Tsui Hark and Ren Dahua all fell in love with this cigar...

I never watch my own films at the premiere. The most important thing is to make friends through filming. My favorite hobby is to taste the red wine of famous wineries in the Bordeaux region of southern France.

It is rumored that there are four major wine cabinets in the house, which store more than a hundred bottles of top-level red wine searched from all over the world, including Lafite, Latour and Mouton produced in the 80s, and each bottle can cost 10,000+ US dollars.

Red wine is like a second wife. Most of the assets are used for collection, at least tens of millions.

"There is a script, I want to ask you to read it." Du Qifeng didn't talk nonsense, directly took out the notebook, handed it to Ding Cheng, and said, "I feel that you are very suitable for this role."

Ding Cheng put down the coffee and took it with both hands. There were only two words on it:
Blind Detective?

"Playing a blind person?" I was stunned, but I didn't show it. I watched it first before talking about it.

After browsing through it quickly, he raised his head and asked the first sentence: "Is the heroine Zheng Xiuwen?"

"What do you think?" Du Qifeng laughed and said, "I originally wanted to cast Liu Tianwang. After all, the two have worked together as a couple for many years, and the audience recognized this."

"I didn't change my mind until you showed up. After all, it's cheaper, and with my growing fame, four gold medals is so awesome!"

Ding Cheng smiled and waved his hands, re-read the script, pondered for a moment, and said seriously: "I like it very much, and I am relatively good at suspense routines. The only challenge is to play a blind person."

"That's why I came to you!" Johnnie To took a deep breath on his cigar, slowly expelled it, and said to himself, "I've seen all your works, but haven't blind people acted in them?"

Ding Cheng nodded secretly, as expected of a director with a strong style, his eyesight is really poisonous!
"No problem!" What's the matter now, and said with a smile: "You are one of the directors I wanted to work with for a long time, what can I say if I have this opportunity to learn?"

"Hahaha, good!" Du Qifeng was very satisfied, the young man was quick to do things, he took him home without saying a word, opened a bottle and kept it for a long time, chatting while drinking.

I heard that Ding Cheng liked the detective the most back then, and recalled with a smile: "Wei Jiahui and I are very strange, basically never appearing on the set at the same time, he wrote the script at home and sent it over, and then asked the assistant director to communicate with me."

"The first exception was the detective. The two of us appeared on the set at the same time, and all the staff were surprised."

"There is no way. The characters in that drama are too complex and we cannot use the old methods. We have discussed and also want to try some new cooperation methods."

Seeing the director's casual look, Ding Cheng laughed to himself, but Liu Tianwang had a different version: as long as someone shouted that Lao Du was coming, the crew on a street in Kwun Tong would immediately stir up a commotion.

The staff who were idle in the last second all began to perform hard. Some were serving tea and water, some were busy moving stools, some were busy setting up machines, and some were running around inexplicably...

The actors rushed to adjust their emotions, pretending to be confident, but in fact they didn't know what to do.

Ever seen Meryl Streep in "The Devil's Fashion"?

He is exactly the same!
No one else dared to sit on the chair behind the monitor on the set, not even the assistant director dared to sit beside it. The control of this territory belonged only to Johnny To.

"I don't rely on my left brain when I film, but on my right brain."

"Most directors rely on the left brain to make movies, which requires logic and careful thinking. I like to rely on the right brain, relying on feeling and whim."

Ding Cheng suddenly remembered a sentence that Liu Qingyun once accepted in an interview: The 20 years of cooperation experience with Johnnie To can be summed up in only eight words: Galaxy image, unimaginable!
Never play cards according to the routine, as soon as you have an idea in your head, start working immediately.

Call the actors at two o'clock in the middle of the night, convene the crew and shoot the movie immediately. In "Detective", Liu Qingyun has to wear a suit that is one size smaller, pants with ankles exposed, and leather shoes with big toes, a typical neurotic look.

For the sake of reality, he even had to go into battle in person, filming the scenes of being buried alive and being rolled down the stairs in a suitcase.I also pretended to be able to see all kinds of hidden personalities, and almost split my personality at the end of the filming.

So Liu Tianwang warned himself earnestly: "At the shooting scene, if you want to ask the director why this shot was shot like this? Why did he choose this angle? He will definitely not be able to answer, and he will not find a reason. It is just based on intuition, not so Lots of theory."

This is also the biggest reason to let yourself appreciate!
Johnny To tasted the lipstick and said casually: "In my eyes, there are only two types of movies. One is the movies I like very much, and the works with strong personal ideas are called Galaxy Image Movies."

"The other kind of film is just for the breadwinner, for the commercial market."

"After the Great Depression in 98, the output dropped from more than 160 to only 60. None of the films we made made any money. It didn't matter to me whether everyone commented on "Dark War" back then, because from the perspective of the market, They're all dead."

"With no money to pay the rent, Galaxy Image almost went bankrupt."

"Neither Zhou Xingchi nor Wong Kar Wai has such distress. Starlight Company started from performing kung fu comedy. After he became the boss, he continued to fight for this broad road of business."

"Wong Kar Wai's Zedong Company had better luck, catching up with the last train of the best time for Hong Kong films, with strong support from all kinds of overseas funds, claiming to be what he is: a European director who happened to make films in Cantonese?"

"I am the most unlucky. I have to stick to local genre films and produce new ones, while also solving the commercial survival problem. I really couldn't make it. Later, "A Man and a Widow", "Slimming Man and Woman", "Rejuvenation", "Ligu" "Ligu New Year's Wealth", "Zhong Wuyan", "My Left Eye Saw a Ghost"..."

"Actually, Wei Jiahui is basically the director, and I can only serve as the producer. I want to survive first, make three commercial films every year, and earn some money before I can prepare a film with my own personal style."

Ding Cheng sighed, everyone must constantly compromise between business and style, if you come out, you will be like a flower, if you can't get out, you will only die.

Du Qifeng looked at Ding Cheng, opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, and said frankly: "Actually..."

"I don't dare to go to the mainland to make movies!"

Seeing that Ding Cheng was confused, he explained: "I am already 64 this year. I often sleep and eat well. Sometimes I am confused. Even movies are contradictory. I don't know what to do in the future?"

"I really want to make movies in the mainland, but I always worry about whether the movies I make are exciting enough? I'm afraid that the mainland audience won't buy them or approve them."

"I am most afraid of telling a story in the language of the mainland, because I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the local atmosphere. The stories told in movies are neither fish nor fowl."

"The thing that annoys me the most is "Big Man with Great Wisdom". After a movie I was quite satisfied with entered the mainland, all the previous life content was completely deleted, and it almost became another movie!"

"Then I got angry and shot two romance films in a row, "Single Men and Women" and "High Altitude Love 2", and the results were big hits..."

Ding Cheng smiled and said nothing, there is no way, the biggest challenge for his film is not the audience, but whether it can pass the review?

(End of this chapter)