After 15 years, Hong Kong films have been again sealed by God

July this year,

"Detective War" directed by Wei Jiahui,

In the case of downturn in the market,

The box office passed 500 million.

Different from 15 years ago, his god "Detective",

The whole film is 101 minutes, almost 90%are action scenes,

Calculation case, magic police, butcher case ...

The prototype of more than a dozen Hong Kong crimes is superimposed layer by layer,

The audience said that they are epilepsy, mad enough, and evil enough,

I haven't seen such a pure Hong Kong production film for many years,

It is the pinnacle of Hong Kong films in recent years,

Liu Qingyun's acting skills were once again sealed.

▲ Liu Qingyun partner A Sa, played a lunatic detective in "Detective War"

▲ Wei Jiahui accepts an interview

In the hearts of people who like Hong Kong dramas, the words "Wei Jiahui" are equal to God.

Genius screenwriter, lunatic director,

It is not enough to describe his "ghost talent".

During TVB, during the screenwriter,

His "Big Age", "Righteousness",

"Oath of Gowing", "Brother Xinzha",

Created a wave of viewing of 10,000 people.

Then he and Du Qifeng founded the galaxy image together,

The most downturn in Hong Kong's film and television industry in the Hong Kong film and television industry,

A single show,

Resist -in Hollywood, piracy, star breaks and financial crisis,

"The Birth of a Word", "Slimming Men and Women",

36 films such as "Big Gao".

He grew up from public housing and worked as a child worker from an early age,

How to become a gold screenwriter at the age of 27?

What kind of quirk when he created?

In the past 10 years, what changes have taken place in his creative concept?

We interviewed Director Wei Jiahui in Hong Kong, China.

▲ Wei Jiahui has participated in the film in the 30 -year film career

▲ Wei Jiahui created "Detective" in 2007, Douban scored 8.5, which is considered to be the pinnacle of Hong Kong films

Diablo, cold, fate, and psychological analysis are the style positioning of Weijiahui for a long time.

Pushing this style to the extreme is the "Detective" collaborated by Wei Jiahui and Du Qifeng in 2007. It is considered to be the pinnacle of Hong Kong films.

According to Wei Jiahui's design, the detective played by Liu Qingyun can see the devil of other characters. These devils represent cowardice, violence, and darkness ... they are played by different actors, and they are true behind the body.

When the character was hesitant and struggled, the different "heart demon" behind him made a turn. The invisible psychological activity was spread to the audience.

The darkness of the ending of "Detective", "Everyone has ghosts in their hearts", once made the audience "back to the back". The film was shortlisted for the Golden Lion Award of the Venice Film Festival and won the Asian Film Award for Best Screenplay.

▲ "Detective War" still invites Liu Qingyun as the protagonist

▲ Three -party horses start a war

Fifteen years later, Wei Jiahui's independent director's "Detective War" followed the same character prototype -lunatic detective, but the background of the story was completely different.

"The murderer who claims to be 'exploring' wants to do the bad guys in their eyes. At the same time, the police do their best to fight against the murderer. Suddenly a person was killed in the middle. Detective, but he has mental problems and often has hallucinations. He chased tighter than the police. The three parties started a war in Hong Kong within two days. "

▲ 101 minutes in the whole film, almost 90%are action scenes and gun battles, the rhythm is extremely fast

Wei Jiahui increased on various elements, blasting, action drama, discussion of goodness and evil, suspense, and rhythm to the extreme.

In the impression, we have never seen such a mighty Wei Jiahui. Some people say that this is the coolest Hong Kong film in recent years. But some people are puzzled, why is there no taste of "Detective"?

Faced with this problem, Wei Jiahui, who was just 60 years old this year, remained as elegant in front of the camera, but the response and speed were very fast. He said that he changed. The thought.

▲ Wei Jiahui old photos

Wei Jiahui grew up in Huafu Village, Hong Kong since he was a child. He has four siblings at home. He ranks second. In order to take care of his siblings, he started to do summer workers in the fifth grade of elementary school.

In 1980, after graduating from high school, he made a year of parking lot administrator. Recruitment advertisement). "

In just a few years, Wei Jiahui was at the age of 24 as the creative director, at the age of 27, and 30 -year -old gold medal screenwriter. TV career, smooth and smooth water. At that time, many young people who wanted to be the screenwriter regarded Wei Jiahui as an idol.

▲ The main creators of "Big Times": Wei Jiahui, Liu Songren, Zheng Shaoqiu, in their early 30s

▲ Sister Ling, played by Lan Jieying in "Big Times", stunned to the ground before dying.

The emotional tension like this is very common in "Big Times" very common

Wei Jiahui is a multi -faceted hand, on the other hand, it is sensational screenwriter, "favors" lunatic and crazy things.

At the age of 30, he became interested in stocks, and took the stock battle as the main line. With more than a dozen screenwriters, in a debris in TVB, he wrote "Big Times" day and night. It has been nearly 30 years ago, and it is still the supreme masterpiece of Hong Kong dramas, 9.3 points of Douban.

He wrote the most radical 30 years of the Hong Kong stock market into a ups and downs of "tsunami". In reality, the Hang Seng Index was 6,000 points.

▲ In "Big Age", Ding Crab and his sons have commented that "Big Age" is "the most lunatic film in history". Ding crab in the play has become an epoch -making villain. Even, every time it was replayed, the Hong Kong stock index would fall, and the audience nicknamed the "crab effect".

In TVB, in order to have a better viewing rate, screenwriters often use Melodrama's way. In the present words, it is wonderful, sensational, and "dog blood". Wei Jiahui is very good at this.

Ding Youkang, who is not tolerant of righteousness, is considered the first rape of Hong Kong drama, mentioning that his audience gritted his teeth;

The first film "Paradise Blood Road" collaborated by Wei Jiahui and Du Qifeng, the protagonist raped, revenge, smuggle, prostitution;

In "The Most Love Women Shopping Madness", the four protagonists have the problems of shopping and choice that are close to crazy;

In "Detective", Liu Qingyun is a modern version of Van Gogh, an agent, a boss to cut ears ...

▲ "Birth of a Word" stills

On the other side of him is the "Mindgame" and discussing fate.

"The Birth of a Words" talks about a young and confused, because of a very small decision, which leads to two very different life numbers, one is the streets of tragic death, and the other is the leader of the underworld. "Very Sudden" and "Dark Flowers" are the pinnacle of the galaxy image to explore fate. It is said that "accidental people cannot get rid of their own dilemma."

But these movies are very stylish. "Birth of a Word" box office 3.15 million Hong Kong dollars, "Very Sudden" box office 5.36 million, "Dark Flower" box office 9.56 million, did not bring much business miracles. "We have made too many authors movies and are very applauding, but in fact, they are challenging to me and Du Sheng." Many people advised him not to do it again.

After 2000, Wei Jiahui and Du Qifeng decided to "walk two legs" and use commercial films to raise authors movies.

▲ As the first love commercial movie of Wei Jiahui, "Lonely Man and Widow", it has been 22 years since the release is

▲ "Single Men and Women" in 2011 can be regarded as a commercial movie that Wei Jiahui attacks the mainland market for the first time

Next, Wei Jiahui wrote a large number of love and New Year's business movies, led by "Lonely Man and Widow", "Guru New Year's Finance", "Zhong Wuyan", "Slimming Men and Women", "I Seeing Ghosts in the Left" , "Hundred Years", etc., and "Single Men and Women" for the first time to attack the mainland market. The money made by these love and commercial films takes films like "Detective".

Wei Jiahui also acknowledged that "Detective War" is a pure Hong Kong -made commercial film, but he continued, "At a certain stage, I found that both can coexist, and neither is not aggrieved at all."

From "Big Times", after "Birth of a Word", to "Detective", Wei Jiahui has created the most distinctive Hong Kong film era in Hong Kong. Can he continue the glory of Hong Kong films?

The following is his self -report:

▲ Wei Jiahui also served as a third post in "Detective War" this time: producer, director, screenwriter

After "Detective War" out of the street, I actually try not to look at the evaluation, so as not to affect my next play.

The first "Detective" in 2008 was a movie that cooperated with Du Qifeng. In the past, there was a mechanism of "midnight". On Thursday and Friday at midnight, the audience responded. Sometimes the audience responded well, and they would even be edited again. But "Detective" and Du Sheng decided that we would not move it no matter whether the audience responded well.

About 7 or 8 years later, I started conceiving "Detective War". From beginning to end, I know that someone must compare the 2008 "Detective". Even if someone watched the mentality of "Detective" and looked at "Detective War", he would naturally have an expectation gap.

▲ At present "Detective War" Douban Rating 7.0

Word of mouth and box office, in fact, I try not to think about this problem, because what happens in this play.

Now I look back at the TV station to make "Righteousness", which is something of some Melodrama, and has cultivated a group of audiences who are accustomed to watching this drama. After the "Big Age", the style is different, and some people will scold.

Some high scores such as "Dark Flowers" were also scolded at the time, and they only established reputation after a few years. After "Dark Flowers", we went to make "Lonely Man and Widow" and were scolded again. So I believe that after the baptism of time, the real evaluation will appear.

▲ "Detective" is a full black movie

After "Detective", my person changed. In the past few years, I have faith, and I believe I have found the answer.

"Detective" is more like movies in France and Europe, Dark Side is heavy. At the end of the end, the detective made a choice, "I am also a person, why do you have differences? Everyone can make mistakes, why can't I do it?" He chose to shoot.

Now that I am getting older and bigger, I just reflect on it. Do I want to leave such a idea for the world? I have discovered more and more, I am not. So I revised "Detective War", "Not everyone becomes a monster, you must also change the monster."

▲ "Detective War" follows the double male drama

Many of my past TV dramas, many times I use two men, one devil, one angel, and the conflict and fighting of two people, such as "Oathing Do not bow", "Righteousness", "Big Age".

I want to do the extreme in "Detective War". Two doubles, one absolute positive, an absolute evil.

Li Jun, played by Liu Qingyun, represents the positive representative, a bit like hundreds of years ago, saying that "the earth is not flat, it is a round" "lunatic", even if no one in the world listens to him, and even someone throws him with stones. He has a fire in his heart, no matter how difficult this mission is, he must do it. There was a drama. When Sa hunted the murderer, he fell downstairs. All O colleagues, no words, stacked adult meat pads to save her big belly, I like the glory of human nature at that moment.

▲ A case occurred in Hong Kong. A lunatic fell into Kai Tak Dark Canal, and the three team fire brigade rescued him.

Seeing this report, Wei Jiahui directly used this bridge in "Detective War"

Maybe I am relatively peaceful, my mind is a bit hot, a little ignition, and my bones are very stuffy, so I like extreme and enthusiastic things.

I think it ’s so rational all human history and civilization? I don't think so. Many trends are crazy, whether it is the stock world, the economy world ... the collective crazy, can there be many outrageous things.

My home in Hong Kong is in a shopping mall. In the past few years, I have often seen several mental abnormal people who argued with the air seriously. I put these observations in the characters.

The prototypes in the "Detective War" have occurred in Hong Kong, such as the Rain Night Butcher case, the magic police case, the corpse case ...

▲ Many murders in Hong Kong occur, and will be serialized like newspapers and magazines as novels.

From small to large, many murders in Hong Kong have serialized in newspapers and magazines as novels. Sometimes I will go to "抡" repeatedly every week. What are the details of these cases and where they happen, I have read it.

At that time, the rainy butcher case was very sensational in Hong Kong. Why did someone kill so many women?

His arrest was due to a very strange movement. The murderer killed the girl, made a specimen, and took a picture. He even took a look and passed out. If he doesn't take a photo, he will never be arrested. I was thinking, is it a murderer, do you want to be known to some extent? Otherwise, will he be uncomfortable?

I am in the society, a small thing, I will think of a lot of things. For so many years, they will jump out of their minds when they are used.

▲ From the beginning, Wei Jiahui decided to shoot a fast -paced scene

Everyone said that the rhythm of the film is fast, and I think the rhythm is just a form.

I knew from the beginning that I would make a very nervous scene. As long as the first shot was fired, within two days, everyone's rhythm was not stopped, and there would be no room for them to be quiet and how to deploy them.

In fact, in the past few years, the world has given me a feeling that there are many things that have happened to me. It is not that you can plan well. Suddenly many sudden things disrupted life and many things.

I put the feeling that the world gave me in the movie.

▲ A drama on the temple street involves gunfights, explosions, and falling buildings. It has been shot for more than 20 days

This time, I want to shoot a pure Hong Kong film.

I am a road idiot myself, but I like to walk very much. I want to borrow this movie to swim in Hong Kong once, Nathan Road, Miaojie, Yau Ma Tei, Shelter, Tsuen Wan Wharf, Changsha Bay ... all have become my shooting venue.

Especially in the drama of the temple street, the rooftop chase, someone dragged down the upstairs, and the corpse fell off. It was very difficult to invite the citizens to leave the picture. The stalls, products, sparrows, and seafood restaurants inside are all open. So many people will jump out and ask us to get money. Our production team is very hard, and we have to open up many obstacles.

In fact, we can also come out of the street, but the effect is very real and very Hong Kong flavor.

▲ Heilian Dock, the biggest scene taken by Wei Jiahui

Helian Dock is the biggest scene in my life. It is so big that it can drive a cruise ship to repair it. More than 100 feet between the two cliffs and cliffs, walking on it, accidentally fell into the sea, it was easy to cause death and injury.

I try to ask everyone to be careful not to urge you. I am very "tight", but the mechanical group, lighting group, and props, they are all in the circus class. Frankly speaking, I see the soft legs.

▲ Wei Jiahui and Liu Qingyun have already known and cooperated for nearly thirty years

I have known Qingyun for decades, and most of them have worked with him. In private, we often gather. There is an old friend, Mr. Du Qifeng. He likes to be lively. When he eats and drink, he gathered a large class of old friends to chat with water.

Although Qingyun's acting is very ghost, she is very righteous. Everyone has seen so many years without any bad news. As an actor, he is very dedicated.

He is already a film emperor, and he still sits on the set every day. Sometimes he may not need him to be in place. He is also standing at any time. This is rare.

▲ Ah Sa and Wei Jiahui collaborated for the first time in 2004 in "Ghost Horse Madness", A Sa plays a funny role

▲ Ah Sa once again realized that Wei Jiahui "started, did not let go" again "

For the first time, I cooperated with Ah SA to be "Ghost Horse Madness". At that time, in order to catch up with the year, it was shot in a short time. We invited Ah Sa and Gillian to make the role of "chopsticks sisters flower". At that time, she already felt that I was "infatuated", and it started construction for more than 70 hours in a row.

This time, the "Detective War" was not so rushed at the beginning. In the back, "Flying Paper" flew to the silly (Flying Paper is Wei Jiahui's creative method, and the script was changed at the scene of the filming), but she found out that I didn't actually have any After changing, there is also work and confiscation. In the past, he was a director, such as filming the New Year's film "The New Year's Finance of the Guru" and "Ghost Horse Madness". It started from scratch. After writing the script for more than ten days, it is not allowed to stop. It is a great challenge for physical fitness.

In a play, in the middle and late stages, my eyes will be inflamed, and they will be filmed like a blind man. I will call the producer, put a row of functional beverages there, "Papapa", open a bottle and one bottle, like a grenade, all open and drink. There are many times, to catch up with the year, summer files, and a CUT (editing) and two cuts will see the audience.

▲ "Detective War" is more abundant than the films that Wei Jiahui have participated in the films in the past.

By 2018 and 2019, when the epidemic, the world suddenly stopped and slow.

The shooting rhythm of "Detective War" is not so strong. This time I shot very long, many foTage. I was still creating 1 or 2 months before the release. I have a lot of time and space. I can go to the editing room every day and sit down. Hong Kong editors worked hard every day and were tortured by me for 2 years.

▲ Wei Jiahui (first from left) and brother Wei Jiaxiong (second from left)

In fact, every creator has the shadow of his own life.

When I was a kid, Hong Kong was generally poor. When I was a teenager, I was poor at home. Since the age of 14, I have worked as a child worker. I have been in class in the afternoon. I have been looking for part -time jobs in the morning, such as selling barbecued buns, snacks, and sometimes going to the mall of the ocean center and Tsim Sha Tsui.

▲ Hong Kong Bili Palace Theater, located in Causeway Bay, opened in 1979 and closed in 1994. Picture source: Hong Kong News

After graduating from middle school, at the time, a very beautiful theater in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, called Bili Palace. I was a cashier in the parking lot at night. At that time, I saw many stars and directors.

I am particularly impressed by Liu Jialiang. He was already an excellent action director at the time. He was a very modest and polite gentleman.

▲ The script of "Big Times" by Wei Jiahui handwritten

At the age of 19, when I first entered TVB, I still lived in public housing and lived with my parents and sisters. I didn't even write the writing desk. I often use a folding stool at home. Usually everyone takes it to sit, and when I do n’t sit, it is my desk.

I found that everyone (colleagues) watch a lot, and I haven't watched the dramas of others, so I understand my shortcomings. At that time, I saw few movies, and I watched Hong Kong production fewer films. Because I went to the cinema to watch the drama, I did n’t go. Want to watch the film, there is no channel.

So I found that there were books in Mong Kok to sell some dialogue published in Taiwan. These dialogues are full of subtitles. There are no movements and transfers, only dialogue. This is my only way to come into contact with Western movies.

▲ During the TVB period, Wei Jiahui became a creative director at the age of 24, and at the age of 27 as a producer

▲ During the "Big Age" period, Wei Jiahui and Liu Qingyun took a group photo

▲ Wei Jiahui has won the best screenwriter of the Hong Kong Golden Awards many times

These grass -roots experiences are useful to write scripts. "Brother Xinza" and "Draw the Rainbow" are closer to my past life. If I came out of college and were born in a well -off family, I might not write it.

I have a habit when I write the script. I will listen to a song repeatedly. The colleagues on the side think I am stuffy.

In the later period of "Big Times", I have always been created by Listening to Faye Wong's "Evil Woman".

When I wrote a year -old film, I listened to a very unpopular song, and it was a small tone of an old Cantonese film that Zhu Yin sang in "Journey to the West".

In 2008, "Detective", I listened to Lu Guanting's "I wish people last long". There were a few lyrics in it. "I hope that people have not changed."

As soon as I hear that rhythm, I can enter that world. I don't know why, for a while I wrote the script like this.

When I write the script, I often play in my mind once. Call the producer in advance to take the scenes, and I walked in my mind to the actors and scenes.

I will have the upper body of these characters. If I am Ding Crab, then I am Zheng Shaoqiu. If I am Fang Zhanbo, I am Liu Qingyun. If I am a sister -in -law, I am Zhou Huimin. This method is actually very hard because no one can enter my head.

Although I use this way, I can't actually do the actor. If I do an actor, it is a disaster.

▲ Wei Jiahui and Du Qifeng, the two cooperated for more than 30 years, creating the myth of Hong Kong movies together

Now Hong Kong production films do face a very difficult moment. When Milkyway (Galaxy image), some people were already saying that Hong Kong production films would die, pirated a lot, and the box office was very low. After speaking for many years, I said that after so many years of time, it seemed to have not died.

If you are a filmmaker, everyone will try their best to make a movie and make a good show. One day, there are people filming, and they will not die for a day.

My wife actually wants me to retire. She often says that I can live well without a movie in my heart. But once I was shooting, when I was creating, I had no life, and the whole brain turned around the movie. Sometimes when you think about things, I will forget to eat.

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