＂Mr. Wu＂ straight man assembly number： ＂tough guy＂ Sheng Ding’s bloody world
1905 movie network exclusive feature "Full-time high energy in 106 minutes", "Perfect performance" and "Feast of confrontation between police and bandits" … … With the rave reviews since the screening, on September 30th, 2015, the director’s film was finally released. In 2004, the "kidnapping case" that shocked the entire entertainment circle was put on the big screen every 11 years. It is naturally curious that there are many actors and actresses who help out and the protagonist of the case personally joins in the interpretation.
However, most mainland fans may not be familiar with the name of director Sheng Ding. But when it comes to series and, some fans will have some impressions. Indeed, this little-known gangster film director has not really made a classic yet. But people who have seen his films all admit that he has a unique grasp between business elements and personal style. Therefore, when we talk about the new hope of the mainland police film, we should not ignore Sheng Ding, except the director.
Who’s Sheng Ding? The road of commercial director step by step.
Perhaps few people know that Sheng Ding’s film director’s debut was a comedy romance in 2000. At that time, "It’s not hard for a man to marry", the leading actor of this play and Taiwan Province actor, was being broadcasted, and the heroine’s two years ago was also impressive. Looking at this light sketch film from today’s perspective, although it is suspected of procrastination, it can be regarded as a sincere work. Unfortunately, the film’s box office is bleak, and almost no one cares. Most of the audience who remember this work are from the movie channel.
The following four works are relatively well-known. The Tough Guy in 2008 and The Tough Guy in 2011 are Sheng Ding’s most personal works. Highly stylized images, simple and rude stories, and hard-hitting scenes are full of hormones. However, many viewers think that the characters are too stupid and the plot is not nutritious, and the reputation of both works is only at the passing level.
In 2010, The Little Soldier can be said to be Sheng Ding’s most lovely work at present. Until today, Weibo in Sheng Ding is still the director of The Little Soldier. Although the story of this film originated from a whim of Jackie Chan in the early 1990s, Sheng Ding really handed over the script after processing, which led to this sincere work. The funny thing is that although this is a comedy, eldest brother actually "died" in the film starring himself for the first time. The film fought its way out in the siege of 14 Chinese New Year movies in 2010, and won 15.06 million box office on the first day of its premiere, winning the Chinese New Year movie with a box office of over 100 million, which is in stark contrast to the fact that "Make a fuss" was also put on the market as a Chinese New Year movie, but there was almost no response.
Police Story 2013, which was released in Christmas 2013, was the second cooperation between Jackie Chan and Sheng Ding. This time, Jackie Chan bid farewell to the status of "Chen Jiaju, the Royal Hong Kong Police" and challenged the image of mainland public security for the first time. Sheng Ding also became the only mainland director in the "never to lose" series. The film was a great commercial success, with the first day box office exceeding 65 million yuan, which set a new record for Jackie Chan’s film. The cumulative box office in three weeks exceeded 500 million, a record that has never been surpassed by mainland films of the same theme, and Sheng Ding was gloriously promoted to be the upstart director of mainland commercial films.
Almighty Sheng Ding: A director who can’t edit is not a good singer.
There is no doubt that Sheng Ding is a serious director. In order to shoot "Save My Mister", Sheng Ding not only pulled himself back into the police force to experience life for three months, but also asked all actors to watch the video materials left by the real kidnapping case in Wu Ruofu in 2004. Wu Ruofu, who has faded out of the entertainment circle for a long time, was moved by this sincerity and finally appeared.
Different from many directors in the industry at present, Sheng Ding, who was born as an advertising director, not only personally painted the film, personally wrote the film, but also firmly grasped the editing rights of his own films. Fantasy clips directly cut into reality, and sharp and quick editing is a consistent technique in Sheng Ding’s gangster movies. Long-term cooperation with my old classmates and photographers has also ensured the consistency of the picture. In order to increase the documentary-like realism, this time "Save Mr. Wu" used hand-held photography almost all the time, which further tested the tacit understanding between the director, the photographer and the actors.
Sheng Ding is also one of the few directors with certain musical taste in mainland counterparts. This can be seen from the selection of the soundtrack of the "Tough Guy" series with two old guns in the music world. Sheng Ding even wrote an interesting lyric for the ending song "Love Soldier" and sang it himself. In fact, the ending song "Do you believe in love" of his debut "Make a fuss"? "I also sang it myself (as for how to sing, Xiaobian can only say that it is really not out of tune). In this film "Save My Mister", Sheng Ding selected the film "The Arrogant Colonel" in 2003 with a unique eye. "People are like a feather, life is like weeds, hopeless, humble and proud" as the end of the film, which is really appropriate.
In addition, like many big-name directors, naughty Sheng Ding also likes to play some small roles in his own films — — In "Police Story 2013" and "Save My Mister", Sheng Ding made a guest appearance as a taxi driver twice, and in "Tough Guy 2", he made a guest appearance as a wretched passerby walking a monkey.
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