I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 743 Hong Kong Comedy (23)

After the release of "The Second Album", Shen Liang's fans and music critics started to quarrel...

If anything goes wrong, they will rush directly into the comment section and curse the ancestors of the music critics.

This is normal. It is different from the art circle where people deliberately raise the threshold for appreciation, and the industry circles become self-contained and collude with each other. Discussions in the music circle are the most likely to go wrong because the threshold is too low and anyone can comment, especially commercialized pop music.

Shen Liang's songs are definitely pop music.

In pop music, public opinion is most important...

Who doesn’t understand pop songs?
What is the most important attribute of popular music?
Popularity!

Only when you become popular first can you be seen and discussed.

So, he doesn't like Hua Chenyu.

Huachenyu's attributes as a stage performer far outweigh his attributes as a songwriter and recording singer.

In other words, it is difficult for Hua Chenyu to write any well-known hits, and he is not an excellent recording singer, he is just a stage performer.

What is a stage performer?

Those Korean boy bands and girl bands, including Aaron Kwok and Show Luo, are more of stage performers than singers!
In a sense, Hua Chenyu is following the path of idols, but he pretends not to be a traffic star, and his fans also like to brag that he relies on his so-called strength...

Oh, Shen Liang replied on Weibo: "I know the quality of "The Second Album"... But I found one thing, that all music reviews are like this now. If your music theory knowledge is not enough to evaluate, in the end you can only talk about emotions and concepts. The key is that the concept of the words is quite water..."

“Before my debut, I was a crazy music theory researcher. When I heard a song with a very different harmony or melody, I would write down the harmony and take a lot of notes. I knew that for someone who is passionate about studying music, it would be very cool and exciting to write a clever and unconventional harmony that no one has ever used!

Until one night, I started listening to folk songs. At that time, I hadn’t listened to folk songs for three to five years. I usually listened to fusion, smooth jazz, future bass, neo soul, etc. Suddenly, I heard folk songs and subconsciously thought that these songs were simple, but really sincere...

The so-called sincerity is that at this moment, I don’t know why, but I am moved by you. All the good, bad, and messy things in the past have begun to come back to me. The whole process is really relaxing and I feel very comfortable…”

"Since that day, I have had a new understanding of pop music. Pop music has its core. From foreign music to domestic music, from blues and rock to popular jazz to current Hong Kong and Taiwan pop and electronic music, the focus is always on expression and content. All techniques, skills and harmony arrangements must rely on the content you want to express. Is the composition of "A Laugh in the Sea" complicated?"

"Also, many of my fans are my fans, so I would say that it is normal to cheer for your favorite idol.

But don’t just call me “master” or even “great”, I don’t deserve it!

Which creative techniques were pioneered and copied by later generations; which musical styles were groundbreaking and had what impact on the music landscape at the time; and which later mainstays of the music scene were produced.

Compared to my predecessors, I can only be considered a relatively successful pop singer in the commercial field. Thank you for liking "The Second Album"... I will work overtime and strive to release an EP next year!"

……

In September, Shen Liang started filming.

It's just hanging on wires, posing and reciting lines... The Blood God Cult is not the dark hell-like color in the traditional sense, but rather a paradise for immortals...

The place is filled with clouds and mist, the rocks are jagged, the palaces are towering, the mountains and rivers are surrounded by pines and cypresses, cranes are flying around, and Ganoderma lucidum is flying.

The red sun was rising, and under the green peaks, the morning mist gradually dissipated, revealing an ancient Taoist temple, which was the Blood God Temple...

After all, in this version of Shushan, Deng Yin, played by Shen Liang, is not a villain in the traditional sense.

He firmly believed that the Way of Heaven was cruel and that all things were as nothing but straw dogs. Since the Way of Heaven was cruel and that all things were as nothing but straw dogs, why should he be kind?
Perverse personality, reckless behavior...

But he has his own logic!

Ahem...

The film market has fallen into silence recently, and the top box office hit during the Mid-Autumn Festival was the bad movie "Brother, Hello"...

The logic of the movie "Hello, Brother" is broken in various ways - there are too many references to movies. The title is a "tribute" to "Hello, Li Huanying". The plot is also about traveling back in time to see the parents. The plot of accidentally destroying the parents' love is borrowed from the American movie "Back to the Future", the bad relationship with the father is borrowed from the Hong Kong movie "Hard-Earned Brothers", and the Hong Kong-style situation in the KTV after traveling back in time is borrowed from Han Han's "Surfing the Waves"...

And there is no logic of its own at all!
Purely reference.

This results in a plot that is incoherent, logically confusing, and has countless bugs, which is completely riddled with holes!
But such a movie took nearly 6 million in box office...

I can only say that the audience’s requirements for comedy are really low!
I guess Lu Chuan got the level of "Catching Dolls" and "Hello, Brother" wrong, so he made some "unique insights"...

If he had copied and pasted the reviews of "Catching Dolls" to "Hello, Brother", there would definitely not be so many objections!
That sucks!
Oh, the director of this play is Zhang Luan, the director of Deyun Society, whose representative works include "Hello Teacher" and "Crosstalk Movie: I Want Happiness"...

The leading actors in the first two films were members of Deyun Society, but this time it was Happy Twist.

He is quite smart. He knows that among the actors of Deyun Society, except Yu Qian, the others cannot sell well at the box office!
The second place is "Alone on the Moon", which took 1.7 million;
"Assassination of Novelist" ranked third, with a box office of 1.6 million yuan, which is 1.4 million higher than the 1000 million yuan of "New God List: Yang Jian"!
By the way, the Mid-Autumn Festival also has the movie "Still Think You're the Best" ("Rice Guide"), which grossed HK$7700 million in Hong Kong, making it one of the top movies in history. However, the mainland box office is just so-so...

In the second part, Dayo Wong simply did not participate!

Dayo Wong is now a big name in Hong Kong box office, with "Sherlock Holmes", the first Chinese-language film in Hong Kong film history to gross over 100 million yuan.

And the movie "I Still Think You're the Best" which grossed over 7000 million yuan has achieved what even Shuang Zhou and Chengdu couldn't achieve. There is no shortage of movies to shoot and they can choose whatever they want!

However, according to the habits of Edko Films, that is, Kong Chi-keung, they naturally have to follow the essence of Hong Kong movies and make the most of an IP. This movie is very likely to have a third part...

"I Still Think You're the Best" has a low box office in mainland China...

In terms of film scheduling, theaters are not optimistic.
Xu Ke likes "The Guide to Cooking" very much. He discussed with Shen Liang why Hong Kong comedies are not popular anymore!
Shen Liang scratched his head: "I can't really say, maybe too much shit and piss?"

(End of this chapter)