This actor just wants to verify.

Chapter 459: More Arrogant Than Jie Lun (Happy New Year)
As the movie began to draw to an end, Hao Yun was also evaluating the movie in his mind, or comparing it with "Those Years".

It’s not that I’m competitive, or that I want to be more arrogant than Jay Chou.

Well, there is a little bit of that meaning.

Although Hao Yun is a little abnormal, he is only a 23-year-old young man after all. If he loses his competitive spirit, wouldn't he be entering old age early?

The film scenes of "Initial D" can be said to be handled very beautifully.

Including the hidden tofu shop, the gas station after the rain, and the quiet mountain road.

Especially at the beginning of the movie, there is a long shot of AE86 going down the mountain. Under the conflict between human products and natural scenery, the rising sun and wheat fields are set off with a unique flavor.

Since this movie has a lot of night scenes, after all, car races, stopping cars and blocking roads are not considered to be aboveboard.

But there is a real sense of lonely beauty in seeing a beam of car lights meandering through the mountains.

Hao Yun had to admit that he was indeed not as good as Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui in these aspects. After all, they were veteran Hong Kong directors and had always been the objects of his study.

There are also some details that are handled very well.

The film uses many shooting techniques from anime. When the car is speeding, the camera enters from the rear window and continues forward to take in the entire cab, and then passes out from the front window. It is very innovative and has a strong sense of urgency.

Hao Yun probably just paints a simple picture, at most capturing some emotional scenes occasionally.

Hao Yun did not pursue the beauty of the shots, and the photographer of "Those Years" was not a very good photographer, even worse than his assistant director Cao Dun.

"Initial D" not only has great cars, but also great songs. Jay Chou sang two songs for this movie, "Drift" and "Due North".

Like "Those Years", these two songs are also very appropriate for the occasion.

but!

Hao Yun does not think that the box office of "Initial D" can surpass "Those Years".

There are many reasons.

One is the plot.

A small person at the bottom of society, with simple equipment and a heart-stirring and inspiring counterattack. Such a story satisfies the fantasies of most ordinary people and resonates with them.

However, due to many reasons such as the subject matter and length, the plot of this movie is too stiff and the coherence is particularly unnatural.

The movie seems to have a lot of storylines to present, but due to limited length, it has to abandon many foreshadowings and transitions.

It rushes through the story and lacks necessary filling details.

This phenomenon even exists in the Infernal Affairs series directed by Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui, and also in the works of many Hong Kong film directors.

Another thing is the actors.

Hao Yun felt that Jay Chou, who had the worst acting skills, performed surprisingly well.

Perhaps it is because of the lack of acting skills that he really brought the silliness of first love to life, especially the drifting look when thinking about it day and night and the crying that accompanied "Dear North".

Just speaking from the director's perspective, "Initial D" invited so many well-known actors, but did not give them any stage to display their acting skills. All of them were limited to symbols.

Hao Yun invited Ge Daye and Jiang Wen to play guest roles, but he gave them room to perform.

Especially Jiang Wen, every time the cinema showed him and Hao Yong having a "friendly exchange" in English, there would be a burst of laughter.

Then there are the emotional scenes.

Suzuki Anne plays Mogi Natsuki, a typical Japanese chick with short legs, round face and big eyes. She makes people feel very sorry for her.

But she is also an old hand at it.

It can be seen from the fact that the hero of the strategy forced her to have her first kiss that this guy is definitely not an easy person to deal with.

It's a typical story of beautiful women bringing disaster, coupled with the very local setting of "aid transaction".

It's inevitable that people will think of the sentence "Xia Shu, uncle is going to **!"

Jay Chou and she are not in the same dimension.

On one side is the inspirational story of an ordinary kid with extraordinary talent defeating a professional racer.

On the other side, life has poetry and distant places, but it is also not without the immediate reality - what Xia Shu experiences is real life, and no matter how fast the 86 is, it can't catch up with you who drives a Mercedes-Benz.

If we talk about the career line and the love line separately, there is no problem on both sides.

But when you put them together, you feel the problem is very serious.

The movie is very fragmented, and the audience's feelings are also fragmented. I even feel resentful towards the movie, thinking, "You are telling me a fairy tale, why is there a "year-end bonus" in it?"

In the end, Takumi turned and ran away, Natsuki knelt on the ground crying, and "Dear North" sounded, and the audience knew that their youth was over.

Although it also has a not-so-good ending, "Those Years" is much friendlier.

Finally, in terms of subject matter, "Those Years" is about youth and "Initial D" is about racing, so the audience of "Those Years" is definitely wider.

Judging from Hao Yun's professional perspective, the box office of the movie "Initial D" may be good, but it will definitely not be as good as "Those Years".

If they are compared, it only means that the flaws in the plot and emotional drama have been smoothed out by Jay Chou.

It just shows that Jay Chou is very arrogant.

Far more arrogant than Hao Batian!
Of course, after the premiere, the whole audience burst into warm applause.

Hao Yun and An Xiaoxi are no exception.

But there was no communication between the two of them from the time the lights came on until the end of the movie and the guests left.

The media were inevitably very disappointed.

And some regrets.

Have such a popular couple succumbed to the reality?
You don't really suspect she's a shapeshifter.

How do you know if she is a shapeshifter if you don't try it?

Hao Yun did not wait for Zhou Jielun and Chen Guanxi as they had other things to do, so Hao Yun went back directly.

He took time out from the busy filming to rush back this time, which was already very considerate of his brother.

After getting in the car, Hao Yun found An Xiaoxi sitting in the back seat.

Good man, you are really not afraid of being discovered.

"Are we like the contact in a spy movie?" An Xiaoxi seemed to find it quite exciting. She and Hao Yun were classmates before, and they almost never avoided people when they were together, and they had never been photographed.

Although the media has no moral integrity, they still have some bottom lines.

She is a minor after all.

It was only in the past six months, seeing that she was about to become an adult and with breaking news one after another, that the reporters started to keep a close eye on her.

"You, just forget it." Hao Yun shook his head.

If someone like you were to star in a spy film, I’m afraid you wouldn’t even survive the opening credits.

"Hmph~" An Xiaoxi was not quite convinced, but she was thinking about something else.

"What are you doing here? You're not here just for excitement, are you?" Hao Yun raised the temperature in the car by two degrees.

Turn down the music in your car, too.

The wind on the river bank blows recklessly and desperately, stirring the tears of the departed...

The music playing in the car at this time was "The Lonely Sandbar is Cold", a song from Xiaogang's new album "Legends Under the Starry Sky" created for Zhou Chuanxiong.

The title of this song is taken from a poem "卜算子" by Su Shi, which says, "He picked all the cold branches but refused to rest, and the lonely sandbank was cold."

"It's like this, Li An found me and seemed to want me to play the leading lady in his new movie..." The car slowly drove out of the underground garage and merged into the busy traffic at night. An Xiaoxi's voice with a unique sweetness floated in the car.

"Li An!" Hao Yun did not hide his surprise at all.

Li An from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon!

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released by Li An in 2000, has remained the box office ceiling for Chinese-language films to date, with a total global box office of 2.16 million US dollars.

While everyone is still chasing after the billion-dollar club's big directors, this is already in the billions.

He and An Xiaoxi made the drama "Those Years" popular, which is bound to bring about many changes.

It is foreseeable that a lot of scripts will come to him. This month, Hao Yun has received at least three times more scripts than before. Not only has he been invited to play the leading male role, but many have also invited him to direct.

The "New Shanghai Bund" that had previously approached An Xiaoxi also approached him.

But I didn’t expect An Xiaoxi to receive an invitation from Li An. The gap is really too big.

(End of this chapter)