Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 641 Filming Begins (14)

This year, Spark Studio will most likely lose its title as the top-grossing studio during the Lunar New Year holiday season…

The current box office of "Wolf Warrior" is 7.64 million yuan, and it is estimated that the final box office will likely be around 8 million yuan.
"The Best of Us" currently has 3.68 million yuan in box office revenue, with a final box office of around 4.5 million yuan;
"The True Story of Swordplay in the Martial World"... It's unlikely to surpass 4 million views in the end - the online buzz isn't great!
It can only be said that the current mainstream movie-going audience doesn't understand society very well. Once they've been toughened up by society, they'll learn their lesson!
But these movies... probably can't beat "The Taking of Tiger Mountain"!
In the original timeline, the box office of "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" was 8.8 million yuan.

Shen Yan had initially considered making the film "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" himself, but... he just couldn't remember it.

By the time he remembered, Bona had already gotten his hands on it.

Remakes and reboots of works with revolutionary themes are generally very troublesome…

Back in 2006, Wang Jing approached Yu Dong, chairman of Bona Film Group, to collaborate on the film "The Taking of Tiger Mountain," and even planned to cast Andy Lau as Yang Zirong. However, the Film Bureau considered "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" to be a "red-themed" film and worried that Wang Jing, as a Hong Kong director, wouldn't be able to make it well…

The reason why Xu Ke was able to take on the role was not only because the conditions in all aspects were more mature than before, but also because he found producer Huang Jianxin—who had co-directed "The Founding of a Republic" and "The Founding of the Party" with Han Sanping, so handling major historical subjects was definitely not a problem.

Jackie Chan was once very close to making "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" – in 2010, Jackie Chan announced the plan for a 3D film "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" in his new film project. At that time, the director was Tsui Siu-ming. However, the plan was ultimately not realized because the copyright of the original novel was acquired by Tsui Hark.

"Project A" was inspired by "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy," except that "Project A" fought pirates, while "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" fought bandits...

But Jackie Chan is too old!
He doesn't resemble Yang Zirong at all...

Later, he collaborated with Ding Sheng on "Railway Guerrilla," also known as "Railway Tigers"...

In fact, after "The Taking of Tiger Mountain," there was a wave of remakes of revolutionary-themed films for a period of time, such as "The Spy Who Loved Me" starring Aaron Kwok and Zhao Liying, which was a remake of "The Eternal Wave"...

Then it was stopped!
"Secret War" is terrible...

They simply won't allow the use of the title "The Eternal Wave"...

However, on its opening day, Tsui Hark's version of "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" only received 18% of the screenings...

The opening day box office was also quite poor, only 1700 million...

However, it received rave reviews online!

After a brief chat about "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy," Shen Yan spoke first: "Xu Ke studied film in the US and often worked in Chinatown... He probably did a lot of film projection, since model operas were all the rage in Chinatown back then... I guess that's when he became interested in 'Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy'... He'll definitely make a good film! Yang Zirong's story is very suitable for Hong Kong genre films: a lone hero, infiltrating a bandit's lair, disguising himself as an undercover agent, hunting tigers up the mountain, verbally battling fugitives, and finally wiping out the enemy on New Year's Eve..."

"Not necessarily. Tsui Hark directed 'The Chess King,' but that film was a hodgepodge, full of ideological bias, and completely lacked the pathos and gravitas of Ah Cheng's original work..."

"The Chess King... is different. He doesn't understand that period of history and tries to deconstruct serious history with postmodernism... which is definitely not going to work!"

What about "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy"?

"You should know that this thing is made better by the film 'Gone with the Bullets'!"

"All right!"

……

"Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" isn't that good; stripping away ideology, it simply extracts heroism...

The original version of "Tracks in the Snowy Forest" mobilized the masses, organized production, trained militia, and finally launched an attack based on the strength of the masses, sweeping away the bandits' armed and social foundations.

Our revolutionary-themed works, such as "Shajiabang" and "The Red Lantern," do not actually feature many large-scale battle scenes; the content mainly focuses on cooperation between the military and civilians.

The classic film "Tunnel Warfare" features these two lines in the narration during its climax: "The people, and only the people, can create such positions; the people, and only the people, can use such positions! War has educated the people, and the people have won the war!"

From this perspective, Tsui Hark's version of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" is a failure...

But you can't help it, this movie is so good!
Furthermore, Tsui Hark's version of *The Taking of Tiger Mountain* presents a subtle, understated martial arts world, and none of his characters are artificial or affected. Of course, the main reason is... *Gone with the Bullets* is just awful...

Yes, there's also "The Legend of Swordsmanship" in the same release window, but given its budget, it's clear that "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" poses no threat to it.

Shen Yan had actually considered releasing "Monkey King: Hero Is Back" around this time...

Forget it, following closely behind "Tiny Times 4" and "Forever Young" would be more convincing!

……

"Major Events in Life" was filmed in Changsha (Wuhan was changed to Changsha).

This movie wasn't difficult for Shen Yan at all...

Mo Sanmei's personality traits are very distinct: impulsive and irritable, contradictory, kind, righteous and responsible.

He is an extroverted, impulsive, and irritable person who uses vulgar language, often acts without considering the consequences, and lives aimlessly without any life goals.

Having grown up in the streets and alleys, witnessing the coldness and warmth of human relationships, this unique environment led him to conceal his aggressive nature, making him appear combative and insecure.

He got into a fight because of his girlfriend and ended up in jail...

He's all bark and no bite, all bark and no bite; he's a guy who's all talk and no action.

He always used his past prison experience to scare people, but in two fights, he was choked and unable to move when fighting with Lao Liu. When he was rolling around with Jianren, he was also overpowered by someone's weight.

At least in the realm of fighting, no one is afraid of him.

Soft-hearted, kind...

Wang Jianren used to be a thief, but now he works in the funeral industry with his third sister.

Where did they meet? Probably in prison. He had nowhere to go after he got out, so his third sister took him in…

He took Xiaowen in because he couldn't bear to see a little child being mistreated by adults. Even though he was heartbroken when Xixi married Lao Liu, he could only cry while looking at the photograph…

In matters of love, the third sister is clueless and doesn't understand what responsibility is.

Many people say that Xixi cheated first…

The reason given was, "You're immature; you can't give me a home!"

To some extent, it's true. Most notably, in order to take in Xiaowen, the third sister sprayed perfume in the middle of the night, attempting to seduce Baixue. He went to Baixue's house with the intention of getting a marriage certificate with her…

In other words, in his value system, a marriage certificate is just a certificate, and has nothing to do with life or love. It may not even be as important as a property ownership certificate.

But he's a good person...

Everyone knew that Third Sister had been to prison, but the neighbors were still very kind to her because they knew that although she was a bit impulsive and a bit of a troublemaker, she wasn't a bad person.

Including Bai Xue and Jian Ren, when they get angry they can hit or yell at him, but when San Mei is in trouble, the two of them have never refused.

With the character already so well-developed, all Shen Yan had to do was add some details to the script, such as Haifei's existence. At the beginning, Xiaowen said, "Mom is abroad and isn't coming back!"

Otherwise, Haifei's appearance would be too abrupt!
The initial filming went quite poorly because I needed to rehearse with Wang Shengdi…

(End of this chapter)