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

Chapter 704 Ignoring (14)

Actually, the food in Italy and Toronto is quite good...

Italy, often called the China of Europe—is family-centric and values ​​personal relationships…

There's a lot of delicious food...

This time in Venice, Shen Yan was smarter. She avoided areas far from tourist hotspots, especially St. Mark's Square, where there are often overpriced and unpalatable restaurants. Instead, she went to restaurants recommended by locals…

No disappointments!
Tong Yali was recommended to join the cast by Chen Sicheng; she played the role of Ah Xiang…

Shen Yan said nothing, and that the character Ah Xiang was actually just a prop...

The core characters in "Detective Chinatown" are Qin Feng and Tang Ren.

One is responsible for solving cases, and the other is responsible for making people laugh.

Tang Ren's role is similar to a combination of Kogoro Mouri, Zhan Zhao, a passerby who gives a hint, and a comedian.

To put it bluntly, he's just an intermediary who makes it easier for Qin Feng to get cases. Whenever the clues go cold and there's no follow-up, he can use divination to force out clues and push the plot forward.

In addition, there is a protector with combat skills who can help Qin Feng find clues.

In addition, it also complements Qin Feng's personality...

The premise of a detective duo story must be that a perfect personality is split into two parts. If the protagonist is extremely intelligent, he will inevitably have difficulties in interpersonal communication, while the assistant is good at interpersonal relationships and unintentionally reveals clues, or is enthusiastic and loves to meddle.

In this way, the two people can complement each other to solve various situations in the story, and the plot creation will not have to avoid certain situations because of the character's personality flaws.

In fact, Shen Yan had considered demonstrating Tang Ren's 'superpower,' similar to Kogoro Mouri, who would suddenly have a flash of inspiration whenever a case involved middle-aged women, or who would have a sudden burst of intelligence after drinking...

Otherwise, relying solely on the case itself will hardly keep viewers engaged and watching...

However, the specifics of how to proceed will depend on the involvement of more screenwriters.

Under these circumstances, the female lead is merely a tool to be replaced at will...

The first one features Ah Xiang, the second one features Chen Ying, a Chinese-American detective in New York, and the third one features Anna Kobayashi, played by Masami Nagasawa…

Actually, the biggest problem with "Detective Chinatown 3" is its excessive attempt to cater to the Spring Festival film season and its introduction of the so-called Q…

If possible, it could be made into a suspenseful crime film, like "Innocent Murder: The Collinney Case," which would significantly improve the quality!
"Innocent Murder: The Collinny Case" is a German film about suspense, anti-war themes, and war orphans.

Oh, Detective Chinatown 3 is not a copy or reference to Innocent Murder: The Collinney Case. That movie was released in Germany in April 2019, by which time Detective Chinatown 3 should have already started filming!
……

In the original timeline, Chen Sicheng said that Tang Ren was a character specifically designed for Wang Baoqiang.
It really is!
Tang Ren, one of the two main characters, has a lot of minor flaws.

Lustful, greedy, slick, boastful, and often unreliable; he's also a greasy middle-aged man.

For a character like this to be played, the actor himself cannot actually be lecherous, greedy, slick, disloyal, or unreliable. If the actor you find really has these flaws, they will show it in his eyes.

It's important to understand that when a male actor portrays a lecherous character, there's a significant difference between whether his eyes convey a lewd or sinister aura.

If you're playing a villain or an ugly character, you can carry that kind of aura, but if you're the male lead, you absolutely cannot exude an evil aura, otherwise the audience will feel nauseous watching you.

The same applies to other traits. You can act out these flaws, but you must never actually have these flaws. You must make the audience feel that you are just unreliable, not that you have a real character problem!

In the entire Chinese-language film industry, you won't find another actor who can play Tang Ren!

Bao Beier is just too pretentious!

In the movie "Lost in Hong Kong," Bao Beier's eyes are really strange. His behavior when he tricks Xu Zheng makes people suspect that he is deliberately messing with him, rather than doing it unintentionally.

If he were playing a villainous or ugly character, that would be one thing, but the problem is that he's one of the male leads, so the audience will definitely find him annoying.

Wang Baoqiang is different.

His portrayal of Tang Ren was incredibly expressive, sometimes bordering on exaggerated, when he made various facial expressions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. Yet, it never came across as greasy or over-the-top; instead, it felt remarkably natural, as if it were the very thing he was meant to do.

The camera focuses on Chinatown, slowly scrolling down, then shows Wang Baoqiang playing mahjong...

Wow! Tang Ren, did you get incredibly lucky today?

"Ha ha…"

Wang Baoqiang, a cigarette dangling from his lips, wore a smug expression...

At this time, the mobile phone rang.

He tried to answer the call, but his card-playing friends said, "Tang Ren? You think you can run away?"

"You're not allowed to run away after winning!"

"Run?" Wang Baoqiang hung up the phone immediately, looking smug: "I have the Azure Dragon drinking water on my left, the White Tiger swishing its tail on my right, sand hidden in my pocket, wealth arriving at my doorstep, a tree behind me, and the God of Wealth visiting me... Run? I'll kill you all without leaving a single piece of armor or a single thread!"

The plump woman making a cameo appearance next to him covered her chest: "Huh?"

"Forget about it!"

"Click, not bad!"

Chen Sicheng called "cut," then asked Shen Yan, "What do you think?"

Shen Yan quickly said, "No, Director Chen, you are the director, you can do whatever you want... I'm just an actor, a soldier under your command!"

"...Then let's move on!"

……

Well, Shen Yan is, after all, a two-time Golden Lion Award winner…

His presence on set naturally exerted a deterrent effect on the director.

Even though he had already lowered his stance in every way, Chen Sicheng would still involuntarily look at him and ask for his opinion...

It's alright, this kind of thing will only take two or three days at most, and Chen Sicheng will recover.

Qin Feng is an easy character to play; he doesn't have many facial expressions...

He's a detective, a genius with camera memory and high-speed vision!
And then there's a stutterer!

He has an extraordinary memory. Everyone with a special talent has some kind of weakness. I originally wanted to make him mute, but a mute can't speak, so there wouldn't be any comedic moments, and many plot points would be difficult to develop...

But he only stutters when he speaks normally; when he's reasoning, he speaks fluently.

This is a characteristic of the character, and it also reflects his extraordinary dedication and talent in solving cases!
Oh, the initial filming didn't go very smoothly.
That's normal. On the one hand, it's in a foreign country, and scene scheduling takes time.
On the other hand, the production crew also needs time to work together...

However, it was all within the plan…

By the way, the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony has ended, and Shen Yan 'got his wish' and won the Best Screenplay award...

Best Film went to *Wolf Totem*, Best Director to Tsui Hark, and Best Actor to Zhang Hanyu for *The Taking of Tiger Mountain*.

Many people felt sorry for Shen Yanming, and even made #GoldenRoosterAwardWater# a trending topic...

However, Shen Yan did not comment on this. Instead, Shen Yan's studio posted on Weibo: "Brother Yan had expected the results of the Golden Rooster Awards. His attitude is that he has no attitude... Please stop criticizing the Golden Rooster Awards because of him. After all, the issues of the Golden Rooster Awards cannot be represented by Brother Yan alone!"
Yeah, that's pretty tough...

After all, the Golden Rooster Awards went too far this time!
The Martian, it elevated Chinese-language films to the status of a science fiction powerhouse, without winning a single award;
Burning, which won three awards at the Venice Film Festival, only received the Best Screenplay award…

Yes, we didn't go...

Just because we didn't go doesn't mean you can ignore us!
(End of this chapter)