I didn't want to be an actor

Shen Liang didn’t communicate much with Louis Koo and Liu Qingyun…

Except for a few words before normal filming…

Both of them speak Mandarin very poorly, and Shen Liang’s Cantonese is not very good, so it’s still difficult to communicate.

However, he often sneaks a peek at Liu Qingyun’s performance.

Hong Kong male actors in the 1990s, such as Andy Lau, Simon Yam, Ray Lui, and Huang Qiusheng, all have a strong shadow of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in their performances. Liu Qingyun is one of the very few actors who is not affected and has her own style.

In fact, Shen Liang thinks that Liu Qingyun performed very well in "Infernal Affairs" - although many people think that "Detective" is better.

I like the scene where he eats in a restaurant while reading a newspaper the most. It is simply superb and natural!

In comparison, Andy Lau still has some pretentiousness in his performance.

As for Louis Koo…

A word to describe his acting skills: the consequence of not having enough education is now endless, which made Louis Koo’s acting skills completely unable to improve at the age of 30. For decades, Louis Koo has been living off his past achievements, and has survived in Hong Kong entertainment by relying on his personality and connections.

In “Judo Dragon Tiger List”, it can still be seen that he has been constantly trying various acting methods;

In “Drug War”, he was directly beaten to pieces by Zha Zha Hui and Liu Shiming, and this kind of crushing was also the case in the later “Line Walker”…

It just… lacks a natural feeling.

Of course, “The Devil” does not require actors to show their acting skills or anything…

Because all the roles are labeled, the harder they act, the more superficial the better.

For Liu Qingyun and Louis Koo, such a movie can be easily handled, and the same is true for Benny Chan, so it can be shot so quickly!

...

Chen Musheng and Shen Liang get along well...

Mainly because Shen Liang is very good at giving suggestions. For example, in the opening scene, in order to let the audience quickly feel the fierce image of the character, he specially guided Chen Musheng to propose the "human sandbag" plot.

"Liu Qingyun has played this drama, so she can probably play gangsters!"

"... I wanted to find Sammo Hung, but he... is not in good health." After a pause, Chen Musheng explained: "He picked Brother Hao himself!"

"Very good..." After thinking about it, Shen Liang said secretly: "Don't you feel that he is getting older now, and his eyebrows and eyes are a little fierce?"

It feels that these Hong Kong actors have a layer of fierceness after getting older...

Sammo Hung is a typical example. When he was young, he basically played a naive little fat paper. When he got old, he began to contribute his afterglow in the track of gangster bosses...

In fact, Liu Qingyun is similar. I remember watching "Shock Wave 2". I always felt that Dong Zhuowen, played by him, would turn against him at the last minute...

By the way, Liu Qingyun shaved his eyebrows for the role of Brother Hao...

Don't say it, it really adds a fierce temperament - thick eyebrows and big eyes, sword eyebrows and star eyes. We have always had high aesthetic requirements for men's eyebrows and eyes. If you don't have thick eyebrows and big eyes, you will be weak if you play the protagonist.

Hu Jun with eyebrows can play Qiao Feng, and without eyebrows he can play Yan Xiaoguo in "October Besieged City"...

"I have a story outline here..."

Ben Chen talked about the new film plan...

How to say it, to attract investment...

This time, the cooperation between the two parties in "The Evil" was very good. Whether it was the production or the actors, he experienced an unprecedented sense of smoothness.

If possible, he would like to continue to cooperate in his next film!

Oh, he talked about "Raging Fire", of course, there is only a story outline at present, and there is no complete script!

Hong Kong filmmakers rarely write complete scripts.

Only write a scene outline, which is actually a simplified version of the script, with the beginning and end of each scene, the content, the beginning, development, and ending, and the general lines. It's just not written too rigidly, and it will be left to the scene to go through it again with the actors, and finally it will take shape.

This creative method leaves a certain degree of flexibility in details...

The core event of "Raging Fire" all starts with a "rich man kidnapping case"

After the rich man was kidnapped, the police leader asked two teams to solve the case together. Qiu Gangao led one team and Zhang Chongbang led another team.

The team led by Qiu Gangao caught a bad guy who knew the exact location of the kidnapped rich man.

So six policemen began to torture the bad guy, but he refused to give up and threatened to complain.

The police leader asked Qiu Gangao to torture and get the location of the rich man as soon as possible, otherwise if the rich man died, the whole team would have to take the blame. Under such a request, after a torture, the bad guy had confessed the specific location, which was originally a meritorious thing. After all, the bad guy didn't suffer any serious injuries. At most, he complained and wrote a report. It should be able to deal with it.

Qiu Gangao had a subordinate who insulted the bad guy's family. After being enraged, the bad guy bit the waist of the police who insulted him.

No matter how the police beat him, this guy just wouldn't let go. Seeing that his comrade was about to be bitten off, Qiu Gangao picked up a big wooden stick and hit the bad guy on the head.

Qiu Gangao accidentally killed the bad guy...

This scene was witnessed by Zhang Chongbang who happened to come...

"So, Zhang Chongbang sent his brother to prison because of a criminal?"

"Yes, he has a righteous mentality. If you kill someone, you should go to jail!"

"What is the identity of the dead person? Is he a criminal? The Hong Kong police sent a team of policemen to jail because of a dead criminal? I don't think it is credible! Kidnapping and extortion, this kind of person can be said to have committed all kinds of evil, and he should go to see God !”

"So, Qiu Gangao is not convinced...he will take revenge after he comes out." Chen Musheng continued: "This is also the starting point of the entire movie. Are you interested?"

Shen Liang nodded: "Of course..."

After thinking about it, he added: "You can add a foreshadowing..."

"Foreshadowing?"

"Qiu Gangao has been in the police force for three years. He must have close friends. Otherwise, he would not be able to be one step ahead of the police force every time. Someone must have tipped him off!"

"...Oh, you mean to prepare for the sequel?"

"Um…"

"I'll ask the screenwriter to think about it..."

After talking about this, continue shooting.

When the lawyer provided a psychiatric examination report, the perverted killer played by Shen Liang was sentenced to life imprisonment...

The policeman played by Louis Koo got the opportunity to visit and said a lot of things, but Shen Liang ignored him. Finally, when he was about to leave, Shen Liang suddenly said: "You know, and I also know, I can't die, because I'm a mental patient!"

Then, grinning...

"You bastard, I will definitely kill you!"

Shen Liang immediately changed his face: "...Police officer, police officer, I want to complain, someone hit me!"

Then a group of policemen walked into the visiting room and took Gu Tianxuan away.

By the way, he stayed to comfort Shen Liang!

"Ka, very good, this part is over."

Gu Tianzhu also praised: "Very good!"

"Thanks…"

"How many more scenes do you have left?"

"A..."

Well, there is only one scene left for the perverted killer - when he was on a break from the prison, he saw Brother Hao who had just come in, and his expression changed...

"Then after filming, you want to go back to BJ?"

"Well... I also need to promote the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal and my movie..."