I didn't want to be an actor

Although Shen Liang is very confident.

But the nerves are definitely there...

The impact of pornography on the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies is real!

Judging from the several movies released in July: the market capacity of the movie market in the early stages of recovery is extremely limited.

There are only two possibilities for "Rage: Serious Case": either become cannon fodder, or ignite the audience's emotions for watching the movie.

Shen Liang agreed to release it on August 14 because he was convinced that after a period of desertion in the film market, there would be a film that would make the market pick up again, and this film would also be bound to take "revenge" brought by the market's hunger. Sex movie” bonus.

Not every film can reap this bonus. After a short period of as little as two weeks or as long as one or two months, it is generally the cool films with high commercial value that can trigger retaliatory viewing.

"Rage: Serious Case" meets this requirement!

Often this type of movie needs strong marketing...

However, due to objective factors, most offline marketing activities have been cancelled.

What Shen Liang can do is very limited...

Except live broadcast!

"I didn't really want to take on "The Fury" at first... I always felt that Hong Kong-style police movies were boring... Its various modes have been filmed almost over and over again. In recent years, only the "Warrior" and "The Overheard" series have Films such as "Chill" and "The Bomb Disposer" can produce new things within the original framework, so they can be regarded as excellent. "

"When I take a movie, I would rather it be a bad movie than make a boring movie!"

"For actors, boredom is a very fatal thing, because it will consume your patience for performance..."

"Hong Kong-style police and gangster movies have been pretty much the same in the past two years, and they are all boring!"

"However, after I read the script of "Fury: Serious Case", especially when director Chen Musheng told me, 'Donnie Yen and his action design are the lower limit of this drama, and your performance is the upper limit of the entire drama!', I was fascinated. It’s exciting!”

"What I acted...I feel pretty good about it. This drama can be included in my masterpiece..."

"You will find out when you go and take a look tomorrow. At least you will feel that it is worth the price of admission!"

"...I also wrote a song, "Confrontation". To be precise, I composed the music and someone else wrote the lyrics. After all, it is a Cantonese song..."

"I'll sing it again..."

"~Parallel worlds are meaningless. When they overlap, strong winds come. Each had their own destiny in the past, but when they collide, they end up together~"

"My Cantonese is not very good, so just make do with it..."

"This year... I should have a two-week break after filming "Lotus Tower". I'm trying to make an EP and album... It's so difficult. I've only written three songs so far, "Echoes of Twilight" and "If the Moon Is Not Yet." "Come" and another song "Light"..."

"Let me sing the dramatic part of "Light"...ahem..."

After clearing his throat, Shen Liang started singing directly, 'Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves in the forest, let the misty rain cover your life, let the end of the story in Changyin Pavilion, six hundred years, a drop in the ocean and a dream~'

"Bringing goods... There will be a Hongxing Erke and JeansWest special sale next week... What I wear now is JeansWest casual wear, and the price of a set is less than 200 yuan..."

“I don’t need high-end endorsements, I’ve passed the stage of high-end endorsements!

My current idea is to rely on my own influence to promote domestic products...and the prices are affordable so that everyone can afford them...at least most of my fans can afford the things I endorse..."

"Okay... let's not talk anymore. I'm going to bed first. The first-day box office of "Wrath: Serious Case" depends on you!"

…

Most of Shen Liang’s fans are male fans…

And most of them are born after 1995, and they are the absolute main force in the film market.

This is one of the reasons why every one of his movies is a hit...

Of course, fans cannot afford a handicap of more than 500 million. The most important thing is that Shen Liang has already formed an IP effect - Shen Liang's participation in the show must be a high-quality one!

Although Shen Liang has never spoken about this concept publicly, and his team has not marketed it, after several dramas, this impression has become deeply ingrained...

"Cohabitation in Time and Space", "The Wandering Earth", "The Evil Dead", "Sunshine" and "Love Like a Bouquet" are all works that have achieved both word-of-mouth and box office success.

Especially the last two films, "Sunshine", a purely literary film, actually scored more than 1.5 billion at the box office, and "Bouquet of Love", a small-budget romance film, also sold more than 1.6 billion!

The appeal is simply unprecedented.

"Fury: Crime" was released, and a lot of film critics and marketing accounts had their work cut out for them.

It’s been half a year since I took a break!

…

Hong Kong police and gangster films have officially established the characteristics of Hong Kong-style police and gangster films since the 1980s: the ambiguity and opposition between good and evil, fierce gun battles and hand-to-hand combat, and the uniformity of environmental shaping.

The most fascinating thing is of course the fierce gun battles and hand-to-hand combat!

How to express the intensity of the gun battle?

Racing and explosives!

Here comes the problem, too many!

In every racing scene, Hong Kong movies already have a mature shooting system, a set of rules for camera operation, how to arrange camera positions, how to deal with sound, the position of explosions and actors...

These have long become an industrial system, so the elements of drag racing, gun battles, and explosions can be said to be the most convenient elements of traditional Hong Kong police and gangster films.

This is also one of the reasons why traditional Hong Kong police and gangster movies have become obsolete. Now when it comes to Hong Kong-style police and gangster movies, the most cliche three-piece package is drag racing, bombs and gun battles. To be honest, the audience would rather watch hand-to-hand combat.

Another part of Hong Kong police and gangster films took a different approach. They began to change the traditional police and gangster films by shaping characters and the Hong Kong environment instead of using action scenes to support the film.

Johnnie To and Dante Lam have done this before, with "Election", "PTU", "Witness", "The Informer"...

But this kind of film...usually does not do well at the box office...

Johnnie To's masterpiece "The Detective" had a box office of less than one-tenth of "The Detective Wars"!

In the end, it returned to the path of undercover + drugs + brotherhood...

This is what many film critics are worried about...

However, "Raging Fire" obviously did not take this path!

"Raging Fire" is very Benny Chan, very traditional, very pure, and takes the most traditional confrontation between good and evil in police and gangster films, but the real focus is on the corruption of the police station, that is, the Hong Kong police station plays the role of both good and evil, and the relationship between Shen Liang and Zhen Zidan is more of a rendering of brotherhood.

The focus is on Qiu Gangao, played by Shen Liang, a torn, anxious, rational, angry, and chaotic villain.

Qiu Gangao has the gloomy madness and strong tragic background of Heath Ledger's Joker.

A righteous man, after alienation, he wants to create chaos and become an absolute rebel.

So, the screen is full of wanton anger.

His revenge is very direct. He is not for money or power. He retaliates against the people and systems that have disappointed him.

It is a product of anger gathering, gathering and splashing.

Throughout the movie, Qiu Gangao's motives are presented in a blatant way in a crazy high-density narrative.

Even at the last moment, he did not regret it.

This movie has many flaws, and even many obvious logical bugs, but the viewing effect is really cool!