1905 movie network feature On January 31, "Mermaid", which is about to be released on the first day of the new year, held a "Fish and Water Acacia" conference in Beijing. Director Zhou Xingchi made a collective appearance with the mighty "Mermaid Family", and also released a 1-minute and 40-second ultimate version trailer on the spot.
This highly anticipated film has maintained a sense of mystery to this day, and has been taking the route of hunger marketing. It has not held any screening or media advance viewing activities. It is really difficult to say whether Xingye is too confident or too unconfident in the quality of this film.
We can only get a glimpse from a few sets of film materials that have been exposed so far.
1. This movie is very popular
Stephen Chow is not only the king of comedy in the acting world, but also the films he directs are unique. Starting from "Journey to the West", he no longer gives himself a place in the film, but hides behind the monitor as a director.
Inner OS: What the hell…
The first time we heard that there was no Stephen Chow in a movie, we felt a little regretful, but after seeing "Journey to the West to Conquer Demons", we were pleasantly surprised to see the cynical but deeply familiar shadow in the article, Huang Bo, Luo Zhixiang, and even Shu Qi’s characters.
After a lapse of three years, there will also be no cameo in "Mermaid", but through the director’s special film exposed in the film, it can be found that his directing method is to completely instill his own performance into the actors, and even repeatedly demonstrate himself in order to accurately meet his requirements.
Demonstrate and guide actors to perform
So, even if Lord Xing doesn’t appear in the movie, we don’t have to worry. "Mermaid" is definitely a film that inherits Zhou Xingchi’s strong personal style. There are all kinds of nonsense, cold humor, sullen, and crazy, and there is no guarantee that there will be one.
2. Characters start from the bottom ?? N corner relationship mermaid sadomasochism
To say that there are quite a few familiar faces in this movie, from the current exposed trailers, we have seen Deng Chao, Luo Zhixiang, Zhang Yuqi, Lin Yun, Li Shangzheng, Lu Zhengyu, Yang Neng, Bai Ke, Kong Lianshun, Wu Yifan, Article, Zhang Mei’e, etc., all kinds of immortals show their superpowers – of course, most of them are "dead walk-on".
For example, this one:
Yang Neng, the "pork guy" in "Shaolin Soccer," became the director of the World’s Rare and Exotic Beasts Museum in "Mermaid," and performed for a group of tourists – "Our ancestors were all fish"
There are also two police comrades who were exposed in the first trailer with "super good" painting and "first-class" understanding ability, played by Tang Seng’s article and Sand Seng Li Shangzheng in "Journey to the West" respectively.
Even Wu Yifan, who came as a guest, got a glimpse in the final trailer – he should be a rich second generation looking at his clothes.
However, there was one character who had yet to reveal his true face, and that was "Master" Xu Ke! At the press conference held yesterday, not only did the "Mermaid Family" come out, but also Xu Ke, an old friend of Xing Ye, was invited, and it was revealed on the spot that he had a cameo appearance in "Mermaid", "There are more than one line."
Xing Ye also smiled and said, "Xu Hark’s acting skills are very good. In fact, the director who is the most capable of acting, I think one is Director Xu and the other is me. The acting skills are unknown."
Two "old urchins" made fun of themselves at the press conference
Of course, the most important characters in the movie are the four King Kong – octopus, mermaid, sea urchin and… lettuce?
Deng Chao: The male protagonist of the film is a wealthy real estate developer and a local tyrant. In the words of Stephen Chow, the character is a baby at heart, and the beard is his disguise, and he wants to pretend to be a mercenary adult. Deng Chao himself explained in Deng’s English at the press conference – "putting on a beard is a ghost (ghost) and taking off a beard is an angel (angel) ".
Angel’s affections
The evil of ghosts (should be trying to say evil… straightforward-A student’s English is not flattering
Lin Yun: The heroine of the film, the mermaid, can only be driven to a broken boat to survive due to human damage to the sea and ecology. Deng Chao, who disguised himself as entering human society and prepared to develop marine resources with love, did not expect that he really fell in love with him.
Tearful French kiss
Luo Zhixiang: As an octopus, he is also a sea creature (nonsense). He has always loved the mermaid, and when he found out that "the person I love has a lover," he was very sad and wanted to try to kill his rival with his tentacles. With eight giant tentacles, he can be regarded as the main fighting force of the Mermaid Gang.
Zhang Yuqi: As Deng Chao’s ex-girlfriend. Not only does she look like a domineering female silver, but she is also the film’s villain – the kind that is completely bad. She summed up the character herself as "a combination of violence and aesthetics" – which translates to: I am beautiful, but I am not gentle.
Mysterious Mermaid: In the final battle of the ultimate trailer, the stunning mermaid tail on the previous trailer and poster reappeared. Compared with Lin Yun’s little tail, this fish tail with colorful light has powerful abilities, and if it flaps the sea, it will be "the clouds and waters of the four seas are furious, and the five continents are shocked by wind and thunder". From the terrified expressions of the mermaid and octopus, the big mermaid should be the villain in the film. Zhang Yuqi, who is also a villain, had a strange look at each other with the little mermaid in the trailer… Could it be that Deng Chao made two mermaid girlfriends in one breath? (This doesn’t seem to be the point…
But when the camera is carefully zoomed in, the upper body of the mermaid seems to be a long-haired man wearing a white shirt, which is somewhat similar to Yang Neng’s image.
How big is Xing Ye’s brain opening, the answer can only be revealed after the film is released.
3. The story line is positive
If you read the character introduction and feel that this is a story where he loves her, she loves him, he loves her but not her, and she loves him but not him, then you are too young (fu) and naive (qian). We were told at the very beginning of the trailer that this is a high-profile: environmental protection promotional film!
Mermaids and humans should coexist peacefully, but who knows, the more they progress, the more violent they become…
Deng Chao’s character, Xuan Shao, was originally a mercenary businessperson. The development of real estate involved reclamation projects, which threatened the ethnic groups living in the sea. The mermaid Shan played by Lin Yun was sent to stop it. She transformed into a human and developed feelings for each other during the interaction with Xuan Shao, and finally succeeded in stopping the development of the entire project and protecting her homeland.
From this still, we can also see that the mermaid is covered with all kinds of garbage and waste in the sea
The conclusion of the trailer also echoes the theme:
If you only have the last minute of your life, if there is not even a drop of clean water or a mouthful of clean air on the earth, what would you most like to do?
In addition to this, we also saw a very familiar line in the previous trailer:
Isn’t this a salted fish?
If you don’t have a dream, what’s the difference between being a man and a salted fish?
It can also be regarded as a tribute to the previous work.