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Top Ten Famous Screenwriters in Hong Kong

Hong Kong films have always dominated China films. It can be said that Hong Kong films are unique in Asia. There were ups and downs, but there were also surprises. In Hongkong, Du Qifeng, Jing Wong and others held their ground; Elsewhere, Wong Kar-wai, Chen Guo and others have also made their mark in Hong Kong films. In the field of development, there are John Woo, Tsui Hark and others. Nowadays, Hong Kong movies can be described as a smash hit, and the scenery remains the same. The reason why Hong Kong films can still maintain their dominance in Asia after ups and downs is inseparable from the cooperation of many filmmakers, including the contribution of screenwriters. A good movie can't be without a good screenwriter. I think everyone should have no objection to this. I want to talk about the top ten screenwriters of Hong Kong movies in my personal mind, and the ranking is still loyal and treacherous!

1. oily mud sea

Du Qifeng Galaxy Image Film Company has two "national treasures", one is director Tat-Chi Yau, and the other is screenwriter Qiu Naihai. I don't know if you Dazhi and Qiu Naihai have anything to do, but their talents are obvious to all. I won't talk about Tat-Chi Yau, but I want to talk about Qiu Naihai.

Qiu Naihai has worked as a screenwriter for many classic films, such as Dark Flowers, Goodbye to A Lang, Dark War, bullets and so on. It is difficult to describe Qiu Naihai's screenwriter style with a fixed vocabulary. He can not only write strange and secretive Hong Kong gangster fringe dramas such as Dark Flowers, but also make up emotional dramas such as Lonely Men and Few Women. An emergency in the early years showed another style of Qiu Naihai. It is precisely because of the variety of Yau Nai-hoi's play styles that it is difficult to make a complete summary of Yau Nai-hoi's screenwriter style.

Moreover, Qiu Naihai has been nominated for the Best Screenplay Award in the Hong Kong Academy Awards for many times, especially for the 18 Academy Award. Two films written by Qiu Naihai, Flowers of Darkness and Unexpected, were nominated for best screenplay, but in the end they fell short and lost to Chen Jiaqing's The Beast Interpol. In the subsequent Golden Awards, Qiu Naihai was nominated for best screenplay, but he always failed in the end, which is regrettable.

2. Hing-Ka Chan

John Woo's True Color of Hero is definitely qualified to be a classic film in the history of Hong Kong movies. This "True Color of Heroes" was a sensation at that time, with infinite scenery, and the plot dialogue in the play was also widely read and cited as a classic. The screenwriter of this film is Hing-Ka Chan.

After Hing-Ka Chan became famous with The True Color of Heroes, I don't know why. In the following years, he never wrote any plays. He wholeheartedly assisted his brother Chen Jiashang, and in those years, Chen Jiashang's films frequently met with the audience. (Editor's Note: Hing-Ka Chan didn't stop writing during this period, but wrote Dinner in the Morning and Detective Ma Rulong, etc. After seven years, Hing-Ka Chan returned to the Jianghu and wrote the script "Three Heroes in the Dust", but this time, the film did not attract the attention of the audience. After that, Hing-Ka Chan wrote many plays, such as Flying Tiger and Bright Future, but none of them received much response. Just when the audience suspected that Hing-Ka Chan was too old to eat Lian Po, 1998, the film The Beast Interpol, written by Chen Jiaqing and directed by Chen Jiashang, succeeded again. He also won many awards such as best film, best screenwriter, best director, best leading actor and best supporting actor, and once again enjoyed a good time. In 2000, Hing-Ka Chan's film "Jianghu Emergency" was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay at the Academy Awards again. Unfortunately, the 2000 Academy Awards were destined to go to Ang Lee and Wong Kar-wai, and Hing-Ka Chan had to go home empty-handed. (Editor's Note: The original text of this paragraph is Chen Jiaqing, which should be Hing-Ka Chan)

3. Ivy Ho

I don't know whether Ivy Ho is his or her real name or pen name, and I don't know whether Ivy Ho is a man or a woman. However, judging from the scripts written by Ivy Ho, this person has a very keen emotion, and his or her description of emotion has the artistic conception of China Zen's "joining the WTO".

In Ivy Ho's films, emotion is the only theme and also the eternal theme. I guess, in the emotional world of real society, Ivy Ho should be a person who enjoys feelings very much. Otherwise, how can we explain that there are so many delicate and touching love details in Ivy Ho's plays? ! The films written by Ivy Ho deeply touched our hearts that have long been insensitive to feelings, such as sweet honey, such as Anna Maddalena. ...

In Chen Kexin's film Sweet Honey, Ivy Ho is the screenwriter and Chung-Man Hai is the film production designer. Two years later, Anxi and Chung-Man Hai co-produced the movie Anna Maddalena, which was also written by Ivy Ho, and it was also a great success. The difference is that Chung-Man Hai's identity at this time has become a director.

4. Giambi

As soon as I saw the name Ji 'an, I think the audience who love to travel to the West will laugh, because Ji 'an is really supported by big talkers. Giambi is also the pen name of Liu Zhenwei.

Giambi's films never educate the audience with serious eyes. He makes the audience feel relaxed and comfortable when watching movies, which is what we often call entertainment. Giambi's screenwriter style is in line with the rules of Hong Kong entertainment circle, and everything is entertainment-oriented. When he was writing A Chinese Odyssey, he didn't want to express postmodernism at first, nor did he want to use magic schools, and he didn't expect that A Chinese Odyssey would cause such a big sensation later. Giambi pursues only how to entertain the audience. No matter how imaginative his ideas are, he just wants to entertain the audience. Just like when he wrote "Black Rose 92 of Legend 92" on 1992, he didn't expect this film to win an Oscar, because the theme of the film is pure entertainment. But some things in this world are so strange.

Moreover, Ji 'an and Wong Kar-wai have a deep friendship. In 1988, Wong Kar-wai made a guest appearance in the film Meng Gui Pai written and directed by Ji 'an. Unfortunately, I don't know the true face of Wong Kar-wai, so I can't find the shadow of Wong Kar-wai in the movie.

5. Zhang Aijia

I think everyone is already familiar with Zhang Aijia, especially Zhang Aijia's emotional and natural singing, which is even more exciting. However, Zhang Aijia, who was born as an actor, was not limited to performing and singing. She can also do a good job as a director and screenwriter like a duck to water and get good results.

Zhang Aijia is a very elegant and sensitive woman with a romantic and delicate heart under her mature and confident appearance. Most of her plays are based on her own understanding of feelings, so she has written many touching plays, such as New Cohabitation Era, Little Girl Fishing, Heartbeat and so on. Zhang Aijia, who has acted in nearly 70 films, has a deep understanding of the feelings inside and outside the play, so her screenwriter style is good at feelings, touching and suitable for all ages.

I don't think it's too much to call Zhang Aijia a talented woman. She is really a versatile woman.

6. Du Guowei

Du Guowei is well-known in the field of scriptwriting for Hong Kong-made films. He has made his debut as a screenwriter for a long time. A Beijing opera blues from 65438 to 0986 made him famous, and it was even more out of control.

Watching movies written by Du Guowei seldom makes you feel depressed. In Du Guowei's eyes, hatred won't last forever, ups and downs are temporary, and everything will get better one day. Therefore, Du Guowei's plays rarely have heartbreaking endings, and most of them end in warm and delicious happy endings. Even his "Thirteen Langs in the South China Sea", although it seems that Shisanlang's life is ups and downs, the final ending is not as satisfactory as the audience expected. But Du Guowei made the audience understand that nothing is unbearable and nothing can stop you from moving forward. Moreover, the love drama written by Du Guowei is also a romantic sketch style, which will not bring any psychological burden to the audience.

If we evaluate Du Guowei from the audience's point of view, we can say that he is a very professional screenwriter, and a screenwriter who takes the audience as the starting point is very professional. Although today's young audience may not have Du Like Guowei's somewhat outdated screenwriter technique, he has touched our generation, and we have been touched by him many times.

7. Tsui Hark

Alas! I can't help but marvel at Tsui Hark's mention! Because he is so talented. Tsui Hark's films are usually written and directed by him, and even he is a producer himself. In the case of a person with several jobs, although it may be difficult to be busy because of the heavy workload, it has not affected the quality of the film at all. Tsui Hark's films are a guarantee of quality. Every time I watch Tsui Hark's movies, it's a pleasure. Every time I look at them, I am fascinated. Every time I look at them, I can't stop sighing.

Tsui Hark's film style is changeable, so is his screenwriter style. Ghost stories written by him in his early days have become the classics of Hong Kong ghost films. Later, he wrote "wyndell dichinson Hero", which also became a wonderful work in Hong Kong film hero dramas; Tsui Hark wrote the most kung fu films, such as Xinlongmen Inn and Huang Feihong series, which were handed down from generation to generation. According to the movie of the same name adapted from Jin Yong's novel the legendary swordsman, Tsui Hark can still show the Jianghu artistic conception in the original while leaving the original plot. He is really a wizard! No matter what kind of title is given to Tsui Hark, it is not obvious. If the Hong Kong Film Festival lacks talents like Tsui Hark, I think Hong Kong movies are boring and tasteless.

In Tsui Hark's world, Jianghu is everything to him.

8. Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai's films never use scripts written by others, and all the screenwriting work is done by himself. Moreover, Wong Kar-wai once said that he never had a complete script when he made a movie. As for the development of the plot and the production of dialogue, most of them are thinking while shooting, which shows the level of Wong Kar-wai's screenwriter.

In Wong Kar-wai's films, it can be said that there is no complete plot, and the so-called plot is generally developed from many personal monologues of the characters in the play. The True Story of Teddy Boy is like this, and so is fallen angels ... This kind of expression not only does not delay the compactness and rhythm of the plot, but many viewers also have a special liking for this monologue and regard it as a classic. In particular, the film "Time Has Passed" has brought this monologue to the extreme, which can be regarded as the first film with a pure personal monologue in the film history of China. Most of the time, you have to admire Wong Kar-wai's talent, because there are many seemingly casual monologues in his films, which often make you feel something in real life. This may also be one of the reasons why Wong Kar-wai's films are unknown in many places, but so many audiences will like them. ! Some people think that Wong Kar-wai's screenwriter is first-class, but others are dismissive. Many people think that Wong Kar-wai's playwriting level is limited to the use of aphorisms and monologues. However, as long as you have seen the film Tears Like Rain written by him, you will understand that Wong Kar-wai's screenwriter level is not bad, which is not limited to tricks, but what kind of screenwriter he is willing to choose!

What's particularly interesting is that the producer of Liu Zhenwei's New Year films "Heroes of the East Condor" and "Heroes of the West Condor" is Wong Kar-wai. Completely different from Wong Kar-wai's The Condor Heroes, Liu Zhenwei's version of The Condor Heroes is extremely funny and one of the highlights of the Hong Kong film industry.

9. Jing Wong

Like Tsui Hark, Jing Wong is also a comprehensive filmmaker. Besides being a screenwriter, director and producer, he often plays roles in his own films. Jing Wong Film Studio has been a producer since its establishment.

Jing Wong made his debut earlier than Du Guowei. As early as 1975, Jing Wong worked as a screenwriter in the film "I'm afraid of you", which is quite similar to John Woo since then. Jing Wong's sole purpose in writing plays is entertainment, especially several nonsense films starring Stephen Chow, which he wrote and directed. The Duke of Lushan written by Jing Wong shows Wei Xiaobao's glib side to the fullest, which makes people think that Stephen Chow is the best person to play Wei Xiaobao. In addition, Jing Wong also created modern gambling movies. Until recent years, he has been writing scripts about gambling movies, such as gambler 1999, Thousand Kings 2000 and so on. Jing Wong's talent as a screenwriter of emotional dramas is not far behind, such as "Unrequited Love for You" and "Love You for 8 Hours a Day", which are all classic movies.

The greatest feature of Jing Wong's screenwriter is to maximize entertainment, and to grasp the audience's preferences properly, and to know what kind of movies are popular with the audience. It can be said that Jing Wong pushed vulgarity to the extreme.

10. Ma Weihao

Ma Weihao's fame is obviously not as loud as the above, but sometimes, fame and talent may not be exactly the same.

I found a very strange phenomenon in the Hong Kong film circle. Many people are good at directing, such as John Woo, Gu Dezhao and Jing Wong. Ma Weihao went the same way as them. In his early years, he also started as a screenwriter. Now he is both a director and a producer, and he is also a "trinity" figure. Especially in recent years, Ma Weihao's career is booming. This year, he has directed and directed three films: 100% Feeling 2, Living with Honey Friends, and Funeral March.

The first time I met Ma Weihao was in the film Meet the Mountains and Rivers directed by him. At that time, I felt that it should not be easy to write a retro and nostalgic movie so smoothly and unconventional. And I have always admired those who know it is not easy to do it, but can do it well, because I am not such a person myself. Later, in Tsui Hark's film Black Xia, I saw Ma Weihao's name appear in the screenwriter column, and my affection doubled. Since then, I have watched movies such as "100% Feelings" and "Eyes with Fierce Eyes" directed by him, and I can't help but admire them like the water of the Yellow River! In fact, one of Ma Weihao's most creative films is Mr. Han Xing, written and directed by him. After reading it, he laughed. He really bent down. Many of his new ideas are really unique.

Others, such as James Yuen, Chen Guo, Alex Law, Li Lichi and so on, are very talented screenwriters. Recently, a screenwriter named Not a Woman is quite popular. It is precisely because there are so many talented screenwriters working hard behind the scenes that Hong Kong films will not lag behind and flourish, and it is precisely because of this that the dominance of Hong Kong films will last forever. On the other hand, what about the mainland? What are mainland writers thinking? !