[Epoch Times November 03, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Tong Yijia comprehensive report) Hong Kong’s well-known director Xu Anhua’s new film “The First Incense”, since its release on October 22 in mainland China, it has accumulated 11 days of box office so far Only 67.88 million yuan. The reason for the dismal box office is that netizens are quite dissatisfied with the casting of the movie. Recently, she said frankly in a talk show: “If I knew the power of netizens, I would change roles.”
Xu Anhua recently had a conversation with Liang Wendao, a media person, on a negative review of the film “The First Incense” adapted from Zhang Ailing’s novel of the same name. It was discovered from the chat between the two that Xu Anhua was scolded by netizens for two years after filming “The First Incense”. After it was released on the mainland, the box office was not good and was sourly “Waterloo”. The main reason was that netizens chose the movie. There is a lot of dissatisfaction with the angle.
Xu Anhua, who laughed at herself for the second time encountering “Waterloo”, said that the first time was the remake of Zhang Ailing’s “Love in the Fallen City” and was ridiculed by “Waterloo”. She was very sad at the time. She confessed that she felt the power of netizens’ comments and agreed with Liang Wendao’s statement that “when the film was filmed, she was scolded by netizens, but the creative process would be affected.”
Xu Anhua, 74 years old this year, has won 3 Golden Horse Best Directors and 6 Hong Kong Awards for Best Director for directing “Forty Women”, “Day and Night in Tin Shui Wai” and “Sister Tao”. It is also the world‘s first female director to win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival. She seems to live in Xanadu, “If I knew the power of netizens, I would change roles. But I didn’t realize it.”
However, regarding the process of film creation, especially the changes from literature to film adaptation in the Internet age, she hesitated to say: “In addition to the boss, herself, and the creative team, we also need to ask prospective netizens to know how to…”
Asked whether the casting of “The First Burning Incense” has been criticized and whether it exerts great pressure on the actors, Xu Anhua said that it is indeed unfair to Ma Sichun, “If you have to be nailed to death because you are fat, I think this is very miserable. “
Ma Sichun, who won the Golden Horse Double Shadows with Dongyu Zhou in 2016, was shocked to be suffering from depression in 2020. After half a year of recuperation, she recovered a lot, and appeared on the variety show “Tucao Conference”. After a long absence, she just made her appearance and was ridiculed by the acid people.
Xu Anhua continued to respond to Liang Wendao: “She (Ma Sichun) was under a lot of pressure and she was very strong, and then she couldn’t sleep. Sometimes she started to work in a trance. Then she tried her best to act well, but it had a great impact on her performance. .Because she is the lead actor, if it affects a lead actor, you can imagine how much damage it will do to the crew.”
“The First Incense” starring Ma Sichun, Yu Feihong, and Peng Yuyan, the film has been questioned by netizens since the announcement of the casting lineup before filming. Ma Sichun plays the heroine “Ge Weilong”, which is described as quite thin in Zhang Ailing’s original work. Ma Sichun himself Netizens believe that they are not in good shape. In addition, Peng Yuyan plays a slightly ill-looking mixed-race son, but Peng Yuyan, who loves fitness, has a muscular body, and netizens also think that the body is completely different.
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