News from this newspaper (reporter, Xiao Yang) Zhuang Wenqiang’s "Unparalleled" has just received a double harvest of word-of-mouth at the National Day box office. Mai Zhaohui and Zhuang Wenqiang, the golden partner, are "fit" again. The two’s new film "Clean Government" was recently announced to be released on the first day of the new year next year (February 5, 2019).
"Unparalleled" with nearly 1.30 billion box office results let the audience once again ignite confidence in Hong Kong films, "Clean Government" is the "Maizhuang" combination after "Eavesdropping Wind and Cloud" cooperation again, more gold medal producer Huang Bin, from "Infernal Affairs" "Eavesdropping Wind and Cloud" to "Unparalleled", this "Iron Triangle" combination has created many miracles, and it is no wonder that people have high hopes for "Clean Government".
Crime themes are not uncommon, and how can they make a breakthrough in the same type of film? Director Mai Zhaohui bluntly said, "We need to find the pain points of society, tell the story from the perspective of crime, and at the same time bring an anti-crime thinking to the audience." The two directors said that the four words "anti-corruption and clean government" are the core of "Clean Government", so that the audience can understand the social justice that everyone needs to follow in addition to seeing a wonderful story.
The movie "Clean Government" tells the story of the escape of a witness in an important case of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption. The investigator in charge of the case needs to try his best to retrieve him, but unexpected twists and turns occur when the witness is about to return to Hong Kong. This is Liu Qingyun and Zhang Jiahui working together again after five years in "Anti-Drug". Zhang Jiahui hopes to have the opportunity to cooperate with Liu Qingyun in the future. Liu Qingyun said with a smile, "I think it is enough." Liu Qingyun said that in the past five years, Zhang Jiahui has been the best actor and the director, and his achievements are proud, but he is still an actor. When asked if Zhang Jiahui would agree to ask him to play if he were the director, Liu Qingyun immediately joked and said no.
Liu Qingyun introduced that in the previous "Eavesdropping" series, he played bad guys, and this time he wants to catch bad guys in the movie. Another star, Zhang Jiahui, revealed that he will play a whistleblower. The two did not say much about the plot. Liu Qingyun said that most of his scenes this time were with other actors who played the Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, and there were few antagonists with Zhang Jiahui. Zhang Jiahui also expressed regret. He said that he was very comfortable playing opposite Liu Qingyun, and the two could be called fluent in the collection and docking of emotions. However, in the previous cooperation, the two did not have many antagonists. I hope to have the opportunity to star in a work that is "antagonist from beginning to end" in the future.
Referring to the film’s release on the first day of the new year, Liu Qingyun said that he knows that everyone likes to watch comedies during the Spring Festival, but the quality of this film is definitely worthy of "family viewing".