On February 20, the Hong Kong-style comedy romance movie "Still Think You're the Best 2" held its premiere in Beijing. The film is produced by Jiang Zhiqiang and directed by Chen Yongshen. It stars Stephy Tang, Zhang Jicong, Wang Wanzhi, Lin Mingzhen, and Chen Zhanwen, as well as Tse Junhao, Wei Junsheng, and He Qihua. Hu Feng, Luo Lan, Michelle, and Liao Ziyu also star. Director Chen Yongshen attended the premiere and talked about his creative experience. The film will be released on February 24, the day of the Lantern Festival.
"Still Think You're the Best 2" poster
In the golden autumn of 2022, "Still Think You're the Best" (also known as: Table for Six), which is set to be a "drama love movie" (producer Jiang Zhiqiang), gained good reputation when it was released. Douban once rose to It scored 8.1 points and was nominated for 11 Hong Kong Film Awards. The market performance also exceeded expectations, with the mainland box office exceeding 100 million, and it also became the box office champion of Hong Kong comedy in the history of Hong Kong films.
This time "Still Think You're the Best 2" is ready to fight again. The story continues from the previous work from the dinner table to the wedding banquet. The men and women who are afraid of marriage enter the love adventure of marriage by accident.
Stills from "Still Think You're the Best 2"
The second brother of the Chen family (played by Zhang Jicong) proposes to his "ex-sister-in-law" Monica (played by Stephy Tang). Zhu Zhu (played by Wang Wanzhi) and the third brother (played by Chen Zhanwen) who are in the "emotional moratorium" also suddenly decide to have a flash marriage, and the single Where will the emotional direction of the heartthrob Meow Meow (played by Lin Mingzhen) go... The original cast returns again, and "wedding guests" Tse Junhao, Wei Junsheng, as well as familiar TVB comedians such as Hu Feng, Luo Lan, Michelle, etc. gather together, It also protects the authentic Hong Kong flavor of the film.
During the post-screening exchange session, director Chen Yongshen threw wedding candies to the audience after the appearance and said that the film will be released during the Lantern Festival. "This is a day of reunion and a moment to witness happy love and sweet family. I hope everyone can take this warmth." Keep moving forward.”
At the beginning of the new century, Chen Yongshen joined the film industry as a screenwriter. "Still Think You're the Best" is his second work as a director. Talking about the difference between the two professional identities, he said that as a screenwriter, he writes the stories he wants to write. "As for how the director shoots it, I don't care about it." "After becoming a director, I often wonder how I can write like this. , how do you want me to film it?! So the identities of screenwriter and director are constantly fighting in my head."
In his opinion, after working on "I Still Think You're the Best", his communication with the actors has become very harmonious. "They look more like a family now, and their relationship is deeper. They can interpret what I want to say better." Wonderful."
"Still Think You're the Best 2" director Chen Yongshen
"When making the sequel, I spent a lot of time thinking about how many elements of the first episode should be retained? How many new things should be written and added? I don't want to redo what I have already done. This is not what the audience wants. Watch it. So this time I kept everyone’s spirit and their best appearance, but they are moving forward as a family. In the first episode, they were chatting around the dinner table, and some funny things came out. This time they became a family and faced the problems of the outside world together," Chen Yongshen said.
Chen Yongshen believes that the sequel continues the spiritual temperament of the previous film, "On the surface, I want to write about marriage and love in this movie, but in fact, it is about family. When it comes to marriage, we often say 'live together forever and stay together forever'. These eight The words are read so fast that many people have not studied the meaning. In fact, 'growing old together' is very easy. The most important thing is 'to be united forever'. How can we achieve this level? Just like Monica said in the movie, We must have a spirit of belief in order to move forward together.”
Referring to the classic dialogue in the film "I don't believe in marriage, but I believe in you", Chen Yongshen said that this is what he once said to his wife. "This is my view on marriage. Frankly speaking, the elders in my family were not very happy when I was a child, so I didn't believe in marriage when I was a child. But after meeting my wife, I felt that she was different from the rest of the world. Women are all different. They feel that they have found the right person beside them. I am willing to believe in her and she also believes in me. In fact, marriage is neutral. It is just a stage and a thing. The most important thing is who is going to face it with you. The most important thing about marriage is to find the right person."
