Lu Guanting’s appearance at the Hong Kong Film Festival missed the movie Kung Fu for physical reasons.
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1905 movie network news On the evening of July 20th, the opening ceremony of the 7th Hong Kong Film Festival was held in Beijing Broadway Film Center. Fu Xiaohui, Director of the Beijing Office of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Liu Shaowen, President of Anle Film and Broadway Cinema, and other leading guests, as well as Lu Guanting, the guest curator of this year’s Hong Kong Film Festival, his wife Tang Shuchen, and Bao Dexi, a famous Hong Kong photographer and director, were present.
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At the scene, Fu Xiaohui, director of the Beijing Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, delivered a speech on the stage. She said that 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the country’s reform and opening up, and the film industry in the two places has developed rapidly in the past 40 years. Since the signing of CEPA (Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between the Mainland and Hong Kong) in 2003, it has set off a wave of co-productions between Hong Kong and the Mainland. This year’s Hong Kong Film Festival will also have a forum to discuss the future co-production strategy and prospects.
Fu Xiaohui, Director of the Beijing Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The theme of the 7th Hong Kong Film Festival is "The Sound of the Years, Hong Kong Film and Hong Kong Music", and 17 films, including others, will be shown in two cinemas in Beijing from July 20th to July 29th. Mai Shengxi, director of Broadway Film Center, said that he was delighted to see so many young fans chasing Hong Kong films all over the country. This year’s film festival has set up eight units, hoping to convey the theme of these films through these units and themes.
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This time, Lu Guanting, as the guest curator of this film festival, also came to the opening ceremony site and the post-film symposium of the opening film to communicate with the audience and fans. As a musician who has written music for many classic Hong Kong films, he said: "Movie music is very important to movies. If the music is removed, the taste of movies will be different." At the same time, he jokingly said: "If you can’t meet the requirements of the director, you can’t get along. No matter how bad the director’s taste is, we must satisfy the director’s interest. "
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When it comes to the director who has worked with him, he said that he was happy to work with Stephen Chow because "I don’t know why he didn’t scold me. Because Stephen Chow is famous for swearing. " At the same time, he also revealed that he was very sorry that he couldn’t participate in Stephen Chow’s soundtrack: "I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to make music, but it’s a pity that Stephen Chow invited me to participate in Kung Fu, but I didn’t go because of my physical reasons."
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As for the classic "The Love of My Life", which is well known to mainland audiences, Lu Guanting mentioned that he started writing it on the plane back to Hong Kong: "When filming on a Chinese Odyssey started in Xi ‘an, he (Liu Zhenwei) invited me to Xi ‘an. Told me the whole story, which was unforgettable. The director said that this is a love story that has no result for 500 years. This sentence gave me a deep shock. I started writing when I flew back to Hong Kong. When I got off the plane and went home, I had a melody. In two days, my wife also wrote the words. "
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It is understood that after the opening of Beijing Railway Station, the 7th Hong Kong Film Festival will tour 15 cities including Jinan, Shenyang, Shanghai, Dalian, Tianjin, Kunming, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and Ningbo, and the tour cycle will last until the end of December.
