Xie Liwen

Xie Liwen

Xie Liwen is a well-known writer in Hong Kong, China, author of McDull McMug series and publisher of children's magazine yellow bus. "Shilaoren" is his other work besides McDull and McMug. Like the back of the moon, Shilaoren and McMug are different but close together.

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In Hong Kong's cartoon industry, Xie Liwen and Mai Jiabi are a unique couple. Unlike Hong Kong's mainstream martial arts and guzhuozai comics, the comics created by Xie and Mai are not only more easily accepted by people of different ages, but also more life-style plots. "McMug comics" is one of the most representative. In this cartoon, McDull and McMug's Pink cartoon pig images often appear on the stationery and greeting cards around us, becoming one of the children's favorite cartoon images, and the "Chuntian Huahua kindergarten" in the cartoon story has also become an ideal place for children's dream. It's a long-standing wish of makabi to put this story on the screen, and now it has finally come true.

Related works

1990-1993 Hong Kong's "Xiao Ming Zhou" series of McMug comics

1993-1995 series of Sunday weekly with yellow bus weekly

1994-1996 Hong Kong Economic Daily serial McMug comics

McMug PC launched in 1995

1996 to date, yellow bus Weekly has been independently released

1997 - so far, McMug has been shown on Hong Kong TV stations. 1998 has been serialized in the times weekly

In 2001, it launched dozens of cartoon films, including McDull story, McMug adult fairy tale, McMug three little pigs, mini novel, Chuntian Huahua kindergarten, McMug flying pig in the sky, McMug old love like a dream, McMug touching story, McMug cartoon, perfect story, quiet voice, McMug Christmas story, etc.

Director and screenwriter of 2012 blockbuster movie McDull

Award winning record

Book review

The prince of McDull and pineapple oil is a real transcendence. Although it may not be able to surpass the box office of the first episode "McDull story" by 14.5 million yuan, and although the younger brothers and sisters next door can't figure out who is McDull and who is Mai Bing, for the couple like Mai Jiabi and Xie Liwen, "McDull and the prince of pineapple oil" shows their transcendence, innovation of narrative techniques and depth of script writing In the film, Mai Bing is more like the incarnation of Xie Liwen, who finally puts on the coat of "Mai Bing, Prince of pineapple oil" and becomes the rightful "father of McDull".

In my impression, maijiabi, who is always thin, frequently appears in public, while Xie Liwen, the real protagonist who integrates writing, screenwriting and production supervision, is extremely low-key and never shows up. This talent from the University of Sydney, who majored in mathematics and got a degree in education and computer, was in charge of a publishing company in Hong Kong. At that time, Mak Jiabi, who graduated from the graphic design major of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, came to Xie Liwen's company through the introduction of his classmates. His cool and lovely comic style was appreciated by Xie Liwen. So Xie Liwen was in charge of writing stories, and Mai Jiabi created cartoon patterns,

In 1988, McMug comics, with a pink pig McMug as the protagonist, began to be serialized in Ming Pao Weekly, which immediately won the favor of readers. In this way, these creative partners also developed into life partners, and jointly founded "yellow bus", "yellow pudding", "sparrow" and other magazines.

After that, Xie Liwen created a more tragic comic image, showman. In the two films McDull, which brought the cartoon to the screen, Xie Liwen was also a screenwriter and producer. Consciously or unconsciously, Xie Liwen finally got a "Full Frontal Nudity" in McDull's Prince of pineapple oil. He used McDull's father Mai Bing (Prince of pineapple oil) as his representative and integrated himself into the role. The same reticence. But his heart is as rich and delicate as ever, and he has the same insistence of never giving up -- Mai Bing can't let go of his "pineapple oil Prince" past, so he abandons his wife and son, and goes to find the Lost Kingdom, leaving Mai Tai to raise McDull alone.

Xie Liwen is also introverted and low-key. When he comes to the stage to receive the award, he can say nothing (in 2002, Xie Liwen came to the stage to receive the award of International Film Critics union of Hong Kong International Film Festival, but he has always insisted that "I am a businessman, I use comics as media to publish my works. I'm trying to find a way for my product, because I don't believe that in this world, all roads are sealed. " It's a story about the future and the past. Mai Bing lives in the past, in the dreamland and the bright rose of the past, in the home that he can't go back to. Mai Tai lives in the future. The future is the McDull after becoming a useful man, and the McDull facing the sea after returning to the land. Only McDull stays in the present. He has learned to play tricks, "feign death" and "two words and three languages" under the education of adults (school and mother) since childhood. He has learned to get along with others, talk about the weather, say hello and laugh. There is no past and no future. Every day is a day. It's a story about happiness and sorrow. Prince, rose, jade lotus, love turtle pizza Just as in dajiaozui, A17 is chanting "you are the only one in my heart, not him.

”This time, Xie Liwen made McDull the prince of pineapple oil bear too much ambition and theme. On Mai Bing's bookshelf, there are the complete works of magic, the complete works of Lu Xun, the little prince and the collection of Haizi's poems. Although they both have an open ending, it's different from the real person appearing at the end of the first episode. At the end of "Prince of pineapple oil", Xie Liwen arranges McDull and cellist Yo Yo Ma to "shake his feet" to accompany Bach's cello unaccompanied suite. "Shaking his feet seems to make time pass a little bit more realistically." Mai Bing tells Matthew, who nestles beside him, that the prince's nostalgia is amazing It has a strong grass root flavor and is dejected.

The only regret is that "McDull Prince of pineapple oil" staged in Guangzhou is a Mandarin dubbing, which fails to appreciate the wonderful "sound performance" of Huang Qiusheng, Wu Junru and Liu Dehua. It is said that McDull Wudang, the third film of McDull movie, is already in progress. Xie Liwen has written the outline of "Wudang". It is probably the story that when Mrs. McDull went to the mainland to do business, she sent McDull to Wudang Mountain to practice martial arts. The film, with an investment of HK $20 million, is expected to be released next year. It seems that McDull's gray growth story still has something to look forward to.

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