Lin Lingdong

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Life of the characters

In 1973, after graduating from St. Peter's middle school, Lin Lingdong entered the Hong Kong TVB artistes training course.

In 1974, the director Wang Tianlin appreciated, as Assistant Producer, and further to the direction of director.

In 1976, he worked as a TV program producer and produced the ancient costume drama "the beauty of folk legend", the love and hatred drama "revenge" of the Republic of China, and the fashion drama "family change".

In 1978, he transferred to Jiayi TV station (CTV) and produced the criminal police TV series vanguard. Later, he went to York University to study film production.

In 1982, Lin Lingdong returned to Hong Kong to join the new art city film company and directed the first film Yin Yang Cuo, which ranked fourth in the box office of Hong Kong with nearly 11 million achievements. Thus, Lin Lingdong began to emerge.

In 1985, he wrote and directed the love movie "Aishen No.1", starring ye Qianwen and Zheng Haonan. After the film was released, it gained 7 million yuan in profits, and it was also well received in other cities.

In 1987, he directed and co authored the action drama "the storm of dragons and tigers". The film describes a spy breaking into a criminal gang, slowly forming a sincere friendship with the leader, and finally conquering the robbers with the power of friendship. The film won 10 nominations including the best film of the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards, and Lin Lingdong won the best director award. Subsequently, Lin Lingdong directed and supervised the prison film "prison storm", which was nominated as the best director of the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In 1989, Lin Lingdong and his brother Nan Yan jointly produced the love action movie "with me to the end of the world". In this movie, the dark forces and ugly human nature are completely suppressed by the simple and sweet implicit love. Finally, Lin Lingdong won the best film nomination of the 26th Taiwan Golden Horse film award and the best director nomination.

In 1990, he directed and supervised the production of the action film jihadi. The film takes international terrorist activities as the theme, and the location is far away to Poland for shooting. 80% of the dialogue in the film is in foreign language, and is co starred by Li Xiuxian, Peter rabbis and Guan Zhilin.

In 1993, he directed the romantic action film "grand theft" starring Chow Yun fat, Ren Dahua and Bai Annie. Lin Lingdong went to Thailand to shoot the film in a tropical and wild atmosphere. The special effects of shooting bullets with subjective lens are more powerful.

In 1996, Lin Lingdong went to the U.S. to direct the thriller action film "hard into 100% danger", starring shange Winton and Natasha henschucci, which depicts the intelligence and courage of American agents and Russian gangsters. The film earned US $14.5 million at the box office in the United States.

In 1997, Lin Lingdong returned to the Hong Kong film world with the psychological police and bandit film "high alert". This film is more about the psychological secret war between police detective Liu Qingyun and bandit Wu Zhenyu, and "fighting for wisdom" is the main way for them to compete. The film won five nominations at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards and Lin Lingdong was nominated for best director.

In 1999, she edited and directed the sister work "high alert", which is about the alienation of human nature under the pressure of environment in the type of horror film / thriller film / police mystery film. Lin Lingdong was nominated for best director in the 36th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, including 6 nominations for best film, and 4 nominations for the 19th Hong Kong Film Golden Award.

In 2001, Lin Lingdong went to the United States again and directed the sci-fi action film "copy the killer" for the American craftsman company, which is still starred by Shanger Winton. After its release, the film received a good response and was rated as one of the top ten films of 2001 by many French film critics.

In 2003, Lin Lingdong cooperated with shange Winton for the third time to shoot the action thriller prison rebellion.

In 2007, Lin Lingdong worked with two old friends Tsui Hark and Du Qifeng to make the action film iron triangle, in which the three were responsible for different parts of the story. Tsui Hark is in charge of the "beginning" of the film. Lin Lingdong tells the "development" of the story according to Tsui Hark's "beginning", and finally ends with Du Qifeng. As an observation film, the film was shortlisted in the competition unit of the 60th Cannes Film Festival.

In 2014, after seven years of directing, Lin Lingdong turned on the action film "Enigma city" and talked about how Aberdeen Koo Tien Lok and Yu wenle lost themselves in the streets. The film was released in Chinese mainland in July 30, 2015.

In September 2015, Lin Lingdong started shooting the action movie "flying frost" starring Wu Yanzu, Zhang Jingchu, Guo Caijie and Zhang Xiaoquan.

On December 29, 2018, Hong Kong director Lin Lingdong died suddenly at home at the age of 63. The cause of death remains to be determined after an autopsy.

Personal life

Lin Lingdong's brother, Nan Yan (formerly known as Lin Lingnan), is a Hong Kong producer, screenwriter and director.

Main works

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Directing works

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Award winning record

Character evaluation

Lin Lingdong is one of the most important representatives of Hong Kong movies, whose label was violence aesthetics. His films are sharp and direct. In his early years, he paid more attention to and thought about the social reality than most Hong Kong movies. (surging evaluation)

Lin Lingdong's films have their own unique cumulative narrative method. Contradictions and conflicts are progressive step by step, one level higher than the other, and finally push the protagonist to the top of the cliff. The typical narrative work should be "prison storm". In this film, under the cumulative effect, Lin Lingdong narrates calmly, constructs conflicts step by step, and finally creates a life and death battle that has to be launched. (International online review)

Different from John Woo's "Violence Aesthetics", Lin Lingdong explores social problems with enlarged "real violence" in the framework of genre films. (Beijing News) Lin Lingdong used the narrative framework of police and bandit films in the three "Fengyun" films. It's worth thinking that the common confrontation between police and bandits in Lin Lingdong's films turned into the police's inability to face the bandits, or the police and the bandits formed a "alliance" relationship intentionally or unintentionally, and simultaneously used the strength of two groups to commit violence to the weak individuals. In Lin Lingdong's two worlds of police and gangsters, police are more disgusting than gangsters, because gangsters also give people a little warmth by virtue of "river and lake morality", while police are more arrogant and brutal by virtue of legitimate power. (International online review)

Lin Lingdong traces back to the tradition of Hollywood's "black film" in the 1930s and 1940s and treats it as a human tragedy forced by the cruel social reality, especially in the performance of social background, which is more profound and complex than John Woo's films. The emphasis on men, in order to break through the oppression of bad society and rights, pay a heavy price for dignity, justice and women's love. (comments by Rocca, a Hong Kong film culture scholar)

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