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The Mermaid is a romantic comedy co-produced by China Film Corporation and Starlight Overseas Co., LTD. It is directed and written by Stephen Chow and actors Deng Chao, Luo Zhixiang, and actresses Lin Yun, Zhang Yuqi. The film tells the story about a billionaire Liu Xuan who falls in love with a mermaid, Shanshan. However, Shanshan is trying to assassins him in order to save her family. The main character billionaire Liu Xuan （Deng Chao） has a real estate project involving a reclamation project that threatens residents who depend on the ocean for their livelihood. As a result of human damage to the ocean and ecology, the mermaid can barely survive on a broken boat. Therefore, the main character Shanshan （Lin Yun） is sent to against the reclamation plan from Liu Xuan. Liu Xuan is a person who can get a sense of accomplishment from his hard work. Although he appears to be wealthy, he is extremely empty and lonely in deep down. When Liu Xuan and Shanshan are in the process of getting along. Gradually deepened their understanding of each other, after a period of time, between the two generated a love for each other. At the end of the movie, Liu falls in love with Shanahan, and in order to avoid causing harm to Shanahan and her family, eventually Liu terminates the reclamation project. These inspirations of film are from the Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. The Little Mermaid.

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For the marketing part, Chow toured 20 cities in China to promote The Mermaid, including many fan meetings. On May 24,2016, Chow, Deng Chao and Lin Yun, together with Chinese government ministers, attended the screening of The Mermaid at the opening ceremony of the Chinese Film Week in Wellington New Zealand. The finance part of this film, Rumors of a $2 billion box office guarantee deal have been widely reported. The film was released in China on February 8, 2016. After release the film, the box office has been becoming most attentional point. The anticipated fans as well as the advantage opened the day after the Lunar New Year, The Mermaid 's opening day set a record of $40.9 million, which was then one of China's biggest opening films and the second biggest behind the CJ 7 on the first day. In the U.S., the film opened to $985,000 for a per-theater average of $28,144, the biggest opening for a limited release Chinese-language film to date.

At the same time, the theme song and music video of the film is titled Invincible. The music's lyrics were created by Stephen Chow and sung by Deng Chao. On January 18, 2016, Sammi Cheng, Lin Yun, Stephen Chow and Karen Mok attended a press conference in Beijing to unveil the movie's promotional song, You're the Best in the World. The song You Are the best in the world is the second promotional song of the movie The Mermaid directed by Stephen Chow, following the promotional song Invincible. The song was originally the theme song of the 1983 version of The Legend of the Shooting Hero, with lyrics written by Wong Jim and music composed by Gu Jiahui. The song was originally written by Huang Zhan and composed by Gu Jiahui. Stephen Chow invited Karen Mok and Cheng Shaoqiu to help him and rearrange the song and cover it. The first element of the song is martial arts, and the second is emotion. The first element of the song is martial arts, and the second is emotion. When he invited Karen Mok and Cheng Shaoqiu to pair up, Stephen Chow confessed that the title of the song represents everything - after looking around, the two of them are the best. The original version of martial arts is emotionally strong, while Karen Mok and Cheng Shaoqiu's version, emotionally stronger, more feelings of mermaid.

At first time of the song, You Are the best in the World appears in the film is when Zhang Yuqi and director Tsui Hark enter in a limousine. It is worth mentioning that the main film at this time did not play the new version of Karen Mok and Cheng Shaoqiu's rendition, but instead played the original version by Lo Man and Yan Ni, which also reflects director Stephen Chow's tribute to the two singing predecessors.

The director of The Mermaid, Stephen Chow, has been involved in many films as an actor and director, and Chow's early acting career was made in television filming. In 1994, he made his debut as a director with the film From China with Love, and his on-screen career, both as an actor and a director, has been mainly hilarious style. 2010 saw him take a step back in time to produce and write the screenplay for the film Chang Jiang 7 Love Earth. In 2013, he became the writer and director of the movie Journey to the West, which broke 23 box office records after its release, including the first day box office record for Chinese movies and the second week box office record for Chinese movies, and broke the global box office record for Chinese movies with $218 million, through which Stephen Chow also retired from the front to the backstage. On 8th, The Mermaid was released, and its box office exceeded 3 billion yuan in 19 days, making it the first movie in mainland China with a box office of over 3 billion yuan, and breaking box office records in mainland China, Asia and the world. On September 22, the closing ceremony of the 20th "Beijing Screening" and the 2016 China Film International Communication Outstanding Contribution Award Gala was held, and Stephen Chow received the Outstanding Contribution Individual Award. In January 2017, he won the Best Director Award at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for the science fiction film The Mermaid; on January 28, he was the executive producer and scriptwriter of the costume comedy Journey to the West, which was released in mainland China; in 2018, he directed the comedy film The Mermaid, on February 5, 2019, he directed the comedy film The New King of Comedy, which was released in theaters. The lead actor in The Mermaid, Deng Chao, also started his acting career in TV dramas and entered the film making industry through a film directed by Feng Xiaoguang, Assembly. Deng Chao is not only an excellent actor, but he has also participated in many p performances and variety shows as a singer. Deng Chao is one of the few all-round entertainers in the entertainment industry. The lead actress in The Mermaid, Lin Yun, is a new generation female artist born after 1990. Lin Yun signed a contract with a modeling agency as a model in 2013. In August 2014, she participated in the audition for the lead role of The Mermaid and was selected from 120,000 people who had never acted before.

The movie, The Mermaid depicts a story about love, environmental protection, selfishness, profit and destruction of ecological environment on the opposite side. The storyline is designed to be very simple and clear. It is like a fairy tale book that we all read when we were children, conveying a simple truth to us with the help of a short story. However, this truth as we grow up, most of us have forgotten or memory blurred, until it is finally awakened, we suddenly understand that many things in the world is very simple. Emotions are simple, but humans have complicated it. On the other hand, caring for the environment is also simple, it is a small matter of loyalty to environmental protection. And Stephen Chow's work, it is specialized in through a mixture of sad and happy story to clarify a simple and clear truth. This movie also reflects the relationship between humans and wild animals, we humans eat wild animals, resulting in wild animals also began to produce self-protection mechanisms, and even released toxins, to rebel against human brutality. The toxins it releases allow people to quickly infect, cause disease, and even, fatally, between mutual contact. This is exactly what wild animals are doing to sound the alarm to us humans. What attitude you have towards other beings, other beings are naturally ideological will perceive, they will put all the pain you inflicted on it in backfire. If just one or two people are hurting them, then the species might let those one or two people pay for their crimes, but when most people are slaughtering innocent animals and mutilating innocent beings, then many species are fighting back together, causing the spread and proliferation of an epidemic that has the entire human race in a panic.

In general, the movie The Mermaid is an appeal to people to take care of the environment. If we can't wake up in time in consciousness and thought, always want to recklessly and destroy the ecological environment, then the greater pain to keep us awake until the moment we wake up. The root of people's sin is all about money. For money, we would rather kill wild animals and all living creatures, including our own kind. While we watch the movie, we should learn to avoid the mistakes that those people in the movie have made. Let's not let ourselves live as people in the movie, and let's not let the bridge in the movie, again in reality is interpreted into real.