This film is based on a novel. I have never read the novel, but the film looks novel. The image of China has never had a good reputation in foreign films. Man writes as an immigrant. The combination of Chinese and restaurants is not uncommon, but it is not common to portray a Chinese father who lost his daughter as "Ranbo". If you don't know much about the history between the British government and the National Organization of Northern Ireland, it is naturally difficult to understand the relationship between multiple forces when watching this film. But as long as you see Jackie Chan making bombs, setting up traps in the forest, and evading spies, you don't need to talk about the abbreviations of "UDI" and "UVF" in the film, while "China Power" and Chinese In this rather fragmented narrative strategy, a unique ecological perspective has been formed. For the image of Chinese people in European and American films, I am most impressed by Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America", the scene of the protagonist Noodles smoking a big cigarette in a Chinese theater at the beginning, the second theater boy and various prostitutes have become Chinese The face of man in the overseas world - tame and entertaining. But in "British Showdown", it began to be very different. After decades of dormancy, this kind of tameness was finally provoked by political corruption and terrorist violence. The old man Guan played by Jackie Chan is one of the rare ones in Jackie Chan's character gallery. . Clean up the jokes, withered and angry, replaced by the sadness of old age and the grief of losing a daughter, but the cold face and stubbornness are the most basic things about the character of Guan Laotou. In the entire "British Showdown", Jackie Chan, as a former special soldier, is like no one in the British government agencies. And in the end, when the police were supposed to arrest him, they let him go with the motive of "this Chinese guy has helped us a lot, and he has a beginning and an end". This ending is very interesting. An outsider, it can be stable, but it must not be humiliated; it must take revenge, but it must obey the rules; it has a beginning and an end, and it is polite and disciplined.
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