The [Police Story] series is Jackie Chan's signature masterpiece. There are 6 episodes of stories and a rumor called "Super Project". During the first two episodes, Jackie Chan designed many powerful action scenes, such as the speeding towards the opening of the first episode. The scene of the rampage in the housing estate in the downhill area has a real feeling of a hard bridge and a hard horse. Jackie Chan's unique struggle has also made this film an indicator of a classic action movie.
However, the first two episodes of [Police Story] seem to be just heroic movies with a lot of action scenes. The characters are flat and boring, and the protagonist has only pure Jackie Chan-style heroism. Therefore, in the filming of this film, Jackie Chan intentionally differentiated himself from his past self. He chose Chen Musheng as his partner. At that time, Chen Musheng was a shootout film director comparable to John Woo and To Qifeng. He had previously collaborated with Jackie Chan on [Who Am I], which was one of the most famous action films in Chinese that year. Chen Musheng also designed a A wonderful side-scrolling scene. The screenwriter is Yuan Jinlin, a famous police and gangster film screenwriter who cooperated with Chen Musheng [Double Heroes]. Almost all the writers and directors are extremely talented, which has established the status of this film.
The film was very shocking from the very beginning. It directly let the villain kill eight policemen in one shot. Jackie Chan, the protagonist, was powerless. He satirized the heroism of the first four episodes. Jackie Chan, who wanted to be a hero, suffered a big loss. The four episodes are almost impossible to find, and there are also novel designs in the villain design. The villains in the first four episodes are the big drug lord and the bombing party, or they are terrorists. The villain of this episode was designed as the superintendent's son to take revenge on the police represented by his father. This is probably the credit of screenwriter Yuan Jinlin.
The villain played by Wu Yanzu is a bit similar to the clown of "The Dark Knight" a few years later. He also won the male supporting role with the villain, but the villain played by Wu Yanzu is naturally not as philosophical as the clown. He is a very simple rich second-generation fart. , is a child who talks about evil. This is also the credit of Chen Musheng. His simple and clear style naturally does not want complicated characters to appear, but Wu Yanzu's amazing performance makes this villain with very simple behavior and thinking. It's not superficial at all.
The villain played by Wu Yanzu has an embarrassing past. He was domestically abused by the superintendent's father since he was a child, so when he grew up, he transferred his hatred of his father to the police. The shadow of his father made him unable to establish a normal communication with his father. Bridge, he would rather pretend to hate the police than resolve the conflict with his father. His father's strict education on him has also cultivated him a lot of knowledge about policing, so he is in a battle of wits with the police one after another. Douyong can get out of the way, and with his intelligence, he can be a very good policeman, but unfortunately because of his father's high wall, he can only get deeper and deeper. This may be the abnormal growth in the IQ environment. Education has made him a very capable person, but it has not made him a very moral and polite person.
This is also the innovation of this film. It not only breaks the aura of the protagonist, but also subverts the concept of the first four episodes. The police are no longer invincible. The police also have imperfections, and they will make mistakes and break the law. Like a police superintendent’s father, he failed to teach his son a template, which shows that evil is not as black and white as policemen and thieves, but lurks in human nature at any time, with one thought for good and another for evil. From the old confrontation between good and evil to the police infighting, this transformation can be said to be quite wise
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