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of gangster movies where none of the good guys is a good guy - Takeshi Kitano's return to violence
The internationally renowned Takeshi Kitano has never been a popular director, but in recent years, the old man seems to be more and more deviated. Double-sided Takeshi Kitano", "Long Live the Director! " and "Achilles and the Turtle" are more confusing than the other, making people feel that Takeshi Kitano is not only far away from the audience, but even far away from himself.
After being "lost" for several years, the familiar Takeshi Kitano is finally back! The new film "Extremely Wicked" is a violent action film with a gangster theme. Just from the title of the film, you can smell a breath of blood. Counting down, Kitano's last film showing violent aesthetics was "Zatoichi" seven years ago, and the gangster film dates back to "Big Brother" ten years ago. Just when many people sighed that Kitano was already "fierce" and could not get up, the old man who was over sixty years old suddenly killed a carbine.
Kitano Takeshi said frankly that he had no special intention to return to violent movies. It was purely "because I wanted to make violent movies." However, he did not deny that this move was influenced by public opinion and was motivated by wanting to take care of the audience's feelings. "Since people say that I always make movies that people can't understand, then I will make a friendly pork chop rice for everyone to try." Kitano half-jokingly compared his new movie to the pork chop rice made by an old chef in a high-end restaurant. , "The pork chop rice I made is different from ordinary ones. It's very delicious! However, it has a strong taste, and you have to drink several glasses of water after you taste it.
" Infighting stories are full of betrayal and mutilation, and none of the characters are decent and good people. I think "Sonata" that made Takeshi Kitano famous in Europe back then was also a violent gangster film, but the old man doesn't want people to use the old as a benchmark to compare the new work. In the new film, Kitano uncharacteristically arranged a large number of lines in a row of guns, and also shot the action scenes like thunder. He wants to tell everyone: This is a Takeshi Kitano movie that has surpassed the past and has evolved and transformed.
Eleven powerful male stars play together - Takeshi Kitano takes "newcomers"
Takeshi Kitano has recruited three generations of powerful stars who are enough to represent the Japanese entertainment industry to join his new film. In addition to himself, there are Hayabusa Kunimura, Takashi Tsukamoto, Fumiyo Kohito, Yuka Miura, Shiina Kihei, Ryo Kase, etc. , The eleven main characters in the film - ten underworld people and one policeman are all big names with a background.
This time, Mr. Kitano invited many "newcomers" who have never cooperated before. Soichiro Kitamura, Shiina, Miura, and Kase are the first time to join Kitano group. At the same time, Kitano went the other way and arranged for actors with "good looks" to be vicious gangsters. "If you hire actors who always play bad guys, then all the characters will have the same gangster flavor, and the movie will not be done well. In this film, the higher the gangster, the more ordinary the appearance, but the inside of the belly. Of course it's all black."
As Kitano said, Soichiro Kitamura, who plays the No. 1 boss in the film, the leader of the Shan Wanghui, has no bad character at all, and his most popular image is in "Jumping the Great Search Line". It is absolutely rare for the timid and scrupulous director to see Kitamura quietly playing with his scheming killers. In addition, Ryo Kase, who is the least experienced in the cast, is also a highlight. Ryo Kase, who is considered to be a typical herbivorous man, plays the intellectual gangster Ishihara this time, and one-third of his lines are in English. In order to "blacken" Kase, Takeshi Kitano put a lot of thought into letting him thin his hair back, reshape his eyebrows, put on a pair of small square glasses for him, and even rewrite it according to his image. The script was written, and the characters were set as neurotic characters who were usually taciturn, expressionless, and would strike ruthlessly once they got angry.
On the underworld stage where all the bad guys, the co-op play of eleven male stars, the pork chop rice made by Takeshi Kitano's return to the origin can be said to be a good meal, and it is mouth-watering when it smells. While "The Wicked" received mixed reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, it didn't seem to matter because, no matter what those who had eaten it said, it had enough appeal to make those who didn't want to try it.
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