Shange Yundun, who played stars for a generation, is now also old. At the beginning of the film, we watched him blaze a trail, conscientiously finish a five-minute long shot, and then out of breath, yelled at the young director: "I'm 47 years old! I want a shot to do all the action. It's difficult!" The director is from Hong Kong, with an indifferent, Facebook face. He replied in Cantonese: Do you think you are filming "Citizen Kane"? The beautiful translator thought for a moment, turned over and said that the reason why you don't use weapons is to bring out the purity of your character.
He lost his daughter's custody rights, lost the next film, and returned to his hometown of Belgium. When he was riding a taxi, he was talked about by a female driver, and he lost his temper at all. The check bounced, he tried to make money, and just walked into a robbery on the corner of the street. Can luck be worse? The answer is yes. Everyone thought he was the one who robbed the bank. He has muscles and skills. He is a cold-faced hero in countless B-level movies, but now that the opponent's gun is on his temple, he can't save anyone, let alone save himself.
There was a shot, with a lone spotlight standing behind, and Shangge Yundun rose up. The wall between the film's narrative and the audience is broken. Under our uneasy gaze, he began to tell his own story, his dream, his love, sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles, starving; selling himself; his success and fame, his story with drugs, his life. There are tears in his eyes. He said that I couldn't speak a word of English at that time. He said, stealing in order not to go hungry. He said that when I think of those who have never succeeded, my heart is broken. They are equally worthy. They have various advantages, but why are they not as successful as I am? When he said this, the muscular man almost burst into tears.
He is indeed a second-line Hollywood action star. He did have unsuccessful marriages, some momentary highlights, and more, bad filming choices; he also had a lot of holidays with drugs. But these were his own choices; no one forced him. There are always people who love to see B-level action movies, so someone must be an action star, and there will always be someone who wants to be an action star. I respect them. Most of these people who are famous by playing hard work hard and treat their bodies as a shrine.
But the most moving thing is what the character of Shangge Yundun said. That is on the road to the action star, on the road to the dream, no matter how small or humble the dream is, many people fall on the way, and there are more people who have never Can take the first step. In the final analysis, in fact, on the road, in the clouds, and the people who are still standing still, they are all the same desperate and hopeless; and the meaning of life seems to be able to jump out of this movie temporarily, five minutes higher, and put your heart to heart; do it for five minutes Hamlet; then went back and was overwhelmed by the heavily armed, living special police.
In real life, the robbers will not be so tender, the police will not be so stupid, Shange Yundun is not so tender, and life itself will be less compassionate. But knowing that there have been such five minutes, there will be such five minutes, is always a comforting thing.
This film brought Shange Yunton's dying career back to the mainstream of Hollywood. His performance was rated as the second best in 2008 by "Time", behind The Dark Knight's Heath Ledger; he began to receive films that could enter the theater. Things have turned around. This is perhaps the happiest point in the interweaving of film dreams and real life.
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