Watch "Exile". Since "A Lang's Story", I have been a fan of To Qifeng. Of course, he has also made a lot of bad movies. I think I have to count the merits and demerits of Lao Du:
"If there is love in the sky" series, I am not very cold;
last year's film "The thief and the thief", the story is told in various ways.
"Dragon City New Year" has won many awards, but I don't like it at all because it is very contrived. --Lao Du's movies, once the "director" consciousness is too inflated, it is easy to make a contrived problem. Everyone is playing hard poses. Instead, it is better to put down your body and make a
comedy like "Cuckoo Kuck New Year's Fortune". Works well.
"Big man has great wisdom": From a creative point of view, it has great potential, but if it is far-fetched to be related to Chanwu, the second half is simply unwatchable.
"PTU" is also a very cool movie, but it's really successful, so it's really cool, it belongs to my favorite movie :)
"Big Event", the story and characters are good, but the middle rhythm is broken , the tension that has been maintained from the beginning is suddenly inexplicably relaxed in the middle of the film. Unfortunately, it is not picked up again at the end of 20 minutes. But there are still a few unforgettable places in it. For example, the policewoman played by Chen Huilin always felt that she was ruthless, but when the gun was pointed at her head at the end, she was worthy of her professional cold-blooded composure And refusing to surrender, there is another kind of trance and loneliness, which really hit my mind quite forcefully :)
"Dark War" 1 and 2. A very good film, although not without flaws. And I think it was the dark war that created a structural model of confrontation between two heroes. At that time, a group of films followed suit. After the silence, they finally reappeared in 2003 in the form of "Infernal Affairs", which led to another group of followers. . All of these movies, I call them "Dark Wars."
"Dead Judge", a nice comedy starring Zhou Xingxing and Anita Mui. All aspects are good.
-- Seeing that these films were all made by his old man, it was really surprising. In fact, he also has "Slimming Men and Women", "Three Heroes of the East" and many other works that almost everyone has seen, saying "almost": because I haven't seen it, so I won't make any comments. In addition, he is also a member of the 83 version of the Condor Shooting Director Group. Lao Du is a very commercial director. Many people misunderstand this statement. So let me say a few more words: If you can make a good commercial film, you are many times better than most directors who make "artistic films", not the other way around.
Finally, it comes to "Gun Fire": a classic in my mind all the time. When I learned that "Exile" is the "sequel" to "Gunfire", of course I immediately looked for it!
First of all, I strongly despised and protested the Radio, Film and Television Bureau's arbitrary changes to Hong Kong movies. There are two stupid subtitles at the beginning and the end of this movie. They are them Completely twisted the story beyond recognition. I don't know when I can see the original version.
Look at the "exile" aside from the beginning and the end. The bright spot, as always, is Lao Du's scene scheduling. Watching Lao Du's gunfight group scene is indeed It is a kind of enjoyment, completely different from others, he is calm, violent, graceful, free and easy, and very well-organized, and also integrated into the drama. From the "greeting with gunshots" at Zhang Jiahui's house at the beginning, to the many parties in the Christmas restaurant Convergence; then to the illegal doctor's house, the rhythm is like an ups and downs movement, like a virgin in stillness, like a rabbit in action. However, Lao Du is afraid that he is a bit narcissistic too much, and this trick is played repeatedly in the film I played it again, so much so that I started to lose my mind when there was a rather spectacular shootout scene.
The actors were all the best: Wu Zhenyu, Huang Qiusheng, Zhang Jiahui... In fact, compared to the "Gun Huo" lineup, only Lv Songxian is missing. It's a pity, when I heard that the lineup is almost the same as "Gunfire", the first thing I think of is Lu Songxian. He is the only person who doesn't act cool in the gunfire: everyone else is holding the air, only he sees He greets people kindly, others give Zhang a cold face, and he doesn't care if he smiles; the eldest's young wife always seduces the eldest's subordinates, Wu Zhenyu knows the benefits and avoids it early, but Lu Songxian is a normal young man. People, there is no way to avoid falling in love. But because of this, when the boss wants everyone to kill him, those brothers will not do it! Lu Songxian is an underrated good actor, and he completely puts the brilliance of this role in Inadvertently played out, very jumping!
Another person who performed extremely well in "Gun Fire" was Wu Zhenyu. He was in a better situation and was not buried. It is said that Tony Leung is an award-winning professional, but at the Golden Horse Award that year, Ng Zhenyu defeated the popular Tony Leung (<>) and won the Golden Horse Award. There are 5 leading actors in "Gun Fire", and the scenes are average. The Golden Horse Awards judge's comment to Wu Zhenyu is: "Although it is one-fifth, his eyes jump out at once."
This time, Zhang Jiahui was added to "Exile". In the early years, when I saw Zhang Jiahui in "Invincible - The Winner is King", I was "amazing" - staying in the same scene with other people did not occupy the most favorable position. It makes me think he has a great future. Later it turned out that my eyesight was quite accurate :) This time, Zhang Jiahui's performance in "Exile" was decent, his performance was relatively clean, but there was nothing to highlight. Other people: from Wu Zhenyu to Huang Qiusheng, they all still have their own unique charm, but they also like to pose and act too cool, from a C+ to a B- position.
The heroine and actor have a good background: He Chaoyi, the daughter of Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, has become the biggest surprise in terms of actors! Wearing a sloppy housewife dress and holding a baby in a shabby house, you can still see the hidden beauty of that face - not the kind of beauty that is unobstructed, but the kind of aftertaste reminiscent of Cate Blanchett beauty for a long time. It seems that mixed-race people are different: P's acting skills are also unexpectedly good. Of course, it should be the credit of director Lao Du that people who have been electrocuted for the first time can perform like this.
Having said so much, I'm talking about scenes and actors, because scenes and actors are the biggest advantages of "exile". When it comes to the story, it is very similar to "Gun Fire", but there is no conciseness of "Gun Fire" at all; and the plot has many flaws and far-fetched points, as well as a lot of wishful thinking. When it comes to characters, I lose the natural, neat, and powerful nature of "gun fire", which sometimes makes me sigh of "wasting a good actor".
I think Lao Du, like me, loves "gunfire" so much that he couldn't help but take a remake and take off his hat to pay tribute to his proud work in his early years. Alas, it's better to leave it to others to pay tribute to this kind of thing.
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