666, Bao Aiyi <--Hong Kong slaves, understand...

Ruby 2021-10-13 13:06:06

This is a cool movie. Rhythm and atmosphere are the most important thing. The protagonist must be proud and boring. The rest of the old clichés don't matter, and they are just coolly rectified.

[The first time Gordon and Shafei met at the elevator door of Gordon’s apartment] (According to the original "Frog and Scorpion", in the US Embassy in the Soviet Union)

My sister was all over when watching this film in Cannes uneasy. One is that I have never watched a movie on the oblique corner of the second floor. This distance is too ecstasy. I will doze off after sitting in the dark for a while. Then there is the smell of discord in this piece. The foreigners at the scene are very high. I stared at the night view of the city with a wide-angle opening, the pink fonts on the left and right bottom corners of the screen, and the BGM with disco rhythm, and the sense of crossing with wasabi dipped in pizza was rippling in my stomach. .

When I saw M. Rose (this name...) calmly eating takeaway Chinese food in an Italian restaurant and insisting on chopsticks and good luck cakes, wasabi finally turned the torrent and rushed to his head, setting off the dust of the old days-[Sand Fei is a frog, and Gordon is a scorpion. Gordon needs to cross the river, but he can't swim. Regardless of the dissuasion of his companions, Shafei insisted on carrying Gordon and crossing the river. Gordon was moved at the time. If the scorpion had tears, he would not begrudge Shafee]

Unfortunately, Scorpion had no tears. This mudma is obviously a Hong Kong movie in the 1990s with a ghost as the protagonist and the background in LA!

Let's take the time machine and go back eighteen years ago, with the same notebook moving the background to Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The protagonist is Ekin Cheng with short hair. When he is not playing the role of Brother Honam, he is like a shy ordinary young man. Because of the light pupil color, he has a sense of distance. When he is fierce, his small body can only kill people with his eyes.
The heroine is Lin Jiaxin, who has just made her debut. She has a baby-faced face and a sweet smile. When she sits in the orange light and holds her baby, it is full of warmth at home. The role of her husband is Liu Qingyun, with a serious foreign worker face and friendly soy sauce.
M.Rose comes from Qin Pei, when did you last see him play the bad guy in a Gaweiyi shirt? It’s a past life. The other boss learned all his looks from Cheng Kui'an.
The soy sauce woman who went to robbery with the heroine's husband was Han Junting, who had dyed red hair-she had to be her mellow Chenguang. That silly little sister who was severed is very unwilling to think of Zhang Yaoyang. Although he has the face of a natural rogue, the people who have been crushed by the sister have been thrown off by this way, which means that he is not reconciled. It is better to be a pheasant. NS.
The owner of the car dealership was left, and he limped a leg. I haven't been the boss for many years, Uncle Dillon.

[The story of the frog and the scorpion has three endings. One is that Shafei crosses the river safely with Gordon on his back] There

is no need to change the BGM. The lines and details can be changed by You Dazhi. Photography by Zheng Zhaoqiang.
As for the composition of the picture, especially the use of light sources, the contrast with warm and cold tones, and the application of frame shapes, these visual art problems can be guided by Wong Kar-wai (but he can't be allowed to touch the script, otherwise the film will not have three. Can't finish shooting in five years).

[The second ending is that when he reached the middle of the river, Gordon couldn't bear his nature after all, and plunged the poisonous needle deep into Shafei's back. Shafei twitched and gradually became numb and unconscious, and sank to the bottom of the lake. Gordon naturally sank together. Since then, no frog will cross the river with a scorpion on its back]

That murder scene in the elevator. No need to kick. After the kiss, Ekin Cheng shouted "Keep down" and hit the instrument board with a fist, sparks splashed, the elevator stopped, and at the same time Lin Jiaxin squatted to the corner obediently holding her head. In the dimming lights, the two men fisted and fisted, various grappling techniques and various fixed techniques (martial arts instructor decisive Zi Dan), not enough to play for five minutes. In the end, the male protagonist had a bright halo, and Ekin Cheng used his fist-pay attention to his bare hands-to smash the opponent's face. The close-up of the camera fists to the flesh (int-16 anyway, not bad these two)

[Ending three. Shafee knew Gordon's nature. When she felt murderous behind her back, Yi stopped on a lotus leaf. Gordon asked in surprise, "Are we no more than a river?" Shafee replied, "One day it will pass." Gordon begged, "We will all be sunken to death." Shafee replied, "You can swim on the day Gordon becomes a frog. It's over, Shafei waits with you." Yi lay on the lotus leaf and said nothing. 】

The last scene. At dusk, parking lot. The knife was taken out, the camera turned to the ground, and the shadows of the two men dragged the old man together...Suddenly there were two gunshots. Pulling it back, in slow motion, I saw Ekin Cheng holding a toothpick and flying horizontally in the air (the watch asked me how he flew), and the two guns in his hand were still shooting. Behind him, a white dove flew up (the watch asked me where the dove came from). Well, in this case, it would be better for Yimian to keep long hair.
The ending theme song "Speed" has

no sense of violation. Well, Wong Kar-wai can put the above "Frog and Scorpion" story in the narration.

Um, although it's just as cool. But it feels like I've gone from a cold sex attribute to an adrenaline burst seed state.

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