In the sixth part of this series, the biggest change is that Jackie Chan finally acted as "Dad". He is 60 years old, and he has to obey his old age, and he will eventually accept his fate, just like he claimed that "Zodiac" is " "The last action movie", so the focus of "Police Story 2013" basically falls on literary drama. At this point, Jackie Chan is more principled than Jet Li. I have always recognized his character (except for his thigh-holding style). I don’t believe that he’s going to turn back. The story of "Police Story 2013" takes place in a confined space like a steel shell. Jackie Chan is tantamount to setting limits on himself. This choice of self-binding hands and feet is silent evidence. It is in his old age. He is still looking forward to acting in a literary and artistic film, the problem is that no one is looking for him to act.
Therefore, Jackie Chan could only "find a director" by himself. He must be an obedient director until he found Ding Sheng. This young man who was not well-known had to work hard when he met Ding Sheng. Therefore, in addition to the tough style of "Little Soldier", In fact, the filming is very literary and artistic, and the desolate artistic conception fits well with Jackie Chan himself, and the eldest brother's heart is naturally beautiful. Like "Little Soldier", Ding Sheng's most important motivation for filming "Police Story 2013" is to turn the text of the movie into a literary and artistic style. It not only needs to give the protagonist enough role, but also have enough space for his acting skills. In addition, Ding Sheng must also take into account the quality of the film. After all, it is an annual meal, and he can't shame his eldest brother. So, in addition to trying his best to create a tit-for-tat villain for his eldest brother, he also made a big fuss about the narrative structure. To pursue a new excitement that has never been seen before.
The problem is that these kinds of starting points are good, but they are not strong enough. Ding Sheng's past movies can almost be summarized in two words, one is "vulgar", the three teachings inside and outside the bar, and the skewered hawker debt collection migrant workers are all evidence. ; The other is "Wild", he has always been obsessed with beast-style fighting, and the passage of Muay Thai in the movie is self-evident. The combination of these two points is "hardness", so "Tough Guy" is a wonderful work. This kind of hardship is most suitable to be manifested as physical and unconscious, but under the pattern of "reasonable" most of the time, the protagonist The "hard" beauty (or absurd beauty) becomes eclipsed.
It’s not easy to accomplish all of this. It’s like embroidering and weaving cloth by thick people. It will inevitably make people laugh. In fact, there are classic texts such as Die Hard, but compared Bruce Willis’ coquettish looming, this movie set too many obstacles for Jackie Chan, the most important obstacle is Jing Tian, she became between Liu Ye and Jackie Chan, between the Avengers and the redeemer, between the police and the bandits. The most important link between conscience and emotion, occupation and family. This role seems simple, but it is not easy to play. As far as the whole plot is concerned, it has a powerful effect.
For Liu Ye's character, he exercises a patriarchal style towards his younger sister. If he makes up his old point and sets it as a father-daughter relationship, the text may be more symmetrical. This is also the recurring structural unit that Levi Strauss proposed in the process of studying Western mythology: the over-emphasis on kinship and the underestimation of kinship. In this movie, this The inner core creates the characters’ regrets, and also breeds the characters’ hatred, which eventually leads to a ritualized form of revenge. The narrative line is constantly delayed in this movie, and it finally points to the Avengers himself, which inevitably makes the movie have a sense of absurdity. For the hero who once regretted, a shot in the head was for him. Salvation, the role of the villain is only to catalyze the emergence of this scene. This is a "formalized" death and rebirth, but it is also an old stem. Everyone can guess that there can be no bullets in the gun.
So father-daughter love naturally became the focus of the film’s special book. In fact, with Ding Sheng’s vulgar heart, it is a bit difficult to be a Rashomon puzzle (in fact, it almost came true). Relatively less and less subtle and beautiful, but from the effect of the film, it is still impressive. Jing Tian is actually quite good. It is better than all her previous roles. The problem is that the script design is a bit sloppy. She and Dad are a bit sloppy. To dispel the past prematurely, so this line becomes a grateful action back and forth between the two of them. In the action, it appears to "stand up" for each other. This is precisely the change in the appearance of the little Taimei and the pure sister. Front and rear connection points. The role of Jing Tian in the film also became a mirror image of Liu Ye’s younger sister’s role, and thus was substituted into the same scene at the end of the film, forming a complete contrast with the scene five years ago. From this perspective, she is the most important catalyst—not only Becoming the key to the character's dilemma, it also symbolizes the power of redemption, which forms an intuitive contrast with Liu Ye's sister-the desperate will eventually die, but the hopeful must live.
The role of Jing Tian gave Jackie Chan in the story a choice of "where to go, dad", and outside the play, he had to consider the transformation of "where to go" at the age of 60. Judging from "Police Story 2013" Although there is a desire for change, it is still difficult to satisfy one's expectations. The large stack of storytelling immediately flashed back to the time and space of the incident. Like the ending "Salvation", it is always too white. I really don't know him. When can I be more literary, or there is no such life in this life.
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