However, under the trend of family ethics films represented by "Golden Pond" and "Mother and Daughter" in the 1980s, it gradually lost the market. The exploration of personal style in this direction finally ended with the dismal box office of "The King of Comedy". . After that, Scorsese began filming the commercial absurd comedy "After get off work" and the religious theme "The Last Temptation of Christ". Even though the critics were full of praise, the market still received mediocre response. To some extent, the commercial success of "Goodfella" (at the box office of US$46.836 million in North America) has affected the creative style for a long period of time, such as "The Wind and Clouds of Casino", and several creators joined forces last year. Cooperated with "The Irishman". From today’s perspective, "Good Guy" is not only a maturation of "street crime films" such as the masterpiece of the 1970s, "Poor Streets" and other "street crime films". Wonderful and jokingly satirize the hypocrisy and evil behind the "gangster myth".
【Story】
The protagonist of the movie is a young man named Henry Hill, who has never learned nothing since he was a child. Follow his boss, Poly, to collect protection fees to make ends meet. Later, when he grew up, it became a collection of protection fees, robbery to make a fortune. Later, he married a girl he liked, Karen, and the relationship between the two slowly heated up, and finally formed a complete family. Later, with the accumulation of wealth, Henry became more and more intensified, and later he returned home and couldn't stay long, because they had to beware of people around the sliver to prevent the underground chain from being found.
Henry has two good friends, one is Jimmy and the other is Tommy. Tommy is a person who can't be aggrieved at all. As long as someone insults him, he will be killed directly, no matter how majestic or organized the person is. Under the cooperation of Jimmy and Tommy, they killed Billy, the leader of the gang, and then killed their accomplices. Finally, they began to broaden the main source of their wealth: production and distribution of drugs, and smuggling of stolen goods. .
The cooperation between the three people became closer and smoother. Later, Henry even found a mistress, which made his wife start to doubt the self-built relationship between the two people, and even began to have some quarrels. In the process of slow development, although no one found that they had killed people at the beginning, they were monitored by a police collective during a drug trafficking activity, which caused such an underground industry to slowly uncover the mystery, but Henry is still not subject to too many restrictions, because his uncle still has some related relationships that can bail Henry, but more and more things like this later make his uncle less and less believe in Henry's words. Later, Tommy was found killed in his home, leaving only Jimmy and Henry to deal with the incident. But until the end, Henry was still caught and entered the prison.
【Role】
For the "gangster" group, Henry of "Good Guy" is first of all an "other" status—observer. Young and rebellious Henry, unwilling to be a mediocre ordinary person, afraid of a lifeless and ordinary life, yearning for a romantic and comfortable gang life, longing for the unrestrained scenery and magnificence. To some extent, this kind of worship psychology is a universal psychology (the "brother" complex in Hong Kong films and the popularity of the "Young and Dangerous" series are also common). Whether it is "The Godfather" that has set off the trend of "romantic gangster epic" worldwide, or the violent aesthetics of "The True Colors of Heroes" has inspired Chinese films, from the global cultural symbol Marlon Brando to the Chinese screen icon Chow Yun Fat, that kind The myths of wild, masculine and brave male heroes all fit in with the values of a new generation of young people who are pursuing a spirit of freedom and seeking self-worth. And is this "hero myth" practical for the public? Henry's growth process is the interpretation of this problem. The first time he was arrested, his loyalty won him the encouragement and praise of the gang elders, and he seemed to see the dawn of his dream. As the situation deteriorated and the crime level deepened, he was gradually seen as a thorn in the flesh, and became a target for others to avoid or even "desire to get rid of it but suffer future troubles". At this time, he discovered that the so-called "gang morality" had finally disappeared in the actual financial entanglement and interest disputes. Therefore, the "hero dream" was completely shattered. Henry went from blindly admiring and unrealistic romantic fantasies to gradually seeing the violent essence of the gangster world under the cloak of "heroic dreams"-greed and greed, the oppression of interests and will, and trampling on dignity. This anti-typological feature is of great practical significance, and the Hong Kong version of the translation of the name "Pirate also has the right way" is more like a kind of irony. The original meaning means that even if the marginal figures at the bottom engage in some means of earning a living outside of modern norms, they abide by the principles, support justice, punish evil and promote good, and pay attention to morality. In the movies of Wu Yusen and Lin Lingdong, Zhou Runfa and Li Xiuxianzheng Is a typical of this image. However, in "Good Guy", under the guise of being loyal to the gang brothers and avoiding betrayal of others, it tramples on life for self-interest and vain sentiments. This irony is self-evident.
If Jimmy, played by Robert De Niro, shows the sorrow and viciousness behind a decorative sly smile, then the cold blood and craziness hidden under the small and gentle image of Tommy, played by Joe Pesci, are even more fascinating. Amazed. The corner of Tommy is undoubtedly the most thought-provoking finishing touch of the film. He seems invincible, arrogant and arrogant, but through this extremely paranoid violence and fierceness, he concealed his deep inferiority complex. He will feel insulted because of the other's inadvertent words and tone, and he will feel targeted and offended because of the inadvertent tone of others. A seemingly ordinary sentence and insignificant detail will make him fall into anger and madness, and his way of dispelling inferiority is to destroy others through violence. Therefore, at the table, he resolutely "solved out" the waiter who contradicted him. The profundity of Tommy's corner is reflected in the perspective of an individual role, reflecting the real gang ecology, the dreams of gang organizations using money, the order formed by violence and power is itself a "non-benign" order. Structure, it destroys, alienates, and oppresses people's hearts all the time, making them sick and crazy. Therefore, Joe Persie won the 63rd Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by virtue of this role not only because of his vivid, accurate and natural performance, but also because of the significance of the role. Tommy's ending is undoubtedly more symbolic and ironic. When he finally got the chance to be recommended to the Mafia, he was silently assassinated. A person who is good at releasing his anger with violence and concealing his own low self-esteem, was used violence to suppress violence, and suddenly disappeared into the killing of the gang. In You Dazhi's "The Dark Flower", after Liang Chaowei and Liu Qingyun competed for the only survival "opportunity" in a life and death game, the winner still couldn't escape the authority of the gangster group. Even with desperate struggles, they still can't get rid of the shackles of fate. This kind of impermanence of life and personal inability to do anything is the most powerful questioning of the "gangster myth."
[Others] ① Henry’s legendary story ended in this way. The story of this film was developed step by step according to Henry’s growth process. From the beginning, I was young and shy, and didn’t dare to do things by myself. Until in the end, I slowly started to act independently. This kind of growth is simply rapid growth, although this is because of the incompatibility between the time of the film and the time of the narrative. ② The film also adopts a special narrative method: inner monologue. Although there are only two people, Henry and Karen, it is the relationship between the two that supports the plot and narrative clues of the whole play. Henry's underground drug trafficking is the main storyline, and Henry and Karen's relationship is a double-line relationship. The film mainly tells the theme of the times that the film wants to express: the culture between gangsters and drug trafficking. ③The story in the movie tells the development of an unlearned person in the gang, and it gradually reveals the background of an era. The proliferation of underground organizations and improper government management led to the United States at that time. Crimes are frequent, and what the director wants to show is his attack on this social background and a kind of feedback to the government.
④The light and shadow effects used in the movie are the colors used in the themes of the classic 80s movies. They look more gorgeous and luxurious. People can think of nouveau riche and luxury, underground culture, etc., and these are also One of the most serious social problems at the time. ⑤The lines used in the movie are very suitable for each character's personality, especially Tommy's rashness is always expressed, and every time someone comes to insult him, he will be silent first, and then later Begin shooting directly. And this kind of character also led to his own tragic fate.
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