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The lace news of this movie may be more interesting than the movie itself. From that time, the most popular movie in the movie was Jackie Chan. After "Police Story", Jackie Chan's movies are guaranteed at the box office. But in the early years, I didn't have my own style. At that time, I got Gu Long's script to be comparable to Di Long. Unfortunately, there was no way. Because of Wang Yu's relationship, I finally acted in Gu Long's movie, but it still didn't catch on. It wasn't until "Snake Shaped Hands" and "Drunken Fist" that Jackie Chan was considered to be soaring, but there were many people who were popular. Jackie Chan got into a kidnapping case. .
In 1980, Sammo Hung and Jiahe co-founded Baohe Film Company. Later, the "Five Lucky Stars" series had a good box office. In addition, they were Jackie Chan's brother. The two acted together from time to time in "Food Truck" and "Plan A". Later, he directed "Rich Train", which can be said to be rich in resources and frequent good films. At that time, Sammo Hung was regarded as a person who spoke to all martial arts. If the gang wanted to force it, he had to weigh all the martial artists. He was incapable of driving people to a dead end. Sammo Hung was also regarded as one of the few people in the film circle who was not afraid of the gang.
Because of refusing to renew the overlord contract of TVB, Andy offended the boss Run Run Run, and was "hidden" by TVB. Later, he was invited by Sammo Hung to participate in "Summer Fortune", which gradually thawed, and then got a place in the gangster film. Because Andy Lau had a market in Taiwan, he was often "pulled" to make Jianghu films. At that time, gangsters were involved in the film industry, and there were literary and martial arts producers. Andy was forced to make films. This "Fire Island" is one of them. one. At that time, the gangster movie assembly line was working. In the nearly ten years before and after that, Andy Lau may have acted in forty or fifty Jianghu films.
Liang Jiahui, who was also banned by Taiwan because of "Burning the Old Summer Palace" and "Listening to the Politics", and Andy Lau can be described as brothers and sisters. In the 1990s, he also acted in more than 30 films. It is rumored that Tony Leung Ka Fai, who was pointed at by a gun, was invited from the theater of "The Lover" in Thailand to perform in "Island of Fire".
The movie Boss Gui is played by Wang Yu, the boss of the Zhulian Gang, and the filmmaker who often drinks flower wine with Gu Long. Another producer is Ke Junxiong, who caused the sensational "Yin Song Pavilion Incident". In 1980, Ke Junxiong brought a group of his younger brothers to drink in Yin Song Pavilion. After seeing Gu Long, their younger brothers were Whoever is famous has changed from a debate to a hand-to-hand combat. Gu Long also refused to admit that he broke the aorta. Because of ischemia in the hospital's blood bank, he used blood bought from the black market, he contracted hepatitis, and he didn't drink in moderation, and he died within a few years.
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Watching this movie again, the first one to appear is Tony Leung Ka-fai, who plays an excellent police officer who returns to China after training abroad. Because the father of fiancee Song Yafang (the police inspector) was murdered and killed, a murderer's finger was found at the murder scene, but this person was a prisoner who had been executed three months ago, and he wanted the prison to find out.
The second person to appear is Sammo Hung. In order to meet his son who is going to school, he ventured out of prison. He was found by the police for hijacking a vehicle. He escaped from prison three times in total, and was always arrested and imprisoned again.
The third appearance is Jackie Chan. Because his girlfriend was stabbed by a gangster on the street, he still needs a sum of money after being sent to the hospital. In desperation, he went to a small casino to play billiards and gamble for money. After winning the bet, he took the money away, but was stopped by the young man who lost the money.
The fourth appearance is Andy Lau, who seems to be a gang boss. Because his younger brother and Jackie Chan's character gambled to death, he was angry that he deliberately attacked the police in his pub and asked the police to take him to prison, intending to be in prison. Avenged his brother with his own hands.
In this way, the four met unexpectedly, but the connection between the four was too far-fetched. The last four went to the Philippines to escort the drug dealers, which is even more nonsense. If the story of four people is compressed into two bodies, the characters will also appear more plump and three-dimensional.
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Movies about prisons. The first I watched was "Eternal Life in Fire" starring Zhao Dan and Yu Lan. At that time, the prisoners went on a hunger strike, and the national army compromised. At that time, the national army was not so inhumane, and it was also a battle of wits and courage, for belief and reactionaries. struggle. Prison is a small society and a small river and lake. Inside the high wall, the outer garment of human civilization is completely stripped off, and the interpersonal relationships inside are barbaric and cruel. The warden is a dictator and a hidden murderer. Whether the prisoners are hugging their thighs or standing on the top of a mountain, they have a certain feeling of jungle society. There is no grand narrative here, and the maintenance of several protagonists is the "loyalty" of the bottom line, which can also be regarded as simple justice in human nature.
Andy Lau took revenge on his younger brother, Jackie Chan was not as good as others after fighting with life and death, so Jackie Chan didn't kill him anymore. At the end of the movie, Andy Lau could have escaped and got on the plane, because he pulled Jackie Chan and died under the machine gun fire at the Philippine airport. There is also Sammo Hung who escaped from prison three times to see his son, Jackie Chan for his girlfriend's medical expenses, Liang Jiahui for the murder of his father-in-law, Boss Gui to resolve the conflicts between his inmates, and finally gave his life because he believed his brother's words.
Prison is also an orderly functioning society, some will adapt to it, some will resist it. People who adapt to it have no character and no edges and corners, and they will become submissive when they are "domesticated", so that they can live in peace. The prisoners headed by Boss Gui are more chivalrous and are fighting for freedom, but those prison guards are not good people.
Authoritarian societies are invisible prisons, where everyone plays their role and wears shackles that you can't see. Prison is a society that has been shrunk and deduced to extremes. Watching prison films from a dystopian perspective is simply a fable of human society.
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