The story begins with a young old man. This actor is very similar to Brad Pitt. It is said that Brad Pitt was depressed and was rumored to imitate him at the beginning of his career. The little old Thousand Hook and his accomplices defrauded a person of more than 10,000 yuan. Unexpectedly, they defrauded the money of the underworld boss Lonnegan. Soon Hook's master was assassinated. Hook was also hunted down by the underworld. Hook took the address given to him by his master and went to Henry, the most powerful old man in the arena, to learn the most superb tricks. Unexpectedly, the first time they met, this Henry left a bad impression on Hook, a drunken alcoholic hiding in the basement of a club run by a prostitute. Such an unreliable person acts quickly and carefully in the assassination of his friends. He immediately mobilized 3 friends, and with the five of them as the core, he gathered more than 30 elite liars from various regions. In just one week, he cheated tens of thousands of dollars from Lonnigan, used the money to decorate a decent horse gambling room, and then carefully planned to cheat 500,000 from Lonnigan, and he still didn't find out. . In Henry's words, "revenge is the most useless thing." "This thing is too much fun." The
most attractive part of the film is that it is a collective action, and each liar plays his role with ease. Every minute is just right, someone plays the anchor who reads the live game on the radio, someone plays the bartender, someone plays the gentleman who cuts the line, someone copies the horse scriptures on the blackboard, and someone says a seemingly ordinary sentence or two at a critical moment... all of these , all through careful planning, making the sinister and cunning Lonnigan fall into their trap step by step. Everyone's actions and lines are intentional, you only have to watch it several times to find out why he did it?
The old man in the film is Henry, played by Paul Newman, with dark blue eyes and well-defined facial features, sometimes decadent and sometimes shrewd in appearance. It turns out that Chow Yun-fat learned acting from him. The best part is when he plays poker with Lonnegan on the train, where he pretends to be a confused, uneducated upstart, and he gets Lonnigan annoyed step by step at the poker table. In front of a group of gentlemen, he would sneeze, pick his nose, speak alcoholic, and often mispronounce Lonnigan's name. Everyone hated him, but he cleverly changed cards and won everyone. .
The scene where Lang Regan went to the casino to bet is also worth pondering: when Lang Regan came to the casino for the first time, Hook gave the most inconspicuous horse, and no one pressed the horse, and the horse ran away. When he won, this sense of superiority was very useful to Lang Regan; the second time, there was no cash in the racecourse, and the chip changer put a banknote on top of the stack of white paper as a cover. When Lang Regan came in, The two gentlemen stepped into the queue in front of him unhurriedly, and the live broadcast on the radio was also controlling the speed. Just when it was Lang Regan's turn to place a bet, the broadcast began to broadcast that the game was starting to run, but the dealer refused. With Lang Regan's bet, it all worked flawlessly. In order for him to gain something, he must lose something. Missing this opportunity, Lang Regan was determined to make a big bet.
Lang Regan proposed to meet the staff of the Office of Communications who spread the inside information of the horse betting. It was too late to build a new office in half a day, so the two experienced veterans, acting as painters, entered the Office of Communications a few minutes before Lang Regan arrived. In the personnel office, and successfully flicked him out, one person quickly changed into a suit, replaced the photo on the table with his own, and the other person painted paint skillfully. After Lang Ligan came in, he couldn't see any flaws.
As for Snyder, who is always looking for Hook's troubles, Henry also came up with a way of cheating. He asked another group of people to play the role of the FBI and told Snyder to protect "celebrity Lang Regan from New York" at the arrest scene. .", so at the end of the film, Lang Ligen was reluctantly taken away from the scene, leaving the 500,000 for the group to share.
The film is smooth-paced, well-designed, and looks very enjoyable. The old man Mao said, "The world is afraid of being serious." When 30 liars with high IQs do one thing seriously together, it is impossible to fail.
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