The police and gangster film "Gauntlet" (1977), directed and starred by Dongmu, is rarely mentioned, but it is actually a typical 70'-style drama.
The plot of this movie is very simple. The male protagonist played by Dongmu is a police officer with a straight personality. In fact, he will continue to treat him as "Dirty Harry". He was framed by the newly appointed leader and sent him to other provinces to extract A female prisoner to testify, this female prisoner is played by Dongmu's old partner Sandra Locke. She is going to testify against this bad leader, so this is a game, and the bad leader will arrange for them to die together.
The three crazy shooting scenes in the movie look shocking today too. In the first scene, a group of police surrounded the female prisoner's home and shot frantically outside. The bombed-out desert hideout, which cost $250,000 to build, featured the installation of 7,000 boreholes to house exploding detonators, which were used to simulate artillery fire. A team of 15 worked eight hours a day for a month, stuffing the house with squibs, simulating a series of shots that culminated in the building's collapse. "Needless to say, we only got one shot," said special effects coordinator Chuck Gaspar. Clint Eastwood said he wanted "not just a normal explosion, I want the house to fall to the ground. , like being eaten by a swarm of termites."
The shooting in the film lasted for 5 minutes, which made people suffocate. The same is true for the last two shots. It is said that no less than 8,000 rounds of ammunition were used in each shot! In the third shooting, Dongmu and the female prisoner were on the bus, hiding behind steel plates to welcome the baptism of bullets. The real active and reserve Phoenix police officers shot them. But the big bug in this climactic scene is that no one shoots the tires of the car, seemingly letting it go.
The female prisoner played by Sandra Locke in the film is also a call girl. She plays a very vulgar and slutty character, which is infinitely close to the role, which greatly increases the focus of the film. She and the policeman played by Dongmu originally did not get along with each other, but the two of them actually had a chemical reaction! This is also the most eccentric couple on the screen. The two not only cooperated in several plays after that, but also had a relationship outside the play.
Since the late 1970s, Hollywood action movies have become more and more exaggerated. Serial crashes, serial big explosions, crazy shooting of thousands of bullets, etc. have become very common, and they do everything they can, regardless of whether they are suitable or not. logic. This kind of big, unreasonable, exaggerated and superficial continued into the late 1990s, because Renee Haring made two consecutive "explosive movies", "Cut Throat Island" and "Agents", which lost all their money and dragged down the film. After the company, this type of action movie is basically dead. The crashes, explosions, and even bloodshots in action movies that we see now rely on computer stunts, which look fake.
A cool movie is like a cool article, you don't need to watch it with your brain, so if you shout "Why don't you shoot a tire", let's go to the Nolan movie!
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