The shape is full, the plot is compact, and the rhythm is in place - referring to the pure enjoyment cut version that deletes the white police. The gang boss played by Zun Long is full of flesh and blood, and the details are remarkable - from the young in the eyes of the elders, the stunned with vigor, to the godfather with one hand covering the sky, but it only took half the time of the film. This is not growth, but long-planned. At the beginning, the assassination of Huang's father-in-law and the surprise attack on Harry's hotel were all written by this young man. Step by step, he walked to the heights on the flesh and blood of others, but he was still spotless. Talking and laughing with people who sneer at oneself on the ship, you can take off the head of the other party that night; shoot through the two at the moment when the servants are holding the scorpion and fight, and get away; In fact, he didn't seem to want to kill, but the doctor said that even if the toe is restored, the toe will be missing) He is multi-faceted. At the funeral, he held his daughter's little hand and paused for the sake of each other; his office was full of pictures of girls ; He used five thousand dollars to buy the savior who had become a cripple, and even the other party was surprised by his incomprehensible temperament. I can't say that Tai is an alternative good person, or even that he is an egoist who puts his own interests first, but in any case, this is the charm of his appearance.
Although he appears as the [evil] face, he is radical, ruthless, and cunning to the fullest. At the same time, Tai Bu is not necessarily a simple harlequin villain. He has warmth and loyalty. He can convince the elders through his wrist, and he can still burst out the energy that makes the crowd excited after his death.
It can be seen that this character is a reference to Su Ya, the owner of Xiesheng Hall in New York's Chinatown in the 1920s, including appearance, body shape, acting style and family background. Similar to but different from history, Tai also became famous with an iron fist. He was young and publicized, and made a name among white people, but he died young and ended in haste.
On the one hand, Tai's death is a dramatic effect, echoing the assassination of Huang's father-in-law at the beginning, which is ironic and tragic, but on the other hand, this ending inevitably shows the director's embarrassment: in his writing, Chinese underworld leaders can have personality Charm, you can have tenacity and belief, but it is difficult to get compliments righteously. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the film was criticized as "humiliating China" back then.
(In fact, it seems that the film also wants to mix the Vietnam War, the legacy of the Civil War, etc., but the note with the background of the Vietnam War almost only plays the role of a clown, and the North and South parts put the position of the Chinese over the black... It's hard to say who breastfeeds)
——Update the part of the white police——
It is difficult to say that Tiaozi is the image of a classic American hero. He is duplicitous and authoritarian. In the early stage, his actions were extremely just, but from time to time he sidelined his disregard and self-righteousness towards his family.
The purpose of dating Su is to invite the other party to become his mouthpiece for criticizing the underworld, to leave the public appearance to this naive rich second-generation half-blood, and to hide behind the scenes and reap the benefits of a fisherman. But he is not good at disguising. He wants to please Yang Haley, but he yells at Yang Haley, and turns his head to expose the discrimination.
Facing his wife's complaints about housework and demanding love, Tiaozi chose to retreat, but he still craved the other's body. But when the reporter was really attracted by his hero to save the beauty, and even began to please him, he took off the face of a gentleman for the first time, and used vulgar words to declare that he wanted to have a relationship with the other party.
And what about others? The Chinese agent was originally just a driver, but he was sent to Tai's side to become an undercover agent, and he ended up being shattered. A friend cared about his wife's sorrow, but he slapped him in return, just to express his outspoken anger.
Tiaozi is a hero? He is just self-righteous, vain, discriminatory without knowing it, and an indecisive villain who pretends to be a big love.
The fists of the people will beat this hypocrite, and the flies that bite the fighter's corpse always think that they are the final winner.
— Reporter Sue Lost in Self-Identity —
The girl's story is relatively simple, but the background setting is quite interesting.
Su is a Chinese, or an ABC. She was born with yellow skin and black hair, but her inner identity is completely American.
Such a role indeed made sense in the setting of the 1970s—when generations of laborers and overseas Chinese returned to the flood of the American dream, they were born and raised in America, embraced completely different values and ideas, and had long since been lost in the grand scheme of drawing bread to satisfy their hunger.
The film gives an even more convincing case that Su's father married a Japanese-American woman who was also a successful businessman. This arrogant woman born with a golden spoon naturally placed herself in the position of a sympathetic Virgin: she wanted to get close to the [compatriots] in Chinatown, but she did so with a lofty attitude of relief, pull, and grace.
In the face of Tiaozi's offensive, what was Su's reaction? The other party pretended, the other party was hypocritical, and the other party was clearly dismissive of the Chinese, but none of these could stop Su's expectations for Tiaozi.
Because she resisted her yellow blood in her bones, because she believed that Tiaozi regarded herself as a noble white lady.
This kind of action logic made her lie about having a European and American boyfriend when facing the note, and she also made her promise after several rejections, and even dared to chase Tai's car and ask him all kinds of tricky questions.
Here, Su Quanran fell and failed completely. She became a fan of Tiaozi's heroic dream and an angel of compassion for the Chinese in her imagination. One wrong step, one wrong step, even if she saw Tiaozi kissing each other's lips at his wife's funeral, even if she saw him killing innocent people one after another, she would not hesitate to pounce on him like a moth to a flame.
This may be an American hope for banana people, and this kind of Su, this kind of girl has already become the bulk of the Chinese.
Cultural identity is not the imprint of smoking, but the inheritance of education, thought, and words and deeds.
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