The literal translation of the English name is called "boss" or "big guy". The translated name "windy city boss" identifies the city, and "windy city" refers to Chicago, which is titled because of the windy weather all year round. In the orthodox interpretation, "wind" means the pompousness of Chicagoans. "The Windy City Gangster" takes Chicago and is much sharper than AMC's "Murder" set in Seattle, this is not a romantic comedy, this is not the legendary inspirational story of the Chicago Bulls, this is the real version of "Power" Game of Thrones, completely turning Chicago into a Sin City.
The opening song, "Demon, your kingdom must perish," dominates the play. The audience is told at the beginning that Tom Kane is seriously ill, an image of an aging man, and then reveals his identity, he is the boss of Chicago, where the devil can be identified as Tom Kane. He was seriously ill and depended on medication, which would surely end his political career and even his entire life. The image of the gangster being sick is not new in American TV dramas. President Kennedy in "The Kennedy Family" can't do without drugs. The big guy Tony in "The Sopranos" receives psychotherapy. The setting of "The Windy City Gangster" is even better. Thrilling, Tom Kane is in constant danger of running out of control, and, once his illness is exposed, his political career will come to an end.
The body is still precarious, how to play with power? How to consolidate his power? When will this weakened demon and his crumbling dynasty end? The layout of the whole play is very shrewd. The screenwriter let the audience know about the deterioration of the demon's body, but he is not in a hurry to resolve his dangerous situation. On the contrary, he has always shown the progress of his physical deterioration and strengthened the weakening of his image by the audience. When the precariousness is about to collapse, the rope is suddenly accelerated and the effect is strong. After all, the boss is a boss, and his Jedi counterattack to turn the tide has caught the opponent off guard and shocked the audience.
Tom Kane and his wife's marriage, but also to lead to the temple of power. Even so, based on human nature's sleepless speculation, are Tom and his wife really not at all emotional at all? The father-daughter relationship between him and his daughter is completely a vassal and tool of power? Maybe, when he knew his body was sick, on those nights when he felt lonely. It's just that those emotions that may exist gradually disappeared as he progressed on the path of power. Later, the desire for power spread in his body like a malignant tumor, and he was completely trapped in the power maze, becoming a demon who could not obtain redemption. .
There are a lot of close-ups in the whole play, which is a test of the actors' performance skills. Some actors do not perform well enough or sometimes do not perform well. They have to rely on quick cuts and medium and long shots to cover up their acting skills. Several of the leading actors in this play have performed well and can withstand the series of close-ups. Kelsey Grammer, played by Tom Kane, won the 69th Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series for "The Windy City Gangster". Like Martin Scorsese's "Empire of the Atlantic" pilot episode, the show's first episode was directed by Gus Van Sant, who set the tone and standard of the show, but Van Sant He didn't give full play to his ability to control melodrama, which made the start of the drama a little high. Like drinking, it took three rounds of drinking to fully enter the state.
■ "Beijing Youth Daily"
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