I love this movie that starts with a funeral and ends with a funeral, and it refuses to be reunited, and the ending is actually quite gray and hopeless - isn't that the epitome of Chinatown? No matter "San Francisco" in Hong Kong movies or Chinatown in Hollywood movies, they are all paradises for underground forces, with dirty, chaotic loyalty and underground rules lurking. Tell one good story after another.
The film begins with a long shot, the minute-long funeral of Wong Jack, the debut of the ambitious second-generation gangster Joey Tai, and the more ambitious police officer, a former Vietnam veteran, Stanely. Joey came up with a Chinese domineering style, and Stanely came up with a sense of justice and an arrogant and domineering energy: I will send you all to prison. The results of it? 5 minutes later, right in front of his eyes, a small Chinese gangster made a headshot of the American grocery store owner for a disagreement.
Since then, the contest between the two has officially started. Inevitably, a vase beauty, a Chinese female anchor (looks like Faye Wong), was introduced. In the end, there was no winner or loser. Joey Tai was cornered and committed suicide. He died because of him, but not only did he not build a miracle, he was given a medal, but he was expelled from the police force. The people who worked with him were either dead or injured. Joey Tai was a Chinese Lei Feng who played the godfather to help the poor Chinese. . Stanely is an American Tang Jike, trying to change Chinatown's accumulated problems by himself, but they both failed. I think what the director wants to say is: these two are the same thing, but in the end they both failed, the return of tradition, Chinatown Back in the hands of the old gangster, the police station is from the old police.
The dialogue of the movie is very well written - this is what I think Oliver Stone's best B. The collection of language is steady, accurate and ruthless, so the characters are very flesh and blood, almost every dialogue is politically incorrect, full of Discrimination, provocation, prejudice - that's the beauty of drama, to watch a play is to see its extremes, its prejudices, the things it says that weigh in everyone's heart and never get the chance to say it in a lifetime, but that's why It made Tang people feel extremely humiliated. It is said that the Chinese protested at the time and the box office was a fiasco. It can only be said that the director was born at an untimely time. If he was born in modern times, this can be used as the focus of hype and make a lot of money. The Chinese protest, everyone, don't follow YY, it's definitely not a "China can say no" type of national integrity issue, they have all come to the United States, who cares about national justice? Mainly, this film affected the tourism business in Chinatown.
The filming in Thailand was almost copied by Er Dongsheng into "Disciples" (sorry, now called tribute, not plagiarism), Joey Tai's actor is the famous Zunlong, in this movie, Zunlong was not yet Superstar, but that kind of gestures, frowns and smiles, like Leslie Cheung, and more masculine than Leslie Cheung, when he played "The Butterfly King", he was more feminine than Leslie Cheung, it is said that this old handsome guy is an orphan who grew up in HK , went to the United States to study drama, his acting skills were excellent, and he won a lot of awards. How could he have been reduced to the point of acting in "The Private Interview with Kangxi's Weifu"?
The actor who plays Stanely is comparable in appearance and temperament to Jack Nicholson, so it's better to play Jack instead.
As for the so-called humiliation of China in the film, the so-called "Orientalism" expressed (it is in the same vein as Mr. Butterfly played by Zun Long), each has his own opinion. So, although I had to watch it in four times, I still enjoyed it very much.
PS: This film is on-demand on the purchased HBO channel. What makes people angry is that it is actually a "clean version". All the legendary dew point shots have been cut, and what is even more infuriating is that it was broadcast almost five times at the beginning. Minutes of PG guidelines in various languages: This film contains violent pornographic elements, and it is not suitable for people under the age of 18.…
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