At first, I accidentally fell into this pit because I accidentally watched Jani's fan video "Stockholm Lover", and became very interested in Lao Jia's live-action version. So go check out Paul Bettany's early work, The Rogue King.
Most of the scenes in "Stockholm Lover" are from "Rogue King", the video editing is so good, I feel that Lao Jia must be an elegant and cold killer. So I sat in front of the computer with excitement and watched "Rogue King", ready to kneel and lick the computer screen... Uh, don't think about it, that's impossible - this CULT film is really unexpectedly reserved.
You know, rotten people, they have never shown themselves. Even if it is a rotten film, it must be made with an elegant and ruffian style, and even if it is ambiguous, it must be subtle and long.
At first glance, the male protagonist played by Paul Bettany has a fierce face and looks like a ghost and cruel (the image in the MV is somewhat misleading), but when you actually watch the movie, you will feel that this person is rude and simple, a bit of a fool. For a while, the diaosi was full of energy, and it was really full of green onions and tenderness. Immediately after being bought by the boss, he gave up his mind. He worked extra hard when he followed the boss on assignments. When the boss asked him to be an officer, he would work hard and work hard. When he smashed the window glass, he jumped up and smashed with his feet happily. He was full of elementary school temperament. The desire to destroy is cute and cute~ The boss was attacked and he immediately blocked the knife for him. Not to mention, it is completely an instinctive reaction. He is what he is like. The most rare thing is that although people are ghosts, their behaviors are very innocent and green!
At first glance at the boss, he was impressed by the charm of the boss - what did he see in the boss?
Look at the boss's house, it's as big as a palace ( ⊙ o ⊙ )!
Look at the boss's clothes, diamond-encrusted buttons! Suit! tie!
Look at the appearance of the boss, handsome! cool! That imposing manner, that tone, even holding a glass cup to call someone is so attractive!
Watch the boss spend a fortune - throw him £500 at a time! Tsk tsk tsk, the boss is really courageous!
He loves his boss, he absolutely fucking loves his boss - why? Everything about the boss is what he wants to be, how can he not love his boss?
But—may I say a but—but, the film isn't really a substrate. The protagonist played by Paul Bettany does have an infatuation with his boss Freddie, and this feeling, this infatuation, is a masculine, a mixture of vanity and longing. He looked at his boss, his eyes widened and he looked at it with great energy, just like fans looking at his idol star, looking at the gods he worshipped, there is a subtle ambiguity in envy, and hidden ambition and greed in ambiguity .
Just like Ripley's admiration for Dick in "The Genius Ripley", Ripley's love for Dick is also an obvious love, and it is also mixed with too much admiration and vanity. The difference is that Ripley himself is indeed bisexual. , and "The King of Rogues" has a relatively short and second brain circuit, and he doesn't have too many delicate twists and turns.
Ripley really has some affection for Dick played by Jude Law. He loves Dick's coat and even goes to bury his head in his arms to smell him. This action is very naughty and ambiguous. In the end, when Dick announced his engagement, his The reaction was also very extreme - "You love Maggie and marry her? You still love me, why didn't you say marry me?" After realizing that the courtship was hopeless and insulted, he killed Dick by mistake, and he did not forget to put the Dick was in a hug with himself—he loved Dick and longed to be loved by Dick. After all, facing such a stunningly beautiful young man, people are creatures who can't stand the temptation. What little gay can say that he will not be tempted when facing that radiant and beloved male god? Guarantee that you won't crave a little favor from the Apollo-like handsome boy? .
It's just that the reality is skinny - Dick is not good to Ripley, he has a bad attitude, and is extremely nasty. But Ripley is love Dick, why? Because Ripley was a poor boy, Dick was born a prince, and he was in the limelight. Countless people fell in love with him because of his radiant appearance and attractive charm, no matter how bad his temper was or how bad his morals were. How this person ruined your self-esteem, but he is beautiful, but he is radiant, he is like a sun, no matter how painful the burn, how much you can't help the desire to be with you Worship - people are so cheap, aren't they? The more you can't get, the more you want. No matter how much you pay, no matter how much torture and trampling you endure, it doesn't matter.
Paul Bettany and Ripley share a strikingly similar vanity in our "Rogues" film, and the yearning and chasing for the high society/gangster number one, and because of this yearning, the specific objects with these auras have been generated. Inexplicable paranoia and infatuation.
The protagonist "I" is a naive, ignorant and rude young man. Judging from his appearance and a series of behaviors, he is also a diaosi who has not seen much in the market. However, a summons by the boss has completely opened up a new world for him. From then on, he was dazed by the grand gangster style, the handsome behavior of the eldest yuppie, and the clothes and accessories of the luxurious house of the eldest brother - a young man who is not familiar with the world, after realizing himself and the superstructure for the first time. What thoughts come after the difference?
Naturally, he admired and yearned for this splendid appearance. He loved the domineering gangster, the hustle and bustle of life, and the bold and respectable boss—people, aren’t they all? What you want is what you want. This is the same as a middle school girl who has never seen the world and wants to fall in love, wear a famous brand and be a decent lady after watching the brain-dead drama X era. This is the case for women, and it is the same for men. So did Ripley, and so did "I".
It's the same sentence: a lot of times the idol plot of the public is like that - you love your idol, and the reason why you love him is the halo on his body, and what you love is his unreality.
You love him, and you always have the slightest hidden wish that you still want to be him more or less. Although this wish is not very realistic.
Compared with Ripley's inferiority complex, cowardice, and darkness, Pao'er seems relatively stupid and cute~ When the boss drove the car to give him the pin, he was flattered, and the background music was the extremely flirtatious saxophone. , it sounds a little flirtatious, but with the two parties involved, one of them is completely intoxicated, and the other is rough, cold and flattered, and it looks so contradictory and funny. After Pao'er took the pin, he licked his male god with his eyes over and over again, and he really wanted to eat his boss with the belt bone or something, everyone realized it for themselves.
Another surprising coincidence between Ripley and the protagonist of the King of Rogues is that when their idol dies/falls, they both think of replacing the idol. This is actually a subconscious expansion and materialization of ambition and desire. If they hadn't been so close to their dream idols, if they hadn't understood their gods so well, and if they hadn't really had such ambition, greed and desire, they wouldn't have been able to replace their idols in the end.
They do love Dick or Freddy, but after all, this kind of love is not pure love, but a "love" that is mixed with desire and vanity, blinded by gorgeous skin and scenery. Pronounced "love", written as greed, ambition, chase. In other words, the kind of love that is mixed with fantasy and worship, it is also possible to break it into a man and a man, but you actually understand that this is different from the love of a man and a woman - it is impure, it is vain, it contains illusions and deceptions Too many, the disparity in status and the humble mood between the two are obvious. If they are in true love, they will be very hurt to the weak and low party. That's why Dick hates that submissive and clingy Ripley, so Freddy will kick "me" away when he's not happy, even if they've blocked the knife for him.
(Also, I always think that the girls in these two films are very good, and they are all true loves - Maggie in "The Genius Ripley" is smart and gentle and loves Dick from beginning to end, in "The King of Rogues" Reddy's women are also loyal and unswerving from beginning to end. The love of girls is pure and persistent, but also very flexible and beautiful. They are not as sinister and ruthless as men.)
Compared with Ripley's scumbag, Pao'er The protagonist played is more pure, hardcore, and more adorable.
Pao'er's gangster No. 1 is really innocent, really - a lifetime of virgins for sure. When Freddy hooked up with his wife for the first time, Pao'er was so sour, his eyes filled with resentment, watching the woman and the boss sing and flirt, he was thinking about the process of his boss falling in love while thinking about himself. He was tortured by his own brain to make his eyes turn red. After that, because of love and hate, I felt that the boss was not worthy of being the boss after being delayed by the pink skull, so I took the opportunity to replace it. But the boss was framed by the enemy and imprisoned. The boss's woman was cut by the enemy. He still picked up the guy and killed the enemy to take revenge. Later, he recalled that he didn't want to do it at all, but TMD still killed the enemy for the boss's sake and then Crying with blood! What are you crying for? The idol dream of crying for him is shattered, and after crying for him, he will never see the boss again for 20 years? Anyway, only he himself knows how many fucks and how many meanings are in that vague statement.
The more adorable thing about this gentleman is that he is childish, and his conceit is extraordinarily cute. Freddie's eldest woman said, you look good, let me introduce you to someone. He took care of his suit: Not a bad looking? I'm a princess! You say this person is narcissistic or not? It is probably also a small author who specializes in writing Tom Sue Mary Su on the Internet. However, Pao'er's narcissism is open and upright. First of all, he doesn't feel any shame - I'm not Sister Feng, so what if I just say it? I'm so good-looking, why can't I be narcissistic? It's this little occasional arrogance that makes people feel cute, just because he has no one to talk about, and when he finally talks to a woman, he says that he feels good about himself, but it is to refuse the woman to find him a partner - this kind of loneliness. There is a stubborn childishness in narcissism, "I don't need women, I can see several women in my ears every day~" This is really ridiculous, and there is a hint of loneliness in the childish bragging. Stubborn, but also full of self-esteem and toughness.
The difference is that Ripley secretly wears Dick's clothes and dances smugly and narcissistically. He happens to be caught by the returning playboy Dick. He is startled, embarrassed and ashamed, like a thief, and the audience is more embarrassed than himself. . I don't know why, knowing that Ripley did it unintentionally, it still makes people feel pathetic and contemptible.
-Why do I like guns so much? Because he didn't care even when he said such rude words with a handsome face in a suit and leather shoes! Because he's really been this messed up all his life! Don't care about women who don't care about other people's evaluations, just pass by like this! In the end, replacing the boss is really suspected of taking advantage of the danger, but the boss really didn't take him seriously and kicked him aside first, didn't he? The old protagonist "I" is a little more sophisticated, and said to Freddy's woman whom she hadn't seen in years: "Yes, I fucking wish I could have a woman who loves me, I don't mind if she's a bitch I'm willing to love her, I'm willing to spend money to buy her clothes. I should be loved! I might wash my hands (for her) someday! But no one thinks about me! Don't worry about it now, I just want to see Freddy!"
So in fact, it can be seen that this kid is also a little interested in Freddy's women, but when he was young, he was too funny and too dirty, just like a primary school student when he saw a girl he liked, he knew that he was bullying and attracting people. She pays attention to making her hate, but doesn't know how to make her like her. When they first met, the woman mistook him for Freddie, which made him fight with her and hurt others. Later, the woman stole his boss, and he was jealous of the woman again. Here you might as well pay attention to the adjective he used to describe the woman in his inner monologue. As a gangster who was involved in the gang, he was extremely poetic when describing the woman. He hated her taking away his boss, but she was clearly a beautiful and sexy woman there, and it was hard to tell how much he was annoyed or jealous when he was mistaken for Freddie to approach him. And looking at the pair of lovers with contempt and resentment, what they feel is the unilateral abandonment of the boss or the two-way abandonment that is ignored by women.
In fact, when he was in a good mood, he still wanted to talk to women and make peace. But most of the time his underdeveloped emotional intelligence was completely taken over by his own ambition, just like when Julien Sorel shot Madame de Lena in Red and Black. Don't you know that you like her? Just in front of vanity and anger, that little thing is insignificant at all.
Interspersed here to talk about "Genius Ripley", Ripley is also bisexual, that is, loves Dick and loves Dick's fiancee Maggie. Compared with the stubborn and stubborn protagonist of "Rogue King", Ripley appears to be more scheming, more sinister and despicable. In the face of men, his love is base and cowardly, in the face of women, he has no courage to resist temptation but only has the courage to deceive and hook up, but in a desperate situation, he wants to kill and silence. This is an extremely sinister and extremely selfish person. In order to cover up his actions, he will not hesitate to use any despicable means, and even kill his beloved again and again. Cold-blooded to the point of heinous.
Of course, in contrast, the protagonist of "Gangster No. 1" seems to have a very romantic atmosphere of yuppie, dare to love, dare to hate, dare to say and do, love carefully, hate happily, irrelevant girls go side by side ——Forgive me for saying this, I happened to watch the two films together, Ripley was really sick to my stomach, so I had to brush Tianwang Rogue twice to soothe my depressed soul-especially in Against the background of a slut like Ripley, Pao'er looks extraordinarily graceful... Just kidding, Pao'er should be dressed in suits and leather shoes even if he is going to cut people, okay? Talk to anyone like a tough guy! Who is not handsome? ! Are British accents and suits so good? And that slender figure! There is also that face that looks very diaosi and erotic, but has a unique lethal power when it is pulled! Blonde, dear! Although these facial features are not exquisite, they are sexy enough, okay?
The final outcome - Ripley finally gained wealth by killing again and again, and finally concealed his sins from the sky. And the people who I loved or who loved me deeply have left me, and I have fallen into darkness forever (not to mention how bad this ending is, I saw that I was depressed for a whole day).
And Pao'er's No. 1 Gang, after decades, finally reunited with the boss, he was excited, he was angry, he tried every means to ridicule each other - only hoped for a result - tell me the fuck, I Better than you! I am NO.1!
Yes, after so many years, he still remembers him and loves him. The boss gave him his original dream and pursuit. If he can get the boss's love and affirmation again in this life, and if he can really defeat the high-ranking male god in this life, then he will have no regrets in this life. It's a pity that the eldest eldest is old and tired. Seeing these two gray temples and roaring in such a hurry, he just felt tired and unloved. As contemptuous and mocking as the pretending bastard, throwing the gun - goodbye, I won't play with you anymore. This is your world, not my destiny.
And then he collapsed - collapsed! Why? After living for so many years, he has come to understand that he has all kinds of good houses, luxury cars and horses, and all kinds of power and position. He is still the same thing. He will never be the number one gangster in front of his boss. Even if he learns from his boss to wear a suit and tie with a lot of younger brothers to do big things, he is still far away from that young dream. why? When he was young, he wanted to be like the boss, but unfortunately he worked his whole life, but he couldn't turn himself into Freddy, and he couldn't beat him.
The dream collapsed and people woke up, just like Cinderella after twelve o'clock, and found that you are nothing without the dress and the crystal slipper. The dream that I spent most of my life chasing was empty in the end. What if you become the number one gangster? He was as far away from his boss as he was when he was a teenager.
Uh...I have to say that I still liked him a lot after seeing it. Even if he had a few minutes of hysteria and bloody violence in between. I always feel sympathy for such a person... When I was young, I fell in love with some very empty and useless things because of ignorance and ignorance. After getting it, I felt extremely lost. In fact, in the beginning, you shouldn't love any boss, there is no boss at all, only the halo that covers the boss's head. And that halo must come only when you look up in the dust. When you really walk up there, buy beautiful clothes and jewelry, and speak arrogant and cruel words in a tone of voice, you actually find that there is nothing there, everything All are hallucinations.
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