Takeshi Kitano's gangster movies are famous for their "hit". In 1989, the director's first film "Beware of the Police" played with slaps. We saw on TV news that the drunk driver slapped the traffic police only for pediatrics. "Dou Ba Xing", the real events were never taken into place during the filming. It was all professional actors who gritted their teeth and constantly "slapped hard", thus laying the foundation for Kitano Takeshi's aesthetics of violence. It is more appropriate to say that "All Villains" returns to violence, and it is more appropriate to return to the word "evil".
The fear of "extreme villain" is rooted
in Takeshi Kitano's best way of making violent movies, and he knows how to create real fear from the audience's psychology. The rotten guts can make the audience hide their faces and scream, but this is at best a short-lived panic. How to root the real fear in the audience's heart, Kitano Takeshi's method is to design the "extremely fearful" and ruthless. wicked", and the use of simple, traditional but very cruel "family law" punishment.
When encountering evil, it is lawless and lawless
. Watching movies is the most fearful of seeing evil people. The evil people are never sympathetic and unreasonable. The audience is accustomed to assume the role of the victim or the weak. In severe cases, it will cause severe disfigurement or permanent disability, which is very terrifying. Movies usually have a world of good and evil, black and white, and the worst people have to meet good people or heroes who will bring them to justice. Bad people, sluts, the problem is that you are evil, I am even more evil than you, and the result of being so evil is a big storm in the rivers and lakes.
"All the Evil People" is a complete underworld police world, the value of which is that it competes for external interests, internal struggles for superiority, and throughout the inside and outside is everyone's struggle for power. Loyalty is worthless, loyalty is a joke, you can make a name for yourself by being evil, and you can sit on the Dragon Throne by relying on traitors. In the film, Kitano Takeshi is the leader of the hall. He has a group of dead men, but he still has to obey the family boss and the leader of the gang. Although this kind of underworld description is not new, Takeshi Kitano has made full use of it. The struggle between the two major families in the rivers and lakes was triggered by the trivial incident that someone on one side was beaten for money in a nightclub. It was a small matter of losing money and apologizing. . The overall concept of the film is simple, but very efficient. The two families retaliate against each other, and their actions are constantly escalating, but the leading gangster is also happy to see the two families fight each other, so as to use their tricks to eradicate dissidents. The pattern is like watching a ten-round heavyweight kickboxing KO match, fighting round after round, punching to the flesh, to see who is worse, who can't stand it, and who gets knocked down.
Picking it up is a weapon
. The so-called violent aesthetics is different for everyone. John Woo likes to put pigeons to talk about love, but Takeshi Kitano is just the opposite, cold, evil and cruel. Obviously there is a gun, but I don't need it. What do I use? Anything you pick up is a murder weapon. Blades, dental drills, chopsticks, all can kill people. The method is not to seal the throat with a knife, but to cut fingers, raw noodles, stick chopsticks into ears, wash teeth and pierce the mouth. Witnessing everyone who was subjected to family law, the audience was beaten from heartache to flying, but the villain in the film sneered aside.
Takeshi Kitano went to Hollywood 10 years ago to film the gangster movie "Big Brother", and successfully created a good big brother who is cold on the outside but takes good care of his subordinates in his heart. In addition, he detailed the relationship between Japanese gangsters and black bewitched boys. This time, there are no good bosses (except Takeshi Kitano) on the rivers and lakes this time, and the Japanese gangsters are linked with black people again. The gangsters plan to "catch yellow-footed chickens" to control the Ghanaian consulate in Japan, and secretly engage in casino and drug business. , and later killed people. However, this time the plot is relatively childish and lawless. At the same time, the role of the black consul is too heavy, and the farce is too strong. I believe it is one of the places where film critics do not sell.
Black characters are farcical
The second is the endless revenge of the gangsters. Although it is interesting to KO each other with fists and feet, the story has not been improved by this. It only stays in the framework of betrayal and revenge, which also makes the film critics not satisfied with the name of "Take Kitano". Takeshi Kitano finally surrendered himself to prison, and when he happened to meet the gangster enemy of the day in prison, he even had a taste of referring to Hong Kong-made gangster films. However, the revenge plot has a long shot. Just like did Takeshi Kitano die in the end? Will he be released from prison for counter-revenge? The leader of the leader was killed, but how many enemies does the successor have to put him to death? This is all suspense left to the audience. Therefore, the first-ever sequel of "All the Evil" is not a kind of "record and shoot".
Takeshi Kitano's gangster movies are cold, fast, and ruthless, with traditional Japanese characteristics, samurai spirit, sighs of life, masculinity, flirtatious style, and violent pleasure - as long as his movies are not always regarded as Art works, as long as you are not afraid of the visual sense of flying, "All Villains" is indeed enjoyable to watch and feel dripping.
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