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When it comes to gang-themed film and television dramas, we can name a lot of them.
Examples include Coppola's classic trilogy "The Godfather," and "Gangs of New York ," directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis .
In the series, there is the famous British drama "Blood Gangster" , which will be the fifth season in 2019.
The first season of "Gangs of London" that I want to talk about today is also a British drama. After watching it, it belongs to the kind of masterpiece that I look forward to the sequel. Let's take a look at what's so good about this show?
1 Classic Mode
In the first season, a big incident was thrown first, London gangster Finn Wallace (Finn Wallace) was shot and killed by a nobody.
The Wallace family, we can understand it as the Corleone family in The Godfather. The sudden death of such a "big man" naturally made the surrounding gangs and partners panic.
Gang leaders speaking different languages gathered at Wallace's house for an emergency meeting before offering condolences. Presiding over the meeting were Ed Dumani and his son , Alexander Dumani, who were fighting the world together with the Wallace family.
The eldest son, Sean Wallace , the successor of the Wallace family , was absent from the meeting, but suddenly appeared in the middle of the meeting and overturned what the Dumani father and son had just said, that he would suspend business until the father's murderer was found .
Joe Cole, who plays Sean, also starred in the first two seasons of "Blood."
The boss of the gang is dead, and the son who succeeds him can take charge of the overall situation. Ed also explained to everyone present. But clearly Sean's decision was very emotional.
The stop of the gang's business chain will inevitably cause all kinds of chaos, and there will also be the possibility of looting. But the angry Sean only wanted revenge.
The performance of this play has actually foreshadowed the complex relationship between him and Dumani and his son, and there is also a hidden danger of rupture. The classic mode begins, how the son takes over the business left by Laozi, and then it depends on how they fight.
2 strong women
In addition to Dumani and his son, Sean's mother Marianne , who is also the woman we often call the boss of the gang, is also a key role.
She influences family relationships, especially weighing the friction between Dumani and Sean because of their very different styles of doing things.
In fact, she has been on Sean's side since the beginning. With her age and going through a lot of ups and downs, she should have stood on Dumani's side to appease the young and vigorous eldest son, but she actually supported his son's violent actions .
She was also such a woman. As the wife of a gang boss, she was naturally not a soft-hearted person. In a later episode, she found out that there was a maid who assassinated Sean at home, so she set up a private torture room and tortured her to extract a confession. She would also turn up the music in the room to avoid hearing the screams of the victim. How miserable it is, what everyone sees is believing, and the timid girl stumbles in.
Michelle Fairley, who played Marianne , also played a mother on the hit drama "Game of Thrones," the one whose throat was slit at "The Bloody Wedding . " It seems that she has put all the opportunities to vent her hatred in this new drama...
There's also a gang boss in the show, who was the one who directly questioned Sean's suspension of business at the meeting in the first episode.
But she underestimated Sean and wanted to continue her own business regardless of his opinion. Of course, as a descendant of the Wallace family, Sean taught her a lesson, but it became an opportunity for them to join forces.
This grumpy woman, from Iraqi Kurdistan , can do anything unexpected for her people.
3 means are ruthless
The most visually striking thing about gangster dramas is the cruelty of the means, not to mention Marianne's lynching. Many scenes are not the process, but the results that make you feel shocking.
In the first scene of the first episode of the series, at the highest point on the roof, Sean set a man on fire, and then the fire burned the rope, and a "fireball man" fell like this.
There are even more similar horror images, such as a row of hands that have been cut off.
A section of tongue cut off.
These cruelty to people have already shown the viciousness of the perpetrators, and the most powerful one is Sean's intimidation of business investors to express his great anger. That is, blowing up a newly built building in an instant .
Ironically, the background music is the famous " Nobody's Sleeping Tonight " in the opera "Turandot" , and the close-up of the moment when the building was blown up is also the highest note of the opera.
At night, there was a sudden explosion, which indeed made many stakeholders unable to sleep well.
4 shootout scenes
This part, many fans already know, that is, the addition of "The Raid" director Gareth Evans (Gareth Evans) has made the show more fun and tragic.
This effect can only be known by looking at it, not much to say, put a few groups of small animations, and experience it. At the end of the second episode, the Gypsy camp is bloodbathed .
At the end of the fifth episode, the same one-liners line up to hunt , trying to devour the whole house. Both sides fought desperately and suffered heavy casualties.
There are also all kinds of close-up headshots, so there will be no more spoilers.
5 Close combat
In fact, in general, gunfights and close combat can be called action scenes. The reason why it was taken out alone is because Evans is most famous for making people look good when fighting in close quarters.
In this drama, there is actually no need to show these frequently, just show your hands and have fun. And the two most representative action scenes were placed in the first episode.
It also leads to another protagonist of the story, Elliot , an undercover policeman who broke into the gang .
Some features of the close-quarters fight scenes in the movie "The Raid" can be found from his fighting movements.
By the end of the first episode, the disadvantaged Elliott managed to get away with beating the big man.
Elliott has the opportunity to enter the Wallace family, which is a good thing for his undercover work, but getting involved in the complicated gang struggle also makes him unable to help himself, and the trust of his superiors is getting lower and lower. The kindness of being a police officer will make his road very difficult. 6 Suspense
Interestingly, the biggest suspense point is still on the dead Finn Wallace. The secret he didn't want to tell before his death, he planted all kinds of time bombs after his death.
He died all because of his extramarital affairs, and he even named an island he bought after the woman who, more importantly, was pregnant with his child .
The two shootout scenes I mentioned just now are actually related to the boy who killed Wallace. Finn was killed on the night he was looking for this lover. But the destruction of the entire Gypsy tribe did not mean the end of the war, but a new beginning. Finn had a lot to hide before his death. Including the old partner Dumani, is not the one who knows the whole truth. But at least, Dumani concealed the affair for him, which became the fuse for his break with the Wallace family. As a wife, Marianne's anger can be imagined. Gang conflicts are all about profit, but also because of the weakened morale after Wallace's fall. Since there are Iraqis, there can also be Pakistanis , and the son of the gang leader also ran for mayor of London.
There can also be Albanians.
And Nigerians , yes, chopping hands is their masterpiece.
Therefore, it is strange that there is no chaos for such people from all walks of life, and when this chaos arises, various unresolved matters emerge one after another, and the mysterious behind-the-scenes manipulator is actually someone else.
Unconsciously, you will look at it in one breath with questions.
7 Unexpected Take one example as an example. In the second half of the fourth episode, Sean Wallace called the Dumani family to a party to bring them closer together. But before dinner, Dumani carried Sean behind his back to meet the Wallace family's investors. Before Dumani came back, Sean made an appointment to meet Luan, the leader of Albania, but both sides were attacked by a plot, and a street battle started, and Elliot who came to block the bullet for Sean.
From the face-to-face negotiation to the time Elliott was shot and pulled back to Wallace's house, the accident solved three problems:
First , he originally suspected that Lu An was a threat to Sean, but the appearance of a third party cleared his suspicions. Second , Mark, who was beside Sean, doubted Elliott's identity, and tied his hands to the car and prepared to hand it over to Sean for indictment, but Mark was shot in the head to protect Sean. On the contrary, it is more valued by Sean. Third , Dumani and his son, who hurried to Wallace's house, happened to witness a third party accomplice, a maid hidden in Wallace's house, to shoot Sean. Alexandre Dumani hit the maid, and for the time being there is no need to explain his lateness.
The episode ends on a glass shattered by bullets, which is a good way to handle the fragmentation of the current environment. 8 Tension
The creation of tension, like suspense and surprise, is the key to driving the storyline.
Tension works best in those moments when we know what's going to happen, but we don't know exactly how. And it would be even better if something unexpected happened at this time. Therefore, the unexpected plot mentioned above is actually full of tension, but the tension in the following scene is even better, because it happened in the last episode of the first season, and everyone knows that the most important thing must be explained.
Elliott's undercover identity was still exposed, but Sean wanted to make a deal with him, and called Alexander Dumani, thinking that he could influence his peers and revive the Wallace family.
When Elliott entered the door, he was searched by the gatekeeper, and the gun was confiscated; and Alexander bribed the little guy at the door with money, so the gun was in trouble ... Exactly who the gun was shot at is not here. mentioned. Finally, let's talk about a "shoot to kill" lesson that Finn Wallace gave his sons Sean and Billy. When they were teenagers, Finn and Marianne took their two sons to the forest.
There was a man's head covered by a bucket in the clearing in the forest. The man was still alive, and Fein wanted Sean to kill the man. Due to the first murder, his eyes were afraid to look directly, so his father covered the barrel and let him shoot through the barrel.
The gun went off and hit, but did Sean really hit it ?
And what happened to the following picture of the tender and tough Elliot being pushed against the wall by the strong man?
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