Recently, I finished watching Kitano Takeshi's classic gangster film "Extremely Wicked".
I was very excited after watching this movie.
I really like this movie so much.
The English name of the film is "The Outrage", the Chinese name is "All the Evil Members", and it is also called "Extremely Evil and Outrageous". Outrage is a noun in English, which means anger.
Doing a verb means to do violence to someone.
This movie is very relevant. All the characters in the movie are either angry or violent to others.
Usually, when we watch gangster movies, there will always be one or two good people in the movie.
At the very least, the protagonist can be considered a good person.
At a minimum, even if the protagonist is not a good person, he is still a good person compared to the villain.
A brief summary of the story of the movie "The Most Evil and Outrageous":
It's a movie where Japanese gangs are suspicious of each other, kill each other, and there isn't a single good guy in the movie. That's why it's called "Extremely Evil and Not Dao" and "All Evil Members".
In this movie, everyone is really a bad person, and a bad person.
In Wu Jing's words: you kill me, I kill you, if you don't kill me, I will kill you again, I can't kill you, if you come to kill me, I have to kill you. "
As a comedian, Takeshi Kitano's ruthless role in the movie really made my heart tremble.
To be a ruthless character, you must be silent!
And that station, that lighting, that composition, isn't it John To?
So handsome that my heart trembled again.
In this movie, it is hard not to compare To Qifeng's "Underworld" with it.
"The Wicked" was released in 2010, and "Underworld" was released in 2005.
I don't know if Kitano Takeshi has seen John To's "Underworld".
The atmosphere and the story in "Extremely Wicked" are indeed somewhat similar to "Underworld". In "Underworld", everyone is rushing to be the boss.
In "Extremely Wicked", everyone is rushing to be the leader of the group.
In "Underworld", the gangsters are very particular about their positions. Standing and standing, that kind of atmosphere comes.
The position of the gangsters in "Extremely Wicked" is also very particular. At first glance, it is rehearsed. If you don't stand like this, you can't be so handsome at all.
Speaking of differences, the characters in "Underworld" still like to talk, and the scenes of killing are also very large.
Kill a person for five or six minutes, kill him for ten minutes.
The actors of "Extremely Wicked" are a little more taciturn, and kill a little more neatly.
No nonsense, one kill will kill.
Killing one person is basically done with two or three shots. After killing one person, kill the next one without any fuss. I don’t know, I thought these killers had KPIs.
I thought it was Takeshi Kitano who filmed Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers", Zhang Ziyi died as soon as he appeared, and the movie was cut for an hour.
There are several finger-cutting scenes in the movie.
I read other film critics saying that Takeshi Kitano felt that gangster films should be painful.
And the scene of cutting your fingers can really make you see your fingers ache.
In addition to the scene where the fingers were cut off, it looked very painful, but the boss of the other party also looked very painful when Kitano Takeshi used an electric drill to drill his mouth.
The final murder scene in this movie is full of creativity and violent aesthetics.
It makes people feel distressed, but also think that this method of killing is too romantic and too handsome.
For example, when Kitano Takeshi's second-in-command was arrested, the thugs let the second-in-command get into the car first, and the second-in-command said, "If you want to kill me, kill me quickly."
The thugs said, "It's all right, we'll take you on a tour of the river and go to the beach to blow the sea breeze." Wait until you think that the second-in-command should be able to escape this time. If you want to kill him, kill him immediately. There is no reason to go to the beach to blow your hair.
At this time, the thug suddenly covered the second-in-command's head with a black cloth, tied his neck with a rope, and then tied the other side of the rope to a road sign beside the car.
The thug motioned the driver to drive.
The driver slammed on the accelerator, the rope tightened, and the second handle flew out of the car with a slam, throwing his body on the road and losing his head.
The thugs looked at the corpse and felt very satisfied. With the sea breeze blowing, they took a leisurely walk for a while, got into the car, and galloped away.
These pictures cannot be reproduced in words, so you'd better go and see for yourself.
The art of a movie cannot be expressed in words. You have to see it with your own eyes to feel the picture, soundtrack, rhythm, and atmosphere of the movie.
Takeshi Kitano was once hailed as the hope of Japanese cinema by Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese film emperor. This Japanese film Hope is also 73 years old this year.
I am also a little old fan of Mr. Kitano Takeshi.
His films ranged from his debut film "Ferocious Man," to "The Tranquil Sea of That Summer," to "Bad Boy's Sky."
The themes of Takeshi Kitano's films are so diverse, from gangsters to surfing, youthful invincibility to fatherly love.
Mr. Kitano has always said that he is a part-time director, and his job should be a comedian, host and producer.
From the perspective of Kitano Takeshi's income composition, movies are indeed his most inconspicuous income. Takeshi Kitano's film box office has not been very good, and it is not even a hit in Japan. What made his films famous was never in Japan, but in Europe.
Akira Kurosawa's fame was also introduced to Japan from Europe and the United States, and Akira Kurosawa's box office was so miserable that there was no filming.
No wonder Akira Kurosawa appreciates Takeshi Kitano so much. The kid can do it, but it doesn't make money to make movies, just like me, hehe.
There is also a director with the same fate in China, this person is called Jia Zhangke.
Takeshi Kitano's films have the fate of our Jia Zhangke and are favored by major film festivals, but they belong to a small group of literary and artistic films in China.
This may be one of the reasons why Kitano Takeshi Studio invested in Jia Zhangke's films.
To be honest, Takeshi Kitano's films need to calm down and watch them slowly.
If you are impatient and want to find a popcorn to kill time, Takeshi Kitano's movie is very inappropriate.
Every time I watch Takeshi Kitano's movies, I need to be full of emotions before picking them up.
Definitely not going to watch it unprepared.
I felt like I was going to waste this movie by watching it unprepared.
I'm worried that I won't be able to see it.
Have you ever tried to eat your favorite food for the last time before eating it?
I'm glad that when I was young, I didn't go to Take Kitano's movies to watch it.
If I saw it at that time, I would definitely not understand it, and I would definitely not feel much.
Watching it now, watching it in the next few years, it will definitely be better if I watch Takeshi Kitano's films at the age of 50.
I still have several "foods" from Takeshi Kitano that I haven't eaten yet.
Really looking forward to it.
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