Cigarette butts don't light gasoline

Alvina 2022-03-23 09:03:12

From an entertainment point of view, it's pretty good, and the characters are attractive enough. Gangster bosses, bosses' women, Japanese spy chiefs, American spies... in Shanghai on the eve of Pearl Harbor. You can imagine what a melee it would be like. However, the desire as described by the director and the actors is a bit bragging. It is rumored to want to make a "Casablanca"-style love story. I can understand this as a gimmick for publicity, which is really far from it.
Kind of confused if this is an American film or a co-production. Because it happened in China, and the two leading actors are Chinese, plus it happened in Shanghai, I really thought it was a co-production.
The story is still twists and turns, although the last part of the intelligence part is a little tricky, but also said in the past. Originally, I didn't intend to talk about the sea of ​​spy, it was called "Shanghai". If you use the name Shanghai, it will remind people of "Casablanca". It is also a place name, and it has nothing to do with that place. I don't know if it's because of the censorship and cut it off. The part about love in the film is very light. I saw that two piles of dry wood were not ignited in the war. Without sparks, cigarette butts won't light up gasoline, I'm sorry...

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