Genre Film Journey 5. "Spicy Detective"

Personally, "The Detective" is the pinnacle of John Woo's violent aesthetics. Compared with "Blood Two Heroes", it is a little too young, and its style is also biased. The most familiar "The True Color of Heroes 1. 2", although it is famous, it is only a work in the formative period of Wu's style. After "The Detective", John Woo went to Hollywood. Although he also shot a series of excellent works such as "Broken Arrow", "Changing Face", "Mission Impossible 2" and "Wind Whisperer", Wu's unique violent aesthetics have basically disappeared. After all, the rest is just the stereotyped style of typical Hollywood commercial genre films. And the release of the century's bad movie "Chibi" has brought the director of the genre film who can almost become the Chinese version of Cameron into a sharp decline. We can only sigh that the hero is dying.

The film is still analyzed in three aspects.

1. Story: "Spicy" is almost a shootout scene from beginning to end. Some commentators say that this is the movie with the most shootout scenes in movie history. The bullets fly, the picture is smooth, the rhythm is fast, the narrative is stable, and jazz is used as the background music, forming a unique image style. To measure the masterpiece of a director or actor, there is a very hard condition, that is, the "unparalleledness" of style - anyone can imitate, but it can never be replaced, Bruce Lee is, Quentin is, Zhou Xingchi is, "The Hot Hand "It is also.

Although the action scenes account for almost 70% of the whole film, the story of "Spicy" is not simple. The two-line narrative slowly merges into a single-line advance. There is hardly any story flaws in the beginning and the end. It is extremely rare for an action commercial type film that takes the no-urinating point in the audience as its fundamental starting point. As a result, "Infernal Affairs", the pinnacle of Hong Kong's later work, all borrowed the story of this film.

2. Characters: Sticking to the title, the characters in this film are hot-handed and hate evil like hatred. The policeman played by Chow Yun-fat shoots and kills criminals until he is dead; and the undercover agent played by Tony Leung is more prominent than the flamboyant hair at that time. elder brother. As a genre film, the characters are not required to dig deep, but representativeness and prominence, and this film successfully achieves these two points.

3. Theme: On the surface, this movie is just a conflict between good and evil in an ordinary police and gangster film, and evil is beyond good. In fact, there are doubts about absolute good and absolute evil. Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung are both representatives of absolute goodness, but they both accidentally killed a policeman in the film; Guan Haishan should be an absolute evil, but he is a kind and righteous villain; the one-eyed dragon is the first master in this film, cruel and cruel, Zhou Liang United is not an opponent, but he also knows "don't go too far"; and Huang Qiusheng seems to be absolutely evil in the film, but he said a classic sentence: everything in this world will stop, only war will not stop. Without a special understanding of human nature, it is impossible to say such words.

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