In 1972, directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman in "French Drug Network", it won 5 Oscars including Best Picture and became the first film in the hearts of many Chinese film lovers. A drug war.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a group of "Golden Triangle Movies" swept the screen. In 1988, Zheng Dongtian directed "Crossing the Golden Triangle"; in the same year, Lu Xiaolong launched "Black Corridor"; in 1990, "Golden Triangle Heroes" starring Li Saifeng, Wu Jiali, and Da Dao starred by Wang Zhenyang was released... The drug war on the screen added fuel to the flames and taught Chinese audiences to experience the thrilling ups and downs of the drug war, as if watching through the screen, we know what drugs are, what drug addiction is, what is the pleasure of lingering and lingering, and what is survival. Immortal pain.
Abroad, in 1982, directed by Brian De Palma, known as the "Master of Contemporary Suspense", Al Pacino starred in "Scarface", performing a gangster from bootlegging to drug dealing The history of fortune, Oliver Stone is said to have written its script amid his battle with drug addiction.
John Woo, from the drug dealer's conspiracy in "Blood" to the drug lord played by Nicholas Cage in "Change Face", the drug war in his lens exudes a poppy-like fragrance of violence.
And John Woo's favorite Quentin Tarantino, whose most famous films, from Pulp Fiction to Dangerous Relationships, are closely intertwined with drugs.
In 2000, Steven Soderbergh shot "Drug Network", and the drug war theme once again won the Oscar.
In 2007, Er Dongsheng chose his "Disciple", which tells about a dangerous drug war in which undercover agents broke into the interior of drug dealers. It is known as the first real anti-drug movie in Hong Kong film history, and won 15 gold statues. Award nominations...
A hail of bullets, sinister situations, serial conspiracies, extreme life and death, paradox of human nature, this is the love of suspenseful directors, and it is also the amazing light that drug cases often reveal from an artistic perspective, so the "drug war" is naturally also favored by them. It is like an unfathomable ocean, hiding the suffocating treacherous and shocking beauty, nurturing endless stories and endless charm. Perhaps because of this, every suspenseful action director has or has hidden a story about drugs in his heart, and when the conditions are ripe, enchanting flowers will emerge.
For Chinese audiences, To Qifeng's work should be the most special drug battle so far. The scene we are most familiar with finally appeared on the big screen: low factory buildings, desolate urban-rural junctions, fishing boats in the north, high-speed toll stations, the most common snack shops on the roadside, familiar license plates, familiar models, and familiar mineral springs Water bottle and instant noodles... No longer exotic lights, no longer an illusory Hong Kong Island, just now, on the street you walked through after get off work, in the night when you fell asleep, beside us, a game is quietly going on. invisible war. How long have we waited for this day? To Qifeng finally came.
A Jedi counterattack by a vicious and vicious trafficker; a three-dimensional display of a wise and brave anti-drug captain, this is To Qifeng's drug war. He places it on our most perceptible battlefield, as obsessed with detail as ever, with guns and guns, and with truth. The big directors of suspenseful action films may have one thing in common, that is, they are all good at seeing the thrilling in ordinary scenes, and seeing the clues of life and death behind the calm and peaceful life. This is also the intriguing charm of "Drug Wars".
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