I still remember that when I was young, there was a DVD in my house, and the name of the movie taught Longcheng the years. The cover was a dark red lantern. I was too lazy to watch it at that time, because just hearing the name was boring. I'm glad I didn't watch it at that time, because I really couldn't understand it at that time.
Later, when I was in college, I began to watch various Hong Kong movies. At that time, I searched for this movie on the Internet with the strong lineup of Louis Koo, Zhang Jiahui, Liang Jiahui, Ren Dahua and so on. But after I watched it, I found that the movie was not what I thought it was, but it was more exciting than I thought. It turns out that a movie not only needs good actors, but also needs a good plot, shooting techniques and forms of expression. The film is a work carefully crafted by the director, and more people will be involved in the production process, which is very difficult.
I revisited this film, and if I were to use simple words to evaluate this film, I would think it was a Dow-like film with bright stars and contrasting characters. .
The first group of comparisons in the play is Le Ge and Big D.
Brother Le, a gentle and good father, will buy vegetables and cook for his son at the vegetable market, and will ask his son to open a bottle of beer for him to celebrate when he gets the throne, which shows that his daily life is simple and peaceful. In the second movie, he told his subordinates to try not to scare his children, and played a gentle father to the fullest. Moreover, he did not introduce Le Ge's wife, Le Ge's son and Big D's wife throughout the film. All are just a microcosm of the underworld family.
The actor, Ren Dahua, can switch back and forth between the two extreme roles of pervert and police at any time, and can also play the role of a perverted policeman. He can use a smile to deduce what kind of role he is.
Big D, a typical representative who swaggered through the city with his hips on his hips, arrogant, noisy, with all the reasons we believe he is a triad, it seems that his image is what the triad should look like in our impression. He is very direct and very popular. He feels that the money is in place, the people are in place, and the position should be his. Deng Bo does not agree with him as the person in charge, so he will try his best to rob him. Come here, mess around, be unreasonable, a typical example of a triad.
The actor, Tony Leung, was born ten years after he won the Academy Award at the age of 25, and I'm only 25 now. So the question is, how old is he?
The second set of contrasts in the play is Jimmy and the plane.
Jimmy, in the first film, did not introduce Jimmy's life experience in detail, but used a few special scenes to briefly describe him, and in these descriptions, there were also preparations for the next movie. At the beginning, he handed over the money to the boss, and when he changed hands, the boss gave half of the money to others, and Jimmy still didn't change his face. When the society was turning upside down, he was sitting in the classroom listening to the business class. Here I want to say, everyone, a pimp works so hard, why don't we work hard? When I learned that the boss had an accident, I would anxiously think of a way, and I would take the initiative to find Brother Le, and take the initiative to go to the leading stick. When I looked for it, the purpose was very clear, that is, to get the stick. During the night battle, he wisely threw the hardest bone to the plane. The underworld is not scary, but it is afraid that the underworld has culture. This sentence can be fully reflected in the second movie. In the warehouse, if you get the stick, you can't give it to Brother Le casually, and you don't want any money, just to give Brother Le a big enough favor. At the end of the movie, he was pushing a wheelchair, and his uncles told him, "If you want to do it, you must be the biggest one." This scene, while reflecting his kindness towards his uncle, on the one hand, spoke out the intrigue of the underworld, on the other hand It also laid a solid foundation for the second movie.
The actor, Gu Tianle, is one of my favorite Hong Kong actors, the leader of the new generation of Hong Kong actors, a "The Condor Heroes" is famous, and there are rumors that he has invested in nearly 100 Hope Primary Schools.
Airplane, the actor with the least dialogue in the whole play, has two sentences in total. The first sentence is "I will only give the stick to Huo Niu", and the second sentence is "Godfather". There are also two main scenes, one is empty stuttering for a few minutes at the beginning of the movie, and the other is single-handedly in the night battle, two scenes can create a arrogant and fierce character. Big D jokingly told him to eat a spoon, and he ate it with his mouth open, and these two minutes of action directly set the tone of his character. In the night battle, he and Jimmy also formed a sharp contrast. Jimmy drove straight in, first to save people, and then to deal with the long hair without any effort, while the plane resisted the crowd by itself, and there was a knife stuck in his shoulder when he escaped. The plane will also have an important role in the second film, showing the role of a killer who wanders outside the underworld politics. In addition to knowing Zhongyi, the rest knows how to kill people. He and Jimmy took two completely different paths. I don't lie to you, the underworld is also divided into specialties. Fortunately, the plane changed course and won two awards.
The actor, Zhang Jiahui, today's Zhang Jiahui can be said to be in full swing, from a cheap supporting role to a two-time actor. In this film, it is with Zhang Jiahui's superb acting skills that he can thoroughly play a person with few scenes, few scenes, and little dialogue to the hearts of the people.
The third group of comparisons in the play is Dongguan Aberdeen and Big Head.
Dongguanzi and Datou both play the role of green leaves in this movie. They not only set off the protagonist, but also the theme expressed by the protagonist. The most lines Datou said in the play is what is the five thunders, death in ten thousand Under the blade, even when Master Su handed the faucet stick in his hand, he had to read the lines first before leaving, and a walking helper resumed the reading machine. He is not a character, but a background. The character of the big head is integrated into the background. He allows us to understand more clearly what is to be expressed in the movie world. And Dongguan Zai didn't kill Datou outright when he beat him. The state expressed was that I was also ordered. Everyone is a club, and each has its own master. You give me the faucet stick, and I will also Take a scene and stop doing it. His choice of behavior is also rendering the background of the entire movie world. After all, brothers in a community are not good at doing things casually. In the end, he said sorry to Datou, and Datou also repeated it.
The actors, Lin Xue and Lin Jiadong have always been important supporting roles in Hong Kong movies, and they are also the supporting roles that To Qifeng likes to use, because their images are extremely malleable, and Lin Jiadong also has a wonderful performance in "Infernal Affairs". As for Lin Xue, Nine Swords said that in everyone's life, there will be a fat man, Lin Xue, the fat man who is indispensable in every movie.
The handling of some shots in this film is a bit of Doo's crazy extreme. The expression style portrayed in Doo's film is to let people accurately experience the story behind the long picture. Since I have watched this movie with a lot of friends, but they didn't really appreciate the whole content of the movie. Do's movies are a kind of movies that need to go in. When you are completely immersed in the style of Do's movies, you will carefully appreciate every work directed by Do Qifeng, but if you don't pay attention to the content shown in these long pictures, You can't see through the fun in the work. It is these extreme details that limit the public's love for Du's films. For example, you must be at 7.145 degrees to discover the most wonderful beauty of the entire work. If you can't watch this film from this angle, you won't. Be able to enjoy the maximum viewing experience. According to the current movie standards, this movie can add more time to the total duration, simplify the processing on some shots, so that more audiences can understand the content of the movie, and the whole movie will be better polished
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The most exciting part of this movie, apart from the big movie stars, is that it tells us that there is no need to shout in the underworld.
We may be accustomed to the scene of slashing people with knives in Hong Kong movies, and think that this is the real bloody young and dangerous. But the underworld is a society after all. The theme shown in the film is to tell the audience what kind of society is called the underworld. Killing people is only a small part of daily life. Society, after all, has social contradictions.
The second half of the film makes this contradiction more prominent, "Love brother or love gold?", "Love brother!". But in the end, everyone's choice turned into love gold. Big D killed his fellow prisoner Dinosaur, and Brother Le buried Big D and his wife, all because of gold. When Le brother persuaded the big D, he also said "please ask for money." If you can ask for money, please ask together, but if you threaten me, then I'm sorry.
Throughout the whole play, Brother Le is the biggest winner. He picked up a stone by the river and chiseled a big D more than 20 times. These 20 times were done in one go, and there was no unnecessary sound in the whole picture. This picture can represent the movie. To let the audience know what the movie is about, the lines do not have to be clearly stated. The lines are only at the level of hearing and understanding. People can also understand the content of the movie from the quiet and dynamic picture. .
The film is very quiet in many shots, with no dialogue, just some engine sounds and background music.
Ren Dahua's voice in the whole play is calm, including Wang Tianlin's words to Jiang David, many times he is not even emotional. In Chow Yun-fat's "Prison Storm", "I speak loudly, it does not mean that I am rude." Similarly, big D's loud speech does not represent his strength. After all, the voice is just the voice, you can't simply use the voice Intimidating, we have seen many people raise their voices when speaking, put on a pose, try to use their loudest voice to cover up their weaknesses, attract others' attention, and make others submit.
From daily life to the influence of stage drama, from ancient times to the present, loud voice seems to be the standard for the image of ruthless characters, but that is only the image that people think that ruthless characters should have. Like Liang Kun played by Wu Zhenyu in Young and Dangerous, the hoarse and fierce voice is simply a typical example of a bad guy. People like it because people think that such a bad guy image meets the expectations of the world.
The ultimate purpose of language is always communication. The concise and calm dialogue of the film "Underworld" accurately expresses Johnnie To's film characteristics, and also tells us that the real underworld speech may not act as we think. There was no need for fanfare before, and there was no need to report the name before making a move. The underworld speaks, not by shouting. The most powerful person does not need to speak the loudest.
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