The True Color of Heroes: Don't mention the past, life has been stormy . "The True Color of Heroes" is directed by John Woo, produced by Tsui Hark, and starring Dillon, Chow Yun-fat, and Leslie Cheung. The film tells about a legend of the rivers and lakes of Hong Kong in the 1980s, a gray utopia intertwined with violence and romance - Song Zihao, Mark, and Song Zijie brought together the contradiction between the brotherhood of the rivers and the lakes and the brotherhood, reflecting their respective differences. Frustration, failure, repentance and revenge.
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[Di Lung, Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, 1986 (Files of Li Jiasheng Huang Chuqiao Photo Studio)] When the film was released in Hong Kong in 1986, it became the Hong Kong box office champion with HK$34.65 million that year, and was nominated for 9 awards in the 23rd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards and won Best Actor, Best Director, Best Cinematography Award; 11 nominations in the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards, and finally won the Best Film and Best Actor awards. Its theme song, "The Love of the Year" sung by Leslie Cheung, also won the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards and the Top Ten Strong Song Golden Melody Awards of the year. In April 2014, KBS, one of the three major TV stations in South Korea, selected the "Six Most Unforgettable Films and TV Songs for Koreans", and "Love of the Year" was the only selected Chinese song.
31 years later, this classic is re-released. It's just that Leslie Cheung has already left, and Brother Fa and Brother Di Long are also old... The green hills are still everywhere, and the changes in the world are really embarrassing.
When I was a child, I watched "The True Color of Heroes", and the director's favorite was the unrestrained little brother. The righteousness of the rivers and lakes is vividly reflected in him. To be a brother, and finally die for the brother. It simply cannot be more in line with the traditional Chinese chivalrous spirit. In the shootout scene in Fenglin Pavilion, Pony is charming, romantic and unrestrained... How many of the youthful memories of the post-70s and post-80s started from Pony who shot with a toothpick in both hands? And the scene where he limps toward the basement of printing counterfeit money is like a hero! However, it is said that when filming "The True Color of Heroes", because of the reputation of "box-office poison", no one was willing to lend clothes to Fa Ge for filming, so he had to wear a trench coat from beginning to end. "I waited for three years, just waiting for an opportunity. I didn't want to prove that I was better than others, but to prove that what I lost must be taken back with my own hands!" The world is so wonderful, Chow Yun-fat participated in the three Academy Awards in suits and leather shoes , the particles are not collected. After "The True Color of Heroes", I didn't think that I would win the award, so I hurried over from the set and ended up wearing a costume jacket to accept the award. Wu Yusen recalled that the box lunches on the set were not delicious, and the staff threw them away after eating one or two bites. Fa Ge would pick them up and eat them to remind everyone not to waste food. Inexplicably, I thought of Mr. Zhou who braved the typhoon and rain to clean up the street not long ago...
This shot of rushing over can be regarded as one of the director's favorite shots in "The True Color of Heroes". Youth is young, high-spirited... Such a beautiful young man should be born to be loved by others. As for Song Zijie, the former director didn't like him. He always felt that he was immature, self-willed, arrogant, and a little selfish. Mingming Song Zihao treated him so well, why he just couldn't understand him, couldn't forgive him. All kinds of hardships and all kinds of scorn for him. Only now did I realize that how much I hated, how much I loved; how much I hated, how much I admired. The justice he insists on is the real justice under the sun, and his closest relatives stand on the opposite side of this justice. It is the hero in his heart that he hates with his teeth and claws... "He has the courage to change, do you have the courage to accept it?" He has. Leslie Cheung became attached to Dillon because of this film. In 2000, they collaborated on a public welfare film "Meteor Language" together. Dillon won the Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Dillon said that he (Leslie Cheung) is a very selfless actor. When filming "Meteor Language", he took the initiative to ask the producer Zhang Zhiliang to revise the script to make Dillon's role more prominent. Dillon also said that his brother said to him, "Brother Long, I want to be a director... I will start filming from your eyes." In "The True Color of Heroes", the scene between John Woo and Dillon is the director of the brother. of. Now, the people of Sri Lanka are gone. May he be well in heaven.
When the director was a child, he liked Brother Xiao Ma, but it was not until he grew up that he realized that a man like Song Zihao, who was so gentle and distressing, was the best in the world. Whatever he looks at, his eyes are gentle, and his clear eyes are like the heart of a young man. However, in the bar, he lowered his head and smiled. smell. Such a man... Zhang Che said in "Reviewing the Thirty Years of Hong Kong Films": "Wo Yusen filmed these three people, Dillon was steady, and he controlled the overall situation; Chow Yun-fat was lively, his gestures were all dramas, he could be dignified and harmonious, and he could also be passionate and tragic. . Leslie Cheung is pure and impulsive, very cute." Compared with Xiao Ma's resoluteness, Brother Hao is not free and easy enough. Brother Pony is arrogant to make a comeback and get back what he lost. However, Song Zihao was already tired of Jianghu. He had family ties and he wanted to quit. As for Song Zijie's willful arrogance, Brother Hao is too forbear and spoiled. After all, "justice" has always been the most important thing for the young and reckless younger brother, not to mention the gap between the good and the evil, and the blood of the father. However, he was indeed the one who held the audience and moved his whole body.
His advance and retreat is the rhythm of the film. He was imprisoned, and Brother Ma took revenge and hibernated. Ajay is trying to grow. He is released from prison, and Marco plans to make a comeback and create greater glories; Ajie is limited in his career because of this. Ah Cheng, who came to power by betraying him, also came to invite him to re-enter the arena. After being rejected, he threatened Brother Pony and Ajie... In the end, he was forced to sacrifice his life to fulfill his brother and pony. His plan should be to hand over the evidence to his younger brother who is a police officer, hand over two million dollars to Xiaoma and arrange for him to leave... As a result, no one is obedient! In the end, he shot and killed Ah Cheng Xiao Ma in revenge, but handcuffed himself and surrendered to the crime with his younger brother. The title of this film is "The True Color of Heroes", but what is the true color of a hero? Brother Hao's iron-boned tenderness, Brother Pony's righteousness, Ajie's legal justice... These are the characteristics of love and sex, right?
Here's a sneak peek -- Dillon was born with a fatherly, firm, dependable, tolerant temperament. Therefore, Brother Long's generation is the life of a boss. There is always a younger brother who is warm, caring, well-behaved and obedient in front of him, and there is always a younger brother who cuts, kills, takes revenge and sacrifices his life for him. There was Jiang David in front, Er Dongsheng in the back, Fu Sheng, and then Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung... Throughout his entire life, he seemed to be pampering middle-2 teenagers with all kinds of fangs and claws. Therefore, he will never be able to retreat from the rivers and lakes, and he will never be able to go to Taihu Lake. But even so, such a big man's life is really worth it.
Dillon used to be Shaw Brothers' undisputed king of peony. Later, Shaw Brothers switched from film to TV, and this "the most beautiful boy in Xiangjiang", who was the most beautiful boy in Hong Kong, could not escape the fate of being fired. Every time I see this news, the director can't help but feel heartache, as if he had witnessed a grand lunar month. Back then, the young man with the beautiful beauty and moonlight was finally washed away, from one river and lake to another, from a hero with a heart and a sword, to a big man who is lonely and desolate... The most important thing is that there is no way to keep it in the world, Zhu Yan Ci Jing Hua word tree. "I haven't been a big brother for a long time." What he said was not a thank you.
"Brother Hao, are you still going back to Hong Kong?" Brother Hao chuckled and turned to leave the church. After the figure that gradually disappeared into the darkness, it seemed that a white dove fluttered its wings, flying a disappointment and grief. It's just that John Woo didn't know how to release pigeons at that time, but the BGM of "Tomorrow Will Be Better" set a flag for a tomorrow that will never come.
Well, a story is a story after all. Apart from the story, "The True Color of Heroes" was a huge success. Dillon took this opportunity to win his second Golden Horse trophy. David Jiang, who had broken with him for ten years, came all the way from Canada to witness the success of his comeback, and let him stand at the top of the night without any regrets. . If Di Jiang is not true love, who would believe it?
Text: Moon Man Lanjiang Editor: Director Meow Picture: net & screenshots
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