There is a Hong Kong film called Wu Yusen

In Hong Kong in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hong Kong people who dared to work hard have built Hong Kong into an international financial center, and Hong Kong’s film industry is also splendid. Known as the Hollywood of the East, it is the second largest film industry base in the world. . Among them, Wu Yusen's violent aesthetics is even more out of the world, and even shines in Hollywood. "Hot Detective" is Wu Yusen's last classic work in Hong Kong before going to Hollywood to develop. The magnificence of the action scenes and the abundance of (real-life) special effects were beyond the reach of Hollywood movies at the time, and the Hong Kong film circle was even more impressive. In the movies of the early 90s, gun battles and stunts are comparable to them. I am afraid that Luke Besson's "This Killer Is Not So Cold" two years later.


The whole movie, with the development of the plot, produced a total of 3 shootout scenes. At the beginning, it was Yunlai Teahouse. This shootout was deeply mixed with a strong Hong Kong atmosphere. The second scene was in the dock warehouse. It is not surprising that teahouses, tea restaurants, docks and other places are commonly used in Hong Kong films for gang transactions and negotiations. Under Wu Yusen's management, they have become gunfight battlefields. However, the boldest and most spectacular shootout in the whole play took place in Mingxin Hospital. The selection of this shootout is indeed very imaginative. In addition to imagination, Wu Yusen's execution power is also breathtaking, with countless blasting scenes. , The main actors personally took the scene (including several babies), realistic firearms, sound effects and soundtrack, and excellent post-editing, making this gunfight scene a classic in Hong Kong-made gunfight movies.

Unlike today’s commercial films that are rampant in technological special effects, large scenes, large productions but lack characterization and plot paving, under the production ideas of Yusen Wu’s chivalrous friendship + violent aesthetics, "Hot Detective" is not just about blasting, gunfighting, and action scenes. The characterization, plot structure and details are also proficient.
TEQUILA in the play is the representative of the film title "Hot Detective". He loves to drink strong alcohol and has a heart for his brothers. In the first shootout, after witnessing his subordinates being killed by a killer, he could have caught the killer alive. He chose a shot headshot; in order to avenge his brotherhood, he collided with his boss, posted a newspaper in Johnny's car, and went alone to Uncle Hai's arsenal to find Johnny. He also has a tender side. In the last gunfight at Mingxin Hospital, he evacuated the baby with Maomao, and finally, to protect the baby, he sang to sleep. Righteous, hearty, jealous, and tender. . It can be said that TEQUILA is a knight hero in the modern environment. In Wu Yusen’s classic movies, Fa Ge is his queen actor, and he played one after another of modern knight dramas ("The True Colors of Heroes", "The Two Heroes", etc.) in his films, just like Clint Eastwood has become an important genre in film history, just like the westerns in Leon.

And Alang, played by Wei Tsai, is a role in this modern knight film who is involuntarily in the rivers and lakes. He was lurking under Uncle Hai, working for the arms group that dumped Johnny. His characterization is also full of romanticism. He has no identity and lives on a yacht. In the scene, he is cold-blooded and decisive when he kills the traitor of Uncle Hai. But in fact, he hates murder, just as he hates origami cranes, but the boat is full of paper cranes. In the dock arsenal, he endured tears and killed Uncle Hai. At the end of this gunfight, he raised his gun with Fa Ge, and the spooky detective shot again. Fortunately Fa Ge had no bullets in his pistol. Alang has been serving the police as an undercover agent since he was a police officer, so that he actually had the idea of ​​immigrating to Iceland, a country with sunshine 24 hours a day. The undercover agent, who is free from justice and crime, runs the risk of being seen through the streets by the gang every day, while risking the risk of being killed by the police. This is the biggest innovation in the character setting of this film. As a result, this type of undercover role was dug in depth by Du Qifeng and other directors a few years later, creating another classic Hong Kong movie genre: 10 years later, the undercover agent played by Wei Tsai was in Du Sir’s "Infernal Affairs" , Also received a birthday gift on the rooftop.

In "Hot Detective", in addition to the three main protagonists, Fa Ge, Wei Tsai, and Mao Mao, the supporting roles and even the runaways were later important figures in the Hong Kong entertainment circle: Huang Qiusheng, who played Johnny in the play, and the police officer who died in the teahouse at the beginning Lin Baoyi (the protagonist in the heart of TVB's classic Miao Shouren), and the "policeman" Ouyang Zhenhua who was killed by A Lang in the whole series of only a few lines of dialogue (later nominated for an Emmy Award for the casino situation, TVB classics The protagonist), Huang Debin, Johnny's subordinate, and Guo Zhenghong, who is responsible for the gun trade in the first scene of the gun battle.

Needless to say, "Hot Detective" is the pinnacle of Wu Yusen's Hong Kong-produced movies. After he went to Hollywood, he also carried out the aesthetics of violence to the end. Nicolas Cage and John Travolta became his good partners.

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