Talk about Liao Fan: I have a friend who is a villain who runs around the country to commit crimes
Original: Xu Lang
Hello everyone, my name is Xu Lang.
If you often read my writing, you must know that I wrote a lot of crimes in the 1980s and 1990s - the security in that era was worse than it is now, and there were many big and strange cases.
I have written about serial killers in the Northeast, homosexual serial killers, the Yangtze River Bridge bombing, and also the Sino-Russian train robbery case handled by the police across borders.
Last year, he directed Zhou Yong to write "The Destruction of a Lady in Northeast China", which tells the story of Ma Yanhong, the "Demonic Head" of Jiamusi. She first killed three members of the landlord's family, and then threw them into pieces, and then killed her boyfriend who was a police officer. Tossed the corpse.
When I researched materials and contacted people who knew it, I wondered how this story seemed familiar. Later, I remembered that I had seen a movie called "Fireworks in the White Sun" when I was 14 years old. The background story is very similar to this one.
In this film, Liao Fan rarely played a positive role, a policeman - in my impression, he will always have a mustache and a face that bears 18 lives, and he is basically a villain:
Robbers, pimps, harbouring guns, forging documents, bandits, and in a recent play, they even killed the teacher's family.
This is not a curse! It's good to play the villain, the characters are complex, and acting skills are needed - in the two versions of "Batman", Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson both won Oscars by playing the clown.
In order to prove that my impression of Liao Fan is correct, I searched the movies he acted in, and was pleasantly surprised to find that he actually played so many representative criminal roles in the 1980s and 1990s.
Although I've been writing about serial killers and big cases, I've always wanted to take the time to make a collection of common crimes in the 1980s and 90s, and analyze the reasons behind them.
When I saw the list of films played by Liao Fan, I suddenly had a bold idea - take out a few criminal characters he played and analyze them as examples.
Why did you choose the role of Liao Fan? One is that the character is more suitable, and his acting skills are also good, which is more realistic; the other is that he has never been a big hit, and he doesn't want to be a hot topic, so it is quite suitable to write his role.
1
The first role has to start with guns.
In 1996, China promulgated the current "gun control law" and began to strictly prohibit guns. Before that, many people had guns in their hands and it was easy to buy them.
My third uncle was working as a forest ranger in Xiaoxing'anling at the time. When he came back from work, he carried several shotguns and took me out to shoot birds.
He told me that for people who can make guns, the cost of a black gun is only 200 yuan, and it can be sold for 1,000 yuan when it is sold to the online store. Go, basically around 4000.
There are many companies and even individuals who have spotted this business opportunity and built their own guns and sold them. There is a man in their forest farm, called Lao Pan, who sells guns by himself. When making guns, he gets them in the cellar.
When trading, buyers, intermediaries, and sellers generally use slang words. Short guns are called "pig's feet short" and long guns are called "long ones". When bargaining, 10,000 yuan is called "1 piece".
Because they have guns in their hands, the desires in many people’s hearts are magnified. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Public Security, there were more than 10,000 gun-related crimes such as homicide, robbery and rape across the country from 1991 to 1995, of which there were more than 3,000 cases in 1995. .
In the past five years, 1.05 million illegal guns of various types have been confiscated nationwide, with an average annual collection of 210,000.
The story of the movie "Green Hat" also happened roughly at this time.
Liao Fan's character is Wang Yao. He wants to buy a gun. Because of the above historical reasons, he can easily get a gun from the black market.
If Wang Ruo is a loyal guy, his girlfriend has been in the United States for two years. In the past two years, he has not cheated on him. He has been solving problems by himself, and he has been laughed at by his friends.
After a long time, he couldn't help but think about it, and decided to go to the United States to find his girlfriend to reunite with, but there was no travel expenses - he bought a gun, and he teamed up with someone to successfully rob the bank, and he forged his documents before leaving.
Before boarding the plane, Wang wanted to call his girlfriend at the canteen, fantasizing about their happy life in the United States, but he didn't expect his girlfriend to tell him: I'm sorry, I live with someone else.
Wang wanted to be so angry that he trembled and said that I was scolding your mother! After scolding him, he cried and said that as long as you are happy, as long as you are happy, I am happy.
Because it was a transoceanic call and the phone bill was very expensive, the proprietress kept urging him to give him money.
The police arrived quickly and staged a scene in which the police surrounded the canteen and Wang wanted to kidnap the proprietress.
After a little persuasion from the police, Wang wanted to release the hostages - he pointed a gun at the policeman's head and asked, "Can you tell me, what is love?"
The policeman said: "Isn't it just love? How many times do people have to love each other in their lifetime?"
Wang Yao said: I believe that there is only one true love, and after saying that, he killed himself with a headshot.
When I was reviewing this movie, I called Zhou Yong together, and he saw that it was too fake: "If you buy a gun, buy a gun. Your girlfriend happened to be abroad, and then she committed suicide after falling out of love?"
I say very true - in addition to the gun issue mentioned earlier, there are two big backgrounds involved here.
One is the craze for going abroad: In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a craze for going abroad in China. At that time, it was really comparable to going abroad. Whoever went abroad had a brighter face.
Many parents borrowed money from relatives and friends everywhere in order to send their children to school in the United States, entrusting relationships, and the whole family borrowed money to send their children out - that's when New Oriental started.
My home opposite my mother borrowed 5,000 yuan from my mother at the time, and it seems that I haven't paid it back yet, so it is normal for my girlfriend to be abroad, and it is normal for Wang to want to go abroad and have great longing for the United States.
It is also very logical to rob a bank and go abroad without money.
The second is the reaction after the lovelorn: According to the investigation of the Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate, the number of love murders increased sharply in the 1990s. From January 1998 to June 2002, love murders and homicides caused by the matter between men and women accounted for one percent of the city's procuratorate. 48% of homicide cases in the branch.
When many people encounter emotional problems, they will do some irrational behaviors, and they are not afraid of death.
The "crazy for love" that impressed me the most was the incident with Jodie Foster. After she acted in "Taxi Driver", she gained a crazy suitor, followed her every day, and wrote to her, but she never responded. .
In order to attract her attention, this guy decided to do a big thing - assassinate US President Ronald Reagan.
On March 30, 1981, he was squatting in front of the Hilton Hotel and fired several shots while Reagan came out.
Reagan was shot, but nothing major, the most serious one was White House spokesman Brady, who was shot in the head and paralyzed for life.
Later, he was disabled and determined, and he spent his life pushing the gun ban bill in the United States, known as the first person to ban guns in the United States.
Zhou Yong was stunned after listening to me, saying what the hell?
I said that this kind of person who is carried away by love will not feel that he has the slightest mistake, but will feel that he is very great.
So in "The Green Hat", the innocence in Wang's eyes before committing suicide is particularly convincing.
Although the role of Wang Yao is not as impressive as the Shen brothers, Bai Baoshan and other murderers and gangsters, it is a more common criminal image driven by society and the times.
2
As common as Wang Yao is Wang Yao.
A pimp with the same name - Liao Fan's role in "Half Sea, Half Fire".
The background of this movie is Hong Kong, but Wang Shuo’s original work is written in the mainland. According to my analysis, the origin of this story is actually to make money.
It was a crazy time to go to sea, and everyone wanted to be part of the "get rich first".
Some people go abroad to be businessmen, some go to Xiushui Street to sell clothes, Wang Shi is selling corn, and Liu Qiangdong is selling CDs.
There are those who want to make money cleanly, and those who want to make quick money. Wang Yao is one of them.
He took two brothers and two girls, and asked one brother to go to the hotel to be the front desk, and the other to send out "Miss Bao" cards or something, and the two girls became "Miss Bao".
But how much money can you make by simply pimping?
Every night, he sent two girls to come to the house. After 10 minutes of waiting for the recruiter to open the room, he would break into the door on time with a brother and ask the client who had taken off his clothes but had not done anything yet: You and my wife are in bed. What are you doing?
Relying on the fairy dance, he extorted a lot of money from clients.
From the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s, there were a lot of extortion and extortion at railway stations, bus stations, and ferry ports in the city.
Not only those who pretended to be girls and husbands, but also those who pretended to be policemen, brothers, everything.
Later, the police severely cracked down on this situation, and it was a little better-Wang Yao did not escape this disaster. There was a strict inspection of the hotel. The two girls did not have time to escape and were caught by the police, and he cut off his source of income.
One or the other, he began to encourage his girlfriend Lichuan to seduce a man to open a room.
Lichuan agreed, but when she went to pretend to pick up the client, Wang Yao didn't show up and let the client rape her.
The reason given by Wang Yao is that sooner or later she has to pass this level.
Even if she was deceived by her boyfriend and raped by her clients, Lichuan could not do without Wang Yao.
This is actually a kind of Stockholm Syndrome.
There are still many unhealthy relationships like Wang Yao and Lichuan to this day. I will give two examples:
➀ In 2015, a man surnamed Gao in Taiwan forced his 16-year-old girlfriend to go out as a prostitute in order to pay rent and buy a sports car. In one year, there were 1,162 sex transactions.
➁ A man surnamed Hong, a logistics worker in Hong Kong, forced his girlfriend into prostitution on the grounds that the company's cash flow was unstable. He received at least 22 clients in 3 days. Each time he earned 190 yuan, his girlfriend only took 30 yuan.
Later, Wang Yao cheated and encouraged Lichuan to sleep with his good brother. At that time, Lichuan was pregnant with Wang Yao's child, and then miscarried.
In the end, she relented, left Wang Yao, and followed a gangster brother.
Wang Yao was unhappy again at this moment, and his possessiveness was violated. He took people to the underworld elder brother to smash the scene. In the end, he strangled the underworld elder brother to death in a dark movie theater.
At the end of the story, Lichuan married Wang Yao's good brother, but committed suicide by cutting his wrists on the wedding night.
Because of organizing prostitution, Wang Yao was imprisoned for 8 years. The first thing he did when he got out of prison was to find Lichuan's mother, take her ashes, go to the beach, and bury himself and Lichuan's ashes together.
Wang Yao's experience is very similar to that of my classmates in junior high school.
The northeastern folks are fierce, and he likes to form gangs on campus. At that time, he wanted to be with a senior, the school's leader, to get ahead in middle school. He rushed to play with people every day, and bought water for the leader. rice or something.
At that time, he had a girlfriend, who was in the next class, and she was very beautiful, but he was taken aback by him. The buddy took the initiative to break up with his girlfriend and encouraged her to stay with him.
I don’t know if this girl was out of anger or what purpose, but it’s really good to carry the handle—one day in the third year of junior high, this classmate suddenly came to me to borrow money. I was more fond of money at that time and asked him to explain clearly what , when will it be repaid, will I be willing to lend him money.
He thought about it for a while, dragged me to the water room, and told me fumblingly that his ex-girlfriend, who was pregnant, was the child of the handle, but he refused to take care of the handle. He wanted to borrow some money and take the girl with him. to do the flow of people.
After I lent him money, I also accompany him to the surgery, and he still hasn't paid me back to this day.
Later, he got into a fight with carrying the handle, couldn't get along at school, transferred schools, and then didn't go to high school. When he became an adult, he drove a taxi. Two years ago, he married the girl who was a popular person.
When he wanted to hang out, he didn't understand what it was. He just thought that everyone was afraid of being beautiful. When he gave up his girlfriend, he didn't know what it meant.
All his decisions were made when he was a fool, just like Wang Yao.
Wang Yao wants to make quick money, wants to get rich first, and believes in the principle of not being ruthless and unstable. There is no bottom line, anything can be sacrificed, and anything illegal can be done.
It seems that he has a goal, but in fact he is just following the trend, a junior high school student who doesn't know what he wants - like that era, many people in this era.
The English poet Tennyson wrote that violence is the beast of blindness, and I think it can be changed a little: blindness is the beast of violence.
3
Of all the criminal roles that Liao Fan has played, I know and like him the most. I think he plays the best and most authentic role. He is not a bank robber, not a pimp who plays immortals, but a big brother in the rivers and lakes - in our northeast, he is called a big brother in society. .
The social eldest brother in the Northeast has a general impression in everyone's mind: a big gold chain and a small watch, a small white mink grilled with garlic around him, a small head of tight pants to eat barbecue, and a small leather bag under the armpit.
But 20 years ago, the social eldest brother in the northeast was not like this - I went to Chongwenmen this morning and watched the early show of "Children of Jianghu". Liao Fan's character moved me very much.
Especially like a big brother in society who didn't have a gold chain, a watch, or an inch 20 years ago.
The role he played is Brother Bin, not the social eldest brother in Harbin, but the eldest brother of Jianghu in Datong, Shanxi around 2000. Why are the eldest brothers in the two regions separated by 1,500 kilometers, I will say like, and explain in a while.
On the surface, Brother Bin is the owner of a taxi company—this identity, coupled with the big brother Jianghu, is very realistic. Twenty years ago, taxi drivers were a particularly lucrative industry, and the monthly income was about 5-10 times that of workers.
I have heard a few times of gossip that I don't know if it is true or false, saying that many taxi drivers married flight attendants because they made more money.
Such a profitable industry, of course, must be controlled by the local big brother. Brother Bin is such a person who can cover his brothers and the field. He has his own code of conduct, which is very convincing.
But as time passed, a group of children who didn't obey the rules and morals appeared, robbed Brother Bin's work, broke his legs, causing his lover to commit the crime on his behalf, and was sentenced to 5 years.
He might have felt that it would not be possible to go on like this, so he began to put aside the "jianghu" and went to work hard in other places, but he achieved nothing. When he came back again, his beard was already gray, and his former younger brother looked down at him.
After holding on for a while, he found that he could no longer return to the glory of the year. Brother Bin thought about it, left a word "go" to his former lover, and completely disappeared from this arena.
This role is exactly the same as the social elder brother I know.
Like "Children of Jianghu", I also started from the taxi industry in Harbin twenty years ago.
At that time, taxis were expensive, and people who were willing to spend money on taxis were generally rich or expensive, and their buddies also knew this and were very enthusiastic about every passenger.
Northeasterners are good at getting close, and soon, some of the elder brothers became followers and drivers of some powerful or social elders.
With the support of the eldest brother, some opened a bath, some renovated a restaurant, and started their own business—the business was easy to do in those days, and a large number of people made a fortune.
In that era, the big brothers in society generally made their fortunes from some gray industries such as demolition and relocation. When the scenery was beautiful, the younger brothers were in groups. After visiting the karaoke hall every day, they would take a bath, and after the bath, they would eat barbecue.
But after a few years, they all went in.
When they came out, the times had changed, and that era had passed, and their society and rivers and lakes would no longer exist, and they could only accept themselves who were nothing now.
There is a mall in Harbin called Great World. The top floor is full of mobile phones and electronic equipment. I like to study these things.
After many elder brothers were released from prison, the government worried that they would have nothing to do and become a hidden danger to society, so they allocated booths on the top floor of the big world to let them do business well.
The eldest brother who sold my BlackBerry was a very famous social eldest brother in Harbin back then, but now his temples are gray, just like Brother Bin in "Children of Jianghu".
And the elder brother who was close to him back then and was supported by him has now become one of the richest people in Harbin, appearing in local news every day.
Once I saw him drinking too much, I asked him casually why he didn't go to that person and ask for help, he shook his head: "It's not like that, it's not a person from the world anymore."
Although he knew that he might not have done anything good back then, the sense of the passing of an era was very obvious in him.
And this morning in the cinema of Chongwenmen, I watched Brother Bin played by Liao Fan, as if I saw the big brother selling mobile phones in the Great World Mall.
There is a past that is difficult to break through, and there is a brand of the times, and now there is nothing but the ordinary.
Some people have been bad before and are getting better now, while others have had a good time and are getting worse. Most people's lives are very complicated, and it is difficult to characterize whether they are good or bad.
I hope that Liao Fan will make persistent efforts to show more of the complexity of this character, and I will have the opportunity to analyze it again.
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