When I commented on Kevin Costner and Demi Moore's "Mr. Brooks", I said, because it's a movie that splits personality, and such a movie was 10 years ago or even earlier It was all filmed at the time. I remember seeing a person split into seven personalities at that time. It was very exciting, so when I saw something like "Mr. Brooks", it was nothing new. At the time, I thought that the plot of "split personality" could no longer be filmed with anything new, because it was nothing more than a struggle between my personalities. When I saw the split personality, the ending could already be predicted. If a thriller movie wants to use the signboard of "split personality", it is very easy to make a big hit.
However, although Du Qifeng's "The Detective" is also about split personality, but because of a different perspective, it has a completely different new idea. That kind of horror feeling, I haven't felt it for a long time, and finally I saw a This is a very classic thriller movie. You must know that in this year, it is really not easy to be "scared" by a movie.
To Qifeng + Wei Jiahui + Liu Qingyun, of course the things shot by such an iron triangle are not wrong (at least it is much stronger than the so-called "Iron Triangle" of Lin Lingdong and Du Qifeng in 2007), Liu Qingyun only deserved his name last year He won the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and Johnnie To's strong directing and creative ability has made Galaxy Impressive masterpieces frequent.
Mention Robert De Niro here. It seems a bit out of place, but it is actually related. It is said that when a movie was made, because the character to be played did not sleep for almost two days and two nights in the script, until the actual shooting At that time, when De Niro arrived, everyone saw that De Niro was extremely tired and asked what happened. De Niro said, I just followed the requirements of the script and did not rest for two days and two nights. This is called "method school acting". The method school believes that the actors must experience the performances themselves before they can be vividly displayed on the screen; therefore, some actors will actually take drugs according to the requirements of the script. , and it is said that there was a female reporter who actually became a prostitute in order to experience life-later found that it was more profitable than being a reporter, so she did not go ashore. In "Raging Bull", for the needs of the role, De Niro once put on hundreds of pounds in six months in order to play a self-indulgent boxer. He played this role brilliantly, and finally With this role, he won an Oscar-winning statuette.
The above are the acting skills of the method school, and if you want to talk about Liu Qingyun's role in "The Detective", you can use the "method school detective" to describe it. That is to say, when encountering the case, the detective will assume that he is a gangster, and do it again according to the gangster's way of doing things, and then find a breakthrough point; also, the detective does not just imitate the criminal gangster. It is necessary to solve the case, and it is also necessary to imitate the victim. Therefore, when he knew that one of the victims was killed and buried alive, the detective really dug a hole and buried himself. It is with the unique method of "method school solving cases" that the divine detective solved many cases, but he also drove himself to madness. He could see the split personality of each person outside his own personality, and was able to know these splits. Personality characteristics and ways of doing things. In a word, he can penetrate every corner of the heart.
Because of a special case, the detective who had quit the police world came out again to help a powerless policeman with a case. In the case, he found a murderer, and the murderer could actually split into seven different personalities. A personality has its own characteristics, and these personalities combine to become a murderer. Liu Qingyun tried his best to kill the perpetrator, but the ending was unexpected...
When Du Qifeng was shooting this movie, he completely changed his perspective, which made the "split personality" that can no longer be stereotyped in a completely new and different way. This is what To Qifeng is brilliant at. It turns out that the split personality we see is generally completed from the perspective of the split person itself. Of course, other people's perspectives are available, but the main purpose is to let the audience see the sudden transformation of the characters, giving people horror, and The dialogues, struggles, and struggles between the split personalities themselves are all done through the first point of view. Movies of this type are everywhere, and Johnnie To sees the behavior of a person with split personality from the eyes of another detective who can penetrate the character's personality. This kind of perspective has never been seen before, so it can be given to the audience. Bring more look and feel.
As far as the whole case of "The Detective" is concerned, it is actually very simple. In the first few minutes, the ending of the case has been told to the audience, letting the audience know that the policeman played by Lin Jiadong killed another policeman. The risk is very great. How can the audience be interested in watching the movie if they already know the ending of the movie? Du Qifeng did it. When we saw the crazy Liu Qingyun quarreling with his "wife" at home, from the perspective of the policeman played by An Zhijie, that is, from the perspective of a normal person, it was Liu Qingyun talking to himself in the air. , there is no one on the opposite side, Liu Qingyun's abnormality can already be known, but based on the awe of the "magic detective", An Zhijie insists on letting Liu Qingyun assist him in investigating the case. When Liu Qingyun followed Lin Jiadong, the bad policeman, for the first time, the number of policemen in front suddenly changed from one to seven, and each one was different. In the past, "personality classification" was performed by a person who played different roles, such as strong, weak, old, young, etc., all completed by the person with split personality. And this time, Du Qifeng simply used seven actors to play different characters of the same character. The result of this is that different actors have more room to play: female (forgot her name) ) is resourceful, the character played by Zhang Jiahui is brave and rude, and the character played by Lin Xue is greedy and cowardly. After accepting this fact, any remaining character will be able to know the characteristics of this character very clearly, and the audience can understand it without the need for actors to perform performances. From this point of view, it can be said that the results are multiplied with half the effort.
In recent years, John To's production has been quite high, and the quality is also very high. For example, the "Tracking" by Tony Leung Ka Fai and Ren Dahua, which is very good and full of fate, is definitely a masterpiece. To Qifeng has a very useful taste for actors, such as Shao Meiqi, which can be seen in almost all kinds of movies. Of course, the absolute king of supporting roles in To Qifeng's movies is Fei Lin Xue - and, I think in recent years Lin Xue has almost never made other people's films, only To Qifeng alone. Without the exaggerated and unbelievable performance in "Iron Triangle", Lin Xue performed very well in "Detective" this time, and also performed very well in "Tracking" last time.
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