Under normal circumstances, I don't like to join in the fun, and I usually don't watch a movie until a few months after it is released. I remember that Acheng seemed to have said that a painting or a literary work, just released, is always full of anger. Just as I don't like to eat hot dumplings that are just out of the pot, I also like to watch movies that have become warm in public opinion. This time, I am full of curiosity and expectation for "Crazy Stone", perhaps because I read Wang Ran's blog and saw that it was compared with Xu Jinglei's "Dream into Reality", right? piqued my curiosity. According to Wang Ran, in Beijing at midnight a few days ago, "Crazy Stone" was hard to come by.
Guo Tao has not seen it for a few years. The movie that impressed him the most was "Love Mala Tang". In the hot summer of 1999 in Beijing, watching Meng Jinghui's "Rhino in Love" starring him and Wu Yue in a sultry small theater, I got a certain understanding of his explosive power on the stage. I haven't seen him in all these years, and I don't know what he's doing?
Just in this kind of eager mood, and with vague expectation, I started the journey of watching "Crazy Stone". (If you haven't seen the film, it is recommended to read it after reading it, so as not to interfere with the pleasure of watching the film alone by writing too much detail.)
This is a man's play, there is no heroine, only Several shots also feature women as gender symbols. This is a cold and humorous film. The suspense that involves people is how Guo Tao, the chief of the factory's security department, protects the jade, and the audience's psychological expectation is how the jade is stolen. The setting of details is interlocking, step by step.
There are three gangs of thieves, and two outside: the international thief Mike, and three street gangsters (the boss is Gu San who played "The Happy Life of the Poor Zhang Damin"); there is one family thief: the slutty son of the factory manager. As is often the case in life, it is difficult for outsiders to achieve their goals, and for domestic thieves to prevent. In the repeated bag drop, the thief exchanged the real jade back to the exhibition hall. However, Guo Tao thought it was fake, and still pursued it tirelessly.
The big thief was trapped in the ventilation channel, and the gangster was blocked in the sewer. These scenes are very similar to the plot of "Home Alone", which is funny and full of sympathy for the thieves.
Chongqing dialect plus Tangshan dialect or Hebei dialect, as well as Cantonese dialect: I'll give you a lung! There are temples, shanty towns and high-rise buildings in Chongqing, overpasses...
In the end credits, director Ning Hao said, "He likes Guy Ritchie's films very much, and he appreciates the shooting techniques even more. Although he thought it was very suitable to use Guy Ritchie's technique to shoot "Crazy Stone" at an early stage, Ning Hao However, he deliberately avoided it, hoping to establish a new method. However, as the shooting progressed, Ning Hao felt more and more that this shooting method was the best choice for this type of film.
Chongqing is undoubtedly the place where the film was filmed. The best choice. Before the film started, Ning Hao's choices included Chongqing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other cities, but after shooting in Chongqing, Ning Hao decided immediately. Talking about the reasons for choosing Chongqing, director Ning Hao said that Chongqing is A new big city, the rapid growth has led to its complexity and uncertainty. And "Crazy Stone" is like Chongqing itself, with countless foreshadowings and coincidences intertwined, stretching into numerous storylines in a three-dimensional space , combined with each other.”
These words of his are not suitable for reading media propaganda articles, but suitable for going straight into the cinema and watching a movie without any preparation or psychological suggestion. To paraphrase Zhao Benshan's advertising slogan: Whoever sees who knows!
22 July 2006 London Fog
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