Mindy left a lot of classic sentences last year, the famous one is "You saved the Chinese music world!" Today, the pen has quietly released an EP.
"Crazy Stone", I didn't know who mentioned it to me at first, so I went to the Internet to find a download. The file is not big, and it was downloaded in a day or two. I haven't watched it yet, but I met Zhang Jian, and he asked me excitedly on MSN:
"Have you watched "Crazy Stone"?"
"No, I just finished it, and I haven't had time yet." (I said in my heart, what's the hurry? , what's so good about Crazy Stone? One of my old netizens in Shenzhen is called Stone, and it's a beautiful stone. It is said that in a logistics multinational company, since Y merged my British logistics company, we should It's a colleague)
"Must see it, and write a review!"
Seriously, I rarely see this guy so excited - he usually hides in his little room and writes in the style of Haruki Murakami with a somber expression on his face. , keep goats as pets (don't know how he can stand the smell of goats). Just had time on the weekend afternoon, so I started watching this movie in the audio-visual room.
It's really a wonderful film. According to Mindy's standards, it can definitely save the Chinese film industry - Andy Lau invested in so many Chinese films that lost money, it can only prove that he is a man with ideals, even if he does make money from this film , but I believe that box office is definitely not his original intention.
In recent years, I have been very disappointed with Chinese movies, the biggest reason is that directors suddenly can't tell stories. Laomouzi who once told the story so well made a mentally retarded movie like "Hero", and "Wuji" by Chen Mantou is simply a joke. The most important thing in a good box office movie is not the stunts, but the powerful plot, which has been proven countless times by Hollywood. Get some computer special effects even as a commercial film? joke. A commercial film without a good story can only be a garbage film. The most recent proof is Superman Returns.
"Crazy Stone" has an almost genius script, two groups of robbers, a security guard, and they go to great lengths to exchange the fake jade for the real one-exchange and exchange, and in the end no one knows which is which Really. It seems that the screenwriter thinks that countless mishaps are still not funny enough, and also adds so many shiny leftovers. Whether it's a prodigal photographer who is a black boss, or a "I have real feelings for her", a black Laodao brother, a security chief who has a prostate problem, a Hong Kong expert who "I'll hit your lungs" but the rope is not ten meters long Mike, or digging out the old pit jade from the stone of the toilet, holding an exhibition in a ruined temple, the police and gangsters living next to a third-rate hotel, cheating on the train, and the passengers all avoided the rest. One is still deaf and dumb, two One of the robbers was trapped in the beam and the other was trapped in the ditch. By the way, that self-organized performance team is really awesome. The thousand-handed Guanyin laughed so hard that I almost burst into tears. I doubt that those actors are real workers, and I also remember that old joke—the one from the fruit stand. The captain always put the tall and handsome soldiers in the front, and the crooked melons and cracked dates in the back.
Ah, how can one forget the background of the Chongqing dialect and the Tangshan accent of the robbers.
But this movie is more than just funny. The jade factory that is about to go bankrupt, the dilapidated Sanbao family, the grandmother who talks to herself, the real estate developer's assistant... Sanbao went to Beijing to "receive the award", which made Brother Bao think that he went to sell jade and smoked hoarseness. There are so many things to sigh about in this movie. Laid-offs, migrant workers, bankruptcies, real estate, lovers, smuggling, hammer parties... This city that has just been liberalized in Sichuan is just a microcosm of the turbulent Greater China. In the end, the factory manager who tried his best to protect the factory sold the factory for a "high price" of 8 million for a few floors. What else in this world can't be bought with money? The only difference is the question of 2 million or 10 million.
In terms of being close to life, it seems to be in the same vein as "A Thousand Miles Riding Alone" or "Looking for a Gun", but "A Thousand Miles Riding Alone" is too warm, and "Looking for a Gun" is too humanistic, and "Crazy Stone" is more similar A textual deconstruction that has an extremely authentic and extremely rare characteristic of dark humor.
At the end of the movie, the bad guys all kill each other, or get caught. To be honest, I was surprised. It’s not that they couldn’t foresee their demise (in the Chinese cultural complex, there is no escaping that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded, but if this is not the case, so what? Do we want to believe that the golden belt of murder and arson, and repairing bridges and repairing roads will not help? corpses? Isn't the world hopeless enough?), but in a very hilarious and very direct way. I couldn't laugh when I saw Hong Kong Mike kill Feng Dong, but dialed the landline in front of me when I made a call, and when I saw Dao Ge took the jade by motorcycle robbery and died in a traffic accident caused by an unintentionally opened door of.
I used to think these places were the film's failings, because death wasn't that funny anyway, let alone a bloody close-up, but then I felt that the directness and brutality didn't match the dark humor of the whole movie.
A crazy society would not be frivolous and comical, it must be creepy at the same time. Heipi stretched the cell phone antenna out of the manhole cover to dial Brother Dao's number, only to find that the ringing was right next to him, puzzled; Feng Dong and the factory manager put their heads together beside the model of a high-rise building, and the assistant said "Sure enough, a hundred steps through Yang" before he died. "...they're more than just funny.
From the very beginning when the cola can that fell from the cable car across the river smashed the glass of Bao brother who stole the car, I have never seen such dense highlights and black humor throughout. . I'm not sure if this is a testament to the growth of Chinese cinema or an unintentional throwback, but it's a brilliant film anyway, and it deserves enough respect, both at the box office and artistically.
There is so much to say about this movie, and every shot is worth pondering, not to mention those trendy movie techniques such as "parallel editing" and "screen cutting", even if the comments on this movie are all because of The movie itself is wonderful, such as ""Crazy Stone" inherits the glorious tradition of black humor movies. Guy Ritchie, Quentin Tarantino and all the nonsense Hong Kong films have souls in this moment! In this moment, Ning Hao is not filming alone, he is not alone! There are hundreds of thousands of DVDs behind him!" By
the way, a digression from the flashback. The production company of this film is "Warner Hengdian". I don't know what it has to do with you. This film has been selling so well recently, you should feel it there too, right? :)
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