"Blind Detective" - a life-for-life strategy
Just finished watching "Blind Detective" in the cinema, and went home to watch Xu Anhua's 2012 short film made by Youku in response to investment from Youku - "My Way", played by Wu Zhenyu Under the eyes of the society and the incomprehension of the family, the protagonist of the series decided to prepare for gender reassignment surgery, accompanied by the smiles, sharing and care of the patients. Very good short film, I thought to myself at the same time: Brother Zhenyu, almost seven years after "Exile", when will you appear in Du Sheng's film again! Frowning and staring blankly, it's not your regret that you haven't won the Best Actor at the Academy Awards today, but the regret of the fans who helped you to say that there are far fewer fans than Andy Lau.
For "Blind Detective", I think the storytelling structure is inferior to that of "Drug War". Although it is mixed with the scenes of "Slimming Men and Women" and "The Detective", it is a bit artificial. The narrative structure and the rhythm of storytelling are in my opinion. relatively inferior. On the contrary, I feel that the appearance of the North Film Studio at the beginning of the film makes me feel that one life ("Blind Detective") is exchanged for another life ("Drug War"). Because of the appearance of Andy Lau and Zheng Xiuwen, the box office will definitely be better than that. "Drug War" more! At least when I walked into the movie theater, more audiences went for idols, not because of you To Qifeng, or even your partner, Wei Jiahui, who is not very familiar to mainland audiences.
The second male and female lead actors Guo Tao and Gao Yuanyuan can only be said to be idle corners in "Blind Detective". The other shots, such as "Slimming Men and Women", basically do not deviate from the two protagonists. The divine will of the film is mixed with Du Sheng or the unique comedy style of Hong Kong films. Similarly, the first part of the movie is full of laughs, and there is no lack of nonsense. Qin Huang is paranoid about his mobile phone, pretending to talk to his wife, and the young men and women who are watching the movie are laughing knowingly. Of course, after the meeting on the rooftop, Andy Lau stayed at Zheng Xiuwen's house, the heroine was taking a bubble bath, and the blind hero was in a hurry to pee, um, so most of the audience watching the movie for idols will definitely If you laugh, the movie ticket is worth it! Huh, yeah.
In fact, the title of the title at the beginning is still in the style of the Milky Way. The black and white characters are accompanied by voice-overs and various sounds on the road, especially the rushing sound of the traffic lights. Hey, you can know that it is a Hong Kong film made by Du Sheng with your eyes closed. Du's imprint, or the strong imprint of Wei Jiahui, can't escape from a bunch of golden green leaves who come to play tricks, compared to the seven "Li Zhenbiao" that appeared a bit bluntly in the latter third of "Drug War". Also have a deep impression.
The two three-eights of the Macau Casino - Grandma Rufen of the Fire, and the radio jockey Horseshoe Lu, the two have been missing for a long time! Of course, there is also Mao Shiba and Qin Huang, who threw the canal water (sulfuric acid) on the rooftop before (Uncle heard that you almost drowned when you were swimming in the sea in 2009. Look at your figure, you are seriously ill, and you are older in a blink of an eye. Well, the last time I saw you was in "Dragon and Phoenix" where you and Xu Shaoxiong were partners—that pair of gay detectives, and it's said that "Dragon and Phoenix" also starred Liu and Zheng).
Not only these three are Friends who make me feel like I haven't seen it for a long time, Xiaomin's grandmother Mei Chaofeng Huang Wenhui, and brother Peng who is unrequited by this crazy woman - Lu Haipeng (don't think this brother Peng is just the title in the movie, last year The award for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards was awarded to Lu Haipeng by Andy Lau. Andy called Peng brother sweetly, this is the status of the rivers and lakes. Last year, he was with the old actors Zeng Jiang, Wang Yu, Qin Pei, the new actor Nicholas Tse is competing!)
There is also a bald uncle and a former beauty who only had three or four shots in a trance. Fortunately, they recognized them. The mentor of TVB artist training class, Chang Ge Li Chengchang, and the middle-aged Mimi who is good at acting as a nurse Sister Zhu Mimi. Whether the old face Lin Xue, or these few golden green leaves, are a concern of Du Sheng's fans. It's a pity that Zhao Zhicheng and Luo Jingting haven't seen it for a long time (when the worship ceremony was started, someone took a picture of Emperor Yang Shoucheng and Huanya Lin Jianyue at the ceremony site, and at first glance, Luo Jingting was arranging the table for offerings, ahaha, my job - drama) .
Blind detectives dance tango with beautiful girls. As soon as they came up, they knew that it was the scene of Blind Colonel Al Pacino in "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman" 20 years ago (Wei Jiahui, you are playing! It is said that it was your attention. ). Unexpectedly, Guo Tao's absurd coolness in Gao Yuanyuan's eyes (at least he also performed the absurd feeling of one or two paragraphs), not only in Gao Yuanyuan's eyes, but also conquered her heart, why is this? I understand the two protagonists as idle corners. In fact, the plot stopped abruptly here. The absurd impression and performance were skipped by the plot in a hurry, not to mention that this magic weapon is always responding in an emergency.
But this movie also has a lot of clues, which are explained in chronological order. First, the mysterious mortuary case 20 years ago (the time until the case was solved was slightly shorter, how did the blind detective of Lin Xue track it down, The film did not mention it); second, the narrative about Xiaomin (through the end of the film); third, the big-footed duck (the two hunts for the big-footed duck are the two nodes that the director controls the jokes in the film) ; Fourth, the blind detective's dream lover (this is a hastily skipped love story for Guo Tao and Gao Yuanyuan); fifth, the serial murder of a lovelorn woman (this long paragraph is very American- Parallel narrative techniques, stylistic thrillers and point-to-point action scenes, story surprises, etc.); Sixth, the director and screenwriter did not hide the mystery at all, and the discerning audience blurted out that it was not. It is Xiaomin (Andy Lau's spiritual sense has always been questioned how Xiaomin has the money to take a taxi, this spiritual sense is a specious smoke bomb, and the plot is finally turned by it).
The example of a film with multiple clues in Hong Kong films should be Li Zhiyi's "Rogue Doctor" (produced by Zeng Zhiwei's UFO) seventeen or eighteen years ago, but "Blind Detective" is too mixed with Du Sheng and Wei Jiahui's freehand brushwork and comedy. , thriller, etc. In my view, this is a less successful mashup because the rhythm of the storytelling is disrupted. The audience is more attracted by the jokes and thriller plots. Du's freehand style of storytelling has been interrupted more than once, and the story structure is a bit chaotic in the second half of the film, which is different from the freehand style three months ago. It is a strong contrast to the "Drug Wars", which has a sudden change in the realistic style and tightly grasps the rhythm of the storytelling while the film structure is complete.
So I have to say that this is another life-changing film between Du Sheng and Wei Jiahui. Using the box office of a film with a non-pure self-style, it can guarantee more profits at light level, and at worst, it can fill a pure self-style film. The box office when the movie is well received but not very well received.
The draft was written on July 5, 2013, and the draft was finalized by JP on the 7th night.
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