"Pirates of Fire" by the Twin Heroes

A classic police and gangster film, I have been admiring it for a long time, this time I saw it in "A Date with a Good Film" by virtue of the light of CCTV 6. I thought it was a very popular shootout film, and CCTV seemed to define it in the introduction before the film, but after watching it, I think it's a reaction rather than a police and bandit film or a shootout film. A midlife crisis drama. Because although the film has the coat of a police and gangster film, the rhythm of the film has been slow and slow, like a drama. In the film, two middle-aged men, a policeman and a gangster, both have smart minds and a strong appearance, but they also have their own misery. The film calmly shows us the family crisis of the police and the loneliness of the robber, and just when the two began to confront each other, the crisis of the police became more and more serious, and the robber encountered a confidante, which was interesting, so the conflict became more intense. , the back story also becomes full of tension.

Think about it, if you want to make a popular movie, you can find other younger, handsome and agile people. Since Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are the two biggest actors in acting, you can draw the following conclusion: The director wants to rely on their acting skills. In fact, the focus of this movie is indeed in the literary drama, and those shooting scenes are just a necessary process to make the relationship between the two leading actors confront each other. To put it a little deeper, it is to make two men so similar as opponents, to push the dramatic conflict to a climax. Although the two men sympathized with each other, they did not seek each other because of their differences, and they had to fight to the death in the end. At the last moment, when the bandit was in danger of being shot, the police stepped forward. The two held hands and looked at each other with tears in their eyes.

The movies where the two heroes confront each other are relatively good-looking, and there are indeed many movies in this form, especially Hong Kong films, such as "Blood Two Heroes", "Invincible Heroes", "Dark War", "Two Heroes" and so on. Of course, Hollywood has "Changing Face", but it was also directed by Hong Kong director John Woo. And this "Pirates of Fire" is the deepest digging of the things behind the two heroes.

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