Chapter 344: Helpless Despair
In mid-January, Detective Chocolate got nearly 30 million box office and drew it from the theater, followed by the prison-themed movie Prison Fengyun starring Zhou Yunfa and Liang Jiahui.
The story unfolds from the character played by advertising designer Lu Jiayao, also known as Liang Jiahui, Lu Jiayao is young and promising, but he was sentenced to serve 3 years in prison for preventing bad elements from picking quarrels and provoking troubles. The two became confidants in distress, gang fights were frequent in prison, and Lo Ka-yiu received help from Zhong Tianzheng from time to time. The prison guard killer played by Zhang Yaoyang is fierce, and Zhong Tianzheng has a grudge against him when he can't bear it, and the two fight and are seriously injured and hospitalized. When Lu Jiayao was released from prison, he was finally relieved to see Zhong Tianzheng returning to his cell after recovering from his injuries.
If the most classic prison film in the history of American cinema is the redemption of Shawshank, then the most classic prison film in the history of Hong Kong cinema and the originator is the prison scene.
Prison is a legal space, and although there are all kinds of sensational stories about prison life, the mainstream media's positive portrayal of the prison legal system has always influenced the audience's point of view. But in the prison scene, the prison of the British authorities in Hong Kong has become an extralegal kingdom full of oppression, and the film not only shows the audience this little-known kingdom, but also gives it a real texture.
The first thing that all the viewers who have watched the prison in watching the movie is: Oh, it turns out that this is the real prison, it turns out that the prison is so cruel, and there is no law and discipline outside.
The prison guard played by Zhang Yaoyang can really be said to be hateful.
The message that this film presents to the audience is that although the prison is a special environment, it is also a microcosm of the world, and its particularity and extremity make the contradictions and conflicts here more concentrated and intense.
The prison scene was created with this as the background, which not only brought a strong visual impact, but also made the analysis of the good, evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature and the exposure of the dark side of society more profound, making all the audience watch in anger, even if Zhong Tianzheng played by Zhou Yanfa finally came out of the hospital and returned to the cell happily greeted Lu Jiayao played by Liang Jiahui, who was about to be released from prison, the smile was very bright, and the audience's mood would be a little loosened, but when he thought that Zhong Tianzheng was about to be released from prison and was about to reunite with his son, because of the persecution of the prison guards played by Zhang Yaoyang, he fought back angrily and finally the sentence was extendedWhen the movie ended, the audience's hearts were full of anger, full of accusations against the prison side, the fairness of the law, and with full distress for Zhong Tianzheng and clenched their fists and left the scene.
Many viewers were interviewed by reporters after the end of the show, saying that if there were prison guards now, even if police officers from other police types appeared in front of them, they would not hesitate to punch them.
Of course, these viewers may just talk about it, but they can see from it what the movie wants to present, the kind of accusation of injustice, the kind of light that is in front of them but finally returns to the dark because of the bad cop and the dog-day system, resentment and helplessness, the audience has personally felt it.
If the Shawshank Redemption is about salvation and light, then the prison scene is about intense, distressing but helpless despair.
Prison is like a cage, and it is indeed a cage, Zhong Tianzheng wants to escape, wants to leave, but he can't escape anything, he can't leave.
In the first half of the Spring Festival that should have been happy, Golden Harvest and Longteng Cinemas had a hit screening of Home Alone 2, even if it has been released for more than ten days, it should be more popular for this film, but I never expected that after the release of the prison storm, it turned out that this movie that made people feel very uncomfortable watching was more popular.
And the number of repeat moviegoers far exceeds Home Alone 2, the box office is good, the reputation is good, a movie about the misfortunes of life, but the dark side of the prison has killed a piece of the sky in a schedule like the Spring Festival, which should be a comedy.
By the twentieth, the box office of the prison storm that had been released for a week had been cut by 17 million, and the momentum was even stronger than that of the sequel movie Home Alone 2.
"Mr. Qiao, Mr. Shao invites you to the Peninsula Hotel for tea in the afternoon." Just when Qiao Feng was reading the report in the office, Li Zhi walked in with a swaying posture, put the coffee he was holding in front of Qiao Feng and said softly.
"The Peninsula again?" Qiao Feng raised his head and asked speechlessly, the Peninsula Hotel he had heard the most recently.
The Oscar nomination and the controversy and quarrel that followed were just a few days ago, and then the attention of Hong Kong reporters returned to the scandal between Li Zhi and Qiao Feng, as well as the cooperation between Golden Harvest, ATV and other companies and Li Zhi.
In the past few days, the news that Li Zhi has become Qiao Feng's assistant has been released, and when the reporters are hyping up and all kinds of speculations are flying, Qiao Feng also admitted this in person.
Then the reporters took out the news that Qiao Feng heroically saved Mei after last year's Asian sister finals and said that he would ask Lizhi to be his assistant and be his personal assistant, and then many newspapers reported that it was good to have money, saying that whoever was an assistant would be an assistant, and even the champion of Sister Ya, who signed a contract with ATV, couldn't escape the palm of his hand.
Then, when the reporters were curious about how Qiao Feng snatched Li Zhi away from ATV, ATV released the news that Qiao Feng exchanged Gan Nineteen Sister's script for Li Zhi's free body in a timely manner, and then the situation of Gan Nineteen Sister's TV series, which calmed down a little, was re-hyped.
Every day in the newspaper, TV and radio news, I can hear the news about himself and Li Zhi at the Peninsula Hotel, Qiao Feng is about to vomit, but he didn't expect Shao Yifu to invite himself to the Peninsula Hotel for tea.
I know that Shao Tycoon you like the Peninsula Hotel no, no, no, but can you consider the feelings of others?
However, although he didn't want to go to the Peninsula Hotel, as a good young man who respected the old and loved the young, Qiao Feng still gave Shao Yifu this face, just go, and see what Shao Tycoon has to do with himself at the end of this year.
"By the way, Director Li Hanxiang, Jiahui, Gong Li, and Chen Hong have all set their itinerary documents?" When Li Zhi was about to go out, Qiao Feng asked again.
"Miss Gong and Miss Chen are all decided, but Director Li Hanxiang and Liang Jiahui have not yet decided, because Director Li said that the fire dragon is filming in a key place, and it will be decided when the filming is over." Li Zhi has been following up, so after Qiao Feng asked, she didn't even need to open her mouth to answer.
"Oh, okay, Director Li, you should keep an eye on them, so be sure to settle down as soon as possible." Qiao Feng said.
"Okay."