Chapter 229: One Man's War
Although they are all police and gangster films, they are all the embodiment of the personal heroism of the police, but the story of Die Hard and the police story Qiao Feng are not integrated into one system.
It's not that he doesn't want to, it's just that he can't.
Qiao Feng originally wanted to make the police story and Die Hard into a series, and the protagonists were all policemen Chen Jiaju.
In Die Hard, Chan Ka Kui went to the United States as a Hong Kong policeman to see his wife, and then met a group of robbers, and then fought with the robbers and finally succeeded in defeating the robbers and saving the hostages.
But when it was actually adapted, Qiao Feng found that this would not work, unless the plot of Die Hard was greatly adapted, it would not make sense at all.
For example, the protagonist of the original Die Hard is on a plane with a gun, because he is an American police officer, and he can carry a gun on the plane when he hasn't gone through too many horror comedies.
But if it is a Hong Kong policeman, it is impossible to carry a gun on a plane under any circumstances, first of all, it is impossible to carry a gun on the way from Hong Kong to the United States, and it is still impossible to bring a gun when you arrive in the United States, because there is no possibility of a gun license, let alone a plane.
And if you don't bring a gun, then when the robber rushes upstairs to take hostages, the plot of the protagonist and the robber directly fighting for the first time will be changed, and it is no problem to use kung fu to defeat the first robber to face, but at this time, in addition to Li Xiaolong's kung fu, the American audience does not have so much awareness of other Chinese kung fu, and this sense of substitution will be much worse, and it will definitely have a big impact on the box office in the end.
Of course, this is not the main thing, the main thing is that if it is not an American policeman, then those conversations with black policemen will have to be changed after that, and there are too many things to consider and modify, too troublesome.
Not only does it have to be changed, but it is likely that it will be changed inadvertently to be less in line with the values of the North American audience, which will affect not only the first part, but also the next few films.
Therefore, to sum up, Qiao Feng still follows the original version, except for the protagonist, that is, the heroic policeman played by Cheng Long and the role background of Cheng Long's wife played by Lin Qingxia, there are no major changes.
Chinese police detective Jack Chen, also known as Cheng Long, flew from New York to Los Angeles from his place of work, and saw his wife Qingxia, who had been separated for half a year, needless to say, it must be the role played by Lin Qingxia.
At the place where his wife, Qingxia, works, Jack Chan is invited to a Christmas party on the 30th floor of a building. However, a group of bandits came up with the idea of more than 600 million yuan of public bonds stored in the building's vault. They cordoned off the building and took the attendees of the gala hostage. Jack Chan escapes and fights the bandits alone. He used fire alarm bells and then radio to call for help, but to no avail. In desperation, he threw the body of a bandit from the upper floor and smashed it on the car of Powell, a black police officer who came to patrol, before he succeeded in calling the police.
Jack Chan kept in touch with Powell over the radio. However, the bureaucratic style of the police chief who arrived caused him a lot of trouble. He fights the bandits and helps the police eliminate the bandits' missile launchers. There was a battle of wits between the bandit leader Hans and Jack Chen. And the stupid and arrogant actions of the FBI officials who arrived helped the bandits open the vault and achieve their goal. All this makes Jack Chen's situation even more difficult.
Hans planted explosives on the roof in an attempt to blow up the hostages along with the FBI rescue helicopter. There was a bitter fight between Jack Chan and the bandits searching for him. At this time, the despicable behavior of the journalist made his wife Qingxia even more exposed, and her situation was even more dangerous.
In the end, Jack Chan defeated the bandits and rushed to the roof to drive the hostages back to the building. But he was attacked by federal officials, and Jack Chan escaped from the roof with a hose. In the huge explosion, the roof was turned into a sea of fire, and the helicopter was blown up, but Jack Chen finally did not die at the gunpoint of his own people. Jack Chen, who enters the building, meets Hans, who is about to flee with money. After a fight, Jack Chan rescues Qingxia. Hans fell from the building and got the end he deserved. In the midst of the flying public bonds, Jack Chan left in a car with his wife.
"Is my role in this drama these literary dramas?" Lin Qingxia asked in surprise.
As Qiao Feng told the plot in detail, Lin Qingxia found that it was indeed as Qiao Feng said, she didn't need to accompany Cheng Long to work hard, she didn't need to do those dangerous actions that were terrifying to think about, what she needed to do was to act in a literary drama in peace, and the role of this heroine was not as much as that of the villain Hans, and the most important thing was the punch to the unscrupulous reporter that Qiao Feng said.
The last trace of worry in Lin Qingxia's heart was finally gone.
"Ah Feng, this film is really in line with Cheng Long's consistent action style in recent years, there are fights and fights, and there are jumps and jumps, it is worthy of you tailor-made for him." Lin Qingxia looked at Qiao Feng with admiration and said.
"Haha, that's a must." Qiao Feng smiled immodestly.
Although there are not so many close-to-hand combat action scenes when Bruce Willis is acting in this film, there are a lot of hot scenes.
Just like Lin Qingxia said, there are jumping scenes, which is extremely similar to the jumping scenes that appeared in almost every movie in Cheng Long from Plan A.
Hollywood action movies in the 80s said that they could compare with Cheng Long's movies, and the dangerous scenes were really the most similar to Die Hard.
This is why Die Hard used it to let Cheng Long play so appropriately, and Lin Qingxia said that it was tailor-made for Cheng Long.
It's too similar in style, but it's just a replacement of Cheng Long's kung fu with a gunfight scene.
If it is replaced by Stallone's first blood series or Schwarzenegger's Terminator series, it will be difficult for Cheng Long to act, and the plot is estimated to be completely unrecognizable by the end of the adaptation of these two series.
And now, Die Hard only needs to let Cheng Long and the martial artists he led on the original basis appropriately add some witty action scenes that belong to Cheng Long's unique and everything is OK, and there is no need for any big changes at all, it is completely a Cheng Long-style movie.
It not only retains the things in the original version that are in line with American values and American-style humorous dialogues, but also adds Cheng Long's own style.
In the end, the impact on the box office Qiao Feng must not be big, and he can still push Cheng Long and Cheng Long's style to Hollywood, North America, and the world.