Gangster Movie (Part II)

"Many scenes in gangster movies are exaggerated! The police are the biggest in the police station, how can the gangsters be so arrogant? In reality, I was polite to them, and they were polite to me. But in the movie, if you sit up straight, they scold you for sitting so straight. ”

"Those years were really the best time for Hong Kong movies, and even the underworld came to catch up with this troubled water. ”

"Protection money is charged on the set..."

"Collecting protection money is nothing, the most hateful thing is to cut the queue to grab the star slot!"

"Can you explain this?"

"In those years, the film market was hot, the bigger the stars, the more box office guarantees, and their film appointments were too many to schedule, so some companies used underworld means to force the schedule. Wu Mengda sighed: "I really forced you to film with a gun!"

Chen Baixiang went on to popularize science: "Resell celebrity schedules at a low price! There are some underworlds that buy celebrity schedules at low prices, and celebrities know that they are underworlds, and they dare not sell them, and then the underworld resells them to film companies at market prices, and the difference in price is several million. For celebrities, you either say yes or die!"

"There are still a lot of unpaid payments. Celebrity remuneration is mostly paid in "installments", that is, the previous period, the middle period, and the end period, and sometimes the end period can only be received after the movie is released. "Unfinished" is the most common encounter of celebrities, with the pre-payment and mid-term payment, after the film is released, the final payment will simply not be completed. ”

"At that time, the Hong Kong "Co., Ltd.", after the movie was filmed, it was cancelled, and no one could find anyone to ask for the final payment, and even dared not ask for it!"

"Because of this, some celebrities have joined some underworld halls in order to seek refuge!"

At that time, in order to ensure that the set was not affected, the film company would invite actors with underworld backgrounds to star, such as Chen Huimin, Lee Shau Kee, Wu Zhixiong and others. Or invite influential people from the underworld to be consultants, such as Chen Shenzhi, with them, there will be no underworld to harass. Of course, please Ren Dahua is the same. His brother was a policeman, and no one dared to break ground on his head. ”

"Commissioner of Police!

"Gu Tsai has acted in "Underworld"..."

"Director Du Qifeng slowly turned to power and political narratives in the later stage, and it has nothing to do with gangster movies!"

"'New World' is a gangster movie?"

"Yes!" Lu Xiaoran finally spoke: "I like "The Godfather" very much, and I have always been interested in gangster films... I've seen a summary of the narrative of gangster films by American cultural critic Robert Wathew before. ”

1. The city in which the underworld theme is located is not a real city, but an imaginary dangerous modern world.

2. It can fully demonstrate the consciousness of modern tragedy

3. Gangster activities are completely rational business and become crimes of pure harm.

4. The gradual ascent of gangster film shows is a distorted expression of modern man's desire to get ahead, often followed by a sharp decline

5. Stories often end in failure and death, success is evil and dangerous, and in the ultimate sense it will never be possible.

These characteristics can roughly sum up the characteristics of the underworld genre, which of course has a lot to do with the creator culture. ”

For example, the underworld theme of Japanese benzene not only pays attention to righteousness, but also has a considerable sense of resistance because the underworld once assumed the role of the protector of workers and the rebel of tyranny.

In the turmoil of various cultures, Hong Kong has formed a more personal value, and the underworld theme pays more attention to personal growth in addition to the core of loyalty.

There is no underworld theme on the mainland, only police and bandits......

It's not because of censorship or anything like that, it's mainly because in the context of the mainland, the underworld is a bad guy and a criminal, almost everyone shouts and beats you, you're the underworld, and you still want to get ahead?"

"So, "New World" is going to be filmed in Hong Kong?"

"Yes!"

……

After that, the conversation basically revolved around "Crazy Boy"!

The "Crazy Boy" series actually represents the second generation of Hong Kong gangster films, ten years before the release of "Crazy Boy", Hong Kong's gangster films are in another direction, that is, "heroes" and "heroes" films, and the representative works are "The True Colors of Heroes", "Bloody Heroes", "Lame Hao", "The Legend of Lei Luo" and so on.

Galaxy Imaging belongs to the third generation, "The Birth of a Word", "Dark Fire", "Gunfire", "Banishment" and then the masterpiece "Underworld"...

The third generation of gangster films subverted the portrayal of "heroes" of the first and second generations, but profoundly described the complexity and contradictions of human nature...

With the Hong Kong film collective going north, there are no more original Hong Kong-style gangster movies!

Therefore, as soon as "Chasing the Dragon" came out, it actually made people feel amazing...

……

"The one I remember the most is 'Crazy Boy', which was a movie I saw when I was 14 years old!"

"Does it matter?"

"It's a little," Lu Xiaoran suddenly laughed, and Chen Baixiang hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"I thought of a buddy of mine, who was supposed to be in the second year of junior high school, and he was married to a little girl in our class, and she happened to be the horse who carried the handle in our school. ”

"Bar handle?"

"The term was especially popular in those years!"

Wu Mengda was energetic: "Go on, go on!"

"He was very dead, and after receiving a warning from the handle-bearer, he went his own way. Then, sooner or later, the time will come. Fate cannot be avoided. After a New Year's Day party, the man who carried the handle forced him and me into a corner, rolled up his trouser legs, tied a circle of army-green cloth bags on top of his trousers, and put several bright sharp knives in his pockets, and I almost peed at that time..."

"Why are you in a corner?"

"We are at the same table, inseparable!" Lu Xiaoran continued: "I clearly remember that the man who carried the handle was a thin and weak young man, with long flowing hair, and a strand of bright yellow hair hanging down to his eyes. Then he grabbed him by the neck and said the most emotional words I have ever heard: "Take good care of her, or I will cut you". Then the boy shook his bangs, shouted at the swaggering horses in the back, and disappeared from our sight..."

There was a pause at the scene, only Lu Xiaoran's voice: "I am really very grateful to Aunt Qiong Yao - if you love her, you want to make her happy, I want to cry when I think about it now!"

"Haha..."

All sorts of hilarious...

"But the influence of the old boy in those years was really big!"

"It's true, Huang Qiusheng said before that when he went to the mainland to film, he met a local young man, and when he saw him, he called him Brother Da Fei, and when he was young, he saw Gu Chao Boy join the underworld and admired him very much, but his fingers were cut off, and he regretted it in his heart. used to make this kind of movie, and taught a lot of offspring badly. ”

"Zheng Yijian too, including Chen Xiaochun, but at that time, Liu Weiqiang said, if you don't start work, a large number of people will have nothing to eat, so they can only continue to shoot!"

"What do you think of the impact of the Crazy Boy movie?"

"The film is fine, but it should be strictly included in the 18 bans. For adults who have independent thinking ability and a certain amount of social experience, there is basically no harm, just watch it, and know that this is just an exaggerated and beautified scene. But for the ignorant teenagers in the rebellious period, this is a disaster. It is much more misleading and confusing to the worldview of teenagers than. ”

"In fact, most of the behavior of minors is learned from the people and things they come into contact with, and the behavior patterns of teenagers in a period of time really have a lot to do with the popular film and television works in the society at that time. ”

"When I was studying, there were robbers at the school gate, and if they dared to resist, they immediately gathered a group of people to pull you to all kinds of violent beatings, and the harder your temper was, the more you beat you every day. ”

"Of course, this is definitely not the impact of the movie "Crazy Boy", there were many good movies at that time, "**", "***", a seed was planted in the field, there are always good ones and bad ones, "The True Story of Ah Q" The idlers of Weizhuang caught Ah Q and beat them up if they had nothing to do..."

"At that time, there were a large number of idle people, and the law and order were a little chaotic, even if there was no Crazy Boy, these people would still do evil! But there are more gangster movies, why do you pull out Crazy Boy alone to criticize it! Because this movie has no concept of right and wrong at all, that is, who is more ruthless than whom, who will cut people! Especially will bring bad children, other gangster movies try to blur these bad things, and show more good aspects! IMHO, "Crazy Boy" Such a movie, even if it is placed in a gangster movie, is not an excellent work!"

"So what do you think makes a good movie?"

"A good movie should make the audience reflect after watching it, rather than full of radical ideas in their heads, to make a movie like "Crazy Boy", can I make dozens of films in one go, do you believe it?"

Lu Xiaoran hates "Crazy Boy"!

When he was in junior high school, there were a few fools in the next class who pretended to be big guys and bullied people, and there were only a few of them at first, and then it became more and more intense - once a trend was formed, no one could stay out of it!

Thanks to the toughness of their head teacher, he directly expelled a few of the most hanged ones!

But he was taught...

The old man who was beaten was miserable, and seven or eight beat him up one!