Chapter 536: The God of Gambling Advances, Revenge Begins (Part II)
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The whole gambling boat is in a miserable condition, and the scene is shocking.
Gao Jin continued to escape from the pursuit of the gambling boat with the help and cover of Liang Chaowei and Wu Zhenyu, and the fighting style here is even more aggressive. The blasting special effects are not inferior to Hollywood teams, and even surpass! In fact, in action movies, Hong Kong films have always had an advantage!
"Jumping !!"
Under the cover of Liang Chaowei, Gao Jin jumped directly down from the gambling boat dozens of meters away!
Boom! Boom!
The sparks rushing behind him, the gambling ship exploded!
The whole shot is done in one go.
"Wow! this shot is cool!" the big nose sitting in the box looked at this shot in disbelief.
This kind of shot used to be the only one in Hong Kong who dared to dance.
Now, I didn't expect that in Wu Xiaozu's movie, there would be a more shocking picture than him jumping off the building.
The audience in the theater was even more shocked, and the adrenaline was soaring, which was really thrilling.
This lens is extremely difficult to shoot.
The two stuntmen are professional extreme athletes specially invited by Wu Xiaozu from abroad.
The next underwater scene is a reference to "Wolf Warrior 2".
Needless to say, the difficulty of underwater photography is not to play Zhou Yunfa's stand-in, but to shoot them!
On the sea, the cruise ship's skyrocketing fire reflected the entire sky, and the huge flames made the entire theater silent.
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Gao Jin and Liang Chaowei "swim" lost.
On the sea, a lifeboat slowly drove over, Liang Jiahui was wearing a gray suit, the regular Clark Gable-style mustache on his lips was slightly upturned, and his hand gently stroked his tie and clamped the jewel shaped like a black dragon.
The old god was holding a fishing rod and knocking on the water to soak it into a soup chicken, and floated high in the boat with a swimming ring.
"Dangdangdang...... Do I need to catch you up?"
"Xu Yilu?!" Gao Jin wiped a handful of water and looked at each other through gritted teeth.
"$2 million, I'll get you up. β
Xu Yilu, played by Liang Jiahui, dusted off the seawater raised by the other party, and said with bright eyes, "It's 3 million now!"
"Good!" Gao Jin said.
The apostles walked among men in order to preach the gospel. I spread love for the Lord......" Liang Jiahui smiled and waved his hand, asking the subordinates next to him to bring Gao Jin up.
"What the hell is going on?" Gao Jin looked at Xu Yilu played by Liang Jiahui in embarrassment.
"1 million!"
"Good!"
"Someone paid you to disappear from this world, and someone else made Mr. Hong too late to see you. Don't ask me who I am, don't keep adding money...... I have a clue if I add money. β
Seeing Gao Jin raise his fingers, Liang Jiahui continued without blushing and heartbeat: "The other party seems to be related to the nearest Middle East side, and some people say that they just bought a nuclear warhead through Mr. Hong...... Don't look at me like that, you should trust my information. Anyway, there's a force that's going on against you!"
"Why me?"
β300+100+100β¦β¦ Five million!"
Liang Jiahui smiled first, and then gave a satellite phone to the other party, "It's better to settle the account first and transfer it to my Swiss bank account." β
Gao Jin took the other party's phone without blinking, and after Liang Jiahui verified, he confirmed that his account had more than five million, and then he showed a smile.
"Sorry, I don't know about that either...... Hush...... You forget, this is my turf ......"
Liang Jiahui raised his fingers, shushed out, looked at Gao Jin, who was subdued by the bodyguard, and shrugged, "But I can give you a message." Last night, someone paid $30 million to buy your life......! Don't look at me like that. β
Clapped his hands and sighed regretfully, "It's a pity that the effectiveness was only last night, and today you are worthless." β
"Can you help me find Achen?" Gao Jin looked at the sea, "I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death!" He turned his head, "1 million!"
"No problem!" Liang nodded.
"Send me to San Francisco or Las Vegas!" Gao Jin suddenly felt a little uneasy.
On the gloomy sea, explosives floated in the sea, making it look chaotic.
Gao Jin stood at the bow of the ship, the haze seemingly consuming him.
Under the light and shadow, he was extremely lonely and thin at this moment.
In the dark wind film, the beginning of East Asian film noir, many people believe that it was the 1979 New Wave film "Crazy Robbery" starring Zhao Yazhi with black stockings and red nails, directed by Xu Anhua.
Early film noir was formed in Hollywood black and white films from 1940 to 1958. Later, in the 60s, a new style of noir appeared in European cinema, known as film noir.
The play "God of Gambling: War Now" overturned the previously formed black style.
A more intelligent attitude has been achieved.
This drama actually belongs to ordinary audiences and felt very cool to watch, film critics were shocked when they watched it, and filmmakers watched an innovative work that revolutionized film cognition.
It can be very commercial because it has all the business elements.
Therefore, at this moment, the audience is fascinated.
It is actually very connotative, because there are all kinds of characters in it, and it also explores Gao Jin's mental path and discussion of people.
Of course, this point is a matter of opinion.
Wu Xiaozu himself can't be too deeply involved.
The movie started for more than ten minutes, and the climax was repeated, and the audience was staring at the screen with their eyes blank, reluctant to miss a frame or second.
There are no urine spots throughout the process.
The rhythm of the movie is controlled like flowing water, and every point touches the audience's G part.
This kind of steady rhythm is even more shocking to mainland filmmakers such as Chen Kaige and Gong Li. Although they have seen a lot of large-scale war scenes, it is not a problem to dispatch planes and tanks. But the shock created by Wu Xiaozu's devastating aesthetics of violence still haunts them.
This drama may not be as high as "The Suspect" in terms of literature and art, but in terms of commerciality, it really breaks through the shackles of Hong Kong films!
Enough to rival Hollywood's top action movies.
Many film critics who have watched "First Blood 3" before secretly compare in their hearts, the surprise release, is the too thick or too loose......
Wu Xiaozu taught Hollywood's action movie colleagues a good lesson!
Revolutionizing the rhythm of action movies!
As the youngest Palme d'Or winner in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, Wu Xiaozu's new film is not only aimed at the local market, but most importantly, at the box office outside the city.
Otherwise, with a box office of 30 or 20 million, it will be difficult to recover the cost!
This explosion scene burned millions of dollars!
Fortunately, the salaries of many actors have generally decreased, otherwise the funds may not be enough! The explosion scenes of this drama are much higher than those of "Two Heroes".
This is the real big production!!
In the theater, countless people were speechless.
This kind of picture, "Police Story" is slightly insufficient compared to it, and it has to wait until "Red Fan District" for Hong Kong films to really shoot this kind of big scene that can be compared to Hollywood!
At this time, this earth-shattering scene of bombing the ship, in the 80s, was compared with the shock that "Avatar" gave to mainland audiences in later generations.
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"Poofβ"
The woman sank into the blue deep water on her back, wearing a colorful long skirt on her body, and the drowning and struggling action drove the skirt to sway, just like dancing in the water, full of the strange beauty of death.
The spitting blisters are like crystal balls, reflecting the despair on the face.
The brightly coloured dress is like a colourful palette on a drawing board, hazy and dreamy through the light twisting and turning on the water's surface.
It is like being in the 17th century Baroque period oil paintings, which are colorful and romantic.
The sparkling surface of the water seems to have a majestic silhouette reflected in the water.
The lenses and the light grew colder and colder β until everything was reduced to nothingness.
Janet (Zhang Min) died bizarrely by drowning on the night of the gambling boat explosion, and her body was disposed of and missing. Police in Las Vegas identified Gao Jin as the first suspect.
Because, the airport did not have a high entry and exit certificate, and at the same time, all kinds of signs pointed to him.
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On the rooftop, two figures are fighting in a staggered manner, surrounded by towering high-rise buildings, making this place a 'concave' cage.
"If you want to get out of Las Vegas, I can help you. Liang Jiahui turned his head and asked.
"Where's her grave?"
"San Francisco. β
"I want to check it out. β
ββ¦β¦β¦β¦ $1. β
Gao Jin rummaged through his pocket, took out a coin, and bounced it over.
Catch it with a top hat in your hand. Xu Yilu shrugged, picked up the coin, and tucked it into his trouser pocket.
Gao Jin stared at Liang Jiahui quietly and said, "I want to know who they are." β
Xu Yilu was not surprised by the other party's question, turned over his hand and put the top hat back on, took a black umbrella with a silver dragon handle on his side, raised the corners of his mouth, and raised his chin.
"Heh~ That's a good question. Xu Yilu restrained his smile, looked directly at the other party, and slowly shook his head, "It's a pity that I don't know either." β
"I don't know or don't want to say it?" Gao Jin's masseter muscles tightened, and his eyes were dangerous.
"Did you know that threatening an intelligence donor is an idiot. Now on the black market outside, there are already people who have bloomed dark flowers. Although the American police are a bunch of rice buckets, Interpol is still looking for you. β
Xu Yilu kept smiling, "Let's change the question." β
"What's the key?"
"All I know is that the key controls a 'Big Ivan'. Someone shipped at least three nuclear warheads from Ukraine and wanted to clean up the bay. The key should be a serial code. Xu Yilu replied, then looked at Gao Jin with interest and smiled.
"Seriously, it's better to give me the keys, you'll be safer. β
"I don't know what the key is!" Gao Jin said angrily.
Now, Interpol and many people in the world's black market are looking for him, because everyone is sure that he has the 'key'.
But Gao Jin himself knew, he didn't know what the key was.
Now that I think about it, Janet may have died because of the 'key'.
He also knew that the gambling ship was involved in a "shocking gamble".
As a result of the gamble, he returned to the United States to learn that Israel had launched air strikes on PLO guerrilla bases in Beirut and southern Lebanon.
At the same time, the stakes include 3 nuclear warheads. The hell knows where that $1 billion fell! That gamble was simply a game played by a group of crazy arms dealers who were constantly pushing the spread of war in the world for the sake of profit.
He appeared in the gambling game.
Won the bet!
His wife died, Achen's whereabouts were unknown, and he was chased by the police......
"It doesn't matter. β
Xu Yilu shrugged with a smile, "If you want to find that group of people, why don't you go to Goryeo and give it a try." β
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Heavy rain, San Francisco.
Cemetery. The umbrella handle of a silver statue of a Western dragon is displayed on the screen through a close-up shot.
The hand wearing a red gemstone ring holds this precious umbrella, very steady.
Liang Jiahui was wearing a delicate suit and a blue coat on the outside, standing straight on the steps.
The other arm holds a black cat.
The cat nestled comfortably in the crook of its arm, and raised its headβthe evil cat's eyes looked vertically into the distance.
Under the subjective lens, not far away, in the heavy rain, Gao Jin knelt in front of the tombstone, embarrassed.
"The Lord loves the world. β
Liang Jiahui turned to leave, not looking at the decadent and depraved figure.
The design of the scenery here is particularly in the style of traditional dark movies. The story structure of this play, Wu Xiaozu did not play tricks.
"The Birth of a Word" is also considered to be a film noir, but that drama is a structural innovation.
The reason why Wu Xiaozu is called the future film master by many film critics is not just a flash in the pan of a movie, because each of his films is innovating and expanding the wider possibilities of the film.
In this play, the dark Baroque style really fascinated people, or this is not a baroque style in the traditional sense, but a neo-baroque style similar to the later Luc Besson, and at the same time, Wu Xiaozu added a lot of his own style to it.
But at the same time, the play belongs to the typical theatrical structure. The beginning, the progression, the climax, the ending, the relationship between the characters and the development of the characters' actions are all in line with the structure of Hollywood commercial films, and if you were a different director, this movie may not be so exciting.
Because his storyline is not new.
It's just that the 'fractured' design in the middle makes the film more suspenseful.
The audience is very curious, who wants to kill Gao Jin, and at the same time who kills his wife and children, whether Liang Jiahui is also a friend or not?
This method of treatment is not unique to Wu Xiaozu, and later generations of Nolan liked to have this labyrinthine technique.
Nowadays, Eastern and Western films have begun to slowly shift from the simple pursuit of artistic high and low to the balance between business and art. At this point, Wu Xiaozu is estimated to become the enlightenment teacher of many new generation of film directors.
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Black sewage seeped down the cracks in the stone path, graffiti-strewn walls beside it, keratinized manhole covers bubbled upwards, and rusty stairs dripped.
The light and shadow refracted by the low light sources darkened the alley and soaked in smoke.
Jeans, plaid shirts, jeans.
Gao Jin held a brown paper bag full of baguettes and walked briskly across the stone slab.
This is where the montage crosses begin.
He went back to his home in Los Angeles, thinking about it inch by inch...... During the search, he listened to "Let'S Stay Together" again, and left with a smile on his lips.
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He could feel that he was being watched, so he constantly hid and disguised his emotions with sadness and decadence. In order to deceive the other party, he needs to use the most authentic performance to "paralyze".
In this way, he will be able to follow this tail and catch the other party's traces.
In this section, Zhou Yunfa dedicated a textbook-like play-within-a-play performance.
Then, with the sound of empty footsteps, the montage is interspersed with the complete decadence of the male protagonist being hit by the death of his wife and children - just a few minutes are a display of his decadence.
"Professor, we checked his residence and followed him for more than half a year, he probably doesn't know where the key is......"
The man in black watched Gao Jin, who walked into the low-rent house in a daze, and took the satellite phone to report to the person opposite.
"Okay, I'll try him again, and then I'll go to Goryeo to deal with ......"
The voice behind him was inaudible, and the man in black hung up the earpiece, put on black leather gloves, and walked towards Gao Jin's low-rent house-
"Squeak squeak~"
The old-fashioned spiral wooden staircase was empty, and only the sound of leather shoes on the stairs could be heard.