Chapter 283: "Two Heroes" ended, and the aftermath lingered
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In the mirror on the screen, Liang Jiahui kept fleeing, and Zhou Yanfa chased after him.
The whole room full of glass mirrors was in shambles.
Suddenly, the mirror shatters, and the camera uses a large panorama to show the whole scene of the two people fleeing.
Flipping through windows, jumping, rolling, and leaping with bare hands, one by one the shots are presented on the big screen after sharp editing.
The most adrenaline-pumping scene is a set of drag racing car chase shots, where 'Liang Jiahui' snatches the son that his mistress gave birth to him and escapes, then hides the child in the church, and stuffs a crossbow for him to protect himself.
Since it's a gunfight action movie, and both men shoot guns, how can there be no more exciting action? ?
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Action, after all, is the strongest pillar element of commercial films!!
The chase and escape scene has always been the most classic and the most representative label in Hong Kong films. Hong Kong films have contributed many wonderful chase scenes to world cinema.
When the group of action scum in Hollywood saw the design of the martial arts director of Hong Kong films for the first time, they were almost shocked. There is a big one, the same hands and feet, how can you Asians be shocked by "Asian squats"!
Violent neighborhoods?
If it is said that the respected Lord of the Oscar achievements, the pride of the Chinese, and the Hong Kong Island action people led by Brother Cheng Long launched the "dangerous parkour" with their lives decades ago, as Chinese, we will not be good, right?
Anyway, the big guy Cheng said this himself in the interview show of later generations...... ╮(╯▽╰)╭!! don't blow and don't ...... Black, bazaar hey!
Under Pan Hengsheng's many orbital shots, the artistic conception of this movie has been revealed.
In this film, the use of tracks is definitely the finishing touch.
The film itself is naturally a two-dimensional content, and the audience must be immersed in this two-dimensional picture when watching the movie. Take them on a journey, a quest and a quest to explore. This is the sense of substitution that many directors pursue.
This feeling of turning two dimensions into three dimensions can be seen in front of the viewer through the tracks and cameras. Let the audience look forward to the film.
Wu Xiaozu emphasises space, mirroring, color and light, all to create a sense of substitution.
This is the same as listening to cross talk, you obviously know that the real name of the young class master is Yu Qilin, but you just want to show that his surname is Guo!
Mmmm, that's roughly what it means, flawless.
This is called the improvement of artistic conception!
The work in front of me, in the eyes of countless knowledgeable people, is undoubtedly a masterpiece that has been elevated to the artistic conception.
Just like 1986's "The True Color of Heroes" is to Wu Baige, decades after Chinese films, there is still no work that can achieve the artistic conception of showing brotherhood with romantic and gorgeous lenses.
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The last scene was originally placed on the rooftop of 333 Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong Island. It's a pity that it is not the famous filming location in the later Hong Kong film, the North Point Government Offices, which is not suitable for filming.
Later, Wu Xiaozu thought of the Kowloon Walled City, and he always felt that the Kowloon Walled City was a place with a special appearance. But at that time, considering the tone of the film, this idea was dispelled.
In the end, he chose the rooftop of the church at the beginning of the film for filming.
An empty rooftop, surrounded by dilapidated and decaying buildings. The prismatic Catholic church has a huge cross erected. White doves flutter.
The lens is from left to right, the angle is very low, and it also has a zoom, and it sweeps quickly,
Feng,
Blowing up the corner of the suit, there was a bang, and he turned around suddenly. The camera zooms in suddenly, turning into a large, sporty panorama.
"Huh!"
"Huh!"
The two guns stood facing each other, and under the camera, the muzzles of the two men's guns pointed at each other's heads.
The background music sounded, the guitar gently picked the strings, gently swept the music, the wind, the sound of the piano, and a little bit of the deep and complex performance of the cello and the blur of the saxophone.
Liang Jiahui raised his eyebrows, and shook the gun in his hand with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "You, you will never have a long memory."
A bullet?"
As he spoke, he took out another pistol from his waist and pointed it at Zhou Yanfa.
"One bullet is enough. Zhou Yanfa bit his cheek.
“OKOK…… Dude, to be honest, every time I see this sexy face of mine, I really can't get my hands on it. "'Liang Jiahui' looked at Zhou Yanfa's own face with a little obsession.
"I'm the opposite, every time I look in the mirror at this face, I feel sick and want to vomit. Zhou Yanfa held a handsome face and read the lines with black humor.
The cross is illuminated by the sun, and the shadow grows.
Zhou Yanfa glanced at the change slightly, moving slowly, calculating the angle of the sun.
The camera cuts to a close-up –
Suddenly!
The sun shone on Liang Jiahui's eyes, making him blink subconsciously-
Bang!
Bang bang bang!
The camera showed Liang Jiahui, he touched the blood hole in his chest, raised his foot fiercely and kicked it towards Zhou Yanfa, who was moaning on the ground-
Swish!
A strange noise!
Not far away, a shivering teenage boy stood there with a crossbow in his hand.
Liang Jiahui looked at the son born to him by the mistress opposite, showed a smiling face, shook his head with a debt flashed in the corner of his eyes, and helplessly reached out and wiped his chest, blood flowed -
Under the panoramic lens, the little boy stood trembling next to him, and the crossbow in his hand fell to the ground. The two men lay on the ground, blood flowing, the shadow of the cross attached to Liang Jiahui, the tip of which was pointed right at the steel arrow, full of black humor and fatalistic mockery.
Audiences, film critics, and filmmakers look at this sudden reality in front of them, and have the feeling of being pinched by the hand of fate.
Liang Jiahui "kidnapped" his son and prepared to leave, hiding him in the church, preparing to take him away and fly away.
And then
In the church, where he had no intention of shooting, he was killed by his own son.
This ending is full of Wu Xiaozu's paradox!
"it!"
Countless film critics were shocked.
There are two versions of Wu Xiaozu's final ending, the first is that the two fought after the drag racing and leaping just now, the gangsters were killed, and the police won.
The other is the rooftop scene where the two of them stand on the rooftop.
For this premiere, he chose the second ending to see the audience's reaction in advance. There are many famous rooftop dramas in Hong Kong films, such as "Bullet Rental", "Dark War", and "Eavesdropping", including Cheng Long's rooftop drama. Of course, the most famous is "Infernal Affairs".
The rooftop drama was not singled out before "Infernal Affairs".
Wu Xiaozu hopes that through this confrontational composition, the end of the whole film can be finally completed.
However, Hong Kong Island is Hong Kong Island after all, and business is always business.
This ending, if it really can't make the audience feel comfortable, then he will not hesitate to choose the first way to deal with it.
However, looking at the shocked expressions of the audience, although it is slightly abrupt, it is obvious that this has not disgusted the audience.
In fact, no matter which one it is, in the end, it will naturally be a happy ending where the positive characters win.
Obviously, as long as the audience is cool enough, they don't mind if the director has a little idea of his own!
The final shot is naturally the end of Zhou Yanfa, who was rescued by the police, finally changing back to the face of "Liang Gaohui", and then reuniting with his wife and daughter.
The screen gradually fades -
Suddenly, it lit up again.
The many spectators who were about to get up were all forced back into their positions again.
Liang Jiahui, who was reinstated to his original position, was receiving commendation from the police station, and suddenly turned around, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a slight inconsistency with the role!
Before the audience could react, the picture came to an abrupt end!
The theater lights are lit up, the film's ending song is accompanied by a clear drum kit and a hand rattle, and a low-voiced but full of charm rock song resounds throughout the theater.
"My loneliness and my tears, my performance doesn't matter;
To be strong you need to suffer, and if you want to regret you need to repent.
It's best to keep your mouth shut...... Oh......
There is no right and wrong in dreams, and there is safety and danger in dreams,
I am you, and you are me...... We have both wrong and right......"
Wu Xiaozu cosed the song "In the Black Dream" of the later generations of Dou Xianren, and led half of his apprentice-level follower beyond to sing this ridiculous rock work.
"Is Liang Jiahui Liang Jiahui?" asked Lin Qingxia suspiciously.
“……”
Wu Xiaozu shrugged and stood up.
At this moment, the whole theater applauded, and countless audiences and film critics presented him with the most beautiful music.
The last shot?
Liang Jiahui, who was sitting in the corner, shook his head helplessly at Jiang Jiahua, that shot was just a "mistake" when shooting.
At that time, when filming, Liang Gaohui thought that the filming was over, so he tried to find the feeling of another character, and then ...... Unexpectedly, this mistake was chosen by Wu Xiaozu as the end of the film!
A good director is very good at using this kind of seemingly goofy and laughing shots to become the finishing touch.
The greatest blunder is, of course, the end of "The Graduate".
It was an assistant who was inexperienced and forgot to shout "click", but he didn't expect it to become the most classic ending in film history!
Often there are countless inspirations and geniuses between masters and good directors!
At the end of the movie, the applause continued, and the music was ethereal!
This film will surely become a very important milestone in the history of Hong Kong films. is not only the film wonderful, but the most important thing is that this movie kicked off the golden prelude to the big brawl of Hong Kong films!
The emergence of Xinbao Cinema has truly brought Hong Kong films to the peak era!
At the same time, this movie has also become the first large-scale and big-cast movie released in the summer file to pass the trial run of the "1987 Film Censorship Bill"!
The film was classified as an IIB film by the Electricity Inspection Department because of its violence and foul language, that is, it is not suitable for children to watch! Of course, this is not a mandatory rule, and minors can also choose to watch it with their parents.
In the initial stages of the film classification system, the concept of classification was still vague.
In fact, although Brother Cheng Long, Xing Ye, and Fa Ge are box office guarantees, most of their movies are Class II films.
In other words, most action commercial films are basically in this category. In contrast, Hong Kong Island's classification system ensures that filmmakers' creativity increases, which is also a major reason for the development of Hong Kong films.
Nowadays, the special Class III cinema has not yet been officially completed, and the supervision team is also improving, I believe that with the official implementation of film classification, the Hong Kong film industry will usher in a big explosion.
It can be said that the establishment of Xinbao Cinema really occupies the right time and place!