Chapter 422 "Ancient-Confused-Boy" (II)
In the last plane, the fourth episode of "Crazy Boy" "Invincible" is ambitious, gathering the twelve heads of Hong Xing, together with popular actresses such as Li Jiaxin and Karen Mok, who intend to surpass the three Crazy Boys of 96 years in terms of influence and box office, but they are not satisfactory. So the best partner retreated to the next best, reducing the production and becoming one a year.
"Enter the Dragon" in '98 was born in this context.
After reviewing this "Enter the Dragon" again, Du Xinghe found that this episode was more difficult to graft. Because the story of this episode puts the struggles and grievances between the associations in the second place, and instead describes the various situations in Hong Kong after 97.
Just like what Jiang Tianyang taught Chen Haonan: "The activities of the club should be low-key, and the money should be high-profile." It's better to know more rich guys than to know those rotten boys." Fighting, killing, and killing is nothing more than a word for money, and there is a better way to go, so why bother to live a life of licking blood on the tip of a knife?
The new police forces of the post-97 generation, the foreign speculative businessmen, the Dongxing gang who grabbed land, the brothers who have just been released from prison, and Jiang Tianyang, who has the intention of retiring, the storyline of this episode does not seem to be ups and downs compared with the other five episodes, and the discussion is all about how Hongxing transformed after the return of 97 and how to continue to survive under the rule of the new government.
The power of the police is getting bigger and bigger, and being an old boy will never reach the top of society, just like the inspector played by Li Xiuxian said, everything must be evidenced, but I torture you back to the police station, I suspect that you are just a gangster, and I have the right to detain you for forty-eight hours. What if you're a talker? So Jiang Tianyang tried to transform Hongxing and get rid of the shadow and shackles of the gangsters. Focusing on legitimate business, it is natural that it has encountered various difficulties.
Most of the heads of Hongxing can cut people, but doing business and engaging in finance are not necessarily smooth. Jiang Tianyang can naturally face these obstacles with his usual signature smile, but how can the lowest-level gangsters survive in this environment?
Qian Jiale played the former Hongxing gold medal fighter "Big Head" who had just been released from prison, who was young and vigorous and went to prison for the boss, thinking that he could become the boss after a few years in prison, but he didn't expect that he would be eight years in prison.
Eight years is not a short number, a reckless and naïve teenager has become mature and sensible, and those simple thoughts of the year have disappeared. He wants to get out of the underworld. I want to make some hard-earned money on my own. But I still found that I couldn't draw a line with the underworld no matter what.
Chen Haonan said to him: "I asked you which line of business can be separated from the underworld, and you said that the bank doesn't have the underworld to dare to collect protection money?" Then I ask you, what about credit cards? When you owe money to your credit card, who collects it? That's us. Could it be a bank clerk. Tie to collect? There was news some time ago. Podium - Bay's. He said that thousands of people protested and complained that their mayor, Chen Shui-bian, did not allow them to operate a three-temperature center, a game center and a nightclub. These are not offences. It's just a side door. None of this is allowed to be done, you say, how can their society be peaceful? ”
Through Chen Haonan's mouth, the message conveyed by the film is nothing more than the same topic that many sociologists have studied, is the existence of the underworld and society inevitable or accidental?
The encounter of the big head in "Enter the Dragon" reflects this confusion, is it the underworld that needs him, or does he need the underworld?
After all, "Enter the Dragon" is just a Chinese New Year commercial movie, and it is naturally impossible to delve into this kind of strict proposition. However, revealing a lot of social status quo bluntly, even if there is a suspicion of "only asking questions, not giving answers", it is enough to make people think twice.
In this episode, Shu Qi's seventh uncle's adopted daughter replaced the little stammerer and walked to Chen Haonan's side. But the audience can still see that this innocent and lively Malaysian girl has never been able to replace the position of the little stutter in Chen Haonan's heart. A pheasant with a heart of flowers, naturally our protagonist should have a single-minded affection for no reason.
In this episode, Dongxing's fourth tiger, Situ Haonan, appeared. He told Chan that there was only one How-nam in Causeway Bay. The absence of pheasants leaving Taiwan left Chen Haonan alone to face these threats.
The two Haonan end up dueling in the ring, and the conspiracy goes to Malaysia's Datuk Tan Chia Nam. For Qin Pei, it is not the first time to play such a bad guy, and he will naturally be caught. The appearance is loyal, and it seems to be sincere, but in fact it is a bad stomach, and the passage that finally flattens it in the parking lot believes that the audience will be very happy. And the bodyguard's sentence "I'm all Part-time" can't help but make people smile. In fact, everything is just a profession, and loyalty and righteousness are outdated old sayings.
Zhengxing's involvement in the underworld is the main proposition of "Enter the Dragon", which can be seen everywhere from beginning to end. Chen Jiannan wanted to use his white identity to meddle in the underworld, but he didn't want to be exposed by the media and the police on the spot.
No matter how powerful the underworld is, there is always a place where it cannot set foot in.
The climactic passage at the end of the finale is a brazen fight that has never been seen in the previous Crazy Boy series, with Hong Xing's big head facing He Yong of Dongxing on stage, and a duel between the two Haonan off the stage.
After exhausting all the tricks, Situ Haonan finally had a bit of the legacy of the underworld and knew how to duel in the ring. And this also makes "Enter the Dragon" show a heroism that has never been seen in the previous episodes, and duel like a man, after all, is the most beautiful way to prove your hero.
"There is only one Haonan in Causeway Bay, it's me, Chen Haonan!" This sentence is also a rare finishing touch in this film.
However, compared to the first three episodes, the momentum of this episode is much weaker.
Du Xinghe continued to put this level on hold and continued to review the sixth and final episode - "The Winner is King".
Just like Du Xinghe's perception of this film gradually faded, by the time the fifth episode of the "Crazy Boy" series arrived, it had gradually declined, and several protagonists had also become qualified film actors from the very beginning of the new generation, and then it was more and more difficult to bring these people together to continue this legend, after 99 years of Troubled Boy's absence, 2000's "The Winner is King" finally became the final chapter of the "Crazy Boy" series.
Even the name of this final chapter has removed the big title of "Crazy Boy", and it is called "The Winner is King" alone.
In fact, in the story, the cast and the director's ambitions. This final chapter can be said to be the pinnacle of the series.
In this episode, the pastor's daughter, who is complicated and complicated, and simple and simple, goes away to study, and the pheasant becomes a victim of the marriage between Taiwan and Japan.
At the beginning of the film, with the help of the voiceover of China-Taiwan relations and the various shocks brought about by Chen Shui-bian's swearing-in as president, he constantly wants to remind the audience that the gangsters in this current situation are no longer as pure as before.
In the fourth episode of "Invincible", Da Fei said to Shengfan that he would turn over old accounts. It's better to mention the five ancestors of Shaolin! The black-society-society was originally caused by the government's oppression. For more than 100 years, black and white have their own laws, but now, Lei Fuhong, the son of Lei Gong of the Taiwan-Bay Triple Gang, wants to use the gangs to bleach, so he unites all the gangs to form a political party. Vainly trying to enter the political arena. But he is young and vigorous. How could you ever play with those old foxes? Infighting. Except for the loyal and righteous people in his gang, he only provoked himself to burn himself, and in the end he could only provoke himself to ashes.
Actually, from this film. One can see what kind of relationship between the mainland and Taiwan is like from the perspective of Hong Kong people.
There are such scenes in the embellishments of "The Winner is King". In the scene of the Japanese-current wedding, the international students from Beijing and Beijing were not used to seeing Taiwanese songs improvised by Taiwanese and Gulf, and the two sides mingled. Han Bin persuaded not to fight, everyone is Chinese, and the answer of the international students was, "What is a Chinese?" We are Chinese! You are Hong Kong people and Taiwan-Wan people! "Although the territory has been regained or is about to be regained, the sense of national identity is not something that can be reversed in a day or two. No matter in the cross-strait or three places, this difference in cultural values can by no means be resolved in a short period of time.
Speaking of the film, the pheasant, as the most powerful cadre of the Taiwan-Bay Triad Gang, is also the worship brother of Chen Haonan, the leader of the Hongxing Society. The largest Yamaguchi-gumi in Irizo-Moto, it seems to be a dream combination, but in fact, it also has the problems mentioned above.
Can three underworld societies with different places, cultures, and even languages be integrated by a single person? The idea is good, but it is far from being realized.
In this episode, Jiang Tianyang officially retired, and Hong Xing's baton was finally handed over to Chen Haonan. However, whether it is Chen Haonan himself or the atmosphere rendered by the director, he is not half happy.
Chen Haonan, who climbed to the top, really got what he wanted? It doesn't look like it.
The beginning of "The Winner is King" is Chen Haonan's nightmare. In the nightmare, the stammering stammered standing in the court where they joined the underworld in the past, Chen Haonan wanted to catch him but couldn't catch him; In the nightmare, his brothers died one by one, and after waking up, he disappeared, but he couldn't avoid the fact that he still missed his dead brother and woman.
In Japan-Ben, he met Duanmu Ruoyu, who looked like a little stammer, but the unromantic encounter could not make the two walk together, and they were about to get married; On the other hand, he is nostalgic just because of his similar appearance; Such a relationship that is destined to have no result comes and goes quickly.
The story of "The Winner is King" travels between Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, but it cannot escape an ancient proposition of values and personal positioning.
was a loyal and brave uncle who was dedicated to the community, but was eliminated by his most cherished and respected Lei Gongzi; Uncle Xiaohei, who is drunk today, also fell on the streets of Taiwan in order to protect pheasants.
Although he kept respecting his predecessors and did not want to meddle in the business of the association, he secretly colluded with the government and wanted to annex all the gangsters in Taiwan to form his own underground kingdom.
The political topic of two-shore-three-place is ridiculed everywhere in this episode.
In fact, the "Crazy Boy" series has a lot of things that are closely aligned with the times, what happened in the times, what is reflected in the story, which is also a headache for Du Xinghe, because there are many changes to be made after grafting.
For example, in "One Hand Covering the Sky", Brother Ji auctioned the statue of Mao-Lord-Xi, so that everyone could spend the ninety-seven together; In "The Winner is King", the intermediary sues Sù Lei Fubang that the newly inaugurated President Chen Shui-bian will not let the underworld be so arrogant.
Lei Gong, Lei Fu's father in "Raptors Across the River", taught that the government treats the underworld as a urinal, and when it is used, it will be used up, and it will stink and kick far away. Where is this not the case? However, the triad in Taiwan and the Bay is different from Hong Kong and Japan, and engaging in politics and bleaching is the goal that the Taiwan-Bay-Mafia Society is bent on pursuing.
Uncle Xiaohei, played by Ke Shouliang, fell on the streets of Taiwan in order to protect the pheasant. He became the last decent person to die in the "Crazy Boy" series.
Uncle Xiao Hei is a likable character. Because he's a real villain, not a hypocrite like Lei Fubang. There is one to say, there is two to say, never hide his lust, at the critical moment, the righteousness is not rough.
And the death of Zhong Yongbo is also endlessly regrettable, he is a stubborn and conservative person, with the moral atmosphere of the old gang, such a person is quite rare in this mercenary new society. But it was his own ignorance and loyalty that killed him, the ancient moral code and dogma. shackles the ambitious thunder resurgence. So naturally he had to remove these obstacles.
The humiliation of his wife and the death of his cousin made the pheasant who did not change his sex more and more mature. The trust of the father-in-law and the support of the brother made the pheasant regain his confidence.
Lei Fuhong said to Chen Haonan that this era has entered the global village, and we should cooperate; And Chen Haonan's answer is still that I don't understand what a global village is. But I think. The most important thing in being a man is righteousness. And credit.
Branding and abiding by righteousness, this ancient Chinese moral standard, is still the code that the protagonist of "Crazy Boy" believes in; And treacherous. After all, it didn't end well in the movie.
Lei Fubang was played hard by the government, and the wolf went to prison; The pheasant is also a logical step to become the eldest brother of the three-link-gang and the sixth generation of the three-person group.
The storyline of the winner is the king, the loser is the villain, the evil is rewarded, and the good is rewarded with good, is still telling people that no matter whether the world does something wrong or does the right thing, does the right thing or goes wrong, there is always a cycle of cause and effect in the dark.
Du Xinghe thinks that the sixth episode is actually filmed quite well, and the pattern is very large, but unfortunately it is too difficult to graft to this plane, and it is better to let a professional playwright in this plane adapt the second half of this drama, so that this classic can have a more happy ending.
In fact, there are many episodes in the last plane, and Du Xinghe feels that it is not satisfactory, or that it is still unfinished, not to mention the novels of those eunuchs, and some animated comics, which make people unable to see the real ending. The most famous of these is "Slam Dunk", after the national competition, what will Sakuragi's future be? Inoue Yuhiko has never given an explanation, nor has he drawn a sequel.
At this time, thinking of asking the playwright of this plane to adapt the "Crazy Boy" series of movies, Du Xinghe suddenly thought that he could also ask the comic book author of this plane to continue to draw comics such as "Slam Dunk".
However, comics are not very popular in this plane in China, far less popular than in Japan, even on the island of Kyushu, which was colonized by China, comics are very popular.
Another point is that basketball in this plane is not very popular in China, and it is far less fanatical than people who like football. Even in the United States, basketball is not very influential, far less influential than football, baseball, ice hockey, and other sports that the locals enjoy.
Although the United States also has an NBA league in this plane, the league has not created a true god like Jordan, and its influence is very limited.
After Du Xinghe thought of "Slam Dunk", he immediately shook his head, he didn't work hard to draw the comics, not only is he tired of drawing, but he is tired of adapting, and the audience is still very small. Waiting for the future cloud world's business to expand to Kyushu and other places, he is providing ideas for local manga artists to draw.
"Hah...... ...... owed"
It was already half past seven in the morning, and the sunlight was shining into the office. Du Xinghe stayed up all night, got up and yawned and stretched.
After moving his muscles, he reopened the sketches of the three storyboard scripts he had drawn.
These three sketches look rough now, but they are a script that gathers the successful wisdom crystallization of the previous plane, and it will definitely be able to roll up a storm of old boys in this plane.
Du Xinghe can't let his labor succeed in vain, now that the painting has been made, he must shoot all three films.
This series has been tested by the market in the previous plane and has been very successful, in this plane, as long as you find a director who has strong control over the scene, and reshoot the shots on the storyboard script one by one, there is a great possibility that the success of the previous plane can be replicated.
In fact, to make this kind of commercial film, the requirements for the director are not high, and the director of a commercial film of this plane can be qualified for this task casually, but the only thing that is difficult is casting.
When Du Xinghe drew the storyboard script before, he sighed that the actors in the previous plane played all the characters in the series alive, especially those villains, who were even more showy than decent! Like Liangkun and Crow, it is quite difficult to think of a completely vivid reproduction in this plane.
However, in this well-developed film industry, there is no shortage of special actors. In terms of the number of actors alone, the number of actors in this plane is more than ten times more than that of the previous plane, and as long as you are willing to take the time, you will definitely be able to choose the right one from so many actors.
Du Xinghe didn't think much about it for a while, locked the storyboard script in a drawer, stretched again, and then went to the company's bathroom to wash up.
Back in the office, he saw Roland's backpack.
I don't know what happened to the half-breed.
Thinking of the tragic appearance of Roland fainting last night, Du Xinghe couldn't help but be a little worried, this half-breed was the core of his team to form the Yama King combination.
If she has any mistakes, the strength of the Yama King combination will drop by a big notch.
Looking at the time, Du Xinghe decided to go out for breakfast, and then go directly to the hospital to visit Roland's condition. (To be continued......)