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In the early 1990s, Andy Lau founded his own film company, Tianmu. Up to 2003, a total of 15 films have been produced, although there are not many blockbuster movies, but the style and theme of "Tianmu Works" are relatively unique in the Hong Kong film industry at that time. Such as the "anti-jianghu genre movie" released in 1992, "The True and False Weilong of the Machine Boy Boy" (also known as "The Prince of the Dragon God"), is one of them.
Since the advent of Wu Yusen's "The True Colors of Heroes" in 1986, the Hong Kong film industry at that time has blown up a wave of "jianghu hero movies", and since then, a large number of similar works have come out one after another, not to mention, for a time Andy Lau has received jianghu film contracts such as "Hero Good Man", "Jianghu Love", "Fighting jianghu again", "Impact tianzi protégé" and "Dragon Teng's Four Seas". The above works, without exception, are all based on the value of beautifying and praising "jianghu characters".
In order to break people's blind yearning for "jianghu" and avoid letting young people go astray because of movies, Andy Lau, who has always had a sense of social responsibility, hopes to make a comedic deconstruction, ridicule and ridicule of the prevailing jianghu film trend at that time through this "True and False Weilong".
The story tells that when the leader of the society, Baye (Liu Zhenwei), on his deathbed, orders his subordinates Seven and a Half (Wu Mengda) and Xiao Zhong (Aaron Kwok) to find the righteous son Jiuwenlong (Andy Lau) to take his place.
However, the real Nine-Striped Dragon was taken away by security for damaging public facilities at the airport, and his passport was picked up by ah hua (Andy Lau), who looked exactly like it, making everyone mistakenly think that ah hua was a nine-striped dragon.
However, Ah Hua's intelligence only stays in the child stage, and his daily greedy behavior not only breaks and changes the internal operating order of the society, but also Tries to use him against his nemesis Xiao Tian (Pan Hongbin), the daughter of Long Ye (Yuan Heping).
However, in the later process of getting along, she gradually fell in love with Ah Hua's innocence and kindness, and finally Shizune and Seven Halves under the leadership of Ah Hua finally eradicated the scum Officia Filial Piety in one fell swoop, and also helped the police solve a big problem.
In the past jianghu films, the protagonist is either saddled with a deep hatred of the blood sea, or he is bent on seizing the position of "office worker". But Ah Hua in "True and False Weilong" not only has no tainted heart, but his greatest pleasure is to buy clothes, play electric, and even look in the mirror after doing something wrong, "You are a bad person". It can be seen that Andy Lau hopes to subvert all his previous jianghu hero images through this role.
The comedic shaping of "Ah Hua" has also laid the narrative atmosphere of the whole film to be relaxed, funny and entertaining: many of the jokes in the film are produced around the ridicule and opening up of the common elements of traditional jianghu films, such as the "family law" and "sub-territory" of the community, which have become a family-like game here.
The big battle with the evil man Xiaotian at the end of the film is no longer blood and fire splashes, but uses iron barrels, seesaws, basketballs, dolphin vaporets and other props to further dissolve the audience's habitual impression of jianghu films through a way that makes people laugh.
At the time of filming "True and False Weilong", it was also when Wu Yusen's hero films swept the film industry, and as the "mainstream" in the Hong Kong-style jianghu films at that time, it naturally became one of the materials for the spoof and ridicule of this film. Like Wu Mengda wearing a trench coat in the air to catch a pistol after a turn of shooting slow motion is a typical Wu-style shooting method, in Wu Yusen's movie this is almost bulletless, but in "True and False Weilong", the result is a shot missed as a funny ending, it seems to criticize the flashy design of fancy gun battle action design.
The most special thing about this film is that Andy Lau single-handedly played the two roles of Ah Hua and Nine Dragons. Although Ah Hua is mentally incomplete, his personality is simple and kind, which is very pleasing, and the nine-striped dragon, which represents the traditional jianghu characters, has been shaped into an ugly and ridiculous dwarf image, and its irony is naturally self-evident.
In essence, the "jianghu film genre" is just a cloak of this film, a simple situation setting, the core of which is the "comic hero" route full of innocence, and the final foothold still returns to the theme of "evil does not suppress the right". At that time, the Hong Kong film industry was best at mastering this kind of anti-genre comedy was Chen Jiashang, who had made "Truant Weilong", no wonder Andy Lau asked him to direct and write this "True and False Weilong".
However, the final box office performance of this film released in Hong Kong that year was not outstanding, ranking only 22nd in the 1992 Hong Kong film box office list, but from today's point of view, the "Tianmu" company was able to shoot such a shabu comedy that was completely contrary to the so-called "mainstream jianghu film" under the environment of the Hong Kong film industry at that time.
When the "anti-jianghu film" trend rose again, it began in 1996, when the "Ancient Puzzle Boy" series was born. At that time, many viewers accused and criticized the series for playing a great negative role, and there was a suspicion of teaching bad children, so directors such as Zha Chuanyi and Ip Wai Shin made "Mong Kok Fit People", "Go Roll Fit People Corps", "Mong Kok Storm" and other superficially seemed to be the continuation of the theme of "Ancient Puzzle Boy", but in fact, they were works with "educational significance" to reflect on the film phenomenon at that time.
The original intention of these films is the same as the purpose of the shooting of "True and False Weilong", although the latter failed to lead the anti-jianghu film atmosphere at that time, but whether it is "Mong Kok Rolling Fit People" or 2010's "Flying Sand Wind Transit", etc., they have chosen to use the comedy techniques that have been used as early as "True and False Weilong" as "anti-genre", which is enough to show that the vision of Andy Lau and Chen Jiashang is unique and prescient. #Headlines Film & TV Archives # #头条观影指南 #
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