In the 1990s, Hong Kong's genre films were endless: action movies, gunfight movies, comedies, horror movies... This is the most glorious era of Hong Kong cinema! At the same time, a large number of outstanding actors also stood out: Jackie Chan, Zhou Runfa, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Guorong, Maggie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Lin Zhengying... However, in these genre films, the director led by Wang Jing has created a precedent for another type of film - gambling film!
When it comes to gambling films, the first thing that comes to mind in most of us is Chow Yun-fat's "God of Gamblers", Chow Sing Chi, and Andy Lau's "Gambler". If you think about it again, Zhou Xingchi's "Gamble Saint", "King of a Thousand Kings", "Shanghai Beach Gamble Saint" and so on can also pull us into memory.
However, what I share with you today is a Korean gambling film - "Lao Qian"!
"Lao Qian" is a Korean crime film based on the comic of the same name created by Heo Young-wan and Kim Se-young, directed by Choi Dong-hoon and starring Cho Seung-woo, Kim Hye-so, Baek Yoon-sik, Lee So-kyung, Kim Yoon-seok and others. The film was released in South Korea on September 28, 2006, and after its release, it topped the box office for two consecutive weeks. Major Awards: Best Actress at the 27th Korea Film Blue Dragon Awards, Best Film Award in the Film Category at the 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards, Best Director Award in the Film Category at the 43rd Baeksang Arts Awards.
Gao Ni (Cao Chengyou), who works in a furniture factory, has a low salary and is very hard, and lives every day in a muddy nightmare. One day, he discovers a group of people gambling in the factory, and curiosity drives him to look around. Because he couldn't control himself, he joined the gambling game. But unfortunately, he lost all his money. Very frustrated and unwilling, he returned home, but happened to usher in his sister who had joined their family. His sister took a large number of pensions, and after several ideological struggles, Gonny still could not resist the temptation of gambling, so he stole his sister's pension and continued to gamble. As a result, it lost again!
Later, he found out that the other party had lost because of the old man. So, he went to the other side to theorize. Just at this time, he meets another old master, Ping Jingchang (Bai Runzhi), and Gao Ni follows closely and painstakingly finally lets PingJingchang accept him as an apprentice. After several years of study, Gonny finally mastered the Thousand Arts, so PingJingchang took him around to participate in a gambling game with one.
Gao Ni's original intention was to win back the money he lost, but he did not expect that his desire was increasing, and after several persuasions from master Pingjing and still did not turn back, the two broke off the master-apprentice relationship. At this time, Gao Ni met another beautiful female boss who was out of thousands of times, Boss Zheng (Played by Kim Hye-so). The two join forces to participate in one gambling game after another, and later Gao Ni learns that the master may be another master of thousands of arts, "Old Ghost (Kim Yoon Seok)", so he asks Boss Zheng to form a life and death game...
1. Cartoon Lover's Affair
This adaptation of the comic of the same name by Heo Young-wan and Kim Se-young was handed over to director Choi Dong-hoon for the first time, and he refused. He doesn't think the story is bad, but he thinks that the story is too good to be able to control himself. You know, before Choi Dong-hoon only directed one film "Crime Re-Composition" (starring Park Shin-yang and Yan Jeong-hwa). But at the insistence of the original author, Choi Dong-hoon finally made the second film of his life.
2. The actor's acting skills explode
The male protagonist Cao Chengyou interprets a confused teenager into three points, especially the portrayal of his psychological activities is textbook-level. However, the two old masters played by the supporting characters Bai Yunshi and Kim Yoon-seok are also particularly brilliant, the two are one good and one evil, one hot and one cold. Mr. Ping, played by Bai Yunshi, although serious and serious, is also ancient and hot-hearted; and the "old ghost" played by Kim Yoon-seok has a cruel heart, an obscene look and a chattering laugh, which makes people shudder!
It is important to mention that boss Jeong plays Kim Hye-so, kim hye-so, as a veteran Korean actress, has always been known for her bold and avant-garde filming. But for so many years has been an actress with zero scandals and zero scandals. In the film, the boss lady she plays is charming, proud and conceited, has both a ruthless heart to achieve the goal, and a determination to go to the soup for love... A complex, tangled, multi-personality boss lady is brought in by her brilliant interpretation!
3. Hands are faster than eyes
The gambling techniques in "Lao Qian" are different from those in Hong Kong's "Gamblers" and "Gamble Saints". "Old Thousand" pays more attention to a fast word in the interpretation of gambling techniques - the hand is faster than the eye! This is fundamentally different from Zhou Runfa's exaggerated styling and exaggerated shuffling technique in "God of Gamblers", as well as Chow Sing Chi's special functions in "Gamblers".
Gonny lost money at the beginning because he didn't see the other side out of the thousands. Later, when I studied with Mr. Ping, I also practiced a hand fast, so fast that I changed my cards and hid the cards at all. Like the film's several masters Mr. Ping, the old ghost, and the left ear are all because of the fastness of a thousand techniques. This gorgeous card changing and stealing technique is very tense and exciting.
Since it is a gambling film, there has never been a fair duel in the gambling in the film. At the beginning, Gonny lost because he did not see that the other side was out of the thousand. Later, after Gao Ni learned the art, it was all Lao Qian who fought against him, and everyone fought whose thousand skills were higher and whose hands were faster. The so-called mountain is higher than a mountain! The winning side may not be able to sit back and relax, and the losing side must pay a terrible price.
Will such a game be won? As a xiaobai who does not understand a thousand techniques, he is even more turned around by the old thousand doors, and the poor level of the old thousands is abused by the high level... After game after gamble, everyone loses!
Speaking of the male protagonist, from the first glance at the card table, his life has already lost! First I lost the money on my body, then I stole my sister's pension and then lost it; then I learned from my teacher, and after learning it, I won back my own money and didn't know how to end it... In the end, win the crucial gamble and run away with the money after nine deaths. As a result, it was attacked on the train, and all the money drifted into the wind...
There are no shortcuts on the road to success! The attempt to make a fortune through gambling is a stupid, absurd and unrealistic fantasy. The hand is faster than the eye is just a blindfold, and the real reason for losing nine out of ten is the endless desire of the human heart and the greed of human nature. Even if you become a god of gambling and a saint of gamblers?
As soon as you start gambling, you're already losing!