As we all know, the films made by the famous Hong Kong director Du Qifeng have always had a unique style and charm, and there are many classic masterpieces. Many film emperors are also from films directed by Du Qifeng, the most representative of which is the movie "Dark War" starring Andy Lau, which is also the first film emperor obtained by Andy Lau since the film.
A few days ago I revisited the 1998 film "Gunfire" directed by Du Qifeng, more than twenty years of time I have also experienced a variety of life, with my own growth and the continuous accumulation of knowledge of the film plot over the years compared to the first time I watched the film has a deeper understanding, but also can't help but sigh in that "gun forest" police film in the era of the road, this movie is so unique, the actors' superb acting skills can be described as gods, Let me talk about another aspect of the film's understanding of the second brush.
Accustomed to the style of Hong Kong police films and gangster movies of that era, so the feeling of watching "Gunfire" for the first time is always a little strange, especially the second half of the movie, because it was only with the eyes of the traditional model at that time, so I did not pay attention to some details of the movie, and the second half can be said to be a bit incomprehensible! If I had been asked to score at that time, I would have only been a pass.
This revisit more than two decades later has subverted my view of the film to some extent, and the details hidden in the plot and the lines in the mouths of the actors have sublimated the status of the film in my heart more than one notch. In order to prove this point, after watching it, I searched the Internet for the in-depth analysis of the movie by the gods, and sure enough! While acknowledging some of my points, the shaping of some characters made me think about it, especially the so-called "inner ghost".
For the "inner ghost" online circulating a variety of statements, netizens are also arguing endlessly, that "Amice" is the "inner ghost" speculation is the most, but there are also some netizens for him to whitewash another part of the "inner ghost" theory crowd, comprehensive netizens thrown out the evidence combined with my own point of view I still more recognize the "inner ghost" theory, of course! I must also give the conditions and evidence for the details that underpin the "inner ghost" theory.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the main characters in the movie:</h1>
Wen Ge (Gao Xiong): The boss of the society, on the surface, he looks like an old man without a shelf or even a little kind, willing to make coffee for the bodyguard and willing to give 10,000 yuan to the former bodyguard who has betrayed him, but in essence, he is a fierce character who is very good at winning people's hearts and minds in the city government.
Anan (Ren Dahua): Brother Wen's younger brother, the second leader of the society, above ten thousand people under one person, arrogant and fierce, even a little paranoid, but loyal to his brother.
Ah Ghost (Huang Qiusheng): A senior figure in the society, the leader of the five-person bodyguard team, with a very high iq, seemingly not good at words but also vicious.
Mike (Zhang Yaoyang): The original parking brother pimp, one of the five bodyguards, the actual status of the community is difficult to guess, not afraid of danger, sharpshooter.
Ah Fei (Lin Xue): A senior figure in the community, one of the five bodyguards, it seems that there are some high-minded substances and heavy feelings, and the IQ is quite high and has a certain degree of observation, and the firearms expert.
Ah Lai (Wu Zhenyu): One of the five bodyguards, the top figure who has just debuted in the society, relatively reckless but amazingly observant, runs a bar business on weekdays, and is very affectionate.
Ah Xin (Lu Songxian): Ah Lai's subordinate, one of the five bodyguards, a young newcomer who has just debuted, and he has not been deeply tempted to get involved in the world.
Ah Jiu (Zhang Zhiping): Anan's henchman and a professional killer in the community.
Uncle Xiang (Wang Tianlin): The predecessor of the society and one of the founders of the society, he runs the "Obi Restaurant" on weekdays.
Sister-in-law (played by Shi Qilian): Wen Ge's wife, yang hua with a watery personality likes to hook up with small fresh meat.
Synopsis: The boss of the society, "Vincent", is hunted down by unknown killers in the Obi Restaurant, and at the critical moment, Vengo calls his brother "Anan" to come to help. After escaping from the danger, Wen Ge pointed out that five members such as the former backbone member of the society, "Ah Ghost", were called his personal bodyguards, on the other hand, Anand was also actively looking for the mastermind behind the killing of Wen Ge. The five bodyguards each have their own specialties and successfully complete the task after several rounds of confrontation with the killer and find out the mastermind, but just when the five people are celebrating and preparing to break up, an unexpected incident suddenly occurs...
Here are some of my dissections of the film, focusing on the relationship between the characters and Amike's "inner ghost" theory.
Throughout the movie, there is no single shot and a line to show the evil side of the community boss "Brother Wen", but let the audience feel that he is just a relatively kind old man and this is how I felt when I watched it for the first time, making coffee for my subordinates and giving money to the former bodyguard who betrayed himself can intuitively reflect that "Brother Wen" is a sentient boss, but in the second brush I felt his dark side, mainly in two scenes.
First of all, when several elders of the society held a meeting in the hotel, it can be seen from the film that everyone has different degrees of dissatisfaction with "Brother Wen", but he is the boss and did not have a seizure, and the killer is one of the elders, "Uncle Xiang", who spent a lot of money to assassinate "Brother Wen", speculating that he sold shares not to lose money in Macau but to buy murder. Imagine! If "Brother Wen" is as kind as shown in the movie, how can it attract so many people to be dissatisfied with him and even spend a lot of money to kill him.
Second, the act of giving money to the former bodyguard at the elevator entrance reflects his "old treacherous giant". At that time, the five bodyguards were all around him and the strength of the move of "Brother Wen" was a manifestation of buying people's hearts, he was made for the five bodyguards around him, and its purpose was obvious, to win people's hearts and make the five bodyguards willing to fight for him.
Interpersonal relationships: From the first time the five people met in the office, it can be seen that "Ah Ghost" and "Ah Fei" are former backbone members of the community and have long known each other "Ah Ghost" has a higher status, while "Ah Lai" and "Ah Xin" they do not know each other, and the last appearance is "Amike" and he is just embarrassed to make a smoking action, others have not paid attention, thus judging that "Amike" is an independent individual, no one knows him.
When "Anand" took the five of them to the office to meet "Brother Wen", there was a detail here, that is, the order in which "Brother Wen" shook hands with the five people. In a special organization such as a society, the order in which the general boss shakes hands with his subordinates is also an invisibly hierarchical division. The first handshake is "A ghost", which also fully explains the status of "A ghost", but what is more unexpected is that the second handshake is "Amike" who no one knows before it is the turn of "Ah Fei" The other two are unknown to the newcomer "Wen Ge". As mentioned earlier, "Ah Fei" is also a senior figure in the community, and one thing is certain that "Wen Ge" knows "Amike", so I assume that "Amike" has a very high status in the community but is limited to a single-line connection with "Wen Ge", and the hidden is deeper than that "Ah Ghost" does not know him, as to why "Amike" has become a parking brother, the possibility is open and does not speculate in detail here. At the beginning of the deployment, "Amike" also put on the bulletproof suit for "Wen Ge", which also confirmed his importance to a certain extent and the trust of "Wen Ge" in him.
At first, there was no complete trust between the five people, as can be seen from the first gun battle, the "Wen Ge" in the alley was suddenly shot, when the "Ah Ghost" made the correct deployment as the leader, except for the "Ah Fei" the rest were like a scattered sand without tacit understanding, "A Xin" ran out in order to find out the location of the sniper, "Amike" rushed up under the cover of the advertising cloth to shoot with the sniper, and "Ah Lai" did not listen to "Ah Ghost" at all. The commander, who was already able to retreat, ran out to chase the second killer who was ambushed in the corner.
The second shootout comes from inside the mall and is the most classic climactic part of the film. Due to the background of the previous part of the plot, the five people have trusted each other at this time, so the cooperation is quite tacit and "Amike" also fully reflects the calm and patience of the sharpshooter, and single-handedly seals all the firepower on the escalator in the case of inferior terrain. Except for the number one killer, Cangchao, who escaped, the rest of the others were all killed, and this battle also fully demonstrated the importance of teamwork.
The third gun battle takes place in the abandoned building, the five people follow a killer to their nest, at first the five people are in the terrain can only be hidden by the grass, but with tacit cooperation, "Ah Ghost" and "Alai" quietly enter the building and kill the killer, leaving only a living mouth, at this time the other three have been in the grass to attract each other's fire to free up the opportunity. At this time, "Amice" held a four-point pistol and the last killer to shoot each other until the killer's ammunition ran out, during which both of them did not even hide the bullets, you can intuitively see how awesome "Amice" is, when "Amice" enters the building and smiles with the killer, a little sympathetic feeling, this is the duel between the masters!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > important part of the sister-in-law's cheating and inner ghost. </h1>
Question 1: How did Anan know about his sister-in-law's cheating?
First of all, on the second day after "Brother Wen" was hunted down, the eldest sister-in-law was ready to go out, which fully showed that the sister-in-law had long since lost feelings for "Brother Wen" and was indifferent to his assassination. And "Anan" ordered his subordinates to send someone to protect her after the sister-in-law left, which shows that even if the person sent does not ride in a car with the sister-in-law, he will definitely be monitored not far away, if it is the latter, the sister-in-law will not know that it is protected and found that the sister-in-law cheated may just be an accident, because the person is the subordinate sent by "Anan" to reveal the secret that was inadvertently discovered to "Anan" Is absolutely reasonable. There is a very important detail here that I did not notice at all when I watched it for the first time, that is, the cigarette smoked by "Anand" was "buried" around 50 minutes of the movie, and this smoke was only "A-Shin", the first time was when "A ghost" was deliberately tricked, and the second time was "Anan". The film does not explain how "Anan" can have "A-Shin" cigarettes, which leads to another question.
Question 2: How did the smoke from the "Ashin" mine get into the hands of "Anan"?
This "mine-laying" incident must be inextricably linked to the discovery of the sister-in-law's cheating, and it is also the most critical factor in solving the mystery of the sister-in-law's cheating.
Here I first give a condition, only five people know that "A-Xin" has this kind of cigarette, and "Anan" was struck by lightning when all five people were present and looked in the eyes, so I came to a conclusion, at that time, all five people knew that "Anan" smoked "A-Shin" cigarettes, but at that time, the camera only gave the expressions of three people "Alai" and "Amike" first startled and then "Amice" smiled, and when the camera turned to "A-Shin", he was also a sullen expression. The reason why the camera did not give "A ghost" and "Ah Fei" here I make a bold hypothesis, with the experience of the two of them at this time they have been aware, but the specific how "Ah Fei" may be more aware than "Ah Ghost", later I will give evidence of belief, but one thing is certain that "Anan" smoked a cigarette of "A Xin", as for how to get to his hand There are only two possibilities either he personally got it and the probability is that someone handed it over to him, but when will it encounter a "lightning strike" It is not artificially controllable, it is impossible to be so accurate, so it can only be said to be accidental. Anyway, "Anan" will eventually smoke that cigarette, so I believe that someone gave him his purpose is nothing more than to convey some kind of information, but I mentioned earlier that only "A Xin" has this kind of smoke and only knows that there are five bodyguards, so "Anan" is actually not aware, here I make another guess, in fact, when someone handed over the cigarette of "A Xin" to "Anan", he also told that the cigarette belonged to "A Xin", and it can also be concluded that someone wants to frame "A Xin" and that person is one of the five-person bodyguard group. Of course! At this time, it does not matter whether the smoke is "A Xin" or not, it may also be deliberately made according to the way of "A Xin", but the purpose has been achieved.
Question 3: How did "Alai" know that "A-Shin" might be cheating, and who would be the whistleblower?
Although the film does not directly confess to Bai, it is clear that only his boss "Ah Lai" knows that "Ah Xin" has a leg with his sister-in-law, except for himself. Here I throw out two pieces of evidence to support this view. First, at the beginning, "Alai" was responsible for picking up and dropping off the sister-in-law, and when he came back, he directly told "A-Xin" that you would be responsible for picking up the sister-in-law in the future, so there must be a reason why "Alai" did this. In the second half of the movie, when the cheating matter was exposed, "Alai" said that the sister-in-law had seduced me, so it was obvious that "Alai" gave the sister-in-law the purpose of picking up the sister-in-law to "A Xin".
Second, the day of the derailment rained heavily, and they came back an hour later than usual, "A Xin" came back to give the explanation that the car broke down just when the mobile phone was out of power, this reason seems to be very reasonable but careful "A Lai" found some doubts, first of all, he knew that the sister-in-law was a watery Yanghua woman, so when "A Xin" took off his shirt, "A Lai" had a move of looking down at the window, he was observing whether anyone was following them, and the shirt that "A Xin" took off was also in "A Lai" In front of him, he asked "Ashin" to take a shower and threw the shirt in front of him back to "Ashin" This seemingly natural action is not simple, I am sure that at this time " Ah Lai" already knows that "Ashin" and the sister-in-law must be in trouble and observes some traces from the shirt before doing so. Some netizens on the Internet have said that it may be traces of bodily fluids or the like, but I don't think so, because after I looked back many times, I also found that it was a water stain on my shirt. As shown in the figure ↓
It is not surprising that the clothes were wet after "Ah Xin" returned from sending his sister-in-law in heavy rain that day, but the suspicious point was in the wet part of "Ah Xin" shirt. From the picture, you can clearly see that "A Xin" above the waist and the back part of the sleeve is dry and closest to "Alai", this subtle link is already known to "Alai", so he will look down at the window next.
Here I would like to express my understanding of the unhurried parts of the shirt. On such a rainy day, the shirt that is exposed outside according to common sense should be all wet, and the part that is not wet is only the part that may be tied in the pants below the waist, but the picture shows that the dry part is exposed, and there is only one explanation that the pants have been re-tied, which has nothing to do with the car breaking down, so it is obvious that the derailment was discovered by "Alai", which is the reason why "Alai" threw the clothes to "Axin", and could not let others find out. You must know that the other two in this room are not generalists. However, at that time, the "A ghost" was not present, but there was a person present that was the nanny, as the sister-in-law's personal nanny is somewhat aware of the sister-in-law's personality, don't look at her just look back twice, but from the "A letter" to send the sister-in-law back until he went to take a bath The whole process and dialogue She can observe it clearly, so the nanny is also suspicious but for the time being, let it go first because betraying the sister-in-law is not good for her and may lose her job, from the motive and purpose of the point of view, it seems to be somewhat contradictory. The other two present were "Ah Fei" and "Amike" and the babysitter, although neither of them had any change in expression but the whole process they knew, at this time "Ah Fei" sat in the distance eating peanuts and "Amike" had been reading the newspaper, but compared to "Ah Fei" reading the newspaper, "Amike" was closer to "A Xin". Of course, compared to the nanny, the two of them did not know much about the personality of the sister-in-law, and they did not pick up the sister-in-law like "Alai". But there is one person who has a clear motive and that is "Amice". It was mentioned earlier that he was a hidden figure and "Wen Ge" had a one-line connection, so his status in the society was certainly not low, but before receiving the bodyguard task, he had become a parking boy, and when "Kaizi" gave him money, his expression was elusive. So as to whether it is a "mike" tip, leave an Easter egg here.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > uses various scenes in the movie as clues to rule out the suspicion of relevant personnel:</h1>
"Alai" and "A-Xin": As a party, "A-Xin" will certainly not shake out his own ugly deeds and "A-Lai", as the boss of "A-Shin", cannot betray him, otherwise there is no need to throw his shirt to "A-Shin" to destroy the evidence, as for "A-Nan" encountering a "lightning strike" at the elevator entrance, he estimates that it may be who deliberately rectified the pranks of "Anan", and the person with the character of "Anan" was taken for granted, so at that time, "Alai" and "A-Xin" did not think much about other aspects.
"Ah Ghost": When "Ah Xin" returned from sending his sister-in-law, "Ah Ghost" was not present at this time, so he did not know it, but at the moment of the elevator entrance, it may have also caused some suspicions about him, but it was not revealed. Also, at first, "Ah Lai" was irritable about the troublemaker in the bar, and did not put more thought into protecting "Brother Wen", just wanted to end the matter quickly, but when "Ah Ghost" learned about it, he first found out the troublemaker "Mouse" and killed him with his own hands! The purpose is to let "Alai" concentrate on doing a good job as a bodyguard. Other than that! In the end, it was "Ah Ghost" who let go of "Ah Xin" through careful deployment.
"Ah Fei": At first, "Ah Fei" looked down on "Ah Xin" as a newcomer and did not look at him at all, but when he experienced repeated tribulations, he established a deep friendship between the two and even wanted to go to "Wen Ge" to intercede and let "Ah Xin" live at the last moment. There are also details here, "Ah Fei", who has always been taciturn, actually practiced the words when he encountered "Wen Ge" intercede on the taxi that went to intercede, and he also gave other people a message at the first time, promising "Ah Ghost" to prepare a special pistol but did not know that "Ah Ghost" had another layout to change a gun, so he was anxious to find "Brother Wen". Finally, when "Ah Ghost" threw him the empty bomb, he showed a proud smile, so.
"Amice": As one of the most controversial topics in the online ghost theory, of course, the most important thing to support is to have evidence to support. The following is my evidence theory ↓
Evidence 1: At the beginning of this article, I mentioned that "Amike" is not low in the community and belongs to a single line of contact with "Wen Ge", and even the most senior elder figures "Ah Ghost" and "Ah Fei" do not know the existence of this person. Because two of the five bodyguards are unfamiliar to "Brother Wen", letting "Mike" join is his ability on the one hand "Brother Wen" to know, on the other hand, to observe the loyalty of the two newcomers, of course! The intention was not to check the sister-in-law's cheating incident, it was just an accident!
Evidence 2: At the beginning of the movie, "Mike" appeared as a parking brother, when Kaizi gave him a tip, his expression and heart were complicated, how could he be willing to be a parking brother with his ability, so I assume that something happened to him when he was doing things for "Wen Ge" when he was in the society, which caused this fate, and the expression of "Mike" when he took Kaizi's tip was obviously very dissatisfied with the current life, and he still had desire.
Evidence 3: He was present when "Ah Xin" sent his sister-in-law back, and although he was reading the newspaper, he knew the whole process, but at that time he could only be suspicious.
Evidence 4: This is very important, that is, when the mission is over, "Amike" mentions that he will follow "Alai", but everyone who has seen the movie knows that "A-Shin" is the first leader of "Alai" and "Amike" must take action to get into the position, but it is not necessary to kill "A-Shin" as long as he leaves the society, he has achieved his goal, and the sister-in-law's cheating is just a godsend.
Evidence 5: When the matter was revealed, "Alai" asked "Amike" to help "Amike" contact the ship to run, and in the movie, "Amike" raised his gun three times without pulling the trigger, which seemed to be brotherhood on the surface, but was this really the case? It is undeniable that brotherhood is actually still there, but don't forget that the matter of running is "Alai" instructed "Amike" to do it, in the car "Amice" once said that "I didn't expect to help Brother come to do the first thing is to help you run" That is to say, at this time " Amice" has already followed "Alai" If you shoot and kill "A-Shin", you can't explain it to "Alai", let alone whether you can follow "Alai" in the future, so "Amice" is very rational to do so. Another point is that "Amike" is well aware of the community's way of doing things, letting go of "A Xin" has no good end for the other four people, and he himself mentioned in the movie that "A Lai" alone cannot save them, so he chose to let "A Xin" personally go back to face them.
Evidence 6: It is very likely that the cigarette that was buried was given to "Anan" by "Amike", and in the case of excluding the other four people, only "Amice" knew that "A-Xin" had this kind of smoke, and it is also very likely that he made his own homemade according to the "Ashin" method, and it does not matter whether it is "A-Xin" or not, the main purpose is to transmit information.
Corroboration 1: When the sister-in-law said that she was going out the day after the assassination of "Brother Wen", at this time "Anan" ordered his subordinates to secretly protect the sister-in-law, to know that at this time, "Brother Wen" did not let "Anan" go to find "A ghost" them, and it was also to protect "Brother Wen" and not the sister-in-law, so in fact, the sister-in-law has always been secretly protecting and monitoring, and this person is most likely "A-Nine", a confidant of "Anan".
Corroboration 2: This is a very easy to ignore the details, when "A Letter" sent the sister-in-law back home at this time the car stopped at the door and the sister-in-law is opening the door, then the car's wipers are still swinging and behind them they have not moved the car, the car can not be parked at the gate, that is, the follow-up will be someone will drive the car to the special parking area, but the camera did not account can only rely on guesses, I think this person is most likely to find the sister-in-law's derailment behavior "A nine". Of course! "A-Shin" is not a fool, and will not leave such obvious evidence in the car after staying in the back seat, so this also supports my speculation that the mine-laying smoke smoked by "Anan" is the masterpiece of "Amice".
Comprehensive conclusion: On the same day, "Ah Jiu" inadvertently discovered that the sister-in-law was cheating in the process of secretly protecting the sister-in-law, so he informed his confidant "Anan" instead of telling "Brother Wen" directly, but the shrewd "Amike" found that there was an abnormality in "Alai" and he also found that he did not show it because he was already plotting in his heart how to get rid of "A xin" to get himself into the position, so he made his own "A xin" cigarette, whether it was deliberately put into the car or directly handed over to "Anan" when others were not paying attention The total human evidence is all there, and there is only one consequence, that is, after the matter is revealed, "Ashin" can no longer gain a foothold in the community.
At the end of the movie, "Amike" knows that the black pistol that shot "Ashin" was manipulated by "Ah Fei", and the scheming "Ah Ghost" has already seen everything, so he deliberately changed a silver pistol for two purposes. First, the drama is shown to "Ah Jiu", who has been watching outside the hotel. Second, the play was shown to "Amike", so when the shooting was fired, "Ah Jiu" did not enter the hotel for autopsy because he knew that there was his own person inside.
After shooting "A-Xin", "Amike" did not go to the autopsy but behaved quite calmly, which is a good explanation for the reason why "Amice" did so much, he just wanted to get rid of "A-Shin" As for whether he died or ran away, it was no longer important, in short, the purpose had been achieved, and finally "A Ghost" threw the empty package bomb to "Ah Fei" instead of "Amice" to a certain extent to support this view.
Written in the end: In that year, the box office performance of this movie was not very good, I think the main reason is that most people watch the film from the same angle as I do, just as an ordinary gangster gunfight film, and will not pay attention to the details of the film and the depth of the connotation brought by the movie, and after watching the movie, it will not be recalled at all, and it can only be said that such a movie in that era was too avant-garde. In fact, in just 84 minutes of the film, director Du Qifeng brought us too many things, the plot is very full and the starring actors are superb acting, even a simple portrayal between the eyebrows has its special meaning.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the final tribute to the actor "Wu Zhenyu" who won the film with the film. </h1>