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So far, the box office of the film has exceeded 1.1 billion, although compared with the film itself, the performance of the box office is still slightly regrettable, but at least its appearance allows us to regain confidence in Hong Kong films.
On January 27, director Chen Musheng's last work before his death, "Fury Case" (hereinafter referred to as "Fury"), released a final version of the poster and trailer, which is scheduled to be released on July 30.
This is a very special film, the film was prepared in 2018, but on August 23, 2020, the film's director Chen Musheng died of nasopharyngeal cancer at the age of 58.
The sudden death of the director makes people worry about whether his unaired films will be affected, in fact, the film has been completed at the end of 2019, originally scheduled to be released in the summer of 2020, because of the epidemic, it has to be postponed.
It is undeniable that in today's police and gangster harbor films, a large part of the reason why "Fury" can be caused is that this film is the last work of director Chen Musheng, and the blessing of emotional points will make people more willing to pay for it.
But even if this label is abandoned, isn't Fury worth watching?
Not at all.
Just from the trailers and posters released so far, let's take a look at the 3 potentials for "Fury" to become a blockbuster:
First, the movie invited 2 big male protagonists, and Nicholas Tse did not hesitate to self-destruct his image to play a gangster.
From the perspective of the cast, "Fury" is still a big name as always, the two leading actors are Zhen Zidan, who cooperated with director Chen Musheng for the first time, and the other is Tse Ting-feng, a film emperor who has been away for 10 years and then made Hong Kong films.
Moreover, this film is not only the second cooperation between Director Chen and Nicholas Tse since 2011's "New Shaolin Temple", but also the reunion of Tse Tingfeng and Zhen Zidan after a 15-year absence from "Dragon and Tiger Gate" in 2006.
From this point of view, the lineup of this movie is really rare, after all, it is not easy to pull Nicholas Tse back from the food industry.
In the film, Zhen Zidan and Xie Tingfeng are on the opposite side of good and evil, Tse Tingfeng plays a negative role, the leader of the bandits, in the exposed trailer, he really does not care about his image at all.
With his long curly scruffy hair and slightly rounded face, he has a feeling of being both awkward and fierce and a little cute, which is quite different from his previous roles.
This time, Zhen Zidan most of the time is dressed in a straight suit, and he has a bit of leadership momentum when he converges on the edge.
In addition, the heroine of the film is our former White Moonlight Qin Lan, although the current scene has not revealed too much, but it is estimated that it should be a relative of Zhen Zidan.
It is said that "Fury" also invited Jackie Chan and Andy Lau to make a friendly cameo, but at present, their names do not appear in the cast list, if they really appear, it should be the surprise given to us by the film.
Second, the two male protagonists staged a desperate hand-to-hand fight, and Zhen Zidan called it "my best fashion action film at present".
Chen Musheng made a police film, and he didn't have to worry about the scenes being bad, after all, he was the director of Hong Kong's "Michael Bay" ("Explosion Shell").
The quality of the explosion scenes in the films he directs is absolutely guaranteed, in short, it is fried realistically and brilliantly.
In the finalized trailer, the explosion scene can be described as a big explosion continuously, from indoor explosion to outdoor, from building explosion to people, the power of the explosion is not the same, Xie Tingfeng threw the grenade behind the picture, all-round handsome, male god is the male god.
With so many big scenes, it's no wonder that the film's business card before filming started was "Firefight".
In addition, the slogan at the beginning of the film is "Before sunrise, either you die or I die".
Obviously, in addition to the explosion scene, the hand-to-hand combat scene of "Fury" is also indispensable, otherwise it would be meaningless to find Zhen Zidan to star and act as the action director of this film.
While the film was still filming, one of the leading actors, Zhen Zidan, said in Wei-Bo, "This is my best fashion action film", which shows that he must be very satisfied with the action scenes of this film.
As we all know, Zhen Zidan's action scenes have always belonged to the first echelon, and the early years of "Kill the Wolf" and "Fuse" have received good reputation.
What really shocked Zhen Zidan's reputation was the "Ip Man" series, and the word-of-mouth box office of the fashion action film "One Man's Martial Arts", "Special Identity" and "Master Brother" was not satisfactory.
Judging from the trailer, the movie's action scenes are clean and neat, both fist-to-flesh in close combat, as well as knives, guns, bombs, anyway, what is good to see, everything, just the trailer will see people's adrenaline soaring blood veins.
It is useless to say more, just come to a few GIFs to feel it.
If the play is really as Zhen Zidan said, then we may expect this movie to achieve the reputation of "Kill the Wolf 2", and the box office performance may also be able to reach a new high.
Third, a tribute to the classics, "Fury" vs. "Streets of Rage" and "New Cop Story."
Finally, let's talk about the plot of "Fury".
"Fury" was once named "Fury War", and later renamed "Fury Serious Case", it is said that director Chen Musheng paid tribute to his famous work "Stormtrooper Fury Street".
"Streets of Rage" believes that friends who like Hong Kong films have seen it no less than 3 times, which is one of the few Hong Kong movies that can compete with the action scenes of european and American gunfights at that time.
The scene is hot, the sense of rhythm is extremely strong, the layout of the literary drama is also excellent, the emotional rendering drives the development of the story, and each of the main characters in the stormtrooper has also made a kung fu portrayal, there is no deliberate Wei Guangzheng, but real and vivid.
It is precisely because of this that "Streets of Rage" made a splash at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards and received 9 nominations.
And this movie also allows director Chen Musheng to establish his own film style.
"I hadn't thought about it before STORMTROOPER Streets, but it was a pretty good development for me. At that time, I began to think about what kind of movieS I should make, not only for entertainment, but also from the perspective of humanity and style. ”
"Fury" is a police film that Chen Musheng is good at, which tells the story of the serious crime group that deploys a net to encircle and suppress international drug lords, suddenly kills a group of masked bandits "black eat black", and slaughters the police in cold blood.
Inspector Zhang Chongbang (Zhen Zidan) of the Serious Crimes Unit witnesses the killing of his comrades-in-arms and investigates deeply to find that the leader of the bandits is actually his former comrade-in-arms Qiu Gang'ao (Tse Ting-feng).
It turned out that Qiu Gang'ao had also been the rising star of the police force, and the person who pushed Qiu Gang'ao into the abyss of evil was Zhang Chongbang. Su ordered the two to entangle again, and how Zhang Chongbang made a decision on all grievances...
Judging from the film's introduction, "Fury" and the classic police film "New Police Story" have some similarities in mode.
It is a confrontation between good and evil, and some of the clips in the trailer can be found directly in the "New Police Story", such as the police officers in Zhen Zidan's group who were killed one by one.
The protagonists are also the original righteous side to turn their heads to be villains, and the role of Nicholas Tse is equivalent to the "Azu" played by Wu Yanzu.
However, given that Tse Tingfeng's character himself is originally an elite policeman and has a relationship with Zhen Zidan's mentor and friend, the complexity of the role is further than that of "Azu".
In this way, "Fury" will certainly not be a simple popcorn explosion movie.
Here we have to mention Chen Musheng's experience as a screenwriter in TVB in his early years, because of this experience, Chen Musheng paid more attention to the polishing of the script and the shaping of the character, and his police films will explain the growth of the villain.
For example, Azu in "New Police Story" was physically punished by the policeman's father since he was a child, so he embarked on the road of rebellion that hated the police;
There is also the tianyangsheng (Wu Jing) in "The True Colors of Boys", which is also because he has not eaten enough from childhood, and only by killing people can he fill his stomach, so he has developed a fierce personality.
And that year, Wu Yanzu won the Best Supporting Actor of the Golden Horse Award that year by virtue of the role of "Azu". It seems that there are still many plastic and playable parts of nicholas Tse's role.
In general, the action scenes and literary dramas of "Fury" should be guaranteed, so as not to live up to the "love" world that has always existed in Chen Musheng's films.
Director Chen Musheng's posthumous work, bright to the eye-opening lineup, strong production and gimmicks, it is no wonder that there will be netizen comments :
In memory of Director Chen, this film is officially listed as the most anticipated Hong Kong film, and looks forward to being released as soon as possible!
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