As a remake of "This Killer Is Not Calm", on the 9th, it has surpassed the box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" and become the highest-grossing film in the "Happy Twist" production film, completing this feat, almost relying on the power of "big match" Wei Xiang alone. Don't despise the remake, of course, except for "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", which is not a tiger but a dog. Sometimes, remakes don't shame you. The two-year drama "Westworld" is also a tribute to the classic, including the first two years of the drama version of "Ice Storm", which is the Coen brothers to pay tribute to the Coen brothers. The progress of the times and the progress of technology, both at home and abroad, technology can repair the deficiency, of course, in addition, high-level directors can make everything better.
Ghost in the Shell: Attention! Xu Ke is not a director
The 1987 version of "Qiannu Ghost" was produced by Xu Ke and directed by Cheng Xiaodong, and here really want to give Director Cheng Xiaodong a bang, because many people think that this movie is directed by Xu Ke, in fact, the "Qiannu Ghost" trilogy and "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" and "Oriental Undefeated" derivatives are all directed by Cheng Xiaodong, and as a native of ShouXian County, Anhui Province, the action director of the two "Journey to the West", "Shaolin Football", "Hero" and "Ten Faces Ambush" are all this grandfather. In addition to Zhang Guorong and Wang Zuxian's ghostly love, the role of Yan Chixia is definitely one of the peak roles in the career of Noon Horse. As one of the standard-bearers of the New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Xu Ke joined hands with Cheng Xiaodong to create a "Hong Kong blockbuster" with faster pace, cooler special effects, unconventional heroes, and even the tree spirits and grandmothers. The film has won the Special Jury Prize of the 16th French Science Fiction Film Festival, the Best Film Award of the Portuguese Science Fiction Film Festival, and the Best Adapted Screenplay of the 24th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. In 2011, the restored version of "Ghost of Qiannu" was released in Chinese mainland, and it still has an 8.8 score on Douban. Compared with a number, in 2019, the special effects of "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" and "The Wandering Earth" Douban scored 8.4 points and 7.9 points respectively.
The 1960 version of "The Ghost of Qiannu", produced by the Shaw brothers and directed by a generation of masters Li Hanxiang, in terms of the style and glory of that year, Zhao Lei and Letty's popularity is definitely not lost to Zhang Guorong and Wang Zuxian. Douban actually has a narration version of the movie ticket trailer, and the screenplay column impressively writes Pu Songling, although it has passed a nail, but with the level of Li Hanxiang, and the help of Hu Jinquan, who was the assistant director at the time, it does not sound as shocking as the combination of "Xu Ke + Cheng Xiaodong". Although there are time restrictions and the film has some stage drama flavor, the soundtrack and light and shadow tone of the film can still see director Li Hanxiang's own profound insight into traditional Chinese studies. The film was featured at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival in France and was the first Hong Kong colour film to participate in an international film festival.
New Dragon Gate Inn: Attention! Xu Ke is still not a director
The 1992 version of "New Dragon Gate Inn" was produced by Xu Ke and directed by Li Huimin, you read it right, this movie is still not directed by Xu Ke, director Xu Ke directed "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" as a director in 2011, it was a film with bad content but 3D technology, and honestly in 2009, after "Avatar" opened the first year of 3D movies, "Dragon Gate Flying Armor" may be one of the few movies that make you feel that wearing 3D eyes is worth it. Back to "New Dragon Gate Inn", Gansu Dunhuang location, Liang Jiahui and Lin Qingxia's love skills, Maggie Cheung's spicy boss lady, and later the big coffee Zhen Zidan was cut into a skeleton calf. Why do many people think that Xu Ke is the director so easily, because the film language of "New Dragon Gate Inn" is indeed very new and keeps pace with the times, and another important reason is that the martial finger of this film is Cheng Xiaodong, the director of "Qiannu Ghost".
"New Dragon Gate Inn" is adapted from Li Hanxiang, another Hong Kong film ace Hu Jinquan's 1967 "Dragon Gate Inn", Master Hu Jinquan does not need to introduce it, Hu Jinquan and Zhang Che two masters, like martial arts movies in their hearts should be lit up, it is Hu Jinquan set up the "martial arts director" this crew position, and the highest evaluation of Hu Jinquan's "Dragon Gate Inn" may be that it is against the system of American western films. Although the methods of fighting, killing and killing have evolved, it does not affect the status of the founder of Hu Jinquan's martial arts films. The continued inheritance of Hong Kong films has also made the updated "New Dragon Gate Inn" known as the starting point of Hong Kong's new martial arts. In fact, I think that in addition to the action and scenery, the feelings in the film may be a height in martial arts movies so far, and I remember lin Qingxia's "fingertip ballet" when she first saw Liang Jiahui at the inn. The douban scores of the new and old versions are 8.6 points and 8.1 points respectively, and there is nothing wrong with the tribute.
"New One-Armed Knife": Zhang Che challenges Zhang Che
Zhang Che's 1971 version of "New One-Armed Knife", is the cream of the unwanted Jiang David and Dillon starring, later we also talked about these two "first generation gemini", the film tells the story of the "Mandarin Duck Knife" and famous for his "Mandarin Duck Knife" stunt, the white-clad young man Lei Li was jealous of the dragon because of his high martial arts, resulting in Lei Li being seriously injured and being deposed by the dragon and withdrawing from the jianghu with his right arm. Obviously, Zhang Che has an obsession with the "one-armed knife", after filming "One-Armed Knife" starring Wang Yu in 1967, he also filmed "One-Armed Knife King" starring Wang Yu in 1969, obviously if you want, there is a "one-armed knife universe" there. Although the performance flavor is strong, Zhang Che's style is still hardcore, and it is a bit bloody.
Throughout the 60s, Dillon Ginger David was like the former cattle herd Feng Gong, the double male protagonist. Compared with the original "One-Armed Knife" matching Wang Yu's tough guy temperament, the film tells the legendary story of Fang Gang practicing partial door Qigong with a disabled body, and the story of Dillon Jiang David has more jianghu grudges and love-hate hatred. In fact, in addition to Hu Jinquan's "inn" image, the "one-armed knife" is indeed a typical image, directed by Xu Ke in 1995, yes, this time it is the director, the starring actor is Zhao Wenzhuo, and the name of the movie is "Knife". Personally, I think this movie, adhering to the hard school of "One-Armed Knife", can even be said to be very male, bloody, it is Xu Ke and Zhao Wenzhuo, two people, the masterpiece of their respective careers,
"Letter of Submission": The Pattern of Hong Kong Cinema
Although it is the Hollywood of the East, Hong Kong films are generally small pattern narratives, without particularly grand themes, paying attention to efficiency and rhythm. In 1973, Zhang Che directed "Thorn Horse", the story outline is one of the four strange cases of the late Qing Dynasty, the main actor is no one else, or the first generation of Gemini Dillon Jiang David, I remember when watching the film, I also saw the name of the unknown "Wu Yusen" in the credits, to be honest, although Zhang Che likes Jiang David, but now watching "Thorn Horse" is a bit feminine.
We finally talked about director Chen Kexin, I think Chen Kexin may be a rare big-vision director among "Hong Kong directors", and shooting "Sweet Honey" can make a sense of the times. In 2007, Chen Kexin remade the "Thorn Horse Case", the title of the film is "Letter of Submission", starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Jin Chengwu, Pang Qingyun, Zhao Erhu, Jiang Wuyang, the three brothers who worship each other, the story template is similar to "Thorn Horse", but the director shows the incompetence of people under the storm of the times wonderful, yes, or that kind of turbulent era can not grasp or even can not resist things, I have to say that the casting is very successful, the tribute is also very successful. Speaking of pattern issues, it is easy to think of the following movie, the light of the new era Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs", and Martin's remake version of "Infernal Storm".
The True Colors of Heroes: The Triumph of Formalism
In fact, a few years ago, Wang Jing's famous director's "Chasing the Dragon" can also be listed as a remake tribute, which is very Hong Kong film flavor, paying tribute to "The Biography of Inspector Leiluo" and "Lame Hao". But what is more convincing is obviously that the 87 version of "Hero's True Colors" is a complete victory over the 67 version of the film of the same name, compared with the familiar "violent aesthetics" and "pigeon time", as well as Fa Ge's classic trench coat and gun battle, the realistic style of the 67 version of "Hero True Colors" can be described as a complete victory. That version starred Xie Xian and Shi Jian, with a Douban score of 8.5 points.
But this did not affect the romance and charm of the 87 version of "The True Colors of Heroes", which was the box office champion of Hong Kong movies that year. In 1987, the film won awards such as Best Picture and Best Actor at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards. Little Margo, brotherhood, well, I did shed tears when Little Margo was headshot, and now I can recite a lot of Pony's lines. But after many years, there is indeed a problem, that is, I will not revisit this movie again, the sense of form is too strong,
These remakes: achievement classics
Cameron and Schwarzenegger's True Lies is actually based on the 1991 French spy comedy Spy Family, but Cameron is Cameron after all, and True Lies, while weaving a classic story structure, makes the vertical take-off and landing Harrier fighter jet powerful, which represents the level of special effects in the 1994s. Before Will Smith's "I Am Legend", this story appeared twice on the big screen, one was "The Last Man on Earth" and the other was "The Last Man", although the ending was controversial, but the last dog of the apocalyptic scene created by the film, and the lonely dialogue with the doll, made "I Am Legend" have a moving quality. This film, you can't say that it burns money, it can be seen that science fiction is not only related to special effects.
Now, it's not the first time That Al Pacino and Robert De Niro have collaborated, but in 1995, when the two appeared at the same time in "The Line of Thieves", the symbiosis between thieves and policemen is a classic, and this film is a remake of writer and director Michael Mann's film "The Great Heist of Los Angeles". Movie reviews of that year, in addition to the literary style, often mentioned this "Line of Fire". Also competing with themselves and the Coen brothers, not that they made a non-losing version of the drama version of "Ice Storm", but a tribute to the great John Wayne's 2010 version of "Earth Thunder", the original version of "Earth Thunder" in 1969 allowed the legendary superstar to get the only Oscar in his acting career, but in 2011, the Coen brothers chose this classic to continue the remake, and like "Old Nothing", this movie does not have those "strange things" in the head of the Coen brothers, but the movie is obviously more violent, It's darker and it's more moving, and I actually feel like it's better than the old version as a whole. It's not that Jeff Bridges is better than John Wayne, in other words, the new version should be competing for Best Picture and Best Director.
Infernal Affairs: A magical moment in the movie
At the turn of the century, the Chinese film market was not very good, "Infernal Affairs" completed a revival of "Made in Hong Kong" with incomparably accurate shortness, and then it went to the Oscars, and it did not even get the nomination for best foreign language film. Five years later, Martin Scorsese's so-called remake of "Infernal Affairs" won 4 Oscars at the Oscars, including best picture and best director. This is certainly not the peak of the old Martin's professional standard, but this is undoubtedly the highlight of the old Martin's career, "Infernal Affairs" is not so neat, slightly poetic fate, if the old Martin is just a reproduction, it is too old Martin, the old Martin in my heart is "epic feelings" of the old-school director, in his realist lens, in addition to the police religion, there are social problems such as ethnic discrimination and class solidification, although the Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs" has a trilogy, the overall level is also good, but it is still neat, "Infernal Affairs" is much rougher, to some extent, it can be said that the relationship between "Cast Name" and "Thorn Horse", the content of the story is different.
In fact, this article began with "This Killer Is Not Too Calm", shelving the controversy, "Magic Moment" in which Japanese stars are full of big names, but "This Killer Is Not Too Calm" is almost a performance by Wei Xiang alone. With the absurd style of this story and the theme that this story wants to express, I think Wei Xiang's degree of completion is very high. In order to avoid unnecessary quarrels, let's not talk about the stable box office output of this film from the Spring Festival file to the present, or it can be compared like this, just like the two versions of "Earth Thunder", the old version takes the film emperor, and the new version takes the best picture; this time, Wei Xiang takes the film emperor, and "Magic Moment" impacts the best picture or best director.
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News reporter Jiang Nannan
Edited by Zhang Dawei