Without further ado, let's go straight to the subject.
First of all, please ask today's protagonist- "Gentlemen" to "shine"!
The film was released on January 24 this year, and to be honest I'm looking forward to it, as it's the first film Guy Ritchie has made in the UK after making enough money in Hollywood.
I still remember the shock of watching Guy Ritchie's Two Smoking Guns. The film's layers of inverted plots, full and compact rhythms, and out-of-logic narratives all made me feel the talent overflowing from this director, especially the black humor shown in the film was very good for my appetite.
A bridge in Two Smoking Guns
So this so-called cover black humor of the new work "Gentlemen" directly hung my appetite, after I found the resources, immediately thought of writing an article Amway to everyone. Originally, the title of the article had already been thought out: I sold drugs and I killed people, but I was still a good gentleman, and I strongly recommended the new film "Gentlemen" with cover-style black humor.
But after watching the movie, I wanted to delete this topic directly, and then delete the document, empty the Recycle Bin, and reinstall the system! Because this film really infuriates me, it involves a matter of principle: there is a serious insult to the Chinese in this film. Simply put, it is humiliating!
Douban's 8.4 score is the biggest mockery of it
This movie is about the dispute between gangsters, and one of the members of the gang camp is basically Chinese, which is nothing, after all, it is a new era, there is no word prison, and the character setting itself is also free.
However, in the film, there is a serious difference in this part of the Chinese characters, and some "clown" and "cunning" images are always used when describing this part of the characters, and this part of the characters is also explicitly insulted in the lines.
I have already seen that after writing this article, I think some people will spray at me with the inferiority of the nation, saying that it is because they are not confident in their own nation, so everything looks like insulting China and so on.
But I would say that when it comes to the artistic image of the character, the choice is free, whether it is black, white, or yellow, and you can't say, "Oh! How this character is this skin color! You're racist! This kind of rhetoric is also a kind of racism, extreme racism, that is, the so-called national inferiority. But the premise of all this is that there is no specific national insult to the character.
Just like Fu Manchu, a well-known Chinese character in Europe and the United States, it is no problem to arrange him as a villain, he can kill people and engage in conspiracies. But it is necessary to add the insulting characteristics of the old era, such as the eight-character beard and long braid, and also to bring the insulting settings such as thinness and sexual impotence, the special name is still Manchuria, and it is also emphasized that it is Chinese??? This is the materialization of the nation! It is an insult to China!!!
Europe and the United States famous insulting Image of China "Fu Manchu"
In this film, "Fu Manchu" is the dry eye of the leader of the Chinese gang.
In the plot of the movie, the protagonist Mickey is a drug trafficker who wants to wash his hands and sell his marijuana business, and he wants to buy Mickey's business. But Mickey has promised to sell the business to another person, so Dry Eye launches a series of conspiracies to seize Mickey's marijuana business...
The words are full of contempt for the Chinese
The whole film is a repetitive process of dry eye work and the protagonist's resolution, but the image of dry eyes is very "funny" throughout the whole process, especially in a scene where dry eyes hijack the protagonist's wife and want to force the protagonist to obey.
Dry eyes have obviously taken advantage of the advantage, with two big men into the male protagonist's wife's office, but they are stupid to stand, the male protagonist's wife directly shot two. After that, the man's wife had no bullets, and the dry eyes subdued her, and the first thing he did was to rape her??? And then...... The man rushed to kill him???
You know, this drama is an indirect depiction of the deaths of other characters, there is no direct performance, and in this one, the deaths of the three people are heavily depicted, and they are also comically processed, which is not a deliberate insult!!!
Well ~ here can also be interpreted as the needs of the role, is the embodiment of "cover black humor", but the insult to the Chinese in a scene in the teahouse later is already naked.
The plot of that scene is that Mitch learns that dry eyes are engaged in a conversation with Lord George, the boss of dry eyes, who is also a Chinese.
In the dialogue between Mickey and George, George mentions that George's heroin trafficking is mentioned, saying that the marijuana sold by Mickey is harmless to people, while the heroin sold by George has been harmful to people since ancient times.
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Do you know that during the Opium War, the British knocked on the door of China with opium, and the drug dealers who sold marijuana here still had a sense of superiority? He also put the hat of selling heroin on Chinese, saying that it has been harming people from ancient times to the present???
Even in a few years, the Opium War would become Chinese selling opium back to England.
What happened later in this scene made me extremely angry, Mickey poisoned George's water in order to make George obey, causing George to vomit and diarrhea, and the poison was a parasitic fungus called Shigella.
You may be unfamiliar with this bacterium, but its history is "thunderous". Shigella was widely used in human experiments by Unit 731 during the Japanese invasion of China.
This history can be said to be a pain engraved in the hearts of every Chinese, and the film mentions Shigella here and associates it with the Chinese, which is an unintentional move and too unconvincing.
You should know that just before and after the release of this movie, there is also an anime that mentions Shiga, that is, the "My Hero Academia" that was previously popular. The latest character it designed is called Shiga Maruta, the special ability is poison gas, here is obviously deliberately mentioning the history of 731 to insult China, and after that it also met with the due response - in China the whole network down!
Popular manga mentions Shiga's bridge section
Now looking back at "Gentlemen", what makes me cold is that after the release of the film for 3 months, the whole network did not have a bad review, all of which were praise for the film, which really made me cold, I don't know if I am too sensitive, too much of the so-called "national inferiority", or the current netizens are too slow, "magnanimous".
My feelings about this movie are disgusting, I can't do praise this movie, for the insulting details of this movie, I have to nitpick, I have to fight, today this keyboard man I should be determined!