Heroes 2
Song Zihao was released on parole and was ordered to break into a criminal syndicate based in a shipyard with his disciple Jie. The boss of the group, Gao Yingpei, was originally an assistant to the factory owner Long Si, who had been hiding from Long Si to engage in illegal activities, and when the time was ripe, he framed Long Si and took the opportunity to engulf the shipyard. Zi Hao and Zi Jie secretly escort Long Si to New York, and ask their friend Ah Jian (Xiao Ma Ge's younger brother) to help take care of it. Dragon Fourth was first with his old friend Assen, but was still hunted down, and Asen and Dragon Fourth's daughter died. Dragon Fourth was greatly stimulated and insane, just staring at the picture of his daughter. Gao Yingpei sent a killer to hunt down Anderson, and Ah Jian struggled to protect the dragon's surroundings. Out of morality and friendship, Ah Jian gave up the restaurant he had been running for many years and returned to Hong Kong with the Song brothers to deal with Gao Yingpei. Zi Jie sneaked into Gao Mansion alone to steal evidence of the crime and was killed by Gao Yingpei. ZiHao, Ah Jian, and Long Si fought together to avenge this, but they were also arrested and imprisoned.
This movie is the sequel to "The True Colors of Heroes", and the quality has indeed been reduced in some aspects, such as the plot is not reasonable, many plots are not real enough, and many bridges are very stiffly matched. Until the film began filming has not yet completed the script, it can be seen that the time is relatively rushed, Wu Yusen and Xu Ke are responsible for the shooting of Hong Kong and the United States, and finally cut twenty minutes before the final release, so the audience can obviously feel too stiff, the shooting is not delicate enough, but in addition to depicting the feelings of the characters, the vivid fight and gunfight scenes have increased a lot, and a few old men can still make the adrenaline rush of the audience in front of the screen soar. Despite all the shortcomings, it is definitely a masterpiece of the violent aesthetics of Hong Kong gangsters. Cheng Xiaodong, as the action director of this film, also won the Best Action Director Award at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards.
The aesthetics of violence are mainly sensory, making violence presented in an aesthetic way, poetic pictures, and even fantasy shots to show the violent side of human nature and violence. The viewer himself is often amazed by the artistic form of expression and cannot produce a specific discomfort with the content. Supporters often claim that "the degree of violence is directly proportional to box office revenue", while defenders of social morality and public opinion condemners call it an obstacle and negative impact on the moral indoctrination of society; it may cause people who are not yet psychologically mature to indirectly think that violence is also a manifestation of beauty. Among the many Hong Kong directors, Wu Yusen is a representative figure who uses this film expression method.
As a gunfight film, the action scene is definitely the highlight. The first shootout was clearly undercut and too roughly handled. In the second part, Wu Yusen exerts his violent aesthetics to the fullest, whether it is the number of gun battles and ammunition equipment, or the performance of the explosion hand-to-hand combat scene, which is different from the first part. "Heroes 2" pays more attention to entertainment and legend, the gun battle scene is wonderful and intense under the guidance of Cheng Xiaodong, and the visual effect is even worse than its first one, although there is no queen in Hong Kong movies, it is also unprecedented. "Hero Nature 2" also opens another precedent for "hero films", that is, in the face of fierce enemies, life and death battles are not pistol bullets that can be done, and must increase the cost, make full use of grenades, samurai swords, great battle axes, machine guns, etc., and beat the house to a "hero" with a thousand holes and no face. Moreover, it is precisely because the climactic battle in the film is too cruel and violent, so that the audience has since greatly increased the demand for the gun battle of the "hero film".
The first gunfight scene appears at the cocktail party: Long Si is deceived by Gao Yingpei, shot mr. Huang and the police officer by the arranged killer, marries Long Si, and Song Zihao pulls Long Si to escape. The scene was not spectacular, but when Mr. Huang was killed, the close-up shot of blood spraying on the lamp on his head still frightened the audience.
The second gunfight is in the American Church: Dragon Four flees to New York, USA, temporarily staying at the church where his friend Assen is. Gao Yingpei sent American killers to eradicate Dragon Fourth, and as a result, he killed Asson and the little girl and many parishioners, everyone scattered and fled, Dragon Fourth faced the scene of blood, the spirit was greatly stimulated, coupled with the intimidation of the American police and the forced feeding of doctors and mental breakdown, every day looking at his daughter's photos shrunk into a ball.
The third gun battle is at the trading dock: Ajay is killed in a gun battle, killing five robbers, robbing the transaction money and sending it to Gao Yingpei's men, hoping to break into Gao Yingpei's interior.
The fourth gun battle took place in Ah Jian's restaurant and home and on the way to escape: the bandits put explosives in Ah Jian's restaurant, suddenly blew the restaurant apart, the explosion scene was very fierce, and then the bandits chased to the home, the gunshots were fired, the home was beaten into a mess, Ah Jian set up the dragon and drove the car to escape, there was a gun battle on the road, Ah Jian killed the tracking killer, the car rolled over and immediately exploded, and the smoke went straight up to the clouds.
The fifth shootout is on the outskirts of the night: Gao Yingpei, in order to test Song Zihao's sincerity, let him shoot his own brother, that is, Ajay. Song Zihao fired two shots at Ajie's behest, but did not hit the point, and later rushed to the hospital, and finally escaped from danger after rescue. Ajie and Song Zihao in order to break into Gao Yingpei's internal performance of this bitter meat plan is really thrilling, looking at his brother covered in blood, Song Zihao is very guilty, if the younger brother really died under his own gun, it will be the shadow of his life.
The sixth gun battle takes place in the American hotel and warehouse: Ah Jian buys shotguns and various firearms to protect himself, and when he is enlightening Dragon Fourth, who is deranged by the loss of his daughter, a large group of American killers comes in. Ah Jian didn't say a word, a sentence of "I C", picking up the shotgun was a bang, when the gun sounded, the blood flew straight, holding Dragon Fourth, and kept shooting. In particular, ah jian's shot of the backward sliding staircase shooting, unlimited bullet salvo, extremely powerful. They fled to the warehouse, Ah Jian was hit in the arm by the killer, in pain, at this time, Long Si reacted, took a gun and shot the two gangsters in the car, the two fired in a salvo, and the car exploded and burst into flames. Dragon Fourth said, "Why, why are good people so difficult to do?" "Total awakening.
The seventh gun battle took place in Gao Yingpei's warehouse and basement: when Song Zihao, Ah Jian, and Long Si killed several of their men, they found that it was a trap, and under the protection of Uncle Jian, they were saved from being killed by the police and Gao Yingpei. On the other hand, Ajay secretly infiltrated Gao Yingpei's basement coin factory and was filming relevant evidence, but was hit by the sunglasses killer Xiaozhuang and fled in panic. After meeting Ah Jian, the two fled to a telephone booth, Ajie was covered in blood, and he couldn't bear the pain of calling his wife who had just given birth to a child, and named the child Song Haoran when he was dying. Then he died of excessive blood loss. This section is both bloody and sensational, Ajay is like a falling meteor, and the music is sounding, tearful.
The eighth shootout takes place in Gao Yingpei's basement: after the crowd buries Ajay, they drive to the place where Ajay is bleeding, jump up together, and begin the final climax of the film, a massacre of three or four people corresponding to more than a hundred people begins. Gunshots rang out, a row of people fell, grenades sounded, the flames were raging, the smoke was thick, the crowd fell to the ground, and both sides of the transaction became ghosts under their guns. Ah Jian even put a few bombs in the basement fake den, the huge explosion shock wave almost blew himself up, unlimited bullets, unlimited ammunition, various weapons, and even the appearance of katana, all of which made people bloody. Ah Jian and the sunglasses killer Xiao Zhuang fight, the gun bleeds, I have seen the martial arts fight, I have not seen the two people do not dodge each other, use pistols to fight each other, and finally A Fitness was seriously injured, Xiao Zhuang died in battle. However, Gao Yingpei tried to escape, but was shot by Ah Jian and Song Zihao, kneeling in front of Long Si, who raised his gun and shot him to death at the temple, and the last sentence: "Do you think that the bad guys will have a good reward?" "End this bloody battle. Then the three of them calmly let Uncle Jian go first, sat on the sofa together, facing a large number of policemen, and the three good brothers who were injured in many places on their bodies seemed to have nothing happened. The end of the film is undoubtedly very shocking. The revenge of the three people is not simply to vent their anger, but to hold a mentality of death. When the three of them finally slumped on the couch, facing a pool of blood on the ground that came into view, the heaviness was lingering.
Also worth noting is the sunglasses killer Xiaozhuang in the film. Without a background introduction, we only know that he is a killer; wearing sunglasses, no dialogue, no expression on his face, unable to speculate about the changes in his heart. Xiao Zhuang is undoubtedly the most difficult character to deal with in the process of revenge. Unlike the bluff of the killer played by Cheng Kui'an and Lin Cong, his steady and fierce strength and "rules- and regulations" style are far from being comparable to the two. He silently killed the target, blamed Dragon Fourth, and plunged him into madness; in the duel with Song Zijie's warehouse, he killed Song Zihao with one blow, causing Song Zihao to fall into mourning; in the climax of the gunfight, he did not choose the commission given by the boss to escape, but chose to stay and duel with Ah Jian, at the time when Ah Jian ran out, he did not take advantage of the danger, but chose to give another gun to the other party, duel fairly with it, and finally died under the bullets of the other party. This is the fate of the killer - not greedy for money, not unscrupulous, bloodthirsty, but to devote his life to the choices he makes about life. The principle of the killer is to pursue the thrill of a master duel. Each is its own master, the narrow road meets, the chance of life belongs to only one party, for him, he can have a life-and-death struggle with Ah Jian, and die without regrets. The passage of greeting each other with sunglasses is touching, and the sympathy between men in the jianghu is a kind of tragedy that puts life and death aside and makes desperate bets. Xiao Zhuang, a mysterious man. This is also the unique feature of the "sense of ritual" of Wu Yusen's film violent aesthetics.
It can be seen that the film has almost always been a bloody gunfight throughout it, whether in Hong Kong or the United States, violent suppression, violence against violence has become a habitual shot, bringing a strong visual impact and immersive feeling to the audience, as well as a sense of pleasure and experience. Wu Yusen-style jianghu, do not care about gains and losses, do not pity people's lives, one person and one gun, there is a reason for you to die. Bloody rivers and lakes, guns and guns see blood, knives and knives are deadly, don't worry about the plot, don't spit on the plot. Look at the pride of a bunch of good buddies who sacrificed their lives to die, under the violent picture of guns and bullets, blood and smoke, as an audience, you can calmly think about what is life and what is most important in life!