In recent years, a topic that audiences have often discussed is that Hong Kong movies have no taste of the past.
In particular, films with the theme of the underworld suddenly disappear from the audience's vision.
After carefully tasting it, I found that the problem was not complicated.
Because the old-school powerful actors have become big names, and the young actors lack acting skills, there is no longer any work that can accommodate feelings.
Director Du Qifeng, who is best at shooting underworld films, has not seen a work for three years.
The classic works of that year, such as "Poison War", "PTU", "Gunfire", "Dark War", etc., are vividly remembered today.
It's not that Hong Kong movies don't have the flavor of that year, but our feelings are slowly moving away.
Today, Right Shijun will give you Anli a du Qifeng's amazing work "Banishment".
This film full of violence, romance, brotherhood has everything you want in Hong Kong.
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In 2006, Du Qifeng's work "Banishment" was released.
The simple plot, the simple human setting, and the simple grudge are full of romance.
Under the strong call of Du Qifeng, "Banishment" gathered a strong cast.
Among the 8 main roles of the positive and negative factions, 5 people have won the title of movie emperor, which is simply a visual feast for the acting school.
The five film emperors are: Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Jiahui, Huang Qiusheng, Lin Jiadong, and Ren Dahua
The film tells the tragic story of five killers.
The killer "He" (played by Zhang Jiahui) took refuge in Macau because of the failure to assassinate Da Fei Ge (played by Ren Dahua), and later tired of killing life and preparing to wash his hands and accompany his wife and children.
But his former four good brothers are still mixed up in the underworld.
His friend "Fire" (played by Huang Qiusheng) is ordered by Da Fei Ge to take "Bo" (played by Lin Xue) to the door to seek revenge.
His friend "Tai" (played by Wu Zhenyu) came to support him in order to protect " and " bring " cat " ( played by Zhang Yaoyang ) to support.
On the side of the dilapidated building on the corner of the street, four former brothers met, looking at each other in silence and waiting for the arrival of a person.
Along with the cries of babies coming from upstairs, a dilapidated van with furniture came from afar, driving the exact person they were looking for.
The three went upstairs, leaving the "cat" and "wave" to let the wind blow downstairs.
The first to go upstairs, "He" silently went to the drawer and took out his revolver, accompanied by the sound of the "fire" retract clip, the revolver was stuffed with 6 bullets.
Three men, three guns, six rounds of ammunition, without saying a word, the battle began, and as the sawdust flew through the sky, the figures of three men tossed and turned around the room until the last bullet poured out.
What interrupted them were the cold words of a woman: "The child is hungry".
Then the style changed, and the five men began to get busy at home, carrying all the furniture on the van upstairs and making a sumptuous dinner.
I have to say that this is the best way I have ever seen the opening of a movie, without a word, all relying on acting skills to support the development of the plot, coupled with Du Qifeng's black humor, too classic.
02
"Fire" estimated the old friendship, and did not set out to kill "and", instead several people began to think about the way back for "and".
Knowing that he had nowhere to go, in order to save his wife and children a good future, he decided to do one more big vote at the end.
So the five brothers once again came together side by side, and their goal was Macau's "big guy Qiang" (played by Lin Jiadong).
Five people came to the dating place, waiting for the opportunity to attack the "big guy strong", but they did not expect that the big flying brother suddenly appeared.
It turned out that all this was assigned by Big Fei Brother, who not only led out his own enemies" and "wanted to do away with the competitor "Big Guy Qiang" by the way.
Without speculating, gunshots rang out, "and" with Da Fei Ge both shot.
The four brothers with "He" found a black market doctor for surgery, and did not want To Da Fei Brother to find the same place, the so-called wrongdoer's road is narrow, and the two sides are another firefight.
And "was killed by Big Fei Brother."
In the face of Da Fei Brother's pursuit, the four brothers were cornered and blindly scurried around.
They decide the direction by tossing coins, and they run away, only to encounter a group of robbers robbing "a ton of gold".
The four brothers rescue the only security guard (Played by Ren Xianqi) and steal all the gold.
When they were dreaming about how to squander the rest of their lives on this money, a phone call from Big Fei Ge shattered the dream.
The four brothers must go back to save "He' wife and children, and they choose to face them bravely in the face of Gou Huo and brotherhood.
Thus, the most classic scene of the movie appears, four killers come to the territory of Da Fei Ge, they are brazenly laughing, not caring about the danger in front of them.
"Tai" used gold as a temptation to send "He" wife out of the door, then turned back and smiled coldly, locking the door fiercely.
It turned out that they had never thought of getting out alive, it was a life-and-death battle, and the moment the beer can rose in the air, bullets flew and blood mist filled the air.
The aesthetic of violence disappeared in an instant, and everyone died on the spot.
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"Banished" is very "Du Qifeng", the whole movie is quite Western style, full of desolation.
In particular, the Xiao Suo feeling substituted at the beginning of the film does not need dialogue, and simply relies on the actor's limbs and expressions to make the audience reminisce endlessly.
Five killers, people in the jianghu, involuntarily, because of the happiness of one brother, four people are willing to sacrifice themselves.
Zhang Jiahui portrayed the tiredness of the character "He" on his face.
His once cold heart has been melted by the cries of the child, especially the sentence "go home" before he dies, which is simply a performance of the film emperor level.
With the longing expression on his face gradually fading, Zhang Jiahui's eyes narrowed sluggishly, and this acting skill of returning to the light is worth replaying ten times for careful consideration.
"Fire" played by Huang Qiusheng is a cool killer image. He fulfills all the fantasies of men about wildness and romance.
"Fire" likes to wear black glasses.
At the end of the film, when Huang Qiusheng was hit by several bullets and leaned into the corner of the wall and died, he still did not forget to die coolly with glasses.
And "Tai", played by Wu Zhenyu, is the biggest support for brotherhood, in his words, "who moves him, I move whom".
In his heart, brotherhood is more important than anything else, and in the final battle of the film, "Tai" sends away "and" his wife, and then closes his hope of living with a door.
Wu Zhenyu looked back and smiled, with despair and revenge, with coldness and ruthlessness, and instantly pierced the audience's heart.
I have to say that Du Qifeng's ability to control the role is too strong, and an underworld type film almost shoots the top romance of men.
Not only Zhang Jiahui's forbearance and compromise, but also Huang Qiusheng's handsomeness and coolness, coupled with Wu Zhenyu's dashing and Dafei Brother's arrogance, it simply tolerates all the fantasies of men.
Almost every shot of the whole film of "Banishment" is a visual feast of acting skills, and the five film emperors play together, which can be called a miracle of Hong Kong films.
The film perfectly combines gunfight, romance and brash brotherhood, and even today, 14 years later, no movie can match it.
"Banishment" is not only an important subversion of Du Qifeng's life works, but also an important artistic display of Hong Kong films.
It is difficult for today's films to gather so many big names, and directors have also erased the pursuit of art as the market has been smoothed out, and the taste of Hong Kong films has faded. #放逐 #