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Police Story 4 Simple Quests
Released in Hong Kong on February 10, 1996, the New Year's Eve film "Police Story 4 Simple Tasks" achieved a box office of HK$57.52 million in Hong Kong, breaking the new record set by the previous year's box office champion "Red Fan District" and becoming the new annual box office champion.
At that time, Hong Kong films were in a period of rapid decline, so this "Simple Task" became the last peak of Jackie Chan's box office market in Hong Kong, and it was also the highest box office of Hong Kong films in the 20th century.
Later, Jackie Chan went international and also landed on the mainland film market, but in the Hong Kong box office market, he never surpassed this "Simple Task" work.
At that time, "Simple Mission" was also released on the mainland, and the mainland version was called "Platinum Dragon", but more young audiences watched the film through online video.
Online, the most common is the international version, which is only 84 minutes, while the full Hong Kong version has 107 minutes, which is 23 minutes more.
So, what exactly has been deleted from this streamlined international version?
"Simple Mission" is produced by Jiahe Film, tang Jili is the screenwriter, director and martial arts director, starring Jackie Chan and Wu Chenjun, and co-starring Dong Biao, Lou Xuexian and Lu Huiguang.
Because of the success of "Police Story 3" and "Red Fan District" before, one of them made him the first film emperor, and one of them successfully broke into Hollywood; Jackie Chan trusted Tang Jili very much and let him be a martial arts instructor alone. Tang Jili also lived up to expectations, winning the Academy Award and the Golden Horse Award for Best Action Design.
Although it is still a sequel to the "Police Story" series, "Simple Mission" has completely stepped out of Hong Kong and has a very grand international vision, which is a Hong Kong version of the 007 movie.
In the movie, Jackie Chan has a line that shows this attitude: I now feel like 007, just missing a bang girl.
Because of this international pursuit, almost all the Hong Kong local actors in the previous films have withdrawn, and the martial artists of the chengjia class have all gone behind the scenes.
"Simple Mission" was filmed in Hong Kong with only a few scenes, then a third in Russia and Ukraine and in the snow and ice; the remaining two-thirds were filmed in the warm australia of the southern hemisphere.
The plot of the movie "Simple Mission" can be summed up simply, that is, the Hong Kong police officer Chen Jiaju was escorted to Russia by a simple mission by the CIA, and then encountered a series of stories.
As Dong Biao said in the movie, your task is simple: "Get on the plane with Natasha, stare at her on the plane, and hand her over to them when you get there." ”。
But in reality, Chen Jiaju's experience is not only not simple, but also very thrilling, and it has to cross half the world.
At the beginning, dong biao, the most brilliant supporting role in the first three films, continued to play Jackie Chan's boss, and there was a scene in which he contacted the Yankees and discussed the escort of prisoners, only cutting out a few seconds of content.
After Chen Jiaju took the female prisoner Natasha on the plane, it took a few seconds; then disembarked, Chen Jiaju was called to the office by the airport on the pretext of having a passport problem and handed over to the Ukrainian police.
In this scene, Chen Jiaju had a translator, and the scene of the airport policewoman was deleted.
In fact, the opening credits of the international edition of "Simple Mission" also include nearly 2 minutes of Hong Kong landscape footage.
By the time Chen Jiaju completed his task and bought caviar on the street, the 2-minute gap had been smoothed out.
Chen Jiaju found Natasha on the street and tracked down to the ski resort, the international version was 3 minutes shorter. Then he tracked all the way, fought in the snow, and finally jumped from the cliff into the glacier, which was 6 minutes shorter.
This part of the cut also contains a lot of action shots.
Later, the scene where the villain introduced the nuclear bomb to Chen Jiaju was deleted.
By the time Chen Jiaju spoke to his Hong Kong boss on the phone at his seaview mansion in Australia, it had been 7 minutes shorter.
In the middle, there is a call between the main villain and the customer to trade nuclear bombs, and the footage of the nuclear bomb delivery has been deleted.
By the time Jackie Chan sent flowers to Wu Chenjun, it was already 10 minutes shorter.
Then there were some fragmentary cuts, including a shot of Chen Jiaju stalking Wu Chenjun; by the time he was forced to strip naked, it was 12 minutes shorter.
Chen Jiaju was chased by two big killers in the hotel's top-floor mansion, and when he fled, he spent 14 minutes sleeping on the street, including a scene of Chen Jiaju borrowing money from a woman with a child on the side of the road.
In order to prove his innocence, Chen Jiaju came to the Golden Dragon Club and fought with the Chinese martial artists there, and when Lou Xuexian appeared to persuade him, it was already 16 minutes shorter.
Some of Lou Xuexian's previous past as a spy, as well as some scenes explained by Wu Chenjun, have been deleted.
At the funeral of the Golden Dragon Society, when Chen Jiaju rescued Wu Chenjun and rushed back to the aquarium, it was nearly 20 minutes shorter.
In the Aquarium Battle, when the big Ukrainian man was stunned by jellyfish, it took 21 minutes less.
The scene of the middle melee was deleted a lot, and by the time Chen Jiaju rushed out of the aquarium and rushed to the boat in a sports car to continue to save people, it was 26 minutes shorter.
In the end, when Chen Jiaju and his boss took the lead in the nuclear submarine, the international version was almost 27 minutes less.
The Hong Kong version has a 3-minute end shot, including NG footage, while the international version has almost 7 minutes of end shots, including 2 minutes of pure black screen subtitles.
In other words, the international version has a total of 84 minutes, minus the 9 minutes at the opening credits, and only 75 minutes of positive content.
The Hong Kong version has only 4 minutes at the opening credits, and the main film is 103 minutes long, almost half an hour more than the international version.
However, although the international condensed version of "Simple Mission" lacks so much content, it has not been significantly reduced in the whole paragraph, and there is no lack of any important plot, and the story is still very complete.
Therefore, when the audience who has watched the Hong Kong version looks at the international version, they can feel that there are deletions, but it feels more like the pace has become faster, and they can't see what is missing.
Perhaps it is precisely because the international version is cut too fiercely, the overseas box office is not ideal; and the complete Hong Kong version has achieved a record-breaking box office in Hong Kong.