"Forgetting Love Water" is a famous song by Tianwang superstar Andy Lau, released in 1994, which is the memory of many people.
But what many people don't know is:
This song, which was once popular in the north and south of the river, "Forgetting Love Water" is actually the theme song of Andy Lau's movie.
This movie is "Heaven and Earth", released in 1994, which is Andy Lau's early anti-drug movie!
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"Heaven and Earth" is an anti-drug film with Shanghai as the main time and space background during the Republic of China period, starring Andy Lau, Liu Songren, Chen Shaoxia, Yu Feihong and so on.
The film mainly tells the story of Zhang Yipeng, a character played by Andy Lau, as a special commissioner of the National Government in Nanjing, who went to Shanghai to fight drugs.
The drug business in Shanghai in the film is jointly controlled by two villains, Mr. Dai and Ni Kun.
Mr. Dai, played by Liu Songren, is the big drug lord behind him, colluding with police commissioner Ni Kun.
Extrajection:
The prototype of Mr. Dai should be the famous tyrant of the Republic of China period - Du Yuesheng,
Because Du Yuesheng was one of the biggest leaders of the Youth Gang in Shanghai during the Republic of China period, he was also in collusion with the police chief at that time.
In the early days, like Mr. Dai in the movie, he sold fruit.
In addition, the police chief in the movie, Ni Kun, his prototype should be another famous leader of the Green Gang in the Republic of China period, Jin Jinrong,
Because the historical Jin Rong also served as the police chief of the French Concession in Shanghai, Du Yuesheng was initially "mixed" with him.
Zhang Yipeng, played by Andy Lau, was born in a poor family and was able to study abroad because he received funding from the Republic of China government.
Therefore, he has a strong sense of responsibility, and when he comes to Shanghai, he is bent on drug control.
But the drug situation in Shanghai at that time was unimaginable to him!
When he first arrived in Shanghai, police chief Ni Kun gathered a large number of officials and set up a banquet to entertain him.
At the banquet, Ni Kun declared his support for drug prohibition, but only declared,
In fact, he secretly has words, hoping to envelop him, lure him everywhere, and hope that he will "cooperate" and make a fortune together.
For Zhang Yipeng's wife, Ni Kun also arranged for the wives of large and small officials to have relations with her, saying that they would accept her as a dry child, and a large number of people would give her gifts.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Yipeng publicly cut off the table with Ni Kun at the banquet, declaring that he would fight drugs to the end.
But when he began to fight drugs, Zhang Yipeng further felt the difficulty of drug control in Shanghai.
When he first led the anti-drug team, he was actually the only one who hunted down drug dealers.
The entire anti-drug team was almost Ni Kun's people, they did not hunt down drug dealers, but created trouble on the way, so that Zhang Yipeng was hindered.
Later, the entire anti-narcotics team resigned, and only a policeman named "Shandong Cat" remained.
The above is the plot of the early stage of the movie,
And the plot in the late stage of the movie is more "popcorn",
Mainly about Zhang Yipeng, and "Shandong Cat", plus the female assistant played by Yu Feihong, the three of them go together to fight against drug dealers and fight against Ni Kun and Mr. Dai.
In this part of the plot, many plots are commercial,
For example, with the "character aura", the three snatched a large number of drugs from Mr. Dai from the army that colluded with Mr. Dai.
There are many elements of gunfights in this plot, which makes Andy Lau constantly "play cool".
Later, two of the three people were sacrificed, and Zhang Yipeng once again relied on the "protagonist aura" to get evidence of Mr. Dai's drug trafficking, which could be pointed out to Mr. Dai.
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Although "Heaven and Earth" is full of the aura of the protagonist, it may be more expressive: justice is not easy!
If "Heaven and Earth" has always allowed the protagonist to maintain the "protagonist aura", then it is just a relatively mediocre "popcorn" movie, purely for entertainment, for "cool",
But the director and screenwriter are still smarter, setting a reversal at the end of the movie!
At the end of the movie, at the railway station, after Zhang Yipeng handed over the evidence of Mr. Dai's drug trafficking to General Li, General Li personally sent him to the train.
In "Infernal Affairs", there is a classic line that the undercover agent played by Liang Chaowei said to the character played by Andy Lau:
"I'm sorry, I'm a cop!" ，
In "Heaven and Earth", Zhang Yipeng, played by Andy Lau, also said "I'm sorry" to him.
On the train, General Li graciously shook hands with Zhang Yipeng and said goodbye, wishing him "a smooth journey!" ......”，
I thought that after saying polite words, Zhang Yipeng could go back to Guangzhou to teach and live a peaceful and stable life.
As a result, General Li shot and killed Zhang Yipeng while shaking hands cordially, and said to Zhang Yipeng:
"I'm sorry, it's because you weren't born at the right time!"
When Zhang Yipeng was dying, he recalled the various pictures of Shanghai's fight against drugs.
There are warmth and hurt.
The child who had a good relationship with him originally came to the train here and hoped to go to Guangzhou with Zhang Yipeng.
As a result, he saw Zhang Yipeng fall in front of him, making him turn from joy to sorrow!
In the end, Zhang Yipeng was believed to have committed suicide in fear of sin;
And the big drug lord Dai Jimin, after an in-depth investigation by the National Police Agency, was acquitted!
We often emphasize that evil does not suppress righteousness, but the story told in "Heaven and Earth" seems to be "the tao is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high!" ”
In the movie, Zhang Yipeng tried to sweep away the drugs, but in the end he found nothing.
His friends and wives are implicated, and he himself is killed in an unknown way;
On the contrary, the big drug lord Mr. Dai, who did no evil, in order to cover up the news of his drug trafficking, actually killed a whole movie theater person.
I was a Christian and a religious, but in case the news leaked, even the priest was killed!
In the end, he reversed black and white, let Zhang Yipeng be insulted, and he was acquitted and continued to be a philanthropist and entrepreneur!
Setting up such a plot, the director and screenwriter are not right and wrong, and they do not emphasize that we "protect ourselves".
Maybe they just emphasize justice more easily!
In real life, why not?
The anti-drug police of our time, they go deep into the tiger's den, many times they are nine deaths,
Their anti-drug experience is far more thrilling than we think, more difficult than the plot of the movie, more cruel, and may be easily destroyed by a lot of effort!
Many times, they are often just like Zhang Yipeng, "I know that I can't do it!" , just the scalp!
Therefore, for the real anti-drug police, how much gratitude and respect we give them, we should all deserve.
Unfortunately, this "Heaven and Earth" is too "popcorn", many literary dramas can not be expressed in place, the audience after watching this movie, generally only surprised by the ending, sigh the helplessness of life.
Perhaps for this reason, the movie "Heaven and Earth" did not catch fire much that year, but the theme song "Forgetting Love Water" was all over the country!
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