"I Love the Night" is a comedy film directed by Teddy Robin and starring Lin Zixiang, Lin Qingxia, Xu Ke and others. It was released in Hong Kong on March 31, 1983. I especially like the opening paragraph of the film: this film is closely related to history, although some people are stupid to delete history, but everything has nothing to do with this film, this film is only in the spirit of shooting this film, there is no fiction, and it will never deliberately fabricate facts.
During the Second World War, spies from all over the world gathered in Hong Kong to collect war intelligence extensively, while private detective Lin Zixiang was commissioned by Lin Qingxia, the first spy of Tianzi, to contact the Us intelligence officers alone, and handed over a blueprint for weapons stolen from Germany. However, the Nazis also tracked down and destroyed it in an attempt to regain the blueprint, and the two sides wrestled with each other, but they did not want the blueprint to fall into the hands of qin Pei, the traitorous police chief, and waited for the emperor's son Taro Hiroshima to come and receive the blueprint. Lin Zixiang joined forces with his friend Robin Touhir to steal the director's house, and after the failure, the two decided to impersonate Taro Hiroshima and receive the blueprint in name only. At the welcome dance, Lin Zixiang re-encountered her old lover Yanhong, who thought about it day and night, and she was helpless to become the woman of the bureau chief, which made Lin Zixiang feel sad. Lin Zixiang's plan was later exposed by the real Taro Hiroshima, and Lin Zixiang learned that Yanhong was the leader of the organization, and the two were released from their previous suspicions. With the help of Inspector Teddy Robin, what awaits him is a tense and exciting but laughable drawing battle.
Many netizens on the Internet are not very familiar with this movie, the reason is that before the return of Hong Kong, there were not many places in the mainland that could receive Hong Kong television stations, and mainland television stations rarely broadcast this work, perhaps the content of the movie is too cult? Indeed, although the story is set in the era of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the characters in the film, especially the two protagonists of Ye Laixiang and Inspector Robin, are really thunderous, as "anti-Japanese heroes", they are not only no longer tall red giants, but also have some "character problems". Whether it is Nightshade or Robin, the reason why they threw themselves into the torrent of the national war of resistance is not to "become an unsung hero", nor to get the "thanks of the League of Nations", nor to think that "people all over the world will fall in love with themselves", but: 500,000 US dollars.
Of course, the two benevolent brothers did not get the money in the end, and this huge amount of money was taken by the only positive image in the film, Lin Qingxia, playing a heroine, to aid the War of Resistance. Although this film is extremely spoofy, but some of the plots can still stimulate the audience's patriotic enthusiasm, like the middle of the story after the fall of Guangzhou, Ye Laixiang and other people singing "Eight Hundred Heroes Song" The plot is very exciting, in fact, this plot is imitating "North African Spy Movie (Casablanca)", this paragraph is both a spoof and a tribute, but it is very thunderous that the restaurant that comes and goes at night in the film is actually called "North African Restaurant"! Of course, what impressed the audience even more was the hilarious code: "I am a woman!" I'm a woman too! Girl eighteen a flower; boy eighteen playing with mud; woman forty good years; man forty tofu scum.
After the end of World War II, the French have been trying their best to escape the disgraceful history of their cooperation with the Nazis to persecute the Jews, and the rare film "Children, Goodbye" that reflects this historical problem has also been put on a "legal traitor" hat, but "Tiger's Mouth Escape" reflects many sensitive topics that the French dare not face in a funny way, with a funny method of "hiding the sky and crossing the sea", so that the French can seek "masturbation", in this regard, "I Love the Night" is not a purely funny film, and "Tiger's Mouth Escape" It's the same thing. Most of the main characters who act as villains in "Night", who serve as Chinese for the Japanese army to run errands, are "Japanese pseudo" ("japanese pseudo-army").
Speaking of the "Song of the Eight Hundred Heroes" that appeared in the middle of the film, Lin Qingxia's fate with this song is really deep enough, she originally became famous by starring in the anti-war film "Eight Hundred Heroes", in which she played a female student Yang Huimin who sent a flag to General Xie Jinyuan, the leader of the Eight Hundred Heroes (Lin Qingxia and herself had met). General Xie Jinyuan is the "look at the national hero Xie Regiment Leader" sung in the "Song of the Eight Hundred Heroes", he is a general of the Kuomintang Whampoa Military Department, led eight hundred strong men (in fact, only more than 400 people) in the Battle of Songhu to block the repeated onslaught of the Japanese army in the Sihang Warehouse, successfully covered the retreat of the Chinese army, when a British soldier commented that the eight hundred strong men were "brave Chinese death squad members", and Ms. He Xiangning, who once satirized Chiang Kai-shek, also praised them. General Xie Jinyuan was also a small number of anti-Japanese generals who were favored by both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, but unfortunately, Xie Jinyuan did not die on the battlefield, but was assassinated by the people of the Wang puppet regime. Lin Qingxia later starred in the sister article "Flag Is Fluttering" of "Eight Hundred Heroes", plus this "I Love the Night", she was associated with "Eight Hundred Heroes Song" for the third time.
This is one of the most classic comedy films of the 1980s, and although the director is the genius Teddy Robin, as the artistic director, Tsui Ke is the real behind-the-scenes director of the film. The reason for the name is because Xu Ke is producing "New Shushan Swordsman" for Jiahe Film Company at the same time as filming this film, so in order to avoid commercial disagreements, he appeared in the film as a cameo and producer. Huang Baiming's comedy script still plays a decisive role, and the wonderful performances of the actors also add a lot to the film. Many of these links are full of laughter, hilarious, and the shooting is amazing. Lin Qingxia, the empress of the literary film who has just crossed the port to Hong Kong, first appeared in the crazy lineup of Hong Kong comedies, and at the same time as filming this film, she and director Xu Ke were nervously involved in the production process of Jiahe Film Company's martial arts blockbuster "New Shushan Swordsman". As directors and artists, she and Xu Ke can travel between two hostile business camps at the same time without being moved, which shows its strength. And Xu Ke won the best director award at the 18th Golden Horse Awards for his "I Love the Night" in the Hong Kong market.