Another domestic action film breaks records! It is worthy of our northeasterners, and even apologizing is so tough
Remember "Kill the Wolf" 18 years ago?
The "street battle" between Wu Jing and Donnie Yen has made action movie fans talk about it for many years.
The other day.
The two "fit" again.
Not to make a new drama, but to praise a domestic action film in unison!
Wait a minute.
Domestic? Action movies? This year, there are domestic action movies that make both action superstars excited?
That's right.
Look at this action:
One word: ruthless.
Even netizens felt sorry for Semyon's "too hard work."
I just didn't expect it.
Nowadays, action movies of this level can only be released on the Internet:
Northeast Police Story 2
If it is "2", there must be a previous work.
Look behind the scenes, familiar.
Last year, Sir praised an online big "No One in Sight", the play is neat, the story is complete, and even regains the lost "martial arts" atmosphere to a certain extent.
And this one.
The same production company, the same creators.
What it brings is a realistic work that exposes the underground industry.
Reality, that's really cruel.
Playing well, it is also really good-looking.
01
What is the most eye-catching thing about "Northeast Police Story 2"?
The first is the Northeast.
The second is reality.
These two are two sides of the same body in the film.
After all, as a domestic action film, it is very important to reflect the word "domestic", rather than following Hong Kong films and imitating Hollywood.
So, what is the Northeast?
Icy and snowy and big-ballast flavored northeastern dialect?
No.
It is really intentional to penetrate into the citizen class and paint a contemporary, decaying, and layered picture of Northeast society.
For example, reactions to accidents.
The black shop hit the wrong person, and five or six big men besieged a policeman.
Breaking ground on the head of the Tai Sui?
Of course, he was beaten by the protagonist three or two.
The shopkeeper admitted that he had eyes that he did not recognize Mount Tai, and he was sad and eager to gouge out his eyes.
Then.
What is the method of apology in Tohoku society?
: Take out a bottle of beer and prepare to blow it on the bottle.
For example, daily entertainment.
What is the entertainment method of people in Northeast society?
The entertainment center in the northeast, the stage upgrade, the lighting and sound modernization, everyone still looks so classical:
Two people turn.
A stool terrier that is not advanced can make the audience laugh.
In the northeast.
Shootouts are almost non-existent, and highly intelligent criminals are not to look at.
And the backbone of the fight against crime.
It is middle-aged, unaspiring, and does not have a high monthly salary... Petty cops.
But Sir feels that the most ruthless point is that the film unveils the underground industry.
It's meticulous.
The logic of each chain is clear, allowing people to glimpse the truth of this industrial chain.
How?
The first step, seduction.
Ordinary migrant workers in entertainment venues are chosen as concubines by criminals.
For good-looking people, or money lure, or deception, or direct resorts to violence... Take them into the abyss of the industry.
The second step is control.
It is also the most important step.
Drugs.
Coaxing and forcing women to inject drugs, and when they become addicted, they can control everything with drugs.
Including their desire to escape, of course.
The third step is distribution.
Cruel.
At first, the girls were placed on the stage in the entertainment center, and when the "bosses" felt that they were not new or satisfied, they were "eliminated".
They are sent to the tight cubicle to do live pornographic broadcasts.
Or force them to make pornographic videos.
Until their bodies are thoroughly eaten and wiped clean...
Seems like a "common" set of processes?
You'll find out after watching the movie.
They can be anyone, ordinary people working in the city.
It's clearly eye-catching, but it's also implicitly real.
Thereupon.
There is a detail in the film.
The raped wife and the drug-laden husband had no hope of life and rolled over from the roof together.
The roof is the moment of life and death in the sunset.
Lens drop-down.
What happens in the space after they jump?
Grill.
When the two fall, the picture stands still for a few seconds.
The daily life pictures of the masses dissolve the drama of the action of "jumping off the building", and the silent stillness adds to the cruelty of "jumping off the building":
Everyone is doing their own thing, and their deaths may just be a little shock to others.
And they can no longer enjoy the evening barbecue.
Ordinary life screens.
It seems that it is also indicting the "ordinary" of such changes.
02
However, for an action movie, the city is always the appearance, and whether the action movie is filmed well or not, there is only one decisive factor:
Playing the scene.
Action is the soul of action movies.
But I don't know if you find it, action movies have developed so far, it has been difficult to refine, and instead win by quantity.
Many films don't play one, then I'll hit ten.
But what about Northeast Police Story 2?
A scene: a toilet war.
In one pressing space (toilet cubicle), the two actors really went into battle and played the best fight scene of the year.
Look at the action first:
MMA fighting, jiu-jitsu locks, hand-to-hand combat, traditional wrestling...
All kinds of movement techniques are used.
Pinch your head and fall.
Back hand flip.
Rabbit pedaling eagle.
and this series of combined actions.
I have to sigh, this is all a real fight.
Look at the props again:
How do you use urinals?
The police slid on their knees, and the two sides maintained their positions while grappling, wrestling and shooting from a low camera position.
The two are glued, and there is a black and white antagonistic attitude.
Brother bluntly: impossible.
The policeman was angry and threw him over his shoulder against the wall, and the urinals shattered in response.
It really hurts.
There is also space:
The legs and feet cannot be opened, the restricted legs and feet, every movement is exactly at the opposite corner of the compartment, obviously carefully designed.
From a compartment, to a row of compartments.
The two fought and extended the space vertically.
There is somewhere to lie down and fight!
The showmanship is here, and it's not over.
The last two showed their fighting skills in a narrow space.
At this point, the two took turns tossing and turning in the empty space, narrow space, and slender space, fisting to the flesh, and seeing Sir's palms sweating.
Frankly.
When watching this, Sir also remembered the 3-minute toilet fight scene in "Mission Impossible 6".
But the obvious difference is.
"Mission Impossible 6" focuses on a "casual use of props", while "Northeast Police Story 2" adds a full range of combat skills.
Possible.
This is closer to Donnie Yen's design idea in "The Fuse".
And what is even more surprising is that.
The action scenes in "Northeast Police Story 2" are not limited to this one.
Others such as in-car grappling.
Group brawl on set.
Equally wonderful.
It's just a pity.
At present, action movies with such a wonderful design cannot be seen by more people.
People who do things seriously.
Can only be buried like this?
03
Earlier, Sir had seen an interview with Semyon.
He said:
"There are two main reasons for the decline in the production level of action movies. On the one hand, the action professionals in the industry are not seen by everyone, and there are always a few action stars playing around, resulting in the lack of freshness of this genre; On the other hand, the industry shoots action movies with a small and broad mentality, but action movies require high costs to support production, which will further reduce the audience's good impression of action movies. ”
Sir felt.
Probably, this is why action stars such as Wu Jing, Donnie Yen, and Zhang Jin will speak out for such a small-cost online movie this time.
Because.
It is serious, and scarce.
To say that it is serious is not only about the action scenes, but that it is really making a movie with the thinking of a movie, rather than using the idea of short video to guide the public's emotions like most theatrical films.
An example.
Or the aforementioned scene of the couple's suicide.
After the actor was raped, her husband came to the door to die with the gang, and was extremely humiliated.
All thoughts were ashen, and the couple came to the rooftop to drink.
Under the bright sunset, the husband gently sang the duo turn:
Yellow grain grass is like a murderous sword
Chopped
The relationship between husband and wife
There is no background music, and the camera focuses only on the reaction of the two.
The wife struggled to cheer up:
Let's start over.
The husband has long lost the will to live and turns down.
The wife subconsciously fished it with her hands and fell with it.
Here, the big vision is used.
So far away that you can't even see the figure of the two, the two are as small as feathers in the air, and death is insignificant.
And then followed by fireworks in the distance.
Isn't this more exquisite and elegant than many theatrical films?
The result of seriousness is scarcity.
In fact.
In this era of buried action movies, some people are willing to invest in such movies, and some people are willing to make such movies, which in itself is worth rejoicing.
Remember how the above three stars "came out"?
That's right.
Action movies.
Action movies in the cinema.
How popular were action movies in those years? Chinese has "Kill the Wolf", Thailand has "Boxer", Indonesia has "Raid"... Out of a large number of star-studded action superstars.
But now what?
With the naked eye, Sir feels that the two best action films of this year, "Northeast Police Story 2" and "Shocking Rescue 2", can only become a big network and meet the audience.
The elite is buried.
Even if it is Semyon, with such an action performance, if you mention it now, I am afraid it will not be an action star, but: the first brother of the net.
How sad.
But.
On the other hand.
Perhaps we should be thankful, at least, that he can still be seen on platforms like Cloud Cinema.
A simple set of data:
On the first day of the launch of "Northeast Police Story 2", the cloud cinema premiered with a box office of 1.46 million yuan.
Douban scored 7.3.
This is already high in online movies.
What does this look like?
The first part of "No One in Sight" is also online on iQiyi, which also has a score of 7.3.
What can be expected.
Because of being seen, "No One in Sight" and "Northeast Police Story" will continue to be filmed, the second and third parts, become a sparkling signboard for online movies, cloud cinema gives good content a platform, which is the result of the audience voting with their feet, the result of the main creator's life-fighting struggle, and the company behind them (Wei Junzi, Xie Miao, Yang Bingjia, Qin Pengfei, Liu Wenpu and others and Lianrui Pictures established a light knife and fast horse), risking the result of exchange back.
At last.
Sir suddenly thought of a line.
It was in the movie where the villain saw the police fighting so hard and said:
You earn thousands of dollars a month, what to fight for.
This sentence is obviously a tribute to the "Letter to Daddy" in which Semyon participated, and it is Yu Rongguang's line in that movie.
But, at the same time, it also points to reality:
Action movies are so low, what are you fighting for?
Is this a bunch of fools?
No.
Perhaps, it does not matter how many benefits can be obtained and how many honors can be obtained.
And most importantly.
Worthy of movies, worthy of action movies, worthy of yourself.
This will be exchanged for hope.
And we.
I also hope that the world is worthy of everyone who takes things seriously.
The picture of this article comes from the Internet
Editorial Assistant: Kitano Martial Arts Master