For a long time, some people have complained about Hong Kong and Taiwan films, and after entering the 21st century, they have begun to go to the abyss like a cliff.
Is this really the case?
After the millennium, Hong Kong films still have Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu", Andy Lau and Tony Leung's "Infernal Affairs" series, and even in recent years, there are Nicholas Tse and Donnie Yen's "Angry Heavy Case" are all masterpieces worthy of praise.
It wasn't until I was looking through the old films that I saw this "Black Gold" released in 1997 again.
"Black Gold" starring Andy Lau and Leung Ka Fai, playing the male protagonist and villain respectively, the female one and the female second, respectively played by Sun Jiajun and Wu Chenjun.
In addition, this drama also has actors such as Jin Shijie, Guo Jingchun, Li Liqun and other actors joining, which is not a gathering of big coffee, but it can also be regarded as an extraordinary lineup.
The most exciting thing is the plot of this play, the theater has twists and turns, starting from the opening "campaign representative", involving the story of Taipei's underworld arrogance, collusion with the police, and collusion with the authorities.
And Andy Lau's Fang Guohui, as the captain of the Investigation Bureau, was in the first place with the villain Zhou Chao from the beginning, and the two were doomed to an unending end.
Because the actors of the play "Black Gold" are almost all acting skills, Andy Lau at that time, his acting skills were not outstanding enough, so his performance in this play was not amazing enough, and it can even be said that he was crushed throughout the process.
This kind of drama "Black Gold" is also the brilliant acting skills of Leung Ka Fai: insidious and vicious, fierce and evil, greedy for money and power, but single-minded to his wife.
In order to make money, the role of Zhou Chaoxian can open a casino, and buy the police, turning black and white upside down.
In order to make more money, Zhou Chaoxian did not hesitate to use the tricks of the underworld to intimidate those companies that did engineering to leave.
But in the face of some large builders, Zhou Chaoxian chose the dual means of negotiation + intimidation, and people had nothing to say.
And when Lin Dong wanted to fight with Zhou Chaoxian, Zhou Chaoxian did not mind torturing and killing Lin Dong, if Fang Guohui had not arrived in time, I was afraid that Lin Dong would have died long ago.
After making money, Zhou Chaoxian hoped that he could be whitewashed and become a politician, so he did not hesitate to spend tens of millions of dollars to buy the identity of a representative of the political arena.
After sending the money, he found that the big coffee in the political circles was not ready to let him be a representative at all, and the Zhou Dynasty directly rebelled against the "big boss".
Began to use his own means to canvass, including not limited to assassinating competitors, creating social incidents on a large scale, making things bigger, and raising his popularity.
It can be said that the Zhou Dynasty could do everything for money and power.
From the Zhou Dynasty for the sake of career, for the future, for money and power to do everything, you can feel the bad role of Zhou Dynasty.
But Zhou Chaoxian's bad was another principled bad: to grab the project, he first held a meeting to discuss with everyone, and was willing to share some money to go out to appease other builders. To grab the identity of the representative, he also gave gifts first.
When these roads did not work, the Zhou Dynasty would first use its own means to start doing things, and only then would it start to be bad.
However, it is such a bad person as the Zhou Dynasty, who is single-minded to his wife and does not give up.
Judging from the villains in "Black Gold", except for Fang Guohui, the protagonist, the rest of the villains are not a lot of little three and four lovers.
Only Zhou Chaoxian, only his wife, in the process of fleeing, Zhou Chaoxian had the opportunity to escape, but after finding that his wife was seriously injured and dying, he gave up fleeing.
Why is "Black Gold" classic enough?
Because the role of Zhou Chaoxian is bad enough, but he is bad pure, there is reason to be bad, in the case of extreme badness, Zhou Chaoxian still retains human nature, he is a person, a real sense: bad people.
Compared with the current Hong Kong films or domestic "villains", the role of Zhou Chaoxian is too charismatic, and it has naturally become a classic.