Since the box office success of "Plan A" in 1983, although Jackie Chan has started filming the "Police Story" series in 1985, everyone is still obsessed with "Plan A" in 1987, so "Plan A" has a sequel.
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Compared with the previous "Plan A", this film can be described as a luxurious lineup, although it is missing Hong Jinbao and Yuan Biao of the "Iron Triangle", but several beautiful women have been added: Guan Zhilin, Maggie Cheung, Liu Jialing, and Jian Huizhen.
There is still no shortage of old drama bones: Dong Biao, Guan Haishan, Liu Zhaoming, Zhu Tiehe, Huang Xin, Fan Meisheng, Hu Feng, etc., and the members of the family class are still the main force: Mars, Taibao, Lin Guobin, Li Qiangquan, Lu Huiguang, etc.
In terms of supporting roles, there are young He Jiajin, "Ding Li" Lu Liangwei, Hong Kong "Takakura Jian" Lin Wei, big guy Chen Huimin and so on.
The guest cast is even more powerful, with director Chen Kexin making cameo appearances as journalists, as well as Zhong Zhentao, Chen You, Lü Fang, Huang Yulang, Xu Guanying, Qian Shengwei, Lin Guoxiong, Ma Dehe and so on.
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Compared with the previous "Plan A", a major feature of this film is the multi-line narrative, the forces of all sides take turns to appear, and several lines are very exquisitely filmed. One of the most famous bridges in the film is that all the people and horses gathered at Maggie Cheung's house, all hidden in different locations of her home, not knowing each other and hiding in the house.
Before coming, Jackie Chan and He Jiajin were handcuffed together, and the two desperately tried to hide the handcuffs as a big laugh. (The most exciting scene in the handcuffs link is that Jackie Chan and Zhen Sanhuan are chased by pirates together)
The same curtain, there will be two groups of people to cover themselves, pulling back and forth to stretch out.
Maggie Cheung asks Jackie Chan and He Jiajin to hide, but is frightened because she doesn't know where they are hiding. Inspector Dong Biao did not know that Jackie Chan and the two were also coming, thinking that Maggie Cheung's frightened scream was a hiccup, so he used the "ancient method" to treat her, that is, to suddenly scare her. Maggie Cheung was frightened and blurred.
Dong Xiao wet her coat because she helped Maggie Cheung fix her faucet. In order to tease Maggie Cheung to show her his handcuffs, but the key was used by Jackie Chan and the two to unlock the handcuffs they were locked together, dong Biao was locked on the sofa without a key by himself, which was very hilarious.
Jackie Chan slowly discovered the Qing court master in the closet, and incidentally discovered all the forces in the house. He whispered to Maggie Cheung and Dong Biao, who covered with the sound of singing, and Jackie Chan climbed up to the attic, from where the action stage of cleaning the portal began. This exquisitely designed house scene is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of this film, and later this paragraph was also used by Chen Sicheng in "Detective Chinatown".
3. Jackie Chan's first police series
It began with Plan A in 1983 and two years later in 1985. Subsequently, Jackie Chan began with these two films, and successively made "Plan A Sequel", and "Police Story" series, in addition to "Weilong Detective" and "Major Crimes Unit" and other police-themed films, and the "Plan A" series was the first police series.
The police action comedy pioneered by Jackie Chan in the "Plan A" series swept the Hong Kong film market with amazing box office, and the police image became more humane, healthy, lively, fresh and cute than ever. In fact, directors in the New Wave period of Hong Kong cinema had a large number of police-themed films, mostly in a painful and depressing atmosphere, and this style has since become a major category of Hong Kong police films. For example, the Galaxy Mirror, Lin Lingdong, Chen Jiashang and others all bear traces of New Wave police movies.
The beginning of "Plan A" is that Jackie Chan wears a marine police uniform, rides a bicycle into the yard, jumps down and lets the bicycle drive into the parking space according to inertia.
Then came the theme song of the "Plan A" series, "The Mighty Wind of the East", sung by Jackie Chan, lyrics by Huang Xia, and composed by Li Xiaotian. The opening song is almost like a water police march, directly setting the tone of the film's high-spirited and brisk tone.
The Hong Kong Police Force was established in 1844, and hiring police officers has always been a problem. In addition to recruiting from all over Britain, the number was preceded by English letters to identify the region from which the police came from: A represented the British; B represented The Indians, mainly Sikhs whose custom was to wear headscarves; C represented Cantonese-speaking Cantonese; and D represented the Shandong people recruited from Weihai, Shandong. The following is a screenshot of The 1983 Project A, which clearly shows the difference between the police officers of the three races.
In the dialogue between Jackie Chan and Zhen Sanhuan, this problem can also be glimpsed:
"Sir Town, where are you from?"
"Shandong people."
"I've never seen a Shandong person like you."
"So tall, huh?"
"It's so stupid."
The third ring of the town should have been originally a class D. Jackie Chan is a class C. But the police in this film have no good or bad, no race, and all serve the security.
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Jackie Chan has always implemented the principle of "protecting the interests of ordinary people". Whether it is catching pirates, grabbing Maggie Cheung's money box hooligans, dueling with Prince Xin's great inner secret agent. Regardless of the identity of the other party, do not think about the consequences, just do what you should do.
For the revolutionaries, the Hong Kong-style attitude of The Hong Kong policeman Ma Rulong, played by Jackie Chan, can be seen from the dialogue between Ma Rulong (Jackie Chan) and the Revolutionary Party (Guan Zhilin, Lui Liangwei).
Lv Liangwei: Join us in the ranks of the revolution to save the Chinese nation. If we can have a few more people like you, the chances of success are much greater.
Jackie Chan: I won't participate.
Lv Liangwei: Are you still angry about us planting bribes? We are ready to sacrifice for the sake of the success of the revolution, even if we ourselves are ready to sacrifice.
Jackie Chan: This is the reason why I don't want to join you. I'm a very informal person. No matter how correct and beautiful my goal is, I will not do anything wrong with the goal...
In the film, Jackie Chan borrowed the mouth of Ma Rulong, a policeman, to say his revolutionary view, which is quite interesting.
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Jackie Chan's two bosses, Guan Haishan and Dong Biao, the former shrimp uncle is Wu Mengda's master, from Cantonese opera to Hong Kong opera, Hong Kong film, created countless classic roles, and zhou Xingchi, Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau have cooperated. The latter uncle is from a family of horse trainers, although not from the class, the acting skills are enough to hang most of the actors, whether it is the "Police Story" series, or "Red Fan District", or "Miracle", Uncle Biao and Jackie Chan have a very tacit understanding.
Then there are the cameos of police officers Hui Guanying and Huang Xin, the former is a professional hong Kong film fader, although there is no big brother Xu Guanwen and younger brother Xu Guanjie's great achievements, but it is also unique in the Hong Kong film industry, and "Mr. Zombie" created by Uncle Jiu and Qiu Sheng is still the pinnacle of zombie films; the latter Huang Xin is a golden supporting role in the Hong Kong film industry, whether it is Wang Zuxian's father in "God of Gamblers" or the chef of "Jingwu Hero", all of which have left a deep impression.
The most regrettable thing is Jian Huizhen, that is, the daughter of the police inspector in the film, the real-life Jian Huizhen is also a rich woman, once won the Miss Sunshine championship, the most familiar role should be the fourth daughter of the dragon in "Hero True Colors 2", and at the same time cooperated with Lin Zhengying in "One Eyebrow Daoist", and also starred in "Tyrannosaurus Rex", "Dragon in the Jianghu", "Miracle" and other films, but unfortunately died in 1999 (1969-1999 August 16), only 30 years old.
In 1986, Jackie Chan fell seriously injured because of the filming of "Dragon Brother Tiger Brother", so "Plan A Sequel" had some fighting scenes that were completed by stand-ins, but the fight action design of this film was still compact and exciting, and the most impressive thing when I was a child was to eat peppers to "enhance" combat effectiveness, and the "Drunken Fist" series had a fight.
Police movies were the backbone of Jackie Chan films in the 1980s and 1990s, and the two films in the "Plan A" series, which were his first police films, have a special significance and are classics that we often take out and look back. (Reported by: Mankei Wu)