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If there is a movie viewing plan on May Day, Yi Feijun will come to Amway~ This May Day file must blow up Zheng Baorui's "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City"! Mrs. Mrs. is so good-looking!
Don't be confused by this slightly big online title, in terms of martial arts scenes, in terms of audio-visual enjoyment, "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" can be regarded as the best Chinese action movie in the past two years. And one thing to say, the story and characters of the film are not crotch-pulling, and the overall degree of completion is quite high. Director Zheng Baorui, after experiencing the downturn and confusion of the "Journey to the West" IP in previous years, his creative state has finally picked up. From "Wisdom Teeth" and "Murder" to the current "Siege of the Kowloon Walled City", the fierce Zheng Baorui is back, and several works in succession are quite standard, which is very gratifying to fans.
"The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" is adapted from Yu Er's novel "The Kowloon Walled City", and the story is set in the Kowloon Walled City, the notorious "three regardless" zone in Hong Kong in the 80s of the last century. Chen Luojun, a refugee played by Lin Feng, smuggled into Hong Kong and strayed into the Kowloon Walled City in order to escape for his life, not only forming a sincere brotherhood here, but also getting involved in the dragon and tiger struggle for the leadership of the walled city.
Hong Kong films' favorite gangster battles and brotherhood are all in "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City", and in the form of action scenes, they are completed heartily and excitingly. In terms of the presentation of action scenes, the film combines the narrow and cramped Kowloon Walled City, where the story takes place, and the terrain characteristics of various private and disorderly constructions, and excavates the vertical space fights to the extreme. Modern fighting scenes mostly work ground actions, and rarely fly off the wall, but the Kowloon Walled City has such a spacious boundary for the protagonist to fight, and can only develop vertical space fights: going upstairs and downstairs, picking windows, hanging wires, jumping rooftops...... The characters rush up and down like bats, and the look is very fresh.
The original novel is accompanied by comics, and there are also comic adaptations, so Zheng Baorui wanted to retain the comic sense of the original book when designing the action scenes. Isn't this a coincidence, the action director of the film is the Japanese filmmaker Kenji Tanigaki, a hot-blooded teenager, friendship, and animation style, which is exactly what he is good at. As a result, we saw the fights in the film that blended the style of the comics. A lot of punches, kicks, turns, or a "xiu-" flying and jumping action have a kind of freeze-frame feeling in the comics. Zheng Baorui led the crew to do many tests, and finally achieved a balance between romance and realism, which will not make people feel exaggerated to the point of not conforming to gravity, but can be full of ornamentation and excitement.
Coupled with Zheng Baorui's best sharp action style, the fists are to the flesh, the knives are red, and the pain breaks through the screen and reaches the audience, and the hormones are instantly full. There are at least two scenes of "human tamping" in the film, and the impact is so strong that Yi Feijun screams on the spot. Zheng Baorui is really good at filming! For each character in the film, the action design of the film also highlights its characteristics. For example, the most juvenile Shinichi, when he appeared on the stage, he drove a motorcycle, and a pair of butterfly knives played with wind and water, and he was extremely popular.
Chen Luojun, the protagonist played by Lin Feng, belongs to the "punch to death master" faction, there is no discipline school, relying on brute force and the strength to survive. However, in the later period, he was influenced by his eldest brother "Tornado", and gradually had moves, which also means that the character is growing.
Aaron Kwok's "Murder King" Chen Zhan, whose signature weapon looks like a sickle, is full of momentum and lethality with a scarred face and a rough-edged robe.
Of course, there is also the best villain Wang Jiu in the whole film. He has the legendary hard qigong, invulnerable, and can't kill Xiaoqiang. The ferocity and strength of this character must have left a deep impression on many viewers.
In short, if you are a fan of action movies, you must not miss this film, which is both wonderful and distinctive, and will definitely be very refreshing to watch. In terms of the story of the film, this mode of the protagonist being taken in distress has been filmed in Hong Kong films such as "Peace Hotel" and "Ma Yongzhen", so it is not innovative. But compared with Hong Kong-style action movies in recent years, the story of "The Siege of the Walled City of Kowloon" is smooth and complete, the plot has no loopholes, and the emotional aspect is actually quite moving. At the beginning of the film, Chen Luojun, the male protagonist in the form of "bald head strong + Wu Jing + Lin Feng", worked hard to smuggle in the city, and finally came to Hong Kong, but he strayed into a dance hall that played black boxing and made money by selling his life. thought that the money in exchange for boxing could allow him to buy a legal identity, but he didn't expect to meet the unreasonable "big boss" (Sammo Hung), who not only gave him a shoddy fake identity, but also wanted to lock him up to earn money for himself. In order to save his life, Chen Luojun could only run quickly. This escape scene was also filmed quite excitingly, especially the fight on the bus, which was filmed like a horror movie, which was very scary.
Even if Chen Luojun fled to the Kowloon Walled City, although it was not the sphere of influence of the "big boss", he was also facing the situation of not having enough food, not having warm clothes, and being beaten every day, which was very miserable. In less than 20 minutes after the opening, the image of this weak, pitiful, and helpless homeless child in a foreign land was established, and the sense of substitution was extremely strong. Therefore, the scene where Chen Luojun is taken in by the "Tornado" and gets to know his good brothers will be so touching, and the villain is enough to make people grit their teeth.
Although the brotherhood in the film is not much inked, it is just right and resonates enough. The F3 teenager in the walled city helped Chen Luojun out of sympathy at first, but later Chen Luojun's kindness and hardship were gradually seen by them, and their impression became better and better. It wasn't until the four of them coincided in the secret operation to teach the domestic violence man that the emotion of "I identify you" really arose, and the dead man finally became a friend of life and death, and the walled city F4.
The villain came to besiege the Kowloon Walled City, F3 would rather lose his life than rescue the unconscious Chen Luojun.
The last Walled City F4 vs. Wang Jiu, the 4V1 battle, the climax was repeated, and the blood boiled to watch. In terms of casting, "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" can also be regarded as a gathering of three generations of Hong Kong stars. Although Sammo Hung of the older generation can't fight as well as when he was young, he can vaguely see the shadow of a generation of grandmasters with one move and one style, and he lives up to the reputation of "the most flexible fat man".
Lin Feng, Louis Koo, Ren Xianqi, and Aaron Kwok of the Mesozoic Era have appeared in various Hong Kong films in recent years.
This year's 45-year-old Lin Feng still has to mix in the junior actors to pretend to be a teenager, although a little bit of that, but fortunately this time he played too hard, from beginning to end, the degree of dedication and completion are amazing, I believe that he will have a certain harvest at the Hong Kong Film Awards next year.
Louis Koo and Ren Xianqi have a feeling of deliberately pretending to be old in the film, but to be honest, the demeanor and charm are almost strong. Especially Ren Xianqi's appearance, there is a slight sense of comedy.
The new generation of Liu Junqian, Wu Yunlong, Hu Zitong, and Zhang Wenjie are actually not young, but they were not famous before, and this time they finally left a deep impression on the audience in this work, which can be regarded as a merit of the film.
Benefit time
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