Preface:
"You are not a loser, you are a hero in my heart"! This classic line comes from Yu Xiaohui's mouth in the movie "Hot Pot Hero".
In times of sadness, who doesn't want someone to be by your side for comfort and companionship, this movie was directed by director Yang Qing and won a box office of 370 million in 2016, which can be said to be a small hit. Not only that, the twists and turns of the plot and the complex urban terrain in the film have re-attracted people's attention to the unique landform of the mountain city of Chongqing.
The movie mainly tells the story that Liu Bo played by Chen Kun and Yu Xiaohui played by Bai Lihe met at Tongyuanju Station of Line 3. The sharp and interesting lines made the audience addicted, and at the same time, the audience felt the heat of Chongqing.
1. An ingenious double narrative
Liu Bo, Xu Dong, "glasses", the three of them from the "lovelorn alliance" in high school, all the way to the 30-year-old "old classmate hot pot", have experienced youth together, and walked together to the idle unemployed youth, these three people are very righteous, will not separate, will not leave, this is their best commemoration of youth.
For love, only Xu Dong has a home in the movie, but his wife "Mengmeng" is just a strong "melon mother" on the other end of the phone. Until Yu Xiaohui, who was secretly in love with the two in high school, appeared, Xu Dong excitedly told Liu Bo the news, and "glasses" first guessed that the girl was Liu Bo, Liu Bo stood in the supermarket at a loss, and the love story between the big boy and the beautiful and kind girl, just like the Chongqing Light Rail, flashed in the audience's mind.
The first half of "Hot Pot Hero" tells the story of Liu Bo's experience in middle age, he didn't have a decent job, only a hot pot restaurant that was about to go out of business, and ran a hot pot restaurant that was about to close down with an older brother. He owed a huge gambling debt for gambling and was threatened and beaten by a gang of loan sharks in Chongqing; He doesn't even have a happy family, and he hasn't married until he reaches middle age.
Because Liu Bo owed the seventh brother 200,000 yuan in gambling debts, in order to make the hot pot restaurant earn tens of thousands of yuan, he privately expanded the air-raid shelter, which is the back story. The gambling debt was due, and Liu Bo hadn't repaid the money yet, so the seventh brother came to Liu Bo to ask for money. In the movie, when Liu Bo first met Brother Qi, it was at a fish stall, and Brother Qi stopped Liu Bo and told him to return the money to him, otherwise he would be beheaded.
The opening scene of the movie is a farce, and the robbers carry out a thrilling robbery with the four apprentices in "Journey to the West" wearing funny masks and the background music of "Match". "Funny Mask" is the director's deconstruction of traditional symbols, based on a bank robbery that subverts reality, creating an atmosphere of absurd humor. In the end, the gangsters hijacked Liu Bo and found the cave, seeing that the gangsters were about to escape, just when everyone's hearts were in their throats, Seventh Brother and others appeared. The seventh brother chased him to the hot pot restaurant and mistakenly thought that the gangster was Liu Bo's accomplice.
After a fierce battle, both the seventh brother and the robber were seriously injured. Liu Bo, who was seriously injured, climbed the steps, roads, and rain alleys of old Chongqing, endured the pain all over his body to find the letter that was wet with rain, with a bright smile on his face, and the self-redemption of a rotten gambler was successful.
At the beginning of the movie, with the weather forecast on the radio, an inconspicuous van stops in the heavy rain, and the Yangtze River is on the gate of FXCM Wealth Management. Four masked robbers with guns in their hands got out of the car. As the door closes, the camera switches to the security bureau's monitoring room.
Four robbers with weapons took control of the entire financial management company at once. At the same time. In a van at the door, a robber was in charge of picking up the airport, and happened to be stopped by the patrol police for questioning. Because of the thief's weak heart, the robber accidentally dropped the walkie-talkie on the ground so that the police could hear the conversation of the robber inside.
The robbers fled in a car, and the police called the police. The police soon arrived and surrounded the Yangtze River Bashang Fuli, which became an "isolated island" for the four robbers. One of the robbers, while looking for an exit, finds a large hole in the vault, and that's how the story begins. Liu Bo and Xu Dong, as well as Wang Pingchuan, are all good friends who have known each other since junior high school. When they grew up, the three of them partnered to open a hot pot restaurant called "Old Classmate" in the bomb shelter, which is for this purpose. Liu Bo is a gambler, Xu Dong doesn't care about anything, and Wang Pingchuan is an honest person.
Seeing that business was getting worse and worse, the three of them simply turned the store around. Liu Bo owes Seventh Brother 230,000 yuan because of gambling, Xu Dong wants to open a new massage shop, and Wang Pingchuan wants to go out to work. The three of them each had a ghost and wanted to make more money, so they decided to expand the bomb shelter themselves. Unexpectedly, the passage suddenly collapsed.
The three of them climbed up the collapsed hole and found the Ba Shang's vault in the Yangtze River. Looking at the mountains of cash, they decided to ask Yu Xiaohui, an old classmate who works in a wealth agency, to help plug the hole. On the same day, the plan was sealed, and four robbers took hostages and ransacked the vault. It was because of this hole that the Liu Bo brothers met the four robbers.
2. Chongqing-style natural scenery
Rows of high-rise buildings, majestic and developed bridges across the river, humid and humid climate, unique Dongzi hot pot, crowded overpasses, intersecting light rails, layers of steps, and funny Chongqing dialect are like picking up a life in a hot pot restaurant, and being chased by Liu Bo and slashed several times, finally escaped, ran away with a few bags of money, but died in a car accident at the entrance of the alley.
The whole film is narrated in Chongqing dialect, the three major male protagonists and group actors are all in Chongqing dialect, and the heroine is an authentic Chongqing dialect and an authentic Mandarin. "Riding a dragon, riding a tiger, riding a chicken", "Can't fool around with friends", "I don't want to see you three again!" ”
In the movie "Hot Pot Hero", Liu Bo made his debut on stage when he was playing cards with his friends in a dilapidated small shop, received a phone call and left in a hurry. In this way, the audience's first impression of the character is that they like to gamble. In this movie, Liu Bo's scope of activities is mainly hot pot restaurants, hot pot restaurants, old vaults, and narrow alleys.
The reason why Liu Bo appeared in this clean and tidy city is also because of Yu Xiaohui. Yu Xiaohui first appeared on a neat light rail train, and then in a neat convenience store. All this shows that Yu Xiaohui is a white-collar worker and has a stable job. In the jungle of high-rise buildings, Yu Xiaohui works in an old building in the Yangtze River Ba Fortune Building.
The climax at the beginning of the story is depressing, with an argument between the brothers who "sold the hot pot restaurant", hinting at the financial and life failures of the trio, and then abruptly changing the subject, an old photo of "The Alliance of Lovelorn Fronts", which fills this friendship with memories and warmth. The "Liu Bo stolen money" incident brought the contradictions of these three people to a climax, and in the climax of the story, they finally resolved all the contradictions, and in this disaster, they showed true friendship.
In the shot, a van with the words "National Debt Collection" printed on it continues to move forward, with an overpass and a light rail crossing in the background. There were several robbers sitting in the car. After the robbers entered the bank, they had to find a way out in the bank because the guards accidentally found it, and the robber monkey accidentally discovered the tunnel dug by Liu Bo and others in order to find an exit. The plot enters the cave from the entrance of the cave, and then comes to the cave, where Liu Bo and his partner Xu Dong (Qin Hao) and glasses (Yu Entai).
Glasses called Liu Bo and told him that the three of them couldn't run anymore and wanted to transfer the hot pot restaurant and increase the transfer fee, so they decided to expand the bomb shelter. It turned out that the road led to the bank vault. One of the shots falls on the vault of the Yangtze River Merchants Bank, then the night view of the Yangtze River, then the overpass, and finally the panoramic view of the "old schoolmate Dongzi hot pot" under an overpass.
At this point, the audience learned about the geographical location of Dongzi hot pot. Faced with such a large sum of money, the three finally chose to call the police. Liu Bo was summoned to the police station by Xu Dong and told him that he had found a way to repair the hole in the vault, and that their junior high school classmate, Yu Xiaohui, worked at a bank.
The encounter at the light rail station is an important clue, that is, a letter written by Yu Xiaohui to Liu Bo. Then the two quarreled again in the hallway. Yu Xiaohui and Liu Bo made an appointment to meet three times alone, at the light rail station.
Liu Bo and others opened a hot pot restaurant in order to make a living, and later had to sell the hot pot restaurant because of poor management, and finally dug a vault in the cave, from the beginning of the escape, to the later report, to the later robbery, and then to the gangster.
With the development of the plot, the people in the cave are also constantly making life and death choices, digging holes in order to survive, in order to save their lives, the three parties are fighting in the cave, and the three parties have their own ghosts and want to leave the cave with the silver, but "Tang Seng" failed to escape from the cave.
Epilogue:
The mountain city is loved because of its heroism, and the people who live here are very satisfied, just like a hot pot, hot and hot, this is the spirit of the mountain city people, and this is also the reason for the geographical environment.
Chongqing is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, with abundant rainfall and a hot and humid climate all year round, so people have a natural love for hot pot. Liu Bo's mother said: "There are more hot pot restaurants in Chongqing than taxis." ”
Chongqing people like to eat hot pot, they like to eat hot pot, and Chongqing people's favorite thing to eat is "rake ears", because Chongqing men are afraid of their wives, and Liu Dong in the movie is a typical rake ear family.