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As a representative of the action film industry, Jackie Chan successfully stood out in the craziest era of Hong Kong cinema with his "suicidal" fighting method.
not only dominated the Hong Kong film industry in the 80s, swept the world in the 90s, and even ushered in the second spring of his career after 00. "Myth", "Baby Plan", "Zodiac", and "Heavenly General", the box office has repeatedly hit new highs, and it is almost among the top five domestic films at the annual box office. The super bad movie "Kung Fu Yoga" is a big sale!
Among all Jackie Chan's "suicide" action movies, the most important one has to be mentioned is "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother".
This movie not only almost killed Jackie Chan and made Jackie Chan have long hair from now on, but also relied on the inheritance of "Mythology", "Zodiac" and "Kung Fu Yoga" in the 00s, making Jackie Chan one of the top actors at that time, and his aura was even more shining. The influence of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" on Jackie Chan is even far greater than the impact of the two series of "Plan A" and "Police Story" on Jackie Chan.
"Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" is produced by Golden Harvest Film Co., Ltd., co-directed by Zeng Zhiwei and Jackie Chan, written by Tang Jingsheng, John Sheppard, Szeto Zhuohan, starring Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Kwan Zhilin, etc., released in Hong Kong, China on January 21, 1987, won the box office of 35.469 million Hong Kong dollars, won the annual box office champion, and broke the Hong Kong film history record set by "The True Color of Heroes". Moreover, its global box office is as high as 21 million, ranking 10th in the top 50 Hong Kong movies in the 80s.
Not only was it shortlisted for the Hong Kong Film Awards the following year, it was nominated for Best Action Direction, but it also received a score of 7.5 from 35,000 people on Douban.
In terms of Luoxue's personal perception, the story of this film is compact, the action scenes are thrilling, Alan Tam and Jackie Chan, one is responsible for being funny, and the other is responsible for action, so that the whole movie is full of Jackie Chan's usual joyful comedy elements, so that people can feel joy in the world of the movie.
Flying cars, fights, and extreme jumps, these "Jackie Chan-style" elements allow the audience to clearly feel the adrenaline rush during the movie. Moreover, although the overall story of this film is not outstanding, there are no obvious bugs, and even now, this film is still a high-quality action movie.
However, in addition to sensory stimulation, this film is the usual plot weakness of Jackie Chan movies! The plot is simple and boring, and there is nothing that can make people shine, or fall into contemplation, and it has never been able to make the audience empathize. Moreover, the story as a whole is extremely deliberate, and there is also a strong "sudden truncation", so that the audience cannot see an interesting and in-depth story.
Even, it can be said unceremoniously that this film is a seriously overpraised film, and its essence is mediocrity that goes deep into the bone marrow, which is very boring!
The following is a serious spoiler, it is recommended that friends who have not watched it go to watch this drama first, and then watch the falling snow recommendation! (Friends who don't have channels, you can click on the snow on the menu homepage to watch the movie)
1. Thrilling
It is difficult for Jackie Chan movies to have such a profound core as "The Shinjuku Incident", but in terms of pure sensory stimulation, it is almost the best in the industry, especially the tidbits at the end of the movie in the last minute or so, which are the core of the whole movie.
The most obvious feature of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" is actually the simple plot + excellent sensory stimulation, so that the audience can watch a simple and good-looking movie in the most relaxed and pleasant way.
The core story of this film is actually very simple, that is, the cult organization wants to get the other 3 God weapons, and put together a set (5) of God weapons to fool their believers. However, they didn't want to spend money on it, so they kidnapped Aaron's girlfriend and told Aaron to find Jack, who was asked to steal back the remaining 3 God's weapons. So, Jack borrowed 3 divine weapons, secretly infiltrated the cult base, rescued his friend's girlfriend, and produced a series of interesting stories.
In essence, although "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" has treasure hunting adventure elements, it is far from the real treasure hunting adventure film, it is a police film with treasure hunting elements, and compared with "Police Story Series", it is just a different shell.
The simplification of the story allows the audience not to think about it, and can capture the audience's vision at the first time. And a large number of difficult action scenes and funny scenes in the movie allow the audience to immerse themselves in it without any scruples.
For example, at the beginning of the movie, it was the story of Jackie Chan going to the primitive tribe to steal the sword of the Holy Spirit, and the wonderful fights and Jackie Chan's performance made the movie full of joy. The imitation of the god and the beer smoke bomb are full of joy, and the whole escape process is extremely tense, and the design of the grass ski chase adds to this thrilling feeling.
However, the most hilarious part of the whole film is when Alan goes to steal Ami's divine weapon, and Jack's various on-the-spot responses to Ami are full of joy. At the same time, the best thing about Jackie Chan's movies is that his comedy clips are not deliberate, and there is a feeling of naturalness. Moreover, this kind of comedy exists in every clip of the movie, which mobilizes the atmosphere of the movie very well.
And the speeding cars and fights in the movie also achieve a perfect blend of thrilling and comedy, such as the car chase is full of thrills, and finally the car escapes in the way, which adds a sense of comedy.
The battle between Jackie Chan and the four female King Kongs, on the one hand, cooperated with each other properly, making the whole action scene smooth, and on the other hand, by jamming the heels and walking on tiptoe, etc., so that the action scene had a reasonable reason to turn defeat into victory, and also increased the comedy feeling of the movie. And the design of jumping from the cliff to the hot air balloon at the end is very bold and exciting.
In addition, in addition to the two sensory stimulation of comedy and stimulation, the most worthy of praise in Jackie Chan's movie is truth!
The truth in "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" is mainly the reality of the villains and the reality of the group fight. Among them, the truth of the villain lies in the fact that the villain breaks the traditional movie, and once he sneaks in, the villain must be difficult to discover the traditional setting. In this film, Jack has just infiltrated the cult and has been discovered by the villain, and the villain even deliberately cooperated with him in order to make Jack successful.
And another truth of the movie is that even if the characters played by Jackie Chan are all extinct, they will still be difficult to parry when facing four hands with two fists, such as the battle of the park fitness corner in "Police Story 2", and the battle with the four female King Kong at the beginning of this film. He was skillfully cooperated by the other party, and he couldn't resist it, which made it seem extremely real.
However, in addition to sensory stimulation, this film is very mediocre and even boring at the story level, and the whole story has a strong sense of deliberateness. And this is also the fundamental reason why although the box office performance of this film broke the record, in terms of awards, there is only one best action director, and it is only a nomination.
2. Mediocre stories
In addition to sensory stimulation, the problem of this film is the mediocrity that goes deep into the bone marrow, and the deliberately contrived choreography, and the whole story is full of a deliberate foreshadowing and gratuitous advancement. It's as if the male protagonist has a desire to become a hero, but his strength is stretching, and everyone deliberately accompanies him to act in order to be able to help the male protagonist realize his dreams.
This kind of deliberate reduction of intelligence and crotch pulling makes the whole story look extremely twisted, and there is a sense of discomfort of "like a man on the back, like a fish in the throat, and like sitting on pins and needles".
For example, Jackie Chan and Alan Tam went to the earl's house to borrow three divine weapons, and the Czech Republic and the earl only had two business relationships, but the earl not only let Jack enter the castle, but even took them to see his collection, let them find three divine weapons, and even took the initiative to let them stay overnight, causing a theft incident, and asked his daughter to take three divine weapons to help Jack, wanting to get a complete 5 divine weapons.
It seems that the Earl is scheming, but in the process, Ami falls in love with Jack, and Jack does not get the full God Weapon in the end, and even Ami does not strictly supervise Jack. In other words, the director deliberately thought of strange reasons to let the story go on deliberately, but this line didn't care at all.
In the same way, there is no need for the so-called vehicle chase to exist at all, just like the movie needs to have a wonderful chase scene and is deliberately designed, and even the traces of the design are very heavy!
Why did the villain want to rob God of arms, why only send two people out and hide the rest in an alley where no one is around? Why not put it all out and prepare for a more elaborate deployment? And the design of hitting the dining table in the movie has no reason to exist, anyway, the vehicle crashed into it for no reason, presenting a more exciting chase sequence, but such a clip and such a design are actually completely unnecessary.
In addition, the biggest contradiction in this film is actually that they want to prostitute Asian Flying Eagles for nothing, so they use the method of kidnapping.
"We're going to ask the Eagle to help us get the rest of the God's arms, but it doesn't cost money", so they go on a killing spree at the Paris fashion show, kidnap Rhona, and then there is a fierce car chase, and it is the obedient agent, and the prostitutes are called to cooperate with the Eagle to save people. After the whole process, its value is actually far more than the cost of directly asking the flying eagle to steal it back.
But if the price is really high, there will be no rest of the story, so in order to discover the story, these cult members must adopt the most brain-dead plan.
It can be said that the story of each chapter of the whole movie is as deliberate and twisted as the "white prostitution" of the Asian Flying Eagle. The impetus for the story itself is extremely weak, which is completely different from Jackie Chan's "Shinjuku Incident", which is driven by the plot. And when the internal thrust of the movie is weak, there are still many logical problems, as well as the inherent "faults" of Jackie Chan's movies.
3. Inherent "faults"
The biggest problem with Jackie Chan's movies is that the overall story is too simple and unthinking, which is completely different from Jet Li's "Tsui Hark Series" and "Chen Kexin Series", and even much worse than Stephen Chow's "Jiupin Sesame Official" and "Kung Fu".
But what is even more speechless is that there are too many storylines in Jackie Chan's movies that end without a problem.
For example, the Earl's condition for lending 3 God's weapons to Jack was that Jack would return 5 of them, but the movie came to an abrupt end after Jack was rescued, and the Earl's God's arms line was suddenly broken. The relationship between Jack and Ami was also broken suddenly, and the ambiguity between Rhona and Jack disappeared suddenly, and the plot of "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" was not explained in "Flying Eagle Project".
It can be said that the entire story line is full of this kind of design that ends without a problem, and at the same time, there are many small bugs in the movie.
For example, thousands of years ago, in the Armed Forces of God in the European religious wars, the Holy Spirit Sword was actually snatched back by Jack from the wild tribes in Africa. This span is a bit too large. And the movie's remarks about money cults and cults, although they have a thought-provoking aspect, but they also have a sense of deliberateness.
On the whole, if you only look at this film as an ordinary popcorn movie, this film is still good, but if you look at this film carefully, you will find a lot of problems and bugs, the whole is too mediocre and too boring, compared with the "Flying Eagle Project" written and directed by Jackie Chan later, the gap is not a little bigger.
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