31 years ago, Wu Yusen broke into Hollywood with this movie, presenting a perfect "violent aesthetic" 1.Gangster boss and police detective change their faces to get each other's lives 2.What is justice and what is evil? 3. High-quality acting skills and real shooting environment to create this classic movie! 4. Nicolas Cage initially rejected the film 5. It is a perfect "aesthetic of violence" film

31 years ago, Wu Yusen successfully broke into Hollywood with a movie;

And became the pinnacle of his directing career, this film is "Change of Face";

Starring John Travolta and Nicholas Cage.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" >1. The gang boss and the police detective change their faces to get each other's lives</h1>

The content of this film is like the name of the film;

The main story is that the two protagonists get each other's lives after experiencing the face-changing technology.

Just don't know what they went through?

What kind of mission has been accomplished? Is there ultimately salvation?

Nicolas Cage's role in the film, Kester, is a gang boss;

Once he designed to kill Sean (John Trawota), a policeman who had been tracking him for 8 years.

But did not expect the failure of the plot to kill the policeman's son by mistake;

This made the two completely form a feud between the two of them.

The most important thing is that Kester is very smart and can skillfully evade the police every time;

After his arrest, there was another trouble.

That's when Kester planted a poison gas bomb in the crowd;

However, the specific installation location was not informed.

In order to find the bomb;

Police Officer Sean decided to use a very unique technique at the time to change face with Kester.

This technique can allow one person's face to be swapped for another's face;

After the operation began, Kester and Sean fell into a coma;

Sean quickly went into battle after the operation.

Kester was put in custody after a delay in waking up after surgery;

Gradually becoming conscious, he quickly counter-killed the policeman who was guarding him;

Several key people who knew about the incident were also killed one by one.

The face-swapping program itself is a high-level secrecy operation;

Not to mention that Kester was very clever and directly killed all those in the know;

So the two of them changing faces became an eternal secret.

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After changing his face, Sean becomes the gang boss Kester;

He immediately used his unique identity to blend into the gang to investigate the truth.

At the same time, it also helped the Kester family resolve the conflict;

Let the daughter who walked the crooked road get lost and return.

After Kester became a policeman, he did not go the old way;

Instead, he used his humor to resolve Sean's conflict with his police colleagues.

At the same time, because of work reasons, Sean has drifted away from his girlfriend;

Kester used companionship and sweet words;

Resolved the coldness between Sean and his girlfriend.

In fact, Kester was a very attractive person during his time as a bad guy;

Even if he is defined as a terrorist, there are still friends who are obligated to help him.

After he was imprisoned, many people helped him escape from prison and go to the home of an old friend;

He found that the other party had saved the weapon he had been using, and even promised to help him get revenge.

On the contrary, Sean's family and career are not particularly smooth;

His girlfriend has many conflicts with him, and colleagues always fight with him.

So through this film, we can't define what is good and what is evil;

The most important thing is To Kester's IQ and emotional intelligence.

If he wants to use his new identity to get rid of Sean forever;

Living in place of Sean was completely completely unchallengable, but he didn't.

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Although the plot setting is to change faces, the actors are not really changing faces;

Instead, imitate the other party's demeanor and behavior to play the other party.

After watching this movie, Star-Lord also had only one thought;

That is, the actor is worthy of being an actor, acting like what;

In the future, I don't dare to believe the performance of the actors.

Because it's not just the appearance and appearance that resemble the likeness;

The eyes of the two actors after exchanging identities turned out to be exactly the same.

At the same time, the plot direction of the film does not leave the gangster film setting;

Blend into a police gunfight between good and evil and tension.

Take the gunfight scene on the roof of the building as an example, where the two sides fired 5,000 shots;

The director strives to ensure that the effect of the film is real;

A completely different 5,000 bullet hole effect was also specially set on the top floor wall and furniture.

The guns held by different actors are also completely different;

It's almost taking the plot details to the minions.

Director Wu Yusen while filming this film;

Nor did it take the green cloth commonly used in Hollywood, but shot live-action.

It's not that Hollywood special effects aren't good enough;

At that time, Hollywood special effects, although somewhat inferior to today, can still be ranked in the world.

Wu Yusen's idea is to use the green screen to present the picture although very real;

However, the actor's performance in acting will be slightly inferior.

Because if there is no real scene;

It is difficult for actors to integrate their emotions, and it is inevitable that the effect will be unsatisfactory just by imagining it out of thin air.

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Wu Yusen when choosing who to play the face-changing Sean;

It was also a lot of consideration that it was finally decided that Nicholas Cage would star.

The reason is because Nicolas Cage had already created the image of a macho man at that time;

However, after learning of the invitation, Nicholas Cage somewhat refused;

Because he doesn't want to be a villain.

Fortunately, although this character is a villain, he has become a righteous policeman after changing his face;

So he will challenge two different character personalities with one image;

And it is also necessary to randomly switch personalities between the two, testing acting skills and testing psychological ability.

For Hollywood actors, they have long been famous and have many well-known masterpieces;

The pursuit is not just for films or remuneration.

Instead, I want more challenging characters to emerge;

The film "Changing Faces" is undoubtedly the best choice.

So Nicolas Cage learns the plot details;

Immediately agreed, and paid 100% effort when shooting.

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Before knowing the film;

In fact, Wu Yusen already has several films in China that have a very good box office and reputation.

But he never really brought a perfect "aesthetic of violence" film;

So he launched this work.

In the film, he does not use violence as a box, which is integrated into heroism;

Rather, it makes the whole film full of idealistic settings, while incorporating gunfights, killings, and emotions.

For the public, the film "Changing Faces" has passed more than 30 years;

The theme is still very novel, and the plot is thrilling enough;

The fight scene is even more intense and exciting, full of shock.

The most important thing is that there are countless foreshadowings buried in advance in the play;

No wonder this film will make Wu Yusen a god in one fell swoop, which is really deserved.

In fact, there are still many films like this type of film in the entertainment industry;

For example, there is also a classic film "Infernal Affairs";

The two are very similar in terms of plot setting and character design.

But these later films, even if the plot is of high quality, the special effects are more exquisite;

It can't be compared with the classics, after all, the classics are classics, indelible and cannot be surpassed!

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