<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, Daily Movie Recommendation - "Dark War"
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Director: Du Qifeng
Starring: Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, Meng Jiahui.
This police film directed by Du Qifeng in 1999 is one of the good memories of Hong Kong movies in the last century.
He Shangsheng, a police negotiator played by Liu Qingyun, was caught in a 72-hour chase and escape game led by the robber Hua when negotiating with the bandit Hua (played by Andy Lau), who was repeatedly calculated by Hua in the process of hunting down Hua. In the end, the truth came out, it turned out that the robber Hua was terminally ill, and his life was only four weeks left, and the reason why he stole the gem from the financial company and laid out the innings of this 72-hour chase game was to retaliate against Chen Mou, the boss of the financial company he robbed. At that time, Chen Once betrayed and killed Hua's father for a valuable gem.
In the process of the chase and escape game, Huawei evades the police, and on the bus, he and The girl Liang Wanting, who has never known each other, pretends to be a couple to avoid the pursuit, but Liang Wanting falls in love with Hua at the moment when the two embrace each other. In the end, Hua Shi bureau successfully avenged his father and sent his father's enemy Chen to prison, and donated 20 million of the gems purchased from the financial company Chen to a cancer fund. Three years later, negotiator He Shangsheng met the girl Liang Wanting on the bus and found that he was wearing the priceless jewel that Hua had given her, and she herself did not know it.
Andy Lau won the 19th Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performance in this film, which is one of the classic screen images of his acting career. This film, which is not too prominent in terms of practical significance and artistic value, has reached a height of aesthetics. From beginning to end, the film creates a touching and deep,direct "poignant" atmosphere. The handsome and compelling Hua Tsai and the heroine's romantic bus encounter, the early setting of the male protagonist's imminent death, and The wonderful ace-to-ace rivalry between Andy Lau and Liu Qingyun in the play make the story deeply moving while making the audience reminisce endlessly.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, "Embroidered Spring Knife: The Battlefield of Shuluo"
Director: Lu Yang
Starring: Zhang Zhen, Yang Mi, Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin, Xin Zhilei
As a well-produced and richly plotd mainland costume martial arts film in recent years, the "Embroidered Spring Knife" series has so far shot two films, and with the excellent quality of its works, it has performed well at both the box office and word-of-mouth.
"Embroidered Spring Knife: Shuluo Battlefield" is the second part of this series of works, telling that in the seventh year of tomorrow's revelation, Shen Lian, played by Zhang Zhen, played by Beizhen Fusi JinyiWei Baihu, in the investigation of the case, due to a momentary soft heart, and the female painter Hokusai played by Yang Mi had an affair, but he was caught in a shocking conspiracy... In order to survive in this chaotic world and keep the little obsession in his heart, he and his colleague Pei Lun hugged each other to warm up and fight to the death.
The reason why the film is so touching is that it has been praised by the audience as the best costume martial arts work in recent years. It lies in the film's accurate presentation of the darkness of the court in the chaotic era of the late Ming Dynasty, the struggle between various forces for power and interests, and the general environment in which everyone is in danger and precarious; and in this repressive and suffocating ecology, the inner humanity of the characters of different positions is truly expressed. Lu Wenzhao, who is middle-aged and can sacrifice everything for political pursuits; Pei Lun, who knows the rules of official survival but can insert a knife for his friends; Shen Lian, the male protagonist who is in a chaotic world but has a glimmer of extravagant hope for freedom and beauty in his heart...
The film uses the experiences of several "little people" on the one hand to portray the darkness and cruelty of the "big era" at the end of the Ming Dynasty; on the other hand, through the pure feelings between Shen Lian and Hokusai, and the hug between Shen Lian and Pei Lun, it praises the pursuit of freedom and the struggle against fate in the chaotic world. And the courage not to succumb to reality and fate, to bow to power and the world, is the greatest shining point in human nature, and it is of introspection and inspirational significance for us, no matter what generation we are.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, "Million Dollar Baby"
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.
Directed by the famous Hollywood director and actor Clint Eastwood, the film tells the story of an elderly boxing coach Frankie, a low-born but dreamy female boxer Maggie and Frankie's only friend, Skye, there are moving stories about dreams, hard work, courage and emotion. The film won the 77th Kay Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and other four awards, and is one of Eastwood's representative works of directing and acting.
Training boxers is almost the whole meaning of Frankie's life, so he and his daughter are strangers and self-repressed and closed. Although his technique of training his players was perfect, his concept of protecting boxers too much caused many opportunities to compete, and many of the boxers he trained left him after finding new brokers.
Old friend Scarpe introduced a 32-year-old but determined female player Maggie to him, and with frankie's help and training, Maggie, who dreamed of a championship, soon became a rising star in the boxing world, and the audience cheered and cheered for her. This elderly girl from the slums and without access to her family, while getting closer and closer to her dreams, she and Frankie also regard each other as the most important spiritual carrier in their lives, and while achieving each other's careers, the relationship between the two of them fills the long-missing family relationship in their hearts.
In the final battle of Ace vs. Ace for the championship, Maggie fractured her cervical vertebrae and amputated one leg due to the opponent's plot. With the cheers and shouts that have not yet cooled down from their dreams and the afterglows of their memories, Maggie tells Frankie that his life has been glorious and regretless with his help, and he has taken the initiative to end his life...
While we regret Maggie's experience infinitely, perhaps what Skyey finally said to Frankie is the best interpretation of life and life. There are people dying every day in this world, when mopping the floor, when washing dishes, but at the last moment of their lives, what they think is that they have never had the opportunity in their lives to be so close to their dreams...
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, "Lost Weekend"
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Starring: Ray Mirand, Jane Wyman
"Lost Weekend" is a classic alternative film with a simple plot, but full of emotional elements and strong watchability, the film was released in 1945, with excellent film quality and infectious emotional rendering, the work won four awards at the 18th Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.
The film tells the detailed experience of a drunkard who is deeply poisoned by alcohol and unable to call himself, during the two days of the weekend. This seemingly bland plot, which does not even have a story integrity, under the director's very high-level lens language, through the accurate control of the scene, the excellent presentation of the character's emotions and environmental atmosphere, extremely vividly portrays the inner contradictions and mental torment of an alcoholic, as well as the impact and harm caused by alcoholism to himself, his relatives and lovers.
The impressionist lens language and shooting philosophy are nearly perfectly reflected in this film, and the whole film is almost swayed and advanced by the emotions of the protagonist. From the beginning, in order to find an opportunity to drink, he tricked his brother and lover into going out to find a drink on his own, and missed the weekend trip he had made with his brother. In the two days of the weekend, he fell deeper and deeper into the alcohol, interspersed with the struggle and conflict between the writer's dream and the physical alcohol temptation in his heart, and the camera-like picture and the shooting style that drove the audience's emotions beautifully supported the whole movie. In the tavern, the number of circles left by the wine glasses on the counter is used to express the number of glasses he drinks, the image of the bottle with aesthetic sense reflected by the ceiling lamp, and the bat that appears in the protagonist's drunken hallucinations, etc., which have become a very representative impressionist camera style.
Billy Wilder, as a famous Hollywood director in the 40s and 50s of the last generation, has filmed classic works such as "Sunset Boulevard" and "Double Compensation", and his "Prosecution Witness" filmed in the 1950s is regarded by the majority of fans as a god in their hearts.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >5, "King of Song and Dance Siegfried"
Director: Robert Leonard
Starring William Powell, Mana Loy, Louise Reiner.
Song and dance films have always occupied an important place in Hollywood movies. He has won many achievements and awards in previous Oscar judging, such as "Walk with Me", "Broadway Melody", "Song in the Rain", "Chicago" and so on. Released in 1936, "Ziggy Fei the King of Song and Dance", with its rich and full story content and incomparable stage effects, won three awards at the 9th Oscars, such as Best Picture and Best Actress.
Based on the theme of a biography and a song and dance film, this film tells the life of the famous Florence Siegfried on Broadway. Born in 1869, the son of a musical family has devoted his life to the choreography and management of entertainment performances. The film not only details the life of the stage legend and his two marriages, but also brings to the screen some of the classic Broadway operas he produced during his life. The content of these opera fragments is wonderful, the scenes are grand, the shooting is complex, and the pictures are exquisite, which is unmatched by any film of the same type before this film.
The film allows the audience to enjoy the wonderful Broadway classic opera in the film, while the male protagonist Siegfried's dedication to the acting career, his wise and fanatical personality, and his emotional drama with his two wives are also worthy of the audience's serious appreciation and careful taste.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >6, Frozen
Directors: Chris Barker, Jennifer Lee
Hans Christian Andersen, who has written famous fairy tales such as "The Mermaid", and his other fairy tale work "Snow White", was adapted into an animated masterpiece by the animation giant Disney Company in 2013 - "Frozen". With its beautiful graphics, exquisite and dazzling character shapes and beautiful musical elements, the film became a big winner in the box office market, winning $1.274 billion at the box office and winning two awards at the 86th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song.
In the ancient kingdom of Arendelle, Elsa and Anna were two princesses who were loved and loved by the people, and her sister Elsa was born with the ability to make ice and snow. As she grew older, the public became suspicious of Elsa, and after she nearly injured her sister Anna with her superpowers, in order to protect her relatives and fear her superpowers, she fled into the mountains, built an ice castle and imprisoned herself in it, isolated from the world.
In order to save the fate of her sister and the kingdom, her sister Anna, the teenager Christopher, and the prince Hans of the neighboring country, form an expedition to enter the ice and snow world of the mountains to find Elsa. In this journey full of adventure and the unknown, the film not only brings us a gorgeous and shocking visual and auditory appreciation, but also makes us feel the inner characters of several main characters, including bravery, kindness, fearlessness, and at the same time insidious and despicable. This film is a wonderful animation masterpiece, but also a classic film that expresses human nature and desire.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >7, The Ten Commandments
Director: Cecil Demir
Starring: Charles Hayston, Yu Berner.
Released in 1956 and based on the Old Testament, this religious and epic masterpiece has an irreplaceable and important position in the history of cinema. The film's $65 million box office result was higher than another similar film of the same genre a few years later, "Virtual Bin". The film's picture color and scene grandeur are more than the latter, but it is slightly inferior to "Virtual Bin" in terms of the three-dimensional sense of character shaping and the depth of emotional drama.
The film details the life of the Jewish prophet Moses. Under the rule of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, the Hebrews were slaves for generations. Because there were prophecies that a Hebrew baby boy would lead the Hebrews to freedom as the spokesman of the true God, Pharaoh ordered the killing of all Hebrew baby boys. The mother of the infant Moses put him in a basket and drifted down the river, where he was adopted and raised by Pharaoh's daughter. As an adult, Moses was brave and good at war, and made great contributions to Egypt.
But after gaining that he was a Hebrew, Moses began to break with Pharaoh and devote himself to saving the Hebrews. At the behest of the true God, Moses went through many hardships, and after the request for the freedom of the Hebrews was rejected by the Egyptian pharaoh, he relied on the divine power of the true God and after several games with the pharaoh, he finally convinced the pharaoh and won the freedom for the Hebrews. After the Hebrews made a great mistake against doctrine, Moses punished the wrongdoer with the Ten Commandments given to him by the true God and passed on the doctrine of the true God.
Although the film was filmed in the 1950s of the previous generation, it strives for perfection in every aspect. The film was filmed with up to 3,500 extras, and the film's exquisite costumes, brilliant colors, grand scenes, and spectacular picture effects are enough to make today's audiences still feel shocked when they enjoy it. The film received multiple Oscar nominations, but in the end it only won one award for best viewing effects, and under the extremely luxurious picture, the overly dogmatic plot process and stereotypical character image were the main reasons for the film's failure to win more awards.