With Andy Lau, there was Ning Hao.
With Ning Hao, there was "Crazy Stone".
With "Crazy Stone", there is "Crazy Racing".
This film brings together the original team of "Crazy Stone".
Huang Bo changed from a petty thief to a down-and-out racing driver, Xu Zheng transformed from a black-hearted boss to a cemetery marketing ghost, and Wang Xun transformed from a black secretary into a righteous policeman.
As the second in the Madness series, Crazy Racing is a classic in the history of Chinese comedy films.
The only thing that makes people wonder is how this film passed the censorship in the first place.
Drugs, guns, Taiwanese gangsters, bloody shots of Li Fara's wife dying, close-ups of Lee Farah's death, are almost impossible to put on the big screen now.
People can't help but sigh that in China, it is not easy to appear such a movie as "Crazy Racing".
Without further ado, let's explore why Crazy Racing is considered a classic.
One is a multi-line narrative that is cluttered and not chaotic.
Geng Hao's scene of asking Li Fara for a debt links all the main characters in the film, triggering a story of a coincidental encounter.
Why did Geng Hao fight Li Fara.
Because Geng Hao was deceived by Li Fara to endorse sanwu products that year, he was banned for life, and master had a cerebral thrombosis attack in one breath.
Many years later, Li Fara on TV had unlimited scenery, and when Master saw his qi and blood, he fell down the stairs and fell to his death, and Geng Hao buried Master Hou and asked Li Fara to pay for it.
Just as he was about to succeed, the police suddenly arrived and disrupted Geng Hao's plans, and he fled to the dressing room and ran into the Thai Cha Chai.
Cha cha cha why is here.
It turned out that the gang of four had come from afar to trade drugs with Cha cha, and the two sides were talking happily, and the sirens made them unhappy.
Chacha escapes under the eyes of the police, changes into Li Fara's clothes, and hides the drugs under the seat of Lee Fara's car.
Just as he was finishing everything and observing the police movements, he was blackmailed by his brother-in-law's brother-in-law.
How did the brother-in-law and brother-in-law appear here, and also tied up Cha Cha.
The cause is that Li Farah dislikes his wife's bloated body and covets his wife's property, so he asks the killer to create an accident and inherit his wife's property, and the killers are the brother-in-law and brother-in-law.
They tricked Geng Hao's truck and took Li Fara's wife hostage to the car, but they did not dare to act, and Li Fara's wife gave 60,000 yuan to save her own life and buy Li Fara's life.
The brother-in-law, who was a professional, burned it after taking a look at Li Fara's photo, remembering only the general appearance, so they felt that the time had come when they saw Cha Cha wearing Li Fara's clothes.
This series of coincidences has created a serial chase in the second half of the film, staging stories such as "Planting Bribes", "Serial Calculations", "Getting All Effortlessly", and "Exchanging False for Truth"
The second is the incomparable supporting role group portrait, even the small role that only appears for a minute or two can make people unforgettable.
At the front desk of the Hotel, she made an impassioned Introduction in English: "Sorry Sir, I've already said he's really not in the room. Sorry, our hotel is very interconnected and we want to protect the secrets of our guests. ”
There are also the treacherous villain Lee Farah, the skilled but guttered Thai killer Chachai, the cute and loving, the most disciplined gangster foursome, and the brother-in-law who slips his mouth;
Xu Zheng, a cemetery marketing ghost, a hot little assistant, a spokesperson for "men are super", a policeman who is earnest but sad, a fat woman with a fat head and big ears, and a director who has a glimpse.
The third is the famous scene of laughter.
Regarding funny, "Crazy Racing" is serious, and it does "three minutes a small laugh, five minutes a big laugh".
The jokes caused by accidents and contrasts in the film are absolutely not dragged with mud and water, the baggage is extremely silky, and the five groups of people and horses work together to stage a black humor, they can be called the "Crazy Racing" version of the "Five Tiger Generals".
"Hairdress" gangster quartet.
Their pride and self-confidence about the second master, but they do not have his strength value, but they are not inferior in contributing famous scenes.
The unmissable passage is naturally, mistaking the ashes as white powder, and the gangsters become false gods. Make a joke out of the foreign appearance, and break the brother and go to jail.
The gang four originally thought that going to the mainland to do business would be yellow, how to expect the peak to turn around.
They met Geng Hao and the frozen Cha Cha at the temple, thinking that Geng Hao was the new connector, and Geng Hao believed that they were sent by the tomb company to send eighteen gifts.
The two sides paid money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other, the gang four took the urn, Geng Hao took 200,000 US dollars, and a farce occurred.
The elated gang four-man group planned to take a car back to Taiwan, but when they inspected the goods in the car, they found that the drugs had turned into ashes, which caused the boss to roar angrily: "The local gang is too rude." ”
The design of this bridge section is one of the rare parts of the classic Chinese comedy that creates dense laughter through contrast.
"General Changsheng" stupid thief duo.
They boast that they never lose their hands, but they do not have the ability to go in and out of seven, and rely on comedy to sell a handful of funny strength.
Adhering to the professionalism of "doing a line, loving a line", they always export chapters, learn from the successful experience of others, and in the end the bamboo basket is empty, and they end up with a prison meal if they can't get married.
"Eunuch" Xu Zheng.
He has Zhang Fei's recklessness and contempt, but he is better than Zhang Yide because he will be seriously funny.
Geng Haolai Tomb Company selected the cemetery for the master, the little assistant talked stumbling, Xu Zheng saw the situation, took over the stubble, and perfectly interpreted the marketing 4P theory, that is, products, prices, channels, and promotions.
He was confident in the product, confident in himself, and hit the needs of customers, gushing out:
"We are a noble community here, with the upper wind and water, the underground CBD, the garden behind life, worth a lifetime of collection."
Scarce sunshine mansion, double bathroom large living room structure, duplex design. Such a good service, I work here every day, I would like to give myself a set. ”
This line is designed with witty words, no excessive body movements, and the combination of life and art by language alone, like a crossbow, arrows shoot into the audience's laughing hole.
"Divine Mighty General" Li Farah.
He has Ma Chao's tricks and means, but they are not used on the right path, resulting in himself becoming a joke.
His speech is passionate, his products are not shallow, his family women are strong and weak, his career is not successful, and the frustration of a middle-aged man is extremely expressive and funny by Jiukong.
"Kannai Hou" unlucky policeman.
Like Huang Zhong, even if they are older, they still do not forget to achieve some hegemony, but all they encounter is suffering and pleasure.
They always want to solve big cases, but big cases always pass by them, and just when they are discouraged, the stupid thief duo comes to the door with drugs, which makes their mistakes.
Fourth, the soundtrack is just right.
A good soundtrack can play a role in mobilizing emotions, undertaking narrative and funny contrasts.
The soundtrack in "Crazy Racing" sounds a bit dirty at first glance, but combined with the picture, actors, and plot, it seems to complement each other so well.
"Floating Brothers" is composed and sung by Rong Xiang, the actor of the gangster four-person boss in the film.
The comical, witty style leads to a misunderstanding, when a gang of four people travels from Taiwan to the mainland to sell drugs, mistakenly believing that the ship's boss and crew have stolen their money.
So he shot to annihilate the ship boss, and then under the reminder of the dying ship boss, he remembered that they played mahjong to change the seat, and his money was under the previous seat.
This embarrassing farce puts them in the vast sea, with a little regret, a little helplessness, and a contrasting reversal of the "laughing" fruit.
"A Hundred Beauty and a Thousand Charms" appears in the scene where Li Fara, Li Fara's wife and brother-in-law's brother-in-law are embarrassed to be in the same frame.
Li Fara and his wife saw each other's tricks and wrestled, and the brother-in-law and brother-in-law persuaded each other to leave, after which Li Fara's wife reprimanded The kneeling Li Fara, and the humiliated Li Fara killed his wife by mistake.
The song "Hundred Beauty and a Thousand Charms" is quite cleverly combined with this segment, and the lyrics sing manslaughter and also sing About Lee Farah's current emotions.
The lyrics go like this: "On this quiet night, embrace you." You blushed like a flower, and you were so beautiful that I was out of my mind and lost my soul. ”
The fifth is the black humor in the worldly jokes.
The black humor in "Crazy Racing" has laughed and scolded social injustice, has the ability to live with the status quo, and also dabbles in the output of worldview and values.
Every character in the film never compromises with the status quo, whether it is a small person or a big person with a prominent status, they are in different classes, but they are all changing the unchanging environment in their own way.
Each of them has flesh and blood, has the appearance of the city, is not so great and bright, is not so positive energy, and most of them live for their own selfish desires.
Why is it that black humor can be seen in these characters?
Because they are all living for desire, doing their best to squeeze their value for desire.
This also leads to the background of "Crazy Racing" is sad, but also makes the characters in the movie have sadness, desire, helplessness in life.
For example, the brother-in-law and brother-in-law of "do a line of love, love a line of special line", came to the big city in order to get ahead and return to the village to be able to marry their lover.
In order to achieve their goals in life, they kidnapped, extorted, and even mistakenly engaged in the business of selling white powder, chasing the police to sell stolen goods.
It was the only way they could think of to get money fast, their process was absurd, and their fate still followed the misery of the little people.
This is true of the brother-in-law's brother-in-law, as is the gangster foursome, Li Fara, the unlucky policeman, Geng Hao and others.
They seem to be very happy, but in fact they are extremely uneasy and idle, and they need to fill every moment with various activities, and once they stop, they will be at a loss.
This kind of happiness with protective colors is the real heartache, which is also where Ning Hao's comedy is higher than other comedies, not just funny.