Cao Baoping is the representative director of domestic crime genre films.
Every time he makes a movie, we look at a cut-out version.
This was the case with his second film, Glorious Rage.
"Glorious Rage" can be described as a fateful fate.
Cao Baoping initially wanted Zhao Benshan and Ge You to play.
He had already handed the script to Zhao Benshan, and Zhao Benshan liked it, but unfortunately he didn't end it in the end, and he couldn't see Ge You and Zhao Benshan's duel.
The script has been revised six or seven times, but it has not been approved, and there are dozens of suggestions for revisions given above.
Cao Baoping defended himself, but every time they had a lot of opinions, and said to him: "This matter is actually quite simple, if you want the script to pass us here, you can't ask for the meaning you want." ”
As soon as this statement came out, it meant that it was impossible to play, and "Glorious Rage" was forced to be shelved.
After a few years, there was a change of leadership.
This is the first time that someone has thought from The perspective of Cao Baoping, transposed thinking and modifying each other, and the script has finally passed the review.
But new troubles have come, the film production has encountered ups and downs, and the two sides have been fighting for a long time about the number of violent pictures.
In the end, Cao Baoping compromised, not only reducing the violent scenes, but also modifying the ending, which allowed "Glorious Rage" to successfully get the dragon label for release.
The story goes like this.
Kuroi Village has four brothers who do no evil and are known locally as the "Four Evil Men".
They are the bullying gambler Boss Bear, the director of public security of the villagers' dog eggs is removed by his brother Xiong Laosan, and the dog eggs who claim to be wu are in the family of the bear boss.
As soon as he entered the door, The bear boss arranged for thugs to crush the dog eggs to the ground, first humiliating, and then putting a big fart on the mouth of the dog eggs.
The village accountant of the fish and meat people, Xiong Lao'er, did not hesitate to let go.
He often went to the restaurant opened by Tugua to eat in the name of taking care of the business, but he never paid for it, and every year he paid for 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.
Tugua had no choice but to take a knife to cut the chicken to vent his anger, and watched the small business being dragged down.
Xiong Laosi, the director of the fake and shoddy salt factory, did not lose his behavior to the two brothers.
Xiong Laosi has no other hobbies, that is, he likes to look for women everywhere, Wushan Yunyu, and also specially picks places such as the wild or factory buildings.
He and Dawang's wife were sweating in the yanjing factory, and Dawang broke into their private affair, but the forces of the Xiong brothers could only swallow their anger and broke one of his wife's legs.
The lawless village chief Xiong Laosan is the main backbone of the four brothers.
Shui Gen petitioned Xiong Laosan, and Xiong Lao San bulldozed the house that Shui Gen had just built on the pretext that the county planning bureau was building a road.
Xiong Laosan looks smiling and squinting on the surface, and seems to be particularly approachable, in fact, he is the most ruthless character, more than the smiling tiger.
It's all in the eyes of one person.
His name was Ye Guangrong, the new branch secretary in the village, and he wanted to eat the four brothers of the Xiong family in one bite.
The four brothers of the Xiong family were not good stubble, they coaxed Ye Guangrong to drink wine and eat vegetables, pushing the cup to change the cup and verbal threats, Ye Guangrong could only silently swallow such a bitter fruit.
Ye Guangrong had been waiting for an opportunity, and this opportunity was a voyeuristic opportunity for Tugua.
Tugua's car broke down in the middle of the road, and when he was impatient, he bumped into two women urinating on the side of the road, and Tugua raised his eyebrows and hid to admire.
It's just that things are not so simple as taking advantage, the two women just squatted down not long after lifting their pants and running forward, Xiong Laosi and others hurriedly caught them.
TuGua reported to Ye Guangrong that The old man had arrested the woman from other places to play.
With this handle, the overthrow of the four brothers of the Xiong family was just around the corner, and Ye Guangrong rushed to the town to report it.
As soon as he arrived in town, he met Xiong Laosan chatting with the town leaders, and Xiong Laosan told Ye Guangrong that he was interceding with the leaders about his wife's conversion.
However, the town leaders asked Ye Guangrong to develop Xiong Laosi into the party.
Ye Guangrongpi smiled and did not smile, nodded his head, and sent away the town leader with a smiley face.
He turned his head to the county to tell the truth about the evil deeds of the four brothers of the Xiong family, but in exchange for a sentence of "Don't talk about things without evidence." ”
Ye Guangrong walked out of the office lonely and slapped himself fiercely in the aisle.
After returning home, Ye Guangrong was not reconciled.
He summoned Tugua, Dawang, and Shuigen, who had been bullied by the four brothers of the Xiong family, to discuss how to overthrow the group of bullies, but none of them dared to answer.
Even if insulting and abducting women is a felony, the report is still solved by the style problem, and the snake does not die but is bitten by the snake, and the crowd disperses.
Ye Guangrong couldn't bear to stop there.
He lied and tricked them into catching the bear family, which was the meaning of the above, and tugua, Dawang, and Shuigen heard that there was a guarantee and ignited the anger in their hearts.
They planned to cut off the four brothers in four ways, and then each of them would go back and mobilize a reliable crowd and assemble at eleven o'clock in the evening.
Everything was ready, and Tugua and the others got up to arrange it.
Ye Guangrong also rushed to develop the dog egg and asked him to take all the way to block the bear boss.
Just a few steps away, Tugua turned to look for Ye Guangrong, saw that Ye Guangrong was not there, and picked up the above phone for him by the way, asking him to tell Ye Guangrong to go to the county with Xiong Laosan to eat the next morning.
TuGua then understood that there was no meaning at all.
Ye Guangrong still did not know the mind of Tugua who wanted to be a traitor, and only cared about carrying roast chicken to find dog eggs.
On the way, he encountered a brilliance that he had not seen for a long time in his daughter Xiufeng, ye Guangrong did not take it seriously, and casually comforted a few words and sent it away.
At present, for him, please move the dog egg is the top priority, when he arrived at the dog egg's house, Ye Guangrong called the dog egg with a few words of praise, a roast chicken, and three hundred yuan.
In the evening, Ye Guangrong and they were discussing how to act, when Xiong Laosi's subordinate Ma Mian suddenly broke in.
Since they had broken their plan, there was no reason to escape, and Ye Guangrong ordered someone to kidnap him and ask him to tell him why he had come here.
Ma Mian told Ye Guangrong that Xiong Laosan called him over, Ye Guangrong hesitated, and after thinking about it, decided to go to Xiong Laosan to probe the wind.
Unexpectedly, things were not as bad as Ye Guangrong thought, Xiong Laosan took the initiative to confess the fact that Lao Si kidnapped two women and regarded Ye Guangrong as his own.
Ye Guangrong happily left the house and heard a woman upstairs crying and shouting.
He hurried back to inform everyone that tonight's action will definitely catch the living evidence of Xiong Laosan's insult to women, and the code name of the action is "Bear Catching Plan".
The operation was divided into four roads, Ye Guangrong served as the first commander of the operation, personally went to catch the bear old third, the dog egg belt blocked the bear boss all the way, the water root belt blocked the bear old two all the way, and the Dawang belt blocked the bear old fourth all the way.
Their plan was in full swing, and Guangcai ran in, and when he learned that Xiufeng had been captured by Xiong Laosi, he joined the team.
Before the operation, Ye Guangrong pretended to make a phone call to the above, and after hanging up, the bear catching plan officially began.
The second way of the dog egg belt rushed into the bear boss's house, grabbed the bear boss who was playing mahjong, and divided the gambling funds on the table and ate the prepared dog meat.
The three roads of the water root belt were discovered by the dogs of the bear elder two's family, and how a group of croppers working in the field could defeat the bear's family thugs, and the bear old second netted them all.
The four roads of the Dawang belt did not catch Xiong Laosi, but found the naked Xiufeng in the house, and kept chanting "pull the hook and hang" in his mouth, and Guangcai drove them out and closed the door.
Originally thought that this arrest operation was going to fail, But Dawang and them found Xiong Laosi hiding inside in the pond, and after pulling it out, a revenge of the soaked pig cage came out of the evil spirit.
Ye Guangrong sneaked all the way into Xiong Laosan's home, and Xiong Laosan turned on the lights and had been waiting for them for a long time.
Ye Guangrong proposed a search, and Xiong Laosan did not back down, but they turned up and down, and still did not find the figure of the two women.
When he was discouraged, a woman's voice came from the Tugua family next door, and Ye Guangrong realized that their action had succeeded, but it was too late to leave.
Elder Xiong led people to rescue Elder Xiong and rushed to the third house of Elder Xiong with him.
Ye Guangrong They were like turtles in an urn, easily taken down by the Xiong family's thugs, looking at the ground full of mourning, Ye Guangrong cried out in despair.
At this time, a large number of police rushed out from all directions, this time to the Xiong family desperate, because they sold fake salt, and the murder and kidnapping case had long been noticed by the police.
The offenders are punished, and kuroi village is re-elected.
Ye Guangrong continued to serve as a leader, with Dog Egg, Dawang, and Shui Gen as his deputies.
A year later, they held a meeting at the tugua hotel, and Ye Guangrong stressed that the salt factory should be taken stock quickly, and Dawang echoed: "Almost, there are still two or three families who can't make up their minds." ”
After the meeting, they paid for the meal AA, and the earth melon felt unprecedented happiness, and Ye Guangrong smiled and walked on the village path.
The final meeting is interesting, suggesting that Ye Guangrong may eventually become a dragon slayer.
Is this a temporary tranquility before a storm or a permanent tranquility in the sun.
The leadership team formed by Ye Guangrong is a team centered on himself, he has the ambition to do things, he also has the dream of promotion, and he is also covetous of power.
Everything he did to overthrow the four brothers of the Xiong family had a righteous side and a selfish side, his motives were never pure, and maybe he would become the next Xiong gang.
The movie is over, and there's a problem.
Why did those villagers follow Ye Guangrong when they heard the above meaning?
Because the helplessness of reality is not the isolation and helplessness of the voice of the righteous, but the fear of the persecuted and the indifference of the bystanders, as well as the wrangling of the authorities.
But is there something wrong with their concessions, tolerances, and onlookers?
From a moral point of view, they are at fault, because to let the bad guys do evil and not stop it is to cover up the crime and condone the expansion of evil.
On a realistic level, they are not wrong.
They are all flat-headed people with no power, no power, no money, and they can only swallow their teeth when they have broken their teeth, and where there is a place to complain, they can scream.
On a human level, they are not wrong.
Man is the sum of divinity and animality, with unimaginable good and unimaginable evil, sometimes purifying sentient beings like gods, sometimes killing each other like animals.
From a legal perspective, they are wrong, but the law is difficult to define their fault.
The law is a person's lowest moral bottom line, it limits that evil cannot be lawless, but it cannot force good people how to be a good person, it allows the weakness of good people, and it does not force good people to be brave.
What exactly contributes to this helplessness and the difficulty of right and wrong?
It is the isolation of the poor countryside, the legal system cannot come in, and the information cannot go out; it is the chain of interests that dares to cover the sky, with people at the top to protect it, and violence at the bottom.
In fact, this helplessness and right and wrong come from the "glory" at the end of the movie, which seems to be issued by Xiong Laosan, so ye Guangrong changed from happy to frightened.
This is Cao Baoping, with the help of the absurd expression of black humor, using the story of a village to metaphorically describe the most basic social reality of the whole of China.
The bottom layer has a difficult life, the middle level is flying high, the upper level is greedy for pleasure, the channels for the bottom to rise and petition are blocked, and the truth is difficult to show in front of the eyes of the world in a naked manner.
And this status quo is deeply rooted and cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, which is the biggest allegory and irony of "Glorious Rage".