"Chosin Lake" was postponed, the 2021 summer file was completely gone, and the film market entered a period of decline.
The retreat of "Chosin Lake", the "favorable" Chen Musheng's "Fury Serious Case" and Chen Zhengdao's "Midsummer Future", both of which have increased the total box office forecast a little.
If there is no accident, "Fury And Serious Case" should be able to break the target of 1 billion, which is also the last satisfactory answer sheet handed over by director Chen Musheng.
Sentiment aside, "Fury Case" is a standard Hong Kong-made action film, not how good, but the kind of hot, fierce, fierce and fierce is surprising.
Chen Musheng is one of the most good directors in Hong Kong to make police films, although there is no fame of masters Du Qifeng and Xu Ke, but the film style is also unique, with the title of "exploding Chen".
He has also praised many people, such as letting Nicholas Tse emerge in the film industry, helping Wu Jing gain a firm foothold in Hong Kong, and sending Aaron Kwok to the throne of the film emperor.
On August 23, 2020, Chen Musheng passed away due to nasopharyngeal cancer, which shrouded the Hong Kong film industry in a layer of haze.
When "Anger and Serious Case" was released, his former friends missed him in different ways, and Andy Lau, Zhen Zidan, Wu Jing, Zhang Jiahui and Chen Xiaochun sang the song "Real Hanzi" to pay tribute to him.
Chen Musheng has made many works in his life, such as "Heavenly Love" with Andy Lau, "Who Am I", "New Police Story", "Baby Plan" with Jackie Chan, and "Anti-Drug" with Zhang Jiahui.
But many people may not know that Chen Musheng's real work that established his style was "Stormtrooper's Fury Street" in 1996, which has a high score of 7.9 so far.
01. The story in the film
I believe that many veteran Hong Kong film fans are not unfamiliar with the story of the film "Stormtrooper's Fury Street", and its storyline is relatively simple:
It tells the story of Zhu Huabiao (Liu Qingyun), the sheriff of the serious crime unit who was transferred to the STORMC for beating his boss, and led a group of stormtroopers such as Mai Du (Zhang Daming), Rice Jiao (Chen Xiaochun), Apple (Li Qihong) to fight with the criminal group led by the repeat offender professor (Yu Rongguang) and Xiao Bird in the street.
Although the story is simple, Chen Musheng makes it very compact.
In terms of time, the story takes place on Easter Day, and in just one day and one night, people see the confrontation between police and bandits, the work conflicts between police officers, and real real life;
In terms of space, Chen Dao narrowed one of them again, so that in the narrow space, it showed the conflict and cooperation of the stormtroopers in the fight against the bandits.
This kind of expression can be said to test the director's ability, but Chen Musheng has done it.
He not only uses a 90-minute film to tell the story clearly and coherently, but also portrays the conflict in the film as intense and inflammatory;
The most valuable thing is that he portrays the character image very vividly and vividly, so that every character, even a very small character, has flesh and blood.
Zhu Huabiao, who was originally the sheriff of the Major Crimes Unit, is a tough guy with both wisdom and courage and informality;
Rice Jiao is a super upright person, meticulous in doing things, disciplined, and in the early stages, he also believed that Zhu Huabiao's behavior "exceeded his own duties";
McDougal has a cheerful personality and a flexible brain;
Apple is innocent and lively, and there is a rush of newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers;
The main villain also has his own distinctive characteristics: the professor is arrogant, and the little bird is fierce.
In addition to these leading actors have their own distinctive characteristics, each small role is also very vivid, even a small staff member Dong Hui, played by Gu Dezhao, in just a few minutes, through the details of the phone call, showed the social animal scene of the workplace.
In the shaping of the characters, Chen Musheng did his best to excavate the characteristics and personalities of each character, gave each character a life, and pulled the seemingly distant characters in the film back to reality, using this sense of reality to bring the audience into the film, and truly making people "feel empathy".
02. Nominated for 9 awards, Chen Musheng's film style has since been established
After the release of "Stormtrooper's Fury Street" in Hong Kong, it earned 9.77 million at the box office;
Although the box office is not high, the high-burning fight scenes, the twists and turns of the storyline, and the distinct character personality make this film a classic.
At the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1997, he received 9 nominations for Best Actor, Best Picture and Best Director.
Unfortunately, unfortunately, I met "Sweet Honey" that year, and finally only won the Best Editing Award, but the whole film and Chen Musheng received more attention and praise.
Through this film, Chen Musheng found and determined the film style of "delicate characters and rough story", which was continued in later films.
And with this film, Chen Musheng won the favor of Jiahe's senior management, and arranged for him to partner Jackie Chan to shoot "Who Am I".
"Who Am I" not only has an obvious "Jackie Chan brand", but also has Chen Musheng's strong film style, the two dare to shoot, one dares to act, and together they have achieved this high-scoring action film.
After "Who Am I", the two formed a deep friendship, followed by "New Police Story", "Baby Project" and "New Shaolin Temple".
Later, as long as Chen Musheng has a new movie released, Jackie Chan will definitely participate in the premiere, but unfortunately, this time "Anger And Serious Case", director Chen Musheng was absent.
Jackie Chan recalled the past of the two at the premiere, and also said future film plans, such as "Baby Project 2", "New Police Story 2", "Drunken Fist 3", etc., but unfortunately it has become a masterpiece.
03. Pay more attention to literary drama than martial arts, and analyze the emotions of characters
"Stormtrooper's Fury Street", Chen Musheng's first attempt at police action films, absorbs the essence of Hong Kong gunfight films, and exerts his superb scene scheduling ability to the fullest in a thrilling explosion and gunfight scene.
At the same time, Chen Musheng has not forgotten the "literary drama", relatively speaking, he attaches importance to the literary drama more than the martial arts, and analyzes the emotions of the characters.
In the film, he piles up heavy emotions through some details, such as the emotions between Zhu Huabiao and his subordinates, especially with Rice Jiao, and the emotional line between Rice Jiao and his brother.
Such a literary drama makes the whole film appear more full, and there is also a warm emotion in addition to the fierce battle, on the other hand, it also proves Chen Musheng's ability to control the group portrait drama.
Chen Musheng once said: "Shooting action scenes is very hard, very hard, you love this genre is to love this type, I love to make action movies is to love to make action movies, hard work is certain, it doesn't matter." ”
Chen Musheng's films also have a special feature, the gangsters are always full of charm, such as Yu Rongguang in this film, wearing handcuffs and singing Peking Opera to Liu Qingyun with great arrogance;
Azu, who is struggling inside in "New Police Story", is jackie chan on the outside, and he is determined not to surrender;
Then there is Tse Ting-feng of "Fury Serious Case", who accidentally stole the limelight of Zhen Zidan, in fact, the two are mirror images in the film, like two sides of a person.
In 1996, "The Streets of Rage of the Stormtroopers" made Chen Musheng "fire" with it;
25 years later, "Fury Case" let people see Chen Musheng's persistence and dedication to action films in "Anger".
Maybe he knows that his time is short, maybe this is why he made "Fury Serious Case", starting with "anger" and finally "anger", which is also a perfect ending. (Author: West Window Snow)