God knows why I paid 6 singularities to watch the whole film of "Fat Dragon Across the River", if you have other ways to see it in time or wait until it is free to watch, I still advise you to be cautious.
Zhen Zidan's silicone acting skills
During the release of "Chasing the Dragon" in 2017, Wang Jing announced the cooperation plan with Zhen Zidan.
According to Wang Jing, the film was inspired by an advertisement by Zhen Zidan.
That advertisement was endorsed by a bedding taken over by Zhen Zidan's wife Wang Shishi in 2015, Zhen Zidan as the male protagonist of the advertisement, and the director of the advertisement was Kenji Tanigaki, Zhen Zidan's apprentice, who later became the director of the film.
After wang jing saw the advertisement, she felt that this image could be extended into a kung fu comedy movie, and the style was similar to Hong Jinbao's Wufuxing series in the early years.
As an aside, Wang Jing can really switch seamlessly from "pillow" to "fist".
Thus, there is this film that claims to pay tribute to Bruce Lee's "Raptors Crossing the River" (1972) and Hong Jinbao's "Fat Dragon Crossing the River" (1978).
In 2018, the film was filmed and produced, and in that year, it obtained a public release license - Electronic Review Guzi [2018] No. 885.
Unfortunately, there was a movie released in the National Day file of that year that was also a fat man with silicone makeup, and the story also happened in Japan, which was "Fat Man Action Team" no. 550 of the telegraph review guzi [2018].
This No. 550 is starred by the 300-pound article and the 250 Bao Bell, and the whole film is full of malicious consumption of fat people and inferior imitations of secret agent movies, especially the end of "Ace Agent" is scolded by the audience and netizens.
Silicone makeup is not impossible (there is no mention of Amir Khan and Christian Bale here), as early as 2001, "Slim Men and Women" directed by Du Qifeng and starring Andy Lau and Zheng Xiuwen made a better demonstration.
However, whether in "Fat Man Action Team" or "Fat Dragon Crossing the River", the article, Bao Bell and Zhen Zidan only show puffiness and polish, complete distortion.
In 1978, Hong Jinbao's "Fat Dragon Across the River" showed how a truly flexible fat man paid tribute to his idol Bruce Lee.
He plays Aaron from the countryside to the city, helps in a hotel, fights wits with the local underworld, and also uses his hands and feet.
One of them was ten on the set, just to prove that Bruce Lee's imitators were not different, and it was also a satire on the clumsy imitation of fist and foot kung fu films that were popular in the Hong Kong film industry at that time.
Thinking about this passage again, I really hope that Aaron will also run to the set of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and teach the imitator a lesson.
The 2020 version or Zhen Zidan's version of "Fat Dragon Across the River" has made some adjustments in the story, first of all, Zhu Fulong, played by Zhen Zidan, is a policeman, so that Wang Jing can bring Zhen Zidan's representative works "Fuse" and "Kill the Wolf" into it.
Then from Hong Kong to Tokyo, encountered local gangsters, and also connected with the local Chinese-owned hotels, which was also related to Bruce Lee's "Raptor Across the River".
However, in "Raptors Across the River", the Chinese who opened a restaurant in Rome were bullied by local gangsters, while in "Fat Dragon Across the River" (2020), the boss lady owes gambling debts and cannot be repaid.
So now the story becomes a Hong Kong policeman who travels thousands of miles to Tokyo to help a compatriot who is in debt to fight off the local gang.
"Red Fan District" (1995), which also pays tribute to "Raptors Across the River", is also a story about how a Chinese civilian can't stand the American Mafia and tries his best to save it.
How did you get to Zhen Zidan, and become a Hong Kong police transnational law enforcement, violent law enforcement, vowing to eliminate the Japanese Tokyo Yamaguchi group of the glorious deeds.
Therefore, this movie pays tribute to Bruce Lee's "Raptors Across the River", but it completely violates Mr. Lee's original intention and intention.
If you insist on paying tribute to Hong Jinbao's "Fat Dragon Across the River" from the title, then Zhen Zidan and Hong Jinbao still have a big gap in performance:
Hong Jinbao can mobilize facial muscles, but Zhen Zidan can't summon the silicone on his face.
Wang Jing's old bottle of steamed wine
As one of the screenwriters, one of the producers and one of the main actors of "Fat Dragon Across the River", Wang Jing laid a solid foundation for this work to be below the passing score.
He let Hayama Hiroshi in "Meat Futon 3D" play a Japanese AV director who spoofed Stephen Chow's "Mermaid" at the Japanese Tsukiji market.
He pulled Mao Shunjun to play the hotel owner's lady, and he starred in the "Hot Hand Detective" Xiao Xiange, spoofing Wu Yusen's "Hot Hand Detective" (1992), and the name Xiao Xiao Brother appeared in Lin Lingdong's "School Storm" and Zhou Xingchi's "New Jingwumen".
ps: Mao Shunjun was really beautiful back then.
In addition, it is Zhen Zidan's self-blackening and self-hi.
In "Fat Dragon Across the River", Wang Jing arranged for him to show his muscles in "Fuse" and remake "Kill the Wolf" to defeat the national martial arts champion Golden Retriever (Wu Jing).
If there is any basis for these entrainments, parodies, and tributes, the final Battle of Tokyo Tower was deliberate.
Especially in the end, the heroine threw a double knuckle stick to Zhu Fulong, which was completely for the sake of playing.
In addition, it is the usual and fart element in Wang Jing's movie.
The policeman played by Naoto Takenaka put a fart in the car escorting Hayama Hiroshi, who was chased and killed by the Yamaguchi group in the toilet, and then climbed onto a Japanese bus bus bare ass, and finally floated naked in Tokyo Bay.
By the way, Naoto Takenaka is also a policeman in Jackie Chan's "Shinjuku Incident".
And the most irritating thing is to tamper with Bruce Lee's "philosophy of water" and try to point out the problem at the end through Zhen Zidan's narration:
It turns out that in addition to straight lines in the world, there are curves, circles, squares and other different shapes, just like in life, you should not use a method to solve the problem, because as long as you learn to tolerate and respect, in fact, fat or thin, what is the difference? Just like water, what shape you are, water becomes into what shape. Does this sentence still matter if it was said by Zhu Fulong, who is 113.4 kilograms?
At first glance, this passage sounds a little reasonable, but it is far from the theme of the film.
Although in "Fat Dragon Across the River", through the ten-year stay of Zhen Zidan and Zhou Liqi and the ten-year waiting comparison of Wang Jing and Mao Shunjun, the two couples of lovers will eventually become dependents, but it has nothing to do with this truth.
In particular, this passage corresponds to the narration at the beginning of the film:
The two points are connected in a line, simple and direct, as if punching, when I think it is right, use the fastest way to solve the problem, this practice may not be agreed by everyone, but this is me, I am Zhu Fulong, Fu Lu Shou's Fu, Bruce Lee's dragon. A policeman weighing 66.4 kg and agile.
The movie does not talk about Zhu Fulong's flexibility from beginning to end, and his girlfriend has never shown her dislike for the fat version of Zhu Fulong, but in the end, she sublimated "tolerance and respect" for no reason, which is really Wang Jing.
"Fat Dragon Across the River" is a bad film
Yes, there is no doubt about it.