refreshing!
The "bombshell" that the New Year file said for so long finally blew up a real one.
The only one this year, genuinely -
nuclear bomb.
Sir is not exaggerating.
Just by the 3 seconds in the trailer, the adrenaline rush is instantly full.
- What explosives?
- One of the smallest nuclear bombs in the world
Defusing bombs becomes dismantling nuclear bombs.
Blow up tunnels, upgrade to bomb buildings, blow up bridges, blow up airports...
Hong Kong movies, or you "crazy" -
Bomb Disposal Specialist 2
Two sets of gimmicky "CP".
Qiu Litao + Andy Lau.
There are Hong Kong film labor models who have works almost every year, and the duo's "Sweeping Drugs 2: Showdown Between Heaven and Earth" last year, which has a box office of 1.2 billion, is one of the most successful Hong Kong films in the market in recent years.
Another group of Sirs is more looking forward to it.
Andy Lau + Liu Qingyun, the partner of "Dark War" returned after a gap of twenty years.
Double Shadow Emperor Drama.
Plus a fully upgraded production.
How cool will it be?
The audience has already given the answer -
Taobao ticket 9.3, Maoyan 9.4, Douban open score 8.0, rose to 8.1 (Sir is not mistaken this year's commercial blockbusters no more than 3).
Most people should be killed and can't think of it.
The final explosion of Chinese films in 2020 will come from "half-dead" Hong Kong movies.
But Sir felt that this was no accident.
"Bomb Disposal 2" is of course a craft that Hong Kong film craftsmen have worked hard to complete, and it is also an "experimental product" for this group of people to break through stereotypes.
It's good in that —
It not only retains the rich "Hong Kong flavor", but also tries to get rid of the long-standing "Hong Kong film inertia".
What is "Hong Kong Flavor"?
Director Zhuang Wenqiang once knew the point:
utilitarianism.
The shortest time, the most effect.
Not only what the audience wants to give, but also double, or even triple.
"Bomb Disposal 2" is extremely "utilitarian".
For the audience, it is first and foremost a film that never loses money when buying tickets.
All sensory shocks are not hidden.
Straight to naked.
Big gimmick, nuclear bomb terrorist attack on Hong Kong.
Safety is on the front line, and failure is an epic disaster.
Not only millions of lives, but the contamination from the nuclear explosion will prevent Hong Kong Island from recovering for at least 25 years.
In other words, Hong Kong is extremely vulnerable to the nuclear threat.
Big scenes, trailers can give enough imagination:
World-class landmark, 88-storey Hong Kong International Financial Centre (IFC), fried.
49,000 tons of Tsing Ma Bridge, fried.
Desperate to capture the audience's ambitions, it is revealed in the opening 5 minutes.
The nuclear bomb arrived at the airport from the subway, and the crowd panicked and was evacuated urgently.
According to the past routine, it should be a bomb disposal expert to appear and resolve the crisis in a thousand and one shots.
hehe.
The next scene Sir can't think of —
The police have not yet arrived, the citizens have not yet been evacuated, and even the work cars on the tarmac are still functioning normally.
Lens everything.
The flames were like giant beasts, crushing the entire airport.
In an instant, Hong Kong International Airport handles nearly 75 million passengers a year.
Reduced to ashes.
When this scene appeared on the IMAX big screen, the immersion brought by the fully upgraded special effects was believed to bring the strongest visual impact to the audience, and the adrenaline rushed.
△ This special effect is definitely super cool to see the IMAX version of the experience
And this kind of up is a bright bottom card.
Only Hong Kong movies dare to gamble like this.
Don't think that's the end of it.
Most importantly, the Great Conflict.
Sir had to admire the Hong Kong filmmakers for their daring, really fast.
Savor the positive and negative factions in the movie:
On the one hand, terrorists, led by foreign organizations, absorb all kinds of marginalized people, take advantage of their dissatisfaction with society and resentment of the status quo, and throw bombs to attack Hong Kong in an attempt to disturb stability and stir up people's hearts.
On the other side are the Hong Kong police (bomb disposal experts), who have risked great dangers, sacrificed themselves, defused bombs, and used their flesh and blood to maintain social order and stability again and again.
familiar?
Only Hong Kong movies can be so "wild".
When movies are reflected realistically, especially on the big screen.
"Bomb Disposal 2" has exceeded the first part from the conception, and is no longer limited to police films, anti-terrorism themes, and celebrates professionalism.
Instead, it is straightforward to point out:
It's a more brutal flesh-and-blood battle.
From the inside out, "Bomb Disposal 2" highlights a unique style of Hong Kong films:
It should be rubbed and can fill the commercial entertainment attributes of the movie, which is definitely worth feeling in the theater with a large screen.
Sir can only say that this may be the most original Qiu Litao's work that you can see on the current big screen.
Labor models are no less than Andy Lau.
In the 36 years of his career, he has worked nearly 100 films and has a complicated style.
Large-scale B-grade films, pure love sketches, author films with social themes, and commercial blockbusters produced by top productions, he is at ease, does not refuse, and is the most cost-effective director in the eyes of investors.
A brief introduction to his achievements:
Eighty percent of the budget to shoot "Eight Immortals Hotel's Human Meat Char Siu Bun", 3 million shots of "Waiting for Tung Chee-hwa to fall", 10 million + 14 days to shoot "Love Dream", 21 days to shoot "Forgive Him 77 Times" ...
The point is, fast did not affect his quality. "Char Siu Bao" won the Academy Awards, "Tung Chee-hwa" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and "77 Times" grossed nearly 75 million.
"Bomb Disposal 2" waved a big hand and increased investment.
So much so that he admits that the scene is difficult to shoot (not just spending money, of course).
The so-called "utilitarianism" of Hong Kong films lies in sincerity.
If you are willing to spend money, I will do it for you.
Even more rare.
Qiu Litao, while striving for cost performance, did a rebellious thing.
The object, "Hong Kong old good man" Andy Lau.
Don't think that Andy Lau's nickname as "civil chief executive" is just a stem.
In 2017, a hong Kong poll took place.
Andy Lau still appears in the fifth place in the chief executive's "popularity list":
It can be seen that Andy Lau's image of a good person in the hearts of the audience is deeply rooted.
In reality, there are only three movies that really put Andy Lau in the position of villain.
Du Qifeng/Wei Jiahui's "Full-Time Killer"; Er Dongsheng's "Disciple"; Liu Weiqiang/Mak Zhaohui's "Infernal Affairs".
But even if he plays the villain, Andy Lau is still dashing and handsome in most of the movies.
△ "Full-time Killer"
Qiu Litao wanted to go further.
He wants to force out a torn, agitated, chaotic villain.
The real "Bad Guy Andy Lau".
Bomb disposal expert Pan Chengfeng (Andy Lau) lost his left leg during an operation and was permanently disabled.
Although the prosthesis was fitted after rehabilitation, it also passed various strict physical examinations.
But he still lost the opportunity to charge the front line.
Since then, his temperament has changed greatly, and he lives in isolation.
Five years later, Pan was accidentally arrested in a major bombing, but the police found him in a memory.
Loaded?
All the suspense of the movie is pressed on Pan Chengfeng.
Not only his true identity.
It was his choice.
The film has all kinds of contradictory smoke bombs:
In the eyes of his colleagues, he is the bomb disposal hero who saved the little girl from the bomber.
In order to save people, you can save your life.
In the eyes of the Serious Crimes Unit, he was a gun-deadly suspect with eighteen lives on his back.
There are not too many kills on the spot.
In the eyes of the top brass, he is also an undercover agent on a secret mission to carry out anti-terrorism plans.
Pull a full body.
But when he asked himself, he said—"
I don't remember.
This is also the biggest point of the script designed on the role of Andy Lau:
When your identity and memory are already a matter of life and death for millions of people.
"Who you are" matters.
Or is it more important who you can be and who you must be?
As a sequel, "Bomb Disposal 2" is not a simple production and volume upgrade.
Qiu Litao finally revealed his usual sharp fangs in this part.
He pressed the entire series completely into the blur and viscosity between good and evil, revealing a vicious but charming face.
Multi-faceted Pan rides the wind.
Three in one.
Andy Lau splits into three characters (at least) in the film.
Two of them are disabled.
He in the police force:
Sunny optimistic, helpful, save people's lives, a typical heroic image.
After being injured, he learned that he could not return to the front line.
Extreme, pessimistic.
Not only did he resent his disability, but he also became sensitive and suspicious, contradicting everyone around him, and gradually disappearing and living in isolation.
Andy Lau's acting skills also have a clear level.
Unwillingly, furiously, and then completely hopeless, there was no emotion on the face at all.
Revenge has become the only option.
But after the amnesia, it changed again:
Dazed, mood swings greater, fires more hysterical.
The outbreak at this time is different from before.
It can be seen that the difficulty is high -
One role, three identities;
One identity, three emotions.
Even Andy Lau himself talked about this role, unable to hide his inner coolness.
Admittedly, the film is not completely devoid of flaws.
The reversal is revealed prematurely, the character turns have blunt places, and the excessive focus on Pan Chengfeng so that it does not give other actors such as Xie Junhao more room to play, which are the more regrettable places in the movie.
But Sir can safely say that the flaws are not hidden.
"Bomb Disposal 2" is still one of the most groundbreaking Hong Kong films we can see in recent years.
Its breakthrough is that -
With a dark perspective, we re-sort out the order and rules that we default to under the aura of justice.
In Sir's view, "Bomb Disposal 2" is like a Hong Kong version of "Joker".
The difference is.
The latter is a metaphor, the former is a metaphor.
The latter tells the story of how a driven man can be mistakenly called "God" in a squeezed and distorted society.
The former is a "god" created by the system and public opinion, how to become a person again.
Although "Bomb Disposal 2" is limited to commercial and scale considerations, it cannot be as sharp as "Joker".
But Sir was still moved.
Movingly, the nearly 60-year-old Hong Kong director still has not given up his questioning of the world.
The love of social themes, the director even once expressed:
If there are investors who are willing to invest in social theme movies, I will be very happy, and I will choose to push "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" a little back. Police films can be made this year if they are not filmed next year, but movies about social themes, if they have the opportunity not to make this year, they may not be next year.
Qiu Litao is still that Qiu Litao.
He is like a writer who studies serious literature, but makes a living by writing yellow strips and vulgar jokes on a daily basis.
No matter how grand the crisis conflict, then the cool special effects scene, then the big star interpretation...
After all, it was his blind spot.
In the end, it is still a small person who decides the victory or defeat.
Their good and evil, their trade-offs, and their hearts turned against their hearts are also a mirror held before our eyes.
Sir hopes that Hong Kong films will always be a good mirror.
Even if it's old, it's old.
Blowing away the dust --
It still shines a light on what we may not want to face.
But the most authentic look.
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