Recently, there has been a voice that thinks -
Andy Lau's "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" borrows from the 1999 film "Purple Rain Storm" directed by Chen Desen, which is a wave of old bottles of new wine operations.
"Purple Rain Storm", a film starring Wu Yanzu, Chen Chong, and Zhou Huajian, was released in the downturn of Hong Kong films, but it still won a high box office of more than 10 million, which is enough to prove that this movie is indeed outstanding.
One
The story of the film begins on June 23, 1998,
On a cargo ship numbered M.21647 on the surface of The Red Carp Point in Hong Kong, two groups of people of unknown origin clashed, causing the cargo ship to deviate from the direction and sail into Hong Kong waters, where it was seized by the Hong Kong police.
A man with a head injury was left on the cargo ship, and after the man was taken to the hospital for rescue, he was taken in by the ATF Counter-Terrorism Special Operations Section.
ATF quickly confirms that the mysterious man is CIA wanted dort (played by Wu Yanzu), a Cambodian overseas Chinese born in 1972, and rumored to be the son of former Red Cambodian activist Sunlandi (played by Gan Guoliang).
Sunlandi has been employed by different terrorist organizations to create numerous terrorist attacks and call himself a "diner".
The police found a disk on Dort's body with 3 encrypted files, the first of which was an equation for a biological weapon called rican.x.
ricin.x is a water-soluble organic substance, resistant to high temperatures, when it comes into contact with the human body will quickly penetrate into the blood and cause red blood cells to rupture, people will die of internal bleeding within 2 hours, and the body will appear purple-red.
Atf Chief Inspector Ma Li (played by Chow Wah Kin), suspecting that terrorists are using biological and chemical weapons in Hong Kong, interrogates Dort in order to find out the truth, only to find out that he has lost his memory due to the impact.
Ma Li had to turn to the psychologist Guan Ruohai (played by Chen Chong), hoping that she could use hypnosis to retrieve Dot's lost memories.
At this time, Sunlandi creates an explosion in the NTB TV building and then breaks into atf headquarters to save Dort. Although Sunlandi was unsuccessful, marily realized how important Dort was to him.
Ma Li decides to make a plan, and dr. Kwan hypnotizes Dort and implants a new memory, making Dort think that he is an undercover police agent, whose original name is Zhou Shijie.
The police arranged a house for Dort and assigned a policewoman named Cheryl (Lee Chi Hong) to pretend to be his girlfriend, which convinced Dort that he was an undercover agent who had lost his memory due to an accident.
After Sunlandy created another bombing, the police deliberately let Dort let him rescue him.
Dort returns to Sunlandi's side and meets his former girlfriend Guan Ai (played by He Chaoyi), and those lost memories are slowly recalled.
After falling in love with Guan Ai, he once escaped from Sunlandi's eagle claws, organized a family and gave birth to a son. But then they were caught by Sunlandi, and their son, who was four or five years old, was also killed.
On the same day, when the M.21647 cargo ship transported rican.x through Red Carp Cape to the sea, the two gangs on board clashed, and Dort was injured and unconscious during the gun battle. Before the police arrived, Guan Ai threw the container containing rican.x into the sea, and because he could not bear to kill the unconscious Dot, he had to leave him alone and escape.
At this time, the police cracked the second encrypted file, which contained the use of ripen.x, and it turned out that Sunlandi wanted to use the rainy season in July to hit ricin.x into the clouds like artificial rain, creating a "purple rain" that destroyed the world. If his plan succeeds, people and animals throughout Southeast Asia will be poisoned to death by riken.x.
After Sunlandi salvaged the container containing rican.x from the sea, he left Hong Kong with Dot and Guan Ai to create the "Purple Rain" massacre.
At this time, Dort is faced with a choice of life and death, and finally decides to stand on the side of justice and betray Sunlandi in order to be a good person.
So he notified the police when Sunlandi boarded the plane with rican.x, and sneaked into the cargo hold of the plane alone to take rican.x.
The police arrived and quickly organized an operation, exchanging fire with Sunlandi and his gang, and finally Sunlandi was shot and killed by Ma Li, but before he died, he opened the bottle containing rican.x, causing rican.x to pollute the water source.
Dort lost Guan Ai in a shootout and fled before the police arrived. Later, Ma Li meets Dort at the airport, and he has become a harmless Sven, preparing to leave Hong Kong for seclusion abroad.
Two
After watching the movie carefully, it is inevitable that everyone will find that Dort played by Wu Yanzu is the same as Andy Lau's version of Pan Chengfeng.
However, compared with Pan Chengfeng, played by Andy Lau, Dort's final ending is much better, and the overall style of "Purple Rain Storm" is also biased towards commercial and entertainment, and there is not much tragic rendering on the theme, which is more close to the people.
"Purple Rain Storm" is said to be inspired by a small talk between chen desen and Chen Musheng.
Chen Musheng collaborated with Jackie Chan on "Who Am I" the year before, and that masterpiece won a high box office of 38.85 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is still an absolute position in Jackie Chan's films.
Chen Desen deliberately used the idea of the male protagonist in the movie "amnesia" to create a new story with tragic colors, so there was "Purple Rain Storm".
Jackie Chan's joining also ensures the standard of this movie, although Jackie Chan himself did not appear in the movie, the fight scenes in the film were all created by the Cheng family class.
In order to make the film appear realistic, the plot sets the main villain "Diners" Sunlandi to be a red Cambodian element.
And the film also explains the history of Cambodia's Chi Cambodian period in the form of tv reports, as well as the picture of its leader pol pot. This kind of active "recognition of father" was very common at the time, but now it seems to be tantamount to death.
After all, the times are different, in the current era of film globalization, in order to make the film can be sold all over the world, film companies around the world will work hard to create scripts, so that the plot, personal names, place names, etc. involved in the film will not offend any country that may offend.
At that time, the mainland film market was also relatively conservative, and Hong Kong films came to the mainland, all of which needed to undergo heavy review, and very few Hong Kong films could be introduced and released in the mainland.
Although the film features the role of mainland actor Chen Chong, the film was ultimately not released on the mainland because of its political involvement, and many mainland audiences saw it from pirated VCD.
Three
In Wu Yanzu's acting career, "Purple Rain Storm" is definitely his famous work, and this movie is tailor-made for him.
Although Wu Yanzu was born in Berkeley, California, USA, he was born in Berkeley, USA, but he learned martial arts from an early age, and he once attended training at the Shichahai Martial Arts School in Beijing, and was the nephew of Jet Li and Wu Jing.
But Wu Yanzu has never been a kung fu star since his debut, when he traveled to Hong Kong in 1997, he was selected by director Yang Fan for shooting a group of clothing advertisements, participated in the movie "Beautiful Young Love", played the male second policeman Sam in the film, and cooperated with Feng Delun.
Later, Wu Yanzu participated in films such as "The Young Fighting of the New Ancient Puzzle Boy", "The City of Glass", "Glass Bottle", "SWAT New Human" and other films, but they did not play the male protagonist. Until "Purple Rain Storm", Wu Yanzu ushered in the opportunity to truly confirm his acting skills, and Dort's complex two-sided role coincided with his temperament of good and evil.
Dot, who has just appeared at the beginning of the movie, looks through the window of the ship, and the eyes revealed in the lightning are full of cold and murderous, which makes the viewer shudder. Later, Dort lost his memory due to a severe brain injury, and when he faced the Interrogation in Hong Kong, his face was dazed, and his eyes were full of confusion and helplessness. After being "brainwashed", Dort, who has become kind in his heart, has a clear and bright righteous qi in his eyes.
These expressions that interpret the personality of the characters through the changes in expression and eyes are extremely challenging to the actor's skill, but Wu Yanzu, who was less than 25 years old at the time, was able to navigate with ease, which was enough to see his acting talent.
Some movie stars are easy to ignore his acting skills because of their handsome looks, and So is Andy Lau, and so is Wu Yanzu.
The special thing about Wu Yanzu is that his interpretation has no restrictions, and he can be a villain or a starring actor, and he can also be a romantic film, action film, literary film and other films.
After this film, Wu Yanzu's acting path also embarked on the Kangzhuang Avenue, and later in Jackie Chan's "New Police Story", there was also a brilliant performance.
The male number two in the film, Zhou Huajian, has a completely different acting path from Wu Yanzu, who participated in the movies "Super Plan", "A Good Man" and "Glass Bottle" because of his friendship with Jackie Chan.
After this film, he collaborated with Wu Yanzu on "Number One". But acting is not Zhou Huajian's main business after all, and he has not seriously followed this road.
The main villain Gan Guoliang has a rough face similar to Mickey Locke, who does not often appear in movies, but has always been a film practitioner, and most of his work is behind the scenes.
Gan Guoliang is also an all-rounder, his work includes screenwriting, directing, production, pop culture creation and creative industry planning, and this year he will appear in the film "Wind Forest Volcano".
He Chaoyi, who is the same age as Wu Yanzu, is very hard at encircling the Chinese and American women.
How to say it? As the daughter of Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, Ho Canu-yee can live a carefree life even if she does not work. But she has been working hard, participating in more than 60 films, and will appear in the American film "The Prince" in the future.
Wu Yanzu played the villain Zhang Falcon in last year's movie "Crackdown", in order to show the character's tough personality, he did not hesitate to shave his eyebrows, and the good figure he has always maintained is also enviable.
In fact, Wu Yanzu is also 47 years old, but he still maintains a strong enthusiasm for work, and is low-key, except for movies, rarely appears in the media.
There are too few high-quality actors like Wu Yanzu now. When he was young, he was also a "small fresh meat" with high appearance and good image, but he never regarded these as capital, but seriously honed his acting skills.
Just like in "Purple Rain Storm", Dort, a character who does not talk much, that is, a movie star like Wu Yanzu, can be competent.
Therefore, Pigo has always loved this movie, although there has been no Blu-ray version so far, but it is still an excellent work among the Hong Kong action films of the 90s.
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