"Singer" Jacky Cheung may be constrained by the fact that his music career is too popular, so that he has never stepped into the top echelon in terms of movies. However, as a veteran actor, he has also dedicated a lot of excellent works to everyone. In particular, the sadistic tragedy can often bring surprises to everyone, like "Carmen in Mong Kok" and "Blood Street" are classics that fans can't get tired of watching, and they are also deeply immersed in Jacky Cheung's characteristic performances. Speaking of the most sadistic, I personally feel that it is a relatively unpopular movie "I Want to Be Rich", released in 1989.
I want to be rich
Jacky Cheung plays the protagonist "He Tianxiang" in the film, a college graduate who has just made a small errand in a large company. He has different expectations of wealth than ordinary people. Why is that? In addition to coming from a poor family, he also because his father was engaged in a job that seemed very humiliating to him - singing unpopular songs at street stalls.
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For these reasons, he avoids talking about his family in front of his colleagues, much less about his father's work in order to make progress in his career. However, things are not as they think they are.
He wants to mingle with his colleagues, but finds that he is not a class with others at all, and he has to pay for a meal; Weak and weak, he could not complete the work independently, and he was beaten for no reason, and in the end he still had to rely on his brother to use special means to solve it; when he met a rich woman, the two sides had a good feeling for each other, thinking that a good day was coming, but because the rich woman's brother obstructed it, the marriage was scattered.
Do you think the movie is going to take the inspirational route and have a "dick counterattack" situation? If that's the case, it's not called a sadomasochistic movie.
After experiencing the transformation of hope and disappointment, the thinking of "He Tianxiang" has undergone a huge change. He developed an obsession with wealth that he had never had before, so much so that he chose the wrong path and became one of the evil forces. He believed that only in this way could he get rid of the shadow of poverty and show off his might in front of the rich. To his surprise, the poor and humiliated father was the first to oppose him, and since then there has been conflict. And the price comes with it.
After the increase in wealth, the struggle between forces intensified, and the woman who had a crush on her and her best friend who had grown up with a small piece of music died one after another. At this time, he was completely plunged into madness, and only hatred remained in his heart. And when he was about to face the disaster of imprisonment after killing his enemy, it was his father who stood up and took all the crimes.
At the end of the film, "He Tianxiang" sings a song with a smile on his face that he once thought was very humiliating, but in the end he still forced the tears of the viewers out.
Frankly, the film is fast-paced and sharp,but it's slightly less logical, the frequency of transitions is too fast, and it deliberately amplifies conflict between people. However, the father and son of Jacky Cheung and Dong Biao used their superb acting skills to interpret the feelings of specific characters.
The film didn't gross very well that year, less than HK$3 million, but it wasn't bad for a low-budget film. After all, after watching this film, you will feel that there is a strong literary atmosphere. What I didn't expect was that the director of this film was Jiang David, who was famous for his martial arts students.
Looking back at Jacky Cheung's acting career, there is really nothing to say about acting, especially when he was not old enough to win the Recognition award. As for the "Movie Emperor", I believe it will not be too far away.
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