Ning Hao's "Crazy Stone" is a classic of domestic films, although this movie made a lot of money at the time, but some people pointed out that it had serious imitation traces. So the question is, which work is Ning Hao imitating?
His narrative style is modeled after the classic British film Two Smoking Guns.
There is also the actor Guo Da, who we are familiar with in this movie... No, Jason Statham.
At the beginning of the movie, there are four unlearned young people, namely Ed, Bakken, Soap and Tom, among whom there are thieves, cooks and street thugs, and they all have the same dream, that is, to make a windfall and make themselves worry-free. (Other characters use code names from the editor, otherwise I am afraid that readers will not remember [cover their faces])
Because Ed is proficient in gambling, they press the treasure on Ed's body. The four of them together put together 100,000 yuan and let Ed take the money to the underground casino in an attempt to get rich overnight.
But they are obviously too tender, the underground casino itself is a trap, the casino owners and thugs through the monitoring of cheating, so that Ed not only lost all the money, but also owed 500,000.
If they can't pay it back, casino owners and thugs will send collectors to collect the bills at their own risk. Fearing being threatened by the receiver, Ed and the other three had to find a way to scrape together money to write off the account.
Paying back money is one main line, and we will talk about another story line.
The casino owner took a fancy to two antique guns, worth 300,000 yuan, which were collected in the home of a down-and-out aristocrat.
The boss asked the thug to hire two stupid thieves to steal the gun, note that only the thugs came forward in the process, and the boss did not meet with the stupid thief.
The burglary process is not dangerous, the stupid thief stole all the guns in the ancient house, but they made a mistake in the focus, thinking that the two antique guns were too old and worthless, and sold hundreds of pieces.
The thugs were furious, they only wanted antiques, no other guns, and ordered the stupid thief to get the guns back.
Who did the stupid thief give the antique gun to? A middleman, who in turn sold the gun to the Ed Foursome.
When the foursome are desperate because they can't make up money, they overhear a conversation from a neighbor who wants to rob a few drug addicts and will grab a lot of money.
Ed felt that this was a good opportunity, and after the neighbors robbed and escaped, they cut off their beards halfway and could scrape together the money to pay the bill. But in order to make them a deterrent, the four decided to buy two guns for backup. I happened to buy an antique gun from a middleman.
The middleman also brokered four people, and if they grabbed drugs, they would help find a black boss to sell the stolen goods.
The neighbor managed to grab the money and drugs, but was cut off by a foursome halfway through. However, not only the neighbors are thunderous, but the same is true of the black boss introduced by the middleman, because the original supply channel of the black boss is an addict, but now it has been robbed. Both sides began investigating who had taken the money and goods.
The Ed foursome went out because the plan was successful, but they did not know that the black boss and the neighbors had found them, and they brought people to the house, and the result was inevitably a firefight, and finally both were lost.
At this time, the cashier appeared, because the deadline was up, he came to the four-person group's house to collect money, and as a result, he was given two antique guns and a lot of money in vain.
The four of them are dumbfounded when they return home to see a mess, when the casino owner has already gotten the money and the antique gun from the cashier, and he asks the four to go to the underground casino to confront each other.
On the way to the casino, two stupid thieves appeared, and they watched the cashier enter the underground casino with an antique gun, so they followed all the way, in order to get the gun back for the thugs, they did not hesitate to fight with the casino owner.
Some people ask, isn't a stupid thief stealing a gun just to give it to a casino owner? But there was a problem, the stupid thief and the boss did not meet, they just docked with the thugs. Just like the final rivalry between the thief and Xu Zheng in "Crazy Stone".
In the darkness, bosses, thugs, and stupid thieves were all shot and killed.
The stupid thief and the thug recognized each other before they died, and both sides had a question mark on their faces: "What are you doing here?" ”
The cashier meets a half-dead neighbor on the way, and after a fierce fight, returns to the casino, only to meet the Ed foursome who have just arrived at the casino.
At this point, both guns and money were there. The police came, and the two sides tacitly collected the money and robbery, and then exonerated themselves.
Eventually, the money was taken by the collector, who left the gun to the Ed Foursome.
Ed and the casino owner's account is also dead, going around, they just lost the 100,000 yuan they lost in the initial bet.
Two antique guns were evidence of their participation in the robbery, and the four of them decided to send Tom to destroy it, while the others waited in the bar.
The cashier brought a copy of the magazine, and the three people who stayed in the bar saw in the magazine the price of two antique guns, which was 300,000. The three men were in a hurry and hurried to call Tom.
Tom, who was destroying the gun, was about to throw the gun into the river with his bag when his phone suddenly rang. The phone was held in his mouth, but he had to put the bag down or throw it out before he could answer the phone, so there was a dilemma.
The film ends abruptly here, leaving the audience with unlimited imagination space.
This "Two Big Smoking Guns" is the representative work of director GayRich, who was only 30 years old at the time, and his unique narrative style alarmed the entire film industry. After watching the film, Brad Boot, the hollywood star at the time, named Ritchie's next work.
The movie is not only very classic, but also leaves the audience with a difficult problem: Did Tom throw it in the end?