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Two months ago, Paramount suddenly announced that it would restart Wu Yusen's 1997 classic action film "Changing Face", which shocked Pico.
First, it feels that Hollywood’s lack of subject matter has reached an extremely serious point;
second is surprised that such a personal style movie will be restarted. Is Paramount crazy? Aren't you afraid of "losing your money"?
In 1997, Mike Webber and Michael Kolari performed the drama, Wu Yusen, John Travolta and Nicholas Cage joined forces to contribute to this pinnacle masterpiece. Although it is a Hollywood movie, it fully shows Wu Yusen's personal style. The setting of
the two heroes, the exquisite performance of the multiple emotional dramas of the two heroes, and the stylized Hong Kong-style gunfight scenes are not all in Hollywood movies.
Before this film, Wu Yusen also experienced a period of difficult climbing in Hollywood.
Almost all Hong Kong commercial film directors in the 1990s wanted to go to Hollywood, including Yuan Kui ("Game of Blood"), Tsui Hark ("KO Thunder Strike", "Double Fire"), Lin Lingdong ("Extreme Adventure", "Clone", "Hell Awakens the Dragon") and Wu Yusen.
However, the interesting thing is that when these directors first arrive in Hollywood, their works will be ruined by a Shang Gyunton.
In 1993, Wu Yusen and Shang Gyunton collaborated on "Ultimate Target", but the film was defeated because of his personal style.
launched "Broken Arrow" in 1996. Although it was still a very ordinary action movie, it brought John Travolta, who was at a trough in his acting career, to the second spring. The
film won 150 million US dollars in the global box office, and Hollywood bigwigs began to pay attention to Wu Yusen. One year later, "Change Face" came into being.
It is said that Paramount wanted to use Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to co-star in order to ensure double insurance. But Wu Yusen thought that John Travolta and Nicholas Cage were more appropriate and eventually convinced the filmmakers.
Of course, the two big stars are also willing to accept. The former is to repay the favor, and the latter knows that he is the villain at the beginning, but then the whole film is the protagonist, thinking it is very fresh, so he agreed to play. In the
story, FBI agent Sean Arthur and the terrorist Keith Troy are rivals. In order to assassinate Sean, Keith killed his son Michael by mistake. Therefore, Sean hated him. He pursued it for many years and vowed to bring him to justice. After years of investigation by
, Sean was finally able to place an informant next to Case and intercept him before he was about to leave Los Angeles.
After an airport battle, Case was severely injured and unconscious, and he captured Case’s brother Burrows Troy.
Before the police had time to celebrate, they discovered that Case had placed a gas bomb somewhere in downtown Los Angeles before his arrest. If it is not dismantled, the gas released by the bomb will spread throughout Los Angeles.
The police tried their best to force Case’s brother Burrows to tell the location of the bomb. Burrows was tight-lipped and would rather die than reveal it.
With nothing to do, the senior management proposed to use the most advanced face-changing technology to tear off Case’s face and replace it with Sean’s face, and let Sean pretend to be Case to go to the jail to approach Burrows, in order to get hidden. The location of the bomb.
Sean's face was also torn off and kept in the hospital so that he could change it back after the plan was successful.
This plan is classified as a high-secret FBI, and only the three internal FBI agents and surgeons know about it.
went well at first, and Sean, posing as Case, got into the jail and was trusted by Burrows.
But what is unexpected is that Keith, who was originally in a coma, woke up painfully because his face was torn off. He decided to retaliate against Sean.
Case called his subordinates and forced the doctor to replace him with Sean's face, and then killed all the doctors and FBI agents who knew it to destroy the evidence.
In this way, Case became Sean Arthur. He turned his brother Burrows into a taint witness, and then removed the poison gas bomb he planted and became People’s Heroes.Xiong, but the real Sean never saw the sun in prison.
Shaun was unwilling to sit still after learning the situation in prison, so he caused trouble to cause chaos, and then successfully escaped.
Because Sean is now Case, he returned to Case’s lair with the help of Case’s girlfriend Sasha Hasler and her brother Dietrich Hasler.
It is worth mentioning that Sean also saw Case's son Adam. Sean, who has suffered from the pain of bereavement since the death of his son, seems to find comfort.
After Keith learned that Sean was released from prison, he also brought the police to kill him and wanted to get rid of Sean. The two of
went through a series of life and death battles. In the end, of course, the evil was overwhelming. Sean took Case to the law and finally changed his face. The ending of the movie
is that Sean finally returned to his home and took in Case's son Adam.
Shaun and Keith started out with grudges and grievances, and finally resolved with tolerance and love.
"Changing Face" is branded with Wu Yusen everywhere in the film. It is one of his classic works and his most successful work in Hollywood.
Among them, the double guns used by Case, the fighting actions during the shootout, the church in the final battle, and the indispensable white dove are all the labels of Wu Yusen's movies.
John Travolta and Nicholas Cage are both male protagonists and villains. Sean and Keith have two completely different personalities, which require the two to give full play to their interpretation skills and dedicate themselves to interpretation. . From this, we can see the different interpretation styles of the two in shaping the positive and the villain, and taste the delicate acting skills of Hollywood's first-line actors.
Piccolo can hardly imagine how such a work would be remade by other Hollywood directors.
has seen too many classic remakes in recent years. I really don’t want "Changing Face" to be the next one, because it has an unshakable status in the hearts of the post-80s generation.
Whenever I think of Sean identifying himself in front of his wife, when it comes to the scene where he slapped him severely in the emotional part, Nicholas Cage forgave him no matter how bad the film was.
Our inland media accounts have often mocked him over the years, as if he was owed something by him. Pico has never said a word about him.
Because of the existence of "Face Changing" in my mind, John Travolta and Nicholas Cage will always be Hollywood actors.
Text/Pippi Film Editor: Passionate Blood
