With the advent of the National Day holiday, the film industry ushered in a small climax. Among them, "Wu Shuang" produced by Ali, Bona and Emperor, has a cumulative box office of more than 700 million yuan, leading the National Day file, and became the three-material champion of the National Day box office in cumulative box office, word of mouth and attendance.
has even given an evaluation of surpassing "Infernal Affairs" on the Internet. So how good "Wu Shuang" is and whether it can surpass this Hong Kong movie that has become an eternal classic, let's talk about it in detail below.
was able to break out of the siege and become a dark horse at the box office in a promising situation in Zhang Yimou's "Shadow" and the happy twisted "Aunt of Li Cha" that has never disappointed the audience. What does it rely on?
"Wu Shuang" is a crime action film directed by Zhuang Wenqiang, starring Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok, Zhang Jingchu, Feng Wenjuan, and co-starring Liao Qizhi, Zhou Jiayi and Wang Yaoqing. The
film tells the story of Wu Fusheng, the third-generation master of counterfeiting banknotes, who tempts the down-and-out painter Li Wen to join his team and jointly develop a method to imitate the new version of US banknotes to obtain huge profits. Due to the difference in values between the two, the cooperation from the beginning gradually evolved into an enemy. Eventually a rush was triggered, and Li Wen was eventually imprisoned. After
was imprisoned, Li Wen eventually became the key to the police revealing the true identity of the "painter", which is Wu Fusheng's identity. First of all,
is the cast, which can be called luxurious. The existence of two kings of alone makes the film a bit more exciting. However, as the Hong Kong film industry is declining today, the two celebrities have also produced bad films. It seems that has both of them, which is not enough to make it stand out from the crowd.
So let us focus on the director and screenwriter Zhuang Wenqiang, Zhuang Wenqiang, who is it? has a collection of Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay, Golden Horse Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden Horse Award for Best Screenplay Award, Golden Film Award for Best Director Award in one , successively held "Infernal Affairs", "Initial D", The screenwriter of "Eavesdropping Wind and Cloud" and "Flying Sand Wind Transfer". The ability of
to write a script like "Infernal Affairs" is evident in its screenwriting skills, and the script creation and shooting of "Wu Shuang" is probably the most difficult time in his career.
As early as 2008, Zhuang Wenqiang had created an outline of about 10,000 words, but everyone was not optimistic, so no one wanted a script. It was not until 11 that a complete script was available.
But the film still cannot be shot. There are two main reasons. One is related to the production of counterfeit banknotes. The subject matter is too sensitive. The government did not allow him to shoot until 14 years. The other reason is the high cost and no boss is willing to invest. Of course, some friends persuaded him to use a cheaper way to shoot, but Zhuang Wenqiang, who was meticulous about the product, was unwilling to compromise.
So until today we can't fully see this work on the screen. What is even more admirable is that in order to tell us the specific links of this process, Zhuang Wenqiang and his team actually made counterfeit bills. It took 4 months to study how to make counterfeit bills. !
This is why the story of "Wu Shuang" is so fascinating, it can attract our attention from beginning to end. Because the story of "Wushuang" is unprecedented, it is unique.
Before this, there have been many themes of movies in movie history, including gangsters, martial arts, kung fu movies, and science fiction movies, all of which were novel areas that the public had never been exposed to. But the industry has developed to this day, they have become nothing new.
until the release of "Wushuang" has injected fresh blood into the old-fashioned and lacking vitality of the movie market, and amazed people's eyes.
Of course, the excellence of the film is also inseparable from the two movie stars. Brother
, as a common memory of the previous generation, has left many well-known classic works. Today, although he is 63 years old, he is still young and his style remains the same.
Zhuang Wenqiang also specially designed many big scene action scenes for Fa Ge in the film, the purpose is to let people know what the three words "Zhou Yunfa" mean.
The classic dollar cigarette lighter lens
holds a double gun to pay tribute to the heroic character of the hero
and the king Guo Fucheng, the performance in the film is even more commendable. One person plays two roles, from oneA downturned painter with a weak conscience but a weak conscience, to a treacherous counterfeit boss, who has changed a lot before and after, but he is comfortable
. He himself is a boast that he can play any role except for a teenager. Although arrogant, I have to say that there are two brushes.
As for whether it can surpass "Infernal Affairs", let's take a look at how awesome Infernal Affairs is. The crude production of Hong Kong movies before has led to a total depression of Hong Kong movies after entering the 21st century. In Hong Kong, known as the Hollywood of the East, the film industry has plummeted. Basically, one loses one investment.
At this time, Hong Kong filmmakers broke the boat, and under pressure, they spent huge sums of money to build "Infernal Affairs", and it became an instant success, turning losses into profits, and "Infernal Affairs" became a work of salvation.
is almost perfect in both the script and the interpretation. Its success seems to have suddenly activated the thinking of Hong Kong filmmakers. Investors have also begun to have the confidence to inject blood into the film market. At the beginning of the century, Hong Kong films were rejuvenated.
In 2003, five major American companies wanted to buy the right to remake Infernal Affairs. In the end, Warner Bros. Pictures won the bid for $1.75 million. In 2006, "Infernal Affairs" was remade into the movie "The Infernal Affairs"
"I will come out and mix, sooner or later, I have to pay it back". Today, many people can say one or two classic lines from "Infernal Affairs", and "Infernal Affairs" "Almost one of the most imitated and tribute movies in the past ten years. Hong Kong films have been glorious for decades since Bruce Lee, but there is no commercial film that can match the influence of "Infernal Affairs".
And this time "Wu Shuang", is also extremely good, and it ushered in a reversal in the ending, which made the film rise from a simple narrative to another height, which can be described as unparalleled in history.
However, as the classic lines in the movie say: is sometimes not as good as the fake, and the fake story in the film is worse than the real story, which also caused the film's small shortcomings. The reversal at the end of
is a magical pen to sublime the film. We hope it will be a more perfect and deeper story. But in the end, there were some scribbles. The real reason for the gang infighting was why brothers who had been born and died for so many years would shoot at each other, just because of a woman who intervened in the middle? What happened in the middle? And the final self-destruction also made it a little perfunctory.
In terms of works, "Infernal Affairs" is almost perfect, "Wu Shuang" is already very good, but there are still some flaws. In terms of influence, "Infernal Affairs" brought about a period of prosperity in the Hong Kong film industry at the beginning of the century, and it is still unclear what "Wu Shuang" can bring to the film and television industry, especially the Hong Kong film industry.
Therefore, it is too early to speak of transcending Infernal Affairs.
