What can we talk about when we talk about domestic suspense films? In
Chinese-language movies, there are several types of movies that are like movie black holes. No matter how many years the Chinese-language movies are iterated, they are as difficult to break as the Mobius ring. For example, in horror movies for many years, there have been crevices and ghosts. Although "The Tomb of the Concubine Pirates" and "The Mystery of St. Paul's Hospital" appeared in the 1990s, most of the time, they can only sigh with excitement and dilemma.
also has science fiction films. Chinese-language films have developed vigorously for two decades. Although film production has become more magnificent and technology has also advanced by leaps and bounds, domestic films have hardly made any achievements in imagination and hard science fiction, and "Wandering Earth" seems to be made domestically. Science fiction films have waited until dawn, but science fiction films such as "Three-body" and "Trown Star" have come to an end, which still makes people feel that domestic science fiction has a long way to go.
is also true for suspense films other than
. Unlike horror films that require censorship and relaxation, sci-fi films require industrial background, suspense films only require subtlety and technical innovation to a large extent. But over the years, Chinese suspense films have been like stagnant water, despite the wind and waves outside.
What kind of dilemma does Chinese suspense film encounter?
You must know that in other countries, suspense films should have been at the beginning of a booming movie. , such as film master Hitchcock, built the prosperity of film techniques through suspense films such as "Rear Window" and "Scary", and The golden age of the Hollywood movie era; the same French director Henri-George Cruz, also with "The Price of Fear", became the only legendary classic in film history to win the Palme d'Or and the Golden Bear.
can be said that in other countries, suspense films always play the leading role.
has arrived in China, but the suspense films are in an awkward position. Throughout the half-century of Chinese films, they talked about the widely known domestic suspense films, or "The Wind", "National Witness" and "Heart Labyrinth" are all works of recent years. The number of masterpieces is very few.
Do Chinese filmmakers really have no suspense genes? In fact, Chinese mystery films were brilliant 40 years ago, and the most representative of them was the 1980 "405 Murder".
Objectively speaking, this is the first detective film in Chinese film history.
also created a miracle when "405 Murders" was first released in 1980. Although the reform and opening up were not long ago and the people's quality of life was low, under this circumstance, "405 Murders" still recorded more than 100 million movie viewers. , Chinese film myth with a box office of over 100 million.
has not only become the box office overlord, but also the founder of Chinese suspense films.
In fact, in the history of Chinese film, the significance of "405 Murder" is not only the creator of the suspense film and the box office harvester, but also the "action giant" rarely seen in domestic films at that time. Besides the plot concept Ingenious and second to none, the film is also a pioneer in Chinese-language films in terms of technical innovation, suspense creation, and photography design.
It can be said that "405 Murders" is China's first blockbuster film after the reform and opening up.
talked about the creative inspiration of "405 Murder" and Duan Yuanyuan.
Chinese films had just gone through a downturn at the time, and after the horn of reform and opening up, Chinese films had no benchmarks to learn from, so filmmakers could only explore and develop themselves. At this time, Shen Yaoting, director of the Shanghai Film Studio, had just finished "The Bourne of East Port", so he wanted to use the reform of Dongfeng to shoot truly representative Chinese suspense films.
At this time, he accidentally saw a report published in "People's Daily". The report described how the criminal investigation cadres in Inner Mongolia discovered the clues of the case after the murderer had been executed, and then boldly reported to the indictor to start the review and give an explanation to the wrongdoer. .
so with this idea, director Shen Yaoting began to conceive the "405 Murder".
In order to make the film more compatible with the times, he also added other case prototypes in the film.
At that time, he saw a file and found that a hero who saved countless lives before the founding of the People's Republic of China died in a wrong case after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The director was deeply moved when he heard this story, so he added this tragedy case to the film, and the prototype of the entire script was formally established.
arrived in the movie, and the movie started with a murder case.
in the movieJuan went to see her boyfriend Li Liang, but found that Li Liang was dead in the house. According to the investigation, criminal investigators found not only small feathers on the wound, but also fingerprints on the tea cup. In addition, the notebook also read: "Asan, I will never let you go!"
So the criminal investigators began to investigate from Ah San.
According to the investigation, two Ah San had a holiday with the deceased Li Liang. One of
is nicknamed "Rubber Fish A San". He works at Qingxi Farm in Huangshan Mountain. This person often gambles. He recently borrowed money from Li Liang. On the night of the accident, someone saw him run out of the building in a panic.
As for the other "Asan", Fang Mingshan, a TV cameraman, worked with Li Liang. It is said that there is a big conflict between the two. When the fingerprints of "Rubber Fish Asan" were found for comparison, they found that the fingerprints were different from those on the glass, so Fang Mingshan's suspicion became even greater. According to the investigation, they also found that Fang Mingshan had also gone out on the night of the accident, and the fingerprints taken on his camera were exactly the same as those on the glass. At this time, the truth seemed to be self-evident!
So Director Xu Yibin ordered Fang Mingshan to be arrested, but after he was captured, Fang Mingshan asked them to show evidence. At this time, investigator Lao Chen thought of the feathers left on the scene.
said that this feather is only available in Huangshan, so he went to Huangshan to find evidence.
, but he didn't expect that, what awaited him afterwards was a series of conspiracy traps!
When he and his colleagues went to Huangshan to investigate, they happened to find Ah San at Qingxi Farm. During the review, Ah San confessed that he had indeed gone to Li Liang’s house to steal money that day, but Li Liang happened to come back with another person during the theft, so he He was busy hiding in the bathroom, and Li Liang had been killed when he came out.
Hearing this, Lao Chen felt that everything was not so simple. After
, he went deep into the forest again, and then looked for the trail of feathers. Later, he learned that a man named Lin Fugen had come to beat the birds. When Lao Chen, who learned the news, rushed back, he was suddenly attacked inexplicably. Finally, he jumped into a truck alertly to avoid misfortune.
Everything seemed to become more and more weird, and at this time colleague Qian Kai suddenly became indifferent to the case, and persuaded Lao Chen not to intervene anymore, making Lao Chen feel that there are other forces behind him!
has to say, "405 Murder" is really a rare domestic suspense film.
Especially in the era of waiting to be reborn, suspense films can actually tell a good story. It is very rare, but "405 Murders" not only tells the suspense plot that is well-conceived, laid out and foreshadowed, it also adopts techniques and rhythm. Let the film become full and full, watching the film is full of the atmosphere of rattling.
In addition, the action scenes of the whole work are also very exciting, and the "tilted composition" is even more dazzling, so the film as a whole has a sense of stunning beyond the times.
Of course, the so-called film is regarded as a classic. It is not only excellent in production, but more importantly, it is the uninhibited plot design, especially the unexpected and reasonable reversal of the ending. It also allows the audience to see the filmmakers at the time. Reflect the efforts made by the times!
With more and more clues, a conspiracy gradually surfaced.
After investigation, Lao Chen discovered that Fang Mingshan was actually planted! And Fang Mingshan had made great contributions during the War of Resistance against Japan a long time ago, but in this ridiculous era, once a national hero was planted as a murderer because he had evidence of someone’s crime, and he even used violence against him.
These are only to conceal some of the powers’ own black transactions. What makes
even weaker is that when he was arrested, Fang Mingshan dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. After all, the mastermind of the incident was the person in power here, so who could he rely on to wash his grievances?
At this time, the theme of the movie becomes more and more obvious. The movie seems to be about a suspenseful case. In fact, it is really trying to vindicate those idealists and those who died of grievances. After all, in the era, there were too many pioneers. Under the pressure of the times, he became a traitor!
They were not even able to shout, they were persecuted to death in the name of traitors.
Fortunately, the tragedies of these times have finally been vindicated.
Although the chaos was not completely cleared up at the time, the 405 Murder Case took the lead in blowing the horn, Like a dose of spring thunder, a dose of bombs, a deafening cry to the times!
"Idealists shouldn't just fall in a pool of blood like this."
They are the heroes of the motherland. They have gone through the war of resistance, and finally fell on the battlefield without a shroud of horse leather, but fell in a distorted era to death.
This is the injustice of the times and our misfortune.
And now, it's time to give the heroes an explanation!
