Hong Kong director Liu Weiqiang's "Young and Dangerous" series of films brought Hong Kong gangster movies in the 1990s to a new peak.
"Young and Dangerous", the first " people in the rivers and lakes " achieved great success. Ekin Cheng, who starred in Chen Haonan, was also promoted to a first-line movie star because of this movie, not inferior to the current top star. Liu Weiqiang wanted to shoot the second part while the iron was hot, but because Ekin Cheng was already hot, the film schedule continued, leaving not much time for the film. So the ghost director Liu Weiqiang took 9 days to drive out the second film of the series, "The Raptors Crossing the River". Therefore, Chen Xiaochun, who played the second male pheasant in the film, took on a large role. He played the opposite role with him, played the villain boss, and also the female number one Ding Yao, Qiu Shuzhen, became the most beautiful and moving in the series. Charismatic villain.
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Ding Yao's role is different from other villains and female roles in gangster movies in the same period. In the first half of the film, she is the woman of the older brother. She has the characteristics that most women in gangster movies are subordinate to the strong men: ill-fated, weak, and dependent on men, so she has a certain degree of representativeness. In the second half of the film, she dramatically transformed into the big villain in the film, betrayed her elder brother and became her elder brother Ben. She tried to overthrow the dominant power of men, and wanted to take the position directly and take the place of the boss instead of men. So as a rebel, Ding Yao's role is very typical.
Ding Yao has always been a gentle and weak mistress in the first half of the film. Starting from her personal image, she is a protective vase. Starting from the social image, she is a woman with a certain identity and background. As the eldest brother, the woman naturally distanced herself from other men, because of her beauty and sense of distance, other men had a strong desire for possession.
At the beginning of the film, Pheasant and Chen Haonan broke up, and went to Taiwan to join his cousin of the triptych. The leader of the Sanlian Gang is Lei Gong, and Ding Yao officially appeared on the scene when Lei Gong was sweeping the grave on the anniversary of his death. She wandered in a Japanese hair bun and holding flowers. She is wearing a black kimono with long sleeves. Although the color of the kimono looks serious and solemn, the patterns on the kimono bring out the feminine charm. It also shows from the side that she is a married woman because of the black sleeves in Japan. Kimono can only be worn by married women. She has good looks, charming eyes and fair skin, which makes people fall in love at first sight.
Noble and dignified Japanese kimono
She said affectionately to Lei Gong: "Brother, thank you for letting me worship my sister-in-law."
Lei Gong said: "Today is Shuxian's death day, I feel I am old. Many."
Ding Yao said respectfully: "You look at your spirits! I have always been jealous of my sister-in-law, and now I envy her very much. Seeing your names are engraved on the tombstones, I know I will never have Way to replace her.”
From Ding Yao’s appearance and this series of dialogues, it can be seen that Ding Yao is Lei Gong’s mistress, she looks good and considerate, but she can’t really replace the sister-in-law’s eldest brother’s heart. position.
Ding Yao and the pheasant
after Lei Gong asked the pheasant to send Ding Yao back. Pheasant's character is a sensual, and Chen Haonan is not the protagonist of him. Such an arrangement naturally allows him to connect with Ding Yao.
When the pheasant hinted that he had a good impression of Ding Yao, Ding Yao said that he would take the pheasant to a place, and the scene went directly from the cemetery to the casino. This step of
changed its shape and formed a huge contrast, which aroused strong curiosity of the audience: how could this seemingly dignified and beautiful woman in a kimono haunt the smoky casino, which also laid a small foreshadowing for the subsequent plot. .
Ding Yao keeps losing money in the casino. When the pheasant tried to dissuade her, she said lightly: "I don't like losing money, but I like the feeling of life and death between winning and losing."
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also forms a huge contrast with the image of weak women in the previous appearances.People began to faintly perceive her difference. Gambling at all costs, life and death, has become a portrayal of her future plot. Then she told the pheasant that Lei Gong had no interest in women anymore. Once again he showed his depression and helplessness to the pheasant.
handsome locomotive suit shape
Later when the pheasant killed the legislator who was running with Lei Gong, he was hunted down. Ding Yao, wearing a helmet and a motorcycle uniform, was riding a motorcycle handsomely and unexpectedly rescued the pheasant who was trapped in the siege.
Immediately after the picture turned, as the background music of Japanese folk songs sounded, the pheasant and Ding Yao had reached the hot spring on the mountain in the night. Ding Yao is naked in the hot spring, the picture is very ambiguous. She softly praised the pheasant for being brave and showing admiration, and told the pheasant that she was a Chinese-Japanese mixed race, and her parents divorced when she was very young. The night, hot springs, naked beauties, expressions of admiration, and tragic life experience indicate that the relationship between the two will have further development.
miserable life experience
The next day when the picture turns, the pheasant in his sleep is woken up by Ding Yao, saying that Lei Gong is here to see him. The pheasant hurriedly got up to meet
Lei Gong. Lei Gong said that the use of pheasants can get in touch with Hongxing boss Jiang Tiansheng. It can be seen from this that Lei Gong is behind the improper relationship between Ding Yao and Pheasant. Ding Yao is just a tool for him to seduce the pheasant, in order to make the pheasant work for himself.
At this time, Ding Yao's humble position next to Leigong was once again reflected. She is an image of a weak person who is attached to the boss and sells her body for the boss's interests. She has an outstanding appearance and a pitiful background. Although she is nominally the mistress of the boss, she is actually just a humble pawn whose hue is used by the boss.
So far, the appearance of the female image of Ding Yao is no different from the image of the eldest brother in general gangster movies. They are just delicate women with excellent looks, instigated by others, and involuntary.
Later, Pheasant and Lei Gong completely fell out. When Pheasant and Chen Haonan were in the bar, Ding Yao unexpectedly appeared again. This time she came to beg the Pheasant to make peace with Lei Gong. Pheasant took off her sunglasses and saw her being beaten into panda eyes by Lei Gong. This evoked the pheasant's sympathy for her as a male.
Miekou Gao Jie
Pheasant and Chen Haonan came to Lei Gong’s house. It was discovered that Lei Gong had been killed. At this time, Ding Yao was shouting for help to blame the pheasant and Chen Haonan to kill Lei Gong, and the two found themselves in a trap. Ding Yao took advantage of the discord between the pheasant and Lei Gong, and blamed the pheasant and Chen Haonan for killing Lei Gong. He became the successor of the boss, and his rebellious image was completely determined. After
, Ding Yao did two more things to establish her position as the boss.
First, Lei Gong’s bodyguard went to the beach to kill him by tricking her into an accomplice who had maintained an affair for many years.
The second is to use your beauty to lure Dafei, hoping to use Dafei's power to enrich your own strength.
seduce Da Fei
In this series of conspiracies, Ding Yao went from a pitiful and humble woman to a careerist who killed her husband and usurped the throne and tried to control men with beauty. As a result, the image of women's rebellion also rose to the highest peak.
finally reversed the plot
However, when she was so proud and ready to cut the ribbon for the newly opened casino, a dramatic scene appeared. Pheasant and Chen Haonan came to the casino to make trouble, and Da Fei had a dispute with them. After that, there was a confrontation scene common in gangster movies. Hong Xingshe and a group of Sanlian gang confronted each other on the street. Ding Yao originally thought that he had a large number of people, but did not expect that Chen Haonan and the pheasant had made arrangements. What she didn't expect was that her ally, Da Fei, aimed his gun at her. At this time, Gao Jie, who had not been killed by Da Fei before, also came out in a wheelchair to identify Ding Yao's crime.
In this way, Ding Yao's long-planned plans were all exposed on the spot. In the end, she was beaten to death by a pheasant on the street with a pistol, ending her life.
When Ding Yao was a protected person, she was attached to men, notPity becomes a humble tool for men. Although many details in the film confessed that she is an ambitious woman, she happened to use the beautiful and weak personality to arouse the male's protective desire and possessiveness, and made herself a step by step, and finally almost rushed to the right. peak. But after her image as a rebel killed Lei Gong, framed the pheasant, and violently killed Gao Jie with a gun, her ultimate fate was suppressed again by the male and died under the gun of the pheasant.
was shot by a pheasant
Ding Yao, the villain character, although it is a short-lived in the entire series of movies. But personal charm is enduring. Pharaoh believes that there are three reasons:
is the first, Qiu Shuzhen's face is a fan. The entertainment industry has always looked at faces, and Qiu Shuzhen is still the goddess of many fans. More than 20 years ago, she was at the peak of her integrity, and it was hard not to be popular. No matter how bad the film and acting are, her appearance is righteous. Although she is a big villain and her acting skills are not bad, she is still widely sought after and recognized. In the film , she is sometimes dignified, sometimes charming, sometimes handsome, and sometimes capable. Every female characteristic is perfectly deduced by her.
Second, it is different from the role model of Big Brother Woman in previous gangster movies. In the "Young and Dangerous" series of films, Fang Ting, Hong Xing Jiang's natural girlfriend, also went through a process from attaching to his big brother to betraying his big brother. However, Fang Ting's weakness is not a disguise, but is inherent. As a female celebrity, she had no sense of security. She found the gangster as her backer, and later framed Chen Haonan and killed Jiang Tiansheng. Fang Ting and Ding Yao have a good image and good temperament in common, and they can betray for their own benefit. The difference is that Fang Ting was forced by the crow to do it, becoming a victim of the gang's power struggle. Compared with her, Ding Yao is not really weak, but very tough, forbearing, and the huge ambition hidden in her, she will do whatever it takes to achieve her goal. Her active violence is not instigated by others, so Ding Yao is a unique and never the same character .
Third, it integrates multiple contradictions. Ding Yao’s character is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, both beautiful and evil, worthy of sympathy and hatred, and is an angel among the devil. has both the face of an angel and the figure of a devil; both a tragic encounter and a vicious heart. It makes people love and resent. This character makes the audience feel sympathy or resentment, or love and hate, mixed emotions in the complex emotions. This constant conflict of ambivalence has also pushed the attention to classic characters and films to the peak.
The angel of the devil
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