" Detective Wars " has been controversial since its release. The good ones think that it inherits the crazy characteristics of Hong Kong films, while the critics think that its scenes are exaggerated and illogical.
For some reason, I only watched this "Detective Wars" recently. I think it's a pity, Wei Jiahui is still the top screenwriter of the Galaxy, but as a director, he is obviously unable to do what he wants, and it seems to be in many aspects. The director's skills are lacking.
As for the actors, as the final BOSS Lin Feng did his best, but his business ability is limited. Please imagine what kind of experience would it be like to play this role in the heyday of Wu Zhenyu or Jacky Cheung ? In fact, it is probably a better solution to hand over such a key role without any traces to Liu Qingyun , and to hand over the expressive "magic detective" to Lin Feng.
My opinion has always been that a suspense movie villain decides the upper limit. The scale of
"Detective Wars" is actually very high. They are all famous cases on Hong Kong Island, and the level of realism has reached the limit of the current scale. It is estimated that it will be difficult to release.
Generally speaking, "The Detective War" basically reflects all the current predicaments of Hong Kong movies - the lack of a new generation of directors, the serious faults of actors, and the confusion in the scale of shooting content. It seems that it has always been determined to innovate and forge ahead. Hong Kong movies have also seen their own limits. Perhaps as the movie says, "We are just spies, not gods." The movie myth of Hong Kong has seen its final chapter.
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· A good screenwriter is not a good director Where is the role of the director
, we can see the clues from "Detective War" .
The whole plot is simple and the timeline is straight forward. Qigong, dual personality establishment> planning bank robbery> the case of the magic police officer (but the motive is impure)> establishing a detective revenge group> revenge for wrongful convictions> fighting wits and courage with Li Jun, ushered in the finale.
Li: Wife Killing = Ship Case > Demon Police Case > Insane Detention > Tianqiao Writing Case (Used) > Detective Revenge Group Series Case > Fighting with Fang.
The first time Li saw a demon, I guess it was before killing his wife. Some kind of evil in his heart was released because of the tragic scene. He killed his wife and went crazy.
The second time it was on the ship, and there were still so many corpses. After the second sighting, I felt relieved and restrained. In fact, it was because no one could kill it. I had become a madman before, but now I have returned to mortals. That's why
has the last sentence: we are just spies, not gods.
finally looked at the reflection in the mirror. In fact, these two people are two-in-one. What they didn't say is: both domestic violence , otherwise, they would not know how and Sa were abused, and they all have secret injustices. One thought becomes a god, another one becomes a demon, the god and the devil are one, um, it's another clown + Batman spiral structure script, but it didn't shoot at that level.
The screenwriter writes a good story, and the director presents it in the correct way. This presentation includes the understanding of the story, the control of the picture, the narration of the characters, and the expression of the intention.
Originally, the story of "Detective War" was very good, the logic chain was also very smooth, and the connotation expression was very clear. However, in the presentation of the picture, the narration, and the language of the camera, it turned over the cart, which eventually led to the regret of the audience who liked it, and the anger of the audience who didn't like it.
If this story were read in plain text, I'm sure everyone would find it creepy and exciting.
According to the narrative, it should be a two-line narrative. The bright line is the advancement and restart of the unsolved case on Hong Kong Island, and the dark line is the secret execution of the organization led by a BOSS. A narrative like
, the most typical and strongest case in the movie, is "Seven Deadly Sins". The bright line is double-exploration investigation, and the dark line is criminal execution. The two lines advance simultaneously and finally merge.
and the drama series is " True Detective ". The structure of "True Detective" is most similar to "Detective War", both are neurotic detective + cold case restart settings, two-line narrative, merged and revealed. Moreover, the theme is also saying: When you fight monsters, be careful that you become a monster too. Isn't LUST always selected by the cult in "True Detective" and hope that he will become the son of heaven?
And when Wei Jiahui expressed the story, the open line lacked the thought of 'exploring' expression, the hidden line did not explain directly, the final appearance of the BOSS seemed very abrupt, and there was no groundwork at all, there was no 'executor' and 'executor' at all. ', it wasn't until halfway through the film that Liu Qingyun realized that he was designed. At the end, his daughter said: "I testify, he is my boss." perception.
In order to advance the narrative, Wei Jiahui sacrificed the logic of performance, such as the big-bellied superwoman, body strokes and other settings beyond cognition, but the narrative did not do well, and the sacrifice for the commercial scene depends on the result. It's really not worth it. Isn't it very good to honestly reproduce the detective route of "The Detective"? The subject matter of
is enough for him to complete the "investigation" and "detection" links, but in the end it ends up in the embarrassment of the funny action scenes and the unsatisfactory detective behavior.
boldly imagine what this movie would be like if David Fincher , or Villeneuve to make it; in Hong Kong, Johnnie To , Chen Kexin I think they can be better than this Strong; Mainland directors, Xin Yukun and Wen Muye are both suitable.
The directors mentioned above, it is estimated that the effect of filming the same script can be much better than it is now.
A good screenwriter can't use an average actor
Whether fans admit it or not, Lin Feng's role in this film is very ordinary, and Director Wei Jiahui is not even willing to give him more room for interpretation. In a word, Fang is a pervert with a high IQ, very fierce and omnipotent. He really does not mean mental illness!
Lin Feng's expression in the whole film is only: the righteous and the evil are handsome.
can't give a little more psychological drama, he can't complete a performance like Liu Qingyun's instantaneous change of roles, and he can't handle a mentally ill emotional turn.
was originally a scene of interrogating Li Jun, which is the first confrontation of the protagonist BOSS in the whole film. We can see that Lin Feng's performance is all expressionless or exaggerated, and there is no delicate presentation (the same is true for the latter).
(It's puzzling to break out here... You are a pervert who is good at calculating, what do you mean by blowing up this expression...) ...)
The villain decides the upper limit and quality of a movie. Obviously, Lin Feng is not qualified. Wu Zhenyu may come this drama a lot better, after all, the characters are convincing.
Hey, from , Zhao Pan, to Ying Zheng, it was smooth and natural, and it was very dark. Now I can't even do this kind of acting, sigh. If young friends think that Lin Feng is acting, please refer to Zhao Pan-Ying Zheng from Looking for Qin Ji, that is Lin Feng's top acting performance.
Ah Sa will not talk about it, we don't ask too much for singing beauties, but if you change to a normal actor, not the one with a vase, the presentation of the character is reasonable, the only thing that is right is the poor state, the other, the other So the sense of disobedience to everyone Supergirl is because the image is too weak, look at this:
The cargo ship gives birth to a child, and the high-rise building is not difficult to give birth, doesn't it make it a lot more convincing? Song Jia came to play, convincing to a new level, if Wu Zhenyu played with Chen Shu , then...
As for everyone's criticism of Li Ruotong , the character design is here, whoever you want to play It is this naive criticism, which is basically equivalent to the setting of Sha Monk, a pure tool person. (Anyway the entire stills are out of focus, you can imagine how fringe this character is...)
's daughter and the revenge group are well established. Without them, this film might be hard to see.
The actors are not very good, and the character growth line is not clear. Originally, if the role of Fang could stand upright, and if Sa could stand upright, all three parties would eventually grow up. It seems that the story is a lot more comfortable. Only Li Jun is the corner.
The scale
may be the largest scale that can be done. After all, the story did not take place in the Holy Land. It is very common for you to have a murder and a wrongful case in the bad land of England. Shoot, you can shoot! But you have to master the amount of ketchup.
You can talk about domestic violence, but you can only say it's perverted, you can't say it's...
You can talk about conspiracy, but it can only be about the British period, not...
Well, the British thing, unjust There are a lot of mistakes, and there must be a big guy to correct them, right? All right, all right!
So there is a scale that we can see, which is not easy. If these things happened in the Holy Land, you would have been killed from the beginning of the script.
So thanks to Ying Lun, without them in those few years, we basically can't see this film now.
The unspeakable Hong Kong dilemma
97 has now been 25 years, and a quarter of a century has passed. Hong Kong movies have entered an even more helpless dilemma - no new actors, no new directors, no new giants.
Even up-and-coming screenwriters have begun to pay tribute to themselves. What else is there for Hong Kong movies?
The concentrated expression of the development of the economy is the development of the cultural industry. In Hong Kong, there is no more money to enter the film and television industry. Judging from the current situation of the works, it is even worse than the period of 2000.
However, with Chen Kexin's first shot, I believe they will still find a solution. One side's water and soil support the other's people, maybe the glorious era of biweekly success is gone, I still believe that Hong Kong filmmakers can find a solution. own way out.
They used to be good at showing big conflicts in a small format, and later they also wanted to try a big conflict in a big format, but failed (" Equator "). There are no newcomers, and when this group of actors comes back a little more, there will really be no one to support the box office.
Of course, the lack of new actors is a problem of globalization, don't you see Hollywood still using Pitt, Downey and other old gangsters.
