There are not many new movies released on New Year's Day in 2024, and Andy Lau plays the leading role in two of them. However, the one that gets the most attention must be "Goldfinger" starring Andy Lau and his old partner Tony Leung. The movie has been released for 3 days and the box office is about to exceed 200 million.
In 2003, Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai's "Infernal Affairs" series is still the pinnacle of many Hong Kong film fans, and the two have also won multiple Best Actor Awards with this series of movies. The scene on the rooftop in the film is unforgettable for many people.
20 years have passed, and the two have once again collaborated in a Hong Kong film in which two heroes confront each other. From the moment the filming of the film started, many people were full of expectations. However, after watching it in the cinema, I realized that "Goldfinger" is really a "very un-Hong Kong film" Hong Kong film.
Let me briefly talk about the plot of the movie, there are some spoilers.
In the 1970s and 1980s, an ordinary person traveled across the ocean to Hong Kong. By chance, he originally spent 100 yuan just for fun, but in exchange for it, he got an opportunity to earn 10 billion. . During those 15 years, he was able to play various money games with ease and became a tycoon with a net worth of tens of billions.
In the process, this suddenly rich man gradually became lost, crazy, and out of control. For the money game, whatever it takes. Tony Leung played this person, named Cheng Yiyan; Andy Lau played a senior inspector general who persisted for more than ten years in order to bring Cheng Yiyan to justice.
One good and one evil, the character settings of Andy Lau and Tony Leung seem to be similar to those in "Infernal Affairs". But in fact, there are not many real rivalry scenes between these two people in the movie. There are two main reasons why "Goldfinger" is said to be a "very un-Hong Kong movie":
First, there are no action scenes that make hormones soar.
In previous Hong Kong films about police and gangsters, fierce fighting and gun battles were very typical features. However, such scenes are rare in Goldfinger. The most intense scene was probably between the policeman played by Qian Jiale and the senior inspector general played by Andy Lau at the beginning, but it was limited to a bare-handed fight between the two.
There were a lot of guns, but no one fired them. Even the awesome-looking British gun had no bullets in it. To sum up, it is very bluffing, but has no practical effect.
Second, extremely exaggerated retro style. The style of the
movie is also very different from Zhuang Wenqiang's previous works. Most of the scenes in the entire movie are "glitzy". If you want to find any words to describe it, it would be "exaggerated" and "glorious". Whether it's the Jinshan Building that runs throughout the film or the decoration of the house in the film, there's an air of money all over it. Can you imagine using the configuration of cultural relics to decorate beautiful women?
Cheng Yiyan, played by Tony Leung, is arrogant and crazy most of the time in the movie. The background of the character is very consistent with the life of the era shown in the movie. When have you ever seen a Hong Kong movie so exaggerated? However, this is not necessarily a good attempt.
What replaces the intense action is the pondering and competition of people's hearts, and this may also become another direction for Hong Kong film actors in the past. As director Zhuang Wenqiang once told Tony Leung, actors can act until they are seventy or eighty years old. Different age groups can act in different types, and there are many, many stories that can be acted.
Our idols in our youth, Andy Lau and Tony Leung, are now in their sixties. As actors, they may no longer be able to fight in action movies like they did when they were young, and they are even less willing to continue to play those scenes of falling in love with little girls.
Then, "Goldfinger" may be a new direction!
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Author: Liuliu
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