Good guy, Andy Lau had another "turnaround" this time! As a model worker in the film industry, Andy can be said to be highly productive every year. But in terms of movie types, they are relatively similar, most of them are action and police movies, and the characters he

Good guys, Andy Lau has another "turnaround" this time!

As a model worker in the film industry, Andy can be said to be productive every year.

But in terms of movie types, they are relatively similar. Most of them are action and police movies, and the characters he created are relatively similar.

lacks character homogeneity, and the audience will naturally experience aesthetic fatigue.

Whether we are fans of Andy Lau or fans of Hong Kong movies, we all look forward to another high-level Hong Kong movie.

No, it’s really here!

On November 1, the disaster film "Burning City" directed by Pan Yaoming and starring Andy Lau, Bai Yu, and Karen Mok was officially released.

This is a movie with a great background.

director Pan Yaoming, who has a background as a great director and photographer. He has produced films such as " Goldfinger ", " Overheard ", " Anita Mui " and " Anti-drug ". The picture quality and scene management are stable!

The writing team is also a gathering of aces.

There are Hong Kong gold medal screenwriter Mak Tianshu who participated in the screenwriting of " Operation Mekong ", there are screenwriters of "Wisdom Teeth" and " Kowloon Walled " Shun Junqian, and screenwriter Xin Ya of the hit Hong Kong drama "News Queen". With the combination of

, the plot is stable!

The cast is even more impressive, covering well-known Hong Kong actors of almost all ages.

David Jiang, Zheng Zeshi, Andy Lau, Karen Mok, Lin Baoyi, Tse Junhao, Ou Jiawen, Huang Debin, He Qihua, and the new generation actor Wei Junsheng who has won various newcomer awards in the past two years.

Mainland actors are also strong and high-ranking actors, such as Bai Yu, Wu Yanshu and Tong Yao.

But "Burning City" is definitely not a "flashy" Hong Kong film with a large cast, but it has face and more dignity.

It is no exaggeration to say that after watching this movie for the first time, Qingshi can even say:

Despite the gorgeous lineup, this turned out to be the least worth mentioning in "Burning City".

"Burning City" tells the story of an accidental fire that caused consequences beyond imagination. What is even more unexpected is that the cause of the fire was the leakage of dangerous substances.

For a time, the whole city was in danger.

And with the "help" of natural disasters, the time left for rescue was less than 24 hours.

How to prevent this devastating disaster?

html Can more than 37 million citizens in the city still be rescued?

Regarding how to rescue, former high-level government environmental expert Fan Weili (played by Andy Lau) and current high-level executive Cecilia (played by Mo Wenwei) each have their own opinions and tit for tat.

At the same time, fire captain Li Jiefeng (played by Bai Yu) and his teammates were ordered to rush to the frontline fire scene, and what awaited them was even more terrifying unknown dangers.

Before the movie was released on November 1st, it had already started multiple rounds of screenings. Its reputation has been rising all the way, and it can be said that it has exploded.When the first wave of word-of-mouth reviews for

came out, the average audience’s evaluation was just 4 words:

far exceeded expectations!

One more thing, the movie was released in Hong Kong and even got a high score of 9.9 points. The movie

has not only received praise from ordinary audiences, but has also been recognized by professionals.

Previously, "National Master" Zhang Yimou praised the movie:

"It is not only a commercial blockbuster! The special effects shots and disaster shots are very well done and realistic, and there are many big scenes that fill the space." It has become a gap in Hong Kong movies. "

" Wandering Earth " series director Guo Fan even spoke highly of it as "a shock to the face" .

Unexpectedly, in the disaster film track, Hong Kong movies have once again come to the forefront. The glory of Hong Kong movies has completely returned!

1. Shocking, this year's most exciting Chinese blockbuster

is a disaster movie. What can immediately arouse people's adrenaline surge is the scene.

It can also be seen from the trailer that the big scenes of "Burning City" are really "big", and with the blessing of special effects, it gives people an extremely shocking look.

The creation of disaster scenes in movies focuses on reality and extremes.

The scene of the fire burning is extremely realistic. The raging flames of Queen's Mountain seem to jump out of the screen, giving people an immersive feeling.

The rescue scene ranges from the firefighters' various equipment, to on-site operations, to the coordination of the pictures. It is precisely because the scene is real enough that the audience can feel the tension and urgency of the scene more when watching it.

Such as the two explosions in the scrap factory.

Once, firefighters rushed into the sea of ​​​​fire in reverse direction, accompanied by explosives in the fire scene. The scene was so real that it was painful to watch.

Once a hazardous material leaked, causing an unimaginable explosion.

The explosion site began to expand from Queen's Mountain. Nearby villagers' houses, teahouses, and vehicles on elevated roads in the distance were all affected by the explosion.

Such scenes are directly displayed, showing the power of the explosion from multiple angles, shocking!

There are also accidents encountered during helicopter rescue;

The sense of oppression when the storm is coming;

The "spectacular" scene of blowing up the mansion;

There are also two top-notch special effects scenes when transferring dangerous goods.

Without further ado, let’s just take two animated pictures to get an intuitive feel.

It is worth mentioning that the director Pan Yiu Ming is indispensable for making the scene look like this.

Not much to say about the picture quality, the lens scheduling is also quite mature.

The director allows the audience to be immersed in the scene through the lens, and feel the tension of time and the fragility of life with the people in the film.

As the disaster escalates step by step, the movie scenes switch between the front line of the disaster, high-level officials in the rear and ordinary people.

In the last second, we watched firefighters go through life and death in the frontline fire scene in order to save one more person.

The next second the camera turned to the rear, and a war without gunpowder was also fiercely fought.

Here is Dr. Fan’s argument for the rescue plan, while over there is the senior management’s constant rejection due to concerns about various interests.

Turning again, the camera was focused on the common people who represent the majority.

They were grabbing supplies in the supermarket, queuing up in an orderly manner to get on the bus and evacuate.

When the final scene ended with the panic permeating ordinary people, the audience's sense of involvement was completely filled.

4 hours of dangerous countdown, the tense but orderly evacuation of the city, every scene seems to be at a real disaster scene, with a sense of urgency layer upon layer.

2, a very gripping story, large-scale shooting techniques

literary, drama and military shooting. It is hard to imagine that in a movie with "disaster" as the selling point, the director used such bold shooting techniques.

What gave the director the confidence to make such a film was the film’s solid script.

When they first decided to make this real-life disaster film, the entire creative team had great ambitions.

They not only want to make a disaster movie with stunning visual effects, but also a disaster movie that can be remembered and make people think.

Just as the screenwriter said: I hope to show "the game between different groups and different positions under disaster" in the movie.

In fact, "Burning City" also did it. There are two main lines in the movie

. The parallel lines are not only not top-heavy, but also any line is of high quality. The

line is about the firefighters headed by Bai Yu, who are desperately rescuing the fire scene on the front line; the

line is about the tense game between the senior management in the rear, led by Andy Lau and Karen Mok.

The firefighters' on-site rescue not only shows shocking scenes, but also depicts the characters.

At the premiere, Director Guo Fan not only expressed his "shock" after watching the movie "Burning City", but also emphasized that he was moved by the "sense of mission" in the movie.

He said that "Burning City" and "The Wandering Earth" are both stories about "sense of mission".

The "sense of mission" here is conveyed from the portrayal of the firefighters.

As we all know, life and death are "necessities" in disaster movies. The reason why a good movie can become a good movie lies in the careful portrayal of this "necessity".

The firefighters in the movie are respectable.

In times of crisis, they are the ones who stand up, they are the ones who go against the trend, and they are the ones who stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods with their flesh and blood.

There is a section of "ordering troops" in the movie. There is no line, but the fearless spirit of this group of people is well portrayed.

There are many moments showing their heroic moments in the film, but such people are also ordinary mortals. They also have family, friends, parents, and children.

The movie uses a small but effective foreshadowing of the plot to make their emotional expressions poignant, neither inconsistent nor abrupt.

has both the delicate portrayal of family affection, the vivid and direct expression of comradeship, and the ultimate romance of love.

Here, Qingshi is unwilling to call such a true expression of emotion "sensational".

A little spoiler, the whistle at the end of the film is definitely a knockout!

In sharp contrast to the emotional fluctuations of this line, is the "silent" war on the rear table.

In the comment area of ​​this movie, there is such a comment:

"It has the flavor of a political thriller, and the scale is no smaller than South Korea!" Discussion of rescue options.

The two parties did not deal with each other from the beginning. This question is not easy to solve.

Due to different positions, everyone has their own "selfishness" and considerations in the direction of their thinking and the decisions they make.

The decision of senior management must take into account all parties, so it is difficult to make a choice.

Because "people can forgive disasters caused by weather, but if there is a problem with the initiative to order, it is a decision-making error."

and the profiteers behind the whole thing who only care about profits and ignore human lives.

Before the disaster broke out, they smoked, drank and waited for the good show, because the bigger the trouble, the better for them.

The world is in chaos, who has time to hold them accountable?

The disaster is getting more and more serious. They hold bargaining chips to negotiate with the government. No matter whether it is the end of the world or not, they will not delay making money.

At worst, he will flee abroad and find another safe place to develop his industry.

And the reason why profiteers can be so unbridled is that they really don’t have high-level support behind them?

Look, who said that only Korean movies dare to make movies on a political scale. The multi-party game in "Burning City" is so dark that it can be called a political disaster movie.

What unfolds from this line is a part that has been rarely portrayed in disaster movies in the past, especially the portrayal of various high-level officials. It is full and three-dimensional, not facial makeup, and even reversed.

This is left to everyone to experience it in the movie.

3. This is a movie worth watching by everyone.

Finally, I would like to talk a few more words about the deeper practical significance of the movie.

"Burning City" was inspired by a report in Time Magazine in 2016.

This report won the media reporting award in Asia in 2017, but it did not attract everyone's attention, especially Hong Kong citizens.

The background of the report is electronic waste recycling. At that time, US government regulations required manufacturers to recycle electronic waste and subsidized it at US$700 per ton.

An American environmental expert who studies electronic waste recycling was curious about the whereabouts of electronic waste after recycling, so he put down the tracker at the environmental protection collection station.

Half a month later, he discovered that 80% of the electronic waste ended up in Hong Kong and was hidden in a repair shop in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

The place is heavily guarded and cannot be investigated in depth. It is even said that there are dark forces secretly protecting it.

speculates that the electronic waste was transported to Hong Kong by illegal traders, who removed the useful parts and then transferred other waste to Southeast Asian countries.

After reading the report, producer Jiang Zhiqiang came up with the idea of ​​making a movie, and he wanted to make a disaster movie that belongs to Hong Kong people.

In fact, the issue of electronic waste is not only very important to Hong Kong, but also must be taken seriously by many countries in the world.

Because with the development of the times, electronic waste has become a new pollutant, and it is also a highly lethal pollutant. There is a line in the trailer of

, which intuitively shows the "necessity" of facing this problem head-on.

"If this matter is not controlled well, Hong Kong will become Goiania."

Goiania refers to the Goiania nuclear leakage incident, which can be called one of the top ten nuclear accidents in the world.

It was a year after the Chernobyl incident. In Goiania, Brazil, two thieves robbed the radiotherapy room of an abandoned hospital, stole a CS137 radioactive material, and sold it to Scrap yard.

This move directly led to a city-wide crisis in Goiania.

The number of people affected by this accident reached 118,000, 244 people were contaminated, and 4 people died.

What’s even more terrifying is that for a long time to come, the entire Goiania region was affected by this accident, whether it was life or economy.

In "Burning City", although it was only briefly mentioned, the performance of all the senior officials present has made us aware of the horror of electronic waste. After

, it simulated the scene after the disaster, leaving a deep impression on everyone who has watched the movie.

Therefore, "Burning City" uses this "unpopular" theme and story to tell the audience that the threat posed by electronic foreign waste is actually very close to us. It is hidden in real-life spaces such as medical care, industry, and biochemistry. .

Just like what is said at the end of the video:

seems far away, maybe only one step away.

I have to say that the fields that Hong Kong films are involved in now are really too advanced.

In recent years, in addition to the action movies that Hong Kong movies are good at, Hong Kong movies are constantly exploring new genres.

What is even more gratifying is that such movies have gradually moved from the so-called "niche" to the public, with increasing investment and attracting more and more audiences.

Finally, Qingshi would like to say that "Burning City" is really a movie worth understanding by the whole people. It has unique social significance, especially in this era, it is even more urgent and important:

China will not be a garbage dump !

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