Why does the Hong Kong movie gang boss like to eat hot pot?

The 80s and 90s were the golden age of Hong Kong movies. Hong Kong movies of this era were once popular in Asia as a genre. The gangster culture in the movie is also widely recognized by Western culture, and "Infernal Affairs" was also remade by Hollywood as "Kill Bill".

Hong Kong movies show the gang culture very grounded. Whenever the gangsters are negotiating, they eat- hot pot.

A famous hot pot scene

There are many scenes of eating hot pot in gangster movies, including dinner and hot pot, promotion of younger brother to eat hot pot, negotiation to eat hot pot, and the most famous one is "Infernal Affairs" where Zeng Zhiwei and four gang bosses eat hot pot together .

Five big guys sitting together eating hot pot. This scene happened after Uncle Kun died. It was the day when he was about to pay the Ni family. Several people ate hot pot with relish, but they were actually conspiring to rebel against the Ni family. Pay again.

seems to be very harmonious, but in fact they have their own minds. This is also their last supper. After that, several people were assassinated by Ni Kun's son. This clip has become one of the classic clips of "Infernal Affairs". The scene of

eating hot pot appears in many gangster movies, which is actually an insinuation of the sharing of interests. The big guys from all sides of sat together for their own interests, and the underworld's intrigue was vividly rendered.

Two Why is hot pot?

In fact, in gangster movies we often see eating hot pot, the main reason is the need to shape characters, because gangsters have to give people a sense of straightforwardness and viciousness. It is most suitable to use big mouthfuls of meat and alcohol to reflect. The filming technique of director

is . Those who like to watch Hong Kong movies should be able to notice that in Hong Kong movies, most of the triad bosses bow their heads during negotiations and eat hot pot or boxed lunch, without looking at the other person’s eyes, and talking while eating, and sentence Zhu Xin, the moment the chopsticks were put down, it was the bloody storm.

In this shooting method, there is also a well-known mainland movie "Hot Pot Heroes". The director also played similar scenes in the movie. For example, Liu Bo, played by Chen Kun, is eager to save people. The honest "glasses" (Yu Entai) (Decoration) There is still a hot pot banquet on the sidelines; the hot pot restaurant has already started killing, the hot pot soup is still rolling, the group fight is slow motion, the background music is a waltz...

hot It makes people appear impatient and emotionally closer. Like other people have said, when the gangsters in Hong Kong movies eat, it is easy for them to say nothing. They just grab the hot pot and splash them on the faces of others. This makes the audience look very enjoyable and saves many action shots. When eating hot pot, sweating profusely makes it easier to shape personal emotions.

three hot pots with high appearance rate

hot pot has a very high appearance rate in Hong Kong film and television dramas:

"Special Status" screenshots Yen Zidan as the boss to negotiate, and the gangster added two bottles of white wine to the bottom of the hot pot, Yen Zidan drank it.

Screenshot of "Slaying Wolf 2" In "Slaying Wolf 2", Ren Dahua and Wu Jing fought a Korean gang, and the Korean gang group that kidnapped Ren Dahua was eating hot pot.

Screenshots of "The Nine Dragons Ice Room" after watching "Infernal Affairs" and "Young and Dangerous" and then watch "Nine Dragons Ice Room" will feel very sad, the original gangster movie can also be so sad. In this scene, Ekin Cheng reprimanded his son by the hot pot, and met his ex-girlfriend again. The loneliness of the gangster was melted into the hot pot soup.

Screenshot of "The King of Destruction" Hot pot often appears in movies by Stephen Chow. The hot mouth in "Curry Pepper" is impressive. In "The King of Destruction", Stephen Chow and Uncle Da exaggerated and hilarious "Hell Special Training" to eat hot pot, " In "A Happy Family", I have to eat hot pot in the morning.

The hot pot between Gui Lunmei and Nicholas Tse in "Informant" was very moving. Gui Lunmei said many truthful things at the hot pot table, but Nicholas Tse took her mobile phone while feeling distressed.

Screenshot of "Apostle Walker" In Hong Kong dramas "Senior Sister Tuoqiang", "Forensic Pioneer", and "Apostle Walker", A sir and his colleagues celebrated their merits by discussing matters and handling cases. He always likes to find a hot pot restaurant, sit down and talk slowly, or simply Just ask the whole group to eat together. Even in TVB costume films, the court guards inside will find a few people to get together to have a hot pot, which looks very modern.