police and gangster stories have been put on the big screen almost every year.
The famous Hong Kong director Wu Yusen knows this well and is famous for his heroic films. He is known as the first Chinese director who is best at dealing with violent aesthetics.
Back then, a "The True Colors of a Hero" made "Little Horse" Chow Yun-fat as well as himself.
Wu Yusen, who was so beautiful for a while, made a few more Hong Kong films and went to Hollywood to start another journey.
here is his signature movie in Hollywood:
"face change"
"face change" after it was released in 1997, won the box office champion of the month, the annual box office in North America is 112 million US dollars, and the global box office is 245 million US dollars. , Was selected as one of the " Top Ten Best Movies of the Year " by the US "Time". One of the two protagonists of the
film starred Nicholas Cage, who had just won the Oscar winner with "Leaving Las Vegas".
And another protagonist John Travolta also won the Oscar nomination for best actor for his superb acting skills in "Pulp Fiction".
The famous scene of "fighting dance" in "Pulp Fiction"
, a famous actor in the 1970s, experienced the trough of the 1980s and regained its glory in the 1990s, and "Change Face" became him. The existence of a milestone in his acting career earned him $15 million in Hollywood.
"Change Face" scored 8.6 on Douban, and the freshness of rotten tomatoes and popcorn index were 97% and 93%, respectively. The
film tells the story of FBI agent Sean who tried his best to catch the killer enemy terrorist Keith. In order to find out the location of the gas bomb that Keith arranged in the city from Keith’s younger brother, he used new technology to talk to the comatose. Case changed his face.
As a result, as soon as Sean was transformed into Case and entered the prison halfway through the plan, Case woke up from a coma, killed all the insiders of the incident, started living as Agent Sean, and settled on Sean’s identity. Terrorist identity.
In order to regain his true identity, Sean fought a battle between good and evil with Case. There are too many plots of
and I won’t go into details here. Here is a brief introduction to the highlights of the movie:
1. The two heroes confront each other, and the two play the four corners
. Whether it is Cage or Travolta, they both play police in the movie. And the role of terrorists.
The two people who had just started to change their faces were a little strange, and then they were getting better. Xiao En sat with a group of gangsters and sucked up medicine, looking crazy like real terrorists.
and Case, incarnate as a "friend of justice", lifted the bomb he had planted himself a few days ago and became a city hero. The plot of
seems absurd and progresses rationally. When the two confronted each other, Sean summoned Case’s former gangster friends, and Case led a vote of FBI special police. The final battle of
is even more funny. Case's girlfriend helped Sean block and died, and Sean's daughter shot his father for Case. The
confrontation is the best form of confrontation between the protagonists of the "Wu's Movies", and it is also the fuse for the outbreak of the conflict. Cage and Travolta, a pair of Oscar-level actors, are evenly matched to reproduce the classic "two heroes". Routine.
Douban has a high praise and short comment that explains their relationship very well:
brother Cage has a very melancholy face. It seems that many people owe him money, and they still owe him money. Brother John The face was full of spring breeze, as if he owed Cage a lot of money but had not paid it back.
2. The classic Wu style reproduces: "The bullet that can't be shot, the pigeon that can't be released"
American film critics commented on this film:
"The beautiful slow-motion continuous action, staccato editing, and ingenious frame setting, is with' Action movies with new depths of emotional and visual beauty are a blend of highly violent style and personal plot'."
Wu Yusen’s films have always been famous for their violent aesthetics.
This time he brought his "white dove sanctuary-level work" style windbreaker, double guns, church, white dove, confrontational police and bandits, and fierce gunfights to Hollywood. The whole action scene was hearty and vivid. happy!
's strong sound effects coupled with the classic "Wu style" slow motion, the tree-like car crashing into the plane, the tit-for-tat speedboat crashing into the speedboat, and the bullets that are still not enough, the scene is magnificent and dizzying.
In the gunfight of the gangster’s lair, Adam’s headphones sounded the theme song of the Wizard of Oz "Over the rainbow". This Oscar-winning song was like a gurgling stream, flowing silently through the crowd. Invade the heart.
whimpered at the muzzle to break the tranquility of the sun-wrapped golden sand, and then continued to make noise. In the church, Jesus bowed his head and looked at his people with compassion.
Wu Yusen’s movies have always been quaint, and he used "Zhang Che" to replace the cold weapons with hot weapons.
But whether it is a decent or a villain, they have carried out their creed from beginning to end, as always.
3. Changing Faces of Righteousness and Evil, Unchanging Hearts
"Change Faces" is not only well received by passersby, but also in the eyes of professional film critics. The
film connects the exaggeration of imagination and the complexity of reality, and adds a philosophical meaning. It raises a question:
When identity perception is biased or completely changed, how can you survive with a new identity?
When they changed their faces, the two adjusted to each other's lives. Even at the earliest stage, they did better than the original host of the face. Sean made Case's wife and children feel love and respect for the first time.
and Case ignited the desperate heart of Sean's wife in his own unique way, brought the daughter who was walking on the wrong path back on track, and also complained about marriage by the way.
But Case, who has done all the bad things and lies, even if he changed his face, he still has a hard time changing his nature. After his brother died, he angered his subordinates and caused the accidental death of his boss.
And Sean maintained all the goodness, even in the face of his colleagues who did not know his true identity, he still replied with the utmost kindness, never killed innocent people, and gave Case's wife respect and care.
Finally, Case taught Sean's daughter to use a knife, but in the end he hurt herself. But Case's wife died because of Sean's bullet.
Wu Yusen threw himself at himself, and at the end of the film gave the answer with the familiar happy ending: self-denial and light me, and see the light.
Generally speaking, this famous Hollywood work by Yusen Wu is a perfect example of transplanting his Hong Kong-style action film style to Hollywood. It is chivalrous, heartwarming, and romantic.
The exchange of good and evil, the infiltration of right and evil, the audience's psychology is stretched and pulled in the shifting of positions, and the plot tension of the story is sublimated and strengthened.
Both the familiar Wu-style violence aesthetics and the self-examination of Shendu and self-denial are very interesting, evocative, and can be called classics.
Bluestone Film Editorial Department | v7
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