Looking at the classic trilogy movies around the world, such as "The Matrix", Nolan, "Batman", and "Back to the Future", they have been carefully laid out to create a classic.
But if an IP is "take one step and shoot one" , it is difficult to think about it.
For example, "The Godfather 3", even though the first two are hailed as criminal film textbooks, the third one is still considered to be money-trapping.
In Hong Kong, there is also such a "negative" typical.
This is the "Heroes" series . Although
said that in 1986, the first "The True Colors of Heroes" had a big hit at the box office, but the two subsequent sequels made Wu Yusen heartbroken.
In 1989, when preparing to shoot the third sequel, Wu Yusen and Tsui Hark almost fell out. After the film was released, it also encountered a lot of "bad reviews" from the audience. What stories did
experienced during the filming of this sequel, and why is it still being questioned as a money-trap after Tsui Hark personally took over? What is the real quality of the film?
1. Disagreement between Wu Yusen and Tsui Hark
Wu Yusen's stand-up work "The True Colors of Heroes", with the full support of Tsui Hark, won the box office of HK$34.65 million after it was released in 1986, becoming the annual box office champion and the best film in Hong Kong. Representative works. After the success of the
film, New Art City Pictures intends to shoot a sequel, but Wu Yusen, as an aspiring director, firmly disagrees.
Tsui Hark was caught in the middle and neither side was a human being. In the end, he decided not to have trouble with the money. He helped the company persuade Wu Yusen and helped him write the script. In the end, he produced the "Heroes 2" which won 22.73 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.
Although the sequel is not as good as the predecessor at the box office and word of mouth, the starring Chow Yun-fat still makes a profit.
At this time, Xinyicheng felt that this IP still had the potential to be tapped, and no filming was wasted, but Wu Yusen refused to live and die, and Tsui Hark could hardly persuade him, and it almost turned over.
Tsui Hark made a ruthless decision not to come to me! He directed "The True Colors of Heroes 3: Sunset Song" by himself.
2. Tsui Hark’s vision for "The True Colors of Heroes 3" is very ambitious.
This is obviously an independent film whose story is completely separated from the original. It just borrowed the title of "The True Colors of Heroes".
Chow Yun-fat is still indispensable as an actor, and he is still playing a role called Xiao Ma, but there is no connection with the original Xiao Ma.
"The True Colors of Heroes" is a golden lacquer signboard. Although it is Wu Yusen's work, Tsui Hark has put a lot of effort into it. Even if Wu Yusen quits, he can't be destroyed in his own hands. Therefore, from the beginning of the script creation, Tsui Hark was down. A lot of thoughts.
First of all, he wanted to create a film with a larger scene and a stronger sense of history, so he set the story background in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam in 1975, to reproduce the history he experienced in his youth.
Maybe there has always been a heroine in Tsui Hark’s heart, just like the unbeaten Oriental in "Swordsman 2: Unbeaten in the East" (the characters are male, but the actors are female), he used it in this film The big sister of Hong Kong singer Anita Mui.
We all know that Anita Mui became famous when she was a teenager, and her life is a legend in her life when she is less than 30 years old. Although she looks far away from the goddesses of Wang Zuxian, Brigitte Lin, and Zhang Min, she The victory lies in the great temperament, wherever the aura is full. The core story of
tells about the situation in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975. The current situation is uneasy and the people are in panic. Xiao Ma and cousin Zhang Zhimin brought Zhimin’s father Song Shu to leave Saigon to settle in Hong Kong in order to raise funds, and contacted the local gang’s big sister Zhou Yingjie. Want to smuggle US dollars to profit from it.
Zhou Yingjie is a woman next to He Changqing, the owner of Evergreen Enterprise. He Changqing has been hiding for 3 years in order to avoid the enemy from chasing and killing him. Zhou Yingjie is empty and lonely, facing YingThe handsome and handsome Brother Ma will inevitably have a spring heart. After experiencing the test of life and death together, he finally fell in love with each other.
Zhang Zhimin is also very fond of Zhou Yingjie. Xiao Ma sees his cousin's mind, and he has always decided to take the initiative to withdraw from Chengquan's cousin. These three people staged an embarrassing love triangle.
This is not the case. He Changqing, the lurking three-year boss, later joined the battle group, because he suspected that he was green, he sent a bomb to Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhimin without saying anything. In the end, of course the two of them were not killed because of the protagonist's halo, but Zhang Zhimin's father, Uncle Song, was killed.
Poor Uncle Song came to Hong Kong all the way, not because of the war, but died under the director's bomb. The dead thing of
is to characterize the relationship between the characters. Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhimin must seek revenge on He Changqing, but Zhou Yingjie did not remember the old love, and stood by the two of them and decided to have a break with He Changqing.
In order to take over his own industry in Vietnam, He Changqing returned to Vietnam with Zhou Yingjie and made a deal with the local warlord's funeral state.
And Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhimin also followed to Vietnam, a life and death battle between He Changqing, Zhou Yingjie, Xiao Ma, Zhang Zhimin, and the bereaved was about to start.
3. Many flaws that cannot be ignored make the film appear exaggerated and boring.
has a strong historical background, but "The True Colors of Heroes 3" made the same mistakes as "Pearl Harbor". Its main story is too fictitious and detached from it. This realistic background seems very unreal.
To put it simply, this main line is a multi-faceted love story, but it is very clichéd and illogical.
Since Zhou Yingjie and He Changqing are partners who were born to death, why would they empathize with Xiao Ma?
What He Changqing did after he came out was also very utterly infinite. He first tried to kill Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhimin with a bomb, causing Uncle Song to receive a lunch. Then he grabbed the two of them, but didn't make another cruel move, but threatened them to leave Hong Kong. You have blown up other people's father to death, and don't rush to kill them all, waiting for them to seek revenge? The role of
is played by Japanese actor Shi Ren Saburo, whose image looks like Wen Ziren. I really don't know how the director chooses the role. As a black boss with power across East Asia, but he can't see the aura at all, Pico thinks it is the biggest failure of the film.
After He Changqing and Zhou Yingjie returned to Vietnam, they knew that the person of Sangbang could not trust them, but they still wanted to deal with him. At the beginning, we saw that Evergreen Enterprise was very powerful in Vietnam. It was very illogical to be able to easily get the funeral state to go to jail for two months, but later to be controlled by him.
plus Tsui Hark’s understanding of the shootout and shooting skills are not at the same level as Wu Yusen. The protagonist has the ability to hide from bullets, and he slows down as soon as he shoots. He just made a shootout action film into an "anti-Japanese drama" taste.
Anita Mui portrays Zhou Yingjie, just like the female flying chivalry in "The Three Heroes of the East". She is omnipotent from heaven and earth, with two sharp guns in her hands and one shot.
climax part of the funeral drove a tank car on the field, and Xiao Ma drove a motorcycle to drag a box of rockets, unexpectedly can blow up the tank car!
These flaws make the movie seem exaggerated and boring. Tsui Hark wanted to use a larger sequel to continue the legend, but his level was not enough to control the gun battle theme.
In fact, Tsui Hark has always wanted to make gunfights. His "Huang Feihong ZhiFive: "Dragon City Fighting Overlord" has abruptly filmed the style of gunfight; while "Heroes 3" is a 100% gunfight film, but it has a martial arts flavor, saying that Tsui Hark is a "boss" and his "weird" "This is evident.
"Heroes 3" won the box office of 18.48 million Hong Kong dollars that year. Although it was close to 20 million, it was not enough to make ends meet compared with the high production costs. In addition, the overseas box office is not very strong, this sequel is completely messed up, and the IP is shot dead.
Looking back now, although many people who miss the Hong Kong film still think this film is well made, the soundtrack and theme song are also very good, and the scene of the war in Vietnam is also in place, but Douban scores 7.4 (lowest in the series) , Can already explain the problem.
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