Chapter two hundred and thirty seventh crazy response
The movie has come to an end, and the ending subtitles quietly climb onto the screen of the movie, but the shock it brings swept through everyone's hearts like a deep cold current. Although the killer was captured and justice was also promoted, Zhonghao's red beast-like eyes in the movie are firmly engraved in people's hearts and cannot be forgotten for a long time...
There was no words, only the audience's venting applause. When the lights in the cinema lights turned on, all the audience stood up and applauded spontaneously. The red palms were mixed with tears at the corners of their eyes. The movie was undoubtedly successful.
After the film ended, various comments about "Chasers" emerged like mushrooms after a rain the next day. Major websites, newspapers and magazines rushed to publish the highest evaluation of the movie "Chasers", and the starring actor An Jae-sing Kim Yoon-suk became the focus of discussion.
Among them, South Korea's most well-known "Korean Ilbo" also specially opened up reports and comments for the movie "Chaser" in its entertainment section, expressing appreciation for the director Luo Hongjin's sophisticated shooting techniques and touching camera switching, saying that it was impossible to see that this was the first time the director was in charge of filming a long movie. Later, the police performance in the movie "Chaser" strongly ridiculed the incompetence of the South Korean judicial system, especially the incompetence of the police executives and the mayor of Seoul, which became the focus of their criticism. In fact, this is also the main position in most comments at present, using this method of using false and ironic to illustrate the side of the movie "Chaser".
Of course, among so many one-sided reviews, the movie reviews from the famous film critic Jiang Jae-soo have become a popular hot topic of comments. Unlike other filmmakers' monotonous irony, starting from the actor's role interpretation, the evaluation from the point of view has become the highlight of his evaluation.
What Kang Jae-soo saw was An Jae-sing, who played the role of the villain perverted murderer in the movie "Chaser". As we all know, in police and gangster movies, the contradictions are always focused on the battle between the pros and cons, and the tense competition between the two sides is to allow the audience who watch the movie to get the final sense of justice.
However, in the movie "Chaser", this battle between good and evil rarely forms an unequal sense of inclination. The Yingmin in the film is like a cunning demon, playing around with everything around him, Zhonghao's exhaustion, the policeman's face to face, and the girl's fear made us feel powerless and afraid.
At the beginning of the film, the appearance of Yingmin surprised the audience who were originally familiar with the actor An Zai-style. His thin figure and sunken cheeks would not make people realize that such a person would be the most terrifying demon in the whole film, but his subsequent performance completely subverted our belief. The smile full of pathological and neuroticism and the tone of cruelty narration in slowness all made people feel chilling and fearless.
No one would have thought that Yingmin would admit his murder in front of the police. When he faced the constant questioning of the police in the police station and admitted that he killed someone, when he vividly described his murder in a siege full of criminal police officers, this can be said to be the most bold murderer in the history of Korean films.
The plot setting of the film "Chaser" is obviously different from the previous crime movies. Traditional crime movies generally focus on finding out the real person of the murderer. According to this task, all characters and plots are laid out, and the focus is on "Who is the murderer?" or "How to arrest?". However, the "Chaser" takes a different approach and explains the identity of the prisoner in the first half of the film. The prisoner even blatantly provokes the police. The perfect crime plan makes the police unable to find any flaws and cannot be arrested. Therefore, acting skills as a prisoner have become the focus of our consideration. Obviously, the actor An Zai-sing gave us the most perfect answer.
As we all know, transformation is a big problem for actors. Just like the actors of the famous American TV series "Friends", the deeply rooted characters have limited their next performance path. This is also applicable to actors in the Republic of Korea. Many actors have also caused the audience to fall into a stereotype because of their overly successful roles in the past.
It is obvious that actor An Zai-shing perfectly faded the image of the handsome coffee shop president in the "Coffee Prince No. 1 Store" and turned into the neurotic perverted murderer in the "Chaser". In fact, when I first watched the movie "Chaser", I didn't have much expectations for the image of the murderer in the actor An Zai-shing. The villain played by the handsome perfect president in a coffee shop is difficult to resonate with the audience in the cinema, but it was just a few simple appearances that completely left the audience watching the movie behind his past. I think that all the audiences in the end of the movie will completely forget the demon-like perverted murderer in the movie, just like me, who is the same person as the handsome president in the "Coffee Prince No. 1 Store".
I am not stingy with my praise for An Jae-sing's acting skills. At the end of the whole review, Kang Jae-soo said this. This is an actor who is truly willing to sacrifice for the movie. In order to film "Chasers", Chinese, British and Chinese people, An Jae-sing, performed a high-intensity diet and weight loss. For this reason, even fainted on the set and was admitted to the hospital. Even if the character is alive, An Jae-sing used his perfect acting skills to present a vital villain to us. This is what a real actor does!
Kang Jae-soo's comments instantly attracted the attention of Kim Yoon-suk's shocking Zhonghao in the original film. Although the highest evaluation of the real actor seems a bit exaggerated, it also expresses his affirmation of An Jae-style acting. For a moment, the villain Yingmin, among the "Chaser", actually surpassed Zhonghao, and Kim Yoon-suk joked afterwards that the decent roles are not popular these days~
Under such a trend, it is not surprising that the movie "Chaser" has exceeded one million viewers in just one week of release. Although the movie "Chaser" is in the category of police and gangster films, it is actually a criminal film that takes a different approach. The justice side of the movie is also just a pimp with bad records. He is selfish and rude, but he still has only a trace of conscience. When his conscience is awakened by the girl, he abandons his own interests and truly pursues it for redemption...
It is also such a non-spoken movie of "no viewing under 18 years old" level, but because of the critical and compact plot, the terrified actors' performance has become the first choice for audiences in the cinema, allowing them to willingly buy tickets and watch the two actors Ahn Jae-sing and his predecessor Kim Yoon-suk.
Although the category of the film "Eighteen Forbiddens" inevitably lost some viewers, the excellent film shooting and the moving storyline also brought out the good reputation of the "Chaser". Under the virtuous cycle of word-of-mouth, the movie exceeded 4 million viewers in half a month after it was released, and steadily walked towards five million to put the subsequent releases "My New Partner" with an old-fashioned plot under my feet. Even the movie Lee Byung-hun, which had a good start, returned as "destiny", could only rank second in the box office in the week.
The coincidence of history is always so worthy of fun. Just like the movie "The Despicable Street" starring An Jae-sing in 2007 became the last self-esteem of South Korea under the pursuit of many foreign films, retaining the last bit of face for the Korean film industry. In the case of the poor "destiny" of Kwon Sang-woo and Song Seung-heon's films, the "Challenge" who struggled to support and even pressed other Hollywood movies under him was also sought after.
It won the box office championship for the weekly movie for six weeks, and played a room with a viewing strength of more than 6 million. The award for the most popular movie in the first half of 2008 is naturally well deserved. Although the number of viewers of the "Chaser" in the second half of 2008 was replaced by the Korean-style western film "Good guy, Bad guy, Strange guy" starring Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho and Zheng Woo-sung, the number of viewers of more than 7 million viewers of the Korean-style western film "Good guy, Bad guy, Strange guy" starring Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho and Zheng Woo-sung is ranked second, but its huge investment is obviously a bit lost compared to the profit of only 4 billion won of Korean won. In fact, not only the "Good guy, Bad guy, Strange guy" movie "Fate", "Divine Machine Arrow", and "Beijing Past" series of movies with more than 10 billion won but the box office is bleak, which further highlights the dazzling "Chaser".
Especially in May of the same year, when the "Chaser" made his debut at the Cannes Film Festival, it received unanimous praise from film investors around the world, and signed agreements for sale to France, Hong Kong, Greece and Belgium. It was even considered by Hollywood that it was expected to become another Asian screen masterpiece remake after the American version of "Infernal Affairs". It deeply stimulated the strong self-esteem of the Koreans, and added another fire to the "Chaser" who was already in a box office fatigue and increased the number of viewers by 300,000. Although the number of viewers in the movie did not exceed 7 million in the end, it was enough to satisfy everyone.
Chapter completed!