Su Ze looked at himself in the mirror. This role was very challenging, and it was a bit schizophrenic.
Li Wen in the story is dedicated, timid, professional, affectionate, and even a little too honest and timid.
The real Li Wen was conceited, cold-blooded, bold, highly intelligent, and even crueler than the painter he invented.
Not just Li Wen, almost every main character in this work plays another person in some way.
The so-called unparalleled, on the one hand, means that the two heroes do not exist, on the other hand, it just refers to the fact that there are two heroes.
For example, Fa Ge's entity is an elderly police officer named Wu Zhihui. His age and status are not directly proportional, so he is often ignored by his colleagues.
Li Wen, the character he plays, is precisely aware of this, so he describes the painter's appearance as his. Just like letting bullets fly, the audience will be confused between Huang Silang and the double.
The screenwriter used the appearance of the painter and Wu Zhihui to set up a conspiracy in Chow Yun-fat's double role.
The painter who lives in Li Wen's story is suave and graceful, with his back always neat and tidy, his windbreaker always blowing in the wind, and his confident smile always saying: I'm fine, he's fine.
During the gunfight scene, Ma Ge was possessed. According to Zhuang Wenqiang's plan, he had to make the audience nostalgic.
Su Ze closed his eyes and slowly took on the role of Li Wen, getting into the heart of the character. He had no real feelings for the female character Xiu Qing and would express them directly, but he was rude when he took advantage of her.
He only glanced at his so-called first love Ruan Wen from a distance, but used his selfishness to harm her fiancé. He even imagined how great his life with Ruan Wen was and how extraordinary his sacrifice was...
In fact, it is just a memory that cannot be let go when you feel inferior. When you succeed, it will be infinitely magnified, eventually causing negative consequences.
The greatest cruelty is probably that the shrewd and calculating Li Wen was defeated in the end because of Ruan Wen who didn't remember him at all.
The deeper I get, the more I feel the excellence of the script. It is indeed a work that Zhuang Wenqiang has been honing for ten years. It is good in the traditional sense of Hong Kong movies, but it is also good in that it is no longer rigidly bound to tradition.
Between the actions and crimes he is good at, the light of wisdom shines.
In Su Ze's view, the theme presents a progressive relationship. Money can be copied, but can people be copied?
People can be copied, but can feelings be copied?
The most daring thing is that as a kind of image narrative, it relies on literary narrative tricks. Zhuang Wenqiang takes advantage of the readers' reading blind spots and lays one foreshadowing after another in the narrative, leading the viewing mind to the wrong path he wants, and finally
, reveal the whole truth.
What the audience may have seen before in the movie was only one aspect of the incident. When one aspect is regarded as fact, the truth rushes in and all the aspects appear.
Su Ze laughed. I have to say that the creators all have a sadistic mentality. They get satisfaction from the other person's surprise and enjoy the audience's unexpected sense of accomplishment?
The character Li Wen is very complex, even more complex than the devil policeman. Just like what is suggested in the game of Brave, a weak person always fantasizes about becoming a muscular man in the game.
He was humble, and under similar psychological pressure, he dreamed of becoming a handsome gentleman like a painter. He was engaged in making counterfeit banknotes and had no trouble for three generations.
Hypnotize yourself to be an upright, kind, and loyal person to cover up his selfishness, cruelty, and greed.
He smeared everything he did with the honey of love, but he didn't love Xiu Qing, he just used her, and he didn't love Ruan Wen either. Ruan Wen was a dream he had when he was poor.
Only by marrying her can the dream come true, just like the sweet dawn.
Cold-blooded and selfish!
Every time he studied the script, Su Ze had the illusion of playing a jigsaw puzzle, as if there were fragments in front of him.
I have seen similar works before. Their fragments have been rearranged by the rational thinking of science and engineering, and they are precise and beautiful.
The unparalleled fragments have been rearranged by the perceptual thinking of liberal arts students, and the final focus is on the authenticity of feelings, which determines the authenticity of people and the authenticity of things they do.
For example, the use of concrete characters to play the abstract psychology of people has the style of "I'm Not There" and "The Detective". The skin grafting to become another person has the shadow of "The Skin I Live In", and the gun battle is like "The Skin of Two Heroes".
", Pointing a Gun at My Head from "A Better Tomorrow"...
As for "Infernal Affairs", it is everywhere.
The wonderful thing is that Zhuang Wenqiang does not stop at the simple collage level, but injects chemical reactions to generate new substances and achieve new aesthetic forms.
Su Ze is looking forward to cooperating with Chow Yun-fat and hopes to see the handsome figure of Pony Ma with a gun as a child. This should be an attempt to re-create a classic character.
But from the perspective of director Zhuang Wenqiang, he should hope that the shock from the counterfeit banknote production and printing process would be even greater than the shock from Chow Yun-fat holding two guns and firing.
The former is an attack of psychological wonder, a professional psychological crushing of meticulous color-changing inks, acid-free paper, and moiré patterns, while the latter is an unexpected encounter on the timeline that has the effect of being a one-off.
"They say we make movies very quickly in Hong Kong." After hearing Su Ze's understanding of the role, Zhuang Wenqiang couldn't help but admire: "It sounds like utilitarianism?"
"Yes, I never think this is wrong!"
"I just want to show the best effect to the audience in the shortest time. Is it wrong?"
Su Ze was stunned at first, and then burst into laughter.
"With your eyes, you should be able to see what Li Wen and the painter represent, right?" Zhuang Wenqiang looked at Su Ze and said seriously.
"It's like seeing the two glorious eras of Hong Kong film."
As soon as these words came out, Su Ze could clearly see Zhuang Wenqiang's emotional changes, which were memories, enjoyment, regret, unwillingness...
The painter is from the once glorious 80s and 90s. He is chic and elegant and has his own glory. The various gunfight scenes are the violent aesthetics of John Woo and Zhang Cheh. The mushroom cloud formed after the explosion has the free and easy killing in old Hong Kong movies.
Just like the eternally unkillable protagonist in "A Better Tomorrow 2", that kind of personal charm has already surpassed reality.
Li Wen is like the current Hong Kong movies, full of dilapidation.
We can see more reality in him. After failure and despair, he can only give up his persistence and give up love. This is completely different from the previous type of personal heroism.
Zhuang Wenqiang admired Su Ze very much. Not to mention anything else, his research on the script and characters has far exceeded expectations.
Li Wen seems to be submissive most of the time, but when the audience savors it carefully, they must be able to feel the layering of the performance, which is very difficult.
Not to mention Chow Yun-fat. In Zhuang Wenqiang's opinion, Fa Ge is a rare actor with temperament. To put it bluntly, his personal charm has surpassed the so-called acting skills.
The painter's constant and excessive release of personal charm and uncontrollability are the selling points that a director wants to show to the audience. Sparks fly with Li Wen's strength and weakness.
We all ask ourselves whether we are fans of Fa Ge. Seeing the idol constantly making bad movies in recent years, Zhuang Wenqiang’s heart is as sharp as a knife!