Su Ze stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel, looking at the lights of thousands of houses on Hong Kong Island. The last time he was a demon policeman, this time he was unparalleled. Over the past few months, he felt more and more deeply about this land.
Compared with the well-dressed and handsome people in Central, who spend a lot of money, police movies prefer the muddy Mong Kok, Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei, and Tin Shui Wai. They prefer the dark and windy nights, when uncles from different places instruct their children and nephews to compete for the speaker's position.
Fighting, this constitutes the biggest vitality of Hong Kong movies.
So Su Ze even suspected that the decline of Hong Kong films was essentially the ebb of this sense of worldliness and recklessness?
Is it the new political style after the return to China? Or is it the all-pervasive contemporary business civilization?
Are all the crises and challenges that brotherhood encounters under the law of supremacy of interests?
Just like the classic line: We are no longer suitable for this world because we are too nostalgic.
Thinking of this, Su Ze couldn't help but admire Zhuang Wenqiang's prowess. According to this rule, Wushuang is a text that goes against the grain and goes against the grain.
It is no longer that we are obviously in an international metropolis, but there is a sense of chaos everywhere, but we are obviously a group of chaos, but we are running an international metropolis everywhere.
Transnationalization, large-scale industrialization, and industrial chainization are the modalities of criminals working together to break out of mainstream society.
There is no way, because what the audience is more interested in now is wealth, or getting rich overnight.
Compared with loyalty or grudges, this is what pleases this era more.
Thinking of this, Su Ze lamented the wonder of this cooperation. It can be said that it is a police and criminal theme, or a suspense theme, but he has been in this industry since his debut and is known as the king of suspense.
But this time the script is completely different. Most of the space does not focus on the criminal process, but instead shows various processes of how to print counterfeit money.
As the boss of a criminal gang that counterfeits banknotes, the painter encountered difficulties after the new version of the U.S. dollar was issued. Color-changing ink, microprinting, watermarks... every innovation left his craftsmanship behind.
Until one day, the corner of crime meets art.
Li Wen, who plays the role of himself, appears on the stage. He is a good painter but has no artistic creativity and can only copy the works of masters.
In order to make money, Li Wen gave up his self-expression and concentrated on copying famous paintings. This kind of work has no status at all in the circle, and it is just a repetitive labor force.
But my talents are destined to be useful, and garbage is a treasure that has been misplaced.
After joining a counterfeit banknote manufacturing gang, Li Wen relied on his irreplaceable core skills to undergo an earth-shaking reversal in his identity, from a replaceable 18-line painter to a senior engineer in a transnational criminal gang.
According to Zhuang Wenqiang's ten years of research, the craftsmanship of a counterfeit banknote requires more than a dozen processes such as drawing, mold making, gravure printing, and inspection.
The first drawing is to use a pen to draw every fine line on the banknote by hand!
Does anyone know that the texture of Franklin's collar on the US dollar bill has a series of abbreviated words "the ues of america"?
No matter how good the painting is, the watermark will still be exposed upon inspection. The watermark on real banknotes is pressed into the paper during papermaking, and the method used in the script is to divide the paper into three layers, with the watermark paper sandwiched in the middle, and two copied counterfeit banknotes to suppress it.
From filming to now, Su Ze has a new understanding of the character Li Wen. No matter what his personality is, I have to say that he is a true artist!
From beginning to end, every link is copied exactly as it is. Most artists are paranoid, Li Wen is so, so is Wu Fusheng.
Making counterfeit banknotes is a craft that has been passed down in the family for three generations. He originally studied art, but in order to obtain the color-changing ink necessary for making counterfeit banknotes, he was robbed at gunpoint.
Raising the gun and pulling the trigger, several lives were lost in the blink of an eye.
You say this is murder?
No, no, no, in his opinion, this is the raw material of art.
The biggest twist in the script is the whereabouts and true identity of Wu Fusheng, which is also the work of gold medal screenwriter Zhuang Wenqiang, but the core of the story and the origin of inspiration are not his original creation.
The source actually comes from a classic Hollywood crime film from the 1990s, but because of this, Zhuang Wenqiang spent ten years sharpening his sword and designing another game within a game.
From inside the movie to outside the movie, from current movies to movie history. He wants to make this unoriginal and more creative than the original.
They are all paranoid lunatics!
"Hey, my debut film back then was called Flying Sand Wind Transfer, and I was specifically looking for Kevin Cheng and Chen Xiaochun to play the role."
"Everyone knows about the Young and Dangerous series. Liu Weiqiang played the rest in his early years."
"In the end, it was a hit and the box office was less than 5 million."
"Then no one asked me to direct any more dramas."
Recalling that Zhuang Wen emphasized his history of blood and tears, it was probably around that time that he began to suppress his "unparalleled" ultimate move.
Keep all the unexpected dramatic tension to yourself. What you want is not just the C position, but the unparalleled status.
Fiddle with the script.
From news compilation to the popularization of hard knowledge, to character weaving and reversal of the structure, it took ten years of work intermittently.
Specializing in counterfeiting and criminal psychology.
Who doesn’t love money? I’ll give you a fake way to make money!
First remove the burden of creation, and then build on the original classic creativity to continuously improve the depth of thinking and the space for interpretation inside and outside the film.
High imitation reaches its limit, and what you achieve may be a level that the original work has never touched.
Close your eyes and recall a gun battle scene during the day. In the thick smoke, Fa Ge carried two AK-47s on his shoulders and fired furiously, destroying all the enemies.
Xiaosha avoided the explosion, rolled sideways into the trench, and fired two shots from the flying shotgun, hitting the enemy's head.
Su Ze's blood boiled as he watched it, this was clearly "Bloody Heroes", "Hot Detective" and "A Better Tomorrow 3"!
I don’t know why, but tears welled up in my eyes. I thought about how Fa Ge was 31 years old when A Better Tomorrow was released. He was in his prime, filming action scenes, and his physical function and appearance were at their peak.
He is 63 years old this year, which is twice as old as when he played Ponyboy. Delay of a hero is an eternal problem that all real heroes in history will encounter, let alone actors.
This is why Fa Ge is willing to take ruthless measures and consume himself. Because he knows that the glory of the past has long been over, and if you still endure it, you will be disliked by others, especially fans who have followed you for decades.
Why not take the initiative to walk down the steps and laugh at yourself.
There were many attempts to recreate the classics, but unfortunately they were criticized. It was not because the actors had changed, nor because the era of the story had changed.
It's like the kind of counterfeit money that makes people notice that it doesn't feel right in the first second. After all, even Fa Ge himself can no longer recreate the person he was back then. Now he goes out to take the bus, and the refrigerator is empty and he goes to the street to buy groceries.
This is called open-mindedness!
The same goes for the character Li Wen, who is a complete loser. His paintings were not appreciated, so he set them on fire and then turned around and smoked with a look of indifference written all over his face.
At Ruan Wen's art exhibition, he hid in a corner with a wine glass in his hand, picked up the postcard from the art exhibition on the table and looked at it. His actions seemed unintentional, but in fact he was intentional.
The people participating in the art exhibition were all people of high status, except for himself, a poor painter. He tried his best to hide himself and not meet any pair of eyes.
Staying away from the crowd and looking down at the card is a good way to relieve tension. Even after joining a criminal gang, you are often surrounded by fear.
The painter coerced him into killing him, so he grabbed his hand and slowly pulled the trigger...
His eyes were full of fear. This chapter has been completed!