"Detective War" strikes, and Hong Kong films are still mad!

[Global Times Special Reporter Lu Ke] The "Detective War" written and directed by the famous Hong Kong screenwriter Wei Jiahui, due to the postponement of the new crown pneumonia's epidemic, was released nationwide on the 8th. Liu Qingyun's superb acting skills, exciting action scenes, confusing plot trends, and righteous and rebels that are difficult to distinguish between good and evil make many audiences who have a lot of love for Hong Kong movies. A sense.

The movie "Detective War" holds the premiere of the premiere of the premiere in Beijing

Wei Jiahui's masterpiece

As one of the few new films last weekend, the "Detective War" rose to the box office and the list of the list as soon as it was released. It only lags behind the "Life Event" that has been released for a week. At present, the cumulative box office is 157 million yuan. Another Hong Kong film "Edge Traveler". According to the professional version of Cat Eye, the total box office of "Detective War" will reach about 570 million yuan, which is expected to surpass "Anti -Corruption Storm 5: Final Chapter" (480 million yuan), becoming the highest box office Hong Kong film this year.

The box office results of "Detective War" must be attributed to the box office appeal of Wei Jiahui and Liu Qingyun. Many senior movie fans also revisited the "Detective" collaborated in 2007 when the film was released. This classic work, which is also produced by the "Galaxy Image", can indeed be regarded as the "prequel" of "Detective War". In "Detective War", Liu Qingyun once again played the "Detective" Li Jun who had an extraordinary detection ability, but his mental state was not normal.

Unlike 15 years ago, this time the detective not only finds the killing slaughter and the demon police, but also faces a group of "detectives" gangs who have violence. The variety of plots and complex characters have always affected the audience. This is Wei Jiahui's masterpiece. In the TVB era, the gold medal producers and screenwriters of classic episodes such as "Brother Xinza", "Righteousness" and "Big Times" in the TVB era, cooperated with Du Qifeng in the 1990s to set up a "Galaxy Image" company to launch "The Birth of a Word", "Lonely Man and Widow" and "Big Gears" and other works are well received by the industry and audiences. They are regarded as one of the best screenwriters in Hong Kong.

After the new millennium, Wei Jiahui and Du Qifeng jointly launched "Detective", "Blind Detective" and "Poison War" and other films have made breakthroughs in traditional police bandits and the subject matter of the investigation. It also won affirmation of the International Film Festival including Venice.

Liu Qingyun's "epilepsy" and "crazy"

"Detective War" can be said to be the masterpiece of Wei Jiahui's personal style and Hong Kong film business elements. Among them, the plot clues of the brain burning, the identity of the character that is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, is further externalized through Liu Qingyun's "epilepsy" and "crazy". In order to show the mental state of the character visually, the film also uses special effects to generate a monster hidden in the darkness, echoing the human reflection theme of "fighting with monsters, be careful of becoming a monster".

The strange cases in the film and the demon police are no stranger to Hong Kong audiences and audiences familiar with Hong Kong movies -many urban strange talks and wonderful cases in Hong Kong have appeared, so that some victims no longer believe in the police, and they will leave free. "Detective" beyond judicial. Although "Detective War" can be interpreted at the script level, there are no regrets in directing and lens. A large number of Hong Kong -style action scenes in the second half bring sensory stimuli to the audience, while still lacking director characteristics.

At present, the Douban score of "Detective War" (7.1 points) and 15 years ago "Detective" (8.5 points) were obvious. Some comments pointed out that "Wei Jiahui is first -class as a screenwriter, but as a director, it is a second -class. If it is also directed by Du Qifeng , "Detective War" can also be a step again. " In addition, compared with Liu Qingyun's free performance, although Lin Feng and Li Ruotong's performances are still thin, they are still thin. This weakens the difficulty of the audience's guessing of the plot. Leave suspense and let the audience still think about it after getting out of the theater, who is the manipulator behind the scenes.

"Shijing Fireworks Qi" and "brother sentiment"

As the most important type of film in commercial movies, the subject matter of solving cases is loved by the audience because of the suspense, action and even horror elements, and Hong Kong movies are particularly good at this. There have been various types of "Hong Kong Cases" films since the Shaw period. By the 1980s and 1990s, it was endless. Wang Jing, Qiu Litao, Gui Zhihong and other directors all had many such works. Detective and murderers in the film. It's almost the same.

Hong Kong films are quite casual in shaping "detectives" and do not focus on rigorous reasoning. Instead, they add more action and comedy elements, which also gives the film a stronger "market fireworks" and traditional Chinese "brotherhood". "Blind Detective" and "Detective" chose to dig deep into the hearts of the characters; "Blood Seeking Plum" sympathize with the edge crowd and lonely girl through the perspective of a strange policeman; the "Wisdom Tooth" of the Berlin Film Festival last year, through strong black and white vision, through strong black and white vision The effect of digging the bottom of society is impressive, which impresses many audiences.

The years of Hong Kong filmmakers in criminal themes have given them sufficient experience to grasp the subjective film of the case, but in the face of complex and changeable markets, especially when competing with similar themes with "Chinatown Detective", they still need to take out More features and innovation.

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