"The King of Power": The first B-rated film I came into contact with

Norbert 2022-01-16 08:02:31

A few days ago, my idol shaking pig GG mentioned in his blog an old Andy Lau film that was made in the late 1980s and is now almost forgotten. I was very moved when I watched this film in Elephant Room. I don’t know if it’s because of the age, long memory, or the incomplete literacy of people at that time, I remember it as "The Windy City". In short, the young mind was once shocked by the wild youthful breath and the passionate violent competition of the young and Dangerous in the film.

In the past few days, I have also passed some classic but almost forgotten old movies in my mind in my spare time. I suddenly remembered a classic Hong Kong movie with novel themes, rich imagination, strong visual impact and compelling special effects at the time. Although the subject of the same prison gang, it is different from Fa Ge and the later "Prison Storm" series, and even has a sci-fi color. However, it seems that it was classified as restricted because it was too bloody and violent. Female compatriots rarely dared to look at male compatriots but talked about it. Most people who came from the video room in the 1990s will remember it still fresh. It was so crooked and crooked, when I was prompted, remember this film: "The King of Power".

"The King of Power" is beautiful because of its violence, bloody fighting scenes, male hormones, cutting hands and feet, breaking abdomen, and immortal intestines. In 1991, the "future" of social life in 2001 was imagined. "At that time" all prisons will be privatized and become a tool for some people to make money. Li Wang, worthy of the name, is as powerful as an ox. He is invulnerable to a sword and a gun. There are several bullets left in his body. Like Zhou Xingxing in "Kung Fu", he seems to have self-repair and healing functions, and he miraculously lives faster every time Come, continue to fight against the evil forces.

It is said that King Li has been very vigorous since he was a child. Later, he was taught by Yu Gaoren and he got the best story. His girlfriend was raped to death by several villains. He went to take revenge and cleaned up the land where people chopped melons and vegetables, so he was thrown into it. In the privatized prison of "Future" in 2001, the boss of this private enterprise was bloody and cruel. He never treated the prisoners as human beings. Poppies were planted in it to extract drugs. There were four cold-blooded generals under him, known as the "Four Kings." Inside, there were many gangs and killings. The king of strength was upright and upright. He took risks. He escaped several times. In the end, he killed the villains and sent the boss into the meat mixer, liberating the entire prison.

The film script is smooth, the editing is fast, the action is clean, the special effects are shocking, the prison is set up like a birdcage, and there is a gloomy copper wall and iron wall. The king of force is starred by Fan Shaohuang, with muscular fists, and the topless figure is imitating Bruce Lee. Unlike the cowardly and timid Xuzhu in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" two years ago, his dad is a veteran star player Fan Meisheng, both of whom are practicing family. The prison boss seems to be the former villain professional, He Jiaju, and the director Lan Naicai. The Wesley series in the 1980s showed a cult hobby.

"The King of Power" is said to be adapted from a cartoon, and it is bloody borrowed from Peter Jackson's famous "Mongrel Street" series in the 1980s. It is not easy that Hong Kong can have such a wonderful COSPLAY in 1991!

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  • Angelo 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    The typical characteristics of several major villains, including Fan Shaohuang's father, are almost copied to the domestic Lingling paint, but the total source should be from Japan. Not only the old Dan Bo Zhelang played the role of Li Wang's master, but director Lan Naicai himself has a deep connection with Riying. He used to learn from the photographer Nishi Benzheng (Helan Mountain) invited by Shaw Brothers for many years. Lu's aesthetic route of filming the violent action into a group of corpses and playing the game without providing a comedy release is not very cold. What's more, even if you only talk about the horror shadow in the prison movie, no matter how much blood you stab and your limbs fly, it can't compare to the long spike without a drop of blood in Zhang Che's movie!

  • Jasen 2022-04-22 07:01:48

    When I was a child watching videotapes, I never thought that this film would become a rare cult masterpiece in Chinese movies in the future.

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