I watched the movie again and found that its structure is perfect

Carolyn 2022-01-21 08:02:40

The last time I saw it was probably when I was in college, it's been nearly ten years. I watched the domestic Ling Lingqi again after I was idle today, and found that this movie is definitely Stephen Chow's classic work. The structure of the movie echoes perfectly. I didn't understand it at all back then, but today I understand a lot of things, and then I feel different. I didn't understand it back then. A very important reason is that I didn't know what happened in that era, so many slogans couldn't understand it. Especially you don't know what era the people of Hong Kong were in, and how they viewed this movie at that time. You only know that this movie was watched by a Hongkonger of that era, can you really understand this movie. The film is divided into two lines, light and dark. Of course, the open line is to trace the whereabouts of the dinosaur skull, which is a plot of spy war; the dark line is the love line between Ling Lingqi and Aqin; but there is a darker line, which is the screenwriter. Standing with the director from the standpoint of Hong Kong people, I had a sense of mainland China at that time. The open line is basically a spoof of the 007 movie. It is a relatively vulgar spy film, and the director has not concealed it. From the beginning, he pointed out the identity of the golden gunner, who is the commander. The main forces are three parties, the Southern Commander, the Golden Gunner, and his subordinate Aqin. Ling Lingqi was sent by the Southern Commander to prevaricate his superiors (the Golden Gunner deliberately found one of the most useless agents from the waste paper, but didn't want to find out anything), which was equivalent to representing the country. The commander of the north, and his big breasted women and big golden teeth. The northern commander was instructed by the southern commander to kill Aqin from the very beginning, but his men did not give up and continue to investigate in Hong Kong. In the three-way game, Ling Lingqi is the weakest. The logistics around him is a neurotic Leonardo, and his assistant is Aqin, the subordinate of the Golden Gunner. Aqin's secret task is to find opportunities to smuggle in Hong Kong. The merchant's house killed Ling Lingqi, killing people on the one hand, and muddling the water to cover people's eyes. But Ling Lingqi relied on his superb knife skills, as well as kindness and passion, to make Aqin fall in love with him, which was tantamount to instigating Aqin. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Commander of the Golden Gun made a decisive move. First, he tricked Ling Lingqi into signing and sent him to be shot. Using the power of his armor, he killed the big breasted woman and the big golden tooth under the commander of the North. It's a pity that in the end, the protagonist, Ling Lingqi, burped towards Liang with the same knife skills as the protagonist. There is nothing to say about the main line of the whole story. There is also a plot of a robber who robbed and kidnapped a child. Ling Ling shot out in anger, drew his sword to help, and killed the robber. This episode itself has little to do with the main line, but its beginnings, inheritance, and transition fully demonstrate the screenwriter’s mastery of the audience’s psychology. At the beginning, it was nonsensical and the robbers recognized the old. Xiang, then the robbers brutally killed the little boy’s father, making the audience angry like Ling Lingqi, and finally Ling Lingqi killed the robber with a single knife, put on a hat and left with great pretense, accompanied by Aqin’s jaw-dropping expression. , It is so full and fully vented the emotions of the audience. Compared with the plots of those online novels that are pretending to be trampling people, it is almost impossible to know where it is. The plot of love is also relatively simple, but people who are not familiar with history may not understand it. In the movie, Li Xianglan is a traitor. In fact, she is a Japanese. It is natural for her to serve Japan. It is not accurate to say that a traitor is. And in history, she finally returned to Japan, and she was not killed because of traitors, nor left a posthumous legacy in China. This was just the plot of the movie. However, the song "Li Xianglan" in the movie is really sung by Jacky Cheung, and the song is also very nice, and it is also very suitable in the movie. It should be that Ling Lingqi can impress Aqin, and music is a very important factor. You should know that Aqin had already put down the gun after listening to Ling Lingqi playing the qin and singing songs, but then seeing Ling Lingqi and the big breasted girl were very affectionate (actually it was just a fight between spies), so he became jealous and became angry. Picking up the gun, he wanted to kill Ling Lingqi. As a result, Ling Lingqi was seriously injured when she was picking flowers. But when she learned that Ling Lingqi was risking her life just to pick a rose for her, she was moved and put down the task like the appointment. But at this time she had not completely escaped the influence of the commander, so when Ling Lingqi When she discovered the truth about the bullet and left in frustration, she didn't take the initiative to keep him. The love line in the movie is very complete. From the very beginning, Aqin should have looked down upon Ling Lingqi. He felt that this person was totally unreliable. And being pitted by Ling Lingqi's gun made her feel even more upset. The first psychological upheaval was that two people were eating and they were taken a "couple photo". Although the two people were actually fighting each other, they looked like men and women in love in the photo. Aqin is an orphan, and she is used to being alone. Seeing this photo must be somewhat touched. Then in the robber incident, Ling Lingqi's performance shocked her, letting her discover that Ling Lingqi was not an incompetent person who just bragged, but had real abilities. So is Ling Lingqi's unreliable performance like a clown in front of her, is it true, or is she fooling her? She began to wonder, so in the dialogue with the commander, Aqin showed the doubts and questions. Of course, the commander was scolded by the commander, because the commander believed that a tool only needs to execute orders and should not have so many problems. . We know that it’s easy for a woman to show curiosity and awe to a man It left a deep impression on her, because a woman's nature is to pursue the strong as a partner, which is the nature engraved in her genes. Then came the plot I mentioned above. Ling Lingqi first played the piano and sang, which deeply moved Aqin (this is attraction), and then Aqin angrily wanted to kill him due to misunderstanding (this was pushing away), and then Then it was discovered that Ling Lingqi was risking her life just to pick her flowers. This is a hot spot, which is tantamount to detonating the ups and downs of the previous feelings. This explosion burst Aqin’s heart, so she ignored the commander’s communication, and also ignored that she was about to kill Ling Lingqi just now, desperate to save him. At the juncture of life and death, the two talked about Ah. Qin's life experience revealed her last defense. There is a saying in the ancients that it seems that the mountains do not like peace, but in fact, the feelings are also like this. It can make us remember that the things that make us unforgettable are not ordinary things, but the ups and downs and thrilling experiences. So we watch horror with my girlfriend Movies, bungee jumping, and field trips are all good ways to deepen feelings. The whole emotional drama is very complete, starting from intrigue, to misunderstandings, to mutual temptation, to Ling Lingqi's talent and the cost of life, attracting Aqin, opening her mind, the whole clue not only echoes with the open line, but also Secretly also buckled A Qin's life experience. In the process, Ling Lingqi also demonstrated his ability, talent, kindness and tolerance. Indeed, as the prostitute said at the beginning: You are such a smashing man, no matter where you are, it seems to be in the darkness. Like the fireflies, so vivid and outstanding. Although sometimes he behaves nonsensical and funny, but at critical times, you can always count on him to stand up like a man and get everything done. The last potential dark line is also the reason why this film was banned, because there are too many allusions. Some people on the Internet say that this is an allusion to the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, which is completely nonsense. If you watch the high-definition version, you can see Ling Lingqi's archives. He was born in 64 and the film was 30 years old this year, so the background of the film's era is that it was broadcast in 1994. Here is a brief list of allusions in the movie: At the beginning, the Sino-foreign joint venture factory in Taiyuan alluded to Hou Wanwan, who was in Taiyuan in 1994, and Commander Guo Wanjin gun himself guarded his own robbery. The smuggling of dinosaur skulls alluded to the army's business and smuggling. After Da Vinci went to buy food as a scientist alluding to the reform, a large number of military researchers were abandoned, "It is better to sell tea and eggs to build an atomic bomb." By the way, the reform and opening up that many people boast about is the spring of technological progress, which is pure nonsense. After the reopening, countless domestic technology projects were stopped, if it weren’t for the Gulf The war shocked the entire CCP's senior leadership, and many projects are probably stopped. At that time, the popular idea at the top was "buying is worse than buying, and renting is worse than buying." That was an era of rivers, liberalization, and fawning on foreigners. China almost followed in Russia's footsteps. The robbers are all from the mainland, and they are all from Hunan. This is even more direct, alluding to the big circle gang. Many people say that Hunanese are alluding to the high-level CCP, which is pure nonsense. They probably don't know what was the hottest in Hong Kong in those years. Those who are interested in this period of history can search the Daquan Gang and the provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers. To what extent the big circle was so powerful that they took AK47s and the police on the street to abduct a series of rich Hong Kong tycoons, including Li Ka-shing. Gong Xinru, the richest woman with pigtails, his husband was kidnapped by the big circle, and finally drowned in the high seas after tearing the ticket. Even the rich are like this. One can imagine how the image of the big circle is in the eyes of ordinary people in Hong Kong. The mainlanders who came to Hong Kong at that time were basically from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan, and Hong Kong people were most familiar with these places. Ling Lingqi's powerful swords and big golden teeth allude to the fever of qigong and supernatural powers of the year. This point is found in many Hong Kong movies, and the most famous ones are probably a few gambling movies, especially Zhou Xingchi’s gambling sage, playing supernatural powers and qigong. Judging from the plot of the movie, Hong Kong people still believe in these things. Ling Lingqi finally turned the tide and smashed Commander Golden Gun to death, also relying on qigong. It’s not surprising that Hong Kong people are the most superstitious in China, and Taiwanese are second. After all, these places were not broken by Grandpa Mao, nor were they "swept over all cows, ghosts and snakes", so there are remnants of feudal superstitions. Not surprising. After Gong Xinru's death, his chief Feng Shui master also fought for the family property with Gong Xinru's family, which shows the popularity of Feng Shui superstition in Hong Kong. The bridge section where Ling Lingqi was dragged to execute the sentence alludes to a lot of things. The illiterate was framed for peeking at state secrets. This is nothing to say, alluding to the darkness of the mainland's judicial system, unjust, false and wrongful cases. The official second-generation brother was shot, obviously insinuating the Xiong brother who was shot to death. The martial arts master was shot. This insinuates China’s attack on Huidaomen and the bull, ghost, and snake god after liberation. As for the protagonist’s 100 yuan bribery, it alludes to the money after the reform and opening up. The atmosphere of corruption has even taken the lead in smuggling by the army, and bribing the execution squad is nothing at all. There are many similar plots and details. Basically, you can see that, except for the heroes and heroines, all the characters from the mainland are either crazy, weird, or disgusting. The overall tone of the mainland is very negative. This is also normal, the mainland in the eyes of Hong Kong people at that time was like this. We know a word, the existence of society determines the society Social awareness will determine cultural products. It is as if only after China became strong, there were movies like Wolf Warriors 2, and only in that era, there would be domestic Ling Lingqi and provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers.

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  • The Commander: What kinda of knife is that?

    Ling Ling Chai: Meat cleaver. Simply for cleaving beasts.

  • Da Mansi: [Chai and Mansi are on their way to the national agency after being summoned] So, Chai, you've been working as a pork merchant in these 10 years?

    Ling Ling Chai: No, I'm just a down and out pork butcher.

    Da Mansi: I'm not doing well either, I'm just a poor little greengrocer. But luckily, I have a part-time job in the National Psychiatric Hospital doing research.

    The Commander: What research?

    Da Mansi: Being researched.

    The Commander: [nods] That's great.