Hong Kong Film Feelings

Kyra 2022-03-27 09:01:15

Whenever you count Hong Kong's gangster movies, The True Color of Heroes should be second to none. Since its birth, the whole of Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia have been deeply shocked by it, and even the N-many gangster films shot later, more or less, bear the traces in "The True Color of Heroes". If you want to choose a Hong Kong version of "The Godfather", it must be the second film.

Thinking back to that time, the demeanor of Xiao Ma wearing a black trench coat, sunglasses, biting a toothpick, and holding two guns into the enemy line has become the motto of many teenagers. "I don't want people to step on my feet for the rest of my life! Do you think I'm a beggar? I've been unlucky for three years, just waiting for a chance! I want to fight, not to prove that I'm better than others, I just want to tell people, I must take back what I lost with my own hands!" In the temple, the words that Brother Xiao Ma shouted brought tears to the eyes of so many frustrated men, and regained the courage to fight!


In 1986, "The True Color of Heroes" was staged, which opened a new era with the perfect quality of the unborn. Brotherhood, little brother, the man symbol that makes the blood boil for generations. What makes the film even more emotional is that it is shrouded in a faint but chilling nostalgic color: Jianghu is no longer that Jianghu, there is no brotherhood, and there are no rules. In the past, gangs relied on brotherhood, but now gangs only talk about business interests. Reminds me of "The Godfather", which is also the "best" gangster film, and the bizarre "mirror" of "Business Classic" is more thorough and ruthless: although there are also sometimes sighs of vicissitudes, there is also brotherly friendship.

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  • Kathleen 2022-03-20 09:02:25

    9.3 ""The True Colors of Heroes" touches the relationship between father and son, brotherhood, friendship, love between men and women, feelings of injustice and victimization, and feelings of revenge. It can be called a passionate and kindhearted work." The curtain is moving, the bullet ballet, the violent aesthetics, the righteousness is thin and the blood is boiling.

  • Marcia 2022-03-22 09:02:30

    @ Archives. Brother Hao said that "I haven't been a big brother for a long time." The whole hall burst into laughter. Maybe it's true, it's not your era anymore: there will never be a brother who values ​​love and righteousness like Xiaoma, and there will never be Brother Hao used himself as his siblings, there is no policeman wearing round-rimmed glasses like John Woo, and no one will blatantly hang up Andy Warhol's pictures; everyone is helpless, everyone is regretting, just as That song [The Love of the Year].

A Better Tomorrow quotes

  • Father Sung: Ho...

    Ho Tse Sung: Dad...

    Father Sung: You should get out of the business. Your brother has no idea what you're doing. I remember when you kids played Cops & Robbers together. Even when he lost, he still wanted to be the cop. I don't want to see you two brothers play this game for real.

  • [as Ho and Shing are surrounded by police, Ho attempts to shoot Shing, but runs out of bullets]

    Shing: Out of bullets? I guess I'll go surrender. I'll be okay. You on the other hand... You see, I have money. A few days in court, and I'll be a free man. If you have money, you can turn black to white. This, I learned from you. I pity your brother. Because of you, his white has become black, and it's your fault.