The hot screening of "Breaking Point" made Tomato Jun see the glory of the resurgence of Hong Kong films.
In the film, Lin Chaoxian buried I don't know how many details and easter eggs, these classic stalks can only be found by two or three brushes.
He has the temperament of a traditional Hong Kong film, everything is over-the-top, and he is all crazy, a tragic story about the anti-drug police, which brings all the audience into the plot every minute.
Coupled with details and easter eggs, many people recall the era when Hong Kong films were once in the limelight.
After the second movie, today Tomato Jun will take stock of the details of the film.
These details have family and country feelings, sincere tribute, filming hardships, and untold stories behind the film.
In the film, Sir Bang, played by Zhang Jiahui, wants Jiang Ming, played by William Chan, to go undercover in the drug trafficking syndicate.
Jiang Ming disagreed, and said a classic line: "Three years and three years?"”
Audiences who are familiar with Hong Kong films will definitely smile when they hear this line, because "three years and three years" is an old stalk in the undercover circle.
This stalk was first published in "Infernal Affairs", the policeman played by Tony Leung went undercover in the gang, but after he finished it, his boss asked him to go undercover in other cases.
When Tony Leung met with his boss, he couldn't help but complain: Three years and three years, it's almost ten years old!
This line is obviously Lin Chaoxian's tribute to the undercover originator of "Infernal Affairs".
There is a detail in the movie that when the drug maker played by Liang Luoshi went to trade, the location was in Room 2046 of Chongqing Mansion.
This location and room number are definitely intentional by the director.
Chungking Mansion is one of Hong Kong's most famous buildings, and the reason why it was used as a place of trade in "Breaking Point" is to pay tribute to Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Forest".
The first story of "Chongqing Forest" takes place in Chongqing Mansion.
In addition, the "2046" room is obviously a tribute to the movie "2046", and it is worth mentioning that both are classic Wong Kar-wai movies.
What's more coincidental is that both movies are played by Wong Kar-wai's "love general" Tony Leung.
And "Breaking Point" is precisely starring Lin Chaoxian's "love general" Zhang Jiahui, by paying tribute to these two movies, Lin Chaoxian also buried his highest expectations for Zhang Jiahui in this easter egg.
In the film, the big drug lord played by Han Yang vowed to "burn to death" all the people under Sir Bang because his younger brother was seriously injured.
Then he made a game and began to execute his plan.
This plot is actually a tribute to Jackie Chan's "New Police Story".
In "New Police Story", the criminals represented by Azu tricked Jackie Chan's police officers into a building and then killed them all, which caused irreconcilable contradictions between the police and bandits behind.
In addition, the section of parkour pursuit on the roof of the corridor is also very similar to the rooftop parkour in "New Police Story".
And "Breaking Point" is the same in this regard, and it can also be seen that it is also an action movie, Lin Chaoxian's respect for director Chen Musheng and his respect for him.
Here's a tearful tribute:
Tang Weihan, one of the directors of this film, has been the assistant director of director Chen Musheng for many years. Including Chen Musheng's last work "Rage: A Serious Case". Therefore, this is Director Tang's tribute to **. In this way, he told **: Look, I'm a director!”
At the end of the film, there is a ** of Zhang Jiahui wearing a neat police uniform and saluting.
An attentive viewer should be able to discover a lot of potential details and information from this shot.
In the film, Bang Sir saluted the martyrs after sorting out the cockade and police uniform, and it is worth mentioning that the salute gesture here is no longer the British foot drill salute gesture commonly used by the Hong Kong police before, but the palm of the hand is downward, which is the same as the mainland's ** salute gesture.
In 1989's "Bold Ambition", Zhang Jiahui has a scene of the same salute, which echoes the salute in "Breaking Point" after 30 years.
Although these changes are only subtle changes, director Lin Chaoxian is still very careful to reflect them in the movie, and the national self-confidence and family and country feelings contained in it are unspeakable and touching.
The theme song of the movie "Big Husband" is jointly sung by Cheung Jiahui and William Chan, the lyrics of the song Huang Zhan, Tomato Jun does not need to be introduced, his songs almost run through the peak history of Hong Kong films.
However, what I want to say here is that this song "Big Husband" not only sings the state of mind of the police officers who are fearless of hardships and upholds justice, but also the accompaniment to the ceremony of Hong Kong's new police officers joining the police force after completing their training**.
Listening to this song, "Breaking Point" seems to break the fourth wall, and the anti-narcotics police in the movie and the Hong Kong police in reality have completed the echo and intertextuality, which is also the creator's highest respect for the Hong Kong police and all the anti-narcotics police.
In the film, Jiang Ming, an undercover police officer played by William Chan, went through hardships, but finally stuck to his original intention, and the audience was very moved.
In fact, during the roadshow, William Chan once revealed that two versions of the role of "Jiang Ming" were filmed.
There are two versions, one is the good guy version we saw, and the other is the bad version, both versions have been filmed, and because of the different nature of the characters, William Chan also shot in different states.
In the end, it was decided which version to choose as the final version, which was actually Director Lin Chaoxian's decision, and the fact that we saw a good Jiang Ming also proved that in the depths of Director Lin's heart, a good Jiang Ming was still crushed by Jiang Ming.
In "Breaking Point", there are two of the most classic severed hand shots.
One is Jiang Ming, when he rushed to the cave to help Bang Sir, his hand was cut off by a Japanese drug dealer, so he held a gun in his left hand and killed the gangster.
This is actually a small detail that Jiang Ming discussed with Lin Chaoxian.
The other is Han Yang, who also lost his hand in the final fight.
In fact, "Broken Hand" is a more classic stalk in Hong Kong films, and the most well-known is "One-Armed Knife" directed by Zhang Che. And the climactic scene at the end of "Breaking Point" is also a tribute to the gut battles that often occur in old Shaw Brothers movies.
In addition, the most famous stalk is in "Shinjuku Incident", Wu Yanzu's hand was cut off, which led to a great change in his temperament, which also directly caused the final tragedy.
The scenes of this kind of broken hands appear one after another in "Breaking Point", which is also based on the bloody scale, director Lin Chaoxian's feelings for old-fashioned Hong Kong films.
In the Chungking Mansion transaction, there is a very interesting phenomenon, when the drug producer Yingxiu and her brother traded, they saw a lot of foreigners of Southeast Asian origin.
Curiously, there are also undercover police officers who are of Southeast Asian descent.
In fact, this is not a fiction of the director, but a reality.
Chungking Mansion is a mixed bag, with many people from India, Pakistan and other South Asians begging for a living here, so Chungking Mansion is also nicknamed the "United Nations Building".
The contact person who smuggled the raw materials was of Southeast Asian descent, and the director also hinted that these raw materials were smuggled from Southeast Asia by sea.
According to statistics, Hong Kong's South Asian population exceeds 100,000, and there are many Southeast Asian police officers in the Hong Kong Police Force, such as two Southeast Asian police officers stationed in West Kowloon, and more than 10 Southeast Asian police officers in Hong Kong.
In fact, this also proves that Hong Kong is inclusive, as long as it meets the conditions, it can contribute to the Chinese people, and the origin does not matter.
At the Beijing roadshow, William Chan revealed a secret of filming "Breaking Point".
Fans feel sorry for him for the big crime he suffered during filming, but William Chan said that he should feel sorry for those real undercover police officers and anti-drug police officers.
Because during the filming of "Breaking Point", director Lin Chaoxian found a lot of cases of anti-narcotics police undercover in order to present the details better and more realistically, for everyone to learn and Xi and **.
And the miserable performance of "Breaking Point" is "less than 1/10,000 of the real undercover agents".
So watching this film, we should feel even more distressed, those heroes who are unknown and use their lives to separate people's lives and property from drugs.
In addition to the tribute of small details, there are many parts of family and country feelings and national righteousness, and the detail of salute is.
There is another detail that you can't see very much, which is that outside the venue of the last knife melee, it is written "World War II Japanese Army Ruins".
And in the process of fighting, Bangsir represents the side of China's justice.
Han Yang colluded with the Japanese to sell drugs, and he represented the side of the foreign enemy.
During the fight, the two found two rusty knives in the cave as **.
If you look closely, you can see that Bang Sir is holding a large sword unique to China, while what Han Yang found is a typical Japanese samurai sword.
In the fateful duel between the two people, Lin Chaoxian joined the battle of the country and the position, which suddenly sublimated this ending.
After learning about such ingenuity, many viewers were amazed.
At the roadshow site, some viewers asked Director Lin Chaoxian to verify this matter, and Director Lin bluntly said that this was to "give a little respect to the martyrs who fought here back then".
In addition to these, there are many, many more details in "Breaking Point".
The second and third brushes may not be able to be found, not only people with Hong Kong film feelings, but also every audience who loves movies, and everyone who loves movies, can find certain moments from "Breaking Point", or make us smile, or make us extremely moved.
If you haven't watched this movie yet, you must take the time to go to the theater to see it, if you find any amazing details, or what hidden "old stalks", welcome to discuss with Tomato Jun in the comment area.
It's been a long time since I've seen such a fierce and fierce Hong Kong film, and its quality has also given Mr. Tomato confidence in Hong Kong films again.
Jiang is still old and spicy, and what "Breaking Point" brings is a explosion that really only belongs to Hong Kong films!
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